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The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1917-02-02
THE AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD

or intentionally disregard the CeTe-
monial and ritual laws here as we'll
as in Zion.
Zionism does say this to the re-
ligious and faithful Jew: If your
Judaism is dear to you, if you wish
to see the Jews, their faith, and
their ideals preserved for all future
time, and make that contribution to
the worlds culture, it's spiritual
wealth, that Israel's genius is capa-
BILE Of, then here is a practical meth
Cd and program. Let us restore Is
rael's national life. Let us place
the Jews in national home of their
own, where they can live and devel-
op free from the disintegrating
forces and influences of the world
around them. Being mere scattered
fragments in the great world around
us, we are naturally attracted or re-
PEELED and swayed by it, without be-
ing able to follow our own natural
orbit, and work out our own destiny
But as united self-governing ma
ton, our contribution to the world
may be equal to, if it will not sur
pass, that of any other nation
Within the nation each Jew will be
free to subscribe to whatever relig-
ious doctrines his reason accepts.
Many of our religious institutions,
which are really national instituA
tons, and because of the exigencies
of our modern life, are more hon
ored in their breach than in their
observance, such as the Sabbath and
the festivals, will certainly be more
religiously observed in Jewish
homeland than anywhere else.
Zionism, therefore, has nothing to
do with our religion, be it orthodox
or liberal, except that it seeks to
promote it, to give it free scope, to
insure it's life and progress. That
is why you find orthodox, liberal,
and even non-religious Jews united
on the Zionist platform, and ortho-
dox and reform rabbis join hands
in furthering the Zionist movement.
True, Zionists have a grievance
when they find some leading expon-
ents of liberal Judaism assai1 Jew
ish nationalism as if it were a dan
gerous heresy, although liberal Jews
are not supposed to be heresy-hunt-
ers. Rabbis, both orthodox and lib
eral, have grievance when they
hear non-religious Zionists make
light of, and belittle the synagog, as
if the synagog has outlived it's use
fulness. That only shows lack of
tolerance and reasonab1eness in both
camps. We need more tolerance,
and more genuine Jewish loyalty to
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the modern revival OF jewish ndJlO1l-
alisn, or Zionism. But what of it?
The fact that the many leaders of
liberal Judaism made this declara-
ton to the world at one time, has
no more binding force for us than
if they had solemnly declared that
we Jews are not and never shall be
engaged in mercantile pursuits. 1t
might have been found necessary to
give such an assurance to the world,
when the world charged us with
being exploiters instead of produc-
ers. These men did not speak for all
Israel and for all times. What they
may have found necessary for their
day and their circumstances may be
entirely unnecessary for our times
and our conditions.
Furthermore, it is Of the essence
of liberal religion not to consider
such doctrines and such declarations
as of unassailable validity AS soon
as we declare an utterance infall1ble,
invest it with almost sacred author
ity, our religion ceases to be liberal.
Liberal religion appeals only to our
reason and our conscience. 1t has
no higher court of appeal. To allow
an idea, no matter what it's merits
may be, to crystalline itself into a
dogma to which all must yield obed-
fence, is not liberal religion, but
most rigid orthodoxy. Liberal re-
ligion is latitudinarian, giving us
perfect freedom to Judge as to the
merit of ideas, customs, and prac-
tees, to discard or to preserve them
as it may suit our needs and pur-
poses. The divine moral law alone
must be held inviolate. The Deca-
log and the principles underlying it,
and the laws and institutions related
to it, are eternally binding. Aside
from that, liberal religion declares
no doctrines authoritative, and as of
binding force Though it is the Gus
tom of liberal Jews to worship with
uncovered heads, a liberal congre-
cation could decide to return to the
old custom of covering their heads,
without losing it's liberal character
thereby. On the contrary it would
be the height of liberalism and alb
surdity to make a religious issue of
it.
How, then, can there be any con-
fict between liberal Judaism and
Zionism? What is Zionism? Zion
ism is not religious but a political
movement, although it embodies an
old religious idea, and is carried on
with truly religious fervor. In for
mer times the hope for the restora
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-01-12
To Help Rapid Transit.

