The Sentinel, v.123 no. 08, 1941

              THE SENTINEL
The Men Who Saved the
United States of America
Many historians express doubt that the small republic of
the United States of America would have existed if it were not
for the unselfish aid of such a man as Haym Salomon, the for-gotten
man of the American Revolution, who, with Robert
Morris, was the financial backer of the tiny republic. Salomon's
love for his adopted country was so great that he would accept
no payment for his services and financial aid.
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It was my privilege to visit Camp
Edwards near Bourne, Cape Cod,
last week. Mr. Cohen, the Jewish Wel-fare
Board worker, is doing a superb
work organizing
the many activi-ties
for which he
is responsible, and
the soldiers of the
Jewish faith at
Camp Edwards
- nearly one
thousand in num-ber
- are to be
congratu -
lated on his pres-ence
and coop-eration.
Rabbi
William Rosen-blum
of Temple Israel, New York City,
is Acting Chaplain for the soldiers of
the Jewish faith during the month of
August. His energy, diplomacy and
helpfulness are greatly admired, not
only by the nearby Jewish residents,
but also by the non-Jewish religious
and military heads. Rabbi Rosenblum
is rendering a genuine service by es-tablishing
high standards of Jewish
chaplaincy work at Camp Edwards,
and we are sure that other rabbis who
are serving in a similar capacity are
bringing esteem to Jewish religious
life.
Woods Hole, Massachusetts, is a
marine biological laboratory cen-ter,
with headquarters of the Ocean-ographic
Institute, the U. S. Fisheries,
and the marine research departments
of great American universities. I may
be pardoned this personal reference
when I recount the reason for spend-ing
each year a brief time in this
charming academic center. "A rabbi
who lives in a goldfish bowl all au-tumn,
winter and spring, doesn't mind
spending a few days at an Aquarium
in the summer."
At Camp Edwards I saw a cluster
of men about a music-machine
into which a nickel had been dropped.
They were listening to Tschaikowsky's
Concerto in B Flat. As the marvelous
melody came forth, and I noted the
rapt attention and appreciation of the
soldiers, I could not help but think of
the needlessness and brutality of war.
Here were young men who had a feel-ing
for the refinements and delicacies
of life, who enjoyed good and great
music, who, nevertheless, were being
trained for the horrors of ruthless
war-making. Man has so much beauty,
grace and truth for which to live. That
one man, Hitler, could have so be-deviled
mankind that millions are de-prived
.of their opportunity to grasp
and win for themselves the secret of
happy living, is a tragedy of unmiti-gated
scope.
0 The rabbi learns much from con-versation
with friends, and I
offer this as an instance: The daugh-ter-
in-law was telling the rabbi of her
mother-in-law's happy life, so that the
rabbi might speak intelligently at the
funeral services. "She had a devoted
husband to whom she was married
nearly fifty years; she had two loving
children; she had five wonderful
grandchildren. And just before she
died, she was told that her oldest
grandson had ibeen admitted to Harv-ard.
What more could anyone want
out of life!"
Mrs. Richard Gottheil has just
celebrated her 80th birthday -
August 10, and she was the recipient
of many messages of congratulations
at her summer residence in Hanover,
New Hampshire. Mrs. Gottheil, widow
of the late Professor Gottheil of Col-umbia
University, has rendered in her
own right historic service to the cause
of Israel. She has been one of the
foremost leaders of American Zionism,
her husband having been the first
president of the American Federation
of Zionists. Miss Eva Leon, her sister,
was responsible for the first nursing
unit which went to Palestine before
the First World War, thereby giving
to Hadassah its raison d'etre. Mrs.
Gottheil was one of the founders of
the Women's League for Palestine
which supports the Batei ha-Halutzot
in Eretz Yisrael. Mrs. Gottheil has
spoken on a myriad of platforms, for
worthy causes, and is truly one sof the
great ladies of our day. She has mul-titudes
of friends in this country and
abroad, and even though she has
reached the age of four-score, she is
unflagging in her deeds of Gemilut
Hesed. Every felicitation is due to
Mrs. Gottheil on her anniversary, and
we extend to her the Hebraic greet-ing:
"Ad Meah Shanah we-Esrim,"
"To a Hundred and Twenty Years!"
In the light of the dramatic meet-ing
at sea between President
Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, as
well as by its own merit, the following
poem, which appeared in the New
York Times, August 11, by David
Ray, deserves quotation here. It is en-titled:
"The Greater Power":
"If still our honor must be clothed in
steel
And all we cherished as a freeman's
right
Be fortified against aggression's heel,
Lest we be trampled under in the
night,
"Dear God, that fashioned peace and
fixed our star
Within a heaven of brotherly accord,
Help us to see our shields for what
they are,
Still faithful to the thought beyond
the sword;
"Grant that we never through the
tortured hour
Forget those truths that freedom has
revealed,
"Reliant only in Thy living power
That flames beyond the saber and
the shield!"
-David Ray.
I am sure my colleagues will find these
lines worthy of use in their forthcom-ing
High Holyday sermons.
The following item, quoted by
James T. Farrell in .one of his
novels: "Judgment Day," "From De-votion
to be said at the Beginning of
the Mass for the Dead" contains many
elements reminiscent of the Hebraic
Yom Kippur, 'but has those differences
and shades of meaning which mark it
so strongly New Testament in charac-ter,
as to be worthy of further ex-
(Continued on page 27)
TELLING IT IN GATH
By RABBI LOUIS I. NEWMAN
August 21, 1941