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WJ«y, July I, |97o
THI SOUTH BIN ISRAKUTI
PANORAMA
One or Two
Things About
The Fourth
By David Schwartz
Everyone has talked the so-
called generation gap into exis
tence these days. This is the
day of youth, so we did a little
probing the other day into the
ages of the men who back in
1776, gathering in a fairly well
known Pennsylvania town, did
their “thing.”
We found that most of the
founding fathers were young
men. Ben Franklin at the time
/ of the Declaration of Indepen
dence was a young man of sev-
— enty. The delegate from Geor
gia, Pierce, who jotted down
little notes about each of the
delegates, wrote of Franklin that
he had the mental vigor of a
young fellow of twenty-five,
that is young enough to suit
modern tastes. George Washing
ton was forty-five. John Adams
who did most of the speaking
was 41. His cousin Sam Adams,
famous for the little tea parties
and other social functions he
gave in Boston, was 52. Mason,
the man who probably repres
ented the most radical democra
tic point of view was in his
fifties. We haven’t looked up his
age, but if recollection is right,
one of the delegates, Pinckney,
was twenty-nine. He was the
only one under thirty.
The men who founded the
country were mostly middle-
aged young men.
They faced a tremendous
problem. They had no army to
speak about, little arms and
ammunition and they faced Eng
land, the greatest of the mili
tary powers then. And England
had sent over an army of Ger
man soldiers, the Hessian merce
naries—trained soldiers, to fight
them. As they were meeting,
they knew that the town of Nor
folk in Virginia was burning.
The British had set fire to it.
They knew their own persons
were in danger, that if the Bri
tish caught any one of them, he
might be hung.
But they boldly declared for
independence and signed their
names, so if the British caught
them, they would have no de
fense.
And right after that, they did
another bold thing. They went
and made a good lechayim. Or
as John Adams put it, they
drank toasts until morning.
The next day, naturally, they
were full of the spirit of Seven
ty-Six and they got busy. Frank
lin took a ship to France and got
help there. John Adams went off
to Holland and got a little help.
Robert Morris sent for a Jew,
Chayim Salomon and they
launched a Bond campaign, like
Israel Bonds.
How about Russia?
It was very sympathetic and
it helped too—helped itself. Rus
sia saw an opportunity to grab
like it is doing in the Middle
East today. England, it realized,
had her hands full with the
American problem, so it could ,
not interfere. Russia went and
annexed Crimea.
So without Russia’s help,
there was created in the west,
a new nation. It was to make
mistakes, but there was one
thing Tyorth noting about it.
Never before in the world's
history, were so many poor and
suffering people so attracted by
a country. During the nineteenth
century, forty million people
immigrated to America!
Russia professes to be a land
dedicated to the common man,
but we never heard of any com
mon people trying to immigrate
to Russia.
Maybe of course it’s because
they haven’t got a Statue of
Liberty in the harbor there. It
looks so nice.
Copyright 1970, JTA
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