The Jewish Herald-Voice (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 59, No. 24, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 3, 1964 Page: 4 of 108
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do.”
W eizmann later began to have
little doubts about the British be-
ing as good as he thought they
were. W ho is?
Both Franklin and Weizmann
were the offspring of what might
be called “population explosion."
Franklin was one of seventeen
children, Weizmann, one of fif-
teen. Some people are alarmed at
the population explosion, but if
we could get the kind of people
like the Franklins and W eizmanns
to explode, maybe it would be a
good thing. We tend to think that
all explosions are bad, but ex-
plosions can be good too. “Spring
is busting out all over," says the
Rodgers’ song. That's an explo-
sion too, and everybody likes it.
Franklin came of Puritan stock
who were close to the Old Testa-
ment and probably because of this
he was given the same name as
Jacob's youngest child, Benjamin.
Young Ben was always very
economical. At the age of ten he
suggested to his father that time
could be saved if prayer were re-
cited before the barrel of pork in-
stead of before each individual
dish. The idea of economy in reli-
eli, said Wise, he had full trust
in the British
Rabbi." said President Wilson.
there is the story of a great Has
sidic rabbi who said that one of
the reasons why man should strive
to perfect himself is that thereby
the Lord might be spared some
of man's incessant prayers for
relief.
When he was a young man,
Franklin toyed with the idea of
founding a new religion. Essen-
tially, he was, what we could call
today, a Unitarian, He wasn’t a
church goer, himself, but he
showed a friendliness to all faiths.
John Adams said the Presbyteri-
ans counted him half a Presby-
terian, the Quakers sixty per cent
Quaker, and so on. He gave money
also for the establishment of the
first synagogue in Philadelphia.
He dropped the idea of found-
ing a new religion, but did write
an additional chapter of the Bible.
He had come across an old rabbin-
ic legend about Abraham inviting
a wayfarer to his home and then
ejecting him, when he discovered
that the guest was an idolater.
God, the legend says, later ap
peared to Abraham and remons-
trated with him: “I have borne
with this man these many years,
but you could not bear w ith him
one night."
Franklin rewrote the story in
Biblical style and had it added as
an extra chapter of Genesis, the
f irst book of the Bible. W hen
some narrow minded bigot came
along, he would take it down and
let him read "the Parable against
Persecution."
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showing his extraordinary sense
of humor."
Franklin was a scientist, states-
man, inventor, with a great sense
ot humor. In the Jewish fild,
there is something of a parallel to
him in the case of Weizmann, who
was also a scientist, inventor and
statesman with an extraordinary
sense of humor.
In the early stages of the dis
pute with England. Franklin was
hopeful it would not lead to war.
• There is no such thing as a good
war or a bad peace, lie said. He
wanted to stay with the English,
it it was possible Weizmann too
in the beginning wanted very
much to stay with the F.nglrsh and
Weizmann to go into the British
Prime Minister’s office and very
positively make his demands and
then go out and bang the door
But W rizmann did not like to ■
bang doors, especially English
doors. \ tenderness for England ’
seems to be characteristic of Jews. I
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