1 t rage Four t 1 1 if it DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE Detroit Jewish Chronicle Published by the Jewish Chronicle Publishing Co., Inc. 2805 Barium Tower, Detroit 26, Michigan WOodward 1-1040 SUBSCRIPTION: $3.00 Per Year, Single Copies, 10c; Foreign, 0.00 Per Year lIntered as Second-cla• matte: March 3, 1916, at the Post Office at Detroit, Mich., under the Act of March 3, 1879 SEYMOUR TILCIIIN, President Vol. 51, No. 5 GEORGE WEISWASSER, Editor-in-Chief Friday, February 4, 1949 (Shvat 5, 5709) DETROIT 26, Mich. Friday, February 4, 4949 Ilatelers G(lift, Strength t oms friA:- a ant!' , ° :17, 5 rt. n iv areal7t t.naett. re v1v ta n enrttt iv:n ,6e tec irio., :a: tettoet. 1;1 .tU 0t rhe :e .. 0 t t : udipnseuistbeVec;?-13 el, a tt th at era s"4 :em , ee5 C 011 abo._ aetineets n b a:r e t r i e e r a t o e rn than at any time more Harbor; rating ome Pea since P In Brief . . . That shrewd, power-hungry man who rules the Detroit Jewish community—Isi- dore Sobeloff—outlined his plans to grab more power at a meeting with the boys the other day. Sobeloff, at the meeting, was flushed with importance. He had just re- turned from the annual conference of the Council of Federations and Welfare Funds where the national 20, 30 and 40 thousand dollar a year welfare boys slapped him on the back for the good job he has been doing in usurping most of the civic controls while the representatives of the people, the lead- erless and bewildered Jewish Community Council, sat on their hands doing nothing. Name almost any branch of community endeavor—education, health, immigration, Palestine, and what not—Sobeloff is the man who really gives the orders. "In 1949", he told the Detroit Service Group, made up of Jewish leaders in industry and the pro- fessions, "you men who give the bulk of the money should take over more controls while the community is still grateful for your big contributions." Where is there honest and courageous leadership in the community to challenge this arrogant, un- American program? * * * Seed a Speaker? Do you need a speaker for your organiza- tion's next meeting? The Jewish Chronicle, as a service to the community, will be glad to provide you with a speaker or suggest where you can get one without any trouble. Call the Chronicle at WO. 1-1040, prefer- ably on Thursdays and Fridays. * * * Kosher Meat Prices New complaints of Detroit housewives over high Kosher meat prices are again putting the Jewish Community Council on the spot. Actually, the Council can do very little about the whole matter except to remonstrate with the butchers if their in- vestigation should determine that they are indeed to blame for the differential between Kosher and non-Kosher meat costs. The Council, as it is today constituted, has little disciplinary authority. In any case, we pre- dict that the Council will find, as it did In its 1947 investigation that high prices are due to the greed of some of the butchers, and chiefly to the buying habits of the Jew- ish homemaker who looks with disdain on anything in the Kosher meat line that isn't a steak, chop or beef roast. Butchers should not be expected to assume losses because of their customer's finicky habits and de- mands for special attention and services. At the same time, it would be wise fog the butchers to police their own ranks lest the women be provoked enough to institute a buyers' strike, which alone would make the butchers toe the line. * * * Labor Wins in Israel • Results of the first Israeli national elec- tion show that the Socialist-Labor Party, Mapai, has received the largest percentage of votes, 35 percent; the left-wing Labor Party, Mapam, 15 percent; the Religious bloc, 12 percent; the Freedom Party, 11 per cent; General Zionists, 5 percent; Progres- sive Zionists, 4 percent; the Communist Party, 3 percent; the Sternists, 1 percent. The remaining 14 percent was divided among the other parties. In other words, the present coalition government, under the leadership of the Socialist Labor party, remains in control. This is what has been generally expected. The Jewish State is not something that happened accidentally. It is a growth of more than a generation that has now ripened into a political body. The seed from which it grew up was the So- cialist Labor movement and it was quite natural that the ripe fruit should be that of labor. Mapai and its left-wing Mapam to- gether control more than half of the new Jewish State numerically and also in spirit. This is how the Jewish State was conceived after the World War I and this is how it has turned out to be. * * * Bevin's Brew for Arabs Divest it of its double-talk, and the state- ment made by Bevin in Commons last week on the Palestine issue can be reduced to a simple equation—Bevin hopes for a renewal of warfare so that he can maneuver Britain into succoring the Arab aggressors. When Bevin said Britain would find it "very diffi- cult to stand by indifferent or inactive" if fighting broke out again, he was not trying so much to impress his Arab friends with the sanctity of British treaty obligations as to give them a green light and prod them into breaking the silence which has been reigning the past weeks over the Palestine fronts. His intention was to concoct a brew for the Arabs, guide them into intoxication and tran them in his vise. Britain's recog- nition of Israel does not change the picture. Another disturbing factor in Bevin's statement was the claim that if there are alterations in the partition plan there would have to be a reciprocal exchange of terri- tory. The implications of this assertion \are dangerous, particularly in the light of Presi- dent Truman's pledge against mutilating the territorial integrity of Israel. Bevin has uttered many untruths the past few weeks and we would not be. surprised if his in- volvement of the .President is in the same category. However, we would feel better if our President publicly disassociated himself from Bevin's political web and proceeded with