Friday, June 28, 1946
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
Page Two
Plain Talk
By ALFRED SEGAL
Capital Letter
By CHARLES BENSON
WASHINGTON--Paul Robeson, singer, and equality for the minority groups is an
I was thinking what to write this week. their children. This one may have married actor, and American Negro, came to Wash- established fact. To do the same thing
a
no-account
so-and-so
and
that
one
may
This is the loveliest of days and the sum-
ington recently in a new capacity. Now here would make it necesary to call ou
mer is advancing and the roses are in have married a shlemiel who can't make a co-chairman of the recently formed Na- more armed forces than Truman ordered
tional Committee to Win the Peace, Robe- out in the railroad strike or would have
bloom everywhere, and in a moment like living.
"I don't think I'd take a chance on s:x son told a gathering of Washington re- had to call out for a shipping strike. But
this it's a thoughtless writer who inflicts
,
porters that he did not believe America the Russians said they were willing to do
any more Jewish problems on the readers. daughters. But, on the other hand, there'
$600,000. I'm not so crazy about money was fighting fascism and that, indeed, our that and they did do that until now, h n
They'd rather be drinking iced tea and if
they were young again they would rather and wouldn't know how to accumulate foreign policy seemed to be encouraging said, any member of a minority has equal
$600,000. But, then, $600,000 never would
be walking with their girls in the cool of disappoint me, unless I lost it all. I guess the re-growth of it both abroad and right chance to rise to the top of a profession,
any profession. Compare that kind of free.
at home.
the evening.
I would rather have the $600,000 than the here
Speaking earnestly and with sincerity he dom in the United Kingdom, Robeson said.
There was a happier time in history -
six daughters, if you don't mind."
spoke of being in Europe immediately How much freedom does tie Hindu ex-
not so long ago, either--
Mr. Weintraub replied that he was dis• after V-E day in his capacity as an artist. perience, the African, the British West
when neither their sum- °
appointed in me, whom he - had always He had been discouraged, he said, to find Indian, he asked.
mess nor winters were
respected as one who possessed a modi- that the war was already lost, that the
The essence of Russia's foreign policy,
afflicted by any griev-
cum of wisdo:n.
forces of fascism had already begun to said Robeson, is that they are going to
ous Jewish problems. In
"Consider $00,000," he said. "Not that I
reassert themselves. Coming home, he had stand their ground until they can see that
the summers they sat
have ever seen $600,000. In a tailor's shop
consented to take the post with the Na- the United States is doing all she can to
around their porches
you don't even dream of $600,000. But let's
tional Committee to help fight for the pre- fight the spread of fascism. He blamed the
discussing the sweet
consider it. Let's imagine a man who has
servation of the principles of the Potsdam State Department and President Truman
philosophy of bringing
managed to gather $600,000.
Declaration which called for the complete for their part in what he called "this
up families and the deep
"Is he a happy man then? A happy man
denazification
of Germany and the total de- campaign to destroy the Potsdam pledge."
matter of what living is
is one who knows when he has enough.
Nor have we done much to combat fas-
struction
of
her
war making facilities.
all about.
But does a man who has accumulated
In a petition to be presented to Presi- cism here at home.
Now, on a summer Alfred Segal
5600,000 know he has enough? No! He says,
"The Bilbo's and the Rankin's of the
day, they get together on a porch and be- 'Now I have $600,000 and I'm only $400,000 dent Truman on the anniversary of the
fore long they are talking about the pains from being a millionaire. I will not have signing of the Potsdam agreement, this United States are remnants of the kind of
of being Jewish and in a maschioistic way enough until I have a million. He can't be failure to implement the denazification fascism that destroyed European Jewry,"
afflicting themselves with the pains of a contented man until he has the million. policy in the British and American zones Robeson said. "Just like the Jewish people
was called responsible for the open re. I am afraid of fascism. The fascists treat.
Israel's many controversies.
