DEThertT 13WISH CHRONICLE and The La• al• Chronic).

Friday, March 28, 1947

Strictly Confidential

`Exodus by Air' Plan
Called Harebrained

Adolph J. Sabath
Dean of Liberals

By DAVID D. SPIGLER

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Personal Problems

America Still Called
Land of Opportunity

MAN WHO IS DEAN of the
United States House of Rep-
resentatives dean of liberals in
the House, and dean of Jews ir
public service in the USA, 1'
celebrating his 81st birthday next
week, April 4.
From the day he first stepped
into politics in a Chicago political
club organized to combat cor-
ruption in civic affairs back in
By DR. W. A. GOLDBERG
By PIIINEAS J. BIRON
the 90's, through 40 years as
RECENTLY THE newspapers have been deluged with full-page United States congressman from IT IS REFRESHING to read the words of this 18-year old refugee
but five months in the United States. America is still the land of
advertisements calling the attention of subscribers to the plight the fifth congressional district of
of Jewish DP's, and offering to solve their problems if the reader Illinois, Adolph J. Sabath, has opportunity, where ambitions may be realized. The spark must be
fought for a program of liberal kindled within the soul of the individual:
will send his or her contribution to the organization in question.
"I did not write to you before because two letters which I wrote
Among the more novel of such solutions is that proposed by the reform.
Entering his 82nd year Judge to some of the relatives immediately after I arrived in this country
Non-Sectarian Political Action Committee for Palestine. At an initial
Sabath, the friend of labor, the have not been answered yet, over
cost of $10,000,000 this group will
"I make $35 a week with over-
be able to place their plan, "Ex- he persuaded a fellow about twice friend of the immigrant, and the five months ago . . . I decided time. I am working in an office
odus by Air," in operation . . . his size to apologize for an anti- friend of his own people, is still not to bother writing to anyone and I like it very much because
According to Semitic crack. Lee reports bruised carrying on despite the fact that else because I
I hope to learn the trade.
the ads, The knuckles on his "persuader" . . . his 20 consecutive terms in Con- figured I would
Toronto's board of police com- gress have certainly earned him a have thq same
"I figured on going to school at
operation will
night but it did not work out. 1
be divided into missioners also rates a bouquet. rest, and even though the odds results and as
against
liberalism
are
greater
now
work till 8 p. m. and school starts
I see, I was
two categories: They have instituted an amend-
at 7 p. m. till 11 p. m. This is a
(A) Planes car- ment to the licensing laws to for- than they have been for many very wrong .
years.
(Next, he
little too much because I have to
rying w o me n bid discrimination against mem-
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take care of my so•called home
gives the details
and children will bers of the public on account of
MERCIIANT—LAWYER
too. But I hope that when my
of the family,
be directed to race, creed or color.
Action follows the united pro-
father comes (the father eventu-
REP. SABATH was born in these members
secretly desig-
test
of
20
religious
and
civic
ally arrived), it will work out all
Zaboi, Czechoslovakia in 1866, one of a very large
nated makeshift
grdups
in
that
city
.
.
.
And
the
right.
of 11 children. In 1881 at the family who did
landing fields in
expose
of
racism
in
a
Toronto
ice
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age of 15, he arrived in the U. S. not survive the
P. K. Biron
Palestine; (B)
By the time he was 21 he was Nazi conquest). Dr.' Goldberg
Planes carrying able-bodied men rink in this column some weeks
ASKS A FAVOR
ago
.
.
.
manager of a store, a naturalized
"I arrived here last year and a
will be unloaded by parachute."
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American citizen and had grad- friend of mine met me at the 44 HOPE HE WILL make some
We are further informed that
A more money and we will be
uated
from
business
college
two
ship. I did not know anyone else
"one DC4, with 70 or more pas- POT POURRI
years earlier. Now he became in- in this city and it was kind of able to make a nicer living. The
TONGUE
Dept.?
LIP
OF
THE
sengers, is capable, of making four
only thing that worries me now
Heard one of the best com- terested in the real estate busi- tough. I stayed for a few days is a room for us, mine is too
round trips a day from a certain
ness, began the task of bringing with my friend's family and then
mentaries
yet
from
radio
com-
port in Europe to Palestine. One
small and it is hard to get a
mentator Henry Cassidy . . . Read- over his family, and continued I got a room for myself. And room for a reasonable price now.
way in less than two hours."
with his education at the same there I was after a week in, all
ing
the
news
of
the
day
on
the
We don't know whether the
But I hope I'll get something...
time.
on my own.
PAC for Palestine is kidding News of the World show, Cassidy
"I want to ask you one favor.
The next step took Sabath the
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referred
to
"Foreign
Monster
Be-
itself or trying to kid the pub-
