DETROIT EWISI-I CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

Friday, February 7, 1947

Strictly Confidential

DP's Called 'Defeated,
Deceived, Desperate'

She Fell in Love
with Jewishness

BY ALFRED WERNER .

Page Th're•

Personal Problems

Heap Love on Infant
Early, Parents Urged

4« A JEW MUST APPR.OACE
II the world and all that
it from the Jewish point of view,'
declares Dr. Trude Weiss-Ros
marin, "otherwise he will be
warped human being."
She has expounded this Idea in
carious books and articles, in nu
nerous lectures and forum dis
.iussions. While she admits that
By DR, W. A. GOLDBERG
By PIIINEAS J, BIRON
'nothing human is strange" tc
OESTLER'S "THIEVES IN THE NIGHT" repeats the pseud:).
ISAAC L. ASOFSKY, executive director of HIAS, reporting on his Judaism, she insists that the coin
LL scientific view that children would be better off raised away from
tour of Europe where he studied the Jewish DP situation, said that mon human element be brough
heir parents, would have better mental and physical health In this
the word "displaced" is a misnomer. He described the refugees m .nto the Jewish orbit.
"deserted, dejected, destitute, despoiled, despondent, desperate, despised,
A creative personality herself fashion as compared with the "old-fashioned" way of bringing up a
disillusioned, defeated and deceived" persons.
the was bound to deplore, not on child.
Admittedly, the raising of children in a nursery, per science, is
Asofsky praised the Polish government for its unremitting fight to y the physical destruction
hrough Fascism of large sections nore efficient in that it takes less
end anti-Semitism. .
A privately owned skating rink, going into production in Italy with rf Jewry, but also the extinctior ime, can be geared to mass pro- a peasant. We, being
"The Icelandia" in Toronto, re- Roberto Rossellini, director of the if the centers of Jewish spiritual luction methods, permits more people, do not indulge in peasant
Ind intellectual creativeness in work by par-
fused admission classic Italian anti-fascist film.
customs.
Jules Munshin, of the "Call Mc lentral and Eastern Europe, ar
to a ydung Jew-
: n s , insures
This era produced its share of
ish girl because Mister" cast, is packing them in )ne of the heaviest blows ever the child against
gains, to be sure. The medical
—she was Jew- at New York's Cafe Society Up- iuffered by our people.
gnorance of
world drilled into the urban wc-
The tragic fate that befell Euro. realth and hy-
ish. The Jewish town. Krishna Nehru, Pandit's
man the utter necessity of pre-
community I s sister, took in the show the other dean Jewry has caused her to de- giene rules to
natal care, hospital delivery, pe-
very much sur- night. Her raves join many others, nand from American Jewry a which some
diatric care, routine examinations,
prised and including the New York Stock deeper consciousness of Jewish- )arents are
inoculations and vaccinations. All
Exchange Club's. Jules is getting ness and of moral and ethical ob-
aroused. . .
)rove. Perhaps
those reduced to the minimum the
N e w s reels their plaque as the best comic to ,igations.
deaths of infants and of mothers
.here is a sav-
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treat the Geo- emerge from the armed forces. . .
during delivery.
ng in infant
r g i a guberna- Watch this lad, he's headed for REPLY TO ASSIMILATION
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P. K. Biron
"BUT WHY SHOULDN'T the nortality a n d
torial crisis hu- stardom. It's a boy, their third,
MENTAL HEALTH LOST
for
the
Albert
E.
Kahns
.
.
.
He's
Jews disappear in a peaceful s o r b l d ity
Dr. Goldberg
morously, and audiences have a
BUT JUST AS THE program
good time when the news-com- the former Detroiter and Dart- manner? Why should our children through this sterile program.
which Koestler describes was
mouth
track
star,
and
more
re-
inci
grandchildren
suffer
for
noth-
Perhaps, too, in this way no par- designed to do, there was here too
mentator jokes about it. News
