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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

Friday, January 3, 1947

Strictly Confidential

Jacob Fishman, Dean
of Yiddish Columnists

Palestine Needs
Medical School

By DR. BARRIL B. CROHN

of

Personal Problems

Personality Troubles
Linked to Poor Health

MEDICAL SCHOOL is the
A final keynote to the arch of
scientific education. Universities
may flourish, laboratories pulse
with activity, the practitioner and
doctor may wend his weary and
fruitful way, but the science of
medicine, and with it the health of
the community, is based upon me-
dical education in the school.
In our own colonial history,
By DR. N. A. GOLDBERG
when the towns had been organ-
By PIIINEAS H. BIRON
"SEE
YOUR
DENTIST
twice a year" is not solely advertising; It is
ized, when trade flourished, when
ACOB FISHMAN, who died suddenly in Basle, was the dean of Harvard and Pennsylvania and " just horse-sense. We would like to extend this slogan to a num-
Yiddish columnists. His writing was hardly known to the English Yale were early centers of learn- ber of other items we see in our cases.
In one case, we find personality difficulties — sluggishness, lack of
speaking world, but he was a familiar and respected figure at Jewish ing, then was added to the scales
meeting and conventions.
of knowledge the final and the energy, keeping to one's self, no friends, a slowness — all interpreted
A fanatic Zionist, and politically conservative, he maintained finest jewel in the diadem, the by outsiders as surliness or disinterest in other people.
friendly personal contacts with many Jewish leaders he fought public- school of medicine. From this Yet, when per-
ly. Fishman was perhaps the last
school emanated those who were sonality tests
able scholastic work, when the
remaining Yiddish journalist who troupes of show business head- to organize sanitation, preserve and social in-
former well-adjusted state is con-
quiry
are
made
took his profession seriously.
firmed, the answer usually is —
liners for his 1947 drive to raise health, heal the sick, bind the
of
the
interests
At one time $2,000,000 for the Milton Berle wounds and care for the infant
low energy.
and
social
acti-
he was a rich Foundation of the Men's League and the aged alike.
Often too, in schoolchildren,
vities
of
such
man, but Wall in Aid of Crippled Children.
personality deviations are exhibited
A medical school is founded in
a
n
individual,
Street slapped
when the physical condition is
The Hank Greenbergs expecting a certain milieu and is super-
him down. His a little slugger any day now.
run chiwn. Poor study conditions
imposed upon a given founda- we begin to sus-
memoirs — un-
tion. Two prerequisites are es- pect some phys-
— insufficient light, distractions,
Katie
and
Zero
Mostel
will
be
written —would
sential; one, a superior school ical basis as an
uncomfortable chairs and tables—
have made in- mamma and papa when you read that graduates men trained in
may be at fault.
underlying
teresting read- this.
the basic sciences; two, clinical
Often poor study habits are to
Dr.
Goldberg
Mike
Jacobs,
boxing
tycoon,
is
cause.
ing . . .
facilities for the care of the
This young, tall man is not anti- blame — dilly-dallying when there
"Independent recovering but slowly. Physicians sick, hospitals in which students
social. He just has sufficient en- is a job to do, keeping late hours,
Music Publish- fear ne will be bedridden.
and internes observe the course ergy for the day's work with noth- playing baseball or football stren-
Why
doesn't
Britain's
Labor
gov-
ers' Service" is
of illness, study and learn by ing left over for getting out in the uously before home work is fin-
P. H. Biron
just a front for spreading anti- ernment crack down on fascist experience of their elders in the evening. In this case, his family ished and the body and mind are
anti-Semitic
groups
led
by
Sir
Os-
Semitic propaganda. It's master-
life history of disease and how physician, upon careful medical ex. tired out.
mind is Victor Lindstrom, who is wald Mosley and his Hitler-loving to cure sickness and alleviate amination, followed by medication
• • •
clique?
.
.
.
Mosley,
who
was
in
an avowed Jew-hater.
pain.
and a diet, was able to build up JOE SKIN DISEASE
training
far
the
role
of
Britain's
He appeals to "musical Amer-
These two prerequisites are sufficient energy to make a notice-
ERgONAL APPEARANCE is
ica" to shake off Jewish domina- quisling in the Nazi's drama of ready at hand in Palestine. The able change in his personality.
treachery,
is
now
in
the
driver's
another physical factor which
tion. Lindstrom works closely with
Hebrew University already offers
• •
shows its olf in behavior. Children
Arthur Terminicilo and Homer seat of a well-financed chain of the curriculum for graduation in
can be very cruel in their char-
Maertz, Chicago's notorious hate book clubs which spread hate-filled the basic sciences. The laborato- PROBLEMS OF YOUTH
doctrines.
merchants.
ries, the courses, the seminars are
OF ADOLESCENTS acterization of other children.
ARENTS
• « •
At one camp session, on the very
