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American Jewish Periodical Ca



DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE

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Detroit Jewish Chronicle

Export — Israel's Lifeline

Published Weekly by the Jewish Chronicle Publishing Co., Inc.
WOodward 1-1040
900 Lawyers' Building, Detroit 26, Michigan
SUBSCRIPTION
Year. Single Copies, 10c; Foreign, $5.00 Per Year
53.00 as Per
Entered
Second-class matter March 3, 1916, at the Post Office at
Detroit, Mich., tinder the Act of March 3, 1879
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SEYMOUlt TILCIIIN
Publisher
GERHARDT NEUMANN
NORMAN KOLIN
Editor
Advertising Manager
I Mar, 3, 5111
-
Friday, February 9, 1951

Friday, February 9, 1951

Young and Old
Throng New
Center Daily

By SAUL SIIIEFMAN

Detroit Jewry's youngest land-
mark, the Jewish Community
Center's year-old Davison Branch
provides recreational and cul-
tural opportunities for nearly
3,000 Detroiters every week.
Neighborhood demand exists to
double or triple this program, if
funds and staff permitted, esti-
Fair employment practices measures seem to have been
mated Jacob Keidan, chairman
pushed into the background recently as defense preparations
of Davison operating committee,
present their own weighty problems. It is important, to know,
in his report on the branch's first
however, that the idea of FEPC is by no means dead and that
year.
efforts are being made in Congress as well as in state legislatures
Building of the branch, first
to bring about a sensible solution of this urgent question.
new construction of the Jewish
We are interested in the problem as Jews and as citizens.
Community Center since 1939,
As Jews we ourselves are often enough the victims of job dis-
was made possible by $200,000
crimination. As citizens of an enlightened democracy we are
earmarked in the 1948 Allied
fighting for a society which judges people by their character
This young worker in a plant near Ilaifa helps prepare cotton for Jewish Campaign. It was dedi-
Lsrael's export trade. Cotton products are assuming an increasing cated Jan. 12, 1950.
and abilities, not by their color or creed.
President Truman last month reminded Congress that FEPC
importance among Israel's export goods. Large-scale expansion of
Membership in the new build-
legislation is an urgent must, and 12 Republican senators, under
this and other industries will depend on the three-year develop- ing has passed 1,600, Keidan re-
the leadership of Irving M. Ives of New York, have prepared
ment program being financed by the forthcoming $500,000,000 vealed. Another 1,000 who regu-
a law which will be submitted to a senate committee for further
Israel government bond issue to be floated in the United States larly participate in branch pro-
this year.
consideration.
grams or use its facilities for
The senators who participated in this move—which Ives
play are members at other build-
said was not intended to be a partisan affair—were Wayne Morse
ings or have yet to join.
of Oregon, Leverett Saltonstall and Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. of
The new building's facilities
Massachusetts, Robert C. Hendrickson of New Jersey, William
for meetings and assemblies have
Langer of North Dakota, Homer C. Capehart and William E.
been used by more than 100 out-
Jenner of Indiana, Edward Martin and James H. Duff of Penn-
side organizations.
sylvania, Margaret Chase Smith of Maine and Charles W. Tobey
YOUNGSTERS BENEFIT MOST
of New Hampshire.
in
the
Christian
Teenagers and boys and girls
was
published
recently
Michigan residents will notice with interest the absence'
The following article
piece is
of grade school age have ben-
of the name of Sen. Homer Ferguson who promised several
Science Monitor. The information contained in this
we unfor-
efited most from programs at the
times to back an FEPC measure, but again found it expedient
the type of honest reporting about Israel, of which
report
on
Mapam
new branch, supervisor Samuel
Teller's
that
We
believe
tunately see so little.
to absent himself.
Neuschatz pointed out.
clearer picture of the political
a
get
our
readers
to
help
will
In Michigan, it seems, interest in FEPC is on the increase.
Twenty friendship clubs for
Jewish
state.—Ed.
situation
in
the
The Governor's message to the legislature devoted more than a



teenagers are housed and 17 for
page to it. Since little has been published about it, it is worth-
By J. L. TELLER
boys and girls, 6-12. Seven scout
while quoting some of the essential sentences from the message:
NTIWESTERN attitude, socialist radicalism, and mount- troops are sponsored by the
A
"The present threat to our freedom emphasizes the need
/A- ing friction among its leaders have sharply reduced the branch.
for legislation to protect civil rights and insure equal oppor-
Special activities include arts
number of followers of Israel's left-wing Mapam Party.
tunities for all, regardless of creed, color or national origin.
and crafts and dance classes for
Mapam
took
a
real
nose
dive*
"There are two basic reasons why this question is intimately
when it dropped from the second! faction of firm egrarian collec- both age groups. Teen-age inter-
related to the defense effort:
place it had secured in the parlia- tivists within the moderate So- ests are served in clubs practic-
"In the first place, full participation of every citizen in the
ing dramatics, photography and
mentary elections of 1949 to cialist Mapai Party.
values of democracy is essential to the maintenance of our
journalism. A choral group and
• •

