American Jewish Periodical Ca • DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE Page 4 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 ----- 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