The blasting off of a 15-fOOt layer
of rock from the top of COenties reef
in East river, New York, just east Of
the lower end of Manhattan, and, at
the same time, the boring of two tun-
nels under this reef, constitute dual
engineering undertaking now in prog
ress that is calling for unusual precau-
tons and skillful procedure, says POpu-
lar Mechanics Magazine. The tunnel
will serve as a new rapid-transit link
between Manhattan and Brooklyn. The
cost of cutting down the reef is being
borne by the federal government and
New York city. At mean low tide the
reef has been % feet below the sur
face, a distance that is not regarded
as safe for some heavily laden boats.
The new depth of 40 feet will be more
sufficient, it is believed. The tunnel
ing. which could not well be delayed
until after the channel was deepened,
is progressing ahead of and faster than
the river-bOttOm excavating, which is
proceeding at right angles to the tun-
nels.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-01-12

TT MET Sam PolOn&in in the sub
- way this morning" Barnett
Zapp, the waist manufacturer.
said, as with the aid Of his thumb and
a quart of gravy which remained from
his portion of potatoee and gravy. he
demonstrated the capilIarity of slice
of rye bread.
"And how is the herring business|
Louis Birsky the read estater asked.
"What do you mean-the herring
business?" Zapp demanded. 'sThe her.
ring business is now : side issue for
Sam. Him and ]. Schlapp of Katz-
berg & Schlapp in the pants business
has formed the Charoses Fillum
Company and next 0eek they are
going to release theft nrst fillum by
the name The FATAL Murder"
1.-The way 1t looks nowadays" Bir-
sky said. Everybody has got two
businesses-his regular business and
the moving picture business"
"All except the Teller in the cheap
candy business" Zapp said. "There
amt nothing in the cheap candy bust
ness no more. Birsky, on account if
a lady gives her six-year-Old boy five
cents he should buy himself a taffy
on stick, understand, he goes right
away to a moving pictures instead and
blows in the nickel to see Thou Shalt
Not COvet Thy Neighbours Wife
feature fillum in five reels"
mot alone cheap candy" Birsky
said, but every business Is feeling the
effects of the moving picture business
"a few businesses favorable, like the
delicatessen and lunchrOom business.
which the nearest some married men
has got to home-cOOked dinner since
the moving pictures started is a half a
pound of sliced bolony NIT kartOffel
salad. Then there Is the spectacle
business, which while in former times
ladies whose husbands made from
thirty dollars a week down used to get
housemaids knee from keeping the fiat
looking as neat as pin, understand.
they have now got to be fitted with
glasses for eye strain from watching
ihoNihS CNciy UP
to five minutes before six or five min
utes before whatever time the hus-
band comes home"
well. there's one business moving
pictures amt improved none." Birsky
said, land that's the regular theayter
business. Even on first nights nova
days the fifty-cent gallery and balcony
is empty excepting the ushers and a
couple of dozen reporters with false
mustaches and smoked glasses which
was barred out by the management
for claiming that the FOllies should
ought to be stag. The theayter man.
ayers is kicking something terrible
about the way the moving pictures is
eating into their business, Zapp."
Sure 1 know" Zapp said, land they
are their own worst competitors, Bir-
sky. It's like If all the saloOnkeepers
would become temperance lectures be-
cause they seen chance to make a
little money on the side and then COM
planned there was no more profit in
the liquor business, understand.
Every theayter manager has got also
chain of moving picture houses. They
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-01-12
INTERESTING ITEMS

A Delmar IN. " church provides
ear trumpets for the use of deaf at
PENDANTS.
Mexico has two official names, "Es-
tados Unidos Mexicanos" and "Repub-
lea Mexicano."
A tiny electric lamp Is mounted on
the handle of safety razor of Eng
fish invention.
Spain has erected a new wireless
station at Cape JUDY. on the Atlantic
coast of Africa.
Motor cars fitted with X-ray appa-
ratus are used extensively by the
French Red Cross society.
Flaked potatoes are used for human
food and cattle fodder.
New York receives weekly from 125
to 175 carloads of chickens, averaging
10000 pounds to the car.
Slams rosewood forests have been
heavily overexplolted. The govern.
ment is now protecting them.
Three thousand women spend their
lives in driving and steering the canal
boats In southern and midland Eng
land.
In Russia there are enough people
to populate Great Britain. Germany
and France, with considerable mum
Der left.
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Dying Villages.