When my father comes, don't
store-manager and real estate
vin"
.
.
lic, but one thing should be
tell hhn I had it the hard way.
man to the Chicago College of
Thomas J. Shanahan, Chick Law and Lake Forest University NEVER SURRENDER!
clear by, now. It is that the
Ile thinks I was making good
problems of the DP's will not Meehan and George Sparo, two and brought about his transforma- 44114Y OLD MAN taught me and I don't want to disappoint
be solv ed by harebrained Irishmen and a Scot, are heading tion to a professional man within
ILI never to give up and I did him."
schemes to outwit the British the fund drive for a flew Jewish 10 years after coming to Amer- not. I got some help and a job
Thus ends this brief letter from
community
center
and
Synagogue
army, navy and airforce.
ica. In 1891 he was admitted to through an agency. The money a boy just over from Europe. In
People who ask for your money for the Garment Center Congrega- the bar, and two years later he came in handy but it was not his few months here, he has even
enough and the job did not pay picked up the idiom . . .
to send Europe's Jews on the tion in New York . . .
went into law practice.
Mandel Kralcer of Toronto, who
Almost immediately Sabath be- much either.
many roads to Cyprus should be
Basically, he has courage, is
cold-shouldered . . . At best, they acted as HIAS director in the came active in politics when he
"I quit the job after a few days looking ahead. Basically, he wants
British zone of Gerniany before helped to organize the "Grey and went to work in a factory. to demonstrate to his father (and
are fools . . .
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his return to Canada last fall, will Wolves" to combat corruptive That was better. I made 70c an others) that he too is a human
soon return to Europe for BIAS... practices among Chicago's alder- hour but was fired after a week being.
ORCHIDS AWARDED
All he needs is the opportunity
William S. Gailmor, popular men. In 1895 he became a justice because of shortage of material.
O LEE SABINSON, producer
of the musical hit "Finians WIIN commentator, refers to of the peace and two years later I almost gave up when I got my and time. Courage and a program
Rainbow." At a premiere of "The certain of his brother news- he was elected police magistrate. job where I am working now he has. For him, America is the
During his 10 years on the through another friend.
land of opportunity.
(Continued on page 5)
Chocolate Soldier" the other night
bench he helped to bring about
important reforms in the judicial
system. He deserves a large part
of the credit for the establish-
ment of the juvenile court and the
parole system for first offenders.
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SENT TO CONGRESS
JUDGE SABATH became Rep.
Sabath in 1906 in the Teddy
Roosevelt administration, but he
still prefers the title "judge."
When Woodrow Wilson entered
presidential politics in 1917, Sab-
ath became an admirer of his as
soon as he found out that the
Princeton professor shared his
liberal political sentiments.
Through the friendship of Pres-
ident Wilson, it became possible
for the representative from Illi-
By CHARLOTTE WEBER
By ALFRED SEGAL
WASHINGTON—Congressional leaders are still vitally interested in nois to help make Czechoslovakia COME OF US who are separatists may not like what the Jewish
an
independent
country.
It
was
/V the solution of the Palestine problem in spite of concentration
boys in Bowdoin College (Maine) recently decided hot to do. I
at this time when he became a
on the Greek-Turkish situation and the Moscow conference.
mean those of us who think of Israel as an altogether different and
member
of
the
House
foreign
af-
The legislators, although keeping an eye on the tense Balkan
separate house of the Lord that must bo kept apart from the neigh-
situation and on the domestic economy, still find time to make their fairs committee, that Congress- bor's house. A lot of us have come to feel that way about our house,
man
Sabath
took
his
stand
for
views known on the problems involved in UN handling of Palestine,
ever since the late and unlamented Hitler started pushing Jews around.
internationalism and against iso-
Some of us, however, will say
the world refugee problem and
proposed solu- lationism. He was fully in favor that the Bowdoin boys did all versities and colleges all around
of
a
or
suggestion
certain immigration factors.
tion. of US support of the League right in deciding to do nothing the country. But they felt that
Republican Senator Irving M.
A few days later Ives, in the of Nations.
Hillel wouldn't fit into their situ-
about having a
Ives, the freshman senator from Senate, and Javits In the House,
When Roosevelt came to pow-
ation.
New York, like his colleague in introduced identical bills provid- er, it was natural that in view special Jewish
They got one of the boys, Shop
the House, Jacob Javits, chose ing for the admission of orphaned of his long progressive record, group in their
Lifshitz, to write a letter explain-
Palestine as the subject of his refugee children into the United Sabath should become a staunch college, consid-
ing
why they didn't want to be
ering the happy
maiden speech. Looking ahead, States outside the quota restric- New Dealer.
