"War,

July 4, ort

Page Three

DETROIT JEWISIR IIEFRONICLE

Strictly Confidential

Klan Will Ride Again
in Georgia Whitewash

Jewish Labor Council Asks Congress
to Thrash Out Buckley Objections

By PIIINEAS J. BIRON
UGENE COOK, attorney general of Georgia, is under -fire, and
" deservedly. He dropped three of the four charges against the
Ku Klux Klan—the most important ones, those involving criminal
penalties.
• The only charge the 'Klan had to answer referred to its sales
of robes, hoods and other paraphernalia, a practice violating its
"benevolent charter."
Now that its record is white- for the building of its fourth
washed the Ku Klux Klan of Pioner Home for Girls.
Georgia is free
Leonard Bernstein, conductor of
to reincorpor- the New York City Symphony
ate, Drew Pear- Orchestra, is back from Palestine,
son tells us.
where he conducted nine concerts
Grand Dragon of the Palestine Philharmonic On-
Dr. S. Green chestra. lie says that the or-
has already ad- chestra is one of the very best
vised his fol- musical organizations in the wdrid
lowers that the today.. .
KKK will ride
Yehudi Menuhin, giving joint
again, thanks recitals with his sister, Hephtibah,
to the gener- is breaking all box office records
osity of Attor- in Europe. Incidentally, if you
1% J. Biron
ney General Cook. . . . Or was see the movie "Thu Magic Bow"
and hear the playing of Paganini,
it ■ political deal?
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you'll actually be hearing Menu-
hin, who recorded the Paganini
CALLING UNITY
THE • American Jewish Labor music for the film, . . .
We recommend to the United
Council informs us that it has
requested the American Jewish Jewish Appeal that it sponsor a
Congress to sit down for a joint national touring exhibit of Max
conference and thrash out its ob- Band's masterly painting "Refugee
jections to the Buckley Bill to Ship." The facial expression of the
DP's in this painting tells the
outlaw anti-Semitism.
The Canadian province of Sas- tragedy of European Jewry more
katchewan has just passed, movingly than anything .we've
through its legislative assembly, read or seen. . . .
Maurice Samuel, in Palestine
on anti-bias law which "prohibits,
without limitation, the right to since April, is writing the great
publish or display any matter Palestinian novel. . . .
Dr. Weizmann will come to the
tending to cause racial or religi-
United States in September, al-
ous discrimination." . . .
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though the United Jewish Appeal
has refused to invite him to this
PLAN PIONEER HOME
A DELEGATION representing country.. . .
An award is in order for Sin-
' a ' the Women's League for
Palestine will proceed to Eretz clair Lewis for his ?nost recent
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Israel this summer, to prepare

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Capital Letter

Testimony on DP's
Well-Handled at Quiz

Al Jolson Makes
Great Comeback

By DAVID D. SPIGLER

THE PERSON who made the
outstanding entertai n m e n t
comeback of the year had al-
ready been relegated to the his-
tory books as "one who was a
great star in his day."
The man we are referring to,
of • course, is Al Jolson, who
made perhaps the greatest come-
back in the history of enter-
tainment in a move about him-
self—in which he never shows
his face.
"The Jolson Story," together
with Al's many guest appear-
ances . in radio, which earned
him the title of "Guest Star of
the Year," were the two avenues
by which he made the come-
back of the year. But all this
would have been nigh impos-
sible had Jolson been unable
to recapture at 61, the qualities
that first made him a star back
in 1911. when he was 25.

