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 MAX SCHRUT for quality photographs and fast service call me at . BLAIR-KEITH STUDIO 1Weddings, Bar Mitzvas come to your hoe with samples 3 (141.-91 1 1 or 895-8805 STOREWIDE SALE 1/2 OFF & FOR PRE-TEENS & JUNIORS UP TO MORE IN OAK PARK 23133 COOLIDGE NORTH OF 9 MILE RD. PHONE 545-3242 OPEN THURSDAYS TIL 9 P.M. 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? 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