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Religious Training in Schools
The recent "religious trial" held in
'Champaign, Illinois„ where an atheistic
?pother SOUght to enjoin the school board
tom permitting religious instruction in
he schools, foctises public attention on
ithe problem of release time for the pur-
pose of giving children religious training.
More than 1,500,000 children in over
1,850 communities in 46 states are at
present receiving some instruction in re-
ligion in the public schools. There is a
great deal of pressure on the Detroit
school board to allow the teaching of re-
ligion during school hours.
The wife of a University of Illinois col-
lege professor, and mother of a 10-year-
old boy, contended in her suit that it is
unconstitutional to teach religion in the
public schools. Her attorneys aruged that
the state and the church were separated
by the Founding Fathers because they did
not want a State Church. Using the pub-
lic schools for the purpose of religious
training, they contended, might be the
entering wedge for an alliance between
State and Church.
A panel of three circuit court judges
heard the five-day arguments. Both sides
were told to file briefs and a ruling will
be handed down late in November. The
case will be carried to the U. S. Supreme
Court no matter what the decision is.
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The School board attorneys maintained
that religious instruction is uplifting, that
it teaches the highest ethics, and that mo-
rality is based on religion. Whereupon
one of the attorneys who was arguing
against religious training, argued that
millions of Jews had been gassed and
burned in Nazi concentration camps and
the world of morality and ethics did
nothing -to stop these massacres.
Pupils in'. the '::.Illinois town's schools
from the fourth toIlit eighth grades have
been getting .about 50 minutes religious
instruction each week. - from teachers of
their own faith. A rabbi was questioned
about the attitude, of Jewry towards. Chris-
tianity and religious training.
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The Protestant and Catholic churches,
as well as the- Jewish, are faced with the
fact that many children 'do not get any
religious training. They have sought to
bbtain the aid of the public schoOls in
reaching 'these children, holding that
training in morals and ethics is a function
a the sc,.hool..
On th'e. other hand,- many, especially
among minorities, contend that teaching
l'Oligioniik.the public schools or granting
►ildren fielease time for this purpose
would tend to further segregate the chil-
dren and. create more divisiveness than
the case at present.* rn _Detroit a society
has been founded for the purpose of corn-
Vatting release time or religious instruc-
tion in the schools. Many Jewish leaders
are on the executive board of this group.
In Los Angeles, a Jewish attorney has
filed a protest against release time for re-
ligious instruction.
Campus Hypocrisy
Jewish parents of sons who have am-
bitions to study medicine have long known
that it is almost impossible for a Jewish
student to be admitted into a medical
college. They have long known that an
unofficial quota" exists, a numerus clau-
sus reminiscent of the Czarist days in
Russia. Here at the Wayne University
College of Medicine, for instance, it is
strongly rumored that the quota for Jew-
ish students is set at 10 percent.
As only about 75 freshmen are admit-
ted each year to the Wayne Medical
School, this means that just seven or eight
Jewish boys have a chance to study medi-
cine here. Preference is given to sons or
daughters of doctors. This leaves room,
perhaps, for only three or four Jewish
students who are not fortunate enough
to be the sons of physicians.
An article by Frank Kingdon, liberal
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radio commentator, in the American Mer-
cury, bears out these facts. He writes that
the number of Jewish medical students is
half of what it was 25 years ago, although
the Jewish population has increased con-
siderably in that period. He also reports
that during 1940, the 78 leading Unit-
ed States medical schools admitted only
477 Jewish students. At the College of
Physicians and Surgeons connected with
Columbia University, a Jewish student
was told that no applications will be taken
until 1947.
This is where our so-called protective
or defensive agencies could do some good.
Let part of the effort used in fighting overt
anti-Semitism be devoted to exposing the
hypocrisy prevailing in the colleges and
the rank discrimination being practiced
on the campuses in some of our leading
halls of learning, including tax-supported
universities. Jewish students with all-A
records are refused admission while their
non-Jewish classmates who may rank
much lower scholastically have little trou-
ble getting into the best medical schools.
Patton At It Again
General Patton, who has earned a rep-
utation as a brave fighter, has also be-
come known for "shooting off his mouth."
He did just that last week when he com-
pared the Nazi party to the Democratic
and Republican parties here and when he
declared that it is more important to feed
the Germans and reconvert industry than
it is to root out Nazism and arrest all the
Nazis.
The conflict between the Nazis and the
anti-Nazis he compared to party differ-
ences in the United States between the
party in power and the party out of office.
He is said to have likened the war to a
football march.
No wonder there has been so much cri-
ticism of American occupation policies.
No wonder so many Nazis are still holding
office in Germany. A nation that has
brought two disastrous wars on the world
in a generation cannot be treated as a
gallant foe. Have our officials read the
accounts of the trials of the Beast of Ber-
lin and his aides?
Gen. Eisenhower, it is reported, has
called Patton on the carpet. The occupa-
tion policy agreed on at Yalta and Pots-
dam can be sabotaged by officials who
seem not to have grasped the nature of
the foe we have just vanquished.
Are We Being Betrayed?
