DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE

Friday, June 20, 1947

Corwin-Nemesis
of Un-Americans

Strictly Confidential

Rankin's Frank Used
by Notorious Bigot

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Pare Three

Personal Problems

Newsboys Possessed
Keen Business Sense

By DAVID D. 5PIGLER
IF WENDELL WILLKIE wire
alive today he would probably
be hauled up by the congres-
sional Un-American Activities
Committee for writing his "One
World" concept into the banner
of all liberal Americans.
Since Mr. Willkie has unfor-
,
tunately passed to his reward.
By PHINEAS J. BIRON
By DR. W. A. GOLDBERG
on aeteshody days.)
E HAVE IT ON the authority of Walter Winchell that Con- the committee has subpoenaed
(This is the second of two articles
who had a
instead
Norman
Corwin,
first
-yes,
the
same
fellow
who
hollers
so
much
THE
CORNER
HAD
bee
n
chosen
by
an
older on brother
the
gressman Rankin 7
the was
route to he
.
Third
street
winner of the Wendell Willkie
about un-American activities—permits his frank to be used
by
keen sense of business
some- One World Award, or more spe- bo docks,
to the depot. Abbott street was between the last car
rabble-rouser and prejudice-monger Gerald Winrod. t° Here
at,
e and the docks. So, in all ways, we were in the middle of
. . . is W inrod'a ducally the scripts written by
thing that defense agencies can pot their teeth M
lin
th e Anti-
Mr.
Corwin as part of his One potential customers.
anti-Semitic record has been exposed time and again, by
We
could and did make extra dimes and quarters toting baggage
World Flight radio series, after
Defamation League. among others. — —
for
travelers
and excursionists.
OUR FOLKS NEVER believed in
every five displaced persons in he returned from his round-the-
• llobody will h dleve that t he
an allowance. Money, they
If a traveler left the Michigan
HoO'ible Mr. Rankin doesn't Europe are Christians . • • How- world trip by air last year.
If the Un-American Activities car line, his gri')s were heavy said, was earned by hard work;
know of the and Fast, the gifted novelist
money was for necessities only.
) who, incidentally, is studying Committee can subpoena so ma- when he reach-
Rev. Mr. Win-,
Money was never intended for
o
rod's bi gotedi Yiddish now—is one of the most ny Americans whose ideas are ed our c rner.
wasteful spending, such as ap-
widely
read
American
authors
in
purely
homegrown,
it
is
not
sur-
The
cheap-
wri t i n g s and '
gave
us
prising
to
find
them
suspicious
peals to a boy's eyes and stomach,
skate
oreachin gs. Europe today . . . Howard comes
So we kept our secret — tips
o'Inrod has for from a good Jewish family, but of the work of an American who a nickel, the
were ours, as much — sometimes,
years been try- his parents spoke neither Yiddish travelled abroad to establV1 usual customer
— as 50 cents or a dollar for each
what they seem to consider a a dime. Our
to poison! nor Hebrew.
summer week.
preposterous
thesis:
that
the
ma-
eyes
bulged
the minds of ! California is rallying behind
Of course we had a few stink-
of people throughout the with a quarter
the Protestant Congressman Charles A. Bur c- jority
the
of
s
ing customers. One Irishman, too
and popped for
wor ld h ave s i m il ar id ea
clergy . . . If Icy's House Resolution No. 2348. ,
drunk on Sunday morning to get
kind of world they want to live half - a - buck.
Mr. Rankin is outlawing anti-Semitism in this
his own paper, willingly added
We were in
P. J. Biro
to
•
himself to our list.
Dr. Goldberg
guilty - and we have no doubt country . . . • • •
To them the idea that every- heaven when
He was never awake when the
body from a prime minister to the occasional drunk refused
that Walter knows whereof h"
paper was brought to his door.
!a washerwoman can make a aon- change from a dollar bill.
speaks—then why not nail his LAUGH OF THE WEEK
One of us carried the baggage When we went to collect at 10:30,
outrageous collaboration with the
ARTHUR WEYNE, of the de- I tribution to a one world concept
and the other stayed on the cor- he was usually asleep. If awake,
anti-Semitic, anti-democratic Rev. partment of public information ! is thoroughly un-American.
• • •
ner. We sold a few papers at he wouldn't pay until we brought
