DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

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Personal Problems

By DR. W. A. GOLDBERG

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Friday, August 23, 1946

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By ALFRED SEGAL

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I Speak In Heaven

all beautiful just the same.
Now they were all speaking to Cod to-
gether--the statesmen, the clergymen
all the others who on earth were
to give out their voices in loud speec
Each had a different idea of what the yi
world should be like.
A former Italian statesman was saying
that a new world should contain no Yugo.
slays. One whom I was quick to recog.
nize as Bilbo said the new world must
be one of white skins only . . . "You made
a mistake when you made black ones
last time."
Stalin was shouting it must be a new
world of Communists only. He wished to
have it understood, though—as a matter
of procedural record—that the fact that
he was addressing God should not be
regarded as any recognition of the exist-
ence of God. He said he refused to be-
lieve in God, even though, as sonic might
argue, he was speaking to Him face to
face .. . "As to God the Soviet Govern.
ment continues to stand on the party
line," he said.
Churchill's voice was giving the rounded
periods that used to do something to me
on the radio . .. "Regardless of what.
ever else • you may do with a new world,
the Britsh empire must not be liquidated.
And, as to Palestine, the British govern.
meat stands four-square where it always
has."
The clergymen said there should be on-
ly one religion in the new world, but each
insisted that his own religion must be the
one, if the world was to be governed by
truth.
God smiled. He was patient. It was like Is
the patience of kindly fathers on the earth
when their kids were noisy in the house,
fighting all over the place. I thought of
my own similar patience when my chil-
dren were young long ago. This was the
patience of everyboay's Father.
God looked up and suddenly the re-
motest corners of heaven was bright with
the splendor of His countenance . . .
"Children! Children!" he called us . . .
He said he had heard all the big people
of the earth, but none of the little people
had said a word. Wasn't there one of
the little people who would like to tell
him how to make the new world good?
I trembled as I arose. I never had been
any good at public speaking and now my
voice quavered and I could have fallen
through interplanetary space, as I stood
there. I managed to take hold of myself,
though, and spoke:
"I think it's all in being kind. Yes,
that's it. A new world in which every-
body will be kind to his neighbor. Kind
hearts and charitable minds! There wasn't
enough in the old world—that was the
trouble! It was like mad dogs devouring
each other. 0, good God, make the new
world kind."
There arose a murmur of snorting, con-
temptuous impatience from all the big
shots. I could understand what it meant:
"Why take up our time with the childish
ideas of this simple-minded fellow? Let's
get on with our adult political and thee.
logical discussion of what the new world
should be like." Their voices became loud
again. I sat- down in embarrassment.
My pipe had gone out. Well, I thought,
nevertheless I was right. But why wait
to make a new world kind? Why can't
we start on this one?

