Friday.-February IS, 1948

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE

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Strictly Confidential

Fascists Are Hard at Work in America

By PIIINEAS J. BIRON

GLNEW LOW"—We propose to run
under this caption accounts of
current outrages against the dem-
ocratic American way. "New Low"
is a quotation from the Joint De-
fense Appeal conference at which
the American Jewish Committee
and the Anti-Defamation League
declared that organized anti-Sem-
itism had reached a "new low"
in this country.
We maintain that anti-Semitism
P. J. Biron
cannot be on the decline while
fascism is on the increase . . . And so we shalt
potnew lows" on the American Fascist front.
novel "In Dubious Battle" wait elim-
inated from the undergraduate curriculum of the

University of Florida. The reason given is that this
had to be done because tai many readers "misin-
terpreted" Steinbeck's books.

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THE JAN. 25 ISSUE of the Bulletin of Activities
and Digest of the Press of the American Jewish Con-
ference mercilessly blasts the American Jewish Com-
mittee . . . And rightly so. The committee—so says
the Bulletin—withdrew from the Jewish Congress
after the first world war and left the protection of
Jewish_rights achieved at the Versailles Peace Con-
ference unsupported by a united American Jewry.
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AGAIN, WHEN HITLER came to power in 1933
the committee maintained its lofty isolation and re-
sisted all efforts to secure Jewish union to defend
the Jews of the world from the crushing disasters
which finally engulfed them . . . And now again,
in 1948, the commitee wants to do "its own business

Personal Problems

Creative Child Needs
Parental Stimulation

Family Should Find Room for flint
to Work and Provide the Materials

By W. A. GOLDBERG, Ph. D.
WHERE A CHILD has creative ability, two things happen—de-
" pending upon the particular home and parents 112 has.
'In one home, his interest is encouraged. His family find a
place for him to work, in the basement, attic, dining room or bed-
room, where he can tinker to his heart's content.
The materials are provided.
do these things . . • That helps
Father suggests an easier meth-
to develop personality.
od of work, better lighting and
Parents can ruin this creative
holds himself for advice, when
ability or develop it. By ju-
asked.
In the other dicious aid and suggestion, the
home, both child may learn how to use
Father and tools, how to become self-critical
Mother, befit- of his own efforts, how to de-
. tle Junior's ef- pend upon himself, how to
forts. They be- make substitutes serve, when
grudge him necessary.
All these are good adult traits,
the money for
materials o r helpful to adult living.
tools, they
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ridicule his GROWING MENTALLY
efforts. They
Dr. Goldberg criticise his PARENTS QUICKLY overlook
A " the fact that children's in-
use of 10 nails where two would
terests Change with growth and
do.
age. Toys satisfying to a five-
They make Junior feel that year-old are "baby-stuff" to the
his efforts—and therefore he too eight-year-old. The child is
have no value or are less growing physically, mentally,
worthy. Mother gets upset when emotionally and socially.
Junior tracks wood shavings in-
His personal and social hori-
to the dining room or gets paint zon is developing—as a result
on his hands, face and clothes of an enlarged horizon and a
—that white shirt she has growing body and mind.
washed and ironed so carefully.
Parents do well to encourage
All of which asks the pur- children to make things for
pose of children's play. Can a themselves. This encouradement
child of 5, 10 or 15 derive value comes from furnishing a place
from this "play business"?
to work, materials or the money
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for materials, to guide the child
in his desires and to give guid-
BELITTLES PLAY
THE STERN FATHER — who ance and a restraining hand
wherever indicated.
began working when he was
eight—usually can see no pur-
pose in play. He thinks the Off the Record
money is wasted together with
the time and that play leads to
idleness. And he says so, out
loud and often.
t too rarely, parents de-
flikvely point to the changing
interests of children .. . Today
it is model airplanes, then stick
models, then flying models with
By NATHAN ZIPRIN
motors costing $15 or more,
REUTERS,
THE British news
then electric trains, then model
agency, reports that the Brit-
trains. And, after all this ex-
penditure,. Sonny discovers girls ish commissioner in Cyprus de-
and his beautiful toys gather nied the New York Times story
about the 1,000 Communists on
dust.
If kept within reason, play is the Pan York and Pan Crescent.
not lost motion. Play is crea- But that newspaper continues
tive, play imaginative, play de- publicizing the story with baf-
velops skills and muscles, friends fling stubbornness.
Rarely has a report aroused
• and learning to be a social be-
ing. To a child, four blocks and such worldwide indignation. For
a board' may be a wagon and a a Jewish-owned newspaper to
wagon it must be for him and indulge in such a vicious cam-
paign is, indeed, beyond compre-
his family.
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hension, reason and decency.
The Times even carried an-
PRIDE IN CREATION
other Arab-manufactured slan-
P LAY AND TOYS form a
der that 1,500,000 Jewish Com-
'A good reserve when the munist agents are about to be let
weather is bad, or there is bore- loose on the world. This would
dom or a fight between play- n ♦ in the -total Jewish popula-
mates. More than that, play tion of Poland, Romania, Bulgar-
develops pride in creation. In ia plus hundreds of thousands of
effect, the child says: I made Russian Jews.
this. This is MY work. I can
No lie is obviously fantastic

