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Friday, July 25, 1,47
Strictly Confidential
Flash: Welles Slated
to Succeed Marshall
Impending Appointment as.Secretary
Silences Him at the ZOA Conclave
By PHINEAS J. BIRON
1 T cancellation of his speech before the 50th annual Zionist Con-
IS SAID THAT the real reason for Sumner Welles' last-minute
vention in New York was this: He is slated to succeed General
Marshall as Secretary of State in the near future, and was advised
not to compromise himself by participation in a purely Zionist
affair.
You see, he may have to deal easily guess whom they purge
officially with the UN Commis- as Communist agitators these
sion's report on Palestine . . . days .. .
• • •
Of interest to
our Jewish DISGRACE MOTHERHOOD
leaders who ACCORDING
ACCORDING to well-informed
have expressed
anti-Semitic Fascism
such enthusi-
is being spread throughout
asm over the
America more effectively by
Truman doc- women's organizations than by
trine of aid to
men's groups. Those in the know
Greece and realize that the KKK and the
Turkey: 'Estia'
Columbian are on the decline.
is Grece's big They are too obviously unre-
industrialist
spectable in many sections of
P. J. liken daily newspa- our country.
per. It is on the list for a sub-
The real danger lies in the
sidy—or so it hopes—from the ,rapidly increasing "Mother" or-
$250,000,000 fund which the U.S. ganizations. The most important
has voted to Greece.
of these is the National Blue
A few weeks ago "Estia" re- Star Mothers, headed by Agnes
ferred to the liquidation of Waters, a rabidly anti-Semitic
UNRRA with great joy, com- Washington society matron. She
menting as follows: ''It is a good is the lady who, you may re-
thing that the Jewish-Commu- member, once ran for President
nist organization UNRRA is con- on the platform that "all dirty
ducting its activities in Greece". Jews and Prident Roosevelt
It UNRRA is called Communist would be hanged."
Another efficient "Mother"-
and Jewish by the elements now
(Continued on page 15)
in power in Greece, you can
Capital Letter
Marshall Plan Vital
to Palestine's Trade
Strong European Economy Viewed
as Stimulus to Sale of Zion Goods
By CHARLOTTE WEBER
Page Thr,..
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE
Barney Balaban's
Success Story '
By DAVID D. SPIGLER
CONSIDERED the world's big-
" gest motion picture exhibitor
and most important film critic,
Barney Balaban, president of
Paramount Pictures, sees about
250 pictures per year, including
British, French, Russian, Italian
and Mexican films, and almost
every American film made.
This is only part of his job as
head of the oldest, and again
the biggest motion picture com-
pany in the USA. (Back in the
early 30's Paramount went bank-
rupt to the tune of $100 million.
but in little more than a decade
the company was out in fron'
again.)
Barney Balaban was born it
Chicago in the rear of the fam-
ily's grocery store on June 8,
1887 to Israel and Goldie Bala-
ban, who had emigrated from
the Ukraine six years earlier.
By the time Barney was 12
years old he was working as a
Western Union messenger boy.
• • •
Personal Problems
Mother's Red Hair
Was Crown of Glory
IT WAS MAMA'S IDEA
IN 1907, HIS BROTHER and
sister, Abraham and Ida, got
jobs in one of those new-
fangled entertainment houses —
the nickelodeon. Abraham played
the piano and Ida sang.
Mama Balaban didn't think it
was quite right for her children
to work in such a place so she
got Barney to take her over to
check up on them. It was a ty-
pical nickelodeon in an old
store with the counters out, 100
loose chairs, a projection ma-
chine and a bedsheet for a
screen, and no ventilation.
As it turned out, it can be
said that the Balaban boys,
Barney and A. J. (as Abraham
is known) were started on the
road to success by their moth-
er's vision. When Goldie Bala-
ban got home that night she
told the boys that Was the busi-
ness to get into, and a portion
of the family savings was risked
in renting the nickelodeon thea-
ter.
By 1908 the Balabans were
building the first movie theater
with pipeorgan and balcony and
by 1917 they owned five thoa-
ters. Seven years later 40 thea-
ters in Chicago were operating
under the Balaban banner.
