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ACTRESS CORNELIA OTIS SKINNER is seen with officials of the
Atlanta NCCJ when she visited Georgia for several talks. With her
above are left to right, Larry DeGive, Ben Massell and Dr. Hal Davison,
eo-ehairmen, and Miss Marjorie MacLaughlin, executive secretary for
Georgia.
U.S. Flag and Great Seal
by J. L. FRIEND
This material reprinted in the Jeivish Forum is by an
adopted Georgian who recently was reunited with his wife
after a seven-year-long-absence because of the ebb and flow
of the post war tide of fortune. A frequent contributor to
The Southern Israelite, Mr. Friend is now making his home
in Hawkinsville, Ga., with his daughter Balfoura, her hus
band Hans R. Mayer and granddaughter.
(An Interpretation)
March 4th, 1955 will ever re
main an important date in my life.
It was on that memorable day that
a great privilege was conferred
upon me; for, after having been
a man without a country for over
36 years, I became a citizen of the
United States of America. I lost
my nationality automatically with
the Russian revolution and remain
ed stateless ever since. All these
years I was a resident of Shang
hai, China. Yet, though passport
less, I paid prolonged visits to
many places in the Far East—Ja
pan, the Philippines, Indo-China,
Singapore — thanks to personal
friendship with diplomats and con
sular officials.
As is usually the case with can
didates for citizenship, the ' Man
ual for Citizenship” was given to
me in preparation for the exam
ination. Here I wish to offer some
observations on its contents:
The Fathers of our Declaration
of Independence and Constitution,
in proclaiming that ‘‘all men are
created equal and that they are
endowed by their Creator with cer
tain unalienable rights, that among
these are life, liberty and pursuit
of happiness,” have leaned heavily
on Mosaic Law, where such pro
nouncement is a fundamental prin
ciple. In Genesis, Chap. 1.26.27, the
following appears: "And God said:
Let us make man in our image
after our likeness . . . And God
created man in His image, in the
image of God created He him.”
Now, since man has been created
in the image of God, as a logical
conclusion Leviticus, Chap, xxxv.-
10, commands us to "Proclaim lib
erty throughout the land unto all
the inhabitants thereof.” This pas
sage has rightfully been inscribed
as the focal point of our Constitu
tion on the Liberty Bell, which
rang the news of freedom from
Independence Hall on Chestnut
Street in the City of ‘‘Brotherly
Love”—Philadelphia.
The guarantee in our Constitu
tion of political and economic lib
erty to each and every citizen,
brings to mind the words of the
American historian John Crawford,
who said: "The unseen hand of
God, which leads humanity to
justice and happiness, must have
guided the pen of those who fram
ed our Constitution.” He considers
the "Protection of the dignity of
man” as the outstanding principle
of this “wonderful piece of work.”
The great English statesman Wil
liam E. Gladstone, while on the
same subject, exclaimed with en
thusiasm: “The U.S.A. Constitu
tion is the most outstanding piece
of work ever created.”
When I began to examine the
details of the Great Seal of the
United States of America, which
appears on all official documents
(and the obverse and reverse
sides of which are also reproduced
on the green side of the one-dollar
bills), I marveled at the Hebraic
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