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12 THE HOUSE THAT SHADOWS BUILT
Arthur and Adolph lived to create for themselves distinguished careers, though along strangely diverse lines. And our fathers held that the best children spring from harmony and perfect love. That, however, is one human value which eugenics cannot weigh in the scales of science.
1 What was going to happen to little Arthur and little Adolph? For a year, the Zukors and Liebermanns argued the question. Patently their stepfather did not want them; as a matter of fact, in a year or so he married again. By the law of the Dual Monarchy, the slender proceeds from sale of their father’s property passed into possession of the state, which would deliver the interest, as needed, to their lawful guardians and would pay them the principal when they came of age. The interest might furnish them with clothes, medical attendance, school books, and trimmings. It would not suffice to pay their board. Adolph Zukor still remembers his eighth year as a period of dreadful and gloomy uncertainty. He knows now for what he waited. Rabbi Kalman Liebermann, his maternal uncle, was steeling himself to a great sacrifice.
, A little after his sister’s marriage, Kalman had taken over the synagogue at Szalka, a town ten miles away, to which little Ricse was as a metropolis. Arthur, his sister’s oldest boy, was a brilliant child; and even the quieter Adolph showed promise. If someone would board them, give them guidance, the inheritance might