is
ammu-
fourth
place
in
the
municipal
discrimination
stamp club enroll the age group
apirttual defenses. Racial and religious
elections last November.
FAVORING A STRONG social-
from 10-13.
nition for the enemy.
Its
scoring
among
the
Jewish
program
domestically
and
ist
"Secondly, the best skills of every worker will be needed
The crafts room and the
electorate
in
Israel
has
been
even
anti-imperialism
as
foreign
policy,
in the production of defense materiel. The optimum use of
photography darkroom were
poorer
than
the
above
record
Achdut Avoda's leaders, by and equipped through the generosity
manpower requires that employment be on a basis of compe-
shows. The party managed to re- large, honestly believed in neu-
tence, skill and experience, and not on a basis of religion, an-
coup some of its losses among the trality in the East-West cold war. of Max J. Kogan.
cestry or color.
Jews by picking up a sizable
It took long before Achdut SELF-GOVERNING COUNCIL
The lounges, which serve the
"I therefore commend to your attention, as I did to the
chunk of the Arab vote.
Avoda realized that its partner,
previous legislature, the enactment of a state Fair Employ-
A breakdown of the munici- the Hashomer Ilatzair faction in various age groups as meeting
ment Practices law patterned on the law which has been
pal elections shows that Ma- Mapam which has long been a places and centers of informal
in successful operation in the state of New York."
pam's electoral strength among Soviet apologist, was leading the play, are always well thronged.
Jews was strongest among re- party toward a pro-Soviet orien- The teen lounge and the games
The Michigan legislature did not let the governor's words
room are governed by rules laid
cent arrivals — the jobless, tation.
go unheeded. A few well-meaning Republicans brought in a
houseless, and politically still
proposed amendment which reads as follows:
Achdut Avoda also became down by their own teen-elected
uniformed—but had declined aware that in maneuvering for council. These councils and all
"Any person, firm or corporation, public or private, who
sharply among integrated new political advantage, Mapam's ex- other teen groups which meet at
shall deny employment to any person by reason of color, race
immigrants. It was weakest tremists almost torpedoed His- the branch send delegates to the
or creed, except as the right of selection of employes may be
among old settlers.
limited by any laws or regulations of this state or the United
tadrut, Israeli's Mapai-controlled overall teen house council.
Meeting places for younger
Mapam's astounding setback labor federation and to the detri-
States or any regulation made pursuant thereto, shall be guilty
has had already and will continue ment of the worker, sabotaged children are the quiet games
of misdemeanor."
to have far-reaching effects on even the most acceptable gov- room and the pre-teen lounge.
Such a bill would be completely unsatisfactory, and through
All age groups play in the out-
Israel's domestic and foreign ernmental economic policies.
the efforts of the Michigan Committee on Civil Rights, in co-
policy. Prime Minister David
doors.
operation with the Jewish Community Council, the proposal has
What alarms moderate mem-
Day Camp Freilach, which is
Ben Gurion, the Mapai (mod-
been held up for revision.
bers
of
Mapam
most
is
the
sponsored by the branch, served
erate socialist) chieftain of a coa-
The bill in its present form would leave enforcement of the
lition cabinet, has hitherto been party's estrangement from the 384 children last summer. As
law in the hands of the prosecuting attorney and might lead
forced to chart a careful course masses, as shown in the muni- many more are served by group
to an intensification of racial tensions.
cipal elections, and mounting
in his foreign and domestic pol- public distrust of Mapam's activities in the building during
What is needed is a bill which also provides for educa-
icies so as not to risk losing labor loyalties to the state and Zion- winter and spring vacations.
tional measures and state arbitration. Experience in FEPC
A nursery s c h o of program,
votes to the opposition Mapam ism. This distrust was striking-
states has shown that almost none of the discrimination eases
which will be self - sustaining
Party.
had to be taken into court but could be settled by discussion
ly
demonstrated
in
recent
days.
• s
through members' fees, will open
and persuasion.
B'terem, a leading Israeli so- Feb. 14. Mrs. Mildred Freedman
MAPAM
DENOUNCED
the
It is hoped that further talks with the legislators will induce
wide gamut of government policy. cialist fortnightly, published two is supervisor.
them to incorporate these features in their bill before it is
Parents' committees meet reg-
It pounced with wrath on Israel's articles in which the writer pro-
