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gates, even tablets and utensils and weapons, and are re-
instating into the range of credible things what has long
been considered as a mere fairy tale, as a mere nursery
rhyme, in the borderland of Palestine, they have found
traces of the Tower of Babel. The narrative concerning
the Tower of Babel, the Tower of Confusion, has/or
decades been spoken of by many as a story to be told
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lar occasion, Dr. Anspacher presented
an unusual combination of orator,
actor and dramatist, familiar with
Immigrant Education
Mrs. M. D. Cohen, chairman on
Immigrant Education, reports an in-
creased attendance in classes, as well
as sincere enthusiasm and progress
in the work, accomplished by the im-
migrant students.
Death Claims Father of Co-Chairman
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numbers. He is certainly an artist
of rare ability and the Council were
indeed fortunate in securing both
Mr. Jassel and Mr. Meyer for their
educational program. The guest of
honor at this meeting was Dr. Louis
K. Anspacher, noted lecturer and
playwright. Dr. Anspacher has for
the past twenty years been on the
lecture staff of the League for Po-
litical Education, and for a few years
on the staff of the Brooklyn Insti-
ite of Arts and Sciences. In “The
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A most interesting feature of the
many activities of the Council House
is a club of boys and girls between
the age of 14 and 20, with Mrs. Abel
Schwartz as sponsor. This club, or-
ganized by Mrs. Schwartz only a
month ago, for recreative and educa-
"True ease in speaking comes
from art, not chance, as those move
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interpretation of these magnificent
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Bridge parties given at private homes
with the participants obligated to
give one in their respective homes.
Bazaars; A Happy Day Fund; Danc-
es—A Boston delegate suggests that
each ticket for the dance sell the idea
what the price of the ticket will do
for the organization. A Marionette
Show was given with much success
by one of the smaller organizations.
A very good suggestion was given
that odds and ends that the members
might donate be placed on a table
where the members could buy them
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of St. Louis Section
Mrs. Irma L. Lindheim, National
Hadassah President, was honored
guest and speaker at a meeting of
the St. Louis Council of Jewish Wom-
en December 12th.
tioner purposes, already shows signs
of progress. The educational part of after the meeting.
the first meeting was featured by discussion on Camps was presided
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opinion of the smaller sections was,
that a camp for the Junior organ-
ization in their sections was too
large an undertaking. The sections
fostering Camps were Boston, Phil-
adelphia, St. Paul, Pittsburgh, New
York, Cleveland and Brooklyn. In
St. Paul, Cleveland and Chicago the
Junior Council assists their Senior
Council with their camp. The New
York section had their camp estab-
lished in June. The gift of Mr. and
Mrs. Fulson in memory of their
daughter. It is for the adolescent
girl between the ages of twelve and
fifteen. It comprises 600 acres with
a natural lake. A liability insurance
is carried for each child. With the
Chicago Section the Seniors have es-
tablished the camp and the Juniors
have supervision of the recreation
activities. Nine hundred and thirty
mothers and children partook of the
pleasures of the camp this past sum-
mer. Rowing, swimming, hockey and
other forms of amusement were en-
joyed. The expenses that occur in
this department are met by the Jun-
iors. A suggestion was made to es-
tablish a fund and send children to
camps near by where the sections
have no camp of their own. The
Brooklyn section have a doctor and
nurse at the camp, ' so that the
mothers may bring their babies with
them. The camp in Cleveland lasts
eight weeks, the first half is attend-
ed by the girls and the latter half by
the boys.
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It has always been difficult to educate people against the preposterous
claims made for certain patent medicines w,here the malady itself is in-
contestible and where the legitimate medical profession' has nothing to
offer For he who suffers from an incurable disease is like a drowning
person who will catch on a mere straw for rescue. This the fake medicine
men know full well, and that is why, in their advertising literature; they
dwell in great detail on the nature of the malady itself, which is incon-
testible, but make one sweeping claim for the curative qualities of tneir
concortion. The psychic condition of the sufferer is such that, if he hears
one describe correctly the nature of his suffering, he will accept the of-
fered remedy without questioning. The eaten, therefore, is in the incon;
testibility of the disease, and not in the incont estibility of the suggested
remedy.
It is to some such psychic condition that I would attribute the unusual
reception given by the reading public to Judge Lindsey's latest venture
into the field of sociological literature, under the title "Companionate
Marriage." In a short time the book has seen five printings I believe, and
has precipitated nation wide discussion besides. Is it becaus it is univer-
sally felt that Judge Lindsey had discovered the talisman for the recap-
ture of the ereased matrntnini bli-s. Ne. But it is because the Judge had
so correctly stated the sickly condition of present day matrinony that the
public thi rely is placed in a mood to believe implicity . the remedy he
suggests. The catch here, too, is in. the incontestibility of the malady, but
not in the inrontest ibil i ty of the cure.