Personal Problems

Showoff Parents Spur
Money-Mad Children

Too Mitch 'Kindness' Spoils Youth
Who Measure Wealth Above Worth

By DR. W. A. GOLDBERG

-A IRS. M. L. WRITES: "1 don't think that the "good old days" i

were the only times worth living in. I am not that old that
I cannot see the many advantages our children have that were
out of our reach ..,. But I am seriously concerned about young boys
and girls with more money in their pockets than I think is good
for them." I wonder what their parents believe they are doing by
encouraging youngsters to spend
a lot of money, by giving them still believe a child should ask
lots of money for dates, good for a few pennies, each time the
times... I think
child wants to buy candy.
such children
Nor do I believe in what I see
are being dam-
about me . .. 14 and 15 year
aged, that they
old children with their own
learn a warped
cars, with formals, spending a
philosophy of
week's wages of an adult in one
life . . . "
night.
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I have heard
• •
a rumor about
MONEY AS A TOOL
REMEMBERS HIS PEOPLE
some children,
REALISTICALLY, each child
THE MOST GRATIFYING as- in our commu-
nity, whose
A ` should be given every ad-
pect of the Jolson comeback
vantage he can use. In cases of
that the man of song made a parents have Dr. Goldberg
dramatic pause recently, and much money (and have always usual or unusual ability, serious
confessed that he had no song had), who do not "blow it," who desire and intense purpose, fam-
or tune to tell of the suffering are developing as sound, hard- ily money brings objectives
of Europe's remaining Jewry, working and sensible individ- nearer.
and to plead their cause. It is uals. As soon as I can induce
Money brings better educa-
gratifying to know that Asa these people to give me permis- tion, extra instruction, all to
sion
to
write,
I'll
detail
the
pic-
Yoelson, who originally started
nrepare the child better for liv-
out to be a cantor, has as Al ture and their methods.
ing as a mature individual.
•
•
•
Jolso n, not forgotten from
I have heard the rumor that
whence he sprung, nor the rea- FEW RICH FATHERS
in some wealthy families, boys
sons that must have motivated WE ALL SNOW the old story and girls are raised to p o-sue
his earliest ambition.
about "it being just as easy their ambitions; boys and girls
Al Jolson's radio appeal for to fall in love with a girl whose are instilled with the single pur-
our remaining brethren across parents have money as with a pose of doing their best, making
the ocean was certanly dra- poor girl." The only trouble is the most of school, as far as
matic, but more than that, it the scarcity, by comparison, of they are able.
was realistic. The trouble is girls with rich fathers.
They show their true worth,
he said that "what is left of
It has never been my philos- by hard work, by being sensible
them are still being paid off ophy that youngsters should be in dealing with other children,
the Hitler way—a touch of deprived of ordinary and usual by being reserved and quiet. In
charity and a generous help- wants, in keeping with the in- short, they are brought up as
ing of folgetfulness."
come of the family, just as a stable individuals, with a pur-
"If the are not given life matter of discipline. There are pose in life, using possessions to
now, then heaven help us," Al many families with money who
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Jolson declared. "We've not
only sold them out, we've sold Plain Talk
out ourselves and all those
things we say we believe in."

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4th of July Is Time
to List U.S. Blessings

