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Rufus D. Isaacs, a poor boy who ran away to sea, grew up to be knighted in 1910. He was made Baron in 1914, Viscount in 1916, Earl in 1917. That was a rapid ascent of the scale of titles. Shortly after, an American newspaper man in London, seeking to confute Lord Bryce in argument, chaffingly quoted his "superior nobleman." "How is he my superior?" Lord Bryce demanded. "Earl is a step beyond Viscount," the visitor explained. "Is Reading an Earl?" said Bryce. "God bless my soul!"
New exclamations of wonderment are greeting Reading's further advance to the rank of Marquis�-or "Marquess," as sticklers for precedent spell it. Along the route of official service that led to his work in India he had been made Lord Chief Justice, a K.C.B., a High Commissioner and Special Envoy to the United States, As he is but sixty-six and blessed with the health that befits a man of spare and wnry frame, he may well live to be a Duke.
Reading is a mile-post. When he was born, Lionel Rothschild was but newly seated in Parliament after an eleven years1 struggle for such a modification of the oath as would admit a Jew to Parliament, lie was twenty-five when Nathan Rothschild entered the House of Lords. Think what an English Earl was to a Jew of the middle ages in his Ghetto, and we see in Reading s career more than the rise of a man; it is the emergence of a nation out of mediaevalism.
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Business is good with the various Jewish appeals for funds now being made in the States. It would almost appear that the trick isn't how to get the money but how to keep from taking it�as the cornucopia is turned upside down. With the communities falling into the line of campaigns the same country which poured a golden stream of 60 millions of dollars into Europe for Jewish relief is reacting nobly to the present high-pressure drives.
In Columbus, Ohio, where the Jewish Chest Appeal for S250,000includes the United Jewish Campaign,the United Palestine Appeal, the local Talmud Torah and the Bnai Brith Orphanage, advance pledges were received of 8100,000. In Williams-port, Pa., 818,000 contributed to the United Jewish Campaign is the largest sum ever given by that community and represents almost three times the quota set for the city. In Newark, X.J., fully five weeks before the formal opening of the joint drive of the two United appeals and of the Federation, one-fourth of the 8600.000 was subscribed.
There must be much money over there when individual subscribers in the Newark campaign can give as much as $30,000 each. The people are in the habit of giving and giving plenty. The Buffalo, N.V., Federation has just been conducting a solicitation for funds by which over 880,000 wras subscribed in answer to nothing more than letters! Then the business of asking money for sweet charity's sake has become as efficient, as well-oiled, as systematic, as full of salesmen and tricks of trade as any other business in the world. Work for the big relief campaigns is started weeks, sometimes months before the money is asked for. The wheels begin to turn and you can blue-print the system from the acceptance by the local chairman to the gathering in of the last kopek.
The bigger the amounts from the first givers, the luckier the campaign�because men of varying degrees of wealth all down the economic scale measure their contributions accordingly. This method of computation of what one should give may not be the most highly ethical one, but, human nature being what it is, it form? the usual guide. Two Jews will always agree on what a third should give to charity or relief, and set 'it down on paper very gladly. Public opinion enters to have a bearing on each donation for it is always pretty generally known what a man has and how much he should show gratitude with. Still, calculated, figured-out contribution does not take away from the spontaneity associated with giving to charity because back of the big appeals is the compulsion of humanity, of conscience, duty and responsibility-, of decency. Without such compulsion ears would be deaf to the cries of the unfortunate and there could be no golden stream to turn into bread as it flows.
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