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Detroit Jewish Chronicle

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Friday April 19, 1946

Personal Problems

LEGAL CHRONICLE

By W. A. GOLDBERG, Ph.D.

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Director, Counselling Service

Copyrighted, 1946, by W. A.

Editor-in-Chief, LOUIS W. ENFIELD

Vol. 48, No. 16

Publisher, CT AARON

Managing Editor, NATHAN J. KAUFMAN

FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 1946 INISAN 18, 57061

Prevent Cancer

The most dreaded of all diseases is
cancer. Painful, ever present, ever threat-
ening, this scourge of modern times is
well known to everyone. Few there are
indeed who do not know some friend or
relative that has been stricken. Young and
old are its victims. A father in the full
prime of his vigor, little youngsters just
getting started in life, mothers full of the
care of their little ones, all are in danger.
In 1946, 175,000 Americans will die
tragically of cancer. 83,000 men, 90,000
women will end their careers this way.
2000 children will never see their twenty-
first birthday.

But something can be done to pre-
vent the dread disease from invading
many homes which must otherwise be
houses of sorrow. If detected in time,
and effectively treated, thirty percent
and perhaps fiffty percent of all can-
cer cases can be cured. This means
that of the three Americans who die
every ten minutes from cancer, one
dies needlessly. A gift to the Ameri-
can Cancer Society will save lives by
spreading knowledge of the danger
signals.

This year, the American Cancer Society
needs $12,000,000 for a great attack on
cancer. The money will be used not only-
for the educational program but also for
improved medical service and research.
Elsewhere in this paper, may be found
a blank to fill out and send in with your
donation. Your gift will help provide more
and better facilities for detection, diag-
nosis and treatment of cancer patients
in Michigan. Cancer research is the only
hope for elimination of this enemy.
This month has been designated as Can-
cer Control Month. For the campaign to
be successful, everyone must give, if only
a little. There have been many calls on
the pursestrings of people in this tragic
year. This is one cause, however, that can-
not be neglected. The price of neglect is
too dear.

Immigration Bars

It is significant that the bill now before
Congress seeking to restrict immigration
further is being opposed by the chief la-
bor unions of the country. One of the
principal arguments always advanced for
restricting immigration is that the flow of
immigrants tends to cut down wage scales
and depress the labor market generally.
If these arguments were valid, we may be
sure the labor unions would be found in
the forefront of the fight against immi-
gration, instead of being for it.
The stand of the labor unions is not ar-
bitrarily taken. These great organizations
have their research departments, manned
by expert economists, and their positions
therefore may be taken to be well ground-
ed. The labor unions know that in times
of depression the flow of immigration is
automatically checked. They know, too,
that every immigrant is more than a com-
petitor for jobs; he must be housed, cloth-
ed and fed and so constitutes an addition
to the market of production. In other
words, the immigrant not only takes em-
ployment, he makes for the employment
of others. It is a fact that those parts of
the country which have received less of
the stimulus of immigration are in general
on the lowest economic level. It is a fur-
ther fact, for instance, that the higher
wage scales among labor are to be found
among the groups newer to this country
than among the older stocks.

One of the most disguised motives
of recent immigration bills is to fur-
ther cut down the immigration from
south Europe, from which most Jew-
ish immigrants derive. An excellent
pamphlet on the subject of immigra-

Detroit 26, Michigan

tion by Prof. Maurice R. Davie of
Yale University and published by the
Public Affairs Committee reveals that
this prejudice has shifted as far as
its special target is concerned.

"Throughout our history, writes
Prof. Davie, "prejudice against re-
cently arrived immigrants has shifted
from Germans to Irish to Scandinavi-
ans to South Europeans. The despised
alien of yesterday becomes the 100
per cent American of today and joins
the native born in scorning the fresh-
ly arrived immigrants."

This is a thought worthy of being re-
membered. The same arguments now used
against the South Europeans have at one
time or another been advanced against
every racial stock entering the country.
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Fortunately, those arguments did not
prevail. If they had, the course of the last
war might have been different, as a mere
cursory glance at the names in the casual-
ty lists would show to anyone.

How Many Anti-Semites?

The latest poll in the United States
shows that anti-Semitism is on the de-
crease, that the number of those who hate
the Jew is down to less than nine percent,
a relatively small minority of the popula-
tion.
The interpretation of figures is always
one that is capable of great twistings. We
must look at this percentage not in rela-
tion to the whole of the United States
but in relation to our own numbers. Plain-
ly interpreted, the poll now shows that
at present there are two confirmed anti-
Semites for every Jewish man, woman
and child in the land.

This is a fearsome situation indeed
and one that every Jew must keep
constantly in the forefront of his con-
sciousness. Prattlings about brother-
hood, universal love and the abolition
of hatred between man and man
have no significance here. We are
faced with facts, hard, cruel facts.
We cannot shrug them off nor wish
them away.