them to see the light. Many others are
A gentleman Who read my recent piece
flexible enough to realize the changed
conditions and will follow in the new re- entitled "Waiting for the World to End"
(it was that Sunday when the experimental
quirements.
atomic bomb went off at Bikini) asked:
"GI Sammy," asked another question in
POSSESSIONS OF NEWLYWEDS
"And suppose the world really had ended
his reply to my recent column on the
It is stylish to have costly weddings. that day. Couldn't God have made a bet-
scarcity of men for the girls of this gen-
eration. He ,asked: "Have the young peo- This is fine for those who can afford it. ter One?"
This suggestion remained deep in my
ple forgotten what is basic and essential But it places a pressure upon ordinary
to living? Have they been flim-flammed folks, with lesser money ability. Some- mind. I carried it home in the evening
by the rosy picture of war wages?" This where and sometime there must be a Yes, I thought, maybe that's the best
problem has deep roots. It concerns more -leveling off, a realization that display has thing: If God had another chance, he
would certainly profit by the immense ex-
than preparation for a job, as discussed its limits.
perience of the past. A better human race
in "Are You Converted to Peace." Do
What does a young couple need who certainly could be created In a new world.
young people today know what is required
The more I thought of this, the more I
think of marriage? A car, a house of fur-
of them to meet normal life?
niture, a pop-bottle engagement ring, a liked the idea of starting the world all
A community leader bemoaned the fact gorgeous wedding and receptions? Do the over again. The current human race
that the young people of his acquaintance young folks (and their parents) hold to seemed just too stupid to work with any
want things on a silver platter, don't have this economic standard? Are such worldly longer. It was incapable of learning even
the lessons that come to it by tremendous
the push or won't exert themselves to get goods vital to the married state?
suffering.
what they want. He says that the war
They are in for a rude awakening be-
That evening, having comfortably dis-
gave too much and asked too little in
cause marriage, successful marriage calls posed of my dinner, having lighted up my
return.
for much more and much less. Jewels pipe—it was the same pipe I have used
A temporary salesman had no difficulty may be stolen, jobs lost, furniture de- on similar mystical occasions—I composed
earning 20 dollars or more a day. Actually stroyed. The basic values of marriage are myself in my most comfortable chair.
he merely waited on customers. He did present when there is character, love, ad- That's it, I mused, a brand new world
no selling. People rushed to buy whatever justment, flexibility in thinking, a desire built on the ashes of the old. It couldn't
merchandise was offered. They had the to build for themselves. No one goes be any worse and It might be great deal
money. Neither selling ability nor knowl- through life with good fortune and health better. After all the bitter experience of
edge of merchandise was required. Just all the time. Reverses occur, health dimin- many thousands of years, God will know
bring the right size shoe, try it ,on and ishes but marriage continues forward on a how to create a better human race.
sound basis. •
make change.
I was aware of a confusion of cloudy
substance that suggested chaos, though
What will become of these people when
The values, in a post-war world, are this may have been only the exhalations
customers again shop around? What will more than physical. With only a material of my pipe which is like a volcano when
they do when it is again necessary to sell base (which is helpful, of course), only It gets well started. Suddenly the clouds
a product on its merits in competition possessions and physical gratification, cleared away and I was seated amid a
with other stores?
young people have built upon a false tower. great assembly of people in a hall whose
Marriage values must be spiritual, in both
Some of these young folks have folded active religious participation and funda- immensity seemed the length and breadth
up already, being content with the good mentally sound personalities. No one can of eternity.
I asked: "Where am I?"
old days. They are not willing to change rob you of inner stability. With only phy-
A man at my elbow—he looked like a
back to producing, to working hard, to sical goods, a young couple has grabbed
using their brains. Unless they awaken, the privilege of marriage without contrib- million years old—replied we were all in
they are lost. They have a false sense of uting to the stability of marriage, their Paradise . . . "You are a newcomer here?"
he asked . . This assembly he explained,
achievement which makes it difficult for home, themselves or the community.
was of all the people of the world who
had died—all the people of all the past,
including those of the very recent past
who had died when mankind destroyed
itself by atomic energy . . . "You might
say it was a mass suicide," he said.
. Now it all came back to me: That ter-
By CHARLES BENSON
rifle crash that seemed to toss me away
from my typewriter at which I was work-
ship to continued British control—was in ing at the moment. And now I was in
heaven.
dicated In recent press reports describing
The old man contnued: God had called
Senator Claude Pepper recently told a Jewish hopes of getting a seat in the UN all the former inhabitants of the earth
4t means by which they to plan a good new world with Him • .
group of newsmen in Washington that he or at least ome
was seriously concerned about the Pales- could adequat ly present their side of the "And that's what we're all here for."
There was an immense tumult of voices.
tine situation, a situation which he felt issue to the Organization. Five of the It appeared that all of those who had been
had deteriorated until there was no hope Arab states are already members of the loud speakers on the earth now were fil.
of alleviating it unless Britain could be United Nations and presentation of the ling heaven with their sounds, as each
immediately induced to surrender her man- Arab point of view was virtually assured addressed God, telling Him how to make
a good new world.
date so that the United Nations could take when Egypt and Iraq moved to put the
I recognized some of them: Statesmen
thorny Palestine question on the UN agen- who had been failures on the earth but
over Palestine as a trusteeship.
