The Jewish Herald (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 21, Ed. 1, Thursday, February 9, 1911 Page: 4 of 8
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THE JEWISH HERALD
Published Weekly by
HERALD PRINTNG COMPANY
Goldberg Ruppin Proprietors
PHONE PRESTON 2410
1018 Franklin Ave
Subscription 160 per year
Foreign 200 per year
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must reach this office not later than
900 a m Wednesday
Entered as second class matter No-
vember 20 1908 at the postofflce at
Houston Texas under the Act of
March 3 1879
The Jewish Herald invites corre-
spondence on subjects of interest to
the Jewish people but disclaims re-
sponsibility for or indorsement of the
views expressed by the writers
JEWISH CALENDAR
5671 A M 1911
Rosh Chodesh ShebatMonday Jan 30
Rosh Chodesh Adar Wed Mar 1
f urim Feast of Esther Tues Mar 14
Rosh Chodesh Nissan Thurs Mar 30
Pessach PassoverThursday Apr 13
Pessach 7th Day ofWed Apr 19
Rosh Chodesh Iyar Saturday Apr 29
Rosh Chodesh Sivan Sunday May 28
Shabuoth Feast of Weeks
Friday June 2
Rosh Chodesh TammuzTues Jun 27
Rosh Chodesh AbWednesday July 2G
Feast of Ab Thursday Aug 3
Rosh Chodesh Eilul Friday Aug 25
New Years Eve 5672 Friday Sept 22
The day begins at sunset of the day
preceding the corresponding common
date
By Mrs B Lurie
POPULAR IDOLS
True popularity is based on ami-
ability better expiessed by the Ger-
man Liebenswuerdigkeit It is a-
very desirable quality and should be
sedulously cultivated by those defici-
ent in it Many privileges are con-
ferred on its fortunate possessors It
bestows sufficient charm and magne-
tism on men and women that they
lose nothing by contact at close range
Loveableness became a fine art Avith
them All their actions tend towards
elevation of otherss best impulses
They tvpify intense humaneness
thoughtfulnoss of inconsequential
things of life kindliness to all about
them They project their personality
into the afiairs and lives of others
without loss of dignity to themselves
Their intrinsic worth and benevolent
intentions suffer nothing from the ex-
ercise of courtesy no matter on whom
bestowed Far from these are the
airs and assumption of importance of
those who seek the applause and fa-
vor of the worldling of those who af-
fect an exclusiveness in order to con-
ceal mediocrity a superciliousness
which bespeaks jettiness of soul and
meanness of spirit
blessed is the community which
THE JEWISH HERALD
w n point to potilar idols In its midst self for serious consideration The
who are esteemed for the beneficial mind under the stimulus given it by
impress they leave on those with its American environment shows a
whom they are thrown in contact much greater desire to develop all
its powers demonstrates a much
FAVORABLE TO THE IMMIGRANT
The message conveyed in his ad
ThB sunerabumlant activity with
dress on Immigration before the W
A II Congregations bespoke the lof SealeSt 8afety dVelted int ° rellgioUS
cllannels aml flnds an opportune out
ty mind and noble heart of Hon Chas
let ln the Synag ° g iU thlS country
Nagel secretary of the Department of
Commerce Rebillion against repression has been
and Labor At one time or
accunnlatine or GS thus operating
another we were aliens here and with
the t0 make the Bplrital f ° rCe behind Re
newly arrived coming to America
for whatever cause we can still say
Thank God we are in a new country
in a land where persecution can gain
no foothold under
a government HIGH LIVING AND BANKRUPTCY
where the issues of
human destiny in
There is no telling nowadays
this world and the world to come rest whether men are men ot means or
with no church whether they are simply living upon
The liberality of spirit manifested the money o thelr creditors There
tiivmiiriirmt 4i i seems to wide a current of cor
tnioughout the
address deserves the
ruption running through the com
praise and gratitude of all Jews
mercial sea and as it now and then
IS 3000000 A GENTEEL SUFFICI t1rjigs along its headlong course one
ENCY or another of those who fling them
Taking into consideration Mr Jacob selves in its way bids us to stand
Schiffs already numerous activities back f ° r a moment and contemplate
tlie wreckage so that we may draw
nf niiiionnimin
ot a i
philanthropic nature
on behalf of
a moral or adorn a tale but all the
our immigrant coreligionists
one morals that are drawn and all the
reads with considerable
astonishment tales that they adorn do not seem to
his opinion that the United States narrow the current and it goes on
could use and needs 3000000 addi widening ahd increasing in its de
tional Jewish immigrants Mr Schiff structive force as Jt smSes along
hoc Men who have been in business for
has calculated to a nicety that this
scores of years and Avho seem to have
would raise the percentage of Jews
b ui jlws t
