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DETROIT SWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

Personal Problems

Frida

July 12, 1946

Strictly Confidential

By DR. W. A. GOLDBERG

By PHINEAS K. BIRON

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Your questions on personal problems will be an-
swered by mail as fur as possible. fiend a self-ad-
dressed, envelope to Dr, W. A. Goldberg,
1314 Eaton Tower, Detroit 26, 311ebigan, or to the
Editor of this paper.

An Antidote .for Boredom

"My child drives me wild when she says:
What shall I do now? There is nothing to
do In the house, nobody to play with and
no fun . . . What should I tell her to do?"
Mrs. B.C.

—

For want of attention, children often as-
sume a bored attitude. This desire may be
real or fancied. It may be a bid for more
attention by a child who feels ipsecure. The
far too usual parental reply is a snappy 'Go
away and don't bother me." Or it is "Here
is a dime for candy" or "a quarter for the
show."

Such a response meets the immediate prob.
lem but it places the child in a position of
depending on the parent to think for it. It
Is merely an additional crutch. It carries no
inherent strength and does not teach the
child to depend on himself or herself and in-
nate resources. It does not provide a method
of amusement which the child can use in the
future.

The thoughtful parent provides a dictionary
suitable to an age group so that the child
will look up words voluntarily for spelling
and pronunciation. He encourages his child
to read, at his level, sound literature and
magazines. The child reflects the home, un-
consciously. The child will read books and
periodicals which come to the house, without
much effort by parents.

1
ATTENTION: WARNING ....
of securing attention. This, of course, means
The Christian Veterans Intelligence Bureau,
expert help and skilled guidance for both 420 Farwell Building, Detroit, is said to be
parent and child.
an anti-Semitic otitfit...Lorence Asman is Its
mastermind..*.And this Mr. Asman, who is
Gerald L. K. Smith's spokesman in Michigan,
ALWAYS WITH THE CURRENT
is the National Vice-President of Christian
Sometimes the home attempts to go against Youth for America....C.Y.A. is reported to be
the current by insisting that all books, maga- a Smith-sponsored organization....Now here
zines and records be educational or classical. is something our defense organizations have
Children go through phases of interest. overlooked.... Rev. Harvey K. Springer, who
Blood-and-thunder radio serials attract young cooperates closely with the notorious anti.
children. Popular music is for teen-agers. Semite, Rev. Winrod, publisher of "The De-
Comic books too are a nuisance to parents. fender", is also very close to Mr. Asman of
Yet, if forbidden in the home, they will be Detrolt....All of which proves that America's
read outside and on the sly. All these things anti-Semitic organizations are paving the way
must be taken in their stride, considered as for a United Front of their own....
normal to today's living. They can be re- LIFE BEGINS AT 70 . . . .
Dr. Alexander A. Bogomolets is rapidly be-
stricted in extent by substitution, never by
being forbidden. It saves parental tempers coming a popular name in America....He is
when It is realized that children Of that age the Soviet genius experimenting with a new
all go through these phases of interests and serum he discovered a number of years ago
that Johnny will' not grow into a criminal ....The name of the serum is A.C.S., mean-
ing anti-reticular cytotoxic serum....Bogomo-
or hoodlum because of them.
Parents find it much more difficult to exer- lets is the son of a Jewish mother, a noted
cise that wise combination of direction and revolutionary, exiled by the late Tsar to Si-
leaving the child to his own devices, the beria....He is known in the Soviet Union as
combination so necessary for proper develop- "The Father of Longevity"....Bogomolets in-
ment. The parents' adult mind is supposedly sists that a man of 60 or 70 is still young
more alert. It can suggest, subtly, how the "because he has lived only half his natural
child may amuse himself, alone or with par- life"....The Soviet scientist says that "ono
ental help. This Is both a duty and a re- can and must struggle against old age....It
sponsibility of parenthood...to furnish the can be treated just as any other illness"....
direction, to help the child use his own judg- A.C.S. Is the serum that Is supposed to pro-
long your life by strengthening the connect-
ment.
ing tissues of the human body.... We've been
The general answer to parents, in this
told that the secret of Stalin's miraculous re-
question, may well be: If your child doesn't
covery from a major illness is due to Bogo.
know what to do with himself, make sure
molets' A.C.S.....A.C.S. is viewed with great
that it is not purely an attention-getting de-
respect by distinguished American scientists
vice. Having ruled this out, the next question
Is to check into what provisions the parent ....Warner Brothers of Hollywood have set
has made for the child's amusement and di- aside 15 million dollars as a subsidy for an
version. It may well be that insufficient ma- institute of research under the leadership of
terial is in the home, or insufficient or un- Dr. Goldblatt, outstanding American authori-
suitable space, or insufficient friends. In all ty on A.C.S.....Another institute of A.C.S. re-
cases it is a wise axiom to permit the chili search under the guidance of Dr. Joseph

Periodicals, like the National Geographic,
help build a variety of interests, biology, ani-
mal life, exploration, customs. Its illustra-
tions are especially useful to start a reading
habit with very young children. Other maga-
zines, too, can be a handy source for diver-
to have a voice in choosing, in planning, in
sion for dull moments.
expressing himself.
Music through records are excellent for
If these efforts are not sufficient, then the
self-amusement. The hobbies of painting, child may need' special help. Frank discus-
drawing, shop work, all at hand with a place sion of the child by his parents, frank ex-
to use them are important. They will tend ploration of the parents, with professional as-
to eliminate or reduce boring periods, unless sistance, may well repay the parent by assns.
the child is using the question as a means ing a happier and more content household.

