Abe B. Cline, Interviews with Jews in Utah, Accn 998

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lin sl: L W uld ou sa~ that the Jews as a group were treated differently than the ther minority groups? There was greater acceptance f Jes, let's say, than Greeks or Italians? AC Well, Ithin the acceptance of the Jews was alittlebit better than the acceptance of the Greeks, because the Greeks that came over here ~ere mostly peasants that worked in themines. The Jews we~ in business here and were highly enough respected that one of them was elected governor of the state. And say the Greeks and Italians, although there's nothing wrong with them of course they were the same as anybody else. You had good ones and bad ones. And most of us ~ike the rest of us are mediocre but ther were still less conversant with the hnguage and their background and environment was entirelydfferent, so they were more separate, more apart than the Jews were. L Were they kept apart or was it by choice? AC WEll, I don'tknow how to explain it. For instance, we had abt of good Mormon firends andthe same thing was of most of thetther young Jewish boys in town here, some of them more and some of them less. But I didn'thave any Greek friends. The Greeks lived on the west side of town. Now, probably if I had been thrown in contact with them, I would have found some 1hat I liked very much. But we just never carne in contact with each other. L What was the reputation of the Greeks infuose days? What were they known as? AC Well, I don'tknow justrow to explain it. They werenot bad. But le' s --see, 1he second and third generationof :ereeks are