enjoyed the implicit confidence or
from 2 per cent to 5 per cent thus those with whom they have made
making us still more important fac their credits as well as junior con
tor to reckon with as our numerical cerns > are dropping pell mell into the
strength increased The suggestion
has been received with a howl from
many quarters Not every one is as
willing as Mr Schiff to shoulder the
healthier activity than ever before
iorm Judaism a permanent factor in
American Jewish life all caviling to
the contrary
raging current of bankruptcy
Many of them after their down-
fall are discovered to have been in
a semibankrupt condition for years
prior to the announcement of their
responsibility entailed by the influx insolvency Yet most of them aye
of such a stupendous number of Jew early a11 oE tnem while in this con
ish immigrants dition and with the inevitable col-
lapse Btaring them in the face have
THE PASSPORT QUESTION maintained and kept up to the very
Despite Mr Louis Marshalls bitter moment of their failure a household
denunciation of Russia in the pass establishment which in its costliness
iS entlrely be Sald rim
port question and the resolution sent aye may °
inally disproportionate to what they
to Washington by the Union of Amer
have had a right to nave it be All
lean Hebrew Congregations
begging these people have been for years
that our treaty with Russia be abro simply subsisting upon the money of
gated we venture to say that the vex tnolr creditors even when going back-
ed question will continue among the ward nevor nullnK in a sinSle reef
° n their Wsh liVlng
incivilities and
indignities by which
Many of the failures of merchants
Russia will provoke and
irritate
may be traced to their expensive mode
worthy Americans of the Jewish of keeping house Only the other day
faith for a long time to come a man went down who if he had liv
WHY REFORM WLiTp rEVAL f f T
call it would have been a prosperous
In observing the state of the hu
ndlvJdual In lhB JnstancG it AVas ft
man mind o n the one hand and uio
man whp twenty years ago together
spiritual power of the Temple which with his wife and a few girls manu
has the government of that mind
on faclured in a small way certain ar
the other a dpuble fact presents it ticlea of ladies wear and by dint of
hard struggle and industry worked
himself into a well paying business
Intoxicated with his success the fash-
ionable foibles grew like barnacles
over him and he permitted himself
to indulge in many of the excesses
which are so closely wedded to a fash-
ionable career He was wont former-
ly to receive his friends on Monday
Tuesday Wednesday and every other
evening He subsequently fixed only
certain evenings at home aping our
really rich people in their customs
These evenings became quite hospit-
able and correspondingly expensive
occasions and in these customs as
the German says sagt man A muss
man auch B sagen every condition
of the household was correspondingly
fitted to meet the fashionable life in
which he and his family were moving
and finding their being
There are as I said many too
many more like him It is an easy
thing to make money notwithstand-
ing that some people may doubt this
The keeping of it is the hardest part
of the task The living within ones
means the very hardest part of all
In many of the human kind the char-
acteristics of the ape are strongly
prevalent so markedly indeed that
it is scarcely possible to fail to be-
lieve in good part the theory of Mr
Darwin The aping by those who can-
not afford to do things and doing
things which others do their imita-
tion of them in dress in living in lux-
urious rioting in an evil which all
the sermonizing and all the baleful
results threatening such as poverty
and selfdestruction will not eradicate
These human apes make gyration af-
ter gyiation arpund the tempting
flame until they fall a victim to their
own recklessness
We have entirely too many fash-
ionable people too many merchants
who are sports too many men who
can tell minutely the pedigree of ev-
ery horse booked for a race and un-
able to tell you how they will be able
to meet a note coming due a day
hence or how they will make ends
meet at the end of the year too many
who have automobiles who cant af-
ford them too many who are con-
firmed poker fiends and gentleman-
ly losers too many who have a bulg-
ing pocketbook and small bank ac-
counts LAiglon in Heb Standard
At Fort Worth Tex Congregation
BethEl for the second time within
nine months has increased the salary
of its rabbi Dr George Fox Dr Fox
Ph D Illinois Wesleyan University
was married last November at which
time his congregation presented him
with a purse of oyer 600 Ho is do-
ing excellent work in Fort Worth and
has one of the finest congregations in
the whole country
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