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The Sure Way
to keep food Safe
Plenty of ice in a good, well-insulated refrigerator is the
best protection for food you can get. Ice maintains a
temperature low enough to keep even the most highly
perishable foods sweet and safe and creates an atmosphere
neither too moist nor too dry, but just right to keep foods
in prime condition.
It is false economy to shut off the ice supply when
summer is gone, for ICE is cheap and abundant. Let
us keep you supplied this fall and winter.
City Ice
I)elivery Company
WITH ICE
867 Peachtret
WAlnut 1287
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MAISON ADOLPHE
TOWN SALON
. . . succeeding Theresa Zalin. is now established
with ns. Arbiters of style and good grooming, we
are especially pleased to endorse a shop of such
merit.
M. PAUL, popular coiffure expert, will be in
charge of the opening of ADOLPHE'S TOW \
SALON—assisted by M. HARRY of New York who
has joined this eapahle staff of beauty specialists.
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Random Thought*
By CHARLES H. JOSEPH
Copyrighted
“A. Rosenthal, Editor.” For many
years I have seen that name on the
editorial page of the “Modern View”
of St. Louis, one of the best edited
of our Jewish weeklies. Almost from
the day I began to write RANDOM
THOUGHTS, the column appeared
each week in that journal. I never met
A. Rosenthal. Once I was in St. Louis
hut for some reason or other, that has
escaped my memory; I did not or
could not avail myself of the oppor
tunity of meeting him. Now I am
sorry I didn’t because the sad news
has been conveyed to me that my
friend has passed to his eternal rest.
I say “my friend” because all through
the years I received frequent commu
nications from him and never was
there one that did not contain a
friendly gesture of camaraderie that
could emanate only from a fine spirit.
1 had never seen a photograph of him
until it appeared in the front page of
the paper that he loved so much and
to which he had given so much of
himself. It revealed the face of a man
of character, of imagination, a poet,
perhaps. Those expressive eyes could
only belong to one who loved fine
things and who possessed the true
artist’s temperament. “Art,” said El
bert Hubbard, “is the expression of
joy in one’s work” and in that sense
truly was Abraham Rosenthal an art
ist. He has gone. I truly will miss
him. As must many others who had
the privilege of personal contact and
who, week after week, through the
years, read his interesting, inspiring
and extremely sane messages on th*
thousand-and-one subjects involving
Jews and Jewish life. His death is a
definite loss to American Jewish jour
nalism.
Leo Wise celebrated his 80th birth
day last Monday in Cincinnati. For
over a quarter of a century he followed
in the footsteps of his sainted father,
the immortal Isaac M. Wise, in edit
ing and publishing the newspaper his
father started soon after he came to
this country, the “American Israelite.”
I met Leo Wise only twice, but I can
not forget the encouragement he gave
me on many occasions in the columns
of his paper. I knew and esteemed
him as one of the most brilliant para-
graphers that ever graced the Jewish
press. His late brother, Dr. Julius
\\ ise, who used to write years ago un
der the name of “Nickerdown.” What
a keen, satirical weapon was his pen!
I know of no paragrapher who has
ever reached the heighths to which he
attained. ‘Nickerdown!” How mem
ory is stirred when I see that name as
it must stir many of the older men in
the realm of Jewish journalism.
I am reminded by Leo Wise’s 80th
birthday of the fact that I attended
the 80th birthday of his father. In
honor of that occasion the Central
Conference of Reform Rabbis held a
special session in Cincinnati. A ban
quet was held to which all the digni
taries of the city, Jewish and non-
Jewish were invited. I remember that
Max May was in charge of the cere
monies. I recall the special services
held (let me see) in the Plum Street
Temple? I went to that celebration
with the late Dr. Lipman Mayer of
Pittsburgh, one of the rare, fine, old
scholarly pastors in Israel. *h v
longed to the school of David Fir
Samuel Hirsch, Isaac M. Wi se . Da-
Lilienthal and other great light:
American Israel. He was the Fa-
Confessor of many of the most T -*-
guished of the so-called “ yr
Rabbis belonging to the school of f>.
G. Hirsch, Dr. .Joseph KrauV-
Leon Harrison, David Philip^
seph Stolz, Tobias Schanfarher Sa-
uel Spitz, Dr. Sale, Edward < aA
Moses Cries, Henry Berkowitz
host of others who have added g, n
and prestige to the American Rab
nate. And I mustn’t forget the
Kaufmann Kohler and Gustav f,
theil, two other outstanding nan,.
American Israel, to say nothing t
Samuel Schulman and J.
Levy. To Dr. Mayer came thes. ]
his for advice on the many pr K
that confronted them in their £
of work. And through him I came
know- these luminaries and the ex|'-r:-
ences resulting from those c<>r.ta<
have never been forgotten. There ;•
one name I still must add and tha -
is Joseph Silverman. You who rea:
this column ask the elders in y .-
family if they recall this host of grea-
leaders in American Israel during
formative period of Reform Judaism
The following is one of Karl K v
en’s stories appearing in the New
York “Evening World” which w.!
give most of us a chuckle:
“Jack Noahson, the Panama
hat lad, slipped me this one:
“Morris Kaufman, ‘one of the
boys,’ recently made a fourweek
trip through the country to shake
hands with some of his customer-.
“Arriving in Little Rock, Ark
just before Yom Kippur, he had a
hearty meal at 6 o’clock and wert
up to his hotel room, and fa-t
all that evening, and all the f -
lowing day.
“When the sun went down
partook of another hearty n
thus breaking his fast, and w
to a movie show.
“The following morning, at ■
o’clock, he called on one of ’
wholesale houses of the city, on.)
to find a notice on the d - r,
‘Closed on account of holiday. ■
reopen tomorrow morning. The.,
must be late in opening th.
morning.’ he thought, and went
another house.
Again he found the door close
with a similar sign in the '
dow.
Then it dawned on him tha.
had fasted one day too soon.
He immediately returned to I
hotel and resumed the fast unti-
the sun went down that
“Which proves,” added Jack,
“that one must take his a -
slowly.”
lay not be a good guesser. - •
Tiling to wager last years ^
the Commission appoint* ^
Britain to investigate _
s that led up to the up> j ‘
st the Jews in ftjtat* £
blame on both sides. any
a diplomatic standpoin t
conclusion is practicable y
English government is