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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-05-01
ChaiStianity A Religion OF Sbiri
BY John Henry Zuver-
BY John Henry Zuver-


G IF h: f:s ns a. feasible s p sin 5" Ss sf
Nobody knows 1t has been tried"
But has been tried And have succeeded degree not in
full Despite the of the church under Constantine the
and strong men 5ued WITH that spirit have more than @ taken
the of mankind.
That the religion Of Jesus the spirit Of practice i;s than line
necessary
% & Of here S and fs any o moore than . d d e
the in which He did things; the srdor animation enthusiasm hope
Which Christianity lost least for
number OF centuries Then ceased to be C1nstanhan
Such the dawn of the reformation emerging from the dark
heoog and took Judgment phase of human life
glory of the reformation that founded church.
but that it embroidered religion service of humanity
Take of human life today the spirit of Gt and not only would the
nuren 0 bJ b b Uu the pO of . o
hospitals charitable would lose their souls
ton begin to roll backward like the waves of the sea-
he the ' eli s efs % n u IT e a
religion that feasible practical for alone produce
The lie live forever flourish for bury the truth
b b f Of % bluff and cuff ,unpI in its modev by eaioIerv brow
d o11s has .pn its oTa ppS'
The truth dies constantly 1t is law of
fate and the spirit Of right and justice never lose at that bar There an
fights and fights honestly for truth and right if he mistaken
here are t ~ n ds the future and the past
He live his ideal realized but will be realized LHgey
did live his pane operation but he had the of
after the that hapered him his day had his
humanity played vital the of
Christianity tn? honest qn's6, of suSe that genius ever
directors table in the counting the shop the lathe
pIHns mf from ~ mat " lot may A as ne "0Oo DC " numbering
se6.hne. contributes its mieand msh-tO world but like the
lie soon wears itself out and humanity becomes c0nsomer' beneficiary
realized
oTsatsd huan
through the Course of human
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-05-01

postage wasted. Lafe Bud received
three personal letters bout tires one
package O. shirt samples. five per-
sonal announcements bout new cars,
three real estate offers. two nice oil
stock opportunities, one beautifully
illustrated booklet bout Texas, one
long earnest letter bout a new shock
absorber, three highly illumination
letter bout pianner values, one
chance { clean up s25 a day doin'
nothin, one pathetic touch fer a
Chinese mission. one comprehensive
an forceful circular on lubricatin'
oils. three engraved Arrival o Spring
Woolens announcements, an
pustal card from an aunt in Iowa,
all on one mail yesterday. an he
hain't had dollar fer a year an
a half. But ! reckon all this in
discriminate gluttin' o tn mail
makes tn poor an needy feel that
Their not altogether fergotten-that
so fer as tn business world knows
Their jest as prosperous as anybuddy.
Copyright, 1920
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-05-01

should he be elected, and fail to bow in obedience
TO his campaign lieutenants and organ.
Assuredly will accuse us of holding any
brief for Mayor Carson Indeed, we are not par
ticularIy concerned to who the republicans or
democrats either one, nominate for mayor-except
that we hope that both will try to evade repeti-
ton OF the old lemons This is an Independent
newspaper for the and not the party in MUM
cipal affairs and if the advice of such may be
vouchsafed, must to the effect that neither
Mr.. seebrt or Dr. Carson measure ur to the re-
qurements and especially not. under all the cic-
cumstances before us,--and neither are they the
only candidates What is the matter with Mr.
fliGenour or say Mr.. Edward Hagey both Of them
Clean good business men. intelligent. not spot on
their characters, and nothing untoward in their
political careers-in which this is practically Mr..
Ridenour's first adventure? They have stood 'aloof
from the mud-snging in which the other candi-
dates have been engaged, and stand unchanged with
sny Of the intrigues or connivances u ;hwart the
Popular will such the mandamus case Las forced
into the limelight.
Carson for mayor again! We have said all we have
to say about the Carson administration long oro;
before the republicans now damn;ng It's chief gave
II being, and since during it's embodiment. while
they we're screening It, winking at it. defend
ing it-not yet divided against IL In the quest Of
Office. the emoluments and political power for
themselves. As TO his business administration.
however, well. IL must stick to the old system.
re at least has reins. with a program in mind.
and will not need wait two three years before
venturing a start: but again say. why not Ride
nour o. say Hagey. in good preference 10 either
Seebirt or Carson? Either be trusted much
more thoroughly to correct the Carson mistakes
chan Seebirt can, particularly in the light OF re-
cent developments-and besides there would be
none OF the revival OF Kellerism. and particularly
not the worst phases of 1t; the pharisaism, the
"holier than thou" air. wearing self-constructed.
and highly deceptive halo. such Mr. seebrt and
bis Ieutenants have donned
Mr.. Seebirt was the legal advisor of the Keller
administration and what has happened in the past
fortnight is all characteristic OF the ism that
grew out of that regime pretending great virtue.
but under cover engaging in, permitting innum-
cradle questionable things, all the while laying
wires to fasten them upon someone else INDUCING
treacheries. shifting evadng. delaying, rushing
oordng to the needs Of the particular design. South
Bend cannot AFFORD any such revival OF Kellerism
1t is bad enough to perhaps have TO retain the old
system city government without eievating to its
control an aggregation politicians that resort 10
such processes OF intrigue and blame II on others
10 effect their own elevation
The answer is vote for Rdenour-or Hagey-
and wash the slate clean
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-05-01

