The Denver Jewish news., 1924-03-06

But these matters of delinquency nre
Internal matters just as delinquency
among Prcsbyterians. for example. is
an internal matter fro Presbyterlans.
In a play thar was one Of the out
standing successes of its day. The
Country Boy there Is II scene In a
bonrding house. One of the new board
crs informs the boarding house mis-
tresS that he is Jew. She looks him
ever from head to foot. He has neith-
tr cloven hoofs nor horns. We'll, you
are the first Jew as has ever been In
this vilagr." she calculates That's
why its village the new guest re-
torts. A comedy line, but worth pom
iicring ever.
| But 1t is not the implication Of this
comedy line thar the American Jew
needs to point by way of answer to
the charges hurled against him. Nor
need lie rcrsat The story OF The Los:
Battalion" tina, host of Levy and
Cohens, of Witknwskis and korotO-
shinskys. .Abramovitches and Chaimo-
NlitItS Cui hhu tiaPPVA Az
the Argonne. all but mutinied when
their Christian colonel suggested sur
render.
Across ihe entire country, from the
Atlantic to the Pacific, from the Lakes
10 lie Gulf in every city where there
is considerable Jewish population
! stretches a chain of institutions which.
If Qualifications for the Jews were
needed constitute perhaps his best
justifications to be known and accept
I'd as an American. One GOULD write
volumes of the achievements OF the
Jew In euery walk Of life. az his sacri.
fees ef property and life In defense Of
America. Of his service In fhe legis.
lature OF the land on the hepch; at
the bar: in the professions :; fn 1naDceF
in industry; In commerce; in art: In
science. but these would not BE- 80
significant as that marvellous array Of
philanthropie Institutions, upon Which
the Jews of America lavish. so much
of their wealth. their skill. and their
effort. No greater hospital In all the
world than the famous MI, Sinai of
New York, and ranking it,. The Jewish
Hospital of Cincinnati and the Michael
Reese OF Chicago. In one Of the most
fertile sections OF Pennsylvania Is the
National Farm School, where young
men are given absolutely free a fouf
years course in scientific ,agriculture.
In Denver are two great sanatoria for
consumptivcs. one OF them. the Ma
tional Jewish Hospital. conceded to be
the greatest of Its kind in America, as
it was the first to give free treatment
to the poverty-stricken victims of the
Great White Plague" This institu-
tion has also the distinction of possess
ing the only tuberculosis research de-
partment in this country where de-
termincd effort is being made by some
of the greatest authorities In this par
ticular field OF medicine to find an
actual cure for consumption.
These are named merely to instance
the character of Jewish philanthropy.
There are scores of such Institutions
everywhere in this country, organized
by Jewish initiative, or If you please.
| by the promptings of Jewish altru.
ism, reared with funds supplied BY
Jews. and maintained by contributions
made annually by Jews. who, as tax.
myers and contributors are also max
ing possible the maintenance of the
general and sectarian eleemosynary
! institutions of their cities. And every
one of these Jewish institutions is
'Non-sectarian" in the fullest sense of
| the word. Their doors are wide omen,
their ministrations nre free to all suf-
fering humanity. Catholic, Protestant.
Negro or Chinaman--all who need the
help of these Jewish institutions, COM
manding the greatest medical and sur.
gical skill of the land. are welcome
under their roofs. Indeed. in some Of
these Institutions nOnsecta rianism Is
carried to such an extreme that the
jew who is rigid in his observance OF
the Mosaic Dietary Code is the only
person Disseminated nSains'.
When shipload OF Portuguese Jews
sought refuge In New Amsterdam, its
governor c1tortcd from them pledge
that none Of them would 10 permitted
to become charge on the cpmmun-
ity This pledge made over 100 years
ago by the pioneers of She Jewish com
munity of New York has been faith