San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-19
Listen, World!
Both One"
By Elsie Robinson

What's the use of living IL she can't
see George any more?
George, too, is perfectly willing to
pass up his remaining fifty or sixty
years, since Nora has been removed
from his program.
From which you may gather that
things look pretty black for George
and Nora.
But their respective families say !:
Never mind! They'll get over it.
They feel awful now, but they'd have
felt lot worse if we had let them
get married"
Are you to conclude from this that
there's something radically wrong with
eishteen-year-old Nora and twenty
four-year old George? Not at all.
They are both handsome, good ma
tured, industrious, clean, honest young
people. But
Morals last name is Callahan
And Georges name is Cohn.
So now you understand.
"But I don't see why religion mat
ters." walls Nora. AS long as we
love each other and are willing to
work hard for each other and not pick
| fights, don't see why we haven't as
good chance to get along as anyone"
Neither do l." growls George.
you'd think from the row that the
old folks are kicking up that we helped
build the original synagogue. But
honest. we don't think OF religion from
one end of the year to the other. But
the very minute / mentioned marrying
Nora, you oughtta heard them yell.
Marry q Gentile-and a Catholic at
that. My mother went to bed
and stayed there for week. Then
they called in all the relations
So the upshot is that Nora and
George aren't seeing each other and
they both wish they were dead"
1t seems strange that America in
the Goth century should be facing such
problem, but that's exactly what's
happening in thousands of homes in
this country. Never before have racial
and religious prejudices operated with
more bitterness. Is there justification
for this bitterness? Can't Jew mate
with Gentle with n reasonable hope
of happiness?
Sidney Herschel Small SAYS they
, can. And Sydney Hcrschel Small
ought to know, for he has faced this
same problem with his own intelli
gent, sensitive spirit and staunch He
| brew blood. Yet he protests thai
| nothing counts in marriage except the
| folks themselves" u.s.
-! He has put his protest in the form
of book called both One" 1t ]!
the story of an honest. beautiful low,
!, (which triumphed over what might hav'
a been cruel difficulty. But in the fac
of that love the difficulties melted lik'
v unhappy dreams. And you leave j
n convinced that the problems caused b.
r prejudice and intolerance Away
would melt il faced by such love.
c "If people really loved. external
= could not separate them; if they wer
!, forced apart by outside things. thei
4 love was not strong enough, not wor
n thy enough" says Peter, the youn
/ Hebrew husband, thinking of the be
!. loved Gentle Paula he has married
.Tf people loved enough they wer
! happy; il they did not. chaos. !
Il they were going TO be unhappy, t
II fight. they would not need to be Jey
n or Gentle to do that. They would d
g it anyhow. Peter thought that tn
h reason stress was laid upon such in
tcrmarfages was because it was tn
d handiest thing to consider the trouble.
y That's a brave answer, and a tru
one. Humanity would take a grea
!. leap forward if it could grasp the phi
losopby in Sydney Hcrschel Small
5 book.
Copyright. 1926. King Features Syn, In