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Published Weekly by The Jewish Chronicle Publiehing to., lee.
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July 22, 1927
Tammuz 22, 5887
Taking Inventory.
Now that Mr. Ford has apologized for what he did
not do and we have forgiven him on his promise never
to do it again, it would be well to pause for a moment
to reflect on the whole episode and take stock of our
points of strength and weakness.
It seems to us that the most useful lesson we can
learn from the events of the last week is to realize that
the Jew in America has never been fully aware of his
strength. Those who had anything to do with the var-
ious anti-defamation efforts that were put forth to coun-
teract the anti-Semitism of the Dearborn Independent
will remember the general feeling of helplessness and
the sense of futility that pervaded most Jewish leader-
ship in America.
Many Jewish leaders refused to take a single step
in the direction of retaliation of any kind. Some of
those who counselled silence or indifference were sin-
cerely convinced that such an attitude constituted an
effective form of protest—that inaction was the wisest
course of action to take against it. These men are now
convinced that recent events have vindicated their judg-
ment, although they would have a little difficulty in
proving that their indifference was even a minor factor
in bringing Mr. Ford to terms. Other men who ad-
hered to the policy of ignoring Ford did so for less
subtle reasons. They believed that it would be futile
for the Jew to attempt retaliation. That it was useless
to "talk back" to a billionaire. That the Jew in Amer-
ica was weak and helpless and that any attempt to
"answer" Mr. Ford or the Dearborn Independent
would only give more publicity to the issue and result
in even more virulent attacks.
Many such Jews—leaders of public opinion whose
only reason for ignoring Ford was their cowardice and,
in many cases, their fear of personal loss—are now try-
ing to convince us that their attitude all along was die-
tated by profound considerations of strategy—that they
ignored Ford not because they were afraid or because
they underestimated their strength but because they
knew all the time that the policy of indifference was
sure to bring him to terms sooner or later. Of course
all this is nothing more than the wisdom of afterthought
—post factum prophesy.
The plain truth is that most of the Jewish leaders
in America underestimated the strength of the Jew in
.An exaggerated and totally:.trutit-( :1_for
this con riLly.,._
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"respect for the power of iii5116ris- lhe principle reason
for this general tendency on the part of our leaders to
underestimate our strength. It should have been per-
fectly obvious to them that even Mr. Ford's billion did
not prevent the press of this country from taking a per-
fectly sensible attitude towards the Dearborn Independ-
ent and its anti-Semitism by refusing to reprint its libels.
Yet they were for the most part blind to this fact and
continued to assert that Mr. Ford controlled the press
and the Jew was helpless in the face of his power and
influence.
If the public repudiation and apology of Mr. Ford
will do no more than awaken the Jewish leadership of
America to our actual strength and prevent a recur-
rence of the cowardly "indifference" that marked its
attitude towards anti-Semitism in the past, it will have
redounded to our good fortune.
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Wanted: More Apologies.
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While we are on the subject of formal apologies for
discrimination and prejudice we are in the mood to
make a few suggestions. There are still a few rough
spots to iron out between Jew and Gentile but. while
we are waiting for the amende honorable of Theodor
Fritsch, the llakenkreuzler and the Awakening Mag-
yars, we can do a little belated apologizing amoung our-
selves.
We respectfully submit that we arc in the market
to receive and publish the formal apologies of :
1. The American-born and Americanized Jew to
his immigrant brother for having sneered at his old-
world mannerisms and called him a "kike."
2. German-Jew to the East-European Jew for hav-
ing excluded him, regardless of personal merit, from
his social circle, his clubs, his lodges and his intimate
acquaintanceship.
3. The Best Families and the Best People to all the
rest of us for having fallen into the sin of false pride
and adopted the "swell home," the limousine and the
expensive fur coat, rather than the qualities of the
heart and the head, as their criteria of human values.
4. The Reform Jew to the Conservative Jew and
the Orthodox Jew for having regarded his shade of be-
lief and his forms of worship as "the Jewish religion."
5, The Conservative Jew to the Reform Jew and the
Orthodox Jew for having regarded his shade of belief
and his forms of worship as "the Jewish religion,"
6. The Orthodox Jew to the Conservative Jew and
the Reform Jew for having regarded his shade of belief
and his forms of worship as "the Jewish religion."
7. Everyone of us to all the rest of us for having
thought of Jews as divided into two kinds—"our kind"
and "the other kind."
