Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 138, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1912 — Memorial Erected to Devoted Victims of Titanic Disaster, [ARTICLE]

Memorial Erected to Devoted Victims of Titanic Disaster,

The friehds of Isidor Straus and his wife, who went down together in the wreck of the Titanic, have lost no time In erecting a memorial in their honor. It is the first to be raised in memory of a Titanic victim and consists of a window in a New York synagogue dedicated to them. Following names and dates are the words: “Where thou wilt go, I will go; where thou wilt die, I will die.” This form different from the utterances of Ruth in the protestant. Bible, but may be the words in. the Jewish, scriptures. At all events it is undoubtedly meant as an adaption of the ferverent pledge of the Moabite woman. Innumerable are the times that Ruth’s words have been quoted as promises deathless love and loyalty, but always the application is to the love between men and women; yet Ruth’s pledge was to her mother-in-law and a woman of a race alien to her own. The poetry of it does not appeal to the people of today in connection with mothers-ln-hnr. *--.-7,