Friday, May 23, 1947

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The legal Chronicle

SH'idiV Confidential

Hunts 'Liberty's Foes'
But Writes for Smith

Rep. Mundt on Un-America ► Body
Yet Contributes to Hate Magazine

By PHINEAS J. ISIRON
REP. KARL E. MUNDT (Rep.), S.D., is a prominent member of the
I ‘ liouse Un-American Committee. This committee is supposed to
investigate and expose un-Americans. Yet we ran across an article
in Gerald L. K. Smith's pro-tascist and anti-Semitic hate sheet, The
Cross and The Flag," bearing the b y-line of Karl E. Mundt. . . Yes,
the same (Rep), S.D.
"He who is without sin, let him
Johnny Garfield for the juicy role
cast the first stone.'
of hizzoner Fiorello LaGuardia in
The National Bnai Brith Bowling a production to be titled "The
Association i s Little Flower".. , .
winning new
Dinah Shore's radio show ends
members a n d
Netting up new for the summer, and we hear for
leagues all over good, on June 18....
Charlie Chaplin and Oona are
the country. It
already compri- back in Hollywood now --- and glad
ses 1100 five- to leave the limelight we'll bet.
man teams.
Herbert Jacoby, who owns New
Starting next York's Blue Angel Cafe, leaves June
10
for a nine-week talent hunt in
fall the Bnai
B rith keglers Europe. . . .
After being voted the "world's
will conduct an
P. J. Riron intensive fun d funniest comedian" by British
Broadcasting
Corporation audi-
drive for the benefit, of the Damon
Runyan Cancer Fund. The drive ences, Danny Kaye is "canning" a
will honor Max Levine, who was specia; one-hour show for British
president of the Dayton Bnai Brith listeners. . . .
league until his untimely death
Melting Pot Dept: Sol Sarnar-
several months ago....
tora, chef at Jimmy Kelly's New
"Rocky" Graziano, the middle- York restaurant, has named one
weight contender, and John Gar- of his specialties "Spaghetti a la
field — who dons the padded mit- Berlin" — after the Irving of the
tens in his latest film "Body and same name. . . .
Soul" - have become fast friends.
The Italian slugger and the Jewish DID YOU KNOW!
actor both fought their way up
Y THIS TIME you surely know
from New York's lower East Side.
that the Hapoel soccer team of
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Palestine beat the American Soc-
BROADWAY GOSSIP
cer League All-Stars, 2-0, in the
DWARD G. ROBINSON, slated opener of their good-will tour.
" for the lead in Paramount's But did you know that nine of
forthcoming "The Night has a the Hapoel booters are veterans of
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Thousand Eyes," is vieing with

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Capital Letter

Tribute Paid to Javits
and Senator Cooper

Congressman and Kentucky Solon
Argue the Case for Je ► vish Homeland

By CHARLOTTE. WE. ER
WASHINGTON --- Once in a while, instead of hurling verbal brick-
" bats at the lawmakers on the Hill for something they've done
to your favorite bill, you feel like handing around a few bouquets.
We'd like to take note of a couple of junior members of Congress
who seem worthy of the good name they are rapidly acquiring.
One is the tall, youngish Senator from Kentucky, John Sherman
Cooper. He has lately put him-
self on record as favoring a Jew-1 Buchenwald the day after the lib-
ish Palestine and although from eration. It was the most moving
the South opposes the stand taken : experience of my life."
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by some of his Southern colleagues
and favors the admission of large'
BOUQUET
TO
JAVITS
numbers of displaced persons to
this country.
WE'D ALSO LIKE to toss a
Speaking at a local "Action For " bouquet to Congressman Jacob
Palestine" rally here recently, the Javits, who in the short while Ile
Kentucky legislator said he wanted has been here has inspired pre-
to express the views of the people dictions that he may become the
who live in the interior.
leading Republican liberal in the
Because they are geographically House.
removed from the larger Jewish
His choice as a member of the
communities !a the East, he said, important House Foreign Relations
they are not so well aware of what Committee -- a rare plum of an
the Jewish problems are.
assignment for a freshman con-
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gressman --- seems to augur the
FAVORS HOMELAND
leading role he will likely play dur-
VET, HE SAID, it is up to this ing the rest of his years in Con-
country to establish "by moral gress.
strength" a just and fair solution
A typical day in Javits' life
in Palestine. United States policy, shows how energetically he fights
however, is not as clear and con- for the causes that he believes
sistent as it should be, he pointed In. All morning he attended •
out, warning that "no great prob- committee session. In the early
lem can ever be solved on the basis afternoon he was on the House
of expediency."
floor until adjournment. Then,
Our public statements favorink with a number of other con-
the establishment of the Jewish gressional leaders, he went to
National Home and the admission the Stale Department for • con-
of 100,000 displaced Jews of Europe ference with Secretary of State
were based on • reason, he said, Marshall
on the long homelessness of the
After dinner he argued the cm
Jewish people and their constant
for a Jewish Palestine on a local
"fleeing from Insecurity."
station
broadcast and then went
One way to arouse public op-
inion on this difficult interna- from the station to a local UJA
tional problem, Cooper maid, meeting in Arlington where he
would be to instruct our dele- spoke again. Finally. at a time
gate at the UN to work toward when ordinary men would be seek-
the establishment of Jewish Pal- ing rest, he appeared and spoke at
patine. Another way would be the "Action for Palestine" rally.
Summing up the problem of Pal-
the admission of large numbers
of displaced Iwo-annul to this. coun- estine, Javits said. "If the Jewish
people can get justice in the inter-
try.
"When I was in the army in national tribunal then there is hope
Germany," he said,
went into for justice in the world."

