The Reader’s Forum

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To the Editor, Jewish Daily Bulletin:

I read today in your paper that another Jewish capitalist, Senator Freiherr Max von Ausschnitt of Rumania, has decided to give up Judaism for the Greek Catholic religion.

This just goes to show you that our real enemy is capitalism and not all these other things which we think are causing our troubles.

Have you ever heard of a member of the laboring class giving up his religion to take on another one? No! And I will tell you why. It is because these capitalists think only of material gain, and they will gladly do anything to win the respect of other people in their filthy society.

The laborer, who cannot gain something no matter which way he turns, at least keeps himself loyal to those ideals which he finds inside himself.

Meanwhile who is the loser? I could laugh when I read about this Rumanian capitalist because his supposed friends will answer him when he says “I was once a Jew” with the remark made famous by the scientist, Steinmetz: “Yes? I myself was once a hunchback.”

Isidor Abramovich.

Bronx, N. Y.,

Jan. 20, 1935.

THE BURIAL RACKET

To the Editor, Jewish Daily Bulletin:

For the past twenty years three out of every four persons of the Jewish faith that have been buried in the city of New York pay an annual fee to the politicians of the city for the privilege of being buried in the city. In view of the fact that forty-five per cent of the city’s population are of the Jewish faith, why does this sordid sacrilegious racket exist? The perpetuation of this racket with the sanction of the people of the Jewish faith will eventually react to their detriment as citizens of the State of New York.

James T. M. Bleakley.

New York City,

Jan. 19, 1935.