1t is the American village that
most betrays the impulse of our
civilization-a civilization that perpet-
ually Overreaches itself only to be
obliged to surrender again and again
to nature everything it has gained.
How many thousands Of villages. frost
bitten, palsied, full Of the morbid,
blOOdless Observation-Disclosures that
have lost, If they ever possessed, the
secret Of self-perpetuation. Ile>-seat-
tered across the CONTINENT Even In
California l used to find them on long
cross-cOuntry walks, villages often
enough not half a century old, but In
a state of essential decay. COMMUNE
ties that have come into being on the
food tide of an enterprise too rapidly
worked out, they all signify some lost
cause of material kind that has left
high and dry-like the neutral areas
in an old painting where the colors, in
completely mixed and of perishaBle
quality, have evaporated with time
Van Wyck Brooks, In Seven Arts.
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Got the information.

Now, my lad" said the police Of
ficer. investigating case of missing
checks at the big commercial office,
81 believe you're here first Of a morn
ing?"
"Yes, sir"
"And who's here next-Mr. Spid-
dings or his partner?"
Sometimes one, sometimes the 9TH
err"
"Well, on what day would Mr.. Spid-
dings be likely to get here first?
Cant quite say. At first he was
always last, but later he began to be
early, till at last he was first, though
before he had always been behind. He
was soon late again, however, though
lately he's been bit sooner. Just now
he's as much behind as before, but ]
expect he'll be getting early sooner OF
later"
'Oh, quite so! That's all wanted
to know"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-01-12

Map Has CoIored Roads.

South Carolina is one of the states
which have marked the poles and sign
boards along the main roads by col
Ored bands indicating the various
routes of which the roads form parts.
There are nine Of these through
routes in all, crossing the state In
every direction. In order to make 1t
as easy as possible for the traveller
to follow any of them. the state COM
missioner of agriculture, commerce
and industries has issued map of
South Carolina in which the routes
are indicated by the same colors used
in the wayside marking. This is car
rying the idea of marking roads Of
maximum convenience further than
has been done by many other states,
and is particularly interesting because
South Carolina has no state highway
department.
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He Had Them.

There were three brothers at the
place where we spent our vacation this
year. They were playing with a stout
string one day, the two older boys
pulling against the youngest boy. They
were pulling around a tree stump and
didn't see little Bill when he put the
string In his mouth and held 1t with
his teeth, and naturally but fatally
they kept on pulling. In q moment
they heard terrible yell, and ran
to find Bill with blood-stained hand
and mouth and the news they'd pulled
his teeth out.
They all went solemnly to their
mother, who pulled little Bill into her
arms and wept over him. "Oh, Bill.
you've lost your teeth and you'll have
to wait until you're a man to have
others"
mo, I won't, mamma" Bill said. ano
stopped crying long enough to unclasp
his little blood-spattered fist. II didn't
lose them. Here they are."-Chicago
Tribune.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-01-12
Bicycle BaIancer,

An apparatus has been invented by
Eugene Tourtier Of Paris. France,
which gives bicycles, motorcycles
and every other similar vehicle YER
teal equilibrium regardless Of whether
or not the road Is level. 1t is merely
necessary to support the machine in an
upright position by operating lever
attached to the handlebar. according to
the Popular Science Monthly.
The lever can be operated while the
bicycle Is moving. making 1t possible
for a rider to remain In his seat as
the wheel comes to a stop and to start
again without dismounting. The steel
rod supports are strong enough to sus-
tain a combined weight Of 800 pounds.
Bicycles fitted with the balancer have
been used by the Swiss police for some
time.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-01-12

Chile will send al official commission
to the United States to make a thor
Ough study of agriculture and indus
trial hydraulics.
A school for the practical education
of hotel managers and other employees
is TO be established In Havre by the
French ministry Of commerce.
If cotton and linen are stepped in
any saline solution. such as alum. am
monia. chloride or borax, they will be-
come fireproof.
A castor oil factory has opened in
Carmen. Colombia. and its first ship
ment of 10000 pounds was bought by
an American drug house. India for
merly supplied this medicine.
What is said to be the first subma-
rine boat was tested in the Plymouth
harbor in 1774.
Cellulose is being recovered from
asparagus waste by a process devised
by a Hamburg chemist.
| According to a German Investigator
the artificial lakes that have been built
In his country decrease the tempera-
ture and increase the number Of foggy
days.
A diaphragm and horn resembling
a monographs have been invented to
make telegraph relay instruments aud.
ible and save the use Of additional
saunders.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-01-12
Take any retail dry

