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Zi fFriday, February 14, 1947

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

,itrictly Confidential

How Propaganda
of Britain Works

Jim Crow Is Brother
to Religious Bigotry

By BALFOUR PEISNER

Pa ge Three

Personal Problems

Keeping Up With Jones
Splits the Pebblehills

THE
THE BRITISH PROPAGANDA
is undoubtedly the
most successful of its kind in the
world. It has succeeded In making
white look black and in turning
day into night. It is an indispen-
sible part of the empire and a
salient element of the colonial
system.
By PIIINEAS J. BIRON
It is used to pave the way for
By DR. W. A. GOLDBERG
IN THE SHUFFLE of our editor's desk, the most important part nigh impossible measures and to
of an item last week was somehow omitted. The item told of the cover up mistakes. It employs wnEAR DOCTOR.: This is my first report to you since I escaped tc
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surprise and indignation of Toronto's Jewish community when a every artifice and stratagem
my hideout in the woods. Why did I escape? Because as Maur-
privately owned skating rink, "The Icelandia," refused admission known without any qualms about ice Peeiblehill, I couldn't afford to dress my wife. To you that may
ethics.
to a young Jewish girl because she was Jewish.
sound foolish. When you knew me as Moshe Steinberg, I could afford
In the Palestine situation, we to dress my wife comfortably.
What was omitted is the fact that the Toronto Jewish community
should not have been surprised.
need only examine the minds of
"My trouble began when the war was over. During the war
M
Some months previous a Negro Barney is a victim of the housing most Americans to see how well wife was happy and busy . . .
the tactics of this invidious ma- packages for the Philippines, ban-
boy was barred from the very shortage.
man
like
Mrs.
Pebblehill?
same rink, and
Mike Todd and Joan Blondell a chine have succeeded. To most dages for Bataan, bundles for Brl-
"Let's go to a meeting: Mrs.
people the words 'terrorist" and ain, blood bank
the Jewish de- rumor.
Ganzalo comes late so all the la-
fense agencies
Fritz Leiber, veteran Shake- "extremist" have become synony- or the R e d
dies can see her. Also to show her
remained silent. spearean actor, will be seen in a mous with the fighting. One need Cross . . . It
new outfit. My, my, the ladies
only look at the facts
was patriotic to
We cannot be- Hollywood whodunit soon.
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say, what a beautiful dress! An
neve that this
be in war relief.
Glad to hear that Dinah Shore's
original Hattie Carnegie, the lat-
So she reliefed
was censorship. run in with a tractor at her Cali- FAR FROM TRUTH
est from Jacobson's and, In a loud
We know that fornia ranch didn't hurt. Please
THE TERMS in themselves con- in the afternoon
whisper, $350.
o ur editor is don't take chances with that beau- note irresponsibility, lawlessness and she reliefed
"And what a gorgeous chapeau!
fully aware that tiful voice, Beautiful
and lack of principle and common in the evening.
.
An original Dale Milner, beams
anti - Semitism
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decency. How far this is from the Was I happy!
Mrs.
Ganzalo . $150. And so to
and Jim Crow TWO JEWISH SISTERS, Re- truth! The fighting Jews have
"Then she
P. K. Biron
the $67.50 shoes and the $250 poc-
are two sides
went to meet-
shown
themselves
to
be
as
fair
becca Kiang and Zita Kiang
ketbook.
of the same fascist coin . .
and decent as any fighters any- ings . . . for
"Even before Mrs Ganzalo has
One of New York's top law Handelman, wife of psychiatrist where have ever been, What is starving Rus- Dr. Goldberg
firms, "House, Grossman, Vorhaus Dr. Sydney Handelman, have just more, they fight for principles, not sians, suffering Italians, bombed finished her display, Mrs. Fiffith,
& Hemley," has added Naomi Ran- completed two novels, "God Send against them, they fight the law- Greeks. She sold bonds and Mrs. Dordel, Mrs. Salutes, Mrs.
som as a member of the firm. Sunday" and "Peter Our Spouse." lessness of the Palestine regime stamps. She spent two afternoons Gorg push their way in to com-
"God Send Sunday" is a serious
pare price tags. Maybe they
Naomi is one of America's legal
psychiatric novel about the mental with recognized rules of warfare, and three evenings at the USO, should leave the tags on like on
topnotchers, and a sister of Rabbi
in contrast to the government's dancing, serving . . . her bit for
rehabilitation
of
a
New
York
girl,
the dummy In the store.
Marius Ransom.
the boys. I was satisfied.
and 'Peter Our Spouse" is a brutal and inhumane methods.
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Mischa Elman was the soloist
"When the war ended, she went
They are fighting for an ideal,
psychiatric
novel
about
the
trials
at a recent Havana concert spon-
of a psychiatrist with in-law a Homeland, which by every legal to Jewish meetings . .. Welfare ASHAMED OF GARB
sored by the Cuban Federation of
troubles and how his home was al- and moral standard is theirs; this Funds, Hadassah, Zionists, Ladies “CO WHEN MY WIFE, the poor
Labor.
most turned into a violent ward in itself denotes responsibility of Aid, Center Mothers, Palestine pro-
" Mrs. Pebblehill (the daugh-
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in a state hospital. New York's the highest order, something the test, Unlerstitzungsvereln, Lomzer ter of the late steel magnate
