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Page Three

and show it to my publishers. You
see I do not forget my old COM
rades."
"Comrades!" roared Fedror. "Do
you think we're in the same class
anymore?"
"I'm afraid not" agreed Levitsky
sadly. "It is not given to every man
to work hard and dream-and sue
ceed as I have done. We cannot all
reach the heights"
"You d m e d Jew,' shouted
"Swede,'' who prided himself on his
liberalism, "get out with your fine
talk or I'll throw you out"
Levitsky withdrew with injured
dignity after leaving crisp bill on
the table. "Swede' was for throw
ing it after him, but Treitel at once
ordered round of drink and sand
wiches which they consumed with
much solemnity. For half hour at
least the Starvation Club ceased to
exist as it's members devoured the
bounty of the most successful author
of the year and lamented his apos-
tasy.
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AMERICAN DELEGATES TO
ZIONIST CONGRESS

Nine delegates will represent
American Zionists at the Annual
Conference of the World Zionist Or
ganization to be held at Carlsbad, on
August 23rd. The delegates are
Louis Lipsky, Morris Rothenberg,
Peter J.. Schweitzer, Abraham Gold
berg, Bernard A. Rosenblatt, Her
man Conheim, Mr.. Jacob Fishman,
and Miss Henrietta Sold, now in Pal
estine, who will represent Hadasseh,
the Women's Branch of the Zionist
Organization. The delegates who
will sail on the Aquatania on August
3rd go with the instructions from the
Executive Committee to urge upon
the "Little Zionist Congress" the
necessity of convoking Jewish
World Congress to assist in the up
building of Eretz Israel.
The American Jewish world., 1922-07-28
RATHENAU'S NAME REPLACES
HINDENBURG'S

Berlin g. C. B.)-The municipal
council of Nuremberg has decided to
substitute the name of DR.. Walter
Rathenau, the assassinated Foreign
Minister, for that of the "Hinden-
burg Place."
Rathenau's mother appealed to the
City Council of Nuremberg to aban-
don it's decision to rename Hinden-
burg Square as Rathenau Square.
She telegraphed that she was sure
that she was acting in accordance
with her sons spirit, who would have
opposed any step which might injure
the feelings of many Germans. The
Socialist majority in the Council de-
clined to reconsider, and declared that
the change of name was a political
necessity to mark the Councils con-
demnation of the nationalist and
monarchial parties, whose provocative
campaign against the republic was
responsible for DR.. Rathenau's MUIR
der.
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TO RETAIN ''MOGEN DAVIDS" ON
GRAVES OF JEWISH WAR
DEAD