way o tn pustofiice. where he mailed
his letters. He didn' know whether
he'd made eight dollars that day. or
lost nine He had no way O. KNOWN.
His hip peck cts wuz full OF account
books an letters. an memorandums
wuz scrubbed on tn store walls an
barrel heads. He kept a sort OF a
puzzlin' ledger an a hook full o.
letters. an he kept some accounts
in his head. but at no time did he
know where he stood. Jest so he
diGn' have [ make an assignment
he wuz satisfied But cash registers
an system have revolutionized all
kinds o usiness. Ut VIC doubt IL theirs
been as much progress made in any
one phase O. business as Their has
been in letter composin'-- compellin.'
convincin', ENORMOUSLY worded, DO
lite. an beautifully typed letters Z
customers an prospects. No inquiry
is too triflin' not { receive a prompt
y. no opportunity too vague not
worth at least a personal let
Il eyeral circulars an a catalogue.
Blu, ler must be an awful lot O.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-05-01

One O. tn fine arts o. tn present
day is composin' business letters an
circWars. We kin remember when
we used Z pass a store late at night
we could see tn 3rnor..tCr way back
in tn fer end tn acre perched
UP nn a iivc-foot stool bt-Cre a plain
high desk writin' mis- business let
tors. 4 coal oil lamp with a reflector
hung on tn wall in front o him.
He WIZ either CId6Tin' u rev cheese,
- r"Iap;ain:E' about IA condition o.
nc last keg q mIckeTUl. or ahSv euin'
an INJURY 'L..ut some tub c:sters. or
writin' fer tn best figure on n hogs
head o prunss. An NIas n,ussy fly
spotted letters they wuz--ytller en-
ycl)pCs an white ruled rJier. An
y hen tn letter vuz about scmethin'
particularly urgent tn ole merchant
prince used = write I'm haste" on
tn lower left hand corner o. tn en-
velope. After he got his CORES
pondence completed he'd put on h.
coat an 'hat an take scent cigar
out o tn case an light II an lock
up fer tn night an start home by
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-05-01

leaveth the persimmons TO the
Nimble-wit?
10. thou n,ayest hearken with
seeming credulity, while a man
telleth thee OF his golf-score. and Of
the number OF miles his car will do
on a gallon OF gasoline: but when
ne talketh OF Eternal Love. I charge
thee drop grain of salt in his
words
Yet a lover that doth not exag-
gerate is no longer trustworthy. For.
when Prudence cometh in "a the
door. Love hath long since flown
out Of the window: and no mans
commonsense cometh into action,
until his heart hath begun TO suffer
from a reaction.
Beware of a lover that signeth his
letters with n nom-de-plume; for
either he deceiveth thee. or he Is not
sure of his own heart. But a hand
written declaration. signed in full, is
as good as a solitaire.
Let the Belle OF the "Petting
Party" rejoice in her popularity
DuAs EOT NC N&NttuAilb NAldAS
how thou distributes samples OF thy
kisses. lest the stock become a drug
on the market. For, why shall
man pay the price of a wedding
ring, for that which is given away
as a premium with every cup OF tea2
Verify. verify. the way Of a damsel
with a man is exceeding difficult.
For. II she believeth his words, he
thinketh her foolish, and If she be-
lieveth them not, he thinketh her
cynical: If she fiattereth him. he Is
frightened, and IL she doth not fiat
ter him, he is bored: If she re-
spondeth to his kisses, he is shocked.
and If she doth not respond, he is
hurt.
And her only hope OF winning at
the Game OF Love, wherein all the
cards are stacked against her. is 10
do naught, say naught. and think
exceeding deeply!
Selah.
Copyright, 1920
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-05-01
MRS. SOLOMON 81 VS.
By Helen Ro1CLand
Being Confessions of Wife 7OOth

