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THE SOUTHERN ISRAELI T E
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or the New Year—
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A New Year's Message
By ARMAND WYLE
Director of the Hebrew Orphans Home
It gives me much pleasure indeed
to greet the Southern Israelite and
its friends on this eventful Rosh
Hashona, particularly as many of the
Israelite’s friends are my friends and
also those of the children of the He
brew Orphans Home. These children
come from much of the territory
which has become so greatly influ
enced by this enterprising Jewish
weekly, which has earned a place of
honor among its contemporaries and
whose columns are being quoted in
the non-Jewish press.
We Jews who are living in these
stirring times are fortunate in one
sense, despite the distress that we
must (helplessly in some instances)
witness; for we are participating in
one of the greatest, if not the most
important epochal change in the his
tory of the world. Such transitional
periods have always been painful,
whether from Greek civilization to the
Roman era of conquest and the birth
of law; to the oblivion of medieval
centuries; the rise of Feudalism; the
creation of the middle class; follow
ed by the Industrial Era, which many
believe is changing before our very
eyes into a world, the condition of
living in which we cannot foretell.
Europe seems to be struggling for
the triumph of Sovietism, Fascism,
Democracy or Monarchy, and no one
can say which will survive in its pro
grams in behalf of the peace and con
tentment of all peoples. In these sys
tems, our people are among the lead
ers and many of them will suffer as
has been their lot for thousands of
years. It is inevitable that what hap
pens in Europe will be reflected in
America, for we are no longer iso
lated from the mother continent.
As never before must we be patient,
endure individual and racial suffering,
and also contribute without reserve
our wealth and personal service to the
relief of our more unfortunate breth
ren. Established institutions peculiar
ly Jewish must not be forgotten at a
time when our incomes have become
curtailed and we feel constrained to
lower our standards of pleasure, liv
ing and philanthropy. We are part of
a major cataclysm and must save as
much as we can of our heritage. Our
poor must me succored, our widows
helped, our aged permitted to sur
vive and our orphans protected and
educated as never before. It will mean
more sacrifice to do this than in form
er years and times, but conditions de
mand of us that we give “without
stint” and “until it hurts.” How
often have we bought a home, or an
automobile; or taken an expensive
tour, when we could not really afford
it. Let us forget these desirable ac
quisitions to the satisfaction of our
personal and worldly desires, but not
the will that prompted us to obtain
them. These desires can be sublimated
to a spiritual will to relieve our peo
ple from suffering from want of the
barest necessities and the loss of
morale that leaders in the Great War
valued so highly and without which
their great purpose could not have
gone on. This too is a great war—
economic, it is true, but a war none
theless, in which soldiers of labor are
in the field, factory and office must
peace on earth may be consummated
through a more righteous and equit
able distribution of create- vealth
We have wonderful actua: and
tential leaders amongst us and whil,
we have lost some of out greater
such as Marshall, Melchet and
Frankel, we still have others to whom
we can turn for guidance -if We ^ u .
will. Let us listen, heed and act upon
their advice whether in the realm of
social service, economics, philanthropy
or statesmanship. There will be con-
ARMAND WYLE
be aided somehow to carry on until
flicting opinions of course, but if we
keep our minds open and refrain from
panic at the use of a word, a phrase
or an idea familiar to us in the past,
or even present scheme of things, we
must play an important role in a
changing world. There appears bu
little doubt that the times cry out
for a change in our industrial an
commercial order and we do not >et
know whether this change will conn
from within or without. Let us, how
ever, be ready to accept and work
for that which will make for the
greatest happiness to the greatest
number for the longest prospective
period.
Meanwhile, it seems to me that we
should not neglect our community
centers, where our youth can go °r
replenishment of lowered spirit an
for wholesome use of enforced eis
ure; nor the schools for ^ e ' vls y^ e -,.
cation where our children may be g 1 '
en the history and ethics of our a
ers, so that they too may be
by our glorious record of P ersis ,
and faith in the God who has wa c
over His people amid dan- '
martyrdom which have often
ened to remove them from t a
of the earth.
Our hospitals and clinics ^
ceive continued support; ...ah
tended period of the depie>>
no immediate prospect of g mu _
provement, has presented a ^
lative condition of ill p 1 ‘
health that has increased “free - ~
beyond their capacity to ab>u ^
Life is nothing, if lived ml j n
weakness and health is paran ^
importance to prosperity
tion.
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