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Friday, August 9, 1946

IIWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

Plain Talk

Personal Problems

By ALFRED SEGAL

By DR. W. A. GOLDBERG

Your questions on personal problems will be answered by mall as far
as possible. Send a self-addressed. stamped envelope to Dr. IV. A.
Goldberg, 1314 Eaton Tower, Detroit 20, Michigan, or to the Editor
of this paper.

A Man, Self Ordained

mother to your children. For that I steal
pay you $20 a week."
I mention all this in order to establish
It isn't any too late to write about Sid- the fine authority of "Golden Rule" Nash
Your Personal Advertising
With a ten-minute break to walk around ney Hillman, though almost a month has on the character of Sidney Hillman. Any-
A friend's son, with ability and expe-
passed since he was buried. When is it way, it's good to make a report on a
rience, was unable to make the final ar- the block, he returned and again we went ever too late to speak the praises of a gentleman so great and good, since gentle-
gument in getting a job. He wasn't ask- over his speech. He was modest, positive great gentleman? A man truly is dead men aren't any too many in the world.
ing for more than he could do. He ap- and had something to offer . . . He got when people have ceased to speak of him
One day, long ago, our town was startled
plied in a number of shops but somehow the job.
The moral of this case is: an important in praise and Sidney Hillman isn't one who by news that was rare in that time. In
he failed to make the grade. To say the
is
dead,
even
though
he
has
been
buried.
that time unions and their leaders were
least, he was getting discouraged. Perhaps objective requires expenditures. The ob-
Yes, a good man keeps on living long being chased by dogs, like rabbits, and no
the only answer was for the father to put jective may be a job, making friends,
him on his personal payroll. Fortunately, finding a husband or wife. The expendi- after he has been buried and Sidney Hill- clothing manufacturer or any other indus-
trialist could think of inviting a union to
he was to have another interview the next ture includes time and money in present. man is one of that kind.
I may consider myself somewhat of an organize his factory.
afternoon. Since I had guessed part of ing, among other items, a proper personal
Here was "Golden Rule" Nash doing
the answer to his difficulty when he came impression, neither shabby nor flashy. authority on Sidney Hillman, though I saw
in with his father, I suggested he come in Clothes are important. Good, well-tailored him only once on a platform which was that very thing. He had invited the Amaj.
suits
are
as
important
as
keeping
them
quite a distance from me in the auditorium. gamated Clothing Workers into his factory,
the next morning. I wanted to make strik-
ing demonstration to him of elementary well pressed. A good suit gives more wear You might say that my authority is sec. The reporters rushed over to his office.
than two cheap ones and when old still and-hand, since what I know about Sidney Why are you doing this? Mr. Nash had a
facts.
written statement ready.
The boy was punctual for the appoint- looks better. The expenditures include time Hillman comes from another person.
ment. We shook hands. His hands were in personal grooming. Anyone can make a
Yet I greatly revered that person. He
He said he wanted his workers to be us
wet and his grip flabby. He was asked habit of shining shoes the night before was a Christian who really tried to live strong as he. Without the union they were
to fill out a "personal grooming chart," as a regular chore. A successful attorney and conduct his business and all his human just weak individuals who could do little
checking various items in his personal ap- in whose home I visited showed me how relations by Christ's Sermon on the Mount. for themselves in their relations with him,
pearance: clothes, shoes, hair, general he did the job and got his children to
His name was Arthur Nash, a citizen of but together in the union they would be as
do the same.
cleanliness.
our town. He was a clothing manufacturer. strong as he in their dealings with him.
We ran through his "speech," the one
SIGNS OF PERSONAL
He was called "Golden Rule" Nash. The For that reason he had invited Sidney
DISORGANIZATIDN
he intended to give to the employer. He
Golden Rule was just a trademark of his Hillman to bring his union into the Nash
was uncertain about what he wanted to
Too often shabby appears ice reflects an clothing business in the beginning—some. factory. (This was long before the time of
say. He looked at the ceiling. He depre- emotional let-down. In such a person's thing to sell sults by.
the Wagner Labor Relations Law.)
cated his own worth and ability. He didn't mind, the cycle is about as follows: "Why
But Arthur Nash repeated his slogan so
