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The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1955-05-20

of Shevuoth. beginning in this weeks issue on the lower por-
ton Of our front page. we are printing here todaYis meaning
of the festival Just received from Harold Ribalow. also well
known to our readers. Says Ribalow:
Since the establishment of Israel, Jews everywhere have
been attempting to connect the Jewish State with every
event of Jewish significance. Israel, as fact and as idea, has
entranced us all, and we are trying to be e~nveloped in her
warm embrace. Sometimes, of course, it is a stranger who
wants to enjoy the pleasures of. Israel; often, however, the
connection between Israel and the event is an honest one.
The Jewish holiday of Shevuoth. or the Feast of Weeks.
enjoys an odd relationship with Israel. Jewish historians.
anthropoiogists and theologlsns frequently call Shevuofh a
minor holiday. a comparatively insignificant festival. and yet
they acknowledge that Shevuoth is. more than most. a holt
day deeply and permanently involved with the concept Of
Israel and Jewish peoplehood.
It should be understood; of course, that the Jewish festi-
walls are not simply commemorations. These festivals (of which
Passover and Succot are the others) are a concrete expression
of the Jews involvement with his Judaism. The celebration of
the season" is only a part of the reason for the holiday. And
the seasonal significance is blended with the historical one.
In recent years. modern Jewish writer's like Theodor Fl.
Caster. and Jewish psYchoanalYsts like Theodore Reik. have
made an effort to understand and explain the Jewish holidays
in terms of modern anthropologY and psychology. Their
studies are Illuminating. even when controversial and shock
ing. But they stress-and this is important for the modern
Jew who seeks to connect himself with seemingly primitive
functions-that each holiday has meanings on many levels Of
human experience. And Jews today. modern. questioning and
cropping. can find much in every holiday. for themselves. and
their children.
The holiday of Shevuoth is especially remarkable for
what it teaches us about the Jewish people and the manner
in which they celebrate what is, on the surface, a minor fes-
tival. It is the holiday of the first fruits and it is the holiday
marking the giving of the Law to the Jewish people, for the
harvest and the Law-giving coincide in time. In a deep sense,
then. the festival celebrates the birth of Israel. 1t is the ami
versary of the day on which God and the Jewish people made
their Covenant, and the Ten Commandments, or the Law, was
first revealed to the Jews.
This. as DR.. Caster has pointed out with eloquence. indi-
Gates a sensitive collaboration between God and His people.
The agricultural collaboration is the one more readily under
stood, for Shevuoth is harvest time. and in the State OF Israel
today, with the land being constantly cultivated, there is little
thai is more significant than harvesting. But there are philo-
sophie concepts with Shevuoth. which celebrates the end OF
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Today's Meaning of Shevuoth

Our readers know that throughout
the years we have always endeavored
to interpret current Jewish holidays
with timely significance. With Shev-
10th falling this year on Thursday.
May 26th. we are devoting this space
to the holiday observance which COM
memorates the season of the first
fruits as well as the giving Of the Law
TO the Jewish people. While Of
our readers. Joseph Sokol of Charles
ton. has written an historical account
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Between You an d Me-.
nv nopTe e,ro1 An Copyright, 1854. Jewish Telegraph
= OSNS NO0nA Agency, ucO
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Page Three
BY BORIS SINCLAIR

Jewish education is definitely progressing
in this country =. This can be seen in reports
which will be discussed at the annual con-
ference of the National Council for Jewish
Education this weekend (May 1929, as well
as from other data AS the picture stands
now, there are about 400, 900 children attend
ing Jewish schools in the United States {.
These figures are based on a census carried
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r ROSENBERG
1913 South Broad St.
Townsville. Georgia

