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Strictly Confidential
Sees Proskauer Group Back Trustee Plan
By PHINEAS J. BIRON
THE AMERICAN JEWISH Com-
mittee will withdraw its sup-
port of partition in Palestine, we
hear. It won't be long now till
Judge Proskauer's committee will
back the U.S. policy for a UN trus-
teeship over Palestine. As ■ matter
of fact, it wasn't so long ago that
the AJC advocated such a trustee-
ship.
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PERSISTENT RUMORS reach us
P. J. Biron that the so often postponed second
session of the World Jewish Congress, scheduled as
of now to take place on May 18 in Switzerland, will
once more be postponed.
The official reason is that Palestine representatives
would like to time the World Jewish Congress ses-
sion close to the World Zionist Congress, for which
no date has been set as yet. But the real reason
seems to be that American delegates are hard to find.
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THE BROOKLYN Borough as Company, which
last year was charged with discrimination in its em-
ployment practices, now boasts of eight Jews and five
Negroes in clerical positions.
But don't let that deceive you. Applicants sus-
pected of being Jews still are given the runaround,
and as for Negroes—there are "no vacancies". And
this in a community in which every third person
is Jewish.
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"PERHAPS THE least effective educational method
in use today consists in the distribution of what is
termed 'tolerance propaganda.' Here an enormous
amount of money is wasted.
"It is fairly well established, for example, that
Personal Problems
Vatience, Sympathy
Parental Requisites
Parents Must Act Like Grownups
to Raise Child to a Normal Adult
(This is the second of two articles on youths who are misfits
In school and in life because of indulgence by parents and the
resulting haphazard upbringing where the child receives no train-
ing or discipline.)
By W. A. GOLDBERG, Ph. D.
SOMETIMES,. A CHANGE may be made if the ties between the
family and the young person are severed completely, if they
are both willing to face the
situation, if they both wish a family as having rights too, that
Serious program. Given the the child does his share of fa-
right sort of conditions, ma- mily chores.
terial changes have been made
In school, he works as hard
in such cases.
and as well as his abilities per-
The more
mit, that if he can do "A" work,
fruitful ap-
"C" grades are not acceptable.
proach is the
In the home he learns that
sane and sober
everybody must meet general
raising of chil-
rules of self-imposed discipline
dren in a fa-
and accountability, rules of
mily. That as-
regularity and promptness.
sumes the par-
ents to be
The child must receive the
fairly mature,
basic instruction at home from
as a start.
his family. This is a parental
That assumes
responsibility.
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Dr. Goldberg
that parents
can act as grownups toward
each other, toward their chil- TAKES ADVANTAGE
dren and their friends.
ON THE OTHER HAND, the
That assumes demonstrated
erratic personality has
rather than verbal love toward learned, as a very young child,
pre-school children, that the to take undue advantage of his
child is given increasing respon- surface qualities—usually good
sibility as he grows, that the looks, ease of speech, general
child is patiently, lovingly de- attractiveness. These traits he
veloped into a social being.
uses for selfish ends, immediate
That assumes that the child ends rather than for the de-
must account for his conduct on velopment of solid qualities of
a reasonable level and not per- character.
mitted such childish fancies as
In this perversion of personal-
walking over his neighbor's
ity, his family have had a ma-
grand piano.
That assumes that the home jor responsibility. The child
guides him into personal satis- tastes the responses from these
factions from usual responses surface traits, finds them not un-
rather than from tantrums, vul- palatable.
garity, smart-aleck acts.
The parents encourage this
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self-centered response. The end
result is a complete breakdown
LEARNS CONSIDERATION
of personality (short of mental
THAT MEANS THAT the child illness), from the view of sta-
'a is taught to wash himself bility of work, scholarship, per-
properly, to regard others in the sonal and family life.
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more than $1,000,000 a year is now being spent on
well-intentioned propaganda of this sort. The idea
behind these campaigns is that it is possible to sell
'tolerance' as one would sell tooth paste.
"To be effective, education against racism should
emphasize the real causes of Fascism". This is a
quotation from Carey McWilliams' book, "A Mask
for Privilege," which the masterminds of the Anti-
Defamation League, the American Jewish Committee
and the National Conference of Christians and Jews
should study and restudy.
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"DEAR MR. BIRON: It is good to read that the
Anti-Defamation League of the Bnai Brith is publicly
acknowledging a 'very real' increase in antiSemitisin
during 1947.
"Until a very short time ago the League insisted
that anti-Semitism was on the decrease. The League
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Plain Talk
Blood Bank
Unit Shipped
By Hadassah
Bow Union Practices
Ideals of Brotherhood
NEW YORK, N. Y.—The dis-
patch of a blood bank unit to
Palestine to aid wounded civil-
ians and members of the de-
fense forces treated in its hos-
pitals and emergency clinics in
the Holy Land was announced
by Hadassah.
It was disclosed that addition-
al equipment for processing and
storing blood and blood plasma
will be sent to Palestine in May.
The blood bank completes an
order for 166 tons of urgently
needed medical instruments,
drugs, hospital equipment, cloth-
ing and food, worth $175,000,
requested by the late Dr. Yassky,
director of the Hadassth medi-
cal organization in Palestine.
Shipments to fill this requisi-
tion began three months ago,
after Hadassah had set up an
emergency clinic in Jerusalem
proper, and had expanded its
medical defense work at Hadas-
sah Hospital on Mt. Scopus out-
side of Jerusalem, and in five
other sectors.
