Bartlesville Enterprise. (Bartlesville, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 50, Ed. 1 Friday, January 20, 1911 Page: 4 of 8
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THE WEEKLY ENTERPRISE
—BY THE-
Btti tlcsville Publishing Co
Frank Overleiw suggest8 Hurt Ww
third story of the city hall be turn-
fid over to the commercial club for
Its use and that an attempt lie made
to revive that organization and start
it to working. This is a good sug-
114 Eut Third Strett Lrstiiut. it somiih liiat tin- 2f,,<joo club
pn Wished ovory Friday morning. L.,,. about i|iilL trying to do anything
Weekly *ub cription« are payaibl# i and thorn should be an attempt made
to si;ut. t'h*1 breat.h of 1 tic .through
|].00 the commercial club again. Tin-
50 member, of the club could pay the
111111—1— |city for the use of the third floor
| of I he city hail. The offices there
could he used by the club and the
... . tn the! room designed for a council chain-
jsyaw: .siwe -
than the present. size of ilartlesvllle
Justified, but now that we Slave it
wo should make some usi
In Ruropo, we trust that tho ermine
shortage will soon be remedied. In
emergency, we will undertake to en-
list. the aid of every country boy(iti
MIkrouiH, or pilfer tho trimmings
from the hired girl's lust season's i
hat. rather than see any holdup of'onr sp<
advance.
One year ..
Glx noatki
fcatlonal Typographical Unloa
emu Be the Ehterpiiae eroploya none
but members of the typographical
anion ill Ha mechanical department.
FRIDAY, JANUAHV 20, J 7l. I third story.
of 1 he
Now that the election has passed !
There are a lot of business men In
Ion, the pressure for special ad van • uMnlHt
tagcg will soon cefVSfl. imle <•
"it is not many yearn since most Ttho
of us were struggling for special grew <
raUK or special privileges la rail- rongrt
road freights. Today we have lost l which
la I ad vantages hut are «a.t-
tllio ordination at. \Vestinins<e
Louis Post Dispatch. *
Ml:
SI.
tufted thai. wo are all treated alike
ami who would return to lili<' old
r'stem :
etl
hn
with pa i
purchase
of the I!
Th>i
to become it eositiopolitnri pftwf-r, prTv- la light to the matry nations and
lug rise to new system* of thought rlasscs that settl« in the new hwn-
aiul higher conceptions and Ideals of ixphere." Vet the call was only
life. In the dreary Russian or modi-1gradually heard. The God Of the
al Ghetto, its growth became stupi-1 fathers was not forgotten, but lite s
ill -and it degraded into a system oppressing demands made over new lu-
lled state- llwiir-splltting casuistry and supersti-Iruads upon r
World aai'l lion. True, there was wonderous jdisregard of
papers charging Roosevelt'* wetness adn hvightuess behind jtary and the Sabbath laws amid the
r-in-ltiw an 1 several otlioi-w 'those (Mietlo walls. As the tossing |strife and struggle for tare exist-
, billow.-; of the ocean built out of the ence weakened the faith and blighted
1 very slirne cast forth by tho oyster j the self-respect of many to fill tbir
■ative pel
honest
famous
ut of a
=.« hy
containei
that, cfi
in Uirt
sonage 1st beyond ti
[■rldclsvri.
