Evening Star Newspaper, November 4, 1923, Page 67

SPORTS, STO Foot Ball (This Is one of a series of lessons, which bring out the most important points which every boy should know who wants to learn to play foot ball right.) T fsn’t always true that when a forward pass is thrown the de- fensive side should try to catch it, fhough In most cases the best way of breaking up a pass, of course, is to get out under the ball and attempt to catch It as a punt is caught. However, there are certain times ‘when It should be batted down. When the game Is close the pass should not be caught upon fourth down, because by letting it be grounded or batting 4t down the pass becomes incomplete Bg RIES, G A Lesson in Breaking Up Passes and the offensive side loses the ball on downs where the ball was put into play. There is an exception where the pass is well out to the side, and the defensive player who has an op- portunity to intercept it is pretty sure he can get away for & long run. A defensive player.should not try to catch a forward pass when an offen- sive player has an equal, or nearly equal, chance to catch it, because it {8 much easler and safer to bat the ball out of reach of the opponent than it is to chance catching it. He must be careful, however, to bat it so that no offensive player has a chance to catch it before it hits the ground. BREAKING UP PASSES . Safe Experiments in Science (These Are Little Laboratory Exercises for Boys and Girls to Perform at Home With Materials in Everyday Use.) Examples of Pressure, A interesting experiment in sure may be tried. other weights are fastened on vither end of a wire which is suspended across a block of ice. The fce should be clevated by placing it on the end of a jar or box, so that the are free to drop to-the grou Pressure of the wire on the meiting, and tho wire gradually worke its way down into the center of the fce. But as it descends the groove above the wire is observed to begin to freoze over. This Is possible because as the wire sinks through the layer of water thus formed the pressure on the water s relieved, and it immed. ately expands and freezes over again An example of air pressure is shown pres- HE Uest way for the amateur cartoopist ‘to study shoes is to take an dld one you have around the house and .drgw it from diffprent angles. I think you will find I8 best to keep them in outline with little or no shading# Jf you must. shade, how- ever, figurd 1 {llustrates & simple method. ;% - to Play How string passing in front of them. Bomewhere on the string 15 & gold ring which may be passed from one player to the next. In the center stands "it,” keeping a_sharp eye on the players to find who has the ring. 1The token should be allowed to pass for & few minutes, then the leader shouts, “Stop!” Only one guess is sllowed. If the one who is “it" does |in the second figure in the diagram. | Place a sheet of wriiing paper or | cardboard over the top of a tumbler that is either partly or whelly filled | with water. Hold on the cover tightly | with the left hand while you quickly {invert the tumbler with the right. ! Don’t let any water run out at the | edge during the turn. When it is fully | an take away your left nd and the sheet of paper will stay st the tumbler and no water will run out. You can tip the tumbler any | way you wish without affecting the | cardboard, because the air all around {the tumbler presses hard enough to overbalance the weight of the water in the gh | inverted you Ik ag Gilass raising is produced by creat- a vacuum under the hand. Put glass filled with water on the ing | t of the | fing | ang1 {1z, | of the hand on the edge of the glass, | you raiee the four fingers quickl | thus having the palm stretched out, ! you will force out most of the air which is between your palm and the surface of the water, und in this way | you will produce under your hand a pastial vacuum. This vacuum will be strong enough to allow the atmos- pheric pressure to overcome the weight of the glass and its contents, thus the glass remains attached to the hand. bent shos almost at in the third figure. s are Figure 2 shows ‘how to draw a woman's high-heeled slipper. Figure 3 is the completed drawing. You see, it's very simple if you know how to B0 at it. Figure 4 {llustrates the popu- lar way for a lady to stand—acedrd- ing to cartooniets, . Now you are ready to study the figure as used by cartoonists. You will learn about the tricks of draw- ing it next