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The conviction that Senator James Reed’s role as chief counsel for Henry Ford will not enhance his chances as an aspiring Presidential candidate, is expressed by the “Jewish Morning Journal.”
The paper, in its editorial of Mar. 15, draws an analogy between Reed’s activities in connection with the recent “filibuster” in the Senate and his activity on the Ford defense. “In both cases,” the paper remarks, “one cannot charge him with a direct guilt. In the Senate he was only indirectly responsible for the ‘filibuster’ which deprived Congress of an opportunity to do useful work in the last few days of its session. What he did had on the surface an appearance of innocence and even of virtue. Nevertheless, it was his obstinacy that caused the ‘filibuster’ and the unpleasant results for which he is being blamed.
“The same is true of his role as Ford counsel. Perhaps a lawyer cannot be expected to reject a client, especially when that client is regarded as the richest man in the world. But this ‘case,’ just as his obstinacy in the last few days of the Congress session makes a bad impression. A man who is aspiring for the Presidency of the U. S. should have sought other business than to align himself with foolish prejudice and defend activities which are viewed by millions of Americans, besides the Jews, with contempt.”
THE ROSENWALD LIBRARY AT LUXOR
The establishment of an archaeological library at Luxor, Egypt, through funds supplied by Julius Rosenwald, is the subject of comment in the New York “Sun” of March 15. The paper says:
“American experts established themselves permanently today amid the ruins of Thebes, when Professor James Breasted opened the new archaeological library at Luxor, which was built with money supplied by Julius Rosenwald of Chicago and furnished with its first books and endowed by the General Educational Board of New York.
“Those who talk about the ‘materialism of America’ can find little to justify their theory by contemplating what has been done in making the waste lands healthful or in comporting a dead yet ever living civilization to give up its secrets.”
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