May Is, 1855
Mr.. Alfred Segal
c/o The Southern Jewish Weekly
Jacksonville, Fla.
Dear Mr.. Segal,
Topics of interest to your Jew
ish readers must be scarce indeed
if you have to resort to wasting
your column extolling the delight
fulness of shrimp.
You write that you hope none
of your readers will walk out on
you because Of this article so will
say that I have walked out" on
you.
I never could understand why
human beings won't keep their
mouths shut especially if no one
is asking their opinion. If people
like you would keep their mouths
shut or their typewriter covered,
folks might think you were smart.
But no. Columnists have to write
their daily or weekly articles and
presto their readers find out cas-
lily how dumb they are.
1t seems to me you have put a
big sign on. your back with the
sign reading, "Boy, am I dumb"
and then went parading up and
down Main street. Sometimes it
seems to me that if "Jewish" peo-
pie would quit eating shrimp the
shrimp companies would go bust
ed because I hardly hear of any
goyim eating the stuff.
It seems to me that people like
you seem to think it is a virtue
to parade their ignorance. Yet,
lots of Jewish people keep telling
their other Jewish friends that
they don't keep kosher, they eat
ham and bacon, eat bread on
Pesach and so on ad nauseatum
thinking that they are doing
something wonderful when they
are only proclaiming to their
friends that they are ignoramus,
uneducated, unread, etc. Also for
your information, to a Reform or
Conservative Jew it does not
mean that you must deny the
healthful and sanitary laws that
are found in the Bible. These laws
of sanitation have stood the test of
thousands of years, and they are
just as modern today as tomor-
rows newspaper. Why not give
yourself a break? Admit that you
are ignorant of the Bible and take
one evening off by yourself and
read the books of Leviticus, Num-
bers and Deuteronomy. Your out
look on the Dietary Laws will GER
tainly change. You certainly then
won't waste your time and that of
others by proclaiming the merits
of shrimp, hog meat, buzzards,
catfish, Holsters, possum, coons,
snails, frogs and all the other tre-
fab items that are listed in the
Pentateuch as being especially to
be avoided by the Jewish people.
The eating of only Kosher foods
is just one of the reasons why
there is a strong Jewish nation
today. Just dwell on this for an
instant. If the dietary laws were
not listed in the Bible then there
would be nothing except our ap-
petites to tell us what to eat or
not to eat. We would be eating
snakes, turtles, eels, cats, dogs.
frogs, buzzards, polecats, etc.
Think it over. Be modern. Don't
be a silly copy cat and think it is
smart to initiate the non-Jews.
Believe me, it won't get you any
where.
W. 1900 1-,~1wY 4
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1955-09-01
Lutheran Ladies Aid

Jitsu Tau Club
The Jitsu Tau club will open their
annual club activities by holding a
picnic at the Buckeye Lake on Sep
tember Z at $50.
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B. &c p. W. Club
Holds Guest Night

The Button Business and Profess
sional Women's club entertained "a
guests at the clubs guest night
program Monday evening at the home
of Mrs. Carolyn Basinger.
The group was acquainted with the
objects of the club and the federation
to which it belongs by Mrs. Dorothy
Fletchner, Findlay, first vice presi-
dent of the Ohio Federation of B. &
p. w. clubs. Mrs. Bernice G. Yeager
director of District One, Lima, ex-
tended greetings from the district.
The evenings program also includ-
ed piano selections by Miss Sandra
Berry.
Guests attending the meeting were
Vida Althaus, Nancy Heininger, Car
oil Groman, Kathryn Patterson, Sarah
Jane Amstutz, Mildred Keel, Magda-
line Doty, Virginia Edwards, Bernice
Risser, Maxine Walker, Jeanette
Klay, Helen Hauenstein, Jean Ann
Szabo, Helen Foltz.
Stella Lichtenwalter, Theda Han
kish, Dorothy Greding, Ann Balmer
Treva Stratton, Carrie Stratton, Car,
rie Thut, Clara Schumacher, Isabe
West and Helen Neuenschwander.
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Townships Elect
ASC Committeeman

Committeeman for the Agricultural
Sterilization and Conservation pro-
gram in the various local townships
of Allen and Hancock county were
elected last week and the chairmen
of these township groups will meet
to nominate and elect the county
ASC committees.
The township committee elected
from Orange township is James
Scott, Edgar Huber, Delmar Ernest
Raymond Powell and Robert Wagner
From Riley township those elected
were Leroy Charles, Raymond Buch-
er, Lawrence T. Amstutz, Mahlen
Geiger, Pandora; Virgil Verhoff, Ot-
tawa, Rt. /.
The Richland township committee
includes j. Leonard Gratz, chairman;
Hiram, Bucher, vice chairman; Will
lard S. Jennings, member; Carl Fett
and Rawleigh L. Moser, alternates.
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Alice Freeman Club
BLUFFTON LOCALS
CONTINUED from page seven)