Panama, libel eai
special message to | •
'resident Roosevelt,
the remarkable
fain pu
New Yorl
charging
Iglon. The continued
,c> ceremonial, the die-
k-lpation In the
graft constituted
A NOTOItlOI'M CIIIMIN \l< TIU'ST. . "The agiUition for a tariff •••>
The sugar trust offers to pay $700,-1 mission Is based on tne same huhtn- ihi.> «■ .■■■■.- . - i , ... mitp-imis
Out) to the government in settlement ! cut American, characteristic Which or the United Stales government." ]•'« thick shell that protects its tiny sou 1 wi -P -
of the "drawback" cases. I did away with cut rate, the ra'i I-1 This came as a surprise I any <rfK «> M the floods of per.ee u ion | apathy. Of what a>a.l was the praj
On its own sworn statements, orjroads, a deep sealed conviction that Mr. RooaeveU's admirers, for it dis-r""' oppjps ion ion tr a mm u tg
plaml an amazing ignorance of thc! "* an armor of protection around
spirit of American institutions i„ |.ludaism to keep it intact. Hut how
confusing the gmtrnnipiit with the ''•« * the life when the shell npen-
, h(. j,j led? The wall had to give way be-
velt di-lll)ve ^'ie trumpet blast of liberty in
order that Judaism might agiain
all
those <jf Its officiate, tho trust ha
collected from the government large I at
sums representing the duty paid ouita
sugar afterward exported. If Its'la
sworn statements were true ii
are entitled to equal opportunity
a willingness to respect an ca-
balled authority which we believe
•iwliavorlng to give just measure
Into history the Enterprise rises to Bartlesville who seen, to have grown
Inquire what system .lake Mainon fol- w«ary of the job of building a < Ity
lowed to get Jtifl name into the Re-1here. They have been doing nothing
publican press dope from Guthrie •'* direction foi seveia tnon is.
every day T1,p Merchants' association Is the on-
' >0. iy organization that Is helping tow-
m. ard making Bartlesville the city it
The Vinita Chieftain says ha ]f (ho ,f()1Iimordal ,,ub
Isaac Brown "a true pioneer, died, reftUy rlef„nct
there the other day. Judging from t!)l0m int0 ,ll(. discard and ,
the character of florae ol the pioneer 0 ,lj!P a m,bstitute for them! it« Wii!iam burg docks
Btories that have eminated from t'h at ( (he wwk ent,ireiv over to the the Sherman anti-trust law
quarter in the past it probably is j „,f,rchan(s w)10 have Kessed its .guilt when it pri valel.v
the work late- Isdttled the null brought against it by
necessary to specify the
pioneers in this way.
and of hustling retail mei
owe# I to all and special advantage to none."
I he government nothing. Unless III :0:
knows Its sworn statements to have i HKIIl'CIXfi TIIK COS'I'.
been false, why should It pay hack j The present, national administra-
te the government $700,OOu or anyjtion shows a commendable spirit in
|oi.her sum received in tho form of jits attempt to cut down the expense
'drawbacks.'.'" Its offer to settle 1m j Of running the government.. The
a confession that should be brought spasm of reform followed the au-
to the immediate attention of the nouneement of Senator Alilrieh of
federal grand jury, I Rhode Island that the government
The American Sugar Refining Oom- could he conducted $300,000,000 less
pany Is a notorious and apparently than it now costs to run ii a yonr.
iiworrlgible criminal. It ehtoted the) Following this declaration ami a
government out of millions or dol-1 warning from President Taft the <le-
1 iirs through Hie weighing frauds ai jpartment heads showed a determiHa-
lt violated "°n to aipply modern business metili-
aivd con- °da to the government's analrs. Ah
la result, it i« said, millions of dollars
I will be aaved annually.
Chiimp Clark and Senator Hale
agree that the "blustering of the
past administration" is largely re-
sponsible for the unsatisfactory trade
relations of this country with Sputh
America The "big stick", however,
■was a pretty good investment for
this county.
; t :o:
Muskogee* is Inclined to be Indig-
nant because Governor 'Haskell did
not keeji his promise to give Mus-
kogee the state fair to keetp it. out.
of the capital tight. Muskogee ought
to be giving thanks that It never oc-
curred to Haskell to take the gov-
ernment. offices to Oklahoma City.
One Oklahoma newspaper editor Is
having trouble with his advertisers
because he has been accepting mail
order advertising. Tho editor says
that the merchants who are com-
plaining are the ones who refused to
give him advertising when he made
the rounds before he accepted the
contract from the mall order house.
Ho said their excuse was that adver-
tising in his paper did no good. They
ought not complain then over the
ll^K^th'ern arp^thow InLown who tlojOwrge II. Karlo at Pli-tla-U'lplila in; Kmrun MurVmn... oflhol.i-c.as.
