Thursday, October 10, 1941

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE

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STRICTLY 'CONFIDENTIAL

UJA 'Horror Pictures' on Israel Are Defended

PIIINEAS J. BIRON
O UR GOOD By FRIEND
Carl Alpert posed a very im-

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ortant question the other day in his column in
the "National Jewish Post" and the editor featured
it under the sensational title of "UJA Fund Raising
Promotion Assailed as Libel of Israel."
Carl, who returned recently
from a trip to Israel, maintains that
the UJA "is today engaging in a
campaign of libel and slander
against both the Yishuv and the new
immigrants, and of distortion and
exaggeration in the name of fund-
raising."
Carl says that the UJA promo-
tion is all wet, that Jews do not
give money when presented with a
horror picture of misery.
American Jews gave most when Biron
they were told of the heroism of the Haganah and
about ''a people engaged in a noble and stirring enter-
prise."
And so Alpert remembers with nostalgia the glori-
ous days of the Haganali and the Irgun, when Ameri-
can dollars flowed in to the UJA and everything
connected with Palestine was noble, heroic and
glamorous.
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WE DON'T THINK that UJA publicity suffers from

too much imagination, but we believe that the UJA's
present publicity approach is correct and that our
romantic colleague Alpert engages in day-dreaming.
As a matter of fact, it took the UJA much too
long to reveal to us the critical picture which is Israel
today. Of course a nation being born through sword
and fire is much more stirring than a Jewish State
in existence, muddling through crisis after crisis and
struggling to survive an invasion of 200,000 DP's.
We spoke with a number of objective, trained
observers who studied the present situation in Israel.
They all agreed that the DP camps in Israel were far
from noble enterprises and that the emergency in
which tens of thousands of newcomers find them-
selves is not exactly glamorous.
Once the Jewish State was established a let-down
in American Jewish generosity was unavoidable,
Carl should better resign himself to the bitter
fact that a country at peace, confronted by huge
economic problems cannot be projicted as a romantic
enterprise.
• • •
AN INTERNATIONALLY recognized state can-
not and should not engage in the same kind of rosy
and pollyanna propaganda as the Zionist Organiza-
tion 'had to do for years.
American Jews are entitled to know the truth.
They are sufficiently mature to realize that the State
of Israel is struggling for its very survival on the