Gerald Winrod? . . .
of the National Jewish Welfare
him his morning coffee with our
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the depot or docks.
Board (who, by the way, is going, AMERICAN PRODUCT
money. That meant walking four
The
lucky
brother,
who
carried
to
act
as
guest
columnist
for
us
THE ONE THING the Un-
blocks to Michigan avenue and
MELANGE
the
bags,
blew
himself
to
a
nickel
when
we
take
a
week
oft
tot
American Committee has over-
then three more to a restaurant.
HENRY MORGENTHAU, JR..
candy
bar
or
a
bottle
of
pop.
We
well-earned
rest),
writes
us:
• • •
looked is that the man who
who is playing so gallant a part
would
have
liked
to
buy
dough-
•
NO EXTRA PENNY
in the present crisis confronting "Second avenue is planning to tried to prove this thesis in his nuts, too, but they were trade,
produce its own version of the radio scripts is one of the finest
SOMETIMES HE WOULD owe
the Jewish people, received his
•
*
•
Ella Logan show, to be called
us for both paper and coffee. We
major in doctrination with Zion- 'Finkelstein's Rainbow,' and the , products of Democratic Amen-
FOR MONEY
'How are! canism that the United States ACCOUNT
ism in 1939, when he read the
COMING HOME
WE would ac- argued for a few weeks and then
roduced.
dropped him because he was also
Palestine chapter in Pierre van featured song will be
. . . e has ever p
Ever since his school days
Passer's "Days of our Years" . . . things in Blatt ta emora
count for all the money, that stingy and never lave us one ex-
pass
on
the
idea
tq
Molly
Picon.
Norman Corwin has been a man is, the money for the papers. tra penny for the extra service.
Dr. Chaim Weizmann, through his
of vision, initiative, and am bi- Mother matched our earnings. He was free for anyone elsea,to
personal contacts with hal. then SENATOR CRUM?
tremendous If we made 80 cents, she added pick up.
dis
Secretary of the Treasury, coo -
RUMORS REACH us that lion who displayed
As each two boys grow up, as
Bartley C. Crum, the brilliant energy in finding an outlet for another 80 cents of her own and
pleted this job.
had
outstanding
decided to be
talents.
a newspaper- then
evened it up to two dollars. the amount of money to be earn- .
!
If you want to know what Al- San Francisco - attorney and au- his
Born in Boston in 1910, he I Half she banked for one son ed lost its huge significance, the
Bert Einstein thinks of the war- 1 thor of "Behind the Silken Cur-
and the other half for the other. route and corner passed to the
may enter the political
mongering forces in this and any lain."
candidate
man
by
the
time
he
left
school
She
also put the bank books in next two boys.
a
other country, read the summer' arena and become
What would we have done if
issue of the American Scholar... for the U. S. Senate in 1948. If at 17. By writing 60 identical' the iron safe, so that young boys
Yes, it is true that British. movie this is true he would enjoy strong application letters and stretching would get no ideas. (And there's the sequence of children had been
people do not wish to have any support from the liberal ele- his age, he landed a job with another story, in the iron safe, a broken by having one or two girls
in between? Or, if there had
ld Daily Record. sto ry about the pushke boxes.)
I the Greenfield
professional or business traffic! ,vents,
I For . 10 years he worked as a' But the tips for toting bags was been an odd number of boys?
with Hecht's backing of Pales-
was
Crum, if you've forgotten,
The Lord, aided by Dad and
tine's resistance movement.
one of the most intimate friends newspaperman, doing everything 1st'• ctly our own money, evenly
from court reporting to feature I divided between the two of us, Mother, gratefully provided an
Few American Jews or non-
even three pairs of boys.
by rule and by tradition.
w-riting .
(Continued on page 4)
Jews realize that four out of
The honest and fearless side
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of his makeup appeared early Plain Talk
Capital Letter
I when he started writing about '—
noitiotoefs
town he was almost run
vi
infsuriated thea-
ter owners when he started writ-
ter
k l ervws a bout films he ,
idnigdnhtarisileie

