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Friday, February 17, 1956
THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
Pa*e
Has not God borne with you these many
years? Be ye tolerant to others.
—Hosea Ballou
J. C. Swanson
Roofing and Siding
605 Highland Ave., N.E. - LA. 8933
Man was created alone,
[for the sake of peace
[among men, that one might
[not say to his fellow:
t‘My father was greater
Khan thine.’
—Mishnah, Sanhedrin,!
iv. 37,
HARPER MOTOR
LINES
1000 Watkins St., N. W.
ELgrin 7537
AN INSTANT OF PAUSE
by Henry Seidel Canby
Some think the relations between Christians and Jews
in this country are bettering; some think they are
worsening. It may help to remember that the contacts of
races, national groups, or majorities with minorities
often result in infections like the common
cold. The radio blares, books good and bad are written,
cures are invented monthly, and still we sniffle,
although what was a menace does begin to
reduce itself toward a nuisance, which it will probably
always be. Still, social prejudice discharges its
nasty inuendoes and unsupported charges. Just possibly,
the trouble with prejudice, if not with colds, is partly
semantic. The reaction to the word Negro,
let us say, or Jew, is very different with both
speaker and hearer, from the response to the
name of a known person. In the history of the world
there is an intensely important instant
which determines whether a man is recognized
merely as a variety of the human species, or as
an individual who cannot be entirely defined by
saying that he is a Hindu or a Swede. It is that instant
of pause, where one looks at his neighbors as at his
friends, to see what they are really like as human
beings, that may make all the difference. If you
have a long commuting ride daily, try this
simple experiment. Look down and back the car
length, using one of those convenient and so
uninforming lists of catagories which we all
carry in our minds — old American, recent
immigrant, second generation American,
Chinese, Polish Jew, Southern Negro, priest,
Irish politician. Then, forget your crude
attempts to learn the important truths about an
individual by an abstract term, and
\ ^ use what wealth of experience, what powers
of divination you have, to see each man
or woman as one of us all who
should fall or stand in our estimation for
himself, for herself, so far as
human sympathy can judge. The brush-off by
generalization is easy, but it is often
one of the great lies that muddy civilization.
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192 Luckie St. N.W. - WA. 2811
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313 Peachtree St. N.E.
MU. 8-0483
Brookwood Service Station
1820 Peachtree Road, N.W.
EL. 2171
Butler Street Coal Yard
210 London Lane, N.E.
MU. 8-3688
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267 Techwood Dr., N.W.
LA. 5505
Cleveland Electric Co.
557 Marietta St. N.W.
LA. 8422
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204-205 Grant Building
WA. 2055
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these men and firms:
—
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Multigraphing Co.
217 Mortgage Guarantee Building
WA. 5231
East Atlanta Pharmacy
517 Flat Shoals Ave., S.E.
LA. 1926
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1017 Virginia Ave., N.E.
EL. 9545
Hillard Heating & Plumbing
Company
287 North Ave., N.E. - VE. 9454
Garvin Electric Co.
69 Forsyth St., N.W.
WA. 2290
MR. and MRS. S. M. GOODWIN
Techwood Washerette
408 Techwood Dr., N.W.
AL. 9302
John H. Harland Co.
101 Cone Street, N.W.
WA. 5738
Dr. Joseph M. Hart
6 Mark Building Arcade
Whitehall & Alabama Streets
LA. 1881
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1192 Pryor Street, S.W.
MU. 8-4300
Lewis Seed Store
302 E. Howard Street
Decatur, Ga. - DE. 3737
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1143 Ponce de Leon Ave., N.E.
EL. 4321
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500 Stewart Ave. S.W.
CY. 8526
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121 Currier St. N.E. - EL. 4848
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105 Marietta St. N.W.
WA. 4431 4 #
Thompson Construction Co.
“Tommie Thompson”
292 Rear E. Paces Ferry Rd., N.E.
EX. 9661
Townsend Roofing Co.
Wendell Townsend
Call ALpine 6488
Ware & White, Inc.
117 Hunter St., S.W.
WA. 1359
Billy Wilson
384 Woodward Way
CH. 9172
Wilson Carpet Laying Co.
264 Peachtree St., N.W.
LA 8886
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38 Walton St. N.W.
AL. 5840
155 Peachtree St. N.E.
AL. 5010
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