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THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
To the Jewish Community
of Jacksonville, Florida
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Wc, the undersigned, on the occasion of the Holiday Season, are glad to
exercise in this manner the privilege of extending to the Jewish Com
munity our greetings. The past year has witnessed the tearing down of
some of the harriers that separated sections of the community and pre
vented the harmonious planning for the great good of American institu
tions. The past year has heard the sturdy voices of men in responsible
positions of governmental authority, as well as of men in the forefront
of church leadership, and all these voices have urged the need! for better
and deeper understanding for a new kind of tolerance that recognizes
the great good that each individual can contribute to the future America.
And it is the spirit of what has already been achieved that we look
forward to the coming year for even greater manifestation of the spirit
of brotherhood and understanding.
Baltimore & Carolina
S. S. Co.
A. H. Bull 8 Co.
Henj. Munnerlyn, Local Agent
George J. Bannon
Garage
‘'Complete Garage Service "
Bay State Paint Store
A. E. Roland. Manager
Beighley Jewelry Co.
Sidney /.. Beighley
Bo-Kay Paper Box Co.
Borden Sales Co.
E. L. Shortlidye. Manager
Carolina Portland
Cement Co.
\V. A. Kline, Manager
Clar-Oil Laboratories.
Inc.
W. £. Laiv. General Manager
Wm. C. Cooper
Funeral Directors
ommercial Printing Co.
Frank B. Clark, President
Frank Curran Cigar Co.
Domestic Laundry Co.
5-6493
W. A. Evans Lumber
Co.
W. A. Evans—/•'. R. likes
Frieseke Wholesale
Grocery
Fitch-Wilkinson. Inc.
Wholesale Fruits and Vegetables
Sam Cherry, Manager
General Marble &
Tile Co.
A. J. Cescry, President
C. V, Cesery, Sec.-Treas.
U. S. Horton
Plumbing and Heating
Contractor
Joe F. Hammond
County Commissioner
Independent Laundry
Ira D, Sams, Manager
F. M. Keller Lumber
Co.
Kent Warren Co.
Clothing
J. J. Logan
Real Estate
D. A. Mayfield ft Son
Plumbing and Heating
Contractors
Mickler-Sunderlin. Inc,
Cleaners and Dyers
Neill Corley, Inc.
General Insurance
Nissen-Wolf Mfg. Co.
V. H. Nissen—C. A. Wolf
Cabinetmakers
Orange Crush Bottling
Co.
J. Wiley Pope. Vice-President
D. 3V. Jack Parfitt
Clerk of Criminal and
Civil Courts
Seashole Funeral Parlors
Ciuy W. Seashole
E. Vanderpoel & Son
' Fish of All Kinds’*
Highlights and Sidelii hts
Gossip and News of Jewish Personalities
Bit MARTIN GOLDE
In case you think Jewish life in
the U. S. A. has been too tame lately,
take cheer. There is every prospect
that you will be furnished with some
interesting scenes of battle before the
year is over. And when these particu
lar boys battle, believe you me, it’s
no skirmish. Who are the combat
ants? Who else but Zionists, who
seem to be the only species of Jews
today who have a stomach for good
old Gaelic rough and tumble.
As I gaze into my crystal glass,
which reveals all, I see in one corner
a tall, gaunt man, with a nose like a
hawk and the eyes of a prophet. Louis
Lipsky, if my orbs don’t deceive me.
In another corner is a motley group.
They look daggers at Lipsky.
Now I can look up from the crys
tal and tell you what it all means.
Within the next few months there
will be enacted another episode in that
decade-old controversy between the
so-called Brandeis-Mack group and
Lipsky. This time the stakes are high.
Win all or lose all. Do the Zionists
of the United States still have a deep
affection for Louis Lipsky? If they
do, he will again be president of the
Zionist Organization of America. I
look into my crystal to get the an
swer. There’s a slight fog in it. If it
clears up in the weeks to come, I’ll
let you know what it reveals.
“Powder-Puff” Harry, they used to
call Harry Riehman, darling of Broad
way and at present star of Ziegfeld’s
latest Follies. In the estimate of the
Big Street, there’s something soft and
clammy about you if you sing well.
And nobody can deny that Harry has
a real voice. But folks who had an
idea of Harry as some form of lounge-
lizard and parlor pup know different
now. And, for the first time in his
long career, Harry is a hero.
It happened when Harry invited a
group of his friends to sail on his
yacht off Long Island. Show girls
from the Follies and several column
ists were among the guests. Through
some accident the yacht exploded and
several of the girls were hurled over
board. Not losing his head, Harry
jumped right into the water and res
cued one of the lasses. But what’s
more important—he didn’t tell the
reporters all about it.
The following night, when the life
ot another of the girls was in the
balance, and Harry had her on his
conscience, he went right into his
act in the Follies and put it over big
in the same old way. They didn’t tell
. ll \ l j 1 * a ^ er s h° w that the girl
had died at the hospital. “The show
must go on.” And Harry became a
cio twice in two days. No more
“Powder-Puffs” before hi name
For my orthodox frier. , I n L. .
up the story of the pious woman who
J“ a ™ US t0 >have her husband
fulfil all the requirements >f a r . l,,
ious Jew. He was going away on a
rather long journey and he packed
his bag. To make sure that her hi '
band would pray three times a day
as is customary, she put his hand
kerchiefs in the folds of the prayimr
shawl.
Several days later she received a
letter from her husband. “You were
good enough to pack my bag and you
provided everything that I needed
But you forgot to give me handker
chiefs.”
Whereupon the women sent the
following telegram to her spouse:
“Pray to God for handkerchiefs.”
Most Jews have a sense of humor.
They can take a joke on themselves.
But even I who don’t hesitate to take
a crack of Jewish idiosyncrasies feel
squeamish about many of the wisies
that clutter the stage. Take, for in
stance, one of the chief mirth-evokers
at the “Crazy Quilt,” in which Fanny
Brice, Phil Baker and Ted Healy are
the stars, and of which Billy Rose,
Fanny’s husband is the backer. Phil,
despite his smiling Litvak eyes, is said
to have a yen for Christian Science.
At any rate, when a buxom blonde
takes her bow on the stage, Phil asks
her to do a little dance. She does and
Phil turns thumbs down. “What’s the
matter with you ? Why don’t you put
some pep into your dancing. What
you need is the grace and the vigor
of some of the Jewish actors.”
“But I don’t know any Yiddish,”
the young lady murmurs. “Oh, you
don’t have to know it when you’re an
actor; that’s just if you’re a mana
ger.” Phil comes back.
If that’s what you get from adults,
what can you expect from children.
Recently a professor of religious edu
cation at Columbia University maT
a survey of prejudice among chil
dren, and she found that a Jew ha
no idea what a Christian is, and \ '
versa.
Here’s a contribution by a youi -
Italian girl, who was asked lor a
definition of a Jew:
“They eat matzoth, cabbage, fish,
bananas and pickles; they believe in
Moses; they eat from gold and sivt*
plates and don’t like to work; some 0
the Roman Jews hated God. and w en
they pray they touch their beards an
say: “Baba la Frisca.” Whi-h mean.'
“We praise Tee, O Lord.”
Recognize ourself?
And here’s what a young
lad said about his Christian oig ® ‘
“They eat bacon, ham ;
things that are not Kosher T L
to church on Sunday; Ch: - ma ^ .
their favorite holiday; the; !a *
front of the cross and take "
off in church; the ‘Prodist
their Ku Klux Klan; Jesu>
father and the Christians c
Bible from the Jews and
it into English.”
Copyright 1931 by S. A.