Friday, January 24, 1947

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

Strictly Confidential

Walter Winchell Urged
to Cleanse Self First

Thumim Recalls
Visit to Herzel

By RABBI JOSEPH TIIUMIM
of Congregation Belli Abraham

. Page Three

Personal Problems

Children of Divorce
Victims of Insecurity

THE RECENT ZIONIST Con-
ti gress in Basle has revived ma-
ny stories and anecdotes about the
great leader and founder of volt-
!cal Zionism--Dr. Theodore Herzl.
I was fortunate to have had a
45-minute Interview with this
lordly Prince of Israel in Novem-
ber, 1899 in Vienna.
fly PIIINEAS K. =ON
The circumstances which led to
By DR. W. A. GOLDBERG
NOW THAT WALTER WINCHELL has launched a campaign our meeting were as follows: A N OUT-OF-STATE correspondent writes: "The father of my chil-
When
Dr.
Herzl's
"Judenstaat"
against comics using distasteful dialect jokes, a clamor is rising
i dren deserted us a number of years ago. He is living with another
that he, Winchell, clean up his own column. We agree. His offensive was published and followed by the woman . . . The reasons for our disagreements are not important
call
for
the
first
Congress
in
Mefoofsky series are decidedly on the black list.
any longer . . . Many times I thought I forced him to support his
It was Winchell who penned the most insulting gag of all time Basle, it stirred the national and children. The few efforts I made soon taught me that the woman
religious
emotions
of
the
Jews
in
when he wrote "business is so bad that even Gentiles are starting
always gets the dirty end of the deal.
my community, a town in Austria.
fires"... Yes, Walter, you'd better
"If I had been smart enough, I
Since
the
editor
of
such
an
in-
set the example . . .
still for this...They've learned
would have grabbed everything he make divorce more difficult.
fluential
newspaper
as
"Die
Neue
Came across this interesting that bullets don't ask questions
had, to make sure the children That is all poppycock.
item ... A na- about race, religion or mother's Freie Presse" and other prominent would be sup-
Ten thousand laws cannot take
figures
in
the
diplomatic
world
tionwide po 11 maiden name . . .
ported . . . That
the place of maturity, the job of
were behind the project, many is all over with
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revealed that 48
instituting responsibility into an
Jews expected their exodus from
percent of the DENTISTS HIT BIAS
now and I
irresponsible person. If a man is
anti-Semitic countries to be just
people in this
ORCHIDS TO THE Council on around the corner. Some were so make a nice liv-
sent to jail for non-support, either
country recog.
ing
for
all
of
Dental Education of the Amer- hopeful that they actually neglect-
in the criminal court or through
nized the pic-
us.
We
don't
divorce action, the wife gets noth-
ture of Albert ican Dental Association... The ed their occupations, preparing for nee d him at
ing while he is in jail or else, if
Einstein; 44 per- Council sent out a letter to every the approaching redemption.
all
...
We
need
•
eligible, the meager "relief bud-
cent identified dental school in the country, stat-
(
a
n
d
someday
get."
James F. Byr- ing its opposition to the selection VIEWS DIVIDED
we
will
have)
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nes; 43 percent of students on the basis of race
THE RABBIS AND spiritual a father and a
INSUFFICIENT ALIMONY
P. K. Biron the movie actor or religion ... We doubt whether leaders, however, were confused. husband in our
wHEN
HEN ALIMONY is ordered in
Van Johnson ... And 58 percent it will eliminate the quota sys- On one hand they were rejoicing home . . . "
divorce case, it is usually
unhesitatingly recognized Elsie, tems, but it is a fine gesture, in the fact that such outstanding
This correspondent points up
nevertheless
.
.
.
insufficient for the support of a
men like Dr. Herzl and his asso-
Borden's publicity sacred cow.
our experience in hundreds of
The
Anti-Defamation
League
is
wife and small children. Children's
New Yorkers have been burning
ciates made efforts to secure the
to be commended for its compre- return of the Jews to Palestine. cases of non support. A man support is figured at $5, $7.50, $10
for years at the policies of racial
doesn't have to support his fam-
hensive
report
to
the
New
York
In support of the movement they
weekly. Even in ordinary times,
and religious discrimination being
ily. There is no way to force him.
practiced by certain "non-sectar- Commission Against Discrimina- quoted old rabbinical interpreta- He can "get away with murder." that amount is too small.
tion. The report names hotels, tions of the prophecies about the
If the divorced man refuses to
ian" educational Institutions which
summer resorts and real estate Messiah in Isaiah and Ezekiel—to He just leaves, gets a divorce and pay or pays irregularly, he can ho
enjoy tax exemption9 in the Em-
firms practicing discrimination. the effect that it would all start remarries.
threatened with jail. Sometimes he
pire State . . . Among the worst
There appears to be no way to or his friends or family will ad-
in a natural way, just as was the
of these offenders, and the one More than 200 firms are listed.
Now
let's
see
whether
Mr.
Dew-
case with the Babylonian exile, inject responsibility into a man vance enough money to keep him
