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Friday, August 16, 1946

Detroit Jewish Chronicle

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The GI Is Interested

' At the beginning of the war, the fear
was constantly expressed, that returning
soldiers would come back a bloodthirsty
set of killers. Should they get into an
argument, death would be the result for
the adversary. How, after the fury and
excitement of the battlefront, could they
settle down to the slow tempo of civili-
zation?

Those fears have long been allayed.
The GI who has returned has fitted into
our present pattern smoothly. He seems
to need none of that vast readjustment
process so carefully planned. by the army
to fit him to civilian life. The days on the
battlefield seem to him like "a bad
dream." His nature is not changed, the
wild animal in him is not loosened.

Anyone who goes to any gathering
where GI's, especially Jewish GI's, are
present, will be delighted at the conver-
sation that goes on. All of them seem to
be conscious of world affairs and they
are intensely interested in the political
progress of world peace. The amount of
information they have is astounding.

Furthermore, they are very serious
about themselves and the world they
live in. There is little frivolity in their
makeup now. They all have the feel-
ing that they lost three or four years
of their lives and have to hurry to
make it up. When they take advan- •
tage of the GI Bill of Rights to go to
school, they study hard, waste little
time in fripperies, and get the maxi-
mum advantage there is to be had.

We will hear more and more from
the GI as time goes on. As his influence,
is felt more and more at the voting
booth, our government will get more and
more liberal and more and more able.
The time is at hand. Everyone will ap-
peal to the GI for his support and his
vote. The GI will be willing to listen but
whoever does the talking will have to
talk sense.

Hope or Fear

Victory Day has come and passed.
We celebrated, on August 14, the end of
the war and the coming of peace. One
year has now gone by and it is time to
survey the situation and observe how
much progress has been made and what
still needs to be done.

The picture, especially for Jews, is

a bleak one. The country is full of con-

fusion and uncertainty. With inflation
growing by leaps and bounds, all the
prophets are foreseeing an economic
upheaval. And an upset economy al-
ways means trouble for m in or it y
groups, particularly our own.

For the Jews in Europe, the passing

of this year has not brought relief or

hope. Britain still pursues its devious pol-
icy in Palestine. In the countries where
the position of the Jew was so hopeless
during the war, there is still no oppor-
tunity for him except through emigra-
tion, and that is being blocked on all
sides.
And over all hangs the specter of the
atom bomb, a weapon so dreadful and
with such terrific potentialities that its
use in another war spells the doom of ci-
vilization as we now know it.
So what do we celebrate? Over what
do we rejoice? Is all hope to be aban-
doned?

We celebrate Victory Day. The war
is over. The right side won. Though
there is a lot to worry about in the fu-
ture, there is also-a lot to be expected.
A peace conference is going on.
Though its start is full of quarrels and
suspicion, that need not be its end.
There is still time and opportunity for
the conference to work out a just and
enduring peace.
If our economic situation improves,

race and minority hatreds can be kept
down to a point where they may be
coped with. The British may change their
attitude in Palestine in the face of world
opinion. Or the whole Palestinian prob-
lem may be taken out of British hands
altogether.

And, above all, the atomic bomb
may be turned from a threat to hu-
mankind to its greatest boon. If the
energy harnessed there can be trans-
formed to economic use, this very
threat may be the means of wiping out
all our economic ills. If the inventive
genius of this country is capable of de-
veloping the inherent power of this
tremendous source of work, the world
may see an era of peace and prosper-
ity undreamed of.

The time may well come when all
men will have to work only ten years
out of their entire lives to produce the
necessities and the luxuries of life. The
remaining time they can spend in pleas-
ure, study, and personal development.
And lives may be lengthened to one hun-
dred and fifty or two hundred years.
There may be no necessity of war when
everyone in the entire world can have
all he wants. All this is locked up in the
secret of atomic energy.
It is a race between atomic energy
and the atom bomb. Which will be used
first? The answer will tell whether in
our lifetimes we reach the pinnacle of ci-
vilization or destroy it altogether.

In the Court of World Opinion

Almost daily in the press of the
United States there are articles on the
situation in Palestine. Bombings, cur-
fews, searches 4nd protests all make good
front page stories and the whole country
is now well aware that there exists a "sit-
uation" in the Holy Land.
The tone of the press is bland. They
merely report what is going on. There is
no praise or condemnation. It is as if the
situation is being tried in the court of
world opinion and the evidence is being
brought in and weighed.

It is also very striking that there is
no condemnation of the acts of vio-
lence on the part of the Irgun Zvai
Leumi. Again merely reports of the
happenings. Again the evidence is be-
ing brought in and weighed.

