Friday, April 2, 1918

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE

Page Three

Strictly Confidential

Weizmann Sickened by Palestine Intrigue

By PIIINEAS J. BIRON
DR. CHAIM WEIZMANN, who
many believe will be the first
president of the Jewish State in
Palestine, is sick—physically, and
also at heart.
His last talk with President
Truman, during his current stay in
America, was a terrible experience.
The gentleman from Missouri rant-
ted against the Reds instead of
talking about his famous 100,000
Jews clamoring at th% gates of
P. J. Biron
Eretz Israel.
Now Weizmann feels so low and tired that he no
longer is interested in the presidency of the Jewish
iState, we're told.
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Tr 1,
GEORGE ARMSTRONG, Texas oil magnate who

finances Gerald L. K. Smith, is boosting Gen. Mac-
Arthur for the Republican presidential nominaton.
Why is it that whenever Louella Parsons, the
powerful movie, radio and newspaper columnist,
boosts "Gentleman's Agreement" she carefully avoids
mentioning that it has anything to do with anti-
Semitism?
We predict that Carey McWilliams' "A Mask For
Privilege" will climb right to the top of the best-
seller lists. Here is a book that exposes the fascist
forces behind anti-Semitism and pulls no punches.
David Bernstein, in "The Commentary," appeals
to Jews to accept "the compatibility of Jewishness
and American-ness". Strange, to say the least, Bran-
deis always insisted that good Jewishness and real
American-ness are one.
Did you read "I changed My Name," in the Febru-
ary issue of The Atlantic Monthly? Written by an
anonymous Jew, the article justifies the change by

Personal Problems

BARNABD RUBIN writes: "The head of the de-
Nazification committee in Salzburg, Vienna, is one
Kingshammer by name. His job since the end of the
war has been to supervise the eradication of Nazi
influence in Salzburg.
Ile was nominated for the post by our brass hats
over there. Overlooked was the fact that this man
whose job was to root out Nazism—had been an
active Nazi member since 1926! So of course, when
Kingshamnier was appointed the first thing he did
was to destroy all available documents incriminating
himself and his Nazi friends."

Oil Conquers
Justice in a Rebecca or Betty
Which. Shall It lie ?
Venal World

Plain Talk

Youth Bares Views
on Allowances, Dates

Considers Weekly Stipend a Must,
Midnight Too Early to Return Home

By W. A. GOLDBERG, Ph. D.
MOST YOUNG people agreed at the panel discussion I cited
week that as long as a youngster takes an allowance
and other money from his parents, he should have to submit
to parental authority. They admitted that a child cannot ex-
pect his parents to maintain him financially without his being
bound to the parents or answer-
night, if he or she goes to a
able to them for his conduct.
They felt keenly that an al- dance or similar event.
And, of course, after a date—
lowance, a definite sum per
week, is perhaps a prerogative there must be something to eat.
Therefore, the time to be "in"
of an adolescent. This sum, they
said, must be after a date depends upon the
fixed and occasion, the event, the distances
should rarely, to be covered. Which means that
if ever, be ex- I. or 2 a.m. is not too late for
ceeded. Neces- a weekend date.
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sarily, it would
NOT ON SCHOOL NIGHTS
have to be
OST OF TILE youngsters were
based upon a
positive that week-nights
joint decision
of the parents were school nights and that rul-
and the child ed out dates.
All of which must be reveal-
as to his "nec-
Dr. Goldberg e s s a ley" ex- ing to parents who have set a
rigid, unthinking hour for their
penses.
children to be in at night. Young-
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sters whose parents make these
DATING FACTORS
rigid hours soon find that their
UITE REVEALING was the children are not asked to parties
attitude of these young peo- or dances.
ple on dating. We young people,
Two gripes were registered
they said, are living in an en- against parents: Against the par-
vironment and in times much ent who monopolizes the time of
different from those of. our par- the visiting youngsters when
ents. Our dates—from reasons of they wish to visit with other
fashion, custom, wishing to be youngsters and also against par-
different, wishing to act grown- ents who suddenly discover
up and because of distances in- chores or studies for their chil-
volved—our dates begin later in dren.
the evening. In a large city, 9
These youngsters pointedly
p.m. is not too late to start out asked for parental guidance even
dance.
Most
dances
do
not
for a
while they themselves wished to
begin until 10 p.m. and last until talk, act as grownups. They
1 or 2 a.m.
wanted to lean when necessary
Again the young people felt on their parents while trying
that it was utterly unreasonable their wings. They expected that
to expect a man or woman of their parents would furnish this
15 or 16 to be home by mid- support to them even if not
asked for.
All of which re-emphasizes a
question in our mindi Is ado-
lescence more difficult for par-
ents or for children?