He works himself sick to get the $400,000
On this beautiful day I could not bring more that will make him a millionaire. He vival of Nazi party activities, outbreaks of ed the negro people just like vermin."
Hardly can we brush aside Robeson's
violence against Jewish DPs in Lansbcrg,
myself to heap any more affliction on Is-
gets high blood pressure and one day
.rael's poor head by to ang up one of the something snaps in him and he is dead the continuance of former Nazis in posi- charges that we are supporting fascism
tions of influence and power, and failure to here when stories about the re-birth of the
many Jewish problems. I knew very well
without having had enough.
take firm measures against the German Ku Klux Klan come in day by day. And
_hat all the other Jewish writers were
"But consider six daughters. When a
yet, the House Un-American Activities
working overtime on that, preparing more man gets one daughter he is grateful and trusts and cartels.
Our present fear of possible war with Committee, ostensibly set up to look into
hot coals of fire for Israel's head.
praises God also for the second, but when Russia is well founded, according to Robe. tuch organizations has voted 5 to 1 to
No! This week I would take Israel back
the third daughter arrives he may begin
to the pleasanter time of old when he was to worry. Then the fourth and the fifth son. "If we go to war with anyone it will i.ostpone "indefinitely" any Congressional
a gentle philosopher not a protagonist of and, finally, the sixth.: Then he certainly be with the Soviet Union," he said, be- investigation of the resurgent Klan.
cause we are afraid to live in a world with
There are a few who carry on the fight.
tins and that. But how to start and where
he has enough.
anyone with such a different way of life
to go? I myself, from long habit of smit- feels
Representative Adam Clayton Powell,
"Unlike the man with $600,000 who never
Taking three arguments that are al- speaking in New York recently before a
ing heads, didn't know where to run in feels he has enough! Yes, my dear Segal,
order to get back on the older, sweeter for a philosopher who believes in knowing ways advanced against the Russian way of group called Veterans Against Discrimina-
life, he drew comparisons with other coun- tion, called Rankin "America's No. 1 fas-
ways of Jewish life.
how much Is enough six daughters are
I was in the midst of these meditations more desirable than $600,000. A man with tries.
cist" and "the most dangerous man in
We say we are afraid of Russia because American life," and called for his investi.
when Mr. Hyman Weintraub came to my with six daughters knows long before he
there
is
no
free
enterprise
there,
because
desk .. "Mr. Weintraub, how do you do?"
gation by the FBI and the Department of
that he has enough."
she is a socialistic state, he said. What
I had known Mr. Weintraub a long time. dies
But Mr. Weintraub wasn't speaking from about. England, he said, who has recently Justice.
Every once in a while, after long inter- personal experience of six daughters. He
The Supreme cow:. nits recently added
vals, Mr. Weintraub calls on me just to has two daughters and four sons. That socialized her banks, coal mines, trans- its weight to the fight by outlawing Jim
portation
system
and
France,
and
numbers
talk.
happy fact brought him to another philo- of other states who have state owned in- Crow seating arrangements in interstate
I like Mr. Weintraub because he never
dustries. There may come a day when the buses.
comes to pound Jewish causes on my desk. sophical reflection.
•
The American Veterans Committee, a
He had been around the farmers of his United States will stand alone In the world
He talks philosophy in the old style. He
large and growing organization of young
used to be a tailor, working on coats and neighborhood and, speaking to one of as the only state which has not become men who had plenty of chance to see the
pants, but now, being 72, he is retired. them, he was envying the happy lot of a socialized, he declared.
There is fear of political communism, he ravages of fascism In Europe, held their
When he was working his job was in a farmer. He couldn't feel so sure that the
continued.
He pointed to the strength of first national convention in Des Moines a
work
of
a
workman
in
the
city
was
as
shop not far from the newspaper office
the
Communists
in France. We have just short time ago. They demanded the enact-
usefully
productive
as
that
of
a
farmer.
