Thursday, August 11, 19411 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE Page Titre- STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL Sweeping Changes Due for Fund-Raising Drives By PIIINEAS J. BIRON HE RECENT CONFERENCE in Israel, participated in by the heads of the UJA and other fund-raising agencies made far-reaching decisions which will be made public later. The most important realization which emerged at this conference is the recognition that the old methods of raising funds for Israel are obsolete and much too petty to answer the needs of the Jewish State. Gradu- ally, within the next few years, the s : methods will be changed. Even the most gigantic campaigns are no longer considered sufficiently dependable and reliable. And you may look forward to revolutionary announcements at the close of this UJA campaign, • • • JAMES WATERMAN WISE'S "Legend of Louise" does not do jus- tice to the personality of his mother, Biron Louise Waterman Wise. It is badly written. Too bombastic and top heavy with flowery, meaningless phrases. Jimmy is a much better writer than he shows in this booklet. A son should never operate on his mother. This is an iron-clad rule in surgery. It should also be applied to literature. That Louise Wise refused a decoration from the British king is interesting and characteristic of Jim- T my's mother. But it is not the most important fact in her biography. Jimmy makes it so and thereby re- duces the stature of Lady Wise. Somebody—no relative—should do a real job and write the life story of the woman who was much more complex and versatile and surely much more progres- sive than James W. Wise's "Legend of Louise" • • • NEXT MONTH the ZOA will sponsor a number of celebrations on the occasion of the centennial of Max Nordau's birth. Nordau died a poor man in Paris in 1923. lie had sacrificed his personal fortune and his career as a top paid journalist and author refusing to give up his active interest in Zionism. He was mistreated by the two leaders of the world Zionist movement, Weizmann and Sokolow be- cause he disagreed with them and objected to their anglophile policy. He never had much confidence in the Balfour Declaration and clamored for a concen- trated action to transplant 600,000 from the Ukraine, Poland and Romania to Palestine. During World War I. he was imprisoned in France (he was an Austrian subject) and when released spent a number of years in exile in Spain. The story of Nordeau, the powerful intellect, the great thinker and beloved writer and physician, with- out whom Herzl's work would have failed, ended tragically. Today even his enemies recognize his pro- phetic vision. Israel Balks Frisch Plan. for U.S. Zionists' Unity In Hi gh P" q By WILLIAM ZUKERMAN (Jewish World News Service) NEW YORK—The outstanding fact of Daniel Frisch's report of his mission to Israel was not his advocacy of the Marshall plan for Israel and of a coalition government of all parties of Israel for a period of three years, but a part of his report which has been gen- ( was sure that he would accomp- erally overlooked. This was the fish them. frank acknowledgment by Frisch ! • • • of the failure of the chief aim A SADDER MAN of his mission—unity and peace between American Zionists and ' THE MAN WHO reported five Israel. The failure. it is true, was weeks later was not a less self- not due to him, but to circurn- confident but obviously a sadder stances and forces above his, or man. Frisch seems to be one of Commander Joshua L. Gold- any one man's control. Neverthe- those eternally hopeful men who have faith in the power of reason berg, who has been named by less, it was a failure. and of words to convince people. the navy as chaplain of the Anyone who was present at the He ardently wanted unity and Third Naval District, the high- press interview five weeks ago est administrative post ever when Frisch, fresh after his elec- peace. Everyone else wanted the tion as ZOA president, was leav- same thing. Why should it not occupied by a Jewish chaplain be accomplished? in time of war or peace. Rabbi ing for Israel and who attended But life seldom works that way, Goldberg is the navy's liaison the interview after his return particularly in our age of strong, officer with the Jewish Wel- could not help being struck by fare Board. the difference in the atmosphere unreasonable emotions which sway people more than reason. between the two. I Frisch went to Israel to get a on this vital question of the next Frisch. before leaving for Is- charter for a number of projects UJA campaign, ended in letting rael, was a hopeful man eagerly looking forward