Thursday, November 3, 1114II

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE

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STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL

AP Agrees KKK Activit Is Growing • in South

By PHINEAS J. BIRON
FEW WEEKS AGO we chastised a spokesman of
" the Anti-Defamation League for minimizing the
importance of the KKK. Loyal ADL-nicks wrote in to
take exception. The tenor of these various love-notes
were not flattering to your columnist.
• We were called alarmist and made to understand
that the ADL knows best and who
are we to challenge the expert
knowledge of its southern director.
So what happened? On Oct. 22, more
than a week after our blast, the
Associated Press released a story
datelined Atlanta.
The AP correspodent is appar-
ently unimpressed by the ADL
mumbling about the KKK being
nothing but a myth. The AP man
states that a "strong movement.
Biron
spurred by able organizers, is under
way. Klansmen are confident that the long anticipated
Move to unite all Southern Klans will succeed within
the next year." How About That?

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THE ST. LOUIS POLICE Dept. has dropped its
discriminatory classification methods and now claims
that the whole thing was a misunderstanding.
Prof. Abraham A. Fraenkel of the Jerusalem He-
brew University is giving a number of guest lectures
at the Scripts Mathematics Institute at Columbia
University.
The strike of Tel Ativ bakers, which looked very
serious last month was amicably settled.
Louis Lipsky, usually a realistic political thinker,
believes that President Truman intends to do right by
Israel . . . Allewai. We refer the Jerusalem zealots
who tried to stop..Israeli youth from dancing to a
charming poem by Rabbi Louis I. Newman, "Dancing
Pleases God."
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LEO GLASSMAN, daily aumnist in the Ameri-
can Jewish Daily, apparently short of material, tries
his hand at redbaiting.
We are told that President Truman refused to
make a reassuring statement about U.S. policy towards
Israel, notwithstanding appeals by political friends
of former Governor Lehman who would like to refer

in Hebrew and Yiddish. Gor-
geous Lauren Bacall, Bogart's
wife, is Persky's niece .
The story and the legend that
was Stephen S. Wise will long
linger in the memory of all Amer-
icans. His autobiography, "Chal-
lenging Years," just published by
Putnam, will preserve that mem-
ary dish called "Kreplach," the ory.
editors became partners to as
The volume, as his children
nauseating and perverse a piece
Justine Wise Pollier and James
as was ever written.
Waterman Wise say in a biog-

Magazine Is Excoriated
for 'Revolting: Nonsense'

By NATHAN ZIPRIN
F YOU ARE an Orthodox Jew
I
eating ritual is to you what
sacred communion is to a Cath-
olic. And if you happen to be
gazing curiously at Kosher bacon
in the display window of a deli-
catessen store you are actually
at that moment in a sexual trance.
When Jewish men look at the
Kosher bacon some mysterious
force carries them off to the realm
of golden, unrestrained and lus-
cious Shikses. And of course when
a Jewish woman looks at the per-
missible bacon she conjures up a
husky Sheigetz with all the phys-
ical advantages of his tribe.
If this revolting nonsense•hasn't
jarred you enough here is some
more. The reason behind the in-
junction against mixing Milchigs
and Fleishigs in one vessel is
quite simple. It is because their
"union is the sexual act."
• • •
'OFFENSIVE STUFF'
WHAT IS unbelievable about
all this is that it appeared in the
October issue of Commentary,
published by the American Jew-
ish Committee. It is true that,
in its statement of aims, Com-
mentary says that the opinion
and views expressed. by its con-
tribe .,is and editors are not nec-
essarily those of the committee.
But how did a pulYication which
proclaims itself a vehicle for the
advancement of Jewish values
dare carry such offensive and
putrid stuff?
Certainly it was not an over-
sight. By carrying the story in
a corner dedicated to kibbitzing
and then ceowning the filth with
a smug editorial remark that the
scrivener of the article had once
penned a piece about the esoteric
significance of the Jewish culin-