'L lini w hoh, ,„ UL, lol, «. ,-U, o ««u,a w„h IVtwiKVlvania!,rv ha, porta™ max!-
building which Bartlesville is going sugar refinery. Some o:
io nusili harder than ever in the fu- ore are under indictment ■■ ■ . . , „ ,
io Puan atji . .! « , jnst y1(, during the past few i onths have
the anti-!16Ka',>(' about $528,000, Of this
, ,i,, , ■ ... M. ,u^ ,,.llui i,i ru I amount, $l.r>0,000 was saved in in-
work BArtlesvillo is moving ahejtd itrust law. It the sugit tiusl tius,
of her own accord much faster than [also been collecting large sums from j
any other city of tho size In Oklolio- the government, on false sworn stale- j
ma and a very little help is going to ments, as its own. anion indicates, it
do great tilings for It this year. 1 should not let oft* Willi a mere monei ,
;0: |payment. ■ New York World
( RUCK'S HANOI! Al'.
Governor Cruce i s liaiwllcapped in
the beginning of his administration
by the condition of ah a Irs left by
his predecessor, Charles N. Haskell.
Cruce seems willing to comply with
the request of the legislature for in-
formation and copies of the contracts
made by Governor Haskell with Ok-
lahoma City In the matter of moving
the capital from Guthrie, but Haskell
still retains possession of the records
and documents pertaining to his term
of ofllce.
Governor Cruce Is showing the
proper spirit in the way in which
lie Is taking hold of the affairs of
the administration and lie ought to
he assisted by every good citizen of
s direct- '-he most startling changes. lOeo-
Phe gov- j '"milues thai the secretary has made
ture tfcev should make the fact (eminent is proceeding against 'the |d"Hng the past few r ont&j ag-
known and let somebody else do tht ;corporation for violating the anti
— " trust has I
stalling automatic scales in place of
the old hand-weighing dev'ecs. Uy
! doing nw.ty with lite issue division
108,000 u year will lie saved in the
: Payment of salaries, and the general
Combination and :reduction <>f the
work. The express i ompanies, which
| formerly carried all monies to Wash-
ington for redemption have lieon se*P-
|arated from the job which lias saved
$70'()0U yearly to Uncle Sum. H.v a
the state as long as he continues
to I
"U,MOTION Al, K\\N<;KI.ISM"
Paul l^ovewell of Salina subnvl
"emotional evftiigellsm" to lite Ivan- j
wis editors as a snbjeet l'or diacus-
slon in the initerniiu, whatever that
is. Love well says tihiat it is going out
of date and that "people with real
lovo and reverence for spiritual
tilings must look with favov upon
such a change in sentiment." At-
tention is called to the case of Wells-
ville, Franklin county, where there
Is In progress a revival of the old
fashioned, demonstrative oharacter.
Tho WellBvllle Globe is issuiiig a
daily revival edition and in ot'her
ways tilie revival is thoroughly ad-
vertised, though whether It is shak-
ing up the dry bones as the evangc
our
with
action of (lie mail order house in
throwing its money away
Tho report of the stale geolog!st
maims conditions look pretty good
for Bartlesville. He says the aup-
PlJ*#{. natural gas here Is practical-
ly inexhaustible and that this region j to tho legislature,
is underlaid with coal that will fur-
nish fuol for our factories If we e\er
have to fin<l a substitute for gas. It
la a well known fact that there is a
great deal of coal in this region. The
log of nearly every well drilled In
this vicinity shows a good vein of
Scoal. In one place within eight
miles of Bartlesville the vein Is nine
feet thick and the coal of a high
quality.
:0:—
work along the lines on which lie js|s do it is yet to lie am.-
lias started. Haskell seems ito have
a great, deal of Influence, but, toe cer-
tainly will be Shaken loose from his
hold in time and the new governor
can do tho things lie has outlined in
his inaugural address and message
fOO MUCH GUN-TOTING.
The Sedan, Kas., Times-.lournal,
speaking of the killing of .1. 1>. S.
Neeley at. Cftney, pertinently re-
marks: that there is too much gun
toting lu this country and that if Al
Truske'tt. had hot had a gun on his
nunnced. It is Lovewell's observa-
tion that. "As the degree of totelll-
gotice of a community increases, the I
power of the emotional evangelist
decreases. The evangelistic, conver-
sion, whitle it may work wonders in
seme eases is generally like all emo-
tions— it passes away and is forgot-
ten."
