1974 and 1774 011 and Tea Contrasts
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, January 11, 1974-37
By DAVID SCHWARTZ
(Copyright 1974, JTA, Inc.)
In 1974 this country will
make a big ado about 1774.
Why epes 1774? What's the
difference between one year
and another. After all, a year
is a year, A year is 12
months, 52 weeks or 365 days
more or less. Every year is
the same number, A year is
the same in New York or
London, Peking or Tel Aviv.
In English we say year, in
Hebrew its shana, in Latin,
anno, but its all the same
thing. A year is a year.
So why shall we be recall..
ing 1774?
The country was smaller
then, to be sure, only about
3,000,000 people, about the
same population as Israel to-
day, and the Americans then
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were very ignorant of his-
tory. Most Americans didn't
know anything about Lincoln
or Roosevelt or Senator
Javits.
So again, why shall we re-
call 1774?
The answer is that it was
the year of a great energy
crisis. Americans in that
year swore off drinking tea,
and without a cup of tea in
the morning, how could they
have any energy?
1774 was the year of the
Boston Tea Party and that
was a climactic event of this
energy crisis. 1974 is the
200th anniversary of the Tea
Party.
It all started when a fellow
named George something or
other — we don't remember
his first name — it may have
been King — was the head
of an organization which
claimed to own America. It
wanted to make the rules for
America. It wanted to keep
all the manufacturing for it-
self and wanted America to
buy only its products, espe-
cially its tea, that is, the tea
of the East India Corpora-
tion, a huge organization, full
of corruption which even had
its own army.
But Americans wanted to
buy tea and the Americans
had little option. Either they
bought the British tea or no
tea.
But there was a man in
Boston named Adams. His
first name was Shmuel, or
Sam in the English transla-
tion. The British called him
Sam, The Psalm Singer. He
was very fond of singing
some of the songs of an old
Israel writer named David.
"The Lord is my shepherd,
I shall not want" was one of
the most popular of those
Israel songs.
Sam Adams told the Ameri-
cans, like the song said, they
should not want British tea.
He organized a party of Bos-
tonians who marched to the
wharf and dumped the Brit-
ish tea in. the harbor. It was
a hint to the British, but the
British thought his campaign
against tea would be a fail-
ure. One of their leaders
wrote that while the New
England. husbands might fol-
low his advice, the American
men were "hen pecked," and
the women who ruled the
roosts would not sacrifice
their little cups of tea.
But everyone knows the
result. One was American in-
dependence which came in
1776. The other was the
switch to coffee. It was after
1774 that people in America
began drinking coffee, in-
stead. The energy crisis was
solved.
Freedom of Religion
I am mortified to be told
that, in the United States of
America, the sale of a book
can become a subject of in-
quiry, and of criminal in-
quiry too, as an offense
against religion; that a ques-
tion like this can be carried
before the civil magistrate.
Is this then our freedom of
religion? — Thomas Jeffer-
son.
B-G Is Depicted on History Medal
NEW YORK—David Ben-
Gurion, founding father and
architect of the state of Is-
rael and its first prime min-
ister, is portrayed on a med-
al in the Medallic History of
the Jewish People series.
silver housing of the original
scroll of independence of the
state of Israel, and on the
reverse, the following legend
is inscribed: "David Ben-
Gurion (1886-1973). Led
struggle for Jewish Inde-
pendence in Palestine. First
Prime Minister and Defense
Minister of Israel. Headed
labor movement _renais-
sance."
For information on The
Medallic History of the Jew-
ish People and other offer-
ings of Judaic art, contact
The Judaic Heritage Society,
866 United Nations Plaza,
New York, NY 10017.
The medal, issue 106 of a
series of 12.0, was designed
for the Judaic Heritage Soci-
ety by Oscar Harris. Sculpted
by Jim Ponter, it was struck
by the Franklin Mint in ster-
ling silver and solid bronze.
The obverse of the medal
portrays Ben-Gurion with the
Tribute to Jewry
The Jews are probably the
greatest of all peoples. Has
any other so persistently pro-
duced an almost ceaseless
string of great men for three
or four thousand years? Has
any other produced so many
great men in proportion to
its numbers? Certainly no
other, unless it be the Chi-
nese, have so consistently
maintained a prominent posi-
tion for millennium after mil-
lennium. — Ellsworth Hunt-
ington, in "Pulse of Prog-
ress."
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