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AUGUST 1925
THE UNITED AMERICAN
A SON OF HONEST TOIL WHO FINDS HIS VACA
TION TIME AT LAST
By NAT J. FARBER, in The New York American
CHLOIMA Gingold, his eyes sunken, his cheeks drawn
and a clawlike hand clutching the bed cover, was lying
in bed. At Schloima’s head sat Mamma Gingold, a restraining
hand on his shoulder. She was saying:
“Schloima, what is the use, You are an old man, nearly
seventy-six. You have, thanks to the One above, good children.
They want you to stay home, that they should support you.
What do you want from us? Why don’t you stay home?
Especially now, Schloima, you’re a sick man.”
But Schloima looked obdurate. It had always been his
contention that one father can support ten children, but that
ten children cannot support one father. This belief is pro
verbial in the Ghetto, and nowhere is this proverb so untrue.
For the Ghetto children that would fail in their duty to an
aged parent are’ few indeed.
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PIONEER OF RACE
Schloima Gingold was of the pioneers of his race in the
East Side. He had come to that district more than sixty years
ago and could recall when one could with difficulty raise a
scant quorum, for the services in the improvised synagogue.
Throughout the many years he had worked as a carpenter
and with his hands had participated in the building of many
thousands of buildings, in the very tenements that today
house the great East Side’s millions, Schloima had rarely
gone west of the Bowery, or north of Fourteenth street, His
travels east were confined to occasional trips to Brooklyn
cemeteries, These trips had become more frequent in recent
years. Few remained of the congregation that he had helped
to found.
Schloima married when he was twenty, and for the next
twenty years his wife presented him with a son or daughter
at almost regular intervals of twenty months. Schloima labored
hard to support this brood, so hard that he was never known
to have missed a day of his own volition. Work became
second nature to him.
INSISTED ON WORK
When his children had attained maturity, and with
maturity some of them had attained wealth, Schloima still
persisted in the daily grind..
Offers that he takes up a residence with prospering sons
and later, grandchildren, in The Bronx, Flatbush or Long
Island, were all tersely rejected with the same remark regard
ing the ability of offspring and parents to support one another.
He refused, even, to take a vacation. The Summer vacation
season found him with lots of work on hand. The Fall and
Winter, when business was slow, were considered undesirable
for a vacation. So Schloima labored on.
The recent hot spell, coupled, perhaps, with his advancing
years, produced in Schloima a moment of weakness, and he
consented to spend two weeks in the country. The old man
had barely set foot in the mountain resort when his conscience,
a conscience born to unremitting toil, began bothering him.
RESTS AT LAST
The result, he was on the farm a day when he borrowed
the tools of his trade from his host and soon he was sawing
and hammering away with even greater industry than when
on his regular job. So much so that in the rarefied atmos
phere of the mountain resort his heart gave way and he
collapsed.
Schloima was back in his bed at home. He was rag mg
inwardly at the enforced confinement. “A man should rest
when he dies,” he argued.
Mamma Gingold left the old man to make a purchase at
a nearby store. She had serious misgivings about leaving her
charge. But there was none handy to do the errand, so she
went herself. She was gone but half an hour. Her loving
old heart fluttered as she opened the apartment door.
Before her, fully clad, gripping his box of carpenter’s tools,
was Schloima.
He had arrived on his first real vacation. He lay on the
floor before her, dead.
Page Seven
THROUGH WITH ROYALTY
XV HEN PRESIDENT von Hindenburg of Germany
” on August third resigned his membership in the
order of Knights of St. John, he incidentally severed the
last remaining tie that held him to anything of a mon-
archistic nature. The veteran soldier was a captain in
this ancient Protestant order of which the grand
master is Prince Eitel Friedrich. As a member of
the order General von Hindenburg had to swear allegi
ance to the former kaiser and to Prussia. In resigning
from the order he stated that his oath to support the
republic made it impossible for him to continue longer
a member of this monarchistic organization.
WOMEN IN PRIZE RING FOUGHT CENTURY AGO
A CENTURY AGO women published challenges in
n the press to fight with bare fists, and such fights
were regular attractions. “Personalities of the Prize
Ring,” by H. E. Cleveland, a Londoner, quotes many
such advertisements. One reads: “On Saturday, June
5, 1795, a well-fought contest took place in a field for
two guineas a side between two heroic females—Mary
Ann Fielding, of Whitechapel, and a noted Jewess of
Wentworth St., two of their own sex being bottle-
holders. Fielding fought coolly, and brought her op
ponent down seventy times. After an hour and twenty
minutes she was declared the conqueror.”
DIGGING INTO ANCIENT ATHENS
A CONCESSION for archeological excavation in the
heart of Athens was recently granted by the Greek
government to the American School of Classical Studies*
More than forty United States universities and col
leges will assist in the work. The concession covers
fifteen blocks northwards and eastwards of the Acrop
olis and the Areopagus, including the site of the agora
(market place). It will be necessary for the Ameri
cans to compensate the present inhabitants in that area,
about 100,000 in all, for whom the Greek government
will provide housing sites elsewhere.
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