Possibly this view la correct; per-
haps it Isn't. "Billy" Sunday's suc-
cess as an "emotional evangelist," if
there is any variation, has increased
fiotn year to year. In his class h«
stands alone, but a few years ago
person en that fateful morning .1. l)Mthere were a 8(.oro o[ such e v angel-
Neeley would be alive today and ^ witu )mpg and Ram Small
,Tho local postofllce incident con-
tinues to remain a mystery although
a majority of the peouilo seem to
think that M. T. Kirk has been ap-
pointed. Postmaster Higgins has not
heard of his removal and Kirk lias
received no olflolal notice of appoint-
ment, The Congressional Record of
Monday says that Kirk's name was
sent to the senate for confirmation
and this ie taken as almost positive
proor that Higgins has been removed
and j£lrk appointed to succeed him.
It is not known what occasion exists
for the mysterious silence unless the
foVernment is afraid Colonel Hig-
gins will elope with the postofllce
notne night If he learns for a eer-
ta^nt| that he is to go.
the man who killed him would not
now be facing a life term in prison.
About, seventy-five out. of eVery
hundred fire arms ought to he des-
troyed They are not needed and so-
ciety 'Would be infinitely better and
hapipler without them. As that is
impossible the next best thing would
be the strict enforcement of the auti-
concealed weapon law. Professional
gun-toters are as undesirable as j
drunkards and gamblers and thieves.
Only the officers of the law should John Chandler Cobb, president
be allowed to go about carrying guns national commission association, is
and other men who do It—except in'One of the business men of the coun-
extremely rare cases where causes!try who does not believe that the
exist—should he punished to the llni i people's attitude toward the tariff io
It of the law
at. their head, men who spoke with
a conviction and >vho exercised a
magnetism that drove home with ap-
palling earnestness fear of the
"wrath to come." It may he that
there is today less emotional evan-
gelism simply because the supply of
emotional evangelists has been tem-
porarily depleted.
THK TARIFF KVII/.
"1
J
reduction of the size of internal rev-
enue stamps the treasury department
has affected a saving of approximate-
ly $14u,000. While MacVeugh Is one
of the most prominent economists of
the Taft administration, he is mak-
ing it plain to his friends that he
views Senator Aldrieh's assertion
that $300,000,000 yearly can bo sav-
ed in the running expenses of the
government as an exaggeration. Ac-
cording to him, the installation of
modern methods, machine labor in-
stead of hand labor, and kindred bus-
iness reforms, will serve to scale
down the government's expenditures
ni .ny millions of dollars yearly, but
never approach Aldrieh's $300,000,-
000.
:o;
THE TEXAS WAV.
Down in Texas they keep pretty
lose watch on their chief executives
and other executives to spe that ^uey
do nothing which will pt'feud against
the moral code which is very high in
some'communities. For instance, 3!!
members of the legislature have de-
clared by their votes that tpcy be-
lieve the governor and some of his
guests are in the habit of drinking at
the inaugural balls and they do not
propose to have it repeated at the
coming ball.
A resolution offered in tne house
there the other day .declared against
permitting tho representative hall
to be used for the inaugural ball and
Representative Stamps—number nor
size not specified—characterized the
inaugural ball as a "hacohamalian
revelry." He was opposed to it, "Hy
Heck," because he had been told that
on former occasions of that kind the
guests drauk whiskey and other in-
toxicants. Ho was promptly ealled
a liar by Representative Robertson
of Travis county In which is situat-
ludlvlduals who liappem*
Office at. the time, Mr. ft<
reeled the officials of the law d
partment to find some excuse f(ll. |thrive and rise to its full stature.