of the most modern; the teachers
find a similar situation. Those
•
BROADWAY GOSSIP
are European of university experi- tall, strapping boys and girls are first day, the nick name of "Skin
ence and training and are of the growing fast. They consume en- Disease" was firmly attached to a
NEW YORK SCRIVENER
AWAY, PLEASE
greeted "A boy for the Danny STAY
best.
ormous amounts of food because boy with a blotchy skin. It stay-
* * *
GOTHAM thea-
they expend so much during the ed with him throughout the
Kayes" the other day. Couple days
ter recently opelsd with the
day. Even with their appetite's, season.
later the same columnist Remed:
ter
STAFF IS EXCELLENT
In a sensitive child, this adds
"The Danny Kayes named the most disgusting strip of celluloid
they are tired, dragged out,
THE ROTHSCHILD - Hadassah.
another straw to his feeling of in-
daughter Dena" .. . For the rec- it has been our misfortune to
sleepy.
University
Hospital
is
modern,
well
see . . The Bing Crosby Produc-
ord, it was a girl.
Usually the first symptom is feriority. Skin ailments, common
staffed and housed, replete with
One of bandleader Sa n y ers' film, "Able's Irish Rose," por- every modern improvement of the shown in poor school work, in to adolescents, can be handled by
Kaye's so-you-want-to-lead -, .nd trays a grasping, tight-fisted Jew medical sciences, has a large bed inability to get along in school a change of diet (often the elimin-
contests was won by Mrs. Sammy and a vulgar, hard-drinking Irish- capacity, and has a staff of at- or at home. When intelligence ation of excess sugar which young-
Kaye—the wife of a Brooklyn un- man in one of the ugliest offer- tending physicians and surgeons and personality tests confirm the sters crave), medication, a physi-
ings ever to reach the American
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dertaker.
who by their previous training and presence of ability for accept-
Milton Berle has lined up four screen.
mature years of experience at the
bedside represent a chosen group
of outstanding scientists and spe-
cialists.
These men are mature and
many of them well along in
years. There is no replenishment
in sight except the possibility of
medical personnel from the ex-
hausted population of the DP
camps.
What is needed is new blood,
new enthusiasm, new youth with
splendid training, bright ideas,
forward thinking. Resourceful,
enterprising young men of medi-
cine are wanted who are curious
to learn. By trying new tech-
By ALFRED SEGAL
niques, by thinking new thoughts,
by adopting new ways these
By CHARLOTTE WEBER
young and inspired medical men IN OUR TOWN Mike Aranson has become a monumental figure in
the first World War. Before the second war it used to be said that
will tit in with the pioneer spirit
—
In
the
months
that
followed
the
war
it
was
easy
there
could never be another war as long as there were those left
WASHINGTON
fruitful
in
so
" to become pessimistic about the future of democracy in this that has proved
like
Mike
Aranson who in their own wounds admonished men.
country. One heard much of the rebirth of the Klan, of lynchings Palestine.
Mike Aranson lost his eyes in the Argonne battle. The date way
Where in Palestine to find such
and beatings of Negroes in the South, of new fascist-inspired hate
Sept. 29, 1918. He was a bright-eyed, smiling boy; I was with him
organizations with anti-Negro and anti-Semitic platforms. It was easy men except from its own soil, its on his regiment's journey to Camp
to think, cynically, that the purpose of the war—to defeat these forces own medical trainees? The need Sheridan for training before it the year 1890, his mother jour-
is there, the basic facilities are
aeyed to America. There, in Bal-
—had already been in vain.
provided, why not then the final went to France.
timore, she was married, There
Remembering the five long years not for several things lately giv- keystone to the arch, the medical
There
was
Mike Aranson was born. There
of warfare just passed, it is hard ing rise to a certain measure of school, so sorely needed to rein- something spe-
his father died when Mike still
to see how organizations like the optimism. There are some "straws vigorate the professional life of cial in Pvt. Mike
in a better wind" one might say
was quite young. His mother took
Columbians, Inc. of Atlanta, Ga., and one of the strongest is the the community?
Aranson. (Later
up alone the burden of bringing
can take themselves seriously.
he
was
to
be
•
•
•
concerted attack on Senator Bilbo.
up her children . . . "She labored
sergeant
major
It seems hard to believe that
at home as a seamstress."
Emory Burke, president of the LAY HELP NEEDED
of his battalion.)
young men and women of the
BUT THIS BUILDING and He didn't have
Columbians, and several of his
There was a wrestling with his
same age that fought the battle
,
fellow Columbians are under in- maintaining of a medical school to go to war.
conscience before Mike Aranson
for individual freedom can be so
in
Palestine
is
not
a
simple
or
an
dictment for their alleged plot
could decide to study for the
He was study-
frustrated and embittered that
