The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-09-08
HEBREWS ARE NOT
 TRYING TO EvADE DRAFT THEY SAY
Maccabaean Magazine, Jewish Weekly Denies
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 The Maccabaean Magazine, the off, cial organ of the Zionist Organization of America, in it's September number, commenting editorially on the peace propaganda in this country, resents the impression that is being created that the Jews are the prime movers of the peace propaganda. Under the heading, ''Zionists and American Pa triotism," it says:
 The impression is being created that the Jews-especially the Yiddish- speaking Jews-are the prime movers in the pacifist propaganda in this country, and that our young men are avoiding, the draft and otherwise in terfering with the national determine tion. This is unfortunate. A few in- cidents that get into the newspapers are taken as representative of the Jews of this country, while the nu- merous and silent patriotic services of the many go iby unnoticed. As every Jew knows, the large majority of our people here are actually giving freely of their service, and in a man ner which deserves the highest praise.
 Of course, the records are not at handd, but if unofficial reports. count for anything, it is clear that in a large number of Jewish centers there is an unmistakable enthusiasm for the war. Hundreds of Jewish young men have volunteered, and thousands of them are taking their places in the draft without a murmur, but with feeling of unqualified devotion to the Ameri- can cause. In the government ad-
  bankers are found, contributing all they have to the solution of the enor- nous problems that confront the Pres ident and his cabinet Scores of Jew ish physicians and engineers have gone into the government service, the Jewish nurses are joining the Red Cross. As against this, we have the activity of the Jewish socialists and their press. The fact is, however, that the Jewish socialists play an insig- nificant role in their party's affairs. JAS pacifists, they are oibeying de- cision of the party, in which they are small, minority. Here and there a personality who claims Jewish aff1ha-s tion has played a. large part in the peace propaganda, but for every man of that class, we can show ten others who have been just as active on the other side. A Hillquit and a Panken are matched by. a Samuel Gompers, a Joseph Barondess and Henry Slobo- din. The directing minds of the prop aganda are not Jewish socialists, but men like Max Eastman, Algernon Lee and others. As against these, the gov ernment has in its service men like Eugene Meyer, Louis Kirstein, Ber- nard Baruch. Julius Rosenwald, Judge Mack, Harry Cutler, Felix Franklin ter, Robert Szold, Walter Lippman, pr. Joseph Krauskopf, pr. de, SoIa Pool-to mention only a few-who have accepted government positions and are making large personal saeri-- fees for the cause. !! From the names given above it will be seen that the Zionists are unusuai- ly we'll represented. This is as it should be, and as might have been expected. The Zionists have always insisted that Zionism and Patriotism go hand in hand, that they are sym onymous. When an oponent raised the time-worn cry against us, we re- piled. Wait and see. As the Zionists act, so they must be judged. This is our test. And Zionists are found ral- living to the support of the govern ment out of all proportion. In the
 
 on-Zionist organizations were con spicuous by their absence. but the zi- onist organizations were all there The Zionists see in this republic the expression of their ideal so far as de- mocracy is concerned, and acts of the government necessary for the national interests are bound to find in US ar dent supporters. It is the height of folly, at this juncture, when the Pres ident has acted conscientiously, cau- tiously, with no desire to precfpitate a war, and finds himself compelled to take up arms, to stand out as captious critics and to interfere with the gov errment in action by asking for def- nitions and declarations merely to soothe the theoretical mind That is not the part of the American patriot. That is not the duty of citizen in a time of crisis. The state having de- cided to act is entitled to the support of every citizen who believes in the principles of democratic government.
 Happily, in addition to the urgent obligation that rests upon us as Amer jeans, we have in the issues of the war good and sufficient Zionist req son for being not only zeaIous and devoted and self-sacrifcing, but also duplicates the Zionist cause In his admirable notes. President Wilson has made it clear that we are fighting for the rights of democracies and nation al1ties. They cannot exist and pro- gress with a rampant, death-Iaden War-autocracy menacing the world. It is stupid to prate of peace with a force In existence determined to wrest power and donlination for itself over other peoples, their means of subsist- %1.ATx~ the only defense. The peace propa- ganda defeats its own ends, for war is an epidemic, which cannot be dealt with by Christian Science methods. Exercising it will not kill it. It must be exterminated by injecting it with it's own germs. Only war will kill war. Un1esh that thought is recog-