prosecuting In the, name of tihe gov- There is no room for Ghetto Juda-
ernmoitt those newspapers that wtrejslm in America. Look at any of the
!alleged to have libeled Roosevelt's j creeds and churches in our free
relative. It seemed to have escaped j land! They are all more tolerant,
his mind that the individuals who niore llberill, more humane and sym- may say to tn
may have Buffered from unjust crit- pathetic in their mutual relations,
Icdsm were possessed of ample nieaais iour common school education
or personal reparation under the |enlightening press and pulpit
law. His proposition presented an j''heir appeal to common sense, en-
tirely new tlieery of a "libel of large the mental and social horizon
government," which, if sustained, and render progress tho guiding max-
would have fastened upon this cb«n-|*-m - Least of c(n,ld Juda!sm re"
try a censorship of the press and a«*•' ils medieval garb, its alien form,
suppression, of the right of free!"* seclusiveness in a country that
gpeoi-h | rolled off the shame and the taunt
When the case first came before °r 1he centuries from the shoulders
Judge Anderson of Indiana- .the In- k wandering .lew. to place him,
diianapolls News being a party to the 11,0 ronimr Paria'h of the nations,
still lie rendered an opinion in full I alongside of the highest and the
accord with the later decision of thel1**1- according to his worth and
United States supreme court. When as n,an an<* anK)nK & ' , . . ,iH th
Mr. Roosevelt heard of Judge An- that took the very principles ol jus-ln.fied the seiv.ee an mode,nued tho
demon's opinion he called the judge 'ice and human dignity proclaimed Synagogue o refieet new In ter on
• ,h« by Israel's lawgivers and prophets | the ancient, faith. And here the Am-
and made them the foundation-stones jerican spirit of independence man-
of their common-wealth. No, Amer-
ican Judaism must step- forth, the
equal of any church in broadness of
view and largeness of scope, as a
living truth, as an inspiring mes-
sage to the new humanity that is
now in the making, not as a meroj
memory of the past and a piece of
Orientalism in the nildst of vigorous,
forward pressing Occidental civiliza-
tion.
American Judaism! XVhal a pow-
ing and yearning for the lory of a
world that has gone '' As the win-
ter's snow before the approaching
sun of spring, so seemed the ancient
creed to melt, away under'the genial
rays of the new world's freedom.
Then Reform, a child of German phil-
osophy. unfurled its banner to revive
the faith, reclaim the lost and fill
the houses of worship with the in-
spiring strains of new devotion. Re-
form, whatever our reactionaries
contrary, became the
savior of Judaism in America. It
opened the eyes of the blind to see
Judaism's great, opportunity and re-
alize the mighty obligation thrust
upon the American Jew by the priv-
l.eges lie enjoys. In laying stress on
the essentials and pushing the small-
er things Into the background, it
kindled new love and zeal for the
sacred heritage in the hearts of all,
roused tho self-consciousness, the
self-esteem of the law. It rendered
him both more liberal-minded and
more liberal-hearted.
"At first Reform appealed to his
aesthetic taste. It beautified and dig-
a "jackass and crook." Now
that 'the highest, tribunal has upheld
Judge Anderson, the sage of Oyster
Bay is discreetly silent. A great met-
rapoliiam daily newspaper that has
always dealt with Colonel Roosevelt
in a highly tolerant spirit, said of
Ihis matter: "We imagine that one
of the most difficult tasks confront-
ing Mr. Roosevelt's future biograph-
er will he the defense of tills pro-
feeding. He will he compelled
cither to say that Mr. Roosevelt was
ignorant arid did not truly know
what he was attempting or that he
tried to father something that struck
itl t.'he very heart of the liberty of
the press. Once grant that the gov-
ernment as such can be libeled, and
that an accauli on a public officer
is a libel on bhe government. Itself,
and censorship over the press would
be placed in the hands of the men in |
office at. a particular time."
er Oif inspiration lies in these two
words! They spell the triumph of
the world's two greatest, principles
and ideals, the consummation of
mankind's choicest possessions, the
one offered by the oldest, the other
by the youngest of the great nations
of history, the highest moral and
spiritual of humanity: the God of
righteousness and holiness to unite
and uplift ail men. and nations and
the Magna Charta of liberty and hu-
man equality to endow each individ-
ual with God-like sovereignty. Be-
hold America,, the land of the fu-
the result of their selfishness. He Austin, the capital. The duel is
out. of fashion in Texas. Therefore
The statement comes from the see
ry of the National Highway Pro
teqtlve Trafll association that horse
drtwn vehicles caused more deaths
In,New York last year than automo-
biles or street cars. The secretary
*lte« aa the reason for this the large
amount of drinking among the driv-
eri which leads to careless driving, j
ANOTHER BLOW AT MONARCHY.
