The Denver Jewish news., 1924-02-07
THE JEW IN INVENTION
Many Great Achievements Wholly Or
In Part Fruits OF Jews Minds.
BY Robert Lee Mack

| - jew WIS Int INV VI llt
telephone transmitter, the Undue
ton coil, of the first gramophone
disk the Lillenthals made the
first successful flight in an air.
ship; Lippman invented color
photography; the rotogravure pro-
cess development was due to n
jew, and many other inventions
are to the credit of the ingenious
and inquiring mind of that Jew
so relentlessly beset by the Fords,
the Hendrickses ct hoe genus
omne.)
When Mr.. Burton j. Hendricks takes
up his telephone to speak with his
publisher about the printing of his ar
| he is partly in debt to the Jew for
his telephone When Mr.. Burton ].
Hendricks sits down at night tired
after the fatiguing effort involved in
invcntinS 50 many fabrications about
the Jew. and seeking rela axation, turns
on his Victrola, he is measurably in
debt to the Jew for his talking ma
chine.
Variety is the spice OF life and Mr.
Burton ]. Hendricks being a very mod
bit at the radio-again he is un-
der obligation to the Jew.
Doubtless, Mr.. Hendricks being n
writer, also reads the newspapers. In
deed Mr. Hendricks is the recipient
of prize given by a great Jewish
newspaperman, Joseph Pulitzer. But
1t is Sunday morning now. and Mr..
Hendricks is tired of perusing the
galleys Of print so he turns to the
rotogravure section-again he is in
the rotogravure process.
We do not know-Mr. Hendricks
may he more courageous man than
the act of publishing attacks on
minority group would indicate-MrJ
Hendricks may be very fond of air
plane riding. Perhaps he decides to
take n spin in the air Again he is in
debt to number of Jews.
Yet with sublime ignorance or in-
difference. Mr.. Burton ]. Hendricks
hand and charge that the Jews are
lacking in creativity.
| a wit of several centuries ago was
once asked why he was always say
ing disagrceabIc things. well, you
see," he replied. Il have n week voice
md unless / say disagreeable things,
people will not listen to me-"
Perhaps Mr. Hendricks really did not
mean to libel the Jews. He just want
ell to In listened to.
records of the Nobel Awards-awards
given by Nordic tribunal-he will
find that of the total of 100 tapproxi-
matcly) recipients of these prizes, Il
dozen have been Jews The jew. as
group, considering his numbers, eas-
ily leads that of any other national
group in the world.
Even Mr. Hendricks being n wor-
shipper of faith originated by Jews
would probably admit that in the field
/ u
And probably also in medicine. Mr..
Hendricks must be acquainted with
such names as Ehrlich, Wasserman,
Mctchnikoff Che was halfJewish),
Professor Steinach, of the rcjuvenation
operation fame.
In physics, considering that Jews
have received three Noble prizes-Ein-
| stein, Nicholson, and Lippman, the
Jews originality must be admitted.
But when the anti-Scmite sees the
truth stacked up against him in such
fields, his final recoursc-his trump
card, is to make the charge that the
Jew shows no originality in mechanical
| scicnce-in mechanical invention.
1t is greatly to be feared that even
| this last argument of the ;Inti-Scmites
is what Mr. Mencken would call pure
hokum, and that the Hendricks will
| have TO use thcir inventive abilities
| to originate some other grounds for
their phobia.
| In the lone city of Washington, ID.
c.. there are two Jews who have done
more in the way of mechanical invcn-
| tion than several of the states i'll which
the Ku Klux klan is strong, have done
combined
| (To be ccntinued).