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Non-Jewish Names of Soldiers Make
Patriotic Gap.
Young Men Who Won Commissions at Training Camps
Change Jewish Sounding Names—Accounts for
Seeming Paucity of Jewish Officers in
Military Service.
In glancing over the names of the
men who won commissions at the
various training camps one finds,
seemingly, the names of Jews, "like
angels' visits," few and far between.
The inference formulated itself that
racial discrimination may have been at
the root of this. However, it was the
racial discrimination of our Jewish
young men to their own Jewish names
that accounts for this gap!
It seems that Jewish young men
disown or disavow their Jewish sur-
names when enlisting, and if present
war history does not exactly teem
with Jewish names it is because our
young men recast their names into a
more Anglo-Saxon mold. The son of
a prominent Zionist and writer is
known in camp by the unhebraic
pseudonym of "Carr"; another Jew-
ish young man shines under the non
de plume of "Russell"; Mr. Painkov-
sky prefers the more illustrious name
of "Paine," ad infinitum, and only
very few seem to stick to their
right names. These painful efforts to
change Jewish names into sonic non-
Jewish cognomen goes deeper than
the perfunctory flinging away of a
name. It hurts the Jew racially, for
when one looks over the army list,
instead of seeing a splendid roster of
Jewish names that reflect the patriot-
ism of our co-religionists, exemplified
in full measure, the serried rows of
non-Jewish names would make one
believe that very few Jews have re-
sponded to their country's call.
In England not so long ago two
voung men won the Victoria Cross
for unusual valor. The name of one
was Smith and the other Burke, and
only when it was revealed that Mr.
Smith had been Mr. Snitkowsky, and
Mr. Burke had been Mr. Berkowitz,
could the Jcws thrill with the con-
sciousness that it was their own flesh
and blood who had done their glori-
ous bit in their country's trial and
hardship and so shone in -the glory!
It will also be remembered that a few
years ago when Sammy Meisenberg
was brOught hack a hero it was dis-
closed that he had enlisted under the
name of Samuel Martin.
For many years the cry has been
flung at the J ew that he has not been
patriotic, but proud memories of pa-
triotic service by the Jew can hardly
be evoked by non-J ewish surnames.
The Jewish names that arc repudiated
are certainly no less euphonious than
Richardson, Russell, Carr, or Riley,
etc. The man who flounders when
giving a Jewish name may possess a
personality of the right stuff, but it
can only Ile reached under many flim
flans. A name is so valuable an
asset that men generally commit fel-
onies only under aliases or 'assumed
names, and penitentiaries mete out
punishment by taking away the dis-
tinguishing mark of a name from a
man and assigning him a number in-
stead.
It is more than an individual mat-
ter when Jews in the army and navy
cast off their Jewish names like one
would an old cloak, but they inci-
dentally toss away some grip of loy-
alty, sonic grip of reality, some drop
of Jewishness, that looms high and
higher with the years in the scale of
•
proportion.
We Jews have a hard task before
us in every country, and the cry that
the Jew is not a patriot is far-flung.
May it not be that this light renun-
ciation of Jewish-sounding names by
Jews in the army and navy is ac-
countable?
In serving one's country one may
add glory to one's name-. So why un-
link honor from a name that is spe-
cifically yours and weave it round
some meaningless, unrecognizable
name and thus discount the patriotic
traditions of our race?
To quote the immortal bard: "Who
steals my purse steals trash, but he
who takes awa" my good name steals
something immeasurably precious."
The Jewish young men by eliminating
their Jewish surnames are permitting
a slur to be cast on the patriotism of
the Jew in the army and navy.—
American Jewish World.
TRIBUTE TO NATHAN STRAUS
"The great war emergency is about
to take a heavy toll of the present
generation; but in the midst of the
horror and destruction all minds turn
Medical Journal Praises Work of
Milk Stations.
The following tribute to Nathan
Straus appears in the current issue of
the New York Medical Journal:
"There are in medicine few more
brilliant examples of cause and effect
than in the instance of pasteurization
of milk and the reduction of the in-
fant mortality. The credit for the
widespread application and popular-
ization of the fact of bacterial de-
strution in milk is all due to the ef-
forts of Nathan Straus. • Somehow
there . seems to be more in this
achievement than philanthropy in its
usual connotation. A great, broad
humanitarianism directed toward
that tenderest form of life, the young
baby, must have actuated the under-
taking. This, to our mind, is the
greatest type of real philanthropy; to
take the science of the laboratory and
to give to the people a 'definite, prac-
tical application by which they may
insure the lives of the new genera-
tion.
FAMOUS "JEWISH NEGRO"
GETS INTO TROUBLE.
Rufus Lewis Perry, a negro lawyer
of New York who held the unique
distinction of being a Democrat, mem-
ber of the Jewish faith, a Latin
scholar, an orator and a musician, has
been disbarred by the Appellate Divi-
sion of the Supreme Court.
The grievance committee of the
Brooklyn Bar Association complained
that Perry, who was widely known in
Brooklyn as a criminal lawyer,. had
forged the name of his father, now
dead, to a deed covering the title to
property in St. Mark's avenue, Brook-
lyn. The Kings county Grand Jury
sifted the charges and refused to find
an indictment. Then the grievance
committee had Patrick E. Callahan
named as a referee to take testimony
and report to the Appellate Division.
Perry's career has been remarkable.
He was graduated from the New York
University Law School, and is said to
be the only student who ever wrote
all his examination papers in Latin in
that institution. His faith in the Dem-
ocratic party was ardent, and he em-
braced the Jewish religion in 1912.
During the Cleveland Administra-
tion he was urged for the post of
United States Consul to Liberia, but
his youth prevented him from getting
the place. He tried to form a trust
company solely operated by negroes
in New York City in 191,3.
Capt. Louis F. Josephtlial has been
appointed by Governor Whitman chief
of the newly organized Bureau of
Naval Reserve for New York state. •
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to the future of peace and security
which the results of this war must
guarantee.. The new lives must be
more and more jealously guarded.
Long live Nathan Straus and the
spirit lie embodies, and may his milk
stations, saving and building up lives,
increase"
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