Officials preparing for the coron-
ation of King George next June are
mighty fussed up lest the scarcity
of ermine for robes create an un-
pleasant predicament. The possibili-
ties are appalling.
Presumably, if the new king's cor-
onation trowsles should be fringed
with imitation ermine—perish the
thought—the validity of the cere-
mony might be impugned, and the
This probably Is true, but it proba- Almanash d« Gotha might refuse to
..i ... ... n..j .. grant hlra clear title to the thirone.
Personally, we never could quite un
bly would be impossible to find
strictly sober man who would take
a Job as a New York teamster. If
ne know enough not to let liquor get
I better of him he probahly would
5
doing something better for a llv-
E1 Reno is setting an example in
Ho matter of handling the water
rks trouole that ought to he fol-
by the other cities of the state,
aleetion will be held there short-
ly to vote $250,000 in bonds to in-
atall m new water works system.
Thjtt*amount of money spent iti in
ling a new
it difference
lrqrks
lotted
An ale
believes in the tariff and tn the pres-
ident and in aa address delivered to-
day before the national tariff com-
mission. in New York said:
"Speaking of the tariff board
brings me to the invaluable help and
1 may say leadership which we have
had In our work from President Taft.
Firmly convinced that our tariff mak-
ing system was inadequate, he has
consistently and courageously work-
ed for its improvement along the
tines we stand for. He has created
tne tariff board as an effective work-
ing object lesson Hinder tho authority
of legislation entirely inadequate in
demand why the winter coat of a 1 its scope and temporary in its ua-
ehicken-stealiug weasel should be in- ture, and lie has stretched the discre-
vested with the artributes of royalty.
Hut there are a lot of other at-
tributes of royalty, whioh, to our lim-
ited and democratic comprehension,
seem remarkable.
This scarcity of ermine is not a
matter to be treated with Democrat-
ic levity. It is a weighty problem
of state. We lay no claim to author-1nas fallen to my lot during the past
ity in these matters of royal etiquette two years to discuss this question in
but the evident consternation of the all its bearings with men from all
^ coronal masters-of-eeremony engend- sections of the country, and I am
syirtrnn would make jera 'he heart-breaking suspicion that conviuced that the greatest evil in
In Bartlesville. ,f official weasel hunter is short jour present tariff making system is
tionary powers given him to their
limit to accomplish this result.
"In closing I want to say a word
for tho business men of the coun-
try. It is charged that selfishness
and avarice always have and always
Will eoutrol men's attitude toward
the tariff. This I do not believe. It
the affair went no further than ils
entry on the house journal.
Tho Stamps resolution was thor-
oughly discussed and finally defeated
hy a vote of .88 to 32 By that vole
32 members of the house placed
themselves on record as believing
(Continued from Page 1.)
temples and obelisks in the strange
wonderland of Egypt, that, they fail-
ed to recognize their brother Jos-
eph, in his royal garb and glory, who
had become a thorough Egyptian in
speech and manner, and that they
would not trust him, even after he
had assured them of his love and loy-
alty as brother and kinsman. Neith-
er do 1 wonder if our Russian or
Roumanian brethren, brought up un-
der the humiliating conditions and
widely different religious views and
influences of their benighted coun-
try, harbor a certain mistrust of us
when they see our majestic houses of
worship and our educational and phil-
anthropic strutures reared after, and
maintained by, altogether newr meth-
ods. In their bewilderment they fail
to recognize that In blending Amer-
icanism with Judaism we have, like
Joseph of yore, stored up the treas-
ures of life for their children as well
as for ours; that In changing or
modifying the form, we have been
preserving and guarding the faith
far better than did our brethren in
Europe who are being confronted
with the peril of spiritual starvation,
and whose children seil their Jewish
birth-right by the thousands fjpr
mess of pottage, for political
social recognition, and promotion
Ifestcd itself at once. Even the con-
servatives dared not, as they do iii
Europe, denounce as un-Jewish the
organ and the Confirmation, nor in-
sist on the partition wall Which all
•these centuries past Orientalism had
reared in the Synagogue to keep the
woman, the wife and daughter, out
of the main body of worshippers.