A
where I worked. Then I used to see him
demonstrated our lack of fear of dealing ment of a permanent FEPC bill to elim-
farmer
could
get
ecstacy
from
looking
at
more often.
with France by granting her a big loan, inate discrimination in employment. They
I was delighted to see Mr. Weintraub the waving corn he had planted.
want the House Un.American Activities
again. He would be a great relief: His
But the farmer said: "You have raised he pointed out.
Committee abolished and "no more of its
Whatever
you
can
say
about
the
lack
of
whimsical humor, his gentle philosophy a better crop than I, Mr. Weintraub. Your
persecutions."
that never quarreled with anybody.
children!" He was a philosopher--that freedom in Russia, Robeson said, freedom
"Well, Mr. Weintraub?"
farmer!
■
He spoke on the pleasures of being re-
Yes, that was it: Good children were the re
tired, the delight of just resting and not main thing, the best crop, the fine suc-
having a job to go to, and when we had cess. He, the retired wage-earner, could
discussed these matters at length, he said, feel the elations of great success. All the
"I have a riddle for you."
children had turned out right: His boys:
"What's your riddle, Mr. Weintraub?"
A doctor, a lawyer, a permanent captain
By DR. W. A. GOLDBERG, PH.
He came to the point at once.
in the U. S. Navy and one with a good job
"Which is better to have--$600,000 or six in Detroit. His girls: A teacher and
daughters?"
nurse, both married now.
Being a columnist is a dangerous occu- bum and her Idea of self-worths forbid
"Well," I replied, "that depends. You
I thanked Mr. Weintraub for calling, pation. I learn this day by day. When I the here-and-there movements which some
can't always be sure of all six daughters.
You know how it is with six daughters. for the brief interlude of getting away make a general statement, sufficient to war widows feel is the answer to grief.
Where Are The Men?
You may think you have them all safely from distressful Jewish problems•and talk- cover a variety of cases I see and have
married off, but what happens? Some of ing again along the sweeter, old ways of seen over the years, I take my life in my
Janie's type is well known. She typifies
hand. People stop me on the street and in the substantial young woman of this gen-
them may have to come back home with Jewish conversation.
meetings and say: "Last week you said so eration. She earns her living. She is neat.
and so. I know differently. Look at my She is intelligent. She listens well and in-
friend's case. This is what happened to terestingly. She can live as she does . . •
them . .
alone but she wants to live again as she
In this same manner I was stopped last once did. Were she more aggressive, in a
week. A very nice girl, a girl of pleasing subtle way, perhaps she could find her
,
personality, active in the community, took own answer. Being unaggressive, she ask:
By PHINEAS K. BIRON
me to task for a recent column. What she me, "Where are the men?"
said was reinforced by the comments of
C
Without difficulty, I can enumerate at
other girls of her age and they say, In least a dozen girls in the same predica -
pearance
helped
her
to
escape
..
Has
many
FROM THE FASCIST FRONT ...
effect: "We are a lost generation. We ment. Most of them are single. All of
Polish and Soviet decorations for heroism
"The Protocols of Zion" sold by the re- in combat . . . Is a dynamic speaker on the might as well forget all thoughts of mar- them are quiet, neat, pleasing in manner
nd substantial in background. These girls
vived KKK still bear Henry Ford's imprint. public platform . . In private conversation riage." All these people asked: "Where are
the men?"
I echo Janie's idea: "We are a lost gen-
Is the powerful Ford public relations out- she is modest but sure of herself . . Des.
The girl was happily married. She went eration. The men have passed us by."
fit really unable to stop use of the Ford tined to be the leader of the Shomir Hazair
places with her husband. He was the best
name? . . . Mrs. Kate Robbins, a Jewish movement in Palestine . . .
I really wonder If this Is so. What has
man the Lord had created in many years. happened to the single men who went to
woman was compelled to sell her dry-goods
THINGS
YOU
DIDN'T
KNOW
More than that, they belonged to each war. A good many of them are back,
store in a suburb of Chatanooga, after a
other. Theirs was a marriage eternal. So Aren't they marrying? Are their intentions
fiery cross was burnt in front of her store. ABOUT JEWISH PALESTINE . . .
