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Vol. 48, No. 24

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FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 1946 (SIVAN, 15, 5796)

Now Is the Time

Next week, a few people will go to the
polls in the primaries and choose the can-
didates for whom you will vote in the
Fall. The choice then will simmer down
to a few and very often it will be a case
of selecting the least worst for election
to political office.
Our leadership in government has been
notoriously bad these last few years. Yet
now is the time, the perilous time, when
our wisest judgment and our most care-
ful guides are necessary. Our ships of
state, local and national are passing
through stormy waters. Rocks and shoals
lie ahead. We are constantly on the brink
of disaster.
There are many candidates for office
in the primaries. Some are excellent.
Some are utterly incapable. A wise
choice is absolutely vital NOW! The
citizen who does not register his vote
in the primaries is derelict in his duty.
On his head will lie the blame for all
that goes wrong in the future.
Do not neglect this most important of
elections when the choice of candidates
is made. If you do, then democracy is lost
by default. Accept your right to vote as
the most important right and duty of your
citizenship. Go to the polls on primary
day and vote.

Detroit 26, Michigan

to the horror of the entire civilized
world. Only now it is here, right here in
our beloved America.
the
Let no one think this is far off,\ilhing
benighted
South. It is the kind of
b
that can sweep like wildfire if it is not
stopped dead in its tracks. And once it is
recognized that honest, decent citizens
are not aroused, there are plenty of hood-
lums right here to carry on the work.
Everyone who considers himself an
American, everyone who has a love for
the traditions of liberty and justice on
which this country became great must
rise in his wrath on this occasion. Some-
thing must be done and done quickly.
The Committee for Justice in Columbia,
Tennessee is asking for contributions.
Their cause is good. It is everyone's cause.
Even the slightest contribution is helpful.
Send it to the National Committee for
Justice in Columbia, Tennessee. at 20
West 40th Street, New York 18, N. Y.
Make checks payable to John Hammond,
Treasurer.

An Inspiration

By W. A. GOLDBERG, Ph.D.

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Friday, June 14, 1946

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Copyrighted. 1946, by W. A. Goldberg, Ph.D.

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My Daddy Is Bigger Than Yours"

Daddy, Pop, Father, The Old Man or even "Mister" all say the
same thing. They designate the male head of the family, the person
In authority. Custom in each group dictates the actual word used
The meaning of the word used, to the child, is more important than
the word itself. Perhaps Father's Day has become as commercialized
as Mother's Day. The meaning of the weird symbolizes to each child
something important. Each child and adult here, as In other matters
needs symbols, shortcuts, proverbs, contractions and initials to eon.:
dense words.
The father concept varies with the age of the child. The very
young child best expresses himself when he says: "MY Daddy is big.
ger than yours. . ." "My Daddy can fight better than yours. • ."
Daddy is stronger than yours. . ."
The adolescent boy finds his father a comfort and a strength, a
person who enjoys similar activities, a person of ability and someone
important as an associate.
The boy of fifteen or sixteen talks about the Old Man. The Old
Man is a source of funds for dates. The Old Man gives or withholds
the family car. This Old Man is an older person, of another generation.
with ideas of the past. He is a person who rides herd on him, one
who suggests and insists that studies are more vital than girls. The
Old Man, to this age group, doesn't know too much about the current
world. The youngster may graciously admit, at twenty-one, that his
father picked up a tremendous amount of knowledge in the past.
five or six years.
Contrary to some parents' views, this young man is not disre•
spectful. He is not a braggart. He is not a "smarty-pants." He is in
the conflicting and disturbing period of breaking away from his
family. He is torn between the wish to remain dependent and the
demonstration of independence. He both fears to throw off his bonds
and yet wants to show how well he can lean on himself.