TWICE-TOLD TALE
AS WE SEE IT, Al put the
need for help very plainly and
showed very clearly how monies
collected for this purpose should
be put to the most practical
use. The dollars we collect„ he
said. should be "dollars for home
and work in Europe if they
want to stay there, for a life
in Palestine if they can get in;
By WILL SHERMAN
By AL SEGAL
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Whatever its shortcomings, and what- for a life in America for the few THIS NATAL WEEK of the Republic is a time to remember
" ever doubts one may feel about the overall validity of its lucky ones who can get over."
how we got here and by what happy means we came to be
Al Jolson's own story has what we are and what we have done to deserve the beneficence
purpose, there is no question that the Citizens' Committee for Dis-
become one of America's implicit in the U.S.A.
placed Persons has done a remarkable job in the hearings before
twice-told-tales. A man who
the Fellows sub-committee of the House Judiciary Committee.
For example, there's the case of this Mr. Segal which is men-
Witnesses favoring the Stratton bill to admit 100,000 displaced can remain such a popular tioned here because it is like the case of many another child of
figure
for
over
three-and-a-
the immigrants. He considers
persons annually for four years,
charging them against unused our unemployment problem," he half decades can only do so his immigrant father who, pen-
' immigration quotas, have been said, and supporters of the bill by virtue of undying ability in niless, friendless and speechless age it had taken in him and in
all the others who had walked
well chosen and well briefed. began to fear that Green was his field and powerful per-
(as far as the ter _,
sonal appeal. And Al obvious- language of the g
here to tear themselves out of
Their prepared statements have falling into Gossett's trap.
their ancestral soil and go this
Then, as if remembering the ly has these things.
USA was con-
been clear, sharp and to the
The story of how Al started cerned), land-
far to a strange land!
fine enlightened statement he
point.
•
had just concluded reading to out to be a chazen, but then ed at Castle
His footsteps were hesitant
the committee, the labor leader made his way to the top of the Garden in New
GREEN'S TESTIMONY
as he stepped out into the day's
entertainment field by the long York. (Castle
continued:
"We
could
absorb
IT WAS AN impressive thing
sunny light on the Battery.
400,000 displaced persons a year, hard road, is one that the kids Garden was
Which way to go? There were
to see, within half an hour instead of 400,000 in four years. of 25 years ago are tell their
the Ellis Island
some other immigrants who said
during the hearing, AFL Pres- Why, so far as employment is kids today. He was always run-
of his time.)
it was somewhere West to Cin-
ident William Green and Charles concerned, the housing problem ning away from home and end-
One day long
cinnati. Where was Cincinnati?
Rozmarek, head of the Polish- itself is enough to prevent un- ing up penniless. He tried to ago when Se-
They said it was somewhere
American Congress, both refus- employment for a long time to join a Spanish-American war gal was visit-
Al Segal
ing to bite at bait temptingly come."
regiment when he was 15.
ing New York, he went down West and the West was so wide.
thrown them by Rep. Ed Gos-
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to the Battery to trace his fa- That's the way my father's foot-
He ventured, on questioning,
sett of Texas, bitterest opponent that the housing shortage should
ther's footprints on the Stone steps went.
the bill and of immigration insure against unemployment STARTED IN 1899
doorstep
of Castle .Garden. Cas-
In Cincinnati he found peo-
HE MADE HIS first appear-
orally.'
for at least a decade.
ance in a legitimate theater pro- tle Garden has turned into an ple who let him sleep in their
Gossett remembered that two
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duction way back in 1899, in a aquarium but the same old house for a dollar a week. Then
years ago, AFL legislative rep-
mob scene in Israel Zangwill's doorstep was there. It had been he had to go out and earn a dol-
resentative Lew Hines had op- CONSERVATIVE SPEAKER
well-worn by many feet. Yes, lar. But by the end of the week
posed a bill calling for extra- MORE PLEASING was the "Children of the Ghetto." His here was his father's footprint he had earned all of $5. He had
first
major
experience
in
the
quota immigration,on the grounds ivs ' performance of Charles Roz-
among the many that had come been staked to a load of tinware
that the current unemployment marek, head of the Polish Amer- theater however, took him far this way. To Segal's rapt eye which he carried on his back
danger would be increased by ican Congress. Rozmarek typifies from high drama to the peculi- it was clear enough among the to earn the $5 in the week.
the reactionary group within the arly American type of entertain- million footprints.
large-scale immigration.
That's the way it was in the
Gossett was out to embarrass Citizens' Committee. Fie has a ment the minstrel show.
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In this he played the role of
beginning. Hard work and strug-
Green by quoting Hines' words long record as a red-baiter, and
gle and an aching back but
to him. Green has not always was well-known to the late "endman. - The minstrel show NEEDED COURAGE
been dependable before congres- President Roosevelt as a reac- was a very popular form of en- THIS WAY HE had come off America was giving him the
the ship and that way he chance and he was thanking God
sional committees, but this time tionary who might seek favors tertainment at that time, al-
from liberals but would tilt re- though looking back now it had gone out into the land that for America. Yes, America was
he was superb.
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turn the favors unless it seemed must said truthfully that it did was to comfort him and to nur- giving a chance to people like
not depict the best qualities in ture his children. There was the him who were willing to bend
expedient.
CAN TAKE 400,000
Even before Rozmarek fin- American life and depended too long, long way his footsteps their back to the load. Amer-
KWE MIGHT FEEL different
much on presenting colored peo- took in the many years after ica showed people a distant
" if we thought passage of ished his testimony Gossett was
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he landed Imre. What fine cour-
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on
page
4)
bill
would
seriously
affect
this

Witnesses Backing the Stratton Bill
Refuse to Bite at Opponent's Bait

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ti

Jewish Immigrants Labored Hard
to Build America and Serve Her

