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THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
Rags Savon
Friday, May 26, 1972
Panorama . ... liy David Schwartz
Election in St. Paul
Most mayors are named Daley
or Lindsay or O’Connor, but St.
Paul has elected Larry Cohen
as Mayor. Cohen is a Jewish
name, though sometimes the
Irish like it. George M. Cohan,
the song writer was Irish.
Jews will be pleased. There
are a good many Jewish Nobel
prize winners but only a few
Jewish mayors. There is Jeru
salem, where we understand, the
original St. Paul lived and where
now Teddy Kollek is mayor.
And there is Atlanta where the
mayor is Sam Massell.
Shakespeare asked what’s in
a name and he wanted to know
why Romeo was named Romeo.
Of course Shakespeare must
have known that if Romeo ran
in some areas, unless there was
a big Italian vote, he wouldn’t
l>e elected.
Thomas Jefferson, we think,
would have been pleased with
the election of Larry Cohen.
Jefferson took pride in his spon
sorship of the bill for religious
freedom which served as a
model for the other states, but
he admitted that the measure
only touched the fringes of the
problem of bias. There was, he
said, an inquisition regarding
religious distinctions which the
law could not reach.
The election of Larry Cohen
by a substantial majority shows
that the walls of prejudice
may he breached. We had a
brother who practiced law in
Minnesota and he was fond of
quoting a sentence from a Min
nesota judge’s decision in favor
of free speech, namely, “the
friction of mind on mind causes
the truth to scintillate.”
So too, the friction, the com
mingling and confrontation and
the very differences redound to
the mutual benefit. We realize
the other guys are much the
same as we and as for the dif
ferences, they add spice. The
differences enrich us.
Minneapolis already has had
a Jewish mayor in Mr. Naftolin.
Perhaps St. Paul is saying it can
do whatever Minneapolis can.
The first Jews to come to Min
nesota were the Samuel bro
thers from England. One of
them became a captain in the
Civil War. There weren’t many
people then except Minniehaha
and her relatives, but it was at
tracting national interest. Thor-
eau wrote, “I have traveled a
great deal in Concord,” but he
also visited Minnesota. Longfel
low wrote about the "laughing
waters” of Mirniehaha. We are
sorry he didn’t tell the jokes
which made Minnie ha-ha.
In the beginning, St. Paul
was known as Pigs Eye, but it
didn't take long to realize that
this was not a fit name for a
town situated by the beautiful
Mississippi, so it was named St.
Paul. According to one Minne
sota historian, who perhaps had
a sense of humor, it was pro
posed in the beginning to name
Minneapolis also after a saint,
but objection was raised that
there were only two settlers who
possibly belonged in the saintly
category and there was even
some doubt about these two.
The state was largely settled
by Scandinavians. As most peo
ple know, it was a Scandinavian,
Leif Ericson, who discovered
America five hundred years be
fore Columbus. He landed on
the east coast. If he had come
to Minneapolis, he probably
would have remained. Or at
least, he would have called up
the Pioneer Press in St. Paul
and told them about his dis
covery, so everyone would have
known and they wouldn’t have
had to bother Queen Isabella.
She had enough to do making
Spanish omelettes.
Minnesota exerts much influ
ence over the nation at large.
Not so many years back, Sin
clair Lewis wrote “Main Street.’
That got him the Nobel Prize
and kept the country excited
about twenty years. Senator
Humphrey of Minnesota is a
contender for the Presidency.
Two recent appointees to the
Supreme Court, Chief Justice
Burger and Mr. Blackman are
Minnesotans. The “supreme
court” in medicine is the Mayo
Clinic in Rochester, Minn. Peo
ple who have domestic problems
write to “Dear Abbey” a Jew
ish lady of St. Paul, and the
young over the country listen
to Bob Dylan who used to at
tend Hebrew school in Hibbing,
Minn.
Copyright 1972, JTA
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