LEHMAN AT BENEFIT
best agents are fighting for the government cannot be said to have and Idvavner Guberna Landsman- Shmuel Izbiztiz) sees these price
adhered to.
schaften, book reviews, teas. . . . tags, what can she do? She hides
X-GOVERNOR LEHMAN seen rights.
Twentieth Century is considering
The fighters are revolutionaries Believe me, doctor, these meetings in a corner. She made her dress
at the "Years Ago" benefit for
from English tweeds her brother
the Downtown Community School "Peter Our Spouse." Rebecca is a in every sense of the word. They were her downfall.
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well-known contributor to leading are fighting tyranny to gain inde-
In New York.
brought her from overseas.
Leonard Bernstein is under the magazines, including "Red Book," pendence and the freedoms the MRS. P'S TROUBLES
"And she can sew because she
influence of Orson Welles. He'll and one of Zita's short stories ap- world has fought for. Can such as “VOU WILL IMMEDIATELY was the head designer at Fink's
conduct, write the score and act pears in the first Short-Short these be called terrorists?
ask:
How
come
her
down-
the
best in the country. Not only
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in Mary Pickford's film, "The Omnibus, an anthology of short
fall?. Aren't' these meetings for is she ashamed of her clothes but
stories.
.
.
.
Beckoning Fair One."
CREATE BOGEYS
charity, for worthy causes, to help she even forgets the topic of the
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Barney Ross in Los Angeles,
ANOTHER POINT to keep in others? Of course they are and meeting.
living with Monte Proser of New NORBERT WOLLHEIM spent a mind is the habitual use by the they do. But do you know what
"So once and twice a week I
York's Copacabana. Proser's west
long time in the concentration English of the word "extremist." these meetings do to a plain wo-
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for the picture on his nightspot,
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Much like the Russians who call
any non-communist a "reactionary
Fascist" the English call anyone
opposed to them "extremist." In
the fighting in Indonesia last year,
the fighting patriots were labeled
"extremists," and this justified the
use of Japanese troops against
them. As soon as everything was
settled there, they were no longer
"extremists."
The British propaganda machine
has also created the bogeys of
Arab opposition to a Jewish Home-
land and of Arab unity in a fight
against Zionism. According to re-
cent dispatches, the machine has
stated, through its dummy, the
Arab League, that Arabs will all
BY CHARLOTTE WEBER
By ALFRED SEGAL
rise united to the last man if any
“pACIAL TENSIONS are the greatest threat to American life. more Jews are admitted to Pales-
EAR
MR.
SEGAL:
You and I, as men, are more understanding
They make it impossible to live efficiently and democratically... tine.
than women generally are. I want you to write something tar
This is ridiculous, for on numer- the understanding of my wife. I have failed.
Tensions cost too much money ... The United States needs a minimum
of internal friction to maintain our position in international affairs." ous occasions member states of
It concerns our new daughter-in-law. She is not Jewish and be-
The case against racial and religious bias is strongly put by the the league have asked to he bless- cause she is not Jewish my wife has taken a hostile attitude toward
National Conference of Christians and Jews. Realizing these funda- ed with Jewish immigration, and her, even to the point of refusing to receive her in our house. The
Lebanon before the war actually girl 13 a fine person, college
mental truths this group, through
their commission on educational more important to teach history encouraged Jews to settle there. trained. She comes from a very
it is: Even people who haven't
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organizations, is working to seek or geography, for example, with
decent family.
worked hard at their religion
out and eliminate the causes of an emphasis on human relations, LAWRENCE QUOTED
I have rea-
may get mad at the possibility of
racial tensions—prejudice, segre- than to hold special courses stres-
WE ALSO NEED ONLY to re- soned with my
this inheritance being lost. That's
gation, misunderstanding—in the sing intergroup relations.
fer to Britain's greatest expert on wife for hours
what mainly worries me.
schools, where prejudice frequently
the Arabs, the late T. E. Lawrence, at a time and
This approach is further bol-
originates. Once the source of the
Then there is the pride of Jews
haven't moved
who
termed
Arab
unity
a
"fiction."
misunderstanding can be tracked stered by a "practice what you When Lawrence entered the desert her in the least
who know that their identity is
preach"
philosophy
applied
in
the
down, a positive program, designed
a possession that has been hard-
to foment his famous revolt he from her obsti-
to develop better "intergroup re- election of student officers and found the mass of the Arabs ut- n a t e position.
kept through ages. It's not easy
similar situations which arise in
lations" can be put into effect.
to see it yielded by Intermarriage
terly apathetic to nationalism. Re- She reads your
day to day school life.
with one of the Gentile people
