DETWIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

Friday, March 14, 1947

Strictly Confidential

College Men Angered
by Dewey Runaround

Lillian D. Wald:
Social Reformer

By GLORIA B. ROMAN

Page Three

Personal Problems

Parents Blamed If Son
Marries Outside Fold

;ARCH 7th MARKED the 80th
anniversary of the birth of
one of the greatest American hu-
manitarians and social reformers,
Lillian D. Wald. Miss Wald the
founder of the famous Henry
Street settlement house in New
York, was a crusader in the true
sense of the word. She campaigned
By PHINEAS J. IIIRON
By DR. W. A. GOLDBERG
actively for reform, and worked
HERE'S A LETTER from a friend of ours a veteran and a student in a practical manner, at the same IlEAR MR. EDITOR: You ask my reactions to the problem posed
" at Columbia University . . . "Remember your prediction that time, to relieve those conditions " by Brother Columnist Segal on intermarriage and what to do
Columbia students would take action on discriminatory quota sys- Against which she agitated.
about a shikse daughter-In-law. (Segal and I cross paths from time
tems? Well, they did . . . After a petition campaign and a mass rally,
to time; perhaps it is telepathy).
Miss
Wald
came
from
one
of
more than 50 of them joined a delegation of 500 students from all
What would I say to this mother who refuses to accept her
the
oldest
Jewish
families
in
Amer-
over New York State in support of the Austin-Mahoney bill (to out-
caughter-in-law, to this father who takes the opposite view but
ca Her grandfather came from
cannot convince his wife to do
law discrimination in education in
My Sons", the drama that has iermany in 1818, and in every likewise?
his child's affairs. But each par-
New York State).
respect, cultivated in his home the
Broadway
sitting
up
and
taking
May I make myself most clear: ent has the important job of di-
"The delegation had an interest-
Jewish traditions of learning, edu-
recting, steering, showing the
I do not, ever,
ing experience notice for the first time in many
eation and culture.
course, giving a living example
favor intermar-
with Gov. Dew- seasons, has given Hollywood a
of what the child may expect.
Miss \Tald, who had never riage.
ey. A letter
temporary cold-shoulder. H e' s known poverty, had never associ-
what you expect of him, the ac
So, the first
written to the
tions you deem proper and those
rted or mingled with the poor, thing I would
governor well In working on a new play.
you do not deem proper.
was, out of this cultured and com- say to both par-
advance re-
Dinah Shore is reported as in- fortable home, to take up the torch ents is: Strike
Somewhere along the line you
" questing an op-
failed. Admit it take the blame,
portunity to see terested in working up a plan for n an active life and designed to four breasts and
and then judge your actions.
him was an- an annual Hollywood Mardi Gras 2nd poverty or at least alleviate acknowledge
You do not like the course of
swered by the modelled on the New Orleans af- :he conditions that lead to the your failure in
events; but they have occurred
the religious
nisery of poverty.
information that
fair .. .
and are final.
education of
he had a long
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What can you do now? Do you
your son. Say
P. IL Biron standing ap-
wish solace? Do you wish direc-
with the pious Dr. Goldberg
pointment outside of Albany. At FREE ARGENTINA?
WITNESSES MISERY
Jew, "I have sinned. I have sin- tion? Do you wish justification?
Albany, however, representatives
WHEN SHE CAME to New ned." Say it over and over again May I then quote a few lines from
of the delegation who had an THREE WEEKS ago we re-
ported that Drew Pearson had York to study nursing from her and let it sink into your con- a man of greater word-skill, a
appointment with Dewey's assist-
ant, Charles Breitel, were shunted printed a statement by Dr. Mau- home in Rochester, she had no sciousness. Say: "In one area of philosopher and interpreter of
Judaism.
down to Breitel's assistant. It rico Goldman, characterized by idea of what she would meet. One my child's life, I have failed."
Turn t6 the pages of Sholom
Ask yourself how this boy came
seems that Breitel was in confer- Pearson as the "unofficial Jewish night on an emergency call she
ence with the governor in his of- leader in Buenos Aires," to the was forced to witness the ever- to entertain the thought of mar- Asch's "East River" and gain
effect that "there is no evidence new miracle of birth taking place rying into another faith? Were solace from his words. In the
fice.
"We're indignant and angry at of official hostility" against the in the slums. For the first time Zither or both of you remiss in mouth of Moshe Wolf Davidovsky,
Asch says that our Torah tells
the runaround the bill has gotten, 600,000 Jews in Peron's Argentina. she saw curt and poverty and your teachings? Did you, by ne-
glect or being absent-minded, en- us that a Gentile is also a person,
but more determined than ever
%Ve expressed our doubts . . . from then on, she decided to cam- courage your son to have social to be treated with compassion,
to carry on the fight."
Now, like the cigaret com- paign for reforms.
humanity, decency.
contacts with non-Jews only?
It looks as If Gov. Dewey, who pany, we have "proof positive."
•
At that time in 1893, there
Were you in his confidence dur-
declared Brotherhood Week in A government decree of Dec.
were no city street-cleaning, no ing his maturity, his adolescence NOTHING WRONG
New York about three weeks ago, II, 1913, making Catholic instruc-
comprehensive factory laws. In and early manhood, so that he THE FOLLOWING conversation
believes in brotherhood except for tion compulsory in Argentina's
the East Side of New York, the could talk to you about his de-
takes place between 5foshe
those weeks when students are public schools, will shortly be
poor immigrant was trapped by sires? I imagine that this move Wolf, his wife and son Nathan.
seeking admission to Columbia, confirmed by a bill which Peron
the sweatshops, the prey of the by your son was totally outside "Do our sages say that a 'Jew
Cornell, NYU and the rest of the has ordered the government bloc
unscrupulous merchant of the of your knowledge, until it hap- should marry a shikse?"
"Quota" schools . . .
in the Chamber of Deputies to
filth, squalor, disease and cru- pened. Why?
"The sages say that a Jew must
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elty which ambitious politicians
•
support.
be a good and decent human be-
BROADWAY GOSSIP
sponsored.
Miss
Wald
took
up
ing, that he should do harm to
We don't know what represents
PARENTAL FAILURE
AND LEADER Meyer Davis
the struggle in the midst of
JOB OF raising children no one, Jew or Christian. Yester-
will produce a musical with "official hostility" to Goldman. Or these conditions, on Henry street.
1- must not be to watch every daY, he took the girl, married her
Milton Berle in the starring role... maybe he has no children in pub-
(Continued on page 15)
Here she founded a large club- move. No parent can butt into
Arthur Miller, author of 'All lic schools . . .
house where people could come
for help, recreation, advice and
comfort. Here children came to
taste culture, to satisfy their in-
terest in arts and crafts, and here
adults came to leatn English, to
have political meetings of any
kind, and to gain, medical help.
Here it was that Miss Wald or-
ganized the visiting order of
nurses.

