Strictly Confidential
New 'Party' Linked
to Hate Merchants
Outfit in Minnesota. Is Associated
With Lizzie Dining and Other Bigots
By PHINEAS J. BIRON
l'HE "DEMOCRATIC Nationalist Party" of Minneapolis has
nothing whatsoever in common with the Democratic Party in
that city. It is an anti-Semitic, anti-democratic outfit that cooper-
ates with such notorious anti-Semitic propagandists as Mrs. Eliza-
beth Dilling and Eugene Flitcroft.
One of its gauleiters, Maynard Nelsen, was recently arrested,
and confessed to warmongering
Maupassant as a story-teller.
and hate-spreading. . . .
Now the American public will
The Vermont House of Repre—, have an opportunity to become
sentatives r e- acquainted with a modern Yid-
r
cently killed a dish classic, one of the treasures
bill outlawing of Jewish culture.
d i scriminatory
Next month will see the pub-
advertising by •
lication of "American Jews in
hotels — a bill
World War II", of which Arthur
the state sen-
Weyne told you a fow weeks ago.
ate had passed.
I. Kaufman, who wrote up most
In New York of the material, is a newspaper-
State a num- man who covered all the fighting
ber of Gentile fronts as war correspondent for
hotels have the Brooklyn Eagle. It's an ex-
P. J. Biros
adopted a new slogan in their citing book which should attract
advertisements. . . . It reads: a large reading public, and can
do much to silence the merchants
'The American Way—No Disi-
of bigotry.
elimination" . • .
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LITERARY NOTICES
Page Three
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE
Friday, Aegest 1, 947
POLITICAL FOOTBALL
LEGISLATION to admit 400,000
"HE JEWISH PEOPLE'S FRA-
DP's to this country was not
TERNAL ORDER is to be acted upon at this session of Con-
commended for Bre publication grass. In other, words, the Tru-
of a volume containing a ju- man message and Gen. Marshall's
diciously chosen collection of the declaration on this matter do not
best short stories by Isaac Loeb mean a thing.
Peretz, in English translation.
Congressional leaders under the
Peretz is one of the immortals
guidance of Senator Arthur Van-
of Yiddish literature. He has
(Continued on page 5)
been compared with Guy de
Capital Letter
D P Bill Falls Prey
to Political Game
First U. S. Woman
in UN Post
By LILLIAN NELSON
JOSEPHINE SCHAIN, who was
the first woman appointed to
represent the United States at a
United Nations conference is one
of the leading women interna-
tionalists in the world.
From the day she became a
Member of the International Al-
liance of Women for Suffrage
and Equal citizenship before the
World War 1, Miss Schain has
been in the forefront of every
campaign waged by women to
improve the conditions of their
own , lives as well as for the
welfare of all mankind.
Equal citizenship for women,
peace and disarmament are a few
of the causes to which she has
devoted her unbounding energies
during the past three decades and
more.
•
TURNS TO SOCIAL WORK
MISS SCHAIN STUDIED law
at the University of Minnesota.
but she never took up law prac-
tice, becoming instead a social
worker.
Miss Schain was called in 1924
to assume the directorship of tlyr
department of international af-
fairs of the League of Women's
Voters. In this capacity she at-
tended the Institute of Interna-
tional Relations at Geneva in
1926, where she acquired an
M.A. in international law.
With Carrie Chapman Catt she
helped to organize the Commit-
tee on the Cause and Cure of
War, and she was a delegate to
many international meetings on
disarmament and for the preser-
vation of peace as well as con-
ferences on the specific interests
of women.
Immigration Measure Not Expedient
With 1918 Near, Legislators Explain
By CHARLOTTE WEBER
WASHINGTON—When Senate President Arthur H. Vanden-
" berg told newsmen at the White House, after a call of the
Congressional "big six", that immigration legislation to admit dis-
placed persons to the United States was not on the books for the
past session of Congress, he was merely corroborating what most
observors close to the Washington scene had acknowledged for
some time.
to schedule any committee or
As far back as last fall, be- floor action.
