The Southern Israelite. (Augusta, Ga.) 1925-1986, September 20, 1929, Image 15

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Page 15 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