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THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
Friday, December 12, 1958
PLAIN TALK—By Alfred Segal
At A Funeral
How long should a rabbi make
a funeral service? And how long
should the rabbi speak the
funeral sermon? And how closely
should he stick to the facts of
the dead person’s life? (Yes, I’ve
attended funerals of which people
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LEGAL NOTICE
STATE OK GEORGIA.
COUNTY OK FULTON.
TO THE SUPERIOR COURT
OK SAII) COUNTY:
The petition of HARRY HARRISON,
15H1 Johnson Rond, NE. SOL H. GREEN
BERG, 2388 E. Llndmont Court, NE
and SAMUEL L. EPLAN, 1017 William
Oliver Building, all of Atlanta. Georgia,
respectfully shows to the court:
1. Petitioners desire for themselves,
their associates, successors and as-
■lKns, to he Incorporated for a period
of thirty five (lift) years, with privilege
of amendment und renewal of charter,
under the name and stvle of
ASSOCIATED FURNITURE MFC. CO.,
INC.
2. The general nature of the busi
ness to be transacted Is that of manu
facturing, buying, selling, and repair
ing any and ull types of furniture and
ali similar and kindred Items, either
at wholesale or retail and In such
other business enterprises as the Hoard
of Directors may determine.
3. Petitioners desire to have the
right to buy and sell real and per
sonal property which may bo needed
In the operation of Its business; to
mortgage, lease and deal In real and
C ersonal properties of all kinds; to
uy, sell and own shares of stocks or
bonds of other corporations; to Issue
debenture bonds under such terms and
conditions as Its Hoard of Directors
may determine; to borrow and loan
monies for such purposes as may be
necessary In the operation of said busi
ness; to act as Trustees or Escrow
agents under such terms and conditions
as may be determined by its Hoard
of Directors, and to have such other
and further rights and powers and to
enjoy all of the privileges enumerated
In Paragraph 22 1827 and Paragraph
22-1870 of the Code of Georgia, and all
of the other powers and privileges
enumerated In Chapter 22-18 of the
Code of Georgia and all of sold powers
and prlvllges enumerated therein and
any amendment to said Chapter which
may have been made or which may
be made In the future are hereby
made a part hereto in the same ex
tent ns If same were Incorporated
herein.
4. The amount of capttnl with which
the corporation shall begin business
shall be a minimum of Ten Thusand
($10,000.00) Dollars. In cash or other
assets, each share to have a par value
of One Hundred ($100.00) Dollars, with
the privilege of Increasing Its capital
stock to One Hundred Thousand ($100,
000.00) Dollars.
8. Petitioners desire the right to In
crease or decrease the outstanding
shares of stock within the authorized
limits by vole of the majority of the
outstanding common stock and to have
the further right to Issue fractional
shares of stock.
0. The principal office of the corpo
ration Is to be located In the County
of Pulton, State of Georgia, but peti
tioners desire the privilege of estab
lishing branch offices, plants and
places of business elsewhere.
WHEREFORE, petitioners pray an
order be granted Incorporating them,
their associates, successors and as-
alngs, under the name aforesaid, with
the powers and privileges herein pray
ed for, together with such other pow
ers and privileges as may be necessary,
proper or Incident to the conduct of
the business for which petitioners are
seeking Incorporation, and ns may be
allowed to private corporations under
the terms of the Act of January 28th,
1938, authorizing the charter of corpo
rations for charter.
Samuel L. Kplan, Attorney
1017 William Oliver Building
Atlanta 3, Georgia.
ORDER
The foregoing petition of HARRY
HARRISON. SOL H. GREENBERG and
SAMUEL L. EPLAN to obtain a charter
for a private corporation under the
name or
ASSOCIATED FURNITURE MFC. CO.,
INC.
having been presented to the court,
the same having been examined and
It appearing to the undersigned Judge
of said court that the application Is
legitimately within the purview and
Intention of the Laws of this State, and
it further appearing by certificate of
the Secretary of State that the name
of the proposed corporation Is not the
name of any other existing corpora
tion registered In the records of said
Secretary of State;
IT IS ORDERED AND ADJUDGED,
that said application be and It Is grant
ed and sala applicants, their associates,
successors ana assigns, are hereby ln-
corporated as prayed In said petition
and a charter Is granted unto ASSO
CIATED FURNITURE MFG. CO.. INC.,
with aU the rights, powers, privileges
and Immunities as prayed In said ap-
C llcatlon and as authorized by the
aws of this State.
Dated this 25th day of November,
1988.
Geo. P. Whitman Sr.
Judge, S. C. A. C.
Dec. S, 12, 19, 2$
afterward said, “Oh, the exact
truth about a man doesn’t seem
to fit into a funeral service. You
know, I half expected our dead
friend to sit up and ask, ‘My dear
sir, is it me you’re talking
about?’ ”)
I myself, though, feel it’s all
right to speak only good of a
dead man, as much good as is
honestly possible; God Himself
knows all about the man.
