Evening star., 1928-10-25
BACKGROUND OF EVENTS
BY PAUL Y. COLLINS.

Who has proved that Indians" are
the original Americans, or that in
TACT the red men were not actually
from Asia-perhaps even from India ?
Recently scientific explorers of the Arc
tic have sent back word that they have
found evidence that the Eskimos are
not OF the Indian race-maybe they
only are the dyedin- -the-wool Amer
leans. Will not the little girls teacher
investigate? In Mexico there is a theory
that the race preceding the Toltecs were
the lost tribes of Israel"
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! The writer has received the following
protest against the recent designation
OF the young anarchist who was ar
rested for distributing subversive circu-
iars among the soldiers of Washington
army Barracks as a Russian Jew:
Permit me to call your attention to
something in your article of October 20.
1923. Speaking of Israel Peltz, you take
pans TO emphasize the fact that he Is a
Russian Jew.
Kindly note that he distributed his
obnoxious and seditious literature not
because he was a Jew, but because he
was revolutionist These radical gen
Try profess no religion. This Peltz hap
pens to be Jew by accident of birth.
would 1t not have been sufficient, then.
10 nave referred to this man as Rus
san, or an agttator, or a revolutionist
or sympathizer of Soviet Russia
Many patriotic American citizens would
gladiy see this dumbbell deported, for
ne clearly does not fit here In America
What hurts is your gratuitous fling at
the Jews.
In my scrapbook I have your article
OF July 8, 1927, which you wrote when
FORD made his retraction. You were
very Kind then. There is enough preiu-
ace as II is. Coming from man of
your ability and influence, it hurts.
BENZ NEwHousE, M. D."
In answer to the above courteous
protest, the writer of this column feels
grateful for the fact that the 1927
article cited disproves any intention
OF rerecting opprobrium upon the race
ne so highly respects, and among
wnom are many of his sincerest
friends. At the very moment when this
letter OF DR.. Newhouse was being writ
ten the addressee was in close con-
ference with his friend, Rabbi Simon
regarding matter which appeared in
the Saturday issue. OF all the races
In America the Jews have the least
Justification for any feeling of an
inferior complex" or reason for as
Stunning that the name Jew" Is a re-
hection. "a mans a man for a. that"
ana should be judged only by the one
measure of upright manhood. Have not
the Jews proved their outstanding
patriotism in every war and every crisis
confronting the Nation?
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But 1t would not be fair to Jew or
| Russian to designate Peltz merely as a
Russian" Russians include many
races. Should one be described as an
| American" simply because he was born
| IN America? If so, then, is he a
| black or white, red or a yellow
American? The child of a Chinaman,
II born In America, is a native Amer
ican." but does that indicate his race?
In Berksons Theories of Americana
cation" is this:
I'm treating of the Jews as foreign
ethnlc group, coordinate with other
immigrant national groups, such as the
Italians or the Poles, the writer has
not failed to realize that some objec-
tionS might be raised against such
classification. 1t may be that all Jews
are not immigrant in the same sense
Of the word. In addition to the fact
that the Jews played an important part
In the discovery of America, and that
the first white man who set foot on
the soil of America was in all likeli-
hood a Jew, 1t is true that the settle
ment of the Jews in America dates from
the earliest period. Therefore,
some Jews residing in America are
native, in any sense that the term
might be used of white men In Amer
lea. On the other hand. Of the
100000 Jews living in America, over