Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-04-14
COOPER TIVE MARKETING
Department Devoted the Pool Selling of All Farm Products

headlines for them. We got to
be good fighters. too. We had
to be. Competition for good cor.
ners was too keen.
Then, when 1 was nine years
old, my father was killed. A
fast train hit the truck he was
driving, and 1 remember how
one of the neighbors came to
the house and took Phil and me
to the hospital, but we got there
too late.
THE funeral gave us our first
carriage ride, a wonderful event
We enjoyed being made so much
of.
After that, we had to work
harder, so [ stayed on the streets
until all our papers were sold
Many times l did not get to
school until after IL o'clock
Became mo. So"
1--WE decided that Phil was ~
go to school first, because he was
the older, and had more prospect
OF needing an education than T"
Young Aaron's teachers soon
grew tired Of his hardness and
ne was reported to Edwin Mark.
man, the famous poet, who was
principal of the school M
markham took the boy into his
ONCE and soon had the whole
story from him. He gave him
little note to his teachers sou
ing that the boy could be Iata os
I0tten as he pleased, and when
ne sent Aaron away, there were
tears IN his ewes.
But the struggle for existence
in the big family of little people
was too great. The mother was
finally forced to send four of her
seven children to an orphan asy.
lum, and Aaron was among
those to go.
Il was ten years old when [
went there, and [ stayed there
six years." he went on. Those
years are scared into my very
soul. l was no longer Aaron
Sapiro, but No. S. a puppet in
the cold. unfeeling system that
tended to squeeze the joy of liv-
ing, and the individuality out
of any child. The orphanaee
had the most extraordinary sys-
tenn of bathing L ever heard of.
The boys always took their
weekly bath on the same night
in a big tank that would hold
only twenty at the same time.
A delegation Of the larger boys
would go in first and would be
scrubbed clean with soap and
rough brushes. Then part of
the water would be let out, and
smaller boys would be let in.
Finally, most of the water was
drained out, and the little fell
lows were made as clean as pos
sible in the Unlicensed water.
Orphan Asylum System Fur
nished Idea
1t was in the orphan asylum
that l got my first cooperation
idea. I got most Of the smaller
boys together, and we made a
solemn vow in the dark of the
moon that the first time any
big boy started to pick on us
that we would all jump on him
nO9SIAlCI' w CdllSu ourselves
The Budding Roses and sign
ed the roster in blood from our
own thumbs.
The next day a big boy took
a swing at one of our gang, and
in few seconds thirteen infu.
rated 'Rosebuds' were on his
neck.
after that experience, the
young 'Rosebuds' had immunity
from bullying.
Eat last one of the trustees
became interested in me and ask
ed me if l wouldn't like to be a
rabbi. I jumped at the Oppor-
tunity, so a few months later,
] was sent to the Hebrew Union
college in Cincinnati. 1 stayed
there eight years.
After eight years of the col
lege: Mr.. Sapiro gave up the
course. He explained why:
Because I came to believe
strongly that any church must
be an instrument of social serv.
ice-to further human welfare
rather than an institution for
the preaching of a fixed and
changeless creed.
Turned Orphanage Inside Out
''I decided to study law. So I
went back to San Francisco and