I)13Tkorr JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

Priday, March 21, 190

Strictly Confidential

Political Body Faces
Exposure as Fascist

Albert Einstein,
Genius of Age

(Editor's note: See Einstein
anecdotes in "The Jewish
Jester" column, Page 4.)

By DAVID D. SPIGLER

Page Three

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Personal Problems

Closer Links Urged
Among Jewish Sects

THE MAN WHO started the
world on the road to the atom
bomb has just about disowned
those who would control it for
their own selfish purposes today.
Prof. Albert Einstein, the great-
est scientist of the twentieth cen-
By PIIINEAS J. BIRON
By DR. W. A. GOLDBERG
tury, is sorry that he had any-
HE STYLE TODAY is for preachers of different religious groups
HE NEXT IMPORTANT exposure of a fascist organization, which thing to do with the development
will overshadow the stuff dug up on the Georgia Columbians, will of the bomb.
to exchange pulpits. Hence the Rabbi and the Minister exchange
be the forthcoming unveiling of the activities of the Democratic Na-
It is certain that when Einstein and congregations visit one another.
Christian ministers, to a degree, have been among some of the ,
tionalist Party.
first wrote to President Roosevelt
The D. N. P. has some very important names on its sponsor list. about the possibilities of the A- staunchest supporters of brotherhood. This effort to promote inter-
A number of politicians from Minnesota who had the effrontery to bomb during the early months of faith work has a vital place and I am all for it.
But closer to home, how about
play a liberal make-believe role
World War II, he had no idea
residents of a Jewish Home for
will be involved . .
that it would cause a political the initiation of intrafaith work? weight of their tradition? The
the Aged in his section of Los
The Hebrew Committee of Na-
roughhouse so early in the post- How about the exchange .between source?
Angeles. He was made an "honor-
If some Jews spit on the floor,
the rabbis of
tional Libera-
ary Jew" and presented with the war period.
is it because they are "dirty, in-
the orthodox ,
tion (I. e. the
Despite
his
keenly
trained
sci-
mezuzah in a gesture of appre-
bred and of low character?" Or
conservative,
Peter Bergson
entific mind, capable of analyzing
ciation . , .
Is the truth merely that they have
and reform
group) will an-
the
most
complicated
intricacies
Record collectors will welcome
adopted an oriental custom to ex-
groups ? H o w
nounce wi thin
of
mathematics,
this
present-day
RCA Victor's new release of
press disapproval and 'have not
about having
the very near
simple
and
above
all
a
genius
is
"Moonlight Sonata," which fea-
assimilated enough socially to
each of these
future that it
a
straightforward
and
honest
tures an irresistible combination—
discard it?
congregati o n s,
has established
Beethoven's classic piano compo- man.
Is reform Judaism, according
as a body, visit
a Provisi on al
sition played by Vladimir Horo-
Incapable of deceit and trick-
to the popular conception of
the services of
Government for
witz.
ery himself, it is difficult for one another?
other Jews, "dilute, goyish, a
Palestine. "The
In the concluding movement,
him to understand how so many
compromise with Christianity"
I can already
Government"
where
forbidding
arpeggios
and
men, particularly in positions of
or any other similar description
hear the com-
P. K Biron
will function
great masses of chords constitute
public trust, are prepared to ment that I am Dr. Goldberg
repeated to me by orthodox
with headquarters in Switzerland a challenge to every pianist, Hor-
use any means to gain a polit-
hoping there will be "conversions" youth who have never visited a
and will issue "visas" for Pales- owitz works a miracle. In his
ical victory.
from one group to another. Noth- reform service?
tine.
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hands the music emerges as a
ing of the kind. My aim is merely
Why should one Jew, a good
One of the many dangers that jewel with innumerable facets of
ANTICIPATED NAZIS
an exchange of information in an member of his own congregation,
will result from this move is the dazzling light . . .
WHEN HE TOLD President attempt to blast the veil of ignor- bother his head as to customs and
racketeering that will be done