M

Q

'Court Justifies
`Fraud' at Trial

A curious trial has just ended
in Poland. A Polish woman nam-
ed Morawska who lived in Eng-
land throughout the war and
has recently returned to Poland,
sued a Jewish woman named
Feige Diner, for falsely assum-
ing her name and taking posses-
sion of her passport. The Polish
woman charged the Jewess with
fraud and illegal possession of
her documents. Feige Diner
pleaded that she was a Jewess
and that she had to resort to the
device of a false passport in
order to save her life. The Court
ruled in favor of the Jewish wo-
man. He rejected the Polish wo-
man's accusation that the act
was a fraud and ruled that Mrs.
Diner had a full right to do
what she did and what is more,
he went out of his way to praise
the patriotism and humanitar-
ianism of those Poles, who unlike
Mrs. Morawska, helped many
Jews to obtain false passports
and live as Poles.

saying: "I think we should be only too pleased to
misinform those gentlemen who like to know how to
put their finger on Jews. It seems a good idea to say:
Try and find me" . Not exactly a pattern for self-
respecting living, it seems to us. . . .
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By RABBI MOSES FISCHER
PARAPHRASING a well-known
Biblical sentence, I would
like to ask in the light of re-
cent events, Was Palestine called
the "Promised Land" that it shall
for thousands of years merely be
promised or pledged but never
given to the Jews?
Will the happy era ever dawn
when Palestine shall not be call-
ed the "Land of Promise" but
rather the "Land of Fulfillment?"
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OIL MOST PRECIOUS
BORN AND RAISED in the
household of Israel on the breasts
of our Religion, we have always
believed that the most precious
liquid on earth is blood, human
blood.
Blood is the "nefesh," the soul
of man, teaches the Bible. Do
we have to learn from the wis-
dom of our age that oil is even
more precious than blood?
"Man became a machine and
machines act as human beings,"
said Heine more than a century
ago. And as men became ma-
chines, mechanized soulless ro-
bots, it seemed ordained that
oil, the driving force of machines,
should rise to the highest scale
of values transcending even the
merits of justice and truth.
The voice of blood, says the
Bible, cries to heaven. We won-
der how high and how far does
the voice of oil carry?
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SYMBOL OF ETERNITY
THE PURE OLIVE OIL lit in
the Sanctuary of Israel and in
Jewish homes every Sabbath has
always symbolized to the Jew
"Ner Tamid," the eternity of Di-
vine Light imminent in Israel. I
wonder whether oil of another
kind shall augur the extinction
of the Eternal Hope and Trust of
Israel? I pray, never.
It was the dove in the days of
Noah, say the Sages, who brought
oil for the first time into the
world. I wonder whether birds
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Mother Is for 'Streamlined' Name
But Dad Likes Biblical Tradition