• • •
fore the full membership pf the
house and Senate had arrived FERGUSON CITED
back on the Washington scene, IN APRIL, SHORTLY AFTER
Republicans were extremely
the House bill was intro-
skittish about the immigration
G. Stratton of Illinois, it was
question. There was, they ven- umoreu' that Senator Homer
r
tured, a lot of popular opposition duced
by Congressman
William
Ferguson
of Michigan would
in-
to immigration throughout the troduce the Senate companion
bill. On checking the rumor
country. Our veterans need with Ferguson's office it was
housing and jobs first, they diffi-
pointed out that the Senator
dently suggested. did not want to introduce a
• • •
bill into a manifestly hostile
Senate, that he was trying to
NO POPULAR APPEAL
THE POINT was that the im- gauge the sentiment of the Sen-
ators and would only introduce
migration legislation was the bill if he thought there was
just not politically expedient. It sufficient chance of its passage.
did not have the wide popular Also too late for action was
a resolution
by the
Sen-
appeal among the average voters ate
judiciary adopted
committee
author-
of an income tax reduction bill izing the committee to make a
or among the veterans of the full-dress investigation into the
bill permitting them to cash immigration laws and practices
their terminal leave bonds. And of the United States.
The resolution would instruct
with 1948 creeping ever closer
the committee to investigate
the Republicans are putting such aspects of immigration as
more
and more eggs expediency.
in that the the
extent
of illegal
entries and
one basket—political
possihle
effect immigration
The Citizens Committee on
Displaced Persons has done a of displaced persons would have
remarkable job, in view of the upon the U.S.
Stories of
of illegal
the tremendous
stiff opposition that existed, in numbers
entries has
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Personal Problems
Child Faults Blamed
on Insecurity Feeling
Must Get Customary Satisfactions
or Youngsters May Turn to Self Play,
By W. A. GOLDBERG, Ph. D.
MRS. 0. F. WRITES: "Since the death of her father I have
been raising a young child. Her mother is working out of
the city and does not see the child except on weekend. . . .
I am very much worried because the child plays with herself
whenever she is put to bed . . . What shall I do?"
The very first Untie you should outside world. The baby needs
do is to have your family doctor to learn, by experiment, what
give the child a complete phys- surrounds him, what enters into
making him a human being,
ical examina-
personal exploration is the first
tion or to have
step. •
your pediatric-
• • •
ian make it.
This will re-
FUN IN ACTIVITY
veal some
physical cause
NEXT, THE CHILD gets pri-
or rule it out.
mary satisfactions from him-
If the phys-
self and his activities. These are
ician rejects
limited, at first, to 4ting, elim-
a n y physical
ination, sleeping. -
basis, then you
There is pleasure for the chit 1
have a prob- Dr. Goldberg
1cm with an emotional cause. in placing things in his mouth,
The child is getting satisfaction run and satisfaction from food,
from sucking.
from her conduct.
There is fun, also, in the form
• • •
of satisfaction that comes from
playing with his body. This is
BASIS OF INTEREST
the beginning of sex interest by
THE. PRIMARY INTERESTS
the child.
of very young children is
Contrary to Victorian ideas,
with themselves and those things
nearest to them. A baby places sex interests begin very early in
their expression
a finger, a hand, a foot in his life, although
be
blocked
by "training."
may
mouth. He is exploring the
The only children who do not
world about him, that world be-
show these interests are those
ing himself.
have been suppressed at
This exploration is the first who
on page 15)
(Continued
step toward the influence of the
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OUTDOOR WOMAN
DESPITE HER CLOSE identity
with conventions and Interna-
tional conferences, Miss Schain
is by no means a stuffy indi-
vidual and has in fact also been
active in outdoor life. An ardent
camper, she is known to have
pitched her tent anywhere from
the Arabian Desert to the Rocky
Mountains.