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K. Smith
Inspires Rankin

terald

WASHINGTON (WNS)—A bill
introduced in Congress by Rep.
John E. Rankin, was in fact the
brainchild of Gerald K. Smith,
noted rabble rouser and anti-
Semite.
The bill, introduced on the
last day of the current session,
would outlaw membership in
the Anti-Defamation League,
which Smith called "a sort of
Gestapo organization financed
by the Jewish Bnai Brith."
America's tearing anti-Semite
said he was in Washington to
establish an office "where the
representatives would be quali-
fied under the federal lobby act
for the purpose of encouraging-
and effect* the introduction of
America's leading anti-Semite-
'Christian Nationalist Crusade'."
At the same time he declared
that he was pleased with num-
erous members "of both the
upper and lower houses of Con-
gress."

ORCHIDS TO EDITOR
When a man who has been edi-
tor of an Anglo-Jewish paper for
25 years is honored by his com-
munity he must have more than
deserved it. For strange, as it
seems, our Jewish communities
are not giving these publications
the support they merit. It was
therefore good to learn that David
Weissman, editor of the "Bnai
Brith Messenger" of Los Angeles,
had been honored by the out-
stand leaders of the Jewish com-
munity of his city for 25 years
of devoted and, at times difficult
years of service with the publi-
cation.
David, we would like to tip
off his admirers, was a journal-
istic boy prodigy. He showed
early aptitude for journalism and,
at 15, he was pronounced New
Jersey's youngest editor.
But for ill health which forced
him to leave Newark, he might
now have been a highly success-
ful lawyer.
.Secretly he admits he is hap-
pier in his present surroundings
and this despite the few harsh,
but true, remarks he recently
made about his relationship to
the Anglo-Jewish press and the
Jewish community.
• • •
LIPSKY WRITING
LOUIS LIPSKY is busy writ-
ing a book. It will consist of
sketches of the great Zionist lead-
ers of his day. People who saw
the manuscript say his portraits
of such figures as Herz!. Nordau,
Brandeis, Weizmann and Sokolow
are a revelation . . .
John Hershey has completed
a book on the Warsaw Ghetto.
Before getting down to the task
of actual writing the noted author
surrounded himself with a staff
of choice Jewish researchists
Humphrey Bogart is a nephew
by marriage to Daniel Persky,
current winner of the Louis
LaMed Foundation annual award
for the best works of the year

to such a statement in his present senatorial campaign
speeches in New York.
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A NEW MOVEMENT to oust Henry Montor from
the leadership of the UJA is being not so quietly or-
ganized by Rabbi Silver's friends.
Shalom Asch's new novel "Mary" is climbing the
best seller list rapidly., Incidentally, Ascii is consider-
ing settling in Israel believing that it is his only chance
to get the Nobel prize for literature. The Nobel Prize
Commission believes in awarding its prizes to repre-
sentatives of national cultures.
Ascii although technically an American, cannot be
regarded as a representative of American literature.
After all, he writes in Yiddish and not in English. The
same difficulty faces him if he would revert to his -
Polish status. But as an Israeli he could be rewarded •
as a Jewish writer were it not for the fact that Israeli
men of letters would object to a Yiddish (and not a
Hebrew) author being considered a representative of
modern Hebrew literature—not to speak of Asch's
subject matter which is anathema to religious Israelis.
And so we are doubtful about As•h ever realizing
his dream of becoming a Nobel Prize winner.

raphical note, was written dur-
ing the last year of his life and
under the agony of an incurable
illness. It is a record of the
events through which he lived
and the causes which he cham-
pioned.
• • •
SCOOP CONFIRMED "
OUR PREDICTION some col-
umns ago that Paul Porter would
soon quit the Palestine Concilia-
tion Commission is now a fact.

We said that Porter was dis-
pleased with developments at
Lausanne and that he yielded to
persuasion against immediate res-
ignation.
This is now official. In fact the
story of the resignation confirms
our earlier report of the Presi-
dent's inability to get a successor
because most of those who were
approached weren't at all happy
about the American position on
the Jerusalem issue.

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Mount Zion for more than 400
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