We promise to give wide publicity to any such apol-
ogies that we may receive and we hope they will be real
apologies—not mere repudiations.
We cannot plead that these maters have not been
called to our attention or that we have been unaware
of their full significance. Perhaps, after we shall have
made these belated apologies and set a fashion for con-
fession, we may yet see the public apologies of the Bel-
ment of Roumania!
Speaking of Anti•Semitism-
The "News" of Nashville, Michigan, a village of
perhaps 2,000 population in Barry County just south
of Grand Rapids carried in its issue of June 23 the ad-
vertisement of a grocer's sale. Messrs. Quick and Bean
— that was the firm name—were desirous of disposing
of a slowly-moving stock of tomatoes, succotash, hom-
iny, saner kraut and other such delicacies, so they de-
cided to cut prices and advertise a sale—"for Saturday
only." The enterprising Messrs. Quick and Bean of
the up-and-coming village of Nashville, however, were
apparently a little doubtful about the attractiveness of
their prices. They were afraid that the buying public
of Nashville might fail to realize how low their prices
really were. So they hit upon a brilliant idea to impart
more "smash" to their advertising copy. In bold, black
type a half-inch high, they headed their advertisement
— JEW PRICES.
It has occurred to us to communicate with Messrs.
Quick and Bean and express the gratitude of the Jew-
ish public of Michigan for the splendid tribute to our
people in being thus made the very sign and symbol of
"good values" and "reasonable prices." But, on sec-
ond thought, it occurs to us that without a doubt the
compliment was unintentional. Of course neither Mr.
Quick nor Bean have the slightest idea that such an ad
has appeared in the Nashville News. In the multitude
of their activities they have no doubht been obliged to
delegate authority in these matters to Skippy the bun-
dle boy or Belinda the "scrub-lady."
So we have decided to "ignore" the matter and trust
to the ultimate triumph of truth and justice. Some day,
when business is not so good in the vegetable emporium
of Messrs. Quick and Bean and they have a little time
to direct their personal attention to this subject, they
will undoubtedly be duly and deeply mortified on learn-
ing that their advertising copy has been made the means
of complimenting the Jewish merchant on his gener-
osity and his spirit of public service. When that time
comes we are confident that the innate manliness and
the sublime courage of Messrs. Quick and Bean will
move them to repudiate the advertising technique of
Skippy the bundle boy or Belinda the "scrub lady" and
ask our forgiveness through the good offices of the larg-
est possible newspaper syndicate.
Concerning Mr. Sapiro.
It may not be, as .some have hastened to suggest,
that Aaron Sapiro's libel suit was the direct cause of
Mr. Ford's recantation, Editorial comment in the Anglo-
Jewish press tends to evade any consideration of Mr.
Ford's motives but there is a general agreement that
the motives are many and mixed. Ford's desire to end
the Sapiro libel suit was undoubtedly one of the motives
behind his retraction.
What interests us more than Mr. Ford's motives,
however, is the changed attitude of the Jewish public
towards Mr. Sapiro since Ford's letter of apology was
it is betraying no confidence nor reVeaiing
any secret to point out that Jewish opinion has not been
unanimously favorable to Mr. Sapiro. Perhaps the gen-
eral Jewish public was sympathetic towards Mr. Sa-
piro and hoped for his triumph over Ford and the Dear-
born Independent but Jewish leaders—those "outstand-
ing Jews" in every community without whom nothing
is said or done—were even a litle hostile towards the
suit.
Anglo-Jewish editors throughout the country will
testify to the fact that these "outstanding" Jewish lead-
ers in their communities (lid not encourage them to take
Mr. Sapiro's cause very' seriously or offer him more than
passive support editorially. Ilad Mr. Ford not made
his apology and the case been tried again and ultimate-
ly ended in failure for Sapiro, these "Jewish leaders"
would have been the first to cry, "I told you so." Had
the case ended successfully for Mr. Sapiro they would
have been the first to hail him as a champion of Jewish
rights, They were on the fence, ready to jump to
either side.
In this half-hearted, over-cautious, wishy-washy at-
titude towards Mr. Sapiro and his libel suit we see one
more evidence of the deplorable short-sightedness of
Jewish leadership in America. They can say all the
brave things they please now about "the ultimate tri-
umph of truth and justice," and praise Mr. Sapiro for
his courageous defense of his rights as a Jew and a cit-
izen, but they cannot blind us to the fact that they gave
him precious little support in the hour of his trial and
counselled the rest of us to "wait and see what hap-
pens."