Hadassah now provides surgi-
cal assistance, blood bank ad-
ministration, first aid treatment
and supplies from its storerooms
for its own network of institu-
tions in Palestine and other de-
fense agencies engaged in emer-
gency medical service.
Garment Workers' Group Is Moved
by Ethical Teachings of Judaism
By ALFRED SEGAL
HAVE JUST been reading about David Dubinsky and other
-Jewish gentlemen with whom he has industrial relations.
One can feel Jewishly satisfied on their account. Not that I
am one of those who make Jewish problems. out of every human
matter of event, as in the classic case of the Jew who, invited to
write a thesis on elephants, wrote on "The Elephant and the Jew-
ish Problems."
Nor am I one of those who
like to make something Jewish
out of every achievement by "Partners—The Magazine of La-
citizens who are Jewish, such bor and Management." It car-
tied an article entitled "Real
as boxers and movie stars.
Unionism At Work" by Haw-
Yet, in the
f thorne Daniel. It was about Di-
case of David
vid Dubinsky and the other
Dubinsky and ij
gentlemen.
the other Jew-
ish gentlemen
David Dubinsky is president
with whom he
of the International Ladies' Gar-
does busines.s,
Workers' Union. The
ment
I do like to
others are the manufacturers--
feel that they
the cloak and suit trade, as it
are essentially
is called.
being moved
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by the ethical
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teachings of the
Jews in their exemplary be-
havior in labor and manage-
ment.
They may not be in the least
conscious of operating as Jews
in their industrial relations, but
that doesn't matter. Their way
is charted by our teaching and
it is good to see Jews going in
the way of that teaching, even
though they may be guided only
by vague mandates that haunt
them from their early education;
even though they may not be
"Should Fraternities and So- aware that what they are doing
rorities be Allowed to Function is finely Jewish.
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on College Campuses?" will be
debated by members of the JEW'S SOCIAL OUTLOOK
Temple, Beth El and Temple IN THESE COLUMNS I have
Israel high schools at the April
been saying right along that
Youth Speaks Forum at 8 p.m., being a Jew is largely a matter
Tuesday, in Shaarey Zedek.
of moral and social outlook, that
A discussion period, dancing a Jew's best expression. is in his
and refreshments will round out function as a member of the
the program, under the auspices brotherhood of man.
of the Shaarey Zedek Junior
The other day, I was happy to
Congregation.
receive a publication called
Temple Youth
to Meet in Debate
They and Dubinsky had been
getting along very well, indeed,
in peaceful relations toward the
general good of the workers in
the trade. David Dubinsky. as
labor leader, had understood
that there could be no good in
strife for the workers, the em-
ployers or the public.
He had little use for strikes.
Ile was saying: "Strikes are un-
economical. It can take years
for workmen to make up in
added wages what they lose in
a walkout lasting only a few
weeks . . . Wherever there's a
deadlock we are for arbitration."
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SHOWED SYMPATHY
THE MANUFACTURERS had
been going along with him.
They knew that their own suc-
cess was in contented workers
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Foes of U. S. Military Aid May Block Trusteeship
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By NATHAN ZIPRIN
out by U.S. sources regarding
HE BELIEF IS prevalent in willingness to act as trustees
some Washington circles that either singly or in conjunction
circumstances may yet compel with one or two others. The
another change in American uniform reply was: "Yes, if the
U.S. promises military aid if we
policy on Palestine.
Responsible leaders in both get into trouble."
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houses of Congress and in both
major political parties are said
IF THERE IS no advance
to be unalterably and bitterly agreement on this basic issue
opposed to the idea of sending the trusteeship plan will have
American troops to implement to be abandoned unless one of
the proposed trusteeship plan.
the great powers assumes the
Since it is apparent that the responsibility.
special session of the General
France is in no position to
Assembly will be disinclined to
approve the American plan un- accept it. If Britain is suggested
less the U.S. pledges military the smaller nations will veto
aid, the administration will face the move. There is much bit-
terness against Great Britain
a serious dilemma.
A large number of small na- in the Latin-American countries.
Russia in all likelihood would
tions have already been sounded
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agree to act as trustee. But
there isn't the slightest chance
of approval by Britain, France,
China and the U.S.
The U.S. will definitely not ac-
cept trusteeship responsibility
directly. Both the military and
civilian policy-makers in Wash-
ington are reluctant now to ex-
tend the area of conflict with
Russia. -
Military circles believe if we
send troops to Palestine the
Russians would counteract the
move by exerting pressure on
Turkey, Iran and Iraq.
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THERE ARE rumors that U.S.
insistence on early admission
of Transjordan to the UN may
presage a move to have King
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Abdullah assume the driver's backing partition again even as
seat in the Palestine situation. it was squeezed by the Arabs
a new plan".
The argument is that if Trans- into injecting
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jordan is made trustee the Arab
IF NO OTHER plan is evolved
states would not dare carry out
their threat of force and if they but one calling for Anglo-
did King Abdullah would an- American-Soviet a c t i o n, t h e
nex the Arab part of Palestine Arabs may indicate a willing-
and let the Jews establish an ness to bargain. The Arabian
independent state in the area feudal masters and would-be
designated by the UN. This he economic royalists fear Russian
could do, the argument goes, penetration more than a Jewish
on the ground that the concept State.
A high Arabian official in this
behind the trusteeship' plan is
not to abandon partition but country has been dropping
hints that his countrymen were
to postpone it.
baffled by the fact that they
One highly informed Wash- were not to benefit from the
ington diplomat familiar with ERP.
the behind-the-scene machina-
He has been harping on the
tions told his friends the admin- theme that the Arab states con-
istration "may be squeezed into
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