Washington, July % (J. T. Al
Officials Of the War Department, your
correspondent learns from reliable
sources, have had under serious con-
sideration a proposal to erect marble
crosses on the graves of all soldier
dead buried overseas, including the
Jewish soldiers. The prompt and
energetic protest of the Jewish We'll
fare Board through it's Washington
representative, George Cohen, has
apparently dissuaded these officials
from pressing the idea insofar as the
Jewish dead are concerned. While
there is still slight difference of
opinion among the officials, there
seems little doubt but that the orig
inal understanding between the ]. w.
B. and the War Department, reached
over two years ago, providing for
headstones bearing the Mogen David,
will be kept.
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group of young radicals, proud of
their religious skepticism and their
cosmopolitanism, they made him
welcome and treated him like one of
their own blood "Swede" Thorsen-
sen, drunken skipper and philosopher;
Herman Treitel, ex-professor of
chemistry in a German university,
Fedror, who had learned to feel far
more at home in his Siberian exile
than he would ever come to feel in
New York, these liberal vagabonds
and their fellow-loafers welcomed
able hotels might have closed their
nights lodging in his tattered poe
kets; exclusive university circles
would have shuddered at his Yiddish
accent and dirty fngernails. But the
members of the Starvation Club were
neither too fashionable nor too ex-
elusive to lend him a cigarette or
borrow the price of a glass Of tea
when he happened to be in funds.
The Starvation Club met in the
dirtiest corner of very dirty little
cafe down on East Broadway. It's
name was more than a rhetorical af-
fectation for even it's most prosper
Gus members lived on a diet that a
fat lady bent on reducing would con-
slider scanty. No one was eligible
for membership unless he was out of
work. A man who had inherited or
borrowed ten dollars was thrown out
at the first offense. These kindred
spirits earned what might be termed
sketchly livelihood and literally
lived from hand to mouth; no one
worked by the week or even by the
day if he could help it, for dollar
or two sufficed for lodging for sew
eral days and tea and maybe bit of
herring in those easy-going days be-
fore the war.
Several of the fraternity, it goes
without saying, were writers. Levitt
sky himself sometimes bagged stray
dollar by translating column or two
for the Yiddish papers. The man was
a linguistic genius and wrote with
equal ease in French, Russian and
later English. At the time he joined
the club the battered trunk he had left
in his married brothers kitchen con-
tanned the manuscript of a novel he
meant to finish some day just to show
the despised authors of American
birth what good novel ought to be.
His brothers wife, be it said in pass
ing, had put him out long ago for
failure to pay his board, but Samuel
was glad to shift for himself. He said
a free soul needed the stars and free
dom from worry.
But one day Levitsky happened to
pick up a novel on the table in front
of a secondhand store around De-
lancey street, novel by despised
American author. He glanced over
the pages intending as was his GUS
tom to sneer at it's truly American
characteristics, it's shallow optimism,
it's superficial observation, it's lack of
truth. But, having intended to read
to sneer, he read on to praise and
envy.
Times had changed in the few years
since Levitsky, having learned to read
English, had decided that American
novels were only fit for the junk heap.
The novel he held in his hand was
what he considered work of art,
truly Russian in its naked bluntness
and Stygian gloom. The first chapter
pictured suicide; by the third the
L. E.. L. sxx+Ia
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published? Can you write philoso-
ply? No. A scientific treatise? No.
Do you know anything of history or
economics or music or art? No
not in a hundred years. True-you
used to write poetry-but one does
not dress like you from the poetry
he SELLS"
Levitsky finished his glass of tea,
wiped his mouth elegantly on his
initiated handkerchief and tipped the
waiter, an unheard of offense in that
place; moreover the tip was in
decently large and they all felt that
such display was rather indelicate.
II still write poetry" he con-
fessed, "but only once in a while
for my own pleasure. Although oc-
casionally I sell verses to one of the
high-class magazines on the strength
OF my reputation as a novelist
"a novelist!" Fedror's eyes almost
popped out of his head. "You never
wrote novel in your life."
Levitsky took long delicious puff
before he exploded his largest and
most deadly bomb, 81 am at work on
my third now," he told them quietly.
"You see, my first novel Salt of the
Earth took America by storm.
See,' and he reached into his vest
pockets, "see what some of the crit
les say of it," And he read from a