with the largest taxable assets, Is
ey will invoke the existing law "Golus Babel," when Cyrus re- who has none and who enjoys out of jail. But a family cannot
Columbia University, whose ap-
which
penalize
individuals
and
that state. Under the force of law be raised, normally, on the irre-
stored Palestine to the Jews.
pointments office is alleged to be
companies guilty of discriminatory
in violation of the Fair Employ.
But on the other hand, ortho- and threat of court action, the gular, uncertain and small sums
policies
.
.
.
ment Practices Act because they
dox rabbis hesitated to recom- men (who frighten easily) will usually ordered. Basic physical and
•
ask job applicants for their reli-
mend the movement for two rea- send money for support. But in emotional security cannot be guar-
BROADWAY
GOSSIP
gious or racial background . . .
sons: One, they remembered most cases, the process is long, anteed or accomplished. If the
CANADA
LEE,
the
great
Negro
This office, which places Colum-
that more than once before in time-consuming and it has no children are the mother must re-
actor,
will
be
featured
in
John
main with them or place them
biana in outside industry, has the
Jewish history indications of the guarantee of results.
Garfield's
next
film
.
..
Garfield,
with relatives or strangers while
gall to claim exemption from The
imminent coming of a Messiah
With
rising
divorce
rates
evi-
by
the
way,
is
said
to
be
negoti-
she works.
FEPC law on the grounds thdt
gave rise to false hopes which
dent all over the country today
If, In the meantime, the for-
it Is part of an educational in- ating for cinema rights to "Studs were followed by disillusionment
it is not uncommon to hear
Lcnigan."
mer husband has remarried, he
stitution.
and despair of the nation.
judges
and
lawyers
say
we
need
Kurt
Weill's
music
for
Elmer
assumes
additional obligations
We predict that Columbia's
Second, leaders of the Zionist
(Continued on page 15)
student body, which is over 50 Rice's "Street Scene" is slightly movement, especially at the local stricter laws, laws which will
(Continued on page 4)
percent veterans, will not sit
organizations, were mostly free
thinkers who often violated Jewish
tradition openly at their gather-
'rigs. The Rabbis were afraid that
)rthodox boys and girls joining
such organizatitms might turn
away from the Jewish religion.
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l'ONI)ERS RESPONSE
MY FATHER, the author of the
response "Shaar Naphthall," as a
leading rabbi, was pondering the
problem as to whether to encour-
age orthodox rabbis to join, or
whether to follow the reform Rab-
bis of Germany and England in
denouncing the movement. So,
when I happened to go to Vienna,
in 1899, my father asked me to
By ALFRED SEGAL
try to meet Dr. Herzl.
By CHARLOTTE WEBER
I provided myself with a letter XTY WIFE HAS been troubled on account of me and almost ashamed.
WASHINGTON—Before the 80th Congress was a week old the im-
of Introduction from the great
We have been married a long time and in her own experience
IT migration issue had become a pointed one with many Senators philosopher Aaron Markus who
and Representatives. Hardly had the sound of the 'opening gavel rap was a delegate to the first Zion- of me she has found me a fairly decent sort. Yes, I do irritate her
rti, times, especially on those occasions When I say, No, we don't go
died away before Congressional leaders on both sides of the question ist Congress and whose writing
out tonight. Isn't home the nicest place of all to be In?
let loose with a flurry of bills, resolutions, and statements promising had been frequently published in
Then there are the vacation times when I have insisted on taking
either support or stubborn opposition to legislation to amend "Die Neue Freie Presse." He in-
vacation at home ..."In the whole
the immigration laws.
troduced me as being prominent United States is there a better
gather at the funeral home, as It
On the opening Friday Congress. ugees over the regular quotas in rabbinical circles.
bed than the one I sleep in? I is called?
man Emanuel Celler of New York and the fourth would redistrib-
I met Dr. Herzl twice. First at demand. "Are
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dropped not one but four bills ute unused quotas at the end of the "Neue Freie Presse" where there any better
ASSAILED IN LETTER
into the hopper. On the same day each year to countries with he asked me to meet him again meals than the
QHE HAD JUST been reading in
Congressman Pace of Georgia re- small, used-up quotas.
for a longer conversation at the ones you cook?
" one of the Jewish press a let-
offices of "Die Welt." (Turken- Why should we
introduced from the 79th Con-
As far as can be determined the strasse No. 9)
ter that called me putrid, ignor_
gress a bill that would prohibit
go around the
Democrats have not, as yet,
ant and dangerous. I was an ene-
immigration when unemployment
There I found Dr. Herzl wait- country looking
mapped out a strategy for getting
my of Israel. I should be barred
in the United States stands at a
ing, surrounded by a few people for trouble?"
these bills through what promises to whom he introduced me. Dr.
from the Jewish press. It was ap-
million or more.
Not that these