gional sectarianism was, and is, column and ad-
Sponsored by the American
whose attitude hasn't been friend-
mires your wis- r
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today, everywhere supreme.
Council on Education, projects in-
A
ly through many centuries of Jew-
Al Segal
clude an analysis, just completed,
For years the British had built dom and may-
ish living.
of textbooks and other teaching WAYNE MAN IS HEAD
up, in the mind of the world the be you can
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materials to study bias and other
figure of the Grand Mufti of Jer- speak to her. From reading your
inaccuracies in discussions of mi- THE SECOND PART of the usalem, and of the Arab higher column regularly I feel your mind MUST FACE FACTS
work, the program in teacher executive as being comparable to is like mine on this subject. You
nority groups, a working program
F THE GENTILES really had
underway in elementary grade training institutions, is under the the Pope and the College of Car- tell her. (Signed)
Well, this Mr. Segal can't feel I all been Christians the story of
school systems about the country, direction of Dr. Lloyd Cook of dinals, that any trouble with them
and a program in education meth- Wayne University. Some 20 schools would arouse the whole Arab too sure that wisdom is all on the the Jews would have been dif-
male side always. In a long life ferent. If Gentiles had been
ods being carried out in teacher are involved, ranging in size from world.
training institutions. Another pro- large ones like Ohio State Uni-
This myth was punctured by the he has found that stupid obstinacy Christians they would have fol-
ject, now in the planning stage, versity to small ones of a few British themselves when the cut- is about equally divided between lowed the way of brotherhood of
will be carried out in the univer- hundred students.
throat adherents of the Mufti in the sexes. Nor can he guarantee' the Jew who is their master. He
his own wisdom at all times. Look. gave then a very good teaching,
sities and colleges.
The threekld purpose of this 1937 murdered Lewis Y. Andrews, ing back over his lifetime, he indeed, and it's a pity nothing
work Is to help future teachers district commissioner for Galilee. finds he has been wrong as often much has been done about it.
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eliminate blindspots in their own Within 24 hours Haj Amin had as right.
HUMAN RELATIONS
But there's no use speculating on
thinking before they unwittingly been deposed as president of the
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that. We must face the fact of
carry prejudices over to their Supreme Moslem Council, a gov.
FEARS
CONFLICT
COME 18 CITY SCHOOL sys-
our life: The boy is married to
students, to train teachers in ernment-paid post, and 200 previ-
tems, a total of 72 public grade skillful handling of different ously immune gentlemen in or IN THE MATTER of the ells- that girl, and, as forthright look-
schools from Providence, R. I. to groups in order to get the most around the high committee were '''. tressful problem of this citizen ers at facts, we must ask our-
Oakland, Calif., are staffed by ex- out of each child, and finally, peremptorily rounded up, and he can only say what he would selves, what should we, as rea-
perts working to develop better through the teacher's influence without the formality of a trial do or say in the same circum- sonable parents, do with this fact?
intergroup relations through edu- on the child, to each the parent. shipped into exile to a remote stances.
Reasonable people face a fact and
cational methods. Dr. Hilda Taba
island in the Indian Ocean.
Yes, he might say to his wife, make the best of it, since they
The teachers are also trained in
of the University of Chicago is in
How did the Moslem world, so our son is married to a girl can't change it. Would you change
charge of this phase of the work. analysis methods to study the re- whose reaction the British "dread- of another
religion. Believe me, it even if you could?
actions of children to other chil- ed" for 20 years, take all this? I would rather
have seen him
Our son—whether he's right or
Dr. Taba emphasizes that this dren different from themselves be-
As docily as lambs. In vain did marry a Jewish girl for a variety
work is more effective if carried cause of race, religion, certain im-
wrong—has found happiness in his
Haj
Amin
send
out
official
bulls
of reasons. The main reason is marriage and would you, if you
on within the existing framework migrant cultures, different income
lemanding intervention by the Arab the melancholy religious conflict
of the official required courses levels, or because of the rural.
could, do a thing to destroy this
kings. There wasn"t a peep from that may come out of it when happiness? For exariaple, would
program. She feels that it is much urban differential.
an Arab princeling.
the children arrive. You know how
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Jews in Toronto Failed to Protest
When Skating Rink Barred Negro

Too Many Meetings Arouse the Envy
of Mrs. P. who Demands Rich Garb

Capital Letter

Plain Talk

Education Projects
Promote Group Amity

Intermarriage Brings
a Plea for Tolerance

410.

Can't Be Undone, Writer Comments
Advising a 'Reasonable Attitude'

Wayne U. Professor Heads Program
to Train Teachers for Tolerance

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