December 24, 1943
DETROIT
JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
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to stop the ideas from reaching
an inadequately educated man.
Part of the answer lies in ad-
ministrative reform of our schools.
In the matter of education, at
least, states' righters have forgot-
ten human rights. National super-
vision, and help for the poorer
states are urgently needed. Almost
every state, for instance, ought to
have better trained teachers and
more facilities to carry out a re-
vitalized curriculum.
Educators are now paving the
way for an international educa-
tional agency for the exchange of
ideas. They have realized that edu-
cational systems, as well as eco-
nomic and governmental systems,
are inter-dependent. Conservative
policies in one country can be
severely udermined by destructive
policies in another country. The
educators would set universal val-
ues and methods. They want the
schools of the world to teach. "the
scientific truth that human differ-
ences axe determined more by cul-
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By CHARLES BENSON
church or race or political party
WASHINGTON. — Pending are not thereby inferior. Our
legislation would ban incitements schools were established to form
to racial and religious hatred this tolerant point of view on
from the mails. It is claimed that which democracy depends.
We do not want bigoted ideas
abuse delivered by the letter-car-
to prevail in the United States,
rier has played a significant part but no law prohibiting use of the
in bringing about race riots and mails as a means of distributing
anti-Semitic demonstrations.
defamations can wipe out bigotry.
At this point in our history, a Prohibitive laws can only make
law to put an immediate stop to for a narrower perspective of
what amounts to sabotage of the things, not for broad-mindedness.
war effort may be necessary. But
The Nazi way of combatting un-
the need points to a significant wanted ideas is to prevent peo-
failure of our school system.
ple from hearing them. Listen-
"Education isn't the way to ing to short-wave broadcasts is
solve the problem. It takes too prohibited. And the Nazi radio at-
long," Samuel Margoshes, colunm- temps to stop the German people
nist of the New York Yiddish from listening to any foreign
daily, The Day, testified before a broadcast by telling them this:
House Post Office and Post Roads "You wouldn't stand in the path
of an oncoming bomb. Why allow
subcommittee.
In his zeal for the bill, Rep. this attack on your minds?"'
Noah M. Mason III, Republican,
But here we believe in the free
who said he was a school teacher play of ideas. We rely on our
for many years, added, "Educa- schools to teach how to judge
tion has nothing to do with the conflicting propagandas. We expect
matter of prejudices because even our schools to disseminate facts,
an educated man can be affected but more important, to teach our
by such literature. It appeals to children scientific reasoning, so
that our citizens will be equipped
his emotions."
No one challenged his statement, to ferret out the truth and decide
but Mason was not talking about issues for themselves.
If our schools have failed to
an educated person in the best
teach these things, then our task
sense.
In this country an educated man
is a man who has learned that is to correct the faults, in our edu-
people who belong to a different cational system rather than to try
fr
ies in search for alleged concealed
arms. Hs urged that a board of
inquiry consisting of representa-
tives of Jewish and non-Jewish
organizations, be established im-
mediately "to investigate the no-
furious practices of the Pal. , s-
JERUSALEM. (WNS)—Arturo tine government."
Toscanini, world famous orchestra
leader, is reported to be on his
ISTANBUL (WNS). — Fort y.
way to Cairo where he will lead
the Palestine Symphony Orches- eight Jews have been arrested is
tra in a tour of American and Bucharest for "listening to enemy
British camps in the Near East. broadcasts and spreading defeat-
He will be assisted by Sir Adrian ist propaganda," according to a
Bolt, orchestra director for the Berlin radio broadcast picked up
British Broadcasting Corporation. here this week. This was believed
to augur a new Nazi drive against
the Jews.
NEW YORK (INNS) — Con-
,
N.
Y.
.
gressman Emmanuel Cenci
Democrat, issued a statement to
the press recently denouncing
British raids on Palestine colon-
tural than by biological factors."
We can afford to underestim-
ate the importance of a school
system in shaping the tatitudes of
the people.
GRANNY
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ure in the whole world. Her eyes
had a strange light. They clearly
spoke: "I am not afraid. God is
with me."
With the assistance of an in-
terpreter she explained that for
over thirty years she had kept
food on the same fire escape, and
that today of all days she had
learned it was wrong. The magis-
trate looked at the little woman
in her white shawl, and then he
caugt sight of the paper bag.
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uld hear the raised voices of
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