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Friday, April 18, 1947

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/WISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

David Lillienthal
Is Vindicated

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By DAVID D. SPIGLER

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Personal Problems

Lost Men and Women
Seek Mates Aimlessly

GREAT AMERICAN'dernoerat
a true liberal, and a Jew, has
just emerged from the twentieth
century counterpart of a middle-
ages inquisition. David E. Lillian-
thal, the man who had to ,endur..
this witch-hunt has been cast far
above his would-be defamers into
the vitally important post for
By DR. W. A. GOLDBERG
By PHINEAS J. B1RON
which his entire life's work has
A COUPLE OF WEER'S ago we looked behind John Rankin's smoke- been his training — chairmanship WHERE ARE THE MEN, ask the anxious women of 30 and over?
-- s• screen of "anti-communism", and discovered that he was smear• of the Atomic Energy Commis- TT Where are the men whom we would marry before we are old
maids? We have been around, we have seen the "males," and what
ing the Zionists as a "communist-front" and pressing his favorite sion.
we see, we do not like at all. All the boys are interested in is a good
racist line against the Anti-Defamaton League of Bnai Brith.
time or more. We want 'marriage with men of honorable Intentions.
We also discovered the anti-Semitism in the firing of five workers FOR MAN'S BENEFIT
We are honorable girls.
on the 12 man executive board of a government workers' union on
DAVID LILIENTHAL at the
On the other side, we hear the
unproven charges of "common
head of the Atomic Energy Com- cry: Where are marriageable girls ? every action is symptomatic of
we've
been
telling
you
about
..
.
ism". The five who were fired are
Orchids to radio writer Aaron mission means that at last a real Those who don't throw themselves their fears of the opposite sex?
Jews, the seven who weren't arc
Are they so used to being inde-
Rubin, who's responsible for the effort will be made to harness the at you? Those
non-Jews.
pendent wage earners that they
best gags in Milton Berle's radio force of the atom to benefit man, who think of
Several read-
cannot give up this independence
show. Rubin turned down a su- and not to destroy our neighbors. something elso
ers have urged
Proof of this may be found in a
for marriage ?
that we keep gar-coated offer to work on the quotation from Lilienthal's writ- than marriage
"Amos and Andy" scripts. He
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at first meet-
on breaking
couldn't swallow that show's vul- ings.
ng? We have
through th at
ON
THE
OTHER
SIDE
gar Negro stereotypes for any
"I believe men may learn tc been around;
smokescreen
WHAT ABOUT THE MEN? Are
amount
of
sugar
.
.
.
work in harmony with the forces we have seen
and expos I n g
TT they mama's boys? Are they
Which reminds us that "Able's of nature," he has written, "nei- the "eligible "
the fascism that
psychopaths? Are they so afraid
Irish Rose" isi reportedly in the ther despoiling what God has ;iris and we
masquerades as
that a girl will entrap them im-
red (and we don't mean political). given, nor helpless to put them to don't like what
" Americanism"
mediately and so develop resist-
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use . . . We have a choice: to use WC see.
and "anti-corn-
ances to girls?
There, in
science for evil or for good. I be-
munism." From
P. IC. Biron
Are they solely interested in
ON DISCRIMINATION
lieve men can make themselves brief, you have Dr. Goldberg
now on this will be a regular
A "NATIONAL JEWISH Month- f ree."
the condensed views of both sides. physical charms? Are they really
feature . . .
The girls want to marry, the boys the "wolves" some women ( -b-
ly" reader wants to know:
This week's case concerns the