From the humble and the lowly can
often be drawn the kind of inspiration
which helps when real
The Essentials
difficulties are at hand.
Is there a father in your house? Not only the physical presence of
From the life of John
an adult male which we find in most homes. Behind this desk I hear
stories daily of what the physical absence of a father means to a
Breedlove, caretaker of
child, some of them unnecessarily tragic. But is there it guiding
the Jewish Chronicle
Fight Inflation
hand in the home? As human beings, with our own difficulties, par.
ents cannot be expected to use impartial judgment toward their chit.
A great deal of thought must be given building and chief eleva-
dren, at all times. They have their own emotional satisfactions to
to the speech delivered last week by tor operator, comes this
appease. Sometimes a parent reacts at the expense of his child. But.
kind
of
inspiration.
Chester Bowles on the subject of inflation.
being human, all people react that way.
Although the newspapers of Detroit
John is past seventy.
The child wants to know that Father is home, within reach, when
scarcely mentioned the speech, it con- But he is not too old to
needed. A child will rush madly into his father's arms when the
fulfill a lifelong dream. All his father returns from a trip. That lasts one or two minutes. And then
tains a solemn warning.
he goes off nonchalantly to play. This is not indifference. It is •a but-
If the new Price Control that is now life John wanted an education. Next wark,
in time of need.
being fashioned in Congress is allowed to week, he passes the first milepost when
Can a child talk to his father, freely, willingly and take counsel
pass in its present form, Bowles warned, he is graduated from Intermediate School in his words? Does the father encourage this? Is the father fair and
we will be faced by the most disastrous at Northern and goes into High School. consistent toward the children? Do his actions lin preference to Ins
There are many people along in years words) reflect a person of whom the child is proud? My son told me
inflation. War Bonds will be worthless,
when he placed a newspaper clipping of me in his dresser
comparatively speaking. Prices will go so who have nothing to do with their time. much
mirror.
high that the average worker will be They do not work and time hangs heavy
There are parents who make every last decision for the child . .
on their hands. Let these people take a when to go out, where to play, with whom, when to return. Out.
squeezed unbearably.
Bowles termed the . bill "an outright lesson from John Breedlove. The schools wardly these children are satisfied to lean on Father. But many more
fraud." He charged that Congress was are open to all and it is never too late than arc suspected are unhappy and dissatisfied. A few will take
drastic action; some will cut all ties and get out on their own, leaving
following the huge moneyed interests to learn.
the unsuspecting parent bewildered. But unfortunately, neither father
who were so blindly selfish and greedy
nor mother can he an eternal crutch. Children develop only by
that they could not see that the whole
standing alone.
Father's
NO
nation might be dragged into economic
. Fortunate is the parent who stands well in his child's eyes. II
Every day is Father's Day, not just has built strength into hi; children. He has given priceless gifts. He
chaos.
built slowly and over the years. Parents cannot expect a child to
There is still time to write your Con- once a year. There is a tenderness con- has
be other than a conformist who glibly says that all is well at home.
gressman and demand that the bill be nected with the thought of father and For neither father nor child dare admit, inwardly or outwardly,
changed. But there is not much time. If mother which touches every human heart. anything but love in the family. Parental hate, hate of children is
In the toil and turmoil that marks the widespread, more so than meets the eye. There can be no such ad-
the people do not act now, they will have
without deep feelings of guilt. And in individual cases it
no one to blame but themselves when rush of our lives, we tend to forget the mission
is imperative to resolve this hate before personal conflicts are resolved.
kindliness
and
the
thoughtfulness
which
disaster comes.
How would your child finish this sentence: "MY Daddy is .
So sit down tonight and write to your is due to our parents.
It is therefore fortunate that such a
Congressman. Demand that real teeth be
put into the anti-inflation enforcement. day is proclaimgd. However much it is
Moon Madness
Recognize that there are real leaders and abused by commercial interests, it is well
opportunists. Know that Chester Bowles that we have something to remind us
is a man who has c9,stantly fought in that those who still have their parents are
fortunate indeed and should give thanks.
the interests of the people.
Don't hesitate. Write at once. There are
only a few days left.
Senseless Killing
More people will be senselessly slaught-
Terror in Tennessee
ered this year in traffic accidents than
Terror stalks abroad! Lynching, hood- were killed in the war. Their usefuness
lumism, lawlessness and violence are still will come to an end. Their contributions
being practiced against negroes in the to their communities will be no more.
The soldiers who gave their all for
South as evidenced by the infamous Co-
their country died for something. They
lumbia, Tennessee case of "race rioting."
Here it was the law enforcement officials
laid down their lives that others might
be happy, that tyranny might end, that
themselves who were guilty of the lynch-
the world might be a better place to
ing.
live in.
A committee has been set up to see that
The thousands upon thousands of men,
justice is done lo the unfortunate victims
suffering from the very crimes of women and children who lose their lives
which they themselves are now being ac- in traffic accidents do so for nothing. They
cused. As set forth in a letter in our Let- are sacrifices on the altar of carelessness,
ter Box, the committee is headed by victims of a philosophy of pointless hurry.
The grief of the families and friends is
Eleanor Roosevelt and Channing Tobias
as well as a host of just thinking, Ameri- accepted as commonplace. The loss to the
can minded men and women through- community is ignored. The wantonness,
the utter waste, is taken as a matter of
out the country.
course.
This kind of pogrom directed against
It is high time that Americans woke
a minority must be fought with all the
to the realization that traffic safety is
vigor and intensity of which Americans
a major problem in this country. It is
are capable. Otherwise, the war will
time for Americans to understand that
have been fought completely in vain.
something CAN be done, that all this
It was just exactly this sort of thing
horror NEED NOT BE!
which the Nazis practiced in Germany

