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The Southern Israelite
Mrs. Modern Discards an
Ancient Habit
The modern woman has
a full schedule every day.
She has to make the min
utes count. She has to
conserve her energy, too,
to be fresh and ready for
each occasion.
P k So the modern woman
has led her sisters onto
the street car. Early in
the game she discovered
that an automobile is nice
enough out in the suburbs,
but something of a white
elephant when it gets to
town. For Atlanta is a big
city. And rapid transpor
tation as furnished by the
street car is the most con
venient way into the busi
ness section.
So the smart Atlanta
woman does her shopping
by street car, because it is
the sensible thing, because
it saves her time, because
it saves her energy.
Even if you live some
distance away from a
street car line, you can
drive your auto to a con
venient place in the resi
dential section, park it
there and let a street car
carry you the rest of the
way on your shopping
trip—without any bother
at all about traffic or park
ing when you get down
town.
During shopping hours
there are plenty of seats—
and these new cars are
comfortable and pleasant
to ride in. Try a “sample”
ride yourself, and you’ll
join the shoppers who are
regular street car riders.
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POWER
COMPANY
A CITIZEN
WHEREVER WE SERVE
“WHAT I SAW IN Rl 3Ia » !
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extremely lenient, for mar,
vorce, and births are purely
A marriage ceremony is no,
sory, although there is a
marriages and one for divor ln t}
courthouses. No matters o(
suppressed, and Mrs. Levy
for this reason sex life in R \ f or
the most part, is cleaner t i o, !r
For her last point of compat n with
the old Russia, Mrs. Levy
opinion of the religious situat today
in contrast to that existing d nt , t (
Czaristic Russia, which was s.
bound up with the Greek Catholic
Church and which was intensely reli
gious. Moscow, alone, was a city of I
40,000 churches before the Resolution,
and today many stand as exquisite
works of architecture. Today the new
order is strictly anti-religious, without
any particular religion being preferred
or persecuted, Mrs. Levy repeated. The
Jews, for instance, can keep their Tem
ples, but to worship is a hardship, a- i
was the problem on Passover, when
obtaining Matzoth was practically an
impossibility. But along with all of the
insults religion is suffering is the one
compensation that the Jew is in a
pitiable plight not because he is a Jew,
but because he is declassed. All re
ligion is discouraged, for the regime
looks to Carl Marx as its god and to
Lenin as its Jesus.
Despite the tragic aspect of the cir
cumstances as a whole, Mrs. Levy's
summary carried a tone of hopeful
promise for the outcome of the con
fusing problems confronting Russia,
which her keen discernment was able
to detect. She feels that idealists are
at the head of the political and eco
nomic change and that their theories
will work out into practical improve
ment if they are not interfered with.
The final thought that Mrs. Levy left
her audience was that in her judgment
the greatest experiment in modern
times is taking place today in Russia,
politically and economically.
DISCOURSES OF A
NOVELIST
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“What do you think of the Jew as an
artist?” I'asked.
“It may sound strange, but I believe,
that with the exception of Picasso all tin
greatest artists of our day are Jews, w -a >
her surprising answer. “The work o
the Jewish painter has in it a certain rich
ness and fire—almost fury—that P‘ aCC!>
it miles above that of most non-Jew>■
I think this is because of the centuries
of repression due to the Biblical niter
diction of the making of images. *
that the flood-gates are opened all
pent-up artistic feeling of the ages >■>
rushing forth to find expression. - on
of the finest painters are those '
their childhood were forbidden t
pictures. In every branch of art.
the Jew is emerging as an extra,
creative genius: Jews have been
musicians for many years; sculpt
outstanding Jewish exponents; a- 1
erature—well, at the moment I can
of a single really colorful French
for example, who has not at n
Jewish blood. The Jews who u
distinguished by a certain bar
mean, they lay bare things that na {
veiled and repressed—they fig.
repression, as barbarians do.
that may be ascribed to the ag>
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