Intermarriage Is Blamed
on Spoiled Jewish Girls

By ALFRED SEGAL
A CERTAIN LADY asks to be let in to have het: say in the living
" room discussion on intermarriage that was started in this column
several weeks ago. 4
I have the lady's name and ad- beautiful young lady what she
dress but to print her identity was going to be when she was
would only make trouble among ! graduated from college her an-
her relatives and friends and I swat - was, "Why I don't know.
am not the kind to break up i Do I have to be something?"
families. I Then I asked, "What kind of
So I'll say only that she lives course are you taking?" to which
in Minnesota, though she lives she replied, "I am taking the sub-
In another state
ject I like best. I just want to be
altogether..
educated, and, after all. I don't
It will be re-
have to make my living, you
membered that
know."
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everybody in the
living room had
MUST HAVE MAIDS
been having his
CASE NO. 2: She was the young
say about inter-
wife of a certain professional
marriage .
man. Oh, what troubles she was
this, that and the
having! She just couldn't find a
other thing . . .
proper housekeeper to look after
until at the end
her household . . "I just have
Segal
our old friend
to find a new housekeeper and I
Mr. Zilch popped . • . "Well, but don't know what will happen to
what are we going to do about my house in the meantime .. .
it all?" he asked.
I refuse to scrub floors."
Now the Minnesota lady comes
Case No. 3: There's that very
up with a sharp answer that nice young man who does all
would devastate the whole circle right but he just can't make
of girls she knows if I gave her enough money to pay for all the
name and address. Aware that dresses his wife buys . . . "Her
intermarriage is occurring more parents can afford to buy her the
and more even in the most ortho- best of everything and insist that
dox circles, she has looked into she has only the best. So they
the causes and thinks she has a pay for her clothes. When the
cure.
girl comes home with a bargain
The cure is not so simple. It and her husband is duly proud,
is nothing less than the revolu- her mother finds fault with the
tionary idea that Jewish girls dress and so the girl doesn't
ought to be persuaded to change wear it."
their ways in view of the com-
Case No. 4: The girl was a bride
petition they are getting! Jewish on her honeymoon and her fond
parents should be brought around mother had provided her trous-
to a different, harder way of seau with so many underthings
bringing up their daughters!
that they would last through the
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entire honeymoon trip without a
SHARD TO SATISFY
washday. No need for her to spoil
JEWISH GIRLS early get the her pretty hands at a wash-tub or
idea that in marriage they are is it an electric washer they use
entitled to be supported in the these days? ("Her grandparents
style their grandmothers, Selig, on both sides had been immi'-
never dreamed of.
grants," the Minnesota lady re-
Jewish boys, looking around for marked by the way.)
desirable mates, cast their eyes
The young Jewish husbands are
gratefully on Gentile girls who, gentlemanly boys generally and
as the Minnesota lady says, "have take it all gracefully as part of the
not to be placed on shelves like obligation of matrimony, in ac-
Dresden dolls." They are girls cordance with their upbringing.
who are happy to go fishing with
But there are the younger, un-
their husbands on summer vaca-
tion, to stay at inexpensive sum-
mer resorts, are not afraid to
get their hands dirty if the fishing
is better, if more messy, time."
So intermarriage occurs.
"Jewish families have spoiled
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their children and particularly
their girls," the Minnesota lady
says. "Perhaps because they can
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in their homes, they have raised
their girls to be ladies and not
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economic battlefield which is no less deadly even if
less glamorous than a military battlefield.
Israel's present emergency is too real to permit
smart public relations. It is not a question of this or
that clever copywriter using this or that approach
for the UJA. It is the duty of the UJA to give to
American Jewry an unretouched picture or film of
the tragic days that Israel lives through, now.
The honeymoon in Israel is over, Carl, if we don't
come across with the big money now, we shall be
plagued by a bad conscience for many years to come.
• • •
"WE ARE THOROUGHLY convinced that the
English-Jewish press is tired of being a mere puff-
sheet, a glorification publication for certain 'outstand-
ing' Jewish leaders.
"Unless a newspaper is subsidized, the space for
literature, music, art, science, etc. can be obtained
only by reason of sufficient advertising plus circulation.
"With rate exceptions, our Jewish laymen, busi-
nessmen, merchants and industrialists have main-
tained a 'thumbs down' policy on the English-Jewish
press or have thrown it a bone in a sort of patronizing
gesture."
This excerpt is from an editorial in the Los An-
geles Bnai Brith Messenger of Sept. 30. The edi-
torial marks a new high standard in English-Jewish
independent journalism.

married ones coming up and
looking around with the discre-
tion of boys who know how hard
it is t make ends meet even on
good salaries, nowadays, as every
one knows.

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DON'T ASK TOO MUCH
THEY WANT COMPANIONS,
not dolls to dress . . . "Now the
Gentile girl steps into the pic-
ture," the Minnesota lady says.
She is a girl who has been
brought up in something like eco-
nomic austerity.
"She may have heard something
of the generosity of Jewish young
men as husbands and she is not
averse to the opportunity, And,
besides all, the Jewish young man
is a very decent guy.
"Could any girl in her right
mind turn that down?" the Min-
nesota lady inquires. "Don't
blame the Gentile girl."
No, the lady concludes, it's not
the Jewish boys who need to be
changed ... "Let's ask our Jew-
ish girls to realize that they have
competition and unless they learn
to meet that competition our
Jewish lads will find the answer
to this longing for companionship
anion: the Gentiles."
Is there any one else who
would like to come into the liv-
ing room to continue this dis-
cussion? Maybe some of the girls
will drop in to answer the Minne-
sota lady.

New Series Slated
on 'Eternal Light'

NEW YORK—Margaret Web-
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Jaffe are among the figures of
stage, screen and radio who will
be featured on the Eternal
Light's fifth anniversary series,
a special group of the most pop-
ular Eternal Light productions,
according to an announcement
by the Jewish Theological Sem-
inary of America, under whose
auspices the program is con-
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