DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE

Friday, December 26, 1947

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Strictly Confidential

Why Is Un-American Body Silent on .Bigots?

By PH1NEAS J. BIRON
WHY DOES THE un-American
" Activities Committee remain
silent about Gerald L. K. Smith,
powerful, richly financed pro-Fasc-
ist, anti-Semitic leader? . . . And
what about Joe Kamp and his
anti-Semitic "Constitutional Edu-
cation. League"?
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LOUISE WATERMAN WISE,
Rabbi Stephen's wife, who passed
on two weeks ago after a short
illness, was, in our opinion, the
P. J. Bk....
first lady of American Jewry .. . Hers was a saintly
naivete that refused to believe evil of men unless
it was backed by incontrovertible evidence.

It is an open secret that it was due to Louise merely a sweeping love fur her people, but a great,
Wise that the American Jewish Congress has shown universal human love. No narrow nationalism—a
a special interest in and concern about the Negro wise, generous, overflowing love for all peoples.
The booklet Costs only 75 cents. Its more than
problem. She was passionately and tirelessly con-
a bargain—it's a must.
rerned with it
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Her only relaxation was painting, and when this
THE
PROMOTERS
of Brotherhood Week are
delicate little being stood at her easel she sometimes,
sending out reams of copy these days in preparation
at rare moments, would forget the world's worries
for their big annual goodwill palaver.
and laugh out like a little girl. This true democrat
"Group
One of their typical slogans reads:
was an aristocrat of the spirit.
a disease of the mind, a disease of the
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prejudice
heart, a disease of the soul. Group prejudice disease
"EMMA LAZARUS—Selections from her Poetry
can be cured forever by our own sense of justice,
and ProSe," should be widely distributed. The selec-
our own sense of decency, our own sense of right".
tion was edited by Morris U. Schappes, who also
The word "anti-Semitism" is taboo in Brother-
contributed a thoughtful introduction.
hood Week literature. There ain't no such thing as
The Lazarus poems can be read and reread with
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genuine delight. In all her writings there is not

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Plain Talk

BigotsMakelt A Non-Zionist Looks •
Teach Table Manners Hard for Jews
at. Fact of. Statehood
nifiht from the Start
to Rent Homes Views Eretz as a Place of Refuge,

Personal Problems

Begin the First bay Child Takes
Solid Food to Get the Pattern Set

Sees Spiritual Resurgence in U. S.