The Maxims Of Mrs. Solomon, the
Married Woman, unto men arc as a
sleeve Of georgette crepe. easy to
SEE through.
Ask me not, my Daughter, how I
have learned OF men. their secrets;
for have 1 not been married unto
one OF them-even Solomon. the
man who "knew-it-all'? Yea, verify.
Then heed my counsel and follow
my judgments. that thou mayest find
the hearts of all men as a phono-
graph, easy To PLAY upon.
Lo. there he shese three a caroe,
a ukelele. and Il cn..firm-G bach .,r-,
ell of which appear simple and ro-
mantle and easy TO WELD, until thou
hast tried them. But a wise damsel
wasteth not her time in counting de-
feat and disbursement, Herewith.
Hearken sweetly, when a man
saith, GO to, have done with love
and foresworn women. forever For
man may have cOlored 20 meer-
schaum pipes and made love to an
hundred women, and found not one
OF them worthy of his toll and ira
vail. Yet, will he continue to color
pipes and TO make love unto women
all the days Of his life. until the
ringing OF his wed ng-bells.
AS a raisin dropped in u bottle of
grape Juice. so is "a secret dropped in
the ear OF "A woman. Howsoever she
may seek to hold II. IL shall in time
fizzle out-or explode! But a secret
dropped in the ear of man friend
is as a diamond dropped in water.
lost TO all the world. Therefore. If
thou must talk, choose a man for
thy confidante.
Behold, how often a clever woman
weddeth a fool, and wasteth all the
days of her life in trying to make
a man of him, bit. when a foolish
damsel weddeth a real man, she is
not content until she hath made a
fool of him. Yet, is IL not always
the Baby-Face that plucketh the
peace in the Garden Of Love, and
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-05-01
j. Z. McEOOy

Skating is great exercise, es-
pecially for those who can't
skate. Some people do it on
their feet, but most Of them
skate on their noses, on the
backs Of their necks, on their
Adams apples. on their adenoids
and on various other parts Of
the anatomy more or less ten
der-usuallY more. There is
nothing that will harden, or
soften you FOR that matter, like
skating, unless it is slipping on
a thousand banana Feelings or
being thrown down a few hun
dred fights of stairs. After you
have learned 10 skate, nothing
can harm you-nOthing!
Some people learn to skate with
out breaking more than half of theil
available bones, while others are
tenderly swept up oft the ice and car
ried home in installments TO theil
bereaved families. SIll others don't
believe signs that say Thin Ice
Danger" And find themselves con-
vinced when il is too late for any
thing except the obsequies. They are
the lucky ones. A crash, a Club,
or perhaps two CLUBS and ther
hoi for the crown and the harp and
flying around for all eternity in q
long white nightgown.
Skating has done much toward
modifying sartorial styles. For in
stance, the chic sakting costume
for the young man shows the pad
ding in the shoulders eliminated in
favor of padding elsewhere. What
could be fairer2 The most sensible
costume of all, however, would be
a feather bed-or better yet, two of
them-one fore and the other aft.
Skating is a healtful exercise.
In fact, only those who are in
curably healthy can stand it.
Like porch climbing and shoot
ing mountain lions, it takes you
out into the open afr.
Skating is done on ice. which
is water frozen hard-oh boy, is
II hard:-and is heartily en-
dorsed by leading bonesetters,
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-05-01
Spirit as Matter
BY ARTHUR BROOKS BAKER.

