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DETROIT JEWISH CURONICLE

Friday, Jamey g, INS

Strictly Confidential

Big U. S. Magazines Bar Jews From Staffs

t that Soviet Russia's assistance would never
Motor Services on behalf of the Jewish Agency in not for ge
Palestine and to be known as Jewish National Air- have Iwo secured without Dr. Stephen S. Wise's
ways, is now being formed. The new line will oper- statesmanship, which foe the last few years cemented
IN THE DEC. 8 issue of "Space
ate scheduled services within Palestine, plus services a basis for friendly relations between world Zionism
and Time" a writer says: "In
to New York, London, Prague, Johannesburg and other and the
USSR.
Stephen
S. Wise's consistent efforts 'n that direc-
some 20 years of dealing with
cities.
It
will
start
operations
within
two
months.
tion are responsible, to a great extent, for the USSR's
'Time' magazine and 10 years with
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'Life' as an advertisement buyer,
trust in the Zionist leadership.
WHEN THE STORY of diplomatic successes by
I have never seen, nor heard of,
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any one in their business depart-
the Jewish Agency in Washington will be written, E.
DURING OCTOBER, 1947, a hundred refugees a
ments who might possibly be of
Epstein, who heads the Jewish Agency Washington
day reached Canada ... Small as this figure measures
Jewish origin—whatever that can
office, will receive due credit for his effective, tactful
up against the number of refugees in Europe waiting
1,
be defined as" . . . Yet on Dec.
and intelligent work ... Ile—more than some of the
for emigration, Canada today is taking in more refu-
Life magazine eloquently attacked
big shots whose names you read daily in the press—
gees than any other country, including Palestine.
anti-Semitism . . . And, incident-
is responsible for cooperation on the part of official
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ally,
the
same
"no
Jews"
policy
U.S.
sources
with
the
Zionist
leadership.
P. J. Blron
DON'T BUY "Common Sense," a weekly, pub-
applies to the business departments of the houses of
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lished in New Jersey . . It is a pro-fascist publica-
Curtis, publishers of the Saturday Evening Post,.and
NOW, WHEN ORCHIDS are being distributed to tion that drapes itself in the American flag to deceive
Crowell, publishers of Collier's Magazine.
the American Zionist leadership, and deservedly, for
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its contribution to the Lake Success triumph, let us
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PIIINEAS J. B1RON

Plain Talk

U.S. Body Hits Season Should Teach
Trifles Affect Lives,
Intolerance
Humility, Kindness
Even Our Gefilte Fish
in Education
This Version of Story of Wise Men