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Jew Listed
As a Devoted
Gandhi Pupil

By NATIIAN ZIPRIN
THE STORY HOW a Jewish
architect in South Africa be-
came one of Gandhi's most de-
vout followers was recently told
this writer by a friend of his.
While visiting South Africa
some years ago my friend
formed a friendship with the ar-
chitect, Herman Kaltenbach. One
day he visited Kaltenbach and,
to his surprise, he learned that
the architect had been fasting
for five days.
"Whenever Gandhi fasts I
fast," Kaltenbach explained.
Kaltenbach was the son of rich
parent's. In his youth he was a
social lion, leading a life of ease.
And then he met Gandhi, who
at that time was an unknown
lawyer.
He was impressed by Gandhi
Soon afterward World War I
broke out. Gandhi returned to
India. He acquired world fame
and by reflection of glory Kal-
tenbach too became a celebrity.
Now his family and friends were
proud of him.
"Gandhi," he would say, "is
ugly, he is no orator and never-
theless he is the leader of 300
million people and when he
speaks or fasts the British Em-
pire trembles."
When my friend left Kalten-
bach he told him he wished "we
Jews had a 50 percent Gandhi,
a leader whom all of us would
trust and follow."
Kaltenbach died several years
ago. In his will he left a huge
sum for the Jewish National
Fund. He was never influenced
by Gandhi's position on Zion-
ism ...

in its own way."

A FEW YEARS AGO Rabbi Solomon Goldman
was ruthlessly eliminated from the Zionist movement
by his former colleagues—the Lipskys, Weisdals, et al.
—for having made Edmund I. Kaufman of Washing-
ton, D.C., president of the Zionist Organization of
America.
Now Kaufman, a very wealthy and active corn- •
munal leader, is the favorite of Louis Lipsky, who
made him chairman of the fund drive for the Jewish
Conference, and of Meyer Weisgal, who depends on
him to a large degree in his fund-raising activities
for the Weizmann Institute.
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THERE'S A SPLIT IN the KKK in Georgia, ac-
cording to Drew Pearson ... Good news if true ...
Ossip Dymow, the playwrights-he's the author of "The
Bronx Express" and other hits—will be 70 this year.
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Plain Talk

Convert Gets Lacing
for Dishonest Change

Turned Episcopalian 'for the Sake'
of Children, Not From Any Belief

By ALFRED SEGAL
MR. IIILLEL—he's the president of the Hillel Widget Corp.—
calls on me again for the purpose of taking a bit of rest from
the widget business by writing this column this week. Mr. Hillel
is the well-known citizen who from time to time has been taking
time out of widgets to write this column in my stead.