Yes, a mere glance at our temples
shows the working of the American
spirit iwliiclh, in doing away with Or-
ientalism and rendering woman the
equal of man iii all spheres of relig-
ion, has given a new powerful im-
petus to all Jewish endeavors.
Then came consistent, systematic
theological 'Reform and took hold of
the free American pulpit, to preach
in clarion notes those principles of
historical progress which, in light-
ing up the traditions of the past,
took the yoke of legalism, the bur-
den of coiitinuolis self-reproach from
the conscience of the modern Jew,
to lift him to the heights of vision
of a world-Uniting prophetic religion.
And here American Judaism scored
t.ure! When the sun sets en the another victory in rejecting the hyp-
Western horizon of Europe, its ef- oerftfcal maxim of European Jewry
fulgent rays gild the liills that her-1 which made the rabbi the scapegoat
aid I In; dawn to the new world. The of the congregation, by insisting that
land of promise for all the penseejit- the dietary and the minute Sabbath
ed! Ood hid it, as it were, in His laws must be observed by proxy
treasurohouse to reserve il for the Henceforth manliness, sincerity, and
moro glorious chapter of human 'his- the' courage of conviction became
tory, when out of the mingling of virtues prized in the American rab-
races and sects, nay, out of the bold- hi, and the pulpit grew to bo a lib-
cst., the most courageous and most, eralizing influence, creating a gen-
independent elements of'society a eration of enlightened, yet truly loy-
new, a stronger, healthier and hap- al Jews and Jewesses. These were
pier type of men and women should the men and women that formed the
emerge, a>ble to cope successfully strength and vigor of our congrega-
witli the hardships and problems of tlons and Jewish fraternities, that
life and bring the world nearer to started and achieved tlio groat work
the realization of its highest and
holiest dreams and ideals, social,
political and religious. And heboid
Judaism leaving the ark, /because the.
flood of unrighteousness, of cruelty,
and Inhumanity has ceased, and look-
ing out upon a new earth and a now
heaven wherein justice, liberty and
peace reign in fulfillment of its
seer's visions! Was not the cry:
Land: Land! that resounded on Col-
umbus's ship the opening up of a
new future for the martyr-race at. the
very time when its woe and misery
had reached their culmination in the
land it had enriched by its own toil?
Then the voice of Gotl was lieard
speaking to the fugitive Spanish
•Tew, as lie afterward spoke to the
or |German, tho Gallcian and the lluss-
Ifail Jew: "Go forth and be a bless-
required at the time in the cause of
religious education and philanthro-
py. In humble gratitude to God for
the success and opulence that fell
to their lot, they reared the temples
and glorious institutions that, have
become the object of admiration and
pride in the eyes of the non-Jewish
world and told our brethren in Eur-
ope that the ancient God of Israel
still lives in the heart of the trans-
Atlantlc Jew.
And as in building up oiir Amer-
ican institutions and in fighting for
American liberty and American
greatness, the Jew as citizen and as
soldier took a prominent part., so
did American Judaism as embodied
in its .men of progress and its lead
ers of Reform uphold the cause of
American freedom anil human equal-
No, we who rally under the banner ling to the multitudes of people and I ity.
what the governor and his guests jO<f progressive American Judaism are
would drink if they got a chance and not behind our conservative breth-
that. they would desecrate the halls ren in loyalty to, and in love for,
of the legislature by drinking there
if they were not watched. It is to
be expected that the gallant band
of 32 w..i be on hand to see thai
the governor does not stumble in
the dances and that every, guest be-
haves properly.
Texas is a funny state anil is vic-
ing with Kansas for the first place
this year in the freak legislation eon-
test. It is a little early yet to
"point with pride" to the Oklahoma
legislature as the session is very
young and the gents with the freak
measures in their grips may have
been suppressed temporarily.
NO LAW AGAINST l/IREI*.