It is up to every Jew therefore to aid in
the fight for self-protection. He must fight
as an individual and he must lend the
strength that comes from a unified com-
munity. No Jew can afford to divorce
himself from his community for that way
lies destruction.
Fortunately, we can rely on the funda-
mental American virtues of freedom and
democracy. Every Jew in this country
must take a stand for progressive liberal
democracy in all things. By doing this, he
aids his own cause.
Never, however, can the Jew forget
that in union there is strength. There
should be no unaffiliated Jew in the en-
tire city of Detroit.

Your questions in personal problems will be answered
by mail as far as possible or in these columns. Send
your question and a stamped, self addressed envel-
ope to Dr. W. A. Goldberg, 1314 Eaton Tower, De-
troit 26, Mich. or to the Detroit Jewish Chron-
icle, 525 Woodward Avenue. Detroit 26, Mich.

Our Readers Reply

Some weeks ago we asked for readers' comments on the ques-
tion: "Is This Love?" The column discussed a quick proposal of
marriage. A number of letters were received and we excerpt the
three best. These were from a girl in her twenties, an older man
and a minister.

The girl writes: "I don't believe this affair indicates love on
part of either the man or the girl. This man of over thirty is behav-
ing in a juvenile manner. Sound marriages are not built on the basis
of a 'rush act' and nothing snore. His proposal, on their second dato,
indicates an unsound relationship. It sounds as if he wants to ge:.
married quickly, without too much concern as to whom he marries,
"The girl, on the other hand, should wait and learn more about
him. While this is a wise policy, she doesn't seem to be making much
progress in finding out the important things she wants to know.
What she does learn from this man about himself, she doubts to the
point of disbelief. This, in itself, doesn't show much experience . • .
"I'd advise your young couple to wait, to really try to get ac-
quainted with each other. They should meet each other's family and
if they finally decide everything is favorable, let them go ahead.
But let them be sure there is a substantial basis for their marriage
beforehand . .."

The older man writes: "... I have read your collumn about the
girl who doesn't know whether or not "this is love" and doesn't know
what to do with the fellow she met. I don't think anyone can be sure
of a man of that sort . . . I write this letter because I have a daugh-
ter of my own who will marry one of these days.
"When this man proposed, the girl had a right to know his occu-
pation, to ask who knows him, to ask about his associates and his
family. What was his past before the war? Does he have some men-
tal defect or did he have a breakdown in the service? You can check
that. Shouldd he object to such questions, there must be something
wrong with him. If everything is true blue with hint, he will have
no objection .

"In closing, I strongly advise this girl to do nothing at all until
she knows everything there is to know about the man. It wouldn't
matter if he was poor. There is no shame in being poor . . . His
high and gay life cannot last and won't ... I say again to this girl
don't do anything at all until you know everything there is to know
about him .. ."
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A minister writes: ". . . While this man wants to "do right," he
is completely incapable because he is emotionally unstable. He lids
never grown up. He has never learned the basic valises of self-worth
and the worth of immaterial things which give life meaning ...
"He entertains the girl in expensive activities . . . his life seems
artificial. He wants genuinely to be part of them, and not being able
to, puts them on like a suit of clothing to cover the naked truth.
"Without question he was genuine in his proposal of marriage.
But just as certainly he cannot possibly live up to it . . . He may
have had a cold but he still could have whispered that fact over the
telephone. He repeated the procedure, breaking another date, not call-
ing and later pleaded illness.

"I do hope this girl leaves his 'straightening out' to some other
person — if anything or any person can ever do the job. He has known
too much mothering and the girl proves it. She says: 'People haven't
treated him well,' which she learned only from him. I think he has
been treated too well for too long.

"For goodness sake, don't tell him you are serious but begin now
to be less and less serous about him. Otherwise you will find your
self deeply involved in confusion about him and about yourself .. .

(Dr. Goldberg is available to clubs and groups of parents for di::
mission of personal problems. Write him directly at the address above,
or in care of this newspaper.)

500 Million Facing This Tidal Wave

Superman Fights Intolerance

Superman is going into a new field soon.
He will fight racism, intolerance, class
hatred, religious bigotry and the like. The
millions who listen to him cannot fail to
be impressed with this form of counter I
propaganda.

The general public and particular-
ly the Jewish public should be very
grateful to the sponsors of this pro-
gram. It will leave an impression on
young minds that cannot be erased.
The thought will enter deep in their
subconscious minds that the expon-
ents of racism and class hatred are
connected with evil gangs and sinis-
ter influences. In their adult years
they will not be subject to this form
of appeal on the part of demagogues.

Goldberg, Ph.D.

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