His newest column is as fol- eral others.
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lows:
RIGHT TO TILE POINT
I had been hearing things IT WAS MY RECENT good
said about Mr. Zilch. I had
fortune, therefore, to meet
known Zilch Zilch on the other side of the
a long time street one day when I was on
but in the re- the way to the bank.
cent years had
"Bello, there Zilch!" I ex-
seen little or claimed. "I hear you have be-
nothing of him, come an Episcopalian." (I am
though I a man who in search of knowl-
heard a great edge doesn't skate around the
deal about him. object but arrives quickly at the
It was being point.)
said that
Zilch seemed embarrassed, as
Zilch had de- if I had accused him of beating
Al Segal
serted the his wife. He blushed, he stam-
faith of his Jewish fathers to mered.
"Mind you, Zilch,"I said, "I
become an Episcopalian.
haven't come across the street
I was particularly eager to just to scold you but mainly to
meet a convert because in the ask questions. I don't quarrel
recent year I had read a sug- with a man who takes another
gestion by the renowned Dr. religion, sincerely, believing that
the other religion is more re-
Finkelstein, president of the sponsive to his intelligence and
Jewish Theological Seminary, to his heart. Religion is largely
that considerable numbers of a matter of opinion, isn't it?
"But you Zilch, as I remem-
American Jews were changing
to more comfortable religions. ber, were a Jew of little or no
religious feeling. Even on Yom
Then, I had been hearing that Kippur I didn't see you in the
Mr. Zilch wasn't the only Jew Synagogue. Religion meant
in our town who had been•con- nothing in your life but sud-.
verted lately. There were sev- denly you become an Episco-
palian. Please explain,"
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REASONABLE QUERY
ZILCH REPLIED he was glad
to hear me speak like a
reasonable man. A lot of his
former friends had been shun-
ning him lately, as if he were
walking around with some con-
tagious disease.
Yes, he said, it hadn't been
are determined to thwart the easy to be an Episcopalian so
partition decision by the foulest far. He 'hadn't yet been able to
establish a firm footing in the
of means.
It has abdicated its claim to Episcopalian communion . • .
"You know how it is? It
objective journalism and has
gained, to be sure, the contempt takes a time to make all these
adjustments, you see," he said.
of its own readers.
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"But, Zilch, why did you be-
ANOTHER RUMOR which is come an Episcopalian?"
"I did it on account of my
being widely circulated is that
war with Russia is imminent and children," he said, "I don't want
that the British intend remain- them to suffer being Jews. No
ing on the sidelines. In such a matter what happens, as Epis-
case the U.S. would be "alone" copalians they'll always he safe."
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in facing Russia and all the
goodwill the British may pos- INSURANCE POLICY
sess with the Arabs won't bene- “ZILCH," I SAID, "you dis-
fit us. Therefore we must make
appoint me. For the sake
a desperate effort to gain the of my respect for you I hoped
Arabs.
you might say that you had be-
Thus rumor, too, emanates come an Episcopalian from
from British sources. There may honest conviction for the bene-
be British politicians who would fit of your soul, that after pro-
welcome a war between our found study you had come to
country and Russia, with Britain the conviction that the virgin
of course remaining outside the birth, the deity of Jesus _and
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N.Y. Times Held Up to Contempt
for Fables on Jewis ► -Red Link

enough not to be published by
the Times. Sulzberger forgets
that such reports hurt not only
the Zionists but intensifies anti-
Semitism.
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MOSSE AND Ullestein in Ber-
lin, Simon in Frankfort on the
Maine, Benedikt in Vienna, Ves-
ci to Budapest—all of them pub-
lishers of the greatest news-
papers in Europe—thought they
would never fall victim to anti-
Semitism. They at least had no
precedent. Sulzberger should
know better. No Jew in Europe
has saved himself because he
spoke or imitated the language
of the anti-Semite.
By raising the Red scare at a
time when all decent men and
women are demanding action to
halt the bloodshed in Palestine
and save the honor of the United
Nations, the Times has played
into the hands of the official
Arab-Uritish propagandists who