da when the General Assembly convenes who, unabashed, continued to project the
He described the process by which he in geptember.
authority of their voices in heaven; rabbis
thought it should be done. First, he said,
and their kinds of clergymen of all the
the matter could be brought up In the
A clear understanding of the machinery religions who had projected sermons once
Security Council as a situation constituting of the UN and the trusteeship system a week through many years, like arrows
a threat to world peace. Through the
shot into thin air.
machinery of the UN the matter would seems to indicate that Britain's acquies-
I caught some familiar rabbinical voices.
become part of the work of the Trustee- cence in turning over her mandate in They had the rolling sound of organ music
ship Council which would in turn demand Palestine is the first prerequisite. The of which the old ladies of their congre-
that she surrender her mandate.
state or states controlling a specific ter- gations used to say they couldn't under-
ritory must take first steps toward chang- stand what the rabbis meant but it was
Pepper's voice is not the first to be ing the status of the territory and must
raised on this theme.
first enter into a trusteeship agreement
with the Council before the territory can
Russia, in one of her infrequent expres- be transferred to the trusteeship system.
sions of opinion on Palestine declared re-
cently that she thought the Palestine situ.
In some cases the UN may designate It-
ation had reached a sufficiently deplor- self the administrative authority in a
able state to warrant its being given over trusteeship agreement and would choose
to the United Nations control.
its own representatives to administer the
Although Russia is the most outspoken territory. This would especially be true in
critic of British colonial policy, there is the event that all or part of Palestine
By PHINEAS K. BIRON
every possibility that other nations, view- were declared a strategic area. Otherwise.
ing with alarm Britain's lack of capacity one or more countries would be chosen
as
the
administrative
authority
and
would
for dealing with the situation in Pales-
tine, will seek United Nations action in send their own representatives to govern
ishing the place they shrieked: "%Vc'il fin-
the Interests of Middle Eastern security. the dependent territory. Presumably it
ish the job for Hitler . .." The police took
would be the country which originally
Lt.
Gen.
Sir
Evelyn
Barker,
British
the
two soldiers into custody . . . Every-
British leaders have frequently said they held the mandate in the case of Palestine, Commander in Palestine, whose anti-Sem-
would like to get the Palestine -hot potato Britain—which would be chosen as the ad- itic remarks about fraternization with body in and around Liberty tries to shrug
off their hands by turning it over to the ministrative authority. But then the ad- Jews were repudiated by his country, used off the incid6nt as an unfortunate affair...
The press is being kept away ... "Nothing
United Nations. Early this month Winston ministrative authority would be only an
to command occupation troops in Schloss. really happened," the Jewish friends of
Churchill, as opposition leader in the agent for the trustee; the UN, and thus wig
Holstein . . . He was removed from the tavern keeper answer to all inquiries...
House of Commons, bluntly told the House responsible to the Organization.
Germany because he was too friendly with But the tavern keeper's face and body
that if the United States would not "share
The actual matter of the administrative the Nazis . . .
tell a different story . . .
the burden" in Palestine, Great Britain
THE FIGHT MUST GO ON . . •
should give notice that she would turn of Palestine, should it become a UN PAINTER OF SADNESS .. .
Rev. Ben Richardson delivered a sti
over her mandate to the United Nations trusteeship, might be worked out in any
Max Band, one of the world's outstand-
and remove her troops from that troubled number of ways. If the administrative au. ing contemporary painters, writes: "You ring address the other night before
thority
were
vested
in
the
Organization
breathless audience at Lake Mohegan ..
land.
itself, there would be a commissioner of call me the painter of sadness . . The When he concluded his speech, calling
British Foreign Minister Bevin, in a one nationality supported by a sort of artist paints what he loves . I love the upon America's Christian leadership to
statement at the time the Anglo-American international cabinet, with each post filled 'color, light and shadow of trees, rivers take up the case for persecuted European
and mountains . . . I love the beauty,
Inquiry Committee made their report, in- by a man of different nationality.
sensuality, and texture of flowers and Jewry, the men and women who surged
dicated that It was Britain's ultimate in.
hand noticed his
Setting up Palestine as a UN trustee. fruit . . . As for human •beings, the op- forward to shake his
tention of turning Palestine over to the
deadly pallor . . . They never knew that
United Nations control. He suggested that ship would pose questions of outside in- pressed, the sad are nearest to my heart just before Richardson mounted the ros-
the committee which was to study the fluence. At present Britain has full voice —I paint only what I love."
trum, he had received a wire reading:
recommendations of the Inquiry Commit- in directing the political destiny of Pales. NOT FIT TO PRINT . . .
"Rheubie (his wife) in Copely Hospital
tee would draw up an appropriate plan tine. Turning Palestine over to the inter.
Newspapers did not report one of the
national organization would give to Rus- most disgraceful anti-Jewish incidents. It critical condition result of automobile ac
for submission to 'the United Nations.
sia, for example, the opportunity to ex- happened in Liberty, New York . . . Two cident" . . . Rheubie Richardson is a
brilliant dental research worker and a
That world Jewish leaders would strong- tend her Influence into Palestine through
of
ly favor such UN assistance—and would her Security Council participation in de- ex-GI's in uniform stormed into a tavern militant anti-fascist . . . Our hat is must
probably choose a United Nations trustee- cisions which would affect the Holy Land. and administered a cruel beating to the to Ben who knows that the fight
owner, an elderly Jew . .. While demol. gd on.

Basic Values in A
Post-War World

Capital Letter

Sen. Pepper Speaks

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