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Page 14 The Southern Israelite TAFT (Continued From Page 5) Jewish dominance in Bolshevism, Taft gave one of the profoundest explana tions of the Jewish role in the Russian revolution when he said: “There are Jews in the Bolshevist cabinet, there are Jews in some important offices, but there are Jews who lead the op posing party of the Mensheviki, the moderate Socialists. * * * In a coun try where Jews were subjected to such bitter cruelty and oppression as in Russia it is no wonder that they become anarchists and Socialists, and took part in the plans for assassina tion and were made martyrs to the cause of freedom and resistance to tyranny. * * *. The Bolshevist Jews were no more responsible for Bolshe vism than the others engaged j n it." If one glances at the American Jew ish scene during Taft’s administration one is astounded to see the continu ous, never-tiring interest of the then President in Jewish affairs. Especi ally intimate were his contacts with the I. O. B’nai B’rith. He addressed many B’nai B’rith functions, among them the general convention held at Washington in 1912. At that particu lar occasion he revealed that he owed much of his understanding of the Jew to Rabbis Wise and Lilienthal of Cin cinnati. Taft then revealed that “that distinguished Jew, that learned man, that patriot and citizen, Rabbi Isaac M. Wise, and Rabbi Lilienthal were gentlemen to whom my father taught me in my childhood to look up to, and our churches were so close together that occasionally we interchanged pulpits.” When, in 1912, the Executive Com mittee of the I. 0. B. B. voted a gold medal to President Taft, which un der the laws of the order was to be given to the person who had done the greatest service to humanity, Presi dent Adolph Kraus spoke of the se lection of Taft in the following words: “The gold medal to be presented to the man or woman, regardless of creed, who has contributed most dur ing the year to the welfare of the Jewish cause should go to President Taft. After full discussion by the Executive Committee it was decided that President William Howard Taft of the United States of America had on various occasions during the yeai fearlessly, justly and vigorously enun ciated doctrines and maintained posi tions on questions in which the Jewish people have been vitally interested.” This expressed the feelings of the entire Jewish community of the Unit ed States. The late William Howard Taft’s friendship and deep under standing of Jews and Jewish prob lems were those of a man of high ethical caliber. In the annals of Jew ish history his name will go down as that of one of the great humanitar ians who came to the aid of the Jew ish people whenever they were in need. —Copyright 1930 by Seven Arts Feature Syndicate. I IN THE LIMELIGHT (Continued From Page 13) ADELA STRAUSS, widow of Johann Strauss, composer of the famous “Blue Danube Waltz,” died in Vienna at the age of 70. Her death recalls the fact that Strauss’ mar riage to her brought about his dismis sal from the post of conductor in the Austrian Imperial Court because Frau Strauss was a Jewess. MRS. ANNA GRATZ CLAY pass ed away at her home in Lexington, Ky., at the age of 82, closing a chap ter of perhaps the most interesting Jewish family history in the anna! , America, the activities of th<- f embracing a history of the great 1 ventures in the progress of Amen It commerce and trade and of the * triotic participation in the civic d velopment of the country’ Anna Gratz Clay was the daughtl of Benj. Clay, whose father befor, him was one of the outstanding r* r sonalities in the history of Philade phia. She is particularly interesting however, for the fact that she Wa < a neice of Rebecca Gratz who, it is « was the model for Rebecca, the her- ine of Sir Waltfir Scott’s "Ivanho*.’- from a description given Scott by Washington Irving, an intimate friend of the Gratz family. DR. KARL MELCHIOR. Hamburg banker, who was regarded as the first probable choice for a successor •.< Dr. Hjalmar Schact, who resigned last week as President of the Reich bank, has announced that he will not be a candidate for that office, whirl is regarded as the most impotrant fi nancial post in Germany. Dr. Mel chior, who took an important part in the Peace Conference at Versailles and who was Schact’s right-hand-man at the Young Plan Conference < Paris, is a Jew and the partner of Max Warburg, brother of Felix M Warburg. 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