Growing Pains.
Rabbi Israel Goldstein in a paper that he read before
the annual rabbinical assembly of the Jewish Theologi-
cal Seminary at Asbury Park. N. J., recently said:
It is a confusing situation which is bound to work to
the detriment of the Conservative party. As Orthodoxy
becomes more conservatized and Reform Judaism . . .
retraces its steps . . . with greater emphasis upon cere-
m o ny in the synagogue and in the imam . . . what will
he left for the Conservative Jew to do? How will he be
distinguished from the other two? Thus comes (he dan-
ger of losing on both wings, on the right, on the left. Re-
form becomes chastened and Orthodoxy becomes preened.
We can understand why the Jew should strive to
retain forms of worship and habits of thought that dis-
tinguish him from the Gentile but it is not so clear to us
why one group of Jews should be so eager to distinguish
itself in these particulars for any other group of Jews.
The confusing problem that vexes Rabbi Goldstein
may be a vital problem to the conservative rabbinate
but it is of no more than passing interest to those Jews
who are more interested in the preservation of Juda-
ism than they are in the preservation of the "conserva-
tive party" or, for that matter, any other party. Is it not
possible that the pains that grieve Rabbi Goldstein are
the growing pains of the new American Judaism that
many are now looking forward to. Does not the pro-
gress of American Judaism wait upon the fusion of
"wings" and "parties?" Doubtless there are many
who will take this view of the matter and refuse to be-
come alarmed over the plight of Conservative Judaism
that gives Rabbi Goldstein so much cause fur concern,
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Here are a couple of good ones that F. P. A. gets off
in his column in the Conning Tower, in the New York
World:
Then here's to the village of Dearborn,
A town of harmonious chords,
Where the Fords are fond of the Levys
And the Levys are fond of the Fords.
And the second one:
Well, as we understand the situation, what Mr.
Ford wants to say, paraphrasing Irving Berlin, is:
Against my wishes
I once was "rishus."
Well, everybody is still guessing, but I think the an-
swer will go down in history us one of the unsolved
mysteries, like 'flow Old Was Ann?" However, several
worthy gentlemen managed to extract considerable free
advertising out of Mr. Ford's confession.
This at least should spike one of the stories that is
going the rounds. Nathan 1). Perlman is a former Con-
gressman and a vice-president of the American Jewish
Congress. He is the man that the Ford representatives
approached, and he it was who took them to Mr. Mar-
shall's (office. And Mr. Perlman sat in 1m every confer-
ence regarding the Ford retraction. So here we have
definite evidence that should be of interest to our readers.
The following telegram was received on July 13:
('harks H. Joseph:
Telegram re Ford. Settlement of Sapiro's suit
was in no way involved in the retraction of Mr.
Ford,
Which of course knocks the theories of sonic etf our
critics into a cocked hat.
For the first time in the history of the Bar Associa-
tion of l'ennsylvania, a Jew has been chosen as one of
its higher officers. This distinction has been conferred
upon Joseph Stadtfeld, Esq., of Pittsburgh, who was
elected vice-president. Only recently, Mr. Stadtfeld was
elected president of the Allegheny County Bar Associa-
tion (which includes the Pittsburgh district). This ought
to give those of our co-relegionists who worry about the
handicap of their religion something to think about—in
the event they have in mind entering the profession of
law. Mr. Stadtfeld won these outstanding honors on
sheer merit and they were richly deserved.
There has been considerable talk lately that Jews
from Germany who come to this country must declare
their "race" to the immigration authorities. It is said
that "German citizens of the Jewish faith" (I am quot-
ing the exact language) claim that they are discriminated
against in not being permitted to state that they are Ger-
mans, and that when the term "Hebrew" or "Jew" is
used, that it refers to their religion. There is nobody
on the face of the earth who can elute: the misunder-
standing that exists as to whether a Jew is a member
of a race or at member of a religious group. So far as I
ant concerned, I find that the more our leaders talk
about it, the more mixed up they become. And if we
cannot solve the puzzle we surely have no right to expect
the Gentiles to du it.
Racial Jews sneer at the attitude taken by other Jews
that they are members of a religious community and that
they are Jews by religion and not by race. In the Zionist
movement that statement is discredited because there
we have the racial and nationalistic phases emphasized.