Jewishly organized at Bowdoin. It
state
of
affairs
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Ives could see "little hope of a tions.
brought out a way of religious
at Bowdoin.
constructive solution" coming out
The bill provided that children FOUGHT BY COALITION
life at Bowdoin that looks like
These
are
special
of the appointment of a
under 14, orphaned in the war,
the brotherhood coming around.
IN 1939 SABATH became chair- people who say
UN committee to study the situ- could enter the country on a non- man of the House rules commit-
Shep Lifshitz knew all about
that
being
Jew-
ation in the Holy Land.
quota basis providing American tee but even as the head of this sh is like being
the fine work Hillel is doing in
The critical reasons he gave citizens were willing to adopt, group he has had to fight a Re- Presbyterian or
the schools. He said there was a
Al Segal
for opposing creation of "an- care for and educate them.
publican Southern Democrat coa- Method ist or
great need for it and "at most
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other committee" have been
lition, to bring to the floor of the like being of Scotch or Swedish colleges Hillel helps to satisfy
voiced by others, some of them OPPONENT SOFTENED
House progressive legislation such descent, and why make something this need. At our college, the 13ow-
by the United States representa- ALTHOUGH IMMIGRATION is as the FEPC bill or a bill to raise special of that among friends? doin Christian Association as-
tives at the UN who announced
one of the most ticklish sub- minimum wages from 40c to 65c They desire most to be good sumes this function."
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American reluctance to consider jects on the Hill today this bill an hour. The latter has yet to brothers in a brotherhood of man.
Palestine without formal British seemed hard to resist. It softened emerge from its pigeon-hole for
I know that in bringing this REAL BROTHERHOOD
action in submitting the ques- the heart of even Senator Chap- the first time.
up I am raising some more IT'S REALLY DAZZLING to dis-
On the other hand he often had controversial hell in Israel, but
tion to the international body. man Revercomb of West Virginia,
cover Christianity is no ghetto
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known to be strictly opposed to to report to the House legisla- then Israel loves it. It Is a fa- Christianity; it is not apart in
BACK ORPHANS BILL
any relaxation of the immigration tion that he opposed such as the vorite old argument in a new its own church. It believes in the
VES POINTED OUT the delay laws. The bill has "definite ap- case labor disputes act and the dress in Israel.
brotherhood and calls all men, of
Connally anti-strike bill.
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involved in forming another peal," he said.
whatever faith, kin. It doesn't
In
the
field
of
civil
liberties,
Others,
however,
wondered
if
the
committee, pointed to the diffi-
attempt to convert anybody to
NOT FOR THEM
culty of choosing unbiased com- bill were a sugar-coated "open- Sabath is one of the bitterest
HE BOWDOIN BOYS asked: being a Christian. It feels suc-
opponents
of
the
House
un-Amer-
ing
wedge"
toward
increasing
im-
mittee members who would not
"Why should they be organ- cessful in helping to make a good
.can activities committees and he
be influenced by members of migration to this country.
ized separately in an environment Jew out of a guy, if Judaism is
has
often
been
attacked
by
Rep.
At
least
one
Congressman
de-
"interested countries," to the fact
so friendly to all kinds of people the religion to which he was
John Rankin.
that a body of 55 nations con- clared his intention of speaking up
On the Palestine issue he has as that of Bowdoin?" Tho matter born. Thus it practices Christi-
in
behalf
of
the
American
citizen
sisting of several hundred dele-
firm stand against Brit- had to do with establishing a Bnal anity.
gates was too unwieldy to handle crew of the Ben Hecht, refugee taken a
Shop went on to explain: "The
ish policies and has made numer- Brith Hillel Foundation at Bow-
ship
that
was
seized
in
Jerusalem
complex
problem
as
Pal-
Bowdoin College Christian Asso-
such a
ous statements condemning mili- doin.
recently,
if
the
State
Department
estine.
The Jewish boys didn't want It. ciation is organized along com-
tary actions there. He is assured-
Furthermore, Ives said, Britain did not take effective action in
Not that they didn't appreciate pletely non-sectarian lines. The
"dumped the problem into the lap the case. Others were "Interesting ly against American backing for the great merits of Hillel in uni-
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themselves" In the matter. the British regime in Palestine.
of the Assembly" without a hint

Scheme to Fly DP's to Palestine
to Outwit British Forces Ridiculed

Refugee Youth With Courage, Hope
Reveals His Ambition to Make Good

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Capital Letter

Plain Talk

Interest in Palestine
Is Strong in Congress

Youths Reject Hillel
for Christian Group

Greek Issue Fails to Shift Attention
Away From Problems of Homeland

Bowdoin College Society Promotes
Brotherhood, Unity, They Claim

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