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III MI Minn,

Friday, Mry 2, 1947

DITROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

Strictly Confidential

Silence Beclouds Bill
Curbing Anti-Semites

Stringent Measure Is Introduced
in U.S. House Amid Strange Quiet

By PIIINEAS J. BIRON

WE'VE ASKED ABOUT H.R. 2848 before., Thia bill, outlawing anti-
" Semitic propaganda, has been introduced in the House of Repre-
sentatives by Rep. Charles A. Buckley. It Is a strong bill which
specifies anti-Semitism and demands its suppression . . . But somehow
a strange silence surrounds this courageous action by Buckley . . .
A news item in the April 18 Jewish Exponent confirms this col-
umn's charge, made some weeks
ago, that compulsory religious in- will be taken up for three years—
struction in Argentina's public if and when . . .
schools has fos-
Mr. and Mrs. Bob Weiscopf (he
tered anti-Sem- helps Fred Allen script those Sun-
itism among the day shows) are proud parents of a
children . • .
8 lb. Kim—mazeltov . .
Harry Hersch-
Danny Kaye greeting Anita Al-
f ield's com- varez and Don Richards backstage
ments on Hen- after seeing "Finians Rainbow".
ry Walrace and They all worked together years
Charlie Chaplin ago at Camp Tamiment up-state...
are very "clev-
Luther Adler is cinema-scripting
er." Clever way Jack lams' "Profit by Experience".
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of running them
P. J. Biron
down without POT POURRI
discussing the issues they raise... CLOSE
CLOSE CALL DEPT.: A San
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cop missed Danny
BROADWAY GOSSIP
Kaye by inches some weeks back
ARILYN CANTOR, popular with bullets intended for a flee-
songstress at New York's "Le ing thief . . . Believe it or not,
Ruban Bleu," plays a bit part in a current best-seller is titled
United Artists' "Carnegie Hall," "Diagnostic Examination of the
which stars Jascha Heifetz. "Just Eye," by Conrad Berens and
to be able to hear Mr. Heifetz Joshua Zuckerman . . . The sales
play," said Marilyn . •
of this specihlized book on opthal-
Charlie Chaplin Is planning an- mology (eye techniques) has sur-
other comedy film with Martha prised publisher J B. Lippincott.
Raye . . .
Dr. Zuckerman is a brilliant oc-
Did Dick White, singer at the enlist who has pioneered in this
Rio Cabana, croon to audiences at field . .
the Copacabana as Eddie Fisher
Leonard Bernstein will return
a while back? . .
to the U. S. from Europe and
Benny Fields packing them In Palestine for a series of four sum-
at the Copa after three years mer concerts with the New York
away from the Gay Way .. .
Philharmonic Symphony Orches-
The Marx Brothers may do a tra, at Lewlsohn Stadium.
technicolor picture for Ben Hecht.
Carol Bruce will name her baby
Milton Berle's radio show option Julie—if a girl . . .

M

Capital Letter

20 Million Hungry Tots
Look to U.S. for Aid

Children's Fund Needs the Support

of America to Feed Europe's Youth

By CHARLOTTE WEBER

S

WASHINGTON—Unless the United States sees fit to appropriate
" money for the International Children's Emergency Fund during
this session of Congress, the projected plan to aid some 20,000,000
hungry, sick and ill-clad European children may be doomed to failure.
This opinion was expressed recently by a well-informed observer
who said he thought at least a dozen other countries would make
contributions if the U. S. made
its stand clear.
ing programs for infants, children,
The fund has a proposed budget adolescents and nursing mothers.
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of $450,000,000 for the first year.
A lump sum of $550,000 donated
by UNRRA from money received PRIVATE DONATIONS
in the emergency food collection INDIVIDUAL contributions will
last summer, is more or less on ice
be collected through the chan-
until sufficient money comes in nels of civic or labor groups by
to embark on a continuing pro- a national committee which will,
gram of aid.
in addition, allocate the funds
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thus received. For example, the
funds will be raised by the "one-
URGENT LEGISLATION
day's pay" formula, on an inter-
IT IS ESTIMATED that the fund national basis, and will be raised
could begin operations with a "for all relief needs."
minimum of $50,000,000, to cover
The committee might •channel
both operational expenses and the some of the funds thus received
cost of buying food, with the hope to other relief organizations
that other nations would sub- such as the JBC, the Red Cross,
scribe. Participation In the fund or the Save the Children Foun-
was item five on the docket of dation, which are carrying out
urgent legislation that Gen. Mar- the same kind of programs to
help to rehabilitate Europe's
shall sent to Congress shortly af- children.
ter he became Secretary of State.
DP children, now under UNRRA
It is hard to foresee any great care, will not be specifically in-
difficulty which the measure cluded under the ChilLren's Fund
might face on the Hill, since program because they will become
no legislator wants to be known the wards of the International
as having voted against feed- Refugee Organization. The Senate
ing hungry children.
has already passed the bill pro-
The program Is based primarily viding for United States partici-
on food and supplementrry feed- pation in the IRO.

