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The Southern Israelite
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Charles H. Joseph
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So here’s wishing the big Random
Thoughts family a Happy New Year!
Speaking from a strictly Jewish stand
point the Jews living in the United
States shouldn’t have much trouble in
experiencing happiness during the
year 5690. Oh, we mayn’t join this or
that club, but who cares? We can’t
join everything anyhow. I don’t care
if the Shriners never ask me to be one
of them, nor the Rotarians. And 1
wouldn’t walk across the street to be
a member of the Westchester-Biltmore
Country Club in New York State. And
if the Keystone Athletic Club of Pitts
burgh, Pa., were to send me a life
membership free of charge, I would
return it to them with thanks for I
place too high a value on my time to
spend any of it there. So I could go all
along the line and grin at those folks
who try to assume a superiority com
plex which fits them about as well as
a Hallowe’en costume would Mr. Cool-
idge. The Jews of Europe pay a much
higher price for being Jews than we
do in this country.
If that nation-wide Goodwill fra
ternity movement should become a
reality it will make a fine New Year’s
gift for the Gentile as well as the Jew.
It seems the idea was born in Balti
more the other day when Protestants,
and Jews, and Catholics, marched
shoulder to shoulder in the little 200th
birthday party of the city. Time was
when a Jew had pretty hard sledding
in Baltimore and it took a great many
years of effort and a lot of hard work
on the part of some liberal Christians
to give him his rights as a citizen.
Maryland was rather intolerant, but
it’s getting over it rather bravely. So
just to show the world that Intoler
ance is rapidly going onto the scrap
heap in the city of terrapin, the Jew
ish, Protestant and Catholic fraternal
orders joined hands and paraded. Then
to clinch it the suggestion was made
and adopted that a permanent non
sectarian brotherhood be formed, not
alone in Baltimore but throughout the
country. Well, here’s hoping! And a
happy New Year to you all my dear
Catholic and Protestant friends!
Lots of stories are coming to light
about the late Louis Marshall and this
article which I came across the other
evening in the “New’ Yorker” inter
ested me so much that I am passing it
along to those readers who may not
have seen the sophisticated Gotham
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“Louis Marshall never lived like
the millionaire he was. He wore
his clothes until they were shiny
and baggy; he would wear a hat
for as long as three years. He
never owned an automobile. He al
ways rode to work on the Third
Avenue ‘L’ and came home on the
Lexington Avenue subway, usually
hanging to a strap and reading the
baseball scores. No one can re
member his ever having attended
a game but he was always up on the
league standings. He was raised in
poverty and abhorred extravagance,
which he considered one of the vices
of the day. He was noted as a phil
anthropist but he would save
stamped, addressed envelopes re
ceived from business concerns,
scratch out the addresses, and use
them in his personal correspond
ence. He often wrote important let
ters on the backs of advertising cir
culars.
“In his office, Marshall worked in
shirtsleeves. All the drawers of his
desk were kept open so they could
serve as racks for his law books.
No clerk ever helped him with his
briefs. He looked up everything him
self and months afterward could
name the pages on which he had
found certain citations. His memory
was trained by his mother, who
made him, as a child, read chapters
of books to her and then recite as
much as he could recall. In college
he was held a genius in memory
tests. It was this that enabled him
to finish law school in half the al-
loted time. He had a vast law' li
brary in his home and often worked
in it all night.
“bo devoutly did the noted law
yer revere the Constitution that he
regarded anyone who broke an
amendment, including the Eight
teenth, as practically guilty 0 f tre*
son A die-hard Republican, he
would defend anyone of any pam
if it were on constitutional ground
Thus he was on of the first to cot
to the defense of the Social^,
ousted from the New York assem
bly. He had no use for Social*™'
but he did for their constitutional
rights. He defended the Civil I ib.
erties Union. Often he took such
cases without a fee, and once he
said he would be willing to pay f or
the privilege.
“Marshall had a secret leaning
toward poetry and wrote many
sonnets. A few of these were pub
lished anonymously. He occasional
ly wrote humorous sketches in dia
lect and read them to friends. H<
read books in half a dozen lan
guages. He was an authority on
trees and wildfiowers. Usually kind
ly, even jovial, his profanity was
matchless when aroused. He some
times even startled banquets and
luncheons with purple phrases.
Once he caused a furore at a dinner
given to the Rumanian Minister of
Finance, here to arrange a loan, by
denouncing Rumania as a country
which didn’t deserve a loan until it
became civilized. The loan wasn’t
made.”
An interesting item appeared in the
New York “World” which was re
printed from a special cable sent to
the Jewish Daily “Forward” from Tel
Aviv. Not many of my readers read
either the “Evening World” or the
“Forward” so this will be news to
them. It seems that on September
25th a special reception and enter
tainment was given in honor of the
Jew's in connection with the celebra
tion staged by the Sheik of Petaeh on
the occasion of the marriage of his
younger brother. It is interesting that
this Arab chieftain should show his
goodwill to the Jews just at this time
w'hen his brethren are in arms against
them. But this little story will ex
plain the situation.
“Sheik Abou Kishek, of Petaeh.
was an inveterate foe of the Jews
a decade ago, and the moving spirit
in the outbreaks in 1921, he himself
leading the attack on Petaeh Tik-
vah. He was ruler over 2,000 Be
douins, the possessor of vast tracts
of land, and his influence extended
over scores of sheiks and villages a*
far as Shehem. He was defeated,
however, on the battlefield of Pe
taeh Tikvah and sentenced to six
years’ imprisonment and to pay an
indemnity of $10,000.
“After he had served two years,
however, he w r as released due to the
intercession of the Jews, and when
he emerged from prison he con
cluded an eternal peace with the
Jew's w'hereupon the Jews gave a
feast in his honor and presented to
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