The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-17

 five Jews in the fleet. Rodrigo Sanchez was the overseer of the crew. Luis dc Torres was the interpreter. They were of the first to behold and set foot on the new promised land. Abraham and Co., | lumbus were men who pioneered west ward. not Knowing whither. If, as IS said, Columbus mother was Suzanne Fonterosa, a Jewess, then Columbus was a fine successor to Abraham. There IS l no discovery without faith-both were men of faith Who can tell whether the 1 hand that has guided the Jew westward l from the Euphrates to the Jordan, rom the Jordan to the Nile, from the Nile 10 l the Tiber, from the Tiber to the Guadai- quvir, did not also lead him across the Atlantic that he might under Gods sun, | in a land of freedom, live where ne chooses, worship as he desires; no ghet- 1 to to wall hm in, no restriction to tee- Iter his feet, no tribunal to COW ms spT- 1 it; free to develop his biggest faculties; land in turn give the best that is in him l to make America the hope of strug- | gling world? l believe Americas nooie l treatment of the Jew is graven on hls lheart. He is of race capable ct spieh- did sentiment and great gratitude Ilme will never efface 1t.
 l The Jewish old Testament literature nodded Puritan thought It was the Jew | who loaned Washington $6Oo,Vo to finance the Valley Forge campaign. The inscription on the Liberty Bell in our fair city is taken from the Jewish BlDie. I.incoln's addresses show his inspiration from Jewish Elijah. What a coincidence that the Lincoln penny, the coin or tne little child and the common people, IS product of a Jewish designer-Victor D. Brenner In America the Jew IS pa triot without hyphen. They have never tried to form Jewish vote' at eiec- tion time He is the average citizen, reaching the heights and depths of hu- man possibility. He is as rich as DiNes or as poor as Lazarus. He IS hari Marx, the socialist, or Rothschild, the capitalist He is Felix Adler, the law Iabiding or 'Ikey the Gunman." He IS Shylock or Baron de Hirsch. He is wanderer, and yet he clngs to the pafe. He is homeless, yet he owns BroadWay, The Jew at the lowest was Judas-at the highest he was Jesus.
 l AN AMERICAN JERUSALEM Not in Judea but in New York, is the real Jerusalem.
 If there are 100000 Jews in the world America has about 100000, of wn'ch about 900 are in and about Greater New York. In that city every sixth per son you meet is a. son of Israel Wniie on Manhattan Island the proportion IS one to four About onethird Of the student body of Columbia University IS Jewish, the City College is nearly !" Ter cent. New York has the larsesN high school in the world-the Wasning- M ten Irying-practically. .eall of it's e,o9o pu- pils are Jewish The New York teie- phone directory shows Is columns of Co- linens and but II of Smiths. In Philade'- lphia there are two and one-ha1f columns of Cohens to il of Smiths. There was time. a generation ago, when New forh was Roman Catholic today it is Jewsn. | ictio r.ast Side, but there are 360 synagogues'
 will the Jew go back to Jerusalem' Never except as a tourist. Amerlca lS the Jews Palestine, and WaShlnglon D. q his Zion. I suspect that if you plant the blue and white flag of Zionism on Tone side and the red, white and blue oi inc United States on the other and ue-
 nond of the Jew. Choose ye this day which you vii serve" there will De put one answer.
 This is his country He is -on the oencn Of the supreme court of the Untesi States. he is in Senate and House ol Representatives, he is governor Tn tnfee
 states, he is mayor of several cluss, , Two of New York's most successiui newspapers the World and the Times 7 are works of Jewish proprietors. The lhusiness manager of the Hearst newspa- ! ner is Jewish The banking house that ? stands next to J. P. Morgan company Is : Jewish. Jewish engineer built the I Pennsylvania tunnels under the Eds . river.
 e will the Jew intermarry? l do no' f know of the future, but he has ana ooo' , August Belmont married a daughter el . C,oynmander Jerry The distingulshee l pr. Abraham Jacobi married Mary fu., Q pan, Walter Damrosch married tht r daughter of James c. Blaine Ossip da' 1 brilowitch the musician. married MArn la Q lTwain's daughter Do you know any ou' u s the fruit of Christian-Jewish marriages | ,et me refresh your memory. Did sou know that Bret Harte was one? ie" 1 others are Sir John Herschel, the astro'i'
 omer. Francis Turner Palgrace, tn.
 critic. Sir John Millais the artist; Leoi lGambetta, the statesman; SIT Ar."ui 2 Sullivan the composer. anu-now no, no.~ ? vour breatf--the mother Of General n- ian Booth. the youthful pawnbroker
 ass;stant the glorious Christian saint o II Salvation Army fame, was MISS MUSE . Q Tewess Take a look at his picture and eco how she bequeathed to him tna' , lmagnificent Old Testament pnysiosHo,ns . which was such a valuable asset m ms : Ipuhlc appearance.
 HATH NOT THE JEW A SOUL!
 will the Jew become a ChristianI trather think not. Not in appreciaoie
 numbers. DO we have grapes or tnorh' and figs Of thlStleS! Not III @'i' 'S'' | of our Lord 1920.
 The young Jew is causing his eiueiS considerable anxiety religiously AS IT all other religious bodies there is mucf
 drifting in these days of transition Ine
 young Jew Is making money, he IS get ting an education. he is intense on socia
 rroblams many are pronounced Social Iists-but he isn't becoming Christian Not Christianity but Christians stagge' the Jew What he has undergone al
 the hands of Christians in Europe would
 staeger us if the condition were re- , versed.
 America is not yet perfect in it's toler
 ance-humanity never will be- Blu thank God for the American spirit O
 fair play and chance. It is ten thou sand times better than Russia or Centra
 Europe from which many of the Jew have fled Give the Jew Gentle
 chance, give the negro white man
 chance give the woman mans chance l give the poor the rich mans chance and they will make good. America spen that chance.
 You and I, Christians. worship tn
 Jehovah of the Jews--as Christ carn'
 to interpret Him. The Jewish Scrip
 lures, the Old Testament, begins witt
 the story of Man. not with history Q
 the Jews Our religion. the Christian
 rilgion, was founded on Jews ant
 Judaism. Every book of our New Testa
 ment was written by Jew. with tn
 possible exception of Luke and the Act