The Denver Jewish news. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1915-1925, 1921-12-07
Dr.1N Krass Ad-
dressed Large Gathering
JEWISH IMMIGRANTS CELE-
BRATE ARMISTICE DAY.

ut the Has Building. New York city.
The large auditorium was not only
filled 10 its utmost capacity, but the
large numbers who desired to partici-
pate made an overflow meeting i'm
perative.
This gathering marked the first of
a series of meetings among Jewish
immigrants for the purpose of bring
ing home to them the message of
America.
The Committee on Education. of
which Mr.. Joseph Il. Eron Is the
chairman, proposed to celebrate every
historical event in American history.
Mr.. John l.. Bernstein. president of
the Hebrew Shcltering and Immigrant
Aid Society of America. spoke on the
significance of Armistice Day and the
loyal Jew. native and forcign-born
throughout the history of thc United
States. Among the speakers were
Lieutenant Sideny G. GumpcrtZ. one
OF the three Jewish soldiers who re-
oeivcd n Congressional Medal He said
in part:
I'VE. read this week in the Torah
the section where God says TO Abra-
ham. Get thee out from thy fathers
house and from thy birthplace unto
the land which will show you, and
he thou blessing so that in you and
by You shall he blessed all the families
of the world And | want to use that
cxt tonight as we are commcmorating
the Armisticc Day, anl all that that
has meant to America and the world.
''And in the first place. I want to
say n few words about the unknown
soldier. The unknown soldier. You
have heard great deal about him. l
know who he is and | want to tcll you
who he is. ! want you to remember
that for thousands Of years the world
was ruled by Alonnrchs, by Empcrors,
by Kings. by Cars. want you 10 re-
call that democracy is comparatively
late thing in human government
want you to remember thar in the days
Of old. it was an Alexander the Great,
I. Julius Caesar. and in later times
Napoleon that carried all the hOnors
and all the glory of the battlefield. he
couse IL was so arranged that armies.
like Governments. were didtatorial.
dosno,ic and ono-man ruled And then.
thank God, there came into the world
tho vorificotion of the noble ideal.
which was first proclaimcd by the
Jeyvs of old Tho ideal that eyery man
is ne good os tho other fellow unless he
is worse. tbot every man is entitled 10
bum.n rights and human liberties.
and that overv man in the owes of God
;s n worthy citizen on earth until he
docs tbiugs thar nre wrong and nbom-
iroblc in the eyes of the Eternal. And
when This old Jewish ideal in deinoc-
,,cv beyon tn bo n renlity in tho world,
wo have had n great change and when
only n few dnys ago we laid "A wreath
unon thc yroye of the unknown sol
dior we maid n tributp TO democracy
,e.onso we feIt when we laid the flow
crs nm tbc grave of the unknown sol
l;or .Uere Iics huricI not an I'M
known nerson but here lie buried the
,,.o,. ,,ossas of ,bo uaon,p Here lie
h,u.;od th. nycrure mon that fell on
tho ho,tIefieds of Europe.' II was a
,ributc tn fine ma o.scs. If was n tribute
tn the yreot public. it was an uncon-
..cious os we'll rs N conscious recogni--
lion of the fact that we no longer eulo-
,iyo Generals alone. and while we np-
nro,;oto tbo voIour. the courage and
III. ,ood.rsbin of these mon, we never
want to forget what the humble and
ord;norr c;tizen has done. because
without him no General can ever win