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Died. William Armhold, 94, "oldest rabbi in the U. S."; in Atlantic City. Born in Schuchtern-Baden, Germany, in 1829; he came to the U. S. in 1853; founded a synagogue in Pittsburgh; was cantor of the Keneseth Israel Temple, Philadelphia, for 52 years; retired from active work in 1913. Said the Public Ledger (Philadelphia): "He was a leader in every Jewish movement in this city...
Last week, Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise, famed reformed Jew leader, gave the cause a fresh start by opening a Bahai conference in Manhattan. "The time is come," said he, "when religions should unite . . . The faith that is true is the faith of every man that holds it in truth and that lives it in the spirit...
...Liberalism is not a matter of protest, or revolt and defiance," said Rabbi Stephen S. Wise in an address at the Liberal Club yesterday. "It is, rather, the search for truth with a free mind, and with a spirit of humility arising from faith in one's self, in human-kind, and in the verities of human progress. We are having disclosed day by day some of the most sordid events in our entire history. The price we pay for war, lawlessness, unbelievable political corruption, and a thousand other things constitute a great post-war debauchery...
Real education, in place of the fatuously, inefficient machine symbolized by the "little red school house", is the chief ultimate remedy for the ills of America, according to Rabbi Wise. "Our present educational system does no more than drill the memory, and entirely neglects to teach students to think. That is why thousands of men make themselves ridiculous parading as Klan members in costumes ordinarily associated with the privacy of the home; that is why we have political corruption, party politics, and many other ills. Men will remain in criminal mental lethargy, however, until education is a democratic reality rather...
...Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, of New York, who will be the principal speaker at a Liberal Club banquet today,-will speak at the weekly meeting of Jewish students this evening. The meeting is open to the public, and will be held at 7.30 P.M. in Peabody Hall, Phillips Brooks House...