I come to these meditations by
reason of a recent experience of
my own at a certain funeral in
our town. You see, I was the
rabbi of the occasion, you might
say, at Uie final service for an
old lady; She had had no con
gregational or rabbinical asso
ciations during her lifetime.
So her friends picked me to
be the unordained rabhi for the
obsequies ... to give her fare
well ... to speak up to God in
her behalf ... to say some words
about her life. Having been so
designated, I pondered on how
to do it . . . on what Scripture
,to read in her behalf ... on what
to say about her . . . how long to
stretch out the occasion.
I resolved to make it short. I
asked myself, isn’t the agony of
most funeral services prolonged
too far? Why those long speeches?
The person in the casket isn’t in
the least interested and the Lord
for whose attention the service
is being given knew this person
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funeral . . . certainly much bet
ter than the officiating rabbi.
(The sad fact is that in these
times of congregations so large,
a rabbi just can’t know them all
intimately or, even casually, as
is often the case.)
So, this rabbi Segal decided to
keep it all down short . . , not
that he himself was in any
hurry. The funeral occurred at
an hour when his own day’s
work was done. He had plenty
of time. But funeral agony must
be reduced.
He did not stand apart from
the small congregation of mourn
ers; he stood himself almost
among them. He began by saying
that he hoped this was really a
happy ending for the life of the
old lady.
“As we all know,” he said,
“she lived a most unhappy life
... a troubled existence. How
often she told each of us, her
friends that she desired to die
toward a happy ending of it all
. . . toward peace and rest.
“Well, let’s hope this is the
happy ending for her.”
That was about all this tem
porary rabbi Segal had to say
of this life. He could feel com
fortable because he wasn’t pre
siding at a funeral that was
tragic. Nobody there was crying
because we knew that for a long,
long time she had been looking
forward to this ending. Yet, this
was a death that had been
philosophically accepted by this
woman through many years.
And having mentioned her
happy ending, Sogal recited the
23rd Psalm by way of suggesting
what the happy ending might be
like. “The Lord is my shepherd;
I shall not want . . . He maketh
me to lie down in green pastures;
lie leadeth me beside the still
water ... He restorcth my soul
. . . Yea, though I walk through
the valley of the shadow of
death, I will fear no evil, for
Thou art with me . . . Thou pre-
parest a table before me in the
presence of mine enemies; Thou
anointest my head with oil; my
cup runneth over . . . Surely
goodness and mercy shall follow
mo all the day, and I will dwell
in the house of the Lord for
ever.”
“Yes,” Segal said to the un
happy lady’s friends at this fun
eral, “that’s a lovely picture of
happy ending and let’s hope she’s
seeing it.”
A portion of Psalm 90 also
was read . . . “So teach us to
number our days that we may
apply our hearts unto wisdom
. . . O satisfy us early with they
mercy.” Segal thought these
verses could have served the old
lady well in her long-time un
happiness . . . Then kaddish was
said . . . and then out to the
grave . . . and that was all.
It all took less than 10 minutes
and isn’t that long enough for
any funeral? Why all that
stretched out agony of many a
funeral? Why, really, those long
funeral sermons about which
dead, if they could hear, would
wonder if all that’s being said
about them really was true?
I like the Episcopalians’ way
of saying good-bye to their dead.
No sermons or tributes at all. I
recall the funeral of one of our
renowned Episcopalian rectors
that I attended several years ago:
Some praying, a Psalm, no ser
mon! When it was over the whole
congregation arose to march be
hind the casket, singing a joyous
hymn that was like a marching
• • • •
in brief
Sues B’nai B’rith
ARLINGTON. Va„ (J T A) —
George L. Rockwell, a former
Naval commander who publishes
anti-Jewish propaganda in the
basement of his home here has
filed a $50,000 libel suit against
the Arlington B’nai B’rith Lodge.
He claimed in the suit that he
was damaged by statements which
the lodge had caused to be pub
lished and which, he said, char
acterized him as an "anti-Sem
ite.” Actually, said Mr. Rockwell
in the suit, Semites are “mostly
Arabs for whom the plaintiff has
great sympathy as victims of
Jewish aggression.”
Off on Mission
NEW YORK, (JTA) — Rabbi
Aryeh Lev, director of the Com
mission on Jewish Chaplaincy of
the National Jewish Welfare
Board, left last week-end on an
overseas religious mission con
cerned with religious problems
facing Jewish military personnel
in Africa, the Near East and Eu
rope. A number of problems con
cerning adequate coverage face
the Chaplaincy Commission in
the light of recently-enacted
economies by the Government in
the total military chaplaincy pro
gram.
English Translation
DETROIT, (JTA)—Wayne Uni
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and Cucumbers andPlums,” a vol
ume of 40 Yiddish poems trans
lated and edited by Dr. Sarah
Zweig Betsky. Each of the 46
poems annears in flip original
Yiddish, in an English translation
and in a transliteration into the
Roman alphabet.
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