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American ,7ew1sh Periodical OM

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE

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Detroit Jewish Chronicle

A Community's Good-By

Published Weekly by the Jewish Chronicle Publishing Co., Inc.
WOodward 1-1040
900 Lawyers' Building, Detroit 26, Michigan
SUBSCRIPTION
$3.00 Per Year. Single Copies, 10c; Foreign, $5.00 Per Year
Entered as Second-class matter March 3, 1916, at the Post Office at
Detroit, Mich., under the Act of March 3, 1879

SEYMOUR TILCHIN
Publisher
GERHARDT NEUMANN
NORMAN KOLIN
Editor
Advertising Manager
II Adar 29, 5711
Friday, April 6, 1951

The Arab Squeeze

As we reported in last week's issue, the Arab League
has set up an office in Cairo to devise ways of tightening
the Arab blockade of Isiael. The reasons for this action
are, ironically enough, not that Israel is trying to increase
its exports to Arab countries, but that more and more
Arabs are attempting to smuggle goods into Israel.
Quite naturally: they have a better market there than
in any other Near East country.
However, the Arab blockade must not be taken
lightly. It puts an undue strain upon Israel's economy,
since the Arab countries are the primary outlet for Israeli
production. The closing of the Near East area to Israeli
products forces the Jewish state to compete with higher
developed industries in more advanced areas of the world,
which is a superhuman task for a country of Israel's
size and stage of development.
Israel's main export product are still oranges, most
of which are sold in Great Britain and some other Euro-
pean countries. However, Israel is trying to build up
other industries in order to have a greater variety of ex-
port possibilities.
The main obstacle is, of course, the high price on
Israeli goods. In many instances, the United States or
other large producers can supply the same goods at a far
cheaper price than Israel, although the shipping dis-
tance is greater.
The only answer to this problem is a modernization
of Israel's economic structure. The introduction of mod-
ern machinery, distasteful as it may be at first to labor,
will in the long run prove beneficial to Israel's economy.
It is the only way to increase production at lower costs,
to create more needs and greater buying power, and to
export at prices that will sell these products.
Under the new Point Four agreement between the
United States and Israel it should be simple to work out
a plan to build up Israel's economy.
The export industries of Israel should call in experts
from the United States to determine what should be done
to overhaul and modernize production methods. In fact,
we have been waiting too long now for an economic plan,
under which a course is charted for the future.
Israel, like any other young country, needs such a
blueprint urgently to show that it is trying hard to
emancipate itself from charity. History, past and pres-
ent, proves that small countries can live independently
and even become rich.

JWF Annual Meeting

The annual meeting of the Jewish Welfare Federa-
tion to be held next Monday at the Jewish Community
center is a most important event in the life of Detroit's
Jewry, and the "stockholders" of the Federation — that
is, all those who contribute to the Allied Jewish Cam-
paign — cannot be urged too strongly to attend the meet-
ing and exercise their right of choosing the new officers.
The Federation is our integrated fund-raising agency,
but it must be recognized that through its efforts it is
doing more than just that: it is keeping Jewish life going.
The care for the aged, for the newcomers, for the young,
and scores of other functions of local importance are not
just money affairs, but the expression of a social respon-
sibility which rests heavily upon the shoulders of every
Jew in this city.
No one, therefore, can afford to stand aside. Milton's
famous verse, "They also serve who only stand and wait,"
does not apply to our situation. Detroit Jews are raising
millions of dollars each year for overseas, national and
local purposes, and they consequently ought to be con-
cerned about the leaders who are selected to speak for
them and to make decisions which affect the whole
Jewish
community.
-. A large
turnout at the meeting, therefore, is as de-
sirable and pressing as a large vote in any other demo-
cratic process. If we want democracy in our community,
we will have to stop paying lip service and take an active
part in our communal life.