week. = -String Game . - s you continue to press the palm | | Bricks or | table, and over the top place the palm | Turtle. hand, taking care that the four | ‘round dat way dis evenin’ an’ kind of right | pass @' time o' day? | i | | ed up and had their shoes shined they THE SUNDAY PUZZLES, ForeT Ao Written and Illuitrated by Edward MecCandlish. ROTHER BILLY POSSUM had started a barber shop in the roots of & big tree close to the Blg Pond. The shop bore a sign reading: “Wil- llam B. Possum, Tonsorial Artist, Haireutting a Specialty.” When Brother Raccoon, or Jim Crow, or Brother Diamond-Backed Terrapin wanted his hair cut, or his whiskers trimmed, he went to Brother Possum’s shop, took off his coat, vest, collar, hat and necktie and made him- self comfortable while awaiting his turn. : Brother Possum's shop was head- quarters for the gossip of the neigh- borhood, and was also ufed as a coat and hat exchange and as a rendezvous for betting on the horse races. * K k% Brother Woodchuck was In the barber's chair one morning having his whiskers ‘trimmed. Brother Fox, Brother Bullfrog and Brother Green Turtle were seated in a row, with their collars off, awaiting their turns. “I hear tell Brother Raccoon Is still laid up from d' scare he got last Hal- | loween night,” eaid Billy Possum, as he removed a handful of Brother Woodchuck’s hair with the pruning shears. ' | “Yes.” replled Brother Fox, “Jimmie | Raccoon sho' was one scared man when dey hauls him down outen d'| chimley—laugh!—w; hust myself laughin as though he might burst himself | once more laughing over the recol- lection of it. “Reckon he must be kind of weak- like yet, though,” said Brother Green | What say if we mosey| The others thought this was a good idea, and so, when all were shaved, hair-cutted, shampooed, singed, brush- pald their taxes into the hand of Billy A Dinner Guest UNG LEE and Jimmy Reflly came S out of the playground arm in arm, | talking excitedly. Of all the queer | combinations on the playground this friendship of the Chinese and werd inseparable. “You come along my house for din- ner, then we go back,” Sung Lee was | saying. “Aw nix” objected Jimmy. Sung | Lee's eyes had an odd look in them, which Jimmy quickly understood to | mean that Sung Lee was offended: ! “Sure T'll coms agreed -Jimmy. | “You're a good Ecout to ask me, be- | cause you live nearer.” ! Jimmy went. along, with some mis- ZIVINES: toythe Httke shop where Sung Lee’s father and brothel ram their laundry. The famlly lived in neat, | quaint little rooms in the back. Jimmy soon found he didn't feel queer at all. | He Iltked Sung Lee's round-faced | mother, and he liked the chop suey. they had to eat. But the thing that | stumped him was the chopsticks. Try as he would, he wasn't able to man- age them right, and though the family smiled good-naturedly at his troubles | they couldn’t help him. He didn’t get | nearly as much to eat as he wanted. The next time the boys ate together it was at Jimmy’'s house, and Sung Lee did much better with a fork than Jimmy had done with chopsticks.” Raturdey the boys were going to practice foot ball on the playground all day, so Jimmy had arranged to run over to Sung Lee'S at noon. As he 1eft his home in the morhing he had a bright thought. He stuck a fork in his podket. “Now I bet I get enough to eat,” he grinned to himseif. He went running- down the.alley; already late. Suddenly he felt'a heavy. hand on his shoulder. “Aw, so here you are, my lad,” grunted & burly policeman, “I just’ got word dbout boy.bandits breaking in & dolry store, and here I run into one of them right +| off. Didn’t think some of that silver- goes In the center to be the next guesser. % é The fun of the game is that one must keep the hands sliding in ‘a secretive manner whether the ring be near him or not.” The one who does mot give the secret away is the ome who can recelve and pass the ring without betraying surprise or delight. ware would be jolted In your pocket, eh, Bo I'd-see it glintin'! Now not & ‘wdrd. Yow'll find that hayd to’ex- platn, right. Come along.” That is why Jimmy was 8o late -to foot ballipractice and why he never told Sung Lee the reasom Too Whit, Too Whoo. The owl. he is a noble bird, And he has 18ts of grit; This is the story that I heard. To wit: He went to see his lady friend; He atdn't bill or coo, : But stayed with her for hou end : ( To woo. i) Bad Examples. .. “ Your school repbH 18 not 86 good this month, Johnny. "RIDDLES, BTAR, WASHINGTON