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Governor Fails to See Delegation
Protesting Schools' Quota System

Failure to Give Jewish Education
and Social Ties Held jesponsible

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Capital Letter

Plain Talk

World Refugee Body
Hinges on U.S. Vote

Brotherhood Scorned
on Iwo Jima Sands

Truman Warns Congress' Approval
Due by July 1 When UNRRA Dies

How Pastor and Priest Denied Jesus
Because Rabbi Was to Offer Eulogy

U. S. BUREAU FOUNDER
FROM THESE first attempts,
Miss Wald went on to organize
and campaign unceasingly for the
expansion of her order. In 1902
she succeeded in interesting New
By CHARLOTTE WEBER
By ALFRED SEGAL
President
Truman
sent
the
constitution
of
York City to organize its first
T MUST HAVE been bitterly saddening to Jesus who, according to
WASHINGTON--Whom
" the International Refugee Organization to the Hill of congres- public health nursing group.
I Christian doctrine, looks into the hearts of men, to see the un-
sional approval he told the legislators that it represented "an earnest
In 1912, she succeeded in forc- Christian doings among the brethren at Iwo Jima that day.
effort by the United Naions to solve one of the most poignant and
Has the name Iwo Jima been forgotten? It is the hallowed spot
ing through a bill for a United
difficult problems left in the wake of the war." He also warned that States Children's Bureau. Civil in the Pacific where so many American boys died early in 1945.
if the IRO is not a going concern by the end of June when UNRRA liberties and protection of civil
Protestant boys, Catholic boys, Jewish boys, young boys of the
dies, the plight of the refugees IRO's resettlement functions, and rights occupied her attention. Marines. They were lying around
and displaced persons will grow of automatically repatriating war The limiting of child labor and in neat rows of graves the day ship for none . . . Now they lie
increasingly worse.
its final abolition came largely the un-Christian thing happened here silently in this sacred soil,
orphans.
, and we gather to consecrate this
The Preparatory Commission,
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among the
through her efforts.
earth to their memory."
`
which recently met in Geneva to SCHEME TIIWARTED
brethren. It
To her famous settlement in
The speech thrilled the nation
do some of the spade-work of
PROPOSAL MADE by the New York, have come some of must have hurt
the day it was read over the
organization, has pointed up the
Jesus especially
Yugoslav delegate to restrict the most famous of statesmen and to see that the
NBC network by Robert St.
urgent necessity of getting IRO
John. This was something like
in working order before the sum- resettlement in any country where would-be statesmen. Alfred E. brethren were
the surrounding countries opposed Smith, Theodore Roosevelt, Ram- his ordained
Lincoln ,,peaking at Gettysburg.
mer.
Nobody could discover in it the
To Trygve Lie, secretary general it was given a different twist by say MacDonald are some of the ministers. Even
the
Egyptian
delegate
who
wanted
luminaries whose names are in- after 2,000 years
heavy h.•art with which the
of the United Nations, they sent
rabbi gave it in seclusion, al-
a strong appeal for help In get- to block resettlement in any area scribed on the Henry Street set- his servants had
where
the
"indigenous
population"
most, in a small corner of the
tlement guest book.
ting more nations to sign the
failed in the
opposed
it,
obviously
referring
to
Iwo Jima graveyard, away from
constitution of the IRO and to
7,hristly teach-
Segal
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Palestine. It was defeated by the
his Christian brethren.
lay their money on the line.
ing.
The ordained servants of Jesus,
Eleven out of a necessary 15 committee.
It seems a long time since that
have ADVISER TO SOVIET
Although 11 countries
nations have signed; 70 percent
day, what with everything that forgetting their ordination in the
signed
the
IRO
constitution