implementing his promise to give full de jure recognition to Israel after the elec- tion. * * * Proskauer Resigns Montor Dispute Grows in Factional Wrangling By WILLIAM ZUKERMAN (Jewish World News Service NEW YORK—The storm rag- ing within the UPA har -not abated this week. If anything, it has increased in force and is rapidly approaching the stage of a hurricane. The trouble still revolves around Henry Montor, although it now takes the form of a fight around Henry Morg- enthau's chairmanship of the UJA. Morgenthau, it now appears, has laid down the reinstate- ment of Montor as head of the UPA as a condition for his ac- ceptance of the chairmanship. This has incensed the leaders of the ZOA who see it an out- rage of the democratic principle and an attempt by non-Zionists to foist upon them as director a person who many of them have come to dislike intensely and with whom they could no longer work because of emo- tional reasons, even if they agreed to do so for rational reasons. The American Jewish Committee has changed presidents, but not programs or leadership. Judge Joseph Proskauer has withdrawn from the presidency and Jacob Blaustein has been elected to take his place. The new and the retiring presidents belong to the same social and financial brackets of Jewish society and both reflect the mind and trends of the Jewish higher middle- • • • class in the United States. That class, like THE ENTIRE executive com- most others of Jewish society, has recently mittee of the Palestine section become more conscious of its Jewishness, of the Jewish Agency of Pales- although its definition of that term is very tine has traveled from Jerus- vague and indefinite. It strongly supports alem to New York to try to the Jewish State in words and deeds, but settle the controversy before it insists that its members are first of all ruins the 1999 campaign of the American Jews and their homeland is the UJA. United States. This is the stand also of The ZOA leaders object to American Zionism as formulated by Dr. the action of the Palestine sec- Emanuel Neumann. The difference between tion of the Jewish Agency in- in purely American the AJC and the ZOA is now only one of terferring Zionist affairs. On the other emphasis, not of principle. The new presi- hand, the Labor Zionists dis- dent of the AJC has promised to follow in agree with the ZOA leadership the footsteps of the old. on this point. * * * `Double Loyalty' The question of double loyalty has been raised again by the American Council for Judaism through a speech by the Rev. Henry Sloan Coffin, a prominent liberal Protestant theologian and a great friend' of the Jews, delivered at a luncheon meeting of the council. The speech had a note of alarm in it which does not seem to be justi- fied at the present moment. "I beg of you, as Americans and as representatives of a great spiritual community, to keep your heads and stand fast on the America pat- tern. This is your homeland and not over- seas somewhere", Dr. Coffin warned. In view of the declaration of the American Jewish Committee of this week and of the stand of the ZOA, the alarm seems to be over-emphasized, at least now. The fact is that the emergence of Israel seems to have clarified the question of double loyalty more than it has ever been, and because of this, the danger of it is smaller than ever before. Baruch Zuckerman, the pres- ident of the Labor Zionist Or- ganization, stated his position on the controversy at a press conference. The gist of it was that he and the Labor Zionists do not like working with Montor any more than do Neumann and Dr. Silver, but the interests of the UJA campaign are above personal likes and dislikes. Without Montor, there is no Morgenthau; without Morgan- thau, the UJA campaign will be a failure, wherefore the Labor Zionists are for the reinstate- ment of Montor. • • • FACTIONAL BATTLE THIS VIEW IS shared also by a number of leading General Zionists high in counsels of the Israeli government, who do not belong to the "dissident" group, but who claim that the Jewish Agency for Palestine Is the highest authority in the world Zionist movement and that the American Zionists, therefore, must abide by'its decisions whe- ther they like them or not. To an average non-party Am- erican Jew, the entire affair seems incomprehensible despite the profound emotions that it seems to evoke. How loyal Zionists, who have devoted their lives for their cause, should, at the last and most critical moment of its ca- reer, choose to jeopardize its chances for success because oif an internecine struggle which has all the earmarks of a per- sonal or party struggle for pow- er and position, seems almost in- credible. Nevertheless, this is the case. What is going on in the WA now is a struggle not between Zionists and non-Zionists, but be- tween parties within the Zion- ist movement itself. I Curb on Anti-Social Jews Advocated by Chicago Rabbi I CHICAGO — The American Jewish community should apply sanctions on those Jews who be- have in a way to reflect dis- credit on it, a Chicago conserv- ative Rabbi suggested, the Jew- ish National Post said. "Jews who misbehave offer ready-made ammunition to anti- Semitism," Rabbi Henry Fisher of Bnai Zion Synagogue, told his congregation. "It is inevitable that any minority group depends for its survival upon the good- will of the majority. Rabbi Fisher said that Jewish history supplies precedents for Jewish communal punishment of anti-social behavior by Jews. Ile maintained that even without re- sorting to excommunication, Rab- bis always wielded enough pow- er to induce individulas to co- operate with the community. The implementation of his pro- gram would require a new code of conduct said Rabbi Fisher, who is treasurer of the Chicago Rabbinical Association. Such a code, he proposed, would explain what constitutes punishable mis- conduct and would provide meth- ods of dealing with it. He suggested that active anti- Zionists and fund dodgers, should feel the wrath of the community.