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SEYMOUR TILCHIN, President
ROBERT KRAUSE, Business Manager
GEORGE WEISWASSER, Editor-in-Chief
Vol. 49,
No. 39
Friday, September- 26, 1947 (Tishri 12,
Succoth, a Jewish Festival
Rosh Hashonah and Yom Kippur are in
great measure holidays of a personal na-
ture. The High Holy Days afford each of
us an opportunity for subjective examina-
tion of our private lives and for dedication
to new ideals and obligations as an in-
dividual.
They are holidays that touch each of
us more as a member of the human race
or of the community rather than as Jews
exclusively. Even if we are not much of a
Jew the rest of the year, the Day of Judg-,
ment and the Day of Atonement play
vital and stirring roles in our inner lives.
The High Holy Days are soon over. We
have offered our contrite prayers, promised
reparation for our misdeeds and pledged
ourselves to be more considerate of the
rights of others, to share what we have
and to make our lives a blessing.
This is as it should be for all men—
Jew and non-Jew. Penitence prayer and
good deeds avert the evil decree in all
religions. Rosh Hashonah and Yom Kippur.
are, in a sense then, universal holidays,
bringing messages of comfort and hope to
all men.
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Judaism does not come fully into its
own until five days after Yom Kippur, one
; might say, when the glorious harvest fest-
ival of ,Succoth comes with its symbolism,
its color, its joyfulness and its nationalistic
overtones. Succoth is not only a religious
festival where we thank God for the abund-
ant harvest. It is more than that; it is
all Jewish. part and pal cel of our history,
garlanded with our tradition and roman-
ticized by our dreams for our Homeland.
All religions have Penitence, Prayer and
.Charity; but only Israel has the Succah,
the Lulav, the Esrog, the processionals of
'Succoth and Simchas Torah, those soul
stirring symbols of a religion of yesteryear
and of today.
Is it not a pity, then, that so many of
us do not give even one moment to Suc-
coth, the festival which thrills us as Jews,
for we have exhausted our religious fervor
in Holy Days which arouse us as human
beings?
If we would live this season as better
Jews, let us not feel that we have fulfilled
our obligations on Rosh Hashonah and
Yom Kippur. We can be more firmly
Jewish only in our observance of those
things which are wholly Jewish. The
:festivals, Succcoth, Passover and Shavuoth,
are the chief of these.
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brotherhood. We shall not deserve the re-
spect of all good Americans if we, too, walk
in the way of the bigot and the racist.
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Fiorello LaGuardia
We mourn the death of Fiorello La-
Guardia because, above all else, he loved
his fellow men.
He was one of those rare persons—a
politician who was also a statesman, a pub-
lic official who labored only for the public
good.
To LaGuardia, an Episcopalian whose
wife was half-Jewish, there were no differ-
ences of color, creed or race. Bigotry out-
raged him and he inveighed in no uncertain
language. against the purveyors of preju-
dice and hate. He was the first top Amen
can official to proclaim that Hitler was a
menace to civilization and refused to apol-
ogize when his remarks created an inter-
national incident.
LaGuardia was the best mayor New
York City ever had and no one denied it.
In his job as UNRRA chief, he gave all
his executive acumen to a thankless task.
The nations stood ready to liquidate the
mercy organization, but LaGuardia made
it contribute its utmost to man's welfare
even in its dying gasps.
The world will miss this dynamic, big-
hearted, little man.
The U. S. Equivocates
The United States is mealy-mouthed
again on the Palestine question. Instead
of coming out definitely in support of the
recommendations of the United Nations
committee for the establishment of a Jew-
islr State, Secretary Marshall -releases a
statement that is neither -one thing or
another.
The nations are waiting to see which
way the wind blows, and a forthright state
ment of policy by Marshall backing the
partition plan would almost in 'itself assure
tile plan's success.
There are rumblings in London. Latest
reports say that the British cabinet, stiff-
necked and self-absorbed ever, will op-
pose Jewish Statehood and advocate a
United Nations trusteeship because they
say the Jews and Arabs will be at one
another's throats if the land is partitioned.
NVe are tired of pointing out that once
Britain is ousted, there will be no provo-
cateurs of Arab-Jewish discord. The neu-,
tral UN committee sensed this when it
unanimously recommended British evacu-
ation of the country in its report.
If Marshall minced no words in sup-
porting the report of the UN investigators,
thel British might be deterred from oppos-
ing . it. At least, unconditional American
support would offset British and Moslem
hostility and assure the proposal the two-
thirds vote needed in the Assembly.
Why is not the United States fulfilling
its pledges and its obligations to justice?
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etters to the Editor
HADASSAH THANKS
Dear Editor:
I want you to know how much
we appreciate your cooperation
and interest in Hadassah.
The publicity has been splen-
did and it certainly is helping
to put our campaign "over the
top."
MRS. JENNIE JONES,
President.
NOWAK MESSAGE
Dear Editor:
I wish to take this oppor-
tunity to greet the Jewish peo-
ple and extend my hand in
friendship on this, your day of
prayer and fasting--the Day of
A tonement.
All the people of the world
should join you on this Yom
Kippur to expiate and atone for
the great crime visited upon
your people; that devastating
disease called "fascism" which
cruelly murdered well over six
million of your people.
