A merico Yewish Periodical Cotter
CLIFTON AVENUE - CINCINNATI 20, 01110
k7 ricia , beeeMber 27 1946
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
[ Strictly Confidential
Haganah 'Kidnaping'
of Extremists Planned
Schemes to Seize Irgun, Stern Chiefs
to Block Further Clashes in Palestine
Youth of France
Fights Uphill
By MEYER BASS
(This picture of the hopes, needs
and status of French Jewish
youth since the war is based on
observations made by Mr. Bass
on a recent trip to France. Mr.
Bass is head of the Department
of Youth Service of the Jewish
Center Division of the National
Jewish Welfare Board.)
Page Three
Personal Problems
Promiscuous Necking
Perils Stir Warning
Parents Should Make it Their Duty
to Know Where Child Goes at Night
By PHINEAS K. BIRON
HE HAGANAH HAS evolved a scheme to stop the Irgun-Stern
"terrorist" groups . • • Right after the close of the World Zionist
Congress the "terrorist" chiefs will be kidnaped and kept in forcible
detention . . . The plan is said to have the silent approval of British
authorities who have promised not to interfere . . . If the Haganah
succeeds in stopping "terrorism" it will be recognized as an official
militia In Palestine
Scallions to A. M. Sobel of New
York, tournament director of the support . . . It's expose of the
Ontario Bridge Columbians was a masterpiece
which proved that it takes some-
Tournament .
Sobel barred thing besides money to fight fasc-
ism in this country.
Leon Beard
from participat- . The big defense organizations
ing because were scooped by the league al-
Beard is col- though they had a lot of materla'
ored — a West about the Columbians a long time
Indian civil ago . . . They didn't follow up be-
servant.
cause their leaders simply decided
Racism scored not to believe the stories about
another victory fascism in action.
P. II. Biron when the Negro
actor who played "Uncle Remus"
Barnard Rubin, our newest
In Walt Disney's latest, "Song of confrere in the gathering of tid-
the South" was not permitted to bits, reports that the Bing Cros-
attend the premiere of the film in by production of "Abie's Irish
Atlanta, Ga. . . . What did Dis- Rose" is being shipped to Ger-
ney expect in Atlanta?... The tal- many for the natives' amuse-
lies with the reputation that Dis- ment . . . This film is a vicious
ney is making for himself as an caricature of minority groups.
arch-reactionary.
According to critics it will play
One of the greatest unsung he-
roes of the war is the late Sgt. an important role in the present
Samuel Hurwitz of Montreal Gre- revival of anti-Semitism. . . Here's
nadier Guards ... His story has •hat the National Conference of
just been written by Maj. Ivan P Christians and Jews say about the
Phelan, M.0 If you are in- picture: "Irish Catholics in the
terested get a reprint from the film are caricatured almost equally
Canadian Jewish Congress, 1121 as badly as Jews, It sets us back
Saint Catherine street west, Mon- 20 years in the work we have been
trying to do in bringing the peo-
treal, Canada
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ple of America closer together."
CROSBY FILM HARMFUL
This is really history spelled
HE NON - SECTARIAN Anti- backwards . . . Now the United
Nazi League deserves a lot of
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Capital Letter
1
A
FEPC Bill Is Slated
for Congress Session
GOP Pledges Better Treatmnt for
Measure Rejected by Southern Dem
By CHARLOTTE WEBER
WASHINGTON—Legislation to create a permanent Fair Employ-
►► ment Practices Commission will almost surely be introduced
again during the ROth Congress. If one can judge from the willingness
with which Republican leaders on the Hill predict a victory for the
measure, the bill may fare very well in their hands.
During the last session two bills providing for extension of the
wartime FEPC were introduced,
one in the Senate and a com- House. said he was "pretty sure"
panion bill In the House. Neither that FEPC legislation would come
was brought to a vote. The Sen- up during this Congress and
ate bill was filibustered to death thought that "some measure"
by a bloc of Southern Democrats along this line would be passed.
and the House bill languished In
He did not think it would take
the Rules Committee, waiting to
be scheduled for floor discussion. the form of the old bill, however.
It never got the ruling despite which he said was "too loose and
a discharge petition which would needed tightening up." He thought
have forced it to the floor if it might be something like the
New York State Law outlawing
sponsors had been able to obtain
discrimination in employment
enough signatures.
practices.
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BETTER TREATMENT
WHETHER MERELY seeking
" to make political capital of
something on which the Demo-
crats failed badly, or whether the
Republicans seriously intend to
give their support to legislation
to combat employment discrimina-
( ' don will not be known, of course,
until the ballots are cast. At the
present time, however, they prom-
ise FEPC much better treatment
than the manhandling It got from
the Southern Democrats.
