America !elvish Periodical Cotter
CLIFTON AVENUE - CINCINNATI 20, 01110
Friday, October 18, 1946
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
Strictly Confidential
An Eye-Witness
in Palestine
Palestne
•
U.S. Urged to Block
Passion Play Revival
Oberammergau Elders Again Plan
Hate Tableaus With Pro-Nazi Actors
By PIIINEAS K. BIRON
HE ELDERS OF Oberammergau village In Germany are malting
T plans
to resume their famous passion play. They must, however,
AJC Offers News Analysis to Show
Paper's Bias at Negroes and Jews
By CHARLOTTE IVEBER
Recommended Books
on Marriage, Family
M
Quotation From Proverbs Heads List;
Rabbi's Book on Psychiatry Named
By BALFOUR PEISNER
OST COUNTRIES which were
built out of the wilderness had
the active help and encouragement
of their governments.
If not that they had sympathy,
or at worst a "hands off" policy
such as the period of salutary
neglect in early American Colon-
ial days.
In Palestine today the situation
is the exact opposite. Not only are
the people without the active help,
or passive sympathy of their gov-
ernment, but they are regulated,
interfered with and handicapped
in every field by government red
tape, taxes, licenses, duties and in
some cases monopoly.
The Palestine government is one
of the few which have a surplus
in their treasuries. This is indeed
rare, especially when one considers
the physical and mineral inpecun-
ity of the country.
Capital Letter
N.Y. Tabloid Fights
Charge of Prejudice
Personal Problems
This is the first of a series of
eye-witness articles on the Pal-
estine situation by Balfour Peis-
ncr, youthful correspondent,
who returned this month after
a lengthy visit in Palestine. The
following article is one of two
on economic discrimination. It
will be concluded next week)
get permission from the American military government . . . We hope
that the permission will not he granted.
The 2,600 members of the cast were—almost to a man—notorious
Nazis and among the most vociferous anti-Semites.
Passion plays, wherever given,
—
are not conducive to interreligious playing the original Jewish char-
goodwill. Germany is the last place acter that you reluctantly con-
for such a spec- suited.
ot
tacle. Here is
• • •
a job for our TACTLESS COLUMN
goodwill organi-
ROADWAY GOSSIP: We didn't
zations. They
like Hedda Hopper's item
should urge our
zone commands about Henry Ginsberg in her Hol-
to look into the lywood column . . . It was tactless
records of the to put it mildly . . . Current issue
Oberammerg a u of True Magazine has Lindy's res-
taurant serving Blintzes and
cast . .
Questions: To whipped cream! . . . It's a short-
P. K. Biron Rabbi Philip cut to indigestion but it Isn't true.
Bernstein, just back from Europe. The cream is still sour cream .. .
Is it true that American soldiers
Irving Berlin, back from Lon-
in Germany are falling in love don, has become a milk addict ...
Palestine has no gold mines,
with the Aryan theory and be- He couldn't get it in England and
having arrogantly toward Jewish now indulges morning, noon and no oil wells, no iron, copper,
silver, zinc or any other metals.
DP's?
night . . . It's lucky that people Palestine has no natural forests,
To Ben Hecht: Are you collab- like his songs, the way milk prices fisheries, nor wild life of any
orating with Quentin Reynolds on are going up.
sort except lizards, scorpions and
a movie about British policy in
ants.
Danny Kaye, "the kid from
Palestine?
Brooklyn," who is a close friend
In the face of this, one may
To Actors Equity: Is the theat- of Leo Durocher,. Brooklyn's
rical producer interested in bring- baseball Idol, has one great ask: "Where did the surplus
ing Emma Goering to this coun- dream: He wants to buy a ma- come from?" The answer lies in
try, a well known Jewish impres- jor league team ... Former ring taxes, duties, and licenses on the
one hand and a tight-fisted, al-
sario who should know better?
star Ruby Goldstein (now a ref- most miserly policy on the other.
eree)
is
through
with
the
boxing
• • •
To Warner Brothers, Holly-
game . . . He will work as a 12 MILLIONS SURPLUS
wood: We are told that you tried
contact man for Schenley's liquor
to convince Frank Sinatra to
empire .. .
ACCORDING TO official govern-
play "The Jazz Singer" with the
proviso that the Jewish hero be
Dave Kay, head of Shell Prod- ment statistics the income for the
changed Into an Irish lad. It is ucts, Inc., got himself a host of fiscal year ending March 31, 1946
was 19,021,000 pounds, while the
only when Frank insisted on
expenditures were 16,835,000
pounds, leaving a surplus of 2,-
186,000 pounds. These figures are
insignificant when compared to
American statistics, but one must
realize the vast difference between
the two countries.
B
age Three
Of the expenditures 3,140,875
were for police, and war services
accounted for 5,606,165 pounds.
