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I—SECTION 2—THE JEWISH PRESS,-THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1924 to Harvard and to Yale, to Columbia Hospital, although its equipment Is sum of money for a new institution, Without Judaism i t has no soul. Jew- schemetoflife In this world. We are and to Cornell, without stint and -with- not new and improvements are needed, but I feel that our old institutions ish philanthropy based on Judaism striving great g for the ^ay y when the g out let-up. .Throughout the country is still a source of pride to us. Would should be repaired at a fraction of makes possible a real philanthropic Isaiah's ' prophesy h will ill jbe jb fulfilled flfilld and d Jews have given magnificently of their that the Federation had more money that expenditure and that the rest cf Jewish endeavor, an endeavor making filled full: "And then htelped eacfe nian means and of their bounty. In <ine for that noble institution. the money be used for more needful the Jew "worth while to himself and ME neighbor and everyone said to his Address Delivered at Temple Israel, Omaha, Neb, city a Jew gives a Cardinal a large purposes. We, social workers, know i to civilization. Friday Evening, September 19, 1924 brother, 'Be of good courage!' " Philanthropic Technique sum of money "just to help those who that it is not more institutions that we 1 Israel's religion is & religion of ByWM. R/BLUMENTHAL Another unique technique of the need it." In another city a -public need for our children. We need more rather than one ©f creed. Our Tciah ! A new cool? may bring many Superintendent, Jewish Welfare Federation school is named for one of its Jewish Jew is that of personal service. It is h o m e s . a r o s e i h e Superintend commands: «Do this and live!" It is written references, but in the end 1! citizens noted in philanthropy. In her Jewish Orphan a religion of optimism optimism, where the * dent of another another «ity the Jew is .the Asylum and exclaimed: "For years emphasis is placed on a practical "the taste tells." It is a privilege to speak from the iy orphans and asylums throughout many development of the Ancient Jewish beloved-"prince of givers" to Jew and pulpit of Dr. Conn, the scholarly the country, and especially in his thought that the best aid that can be Gentile alike. tell you it Rabbi of this Congregation, and i t is home city New Orleans. given the poor is to help them help all a mistake. We must be big an opportunity to address this ConGenius in Philanthropy Adolph Sutro, the great San Franthemselves. The motto of a national enough and frank enough to admit it. We wish to thank our customers and friends for their patronage. gregation so soon after the remarkable cisco Jew, whose monuments today But not alone in general philanOur children must be placed not in address given here by that great ,are the public parks and practically thropy-.has the Jew made his mark. an old Jewish ideal. an old Jewish ideal. ! institutions, but in homes!" That is : philanthropist, David A. Brown. TTig all the publicly owned beauty spots of He is in the foreground of achieveFree Loan Societiesithroughout the address inspires me in the short talk that city. ments in social service almost every- country, introduced by Jews, set a r e a l - „ , « „ o f B e r s o n a i riorv tol I shall make this .evening. Joseph Fels of Philadelphia, whom where, and by some is held to be high example of this idea «i of ueipuis helping tendency is e*ainpie «i mis *u« The greatest modem The Jew occupies a unique position Zangwill calls the second Joseph the twenty years in advance of the main jugn the needy to help themselves. Very •p r e v e n £ v e w o r k . « A • in the qrninlq of the world's philan- Dreamer, the manufacturer and ideal- bodjvof social workers. Today, when py more than a hun-; publicity has been g given to the p£„„,„,«„,-o worth r e v e i l tion is wnrfV, ™™ i in i almost l t every ist, exponent of Henry George's among the most important develop- little thropy, as he occupies Free Loan Soaetym our own city, a ». ^ seemingly the! d r e d f o r x e l i e f vcjther field- On the very first page of political theories, on which he lavished ments in social service are the indus- constituent of our Welfare Federation. s l o g a n . 'Nathan S t r a u s S h a s educed < trial welfare departments of large orthis~Bible before us occurs a social princely sums. , That is became the men who have ^ 1 ^ mortality o n i 9 8 per thou-j ! service question,' although it is stated Simon Guggenheim, the practical ganizations, it. is a cloak and suit been conducting _ that organization sand to less than f r20 per thousand in house in New York owned by Jews negatively. .Cain asks: "Am I my philanthropist.; One of the builders of have felt that the true idea of ork. He has saved thousands N e W Y brother's keeper?" The Jew has con- Colorado, and father of its Schools of that is by far in the vanguard. "gemflotii chesed means that the o f b a l ) e s a n d by tinued to answer in the affirmative: "I Mines and Engineering. There are The Jew has not only given of his recipient of their help should not be wholesome milk. Giving clean am my brother's keeper." ; just a few,—hundreds .