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Most of Germans
Still Hitlerites

By WILL SHERMAN

WASHINGTON
NGTON -- Less than two
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every 10 Germans could to-
day be counted upon to resist a re-
newed anti-Semitic drive, Rabbi
Philip Bernstein, adviser on Jew-
ish Affairs to American Army com-
mands in Germany and Austria,
reported here on the basis of an
official Army opinion survey.
The report on the American zone
of Germany concludes with this
statement:
"Four in 10 Germans are so
strongly imbued with anti-Semit-
ism that it is very doubtful that
they would object to overt action
against the Jews. Add the racists,
and there are six in 10 Germans
who would rationalize overt host-
ility' to the Jews, Add the na-
tionalists, and there are eight in
10 Germans who at best would
offer feeble resistance to any such
action. Less than two in 10 could
probably he counted on to resist
such overt behavior."

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GERMANS HELPED
THUS PRESENT DAY Germany,
apart from the Jewish experience
of the recent past, is not habitable
for Jews, Bernstein argues. Yet
while the world shows decreasing
interest in the displaced persons
uprooted by Nazism, "the Germans
who so recently were seeking to
subjugate our Western democra-
cies are receiving increasingly
greater assistance."
Rabbi Bernstein's statement, an
obvious indictment of the U.S. ap-
proach to the displaced persons
problem, and an indirect indict-
ment of the handling of denazifi-
cation, was conspicuously ignored
by the daily press in the capital .
The survival of anti-Seinitism in
Germany is one of the main rea-
sons why "Jews cannot and will
not settle in the German economy,"
Rabbi Bernstein said.

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PREFER PALESTINE
WITH REGARD TO the immi-
gration preference of displaced
Jews, the army's Jewish adviser
pointed out: "If the doors of Pal-
estine were to be opened immedi-
ately, 90 percent of the Jewish
DP's would choose to migrate
there.
"If other immigration possibili-
ties should open at the same time,
notably to the U.S. and other wes-
tern democracies, about 75 percent
would choose Palestine and the
balance would prefer the western
lands. There remains a core of
Jews, perhaps 50 percent, who will
choose to sweat it out for Palestine
regardless of delays and regardless
of other immigration possibilities.
"I do not anticipate a mass ex-
od us of eV/ Is DP's to Palestine.
However, with the advent of warm-
er weather, there is increasing ex-
filt ration from . . z ones of youn g,
vigorous Jews who choose to risk
dangers and hardships rather than
to spend another winter in Ger-
many and Austria."

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DP'S LOSING FAITH
DISCUSSING CONDITIONS in
the displaced persons camps, Rabbi
Bernstein stated: "The situation
has stabilized. There has been no
infiltration over the winter months
— and there is likely to be more
under foreseeable circumstances.
"This is the third spring in
camps for the Jewish DP's. They
have not cracked up, but the dan-
ger to their position and their
morale is coming closer daily. They
are losing faith in the goodwill of
governments and in orderly pro-
cesses.
"When IRO comes into existence,
It will have less funds than the
army had for DP
and a smal-
iff than UNR-
ler administrative
RA found necessary. . . . It should
either have enough funds to give
reasonably adequate care to all
DP's or there should be sufficient
necessary supplementation from
other sources."

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NEEDED IN U.S.
ASKING FOR IMMEDIATE im-
migration to the United States and
voicing his support of the proposed
legislation to permit the entry of
400,000 DP's, Rabbi Bernstein said:
The majority of the Jewish DP's
consist of textile workers. tailor',
carpenters, shoe makers, and tech-
nicians, all of whom are needed in
the American economy. My own
city of Rochester could absorb a
substantial number of these tailors
immediately."