14 Bialik Poems
Discovered

By IIANAN YOM

MANUSCRIPTS of great inter-
est to modern Hebrew liter-
ature which may throw new light
on the life and creativity of the
Hebrew poet Hayim Nachman
Bialik have recently been dis-
covered In this country.
The hitherto unknown poems
and letters of the immortal Heb-
rew national poet were found in
Chicago by the essayist and critic
Menahem Ribalow, editor of Ha-
doer, Hebrew weekly published in
New York.
Recounting his literary expedi-
tion while visiting the midwestern
city which is destined to be for-
ever associated with the name of
another immortal poet, Carl Sand-
burg, Mr. Ribalow disclosed in a
recent issue of Hadoar that the
manuscripts consist of 14 poems
and three letters written by Bia-
lik in his student days at the
famous Volozhin Yeshivah, whose
graduates for generations have
occupied places of eminence in
Jewish life throughout the world.
Seven others are early versions of
poems the poet re-wrote in the
mature years of his life.

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BROUGHT FROM RUSSIA
AMONG THE LETTERS is one
that Bialik wrote to his grand-
father, at whose home he was
reared after becoming orphaned
at an early age. Its style is the
typical rabbinical Hebrew that was
prevalent in those days, particu-
larly among Rabbis and learned
orthodox Jews.
Young Bialik, It seems, had sent
the poetry manuscripts to his
friend Ben Zion Kapnick of Zhito-
mir, whose learned sister later
married one of Bialik's relatives,
Joseph Ratner.
Because of conditions in Russia,
the Ratners were compelled to
leave the country. They emigrated
to the United States• and settled
in Chicago. -
After the Bolshevik revolution,
Ben Zion Kapnick and his family
settled in Kiev. In 1935 Kapnick
sent the Bialik manuscripts to
his brother-in-law Ratner, hoping
that the latter would be able to
sell Bialik's manuscripts at a
high price and send him the pro-
ceeds.

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NO ONE INTERESTED
HOWEVER, STRANGE as it
may seem, Joseph Ratner was
unable to find any person in Chi-
cago or elsewhere in the United
States sufficiently interested in
securing Bialik's early writings.
Time passed and Kapnick died.
When Ratner passed away, his
widow began searching anew for
a buyer of the Bialik manuscripts.
Mrs. Ratner, who had been help-
ing her brother's children by send-
ing food packages to Kiev, had
hoped this time to find a pur-
chaser. But her efforts were fu-
tile.
Meanwhile . rumors of the manu-
scripts began circulating in Chica-
go's Jewish intellectual and liter-
ary circles. When Mr. Ribalow
came to Chicago for a lecture tour
he was told of the manuscripts
and he immediately contacted the
Ratner family.
After purchasi.Ig the documents
for an undisclosec price, Mr. Riba-
low announced the find in the
Passover issue of the Hadoar and,
in a lengthy article, described the
value of the nd and told the
story how the inknown writings
of Bialik the " reshivah Bahur"
had found their tray from Volo-
zhin to the secona largest city in
the United States.

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PUBLISH POEMS
BIALIK'S TOUCHINC letter to
his grandfather has al •eady ap-
peared In the Hadoar ant', in sub-
sequent issues, Mr. Ribalo Ar plans
to publish the poems as veil as
documents in a separate •)lume,
appended by critical essays on
Bialik's early writings in general .
The Histadruth Ivrith, central
Hebrew cultural organization of
America and publisher of Hadoar
has decided to present photo-
copies of the original manuscripts
to the Bialik House In Tel Aviv
and to the Hebrew University in
Jerusalem.
The new manuscripts may ne-
cessitate the re-writing of the
Bialik biographies and lead to im-
portant changes in the new edi-
tions of Bialik's works.