This means that only 8,087,960
pounds, or less than half the in-
come, was spent for ordinary
government activity.
e
Another point which must b
considered is that the high taxe s
will continue permanently, whil e
all government employes are draw
ing temporary cost-of-living bon
uses running as high as 100 pe
cent of their base salaries.
THE
By DR. W. A. GOLDBERG
MATURE ADULT often needs one or two pushes in reading.
He reads because he hears about a book, because his friends or
neighbors have read a particular volume. This random list contains
some
new and some old books. All pertain to marriage, the family.
the individual.
,
.
My list is always headed by the Book of Proverbs in the Bible
which contains "A Woman of
i
Worth, Who Can Find? For Her The first chapter is difficult to
Price Is Far
Above Rubies." This read. Thereafter it is pure joy.
passage
you
will find in Pro-
Basically it asks: What is your
verbs 31. Read
most valuable possession in life?
it aloud, slow-
The answer is: Peach of mind, fil-
ly. Ponder it. nor content, knowledge of your
Does it apply to own worth, self-respect, faith in
your home?
your own ability and, not least,
Can you make
your relation—as one human be-
it apply?'
ing—to the Universe, to your
Irving Stone's Maker.
'Immortal Wife'
Ernest R. Groves' "Counselling
the story of in Marriage and the Family." The
Gen. and Mrs.
title belies the discussion. Tine
Fremont of Civil Dr. Goldber g booklet is really about the why
War days, an epic in marriage and and why not o c f divorce.
With the tod
in reasing
family living. Born into an at- of divorce
frequency
mosphere of wealth and national a not
ay, Prof.
P Groves,
knownsociologist
ociologks
politics, perfect companion for her and marriage counsellor,
senator father, educated in life, his mind to an individual con-
Mrs. Fremont supplied courage and templating divorc
goes be-
repose for her husband. hind to so-called legal reasons
The general met trying times in for divorce which, to me, have
the Civil Wwar or mor
he always been so much boloney.
was gone to , in courfmartial;
e years at a
* * •
time in the Wild West surveying FAILURE CONFESSED
routes for the transcontinental
railroad.
IS ACTUALLY a con-
con-
1-7 fession of failur
e.
m etimes
Mrs. Fremont lost no faith in failure
is inevitable—
In So
of
him, then or during their later fraud, undiscovered items
of cases
back.
reverses. She had his love and ground (disease, mental break-
he had hers. They created a downs, criminal activity). Even
"third being, a home, out of two these could have been discovered
people."
• • •
by conscientious inquiry before
BOOK HAS 2 THEMES
parents entrusted their children to
R ABBI JOSHUA L. LIEBMAN'S strangers.
s we have said many times in
"Peace of Mind," in the joint
uses of religion and psychiatry. these columns, divorce brings more
(Continued on page 181
DIVORCE
Bialik Spirit Hovers
Over Herzlia School
A.Y. Hebrew Academy Is a Leader
in Training of Teachers in Nation
By DAVID SHOCHER
(The Chronicle is substituting the following article this week
• • •
THERE IS no law that makes anti-Semitism illegal, not yet anyway.
for Alfred Segal's column "Plain Talk" which was delayed.)
JUST
BARBED
WIRE
Its practice does not technically violate our civil rights. But there
WENTY YEARS ago Chaim Nachman Blank, the Hebrew poet,
are ways of taking legal action against it. Such action was initiated by
THE VISITOR to Palestine re-
was climbing the flights of stairs in an old loft on Ludlow street
the American Jewish Congress, in testifying before the Federal Com- ceives the impression that the
the New York East side where the Herzlia Teachers Institute was
munications Commission that the tabloid New York Daily News, now chief activity of the government is on
ensconced.
seeking an FM radio station license, has been guilty of "prejudicial to put up barbed wire entangle-
handling of news concerning Jews
Malik was climbing the stairs along with Moses Feinstein, a
ments where they will hinder peo-
and Negroes."
young man in his middle twenties who had forsaken dreams of per-
the News was biased in present- ple most, put up road blocs, con. sonal
material advancement, to
per-
ation of news.
In April, 1946, the congress,
duct arbitrary searches, and hind- establish this new educational in-
These exhibits included a num. er the life of the populace as much stitution.
aware of the News' biased poli-
sure. Students acted as janitors.
cies, prepared a statistical analysis ber of columns by John O'Don- as it possibly can with the money
They had come to the second Alumni came, when it was neces-
of the paper's news content com- nel, columnist and head of the it receives from them.
and begun on the third flight. Ma- sary, to move something
paring the amount of favorable News' Washington bureau. One
The prestige of Herzlia grew.
In the 21 years since England lik was feeling the strain, but he
and unfavorable n e w s stories was his "expose" of the Patton
has
had the Palestine Mandate concealed it. Instead he turned to The public began to recognize the
which the News had carried con- soldier-slapping incident.
the
younger
Feinstein
and
re-
superior quality of its Hebrew in-
cerning Jews and Negroes.