In 1930 she was elected di-
rector of the Girl Scouts of
America and for the next five
years she directed the activities
of 333,840 outdoor girls. During
this time she continued to par-
ticipate in many international
conferences and in 1936 she cam-
paigned for the • reelection of
President Roosevelt.
Miss Schain has lectured before
many groups and has served as
international relations consultant
with the National Council of
Jewish Women, the General Fed-
eration of Women's Clubs and
the J.W.C.A. In 1940 she was
chairman of the executive Com-
mittee of the Women's Centen-
nial Congress.
• a
getting
their bills
introduced
long
been a bogey
used
anti-
and hearings
underway,
at least
immigration
forces
in by
spite
of
in the House. In the Senate testimony
the
contrary
given
to
their bill was not introduced un-
by U.S. Commissioner of Im-
til about a month
before too
the late
end migration Ugo Carusi.
of the session, much
Plain Talk
Home Is Substitute
for Parochial School
Segal Answers Critics by Urging
Increased Observance in the Family
By ALFRED SEGAL
OF THE CITIZENS appear to be troubled on account
A of LOT
the Jewish life of my young granddaughter Ellen. A few
weeks ago I took it upon myself to say, in this column, that for
my part Ellen would never be enrolled in the Jewish parochial
school that is being established in our town. (Though, of course,
it is nothing but presumption or, excuse the expression, chuzpa,
for a grandfather even to pre- world so full of mistakes much
tend to have anything to slit'
more serious.
about the lives of his grand-
He himself grew up in the
children.)
public schools of his town, with-
Since then
out any deterioration of his
letters from
Jewish qu. ality. Rather he feels
all around the
that out of the public schools he
country have
derived what he regards as a
been as much
quality essentially Jewish: The
a s suggesting
sense of being a member of a
that Ellen is
larger community, beyond the
unfortunate in
walls of the synagogue and be-
her grandfath-
yond the walls which have been
er who harbors
built up around what people
•
DELEG
ATE
UN
hostile o p i n- • call Jewish nationhood.
Al Segal
IT WAS IN 1943, at the con- ions in the
ference on food and agriculture matter of a Jewish parochial • • •
at Hot Springs, Va., that Jose- school. What can Ellen ever NO SEPARATENESS
phine Schain sat as the first amount to Jewishly with such DURING THE EARLY PERIOD
of his education it never oc-
American woman to be appointed a grandfather to guide her?
• • •
curred to him that he was
delegate to a UN conference.
separate or different from any
At the San Francisco UN Con- THEIR ACCUSATIONS
ference, she was a consultant to THEY tell me I sound like of the schoolboys who were not
the American delegation, repre- s an assimilationist, that I am a Jewish. Nor did it ever occur to
senting the National Federation fellow who confuses American them to differentiate him be-
of Business and Professional unity with uniformity, that I cause he was Jewish and was
away from school on the Jew-
Women's Clubs.
seem to have no concern with
In 1944 she started an ''Invi- the future of Jewish life in ish holidays.
These happy facts were im-
tation to Information" depart- America, that Ellen will be both
ment on international affaris in a better Jew and a better Amer- plicit in the democracy of the
the Federation's publication "In- ican if she attends the paro- public schools. He was assimi-
dependent Women".
chial school, and in Jewish lated by American life. In that
sense he is not afraid of the
Described as tall and hand- schools) children aren't sequest-
word "assimilationist."
ered
from
American
life
but
some, with dark brows and white
Those of his classmates who
hair Miss Schain is a good- parochial schools (called day survive and still live in our
humored woman but can speak are allowed to mingle freely in
town- remain his good friends.
bluntly when necessary. Her inter-school activities with chil- If he had been immured in the
spare time hobby is poetry but dren of the public schools.
If other people want to send ghetto of a parochial scnool, he
she has little time left from her
their
children to parochial and they would have been dis-
daily activities. By 1943 she had
schools
that's their mistake and tant people unto each other,
made nine trips to Europe, two to
who's
Ellen's-
grandfather to strangers who could have noth-
the Near East and Russia and
(Continued on page 9)
try to correct one mistake in a
one to South America.
"