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THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
Welcome this
man when he
calls to tell you
about our
ANNUAL
FALL SALE
GENERAL @ ELECTRIC
ALL-STEEL REFRIGERATOR
He is a “Georgia Power Man.” Welcome him! He calls
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In'1 928. under the old rate schedule, the average rate paid by our
residential customers was 7.168 cents per kilowatt hour. In 1930.
the average was 5.73—including all service charges!
P. «S. ARKWRIGHT, President.
Georgia
POWER COMPANY
— A CITIZEN WHEREVER WE SERVE
The Chosen People
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something I have achieved has forced
him to respect or like me, or care
lessly, negligently, or because it suits
his purposes. To be admitted into a
social group merely because the usual
bars are let down is offensive and un
dignified for both sides.
This he considered. I continued:
In my innocence, I had always been
convinced that I was a part of Ger
man life, of the German people, by
birth. The language is the breath of
life to me. To me it is far more than
a means of communication, something
casually learned and used; its words
and rhythm constitute my innermost
life, it is as deeply a part of me as
if it had been mine through all etern
ity. Is not this more important than
a listing in a register, than a formal
confession of faith, than an ingrown
prejudice, than a stranger’s role kept
up because of fear and pride on the
one side and superstition, malice and
inertia on the other?
Yes and no, answered my friend.
These arguments threw light on my
particular position; but in general
matters were not at all like that.
I objected that I did not want to
dwell on my situation alone.
Said he: Let us first examine gen
eral aspects of the question. As an
entity the Jews have never been able
to identify themselves disinterestedly
with the causes of their host-nations.
Within the state they have withdrawn
into social and religious isolation, a
frozen bloc in the flowing stream. As
long as their isolation was forced they
could claim martyrdom; but now that
the restrictions against them have
been lifted their lack of will and ca
pacity for this identification is evi
dent. They still, consciously or un
consciously, lay stress upon the doc
trine and false and misleading. And
inevitably their undying hate had to
turn against Christianity in particu
lar, for toward it their feeling was
that of a mother whose womb gave
birth to a traitor—the betrayer of
their people, of mankind, of God.
What is comparable to such hatred?
W r hat can mitigate it? Only this hate
can, perhaps, explain the power of
resistance, the patience of the tribe,
their endurance of suffering and their
unexampled vitality. The determina
tion to wreak vengeance for what
they have suffered had probably been
rooted in their souls for generations,
has penetrated every cell of their
bodies, so to speak. The individual
who has developed differently can do
nothing against this, cannot be taken
as proof that this is not so. Instincts
of this sort continue their functioning
under the surface; no agreement be
tween well-intentioned enlighteners,
no sorrow on the part of those who
have left the main body, no example
set by those who have changed can
do away with them.
CENTRAL CIGAR &
SODA COMPANY
LOUIS N. LAMPOS
142 Central Ave., S. W.
JA. 9088 Atlanta, Ga.
It was painful for me to 1 r th ls
I pointed out that this s
tragedy of the petrified i
standing and malicious per u tio n
but he did not agree, reply r that ’
like so many others, I was tl victim
of a cultural delusion. How , n g h<
asked, is it since the Jews h v e pro
gressed beyond a barbaric; j y ] ow
mode of life? Even in the ei teenth
century they obdurately m tained
their alienation, their gloom , seclu
sion. The old Goethe regarded the
Jew approximately as the / nerican
today regards the nigger; this de
spite Nathan the Wise, despite Spin
oza and Moses Mendelssohn, despite
the Jewish influence manifest in the
rising Romantic movement, despite
his undoubted appreciation of the ven
eration due to the historic Jewish in
stitutions, the religious and social
communties.
The childhood impressions he had
received in the Frankfort Ghetto
were stronger. The Jews always re
call the oppression and persecution
to which they were subjected when
attention is called to objectionable
traits in their racial demeanor.
No Jew will tolerate an objective
judgment of Jews—not to mention
an unfavorable view—not even of in
dividuals, though they be degener
ates, the moment the slightest reflec
tion is cast upon Jewry as a whole.
The sad result of this fault is the
tendency to speak of Jews in either
the glozing tones of the apologist or
the hideous accents of slander. Their
eulogists all emphasize the absolute
moral purity of the Jews ami how
unvariably they are law-abiding, as
if no Jew had ever stepped over the
line. Yet a considerable number of
Jews were members of the robber
bands that made central Germany un
safe between 1750 and 1820. I will
not speak of the Shylocks of every
degree, the ruthless usurers and un
scrupulous speculators. It would be
absurd to think that these millions
of people—advancing through the
centuries in an unsafe social position,
almost entirely unprotected, the: i
lives and property always in danger-
are under greater obligation than
their keepers and tormentors to con
duct themselves irreproachably, that
their criminals are more abomina 1 -
than others. To be entirely just one
must take the opposed point ot view.
The charge against them, howe\e\
of a more fundamental categ< >•
concerns their incapacity for spint
ual adaptation. Their intelleitua
adaptability is extraordinary. ex ’ t( '°
great for their own good. Bui v 1
ually they have as an entity, as a
racial identity, remained to 1 .
flioxT warn in Rihlipfll antiquity.
In this sense my friend sp L a
great length, defending his vi*. 1
most dictatorially. I remem
I could not escape the logic an
of his argument. He was inexor - ’ 1 *
and I, who wanted to get at th
tom of things, loved him for
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