O'Donnel claimed that the sol- the government has built no marked:
struction. A diploma from Herzlia
dier slapped had been a Jewish dams, no hydro-electric works.
"Hebrew education has always became recognized by the Board of
The study covered three months, boy and that prominent Jews close The government has drained no
January, May and September of to the White House were pressing swamps, not till the army start- flourished in cellars and attics." Examiners for licenses for teach-
It was like the artist Bialik to ers in New York. Yet the physical
1945 and results were compared for Patton's dismissal. Also in- ed it to fight malaria.
say such a thing. Artists have pro- facilities were still grossly in-
with a similar analysis of four cluded were three whole pages in
The government maintains no verbially starved in garrets. All of adequate.
other New York newspapers, the one issue of the News which were school system except for a few these
• • •
men who had associated
Times, the Herald Tribune, the devoted to a long "List of Jews scattered schools and virtually no
themselves with Feinstein to teach O
Mirror and PM.
FINE SPRING DAY
health service.
in Government."
in
a garret—what were they but U special delivery letter arrived a
This was published under the
The cost of these essentials must
The evidence is strong against
artists?
Yes,
they
too
were
paint-
from
William
Salzman, a leading
the News. The analysis showed O'Donnel by-line. It was a reprint be borne by the people in addition ing a picture—not on a canvas to businessman of New York and a
that the News had run, in col- of a pamphlet distributed earlier to their taxes.
be sure, but on the more im-
lover of Hebrew. It contained a
The Palestine government has
umn inches, 47 per cent favor- that year by William ., Dudley
able stories and 53 per cent un- Pelley, now serving a 15 year made some improvements, notably perishable human soul—a picture check for $5,000 towards a fund
of
"Hebrew
Redevivus."
for
a
new building. It was under
• • •
favorable against an average prison sentence for seditious ac- the harbor in Haifa, some roads
Salzman's presidency of the Board
and the water pipeline to Jerusa-
for the other papers of 83 and tivities.
• • •
12 respectively.
lem, but to the observer these ap- SURVIVES IN GARRET of Trustees that the present beau-
BELITTLES NEGROES
pear to have been constructed be- TODAY HERZLIA no longer tiful building was erected.
• • •
In a garret. Its home
L ATE IN DECEMBER of 1945 cause of imperial strategy and not is a functions
O'DONNEL CITED
beautiful five story building be Today Herzlia can scarcely
said to he a New York In-
the News ran an editorial rais- to build up the country. The har-
THE ANALYSIS was proposed ing the question whether World bor in Haifa was used by the near Riverside Drive in uptown stitution. It is in a
true sense
more or less as an experiment War II was fought because of British fleet as a fueling station New York. Yet the spirit of Bia- a national Institution. In ever
lik's remark still applies to it to- larger numbers young men and
In whether evidences of anti- Hitler's persecution of the Jews during the war and the roads were day.
travel.
Semitism in news stories could be and adding that they did not be- choked with military
women fro,, all parts of Amer-
• • •
Perhaps the true interpretation ica come to drink at Its "foun-
gauged
in a coldly scientific man- lieve that the theory would hold
ner.
of Bialik's statement is that the tain."
IT WAS EASY HERE
water.
is estimated that to-
test of the vitality of any institu- day 20 It per
PEOPLE LIVING In the United
cent of the Hebrew
It was suggested by Dr. Alex-
A News sports editor ran a
tion
is
that
it
can
survive
in
a
instruction
in the country at
States
during
the
war
complained
ander Pekelis, Professor of juris- column in which he tried to show
garret.
bitterly
of
government
Interven-
large
is
done
by Herzlia grand-
prudence at the New School for that Negroes would never be good
Herzlia survived that test. It
uates.
Social Research and consultant to baseball players. All were included tion, of OPA regulations, of war-
the congress.
in the exhibit prepared by the time restrictions and red tape. To was begun 25 years ago with the Herzlia began twenty-five years
he average American, Imbued munificent sum of $250, gathered ago with 45 pupils. Today the en.
When hearings opened in New Congress.
with a tradition of individualism, from parents and pupils, reen. rollment is over 400. There has
York in July on the application
The News fought hard against
hese were anathema; yet trans- forced by the zeal of a handful been not only an increase in en-
which the News had flied for
introduction of the analysis and plant that person to Palestine and of devoted teachers, who were rollment but the type of student Is
the FM license, the congress
the exhibits as evidence. Finding
e would realize how comparative. prepared to miss a meal now now entirely different. Twenty-five
submitted the analysis and 28
it Impossible to prevent this they
y free he was here.
and
ideal. then In order to attain their years ago 90 per cent of the t
other exhibits as evidence that
(Continued on Page 18)
(Continued next week)
dents were immigrants. Today 90
Salaries were modest and never per cent are American born.
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