Capital Letter

By CHARLES BENSON

WASHINGTON—When the four leaders of
the Jewish Agency Executive called on Presi-
dent Truman to discuss the Palestine situa-
tion and a practical plan for admitting 100,-
000 Jewish refugees into Palestine, they left
the White House armed with this Govern.
ment's assurance that they would receive
technical and financial assistance for carrying
out the task.

plywood, 3,500 metric tons of pipe and 1,300
metric tons of corrugated sheets. Farm
equipment may cost $10 and possibly $25 mil-
lion. Non-residential construction, public ser-
vices, etc., would run up to $20 or $30 mil-
lion and expansion in industrial investment
would absorb $25 to $30 million more. The first
might later be integrated with a plan such
as the proposed Jordan Valley Authority,
Their plan, contained in a letter which they stages of a gigantic irrigation scheme, which
sent to the President two weeks in advance would cost from $20 to $25 million.
of their visit, had been drawn up over two
The money for transporting and caring for
years of close, careful study and contained these people Is expected to come from a num.
estimates of what the undertaking would ber of sources. New savings within Pales-
cost In terms of money and material. The let- tine, the inflow of private investment capi-
ter suggested that the total cost of the un- tal, world Jewish contributions, reparations,
dertaking would run to $35 million and might and public lending institutions such as the
go as high as $45 million.
Export-Import Bank, will all be tapped, it is
Some $8 to $10 million might be spent on expected.
transportation alone, the letter said. Accord-
Another form of "international assistance"
ing to a War Shipping Administration esti- which the Jewish Agency requires, according
mate, approximately ten ships of the Victory to their letter, is help in obtaining priorities
type could transport the 100,000 from Ger- for the purchase of food, clothing and con-
many to Palestine during a six month pe- struction materials.
riod. The Victory ship is the same style ship
According to the War Assets Corporation,
that carried so many troops back and forth
to Europe during the war. Fifteen hundred there is a sizeable amount of surplus prop-
refugees at one time could make the 3,650- erty in the Mediterranean theatre and parts
of Europe which could be purchased by the
mile trip.
Jewish Agency for this rehabilitation work.
Transitional maintenance, including medi- Although practically nothing is left in the
cal care and training expenditures, would Middle East, there was in Italy at the end of
run the account to $15 or $20 million more. June, some $250 million dollars worth of sur-
An additional $12 to $15 million would be plus material, a spokesman for the WAC
spent on clothing, minimum household uten- said. This included all types of vehicles, ra-
sils and furniture.
dio equipment, and smaller amounts of food,
The Agency's letter requested that 25,000 of clothing and medical supplies.
the 100,000 be orphaned children. Of the $60
He also suggested Germany as a great po-
million which would be required to care for tential reservoir of much needed materials.
them for an estimated period of five years He estimated that there was now In Ger-
they charged that "simple equity" demanded many some 550,000 tons of material, amount-
that most of this cost be met out of Ger- ing to about one billion dollars 'worth. Al-
man reparations "since their orphaned con- though this has not yet been declared sur-
dition results directly from German aggres- plus, he said, designated amounts might be
sion and from the German policy of aggres- declare, if an order was placed by the Jew-
sion."
ish Agency. This has been done in the past
To absorb the 100,00 into the existing for UNRRA and other deserving rehabilita-
economy they suggested that certain, "pro- tion groups, he explained.
ductive investments" would be necessary.
This summation of financial and technical
Housing alone would cost some $40 million requirements will give, perhaps, some slight
and would require the purchase of 21 million idea of what is isivolved in the planned mass
board feet of lumber, 3 million board feet of migration of 100,000 people.

)

