Orthodox Labor Groups Hymn Strikes Note of Hope

( J.T.A. Mail Service)

The hymn adopted by the Poale Agudath Israel Organization and sung at the opening of its Conference, the hall being decorated with the Decalogue, a design of the hammer and anvil and quotations from the Torah, reads in translation from the Yiddish as follows:

Away with grief, despair and sorrow,

We are the children of the morrow. Though today be overcast,

We know the sun will shine at last.

We trust in God and in His ways, Our mouths for ever chant His praise,

And as we work with hammer and saw,

We praise God’s Name and study His Law.

We laugh at all the free-thought preachers,

We spurn the many new-law teachers;

Our ancient Torah for evermore, is ours to practice and adore.

Blessings fall upon that hand,

That labors for people and for land;

And bless’d be the bread each man and his neighbor

F?rns in the sweat of his brow by his labor.

We know no sorrow and we know no ill,

We shall fight to the very death, until Master and slave have ceased to be,

And justice and right rule land and sea.

Our aim is to strive towards the day,

When Mercy and Justice all men shall sway,

And our way is the way that out Teachers trod,

The way of our Torah, that leads to God.

A bequest of $50,000 to the United Jewish Charities of Indianapolis, Ind, in memory of a son, William D. Cohn, is contained in the will of Meyer L. Cohn, is contained in the will of Meyer L.Cohn, president of the Gordon Furniture Company, who died recently.Mrs. S. Rose Cohn, the widow, and Melville S. Cohn, a son, were named as administrators of the estate. Personal property valued at $50,000 and real estate worth $2,000 were left by the deceased.