The supreme court of the United
States in a unanimous decision lias
held that there is no federal libel
our sacred heritage. In fact, love i
for the truth, for which our fathers
died, bado our Reform pioneers to |
liberate it from the prison-house of I
Shulham Arnk, legalism in order to
render it. a source ot life again foi-
l's and thosejvho come after us. Loy-1
alty to our wondrous past prompted i
our heroic leaders in this free land i
to so regenerate Judaism as to make
It a beacon light for the living and j
a fountain of hope for ail the future, i
For What is American Judaism
and for what does it stand? The [
very name has lieen challenged by IJ
those who assert that there is, and i
there should be but one Judaisui.il
Catholic Judaism, as they choose to j
call it, pointing to the traditional j
laiw. the Halakah, as the impreg-
nable fortress ami foundation o! j
united Israel. As if this very law with ;
A Good Example
"I am a good example," writes Mrs. R. L. Bell, of
McAlester, Okla., "of what Cardui will do for suffering
women.
"I suffered with my head and back, for over six years,
and although I tried everything, I never could get any-
thing to do me any good, until I began to take Cardui.
"Cardui has surely helped me and built me up and I
am so thankful that 1 have found something that will do
me good. I feel so much stronger and better than I have
in a long time."
it is well to make up your mind before you are sick
what medicine- you will take when you are sick.
m CARDUI
J47
.monev ,u „ ( ii belief that R is neces- jlaw in this emi«>try to muMle Amer- j,s Averse codes, as if this very Jud-T
Ctrl * 'th'"* oH''idaut and the bal- j uionial may have to lie postponed. |vary to engage In a personal scram- lean ntwspaixrs that find occa i-'ii to j^an, 0f the centurleu was not the pro- ]
n intnjELl rf.mwli-1 And if the efmlno shortage should We for seir-prt solvation in the h«lt criticise administrative practices, j (Illct_ of various lands and civiliza-i
monarchy might and turmoil Of a general revision. 'I ais sweeping decision Is of more im- jt:ons. Whether Palestinian or Baby-1
\ tariff commissi tn to g*: >r portance in assuring freedom ol I |on:on, Alexandrian or Persian, Pol-
The Woman's Tome
tloii would help. Something should move permanent
■ done about the situation here. *•« tremble for its future
corporation commission made a| George V. seems to be an amiable j facts In a systematic
m to gamier portance in
ud intelligent I speech than any other issue since !jsh or Portuguese, medieval or mod- j
eutation la congress. !iie destruction of the Federalist par- jcrn. Judaism at all times received
bii hurrah about the bad condition 'and tractable person, eminently like- manner t.«r presentation t > congress- ,;u, .1. si.runon oi «;«• i-'enerauw rn.
* • -• —•> basis for tariff legislation, so ty .more than a century ago for cn-jits peculiar iraits, views and form
of'affairs and from all appearances | ly to make a perfectly harmless king I as a
th4 water company was doomed to,and inddsposed to pernicious activity, organ
extinction in about thirty days, but [For these good qualities we wish him j that
this wits before election and Grand-,well. Because of tliem, and because result
paiWatson probably saw no harm In his coronation is quite likely to he our ]
doing a little advertising. .the last notable .unction of tnat Kinui«na
ted as to carcy tin
t will produce fa
conviction acting tne
and just It ion laws,
will cure the worst evils of laration fro
sent tariff making system. Itjore Is in
is supported by public opin-1 crime as Its
toritaU'
st soun
sedi-1 fr
dec-1 br
tlmt ,f>r
Mlehlof
)5ii its environment
oadened it or reml<
d clannish In the £
Persian. Hellenic a
which <
red it iu
right sun
You will be glad to take it when you are tired, mis-
erable and when life seems a weary grind. It will put
new thoughts into your head, fresh courage into your mind.
If not sick now, at least burn Cardui on to the pages
of your memory, so that when you are sick you will ask
for it without thinking.
If sick or weak, get a bottle today. At all druggists.
Write to- Ladles" Advisory Dept. Chattanooga Medicine Co.. Chartannoogj, Term.,
for Special Instructions, ami 64-page book, "Home Treatment lor Women," sent tree.
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