editors should have known better. cently is the president of the Jew- ing else but their Jewishness?" ent would crush the child by his a steriay in the relationship be-
We might remind them that as ish People's Fraternal Order, This is a question she has fre- awn authority. Perhaps it also in- tween parent and child. Confusion
late as Nov. 18, 1946, Herman Tal- I.W.0,. and co-author of "The quently been asked after her lec- sures greater uniformity of re- arose in the child's mind as to the
Against Russia." tures on her favorite topic, "A sction and culture than if left to
madge spoke at a Ku Klux Klan Great Conspiracy
• • •
Manifesto of Jewish Survivalism." the whims and prejudices of each role of tire parents toward him,
barbecue held in the Municipal
the infant. Much of the mental
RATHER
STRANGE
She usually replies by asserting parent. In the dangerous and toil-
Auditorium of Atlanta.
HE PROTESTANT MAGAZINE that the specific Jewish genius can some days of building Palestinian confusion discovered by the draft
• • •
in its current issue gives the be preserved only as long as it ::.olonies, there may be justification can be traced to this insipid re-
BROADWAY GOSSIP
lationship between parents and
11ANNY KAYE, currently draw- impression that Pierre van Paas- will be nourished by a healthy for the program.
offspring.
sen's
recent
resignation
as
contrib-
Jewish
community:
"And
no
mat
■
ing $20,000 per week (uh-huh-
ing
Fortunately we discern signs of
uting editor had nothing whatso- ter from what angle 'We look, at
days)
for
his
hilarity
at
Miami's
7
a swing in the opposite direction.
FADS FOLLOWED
Copacaliana, flattened a ringside ever to do with the resignation of Jewish history—and no matte.
Today, babies are to be held by
heckler a few nights back. The kid Joseph Brainin as associate editor. how much we strain ourselves to WE IN THE UNITED STATES their mothers, even when fed it
from Brooklyn didn't like that This might well be so. But stran- minimize the traces left by the !V have also suffered from a form bottle. When the baby cries, he is
line from Berlin. Danny, by the gely enough both editors resigned effort 'to be light unto the na- if fadism by placing the infant on to be held, taken up and cud-
way, may be costarred with Char- on the same day—if not for the tions!, the fact looms large and a schedule, sticking a bottle into dled. Instead of a minimum of
irrepressible that what little light his mouth whenever the clock
lie Chaplin in a new film . . same reason. . .
Did you know that the Jewish of genuine humaneness there is in lictated. Breast-fodding, that eter- holding and physical handling,
That's one we wouldn't miss.
psychiatrists and pediatrician!)
population
in
Palestine
has
in-
the Western world, which up till nal picture of motherhood, was
Milton Berle, whose decision to
now advocate a maximum . . . as
take to the airwaves left that Co- creased by 165,000 in the past now has been the focal point of held old-fashioned.
much and as often as possible,
Women suddenly developed the
pa job for Danny, will preview seven years or 33 percent since the the universe of mankind, stems
whenever the excuse can be
outset
of
the
war.
Half
of
this
is
seems,
from
the
Jewish
tradition."
fashionable
inability,
it
performances of his new radio
A talk with Dr. Weiss-Rosmar- in spite of centuries of contrary found.
show in children's hospitals In the accounted for by immigration and
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the
other
half
by
natural
increase.
in
is always stimulating for she practice, to produce enough
New YofIc area. . . A different one
rrIIESE COLUMNS HAVE re-
The
present
Jewish
population
never
lacks
enthusiasm
and
an-
milk
to
feed
a
child.
The
under-
each week.
wasted one thought, in many
Arthur Mayer and Joe Burstyn, totals 630,000 py compared with imism, and she never hesitates to current, no doubt, was that
(Continued on page 13)
(Continued
on
page
14)
state
her
ideas
or
to
challenge
breast-feeding
was
the
sign
of
distributors of "Open City," are
your own philosophy, if it differ ,
'nom hers,. without being egocen-
tric or intolerant.
Writer, editor, scholar, lecturer,
