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The Southern Israelite
Random Thoughts
Page 27
By CHARLES H. JOSEPH
Someone asks me if I think its
proper for Rabbi Wise to take part in
New York City politics. Why not?
There is a moral issue involved and if
a religious leader wouldn't do some
thing about it who should? One rea
son that the church has such compara
tively little influence in the daily lives
of men is because the solution of the
problems o sociefty arc evaded by the
clergy. They seem satisfied to preach
and to endeavor to create and urge for
well-doing among the pews, in the
hope that by so doing the pews will go
forth and crusade against the forces of
evil. Well, it doesn’t work out that
way in real life. In the city of New
York there seems to be more corrup
tion and crime than good citizens can
stand. Why, then, shouldn’t Dr. Wise
or Dr. Holmes assume the leadership
in cleaning house? Everybody seems
satisfied to have a minister do things
so long as he doesn’t interfere with
their private interests. The steel man
ufacturer, or the coal corporation or
the textile baron will occupy the front
seats in the temple or the church and
contribute liberally to its upkeep, and
applaud the sentiments of the Rabbi
or the minister if his remarks don’t
come too near home. But once let him
begin to preach in language they can
understand and to point out specific
instances of graft, social injustice,
high-class racketeering, legal evasions
and what not, then there is a great deal
of sputtering and much indignation on
the part of the pillars. Dr. Wise will
be abused by Jew as well as Gentile
because he has seen fit to go after cor
ruption in high and low places in New
York City. But he is proving that re
ligion is something else than the mere
mumbling of prayers.
Presidents of the United States, dis
tinguished Senators and Congressmen,
leaders in all walks of life, editors of
prominent newspapers all have united
in an effort to pay tribute to the mem
ory of the Polish Jew who gave so
much financial aid to the country. But
now comes Max Kohler, Vice President
of the American Jewish Historical So
ciety and says it’s “bunk.” He doesn't
use that word, but he suggests it in
connection with Haym Salomon’s al
leged sacrifices ofr the Revolutionists.
He gives as his opinion that while
Solomon was undoubtedly a patriot of
highest standing, yet we don’t owe any
one of his descendants a penny. That
these financial claims are a lot of
hocus-pocus. The Polish Jews coun
ter with the charge that Kohler, a Ger
man Jew, has been engaged by the
German Jews in America to prevent a
Polish Jew from being honored! Now
that’s more hocus-pocus. The German
other things to worry about to bother
whether Haym Solomon should have a
monument or not. Mr. Kohler is a
sincere historian. And I believe that
he believes what he says. He may be
wrong. Because, after all, there can
be differences of opinion between bi
ographers and historians as there are
between handwriting experts. He is
doing what Rupert Hughes did to
George Washington and what another
writer has done rcecntly to Abraham
Lincoln. I think Kohler is going to
Hello, America
HIS EXCELLENCY, PAUL MAY
The new Belgian Ambassador to the
United States, as he arrived in this
country, happy to salute the Statue of
Liberty. M. May is the only Jew
among the foreign ambasadors of full
rank at Washington.
lose out, because after all there is suf
ficient evidence that Haym Solomon
deserves at least a monument from a
nation which benefited from his activi
ties in times of trial and tribulation.
In the meantime please do not revive
that German-Polish Jewish feud. That
too, is a lot of bunk.
WalterLippman, who-used to be the
editor o tfhe New York “World,” will
now be an editorial writer on the New
York ‘Harald-Tribune,” Lippman is
one o thef profoundest thinkers in the
country and his attitude toward social
problems is extremely liberal. Writers
of the type of Walter Lippman have
done much in creating an intellectual
journalish. When the World” passed
into the hands of the Scripps-Howard
group there was much speculation as
to what would happen to Lippman.
One story had it that Hearst had of
fered him fifty thousand dollars a year
to go with the New York American.”
Hearst, by the way, pays the biggest
salaries of any publisher in the United
States. We have Arthur Brisbane’s
own statement that he receives two
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