-of others could means but; he has developed his na- advertised. j , milk is better for society, for the, Kosher Meats and Delicatessen ""' There have been many tests of tive genius in philanthropy. The Still another technique is the ;? mother and for the children than healcivilization. There is for instance the be enumerated. slogan proposed, during the World Friendly ^Visitor, paid,: im^erpaid or infants. i A Promise Kept A visit to our store will convince you that our prices pre-war German test, that the amount Many an essay on Jewish philan- War: "Give till it hurts,'? has been unpaid, it matters not. The friendly of sulphuric acid used by a nation are reasonable and quality the best. Corrected by our Nathan Strauss to visitor is often an angel on earth and California Personal Service Committee indicates its civilization. There is the thropy has begun with the reminder read: "Gi^e till it feels good." The her visit means more ;than food and! A great movement in social service of the promise made by the Jews of idea that the esteem in which •womanWEBSTER 5488, 1707 NORTH 24TH ST. Jew has yet another characteristic in to the needy. Our friendly which I had the privilege to be con-i kind is held is the test of civilization; Brazil who sought to migrate to New giving^ Jacob Schiff'wasone of those raiment visitors in Omaha are examples of the' n'ected with is the Committee for PerNetherlands-—that promise made to There is the idea that the treatment who "gave away from the public eye." to be found in the United States sonal Service in California, organized accorded the Jew is the test of civiiza- Governor Peter Stuyvesant, that ?The He gave in secret, and even now we best and-their work, though often-intan- by the late Martin A. Meyer and I. poor among us shall not become a tion. But the one unfailing test of learn of the private benefactions of gible, means not only material Irving Lipshitz of San Francisco, and burden". It is such a splendid example civilization is the nature and developof faith kept that one risks recalling which the world knew very little. - rehabilitation, but also moral and at present ably presided over by Rabbi i ment of its philanthropy. spiritual re-birth. i Rudolph I. Coffee. That Committee is the story.; 1The promise was- made in Why Jews Were Appointed Lonesomeness , a pioneer friendly visitor of the JewShall the Jew Survive? April, 1855, two hundred and seventy It was this kind of philanthropy Perhaps moTe than ever before there years ago. Today ihere vare 2,300 and it was this sort of technique that . Lonesomeness iish m w o m e n a n d. children in the is questioning today: "Shall the Jew Jewish charitable organizations in the made Theodore Roosevelt, when Gov- The greatest disease m the _world sixteen state institutions of California, survive, and if so Why?" If. there is United' States. Jewish philanthropic ernor of New York, make the state- today is not tuberculosos; it is not w here there are at present over five one outstanding reason why the Jew organizations in the United States ment:' "You say that, a vacancy has cancer, nor- an. ydisease found in a hundred Jewish inmates. During the of the existence off thi this should survive i t is that he has an had a membership of over 500,000 last occured. in, the State Board of Char- medical text book. The greatest dis- Committee fi two t years i t men fortyf h Jewish and inborn passion for social service. year and expended, more than $15,- ities and Corrections, and that you ease is Lonesomeness. Lonesomeness than -women in the state asylums, state Social service, so to speak, is in his 000,000 for.philanthfopic work. These want a man to fill i t ? You want a Mils more' people every year War. prisons and state reformatories, were did during the World blood. Take the list of the twelve Jewish organizations comprise twenty man of charity ? Well, when you want bullets Only Mils people slow- salcaged and returned to society, O l The llonesomeness Mil l greatest Jews of America, as selected national institutions, sixteen hundred a man of charity, go where charity ly. rich are not exempt from From social liabilities they were conSIXTEENTH by the readers of one of our outstand- relief societies, over : three hundred has its abiding place. Go to the Jews." this disease. Rabbi Martin A. Meyer, verted into social assets. The State ing Jewish • Journals: Louis: D. hospitals and asylums, and more thai And- Simon W. Rosendale was ap- often contended tf.HABNETt that the rich need Board of Charities and Corrections in Brandeis, Stephen Wise, Nathan four hundred educational institutions pointed. When the Postmaster Gen- social service more than the poor. Our California stated officially that in .00 to *3.00 Strauss, Julius Rosenwald, Louis settlements, centers, etc. eral of the United States found r a new institutions, like the Centers, are money alone this Jewish Committee Marshall, Julian Mack, Felix Wardistracted organization in Washing- for all the people. . -.;i Specific Jewish Contribution i saved the State thousands of dollars burg, Samuel Untermeyer, Oscar ton .and asked for. the help of the best The tendency of late in social serva year not to mention the untold savThe specific Jewish contribution to. Strauss, Henry Morgenthau, and (in &FABNAM 3 specialist:in the land to save the Post human suffering. s^place of Steinmetz, who recently died, philanthropy has been the Federation Office Department, advisors of ex- ice has been—Back to 3the Home. The " .SO t o »2.SU idea is to make the home normal and, The Center of Gravity of Jewish Charities, which after substitute) Lee K. Frankel or David twenty years; of experimentation by perience throughout the land directed to place in i t the dependents. The ' . ^-» by far the most important A. Brown. What is the characteristic the Jews has helped pave the way for him to Dr. Lee K. Frankel of the • IXTEEN practice is not to build more development in Jewish philanthropy is common to all these men? Just this the Community Chests of the c jurtry. Metropolitan Insurance Company, and best asylums for children, but to find or t j j e Jewish Center, the old Hebrew FARNAM '—that they are all imbued with the The Jewish union of charities has not formerly f l S r i t e d t off the th U ited create normal homes wherein to place "Beth Am", House of the People. Superintendent United Jo» H, Keeoan Manacrn- A. spirit of service to mankind. ~ own Welfare Fed~ " Hundreds of Jewish Centers sprung been a union so much in givm? ns a Hebrew Charities of New York. . t 'h *' e children. Our union in relieving poverty and destitu- .. Jews have, not only learned to give eration grants aid to the mother, so u p almost over night in America. The Men of Yesterday But the men of yesterday should not tion. The Jewish benefactions during readily and to give magnificently, but that she may keep her children with Jewish Center has taken away the All Fireproof—• Centrally Located be forgotten. .'.Let us take four just at the World War have rounded out the they have learned to build institutions her. We have many more orphaned center of gravity of Jewish philanoa Direct Csr Liae from Depots random: Judah Touro, Adolph Sutro, work of these Federations in com-which are * the pride of the • country, children with their mothers under our thropv from relief and has placed it prehensive clearing houses for beneMount. Sinai Hospital in New-York is care than_we have in the Orphan character building, in "physical Joseph Fels and Simon Guggenheim. Mount.Sinai Hospital in New-York is care than we have ' "' «—•..__ m j betterment, in spiritual growth, in g y Judah Touro flourished in the first volence. generally held to be the model hosHome in Cleveland.Our reputation of twenty years «» back of these hotel*. But the Jew has not merely taken pital of the world. It is a monument •moral progress. Thank God that we half of the 19th century. His magGuest* nay stop st any one of them with the assurance. Present-day Tendencies ia Omaha will soon realize and "cash I nificent charities knew no race nor care of his own, he has generously to the great-heartedness of the Jew, of receiving honest value and courteowe treatment creed. He is: the man who completed and magnificently helped take care of welcoming equally Christian and Jew. This brings to my mind a stirring in" on that latest development in! others. The most important colleges How needless sounds the seventeenth incident at the Conference of Jewish Social Service—The Jewish H l d h t t h the Bunker Hill monument; who dct now: n ngon llastt Center. Speedily it will be built! preserved the old stone mill, a relic of of America have for years been aided century century edict "Provided that the Social ^Workers in Washington CONAKT HOTEL COMPANY, Operators the Norsmaniin Newport, to poster- by Bernard M. Baruch; Julius Rosen- poor among us shall not become a year. The care of children was under Faith and Dcedes ity; who bought at auction a Universal wald has for many years maintained burden." We need not go fifteen discussion. The Superintendent of the •' Jewish philanthropy, however, does church in New Orleans and returned Y. M. C. A's among the colored people hundred miles away to New York to Jewish Orphan Asylum of New York lagi Jacob Schiff and his be proud of a hospital. Right here arose and said in effect: "Our Board J not stand "alone. Jewish philanthropy _T m mm m mm it entirely free. of debt to the wor- of the Sputh. mm shipers, and. who endowed magnificent- son-in-law, Felix Warburg, have-given' in our own <city our Wise Memorial of Directors has just voted us a large without Judaism has no^ meaning.
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