The Jewish Monitor (Fort Worth-Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 8, Ed. 1 Friday, June 10, 1921 Page: 2 of 16
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THE JEWISH MONITOR
Friday June 10 1921.
EFFICIENCY
An Address Delivered by Dr. Henry
Cohen Before the State Federa-
tion of Labor at Galveston
Texas May 16th 1921.
Rabbi Henry Cohen stressed "effi-
ciency" in his address. He said:
"The dignity of labor is emphasized
in all literatures sacred and secular
except those that centered around ef-
fete empires of the early day. The
scriptures of civilized peoples are fill-
ed with references to a work-day world
and this will be instantly recognized
when I quote from the Bible "When
thou eatest of the labor of thy hands
happy ehalt thou be and it shall be
well with thee" and 'the laborer is
worthy of his hire.' 'By the sweat of
thy brow shalt thou eat bread holds
good today as it did when agriculture
was the largest concern of mankind.
"Industry was inculated in the ear-
liest of religious codes "Six days
shalt thou labor and do all thy work"
and all in all it is safe to say that
work even the most menial is honor-
able. Efficiency.
"A state federation of labor bring
together representatives of all bran-
ches of what has been euphemistically
called the "horny-handed sons of toil"
and a certain word in this connection
I am sure will not come amiss that
word is "efficiency." Industry tells but
half the tale efficiency the other half
let me say the most important half.
It is an understood thing that work
should not only be done but be well
done- The necessity of doing the samt
work twice is a reflection on the work-
man or on the system that sends the
workman out into the world as a mas-
ter mechanic.
"Apprenticeship to a trade or pro-
fession does not obtain as generally
on this side of the ocean as it does
in Europe but there is much to be
said for the system of apprenticeship.
But from whatever angle it be viewed
efficiency should be the keynote of la-
bor. Not necessarily the amount of
work accomplished in a given time
but the kind of work. A slovenly job is
in the last analysis an imposition upon
the man who pays the bill and is akin
to highway robbery. Often the con.
tractor is the victim and all apology
is unavailing. For all concerned like
honest efficiency is the best policy.
"It seems to me that if leaders of
labor federations would emphasize ef-
ficiency in their general policies of ad-
ding to their numbers they would best
serve their fellow-kind allaying the
animus felt and expressed against the
ubiquitousness and demogoguery ot
the proverbial labor leader.
"Efficiency stabilizes workmanship
it puts honest money in circulation it
exalta industry and above all it
brings that honor and aggrandize-
ment to labor that nothing else can "
lation Israel was summoned from
among the nations of the earth to be-
come the messenger of that law to
humanity and under the inspiration
of this election to s'.ay the floods of
sin and corrpution that threatened to
sweep over the earth. As a result of
his example of righteousness the Jew
hopes that zeal for service of God
which is to do justly and to lpve
mercy may become the striving of all
mankind.
The Reform Synagogue stresses
this historical feature of of the Feast
of Weeks as a service of dedication of
the Jew to the covenant imposed by
his Jewish ancestry on him to be the
teacher and examplar of the law of
love unto humanity.
By means of this symbolization and
idealization of the Shabuoth festival
Reform Congregations have utilized
it as the Confirmation Day wherein
the young men and women pledge
themselves anew to continue the cov-
enant of their fathers and to exem-
plify in their lives and conduct the
spirit of justice and hemt'nity tj which
they have been called by reason of
their Jewish birth.
Confirmation Day has a further
significance for the children. It mak
the culmination of tl'e instruction
which they have received in the relig-
ious school in the tenets of their
faith and in the Bible and other Jew-
ish history and literature'
Confirmation services are followed
by a reception at the home of the
confirmands or in the religious
schools where friends and relatives
join with parents in exchanging
greetings of felicitations on this
eventful epoch in the lives of the boys
and girls graduated from the relig-
ious school and now qualified to as-
sume the responsibilities of congre-
gatonal membership.
READ MONITOR ADVERTISEMENTS AND PROFIT THEREBY
THE FEAST OF WEEKS OR SIIA-BUOTII
The Feast of Weeks or Shabuoth
will be observed this year in Syna-
gogues on Sunday June 12th and in
more orthodox congregations the fol-
lowing day also June 13th-
Originally Shabuoth was an agri-
cultural festival in which the gath-
ering of the spring wheat was used
as an occasion for special services of
thanksgiving. A later tradition asso-
ciates his day with the revelation of
God at Mt Sinai when the law was
revealed unto Moses. By this reve-
DR. HENRY COHEN SPEAKS ON
MEMORIAL DAY.
The origin of Decoration or Me-
morial Day is thus told by the his-
torian: When the was was over in
the South where under warmer
skies and more poetic temperaments
symbols and emblems are better un-
derstood than in the practical North
the widows mothers and children of
the Confederate dead went out and
strewed their graves with flowers; at
many places the women scattered
them impartially also over the un-
known and unmarked resting places
of the Union soldier. As the news of
this touching tribute flashed over the
North it roused as nothing else could
have done national amity and love
and allayed sectional animosity and
passion. Thus out of the common sor-
rowj alike of North and South came
this beautiful custom. But its growth
was gradual. There was no general
celebration until in 1868 General
John A- Logan commander-in-chief
of the Grand Army of the Republic
issued an order that on May 30th of
that year that every post from East
to West should engage in fitting cer-
emonies and scatter tOKens of reflect
over the resting places of their som-
uoes in arms. Lat" the !cgiJj.luiof
took up the matter and today Deco-
ration or Memorial Day is a legal hol-
iday in nearly every state of the Un-
ion. So far the historian; but each
thinking person can deduce a noble
lesson from today's ceremony. Not for
self alone is life. The glorified dead
and the martyrs for a righteous
cause call to us from their graves ana
teach us that life means nothing un-
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"Judaism Christianity and the
Modern Social Ideals"
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The first chapter contains a short sketch of the
New Testament
The last chapter contains the attitude of the Jews
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