Once agziiii Jewry is undergoing the
agony of frustration, the feeling that it is
being betrayed. The new British Labor
Government from which so much was
hoped seems to be following the course
of its Conservative predecessors in its
dealings with Palestine.
The Labor Party as yet has taken not a
single step to abrogate the infamous
White Paper which makes Palestine the
only land in the world where JeWs are
discriminated against as Jews. Its offer to
allow 1,500 Jewish immigrants a month
into Palestine is a mere palliative.
Detroit Zionists and Zionists all over
the United States must follow the lead of
Dr. Weizmann, Dr. Stephen S. Wise and
Dr. Silver, in vigorously pressing the issue
in Washington. The United States has a
responsibility in the matter. The whole
world has a responsibility to the hundreds
of thousands of Jewish refugees who
underwent the agonies of Nazi persecu-
tion, and who now must have a haven.
A Little Late
The Jewish Community Council, organ-
ized as a protective agency whose main
aim is to fight anti-Semitism, will make a
report on the so-called Dexter incidents
on October 9. This report will be made
five weeks after the incidents occurred.
Does it take that long to get all the facts?
Why the hush-hush policy?
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AL SEGAL
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should like to have me come over may know," he says, "ther e ;I•e
and enjoy the comforts and priv- Christians who don't mind cutt ii,);
eges ao Chriatianity. Pleasant other Christians' throa4s."
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But eve h at that, - toi',U a Ch•i,_
t4irowing stones through your
windows, says Mr. Tompkins. Nice thin still is much more coin f.o.
neighbors who never bother any- able than the unhappy piisition
one who's a Christian. Opportu- of a Jew. Mr. Tompkins points
nity to belong to the best clubs. out that between Christians it is
"As a Christian you will have the accepted practice for on e
no distressful Jewish problems Christian to hate another only
such as disturb you every week," because of obnoxious pers,,n a t
Mr. Tompkins guarantees. "Ev- characteristics he may find in the
erywhere Christians will regard other one. He may have halito s is,
you as just another man who he may have sweaty hands. Chris-
doesn't require any special treat- dons are that reasonable with
ment from them. As long as you each other.
"However, you, a JeW, no mat-
are a Jew we shall feel that we
have to work on you one way or te• how blameless yotkr personal
life — and I have no doubt it is
another."
Mr. Tompkins, himself a char- entirely blameless — are blamed
itable Christian has been feeling for the condition of your birth
with which, of course, you had
sorry for me. He reads me every
nothing to do and of which you
week in one of the Jewish press
have
nothing to be ashamed. Yes,
and is troubled because of the
Mr. Segal, why don't you come
way I have to keep on wrestling
with Jewish problems week after over to our side and enjoy the
charity Christians occasionally
week.
have for each other?"
"Your weekly exertions seem
Mr. Tompkins cites a case of
to symbolize the whole painful his personal experience in Chris-
business of being a Jew," he says, tianity. He is a member of the
and why don't I get wise to my- Baptist church. Now there
was
self and come over to the safer another Baptist who departed
and easier side where I wouldn't from the straight and narrow
have to work so hard at being a way of being a Baptist. This Bap-
Christian.
tist just about wrecked the hank
Not that Mr. Tompkins can ab-
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Strictly Confidential
By PHINEAS J. BIRON
ANTI-SEMITIC FRONT .. .
The Hollywood Council for Ci-
vic Unity has a swell blueprint
for action. . . . We hope it will
not countenance appeasement and
expose anti-Semitism, now ram-
pant in Hollywood.... The Coun-
cil would do well to put a stop
— if possible — to the regular
meetings addressed by G. Allison
Phelps and Lowell. . . . Both are
enthusiastic followers of Gerald
L. K. Smith. . . . That proposed
debate between Senator Bilbo and
James Waterman Wise on "Does
America Want Racial Equality"
is a ridiculous idea, . . . It is like
inviting an inmate of the Zoo to
debate the Einstein theory of rel-
ativity. . , . Victor Riesel reports
that aging, greying Father Cough-
lin is eager to broadcast again
and awaits the results of a new
petition drive, directed by Ger-
ald L. K. Smith. . . . Why did
the New York press ignore the
vandalism committeed in the store
of Sidney Ross? . . . Sid's store
windows and door were smeared
with the Star of David and anti-
Semitic slogans. . . . World
Charter for Human Rights" is
the name of a new pamphlet is-
sued by the American Jewish
Committee. . . . The booklet hails
the inclusion of human rights
provisions in the charter of the
new World Organization is a
great achievement.
ABOUT PERSONS .. .
Eddie Sullivan reminds the
Bilboites that Jewish heroes won
31 D.S.C.'s and thousands of
other U. S. decorations. . . . We
also lost six Jewish chaplains....
Jascha Heifetz cancelled more
than a hundred thousand dollars
worth of concerts to entertain
G.I.'s in France and Germany. ...
Artur Rubinstein, the pianist ask-
ed and got $85,000 for recording
the piano music in the forthcom-
ing film, "Concerto." . . . Wil-
liam Paley, President of Colum-
bia Broadcasting, is back [ram
Europe where he performed one
of the most successful war jobs
as head of the Psychological War-
fare Division. . . . Now, reliable
information reaches us that for-
mer Governor Lehman will be
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