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manager, he dealt with eight
different labor organizations—
and says, with natural pleas
ure, he never encountered any
problem that could not he
solved to the satisfaction of all
the parties involved.
Harry Siegel is a member of
the Order of Railway Conduc
tors and Brakemen, the Nation
al Association of Retired and
Veteran Railroad Employees,
Fulton Lodge Masons No. 216,
Atlanta Consistory Scottish
Rite Masons and Yaarab Tem
ple of the Shrine. In April of
1967 he will receive the fifty-
year Grand Lodge award as a
master Mason member of Ful
ton Lodge, No. 216, F&AM.
<?hite obviously, Harry Barn
ey Siegel has lived a full lii\
but here, of course, we have
considered mainly those seg
ments of it which have dealt
with his fifty years of service
on the railroad.
His other phases of life, also,
have been filled to the brim. It
could hardly be otherwise for
a man who proudly boasts the
possession of three children,
six grandchildren and four
great-grandchildren, the last of
which was born in this year’s
January.
When Harry, with the
charming Mrs. Siegel, takes off
for total retirement in Florida,
he will not lack bright memo
ries to entertain him as he sops
up the healthful rays of the
sun.
Religious
Golf
Golf, I have decided, is a religious game. It is religious not
oily because it is often played on Saturday morning nor even
because of the sacrifices people make for it and the singleminded
devotion with which they regard it. It is religious because the
basic idea of the game is a spiritually sublime one. In golf, as
some golfers of my acquaintance play it, the object is not so much
to defeat the other player as to improve yourself, to do better
today than you did last time. At first you struggle to break 100:
when you can do that regularly, you 'try to whittle it down t■>
90 or even 80. You analyze what you’re doing wrong, and try to
correct the little faults that ruin your score. And if your partner
is going around in fewer strokes, because he's been playing long
er or has more ability, that doesn't upset you: you concentrate
on knocking a few strokes off your own score, and if you can
do that, you’re exultant.
Wouldn't we be at the threshold of the Messianic Era if
people who accept these notions so blithely on the golf course
would extend them to other areas of life as well. The goal of life
is not to outdo the next fellow, but to improve yourself, to cor
rect a few faults and be a little better than you were yesterday.
In golf, nobody says, “Since I can t be perfect and shoot par or
a hole-in-one every time, I’ll be satisfied with remaining the way
I am.” They work strenuously at improving even a little bit.
With this in mind, may I propose the following indoor vari
ations on golf, suitable for inclement weather when the course
in inaccessible:
1. Ethical Golf: in which people will ask, not "Am I no worse
than my competition?,” but rather, “Could l—with some effort
and practice—be a little bit better, more honest, more sensitive,
tomorrow than I was yesterday?”
2. Status Golf: in which nobody will worry about kcephui
up with the Joneses, but people at all times will ask "What is mi/
real level? What’s right for pie?”— never satisfied to be less than
they might be, never longing to be more than they have the
capacity to be.
3. Synagogue Golf: in which people will rush up to the local
pro (rabbi) and ask him urgently, "Please tell me! What little
things am I doing wrong, so that I can correct thenl?,” and then
rush out to put into practice the advice he gives them.
People who are capable of such saintliness on the golf course
should have no trouble transposing these same attitudes to the
home, the Temple, and the office. Fore!
Dr. Israel Gerber
Temple Beth El Bulletin, Charlotte, N.C.
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The Soiithern Israelite