DETROIT JEWISII CEIRONICLE Friday, April IC Mt Page Three 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. • • • 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. • • • 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. • • • "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. • • 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 • • • 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. • 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. • • • "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 (Continued on Page 14) 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 I by the ethical Al Segal 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. • • • 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." • • • SHOWED SYMPATHY THE MANUFACTURERS had been going along with him. They knew that their own suc- cess was in contented workers (Continued on Page 4) Foes of U. S. Military Aid May Block Trusteeship i 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." • • • 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 0 1 7-: t ; ' , • .7 . 4 ?, !. , ' . 1 ;., 1 - , :.1 1 A f.. j % , ` : 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. • • • THERE ARE rumors that U.S. insistence on early admission of Transjordan to the UN may presage a move to have King 4 •• .. • , ' 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 • • • 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 (Continued on Page 5)