Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-03-11
RABBI WISE TELLS
 WAYS ID ACHIEvE:
 TRUE AMERICAN!SM
Seven Instruments are Avail able in Work. He
 Says
STRESSES EDUCATION
 FLAYS THE THEATRES
Press. Law, Administration of Jus- tice, Church, Schools, Theatres
 All Have Place in Process
tBy John Sorrells.)

NBy John Sorrells.)
 For an hour and half last night. several hundred Pine Bluff people ilstehed to Dr. Stephen s. Wise, rabbi of the Free Synagog of New york speak at the Jewish Temple on. "Amercanism True and False"
 This audiance, catholic in nature, listened at times tensely silent: at other times it's members listened amid the ringing noise of their own laughter but at all times-at every minute the crowd which filled the temple to it's doors, listened. For Dr. Wise, artist in the use of words, and master of humor, pathos and earnest ness, carried his listeners on with him in an address which, stripped of it's humorous touches and tones of pathos, was message of pure Americanlsn; q message which sounded it's clarion note at the be- ginning of the address and rang out clear and strong until the end. Dr.. Wise is conducting lecture 1 tour over the country and came to Pine Bluff upon the invitation of the Temple Sisterhood of the local Jewish congregation. He was intro duced by Rabbi Leonard J. Rothstein, who in beginning his introduction stated that the greatest contribution of the Jews to civilization is social 1 justice, and Dr. Wise, he stated. was an outstanding figure, not only in 1 that contribution, but in every phase of American life.
 Dr. Wise began his address by a few remarks concerning the influ- ence of America on foreign countries. In this connection he spoke of the habit in American life now of speaking disrespectfully of the presi- dent of the United States, "I'm one of those old fashioned folk" he said, "who, no matter what my political leaning may be, refrain from speak ing i'll of the president of the United States" At the time of President Wilson's visit to London after the armistice, Dr. Wise was at that place and witnessed the tremendous well come which the British accorded him. This he described briefly last night, and in concluding the de- scription, said there was a statue, draped with American flags, which attracted his attention particularly as the procession swept down the street.
 Defines Americanism.
 "After the procession had passed, he said, land the mob had melted, went for closer look at this statue which waved an American ! flag from it's hand and one from it's head. It was George III, Hanovar- ian Prince, waving the American flag at a parade in honor of the visit of the president of the United States to London"
 From this. Dr. Wise turned to q discussion of the spirit of the Ameri- can soldier. "f found that spirit in- carnate in one American lad whom I talked with" he said. "He had been in since the start-in 1914 He had been awarded five decorations. l When the war ended, he was in a prison hospital at Coblenz---later an American city. One day a fat Ger man doctor came running into the ward room and shouted. the war iss over-we have won!' The boy went to him and said: you have not won we won, because the war is not going to end until we do win.' That, /" Dr. Wise remarked, twas the spirit of the American soldier. I asked the commanding general of the entire
 British forces once what he could sum up as the chief thing about the , American soldier" he continued, land this is what he told me: the American soldier is great soldier , and great gentleman.
 In approaching his main theme
 Dr. Wise gave three definitions oi |, Americanism. "Americanism does not" he stated, consider the for , eigner as inferior. The two words are , not interchangeable" The word loses it's true meaning, he said, when the people attempt to make it inter.
 changeable with inferority.
 "Americanism," he continued, going
 to the second definition, has no re.
 lation to a mans birth-its relation is to his worth. And third" he said "Americanization means that the foreigner to this land. Immigration | is but the physical arrival. Ameri , canization is the moral arrival" Seven Instruments
 How not to Americanize was dis cussed by Dr. Wise as allowing hin /, to dangle at Ellis Island. "Educa tion is Americanization," he said "You must touch the life and soul q the foreigner before you can Ameri
 canize him. You must take preju ; dice and hatred from the heart D. the roots before you can American
 ize him. Regularization-a term us
 ed in Boston--which means to at
 tempt to make another in one's owl image, will not Americanize him : Brotherly dissimilitude-thas Amer : ica."
 ' Too many want uniformity instea' ! of unity, Dr. Wise stated, "The Jew, ''h he said, "who is most Jewish is n best American; the Jew who IS leas '- Jewish is the least loyal American
 We cannot make the foreigner !
 our own image; the foreigns
 shouldn't try to be made in our ow '. image" For he pointed out as th T case of the Jew, the foreigner wh n tries for uniformity. loses his loy ; alty, and the lack of loyalty mean II the lack of Americanism."
 !, Viewing the case from anoths