BACKED BY FERGUSON
ENATOR HOMER FERGUSON
Michigan Republican, put the
blame for the defeat of FEPC not
only on the Southern Democrats
who fought it openly with their
filibuster, but also upon North-
ern Democrats who failed to sup-
port the measure. He said he fa-
vored such legislation and thought
it had a good chance of passing
during the 80th Congress.
In discussing FEPC's chances hr
said he was very glad that it
Massaehusett's Joe M n r t I n, (could he sent to the Labor Com-
Republican leader, is carefully mittee rather than the Judiciary
avoiding comment on any legis- Committee which is composed en-
lation "until he is elected speak- 'irely of lawyers.
er and until his steering com-
Men with legal training. he said
mittee has been appointed." He -rnerallv consider FEPC uncon-
Is known to he in favor of an stitutional and would oppose the
FEPC, however, and he was gill on those grounds. He com-
among those who signed the dis- oared this with immigration legis-
charge petition which would iation, under the reorganization
have brought the House measure 'o be handled by the Judiciary
to a vote.
Committee, which, he said, law-
Clarence J. Brown of Ohio, an- yers are prone to Interpret liber-
other strong Republican In the ally.
S
NEW YORK — Approachinf
.'ranee I was little aware of hov
his brief journey into a strange
and would affect me, an Amer'.
:an Jew, heretofore but indirectl•
ouched by the hideous war that
lad devastated our globe.
Stampeding through my mind
were many questions: How were
oeople• getting along? How were
Tewish youth working on the tasks
of reconstruction? What has been
accomplished by youth groups it
France? What are the real pos-
sibilities for the future?
I held the strong hope that r
aositive future could be built. Ane
found that the French Jewish
youth were seeking to build and
to grow, with a constructive pro-
- Tram of Jewish living. Those
leaders who had survived the Naz'
occupation were back at work,
fighting an up-hill struggle.
PLAN FOR PALESTINE
Aware of the sense of hopeless-
ness and despair which permeated
'heir ranks, they also recognize
the intense creative feeling -inspir-
ing many to build a dynamic Jew-
ish youth program to fire the
imagination.
Numerous French youths see
only one way out—Palestine. These
work feverishly to achieve their
objective, and many of them will
^ventually join the Halutzhn in
Eretz Yisrael.
The general framework of the
French Jewish youth program is
confined almost entirely to the
three organizations which consti-
tute the Counseil de la Jeunesse
Juive (CJJ). These are:
Fclaireurs Israclines de France
(EIF) the scout movement with
2,000 members; the Mouvemente de
la Jeunesse Sioniste (MJS), a uni-
fied Zionist organization of four
youth groups, of 2,500 membership•
and the Jeshurun, with 500 mem-
',ens, an orthodox group.
2 GROUPS COOPERATE
The EIF is outstanding for per-
sonnel, program and financial re-
sources, though the MJS is equal-
ly widespread and the two cooper-
ate in many specific projects. Both
conduct youth groups in the vari-
ous children's homes, particularly
in communities with sizeable Jew-
ish populations.
Most such programs are semi-
religious in nature, traditionalist
in emphasis, and Zionist in cul-
tural theme. Familiar features are
the Oneg Shabbath, study circles
and weekly meetings, hikes, trips
and summer camping, and appro-
priate holiday observances.
During the first summer after
the liberation, various leaders'
training institutes and workshops
were conducted throughout France
for group leaders seeking guid-
ance. Personnel was also trained
for work in child care centers.
Publications of both EIF and M.IP
contain sound program aids which
have kept group leaders well in-
formed and stimulated. The pub-
lications are on a high' level, well
produced and quite readable. The
consistency of program and activ-
ity among groups visited in vari-
ous communities is a reflection of
the training, and the caliber of
the publications.
YOUNG ADULT GROUP
Jeshurun is primarily a young
adult organization, which has been
-conducting discussion programs.
classes, leaders' training, regional
camps, and offers help to OSE
children's hostels. It started as a
synagogue youth group in Alsace.
(OSE is the Oeuvre de Secours
aux Enfants, an arm of the Joint
Distribution Committee w h I c li
maintain homes and health clinics
for Jewish children).
I was invited to attend a crib-
"erence called by the World Union
of Jewish 'Students. with repre-
sentatives of groups from France
3 el gium, England. Switzerland,
1weden. Yugoslavia, Romania, Po-
land, Germany and other coun-
'ries. One result of the conference
was the decision to reorganize the
World Union at its next world
congress.
Many of the student leaders were
lost during the war, and the vari-
ous delegations reflected the su-
perb spirit of self-sacrifice which
the war years had developed.
