Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-25

Jew OF Russia and the prosecuting
Russian race have been taken FOR
protagonlsts-"t fell incensed points
of mighty opposites."
Jewish Power of Survival.
The Jewish immigrant Is, more
over, the toughest Of all the white
elements that have been poured into
the American crucible. the race hav-
ing, by its unique experience of sew
eral thousand years OF exposure to
alien majorties, developed sala-
mandrine power of survival. And
this asbestoid fiber is made even more
freproof by the Semitism OF
American unciyili2ation.
Nevertheless, TO suppose that Amer
lea win remain permanently afflicted
by all the old European diseases
would be to despair OF humanity, MOI
TO mention super humanity.
The action of the crucible Is not
exclusively physical--a consideration
particularly important as regards the
Jew, The Jew may be Americanized
and the American Judaized withou.
any gamic interaction.
Among the Jews The Melting
Pot though 1t has In some instances
served to interpret to each other the
old generation and the new. has more
frequently been misunderstood by
both While a distinguished Christian
clergyman wrote that 1t was cal
culated to do for the Jewish race what
Uncle Toms Cabin did for the coll
ored man." the Jewish pulpits OF
America have resounded with denun-
citation of it's supposed solution of
the Jewish problem by dissolution.
As If even a play with purpose
RnllT In
terpret!
1t Is true that its leading figure,
David Quixano, advocates absorption
in America, but even he is speaking
solely of the American Jews and asks
his uncle why. IL he objects to the
dissolving process, he did not work
for a separate Jewish land. He is
not Offering panacea for the Jewish
problem, universally applicable. But
he urges that the conditions offered
to the Jew in America are without
parallel throughout the world.
And, in sooth, the Jew is here citi-
zen of republic without state
religion-a republic resting more
over, on the same simple principles
of justice and equal rights as the
Mosaic Commonwealth from which
the Puritan Fathers drew their in
splration
In America, therefore, the Jew by
a roundabout journey from Zion has
come into his own again.
II Is only when a common outlook
has been reached transcending the
old doctrinal differences, that inter-
marriage is denuded OF those latent
discords which the instinct of man
kind dlvines, and which keep even
Catholic and Protestant wisely apart
Jews Absorption Slower.
These diseords. together with the
prevalent anti Semitism and his own
ingrained persistence tend to pre-
serve the Jew even in the Melting
Pot so that his dissolution must be
necessarily slower than that OF the
similar aggregations OF Germans,
Italians or Poles.
But the process for all Is the same
however tempered by specific fac
tors Beginning as broken off bits OF
Germany, Italy or Poland, with news
papers and theaters in German,
Italian or Polish, these colonies
gradually become Americanized. their
NernHCulaFs, even when jealously
cherished, become q mere medium
for American conceptions of life
while in the third generation the
child Is ashamed both OF its parents
and their lingo, the newspapers
dwlndle in circulation, the theaters
languish.
The reality Of this process has been
denied by no less DISTINGUISHED an