He said he had learned to know Hillman
know how much he would work for or dress up? Who will look at me? I am it often and so long that in time he came well and was proud to be associated with
what the prevailing pay rate was. His failure. I don't have to dress to make an to believe devoutly in it and to conduct such a man..
story was neither clear, concise nor con- impression on others because no one cares all his affairs by it. I remember the time
"Golden Rule" Nash said: "I regard Sid.
fidently told.
about me." At one time my own office a girl in his office defaulted to the amount ney Hillman as another Jew like Jesus.
I had heard, from other sources, that , was next door to a professional modelling of several thousands of dollars, but he He is a great prophet."
he was steady and able. But he had an bureau. Accidentally, some of the models didn't prosecute her.
Ever since then I had always envisaged
unconfident manner, a dejected look, a wandered into my office. Their striking .To send her to prison wasn't the way Sidney Hillman in this pattern. When, long
sloppy appearance. The first impression personal appearance gave me a lift. I of the Golden Rule. He kept her in his later, politicians tried to tear him apart, I
he made was unfavorable to his best in- would unconsciously look in the mirror to office so that by her earnings she could remembered what Nash had said about his
terests and capabilities. • see if my hair was brushed, my tie give back to him what she had taken. He being a prophet and a Jew like Jesus. Yes,
LAYING OUT A CAMPAIGN
straight. It added a pleasant zest to daily raised her wages, so that she could the prophets always did get it in the neck
I made these outward tests and sugges- living.
more quickly repay what she owed him. and occasionally one was crucified.
tions because every impression he gave
They were saying, by way of disparage-
So we say: Lay out a campaign when In time he "pardoned" her. Long before
would mark him down, to a prospective tackling something important. Check very it was all paid off, he told her she owed ment, that Sidney Hillman once studied to
employer. He went out for a haircut and carefully on the first impression you make llim no more. She had faithfully tried.
be a rabbi in Lithuania. He had emigrated
shave and shoe shine, got his suit pressed, on people. Or have someone else do it,
There was the time his payroll was held and had become a tailor instead of a rabbi,
invested in a comb and brush and nail someone who will give you honest an- up—a matter of many thousands of dollars in Chicago. But , if a rabbi is one who
file. He bought sober-colored socks and a swers. The first impression is the only stolen. The robber was caught, but "Golden takes to himself the prophetic spirit, who,
pair of garters as well as a smart-looking way strangers have of evaluating you. Rule" Nash was deeply troubled about the like an Isaiah, leads man toward his es.
tie. A clean white handkerchief was in Don't put unnecessary handicaps in your robber's wife and four children. What sential dignity, couldn't it be said that
his lapel.
path, through careless lack of thought. would become of them when the robber Sidney Hillman had become a great rabbi,
The change in appearance was striking. If you can get away with it, some small was sentenced to a long term in prison? after all?
We spent the rest of tho time on his item will help, such as a watch chain This was heavy on the conscience of "Gol-
A rabbi without ordination, except that
talk and manner. He practiced shaking with an odd pendant, an odd dress pin. den Rule" Nash. He said these children conferred upon him by his own character
hands, firmly and with intent. He wrote But don't ever be ridiculously different. mustn't be made to suffer for the sin of and vision; a truly Jewish leader who
down a brief statement of his experience. Know your limitations and stay within their father.
knew all men as his brothers and who in
His manner was modest. We discussed
He called the robber's wife to his office his leadership was followed by men of all
those
boundaries.
going wage rates, coming to a conclusion
So give yourself a "break" in personal . . . "I am putting you on my payroll at varieties; none knew him in his special
as to a reasonable amount he could ex-
identity as Jew, but as a friend of man.
appearance.
It takes time and ever so lit- $20 a week," he said.
pect. His talk emphasized learning on the
"But, Mr. Nash," she replied, "I can't
Truly, "Golden Rule" Nash proclaimed
tle
money.
Mostly
it
takes
thought
and
job and advancement. All the time he
work in your factory. I have to look aftet Sidney Hillman's self-ordination when he
effort.
looked me in the eye.
said of him: "I regard Sidney Hillman as
my children."
"I am not asking you to work in my another Jew like Jesus. He is a great
factory. I just want you to be a good prophet."

