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DETROIT _JEWISH CHRONICLE

. Friday, March 12, Mit

Strictly Confidential

Top Zionist Leader Plans to Join Wallace

By PHINEAS J. BIRON
NE OF THE BIGGEST names
in American Zionism is seri-
ously considering joining the Wal-
lace-for-President sponso..s. If he
does, the Zionist rank and file will
follow en masse.
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A FEW FACES are red tlitese
days . . . Especially among our
Zionist leaders.
All the gentlemen who nomina-
ted President Truman for the Hall
of Fame must be blushing.
P. J. Biron
remember one great •Zionist leader who confidentially
admitted that it was he who had converted Truman
partition. Wonder how he feels today.
own the editorialist who wrote: "Truman will go
own in history as one of those responsible for right-

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ing a historic wrong done to Israel". He could simply
have said "Truman will go down, period".
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of Hadassah are yearning for the good old days when
Judith Epstein was their president.

PUT THE SPOTLIGHT on Clare E. Hoffman, Con-
gressman from Michigan . . . Hoffman is well-known
as a reactionary but lately has been overlooked be-
cause of the attention paid to Rep. John Rankin.
Hoffman is very close to Gerald L. K. Smith . . .
Writes in G.L.K.S.'s "Cross and the Flag," and spreads
anti-Semitic poison among the members of Congress.
Hoffman should not be re-elected, and if his con-
nections with Nazi propagandists are fully revealed
would never dare to run again.
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FROM THE PUBLICATION of the Committee for
the Prevention of World War III, presenting evidence
which was produced at the trial of the 23 I. G. Farben
combine directors . . . Three letters from their files
read: (1) "In.contemplation of experiments with a
new soporific drug, we would appreciate your pro-
curing us a number of women" . . • (2) "Received
the order of 150 women . . . Despite their emaciated
condition they were found satisfactory" . . • (3) "The
tests were made . . . All subjects died . . . We shall
contact you shortly on the subject of a new load".
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THE UNIVERSAL Jewish Encyclopedia has re-
sumed publication . From now on, if you're inter-
ested, you can get this monumental work, which was
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ANNA PAUKER, Romanian minister of foreign
affairs, is not the daughter of a Rabbi. Her father
was a Shochet . . . Mildred Waldman's New York
concert this month will set her up as one of Ameri-
ca's greatest woman pianists . • . The rank and file

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Plain Talk

Personal Problems

liaising Child Is Fun
If You- Make It So

Parents Must Make Effort to Enjoy It
By Understanding Foibles of Youth

ORT Active DP Children Hope
in DP Camps Again for Gift of Toys
and in Poland Make U p a Package of Dolls, Ribbons

