The Denver Jewish news., 1922-08-02
Weekly Letter from New
York
OUR ALARNIIST SECRETARY OF
WAR "INTERNATIONALIZED"?
SAVED AT LAST-TWO MILLION
NIDDISH SPEAKERS.
BY GERsHoN AGRoNsKY.

The honor of opening the summer
session ut Columbia University fell 10
j. Mayhem Wainwright. Assistant Sec
retary of War. He was speaking to
students and teachers from practical
ly every state in the Union. and to
teachers and students from many for
eign countries. His topic was: The
National Outlook The outlook is
alarming to Assistant Secretary Vain
wright He was visibly unmstak-
ably worried about the future of this
country. 1t is headed straight for the
wow-wow. "OrganiZed eaemies. of.en
led and financed by aliens. who coun,
ell afiiliation with the forces which
have made IL hell of Russia" are going
to destroy the American Republic.
The Assistant Secretary of War was
not specific. Industrial unrest in this
country. as well as all other evils. he
attributed TO the ''unaSsimiliated
masses' And he let it go at that.
Who the destructive aliens are,
NltIt lIl' ilal~~NN
NJ Wainwright lid nc: ..i%. IA :::!-
sown his bit of racial diScord. he pro-
ceeded to analyZe the trouble with the
universities which have permitted
their professors and instructors t. adj
vance theories of social and political
reform inconsistent with and destruc-
tive to the underlying principles upon
which our forcfa hers founded our
meant that the university professors
are the organized enemies and the
instructors ''unassimiliated masses" he
did not say so. What he did say was
not Illuminating.
Batting the immigrant has become
favorite pastime with too many
people. That the Assistant Secretary
of War could not employ his time bet.
ter, on so rare an occasion. is some
thing one scarcely suspected
The first sep to he taken by Jesse
o. Wood. editor of the "Scarchlieht."
the Ku Klux Klan organ of Atlanta.
on getting across to England will he
Il conference with leaders of the Sec
ond Hundred Thousand" whose pur-
poses. someone said. are similar TO
those of the khan Mr.. Wood his
press agent says. will seek an alliance
with that body.
Mr.. Wood is II member of the At
lanta City Council. The Klan is an
unofficial body. hut admittedly n Wei
ouS one. If the second Hundred
Thousand is anything like the First
Hundred Thousand" Mr.. Woods plans
for an alliance are doomed to mis-
carry. For the First Hundred Thou
sand are England's choicest bravest
men, They display the coveted 191i
ribbon, having been the first TO respond
when England called for men. The
Klan hoasts of no such record The
possible connection between the hardy
English Scotch and Welsh men of the
First and second Thousand with the
hatrcd-makcrS of Atlanta is not at
all apparent. He may succeed. per
laps. in cemcntinG relations between
the ProtcstantS on this and the other
side of the Atlantic If acceptance of
the Klan's program" is made the
basis of such n coalition. decen. men
on both sides regret it.
More than dozen, social and fra
teraal organizations on the East side
are reported to have organized 10
make DIR. Samuel Buchlcr the Demo-
cratic nominee for member of Con
greSs from the 18th Congressional Dis
tric. Manhattan. Rabbi Ruchlor is Il
lawyer rs well as IL Rabbi. II" has
also municipal posts under the pres
cnt administration. He WAS Deputy
Commissioner of the Department. of
Public Welfare and of Public Works.
Hc has n strong constituency in the
Hungarian Jewish colony. II will he
interesting to watch the campaign
methods of this nominee, if nominated.
and if elected it will he even more
engaging to watch the first Rabbi in
the House of Representatives.
After three hundred and seventy
years the Protestant Episcopal Church
may substitute another phrase in thcir
prayers for the linking Jews with
TURKS iuficlds and herctics-" The
phrase favored by Rcv. Charles Lewis
Slattrry of this city. will ask mercy
for An Who Know Thee Not as Re
vealcd in the Gospel of Thy Son" This
suggestion will he considered at the