Personal Problems

Differences in Food Customs May
Play Big Role in Our Attitude to Life

Tells Meaning of Star of Christianity

WASHINGTON, (JTA) —Dis-
crimination against Jewish and
Negro students in obtaining
higher and professional educa. I
Ity ALFRED SEGAL
tion is assailed by the Presi- rro MY CHRISTIAN neighbors I extended warmest greetings of
By W. A. GOLDBERG, Ph. D.
IN OUR HOME, only one kind of gefilte fish was served—light dent's Commission on Higher J. the season by way of ' a Christmas card. It is none of those
in color, made into medium-sized balls, using oniy pickerel or Education as depriving them of cards of the holiday greeting trade but rather it gets its color
pike, seasoned with white pepper, and boiled in the copper kettles equal opportunity with non- out of the heart of whatever neighbor reads this. lie has the
Jewish students in certain fields materials, I hope; a bit of compassion, some bright colors of justice,
which the folks brought from the Old Country.
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Anything different in color, size of portions, in basic ingred- of advanced study.
verse, who at Thy word bring-
ients, in seasoning, just couldn't it is an important and irrefutable
In the second volume of its
est on the evening twilight, with
be called, correctly, "gefilte fish." fact that each person's life is report to President Truman,
wisdom openest the gates of
And, of course, the fish had to be colored, guided and molded by "Equalizing and Expanding In-
the heavens and with under-
dividual
Opportunity,"
the
con-
chopped by
his early conditioning, even in
17-11 standing changest times and var-
mission
declares
the
situation
hand, with a
foods.
iest the seasons, and arrangest
"hack - messer"
Like lox and bagel and other has been aggravated in recent
the stars in their watches in the
years
and
recommerlfis
the
re-
in a wooden
traditional Jewish foods, gefilte
sky, according to Thy will . . .
bowl, just as in
fish is Old World idea trans- moval from application forms of
Blessed art Thou, 0 Lord who
the Old Coun-
planted to America. The insti- educational institutions "of all
bringest on the evening twi-
try.
tution remains long after its questions pertaining to tell-
light."
We had heard
meaning becomes faded or even gion, color, and national or ra-
Then they had partaken of
that some peo-
cial
origin."
lost.
the bread and water they car-
ple made this
This strikes all of us in our
Terming the Negro "the Most
tied with them and had stretched
fish in a differ-
lives. Food is an important part frequent victim of racial dis-
themselves in the brush on the
ent way but mincleas ■ of social conditioning. Marriages crimination," the report cites
hillside to sleep. They had said
the one whose
that was be-
Dr. Goldberg have been made and unmade be-
the experience of Jewish stu-
the prayer "Into Thy hand I
cause they did-
cause of differences in food cus- dents as "a second significant
command my spirit, when I sleep
n't know any better, so we toms between husband and wife.
br
body of illustrative evidence
and when I wake . . . The Lord
thought then.
Food—just one element in liv-
is with me and I will not fear."
In my travels in the Middle ing—affects our thinking, our at- regarding discrimination.
West, I have seen other colors titudes toward life.
But even after he had com-
"It is well to repeat the warn-
of fish and other combinations.
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ing," the report states, "that in
mended himself to God in this
Since I was the fish-buyer for CONDITIONING STAYS ON
determining opportunities for
way one of them could not
women
our house, I have seen
sleep. He remained mindful of
I HAVE SEEN a number of so- education, it is not sound demo-
Kedzie
on Maxwell street and
the camels that must be thirst-
called "emancipated" Jews— crane doctrine to invoke the ar-
avenue buy a 10-pound carp or without religion, without Jewish gument of maintaining the same
ing. Because he was troubled
buffalo which the fish man skin- names, without Jewish observ- ratios of minority group num-
on account of them sleep came
for
them,
then
a
three-pound
ned
ances—whose hearts flutter when hers enrolled in colleges to to-
not to his eyes. Sleep was heavy
sucker, a few herring and just a
Theyy had stopped to rest, for
they pass a Synagogue on the
trifle of trout, not over four Holy Days, when they hear a
the way had been long and
arduous over the Palestinian
ounces.
typically Jewish record, whose
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hills. Even for their faithful
gastric juices flow automatically
camels the day-long journey un-
when they smell gefilte fish cook-
DARK FISH RESULTS
is
der the blazing sun had been
ing.
This
early
conditioning
CONGLOMERATION
THAT
hard. They rested there in the
was processed in the usual rarely forgotten.
cool of the evening.
Logically, there is no reason
way, the meat separated from the
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skin and bones, chopped by hand, why gefilte fish has more appeal
mixed with matzoh meal and when made with pickerel than
RECITE PRAYERS
But to
eggs, seasoned with black pep- when made with carp.
right way
THE - WISE MEN had said the
per (instead of the more genteel each of us, there is a
-a- Hebrew prayers of the eve-
white pepper which we used) for making this fish, the way to
ning . . . "Blessed art Thou, 0
and formed into balls which were which we have been accustomed.
All other ways are foreign and
Lord our God, King of the uni-
boiled in an ordinary kettle.
though it was not in strict com-
The net result of using these distasteful.
pliance with the Hebrew ritual
coarser fish and black pepper
to say in the. evening prayer
was a dark piece of fish, al- Off the Record
that was for the morning.
though there was lots of other
fish at low cost.
He was thankful for the good-
Years ago, Mother and Dad
ness of God who had caused
went west each winter for their
sleep to be removed from his
health. The town had a small
eyes on account of the camels
Jewish population; it supported
that thirsted. They were among
the least creatures but God had
no Shochet. So Dad learned
Schechita and had his occasional
to attend the recent UJA national kept him awake that he might
BY NATHAN ZIPRIN
conference, is back in Palestine go and quench their thirst.
piece of fowl.
where he is centering attention
But both Dad and Mother were AS WE ENTER the year 1948
Then he took up a pail and
galled by the utter absence of 1 ' it can be confidently predict-
on floating a bond issue and went searching for water for the
any fish familiar to them—no ed that the new year will wit-
loans.
camels. He went a long way to
pike, no pickerel, no trout, no ness the establishment of a Jew-
THE FIGHT BETWEEN the find water for them. The way
whitefish—just sheephead. The ish State in Palestine either
"pound" and the "dollar" is hay- was over a hill to a brook in
appearance of a sheephead is peaceably and in compliance
ing its repercussions in Pales- the valley.
enough to spoil the appetite of a with the UN decision or by
tine where the fiscal experts are
While he was gone the other
person who knows gefilte fish. revolution. This will happen de-
working on monetary problems. Wise Men awoke to make ready
But, despite their disgust, they spite the nefarious propaganda,
The "pound" may triumph de- to resume their journey toward
made the best of it with sheep- despite British hostility and de-
spite the fact that the largest Bethlehem. One and another of
spite lack of arms.
part of financial aid has to come them looked up to the skies
head.
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Zionist leaders "leer interna-
and will continue to come from toward the friendly star that
tional intrigues more than the
OLD WORLD IDEAS
the "dollar" area.
had guided them this far.
A three-cornered race may de-
NUTRITIONALLY, theee is pee- 'Arabs" because they realize Diet
But, lo, it was not to be seen
"not
ail
who
voted
for
parti-
velop for the honor of being the
and they climbed th
1 haps little difference it y o
first president of the Jewish anywhere,
, use carp or buffalo instead of tion are oar friends." This is
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pickerel, whether you use black what Berl Locker, of the Jewish
Agency eaecutive, told a group
vepper or the white pepper.

Sees State Established Peaceably
or by Revolution in the New Year