vo e Foousn =47 7xe Road toward Brother Raccoon’s house. chuck an idea. | “Sho' nuft | #aid he. “What say If wé | gives Brother Raccoon a serenade of | shop bi music. Il kind of wake him up to hear a few Snappy tunes,” said he. “Fine! Fine!” exclaimed the threk | others in chorus. { “What'll we sing?" veckon we bettah sing some of d* lates' popular airs” eald Brothef Green Turtle. “What say If we gives him ‘Sweet Adeline The others agreed that “Sweat Ad { D s’ and Girls’: HANDICRAFT, dat evenin’, I begs to tell you. And|FPossum and set oft down the Big|line” would just wbout fill the bill, and so they went on down the road, | I 1 thought ra | On the way down Brother Bullfrog |tuning up on snatches of various dit- | I had to laugh | DéEan humming a few bars of 2 popu- | tles; Brother Woodchuck performing two times™ -And Brother Fox acted’!laF &ir; and this gayve Brother Wood-|in an jce cream tenor, Brother Fox in a music hall baritone and Brother Bullfrog chiming in with a barber ‘When they reached Brother Rac- coon's house, Brother Green Turtle stepped up and pulled the door knocker. Sister Raccoon—EBrother |'Raccoon’s old woman—angwered the knock, and when the quartet ex- plained the purpose of their visit Sis- er Raccoon sald, “Have seats, gentie- mens, while I talks‘ta Brother Rac- coon.” Pretty soon she came back and Parent-Teacher Activities. (This column Is conducted under the Mothers and Parent-Teacher Assocla- | tions.) | A few years ago when the parents teacher work in the District of Colum- bla was just beginning to be organized and the total membership of our state hranch was between 500 and 600 we started qur clothes conservation work. At first we gave made-over and mended garmerts to doseds of school children! then, in answer to many appeals, we began to: give shoes whith had been repaired from the ‘worn ones collected from our members. This work has | grown Just us our organization has grown, formerly there were only twenty. schools with well organized parent- teacher assoclationis, today there are about sixty and our active membership is over 6.000. Every parent. every teacher and every man and woman in | Wakehington Interested in child welfare is a member of the District of Columbia Congress of Mothers and Parent- Teacher Association, but we have only about 6,000 active members. Today we are giving_ clothing, shoes and rubbers to hundrede of children, most of whom would be kept from school without our help. When the work started we were given a room in the Webster School, but very soon the room was needed for the pupils, so when the new Central High was finished our clothes conservation work was moved into old Central, where we were first given a_group of rooms, but when the Junior High was organ- ized our rooms were needed for the Americanization work, so we were taved Into gne room, but later that also Waameeded, 50 Wa were crowded into a smaller one. The Junior High continued to.grow, 80 again our reom was needed, and &t the inyitation of Mrs. Julian es we moved into Mason ' House. For over a year the ‘work went on {n comfortable quarters, but when Mrs, James died Mason House was closed ‘for welfare -work and the clothes conservation was Invited by Miss Mary -Gwyune fo a femporary bome in _the nne Child- Welfare | House, When s Gwynne died, & year ago,.this work was gtored in the | basement of the chairman’s house. This fall there have been many calls for_clothing ‘which the chairman, Mrs. G, 8. Fraser, has Been unable to meet béeause her materials are stored. A committep has been. appointed to seek a room, centrally located, where this work can go on. Mrs. Fraser is chair- man of the committee. -Thé other mem- ! Een are Mrs, Henry Spottswood, Mrs. . .J,-Brennon ‘and Mrs.:Joseph Randall, ©old’ weather is coming and there wili be great need of warm-clothing for our school chcildren. .These chil are Washington's future citisens -an much-needed . clathing now will en- able them to remain in sohool, Where they can receive- the educatiom: we Washingtonians awe every - child boyn our eity. &7 In H:)lloll the Mhssachusefts’ Cun- fees of Mothers and Parent-Teacher ‘Association ‘has & ‘building where a visiting _mother -will find .a _restful m _and the pleasant companionship of othér mothers. . Other states have milar headquaetsrs, but Washing- ton, the capital of the whole nation, has o~ mothers’ bullding. though svery dsy methers from all over the country come here, many. of