the scenarios. Take any retail dry
goods concern today, and everybody
from the cash girls to the s,ore super
intendent is writing scenarios on the
side. Also. Zapp, if you go into a
street car and fellow opposite you
is talking to himself. understand, you
might think he's lunatic, Zapp. but
from three to ten dollars, on account
is doping out q scenario which he
would sell for sOmewhereS around that
price to moving picture concern.
Furthermore, If you see a man stand
still on the sidewalk and make marks
on an old envelope with pencil. that
amt no sign that he's trying to figure
how it could be he is Overdrawn at
the bank two dollars and fOrty-five
cents. No, Zapp. A Teller could make
lopes and selling 'em to people to
make memorandum of scenarios on"
How do they do it?" Zapp ex-
claimed. II could no more write see
iisti ~ anu SCI away Win II u' a. NhNNN
for million dollars"
That's because you amt never tried
to write a scenario" Birsky said. "All
you've got to do Is to take play like
Hamlet for instance, and you call
Hamlet Ned and the king Mexican
Louis. Then you dictate the main
points to stenOgrapher and send 1t
to a moving picture concern which was
formerly in the plumbing supply bust
ness or children's knee pants. and
you're bound to get away with 1t.
Zapp, because the only plays them fell
lers knows anything about is shows
they used to take their customers to
see. and if you are trying to sell
customer goods, you naturally don't
take him to see Hamlet Am l right
or wrong"
you don't take him to a moving
picture, neither" Zapp said.
81 know you don't" Birsky replied.
asking a customer to go to a theay-
ter and then taking him to a moving
pictures, Zapp, is the equivalence of in
viting him to lunch and then blowing
him at drug store to an egg chOcO-
late with matted milk"
"At that, there's lots Of people
makes luncheon off of chocolate
matted milk" Zapp said
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They're welcome, for all Of me-"
.Birsky said, "but so long as I've got
the price would stick to soup, meat,
dessert and coffee, and I'm the. same
way about going to a show. When
l go broke, I'll be a moving picture
fan too, Zapp, but as it stands. when
l feel like taking in theayter l want
to see a show which was written by
an author. not a truck driver. Also
/ like to hear an actor as well as see
him. Zapp."
"Me too" Zapp agreed, "and If he's
got other talents besides falling out Of
an oitermObile going thirty miles an
hour, Birsky, so much the better"
Copyright, New York Tribune.)
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-01-12
Soldiers Plea for Tobacco

NJ. Lapeau. Second battalion. Third
company. of the Belgian army, has
written the head of a cigar company
of Duluth. Mimi. to send him "some
of your celebrated smokes, in order tc
make my lonely moments a little mer.
rier. You will understand the reason
which prompted me TO write to you In
such an insolent manner and I trust
you will excuse me therefor. when
tell you that have spent some time
In the states before going to war.
thank you thousand times before
hand for your oh-he,irt"irr~-
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-01-12
LIKED bible GUY"
MAN WHO CARRIED THE WORD
POPULAR WITH SOLDIERS.
Boys in Blue Stationed Along the Rio
Grande Unanimously of Opinion
That Visitor Was Strictly
All Right.

