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For further information call at the University or address the Secretary of the School of Commerce and Finance, St. Louis University, Grand and Pine. Ihis is surely a wonderful land. Not only are we rich in natural resources hot weather and political corruption, strikes and trusts, but to offset the seriousness of life we have picture shows, Ford jokes and letters like this vfrom one of our esteemed subscribers: Cotton Plant, August 7, 1916. Mr.

A. Rosenthal, Editor "The Modern View' St. Louis, Mo. Dear Sir: The Presbyterian preacher in his sermon a few Sundays ago stated that there was seventy thousand (70,000) Jews converted and were christianized in the past year. I 'know this is not true, but I would be pleased to hear from you concerning this.

Thanking you in advance for your kind consideration, I remain, Respectfully yours, SOL NATHAN, Seventy thousand Jews converted in a year! Seventy thousand Jewish people christianized in twelve short months, after holding out two thousand years against the persecutions of the nations! It certainly looks bad for us! Let us calculate, calmly, sadly but manfully our fate. At the rate of 70,000 a year, figuring (approximately) 13,000,000 Jews in about 200 years, we will be utterly extinct, like the dinosaur, the pterodactyl, the mammoth and the pleisiosaurus. Wonderful when you come to think about it! It's enough to discourage even Jewish people! What a foolish people we are after all; building hundreds of beautiful synagogues, charitable institutions for Jewish poor and sick, fostering Young Men's Hebrew Associations and kindred societies, rabbinical colleges and- seminaries, Jewish congresses, publishing Jewish journals all with the "definite" certainty that in about 20U years (easily calculable at the rate of 70,000 annual converts to Christianity), they will all be so much scrap in the human bod) politic! What's the use? In pessimistic moments we have often felt that Judaism wa declining but not until this genial Presbyterian preacher of the sunny South gave us the indisputable and fixed figures, did we realize how rapidly we are being extinguished and how near in silit is the total eclipse and blotting out of Jews and Judaism! A spark of hope burns within us. Perhaps our Presbyterian brother of thkth has the zeros on the wrong side of the 7. Maybe it was 00007 Jewish converts instead of Perhaps even the an error making it completely 00000! No one really believes that Jewish people renounce their faith.

If they do it is for sordid motives. Such a trifling incident as one million Jews in New York City alne, or a total of over thirteen millions in Europe and Asia, included new ones being born' each day is, of course, a negligible matter. The deathless strength of Jewish consciousness, tradition, history and glorious Jewish, lives, that have left a heritage that only folly, ignorance or cowardice would think of yielding or surrendering (Concluded on Page 6.) We Own and Offer 5500 First Mortgage 5 Real Estate Serial Notes Of The Eighteenth Street Realty Company (a corporation) Of St. Louis, Missouri Total Issue $150,000 Paid and Cancelled to Date 15,000 Now Outstanding $135,000 Value of Real Estate Security Notes are dated April 11th, 1913, and are payable 10 notes, or $5,000, annually for nine years, commencing April 11th, 1914; the remainder being payable April 11th, 1923. THE NOTES DUE IN 1914, 1915 and 1916, AGGREGATING $15,000, HAVE BEEN PAID AND CANCELLED.

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