News has been received by the
Detroit Chapter of ORT that ORT
schools have been created in Em-
den and Sengwalden DP camps
By W. A. GOLDBERG, Ph. D.
By ALFRED SEGAL
AN A LEISURELY stroll down Main Street, I like to pick out for Exodus' refugees. -
pESSA POLASKY IS a young woman I have known from the
faces and to speculate on their owners. I look for people
Five tons of machinery, tools A- time she was a little girl in Walnut Hills in our town and I
who are neatly dressed, whose bodies are carried straight, whose and raw materials for the ORT must hurry to get her the dolls and other things she is asking for.
faces reflect self-confidence.
courses were moved to the There are a lot of kids who need these things and I can't supply
I am especially pleased when I see self-confidence on the camps.
them all. I thought I should share this privilege with everybody
faces of youngsters. From their
who reads this.
teen! They don't know that this
Three
new
ORT
courses
were
looks, I like to reconstruct their
is a passing phase, that most boys established in the Passau district
It really is a privileged break
relationships with their parents.
and girls now "go steady," for at in the American Zone; for auto to place a doll into the arms of Pessa who was telling about the
Their parents,
least two or four months!
mechanics, tailoring and masonry. a little girl at Tikvah which is children at Tikvah.
I say, do not
These couples pair off but still Eighty-one ORT students were a camp for dis-
Mrs. Polasky had asked her
take themselves
keep within their own groups. graduated recently in the Ameri- placed people
how many children were at Tik-
too seriously. I
And when this pair of souls is can Zone; 29 in dental mechanics, near Munich
vah and Pessa had replied: "How
see the give-
wrenched apart, as is inevitable, 17 in electro-technics, 15 as bar- in Germany.
many children? Oh, my dear
and - take be-
there are heartaches and school bers, nine in photography, eight
Tikvah is
mother, so many that we can't
tween children
work goes by the board.
hope to give each child a doll.
in movie operating and the oth- Hebrew for
and grownups
"It doesn't necessarily have to
GOOD TO IMITATE
ers in chemical-technics, corsetry hope and hope
on an adult and
is what the
be dolls . . . anything for groups
OING STEADY is an adoles- and underwear making.
mature level.
people in Tik-
of children . . . drawing paper,
These parents
cent exhibition of belonging to
During 1947 both the Joint Dis-
colored paper, empty spools, col-
are firm in their
the group—a surface showing of tribution Committee and ORT ex- vah live by.
But their chil-
ored cords or shoe laces for
Dr. Goldberg superiority—a play-acting at be-
own authority,
tended credits to 152 Jewish fam-
stringing spools, checker games
they do not have to keep ver- ing grown up, and yet, a vital ilies which, together, cultivate dren are too
young for the Al Segal
for the older one, ping pong
balizing their authority. Their necessity.
4,100 acres of land in Poland.
comforts of hope. They'd rather balls. The toys do not have to be
children know the powers of the
And then we see six-year-old
new, but of course in good con-
ORT's model farm, agricultural have dolls and things.
adults.
Snodgrass leading his mother (or
Miss Polasky has been worry- dition. Blocks, puzzles, stuffed
I see parents who desire sin- father) by the proverbial nose! school and tractor stations, fur-
cere joy when they see and hear Mrs. Snodgrass wishes to visit nished the settlers with seed, ing her heart much about play- animals—just everything."
their children reflect those hints, but little Snoddy says "no." It young vegetable plants, tractors things for the kids at Tikvah.
She is herself a neighbor of Tik- PRIVILEGE FOR ALL
suggestions, mannerisms, daily is possible, of course, for Mrs. S. and other equipment.
Graduates of ORT training vah, in Munich, as a social pESSA'S MOTHER had been
customs which the elders have to divert little Snoddy, if she will
workshops have received full rec- worker for the International
made part of their daily living. use her head.
sending bundles of her own
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There can be vast blessings in cgnition by the Hungarian gov- Refugee Organization which took to Tikvah and asking her friends
dyer
after
UNRRA
was
through.
raising a child if the parent will ernment and are thereby granted
to send also. I told her this
PROUD PARENTS
Her mother, Mrs. David Po- shouldn't be just a private mat-
set the pattern—that of making permission to work without ex-
I SEE THE JOY of parents the job a pleasure.
lasky, showed me a letter from ter between friends, though.
amination.
when their children use good
This was for everybody's con-
judgment in difficult situation;
science—a privilege that should-
when the children have the cour-
n't be kept private. I could let
age (as do their parents) to ad-
people all over the country in
mit errors and regret hasty ac-
on it. Mrs. Polasky thought it
tion; when these half-adults,
was a good idea. A thousand
called adolescents, ask for ad-
people might send gifts to the
vice. In these homes, the par-
kids at Tikvah.
ental heart glows with warmth
That's how I came to write
because efforts are finally re- (Special to the Chronicle from danger threatening the existence
