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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
14 April 9, 1976
Religion and the Presidency, Strangers or Good Friends?
Dan Yessian Assoc. Presents
BY DAVID SCHWARTZ
BANDS! BANDS! BANDS!
(Copyright 1976, JTA, Inc.)
Minnesota is a great
state. It has more Swedes
and lakes than any other
state and it is also the home
state of Hubert Humphrey.
Also, it is the home state
of the distinguished editor
emeritus, Leon H. Frisch.
We have a very interest-
ing and amusing letter from
Frisch telling of a little af-
fair in honor of Humphrey
given by the Minnesota
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The members and officers of
Detroit Businessmen's Group
City of Hope
ask you to rejoice with them
in the blessings for a
nit kein chynik (don't chop
a tea kettle). They want
you to say something when
you talk, but by all means
talk. Only dictators like
people to be silent.
We are impressed by an-
other thing about Sen.
Humphrey. In a little dia-
logue the other day with
Allan Greenspan, the eco-
nomic adviser to President
Ford, the senator said he
knew a certain thing be-
cause of his experience as a
pharmacist.
By profession he is a
pharmacist. Most Presi-
Yeshiva U. Marks
dents have been lawyers —
New Law School
or generals. It is perhaps
NEW YORK — U.S. Su- natural that many should
preme Court Justice Lewis be lawyers, but Thomas Jef-
F. Powell, Jr., U.S. Attor- ferson thought there were
too many lawyers in govern-
ney General Edward H. ment. It is easy to under-
Levi, Israel's Ambassador to
the United Nations Chaim stand also why generals are
Herzog, attorney and civic often elected. At the end of
war they are left without
leader Morris B. Abram and a a job
and the public always
Henry L. Schwartz, presi-
feels
a
bit sorry for the un-
dent of the Brookdale Foun- employed.
Andrew Johnson
dation will be awarded hon- was a tailor.
was a
orary doctoral degrees at a lawyer, but he Lincoln
had
also
been
convocation Sunday at the
New York Hilton Hotel, cel- a rail splitter and a store-
And if Washington
ebrating the opening of keeper.
was
a
general,
he was also a
Yeshiva University's new
Benjamin N. Cardozo farmer.
Perhaps it would be a
School of Law.
good
thing to have a phar-
Benjamin N. Cardozo
for President. He
School of Law, chartered in macist
might
know
right medi-
1974, joins Yeshiva Univer- cine for a sick the
economy.
sity's network of five under-
One interesting thing
graduate and seven gradu-
about
the present Presi-
ate schools. It is named to
honor the memory of the dential race is the variety
U.S. Supreme Court Justice of religions of the candi-
who served the high court dates. For the first time in
from 1932 until his death in American history, there is
an avowed Jewish candi-
1938.
Justice Cardozo, 50 years date, Governor Milton
ago, was elected Chief Judge Shapp of Pennsylvania.
of the New York State Court Equally striking is the
of Appeals, serving in that emergence of a Mormon
capacity until his elevation candidate, Morris Udall.
About a century back,
to the Supreme Court.
Mormons were harrassed.
finally decided to be-
Liberty Fighter They
come Zionists and establish
I doubt that. I deserve the their own homeland. It is a
laurel wreath, for poetry fact that they even consid-
has always been merely an ered emigrating to Pales-
instrument with me, a sort tine. They sent a delegation
of divine plaything. If you to the Promised Land to in-
would honor me, lay a vestigate. They finally de-
sword rather than a wreath cided that this was not feas-
upon my coffin, for I was, ible for them. So they went
above all else, a soldier in out in the far West, where
the war for the liberation of they developed their own
country, Utah. There was no
mankind.
—Henrich Heine United Nations then, so
Press Club. Humphrey was
"kidded" about his talka-
tiveness. Humphrey, it
seems, admitted the charge.
Reminiscing about the past,
he said, "In the 28 years I
have been in Washington,
millions of words have been
spoken in Congress, most of
them by myself."
The senator, of course,
is not a Jew, but talking is
very popular among Jews.
"For Zion's sake," said
the Prophet, "I shall not
be silent." Jews say, hakh
.
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they weren't hampered too
much.
The state became a suc-
cess. Lincoln's secretary of
state thought their social
program the most advanced
in the nation, but they were
for a long time still looked
upon queerly. But now be-
hold, a Mormon candidate
for the Presidency is taken
quite casually.
When Benjamin Disraeli
ran for Parliament he asked
a man for his support. The
latter said, "I would rather
vote for the Devil than for
you."
If your friend is not a can-
didate," replied Disraeli,
"can I hope for your sup-
port?"
Washington was an
elder of the Episcopal
Church, but he wasn't too
much of a church- goer.
However, he was not criti-
cized on that score. He was
criticized for going to the
theater too often. But
Thomas Jefferson had to
stand a good deal of criti-
cism.
The opponents of Jeffer-
son spread the story that if
he were elected, he would
have all the Bibles of the
country burned: Andrew
Jackson, running for the
President, was called an
atheist; and Lincoln had to
face criticism for what was
believed were his too liberal
views. When he ran for Con-
gress, his opponent, a
preacher, after describing
hell, turned to Lincoln and
said: "Mr. Lincoln, where
are you going?"
"Brother Cartweight,"
replied Lincoln, "I am going
to Congress."
But the country has seen
a diminution of the reli-
gious narrowness. Al
Smith was defeated be-
cause he was a Catholic
but John Kennedy was
elected.
In the past, Jews have
even been reluctant to vote
for Jews. But we are making
progress. It's getting so even
'Jews may support a Jewish
candidate for the Presi-
dency.
Iniquitous deeds redound
upon their own perpetra-
tors.
—The Talmud,