bit of a newspaper: "a new voice in
American Notwithstanding reali-
ty-unashamed portrayal of Jewish
life in America
"But what did you know of Jew
ish life in American" exploded Fed
ror. "You ate and you drank with
us and did not meet Jew. And you
said you hated all of them-the su-
perstitious religious ones that had
just come over and the rich, fat ones
who tried not to be Jews. How,
then, can you write of people you
know nothing about?'
Levitsky's face wrinkled with
mirth. "My poor friend" he said
pityingly, "all one needs to know is
the great American public. I learned
what they wanted and 1 gave it to
them. The goyim-I beg your par
dOn!-the non-Jews are delighted to
lieved, that the Jew is the richest
and most terrible force in America
and that the Gentle has to look out
lOI Wullc IIlc jew 0dIS up oNSIy-
thing about himself no matter how
scandalous-if only to deny it.
Every Jewish paper printed pages
and pages about my book, attacking
it and me. And every Jew read it
and denied it,; the poor devils like
you said my chapters about the rich
were true, the rich ones looked
around among their acquaintances to
find out who I was describing" He
chuckled maliciously "They were
very angry at first when they discov-
cred Jew wrote it; but now they
invite me to their grand dinners and
have me give readings from my
works at their women's clubs"
"Swede" slumped his great bulk
in his chair "Well, I'll be damned"
he commented.
But TreiteI was more articulate.
"Fool-swine!" he spate out at his
old comrade. "Have you sold your
birthright for pottage? Have you
taught yourself to write poor stuff
1 know it is poor stuff though have
never read it-such poor stuff that
you don't know the true from the
false any more An artiStei true
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gravity of professional critic, "and
to think it is written in English by a
donkey of an American and that the
Americans read it. A picture of life!"
Leaving the proprietor to stare
doubtfully after him, Levitsky strolled
off, his head in the clouds, his eyes
shining: Impractical like most ge-
muses., he had long ago forgotten his
manuscript novel which he had be-
lieved too fine, too true to appeal to
an American publisher. Now he
turned his steps toward his brothers
home like an adventurer seeking hid
den treasures. Levitsky decided in
all modesty that before long the
American public would be buying
and enjoying another realistic mas
terpiece done in the Russian fashion.
His sister-in-law being at the mar
ket, he succeeded in extracting a
five dollar bill from his brother,
rented room and went to work
In revising his novel, Levitsky decid-
ed to take into account the revolu-
tionary change in American taste
and made the horrors more lurid. the
satire more biting. His earlier YER
sion had been confined to immigrant
life on the East Side; now he decided
to introduce several pictures of Jew
ish society circles in order to make
his sketch the more complete and
realistic.
Levitsky had no friends on River
side Drive or West End Avenue; nor
had he the time or inclination to get
acquainted with the vulgar plutocrat.
But he had spark of genuine in
spiration. Once in his prowling
through a secondhand book store he
had discovered and glanced over one
of Upton Sinclair's veracious studies
of Americas Four Hundred. None
of the characters had been Jewish
but that made no difference to that
fiery realist, Levitsky. Society Jews
were no different from goyim,
thought Levitsky. Didn't they eat in
trefa restaurants and ride on Shah
bas? OF course, he did these things
and worse, but he didn't call himself
Jew, being an intellectual. So he
obtained his details Of high life along
the Hudson from the lurid word-pic-
lures of Sinclair, gave several of that
authors characters distinctly Jewish
names, made one of them speak with
an accent and had the mother of
another wear shaitel-and thus
completed his study of American
Jewish life.
A year later Levitsky dropped in
to see his old friends of the Starva-
tion Club. He rejoiced to see the
old familiar faces, "Swede," drunken
and philosophic as ever; Treitel,
with his stale pipe and folk-songs;
Fedror, just a little dirtier, madder
and more idealistic than before
They hardly knew him since he was
a changed being, entirely ineligible
for membership. For his hair was
cut just right, his clothes were almost
too perfect, his nails were freshly
manicured. That last touch was too
much for the temperamental Fedror
and he wept like a child
"You have become dirty capital
ist!" he chided his old comrade.
Levitsky lighted cigarette of a
brand quite alien to the nostrils of
the Starvation Club. "You misjudge
me, dear old fellow" he drawled II
am not capitalist-just humble
artistic like yourself-only you write
q great deal and never finish anv-
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THE AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD
The Starvation Club
A STORY BY ELMA ENRICH LEVINGER