This comes from a work dealing want to marry, and somehow they scribe them all to be?
. Why can't we have a pub-
"Queens College Student's Anti-
with the harnessing of water pow- can't get together. What is the
Do they make a living, enough
lished list of all hotels having
Dote Org. (against communism)."
er in the TVA project but it is
for marriage? Can they meet an-
diserlininstory policies?" . . . The
answer?
other person and adjust to an-
They tipped their hand in a editors of the "Monthly" replied perhaps even more applicable with
other personality?
letter to Alan Seigler, president that " ... many who now adhere regard to atomic energy.
QUESTIONS ON GIRLS
Do these men know wholesome
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of the Queens College AYD.. to this practice are open to con-
The letter read: "Warning .. • viction and change of policy HARVARD GRADUATE
A RE THE UNMARRIED girls fun, of a decent sort, such as
At long last Christian Democ- when the matter is brought to
Ilk uneducated? Are they dumb, stamp both a man and his date
DAVID ELI LILIENTHAL was overly-educated; are they homely as honorable people? What ties
racy will rule Queens College. them in a quiet dignified way."
born
July
8,
1899,
at
Morton,
Ill.
do they have to their families
Beware of bloodshed on the
This is unquestionably true... He took his academic training at or in love with their looks? Are end parents? Have they matured
they
shy
souls,
too
bashful
t)
campus."
However, many other inn-keep- De Pauw University and at Har-
speak? Or are they overly bold sufficiently to stand on their owin
If you hear of any cases of ers have ignored or rejected re-
vard where he received his L.L.B. so that they knock a man over feet, to make their own deci-
bigotry hiding behind smoke- peated attempts to convince
sions?
screens of any kind send them them in a "quiet and dignified"
From 1923 t6 1926 Lilienthal when he shows the least interest
by
being
present?
practiced
law
with
Donald
R.
along for this space . . .
way . . . Why cannot these ho-
Are these girls so rigid in ADMITS HER FAULTS
Richberg in Chicago and during
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tels be listed and exposed?...
their views that they cannot I HAVE SEEN MANY such us-
"All My Sons," hard-hitting dra- this period he worked on numer-
POT POURRI
adapt themselves to another per-
attached men and women. I
by Arthur Miller, is leading ous important labor cases.
DR. ALBERT EINSTEIN turned ma
son? Are they irresponsibles? have seen their individual efforts
contender for the Pulitzer Prize
After
going
into
independent
movie director to supervise
Or smart-alecks? Do they show to overcome this bridge between
law practice in 1926 he became off to an obnoxious extent?
One World or None"—the film- Play of 1946-47...
the sexes . .
If Canada Lee produces Wil- special counsel for the city of
short of the atom bomb . .
Are their standards so high that
One young girl of 17 complained
Norman Granz's "Jazz at the liam Saroyan's "Jim Dandy," Chicago in the famous telephone- ne human can meet the require- bitterly that no boy took her out
rate
suit
and
it
was
here
that
Charlie
Chaplin
will
direct
the
Philharmonic" is tho big atcrac-
he first emerged as an authority ments? Have they been badly a second time. She was affi-
tion of the May 5th Carnegie play . . .
liated with many church groups,
on public utilities. This case re- trained, are they embittered?
John
Garfield
is
slated
for
a
'Pop" Concert. Granz is the pro-
active in them, all on a decent
Do
they
make
verbal
noises
ulted
in
the
U.S.
Supreme
Court
lead
role
in
the
film
version
of
ducer whose anti-discrimination
(Continued on page 11)
about
wanting
to
marry
when
ordering
a
refund
of
$20,000,000
in
(Continued
on
page
5)
contracts with theater-owner s
overcharges to telephone subscrib-
ers.