By DR. W. A. GOLDBERG
ANY PARENTS are disturbed by the newspaper stories of sex
attacks upon young girls and women. They should be, and It
hould make them look back upon the training they have given to
heir daughters. Was it sufficient? Or does there still need to be
dditional counsel and teaching?
I find it almost impossible to work up sympathy for the girl of
15 or 18 who is alone on the pub-
ic streets late at night or early in
he morning. What happens to her out from or pass by advances
does not arouse
made. They do not half-invite ad-
ly anger nor
vances and then cry when their
ny feelings.
Invitation is accepted.
I am not both-
All children have sex urges.
^ed, especially,
All children wish to neck and
y the sight of
kiss. Perhaps this sex play was
-omen in bars,
less openly admitted when I was
alone. These
a child. But it is a normal re-
oeople and the
action of normal boys and girls,
Young lady who
men and women. 1Vith children,
'ccepts an auto
it is a passing stage which can
.ide from a to-
be overlooked.
al stranger, at
fight, are in- Dr. Goldberg •
:Ring difficulties or possible dif-
'iculties. If it happens, the so- ARE PARENTS ALERT?
mlled "victims" make loud cons-
AM SERIOUSLY concerned,
olaints only because they do not
wish to explain to their families
however, when a girl shows
he real reasons for being present lack of training to the extent that
or acting where or as they did.
she encourages promiscuous neck-
ing. There is a basic lack of values
Their complaints, as I have seen and training.
'hem in the courts, arise not from
hurt to their moral standards but
Far better it is that young peo-
through fear of being blamed. ple should do their necking in
They try to throw off or ward off their own homes than where there
his blame by making a complaint. is no control at all. The properly
trained young woman knows clear-
ly the dangers of pickups, indis-
criminate dates and unlimited
HAVE NO EXCUSE
necking.
11HESE PEOPLE usually have
I wonder too how many parents
no legitimate reasons for their know where their children are at
actions. The experience of un- night; with whom they are going
wanted sex acts does not fall to and what activities they engage
the upright person because that in on their dates? The smart par-
woman knows how to avoid, get ent makes It his business to know.
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Plain Talk
Obituary Eulogizes
a Jewish Nobleman
Alfred Rosenberg, Business Man,
Gave Himself a Mission of Service
By ALFRED SEGAL
I
SHOULD TELL you about a nobleman among the Jews. He has
been dead about two weeks, but an obituary needn't be a matter
of the moment of a man's death. The saddest thing about obituaries
that they are for one edition - or, maybe, a couple editions of the
newspaper.
All that a man did and lived for is publicly dismised between
he hours of one newspaper issue
and the next. Tomorrow the piece
I chided the youth ... "That
of paper that contained the story
isn't the way to start your story.
of his life will
His being president of Gidding's
'oe flying away
and the Paris Store was the least
in a breeze in
of him."
he street.
Yes, Adolph Rosenberg's private
So it pleases
business was extra-curricular, you
me to do the
might say, to his main purpose of
rare thing: To
being a nobleman in Jewry. He
write the obit-
'rave more than half his time to
lary of a man
it. He made it a dedication.
after he has
Ile understood what it meant,
')een gone sev-
•
A
to be a Jew. It had to do with
al weeks; to
Alfred Segal
the good life that was in his re-
sok at him in
perspective, unlike the reporter ligious faith, with the ideals of
who has to write of him in a the Jewish teaching,. with the
hurry, in the hour of death. Be- synagogue In which Jews would
sides, to write about a good man get together for the furtherance
-ven two or three weeks after his of their ideals.
Judaism was no exclusive self-
•eath may suggest that his 'good
(.vorks do live after him and con- service for the convenience of
!er upon him the only immortality Jews. It was a mission to carry
the lights of the Torah to the
man can be sure of.
This man was Adolph Rosen- ways of all men and to join it
berg. In our town he was a lead- with the lights of other men of
ing business man, president of two good will who were going In the
stores that have to do with wo- same way toward the brotherhood
of man.
men's apparel. The morning he
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tied, when I came to the news-
A
DOLPH
ROSENBERG
was no
paper office where I work, I found
the young reporter who -handles r scholar in Israel but the busi-
obituaries writing about him. He ness man who thought out his way
asked me: "Did you know Adolph of being Jewish. By this he lived
losenberg who died this morn- and worked. Before noon each
day he put his business aside to
ing?"
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so to the office of the Union of
American Hebrew Congregation=
DEDICATED TO SERVICE
of which he was the • president.
•I• LOOKED OVER his shoulder. Coats and dresses could wait.
" He had written: "Adolph Rosen.
Mr. Rosenberg felt he had more
berg, president of Gidding's and important concerns than that in
the Paris Store died suddenly this his function as a Jew dedicated
morning."
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