The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-09-18
Jews OF America
Solidly For War
EAST SIDERS FORMERLY RE-
LUCTANT BUT ARE NOW
EAGER TO SUPPORT THE
GOVERNMENT


Washington.-Despite their native
Jews of the United States have be-
come unit for the war against Ge--
many. The reasons for this attitude
have been examined by writer in the
American Weekly Jewish News, who
concludes after discussion, that not
only does the heart of the East Side of
New York, the largest Jewish colony
of the world, beat with America, but
that particular section has actually
become lone of the st-ongholds of un-
adulterated Americanism."
The reason for this is the work of
education which has been carried on
among Jews since the war came to
America. 1t was brought home to the
people of the East Side that the
United States is not fighting for con-
quest but for freedom. Fighting for
freedom is thing that the Jew under
stands, President Wilson's speeches
have been widely printed and dis
tributed by the Jewish newspapers.
Even the socialist papers admitted
that President Wilson is utterly sim
cere and that his conditions of peace
are almost exactly the conditions that
the socialists of the world demand !;
while the edition of one anarchist
paper actually bought liberty bonds.
The enthusiasm and activities of the
Jewish population of the East Side
of New York for the war are describ-
ed by the writer in part as follows:
"Since the third liberty loan a spir-
it of patriotism and devotion to the
United States has swept across the
district and has enveloped everyone
lines of demarcation between classes
have been oblite-ated by all-embrac-
ing fervor. In the third liberty loan,
in the Red Cross campaign, in the
war savings and thrift stamp drives,
in the demonstrations and patriotic
pageantry of the Fourth of July, the
Jews of the East Side have more than
done their duty. Jewish participation
in any of the aforementioned activi-
ties will serve to illustrate the new
spirit of the East side; but nothing
serves this purpose better than the
third liberty loan.
That the East Side has changed
heart is encouraging because it shows
that one by one the elements of
Americas polyglot of races are lining
up solidly behind the nation. 1t also
shows the final crystallization of the
conviction that Germany is the
worlds common foe. And this unity
of spirit is unsusceptible of being
crushed under the weight of Prus.
sian military machine
During one of the meetings ar
ranged at the time of the third loan
by the liberty loan committee of the
East Side, five thousand persons fill
ed every available nook of the large
Cooper Union auditorium, and thou
sands of others were turned away by
the police reserves disgruntled be-
cause they missed an opportunity of
manifesting their love for the adopt
ed country. Upon the speakers plat
form sat former i-reconciliable enc
mics, men who bolster up the capital
istic system, and men who champion
the cause of proletarian democracy;
republican judges and democratic
judges; patriarch Jews who are scru-
pulous in the observance of Jewish
ritual in accordance with the dictates
of orthodoxy and apriorshim, who
flout all religious affiliations; persons
representing all stratas of life and re-
cruited from the entire gamut of po-
litical, social and religious Jew.y. I,
was glorious testimonial of the un-
ity of the East side in the present
crisis, and cogent proof of the grim
determination to support all the needs
of the government
The United Hebrew Trades OF
New York, the central wo-kingmens
organization of lower Manhattan
though it had opposed the first and
second loans, urged the members OF
I II
the unions to subscribe loyalty to the
third. Innumerable examples can be
adduced to show the zealousness with
which the Jewish proletariat respond
ed to the pleas of the government
The Seventh Precinct of New York
| the inhabitants of which are nearly