An old and vicious practice has
become flagrant because of the
housing shortage, according to
complaints reaching the Jewish
By ALFRED SEGAL
Chronicle.
By W. A. GOLDBERG, Ph.D.
In addition to the usual 710NIST FRIENDS have been asking me, by way of challengo:
WE HAVE ALL seen very young children who know their handicaps faced by those seek-
"What do you, a non-Zionist, think of Palestine now?"
ing a place to live—demands for
" eating nuttiness at home or in public.
Well, this non-Zionist (not anti-Zionist, mind you) has been
We have all seen older children who still use their fingers to bonuses, purchase of unwanted feeling glad about it because it seems possible now that many
transfer food from the plate to the mouth, who take larger por- furniture or request for a new homeless Jews will find a good home in Palestine. He prays that
tions of food than their mouths can hold. This raises the question: car—anti-Sendtism is presenting the Arabs subside and allow
— a further barrier to Jews seeking
grant, the state, the nation and
—
How are table manners taught - he may
be brought to the fam- homes, the complaints indicates
the homeland of my children
this fulfillment.
and when does a parent begin ily table. Of course, his chair
He gets no nationalistic ec- forever. This non-Zionist will
In
a
letter
to
tne
Chronicle,
to teach table manners?
must be of the correct height.
look at Palestine hopefully as
Table manners should be a bib used if needed and the Mrs. Irving Rollinger, 3219 stacies from the fact that there
a social experiment of some of
taught from the first day a child encouraged to do his best. Glynn Court, reveals that she
is to be a his kinsmen in Judaism; just
and
her
husband
have
been
re-
child takes sol-
Jewish State. as he has looked at Palestine
• • •
id food. Like
fused apartments simply because
He regards a through the many years, since
UBLIC
TABLE
manners
are
they
are
Jews.
In
other
cases
any other kind
Jewish State 1917, when Jews were building
more
than
being
able
to
han-
they have been asked to pay as
of social condi-
as a conven- a good life there.
tioning, the dle eating tools ,•oi rectly. Eat- high as $500 to $1,000 "with no
ient apparatus
In accordance with his means
manner of eat- ing out or eating en famine also guarantee (of obtaining) the flat
to make possi- he will try to help the Jews
ing — for chil- calls for smoothness in getting or apartment."
nle the immi- settled in Palestine toward mak-
One woman who discovered
dren and for along with others. The noisy
gration into ing a good way of living in
adults — is a child, the ill-mannered child, the they were Jewish said she
Palestine of a their new country. Yet he will
sloppy
child
does
not
contri-
wouldn't rent them the flat be-
matter p e c u-
large number never in the least think Of him-
;jar to an area bute to the enjoyment of a fam- cause they "wouldn't be happy in
of displaced self as a Palestinian, a yearn-
ily :meal, for either the child or a predominantly Gentile commu-
or country.
Jews
ing citizen in absentia of the
Dr. Goldberg
nty," Mrs. Rollinger said.
Being m o n- the adults.
A Jewish State, he says, is not new land.
The
Rollinger's
phone
number
keys, children learn most by
Until the child has been
He is an American only and
my state. It is only the State
imitation. Only confusion re- taught to behave in the com- is TO. 6-5392.
if that seems a trite thing to
The
Jewish
Community
Coun-
of Jews who live in Palestine. say—indeed, some cheap people
• sults if a child is taught to eat pany of others, at home or in a
in one way, while at the same restaurant, his family should not cil is ready to act incases of un- The U. S. is my state, my na- have made it sound even tawdry
time he observes the adults do- embarrass themselves or others disputed evidence of discrimina- tion and my homeland and, God --he, nevertheless, thankfully re-
tion. Call Cherry 1657.
ing differently.
by taking him with them.
peats that he is an American.
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CALMNESS IS the best at-
HE HOPES THAT no Amer'.
‘-a mosphere for the instruc-
ican Zionist — especially no
tion of either adults or chil-
Zionist leader—will. either by
dren. Repetition fastens a usual
word or deed, cause the impres-
action into a habit.
what those keenly sensitive and dian. That was the case before sion to go out that by national
By
NATHAN
ZIPRIN
Once acquired and practiced,
merciful souls were doing when Bevin granted independence to identity he is anything other .
habits do not change. The child THE FBI IS investigating a he Nazis was slaughtering mil- Transjordan.
than an American.
The sordid story how subordi-
is only confused if he is per-
racket in the U. S. which may ions Of Jews?
If he feels that way he may
nate
officials
in
the
State
Depart
emigrate to Palestine and take
mitted to eat in one way at reach into the millionS. Stocks,
When Weizmann was in the
home and other manners re- bonds and shares known to have United States recently he seemed ment thwarted every major ef- its citizenship. But before he
quired of him in public. After been confiscated by the Nazis o have maide it a point to call fort to rescue European Jews takes such a step he should be
all, manners are but a reflec- have been brought illegally into people by their name even be- from Nazi extermination despite solemnly mindful that in Pales-
