Evening star., 1928-10-25

Hungary has closed four universities
within the last few days because anti
Semitic students were rioting against
the Jews.
1t is not alone the immaturity of
youth which leads to this senseless at
tack upon the minority. but, in Hun
gary, mature leaders few months ago
proposed to convene public interna-
tional congress of anti-Semites" at
they did not have the courage to hold
such congress in public. they have
held secret sessions. At these confer
ences it was decided to recommend to
European nations that they should de-
prive Jews Of their citizenship and de.
nounce them as undesirable aliens"
There has never been, except in un-
influential circles, any such sentiment
against Jews in America, and it is
hard for an American to comprehend
what incites it abroad. 1t seems so
Observation-Disclosures incredible.
"
In Survey of Year $685." Ga sur
vey of Jewish conditions in the United
States and abroad during April, 1926
March, 1926, by the Bureau of Jewish
Social Research), reference was made
to social organization in Germany,
for the promotion of German language
and culture abroad, in which it was
moved that the society rule that In
the future only those German men and
women be admitted to membership who
are in a position to establish their
German origin; applicants must be of
pure German blood and they must not
be related to Jews"
What race is it that can claim pure"
blood? America Is not the only melt
ing pot" that ever bubbled and boiled.
Defoe described the pure -blooded Eng
lishman," for instance, saying:
"The Romans first with Julius Caesar
came, Including all the nations of that
name, Gauls, Greeks and Lombards; and
by computation.
AuXiliaries, or slaves of ev'ry nation.
With Hengist, Saxons; Danes with
Sueno came,
In search of plunder, not in search of
fame.
Scots, Picts and irish from the Hi
bernian shore:
And Conquerins william brought the
Normans DER.
Ali these their barbrous offspring left
The dregs of armies, they of all man.
Blended with Britons who before were
here,
OF whom the WEIGH have blest the
character.
From this amphibious ill-born mob
began
That vain, ill-natured thing, an Eng
lishman.
These are the heroes who despise the
Scotch
And rail at new-come foreigners so
much:
Forgetting that themselves are all de-
From the most scoundrel race that ever
lived"
Surely Defoe's wrath at the English
man sounds very ludicrous, despite its
basis in history. for almost equal would
be found the blood mixtures of every
other race upon earth-except perhaps
the Jewish. Shall the mongrel scrub
in Arabia neigh at the thoroughbred?
In the veins of most of us Americans
English blood now courses.
We once had political party in the
United States, opposed to all foreign
immigrants, but. 1t was rightly named
the Know-nothing party, and proved its
goodness by dying young. Modern sue
| ressors have never made much head
way.
! A few weeks ago, when the schools of
Washington opened for the new term, a
young teacher was registering the very
| young pupils In her room according To
| their nationalities. One little girl re-
ported that she was American" but
the wise" teacher corrected her. saying
she could not be American" there
being no. Americans" except Indians
So the teacher recorded the child as
"English"-for she had never read De-
foes genealogy Of an Englishman.