FEPC on the March

A new draft of an FEPC bill in Michigan has been
worked out by Judge Louis C. Cramton, Republican state
representative from Lapeer, in cooperation with the
Michigan Committee on Civil Rights.
The new bill is patterned closely after the New York
law and much more acceptable than the bill drafted
several weeks ago. It would set up a fair practices board
as a division of the state's department of labor and in-
vest enough authority in the board to make the law
stick.
The Jewish Community Council, along with a num-
ber of civic organizations, has pledged its support for a
law guaranteeing job equality in Michigan.
We hope that the upper house will follow the in-
itiative of the house of representatives and introduce
Michigan
a similar measure. An industrial state like
needs an FEPC law if it wants to avoid racial tensions.

Friday, April 6, 1951

Book on Art
Brings Jewish
History to Life

By RABBI LEON FRAM
Temple Israel

ANCIENT HEBREW ART by
A. A. Reifenberg (Schocken
Books, New York, 174 pp., $5).

All of us, lovers of the Jewish
book, have long been indebted to
"Schocken Books" for the beau-
tiful works they have been pub-
lishing on Jewish literature, the-
ology, folklore and history.
This book on "Ancient Hebrew
Arts" is the most beautiful book
they have yet published. There
is something wonderful about
the very conception of the book.
Detroit boys about to depart from Fort Wayne Induction Center
For the first time, we have
are cheered by Jewish women cooperating with/the Armed Forces
Committee of the Jewish Welfare Board. A snack bar and lounge, gathered together between the
pictured above, are sponsored by the Detroit USO. Each Monday covers of one volume, the out-
a different Jewish organization mans the lounge. Training for standing examples of Jewish art
supervisors are, left to right, Mesdames Nathan Kanterman, Samuel from the earliest antiquity
Arkin, Sidney Berman and Sylvia Gunsberg. Jewish groups de- through the Roman period.
These illustrations are brought
siring to participate should call TR. 5-8400.
together from many museums
scattered throughout Europe,
Asia, Africa and America.
The author, Prof. A. A. Reif-
enberg of the Hebrew University
in Jerusalem, is an archeologist
of note who is the discoverer as
well as collector of many of the
HE STATE OF ISRAEL $500,000,000 bond issue, which several hundred specimens of
will be launched officially on Israel's third birthday, is Jewish art illustrated in this
entirely
new form of American aid to Israel. It is based book.
an
The unique achievement of the
on the fact that Israel has advanced to the point where it can work, however, is that it weds
invite investment on the same basis as any other growing history to art. The works of art
country or any expanding business concern.
depicted here become exciting
because they are seen as stages in
Unfortunately, philanthrophic 4--
contributions through the United I In the case of bonds, every the dramatic development of
Jewish Appeal are entirely inade-1 cent invested in the state of Is- Jewish history.
History is vitalized because it
quate to meet the growing eco- rael will be re-paid with interest.
In both cases, a great humani- is seen as a continuous act of cre-
nomic needs of Israel. At the
ation recorded and crystallized
present time Israel must import a tarian endeavor is served.
minimum of $250,000,000 worth of
A primary reason that Israel in forms of beauty. How thrill-
goods a year. Its annual exports needs extensive financial aid from ing it is to read the inscription
total $50,000,000. This wide gap I America is the vast flow of immi- of the pool of Siloam and to see
cannot possibly be bridged by I gration to the Jewish state. More the picture illustrating the high
than 520,000 immigrants have en- adventure the words describe.
philanthropic dollars.
Here the reader participates in
There is neither conflict nor tered since the state was pro- the act of history by seeing its
competition between the United claimed; an additional 600,000 are raw material out of which his-
Jewish Appeal and the Israel expected during the next three
tory is formed.
bond issue. In fact, they com- years.
Equally exciting is the discov-
Israel envisions an unprece-
plement each other. United
ery
of the variety of forms Jew-
Jewish Appeal philanthropic dented industrial and agricultural
art takes and the strange
dollars and bond issue drive expansion during the coming ish
places it has been dug up.
three-year
period
to
absorb
its
investment dollars come from
Mosaics, carvings, frescos, work
different sources and are direct- new citizens and to achieve a real in ivory, bone, glass, metal and
ed to different purposes.
• stone cain and seals, stamps and
• • •
lamps—to the lay reader all this
CONTRIBUTIONS MADE to