By ALFRED SEGAL
LADY CALLS me up: "I want you to settle an argument
between my busband and me."
Oh, dear lady, you flatter me. In my own house all argu-
ments are always settled by my wife. She has the last word and
that settles it. I'm all out of practice in the matter of settling
arguments.
I am astonished, dear lady,
"My husband and I have
that the same happy way of
settling all arguments doesn't agreed to leave it of to you.
prevail in your house. Do you Whatever you decide she shall
mean to say that your husband be—either Betty Jane or Re-
makes deci- becca. I hope it's Betty Jane,
sions in your though."
She explained: Her husband
household?
N ow what's has some queer ideas about
your problem? names for Jewish children. Ile
Well, she re- says the Bible has some beau-
plied, it has to tiful names for girls and why
do with her should they pick a name out of
first baby, and the air.
"He asks what significance
she could feel
sure that I, in has Betty Jane? But, on the
m y profound other hand, there's Rebecca.
Al Segal
wisdom, could There's background to Rebecca .
advise her and her husband cor- There's ancient history. There's
a beautiful mother in Israel
rectly.
I told her that she was ap- back of Rebecca from Biblical
proaching the wrong party. I times, and there are all the
would not know how to - change mothers in Israel who have had
a diaper anymore. You should the same name since. There's
go to the maternity clinic or nothing to be ashamed of in
some such better authority than Rebecca . . . That's the way he
talks," she said.
I am about your baby.
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CONTRARY OPINION
ALL ABOUT A NAME
"YOU DON'T understand, Mr. "AND WHAT'S YOUR idea?"
I asked.
"n- Segal. It has nothing to do
"Well," she replied, "I'm for
with diapers or things like that.
It's about a name for the baby. Betty Jane, of course. It's a
She—it's a girl—is just a month streamlined modern name, and
old and hasn't a name yet, you we're living today not 4000 years
ago. I tell Ike—that's my hus-
might practically say.
band—that his name is out of
"I call her Betty Jane. My date, too.
husband calls her Rebecca. So
"It's all right with me that
the poor child doesn't know who
the Bible people named their
she is. One moment she is ad-
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dressed as Betty Jane—that's
when I speak to her—and next,
when my husband picks her
up, she becomes Rebecca.

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Lisicky Balks UN Group's Plan
to Proclaim Provisional State

By NATHAN ZIPRIN
IF NOT FOR Karel Lisicky,
the UN Palestine Commission
would in all probability have
proclaimed the Jewish Pro-
visional Government. The other
members of the commission,
with the exception of the Danish
delegate, were in favor of such
a move. . . .
It is unlikely that the neces-
sary two-thirds vote will be
mustered in the Assembly to
overthrow partition . • .
Secretary of Defense Forrestal
was reported to have told his
friends that the reason behind
the United States switch on

partition was fear of war with-
in the next five months. . . .
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WASHINGTON RUMORS per-
sist that as late as 24 hours
before Austin delivered his trus-
teeship proposal to the Security
Council President Truman con-
ferred with Dr. Weizmann at
the White House and told him
the United States was consider-
ing lifting the embargo on arms
to Palestine.
Could Truman have been un-
aware at that time of what
Austin would say 24 hours later?
Was he double-crossed? Did
he deliberately mislead the

veteran Zionist? Or did he suc-
cumb to last-minute pressure by
the anti-partition plotters?
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WE HEAR BAIT, in the form
of special concessions, will be
thrown to the Jewish Agency
by the trusteeship advocates.
The first trial balloon will hold
forth the promise that the Trus-
teeship Council would admit
100,000 displaced Jews to Pal-
estine within two years.
They will offer to establish a
semi-autonomous region in the
area delineated by the Assembly
for the Jewish State. They will
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Who.Is a Jew?
Is Reich Issue

"The most difficult problem
confronting Jewish leadership in
Germany was and still is, to set
up a formula defining who is a
Jew and who is not." said Dr.
Michael Munk, Rabbi of the Jew-
ish Community of Berlin to press
reporters while he was in Paris
on his way for a brief visit to
the United States.
"It has been decided to recog-
nize as Jews all those who had
been compelled during the Hit-
ler regime to desert the Jewish
ranks in order to save their
lives. But following an an-
nouncement that monetary
grants and food parcels would
be distributed to Jews, two thou-
sand non-Jews registered as
'Jews'."
Rabbi Munk also told the re-
porters that at present there are
8,000 Jews in Berlin and another
7,000 in camps in the American
zone.