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Roosevelt of his conviction that ance which I see all about me.
traditions of other Jews?
with those visas. Poor DP's look-
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a controlled chain reaction of
Religious belief appears to be
ing for liberation will be easy vic- BROADWAY GOSSIP
WIIAT ABOUT OTHERS?
one area in human living which
tims, and strip themselves for of- J
TACK
ACK BENNY and Warner atomic fission was now possible,
AVE WE, INDIVIDUALLY, is not open to logic. It is perhaps
ficial-looking papers that will at
need a referee. He he did so because he believed that
best land them in Cyprus . . .
complains of studio Interference German scientists had been work- II sufficient faith in the values the best example of an item in
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social through
heritage,
is passed
the which
generations
and wants to choose the director ing on the bomb for some time. of our own denomination to profit down
He urged the United States to be-
in
POT POURRI
of his next film . . .
by other
the knowledge
of the customs
entirety.
It is slowest
an area to
in occur,
which
working on it at once.
of
Jewish groups?
Is there its
change
Is the
11. Z. GOLDBERG, Jewish for- There's talk of reviving Al Jol- gin
It was Prof. Einstein's initiative any modicum of sympathy for the the most bitterly resisted.
of the son's early talkie, "Tile Jazz Sin-
" eign correspondent
therefore, that precipitated Amer- tradition and practices of other
Yiddish Day, just returned safely ger," now that the technicolor
ican bomb research, and it was Jewish groups?
Few people discuss It or even
from an exciting trip that took "Jolson Story" has revived early
mention it. But how much love
also his equation that made atom-
him to the USSR, Palestine and Jolson fans . . .
I raise
these
questions
ic fission theoretically possible. I feel
that
today's
youth because
has lit- is there among the Jewish sects?
most of Europe. So the other day
Danny Thomas, Irish comic, will He himself did not work directly
Is there any value, spiritual or
he slipped in front of his New play a rabbi in a coming MGM on the bomb, but by using his tle understanding of other Jewish otherwise, in the exuberance which
groups. The young knows a little the Chasid demonstrates in his
York home and broke his right feature . . .
equations a small group of picked something about his own sect; he religious practices?
arm .
Charlie Chaplin's sons, Sidney scientists were able to complete repeats prejudices gained from
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Tyron Guthrie, noted English and Charlie Jr., are in the cast of the blueprint for the construction elders about other denominations.
director, is working for the Habi-
"Ethan Frome," playing on the of the weapon. Thus, Einstein
I am sure that very few young FREEDOM OF CHOICE
mah, Palestine theater group. He's legit stage in California.
may properly be called the "father people can tell the difference be-
SHOULD LIKE to see Jews
directing a Hebrew production of
Albert Kahn's expose of John of the bomb"—a title he certainly tween a Hottentot and any Jew- I accept each with the same de-
Euripides' "Oedipus Rex" .. .
does not relish.
ish sect other than his own.
gree of freedom they wish from
Lauritz Melchior, the Metropo- Roy Carlson in the March issue of
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Although today he is recognized
Jewish among
Life. Sows
for
Gentiles. Perhaps I am an ideal-
litan Opera star, refers to the thought
those seeds
who have
as the genius of the age, Albert SECTARIAN VALUES
ist. If I have the right of affili-
mezuzah he wears as a "touch of accepted Carlsoh as an uncom- Einstein, was not one of those
WHAT ARE THE VALUES of ating with one sect, shall I deny
God's little finger." Melchior, Dan-
people whose brilliance stuck out TV orthodoxy? What is the (Continued on page 5)
ish and a Lutheran, sang for the promising anti-fascist . . .
all over him from the day he ut-
tered his first work. In fact as a
child he displayed a backward
trait that ,is somewhat surprising
when compared with the unusual
achievements in later life.
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Divergent Groups Asked to Foster
Intrafaith Amity and Understanding

