The American Jewish world. [volume], August 11, 1922, Image 14

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BONDS
CORPORATION—MUNICIPAL
RAILROAD
BERNARD N. LITMAN
With
Chas.
H.
Cedar 4608
F. Smith & Son
Jackson & Fifth
OMIle
PR1NG
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156 West 4th Street g"[ PA"L.
SHOP IN RIVERVIEW
ST. PAUL CABINET
MFG. CO.
GENERAL CABINET WORK
BUILT-IN FEATURES FOR
HOMES, STORE AND OFFICE
FIXTURES
Riv. 1243
468-72 S. Robert St. Paul
C. F. HOCHMUTH
PLUMBING AND HEATING
Estimates Furnished
Jobbing of All Kinds a Specialty
Riv. 3692
135 Concord St. Paul
RIVERVIEW CARPET
CLEANING & RUG MFG.
CO.
C. Gebcrt, Prop.
Carpets Taken Up, Cleaned and Laid.
Air Cleaning, Renovating, Washing,
Refitting. Sewing, Binding and Sizing.
Linoleum and Carpet Layers.
Riverview 3001, 163 Concord St., St. Paul
CHAS. E. LEHMAN & CO.
WOOD, COAL AND FEED
462 South Robert Street
River. 0301 St. Paul
RIVERVIEW ELECTRIC
CO.
133 Concord St., Cor. South Robert
"EVERYTHING ELECTRICAL"
House Wiring: and Fixtures—-Washers and
Ironers, Electrical Appliances—
Battery Service Station
Phone, Riv. 3052
Riverview 2G11 Riverview 1381
Eagle Decorating Co.
ARTISTIC PAPER HANGING,
PAINTING, AND INTERIOR
DECORATING
224 E. Congress St. St. Paul
Lazar Peretz, Manager
ROCKSTROH PARLORS IN
LARGER QUARTERS
"The Jacob Rockstroh Undei'tak
ing Parlors have been removed to
their permanent location in the
new and spacious quarters at 135
West Seventh street. The chapel
in connection with the office is one
of the best in the city.
Office: 135 W. 7th St. at 5th St.
Funeral Chapel: 194 W. 5th St. at
7th St. Cedar 1608
mittee in charge of the outing con
sists of Chauncey Altschuler, Thada
tious Abramson, Archibald Goldbarg,
end Marcus Weinblatt.
SCHLOFF BROS. OPEN DOWN
TOWN STORE
Schloff Bros., who have been en
gaged in the tailoring business for
the last five years at 743 Broadway
street, have just moved to more com
modious quarters at 101 East Fifth
street, where they have just equipped
a splendid store with a new and up
to-the-minute stock of men's furnish
ings. They will be glad to meet their
many friends at their new location.
CONTEMPORARY JEWISH
GENIUS
(Continued from Page 3)
is certainly true that Einstein the
boy must have been the same genius
that Einstein the man is. But the
lesser truth remains that he was far
from "brilliant" to his parents and
teachers. In fact, they thought him
a phenomenal failure.
He was born in 1874 at Ulm, a lit
tle town in Wurtemburg, Germany, in
a family of Jewish merchants. But
he early conceived the idea of becom
ing a high school teacher. However,
when he applied for entrance exam
ination at the Zurich Polytechnicum
he failed ignominiously, and had to
go to a school where no entrance ex
aminations were required. At college
he was considered very "thick," inar
ticulate, and "slow." He registered for
courses in mathematics and physics.
And had it not been for the sym
pathy of two Jewish professors who
thought him 'harmless though fear
fully dull, he would have been sent
home. As it was,.he was merely tol
erated. Those who have looked into
his laboratory records say that they
had never seen anything so hopeless.
The boy was too much of a dreamer
to do any of the work required by
colleges. Besides, while the "good"
students were burning midnight oil
over their lessons Einstein read books
of which very likely the professors
had never heard. Lastly, some of our
greatest geniuses, Tolstoi, Verdi, Zola,
etc.—have been notorious academic
failures.
At the close of his course he man
aged to coax the authorities into
granting him a diploma. But his
dream to become a teacher in a high
school was shattered. Who would
have such a dreadful failure?
Later on, after tutoring for a time,
he found employment with the Swiss
Patent Office. It was here that he
developed what is most important in
his theories. He remained here seven
years. Some of the greatest scien
tists, like Poincare, however saw in
him a rising giant.
After he left the Patent Office he
became associate and then professor
at Zurich and then Prague, and lastly
head professor at the Prussian Acade
my at Berlin—one of the most hon
ored professorships in Europe. He is
also head of the Research Institute at
Berlin, one of the greatest in the
world.
Professor Einstein is married, has
two sons, and lives quietly immersed
in his work. So quietly that when an
American correspondent called on
him, he exclaimed "Is it possible that
it is as simple as all this?"
It is. Drums, torches, and bag
pipes do not go with the creation of
values that are worth creating. Be
sides, most of his income from his
genius, aside from the $4,500 a year
from his professorship, goes to the
fund of the East European war or
phans.
He is of medium height, fragile
from a distance, but wiry upon closer
approach. He has a sensitive oval
face, a tapering chin, an affectionate
lower lip, unusually brilliant eyes,
massive forehead, and dark hair. He
strikes one as man of science, philoso
pher, prophet, and poet rolled into
one. His diversions are long walks,
fiction, and music, playing both the
piano and the violin with fine musi
cianship.
It is between these moments of
recreation that he has taken the sim
pie truth of relativity known of old,
had rigorously driven it to its in
evitable conclusions, and has erected
upon it an intellectual edifice that has
scarcely a parallel in the annals of
human intelligence.
U. S. CONSULS TO VISE RUSSIAN
PASSPORTS
Washington (J. C. B.)—The State
Department has revoked the former
rule making it obligatory upon con
sular officers abroad to report all ap
plications for vise on Russian pass
ports, it is learned from a reliable
source. This rule which required an
application to be submitted to the
State Department for issuance of a
vise by the Consul applied also to
emigrants from the Baltic States. It
was based upon the fear of a radical
migration from Russian territory.
Applications for visas were there
fore investigated by the Department
of Justice, the relatives of immi
grants in this country being examined
as to their political views, with a view
Announcing the Opening
OF THE NEW UP-TO-DATE
THE AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD
Sinai Kosher Delicatessen
Store
where you will find it pleasant to shop and be served with
everything of the best at right prices—smoked meats of all
kinds, wurst, corned beef, schmaltz herring, and the finest
masliness.
Also a large stock of religious articles such as Prayer
Books, Taleisim, Machzorem and Talmud Torah Supplies.
Special attention given to Country Orders—wholesale said
retail.
M. COOPERMAN, Prop.
244 E. Fairfield Riverview 2403 St. Paul
J.H.
STEIN"
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Minneapolis Office
712 Marquette Ave.
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$
During Our
AUGUST FUR SALE
You May Select
From Our Entire Stock
20% to 30% Off
This annual event has
always won us many
friends and enlarged this
store's patronage. Inspec
tion alone will show you
what beautiful pieces your
money will buy here.
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The M. A. Hanna Coal & Dock Co.
St. Paul Office
120 E. 4th SC