The world looked on and but
feebly protested this slaughter,
saying—''It's too bad—but thank
God it's not me and mine." But
we learned much to our great
sorrow that the Jewish people
were the first line of defense
against this plague—once this'
defense was smashed the disease
spread rapidly and World War '
II reached into the far corners
of the world.
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I want to be specific and
sound a warning. All --decent
Americans must carry on a con-
stant fight against anti-Semitism.
This can be done on both an
ndividual and organized basis.
Reaction and anti-Semitism go
hand in hand. and we must
recognize that what hurts the
Jewish people is harmful to all
the people.
We must fight for free emi-
gration into our country of the
Jewish DP's. and at the same
time press our State Department
for a dissolution cf these post-
war concentration camps "hous-
ing" those who suffered the
greatest injury under Nazism.
The Palestine issue must be
settled finally in the UN; the
British mandate abrogated in
Palestine and the Jewish people
freed of British terror which
at this moment replaced the
Hitler terror.
On this date of Atonement, I
pledge that I will use my every
influence and energy to see that
some measure of justice is meted
out to the Jewish people.
Senator STANLEY NOWAK.
Home owners in the Twelfth street area
who are precipitously selling their prop-
erty are doing a great disservice to them-
selves and the community.
The coming of a few dozen Negro
'families is- no indication that the racial
character of the neighboorhood will change
!overnight. Jewish institutions such as
,synagogues, the Jewish Community Center
and the United_ Hebrew Schools feel that
it will be years before the section changes
appreciably and that, accordingly, there is
no need for hasty departure.
Letter About a Small Boy
Home owners who sell their property in
Concerning little boys we have a letter
fear of a big population shift are taking from a Ben Brith who is a grandfather and
losses by selling below market value be- who is troubled on account of his grandson '
. 'cause of their unwarranted panic. More- Paul who is 5 years old. He thinks that in
over, by their ill-considered sales, they are the Rosh Hashonah service there should be
hastening the change for others which they a special prayer for boys like Paul.
fear for themselves.
"I delight in Paul," he says. "My heart ;
When a flat or apartment is sold and is all with Paul. in the happy hours when
'Jewish tenants are forced out to fend for I visit at my son's house.
themselves, much bitterness is provoked
"My heart gets prophetic: Surely, Paul
and the seller is accused, of promoting a will turn out to be a good man, tall and
change in the character of the neighbor- strong and kind—an effective man because
hood in his gluttony for profits. As a of his bright mind. But suppose ... No, it
VEGETARIAN CLUB
result Jew accuses Jew, as was the case in can't happen that little boys like Paul will Dear Editor:
our Letter to the Editor column last week, have to die in another war when they've I wish to advise vegetarians
or those interested in learning
and there is ill-feeling in the community. , scarcely grown up."
vegetarianism that we
The residence of Negroes in a block
Yes. says this Ben Brith, a prayer for about
should by no means be the signal for swift the little children should be included in the have a vegetarian club in De-
Pc: further information
evacuation. If we are to live on good Rosh Hashonah service if for no other rea- ; p trcit.
le-sse phone — Y. 6-63S6.
terms with our neighbors, certainly we ; son than to keep people mindful.
ELLA LA VINE,
'should be the first to practice tolerance and
BNAI BRITH MONTHLY.
Secretar y.
The Visiting Editor
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BACKS 'TERRORISTS'
Dear Editor:
Terrorists, I claim should go
on fighting in Palestine! I urge
these fighters to ghettoize Brit-
ish behind barbed wire like
British ghettoized Jews in con-
centration camps, and wage a
war of nerves on London, not
unlike the war British wage in
the Jewish city of Tel Aviv!
Such sentiments, I recognize,
are condemned by countless—
Jews and Christians alike—but.
if those who condemn Jewish
terrorism will but turn to our
own history, they will find the
United States was born—indi-
rectly at least—of violence.
They will read about early
American Colonists who on
their way to church, "shot In-
dians"; of early Americans who
shot British at Saratoga and
Yorktown; of another generation
who shot British in 1812; of
Americans—Christian _Americans
—who, shot Indians .-between
1830 and 1885, to clear the
West; of Rough Riders who shot
Spaniards at San Juan and El
Caney.
These critics will shortly rea-
lize these terrorists in Palestine
do only what Americans did
and found necessary to do in
order to build our own coun-
try!
• • •
You may ask what Jewish ter-
rorism - has accomplished? Since
a Jewish patriot shot Lord
Moyne, and others blasted the
David Hotel, and still others
bombed the jail at Jerusalem,
hasn't the movement to oust
British from the Holy Land and
create a Jewish homeland moved
forward with miraculous speed
—in marked contrast to the
lumbering progress made before
these terrorists sprung into ac-
tion?
"Everybody likes a Santa
Claus", and as long as Jews.'
played such a role they were
welcomed. But once they asked
for something more than the
right to dispense charity and
demanded something like a
Jewish State, they were at first
laughed at and then slugged.
Evtm the Jewish Guiding Star
—the Balfour Declaration—was
specifically repudiated.
• • •
But now things are different!'
British and Arabs have discov-
ered some Jews are ready to
swing from the gallows for their
cause; and with this discoery
how quickly the cause for a
Jewish homeland gains political
momentum? I claim these ter-
rorists are at least indirectly
responsible
for this sudden
change of pace.
Recall what Benjamin Frank-
lin told his brother revolu-
tionists when he signed the Dec-
laration of Independence, "If we
don't succeed, we'll all hang to-
gether". Or was it John Han-
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