This type of procedufe has its good
and bad points. It is easy to recall the
way the Nazi excesses were reported
eight and ten years ago. They were giv-
en full coverage. The pogroms, the sav-
age brutalities, the wretched sufferings
of the Jews were all laid before the peo-
ple here. They were not condemned. But
they were exposed. Then when the time
came to battle the Nazis, Americans all
knew what they had to deal with.
The same thing is true today. All the
facts are being brought to light as they
occur. Columnists and commentators are
constantly 'picturing the background of
the quarrel. The whole world is being in-
formed. It is sad that there is no condem-
nation of the British position and at the
same time fortunate that this position is
not being upheld.'

Sooner or later, this whole question
will come before the United Nations
Council for settlement. The settlement
will have to be at least party, a fair
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one. Anything else
would be a loss of
face for the Council.

There is still time for the British to
change their tactics and live up to their
promises before fuming the matter over
to the UN. If there is still any states-
manship left in Britain, this is what they
will do. They are being weighed in the
balance of public opinion. Woe to them
if they are found wanting,

DR. GOLDBERG'S COLUMN DRAWS
COMMENT FROM PRINCIPAL

Dr. W. A. Goldberg, In the Aug. 2 issue of the Jewish Chronicle
dealt with the problem: How Much Time Shall a Child Spend in
Parochial School. "Parochial School," as used by Dr. Goldberg, is not in
that sense in which this term is commonly understood. That causes
much confusion among the readers. Obviously, Dr. Goldberg, when
speaking about Parochial School, really means Hebrew instruction in
the late afternoon for students who have spent their day, until 3:30
p.m., in public school. Commonly, however, the term "Parochial
School" is used for a school where a full program of secular education
is offered and where religious Instruction is an integrated part of the
educational system. Only the modern Hebrew Day School is in that
sense a Parochial School. It offers secular and Hebrew instruction dur-
ing regular school hours; thus leaving enough time to the child for
outdoor recreation, play, and activities of special interest. What Dr.
Goldberg holds against that which he terms "Parochial School" is one
of the reasons that brought the Hebrew Day School into life.
All Jewish educators agree that the "limited education in the basic
ideals of religion" provided by a one, or one and a half hours daily
course, is far from being sufficient. Moreover, there must never be a
"conflict between an old country and an American culture." Education
deals with human beings and human beings are Indivisible units. We
cannot properly "add our own culture to general education." It should
and must be a synthetic unity, Jewish culture an integral part of our
educational system. That is the other reason that brought the Jewish
Day School on the American scene.
Dr. Goldberg compares the objective of an "intense course of
Study" with a "less intense course" and states that the former "is
attempting to create specialists," is kind of a "seminary." No con.
-scientious educator would ever try to apply methods used in adult
education in colleges and universities in the program of elementary
and intermediate grades. I wonder what else the term "seminary"
may mean. And the aim of any more or 'less intensive course of Jew-
ish studies is surely not to create specialists. Just the opposite. We
want the children to live a full life as Jews and Americans. The
broader we build the foundation, the stronger will be the edifice.
Specialization means narrowing into a single track; more intensive
study means widening and deepening the mental aspect.
Let us be clear in our conceptions. Confusion Is dangerous every-
where, but It means suicide in the field of Jewish education.

DR. HUGO MANDELBAUM,
Principal, Beth Yehudah Day School

Book Review

By LEON SAUNDERS

Lustre In The Sky

Doubleday and Co. just published
a novel under the above title,
which the author, R. G. Waldeck,
took from the Shelley's ". .. There
is harmony in autumn, and a
lustre in the sky . . ."
With the background of the VI-
enese Congress of 1814 the author
primarily tells the love story of
the famous Talleyrand de Peri-
gore and his niece, Madame Ed-
mond de Perigore. The wnole novel
is filled with Talleyrand. This
famous diplomat whose motto was:
Serve anybody as long as they pay;
this Machiavelli of the 18th cen-
tury indeed did serve the Bour-
bons, the Revolution, Napoleon
and again the Bourbons. History
knows only two persons who could
achieve this trick, Talleyrand and
Fouche, the famous French police
commissioner.

The first chapter of the novel
begins with a description of VI.
enna and continues with: ". . . For,
long last, the war was over. The
dictator whose colossal figure had
cast its shadow over kingdoms
and nations was defeated. The
most scientifically and grandiously
conceived organization of force
which in the curious course of his
fortunes he had imposed upon peo-
ples, had crumbled. On this eve-
ning the Peace Conference had
not officially opened, yet the City
was already buzzing with impor-
tance. The British plenipotentiary,
it was known, had Informal dis-
cussion with the representatives
of Prussia. A couple of dispos-
sessed princes complained that the
Big Four turned to them a cold
shoulder. The Polish question was
the crucial question of the Con-
gress, for the Russians had made
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