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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE

Friday, September 5, 1947

Strictly Confidential

Georgia 'Pars° n' Sheds Tears for Loomis

department for preventing Loomis from holding pub-
By PH1NEAS J. BISON
lic meetings. Under the circumstances it was but nat-
THE GEORGIA Tribune .of Colum-
ural for a number of Jewish businessmen to with-
bus, Ga., which has a circulation draw their advertisements from the Tribune. And
of 30,000, is carrying on an intensive
now "Parson" Johnston is raising the cry that the
anti-Semitic campaign. It is pub- Jews of Georgia are attempting to gag the freedom
lished and edited by Jack Johnston,
of the press.
who calls himself "Parson" Johnston
Yes, this is happening in our country—and can
even though he is no clergyman.
The Tribune has taken up the cud- 'happen only because there is no federal law outlaw-
gels for Homer Loomis, leader of the ing anti-Semitism . . .
• • •
fascist Columbians. Loomis has been
convicted, as you remember, but is SENATOR THEODORE G. BILBO did not expiate
out on bail, having appealed the ver-
his sins because he died. Nor does his death sancti-
P. J. Biron
dict. Although under bond, he has fy him. But if you read the AP dispatches about his
not discontinued his anti-democratic, anti-Semitic death and .the obituary recounting his career you may
well have gained the impression that one of America's
propaganda.
Johnston's Tribune is attacking the Atlanta police greatest democrats had passed away.

Yishuv Pioneers

Personal Problems

The memorial sermon preached by the Rev. Mr.
Nix had as its text: "I have fought the good fight;
I have finished my course; I have kept my faith."
Now the Rev. Mr. Nix certainly went too far. The
American public will remember Bilbo in the same
sense as the Norwegians remember Quisling. Bilbo
will stand in the annals of American history as a
stubborn bigot whose death cannot whitewash his
shameful record. It is frightful to know that a man
of God is endeavoring to keep Bilboism alive.

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VEN IF YOU are very much interested in read
ing "Fascism in Action," issued by the Library of
Congress, you're out of luck. This 200-page book,
which is said to give a clear picture of the growth of
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Plain Talk

Defense Groups Give
Us a Guilty Feeling

ourtesy, Foresight
Mark Good Neighbor

C

Spreading the Teachings of Judaism
Should Offer Us Our Best Defense

Growing Up Requires Us to Live
With Others and Respect Rights

By ALFRED SEGAL

By W. A. GOLDBERG, Ph. D.

A

NEIGHBOR IS an important asset to a family. A neighbor is

1-R an artist, tactful, with a fine touch.

A true neighbor always knows when he is needed and never
must be asked. He also knows when he is in the way and when
he should keep to himself.
Years ago, people lived in small towns, villages and small
cities. But all of them were stir-
. rounded by their friends and well to ask yourself those ques-
relatives, all lived in close prox- tions:
1. Do I spend too much
; imity.
Festivals time next door?
and family
2. Am I alert to situations
ce le b Oations in the block which call for
were the joint my help?
efforts of
3. What can I do more for
neighbors and my neighbors, just to make
family. T h e life in my block richer?
• • •
ladies shared
in the cooking ALL PROTECTED
and dishwash- FOR ONE, I DECRY the pass-
ing. The men ' ing of the block spirit de-
furnished the veloped during the war, when
wood ande the all sorts of wardens were ap-
Dr. Goldberg water. The pointed, when each person's
children just ate.
business became a matter of
The mishaps of sickness, death community interest — for the
and misfortune found ready protection of all.
hands to lighten the burdens, on
Friendly but not nosey, com-
a community basis.
forting but not irritating, sooth-
If a house was to be raised, a ing but not disrupting, discreet
shed or barn built, every neigh- yet not loose-tongued, interested
bor participated. Pay w a s yet not prying—those are some
neither expected nor required. It of the virtues of being a neigh-
was a voluntary act of just liv- bor.
ing together.

• • •

SHRINK AWAY NOW
MODERN LIVING has done
much to destroy the com-
munity spirit. People take pride
in knowing nothing about those
next door.
People die in their homes
next door) yet the neighbors
know it only when the hearse
calls or they read the obituaries.
Sickness is known only when
the doctor calls.
People have shrunk into
their own making. Families
are dispersed over a wide area,
in the same city. The form
of friendship has been sub-
stiuted for the essence.
Even today, it is not good
taste to spend ,all your time next
door, disregarding peoples' de-
sire for privacy.

e

• • •

OUR BAD HABITS
NEIGHBORLINESS IS not en-
couraged by a disregard for
others' property. Good feeling
is threatened when children are
shoved out of their homes, of
their own lawns, to play ball on
the neighbor's lawn.
The same holds when a car
is parked in a joint driveway or
across it. The borrowing of
tools, food and forgetting to re-
turn them breaks down good
feeling.
Growing up, in all ages, re-
quires that we live with other
people, that we respect their
rights- as our own. It may be