BY ARTHUR BROOKS BAKER.
They tell us that material is peril
ously gross,
That we should hesitate before ap-
preaching {: GO close.
The finer things of life. they say,
are in the req m OF thought.
OF metaphystic handicraft laborious-
ly wrought:
But things of earthly earthliness are
mean and cheap and vile,
With no redeeming qualities to make
them worth our while.
A neat and dainty tree began to hate
its lowly roCts.
So palpably inferior to red and rosy
fruits.
1t said: my pride and dignity are
torturingly hurt;
My roots are so disguistingly famil-
lars with the dirt.
If could only break the bond unit
ing them and me,
How radiantly happy and contented
1 should be-"
The farmer heard the trees saga
cious philOsophic bunk.
And severed with a crosscut saw its
foolish little trunk;
And ere a dozen hours had passed
its leaves were crisp AMI dry.
And it was too completely dead TO
ponder how or why.
The man who scorns his fellowship
with meek and honest brutes
Is like the tree whose limbs despise
their parent Dust and roots.
Troubles never come slngly-at
least they don't seem like troubles
until after you've married them.
A woman always has something to
worry about-if she can only think
what 1t Is.
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On
Skating

crutch manufacturers and the
casket trimmers' guild.
Copyright, 1920
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-05-01

The girl next door says she's opposed to the moro
daylight plan since it delays the hour Of dusk and
hasteneth the moment parting.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-05-01

Since the hat with the the back has re-
vogue for him.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-05-01

Ever notice how happy clothes-presser LOOKS
rainy day? What's one mans meat is another
mans poison
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-05-01

Old wine. old books. old friends
an yes! But age never improved
a spring hat, spring flowers. or a
spring Irritation. 1t takes the light
OF a brand new interest. now and
them to keep up the glow OF life.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-05-01

"A man regards a womans love as
d woman regards her bank balance:
ne never fancies that it is possible
Tor him to .overdraw his bank ac-
count.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-05-01

If the course of true love ever ran
smooth the average man would de-
velop ennui and switch off onto an
other course, before he got half
started.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-05-01
Reflections of a
Bachelor Girl

Copernicus never felt half 60
PROUD as the man who has just dis
covered that his secret theory for
making home-brew is actually work
ing.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-05-01

Troubles never come singly-at
least they don't seem like troubles
until after you've married them.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-05-01

