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one saw my father crush his cigar
ette before he asked.
“How can you tell who an inter
national banker is. and a com
munist too?”
•Well, Mr. Gordon, it’s easy —
they’re both Jews. You might
know what a Jew looks like, don t
you, Mr. Gordon?"
Something grabbed at my heart
when he said this; I could not
have said anything if I had wanted
to. 1 thought back to the day my
father had told me, 'You can
not tear the Jew from your heart."
I was suddenly a frightened
stranger. separated from the
peopie I had known all my life.
My father's voice broke through
the sharp silence.
•Do you know what a Jew looks
like?"
• Sure I do, Mr. Gordon."
The stranger looked more closely
at my father.
•Say, I’ll bet you’re a Jew.
1 was glad when my father hit
Inn. l-oi the first few minutes my
father had the better of it, but
the other one was younger, and my
fathci soon tiled. As we walked
out into the cold night, I heard
Coders call out. “The drinks are
oil me. folks."
Cursing, I wanted to go back
and do something what, I did
not know, but I had to do some
thing. My father stopped me, and
we went home together. Closer to
each other than we had ever been
before, I understood what my fath
er meant when he kept saying that
lie had run away, not that night,
but sixteen years before. He had
done it for my sake, and he was a
failure. When we walked into the
house, 1 saw his face in the light,
the lace of a defeated old man.
not thi' face of the father 1 had
known and worshipped.
When Coders held his rally Mon
day. I stayed with my father in
the store. All the fellows I was
usually with were at the meeting
with their parents. None of the
men who were always in the store
came, and not seeing them or hear
ing them was strange. My father
smoked a lot of cigarettes that
night, one after the other. Once
he took a corn cob pipe from the
cardboard back-stand, and smoked
it for five minutes. When he put
it down, he twisted his lips into a
wry smile, and 1 could just barely
hear him whisper bitterly, ‘Con
formity!"
We closed late that night.
Tuesday, I couldn't go to school,
and when I told my father thnt.
he said nothing - he only nodded
his head. I was in the back of the
store eating supper when my
father’s three old friends came in.
At first they talked only about the
ordinary things, but soon they told
my father about the rally. Coders
wanted everyone to join what he
called the American America A-
live Association, but no one. they
said, except old Tom Greentree
even thought of joining it.
“He went too far about the
Jews,” they said. “Of course we
don’t tar much to the Jews — no
offense meant Gordon, you’re all
i ight but what the heck, no
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