Friday, August 29, 1947

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE

Page Three

Strictly Confidential

N.Y. New's O'Donnell Defends U. S. Fascists

By PHINEAS J. BIRON

J

OHN O'DONNELL, of Patton inci-
cident fame, rides again .. . He's
brandishing the terch of prejudice
with zest and gusto.
You'll remember that a few col-
umns ago we called--your attention
ton an O'Donnell column about a
forthcoming Roosevelt film. On that
occasion the New York Daily News
columnist wrote about a dark con-
spiracy initiated and executed by
P. J. Biron Jewish big shots of Washington. This
Time, as of August 15, O'Donnell
"takes apart" the case of William Dudley Pelley, the
notorious anti-Semite. But to good old John of the
Daily News Pelley is "probably the best-known of
publishers sent to jail in World War II," and all that

is wrong with Pelley' is that he is "a ranting oppo-
nent of Moscow, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Jews".

Well, well, isn't that smartly put. So many peo-
ple hate Moscow and Roosevelt and Jews—so why
was good old Pelley, that distinguished publisher, put
in jail for hating what most of "us" hate? That is
the tone of O'Donnell's apologia for one of America's
most notorious hate peddlers.

Don't think that O'Donnell's defense of Pelley
was just one of those aberrations that the best of us
may be subject to once in a lifetime. The day before
he wrote the Pelley piece O'Donnell wept a full col-
umn's worth of tears, bitter tears for the defendants
in the mass sedition trial of 1942. He described them
as "small people" who "had one thing in common:
They didn't like Roosevelt's foreign policy. Most of
them distrusted Pal Joey in Moscow."

Personal Problems

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U AHC Drive Aide

Iriends Are Chosen
by Selective Process

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200 Students to Attend
IZFA Summer Camps

CLEVELAND—Over 200 col-
lege students representing the
100 chapters of the Intercollegi-
ate Zionist Federation of Ameri-
ca will participate in the an-
nual summer school camps at
Tel Noar Lodge, Hampstead,
N.H., and Camp Livingston,
Loveland. 0.
Lectures and seminars on United Service for New Amer-
Zionism and Jewish life will leans, in the past year, cared
highlight the 10 day school- for 20,000 newcomers like the
camp program starting Tuesday. mother and child above.

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SENATOR ROBERT TAFT, candidate for tenancy in
the White House at Washington, is very unhappy
about the indorsement he got from Gerald L. K. Smith,
the notorious anti-Seminte . . • Writes the senator:
"I'm told that I hate been called 'a very fine mutt
and a courageous statesman' by that person. I do
not reciprocate these sentiments and do not welcome
approval from that source".
Senator Taft's statement deserves wide publicity,
to which we are glad to Contribute our bit. . . .
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Plain Talk

Dr. Philipson Hailed
on His 85th Birthday

People Become Interested in You
If You Are Sympathetic, Cordial

By W. A. GOLDBERG, Ph. D.
44THEPE IS NO SUCH thing as a true friend. I have looked
high and low. The people I have met take advantage of
friendship, using it for their own purposes. When they are
through with you, they throw you away. They give you nothing
. . . Perhaps the only person in whom confidence can be placed,
as you said in one of your columns, is either a husband or wife
wife . . ." George B.
I wonder what makes you so not need to use any outsider for
cynical? How badly have you his own purposes. A friend can
been hurt (or do you think you take on your burdens, your con-
have been) by fessions, without making fun of
you.
people you
trusted?
We have all seen supposed
I would also
friends. To our faces they are
guess that you
charming, cordial, warm. Be-
are not mar-
hind our backs they rip us to
ried. I would
pieces. They regale each other
guess that you
with gossip about us.
do not lend
In a bridge game, they remain
yourself easily
behind, leaving last so they can
to other peo-
take us apart. They magnify
'pie. At the
rumors into "actualities," beyond
same time, I Dr. Goldberg
the wildest imagination. Such
would correct your misinterpre- people are not friends. They are
tation of my column. I never the kind of acquaintances we
said that you can trust only a drop like hotcakes when we find
wife or husband. All I said was them out.
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that every person requires some-
one in whom he can confide.
CULTIVATING FRIENDS
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FRIENDS, LIKE POTATOES,
FEW IN NUMBER
cultivated. The soil must
IF YOU HOPE TO have hun- be are
right. The seed must be
dreds or dozens of friends, you capable of germinating. The cli-
will be mistaken. You may have mate and rainfall sufficient. The
a large number of acquaintances personalities must not clash,
but your friends will be very rather they must suit one an-
few indeed, that is, honest-to- other. Friends are found by a
goodness friends. I don't believe selective process.
that anyone can use more than
Friends are the kind of people
a handful of friends at one time) you can listen to, with enjoy-
On the way to the office last ment.
week, I saw this text in a
Friends are the kind of people
church signboard: Life consists in whose presence you feel at
of what you give to others, not ease.
what you get from them. I have
Friends are the kind of people
seen pitiful attempts to make who are sincere in their praise,
friends. These were thwarted honest in their criticism . . . ju-
because the seeker after friend- dicious in the use of both praise
ship was not aware of the true and criticism.
meaning of the word.
Friends do not spend their
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time boasting of their accom-
DEFINITION OF FRIEND
(Continued on page 7)
A friend is a person who holds
New Americans
you in regard. He appreciates
you as you are, not as he would
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like you to be., A friend can
criticize you severely. You will
listen to his words and profit
om them. A friend is so well
.- ganized inwardly that he does

These two columns of O'Donnell's are an indica-
tion that the Jewish issue will flare up in the forth
coming presidential election campaign—unless polit-
ical writers of the O'Donnell type are called to order
now, before the campaign hysteria sets in .. .