There is nothing to say against two young people pledging themselves
a prion that, incuse they cannot continue to live together peacefully, they
should part company ami cea-e torturing one another—if it is .granted
that such an arrangement is-meant to give relief to two unhappily mated
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On Immigrant Education
The Council was very sorry to
learn of the father of Mrs. Albert
Sanders, Co-Chairman on Immigrant
Education, and the membership
takes this means of expressing its
deepest sympathy to her in her be-
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as music to the ears, and his visit to 1 accomplished very
us one that will long be remember- and from which we
December 29
What promises to be one of the
outstanding social events of the sea-
son to the Junior Council Formal to
be held December 29, at the Abe M.
Levy Memorial Hall. The chairman
and her committee have worked
faithfully and have reason to expect
big results.'
Junior Council Gym Night Changed
Junior Council Gym night will be
held on Tuesday nights instead of
Wednesdays, at the Y. M. IL A.
Round Table Discussion of the Fifth
of the Dead Sea. The various strata have been studied
and deposits have actually been found which correspond",
to the slime pits of which the Bible, speaks in connection
with the disaster. Then, the Cave of Machpelah, that
famous cave in which, is buried the Patriarchal family, ac-
cording to the Bible, has been subjected to scrutiny and
study, and, strange to say, once more the Bible story is
being verified, for it has been found that the Mosque of
Hebron, which today covers the Cave, corresponds precise-
ly Uj the Cave that is described as the Cave of Machpelah.
TMVremains of all the Patriarchs have been found in that
cave with the exception of one, Rachel, who was not
buried in the Cave of Machpelah. According to Scrip-
of old, especially Samuel and Elijah, were so loud and
so definite and apparently so heartless in their denuncia-
tion of these babaric cults and cultures, and we are able
to explain the matter intelligently and truthfully to people
with sensitive' dispositions and soft hearts who often ask
why the Old Testament seems to be cruel and cold and
•heartless in its denunciation and its warfare against Ca-
naanitish nations. When Samuel and Elijah engaged in
a relentless war against them, it was because they were
working in the cause of ethics and humanity; because they
were determined to crush inhuman practices gainst which
humane societies among civilized nations today would
proceed with the most severe and relentless vigor.
These are the mysteries that are constantly being dug
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council Meeting
Li On Tuesday last, Houston Section,
gggfiry~' National Council of Jewish Women,
held its regular meeting, which was
6 in the form of a luncheon at the
“ Hotel. Warwick. Promptly at 1:00
2 o’clock the guests gathered around
S' the festive hoard and just before
M ' * partaking of the delicious repast,
8 Mrs. Nathan Blechman, chairman on
b' Religion, read a most inspiring pray-
. er. Immediately after luncheon Mrs.
. Chimene, president, turned the pro-
M2M grm o’er ito Dr. Ray K, Daily,
in of the Educational Commit-
Words, an illiterate nation. The mov-
ing picture market includes the world
and are not created for the United
States alone. Eighty-five per cent of
the Americans achieve the mentality
of a child of thirteen years, and then
stop growing. Music intensifies ev-
ery emotion we see upon the screen,
and releases what is in us of mem-
ory and association. In the films
the poor are usually honest and full
of virtue, and the rich full of vice.
The mob wants variety of episode,
is always instinctively lazy and en-
joys a ball game, a prize fight, etc.
It is said in the Bible that Saul has
slain his thousands, but David his
tens of thousands. Saul is the hero
of stage romance, but David the
hero of the movies. On the screen,
sentimental morality always takes the
place of real truths. The mob are
always more interested in mechani-
cal suspense in a conflict issue than
a physical suspense in a moral issue.
The movies are capable of tremend-
ous influence for good, but can’t
get far beyond the public, or else
the public will desert them. They
will continue to be the mot popular
form of amusement. Never will sex
and melo-drama he left out of the
movies, and despite its limitations,
will go as far as the public will per-
nit it to go. Many may scorn the
mechanized art, but movies will soon
be in use by the board of educa-
tion. Eye memory is far.more re-
tentive than ear memory. In clos-
ing his splendid address Dr. Anspach-
er said that the development of the
movie forces the legitimate stage to
be even more legitimate than ever
before. Dr. Anspacher’s words were
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Surely the movie has satisfied some-
thing in humanity all over the world
to have achieved -such tremendous
popularity, They are a huge mixture
of sentimental absurdity, and this
mechanical arthas peHHItfllted like
the Ford car and the Radio, to re-
lieve melancholy. We criticize it,
yet we go-. We of the mob, we go
condescendingly, but we go!” In his
| charming way, Dr. Anspacher told
his audience that 50,000,000 people
a week attended the movies, and that
it was the third greatest industry in
the world. A few years ago, the gov-
ernor-general in India, told our guest
that much of the unrest in his coun-
try is due to the American picture,
that moralities are thrown into dis-
card. The film is created, not for
the few aristocrats, but for the mass-
es, and being there are many more
savages in the world than the in-
telligencia, then the desires of the
mob must be the first consideration.