Measures are also being pre- this piece.
warded.
Pessa Polasky had just been to
Jewish World News Service) of the Jewish communities living pared in Egypt and in other
Raising a child, the ultra in
in certain Arab and Moslem countries to outlaw Zionism and a Chanukah party at Tikvah.
human relationships, the greatest THE YIDDISH PRESS of New States.
give it such an interpretation Chanukah was something special
of human jobs, does not call for
York was almost unanimous
The memorandum submitted that will subject every Jew there to the hope of Tikvah. It told the
dessicated, joyless living.
in denouncing the dastardly act further material . substantiating to confiscation of property and Tikvah people of another time
When a child fails to act as a of the Sternist terrorists in the previous warnings of the to persecution.
when the hope of Israel lay pros-
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man being, when he cannot blowing up a train carrying Brit- Congress that Jews are being
trate even in the Temple and
ke some measure of failure as ish troops in Palestine killing dismissed from positions and
THE OFFICIAL organ of the came finally to be bright again
a commonplace of living, there is 20 soldiers and wounding 33 oth- their freedom of movement is be- Church of England, "The Rec- in the Temple lamps.
a reflection on the parents, to be ers.
Miss Polasky said she felt .e
ing drastically curtailed in Syria ord," published in London has
sure. Yet every day we see par-
come out with a surprisingly tingling up and down her back
"There are no words strong and Lebanon.
ents too immature to assess them- enough to express our regret
strong attack on Creech Jones that evening when she heard thc
, selves as human beings, subject and indignation against the ac-
and Bevin's policy on Palestine. people of Tikvah camp singinh
to error and failure.
The paper described Jones' "Ilatikvah" and looked at their
tion of the Sternists who con-
We see these parents whose only fessed to the mining of a Brit-
statement at the UN on arming eyes which were bright with the
thought is "hell and britnstone" ish military train," said "The
the Arab States as a "piece of hope they were singing of.
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when the fledgling man or wom- Day."
diplomatic hypocrisy."
an their child—tries his wings
EXCITING
GOODIES
By
denouncing
the
Irgun
ter-
"This is alleged to have been
in attempts at rebellion or in just done as an act of revenge
The world isn't so large.
ror, the paper continues, "Brit- 'THERE WAS a dredel dance
showing how grownup he or she against the explosion in Ben Ya-
Last month, 16 European Jew- ain does not justify its own ac-
• . . pink card board cos-
is!
huda Street last week. But the ish orphans arrived in Windsor. tion which leaves the Jews, tumes . . . a simple melody .. .
The
city
opened
its
heart
to
the
against whom a terrible crime and these tots danced to it. The
Jewish Agency is still conduct-
LET'S HAVE FUN
ing an investigation to deter- youngsters. They were imme- was committed, no other means celebration was held in an un-
but violence."
LIFE MUST BE SERIOUS—in mine who is guilty in that ex- diately placed in homes.
heated stone building.
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But wait, the story isn't fin-
"We were all dressed in every-
its serious aspects. But not plosion.
THE AUSTRALIAN govern- thing we had—just to keep
every act of life is serious. Life
"The act of the Sternist which ished.
As if by a miracle, two of the ment has prohibited the importa- warm. There was a fire from
is not successful when people led to the death of British sol-
cannot see a joke or take good- diers, was a terrible act not tots were discovered by relatives tion of anti-Semitic literature within.
published abroad. The action was
"Afterward the children were
tatured joking. Yes, a sense of only against the British, but in the Canadian city.
It was quite by chance that taken upon the intervention of taken to another room where
tumor can even be the medium against the Yishuv."
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this happened. And no one is the Melbourne Jewish Council the talee was set white paper
or controlling of children who
THE WORLD JEWISH 'CON- happier about the accident than to fight anti-Semitism which pro- cloths and in front of each child
- nay wish to veer off in childless
GRESS has submitted a third Mr. and Mrs. Morris Tabachnick tested to the government against a paper cup full of candies, pea-
vays.
There are parents who wring memorandum to the Economic and Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Majer, Nazi pamphlets published in nuts and chocolates, and apple:
SWeden which were imported in- on the table. Between JDC and
heir hands because Miss Fifteen and Social Council of the United kin of two of the children.
to Australia.
Yes, it's a small world.
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Inds her "soul-mate," Mr. Six- Nations, drawing attention to the

and Balls to Gladden Their Hearts

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Yiddish Press Attacks Sternists;
Church of England Assails Bevin

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World Is Small,
DP Children in
Windsor Discover

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