New Britain herald., 1930-08-20

l machine and latterly the state gov- ernment. There should be defense. These charges require an answer. Many months have gone and the people of the state have an increas- i ing uneasiness and conviction that | things will bear looking into. They
 are beginning to think that Rora- back should go and are waiting to
 hear the attorneys for the defense before deciding how to vote. There have been several answers.
 Judge Platt at Milford called Levitt | a mugwump and advised him to hire a hall. That's old stuff. We won't bother with it further. Down in
 Fairfield county Judge Wilder of Fairfield described Levitt as bril- l liant but impractical. It was only
 personal opinion. The supreme court of errors seems to have dis agreed with it anyway.
 Attempt to Create Religious Bias
 Now comes the real answer. It comes on the authority of a member of the republican state central com mittee Levitt is Jew and his name used to be Livutsky. That's
 the answer to all that Levitt has charged.
 T have good authority for saying that a member of the republican
 state central committee has been offering this as sufficient reason why voters should pay no attention to Prof. Levitt. I have heard the story three times in week in Wa terbury and have no doubt that all around the state in the right direc-
 ttons the whispering campaign is on. To non-Jews they say Levitt is a Jew To Jewish voters, they say he is Renegade Jew. You will notice there is an important dis tinction. The story is trimmed to suit the nearer.
 T know that Prof. Levitt is of the type, who if it were true that
 he were a Jew. would be proud of it aXh not ashamed to acknowledge his ancestry. As it happens he is rot Jew. He started his career as Unitarian minister. After wards he became lawyer A care fully written history of his life in
 the Waterbury Sunday Republican of June 15, explains that he wanted to be a lawyer. his mother wanted him to be a Unitarian minister and finally he became both. Look up Who's Who and you will find his biography It gives all the facts of an unusually active and honorable career. There is no warrant for misrepresenting Levitt
 But even if Levitt were a Jew. what of it? Does that discredit his
 charges or him? I should say not. We should judge other races and our fellowmen by the best that is in them and when we apply this test to the Jewish race. we must accord it mental. moral and artistic quali-
 ties of the highest type unless we are willing to forget Jews Such as Einstein and Brandeis in this gen. eration. Beethoven and Spinoza in the past, As for Levitt, if he were a Jew. I would count him a credit
 to that distinguished race. a, man for Connecticut Jews to be proud Of. | What do the Jewish voters thlnk or Connecticut politics as they. are
 practiced, anyway, when they see
 an attempt to dtsctedit a man on this ground?
 That's the fact. The only at- tempt to answer Prof. Levitt after year of campaigning is to assert that he is Jew. I leave it with you for reflection. Is there, after all. something in his indictment that they are afraid to answer. that they want the voters to forget? That's the way the politicians try to fool you. Don't stand for it any longer. Inquire, reflect, examine for your selves. Look up Roraback's record and vote upon that. There's tho real issue"