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A Letter to
Sadie Weiss
OSullivan
"WHEREVER YOU ARE IN
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA"
by JIMMIE WISCH, Editor
TEXAS JEWISH POST, FT WORTH
Dear Sadie.
We read an Associated Press dispatch of October 21 the other day
in which you, at age 70, noticed a member of the American Nazi Party
picketing a dinner for Democratic Congressman James C. Corman in
Studio City, California.
The account said that you walked by this Nazi gangster and looked
at his regalia, asking, “What are you doing in that crazy rig?”
Following this question, you ripped the swastika arm-band off his
uniform and threw it in his face.
This was quite a feat for a white-haired widow to accomplish. And
as soon as you performed this gesture, 10 helmeted policemen sur
rounded you and took you in tow, with the Nazi, to the pokey.
Sadie, you explained to everyone that you were “just walking In
to go to the market to get my dinner when I saw this crowd” (watching
the Nazi). “And I said to myself, ‘What’s this?’ Me, I’m a New Yorkei.
You know, sort of nosey, like a woman. So I walked over. When I saw
this guy in that uniform with that swastika, my blood just boiled. I saw
red.”
And then, dear Sadie, you exercised a right that every American
woman has, you blew your top and showed that Nazi that you weren’t
afraid of him or his minescule ilk.
Sadie you will probably get a lot of arguments from the strong
theoriticians who claim that, according to our democratic process, you
should have let the Nazi picket and proclaim to the world that the
Nazis are ready to take up where Hitler left-off.
This, in essence, would be pure freedom, of course and no abridge
ment of Freedom of Speech.
But, we wonder, along with you, how Free is a Freedom that vow,
to destroy one’s fellowman in public pronouncement in an open society.
Does Freedom really exist where one can enlist and incite people to
kill their innocent countrymen? The George Lincoln Rockwell Nazis
(that’s what they should be called instead of dignifying them with the
name “American") are chafing at the bit in order to send the rest of
the world’s Jews to the crematorium.
Not a pleasant thought after the world has managed to live throuvli
Hitler’s holocaust. Little wonder why you saw red and why your blood
boiled, Sadie.
Well, dear Sadie, you took a position, too. You pulled the swastika
from this hoodlum’s shirt and, at seven decades, with your hair testify
ing to your age, we certainly think you deserve an accolade and a
Postoast.
Your story reminds us of what happened prior to America's entry
into World War II. It happened on East Exchange Street in Fort Worth's
North Side. A delivery man came into one of the toughest bars in the
stockyard's section and while leaving his packages happened to pass a
remark about the “damn Jews”.
One of the men at the bar grabbed him and just hit him once —
throu.h the screen door, tumbling him head over heels to the curb.
That delivery man never came into that bar or onto East Exchange
Street again.
Of course, there will be a lot of people who will say two wron ’s do
not make one right. And we can see the wisdom in this.
We can also, dear Sadie, think back to the 1930’s in Germany. Wo
know Hitler was backed by powerful industrialists. But he had to have
(he people behind him to gain power and hold it.
If one, just one, had gone up to him and deflated him like that cow
boy did on the North Side, history might well have been written dif
ferently.
But, you, Sadie O'Sullivan wrote your own chapter in our history
book.
You whammed into the Nazi and deflated him.
All we can add is a God Bless You. v Sadie O’Sullivan.
May you live until 120.
With Shalom!
Peace! —Yours in Admiration
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The Southern Israelite