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kind of climax during the 20th
century, when millions were slain
by the Nazis. Hitler’s satanic lust
was partially appeased by the con
centration camps, where Jewish
children were baked in ovens and
the skin of slain Jews was made
into lamp shades. That is the ulti
mate extent to which racial pre
judice can lead.
Jews have been among our best
citizens since before the Revolu
tionary’ War. Keen, brave, patrio
tic. creative, the Jews occupy a
special place of honor in our na
tion’s history. Despite the fact that
the Jewish population in America
sided with patriots in our fight for
independence, many states after
the Revolutionary War still main
tained religious tests which barred
Jews from such rights of citizen
ship as serving on juries and hold
ing office.
Two Southern statesmen, Jef
ferson and Madison, played a sig
nificant role in abolishing these
barriers and promoting racial tol
erance in our nation. We feel sure
that Southerners will remain stead
fast to the principles of men like
Madison and Jefferson, rather than
follow some latter-day demagogue
like Bryant Bowles.
You’ve all heard that Jews are
monev-mad; that they control the
nation’s purse strings and use their
power to advance the cause of uni
versal Zionism (whatever that is
supposed to be ; that they are
cowards and traitors. Most of you
know that such charges are not
true, but are merely symptoms of
the social disease of race prejudice.
What about the cowardice
charge? Stubbs tells us that during
World War I, Jews made up 4.5
per cent of our Armed Forces and
their dead were five per cent of
the total, though Jews constituted
little more than three per cent of
our population. In World War II
and again in Korea, they made up
4.5 per cent of the fighting forces
while still but 3.2 percent of our
people.
What about Jewish contributions
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to our country in times of peace?
Take a look at some of the Jew
ish leaders of our country, in all
fields of achievement. In medicine
we find Selman Waksman, de
veloper of Streptomycin; Bela
Shick. who invented the test to
fight diptheria, Joseph Goldberg-
er, who licked pellagra, Dr. E. J.
Cohn, who developed the methods
of extracting blood plasma and
gamma globulin, Sigmund Freud,
father of psychoanalysis, and Jonas
Salk, who has produced a vaccine
for polio.
In physics, we have Albert A.
Michelson, Isidor Rabi, and, of
course, Albert Einstein, father of
atomic energy and author of the
theory of relativity.
In law we have Brandeis, Car
doza, and Frankfurter. Other pub
lic servants are our own Bernard
Baruch; Admiral L. L. Strauss,
chairman of the Atomic Energy
Commission; David Lilienthal of
TVO; Henry Morgenthau, Ambas
sadors Oscar Straus, Laurence
Steinhardt, and Jesse Straus.
In literature, music, motion pic
tures and radio, Jews have made
lasting contributions: George
Kaufman, Elmer Rice, Irwin Shaw,
Moss Hart in literature; William
Fox, Sam Goldwyn, Jesse Lasky,
Adolph Zukor and the Warner
Brothers in the movies; Adolph
Ochs of the New York Times and
Joseph Pulitzer in journalism;
David Sarnoff of RCA and William
Paley of CBS; Jerome Kern, Sig
mund Romberg, Irving Berlin,
George and Ira Gershwin, Richard
Rodgers, Larry Hart and Oscar
Hammershein II in music;
Jascha Heifetz, Mischa Elman,
Yehudi Menuhin, Arthur Rubin
stein, Vladimir Horowitz, Serge
Koussevitsky, Bruno Walter, and
Eugene Ormandy of the concert
stage;
Edward G. Robinson, Sylvia
Sidney, Eddie Cantor, Judy Holli
day, Shelly Winters, Paul Muni,
George Jessel, Jack Benny, Fanny
Brice, A1 Jolson, Joseph Schild-
kraut, Ed Wynn, Danny Kaye, Phil
Silvers, Melvin Douglas, George
Burns, the Marx Brothers, Milton
Berle, John Garfield, David Bel-
asco, Oscar Hammerstein, the
Schuberts, the Frohmans, and Flo
Ziegfield, in entertainment.
When you consider the achieve
ments of the Jewish race, you have
to admit that in a certain sense
they are indeed a chosen people.
And we often overlook the fact
that the Jews gave us our modern
religion—that the one perfect life
was lived by a Jew—and that the
12 disciples and St. Paul, who did
most to spread the Christian faith
over the western world, were all
Jews.
Weigh now the contributions of
the Jews against the contributions
of Bryant Bowles and others of his
ilk. We ask you, in whose direct
ion do the scales incline?
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