them In trouble and.In need of the help thy of other mothers. Our aa buildinie. for all purposes, a -plate for ts and dogs who 10° other home, b ‘whd : needs anothes womayp like herself Our work is not 1y ‘edicational e ¥hers son and many of them ahilgren of their own, 80 in the of thelr mother and their chil- dren's mother. we ask them tohelp us find a hom Ty e 5 chairman. The vice presidents of ‘the the | auspices of the District of Columbia]organizations will be the divisional Irish boy seemed the strangest. They branch of the National Congress of | chairmen, and every school associa- tion will have direct! a chairman, who will ¥ under the division chiefs. Each special feature will also ave a chairman. Many detalls will be settled at the committee meeting to be held this week. Mrs. . W. Burr of the Reservoir Parent-Teacher Assoclation, is- the chairman of the library committee of that organization. During book week, November 11th to 18th, this commit- tee will ask the parents to contribute serve { toward making the school library a worthwhile one. Mrs, J. M. Blachoff has been ap- pointed the District member of the ngtional American citlzensuip com. mittee, of which Mrs. H, O. Holland is chairman. this committee will remember that many school bulldings in this city are not provided with a flag ip every clamsroon and the puplls are obliged to salute an empty corner in.the daily oath of allegiance to the flag. Many parents all aver the city are much disturbed over the condition of the text books furnished many of our pupils; they are also much concerned over ‘the fact that the primary gradea have not been supplied with the necessary materlals with which to work. Thre Mid-Atlantic Council of the middle Atlantic states s holding a two-day. session In Trenton, N. J. Mrs. Giles Scott Rafter and Mrs. Judge Tolson are representing the District of Columbia at this meeting. The Morgan Parent-Teacher Associa- tion gave a Halloween tea in the home of the president, Mrs. Harvey Wiley, Tuesday afterncon. Miss Jes- La Salle was the guest of honor and she gave a talk on her special work. ‘Mrs. G, 8. Rafter also spoke briefly about the Christmas sale. The Piney Branch Parent-Teacher Association of the Weat School met Miss La Salle and Mrs. The regular monthly meeting of the Wheatley Parent-Teacher Asso- clation took place Thursday -after- noon ith the president, Mrs. G. S. Foreman, in the chajr, The first grade children entertained the moth- ers with music and the pupils of the elghth grade also sang. Miss Miriam Castele played 'several violih solos, accompanied by her sister, Miss Sarah, on thg piano. rs. J. N. Saunders, the vice President of the District of Co- lumbia ess of Mothers and Parent-Teacher Association, apoke on parent-teacher work. The Maury Parent-Teacher Associa- tion will meet Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clack. Mrs. G, 8. fter will be the speaker. ‘The Peabody-Hlilton Parent-Teacher Association will meet Thursday after- Toon inatead of, on the usual date, be- cause Miss Hendley, thelr new super- visor, will be the speaker and she could not be present at a meeting on Tuesday. Mrs. R. Holt will preside. ‘Thé Force Parent-Teacher Associa- tion -will meet November 12 at 8 o'clock in the_ballroom of the Rochambeau, h th dent, Mrs. A. M, l.f :\“(hc :'{:“ Mise Lo Saile will b6 the speaker and Dr. Albert M. Wil ‘Five an sadress on -Bullding 0 a Child’s Resistance, to Disease, isitors from other parent-teach sociataions ‘are cordially invited ‘to attend. E The Congréss Heights Mothers’ Club met Thursday and elected a number of new members. The president. Mrs. ‘Walters, urgéd them to donate all thiey could for Christmas sale, Th principal, Miss Fischner, has given club permission to meet. in the feach-. ers' room. - “Th dance for the.ben: oo TR e e e e Congress _of thers and Parent. e aitorts of Mee B 35 Dowling of i n& ‘Thomas Mallon, Friday night; was a succeas.. - R JTne D < SCIENCE, * It is to be hoped that | . C, NOVEMBER 4. 1993-<PART 3. 