A day after the burning of the cross, the
Right in the midst of the present crisis it was until he was killed in action. Behind other than honorable? Are they trying to
following note was nailed to the door: "We Tel Aviv held its eleventh seasonal exhibi- him he left pleasant memories which now rush girls into situations, telling them
mean business! No Jews here! KKK." . . . tion of the fashion industry .. New York are mixed with violent tugs at the heart. fairy tales about marriage? Or, perhaps,
The Free German Youth, now organized in City has eleven daily newspapers for close Memories are satisfying, for a while. But are the girls getting a bit over-anxious•
Germany under the benevolent eyes of the to 8,000,000 people but Palestine has ten life is so lonesome, despite all club activi. Are they using obvious pressures to forcs
American-British military command, is a daily Hebrew newspapers for a little over ties. This girl is living with her memories, marriage? Are the men wise to ths and,.
dangerous movement. . . It continues the 600,000 population. .. 45000 radio sets are in the past .. . up to a point.
as men of substantial character and
Hitlerite "Kraft durch Freude" education. owned by the Jews in Palestine . . . The
Where are her friends, you ask? Her sound thought, instinctively staying clear
annual budget of the Hebrew University in friends, and there are many, her friends Are these men marrying very young
PROFILE .. •
CHAVKE GROSSMAN Jerusalem is $1,200,000 . . . Jewish athletes adore her and she them . .. are married, as the rumor believes? I don't find this
is a member of the Po- from Palestine will particivate in the next have families and their own husbands and from the marriage licenses. I don't find
lish-Jewish delegation to Olympic games . . . The Palestine Sym- wives. Their activities are for married this among the men I know. Thi men
the United States. She phony Orchestra is on its way to England people only. Of course they are glad are taking in its stride the process of
led the Chalutz move- to give six concerts in Albert Hall, largest to have Janie come along with them. But soldier-to-civilian, taking time to get back
ment underground in auditorium in London . . . A shepherd in she does make an odd number and an to normality.
Nazi and Soviet Poland. Palestine must be at least ten years old escort must be found for her, if she is not
I would like to do my bit in this earn
Organized the resistance before he is recognized as such by the left out of the picture. I suspect that her paign. I want to prove to the doulders
forces of the Bialystok government .. .
friends welcome her as a visitor but not that
men?
" it
quite
I am not wrong,
proving
Ghetto — bringing in
as an extra person on a night out.
directly. If a get-together of such men and
MISCELLANY
.
.
.
arms and ammunition...
t.-Jig,,
Worse still, when Janie is with her mar- women would help, I would gladly sponsor
Omar N. Bradley, Administrator of the
Biron Led the revolt until the
Phinesas
the
U. S. Veterans Administration, says that ried friends, she makes comparisons un- such an event. I would like to shara
eligible
very
end.
.
.
escaped
to
the
woods
and
con-
very
fighting as a member of the parti- the Administration's records list 28,000 consciously. The lives of her friends arc names of such eligible men with rofes.
par ts Kellys, 17,500 Cohens, 16,000 Schultz, and complete . . . husband, wife, children, a girls, in dignity and as befits a P
sans
sans ... She is 26 . . Fair, slightly f
sional office. Perhaps the readers can help
complexion, straight lightbrown hair . 2,000 Kaminskis . . Don't miss "Rem- home. Her life is only partially complete. in this job by providing part of the
Rather small, blue-green eyes . . She is of brandt, the Jews and the Bible" by Franz Her friends make self-sufficing units; she
answer to the question: "Where are th
short, solid build .. Looks like an aryan Landsberger, published by the Jewish Pub- is not. Her own standards prevent her
from bumming around. She never was a
Polish peasant girl . . The "Coyish" ap. lication Society of America.
Personal Problems
D.
Strictly Confidential
t