Copyright Ema Levnger all rights eserved
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1922-08-07
ABOUT BATHING AT
BEECHWOOD THIS WEEK

For the information of the public
during this (Chautauqua) week, we
quote from the official announcement
of the regular Beechwood Park man
agement published in last Wednesdays
paper as follows:
THE morning, afternoon and eve
ming gate admissions to the grounds or
Chautauqua, will be one and the same,
i. e., Chautauqua ticket. All other
gate admission tickets and passes for
the park are void for Chautauqua
week
THE bathing beach and bath house
will continue to operate as usual sub
ject to the Chautauqua gate admission.
ITO the many who are enjoying a
daily or frequent swim in the beauti-
full Ohio during this hot weather, we
would suggest the desirability and
economy of the purchase of a chautau-
qua season ticket A swim in the Ohio
and basket lunch on the ground in
between the afternoon and evening
programs is Just the idea.
1.-THE entire proceeds at the gate go
to the Leslie H. Arthur Post with no
rental chrage for the grounds in ac-
cordance with agreement made last
year"
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1922-08-07

Mr.. Laurence Dickson has gone on
an extended visit to his aunt, Mrs.
Thad Bullock, of Champaign, H.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1922-08-07
CARDINALS DROP
TWO GAMES TO the
MT. STERLING CLUB
Both Saturdays and Sundays Games
Are Lost BY Locals TO Wis.,
itOrs From Montgomery's
Capital

| Looks as if we need a new deck OF
If the Cards got right good sufflC
they might be better match for the
opposition. In Saturdays and Sunday &
game the Cardinals were hardly
strong enough to give the Mt. Sterling
Essex a stiff practice and for the Sec
ond time this season suffered four con-
secutive defeats besides resting Sc
curely in fourth place the lowest posi-
ton ever occupied this year
In each game the visitors called
upon their star hurler Harrison to
rescue an Indian twirler by the name
OF Neyrey after the locals scored two
runs in the first frame of each game
and tied the score only to have the Els.
sex follow in the next inning with five
runs. In Sundays game the Indian
lost no time in telling those RESPONSE
BILE what poor sportsmanship 1t was
to yank a hurler after his club had
secured five run lead and the crowd
backed him up in his argument not
only because no was right but also
they knew how slim their chances
were against Harrison. In the past
three games three clubs have passed
the Cards in the pennant race but
there is this consolation, We are two
full games ahead OF Mt Sterling and
they can not possibly overtake US be-
fore next Sunday.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1922-08-07
Yes, EzvF Hay Bale Ties 95xl4 R. M H E1N
new RICHMOND MAN FOUND
IN A HOTEL IN CINCINNATI
Railroad Clerk, who Mysteriously Dis.
appeared from New Richmond Leav-
ing Suicide Note Is Found.

Cincinnati, Ohio, Aug. z. FREQ
Bannister, SO years old, New Rich
mond, Ohio, Big Four Railroad clerk
who disappeared from his home Sat
urday, was found by friends Sunday
at the Dennison Hotel, Cincinnati, af-
ter he had walked from New Rich
mond to Amelia, a distance of 10 miles
and then to Cincinnati. approximately
20 miles.
Friends of Bannister in New Rich
mond sail last night that he had been
working hard recently, and also study
ing railroad matters in an extension
school, and they believed he had been
mentally i'll by reason of the strain
under which he was working.
A note reading: Fred Bannister has
been murdered by the lies of hypo-
critics" was found on a table in his
home Saturday morning and this led
to the belief that he had ended his life.
Bannister has served as Mayor,
member of Council, member of the
School Board and has held other pub
lie offices in New Richmond. Recently
he had been acting as volunteer
preacher at the New Richmond Chris
tian church.
1t is said that Bannister is to be sent
to a hospital this morning until his
health improves sufficiently for him to
return to his home, where he has been
living alone. He is unmarried
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1922-08-07

Hon. Robert Buckler, prominent Mt.
Olivet attorney, was in Maysville Mon
day on legal business.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1922-08-07
WITS VIM

Tuesday the Pastime Presents a fas-
cinating drama with dainty star.
Barbara Bedford in Winning With
Wits" a girls fight for the honor Of
her daddy, can a woman beat a man
in a duel Of wits? Have you a guilty
conscience? Should a girl sell herself
to protect her best pal-her daddy.
See the questions answered Tuesday.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1922-08-07

Summary - 2 base hits, Graefer; 3
base hits, Blake, Ritter; Home runs,
Glass 2; Sacrifice hits, Wilbers 2,
Weichman, Potts; Stolen base, Ritter;
Double play, Ritter to Graefer to
Potts; Struck out, by Neyrey l, Har-
risan 5, Shaw 4 Base on balls. off
Harrison /, Shaw 8; Hits apportioned,
2 hits 2 runs off Neyrey in inning;
Winning pitcher, Neyrey; Left on
bases, Mt. Sterling 4, Maysville 3; Hit
by pitcher, by Shaw (Pergrem); Uh-
pire, Spade; Time, 1:40.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1922-08-07