'h‘{} beckoned them, into the elck man's room. Brother Raccoon lay stretched out in- state, surrounded by numerous bottles, spoons, glasses and ,trays. Brother Raccoon's eyes were whut, and the four visitors, after hesitating a few minutes, retired to a corner of the room, and in a low tone begdn the first tew bars of “Sweet Adeline”: “Sweet Adeline! My Adeline! Aat night, dear héar-r-t, For you I pine!” Brother Raccoon opened his eyes and was evidently listening. Thus encouraged, the quartet sang much louder. “E-en oll my dre-e-ams, Your fair face be-e-a-ma." Brother Raccoon now turned over { on his side, facing the music, and the | four musiclans sang louder still. “You're the flower of my heart, Sweet Adeli-i-ne!” i At this point Sfster Raccoon held u | | & finger as a sign to pause. and the | music ceased. i “Brother Raccoon's " she said tryin’ “What | somethin dearfe?” to say | is it ] } | Brother ‘Woodchuck clapped ~ liis | hand to his hip pocket. He had a bot- tle there marked “emergency.” Sisteét Raccoon bent her ear down, and the four eingers heard Brother say jn’ a Jioarse whisper: said he, “in d' name of all good and - holy—stop—that— A x That evening Brother Possum's ! barber shop was kept open until quite late to take ‘care of the customers. Among the guests of the evening | were Brother Fox, Brother Green Turtle, Brother Bullfrog and Brother | Woodchuck. “Brother Buflfrog,” sald Billy Pos- |sum, “ls you almin’ to keep up yo' music as a specialty? 'No,” replied Brother Bullfrog, “but aims to keep up my gahden patch— Bot to eat!” |1 it sembly hdll of Stmmons building last | Tuesday ‘night.” The following officers were . re-elecfed: President L. H vice, president, Mrs. Fannie secrétary, Miss O, G. Hutch- ins, and treasurer, W. E. Washington. | Dr. Murphy, e&ef inspector of health in | | the “public’ sahools, delivered u lec- !ture on the caje of children's health. { Garnett Wilkinson, assistant superin- | tendent, spoke on the campaizn to raise funds for the educational tests work to be conducted at Mott School during the Year. The assoclation pledged $69, by the sale of Christmas cards. Miss' Dodson, kindergarten instructor, gave a plano selection. J C. Payne 18 group principal and Mr, Mathews, the seventh grade teacher, |is chairman of the program com- | mittee. : o . . | ! Tricks With a Coin. | | The trick of making a coin stick on | & surface will greatly puzzle your friends when'you perform the seem- ing magic for them. . | Take a colm, and, placing it flat| against a door or some other smooth syrface, rub it back and'forth vigor- ously a dogen times or more. Take |away your' hand after repeating a mystic.chant, and the coin will stay there. After a few moments it will drop. The explanation is that the irubbing of the coin on the smooth surface ‘heats and drives the air out from under the coin, thus leaving the atmospheric pressure on the ex- posed face to hold it in place. After the cofn has had time to cool, the 4alr gets under it and it drops off. Be sure the coln you use has a good rim ori if and the surface on which you put it is very .smooth. Another trick is performed with a bottle, & match. and the coln. Break the “match stick so that the two parts hang together by only a few fibers of wood. Place it in a v- shape on the neck of the uncorked bottle, and then on the match lay the coin. Now ask your friends if they can make the coin fall into the bottle without touching the match, thescoin or the bottle. Varlous solutions will be tried, but the winning one is this: Dip your finger.in a glass of water, and placing it above the angle formed by the match, allow a few drops to fall In the broken place. The fibers of .the wood, swollen by the molsture, will try’to stralghten thems selves, and you will see the angle of the match increase little by lijtle until it gradually works out from under the coin and the money drops into the bottle Most Attractive. Two ‘businéds men were having a confgb when & third appeared on the scene of action. “I say,.Bill’ settle this argument, will_yourr ‘'What's the row?’ ‘Should ‘§ man use prefumery of any sort?!” A : “Well, & miseible.” trace of gasoline {s pers " Quick, Watson!- The famous detective gasped as he arrived at*the scene of the crime: “Heavens!” he exclaimed, as he look- ed in the wimdow:through which the thief had escaped, “This is more than Lexpected. It's broken on both sides.” . ..Proot Enough. “Maty, ard.you & good cook3” “Yes, ma'am 1 §o to church every ‘Bunday.” L i Y 3 v ADVENTURE, - HESE two bulbs, planted here for your amusement, are finding com- fort In each other's presence. (N it isn’t Christmas, we don't mean *hat kind of presents.) - Son Light, on the left, is warming his hands before Head Light's beaming coun- tenance. He's been telling him all about how his dog, Spot Light, came JOKES, in at twilight the night before hav- | iu8 been run into by a Light