Page Three

Personal Problems

It Is Time to Establish
an American Judaism

Synthesis of What Is Best in Each
of the 3 Branches Is Advocated

By DR. W. A. GOLDBERG
I AM TAKEN aback by the lackadaisical manner in which our
community leaders (or many of them) appear to accept the current
high price for kosher meat. My readers embrace all sects of Judaism.
Some Temple members keep a kosher house or buy kosher meat. Not
all orthodox or conservative Jews observe Kashruth.
If Kashruth is an important concept to a large number of Jews,
who shall preserve the tradition?
Whose business is it to police the ter to a Gentile unless he em-
butchers and their prices? In our braced Judaism.
community, the
"What difference does it make
great price dif-
to the Rabbi if the husband Is not
feren tial be-
Jewish?" she asked. "Our daugh-
tween ko she r
ter is Jewish. The Protestant min-
and non-Kosher
isters will marry anyone without
meat is driving
inquiry into their religious beliefs
many Jews to
and without requiring conversion."
the A & P and
(I wonder about the accuracy of
Kroger's for
this lady's statement in this last
sentence.)
meat. Our local
corn m unity
nerefOre I am forced to ask:
council has an
"How much is 'a little bit of
chazar'?" What type of instru-
Inquiry under
ment have we, what kind of
way on this
Dr. Goldberg
standards or criteria, to measure
matter.
In Chicago, about 10 years ago, how far we may dilute Judaisr
a union attempted to organize the and still retain it?
Do we have Judaism as the rt.
shochtim and to control prices .
The Rabbinical Council warned suit of intermarriage or can we
the union that they would tolerate accept, without regret and as a
no intrusion into strictly religious matter of course, the marriage of
matters.
our children outside the fold? If
The union laughed at the as, we have a shabby meaningless
bearded Jews and told them to Judaism.
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do their damnedest. So the Rab-
binical Council called for a boy- RELIGIOUS CRISIS
cott of all kosher butcher shops AMERICAN JUDAISM finds it-
for three weeks. In that time,
slit in a crisis today. We need
not one piece of kosher meat (so I think, along with others) a
was sold.
Judaism geared to twentieth' cen-
Ever since, the union has had tury concepts in America. We can
a healthy respect for the deep be- not impose religious teachings and
liefs of the Jews. Is this the pre- home observances of European
cedent for us?
origin upon American youth. We
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cannot expect these teachings to
become firmly established in an
A LITTLE 'CHAZAR'
American environment.
JEWISH MOTHER sent an
If we send a boy to an ortho-
angry letter because a reform dox day school and teach him
Rabbi refused to marry her daugh-
(Continued on page 5)

A

Plain Talk

Segal Turns Seeley
to Study Intolerance

Becomes Gentile and Learns Quickly
They Do Not Practice Christianity

By ALFRED SEGAL
PHILIP GREEN, a reporter, had just finished a first-rate Job of
investigation and writing. It had to do with looking into the con-
dition of the miners.
He hadn't been just an investigator on the outside looking in.
Green had lived and worked among the miners and his report was
the poignant document of a writer who had suffered everything that
a miner has to take.
His publisher was pleased. Now character, the same physical
he had another assignment for Green.
Green. How
, -
As Philip Green he wrote in for
w o u l d Green
a reservation at a certain hotel
like to invests-
and was promptly welcomed. Then,
gate anti-Semit-
as Philip Greenberg, he wrote to
ism, now that
the same hotel for a reservation.
he had done so
They were sorry, they had noth-
well in the mat-
ing for Philip Greenberg.
ter of the min-
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ers? That was
BARRED
BY
SCHOOL
someUiing else
PHILIP GREEN was at once
again.
A
acceptable at a university to
The affliction
Al Segal
which he applied for admittance,
of a coal miner
was to be felt and seen and taken but when Philip Greenberg came
hold of; anti-Semitism was a de- around they were all filled up for
mon deep in the darker parts of the semester.
He exposed himself to one Jew-
the hearts of the people and how
was Green to dig it out and bring ish pain after another and his re-
port was an indictment of the
it to the light?
abysmal stupidity of anti-Semitism
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by a reporter who had lived with
it.
CHANGES SPOTS
It is given in the novel "Gentle-
GREEN THOUGHT much about
it and came to an idea that men's Agreement" by Laura Z.
no non-Jewish writer on anti- Hobsen.
Well, now, as another reporter,
Semitism had ever thought of be-
fore. He had made a great suc- I take up where Green left off.
cess of his mine investigation by Yes„ I shall be a Gentile for a
actually being a miner. Yes, to un- while in order to discover Gentiles
cover anti-Semitism he would be- and what to do about them. In-
stead of Segal I shall be Seeley.
come a Jew for a while.
He would expose himself to an- That's a nice name with some sig-
ti-Semitism, just as doctors have nificance in the upper paragraphs
exposed themselves to other kinds of the society • column.
• •
of diseases in order to learn more
SEELEY AT TIIE CLUB
about them.
So Philip Green became Philip AT A COCKTAIL PARTY in the
Greenberg. Mind you, he remained Shamdale Arms Country Club,
the same guy that Philip Green "Seeley" was standing around
had always been, the same decent (Continued on page 15)