DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle MAPPING FIGHT FOR TOLERANCE • Rosh Hashonah Greetings UPON THE BIRTH OF THIS NEW YEAR, I JOIN IN WISHING THE BLESSINGS OF PEACE AND HEALTH FOR THE HOUSEHOLD OF ISRAEL. THAT THE COMING YEAR BRING JOY AND CONTENTMENT TO ALL IS MY SINCEREST DESIRE. • ---DAVID G. KURZMAN PRICE or VALUE? AT THIS PEAK OF TIRE BUYING IT IS ALL THE MORE IMPORTANT TO LOOK AT VALUE AS WELL AS PRICE. 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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. 4 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.