Fear, Immaturity Balk These Souls
in Their Natural Desire to Be Wed

Queens College Group Warns AYD
That Christian Democracy Will Rule

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Capital Letter

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Fight for FEPC Gains
Impetus in Congress

New Measure Introduced by Ives
Without Flaws of Former Bills

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NAMED BY ROOSEVELT
THE TENNESSEE VALLEY
AUTHORITY, the first important
humanitarian project of the
Roosevelt regime, was unsuccess-
fully sponored in 1933. By this
time Lilienthal's work had come
to the attention of President
Roosevelt and Lillienthal was
chosen one of three co-directors
of TVA. The story of how he
won over the people of the valley
to voluntary participation; how
he rose to become chairman of
the TVA, despite all opposition
and attempts to charge him with
corruption, would take up a book.
In feet, a book has been writ-
ten by Lilienthal, who calls him-
self an "amateur author." His
"TVA: Democracy on the March"
has proven to be a very success-
ful volume for an "amateur." It
was syndicated by PM Daily,
named as a book selection by the
Science Book Club, and is being
translated into 20 languages.

Plain Talk

Asks Judaism to Be
Personal in His Life

By CHARLOTTE WEBER
WASHINGTON—The fight against discrimination in employment
TT and the =ceaseless struggle, to get some kind of fair employment
practices legislation through the Congress seem to have gained new
impetus. A new, refurbished bill, introduced recently in both the
Senate and House, seems to have eliminated some of the loopholes
that made the old FEPC bills vulnerable.
The bill was introduced in the
of the lower court is unfair. An
Senate by Senator Ives of New
added safeguard is that Congress
York and in the House by Mrs.
has the right to revoke any ac-
Mary T. Norton of New Jersey
and James G. Fulton of Pennsyl- tion of the commission.
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vania.
A few days later California FIGIITS DISCRIMINATION
ASSAILS WITCH-HUNT
Democrat Helen Gahagan Douglas
N INTERESTING feature of
DAVID LILIENTHAL'S career
and Illinois Democrat William
the new measure is the state- thus far has proven that he has
Dawson dropped two more FEPC ment that its enactment fulfills not only a great legalistic mind
bills in the hopper, both identical part of the United States com- and an unusual knowledge of the
with the bill introduced by Sena- mitment to the human rights com- economies of public utilities, but
tor Ives and Representatives Nor- mission of the UN—to protect the also a clear-sighted understanding
ton and Fulton.
individual from discrimination be- of the science of humanity.
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cause of race, sex, language or
He showed himself to be aware
PROTECTS EMPLOYER
r eligion.
of the danger to democracy In-
The bill calls for the creation herent in the witch-hunt against
HE NEW BILL was written
by the National Council for a of a federal commission of seveh himself when in his statement
Permanent FEPC, which has been members to be appointed by the of defense before the Congres-
carrying on the fight behind the President and approved by sional Atomic Energy Committee
Congress. Presumably, the rest he expressed, "a great belief in
scenes since February, 1944.
of the set-up would Include a civil liberties and their protec-
It incorporates many of the
Washington staff and regional tion, and a repugnance to anyone
provisions of the old bills but
office as It was with the war- who would steal from a human
was designed with new safe-
time FEPC.
guards suggested by the sharp-
being that which is most precious
The provision in the bill for the to him—his good name; either
ly critical attacks made on the
previous legislation. The new bill creation of local councils in car- by impugning things to him by
protects the employer as well tains areas might well become innuendo or by insinuations.
as the individual by requiring one of its most important fea-
"And it is especially an unhappy
that the commission take the tures. Intended for areas where circumstance" he added, "That (v. -
inter-group
relations
are
particu-
case to court rather than rap-
caslonally that is done in the
ping the knuckles of the offend- larly bad, these councils, through name of democracy. This, I think.
their
educational
programs
on
ing employer itself.
might go a long way to- can tear our country apart and
The employer is also guaranteed FEPC,
ward improving race relations in destroy it if we carry it further."
the right of appeal to a higher
(A World News ger, lees Feature)
court if he feels that the decision general.

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Accepts Its Spiritual Ideals Only,
Rejects What lie Calls Its Politics

By ALFRED SEGAL
THE HEBREW UNION COLLEGE boys are studying to be Reform
1 rabbis and, it seems to me, they are bright young realists in the
matter of what it takes to he a rabbi. They know very well that
the chief consumers of rabbis are the Jewish public and it is all
to the credit of these boys that so early in their careers they are
eager to know what the consumers want.
The average young American College Monthly, having pledged
Jew—let's call him Myron—think- itself to the task of arousing the
ing vaguely about religion, hasn't American Jewish community to
been too sure
express its opinions on the vital
that Judaism,
religious problems of our day, an-
as he knows it,
nounces a national essay contest
is really what
for Jewish young men and women.
he wants in the
Subject: 'What Do I Ask of Juda-
way of religion.
ism?' First prize, $200; second
Sometime My-
prize $100; book awards for hon-
ron says he'd
orable mention."
like to get hold
Now, being no longer young
of a rabbi to
enough to be counted as a mem-
tell him what
ber of Jewish youth, I can not
he expects o f
Al leg al
qualify for any of these prizes,
rabbis and what
he thinks Judaism should be and but, anyway, I can write an essay
do for people like him. But many as Myron might write it:
Well, yes, I have been awfully
rabbis are hard to be gotten hold
of by people like Myron, since confused by Judaism in its many
they are away off somewhere, varieties. It's like the confusion
telling the statesmen how to run I used to suffer when I was a
very young child and my father
the world.
Now the students of Hebrew took me to Ringling Bros. three-
Union College have decided not ring circus; my young eyes were
to wait for Myron to conic to popping all over the tent.
them but to go to Myron and
One moment I am told thdt. to
ask him what he expects of be a Jew is to be a member of
them and of Judaism. They are a nation and as a loyal national
even offering him cash prizes to I should be doing something about
tell them.
establishing a Jewish state in
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which the Jewish nation may
govern and abide. The next mo-
SPONSOR CONTEST
Q(1) IN THEIR magazine they ment somebody says no, you're
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announce: "The Hebrew Union