ship and {hurt In the tall “light. His sister, Love Light, hasn't a date, and so is a blue Light. The guy on the right |is getting tired of this barrage of wind, even though he was in the Light Artillery that took puart in charge of the Light Brigade. He'll now grab bis hat and leave, thus ending a windy, heated argument. NEWS OF THE JEWISH WORLD BY RABBI JACOB S. MINKIN Leopold Auer—Veteran Vioiin Master. The dean of music, master of the world's greatest violin masters, teacher of Heifetz, Elman Zimballst and a score of other great music artists, solo player of three successive czars, and, despite his advanced ag still one of tha most alert and open minded of men, Leopold Auer finds himself at the age of nearly elghty an exile from the country he loved 80 well and served with such honor and distinction for more than fifty years. His coming to America has been hafled by musical America as a great event. There 1Is till enough fire, it is said, left in this old man to found in this country a school of music which will eclipse everything which has gone before. In his study in New York city, young talents are being tralned, who may yet outshine some of his former cele- brated disciples. Leopold Auer, pupil of the greatest vollin master of tha last century, Joachim, is a Jew, and of Hungarian birth, His talent manifested itself early and recelved immediate recog- nition. In musical Petrograd he was supreme arbiter. Though a Jew was powerful enough to muke the czar grant special permiesion to Mischa E!man to live in the Russlan pital and recelve the benefit of his instruction. In 1895 he was elevated to the rank of hereditary Russian nobility, and later was made Russiun state counctior.” France honored him with belng made Chevalier Legion d° Honneuer. Though nearly eighty, this veteran of the violin s still one of the most active of men, constantly alert for the discovery of new talent with the Promise of future greatness. A book which he has recently published, “Violin ' Teaching,” besides being a great and valuable contribution to the art of violin playing, is also replete with musical reminiscences, covering nearly three-quarters of a century. Those who have read it pronounce it to be a masterplece of erudition and simplicity, written by the foremost lender in the fleld. Besides being a groat teacher, Leopold Auer is also a great lingulst, equally at home in Russlan, German, Hungarian, French. English and JItalian, all of which languages he speaks fluently and Is master of their literatures. Nestor of American Rabb: Palest In order to acquaint himself at first hand with. all the facts con- nected with the settlement of the Jews n Palestine, and to bring back to the people not merely hearsay re- ports of Palestine, but authentic and authoritative Information, Dr. Joseph Silverman, nestor of American rabbis and rabbl emeritus of Temple Eman- uel, one of the leading reform con- gregations in America, sailed for Palestin. Dr. Silverman's “voyage of explor- ation,” despite his advanced age, did not come as a surprise to thore who have followed his recent activities in behalf of Palestine, especially in con- nection with the Keren Hayesod (Palestine Foundation Fund). In an Interview which Dr. Silyer- man gave before leaving, he explhin- ed the object of his trip: “In- addition to the economic and racial conditions of that Interesting little land, I shall take even greater intereat, if possible, in its cultural development. in order to matisfy my- self as well as those. of American Jewry who haye not yet become con- vinced of the potency of the claims that have b made regarding the fut of stine as a Jewish cen ter and as an inspiration for educa- tion, réligion and general culture. I intend also to Interview repro- sentatives of the Moslems, Jews and Christians, in order to find out at first hand the exact truth of the re- 1ations between these elements and thus be in-a position to answer the Safls for rejudiced reports which I know have en circulated. I undertake this trip to Palestine at this time bacause, in the course of my recent trip to the west on behalf of the Palestine Foundation Fund, 1 became convinced that It wu,neeenlryh to bring to :::e rely hearsay reports, gfifplf e e praeand tnformar Distinguished Poet Takes up Resi- dence in Palestine, H N, Biallk, tho greatest Hebrew 1 , and one of e greal Sorew bards of Al time has de Tn’ “addition to his literary w to develop in Palestine his publish. ing