Evening star., 1926-02-20

A recent issue of a New York daily
contained an advertisement OF man
seeking employment lin a business
which has q future behind IT," To-
days Background Of Events has 10
do with a future event which has q
background before ii. The event Is
the dedica ton. esinning tomorrow. OF
the Jewish Community Center. located
at Sixteenth and Q streets northwest.
It's interest does not lie mainly in its
half a million dollar cost nor in its
architecture, nor even in the evidence
OF the unity of local Jews.
The Community Center. while serv-
ing Washington Jews. in giving them
a playhouse. symna SUM, school
system for all kinds of culture-espe-
cially Americanism-a forum, where
every branch of Jewrx may meet in
friendly discussion. is the symbol for
all America that the Jew has come
into his own among self-respectfnE
and honored American people. The
Community Center in the National
Capital is a national institution. 1t is
partly paid for with the $4,000 fund
contributed by Jews outside OF Wash
ington. Pre.eminentIy, it is the out
standing emblem OF Jewish dignity for
every Jew, wherever he lives. Here 1t
stands as conspicuous and inspiring
as the noble Statue of Liberty stands
to bless the immigrant seeking a
haven from "a sea of trouble.
Lincoln said that God must love
the common people. for He made so
many of them" There are a good
many Jews in America. and they are
found in every rank OF society.
There are 100 times az many Jews
in New York City as there are in Pal
estine In that metropolis, as report
ed by the World Almanac, there are
,S43, 900 Jews-29 per cent Of the to-
tai population-while in Palestine
there are only $4,000. In all Asia
there are 604, 900. Africa 666. 900. and
total in the world of 16,555.000 In
the United States there are 3.600.000.
according to the figures compiled by
Dr. n. s. Linfield Of tho Bureau of
Jewish Social Research, New York.
In our own city there are more than
IA, 900.
While quoting statistics, there are
other figures which are equally
quotable and significant.
The story that Queen lisa bella made
possible the Columbian discovery OF
America by pawning her jewels Is
now fonnd to be an mythical az Tells
little apple or Washington cherry
tree. Instead Of that queeniy Sacrl-
fice, according 10 Prof. Herbert q.
Adams Of Johns Hopkins University,
two Jews, Santangel and Sanchez.
respectively chancellor OF the royal
household and controller general OF
Aragon, supplied the ready money.
John Jacob Astor got his start TO
fortune bv beating furs for a Jew,
Hayman Levy, for which he was pad
81 q day. When Robert Morris raj
lied To the rescue Of the Revolution
by soliciting funds to supply an
empty treasury, it was a Jew. Haym
Solomon. who saved the day by loan
INK the Government $6oS.0O7.l3. lie
also paid the personal expenses of
several delegates TO the Colonial Con-
gress. including Jefferson, Madison,
Lee, Steuben, St Clair. Wilson, Mon
roe and Mercer. Without his aid
these statesmen could not have
served He sustained for two years
secret amba ssa dor in France. None
Of this Indispensable financial aid was
ever repaid. He was captured by
the British and Ianguished for years
In prison, finally dying. impoverished, :,
and leaving four children and q widow
to face poverty. Was there ever
greater patriotism?
There were 1000 Jews in our ARMY
TO fight Spain in Cuba, and there
were 5000 more eager Jewish vol
unteers Offering in New York alone
The hrst man to volunteer in that
war was a jew and the frst to die
on .San Juan Hill was a Jew. Spain
had prosecuted the Jews for CEN
turies.
1ptba ,WayihIWa1s.thsre were b.