72 The International jew

1913-1914

The energies of the Jewish powers were concentrated on the task of

preventing the United States from changing the immigration laws in a

manner to protect the country from undesirable aliens .

1914-1915

More Kehillah attempts to secure modification of th e Sunday laws.

1915-1916.

Jewish opposition to various.movements towards making the schools free

to use the Bible.

1916-1917

Jews busy carrying out an immense campaign against the "literacy

clause" of the Immigration Bill .

On demand of the Jews the New Haven, Connecticut, Board of Education

prevents the reading of "The Merchant of Venice," and extends the

prohibition to Lamb ' s "Tales from Shakespeare ."

1918-1919 .

Provost Marshal Crowder, in charge of the Selective Draft U. S Forces,

had issued ·an order to a ll medical examiners. under di rection of the

Surgeon General, stating :. "The foreign born, espec ially Jews , are more

apt to _malinger than the native-born." Louis Marshall , head of th e

American Jewish Committee, telegraphed demanding t he " further use of

this _form shall be at once discontinued ."- President W ils on ordered the

excision of the paragraph .

The United States Shipping Board se nt an advertisement to the " New

York Times" calling for a file clerk and stating that a ~ ' Christian ' ' was

preferred-by which is meant always a non-Jew-the paper rejected it.

Louis Marshall again went into action and protested to Bainbridge Colby ~

Woodrow Wilson's Secretary of State, demanding " Not because of any

desire for inflicting punishment, but for the sake of example and the

establishment of a necessary precedent this offence should be followed by

a dismissal from the public office of the offender, and the public should