aunt, Mrs. Ephraim Amstutz and al
so visited other relatives in the COM
munity. Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Steiner
and daughter, Mary Kay of Detroit,
were Monday afternoon callers, stop
ping enroute home from a vacation
trip to Kentucky, Virginia and other
southern states.
Mr.. and Mrs. Melvin Nusbaum and
children entertained the following
with a pot luck supper Sunday eve
ming: Mr.. and Mrs. Orlin Wertenber-
ger and daughters of Dunkirk; Mr..
Albert Wertenberger and Mrs. Grace
Williams of Findlay; Mr.. and Mrs.
Jacob Nusbaum and Mr.. and Mrs.
Robert Diller and children, Bluffton.
The event was celebration for the
birthdays Of Gerald Nusbaum, Mrs.
Melvin Nusbaum and Mr.. Robert Dill
Ter.
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Marquart
and daughters of Hickory, Virginia,
are spending this week with their
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. John Marquart
and family. Sunday dinner guests in
their honor were Mr.. and Mrs. Earl
Rupright and daughter of Bowling
Green, Mr.. and Mrs. Ivan Marquart
and children of Beaverdam and Mr..
and Mrs. Marion Marquart and sons
of Troy.
Rasinger ambulance removals -
Amos Tschiegg from Lima Memorial
hospital to his home on North Jack
son street; Miss Susan Steiner from
her home north of Bluffton to a ply
sician's office and return.
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Nancy Frankhduser
To Be October Bride

Mr.. and Mrs. Levi Frankhauser
have announced the engagement and
forthcoming marriage of their eldest
daughter, Nancy Lou, to Don D.
Stewart, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Richard
Stewart of Findlay.
Nancy, a graduate of Bluffton high
school, is employed at the Bell Tele-
phone company at Findlay.
Mr.. Stewart, former employe OF
the Ohio Power company, is now with
the Edison Power Co. of Toledo.
The wedding will be an event of
October 2 at 2:30 o'clock in the Bluff
ton Methodist church.
The custom of open church will be
observed.
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Shirley Thomson
To Wed Duane Smith

The engagement of Miss Shirley
Thomson, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Floyd Thomson of Dunkirk, to Mr..
Duane Smith, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Lloyd Smith of Forest, was announc-
ed this week by the parents of the
bride-to-be.
A graduate of Hardin-Northern
high school, Miss Thomson is pres
emily employed at the Triplett Elec-
trical Instrument Co., Bluffton.
Mr.. Smith is a graduate of Forest
high school and attended Ohio State
university. He is employed by the
Hardin County Garage.
No date has been set for the we'd
ding.
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Anlstutz Pupils In
Piano Recital

Students of Miss Mabel Amstutz
appeared in recital of piano music
Saturday afternoon at her home.
Mothers of the children attended.
Those who appeared in the recital
were Lucille Kay Amstutz, Vera Alice
Basinger, Karen Gerber, Nancy
Houts, Coletta Lora, Gloria Moser,
Marsha, Staley and Billy Steiner.
Unable to participate were Emily
Hochstettler, Brenda Moser and
Joyce Schmutz.
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Past Presidents Farley
The Past Presidents Farley of the
American Legion Auxiliary will meet
Friday at 500 p. m. in the home
of Mrs. JoAnn Dillman. The program
will be given by Moneta Burkhart
and Roll Call will be to name your
favorite house plant.
Blue Star Mothers
Our date for canteen work is this
coming Saturday, September 3. Those
who can and will help, notify Golda
as soon as possible where you can
help. Blue Star meeting will be
Wednesday, September z with Clara
Burkholder at 500 p. m. Our dime
cards are to be turned in at this
time.
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Society and clubs

Richland Grange
Dates to remember-September 13,
Grange and election of officers.
Meeting to open at 500 p. m.
September Is, Our visitation pro-
gram at Leatherwood-8:00 p. m.
Women's Fellowship
The Christian Women's Fellowship
of the Church of Christ will hold
its first meeting of the year at the
church on Thursday evening, Septem-
Der 8 at 800 o'clock. Mrs. Floyd Ba-
singer will be program leader. Bring
your sales tax stamps.
X
Orange Twp. Farm Women's Club
There will be an election of of
ficers at the September 1 meeting
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Miss Shirley Galloway
To We'd J. Augsburger