• parent that in another, tougher
to be a rather hostile Congress. Herzl expressed his disappoint-
arguments are
Congressman Bryson of South One can be sure, however, that
generation the writer would have
ment at the orthodox Jews from effective. I gen-
Carolina proposed a House joint Celler, who Is ranking Democratic whom, he said, he had "expected
demanded that I be tossed out of
A
crally
lose.
resolution to exclude aliens in member on the House Judiciary encouragement and support and
Israel by excommunication. (I
Al Segal
I
am
men-
counting the number of persons Committee to which immigration that they would join the move-
tioning these matters to show that would have had fairly respectable ,
in each state for apportioning matters are referred, will wage a ment by the millions."
my wife hasn't had too much company, like Spinoza, though).
hard battle to get some through.
representatives.
"Don't you mind what this man
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cause to be ashamed of me, until
Following the President's mes-
Chairman of the Judiciary Com. SEEMED PARADOXICAL
lately. I have always provided says about you?" my wife asked.
Her inquiry suggested that maybe
sage, Congressman Sabath of Illin- mittee, Republican Congressman
THE OPPOSITION he encoun- well for my family, have been
ois introduced a measure designed Eall C. Michener of Michigan, has tered among reform Rabbis did faithful to my marriage vows, my Jewish character was too far
to facilitate the entrance of dis- already expressed doubt that the not surprise him so much, since have conducted myself in all things gone to care. I had come home
placed persons to this country and legislators will be amenable to they had long ago eliminated from in the respectable way that our that evening and eaten my dinner
with usual gusto.
two days later Congressman Klein any lowering of the immigration their prayer-books all reference to social mores require.
I wasn't in the least repentant.
of New York put two more on the barriers.
Zion and advocated the assimila-
But lately my wife hasn't been If I felt the least sorry my sor-
legislative docket.
tion and national absorption of so sure about me. She has been row was for the writer of the
the Jews by the various countries reading letters in various of the letter. The way he had fallen
FERGUSON SUPPORT
In which they lived. But he was Jewish press that pubf.c my col- from the lofty elevation of the
ADMIT 250,000
surprised at the orthodox Jews umn . . . "What kind of reputa- tolerance that is supposed to be
Ek'UBLICAN
SENATOR
Re-
ELLER'S BILLS offer Congress
who were praying day and bight tion are you getting around the indigenous to Jewish life!
four possible solutions to the it vercomb of West Virginia and for their return to Zion—and nor:. country. You should begin to con-
He wasn't the only one. There
Democratic..
Senators
McCarron
of
existing refugee problem. One
when there was a chance of reali- 3ider and take heart what people had lately grown up an alarming
would make permanent residents Nevada and Eastland of Mississip- zation, they show such amazIne think of you. You et your age! fanaticism in Israel. It has to
of the refugees already here on pi have already made public state- Indifference and even antagonism! At your age you should begin to do pro and con with the ideology
visitors' permits or temporary ments flatly opposing further im-
To my remark that some or- think of your respectability."
called Jewish nationalism. Fana-
migration to this country.
visas.
thodox Jews hesitated, because
ticism had been alien to Jewish
I guess that she was thinking life for a long time until now.
Another would make available
Republican Senator Ferguson
many Zionist leaders did not
for distribution to visa applicants of Michigan and Senators Kil-
observe Jewish traditions, Dr. that at my age the far larger part
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among the displaced persons all gore of West Virginia and Mag-
Ilerzl argued that that was not of my life has been lived and I
logical since Zionism was a should begin to think of my fu- RAPPED POLITICIANS
the unused quotas that have ac- nuson of Washington, both
WHAT HAD BEEN my offense?
purely political and not a cul- neral, and what kind of funeral WHAT
crued since the Immigration Act Democrats, can all be counted
was a column In which I
will I have? What good will be
tural movement.
upon to support some sort of
of 1924.
He pointed out that among the said of me by the officiating cab- had spoken with the highest pit (se
legislation to facilitate the entry
A third would provide for the
bis? What, If any, crowd will (Continued on page 4)
(Continued on page 15)
of refugees.
admission of a flat 250,000 ref-

Columnist Hits Cheap Dialecticians
but Retains own Distasteful Gags

Alimony- Little Assurance of Support
If Husband Skips Out on His Duty

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Capital Letter

Plain Talk

Bills on Immigration
Flood New Congress

Writer Brushes Off
Critics as Fanatics

Celler Offers 4 Plans on Refugees;
Hostility to Lowering Bars Evident

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Declares Jewish Tolerance of Old
Vanished During Zionist Squabbles

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