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Page 13 / \V. Gottenstrater, C.P.A. Resident Manager Telephone WAlnut 4072 TOUCH, NIVEN & CO. Public Accountants 1(104 CANDLER BLDG. ATLANTA. GA. A A BEER 6c CO. MKMBKRS New York Stock Exchange New York Cotton Exchange and Other Leading Exchanges R. H. BEWICK Resident Partner F irst Natl. Bank Bldg. WAlnut 2282 Carolina Portland Cement Co. Bu tiding Mate rial W 194 Moore Street, S.E. WAlnut 8212 The Southern Israelite fense of the Hebrew people. As I was horn to deliver up to eternal mockery the evil and decrepit, the absurd and the false and the ludicrous, so it is also characteristic of me to feel the exalted, to admire the magnificent, and to praise the vital.” Heine had grown thoughtful. These last words had been heart-felt and sin cere. But now, as if to bring back to its accustomed place about his lips the smile which for a moment had disap peared, he added, jestingly: “When little Weill comes here again one of these days, my friend, you will see another proof of my filial affection for the ancient faith of Moses. Weill was formerly a cantor in a synagogue. He possesses a metallic tenor voice and renders the old desert songs of Judah with all the pristine purity of tradition, going from the unmitigated monotony of simplicity to the highest peak of Old-Testament coloratura. My good wife, who has no suspicion of my being a Jew, is not a little amazed when her ear is assailed by this un believable musical lamentation, this piercing tremolo. When Weill sang for us the first time Minko, the poodle, hid under the sofa, and Cocotte, the parrot, tried to hang herself on the bars of her cage. ‘Monsier Weill! Mon sieur Weill!’ Mathilde cried, frightened. ’Please don’t carry the joke too far!’ Weill went right on singing. Then the poor woman turned to me and tensely asked: ‘Tell me, Henri, what kind of songs are those?’ I replied: ‘They arc our German folk songs.’ And to this explanation I have adhered stub bornly.’’ * * * It was early in 1856 that Heine’s ac customed, regular suffering was aggra vated by a violent illness. As some English physician has said, people die not of the disease that afflicts them, but of their physical inability to fight the disease. It was neither his nervous malady nor his spinal disease which caused Heine’s dieasc, but an attack of indigestion which under other circum stances would have been of minor im portance. The enormous doses of mor phine he used to take had caused such illness before, but this time the attack was unusually violent and lasted for three days. He, however, remained de fiant and continued to hope for victory in his battle. He started to draw up a new will, but did not go beyond the first paragraph ; he remained fully con scious to the end. Even his wit re mained active. A few hours before Heine’s death a friend rushed into his room to sec him for the last time. The moment he entered he asked the dying man whether he had made his peace with God; and Heine, smiling, replied: “Don’t worry I God will forgive me— that’s his business.” When—on that last night, the night of February 16th—the physician came in, Heine asked whether he was really dying. Dr. Gruby felt it his duty to tell his patient the truth; Heine received it with perfect equa nimity. At four o’clock the next morn ing he breathed his last. In death he was more beautiful than any one had ever seen him in life; his physician declared that he had never seen death transfigure even youthful faces to such a degree. This beauty is preserved faithfully and forever in the death mask that was taken. The daily press recorded the death of the greatest poet of our time briefly ami soberly, like any other event. This taciturnity, however, was due, not to indifference, but to a momentary specchlessness. In accordance with Heine’s wishes, no word was said at his grave. He had forbidden the saying of mass or the re cital of the Kaddish for him. With curious consistency, even a literary eu logy was omitted. The emotion that dwelt in hundreds of thousands of hearts was not given vocal utterance. As his bodily remains so, symboli cally, did his poetic genius fare. But this will change. The clouds that tem porarily obscure his fame will pass, and his name will soon he recognized as one of the glories of German litera ture. Heinrich Heine’s death will mark the beginning of his apotheosis. (Copyright, 1931, by S.A.F.S.) 4 f The Scarlet Trail (Continued from Pnge 7) of Russia—Nicholas I., commenting on the verdict of acquittal for the Jews who had been unjustly imprisoned for twelve years in the blood libel case of Velizh—to write, though not for pub lication : “I deem it, however, neces sary to add that I do not have, and, indeed, cannot have the inner convic tion that the murder has not been com mitted by Jews. Numerous examples of similar murders ... go to show that among the Jews there probably exist fanatics or sectarians who consider Christian blood necessary for their rites ... I do not for a moment think that this custom is common to all Jews, but I do not deny the possibility that there may be among them fanatics just as horrible among us Christians.” F. Wade Vaughn Fire Insurance PALMER BLDG. JA. 2572 Old Nicholas did not str nd alone.. The judges in the Tisza-Eszlar case, which occurred in Austria in 1883, as well as the court in the Beilis case— and this was in the twentieth century! —also stated that while the accused Jews appeared innocent of the charges there was no doubt in their minds that a ritual murder had been committed. Indeed, the blood libel has proved a very efficient instrument in the hands of rulers who want to provide an out let for the resentment of oppressed and ignorant masses. It was much more convenient for tyrannical governments, if the downtrodden peasants, instead of directing their well-founded ire against the wealthy ruling castes, could find savage intoxication in murderous pogroms upon poor, defenseless Jews. And this, of course, is the reasoning that was followed by the effendis of Palestine when, a few weeks ago they permitted one of their newspapers to publish what is, to the best of our knowledge, the most recent link in the long chain that threads its way through our history a the scarlet trail of the blood libel. (Copyright, 1931, S.A.F.S.) Renj. J. Scckingcr Hubert B. Seckinger SECKINGER BROS. CO. vv Heating and Plumbing Contractors AA 1 80 Forsyth St. S.W. Wa. 1033 Maury-Cole Co. •ygr •f' Manufacturers of CANOVA FOOD PRODUCTS Extends Seasons Greetings To Our Many Friends . . JAMES K. POLK INC. ■ ■ ■ Wholesale Distributors of EVERYTHING MUSICAL ■ ■ ■ 217 WHITEHALL ST. S.W, WAlnut 6524