A woman always has something to
worry about-if she can only think
what II is.
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wealthy but who would not think of
marrying off his daughter to an
American-born, Jewish young man.
For Asriel, although himself far from
a scholar, has the deepest reverence
for everybody and eV erything that
smacks of learning, particularly, of
course, Jewish learning. He there
fore decides to make trip back to
his native town and see whether he
won't be able to pick out a husband
for his daughter there. A wonder
fully, touching and poetic part of the
story are the pages in which the
author tells Of AsrieTs beholding
again his native town after an alb
sence of so many years, of his meet
ing again his old friends, his chums,
and enemies.
Asriel succeeds finally in snatching
away the brightest talmudical lumin-
airy in the town and brings him along
to America to become, ultimately, his
daughters husband. Naturally, the
daughter, a typical product of the
East Side Of thirty years ago, at first
despises the "greenhorn" but finally,
overcome by his good looks falls in
love with and marries him. But
here the story just begins. It so
happens that the young talmudist
chances on a circle Of radical young
men and cannot withstand the temp
tation of acquiring lay learning. He
is at first encouraged by his wife
but his communion with intellectuals
gradually works a rift in their re-
lations as she realizes that her East
Side "Americanizm" is far from his
new pursuits and ideas of the New
World. Thus, a double tragedy is
enacted, tragedy augmented by the
disenchantment of the old father who
hoped that in his son-in-law, with the
latter's devotion to the ancient lore,
he, Asriel, would find redeemer for
his interest in things worldly and
material.
There is no question that Cahan
possesses the gift of fiction to a very
considerable degree, as is borne out
also by his "Rise of David Levinsky"
(of which more in subsequent arti-
cle), but his first stories contain some,
perhaps inevitable faults-the Eng
lish is not always perfect, and Cahan
is guilty of using Yiddish words or
even idioms whenever reproducing
the speech of his characters, some
thing uncalled for, as these very
characters speak a more or less cor
rect Yiddish which should be rendered
dramatically.
The voice of suffering is more sub
dued in Herman Bernstein's "In the
Gates of Israel" and "Contrite
Hearts. Here again, we have stor-
les of the Ghetto, see before us fig
ures that tread silently with sorrow
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for his spiritual treasures or learn
ing, but for what he was worth in
cold cash. Thus, ideals, illusions and
dreams fled, leaving contrite hearts
and wounded souls in their wake.
The intellectuals were not the only
disenchanted ones among the new
corners. Their pain and suffering were
shared, for a different reason of
course, by another element-the truly
pious and religious Jews, the talmud-
ical scholars from the old country
who found themselves in a strange
world where Judaism, at least as they
had known and observed it in their
native towns, did not exist, where
the very Sabbath was not infrequent-
ly broken if not by themselves, then
at least by their children in order
ito make a living. A number of
silent dramas, unheralded tragedies
ensued in the grim tenement houses.
And it fell to the lot of the pioneers
of Jewish-English fiction to depict
these tragedies to the best of their
ability.
Of these writer's there were quite
few, but the only three whose works
have created more or less of a stir
were Abraham Cahan, Herman Bern
stein and Isaac K. Friedman. Cahan
wrote a number of short stories of
which the most typical ones are
"YekeP, circumstances" and "The
Imported Bridegroom"
Yekel is a child of the people, a
plain lad of the masses, who after the
few years he spent in America has
become thoroughly Americanized-
as he understands the term. This
implies "stylish" clothes, expensive
shirts, loud ties, well-polished shoes
and last but not least an intense dis
like for his "green" wife who comes
to join him here. Yekel can no long
err tolerate her using Yiddish words
instead Of his English" vernacular,
nor her way of dressing and in gen.
eral her European manners and man.
nerisms. A divorce follows, result
ing in the remarriage, Of Yekel's
former wife to an intellectual who
understands and appreciates her,
while Yekel himself is left to pay the
penalty of his pseudo-Americaniza-
ton. The characters in the story are
well drawn and leave an indelible i'm
preston on the reader.
circumstances" is the tragedy of
an intellectual sweatshop worker
whom the work in the shop robs not
only Of his former self but of his
wife's love as we'll. This, too, is a
well written story and evokes SYM
pathy on the part Of those who have
had similar experience or who can
sympathize even with that which has
never happened to themselves.
In the Imported Bridegroom" we
meet old Asriel who, in the thirty
years he spent in America, has grown
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years III VIC 4NOW WOI1u WulIIcI~ uC
came as refugee from the pogroms
and other prosecutions of the early
eighties. Ten years was about suffi-
cient for the would-be writer to get
his bearings and master the new
idiom well enough to venture express
ing his innermost soul and heart in it.
Naturally, not all of these immi-
grants wrote in the language of their
country, and there was a deep
psychological reason for it. These
authors can be roughly subdivided
into two classes. There were the
idealists, who came here not so much
because of the depressed economic
conditions on the other side, but rath-
er to voice a protest against the re-
dictionary policies of the East-Euro-
pean governments, and those others
who, amidst the poverty and squalor
of their native little towns would
probably never had found their way
as writer's. These latter, on arrival
in America found themselves lacking
in education and were therefore not
quite so ambitious to write in Eng
lish and turned to Yiddish as their
medium. It is true, that quite
number of the first category also
found this "the easiest way. After
all, the change from the Russian or
the Roumanian to the Yiddish was
not so difficult, for, at any rate, the
psychology Of their prospective read
ers, the Jewish immigrant classes,
was not unfamiliar to them.
A few, however, had higher ambi-
tions-they wanted to speak to Amer
cans in the language of America.
They wanted to be heard by their
new fellow citizens; they wanted to
tell them of their sufferings; they
desired to reveal the soul Of the
Jewish immigrant to the former set
tiers Of the country.
Did they succeed?
Unfortunately, the answer must be,
no. True, every here and there a
voice of approval was heard, but their
realistic method, an heritage from
Russian literature failed to gain the
appreciation of the average American
reader. America of the nineties was,
from a literary point of view, not the
America of the "Scarlet Letter.
what the reader wanted was to be
entertained and nothing else. He had
no patience with the funny, outland-
ish types of immigrants, grovelling
somewhere in the mysterious haunts
of the half-C Celtic, half Oriental East
Side.
And yet, these were not merely
stories or novels, but cries of mental
anguish, of spiritual suffering, of be- =.
ing misunderstood. The new authors
poured out their soul, their hearts,
their tears of Weltschmerz, that I'M
transferable term which could per-
haps be rendered by world-sadness-
which the years spent in an atmos-
phere different from their surround
ings in Europe, in the hard grind of
the sweatshop, in manual labor about
which they had been accustomed to
theorize- which proved not at all
ers would have it. In the sweatshops,
III la.aalaee.