Even the greatest dramatists had
to modify their own inspirations, and
appeal to the millions, lest they fail,
i The greater the film, the more it
needs all the pomp, splendor and ex-
, travagances. We were told that Chas.
Froman died with $323 in the bank,
. and a debt of $1,000,000. That’s
what happens to 'great adventure
into beauty in the theatre. Froman
. had aspirations, but the public didn’t
. follow it. It is commonly said that
an institution is the length and
shadow of the man. Upon leaving
New York, Dr. Anspacher's manager
told him hat he hoped his (Anspach-
i er's) new play had not an idea in it,
as he hoped to make some money out
' of him this year. It surprised us
[ greatly to be told that we were a
nation of infantile adults, in other
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the discussion of current events. The
recreative part of the program was
carried out Tuesday night, December
20, at the Council House on Wash-
ington Avenue, in the form of a
"Tacky Party and Dance.” About
thirty boys and girls attended.
Games, danciidg and refreshments
made the evening enjoyable and en-
tertaining to the club members.
Junior Council Formal to be Held
tures, she died suddenly en route and was buried at*
Ramah, and not in the Cave of Machpelah which had
been bought by Abraham for he burial of his dead.
Then, too, they have found the early traces of Abraham’s
and Jacob’s sojourn in Shechem. And, while, in Pales-
tine itself, they are digging up ancient walls and ancient
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Biennial Convention of the
Junior Council
Miss Jessie Shore of Brooklyn;
New York, gave a complete resume
of the activities of their Junior
Council in soci service work. Their
social service workers are divided
into numerous proups, with an inde-
pendent leader presiding over each
group, who in turn are responsible
to the Senior organization, Brook-
lyn can claim embership of 350 to
400 members. Having such a large
body their acti ities are varied and
interesting. Brooklyn has the co-
operation of a paid psychiatrist who
assists the workers in their endea-
vors. Some of the groups that have
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These records gain special significance from the fact
that a great change had come in the middle of the
eighteenth century as regards the credence which is to be
given to the Bible narratives. Previously, everything in
the Bible had been credited as literally true. I or many
centimes, no one thought of doubting any of the recorded
incidents, not even the miracles, and then, with the advent
of the so-called School of Higher Criticism, the pendulum
of credulity began to swing to the opposite extreme, and,
as a"result, the entire narrative, starting with the very first
chapter of Genesis, was attacked and came to be con-
sidered as good enough only for children to read or to
be told about. Yet, these very expeditions that are work-
ing so assiduously are bringing to light records that reveal
the truth of these stories, even of the so-called fables re-
corded in the Bible. It is now certain, for instance, that
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wife cease to mran anything at all to. each other on the functional de of
married’life, tiny still mean very much to each other as parents of their
children. The relatively insignificant percentage of divorces among the
Jews of Eastern Europe is proof of that. For until very recently rabbinical
divorces were recognised in those parts by the state, and rabbinical di-
vorces are obtainable without difficulty, since the ewish religion does
not place any obstals in the way of thowe who would separate because
they cannot live together. That is because, the Jews, happily indeed, have
taken a religious view on marriage which is socialogically sound. Marriage
is consummated in children, and not otherwise. And with the family in. view,
the problem of the companionableness of the parents themselves represents
but the smhilest aspect of the whole relationship, and the most easily solved.
Now, where, in the matrinonlal swamp of today, lies the dog buried?
Exactly in the fact that married people today refuse to ennoble their con-
jugal relationship with what obviously is at the core of conjugal relation-
ship children. All the woes of matrimony follow from the futility and
fruitles ness of it; from the fact that a frought relationship is reduced
to sheer spasm, a concept that is meant to include posterity is narrowed
down to the question of appeasement betwen two passfon-strickn adults.
It is exactly this selfish emphasis upon sex, compatibility to the exclusion
of the larger issues of cohabitation that is wrecking itself upon the present
reneration with a vengeaneelow, then, can it be offered as a panacea?