There are Jews who don't believe in any religion. Well,
are they Jews are are they not? Until we have sense
enough to answer that question to our own satisfaction
we should stop bothering others every time they meet up
with that question and don't scene able to answer it. I
suggest that all the rabbinical organizations hold a joint
conference and thresh the subject until they tell us who
we are and what we are. I don't know, and after 25
years in Jewish journalism, I have not yet met anyone
who can tell me.
Thank you, Mr. Rosenthal. I just needed the ap-
pended article of yours, in the Modern View of St. Louis,
to fill up my column this week, because this hot weather
has played havoc with me. In justice to Mr. Rosenthal,
editor of the Modern View, I feel that this article should
appear in this column, as the criticism of his Palestinian
articles first appeared here.
THE EDITOR AND CRITIC!
(Note:—In Random Thoughts this week, the
clever Mr. Joseph gives space to words of some
unknown critic of the editor, about his views of
Palestine. Some scraps of the were read and re-
sented by this anonymous critic. He has been
reading Jewish matter for 30 years and therefore
ought to know everything concerning Jewish life
and thought without a possibility of an infallibil-
ity! Timidly, but desperately, we make attempts
at a reply —Editor, the Modern View.)
Every writer is doomed in advance to please
and to displease. Every Eddie Guest and Charles
II. Joseph are so included. Why then should the
obscure editor of the Modern View be an excep-
tion or immune?
They gave Sacrates the hemlock. Savanrola
suffered and many more. Bittersweet is every
writer's life. lie must take with equal equanimity
the brickbats and bouquets of critics and admirers.
Ileigh-ho!
Our unknown, absent critic rails at us, al-
though he does not know us. He never heard our
name. Ile never read our writings. What a com-
petent judge he is by his own free confession! He
is about as capable of judging us as Ilenry Ford
was qualified to judge the Jewish people! Such
is life!
In order to convince our amiable and justice-
loving but anonymous back-biting critic that we
told the truth, both good and bad, regarding Pales-
tine, Jerusalem and Zionism, we now offer
through Mr. Joseph's column any of the following
methods of argument and proof for our dear
critic's kind acceptance.
We ask him to please order by number—as
they do a preferred combination breakfast at the
coffee houses in America, as he probah!y reads his
prolific matter in such places. The propositions
are as follows:
1. Pistols at ten pace, with Charles II. Joseph
as our second. Dead man to be proved wrong
about Jerusalem and Palestine.
2. Ten rounds with four-ounce gloves on the
field of Gettysburg.. Gate receipts to the winner.
Victory to prove correctness of the'winner's views
on Palestine and Jerusalem.
3. A joint trip of the critic and editor to Pal-
estine, at the critic's expense. Both are to visit
all the synagogues and the coffee houses, on the
theory that sometimes more can be learned in
coffee houses than in certain synagogues. Home
trip to be in Levine's airship—if he goes!
4. Critic to edit Dearborn Independent nr any
Jewish paper for one month and to pay a fine of
SI.000 for each and every reader whom he fails to
please or who may sneer at what he writes, no
matter how sincerely it is written. Here's his
chance!
5. Critic to write his views on Palestine, Jeru-
salem and Zionism, if he was ever in Palestine,
and competent jury to compare same with all the
matter written by the editor of the Modern View,
favorable or otherwise. Loser to go to Jerusa-
lem and be compelled to live in the congested
Jewish quarter for five years, inhaling the odors
and hearing the turmoil, and afterward to labor
for the reel of his life on one of the starving and
struggling Jewish colonies as a pioneer and never
return to America! Critic loaes, as we think he
will. We await his choice of diet and decision!
Poor critic! How we wish he was an editor.
Editorial Views On Ford Statement
Gleaned From Anglo-Jewish Papers
The Jewish Criterion.
Pittsburgh, Pa.
—Joseph Palma, a secret service-
tective suggested it to Mr. Ford.
--Mr. Ford did not want to appear
On the witness stand in the Sa-
piro case.
--Mr. Ford Made retraction as a
part of a deal to settle the Sapiro
case.
—To settle the Herman Bernstein
libel suit.
—Mr. Coolidge wants to be presi-
dent again.
—Mr. Ford wanted to be president
himself.
—Mr. Louis Marshall represented
Sapiro and the Jewish people of
America.
—Sic. Ford was very much worried
over loss to his business.
—Mr. Ford was prevailed upon by
his family to make the apology.
—A year ago Mr. Edsel Ford of-
fered to half finance certain im-
provements in Palestine, and
tried to prevail on his father to
withdraw front his anti-Semitism.
