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To the Editor, Jewish Daily Bulletin:
Stories like that one in today’s Jewish Daily Bulletin, in which General Charles H. Sherrill quotes a group of “prominent Jews” as advising their fellow religionists to skulk about in artificial obscurity and to abstain from running for public office lest their importance in the national picture incite a dangerous spread of anti-Semitism, make me more than a little ill.
Of course, I don’t believe General Sherrill. I think he’s putting words in the mouths of others—you’ll notice he doesn’t name them—as a pretext for expressing his own opinions, which to me and to any other Jew with even a faint glow of spirit in his make-up are utterly disgusting.
Barney Edelstein.
Canarsie, N. Y.,
Jan. 7, 1935.
LOGICAL MINDS
To the Editor, Jewish Daily Bulletin:
One thing I admire about Jews is their logical minds.
While other peoples are mobilizing for action of one sort or another, the Jew does nothing hasty. His leaders gather together in groups, squabble a little in a genteel way, discussing every conceivable problem facing Jewry, view all situations judiciously and with painstaking justice, and eventually arrive at a well-thoughtout conclusion, which invariably is a masterpiece of beautiful theoretical construction.
Meanwhile, much may have happened. A limb or two of the body of Jewry may have been lopped off by nasty, illogical people like Hitler and his boys.
But what difference does that make? The Jew wins the argument. If nothing else, he achieves a moral victory—even though the award may be posthumous.
Dr. E. B. Yudis.
Orange, N. J.,
Jan. 6, 1935.
A WARNING
To the Editor, Jewish Daily Bulletin:
It seems to me Jews in this country had better be careful. We’re putting ourselves forward too much. I feel we ought to be satisfied to take more of a back seat, or next thing you know we’ll find ourselves in a position similar to the one faced by our brothers in other countries. It’s better to live the long life of a conformist than to die young as a martyr, if you ask me.
Simon Wilensky.
Newark, N. J.,
Jan. 6, 1935.
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