Friday, August 27, 1948 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE Page Four Crocodile Tears Detroit Jewish Chronicle Published Weekly by Jewish Chronicle Publishing Co., Inc., 548 Woodward, Detroit 26, Mich., CA. 1040 SUBSCRIPTION: $3.00 Per Year Single Copies, 10c; Foreign, $5.00 Per Year entered as Second-class matte: March 3. 1916, at the Post Office at Detroit, Mich., under the Act of March 3, 1879 SEYMOUR TILCHIN, President Vol. 50, No. 32 GEORGE WEISWASSER, Editor-in-Chief Friday, August 27, 1948 (Ab 22, 5708) New High School in Northwest After a delay of several years, ground has finally been broken for the badly-needed Samuel Mumford high School at Wyoming and Thatcher avenues. Classes in the first unit are expected to open with the new term in September of next year. It Will accommodate 800 students. The building program calls for extensive up-to-date fac,ilities• to house 2,500 students eventually. Adjoining the building will be a huge athletic field which together with the building will cover 20 acres bounded by Wy- oming, Thatcher, Mendota and Santa Clara avenues. The announcement that building of the long-awaited high school is about to start is of particular interest to the Jewish commu- nity. By the time the complete school is up, it is expected that about 50 percent of the Jews in Detroit will have their homes in the general area served by the school. It is obvious that there is a general move ment of Detroit Jewish families going on from the Linwood-Dexter area to the Six and Seven Mile section. In fact, if more homes were available; the shift would be much swifter and more dramatic. Everyone, it seems, wants to move to the newer areas in the northwest section. Up to now, Central High School has served virtually all Jewish children in the new dis- trict. There are several reasons for this. The most significant, perhaps, is the fact that Central was about as close as any other school, and as long as 'there was a choice, parents felt their children should attend the same classes as their friends in the Linwood- Dexter section. Another reason for Central's popularity is the understandable reluctance of parents to send their children to high school where frictions and hostilities might develop be- cause the Jewish students were few in num- ber and might be subjected to antagonisms from students from bigoted homes. Then there is the wish of all parents that their children should have regular contacts with other Jewish children because of social and religious pressures. Now, with the establishment of a new high school in the heart of the growing northwest section, Jewish parents will no longer be cdnstrained to send their children long dIstances• to Central to be with other Jewish children. Mumford will offer all the facilities of Central eventually alting with large enrollments of Jewish children. - We are inclined to believe that the new school will not be large enough within the next few years to accommodate all the boys and girls who will wish to enroll there. There is a very good chance that building in the area will be more considerable than the average and that the section will become pretty well crowded. The board of education is not sufficiently forward-looking, it seems to us, if it plans a high school for only 2,500 students in that area. We suggest that the Jewish Community Council and organizations in the northwest neighborhood, such as parents-teachers groups and Synagogue sisterhoods, bring to the attention of the board the prospects for an above-average shift of population to the area before the board completes its plans to set up inadequate facilities for the high school boys and girls who will be clamoring to enter Mumford in the next few years. Misery in Cyrus British insistence on holding 12,000 Jews in Cyprus is another example of English du- plicity and vindictiveness. Four thousand of the refugees are women and children. On May 11, just before Britain's "legal" right to imprison Jews on Cyprus ended, the British Foreign Office announced: "Illegal Jewish immigrants into Palestine at present detained in Cyprus will be freed when Bri- tain lays down the Palestine mandate (May 15). Grounds for their detention no longer exist after termination of the mandate." Hesitating to risk the lives of the Cyprus refugees because of the danger from Egyp- tian ships and planes, the Israeli government delayed until its vessels were armed. When the Jewish ships were ready to sail, Britain suddenly decided that no man DETqOIT 26, MICR. of military age could leave the island al- though the UN truce terms had thrown out the military age clause. Count Bernadotte, the UN mediator, said that he had Po objection to the transfer of Jewish men to Israel as long as those of mili- tary age were interned upon their arrival. But Britain refuses to let any more Jews go saying that she was determined to prevent the men from joining the Israeli army. Here we see again an example of British unilateral action in utter contempt of the prerogatives of the UN. Here again is a British move that benefits the Arabs, for while any number of Moslem fighters can cross into Palestine without anyone to say no, there is a barrier set up by Britain for possible aid to Israel even outside the mili- tary field. British cruelties have brought new bitter- ness and desperation to the 12,000 in Cyprus. When ships kept arriving bringing new prisoners or others left with the monthly quota for Palestine, there was something to buoy up the spirits of the refugees. But now there is no such hope and the moot! of the Jews MO are left is a growing one of frustra- tion and despair. Let those who continue to guzzle British SEEK IVAN ALDER Scotch, view 'British films and wear British tweeds remember that they are helping to Dear Editor: make life easier for the barbarians who make Information is being sought life miserable for Jews as a matter of •princi- on Ivan Gordon Alder or Martin on behalf of his wife and six ple. Letters to the Editor `Chutspah' of WJR We Jews have a word to describe the re- quest of MR that the Jewish community in- dorse its petition before the Federal Commu- nications Commission for the right