Iler Ways Were Simple and Modest
But No Once Got the Beskof Her -
By DR. W. A. GOLDBERG
FAMILIES SHOW interesting studies of personality differences.
was conservative, quiet, hard-working, self-effacing,
self-denying. Dad too was hard-working, somewhat extroverted,
but inclined to throw his weight around a bit. Mother preferred
anonymous charity; Dad wanted public recognition . . . Mother
was a redhead, but nobody's fool and she seldom lost her temper.
Dad was elected president of
which meant that he always was
• s s•
Shul. Perhaps it
the last one to come home on
would- be better to call it a Saturday and holidays, mother
"Shulchel." a
put her foot down. "Enough for
little shut. for
one man," she said. "Besides, the
i t a member-
hungry and we all
ship was very children get *
want
to
eat."
small. To Dad,
As president, it was his priv-
that was more
than being ilege to bid first for Torah call.
The highest honor he could get,
president of
the United as a commoner in Israel, was
the third portion or the Maftir.
States.
The Shul was Dad used these public occasions
modest, of to make congregational contrib-
his dues.
wood, its pil- utions beyond
Dr. Goldberg
• • •
lars wooden, its benches of
SHAMOS HAD SYSTEM
stained pine, the Torah covers
ORTHODOX congregations.
and ornaments modest—as fits IN
money was never carried on
ordinary people. It could never
compare with the Winder Shul. Saturday or the holidays. Thus
the Beth Jacob Shul or the old the Shamos, who had to be lit-
Shaarey Zedek—of brick with erate,/ devised a bookkeeping
stone coping, marble pillars, system. He had a series -of en-
stone lions and, it was rumored, velopes for the Torrh positions
the ornaments and coverings of and slips to show .ne amounts
donated for the congregation, the
the Torah were actually gold.
Rabbi, the Cantor and the Sha-
• • •
mos. The last was very im-
HIGHEST HONOR
portant. He held his breath in
DAD NEVER had any other expectancy, waiting to see if and
public recognition ... Even, how much the member contrib-
(Continued on page 16)
so, after three terms in office—
Plain Talk
Friendliness Absent
In Big Synagogues
Reform Congregations' Indorsement
of Smaller Temples Is Applauded
• • •
WASHINGTON—The development of the Marshall plan for the
T WAS A BIG Temple in the big city of Metropolis. In Metropo-
OSCARS
IN
ROW
2
over all economic reconstruction of Europe is being watched
lis everything was done on a big scale. They had counted every
with great interest from all corners of the globe. For upon the
WHEN PARAMOUNT came brick in the new Metropolis skyscraper and the press had proudly
success or failure of the plan will largely depend the future well out of bankruptcy in 1935, the announced 3,467,982 bricks and was there another city that could
being of the world economy.
Balaban and Katz 130-theater
The plan envisages the cooperation of all European countries chain in Chicago, headed by claim more than 3,467,982 in any structure.
It was said that Anshe Giborim Temple had well done its part
in planning a program of mu a standard work in the Holy Barney Balaban was financially
toward
the bigness of Metro-
Ile came in through a door
tual assistance in rebuilding
declared in January that the soundest part of the parent polis. Its purpose was to have behind the Ark of the Law,
their individual economies. It Land,
company's
entire
setup.
The
the
Arab
boycott
had
forced
the
bigtcst
congregation,
the
big-
calls for an estimate of overall
slipped out the same way after
stockholders were looking for a
gest Temple
financial aid which will be re- Jewish manufacturers to seek new manager to run the „whole
the service and that was all but
and
the
big-
markets
in
western
countries
for
a few of the members of the
quired from the United States.
show
and
their
eyes
lighted
on
!
gest
Rabbi
if
Upon the successful evolution their products.
biggest congregation could know
the the ex-nickelodeon manager
it could ever
The success they had had in
of the Marshall plan may de-
of Chicago.
make up its of him.
You might say that the Rabbi
pend Palestine's future as an finding outlets for their goods
Balaban took over the job of
mind who was
in
Norway,
Sweden.
Switzer-
was like the managing director
industrial country with a strong
putting Paramount back on its
the
biggest.
land and Holland. for example, feet in July 1936, together with
big corporation, and what
export trade.