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Personal Problems

Tante Chizzie Baked
All the Kichul in Shul

Whets Holidays Came, She Fought
All Comers for the Great Privilege

By DR. W, A. GOLDBERG
(This is the first of two articles on Tante Chizzie of 25 years ago)
TANTE CHIZZIE was not really my aunt but my grand aunt, my
mother's uncle's wife. I romernber her only as an old lady, with
a wrinkled skin, with gray hair peeking out from under the edges
eft tier Shaytel.
In her youth in Poland, I am sure that Jews knew nothing of
tonsils. A full set of well developed tonsils and adenoids gave her a
nasal twang which made it ditti- -
the watchful eye of Wolfson the
cult to understand her.
Shamus.
Tante Chizzie was a mild old
lady except on
C('P-SHAPED CAKE
Simchas Torah
HER KICHIJL WERE ever so ,
and at family
unique. Tante would mix up cake
celebrations.
dough and then cut circles, eight
Then she be-
inches in diameter, using a syrup
came a deter-
can cover as a cutter. Then she
mined matri-
would sprinkle the Mello' with
arch.
sugar and set them into the oven
On Simchas
Inevitably they curled up to form
Torah she de-
a cup-shaped cake. It took her
manded the pre-
about four hours to bake enough
orgative of sup-
for the entire Shill.
plying all the
Everybody in the congregation
Kichul for the Dr. Goldberg
made Kiddush in Shill after ser-
Shut. Her husband likewise had a vices.
The children, of course, ate
monopoly of furnishing the Kichul and sometimes a sip of
schnapps for the congregational schnapps. The older folks had one
Kiddush — both as a free-will of- or more schnapps, according to
fering. The schnapps was not capacity. Then home for the holi-
Scotch and it wasn't Bourbon. It day meal.
was just good old fashioned whis-
key, bought for $3 a gallon at the RELIGIOUS APPROVAL
barrel house on Gratiot •
NE MEMBER OF THE congre-
Tante would fight all couriers for " gation, now dead, enjoyed
the honor of baking Kichul and these free offerings. He had reli-
Mother would announce, several gious sanction for his drinking. On
weeks in advance, at Shill, that it arising, during the week, he took
was about time for Tante to think a snifter, wetting his whistle. Then
of Kichul. That made sure that no he would dress. Dressed, he would
outsider would horn in. Every take a "small schnapps" the glass
Simchas Torah eve Tante would was always good measure.) and go
bring Kichul to the Shut, bushel to Shut for prayer.
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baskets full, to be locked up under

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Plain Talk

New Shavuos Needed
to Revive Sinai Laws

Men, Nations Flout Cor ► niandments
and Plea for Universal Moral Code

By ALFRED SEGAL
WAS PRESENT at Sinai that day. I mention the matter because
I Shavuos is at hand and that festal day commemorates the Ten
Commandments of which Shavuos is said to be the anniversary. This
Is to say I was present in the person of my ancestor. lie was of
the tribe of Levi.
I was already a well grown man then. It was three months since
we left Egypt and had gone into —
the Wilderness. I had been one pot from Zurishaddai while he
of the rebels, you might say, when slept.
I coveted Elizur's donkey and
our slave - Inas-
one day I was on the point of tak-
ters ordered us
ing it to myself when Elizur ap-
to make bricks
peared. I tried to fight Elizur off,
without straw.
saying to him, "What's this free-
One time I
dom if I can't have your donkey."
raised my hand
Elizur settled the matter by a well-
against my fore-
aimed blow at my head.
man and was
Yes, that's the kind I was; that's
lashed. The
the kind many of my generation
foreman s a id
were then as we wandered in the
that we chil-
wilderness. I was impatient when
dren of Israel
we stopped at Sinai. . . . "What
had too many
are we walling for?" I asked.
Al Segal
ideas for our
When Moses ascended the moun-
own good, they must he knocked tain, I shouted at him, "Let's get
out of us.
going. old man We have freedom
I was known among the slave- and let's get going where we want
masters as ■ wild kid. When I to go. This is no time for moun-
said to one of them, you can tain scenery. Come down, old
whip me but that doesn't knock man!"
ideas out of my head, the fore-
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man of the alaves exclaimed: REPLY OF MOSES
"That's the children of Israel for I REMEMBER what Moses re-
sou; they brave too many ideas."
plied. He turned around and
The foreman laid extra lashes on said: 'There's no freedom without
me. Then- he said: "I hope you law, no freedom without morality,
got your lesson and won't have any no freedom for anybody. - I am
more ideas."
to receive the Law."
I replied: "But I still think It's going had
piercing eyes that looked
a dirty outrage to make us do me He
through and through. Then he
bricks without any straw."
proceeded
up the mountain.
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I asked my friend Atneter;
DO AS PIE PLEASED
What's law?
WHEN,
WHEN , AT LAST, I was set free I asked Pagiel: What's moral-
Moses, I practically danced ity?
my way out of Egypt. "Freedom! • They said they had never heard
Freedom!" I kept shouting for a of that.. .. "The old man is vy-
long way in the wilderness. Noth- ing us some
word,." I re-
ing could hold me now. I said that marked, "but I know what freedom
now, in freedom, I could do as I is. It's to do as you like ani thit's
pleased. Nothing could ever stop
me from doing as I pleased.
I remember the thunder and
I remember the time I stole an lightning on the mountain. The old
earthen pot from the tent of Zuri- people were scared and said it was
shaddai. How pleasant was this certainly God thundering. My fa-
freedom in which I could take the
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