Friday, July IL 1947

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE

o' Pate- SIX

seemed to hang right over their
By TYLER BROOKE
hearts. -•
HOLLYWOOD —I don't want
"I noticed it—it's a very fam-
" to say anything this week. iliar sign, to me—maybe to you.
I want you to hear from one of It said: Restricted! Restricted!
the finest artists—Al Jolson. The vilest word in • the human
What he has to say not only language. You've seen it with
?omes from the heart, it goes me. Keep out pf this place—not
t.0 the heart as well. This is for the Jew. Keep out of here—
.yhat he said in an advertise- not for the Jew. You've seen
ment which appeared in two that sign with me—shared, first
Hollywood trade journals under my anger and then my bitter-
the simple headirig: Restricted. ness and now my fight. .
"My name is Jolson and for
"I want to tear that sign down
once I haven't a song to sing. —I want to take that word and
I've • got the words — they're remove it from the vocabulary
tumbling all over my mind — of all people. Those refugees—
..vait'ng to spill out—but they those people in Europe — they
don't rhyme with love and wear that word over their heart.
above, with moon and June.
Restricted—from living!
got words—and they're
—0—
;ike pieces of barbed wire —
"AND THERE — but for the
harp/rmgry words. My words
low are without the benefit of grace of God—are we! An acci-
1 diploma or a finishing school. dent in geography saved us. We
They're strictly from the heart can sit at home, comfortable and
—and what's left of that poor secure—maybe a little angry and
'ieart of mine is full of pain. upset now and then by that
lot just sentimental pain that word. But over there—six mil-
ve all feel once in a while. It's lion people lie', in graves and
sin for an old man—a million there is only one word on their
. ears old, for a woman who for- tombstones—restricted.
"Do you see what I'm driving
ot how to smile years ago.
"You know these people.. You at? It's a simple point. No big
aw their pictures in the news- talk about philosophy and ethics.
apers and in the newsreels. Just a simple point. We, as
:member the caption under Jews, have got to tear that sign
he picture?—Jew! The Jew of down from them if - we are go-
:urope—number one on the Ha- ing to remove it— from our'own
m. murder, 'parade. The Jew of lives. And there is only one way
lurope—or what's left of them to do it. One way. You've got
(ter the master race -got through to prove to them that they are
• raving their -swastika around. allowed to live—in a world that
does not compromise with free-
—0—
"THAT LITTLE KID I spoke dom and security.
bout, he was born in a • con - . . "You've got to prove to them
nitration camp. He doesn't that being a Jew is a proud
ven know that you're really thing— not a sin. to be punished
Rowed to live outside of barbed by discomfit here — and death
•ire. That woman, she watched over there. And you can prove
er child die by way of the it. There's a way open.
"The United Jewish Appeal
irnace. The old man, he spent
ve last years in Maidcneck. His must raise $170,000,000 this year.
lemories arc like a movie of That's not just money — that's
orror. Those three are part conscience. That's just charity—
• f the Jews left in Europe—one that's the very belief you have
Union and one-half left of in yourself—You and I and the
Jewish people of our country,—
?ven million human beings.
"Frankly, I can't imagine six and the Christian people who
fillion people dead. It's toe - recognize the need as a problem
' -iuch for my mind to grasp- not of just the Jew but of the
ao big. And even if I could, I whole world.
—o—
•Tnildn't know the right words;
he words that have already
"I WISH I COULD say this
een put into a thousand speech- stronger—sharper. I wish words
s. But there is something I were made so that they could
:anted to say—when you saw take the pictures right out of
he pictures of those displaced the heart and mind and be
ersons in Europe, did you no- transferred to another 'person.
"We have got to raise that
ice a sign? A little sign that
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$170,000,000. We have got to give
these people a life worth living
—if we are to find our own lives
worth living.
"Most things Can be forgotten
very easily. Even serious and
emotional things. But you can't
forget your Jewish brothers and
sisters who wear that sign over
their hearts. ,
"I know how they haunt me
when I sit down to a good din-
ner—there's somebody standing
behind me watching me eat
that good food. When I dim
there's somebody with me watch-
ing me put on that new suit.
"You can't forget that. You
can only try to make it up for
those who came through that
hell. You've got to make tip for
it now by giving them a life—
a simple, decent, human, self-
sustaining life.
"And remember — when ( you
give for them, you give for
yourselves — you give to show
the world that we Jews are a
people strong and proud who
will continue on—contributing to
the world as We always have.
You are giving for our future.
You must give now, if that fu-
ture is to be worth living for!"

Rabbi Honored

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Announcing

RABBI BARNETT R. BRICK-
NER of Cleveland has been
awarded the Medal of Merit
by Secretary of War Robert
P. Patterson. He was cited for
outstanding service to the
United Nations after making
an extensive tour of five war
fronts visiting men and wo-
men of the Jewish faith over-
seas.

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Bryna Pincus, C.ntral Iligh
School senior, took second prize
•in the American Legion essay con-
test on the topic "America's Con-
-tribution to a Permanent Peace."
Bryna was second out of 83
finalists. 'She is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Jacob M. Pincus,
3702 Wager avenue.

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NEW YORK — A victory ag-
ainst anti-Semitism was announ-
ced by the American Jewish La-
bor Council in the reinstatement
of Benjamin Dorfman, dismissed
by New York, New Haven and
Hartford Railroad because of ra-
cial discrimination.
Dorfman's reinstatement follow-
ed after a group of fellow work-
ers came to his assistance. The
workers, through Archibald Brom-
son, labor attorney, forced Dorf-
man's - reinstatement after the rail-
road admitted that anti-Semitic
bias by his foreman had been the
cause of his dismissal.
The American Jewish Labor
Council announced that though
the railroad had promptly cor-
rected an injustice, it would press
for the adoption of general rules
by railroad coMpanies prohibiting
discriminatory practices because
of race, creed or color.

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the vote over the week-end was
a veritable landslike in favor of
the bill on the part of the 1,973
voting delegates and a count war
considered unnecessary.
The sudden reversal in fay or of
the measure is attributed to un-
remitting activity by proponents
of the bill, including the Federa-
tion's national officers.
Provisions of the Stratton bill
such as the one giving priorities
to relatives of American citizens
and retaining the customary im-
migration regulations were im-
pressed upon doubting delegates
who, before the first vote, had
only heard a single reading of the
measure with no 'attempt to ex-Vij
plain its provisions.

OPENING JULY 14th

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NEW YORK — In an unprece-
dented move, the national con-
vention of the General Federation
of Women's Clubs, representing
3,000,000 American club women,
reversed an earlier vote and over-
whelmingly approved a resolution
urging passage of the Stratton bill
to admit 400,000 displaced persons
from Europe into the United
States over the next four years.
The reversal is Considered a
major victory for the bill in view
of the fact that the federation,
largest group of its kind in the
world, is not a paper organiza-
tion, but one which actively is
authorized to speak for its con-
stituents.
While the vote against the res-
olution last week was 556 to 341,

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