(So far it was of a
• •
he said, had negated those lost Stanton and Griffis, a leading
managing director knows any
claiming
that
through the Arab boycott.
but the big stockholders? And,
INDUSTRY BOOMS
stockholder. By 1940 they made
its present
in fact, in the affairs of Anshe
He went on to point out that it, only to find all their foreign
has
ALESTINIAN
industry
P
3 - Rabbi was the
the real future for Palestinian business lost when the Nazis be-
Giborim an average member
.1 biggest, but it
made great strides in the last
export trade lay in finding in- gan to overrun Europe. But
had about as much to say as an
. Al Segal couldn't be too
decade. Jewish manufactures in- creased markets in the western
they were saved by the fact sure.) On the wall of the Tem- average stockholder in the enor-
creased many times over during countries.
Corp.
that people at home began go- ple's spacious foyer—it looked mous U. S. Doorknob
the war years, due in large part
• • •
Should the Marshall plan be ing to the movies during the almost as big as a hotel lobby—
to the filling of military con-
A REAL MIXUP
tracts. From 1939 to 1946 her ex- really effective in putting Euro- war as never before and the a bulletin board each week an-
A CONGREGATION so big
pean
countries
on
their
feet
Paramount
studio
was
now
turn-
nounced the number of mem- IN
port trade increased in value
as
Anshe Giborim how many
economically
the
nature
of
Pal-
ing
out
good
pictures
that
led
bers . . . 1500... 1599 . . . 1650
from 5,100,000 pounds to 14,781,-
members could the Rabbi know
000. Quoting from the magazine estinian products seems to indi- to two Oscars in a row—"Going and so on until the climactic
in person, though he was wil-
"Palesti I , and the Middle East" cate that they would be in heavy My Way" in 1944 and "Lost week when Anshe Giborim
demand in the continuing pro- Weekend" in -1945.
could announce it had attained ling enough to know everybody.
iblished in Tel Aviv:
• • •
2500 members . . . "And now When he walked in the street,
W"It is clear that during the cess of reconstruction.
European diets, for instance, TOO BUSY TO WED
3000 is Anshe Giborim's goal," he was always being embarras-
year 1946 the terms of trade
are
woefully
deficient
in
the
cit-
ALTHOUGH
TODAY
he
is
the bulletin said. "Let's go and sed by faces vaguely familiar...
were definitely in Palestine's fa-
"Yes, I've seen that face some-
vor. That is to say that Pales- rus fruits and citrus fruit prod- acknowledged the most success- get it."
where. lie may be a member."
• • •
tine's export prices were higher ucts which are Palestine's chief ful, Barney Balaban is said to
Lest this might be a dues-pay-
be the most modest of the big
above the pre-war level than e x p or t commodity.
LIKE BIG BUSINESS
er's face, he nodded.
were her import prices. The
Potash and other minerals movie tycoons.
So, as it turned out, Anshe
He has one passion outside, of IF YOU SAT hi the last pew
export trades thus contributed from the Dead Sea are much
in Anshe Giborim Temple the Giborim was just too big. In its
more to the national good in needed in soap making and in movies, and that is for Amer-
Rabbi in his pulpit looked al- Min- % nsity the members couldn't
1946 than any other trade since making fertilizer. a vital item ican historical documents.
Except for occasional swim- most as far off as Heaven. He get to know each other, even
every day's labor spent in the in the restoration of European
ming or horseback riding, Para- was so remote that a lot of the though as it was said, they were
export trades brought in more agriculture.
all God's children together in
than the equivalent in foreign
The growing Palestinian drug mount's prexy has no other hob- members of the congregation God's house. There was that em-
never
could
be
sure
what
he
bies.
He
was
so
busy
building
goods and services."
industry could well furnish Eu-
barrassing occasion when th.
•
rope with desperately needed up a movie empire that he looked like, except by his pic- Rabbi married the wrong peo-
couldn't
even
find
time
to
get
FIND NEW MARKETS
medical supplies and her textile
ture that from time to time ap- ple to each other.
CONOMIST Robert Nathan, and wearing apparel trades could married until 1929. Then at 42,
Among 25Q0 members he
peared in the Metropolis Trib-
of
he married Mrs. Tillie Urkov
" whose book, "Palestine:Prob- help to supplement bleak' Euro-
(Continued oa page L5)
Chicago.
km and Promise," has become .pean clothes rations.
By ALFRED SEGAL
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