Life — July 18, 1918 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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86 “The Jewish Mind in These States"—An Answer To tie Epitor or Lire—Sir: E. S. M. has made Lire the medium of imparting a marvelous discovery. Mrs. Rose Pastor Stokes represents to him “the Jewish mind in these States,” and (tell it not in Gath) “the Jewish mind is a totally different instrument from other minds that operate in these Stat Far be it from me to insinuate that M/s cerebrations possess the element of originality. ‘That would pain him, and, moreover, it would be untrue, for they differ not in the slightest degree from those of his mediaeval ancestors. Ac- cording to his psychology, any mental variant from the standard set by his par- ticular quality of gray matter forthwith condemns the possessor of any other brand of the serious crime of other- mindedness. Listen to his syllogism: Mrs. Stokes is a Jewess; she has no real national feeling; therefore the Jews have none, and their minds “deserve prayer- ful and attentive contemplation.” But Mrs. Stokes is not a Jewess. Her ancestors probably were. She has, how- ever, embraced and has been accepted by Christianity, and the half-baked social and economic theories which she has vo- ciferated in common with her non-Jewish husband and a brood of so-called Aryan professors, arc as far removed from Judaism as are the Soviets from the Brit- ish Parliament. Nor has she ever been recognized by the Jews as reflecting their ideas. To them she is a ance, and her views are r as the froth of hysteria. cause of the newspaper publicity attached to a sensational marriage that the world ever became aware of her existence. Having attained the eminence of a head- line heroine, she has been fed by notoriety, and has thus acquired the credentials for doing mischief, but obviously not from the Jews. “She has no real national feeling.” Granted, But is not jumping hurdles to deduce from such a premise that the ct, like the Balaam- , having come Jews have not? ites of every age, E to curse, has remained to bless, for he grudgingly concedes that “lots of Jews love the United States and are true sons of it.” Let the facts and statistics gathered from official sources tell their story. Al- though the Jews constitute but three per cent. of our population they have th furnished to our army and navy a quo of nearly six per cent. Their subscrip- tions to the various Liberty Loans and to the Red Cross have been far in excess of “TO THE BRAVEST OF THE BRAVE their proportion of the population and wealth of the country. By deed and word they have loyally supported. the government in every measure undertaken for the national defense. Their love for America is the more intense because of what America them. It opened to them the gates of hope and bestowed the sweets of liberty. “ But, ah!” says E.S. M,, in the thread- bare phrase of the Prussian anti-Semite and the Russian pogromist, “in the news- Papers the Jews arc an immense power ; has been to they are far above the average of intel- ligence and adaptability, and some of them are not good.” The implication is that all non-Jews are good, and that power, intelligence and adaptability are to be decried. He flays the Bolshevik d then raves in their very tongue What he hates in the Jews is that they are not all E. S. M.'s. He wrinkles his brow and shudders at the revolutionary Jews, ignoring that they, the Bundists, were the men who with Miliukov, Nek- rassov and Kerensky achieved the short