Obituary That Was Neve Printed
Acclaims Dean of Ref m Rabbis

Saul S. Elgart of Boston has
been named finance director of
the combined campaign of the
Union of American Hebrew
Congregations and the Hebrew
Union College. Elgart will seek
to raise $1,000 for the Institu-
tions of Reform Judaism.

Yishuv Sends
Farm Experts
to Study Here

By CHARLOTTE WEBER

WASHINGTON — The capital
has hit the summer dol-
drums, at least as far as Pales-
tine and related matters are con-
cerned. Nothing has changed the
State Department's policy of
keeping strictly mum on matters
concerning the Holy Land until
the UN investigating committee
makes its report.
On domestic :ssues the capital
is really settlit,g down, now that
the storm and fury of the Hughes-
Brewster investigation-feud has
been set aside by the Senate war
investigating committee until No-
vember. Con) erences on the Ruhr
coal problem. on amending the
terms of the British loan, and on
raising the level of industry in
Germany now going on, or ex-
pected to begin shortly, bring in-
ternational issues closer home.

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PALESTINIANS HERE
THE DEPARTMENT of Agri-
culture, however, for one, goes
right on worrying about the heat
wave and the corn crisis in spite
of major international crises and
the absence of Congress. And
Palestinian agricultural and tech-
nical progress moving right along.
A number of Jewish soil ex-
perts and agricultural engineers,
studying everything from rose
culture to the processing of pea-
nuts, are now in this country and
are being aided by the Depart-
ment of Agriculture in learning
techniques to be usefully applied
in the Holy Land.
The principal of the agricul-
tural training farm for girls at
Petach Tikvah has recently spent
several upstate in New York and
in New Jersey visiting experi-
mental stations which specialize
in the growing of shrubs, orna-
mental trees, flowers and house-
plants. The department is plan-
ning a trip for her to other such
stations throughout the country
(Continued on page 16)

By ALFRED SEGAL
SOME 10 YEARS ago, I wrote the great Rabbi's obituary. He
was gravely ill then, and you may know what is done on the
daily press when a distinguished citizen gets that sick.
* The press must be ready for any eventuality) and the city
editor tells you to write an obituary to keep ready in the files.
So it's written but sometime, in the course of successful medical
events and the grace of God, it
doesn't have to be used for a living an intellectual as well as
physical life.
long time.
His gift-obituary read in part:
That's the
"After the bright beginning
way it was with
years of his ministry he had seen
the obituary of
two great wars. He had seen the
Dr. David Phil- •
Jewish people fallen into the
ipson, the dean
ruthless hands of the Nazis even
of the Ameri-
after the many years during
can Reform
which persecution had seemed
rabbinate who
relegated as an , antique from bar-
stands on a
barous time.
high eminence
"In his bright hope of brother-
not just of
hood he had caused his faith to
years but main-
Al Segal
be carved in stone over the door-
ly of a life
lived greatly. It lay in the files way of his Temple- on Rockdale
until the other day when a hap- avenue. There it reads: 'My
py occasion made it timely and House Shall Be a House of Pray-
caused me to dig it out—to print er for All the Peopie.' This is
it, in part, in the daily paper from Isaiah.
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on his 85th birthday.
Thus Dr. Philipson became one ti THE WAY OF the world had
changed horribly, but Dr.
of the few mortals to be allowed
to read his own obituary and Philipson isn't giving up hia
to know how he was thought of faith in ultimate brotherhood.
among his contempordries.
He says that history tells hint
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that the power of evil is not en-
RABBI SINCE 1888
during and it perishes of its own
IT MUST HAVE been pleasing corruption. This is what the Old
to Dr. Philipson to read his Testament tells him.
"In the prayers of his Temple
obituary even though, by reason
of the many honors he had gath- there is one for universal broth-
ered, he well knew the esteem in erhood and justice. It was writ-
which he was held in all the ten long ago and Dr. Philipson
still is standing by that.
years.
" 'If America stands fast by
He had become an epic figure
in our town where he had .been democracy, America remains the
Rabbi since 1888. Yes, I thought, hope of the world,' he said a
this obituary which hadn't been while ago. When he retired
used shall be a gift to him on from the active ministry he
wrote his biography. (My Life
his 85th birthday.
I needed only to change the As American Jew). There he
tense from past to present to recalls the frequent times when
make it timely unto this moment he preached in Christian pulpits.
when at 85 Dr. Philipson still is He thinks of these occasions as
good omens toward the brother-
hood of man.
Mission to DP's
"His 70th birthday was a civic
occasion. Catholics and Protes-
tants gave him their tributes; the
city was represented by the
mayor. The speakers said Dr.
(Continued on page 16)

Union to Boycott Ships
Aiding Fight on Jews

The young lady above is one
of 100 Jewish teachers from
Palestine sent to DP camps in
Germany to teach the young.

NEW YORK—The National
Maritime Union recommended to
its 90,000 members that they do
not sail ships . carrying war ma-
terials to be used against the
Jewish people in Palestine, it
was announced by the American
Jewish Labor Council.
The announcement was made
while 1,000 AFL and CIO mem-
bers were picketing the British
; consulate in New York City in
protest against British brutali-
ties in Palestine.

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