to estabr lisp a television station in the area. The word is "Chutspah." In English, it might be inadequately translated as "nerve" or "gall." WJR's past is not savory as far as the Jewish community is concerned. We shall never forget that it was the downright bigotry of the management and ownership of that station that was responsible for the regular broadcast of the vilest villification of Jews ever heard in public. The station had it in its power to gag the hate-inspired mouthings of Charles Coughlin and bar him from the air, but it callously and arrogantly rejected all pleas of American Jewry and liberal non-Jewish leadership. WJR was in great measure responsible for some of American Jewry's deepest agony in the mercurial thirties. For the reason alone of its bigotry and pitilessness in that era, it does not deserve extension of its broadcasting facilities by an agency that is a guardian of American liberties. But there is another and more timely reason for refusing WJR television rights. WJR's recent record is not clean either. There is ample evidence to support charges against its owner who has been accused of deliber- ate and unconscionable anti-Semitism and other un-American acts. We say 'to the FCC: No, Detroit Jews haven't a good word to say for WJR. HCL in Israel Interesting facts on the economic condi- tion of Palestine were recently released by Dr. Israel Goldstein in his capacity as na- tional chairman of the United Palestine Ap- peal. - The highlights of the situation are: An average Israeli family must have at least $300 a month to maintain its pre-war stand- ard of living; in new building constructions the average rent for a room fluctuates be- tween $30 and $50 per month; retail food prices have risen about 260 percent since 1939 while wages and salaries have risen about 125 to 150 percent. To meet the gap between average earn- ings and expenditures it is imperative that at least two memberS of a family are em- ployed. Even these meager figures emphasize the colossal task facing the new state of Israel in maintaining its economic equilibrium. They also demonstrate what efforts lie ahead for the UPA agencies in their task of adjusting the new arrivals to Israel during the early period of their resettlement. is requested to communicate with the National Desertion Bureau, 105 Nassau Street, New York 7, N.Y. SAMUEL EDELSTEIN, minor children with whom he Assistant Secretary. has failed to communicate or contribute toward their support MAX KAPLAN RESIGNS since February, 1948, as a result of which his family now find Dear Editor: After building the dormitor- themselves in destitute circum- stances and in dire need of his ies, and other work which I have done for the Yeshivath financial assistance. Alder or Martin was born in Chachmey Lublin, I have de- Canada on Aug. 22, 1918. He cided to resign as president of is about 6 ft. 1 in. tall, weighs the Yeshivath Chachmey Lublin. 180 pounds, has brown hair, blue From this day I will not be eyes and is a laborer by occu- responsible for the activities of pation. the Yeshivah. Anyone aware of his location MAX KAPLAN. rinsf oni0i iimosiiinivimoimmusimationitmintiptimmomesimasoimagnriminil Random Thoughts 2k4 By Seyrno tr Tilchin witiorsmommtimm il JOHN of the Britons they accused of espion- R New York Star in an inter- age recently. OBERT ST. view with both Menahem Beigin "I have moral influence with and David Ben Gurion states the them but they are free to make position of each as follows: Said their own decisions. If Jerusalem Beigin on the question of inter- is declared an international city, nal peace: "If a free state is or is given to Abdullah, as the formed here with a free life for British Foreign Office and Count the people, and free political Bernadotte wish, then I am sure competition, there is no possi- Irgun there will continue to bility of armed conflict. We of fight. the Irgun shall never use arms "If they are forced to g6 un- against our fellow Jews unless derground they will do so. But we are forced to. We wish deci- they will still fight." sions to be made by ballots, not • • • bullets. If and when a free elec- PREMIER'S STATEMENT tion is held, we shall abide by SAID BEN .GURION: "This the decision at the polls." man belongs to the school which Said he on the question of partition: "The Irgun will never introduced the rule of the gun recognize it. We would not take Into Jewish life. He has imposed immediate armed action, howev- certain attitudes on a certain er, because this is a dangerous percentage of our population at the point of a gun. moment in Jewish history, our "He is a newcomer to us. He people being surrounded by ene- mies. Instead, we would continue has never shed a drop of sweat to intensify our campaign to in the building up of Palestine. educate the people, especially We are not going to be taken in the youth, on the necessity of by his sophistry. He says Irgun soldiers will refuse to lay down an undivided country." their arms in Jerusalem if the • • • Holy City is not put under Jew- EXCLUDE HOLY CITY ish rule. AS FOR JERUSALEM, he "The foreign policy of any said: "When we agreed to merge state must be indivisible. One our military forces with those cannot defy one's government by of the liaganah into a govern- force of arms in the field of for- ment army, we specifically ex- eign affairs. The Jewish position cluded our troops in Jerusalem in Jerusalem is not for the State because, under the partition of Israel to decide. There must plan, Jerusalem was to be an be no gangsterism. International city outside the "We are also not going to be jurisdiction of the Israeli gov- taken in by Beigin's claim that ernment he has no authority over the "We have today a very con- Irgun in Jerusalem. Beigin and siderable number of our best sol- his followers will be given full diers there. They have their own freedom of action when elections high command. They are not un- are held. der orders from our headquart- "If they win, they can estab- ers in Tel Aviv. I did not know lish an official Israeli policy. If in advance, for - example, of not, then Beigin and his follow- their plan to arrest the five• (Continued on • Page 10)