since
LILLIAN
WALD'S
social
cru-
teaching of the brotherhood, stood
of the required 75 percent of the
its adoption by the General As- sading led her Into many fields. has come in between. But recent- apart from him in the presence of
budget has been subscribed.
ly Rabbi Roland B. Gittelsohn of
sembly
on
December
15,
only
one—
In
1919,
she
was
one
of
the
three
these dead children. It was to
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Great Britain—has ratified it as women representatives at the in- the Reform synagogue nt Rock- have been a dedication of the
ville Center, Long Island, brought
DISCUSSED FOR YEAR
dustrial convention called by Wil-
well.
it back to poignant memory. Tie graveyard by the chaplains of the
The United States will be the son in Washington.
CREATION
ION OF THE IRO has
had a piece about it in "The Re- various religions together—Pro-
CREAT under discussion for well second if congressional approval
In 1924, she was invited by the constructionist." Maybe the name testant, Catholic, Jewish.
is
forthcoming.
As
pointed
out
by
over a year. After preliminary
newly-formed Russian government, of Rabbi Gittelsohn is quite for-
The fine spirit of the division
discussions in London, the recom- President Truman, some of the to visit the Soviet Union to ad- 7,otten beyond his own temple, chaplain, Warren F. Cuthrlell, had
other
prospective
members
of
the
mendations were taken to the
vise on children's problems. Under though he was the one who gave thought of that. He had asked
Economic and Social Council of IRO may be waiting to jump on the sponsorship of the commissar that great utterance at the me- Chaplain Gittelsohn to give the
the
bandwagon
when
the
U.
S.
the UN early in 1946. From Janu-
of health, she gave lectures and morial service on Iwo Jima. It memorial sermon; he considered
ary to October the draft consti- gets it rolling with its own ap- courses on the problems of child- deserves to be immortal in the it singularly appropriate that Git-
proval.
tution was worked over by sub-
American scripture.
telsohn, chaplain of the smallest
On the U. S. vote may very well rearing.
committees of the Economic and
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religious group, should be the
Throughout, Miss Wald clung to
Social Council, chiefly the Special hinge the success or failure of the
one, in the grandeur of the Amer-
one
philosophy:
In
her
own
words:
LIKE
GETTYSBURG
proposed
IRO.
Committee on Refugees.
It will be well to watch con- "The developments of today are THOSE LUMINOUS words of ican way, to speak for all these
During the year the embryonic
dead.
the beginning: "Here, before
IRO survived a number of battles gressional reaction on this issue. the outgrowth of the causes for
• •
within the committee. At one What they do and what they say which social crusaders have us. lie the bodies of comrades and IVIIY W'E FOUGHT
count, some 65 amendments had on the issues involved in taking fought for years. Today social friends . . . Under one of these `•IIAPLAIN GITTELSOHN pre-
been proposed by the various del- part in an international program workers have come to realize that Christian crosses or beneath a
pared his sermon.
egates. Members clashed on the to care for the refugees may very want and suffering cannot be Jewish Star of David there may
"I learned later, Immediately
questions of surrendering refugee well indicate how they will size eased without basic constructive rest now a man who was des-
after
the announcement of his
tined to be a great prophet, to
lists to interested governments, of up in the fight for amending social change."
plans that two of our Protestant
find
the
way
for
all
to
live
in
suppressing propaganda (reported- legislation to permit the entry of
This philbsophy holds true today
(Continued on page 18)
plenty, with poverty and hard-
ly opposing repatriation) within some of the refugees to this as when it was formulated.
the DP camps, of restricting the country.

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