In an effort to placate public opinion here which has been aroused at the New Chamberlain Hotel’s advertised objection to anything but a Gentile clientele, J. Wesley Gardner, general manager, has issued a statement in which he justifies the advertising on the ground that it is no different from that indulged in by Jewish hotels which advertise they are “kosher.”
Mr. Gardner’s statement is in answer to criticism hurled at the hotel’s anti-Jewish policy by Rabbi Louis D. Mendoza, of Norfolk, and United States Senators Carter Glass and Harry Flood Byrd. Senator Byrd, in a letter to President Roosevelt, recently requested Federal action against the hotel which is located on a government reservation at Old Point Comfort.
“Shall I be denied the right,” Gardner complains, “to advertise the policy of my hotels while the Jewish have the right to advertise the policy of their exclusive hotels where they cater to an exclusive patronage? Many of their hotels advertise ‘kosher’ or ‘dietary laws
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