Let us ionsider a hypothetical case: John arid Mary agree a priori
that they will continue as husband and wife only so long their love for
each other will last, but that they will part thereafter, and not exercise
again t each other the customary tyrannies of estranged Spouses, That,
as between the two, is ar iceal arrangement, and the law permitting, I
have no religious scruples amninst it. As suggested before, such a priori
agreement is in fact assumed by the Jewish religion. But the question is:
will they or will they not have children? If they will have children they
will find them; elves in a hoat with most regularly married couple, who,
even with the flame oT the first love for each other at the point of flicker-
ing out., remain nevertheless buckled down to the business of rearing the
family For most children are worthy of every sacrifice parents make for
them; but even if they are not worth it, they compel sacrifice just the
same. In other words, reckoning on children, John and Mary could no
longer forecast the length of their "companionate” marriage than if they
had been regularly married.
But if John and Mary have agreed not to have children, then, from
a sociological point of view, it does not matter how long or how short they
will continue together. They are of age, and what they do is all between
themselves and of no consequence; hence, as they create no sociological
problem, their example cannot be offerd as a sociological solution. My
eententtom, in brief, is this. With chitdren a conipan ionate marriage is much
more than its advocates think it is, and without children it is much less.
out children, companionate marriage seems to me to be merely a hid
for social sanction of what might with equal profitlessness pass as a mere
promiscuity.
up by the expeditions and explorations, giving us an i-
onlytoSunday Schoolchildren. but strange as it may the ancient lives of ancient peoples allowins us
seem, under ’ great heap of dirtan unshapely T time by incidents thousands of years apart, thettonversa
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wide and sixty feet high, standing upon an artificial
terrace, showing that it had come from one great com-
munity, politically united. 1 his means that, when this
ancient pyramid, this magnificent structure, had been first
started, the people living there lived similar lives, had but
one language, and after the pyramid had been built to
those great proportions, a difference in the mode of living
made itself felt and brought about a difference in language
so that the groups which had previously been politically
united came to be separated from one another by what
the Bible calls the "Confusion of Tongues.”
Probably more important for our understanding of the
Bible than any of the other things that have been unearth-
ed and dug up is the fact that the expeditions have found
the ancient temples of the Canaanitish peoples. Thus, two
Philistian houses of worship have been uncovered that
show conclusively the mode of worship that prevailed
among the Canaanites. Searches and investigations in
these temples have disclosed the reason why the prophets
of old were so inexorable, were so apparently cruel in their
denunciations of Canaanitish practices. Skeletons of
women and children show that the mode of worship de-
manded human sacrifices to Baal and Moloch, and that
the unspeakable barbarity of “leading children through
fire" was an actual and obligatory practice. When, there-
fore, these explorations and expeditions confront us with
the practices that existed among the Canaanitish peoples,
then we come to understand why it was that the prophets
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the stage from every angle. With a
personality that makes itself immed-
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thing in the world to condemn things.
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formation are: The Big Sister Troup
—Assisting the delinquent girl to
change her outlook on life by aiding
herinhercurture pursuits. Sup-T
erintending their entertainments, the
books they read and the other pleas-
ures allowed them by the institution.
Motor Corp—A group volunteering
transportation for the cripples from
their home to the hospital, also to
big events and the like when such aid
is necessary. The Council Home—X
Which is maintained by the Seniors
and assisted by the Juniors. The
Club having ten circles—Once a
month each circle pays a visit to
the home bringing refreshments and
having some form of entertainment.
Sewing Circle—Each group lends its
aid to the Sewing Circle. A Senior
is selected to instruct the Circle in
their needle work art. The follow-
ing are the suggestions given by the
delegates attending this Round Table
Discussion for raising money for
the organization: Mah Jongg and
only the problem of the exception. But if "companionate" marriage is
suggested as a means of re-inforcing the collapsing sociological structure
of the family, it is puerile and beybnd the mark. For marriage, in the so-
ciolopical sense of the worl, is much more, than what the physiology of
marriage implies; it is also what the physiology of marriage spells—chil-
dren. Young spouses may think that they only have themselves and their
feelings to consifer; society, however, insists that they consider primarily
the family
Now, there have always been and there always will be high and low
tides in the sea of affection between husband and wife, and no amount of
assurance young people will giye each other during the period of courting
is warranty against emotional variations in the future. What maid has
not heard it said to her by her sweetheart that she was the. only true love
in his life, and that she would ‘so remain, and what married woman has
at one time or other not doubted this? Withal, so long the. concept of
marriage was taken to extend to the future family, these low tides have
been found passable, with the aid of the larger functions of parenthood.
When the husband calls hi wife "mother” becau-e she really is a mother,
and the wife calls her husband "dad" because he really i a father, then I
and in that society finds ample protection against the vagaries of the
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