DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle
MAPPING FIGHT
FOR TOLERANCE
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October 4, 1940
from border to border and coast
to coast.
Thirty-five nationalities are
shown, where they came from in
By JAMES WATERMAN WISE Europe and Asia, where they
Research
Consultant,
Council settled in the United States and
Against Intolerance in America in what industry or agricultural
work most members of each
Everybody is reading maps group entered after arriving. A n
these days, watching boundaries American Indian, prominently dis-
move with sickening speed. But played carries the caption "With
it is a consoling sight to see the exception of the Indian all
America's boundaries the same Americans or their forefathers
yesterday, today and, we hope, came from other countries."
Leading Americans in industry,
forever. The Council Against
Intolerance in America has chos- the arts, science and literatur e
are listed with their nationality
in one corner but emphasis is
placed on the contributions made
by the railroad builder, the truck
farmer, the garment worker, the
coal miner and all the other
workers who have helped build
America.
To give an example of the
many people that make up this
country, the map shows 31 na-
tionalities on the Eastern sea. ,
board alone, 25 near the Great •
Lakes, 20 on the West Coast.
A lesson sheet for the teacher
accompanies the map giving sug.
gestions on how it may be used
to teach a tolerant attitude to-
wards the foreign-born. We
quote a paragraph here to show
the type of suggestion:
"Develop maps of your own
region showing from what '-
countries the population is de-
rived. A more detailed repre-
sentation can be developed
than was possible on a map
JAMES tVATERMAN WISE
of this size covering the whole
Research Consultant of the Council United States, The regional
Against Intolerance in America, maps may be either historical
and co-author of "Mr. Smith, Meet showing early migrations to
your section or they may be
Mr. Cohen...."
contemporary as is the origi-
nal map, showing what nation-
en this year to issue a map of alities make up the population
these United States with interest now and what they are doing
centered in the people who make to contribute to your commun-
up our country rather than in ity."
the geographical boundaries.
The map is the second Dublin-
It is an undisputed, but fre- tion of The Council Against In-
quently a forgotten fact, that, tolerance, Last fall a Teachers
with the exception of the Indian, Manual for Junior and Senior
we or our not-so-remote ances- High Schools. "An American
tors all come from some other Answer to Intolerance" was
country. Members of the Union published over 30,000 copies of
League Club may view this fact which have been distributed upon
with horror, and pseudo-patriotic request of superintendents, prin.
societies may rail against the cipals, teachers, schools of edu.
foreign-born but it little be- cation and other people engaged
hooves any of us to shout too in educational work. The map,
loudly against the immigrant lest which has recently been publish-
somebody discover that grandpa. ed promises to have even greater
came over not so long ago him- demand. Three.,thousand requests
self or at least that our great- have come in within four days,
grandfather could have been. after a leaflet describing it was
called an alien.
sent to school superintendents,
A Pioneering Venture
and the deluge still continues.
However, despite the fact that Montgomery, Alabama, wants
it is obvious that our population 20 2 copies; Altoona, Pennslyvunia,
is made up of people from other wants 500; Texarcana, Texas
countries; the facts as to what wants one for every room in the
countries they came from, what school system and so it goes from
they did to earn a livelihood all parts of the country. Mem-
when they got here, in what part bers of church study groups are
of the country they settled, have sending for it including all the
denominations as
not been compiled in readily- Protestant
available form. The map, pub- well as Catholic and Jewish. The
lished by the Council is, in this Boys and Girls Scouts; the V.
M . and Y. W. C. A. and many
respect, a pioneering venture.
Called "America—A Nation of other youth organizations are
One People from Many Coun- using it to teach an understand-
i f
ea t.he groups that make up
tries" it portrays these facts in
inm
g ero
an interesting and decorative way A
All publications, such as the
that makes them easily under-
stood by school children as well . ma p and manual, are sent to
as by older people. Reports of sc h pis without charge, as part
great effort to attain the
the United States Department of of
Census were used as a basis for su PP rt of men and women of
the figures but many authorities every race, creed and color in
were consulted on regional infor- preparing the American tradi-
mation and upon industrial s tar- tions of tolerance and equality.
tistics. It involved a tremendous
job of research because the facts
had to be "dug out" from many Tel Aviv Street Named for Her-
sources and compiled in the read-
mann Schapira on 100th
ily-understood form the map now
Birthday
provides.
TEL AVIV (Palcor Agency)—
67,000,000 in Three Main
Gala ceremonies in this city
Religions
marked the inauguration of Her-
mann Schapira Street, named af-
The map is a contemporary one ter the father of the ideal of
showing where people are now Jewish nationally owned land
and in what industries they are which culminated in the forma-
engaged. It also shows the re- tion of the Jewish National Fund, P
ligion of the population. The on the 100th anniversary of his
three main religions were includ- birth.
ed—Catholic, Protestant and Jew-
The project to name the thor-
ish. The yearbooks or directories oughfare in his honor was initi-
of each of the three communions ated jointly by the Jewish Na-
were the sources of the figures. tional Fund and the Hebrew Uni-
They added up to 67,000,000 versity.
people, and persons who realize
Speakers at the dedication in-
that we have a population of cluded Menahem M. Ussishkin,
130,000,000 have asked that the president of the Jewish National
discrepancy be explained. It is 'Fund, Israel Rokach, Mayor of
caused by the fact that a large Tel Aviv, and representatives of
part of the population have no national institutions.
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religious affiliation.
Professor Schapira, who taught
Because the map is intended mathematics at the University of
primarily for use in the schools Heidelberg, was also the origin-
an effort was made to make it ator of the idea of a Hebrew
interesting as well as informa- University in Jerusalem. The par-
tive. Symbols of various indus- ticipants in the exercises dwelt
tries were made amusing—a live- upon the vision he showed in
ly fish swims the rapids to show seeking a firm base for Jewish
the salmon industry; a spirited
life in Palestine upon commonly
horse gallops through the ranch held land, with a
Hebrew 4,
country, a cheese-maker shoots culture instilled by a new
Hebrew in-
holes in Swiss cheese and so on stitution of higher learning.