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name was very Jewish, Abraham Spinoodles. I know a dentist in New York named Spinoodles. He had been in our town in Maine for I don't know how many years - long before the First World War. He was a member of the Rotary Club. He was a member of the Knights of Pythias. He was a member of everything. He played in the local volunteer orchestra and he did just everything. When he died, he was buried from a Baptist Church. The Baptist minister buried him and nobody but my family and me ever gave a thought to his being a Jew. He didn't go to church much, but in our town if you don't go to church much, you're presumed to be a Baptist, because the Congregationalists, the Episcopalians and the Roman Catholics, who are all the others, make a very great point of being what they are. So it's presumed that all the unchurched are Baptists and they're good respectable people.

Likewise, in South Carolina the Baruch family were an old settled family of some wealth and position. They were good, substantial people. There was no Jewish community and nobody ever gave it a thought. I doubt if he ever gave it a thought. When he came to New York, he certainly didn't go looking for Jewish people to befriend him. He made his way, as any other young man would.

Miss Coit tells me that many Jews in New York speak very ill of him for the reason that he was not affiliated