Mr.. and Mrs. Wayne Galloway, of
Princeton, ILL.,, announce the engage
ment and approaching marriage of
their daughter, Shirley Kay, of
Bluffton, to John B. Augsburger, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. John F. Augsburger
of Milford, Indiana.
Miss Galloway will be a senior this
year at Bluffton high school. Her
fiance will be a senior at Indiana
university this fall.
No date has been set for the
wedding.
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held at the home of Roberta Warren
Devotions will be given by Iona Mar
shall and roll call will be answered
by What | enjoy most at the fair"
G. H. M. C.
An open meeting will be held
Tuesday, September with LaDon-
ma Derringer, Donna Koontz, Mary
Clark, and Juanita Zimmerly as
hostesses.
Girl Scouts NeighbOrhoOd Assn.
The Girl Scouts Neighborhood AS
sociation will meet Friday, Septem.
ber 2, at the st. Johns E. & R
church from 7:3O to $3.50. This is
an important meeting.
o. E. s.
Regular meeting Order Eastern
Star Tuesday night, September al
8 o'clock in Masonic Temple. A gooc
attendance is desired.
Mrs. Don Sapp Honored
A linen shower honoring Mrs. Dor
Sapp, the former jeanne Hector, &
recent bride of Lima, was given Sat
urday evening, August 20 by Mrs
Cecil Flick and Mrs. Glen Schafel
at the latter's home in Ada. Refresh
ments were served to Mrs. Carl Hec
tor, ST., Mrs. Carl Hector, Jr., Mrs
Robert Flick, Mrs. Cleo Diller, Mrs
Merl Habegger, Mrs. Vincent Ha
begger, Mrs. Robert Schafer, Mrs
Eddy Haughn, Mrs. Clyde Hector
and the honored guest. Regrets wer'
sent by Mrs. Freddie Hector, Mrs
VIM. Fairchild, Mrs. Richard Habeg
ger, Mrs. Robert Bixel, Mrs. Eugene
Hector, and Mrs. Dortha Wilkinson
=
Miscellaneous Shower Given
Miss Miriam Bixel was honoret
with a miscellaneous shower Aug. "a
river, hv Mrs Howard RurkhOlde'
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latter's home. Games were played be-
fore the honored guest opened her
gifts. Refreshments were served to
the following: Miss Miriam Bixel,
Miss Harriet Bixel, Miss Ada May
Oyer, Miss Lena Preto, Mrs. Dorothy
Hursey, Mrs. Dorothy Burkholder,
Mrs. Marilyn Stucky, Mrs. Imajean
Mathewson, and Mrs. June Bixel.
Gifts and regrets were sent by Miss
Peggy Bauman, Miss Mary Louise
Balmer, Miss Jane Riser, Miss Sara
Badertscher, Miss Mary Jean Ram
seyer, Mrs. Rosella Mccarthy, Mrs
Peggy Bowyer and Mrs. Carolyn
Oberly.
Lutheran Ladies Aid
The Lutheran Ladies Aid anC
Missionary Society will meet Wednes
day afternoon, September z at 2 p
m. in the church. Thank offering will
be collected.
Jitsu Tau Club
The Jitsu Tau club will open Their
annual club activities by holding 9
picnic at the Buckeye Lake on Sep
tember at $50.
Richland Community Circle
Richland Community Circle will
meet with Mrs. Louise Green Thurs
day afternoon, September 8. Song
Devotionals, Mary Matter; Roll Call
"a Book I'd Like To Read; Busi
ness; Song of the Lazy Farmer
Article, eve Built it so Years Toe
Late; Reading, First Day Of
School,; Poem; Song; Benediction
Contest, Fannie Gratz.
| Alice Freeman Club
The Alice Freeman Club will NEE
September Z for a carry-in supper
at the home of Mrs. John Boehr, will
Mabel Lantz as assistant hostess
The program-Travel, America OF
the Move-will be given by Edit
Amstutz and Mary Holtkamp.
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To Attend Legion
Meeting In COLdlUater

Members of the Blufftom American
Legion Post and its Auxiliary will at
tend meeting September Ii in Cold
water, Ohio, where mutual problems
of the organizations will be discussed.
The meeting will open with a parade
at 1:3O p. m. and the State Champion
Drum and Bugle Corps of Bellefon-
taine will perform.
PREVENTION of livestock losses
in the United States could mean an
additional $2,2O9,OOO,OOO income for
livestock men.
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Miscellaneous Shower Given
Miss Miriam Bixel was honored
with a miscellaneous shower Aug. "a,
given by Mrs. Howard Burkholder
and Mrs. James Messenger at the
Evening star., 1955-02-06
Many Visit LincoIn's Cubin
Enshrined in Memorial

1908. The cabin itself is IL feet
wide, II feet long and II logs
high. A clay-lined log chimney
stands at one end, and the spaces
between the logs are chinked
with clay. One small window
gives the only light.
The monument Is approached
from a flight Of 66 steps. one for
each year Of Lincoln's life.
Across the broad front and above
the six doric columns is carved
Lincoln's, famous statement,
with Malice Toward None With
Charity for ALL" On the rear
inside walls are inscribed the
life stories of Lincoln's parents.
The life Of Abraham Lincoln
is unfolded throughout Ken
lucky at places like Lincoln
Homestead State Park at Spring
field. the site Of the home of
Lincoln's grandparents: at the
cabin in which Lincoln's parents
we're married, now preserved at
Pioneer Memorial State Park in
Harrodsburg, and at Knob
Creek, which young Lincoln said
was hi searliest place Of remem-
brance.
Evening star., 1955-02-06
FRANKFORT. XIV.

