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The Southern Israelite Page 54 Charles H. Joseph l!U>. NAT HANK Total RcHourtTH More 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 mazagine: CHATTANOOGA’S DISTRIBUTORS CORBIN BUILDERS HARDWARE — DU FONT'S PAINTS AND VARNISHES—BRUSH I)UCO THE LIFE- TIME FINISH—ROOFING AND EVERYTHING IN HARDWARE I CASH-MELTON HARDWARE CO. I*Iiou<‘h : 7-3421 6-5022 Cliutfunnogn. IVnn. ( I I I ♦ A G. Sti' vers Lumber Co. Main 6-71 70 6-7179 345 E. Main Chattanooga, Tenn. A Happy New Year to our Jewish Friends and Customers Terrell Electric Company “We Light the Way” CHATTANOOGA, TENN. “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 HALE DKUG COMPANY Phones 61 ami 62 300-302 Broad Si. HOME, GA.