Important Names on Sponsor List
of 'Democratic National Party'

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Capital Letter

Plain Talk

Palestine Issue Makes
March Month of Lions

How a Center Team
Met Jeers of Crowd

ADOLESCENT DAYS
AT 14, HOWEVER, he was
showing his scientific mettle and
he had mastered the intricacies
of algebra, geometry, calculus and
higher mathematics. At 16 he had
devoured the works of Darwin,
Spinoza, Hume and everything
that would help him to acquire a
knowledge of the laws and prin-
ciples governing the movement of
the universe.
But while he thrived on science,
By CHARLOTTE WEBER
WASHINGTON—March, they say, will go out like a lamb but on subjects such as geography, his-
tory and languages were poison
" the Palestine front, March has come in like a lion and is likely
to go out like one. At the beginning of March the diplomatic world to him.
Entering the Polytechnic Aca-
was still reeling from British Foreign Secretary Bevin's bombastic
demy at the age of 17, Einstein
charges that President Truman had "destroyed" the Palestine negoti-
graduated four years later in 1900
ations by a pre-election statement seeking the admission of 100,000
with a doctorate in science. But
Jewish refugees Into Palestine.
September. This before the Brit- then he found that even for a
A number of things were ish had formally submitted the pniversity graduate jobs were hard
brought out in the open by Be-
to find and it wasn't easy to make
ease to the UN.
yin's speech. For one thing, Presi-
On another front, the immigra- a living.
dent Truman found out that on tion scene, other things were
A short while later he managed
the Palestine issue, at least, he brought to light through events to get a job in the patent office
could count on solid backing up of the week. Secretary of War at Bern- e, Switzerland. (He had
on the Hill.
Patterson, Under Secretary of become a Swiss citizen on his
One day in the Senate he was State Dean Acheson and Assistant twenty-first birthday).
He worked in the patent office
staunchly defended by Democrats Secretary of State John Hilldring
and Republicans alike for his all testified on the merits of the as a clerk for seven years at
stand on Palestine. The next day proposed United States participa- what he referred to as a "shoe-
in the House there was more tion in the International Refugee maker's job," but it left him
enough spare time to continue
comment In support of the Presi- Organization.
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with his studies. He began to
dent.
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develop his own mathematical
BARS MUST STAND
UT Tnr , MEMBERS of the ideas and write papers and ar-
TAKEN SERIOUSLY
committee were wont to look ticles for scientific publications.
NE OF THE statements made
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" by Bevin showed 'British re- for hidden traps in the sill which
RADICAL THINKER
luctance to let the Palestine would engage the U. S. in a
GRADUALLY HE came to the
question slip out of their hands. cooperative solution of the ref-
attention of the scientific world
Britain was still willing, Bevin ugee problem.
As President Truman had feared as a radical thinker. When in
had intimated, to continue nego-
tiations between Jews and Arabs legislators were wary lest partici- June 1907 he contributed a thirty
us to page manuscript to the Swiss sci-
in an effort to reach a settlement pation in the IRO obligate
before referring the question to take in numbers of the refugees. ence publication "Annalen der
Only if President Truman gets Physic" entitled "On the Electro-
the UN.
no authority to by-pass immi- dynamics of Moving Bodies," he
But Bevin's original statement
shocked the world of science with
gration la,cs or quotas will the
of intention to refer it to the in-
IRO bill get the committee's ap- his bold attack on accepted con-
ternational body, it seemed, had
proval, Chairman Senator Arthur cepts of light, motion, time and
been taken serious!) , by the UN.
Vandenberg said.
space.
week
was
out
Before the
This document turned out to
All these developments which
stories had appeared that the
be what we now know as the
started
March
out
with
such
a
UN would appoint a special
"Theory of Relativity." Over-
committee to study the situa- bang seem to indicate that the
month is more likely to go out night the poorly paid patent
tion so that Its report might be
clerk became an international
available to the General As- with a deep-throated growl than
(Continued on page 13)
sembly when it meets next peacefully like a lamb.

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Bevin's Roar at Truman Indicates
British Reluctance to Turn to UN

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Jewish Youths Play Hard and Clean
to Offset Slurs of Stadium Bigots

By ALFRED SEGAL

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DWARD (RED) KRUECK called me up about some basketball
players of whom he was feeling proud, though Krueck had no
partisan interest in the success of their team; Krueck was just feel-
ing proud of some fine boys.
Krueck's interest in exemplary youths dates back to the time
when he was a coach in one of the high schools of our town. He is
retired now and in his retirement
delights to discover new genera- test. The rooters get excited and
tions of fine boys coming up. He may give vent to loud expressions
that couldn't be approved by a
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had called up
representative of the Anti-Defa-
about the bas-
mation League, if he were around.
ketball team of .‘•
our Jewish
The rooters of the opposition
enter.
let themselves out with such
That had been
shouts as "You big Jew!" or "You
mme team this
little Jew!" or similar jeering,
season! Twen-
especially if the Jewish team or
ty-seven games
the individual Jew, as in a boxing
won and only
match, is winning.
me lost at this
That isn't sportly but that's
A
writing. I guess
the way it goes. If the team
Al tiegal
that about
were Italian or Negro, It would
makes them champions in ou r hear something of the same.
town.
The basketball team of our Jew-
But Krueck wasn't celebrating
ish Center heard It as it went
their basketball prowess so much
about the city winning game
as he was their characters. As a after game.
seasoned old coach, Krueck is one
This was at first almost devas-
whose exultations as a sportsman tating to the Jewish Center boys.
aren't based only on games won; To get "Jew" thrown In their
Krueck delights even more in face! To have to take this In a
manifestations of courageous char- game that was essentially Amer-
acter that come out of games. ican in technique and spirit! That
He had called up especially to wasn't the American way, cer-
praise the characters of the bas- tainly not the widely vaunted
ketball players of our Jewish American sporting way.
Center.
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JEER AT PLAYERS

WELL, EVERYBODY who at-
" tends athletic events knows
how it is when a Jewish team or
a Jewish individual Is in a con-

SHOW CIIARACTERS
UT THE BOYS didn't pity
themselves, didn't organize a
Jewish basketball players defense
league, didn't pass resolutions. Sol
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