tmel?prl e, which has already produced several works of monu- mental importance. A writer of exqul Hebrew, a poet by divine grace, a composer of which are not matched any- in Hebrew literature, H. N. Bl ~has made for himself a repu- tatlon whigh is not equale Inlhhr Hebrew poet, ;’!l:l\(“ B {been translated tnto man and evervywhere reccived the high praise many Lurcpean critics, among them Maxim Gorky, the great | Russiun writer, Bialik has been hailed e the greatest living poct. In addition to his being a H. N. Bialik has business abil any o language. eat mani- mean estab- enter- adding man to Hebrew of consider- poet, | festea rder, likhed prise valuable also of no ved and bublishing besides ¥ contribution: has also b to him of Oa moved to Berl revolution, where jUterary und business enterprise: but O 4CCOURL Of the existing Londitiors there, ho hax decided to muko Pales tine his permanent home The Late Steinmetz on the Jewish Problem. “We need the America because - sald the w of Schenectady when interviewed the Jewish problem. “There used to be un ides,” he continued, “that the Jew us & race was physically coward iy and crafty. People forgot Maca- beus and that the Jews were among the fArst mercenary soldiers. History shakes its head at the idea of the Jew as a coward. The Jews were the onl¥ people who fought over and over again with Rome, kept fighting tll Jerusalem was destroyed and they Were ecattered. The Jews never surrendered. They fought and fought down through the Ceasars 1o 7 HrE The only way th beat the Jew wes to destroy the place they fought for. In the f of these Shings vou could not eay that the ew € nelther brave nor pa- Jue. ither brave nor pa With a few swift, vigorous strokes the genius of the leaping spar sketched the history the - Jew through the middle ages, u time of persecution, when the Jew survived by the line of greatest resistance. In our present tlme the Jew should make as good an American as any other, if he is treated right,” waid Steinmetz. “He has brains and the abllity, and hi rage intelli- gence is very high.” sa, Russia, Bla- soon after the he carried on his Jow in the of h electric W av Jew Elected to Viee Chancellorship of Melbourne University. One of the highest distinctions in the scholastic world of Australia has been conferred upon Sir John Monash by his elaction as vice chancellor of the University of Melbourne, Sir John has had a distinguished careor as general of the United Aus- trallan forces, both in the Galiipoll fmn(nsula and later in Flanders, The brilliant action which formed the closing scene of the campaign, in which the Australian unit took a conspleuous and brave part, were dus to the clever strategy of Gen. Sir John Monash, whose successful tac- tles helped considerably to bring about the debacle of the German army. Sir John is not only an afilis (ated member of the Jewish commu- inlty of Melbourne, but takes also an active part in all Jewish a and when the occasion demands rep- Tesents his coreligionists before the state authorities. Finance Minister of Iraq a Jew. The hostility of the Arab to the Jews of Palestine does not seem to be extended to the Jews of Bagdad, or else 80 many of them would not be intrusted with so many important positions of state. In the report of he high commissioner on the ad- ministration of Iraq, just published by the English colonlal office, a spe- cial paragruph dealing with the formation of the first provisional fovernmem refers to Sasun Effend {askail, the minister of finance, a leading representative of the Jew ish community of Bagdad, stating the universal esteem and respect in which he s held. He had been a member of the Turkish Chamber of Commerce ince the constitution of 1908 and had also occupled.the post of president of the finance com- mittee. X Though at’ present small, the Jew- ish community of Bagdad was at one time of great power and influ- ence. When, In the middle ages, Ialam was in flower, the Jews of Bagdad exercised great power and filled many important positions of state. In later years persecution compelled many of the most Influen- tial Jewish families of Bagdad to seek an asylum elsewhere. Some of the most distinguished Jews of In- ia, famous for. their wealth and philanthropy, are descendants of the original Jewish settlers of Bagdad. ' di ——— He—I1 always carry this revolver. She — How thrilling! ' Tell Ho—I was starving and I pawn- Bang! It saved my life once. me ‘about 1it, ed 1t L