The Denver Jewish news., 1924-01-03

! tagravure SectiOn-=again he is in uebf
to Jew for rhe development of the
rotagravure process.
We do not know--NIr Hendricli may
he n more courageous man than the
act of publishing attacks on a minority
group would indicatc-Mr. Hendricks
may he very fond Of airpane riding.
Perhaps. he decides to take n spin in
\ the air. Again he is in debt to num-
Der of Jews.
Yet with sublime ignorance or in
difference. Mr.. Burton j. Hendricks
does not hesitate to take his pen in
hand and charge that the Jews are
lacking in creativiiy.
4 wit of several centuries ago was
once asked why he was always saying
diSagrceable things. We'll, you see, =
he replied, Il have weak voice and
unless say disagrecablc things, peo-
pie will not listen to me-
Perhaps Mr.. Hendricks really did
not mean to libel the Jews. He just
wanted to he listened to.
If Mr.. Hendricks will examine the
records of the Noble Awards-awards
given by n Nordic tribunal-he will
find that of the total of 100 (approxi-
matcly) recipients of these prizes, a
dozen have been Jews. The Jew. as a
group considering his numbers, easily
leads that of any other national group
| in the world.
Even Mr.. HcndrickS being n worship
per of faith originated by Jews
would probably admit that in the field
of religion. Jews show some crea-
tivity.
And probably also in medicine. Mr..
Hendricks must be acquainted with
such names as Ehrlich, Wasserman
Mctchnikoff (he was half-Jewish), Pro
fessor Steinach. OF the regeneration
operation fame.
In physics. considering that Jews
have received three Noble prizes-Ein-
stein. Nicholson and Lippman-the
:! 'ws. originality must be admitted.
But when the anti-Semte sees the
truth stacked against him in such
fields. his final recourse, his trump card
shows no originality in mechanical
science. in mechanical invention.
1t is greatly to be feared that even
this last argument of the antiSemites
Is what Mr.. Mencken would call pure
hclium, and that the Hendricks will
! have 10 use their inventive abilities to
originate some other grounds for their
phoba.
In the lone city of Washington. ID.
C.. there are two Jews who have done
more In the way of mechanical inven-
| tion than several of the states in which
the Ku Klux Klan is strong, have done
combined.
! The telephone transmittcr used ! II
millions OF homes throughout this coun-
try and the world at large Is the invcn-
tion of Emil Bcrliner, n Washington
Jew. This same Washingtcnian is the
inventor of the induction coil used in
connection with the telephone.
Mr.. Berliner was the inventor of the
first talking machine that was some
! thing more than a scientific toy. Ber-
liner made the first gramOphone disc
which utilized groove of even depth
and varying direc ions and in which
the record groove not only vibrated
hut propelled the stylus across the
record.
As to the telephone, Berliner in
vented an entirely independent tele
phone of his own. However, the Bell
telephone company in developing the
present telephone utilized the Bell re-
ccivcr, joining with it the Berliner
loose contact notwithstanding
the present telephone.
As Mr.. Berlincr said In connection
with his invention of the gramophone: ::
I'VE strike here an experience parallel
to that which occurred in the earliest
development of the telephone when two
independent systems, magnetic trans
mitter and reproducer and the loose
contact reproducer and transmitter
lthe latter Berliner's invention) were
combined to form "A system superior
to either alone, when the loose contact
was finally used as n transmittcr and
the magnetic telephone as the receiver
in telephone intercourse. the system
which has been in use ever since
in similar manner Mr.. Johnson (of
the Nic.rola company took from the
gramophone its record in wax and
i added to it what the gramophone (Ber
liners invention) already had and
thereby produced the modern gramo-
phone, also known as the Victor Talk
ing Machine, Columbia and other trade
names.