to take over the functions of inexpensive task. Medical educa- ing to be a rab-
Refonn rabbinate at the Hebrew
they seek to undo what prog-
tion is extremely costly. In this bi at the Heb-
the United States Government.
Union College. his mother was
ress has been made. Their "sec-
Alfred Segal
country, it requires 10 to 20 thous-
deeply Orthodox ... A few brief
ret plot" to overthrow the gov-
Most significant, however, was and dollars to educate a medical rev/ Union Col-
lege in Cincinnati. Mike Aranson years at the college and then
ernment gave them a certain the recent appointment by Presi-
musical comedy note but did not dent Truman of the 15-member student. All medical schools are was exempt from military duty the first war and Mike Aranson
again was taking his conscience
dissipate the grim, over all pic- committee on civil rights. Com- conducted at a great deficit, for but he enlisted anyway.
the large teaching staff, the lab-
Well, Mike Aranson came home aside for solemn deliberation.
ture of their organization.
posed of lawyers, educators, labor oratories, the clinical facilities, the
After a war in which 6,000,000 and religious leaders, the com- building, the materials are ex- sightless and continued his studies What to do about the war? Sure,
out
Jews had been killed in Europe, mittee has been delegated to study tremely expensive — an expense for the rabbinate and was or- the laws said he could stay
it seemed hard to understand that existing statutes pertaining to the against which the pittance of the dained. He is Rabbi Michael Aran- of it, but what was his duty?
A friend advised him to stay
men like Bilbo and Rankin could protection of civil rights and to fee charged the student for his son but around here he is affec-
stand in our own Congress and recommend new legislation in that instruction is modestly dispropor- tionately "Mike" among all of us out and keep on trying to be a
who
remember
the
bright
eyed
boy
rabbi instead of a soldier. But
freely utter expressions betraying field. It is scheduled to begin its tionate.
who didn't have to go to war but Mike replied: "I could not go
their deep-seated anti-Negro and work shortly ater the first of
A medical school must be well went anyway and gave almost the through life constantly reminding
January.
anti-Semitic bias.
built and housed, excellently last full measure.
myself that at a time like this,
• • •
* • •
equipped, and then maintained by
when the country called for volun-
Mike
Aranson
has
written
a
LIKE CIVIL WAR DAYS
fellowships and endowments which book of his life and it has just teers, I let others go while I
TOUR PLANNED
THE RESURGENCE of the Klan
ER MEASURE toward will support its administration been published—(Broken Lights)— stayed home. My conscience would
ER
with its sporadic appearances ANOTH
protection of our human without strain and falterings.
a moving document. In his story never stop tormenting me."
here and there, like brush fires rights will be taken by the Justice
He enlisted . . . "My name ap-
For this purpose a large and he speaks of himself, modestly,
popping out all over, smacks more Department in the near future.
ample fund is required. Would as "Milton Stern." A humble man peared in the newspaper on an
of the post Civil War days than
A special train bearing the orig- that the Jewish physicians of our he couldn't see himself pushing Honor Roll • . Shall my name
the supposedly enlightened 20th
inal Declaration of Independence, community could furnish it. Their Mike Aranson forward even in the also be mentioned on the Honor
spirit is stilling but their means story of Mike Aranson's own life: Roll of God?"
century.
• • •
Headlines announcing that a the Bill of Rights, the Emancipa- are not in any way sufficient. so he's Milton Stern through the
tion
Proclamation
and
other
docu-
Klan charter had been revoked
Ample and lay funds must pro- book.
DIDN'T WISH TO KILL
ments
important
in
American
his-
here or there are not very reas-
vide the base of the structure. We
• • •
HIS DIVISION MOVED on to
suring in that they point up the tory, will tour the country bring- as physicians will give to the ut- OBEYS HIS CONSCIENCE
11 France and to its first battle..
ing
to
as
many
cities
and
towns
as
existence of the Klan's activities
possible the story of American most and in addition lend, spirit, IT STARTS IN THE village of "Get those damned snipers out of
in so many different places.
frequently guidance and always
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Tayrguen In Lithuania when, in
All this could add up to an ex- history that the documents repre- enthusiasm.
sent.
tremely depressing picture were it

Death Takes Loyal Zionist at Basle;
He Took His Profession Seriously

See Your Doctor or Dentist to Check
Source of Psychological Problems

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A

P

n ROADWAY'S

Capital Letter

Bright Horizons Seen
for U.S. Civil Rights

Klan and Columbian Suits Slow
People Ted Up With Hate Breeders

Plain Talk

Story of Heroic. Rabbi
Who Lost Eyes in War

`Mike' Aranson's Book Is Moving Tale
of Youth Who Heard the Call of Duty