conversationalist and mother• of a
three year old boy, Dr. Weiss-Ros-
marin is one of the busiest New
Yorkers.
For the past 10 years she has
been editor of "The Jewish Spec-
tator," a monthly journal which
is one of the widely read and fre-
quently quoted Anglo-Jewish pe-
riodicals.
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CIIALLENGE FREUD
DR. WEISS-ROSMARIN trea-
surers more than anything her
BY CHARLOTTE WEBER
privilege of saying and writing as
WASHINGTON—Several days ago two gentlemen from New York, it pleases her, being responsible to
By ALFRED SEGAL
" both Congressmen and both recently returned from Palestine, re- no authority but her own con- “ltlY FRIEND, RABBI VICTOR REICHERT, has sent me "Thir
ported to the President, the Congress, and the American people on science. She is 'not even afraid of
1 ' 1 Tower of David," a book of his poetry. Rabbi Reichert has beer;
how they found things in the Holy Land. The two men had left New debunking world-famous people, with
a congregation in our town 20 years. The congregation recently
York about the same time in November and both returned about the if she feels that they made harm- celebrated the matter by putting his songs in this book.
first of the year. Their paths had crossed once in Jerusalem. Back in ful mistakes.
It could appreciate a rabbi whose heart,was deep In the beauty
When the aged Professor Si- of being a Jew, rather than in the politics. Rabbis elsewhere around
Washington, they made their re
ports within three days of each tion in settling the problem. He mund Freud published his de- the country had tried to be states-
urged "specific legislation" to plorable book, "Moses and Mono- men or commentators on foreign
other.
"The Voice of Israel's shep-
Former New York Rep. Joseph bring about the establishment of theism," in which he claimed that affairs. They seemed to be beset
herds yet is heard."
Baldwin, now administrative chair- "a democratic commonwealth in the founder of the Jewish re- by the frustra-
Alas, some of Israel's current
ligion was an Egyptian and that
man of the Political Action Com- Palestine."
shepherds are away at the forums.
He suggested that a special im- Jewish monotheism is merely an tions of men
mittee for Palestine, called on
They'd rather be loud-voiced poli-
who, by the
adaptation
of
an
ancient
Egyptian
President Truman and left with migration, land settlement and
ticians battling each other in
cult, many Jewish readers were meanest trick
the
resumption
of
land
purchases
him a lengthy, well documented
raucous political controversy.
of fortune, had-
stunned,
wondering
whether
Dr.
report on Palestine and the re- by Jews."
Their flocks wander in pained
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•
Freud had turned anti-Semitic. n't turned out
sults of his conferences with Brit-
confusion: Just what does it mean
Thereupon the young woman o be Churchills
PATHS DIVERGE
ish, Arab and Jewish leaders.
to be a Jew? They can't be sure
Kaltenborns.
scholar from Frankfort challenged
THE
PATHS
of
the
two
THEN
Baldwin recommended that the
whether they are sheep or goats.
Fate had dealt
the famous Viennese Jew in a
gentlemen
diverged.
Said
Bald-
United States and British govern-
They stray far from the green
penetrating study, "The Hebrew them its small-
win:
"Even
the
apparent
present
ments confer immediately on rec-
pastures.
Moses," in which she showed that ::r cards; they
A
British
theory
that
partition
is
Shepherd Reichert has been
ognition of Palestine "as an in-
the facts of history and archeology had been dedi-
the
only
way
out
satisfied
neither
Al
Segal
staying with the flock, troubling
dependent democracy" and appeal
:ated to God
disproved Freud's hypotheses.
the
Jews
nor
the
Arabs,
for
the
jointly to the United Nations for
early In their lives. Now here they himself about its many lives. The
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recognition of independent Pal- majority of them have come out in
were standing in the limits of book of his poems is an index of
,
RELIGION OF REASON
opposition
.
.
.
partition
is
post-
estine.