—Mr. Earl Davis, former assistant
attorney general of the United
Statev, was responsible.
—Mr. Gallagher, Mr. Sapiro's coun-
sel, helped Mr. Ford Ste the light.
In the interest of truth and jus-
tice, and for the benefit of those
members of our community who al-
low their emotions to get the better
of their judgment, we can say this
That Mr. Ford's apology was in no
way involved in tile settlement of
Mr. Sapiro's suit, and we have in
our possession a telegram from one
if the four men in the conference
attesting this fact.
Reform Advocate,
Chicago, Ill.
What Mr. Ford ought to do to
redress the wrong we would not
dare say. We, hutohle editors, can-
not enter into competition with the
lawyers and financiers. But very
humbly we would like to suggest
that the pages of the Dearborn in-
dependent carry the statement that
the daily papers carried. We would
like to suggest that Henry Ford
should send to every one of his sub-
scribers a copy of a history of the
.lewish people. To Mr. Ford this
emitted be so very expensive. He
might commission Mr. Cameron for
the declining years, of his life to
spend. in the composition of a "His-
tory of Intolerance." If we will
not to be taken to task for being a
hook agent we might suggest that
Stranger than Fiction is a better
book to semi out than the new His-
tory of the Jews, published by the
.lewish Publication Soriety.
The Jewish Chronicle.
Newark, N. J.
Since Israel was innocent of the
charges, it was only natural that
stainer or later something had to
happen to clear the Jewish name
of the outrageous charges that had
been published against us. Many
times the editorials of The Jewish
Chronicle stressed titio attitude,
calling attention to the futility of
the schemes which noire powertut
foes in history than Henry Ford
have tried in vain to organize
against us. Indeed, no weapons
that crafty and malicious and re-
sourceful enemies have ever forged
to do us harm have ever prospered,
thanks to the plan and purpose, the
guidance and protection of our
Just and Loving God.
The Jewish Chronicle has many
times condemned lienry Ford for
supporting a paper which could so
unjustly treat the ,lees. But we
were always of the opinion that
ilenry Ford is honest, though mis-
gUideid. He meant well, but he was
the victim of clever propagandists
who had used him as a tool, at one
Hale to help the Teutonic calve with
his Ark of Peace and at another to
hurt America by injecting anti-
Semitism in our national life.
Mr. Ford's apology is belated, it
ja true, but it is never to late to
rectify an evil whenever it is recog-
nized. The Jewish people will ac-
cept it as an honest effort to make
some restitution for a great wrong
done to them.
The Intermountain Jewish
News,
I auver, cob.
The penitent sinner who comes to
Israel comes to the right place.
As Louis Marshall has already
said for all of us, the trait of for-
giving is one which Israel has had
to cultivate fora long time It is
a condition of all the good gospels
of frank confession of that for
which he would be forgiven.
For any wrongs of which he has
learned only recently; for any
statements which have lust shocked
and surprised him; fur all that
Henry Ford may have cause,' as un-
intentionally — Ford may regard
himself as having been forgiven
long ago. But does Ford expect to
get by with such camouflage of the
true state of affairs.
The Jewish Times.
Baltimore, Mel.
We, t00, of course, are deeply af-
Gaited by the apology, and like the
rest of our people, we, tie, a•eept
the proffered hand of peace. Frank-
ly, however, we are not wholly con-
vinced of the sincerity of the apol-
ogy. Continously there came up
before us, like Hamlet's ghost, to
haunt us, the political ambitions of
the man and his advisors, his fear
of app e aring in court in the libel
suits against him, and what at the
moment looms even larger, the shad-
ow of the new Ford automobile, up-
on which his company has so much
at stake.
To what extent will Ford's state-
ment repair the damage that lie has
done? It is a truism that a retrae-
lion can never catch up with a libel.
The Dearborn Independent and the
pamphlets on The International
Jew have been circulated in count-
less copies in every part of the
country. Translated into every
European language, they have been
assiduously spread over the entire
world and have furnished the basis
for greatly stimulating anti-Sem . -
tiam in many countries. After M
Ford's naively grandiose- epilogs'
will have ceased to he a seven days'
wonder, the forged lies which he
knowingly or unknowingty,or
employes have circulated through
his publications and by means of
his money, will still be recalled and
read and accepted as true, and the'r
effect will remain, notwithstanding
any protest or correction that may
he undertaken by us or by anyone
else, or even by Mr. Ford himself.
