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The MESSAGE
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KNIGHTS
OF THE WHITE CARNATION
4. Can you deal lovingly but effec-
tively with the end-seat hog, or, as per-
haps is more often the case, Mrs. Hogg?
It ought to be well known, after all
these centuries, that if you go clear in
to the center of the pew you will never
be disturbed by people walking all over
you. But not many individuals of the
Mr. and Mrs. Hogg type have minds
massive enough to grasp the intricate
truth. Can you give the lady guarding
the entrance to the pew a kick on the
ankle and make her think it was the
stout man climbing past her? A good
trick if you can manage it.
But most of the ushers work is posi-
tive. He is an outward and visible sign
of an inward and spiritual grace of wel-
come. He practices the high vocation
of making every person seem in the
synagogue’s sight, as he is in God’s a
very important person. Salute!
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know — “If you can keep your head”
etc.). You are a True Knight of the
White Carnation if you can pass this
one. Can you walk clear down to the
beginning of the middle aisle, and then
find that your convoy has left you a
quarter of a mile back, and still not
show a ruffle in your manner or any
daggers in your looks, but a composure
that indicates that everything has gone
as planned? If so, you’ll be a man, my
son!
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SILVER TEA . . .
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and a very festive spirit. This will be
the keynote of this gathering of dedi-
cated women, mindful of Sisterhood’s
vital participation in Synagogue activi-
ties.
From all that you have read, you
know that you must make your New
Year’s Resolution immediately that you
will on January 10th be among the
many who will atten dthe high-fashion
Silver Tea.
Fashions Too
Maybe you will come to see if all you
have read is really true; maybe you will
come to enjoy being with all your
friends; maybe you will come to see
beautiful fashions from The Smart Shop
or rare and valuable silver exhibit by
Herzog Galleries; or maybe you will
come because Sisterhood has some spe-
cial meaning for you. Whatever the rea-
son, just be sure to come — bring a
friend. Make January 10th truly belong
to Beth Yeshurun!
For reservations please call: Mes-
dames Jack Zubowski, MO 7-6442,
Joseph B. Kost, MO 5-4957; Sam B.
Cohen, JA 8-7157.
For transportation, please call Mrs.
David Barg, MO 5-2620.
Special thanks to Mr. Louis Leon,
The Smart Shop for fashions; to Herzog
Galleries for Exhibit of Silver; and
Quality Beverage Company for sherry.
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Will you please rise? We are about
to issue an Award of Merit to the An-
cient and Honorable Order of the White
Carnation, the synagogue Ushers,
A noble army, men and boys,
On whom the spirit came—
the spirit of dedication to the synagogue
service. They had rather be doorkeepers
in the house of the Lord than to dwell
at home with the paper or television set.
It is a high vocation; yet few are those
that fail it.
In some paper or other there was a
sad cartoon showing a head usher say-
ing sternly to a dejected-looking young-
er colleague: “Harry, if you can’t do
better than this, I will have to ask you
to turn in your carnation.” But that is
a rare tragedy.
Ushering is an exacting role. The
usher must have dignity, but less over-
whelming formality than the Guard at
Buckingham Palace or the police platoon
in the Memorial Day parade. The usher
should radiate friendliness, but not the
devastating cordiality of a head waiter
to a Big Tipper.
There are some aptitude tests to de-
termine whether a man is fore-ordained
to be an usher. Here are a few that
might prove useful:
1. Can you seat a congregation of
200 people, spaced so well that they
look like 400? That is important, for
rainy Fridays come — and also those
other Fridays known sadly to every
Rabbi, when for no earthly reason the
crowd is way down. (That is part of
what Scripture calls “the mystery of ini-
quity”). This seating takes skill, but
when well done it covers up a lot of
woodwork.
2. Can you handle the folks who make
a dive for the back seats before the rest
of the synagogue is filled up? Not
violently, of course, but firmly? Learn
to convey with your eyes the informa-
tion that the back seats are upholstered
with spikes, and that unless they are
Holy Men of India, used to sitting on
such sharp furniture, the folks will find
the front seats more comfortable. Then,
with a commanding manner, say, “This
way, please!”
3. Here is a tough one, harder than
any of the tests in Kipling’s “If” (you
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Standing (1. to r.): Mrs. M. Picard, Chairman of Hospitality and Decorations,
Mrs. Robert I. Schooler, General Chairman and (seated) Mrs. A. I. Schepps, whose
home will be the setting for the Silver Tea on January 10th, pours from the mag-
nificent samovar.
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