Summary: 2 base hits, Pergrem
Harrison, Connolly, Weichman; 8 base
hit, Margerum; Double plays, Fortner
to Harding to slayback to Harding To
Kresser to Harding to Kresser to Stay
back to Harding; Stolen bases, Blake
Margerum; Sacrifice hits, Wilbers
Base on balls. of Neyrey /; Struck out
by McCord /, by Brittingham 8, by
Neyrey /, by Harrison 8; villa pitch,
MoCord, Hit by pitcher, Blake and
Neyrey by MoCord; Hits apportioned,
hits runs on McCord In innings,
4 hits 2 runs on Neyrey In innings;
Left on bases, Mt, Sterling 81 Mays
vile 7; Time. 2i06; Umpire, Spade,
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1922-08-07
EXECUTORS NOTICE.

All persons holding claims against
the estate of Mrs. Phoebe H. Arthur
will please present same. properly
proven, and all persons indebted to the
estate of Mrs. Phoebe H Arthur will
please call and settle.
NJ. c. KIRK. Executor
taught of Mrs. Phoebe II. Arthur.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1922-08-07
ANNOUNCEMENTS

We are authorized to announce w.
]. FIELDS as a candidate for Con-
gress. subject to the action OF the
Democratic party. In the primary to be
held on Saturday. August 9th, 1929.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1922-08-07
ENGLISH PUBLISHER
RAPIDLY SINKING.

London Aug. 7.-Viscount North
life, famous British publisher. was
sinking rapidly today.
Weakness of the viscount, who suf-
fers from strange complication of
maladies, had increased overnight,
Northcliffe's condition was pro-
nounced very grave"
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1922-08-07
HIS UNLUCKY DAY.

Mr.. X. G. Knox, local furniture deal
er and undertaken. had a rather I'M
lucky day Sunday. His automobile
struck three different machines during
the day, none of which we're badly
damaged.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1922-08-07
STRICKEN WITH APPENDICITIS.

Mr.. Ernest zeigler was stricken
Sunday with appendicitis and will be
taken Monday afternoon to a Cincin'
natl hospital where he will undergo
an operation.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1922-08-07

Mr.. Thee. Kirk, State Manager of
the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company,
was in Maysville on business Monday.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1922-08-07

Mr.. John Armstrong, of Lexington,
spent Sunday here with his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Armstrong; of
Forest avenue.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1922-08-07
Officer on Vacation.

Police Sergeant Lee Carey return
ed Monday after his annual ten days
vacation and Patrolman Harry Stew
art began his vacation season.
The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1922-10-20
Antarctic Explorers
Glad to Get Home

London, Oct. lg.--Fhe explorers who
accompanied the late Sir Ernest
Shackleton to the antarctic on his last
voyage have recently returned to Eng.
land IN the Quest. and they readily
confess their delight al being home
again They have been absent one
year and hardship and disappoint-
ment have been their portion.
Since the death Of Shaekleton in the
antarctic last January the explorers
have been led by Capt. Frank Wilde,
lie believes important scientific re-
suits have been secured and says
these soon viii be officially recorded.
In 6e1S south the party achieved a
record for longstude, They believe
they We're then near land. Judging
from appearances. az the water WAS
Swallowing rapidly The fnult of tire
ship Was that II VAS not powerful
enough 10 combat the ice, II was
well equipped and had plenty Of food
so thar II could have carried on for
some time had II had the necessary
power
) q RoNett Whn nnanoed the cN
ptdlunu. was ti,e iFst 20 greet the
survivors u the Quest On their ~
turn ana he congratulated the men
on their ouorts aud the oNercomius
- aimost unsurmountahls difirullies
after Abe death II Sir Ernest