CAPITAL CURRENTS

I AM SICK and tired of being defended as a Jew, as if I were;
somebody who needed to be defended against guttersnipes. My
pride revolts at all the so-called Jewish defense organizations that
surround me to keep pipsqueaks like Gerald Smith off of me.
If I weren't sure of my essential merit as a Jew I might get to
feel like the inferior lamb that for his protection was kept in a pen
The United Palestine Appeal because small dogs liked to bark
gave these pioneers a chance and snap at him. I myself don't feel tolerant even of snapping ,
for a new life in the Jewish mind dogs barking at me.
dogs.
• • •
This la mb
Homeland.
became a psy-
NOT ARROGANT
chopathic case.
THIS
IS NOT at all to suggest
Ile came final-
1 that Michael was obnoxiously
ly to the de-
obsessed by a sense of his own
pressing idea
141 special goodness. He simply
that lambs are
thought that for the good of
The Jewish Folk Schools of lesser animals
the animal kingdom the virtues
in
the
world,
the Labor Zionist Organization
of kindness, gentleness and hu-
despite
their
of America began their classes
mility should be handed uni-
fine
virtues
of
Sept. 3 in their new building
versally around, since he him-
being gentle
at 13722 Linwood avenue. Chil-
self enjoyed them so much.
Al Segal
and
humble
dren between 31/2 and 5 142 years without any of the rapacity that,
Michael's owner, a Mr. Zilch,
of age are admitted to the kin- in other animals, devours other thought he should do some-
dergarten and pupils between
thing to protect him froth the
creatures of the earth.
6 and 12 attend the regular
dogs that snapped at hint. Mr.
afternoon classes.
The lamb's name was Michael. Zilch meant well enough. He
Courses of study include He- At first, when barked at by the thought Michael would be hap-
brew and Hebrew literature, dogs, Michael held his head high, pier if he were defended from
Yiddish and Yiddish literature, saying well, after all, these are the dogs. You might say that
the Bible, ancient and modern only dogs. Not that he was Mr. Zilch organized himself as
Jewish history and ,Jewish cus- feeling snootily superior to dogs. a de f ens e committee for
toms and traditidns. Traditional He knew the nature of dogs and Michael.
Around Michael he built a'
Jewish music and songs are an that it takes all kinds of animals
integral part of the curriculum. to make a world and he could wooden fence tb keep the clega
off. There Michael lay, frus-
trated and disconsolate, all day
while the dogs barked at him,
anyway, through the fencing all
day. Mr. Zilch's conscience felt
content.

Classes Reopen
at Folk Schools

Truman Shuns Exodus Appeal

By WILL SHERMAN
A FULL WEEK of official talks
` L here with representatives of
his Majesty's government passed
without a single mention of the
explosive Palestine situation.
And at the White House, addi-
tional pleas for some expression
of his thinking on the whole
matter have gone unanswered
by President Truman.
-Heading the United States
committee which discussed the
loan was Secretary of the Treas-
ury John Snyder—no friend of
London. Indications are that his
visage has appeared loss and
less kindly to the, British, who
have never before talked money
with an Arkansas banker. .
Snyder doe§ not believe in
labor governments—even labor
governments such as the Attlee
government—and the British vis-
itors know it. Snyder is not
trying to make them think other-
wise.

• • •

SIFT MOVIE TAX
TIE HAS LET it be known that
he will be much easier to
deal with if changes in the
British economy are made—and
intimates know he would also
welcome political changes.
Bluntly he told. Sir Wilfred

Eadey'head of the British dele-
gation, he thought it would be
well for Sir Wilfred to contact
the Motion Picture Association
to discuss with them the new
British tax on imported movies .
Result was that' the head of
the British delegation had to
take the initiative in calling
upon the head of an American
trade association for discussions
on a subject on which the Brit-
isher was not authorized to con-
clude any agreement.
But not a word about Pales-
tine.

as a great administration move
for humanitarian treatment of
displaced persons.
Ugo Carusi, commissioner of
immigration within the Depart-
ment of Justice, was shifted to
a new post as special assistant
to Assistant Secretary of State
Saltzman, who earlier in the
summer succeeded Gen. Hill-
dring in charge of State Depart-
ment policy for occupied areas.
Carusi is supposed to devote
his attention to the displaced
persons problem. (Actually. he
will probably be appointed soon
to the IRO).

REMAINS SILENT
NOR DID President Truman
utter a word about Pales-
tine through the entire affairs of
the Exodus '47, or the violence
of the last month. Nor did he
say a thing about Palestine
when he announced the adminis-
trative changes designed, he said,
to grease the ways for entry of
displaced persons into this coun-
try.
For some time now there has
been pressure at the White
House to find a post for Oscar
Ewing, one-time treasurer of the
Democratic National Committee.
This was the moving factor
which led finally to the double
shift of agency heads announced

CABINET POST?
SUCCEEDING CARUSI as im-
migration commissioner is
elderly Watson Miller, a pedes-
trian politician generally consid-
ered liberal—but also a close
friend of the American Legion,
whose attitude on immigration is
well known.
Miller moves over from his
post as federal security admin-
istrator to make way for Ewing.
This shift was decided upon in
order that Ewing may eventually
see his post achieve cabinet rank.
Creation of a Department of
Health and Welfare is probable
next year.

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(A'

World Newt .Services Feature)

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DOGS BARK LOUDER
N OW, HE THOUGHT, Michael
is protected. I am guarding
him from all harm. But in his
pen Michael sickened. Yes, he
said, since I am being defended
there must certainly be some-
thing the matter with me.
He felt reduced as one, who
for some reason he couldn't un-
derstand, needed to be defended
—a defendant accused by dogs.
"What's wrong with me that
I have to be defended?" he
asked himself again and again.
Hin proud bleat became a quer-
11i0 US whimper.
He was a sick and dispirited
animal.
The dogs barked even the
louder through the fence. They
felt they finally had Michael
where they wanted him. . . .
"We must be pretty good," they
said, "the way we've got him
cornered in self-defense."
Mr. Zilch exulted: He was
helping his lamb happily to sur-
vive. he thought.
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IDEALS ARE A DEFENSE
OUR PROUD ETHICAL inheri-
tance, our noble history, otir
prophets, saints and sages, thz•
good part we ourselves have
played in our - time. none of that
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