1t was pretty close to taps when q
small car pulled up to the little border
station on the Rio Grande, satisfied the
sentry and came inside the earthwOrks
fertilization. Its driver, TALL ruddy-
checked young man, who looked as
though he might be fresh out of col
lege, brought the mail-he'd succeeded
In crossing a swollen creek in his car
when the Mexican mail man didn't
care to try it, and he brought also a
carload of Bibles.
The soldiers i'm the border station
called him "the Bible guy" and the
opinion was expressed more than once
that 1.-THE Bible guy was all right"
There are a number of him on the
Mexican border. They are representa-
dves of the American Bible society,
and their business is giving away
Bibles and Testaments to the soldiers
who are doing border patrol duty. This
particular one had come east from Ell
Paso, matter of 45O miles. and did
not expect to stop until he reached the
Gulf. He found a considerable demand
for his little Olive-drab-bound Testa-
ments and Bibles, as well as real
friendliness for himself.
He was modest young man, but he
admitted that good many interesting
things happened to a fellow who car
ried the Word along the border. Some
times one miscalculated or found the
roads worse fhon no avnactad and had
to camp out Overnight-he carried a
few provisions and skillet always to
be prepared for that emergency. And,
OF course, one did have to know how
to pull an automobile out of a mud
hole by One-man power and quite q
lot more outdoor things.
DO the Mexicans ever bother your"
someone asked him.
The Bible guy laughed as though
that were the best joke in the world.
mo. indeed" he said. "why should
they bother me? Besides. you know,
I'm prepared for Mexicans as we'll as
soldiers. l carry copies of the Bible In
Spanish and find lot of people who
are glad to get them. And now-if
you'll excuse me-Tve got lot to do
to this car"
Whereupon the Bible guy, clad in
brown overalls, disappeared under the
mud-crusted machine. II shows how
good a Christian he really is that in
the half-hOur he stayed there nobody
heard him swear.-Kansas City Star.
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are killing the hen that laid the golden
eggs"
That's all right, too," Birsky re-
torted. 'but compared with the golden
eggs which moving pictures is laying
the old-time thayter was a rooster,
Zapp. And not only is the moving pic
ture fellers making big money. but
they amt got to invest not near as
much capital as regular theayter
manager. Take this here Belasco, for
instance, which he specializes on re-
elastic shows with telephone switch
boards. restaurants and doctors Offices,
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-01-12
Hone fof Poor Writers.

Motion pictures are being employed
for the purpose of making scientific
study of the various movements in
writing with a view to ascertaining
how poor writer's can best be taught
to improve. Motion pictures have
been taken Of children Of two groups !:
Good writer's and poor writer's. These
pictures have been thrown on the
screen for the purpose Of analyzing the
kinds Of movements which character
lie good as distinguished from poor
writer's. The investigators are not yet
ready to make final deductions al to
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-01-12
A Voice from the Dead.

"For those who despair" is the
touching heading appearing in lie
Figaro Of Paris, over "A short item Of
news to the following effect: A French
soldier from whom not word had
been heard by his relatives from Sep
TENDER 3, 1914. has written at last
from a German prison camp near
Paderborn. Germany, announcing that
he is well. Until now, he states. 1t
had been impossible for him to COM
municate with home, but "the situa-
ton has changed" II am enduring
my captivity under good conditions"
he adds.
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ing thirty miles an hour from half past
nine to lunch time. SuppOsing he does
get five hundred dollars a week. Is
that life? l ask you"
"Just the same, it's lot of money to
pay" Zapp said, land furthermore all
the moving picture actors gets con-
tracts for year already"
But what is such contracts WORTH
Birsky asked. IF moving picture fell
Ter wants to get rid of such con-
tract, all he has got to do is to get
the party of the second part to play
Ned in a fillum where Ned escapes
back from cliff five hundred feet
from the sheriff by leaping on horse
high, understand, and the widow
can frame the contract and hang 1T
in the front parlOr as SOwveneer of
the two weeks when her husband used
TO make five hundred dollars a week"
Zapp sighed heavily.
Il got designer which has me I'M
der a three years contract since last
Tuesday already" he said, land if
could hire Maxine Elliott for a model
and c. Nj. Schwab for a salesman, /
couldn't get rid of that murderer's
designs for the cost of the Innings
alone. There's big money in it for
somebody who could persuade that
swindler to play in a fillum where Ned
gets locked in a burning ranch by
the Mexican for a thousand dollars a
week. l would pay two weeks salary
out of my own pocket, and if they
amt got ranch to burn l would even
give the moving picture concern a
house out in Borough Park which
got vacant on my hands since 1913
Maybe you think such a thing amt
possible that a waist designer should
get a job as a moving picture actOrT
Birsky said. Believe me. Zapp, the
last thing in the world which is nee
essary i'm the moving picture business
is experience-in particular the actors
and the people which writes the see
narios. You remember in the ole
days, Zapp. that everybody thought he
could sell clothing. Well, nowadays
every fool thinks he could be a NOV
ing picture actor, and most of then
are, It's the same way with writing