As for us, we must still wonder,
but We must nevertheless obey the
rabbinical command to judge every
man according to the scale of merit.
We. must recognize that, whereas
many have slandered us. Ford is
among the very few who have had
the manliness to admit error and to
express regret.
The Jewish Independent.
Cleveland, Ohio.
A very definite and tangibly
method of translating that assur-
ance into action is at hand. In the
period when the pro Nordicimmi-
gration policy was the burden of
hectic Nordic propaganda endeav-
or, Henry Ford's publication, then
in the midst of its anti-Semitic
vaporings, lent vigorous support to
the plan of enacting legislation
which would practically bar all but
Nordic peoples. Attacks upon Jew-
ish immigration were included in it
Dearborn Ilidelitinlent screed en-
titled "The Alien Flood that Perils
America's Future" and in similar
effusions.
An immigration policy which was
based upon the outrageous and li-
belous post-war propaganda ascer-
tion that Anglo-Saxon or Nordic
peoples are superior to all other
racial elements thus received the
active approval of the journalist
gentlemen whose defamatory
screeds Mr. Ford flask' repudiates.
If Mr. Ford should now disavow
that particular effort along wills
the rest and take a positive stand
for the old tried and true American
policy of taelal and religious equal-
ity in imigration regulation as in
all other phases of American life,
he would be manifesting friendship
and good will not only to American
Jews but to the millions of Ameri-
cans of Slavic Latin and other or-
igins whose racial steal is also
grossly assailed by the present ilis-
discriminatory quota plan.
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The Chicago Chronicle,
Ilenry Ford's apology to the
Jews is a remarkable document. If
it had been tittered years ago-- a
few weeks or months after F'ord's
Dearborn independent began its at-
taeks on the Jews—it would have
been accepted at its face valtai.N1r.
Ford's plea that the multiplicity of
his activities load him ignorant 44
what his publication was doing
would at that time have appeared
fairly' reasonble. But for gr. Ford
to say now that he has just learned
that the Jews regard him as their
enemy to say tho least, astound-
'ile is "mortified" to :ea...
that his publication has been eotte-
Mg fiction as fact Alitl forgery alp
evidence.
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It is a remarkable fact that the
only enemy really remembered by
the Jews is Haman, the Persian.
The rest have been swept away in-
to the' findo of time and events.
The Jewish people in the United
States have always had the highest
respect and affection fur Sir. Fard
until his strange campaign in the
Independent. The Jewish capacity-
for forgiveness is large: the mis-
deeds of Henry Ford will find a
safe sanctuary there.
Buffalo Jewish Review.
We are glad as much for the
sake of litany Ford as we are for
our own Jews. His out ragieous at-
tacks unon th• Jewish people de-
tracted from his Nahae as at man
who should the all in his flOWer to
further the foetid of mankind. It
stamped him as unworthy of being
considered as a great man, great
because of his achievements in his
particular field of endeavor.
IVe. Jews seek no qua s ar I with
anyone. Henry Ford has retracted,
has ninthe a public apology for the
wrong. done by him to Jews. We
accept the apology in the spirit in
which is uttered and forgive him.
Let there be peace now.—h, I,. it.
The Jewish Exponent.
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Philadelphia, l'a.
The Jewish people will find it
quite difileult to exculpate Ford in
this matter. It is impossible to be-
lieve that he was kept in ignorance
of the facts, which have be•come the
property of the world. We shall
have to exercise the virtue of char-
ity and make ourselves believe that
knowing the facts, Ford did not re-
alize fully their implication ale!
(he damage that they were sluing.
The frank and apparently sin-
cere declaration made by him no,
cannot but have a !nest beneficial
effect in clarifying the atmosphere
and removing the blight on the good
name of America which this prop-
aganda has brought about. It will
be a bitter pill to the many enemies
of Israel in this and in other lands,
who fed their animosities on the
Gets and figures served to them in
this publication.
The Jewish Ledger.
New Orleans, La.
However, the excuse which Ford
offers for his former conduct ap-
pears very strange indeed. His
claims to have had no knowledge 14
the nature of the articles which
have been published in the Dear-
born Independent all these seven
years; he wan unaware, he say's,
of any harm which these articles
might have caused, and he knew
nothing about any criticism which
the articles in the Independent had
elicited. In fact, he has just learn-
ed, he wants an to believe, that the
,lows regard him in any other light
than that of their friend.
These statements do not by any
means look Kosher.
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