Abraham, Isaac, Jacob

President Coolidge, Louis Marshall, Rabbi Julius Loeb, Dr. Abram Simon, Bishop James E. Freeman and others spoke at the cornerstone exercises of the Jewish Community Centre, Washington, D. C.

The President recounted "scraps of territorial history" because "unless we keep them in mind we shall not at all comprehend. . . ." He used one quotation : "I remember to have read somewhere, I think in the writings of the historian Lecky*, the observation that

'Hebraic mortar cemented the foundations of American democracy.' "

He asserted: "The Jewish faith is predominantly the faith of liberty." He listed "some among the merchants who unhesitatingly signed the nonimportation resolution of 1765: Isaac Moses, Benjamin Levy, Samson Levy, David Franks, Joseph Jacobs, Hayman Levy Jr., Matthias Bush, Michael Gratz, Bernard Gratz, Isaac Franks, Moses Mordecai, Benjamin Jacobs, Samuel Lyon and Manuel Mordecai Noah."

He recalled the "romance in the story of Haym Salomon, Polish Jew financier of the Revolution. Born in Poland, he was made prisoner by the British forces in New York, and when he escaped set up in business in Philadelphia. He negotiated for Robert Morris all the loans raised in France and Holland, pledged his personal faith and fortune for enormous amounts, and personally advanced large sums to such men as James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, Baron Steuben, General St. Clair and many other patriot leaders, who testified that without his aid they could not have carried on in the cause."

* William Edward Hartpole Lecky was horn in Ireland, 1838, and died in London, 1903. He was one of the first great historians to show the connection between the American Revolution and of Great Britain's century-old struggle for popular government.