I

Strictly Confidential

Capital Letter

By CHARLES BENSON

By PHINEAS K. BIRON

Immigration to -
This Country

REMEMBER THE 176 . . .
Henry W. Levy, publicity director of the
WASHINGTON—As long as there has
Union of American Hebrew Congregations, been discussion of admitting Jewish refu-
writes "that a commission was not the gees into Palestine there has been another
easy read to personal safety in World War school of thought advocating that, in all
II is indicated by a glance at the honor fairness, the United States should look to
roll of the 176 service men, members of her own shores and relax immigration bar-
the 34 Reform Congregations of the New riers so that as many as possible could
York Federation of Reform Synagogues emigrate to this country. It's the old
. . Of the 176 young men who lost their "charity begins at home" theory applied
lives in the service, over 50 per cent, nine- to an international problem.
ty-three in all, were commissioned officers."
When President Truman last December
A WORTHY SON .. .
issued the executive order opening up the
A new comic strip by Bernard Segal, son immigration quotas after the war shut-
of Alfred Segal, the beloved Seven Arts down, he pointed out that, under the law,
columnist, will be started in national cir- the quotas did not accumulate. He also
culation by the New York Herald Tribune stated firmly that he would not ask Con.
Syndicate on September 3rd ... The comic, gress to make any concession in this
entitled "Honey and Hank" Is a daily ac- regard. But logical thinkers said, why not?
count of the further life and works of a Why not let refugees use some of the
G.I. as a veteran in relation to his home unused quota numbers and do that much
and family . . . Bernard studied in the to help anyway. It would mean a concrete
University of Cincinnati, the Cincinnati Art step and would stand as a good example
Academy and the Art Students League, to the rest of the world.
In June UNRRA's Director General ex-
New York . . . Prior to being taken into
the army, he was a painter and illustrator Mayor LaGuardia, estimated that there
. He illustrated a number of books, pub- would be an irreducible minimum of 630,-
lished
by the Union of American Hebrew 000 non-repatriable displaced persons in
ANSWERS . . .
Congregations, including a book of Bible camps in Germany, Austria and Italy who
Is it true that John Foster Dulles distin- Stories . . . The comic strip will be pub- either could not, or would not return to
guished adviser on Foreign Affairs con. lished under the by-line "By Seeg" . . . their homeland. In a letter to Secretary
tributed money to America First? . . . The It will also appear in the New York Her- of State Byrnes he outlined a program for
record's of America First credit a contribu- ald Tribune ... Congratulations Al, Bernie solving this problem.
He called on all nations to move imme-
tion from one "John Foster Dulles" of $509 is something to be proud of.
diately to accept a share of these refugees.
. . . The date was November 5, 1941 .. . WARNING .. .
Just one month before Pearl Harbor .. .
The anonymous writer who sends us Specifically, he recommended to the United
No, the World Zionist readership is divided anti-Semitic "love-letters" every week will States that some 120,000 unused immigra-
on the question of partition . . . Weizman be interested to know that the F.B.I. is on tion quotas be pooled and applied for a
number
Is for it and so are Lipsky and a
his trail . . . He apparently forgot that period of six months to any DPs who were
of Palestinian big shots . . . Rabbi Silver most typewriters are as individualistic as qualified to enter, regardless of country of
origin. The quota numbers would be col.
is opposed to anything short of a Jewish fingerprints.
lected from countries which consistently
state . . . David Ben Gurlon will accept LAST MINUTE FLASH . . .
partition if the Negev is included in the
It has just been confirmed that Pau l under-filled their quotas and would recur
Jewish region ... The Joint Defense Cam- Muni will appear in "A Flag Is Born" .. . to each such country the following year.
When Congresswomen Helen Gahagan
paign has not been cancelled but merely a pageant written by Ben Hecht for the
Douglas, Emily Taft Douglas and Chase
discontinued for a few summer weeks, American League for a Free Palestine.
we're told.

ABOUT PEOPLE . . .
Sidney Matz, son of Israel Matz was
killed two weeks ago when his private
plane crashed near Seattle . . . Sidney's
father is well-known throughout the world
as a generous - philanthropist and Hebrew
scholar . . . He is the founder of Ex-Lax,
Inc., and has made wise use of his wealth
. . . Sidney, we knew him well, was the
dashing type . . . He loved action and
adventure . . . He had definite convictions
on Jewish matters . . . He, the son was
much more conservative than the father
. . . But both never argued about helping
good caus‘t ... We remember once dis-
cussing with Sidney a Jewish organization
which was labeled leftwing .. He ob-
jected vehemently to its ideology . . . But
of ter stating his case, he agreed to help
. . . Yes, we believe that Sidney, the rest-
less sportsman, and intimate of celebrities,
would have developed more and more into
a very useful Jewish community leader .. .
notwithstanding his reluctance to accept
many symptoms of a new changing world
. . . His passing is a genuine loss.

9
Going Woodhouse called at the White
House one day last week to urge the use
of unused quotas in this manner, observers
here wondered if it indicated possible Con.
gressional action on the plan.
A spot check on the Hill blasted this
theory since Congressional minds seem to
turn to thoughts of vacation more than
immigration. Some idea, however, of how
much opposition and of what nature of
opposition the proposal would face if
brought up for Congressional approval can
be gauged by the answers of several Con-
gressmen when questioned on the plan.
Generally, the great majority of them
said they would give their unqualified sup-
port to the plan. Others, while placing
themselves definitely on record as being
in favor of the idea, admitted frankly that
they feared opposition from some of the
other members, "especially from the South-
ern states." A few openly admitted that
they would oppose the plan.
Representative comments in favor of the
proposal: "Sure. I'd give my unqualified
support to that one." (Patterson of Cali-
fornia). "I certainly would support it. I'd
be willing to do anything to help the mat-
ter of Jewish immigration." (Traynor of
Delaware). "If the refugees of Europe
who have certainly had as hard a time al
anybody I know of, and luny qualified to
enter the United States in every other
respect than the fact that their country
has no more quota numbers, then I say
by all means dispense with the regula-
tions and let them come in." (Flood of
Pennsylvania.)
One Congressman who strongly sup-
ported the idea suggested that it must be
extended to all refugees, not making it
specifically Jewish refugees, so that oppo-
sition to it could not possibly be based on
racial grounds. He said that he wanted
it to have as much chance of getting
through as possible. He said that he not
only wanted to use up unused quotas but
that he wanted to enlarge the quotas so
that all the refugees could be taken care of.