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The Southern Israelite
Statement Of The Death Of
Louis Marshall
By DAVID A. BROWN
(hair man l nited Jewish Campaign and Chairman
Palestine Emergency Fund
had been hoping that miracle
lllU |,i happen and that Louis Marshall
he spared to us for years to
This is no time to speak of the
. r ,. a tnes*i of the man. Only history it-
„.jf will be able to present the true
„. Zl . and stature of this giant among
T, r nearly thirteen years I have
A-rked closely with him in many of
activities to which he gave his
cr.a: genius. During this period my
•datums with him changed from that
f a purely social contact to one al-
„,,*t resembling the attitude of a duti-
d >..n to a loving father.
\ request from Louis Marshall was
,, me a command; his judgment was
judgment; his work, my work. My
,v., respect, and admiration grew
a 11h the years and his loss is to me
i very personal one.
"His death was as he himself might
have wished it in the fullness of his
nh. I forgot! Space presents the
publication of Evangelist Gartenhaus’
f< but he states he was born in Aus-
*ria and it was the cherished hope of
hi- parents that he would become a
Rabbi. He tells of a restless urge to
ward wanderlust and the hardships
be endured when he left home and
wandered from city to city until he
reached Berlin. Finally he decided to
leave fur America. He says that his
brother was a student in a Hebrew
Seminary and he, too, through find-
rig the New Testament, decided to
N 'am. a Christian. They both came
this country and Jacob entered the
M " dy Bible Institute in Chicago and
'iai; • <t fullfledged missionary to
'he dews.
1.' in- Marshall was a great leader
r dowry. I never knew a man whose
rofession lay outside Jewish life
" gave so much of his energy and
s time to Jewish life. He was an
indomitable fighter and a tireless
^'•rkor for his people. No phase of
t'-b life ieft him untouched. He
h himself and his work seriously.
' hiih* he was by no means an orator
the sincerity of his messages al-
A tc>s held profound interest for his
ficarers. The devotion to every worthy
!, uish cause made him respected as
'•u dews have been in recent times
■<nd lent tremendous weight to every
H l’[»cal he made for his people. He
n <'’«er used what Roosevelt called
teasel words.” He hit straight from
He shoulder and used the Biggest
11 k he could find. I remember how
the ceiling when he received
' v halls telegram shortly after
'tarted his infamous campaign
against the Jews. It was said that
ar 'halls words angered him more
>tung more acutely than tons of
, ! tic ism that were launched on him
terwurd. It was strange that the
.■ nian who aroused his ire should
vigor, in the midst of the greatest of
all the great accomplishments that
stand to his credit, at a time when
he was giving himself with greater
abundance than at any time in his
history.
“Louis Marshall, starting life at the
foothills, had reached the mountain
tops — the highest peaks—and through
out the entire course of his life had
scattered seeds of understanding and
sympathy, so that a great harvest
has already been reaped during his
life, and he so cultivated the soil that
this harvest will increase as time goes
on. All who came in contact with him
have been enriched and we can repay
him for all that he wrought only by
carrying on in greater measure all of
the works of his mind and of his
heart.
“I, as one of his disciples, pledge
myself at this sacred moment, to give
of myself without stint to those causes
by which his life was bound up.”
he the one to whom Ford turned when
he decided that he wanted to apolo
gize and to retract to the world and
to the Jewish people. Ford’s confes
sion was Marshall’s. This merely
serves to show the commanding posi
tions he occupied as leader of Ameri
can Jewry and that it was so recog
nized by the world at large as well as
by Jewry.
Whenever 1 used to read one of Mr.
Marshall’s scorching letters to an in
dividual who had in his opinion cham
pioned intolerance 1 used to think of
Lincoln who vowed that every time
that “thing’’ (slavery) raised its head
he would whack it every opportunity
he got. So Louis Marshall determiner!
to hit intolerance wherever it stuck
its ugly head, even though it rested
on the shoulders of an important in
dividual. It would l>e impossible to
mention even the names of those with
whom he took issue on matters of
Jewish interest. And when he wrote
a letter of criticism the one who re
ceived it felt it because Marshall
knew how to arrange his facts and
drive home his points. He undoubted
ly felt deeply as a Jew because he had
the passion of a crusader in fighting
those he felt had injured his people.
It seems strange to me now that I
think of it that I should have met
Louis Marshall only once in all the
years that he was before the Jewish
public. We had exchanged many let
ters and on more than one occasion
he took the opportunity of bringing
me to book for some statement which
he felt I should not have made. While
I could not always agree with him I
had an abiding faith in his honesty
and I had for him the highest res
pect as a man and as a Jew. I ques
tion whether we have anyone in
America today who can take his
place? He was a forceful personality
and in his death world Jewry has lost
one of its most valuable members.
RANDOM THOUGHTS
—OF—
SPARTANBURG, S. C.
CAPITAL $200,000.00
SURPLUS and PROFITS 62,000.00
OFFICERS
W. S. GLENN President
H. B. CARLISLE Vice-President
J. WIRRON WILLSON Cashier
D. W. HENDRIX Assistant Cashier
OLIN G. ISOM Assistant Cashier
LEON MOORE Assistant Cashier
THOS. H. DANIEL
Assistant Cashier—The Dollar Savings Bank
DIRECTORS
W. S. Glenn
N. H. Hardy
A. Gcilfuss
J. E. Morgan
S. A. Nesbitt
E. O. Page
A. T. Sloan
J. Wirron Willson
First National Bank
SPARTANBURG
, s. c.
OFFICERS
A. M. CHREITZBERG
President
J. B. CLEVELAND
Vice-President
PRANK C. ROGERS
Vice-President
ROY E. LEONARD
Cashier
W. F. KLUGH
Assistant Cashier
J. W. ISOM .
Assistant Cashier
V. J. RECTOR
Assistant Cashier
L. L. PATTERSON
Assistant Cashier
H. B. CARLISLE
Attorney
DIRECTORS
ISAAC ANDREWS ARTHUR F.CLEVELAND
H. B. CARLISLE T.
S. CRAWFORD
JAS. A. CHAPMAN J.
N. CUDD
R. H. F. CHAPMAN 5
T. D. LANCASTER
A. M. CHREITZBERG
ALFRED MOORE
J. B. CLEVELAND
H. F. McGEE
ROY E. LEONARD
F. C. ROGERS
Charles E. Bland
El wood E. Bell
W. J. Britton
H. B. Carlisle
A. L. Crutchfield
A. D. Cudd
J. N. Cudd
C. E. Daniel