Skapler is being established In New York b
a group of progressive businessmen....A.C,S
before long will be the world's best-knows
serum....Who doesn't want to live to be 15
ye ars....
POSTWAR SUCCESS STORY ...
Meet ex-Sergeant John Schwarz, co-owner
of New York's newest successful restaurant
"Headquarters"....Sergeant Schwarz planned
the menu for the Potsdam Conference of Tru.
man, Stalin and Churchill.... He prepared the
settings for the now famous toasts for Gen.
eral Eisenhower, Marshall Montgomery and
Marshall Zhukov....He and his side-kick,
Sergeant Snyder, fed hundreds of the world's
ace newspapermen, photographers, and radio
correspondents at the famous War Corre•
pondents' Mess Hall in the Scribe Hotel In
Paris....An American war correspondent in
Paris suggested that the boys, Schwarz and
Snyder, team up and open a top-flight res.
taurant in New York....Thus "Readquart,A"
was born....And when Eisenhower came to
New York recently, he visited "Headquarters"
and proclaimed his mess sergeants America's
finest restaurateurs....
FASCIST FRONT . .. .
The Fact-Finding Department of the Anti.
Defamation League reports four organizations
in the South cooperating with the Ku Klux
Klan.... Remember these four names: The
Cominoner Party in Georgia; The Sons of
Dixie in Tennessee; The Christian Veterans
Association in Chicago; The Christian-Ameri-
can Association....The new mastermind of
anti-Semitic propaganda in the New York
area is Milo McDonald, executive directo - of
The American Education Association... :J 11 1, o.
McDonald will deny being an anti-Semite but
we have his full record on our desk and the
evidence is hole-proof....It was McDonald
who raised an angry voice recently about
"Jewish 'persecution" of the anti-Semitic
Brooklyn teacher, May Quinn....One of Mc-
D6nald's closest adjutants is Father Edward
fodge Curran, Coughlin's Man Friday....

Plain Talk

By ALFRED SEGAL

A Certain Rich Man

You should know Dr. Irving Levey. He is
a man who can rhapsodize with religious fer-
vor over a very old Hebrew book which, he
has in his keeping, even as other citizens
gurgle happily on account of United Door-
knobs having gone up 3 points on the big
exchange this morning . . . "Genevra, my
dear, we're $3,000 richer today on account of
United Doorknobs!"
The difference is that while the holder of
United Doorknobs stock may celebrate the 3
points rise by taking Genevra, his wife, out
to the Okedoke Night Club, Irving Levey
thanks God for His great mercy In letting
the old book live that long and for having
permitted It to come to the keeping of his
hands and eyes.
Probably the United Doorknobs stockholder
couldn't understand Irving Levey's mystical
exurZation over an old book. After all, he
would say, it's just an old book. When all's
said and done, it's a lot of old paper, and
make something of that!! And if you get
down to the real facts, what's old paper
worth? Tell me! Sure it's interesting all
right, but—so what?
On the other hand, look at my thOlisand
shares of United Doorknobs. That's paper,
too, but anyway, it ain't hay. At the market
price, $35.50 a share, you can figure it out
for yourself what my 1,000 shares really
mean.
I guess Irving Levey would laugh him off.
He might say, but in 1,000 years what will
Your stock be worth? And who will remem--
her United Doorknobs? But this book is like
some element of eternity. I mean like stars,
like the human spirit. In this physical form
it's already 926 years old, but its content is
about 1,700 years old. It's the Babylonian
Talmud, mind you.

Irving Levey will be as happy about his
riches tomorrow as he is today. He knows
they have to do with eternity and nothing
can happen to make them worth less. He
will keep on thanking God that all this
wealth of Jewish books has been put into
his hands to guard, as Librarian.

He is the keeper of the treasure house that
is the library of the Hebrew Union College
in Cincinnati. A group of us heard him
make a very brief speech about his bookivhe
other evening. It was like listening to pot as
and Irving Levey was like some rapt priest
at a holy altar, the way his eyes glowed.

He had written a piece—"The Biography
of a Book," in the monthly bulletin of the
Hebrew Union College—a first edition of the
Babylonian Talmud, printed in Antwerp in
the year 1520. It is one of the cherished pos.
sessions of the Rare Book Room at the He-
brew Union College and he had put it on
special display, together with other old books
of Jewish life and learning.

Yes, he thought, Jews should look at this
to know how really rich they are: this wealth
of history and of living they had done; /se
riches of thought, this old civilization they
had inherited, this long acquaintance with
God.

Jews had been made to feel devastated and
disinherited by their persecutors; it had come
to pass that the meanest guttersnipe could
flatter his inferiority by despising Jews.
Some Jews had come to question their own
worth as Jews and to wonder what Jew,
as a Jew, had to live for anyway. ,

In his "Biography of a Book," Irv,'
t reY
had in a way answered them. H4
in.
,vited them to come and browse ars j the
books of his exhibit: This Babylonian Tal-
mud and other ancient treasures of Israel
...."When you have idled away these stew
You speak of your Doorknob stock. Door-;
Lpfure
knobs are a great convenience; the way moments in delightful day-dreaming
the exhibit, you will conclude that you have
they let you into your house! But this boo
beheld an eternity of the Jewish spirit," he
opens the door to a tremendous scene of h
wrote.
man life, into the corridors of your own hi
tory.
That was it: I, the Jew, have not been
the
Just to be allowed to be the keeper of he devastated or disinherited, since I am
possessor
of
this
eternity.
I
have
this
abun-
book, Irving Levey feels richer than he
Doorknobs stockholder can. Tomorrow the dant life that was lived before me and has
stockholder won't feel as rich as he dots to- been handed down to me in this printed
day; tomorrow he will be unhappy btfcause record.
.,1
his stock hasn't gone up three poirists more
Shall I much mind my enemies who 'are
since today . . . "Genevra, the stock hasn't newcomers in civilization? I am an old, ex-
moved a point."
perienced hand at living as a civilized man.