is a delightful voyage of ex-
the United Jewish Appeal are
ploration.
tax-free and deductible on U. S.
The journey takes him to such
income tax returns. The United
LOS ANGELES—(WNS) — eerie places as catacombs, caves,
States allows a deduction up to Judy Holliday, winner of the tombs and excavations, but the
15 per cent of an individual in- Oscar Award for the best per- reader is undeterred, for he
come for charitable contributions. formance by an actress in 1950, senses from the beginning that he
The bond issue, on the other was born Tuvim. Her father is is being guided by an expert who
hand, invites private investments. a prominent New York Zionist. knows how to bring out the warm
On a contribution, no return is
She received the award for human interest in the results of
expected except the moral satis- her performance in the film the archeologist's drudgery.
faction which is derived from giv- "Born Yesterday," a role she
The book will have a practical
ing.
created on Broadway several value for the many American
years ago.
Jews who are now engaged in
the projects of building, rebuild-
degree of economic self-suf- ing and decorating synagogues,
ficiency. The country has the re- temples and other institutional
sources and the manpower to structures.
How do you give a room an
achieve this expansion; all that is
GOETEBORG, Sweden—A required is the necessary capital. authentic Jewish atmosphere? By
• •
a liberal use of the Mogen David?
clockmaker who helped 36,000
It is a remarkable fact that in
persons escape the Nazis and
AT THE CONFERENCE of all the 200 illustrations of ancient
find a new way of life, brushed American Jewish leaders held in Jewish art given in this volume,
tears from his eyes when dele- Jerusalem last fall, Israel's prime
gations from 15 nations honored minister, David Ben Gurion, pro- the Mogen David does not once
him on his 70th anniversary.
posed a four-point program of appear.
Obviously, the Shield of David
For Julius Huettner, who American aid to Israel, including
helped refugees for 25 years, it the United Jewish Appeal, grants- is a relatively recent accretion to
was a day never to be forgot- in-aid by the U. S. government, Jewish art forms. On the other
ten. Thousands paid tribute to a private investment, and a state hand, the swastika does appear
as a Jewish design.
man who tirelessly aided vic- of Israel bond issue.
How frustrating it would have
tims of Nazi concentration camps
This program received the sup-
and sent 20,000 of them to the port of the Americans who were been to Hitler to know that even
his pure Aryan swastika could
United States.
present and was later unanimous-
Goeteborg was decorated for ly endorsed by a conference of be proven to have been of Jewish
birth.
the celebration.
1,600 American Jewish commun-
To digress no further, this book
Huettner began fighting the ity leaders in Washington.
on Ancient Hebrew Arts will
terror or Nazism in 1933 when
Israel's bond issue represents provide us with a welcome va-
Hitler got power in Berlin. He
cooperated with the Swedish the largest single source of riety of suggestions for forms, de-
Red Cross and the Mosaic So- funds in this four-point pro- signs, and symbols to confer an
ciety in helping Jews and others gram. Unlike philanthropic authentic Jewish atmosphere on
escape from German concentra- funds, money derived through a room or a building.
the bond issue will be invested
Among the designs found on
tion camps to Sweden.
When the first Jewish refu- exclusively in productive enter- the creations of Jewish art de-
gees from Germany came to prises which will yield a good picted here are grape clusters,
Sweden, Huettner opened his return and help Israel to over. pomegranates, palm leaves, Eth-
house to them, fed and clothed come its present excess of im- rogim, censers, rosettes, lions,
doves, signs of the Zodiac, cher-
them and used his personal for- ports over exports.
The bond issue marks the open- ubim, sun discs, and scrolls, sho-
tune to send them along to the
United States and other coun- ing of an era of economic matur- farim and many more.
Prof. Reifenberg's research is
ity for the state of Israel. The
tries.
Later he organized other economic development which will bound to exert a profound influ-
wealthy busines men and to- be made possible by the bonds, ence on contemporary Jewish art
goes be-
gether they supported the Swed- will solidify Israel's role as the expression. His work
account of the
fascinating
yond
the
en-
in
key
industrial
nation
ish Red Cross in its refugee
Jewish
da
tire Middle East.
work.

Israel Bond Issue Rests
on Confidence in State
T

Film Oscar Goes
to Jewish Actress

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Friend Hailed

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