OF all the great men who have
emerged from within the borders
of Kentucky, Abraham Lincoln.
is perhaps the best remembered
and most honored in his native
State.
Today the small one-room
cabin near Hodgenville. in which
Lincoln was born, is enshrined
in massive granite memorial.
It attracts thousands Of visitors.
as do the States other shrines
commemorating important high
lights in the early life of the
famous Kentuckian.
Almost all of Abraham Lin
coin National Historical Park.
in which the birth cabin is To-
Gated, is made up of the ORIGINAL
110-acre Sinking Spring farm.
purchased by Lincoln's father in
Evening star., 1955-02-06

BlBLELAND TOUR
Leadership Of Dr. ana Mrs. Daniel
Evening star., 1955-02-06
Jack Tar Chain
Takes Over KEYS
Largest Resort
MARATHON, Fla.

The Jack Tar hotel chain has
taken over operation Of the
Florida Keys largest resort, Key
Colony.
The resort, now in its third
year, includes 100 hotel and
efficiency units. ocean-front
swimming pool, a cabana club,
boat docks. a tackle shop and
aforementioned restaurant and
cocktail lounge on U. S. l. It
will be known as Jack Tar's
Key Colony.
Addition of Key Colony to the
chain brings the number of hotels
operated by the group to four.
Others include the Jack Tar at
Galveston, Tex; Fort Harrison
at Clearwater. Fla, and the
Francis Marion at Charleston,
S. C.
Evening star., 1955-02-06

ISRAEL
Sponsored By the Zionist Organilation
Evening star., 1955-02-06

Il EUcHARiSTIc CONGRESS
To Rio de Janeiro with Cardinal
Evening star., 1955-02-06

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Did You
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Congresses in Geneva, London. Paris.
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Evening star., 1955-02-06
Gay and Dancing Lund Covorts
SpectucuIarIy in CurnivoIs

dour's guitar-with a boogie-
woogie beat.
Generally, carnival celebra-
tions start warming up shortly
after the beginning Of the new
year, and hit their peak during
the four-day period preceding
Ash Wednesday, which falls on
February % this year.
In Rio, whose celebration is
one Of the gayest and most
famous of them all, the merry
making stops everything but the
clock during the four days. Every
theater, night club and street
becomes a dance hall for the
confetti-bedecked subjects Of
King Mono. Exhausted cele-
orators snatch a few. winks Of
sleep on Copacabana beach. in
the streets or wherever they can,
then rise to resume the round
the-clock revelry.
One-Two Punch
Trinidad packs the main
punch of its carnival into the
two days preceding Ash Wednes-
day. But for weeks before that.
her famed steel bands are max
ing the welkin ring and her
calypso singers are filling the
air with their bawdy. biting
ballads.
The steel bands feature the
worlds most unusual musical
instruments - carefully shaped
steel drum heads. There are
three types. the melody pans.
known as tenor ping pongs; har-
mony, known as guitar pans.
and bass, called booms. So skill
fully are they tuned that the
bands can render anything from
Mendelssohn to mambo.
Havana's carnival continues
for a month right on through
Lent. Each Saturday night and
Sunday throngs line the streets
and balconies to watch parading
groups of identically dressed
revelers, called "comparSas. "
Stalwart leaders of the COM
parsas twirl fancifully designed
"farolas," paper lanterns, and
each comparsa tries to outdo the
others in originality Of costume
and dancing skill.
Four Weeks in Urueuoy
Uruguay's carnival season is
another week affair. Pa
rades. featuring bands, floats and
gigantic grotesque figures, wind
down Montevideo's light-deco-
rated Avenida 10 de Julio. There
are dancing and singing contests
all over the city.
The love of dancing that Is
latent in every Haitian is given
full play as African drums throb
for weeks toward sustained
staccato at the climax of Haiti's
carnival just before Lent. Pa
rades wind through streets filled
with merrymakers garbed in
fantastic feathered headdresses
and other raiment. Groups OF
strolling revelers meet and The
official kings" Of each group en-
gage in dancing duels.
Waltz, anyone?