submitted for committee hearings. A phony FEPC bill is the
posed that Mapam members be ularly at the Branch to discuss
endorsement
of
UN
intervention
last thing we would like to see in Michigan.
in Korea, and reached a high barred from the civil service and and plan their children's club
pitch in vituperation when Is- from key army posts. They have, programs. Other adult groups
rael's UN delegation cast its vote in fact, been all but forced out which meet at the Center in-
in favor of the so-called Acheson of army posts in the past two clude mothers' clubs, golden age
and friendship groups. Classes,
We are wondering whether the Delegates Assembly of the
proposals to circumvent the So- years.
• • •
concerts, art exhibits, and dance
Jewish Community Council was right when it reversed the
viet veto in the Security Council.
WHILE SOME of Achdut groups are housed at the branch.
Israel's application for and ac-
decision of the executive to join in a welcome to Ernst Reuter,
ceptance of United States loans Avoda's leaders are reportedly
mayor of Berlin and a leading socialist in western Germany.
OPERATING COMMITTEE
The argument of the opposition was that Reuter's political
were greeted by Mapam with the contemplating a break and seek-
Members of the Davison oper-
charge that Ben-Gurion had ing to rejoin the moderate, pro- ating committee, in addition to
record was not clear at all and that Jews can no longer dif-
linked Israel to the Marshall western Mapai, the pro-Soviet ex- Keidan, include:
ferentiate between good and bad Germans.
Plan instead of tying the coun- tremists in Mapam have been
It is a difficult question, and there are powerful arguments
Mrs. Samuel Aaron, chairman,
try's economy, through barter harrassed by the tiny Communist teen program committee; Mrs.
in favor of both sides. As Jews we are in no position to "frater-
agreements, to the "people's de- Party's charges that Mapam's Sidney Shevitz, chairman, junior
nize" with the German people, although it is clear that a great
antiwestern orientation is a feint. program committee; Mrs. Shev-
mocracies" of eastern Europe.
many of them had no part in the mass murders of the Nazis.
Ben Gurio n, for tactical
Nearly all observers are agreed itz and Mrs. George Blumen-
On the other hand, we are doubtful whether Jews can
reasons, could not completely dis- that Mapam has passed its peak stock, co-chairmen, library com-
afford to use the formula "guilt by association," which is
regard Mapam's criticism. But the and should no longer disturb the mittee; and Mesdames A. J. Al-
exactly the sort of thinking used by the anti-Semites against us.
municipal elections showed him architects of Israel's foreign pol- per, William Avrunin, Cyril
It is a dangerous weapon. If we combat this indiscriminate
that his policy reflects the will icy.
Miles, Messrs. Benjamin Chinitz,
method while it is being applied against us but use it ourselves
of the overwhelming majority of
when we believe that it serves our purposes, we are laying
It is a fact that Mapam has Norman Drachler, Louis Hand-
the electorate. Consequently, his been outlawed along with all ler, Sander Hellman, Walter
ourselves open to charges of "dual morality."
policy of a neutrality friendly to other Zionist parties in the Herz, Maxwell Lowe, Saul
A leading German rabbi, Dr. Leo Baeck, who spent several
the west has become less inhibit- "people's democracies."
Schwartz and Dr. Benjamin
years in the concentration camp of Theresienstadt until he
ed by internal factors.
Stammel.
was liberated by the Allied troops, said some time ago that
When
the
U.S.S.R.
declared
Meantime, friction in Mapam
Professional staff members in-
despite his fate he could not hate the German people or con-
ranks has increased. Formed Zionism illegal, soon after the clude Neuschatz; Bill Rosenthal,
demn them collectively, because it was up to God alone to
shortly before the establishment 1917 Revolution, members of assistant supervisor in charge of
pass final judgment.
of Israel, Mapam is a merger of Hashomer Hatzair, now Mapam's teen program; Ted Goldberg.
We feel that this attitude is more in keeping with Jewish
three groups. The strongest com- extreme pro-Soviet faction, were program assistant, directing jun-
tradition than the sweeping rejection of all Germans as bad
ponent numerically is the group the first Zionists to be banished ior program; and Mrs. Mildred
while we still have an opportunity to win the liberal and
which had long constituted, un- to Siberia, wherefrom they never Freedman, nursery supervisor.' '
friendly elements in Germany—and there are such elements—
the name Achdut Avoda, a returned.
der
over to our tide.

FEPC—a Phoney or Honest Law?

Radicalism, Inner Split
Erode Mapam's Ranks



Let's Face Realities

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