to his journey which the ZOA, under his lead- the Histadrut,. Hadassah and the ership wanted to carry out. He numerous other fund-raising and highly confident of success. He had made unity and peace his did not get that much desired bodies already in the field to con- chief aims as president and he charter. The projects will go on tinue with their old campaigns. and may even succeed, but the And so, Frisch, was obliged, desired cooperation on the part of against his will, to come back to the Israeli leaders did not ma- the United States with a project terialize, that the ZOA should do the same The Israeli government refused that others are doing, start an the charter on the ground that if independent campaign of its own. the ZOA gets such a charter, Instead of greater unity, there others too, would have to get one will be greater division; instead MUNICH—(WNS)—Refusal by (overlooking the fact that others of peace, the future promises Russian authorities to divulge in- already have their charters and dissension and an intensification formation about Jewish commun- have had them for years.). of old quarrels. • • • • • • Ries in the Russian-held zone of Germany has made it impossible NO FUND UNITY EXTERNAL EXPEDIENTS to establish contact with these FRISCH AND THE ZOA want- IT WAS THIS failure of his pet communities, Harry Greenstein, ed a unified control of all fund- projects that has evidently moved adviser on Jewish affairs to the collections for Israel in America. the new ZOA president to come American Military Government, Everybody seemed to want the back with proposals for Israel's said. same thing, yet the big conclave participation in the Marshall Greenstein made the statement in Tel Aviv which was to decide Plan and for a three year po- at a conference of representatives of Jewish world organizations and of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews held at Heidel- berg. The conference was also addressed by John J. McCloy, American high commissioner designate for Germany, and Dr. Eugen Kogon, a liberal German Catholic editor. McCloy voiced the opinion that a new, permanent Jewish com- munity will arise in Germany, while Dr. Kogon advocated that NOW AVAILABLE AT the future German state blot out the Hitler atrocities and estab- lish a friendly relationship with Israel. Greenstein told the conference HAMILTON AVE. that about 57,000 Jews are now living in western Germany and IACK MARKOWITZ Berlin. These will be reduced Assistant Sales Manager further, he said, by an emigra- tion of about 30,000 by the end WILL GIVE YOU UTMOST COURTESY of the year. Approximately 15,- TO 8-2424 000 Jews live in the Russian zone, he estimated. SIGN OF THE TIMES: We read in a newspaper a classified advertisement in which a lady offers to exchange her apartment in Tel Aviv for an apartment in New York. P.S. The lady got scores of replies. • • • BELONGS TO YESTERDAY: The newcomers to Israel are not eager to settle on Kibutzim. They do not show the idealism of yesterday when youngsters came to Palestine to create a new and better formula for collective life. Most of the new immigrants want to do business and preferably not on any kind of farm. • • • THE MAIL BROUGHT us an extraordinary book. The author is Nathaniel Buchwald and the title reads: "Yiddish for Adults." The book describes itself as "a textbook for begin- ners" but it is much more than that. It is the first book of its kind. A very serious, scholarly work. It is not designed to teach pidgin Yiddish. Buch- wald has succeeded in giving a systematic presenta- tion of the fundamentals of Yiddish grammar and idiomatic constructions. For any adult who wishes to learn Yiddish and study the language like any other modern language this is an ideal volume. And what's more it is a fascinating book because it convinces you that Yiddish, contrary to popular con- ception, is not a chaotic language but subject to strict grammatical and syntactical rules. litical truce. Because American Jewry evidently cannot be uni- tied by a mere appeal to reason; because the problems of Israel' are getting more complicated and bigger than before and the pow- ers of American Jewry, smaller and less. effective by division,1 Frisch had to fall back on ex-1 ternal forces, such as the Marshall Plan and United States loans to make up for the other, more de- sirable plans that had failed. CENTER DAY CAMP Registrations are still being ac- cepted for the last session of Camp Habonim. the Center day camp. For registrations, call Miss Deena Zemel, MA. 8400. GAS HEAT FOR YOUR HOME PHONE LEONARD L. 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