tion of the usual things people this country by a ruse.
fore greeting them. He thus the freindly pos ition taken b y the tine he would be taking up
have learned to accept. If taught
The ban, our informant tells demonstrated the falsity of the then Secretary of State Cordell room that belongs to one of the
at home, table manners are used us, was circumvented by having rumor that he was almost total- Hull has been revealed by hen- utterly homeless who needs
ry Morgenthau, Jr. who will tell
in public as a matter of course. American citizens, generally el- ly blind.
Palestine more than he does.
Young children cannot be ex- derly Jews in old age homes,
To be right is a columnist's de- the story about what is being He may as, well continue to ac-
pected to use adult-size eating make written claims to owner- light. Our prediction that a done by subordinate officials in cept the freedoms and the com-
tools with skill. Their hands do ship. The investigation is to de- movement was afoot to secure the State Department to thwart forts of the U. S. and be grate-
not have the strength and the termine by whom and by what a permanent status of neutrality the Assembly's Palestine parti- ful deep down in his heart.
dexterity to manipulate larger means those people were swin- for the Jewish State was borne tion decision.
Yet anti-Zionists (Council for
•
tools. They need their own small dled into signing their names to oue this week by Nahum Gold-
American Judaism' have new
SliOLOM
ASCII'S
East
River
man. Goldman told London re-
•tools—fork. spoon and knife the necessary documents.
obligations also. When the Jew-
suited to their hands and ages.
The most difficult job in Eu- porters that the legal experts is destined for oblivion on the ish State in Palestine is estab-
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rope today is held by a Jew. lie working on a draft constitution screen . .. The author however lished they will iook like ab-
MALL CHILDREN need help is the French Minister of Finance for the projected Jewish state in- will not take a too heavy finan- surd little people if they chal-
by having their food cut for Renee Meyer, on whom rests eluded a clause binding the coun- cial loss from the breach of con- lenge a fact of life.
By continued opposition to a
them, as a start. They need pa- the burden of healing his coun- try to neutrality in future world tract by one of Hollywood's larg-
est producers. Grapevine sources
tient instruction, repeated pleas- try's financial wounds. A rail- conflicts.
say Asch was guaranteed the -Jewish State they will line
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antly and often, before they can road expert, he was closely as-
themselves up with the Arabs
THE NEW YORK TIMES Pal- sum of $19Q000 and that the con- who certainly don't look like
be expected to handle their sociated with the French Roth-
estine correspondent. Sam Pope tract was cancelled when it was admirable people to be running
food creditably. Small children schilds as financial advisor.
Brewer, was only partly right discovered he was writing for the
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with.
are also confused by large por-
WHY LEBANON was chosen when he recently referred to the Morning Freiheit.
A leader in the Council for
ions
ohs and many varieties.
No
one
will
weep
over
this
tle-
American Judaism might well
times must be a time as the site for the next UNESCO Transjordan force as being as
much
Palestinian
.
as
Transjor-
velopment.
Thb
theme
of
the
say: "It seems a Jewish State is
! pleasure, never a time for conference is one of those mys-
book. an inferior literary product, about to he established. despite
discipline or show of emotion teries only diplomats can ex-
is
a
dangerous
one
as
well
as
a
my vigorous work against that
or temper by either the adults plain. A country which flouts Books for Brandeis U.
false one.
a General Assembly decision and
or the children.
The movie fate of Arthur sort of thing and I guess, as a
Sought
in
Campaign
If a child is too small—emo- barred an accredited American
BOSTON—A "Books for Bran- Koestler's Thieves in the Night reasonable man, I should accept
tionally — to eat in public or correspondent to the United Na- deis" campaign, aimed to help is also shrouded in mystery. Hol- that fact, however deplorable it
even at s the dinner table at home tions Special Committee on Pal- in the plans to establish a 500,- lywood was to have started looks to me. I must help see to
with the adults, he should be estine certainly does not merit 000-volume library on the cam- shooting the picture over two it that the Jewish State shall
fed first. Often the young child being honored by the United Na- pus of. the new Jewish-spon- months ago.
be creditable to the Jews, that
cannot be expected to wait for tions.
is it shall set before the eyes of
Agreement
Gentlemen's
sored
university
in
Waltham,
The provincial council of Vo-
all men an exemplar of social
dinner until Dad comes home.
Massachusetts, has beer. an- drawing huge crowds and de-
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the child develops rarlberg in Austria is planning a
1 .A/hen
servedly.
enough skill, eating by himself, ban on "scheclutah." We wonder nounced..

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