Prober of Un-American Activities,
Rev. Gerald Winrod Are Linked

Were Always on Lookout for Ways
to Pick up Extra Spending Money

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Writer Acquits UNRRA'
Using Brutal Tactics

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Reform Temples Silent
B • ut for Rabbi, Choir

STARTED OWN PROGRAM
NORMAN CORWIN'S first con-
tact w ith radio came when he
started reading late news bul-
letins on the air after moving to
the Springfield Republican. It I
By ALFRED SEGAL
was here that he acquired his MY FRIEND, Rabbi Jacob D. Schwartz, has started a campaign
By CHARLOTTE %VEBER
to persuade members of Reform Synagogues to speak to God
interest in the radio medium.
1
WASHINGTON — In about a week the United Nations Relief and
He first started his own radio with their own voices. They have been speaking to Him as through
'' Rehabilitation Administration will close up shop and hand the program on station WQXR, after attorneys—namely through the Rabbi and the choir. And very
war's most distressing aftermath — the displaced persons problem — convincing the station's program often the choir is a Gentile attorney speaking to God for mercy
over to other hands, presumably those of the International Refugee
chief that poetry could attract a to Jews.
As a member of a temple, I
Organization.
'radio
audience if he could read
It seems unfortunate that. UNRRA's last days and its long,- fine
must confess that it's convenient to the question whether to sell
dramatize it over the air Ina
stock,
• record should now be marred by UNRRA officials who wanted' and
own way, and without organ to have the Rabbi and the choir or not to sell his Widget of
the
the attacks of a seemingly irre- him to return home.
speak to God considering the state
sponsible group called the Ref-
You've market.
Representatives of the commit- music.
you.
for
It was on this program that
• • •
ugee Defense Committee. The tee then called upon Secretary of
paid your dues
committee lists among its mem- State Marshall to plead the same Corwin was discovered by CBS,
out
of
which
MIND WANDERS
in 1938. They recognized his
bers such well known persons as sort of case.
come the sala-
originality, hired him as writer.
I SHOULD CONFESS that I am
Dorothy Thompson, former Sen-
Marshall pointed out in a state- performer, director and producer
ries of Rabbi
in no position to look down
ator Bob Larollette and Charles ment a few days later that no
and
' and choir
and before long the national ra-
let them do my nose at sinners, for I, my-
11, Polelti, former Governor of New such Incidents had been brought dio public was listening $o "Co-
York.
the work for self, have sinned in the temple.
to the attention of the depart-
.
With nothing in particular to do
The groups has been attacking ment "although one-half of the lumbia Presents Corwin" on the
you.
as a participant in the services.
UNRRA largely for what they program has already been com- coast-to-coast network.
What
are
you
At the very outset of World
call "brutal" methods of forcing pleted."
my - mind had run away with
paying
a
Rab-
War II Corwin said that he
vagaries even in the holy pres-
the repatriation of displaced per-
• • •
bi
and
a
choir
Al Segal
would do no work that did not
sons, confining their attacks to
for if you have to do your own ence.
help
in
the
fight
against
fascism
NO
COERCION
Much to my embarrassment I
the repatriation of Poles, Balls.
MAJOR GENERAL Lowell W. and ever since then every script praying and singing? Yes, while have discovered myself thinking
Ukrainians and Yugoslays.
the
Rabbi
prays
and
the
choir
• • •
Rooks, director general of he has written at the direct re-
of such unholy things as the
sings, a member can give his
matter of my column and what
to the at- quest of the American govern-
UNRRA,
also
replied
mind
to
other
matters.
I
have
AFRAID OF RUSSIANS
was I to write about the next
state- ment. All of them helped to de-
in
a
self-restrained
tacks
heard it reported that in a tem-
T A PRESS conference held
pointing out that the only fine values, in presenting the ple members, having little or no week.
ment,
by the committee several
was.
I should say ifi my defense
evidences of coercion that he had enemy as it really
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part in the service, can let their that no sooner did I discover my
weeks ago, Washington corres- found were cases where forces
minds
roam
around
here
and
pondents heard a small group of opposed to repatriation had
CORWIN IS ONE of the few
mind straying off profanely in
DP's tell their stories in halting brought pressure against DP's not radio,,writers who has found his there.
this way than I took hold of it
A
lady
has
time
to
contem-
English.
to go home. This was the re- way into durable print, probably plate her finger-nails and, oh and brought it back to the sac-
Each in turn stressed his fear sponsibility of a "few thoughtless the only one who has ever had good gosh, it's about time she red occasion for which I was
a radio-script, "On a Note of
of returning to his Soviet- and irresponsible elements." he
took them to the manicurist in the temple.
Triumph," reach the bestseller
When I speak of the conveni-
his
said.
•
again !Ile way they look. A
dominated homeland and
list. During the war the Amer-
ence of having the Rabbi and
The committee also sent to the ican army used Corwin's books gentleman may in the quiet of i (Continued on page 41
bitterness toward UNRRA for the
House Foreign Affairs Commit-
the temple give serious thought
terrible "pressures" to which
(Continued on page 5)
on page 15)
(Continued
he had been subjectesl by

Hits Claims That Group Resorted
to Forceful Repatriation of DP's
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Columnist Suggests That Members
Speak to God in Their Own Voices

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