Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-09

Inc Outstanding event OF yeSter
days news was "the great apology
| For the last decade the organ owned
! and published by Mr.. Henry Ford has
been lambaSting the Jews, and yes
terday Mr.. Ford retracted all that had
been said and expressed surprise that
1t had ever been said.
There Is a secondary sense In which
apology" means "a justification or
defense OF belief" but Mr.. Ford s
apology goes deeper than that-it Is
a confession that the editorial course
of the Dearborn Independent in at
lacking one class of American cit1'
Zens has been wrong and unjustified
from the beginning. There Is "con'
fession and avoidance" as the law
yers call 1t in court, but that is not
more glorious than the kind that is
good for the SOUL" This last way
Is much in use by politicians who are
interviewed and. finding that what
they said does not look well in print,
repudiate it all and blame the 'in.
accurate reporter" But Mr.. Ford,
the publisher, denies that he ever
sanctioned 1t at all and even repudi-
ates what has been printed under the
heading, "Mr. Ford's Own Page"
America has not had its Dreyfus
persecution, nor its pogroms nor Its
DEGREES Of Punishment against races.
We were thankful that we were not
like other peoples. Maybe it was be.
cause of Americas debt to Jew.
1t was a Jew who interviewed with
Queen Isabella of Spain and per-
suaded her to recall Columbus from
his discouraged flight from her
domain. after she had pleaded in.
ability to override the superior wis.
dom Of her advisers. That Jew heard
her majesty assent to his advice and
agree to pawn her jewels to finance a
fleet for Columbus, and then the Jew
went further and loaned his own
money without the Queens security
and so America was discovered
Where would hivvers have been but
for Luis de Santangel? The very
name suggests holy "angel" That
great "Frenchnan" born in New
England, James Russell Lowell, cries,
mcntions America. Santangel was
40 influential councillor" OF Fer
dinand and Isabella. and 90 q Jew
found access to royalty even like
Esther who saved Mordecai. That's
why we are all in America, In place
of Europe, Asia and Africa. Some
argue that Coiu-ln:s himself was =.
Jew. but the Independent denies it.
+ Il II
Twenty.three Jews first arrived in
New York in 1854, where they have
increased and multiplied until today
there are ] 500, 900 thcre--more Jews
In the Ghetto of that thriving city
Ho n
where Mr.. Ford's wheels" are made.
If all the Jews in the metropolis liv-
Ing in artistocratic quarters were
added, one might also count the
flivvers of Dearborn, and New York
Jewry would still have a majority.
Lafayette is idolized by Americans
because. being a nobleman, aged 10
years, he came over and announced
that he wouldn't go back till II was
over, over here-provided Congress
would make him a major general
Benjamin Nones, a Jew, ALSO ram
directly toward the enemy. He came
as a volunteer private and rose to
be a major on Lafayette'S Staff.
Later, at the head of 400 men, Maj.
Nones Joined Baron de Kalb's army
and when De Kalb fell Nones helped
carry him, dying, from the field.
We all know how Robert Morris
saved the Government from bank
| ruptcy in it's Revolutionary crisis by
raising a great sum of money, but
who remembers how a Jew. Haym
Solomon, advanced $65S,007.13 tau
enormous sum in those tines toward
the Morris fund, and how Solomon
also financed jefferson, Madison,
Lee, Steuben and Mercer and kept at
| least some of them from the debtor $
prison, so that they could devote
their abilities to the Nation in its
| need?
Is there any race whose patriotism
was expressed in every war of Amer
| lea more braVely than the Jews!
They were in battle line. One Jew
has given hundreds Of thousands OF
dollars to the aid Of the Young Mems
Christian Association, has donated
| 100000 to the University Of Chicago
"A Baptist inStitution-and, when told
that the Jews of Europe were suffer-
ing from the privations of the war
and pogroms, Immediately headed
fund to relieve them by donating a
million dollars. Then he gave $3,4OO,
600 to negro uplift. His name is
Julius Rosenwald. Maybe he Is the
type of the people who purpose TO
| 'corner the capital of the world!
There were some citizens who were
able to be exempted from military serv.
ice in the World War, but there served
| 40, 900 Jews who volunteered, being
beyond draft age. These do not cover
tho business men--the "dollar-a-year
men who gave their aid behind the
lines. Those Jews in active service
were $4,000 Infantry, 7,642 Artillery
1884 Medical Corps, 4,55S Signal and
Aviation Corps. 2,496 Engineer Corps
l1.239 Cavalry. 1885 ordnance and 49,,
| 264 other branches, inclusive of sail
ors and marines. Ten per cent OF
the Jew soldiers were volunteers
More than 600 citations for bravery
we're awarded Jews.
| The story Of how Abraham Kroto.
shinsky, the Polish Jew boy from the
Bronx, saved the Lost Battalion
Of which he was a private. by volun.
teering to crawl through the enemy
lines surrounding the 642 Americans
reads like an epic. Many other volun.
teers had attempted 1t and been kill.
ed. He volunteered and got through
after an all-day crawl, at times 80
close to the enemy that "one big fel.
low nearly stepped on his hand and
looked him right in the eye without
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