HER MAIN PHILOSOPHICAL their attars when they could. feel his dedication; a revelation of the
poning the inevitable. The Arabs
•
sure they belonged to nothing less heart of the good shepherd who
and Jews are too mixed up for work, so far, has been the sub- than the whole world. Their vi- knows his place is with the flock,
stantial book Religion of Reason
LOOK TO UNITED NATIONS
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partition."
brant voices! Their commanding
Commented Javits: "Most Jews I which appeared in 1930; it is an
E SUGGESTED THEY also
IIONORS THE GOD LIFE
figures!
analysis
of
the
religious
ideas
of
look to the UN for supervi- talked with in Palestine feel that
Well, I honor a rabbi who con- WHEN HE HAS SAID the nit-
sion of an election In the Holy partition is probably the only Herman Cohen, the Neo-Kantian siders it his function just to be Iv ual words for the dead, he'
philosopher.
Although
she
did
not
Land to set up a Palestinian gov- practicable answer."
a fine Jew, an identity which has keeps caring about the good lir.)
Unofficial British sources hero share many of his views—Prof. to do with deep religious feeling. that's ended. Her children might
ernment, for termination of the
Cohen
was
an
anti-Zionist
where-
British mandate, for a special land are quick to point out that the
as Dr. Weiss-Rosmarin is an ar- Rabbi Reichert's own altar is big be comforted if they were told
commission to watch over land U. S. has an obligation in the
enough, to be devoutly a Jew is what he thinks of her; he sings:
sales and transfers "during the Middle East If only by virtue dent follower of Herzl—she dis- big enough, to serve the part of
"Say not that she is dead
cussed
his
ideas
with
the
object-
that
economic
interests
in
five initial years of the new state," of its
whose heart is still,
the world that i3 his congrega-
ivity
of
a
true
scholar.
area.
This
obligation
in
their
and for the establishment of an in-
Whose unremitting hands
big enough.
Of greater topical interest is her tion is a mission
least
been
at
minion
could
have
•
•
•
ternational military force in Pal-
folded in rest,
Judaism and
estine" to relieve the Britisli partially fulfilled by sending a more recent book Difference, popu- SIMPLF, PR E ACHE!:
Find peace at last upon
Christianity: The
to
the
current
representative
her silent breast.
forces."
TIE PREACHES SIMPLY: To
London discussions of Palestine. lar yet thorough, in which she
In his first speech to the
She is not dead. The scor-
be a Jew is a good way of
points up the essential differences
The
two
reports
should
be
se-
House, Congressman Jacob K.
pion could not kill
-lously considered by the Admin- between the two religions. She living, a striving toward the
Her spirit-like loveliness,
Javits, New York Republican,
maintains that "goodwill" between mountaintop, and that's the main
istration.
That
of
Javits
may
in-
account
of
her matchless will."
on the
gave a 15-minute
dicate that the Republicans plan Jews and Christians "should not thing. A rabbi's place is
Jewish life is not at some far
his impressions of and recom-
and must not be synonymous with home grounds and on the home
to
rush
in
where
the
Democrats
for
the
solution
of
-fft horizon, is not a foreign af-
mendations
grounds Victor Reichert sings:
feared to tread and have in mind raising all bars and obliterating
fair. It is as near as Sabbath can-
the Palestine problem.
"The pomp of Babylon and
differences
that
or
denying
the
like Baldwin, urged a practical program for the solu-
(Continued on page 5)
Javits,
Pharaoh falls,
greater United States participa- Bon of the Palestine dilemma. separate the two faiths."

Danny Kaye Flattens Out Heckler
Who Hurled Hitler Cracks at Him

Do Not Hesitate to Cuddle Baby
So He Will Know of Your Affection

T

Capital Letter

Plain Talk

2 Congressmen Split

Book of Songs Honor
the Shepherd-Rabbi

on Partition Scheme

Baldwin and Javits See Palestine;
Both Ask U. S. to Aid Jewish State

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I1

His Own Congregation Is His Mission,
He Walks Humbly with. His God