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Big Roman Statile
Toinvl hi Israel
JERUSALEM — (WNS) —
A
giant 11.- man statue, described as
a "startling discovery in the an-
nal of Palestine archeology" has
been uncovered by the settlers of
Sdot Yam, a site located near
the ancient Roman port of
Caesarea.
The statue, dressed in the
garb of ancient Rome, is executed
in red porphyry and is double
life size. Experts from the go-
vernment's department of an-
tiquities are investigating the
figure which was discovered be-
tween an ancient Roman hippo-
drome and the wall of the munici-
pal hall.
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Friday, April 20, 1951
Truth Is the Best Weapon
Against Evil of Prejudice
By RABBI C. E. HILLEL KAUVAR
THESE DAYS, the American public is prejudice-conscious. The President's Commission on
T N Civil
Rights has focused national attention on the injustice that is being perpetrated on
minority groups. Prejudice may be defined as "a mental decision based on other grounds than reason
or justice." It is a disease hard to. diagnose; it resembles an imaginary illness that only a skillful
physician can detect.
Recently the Advertising Coun- status of second-class citizenship; sible child, or to that of a savage.
cil of America issued a test, so or it may go so far as to become His circle is limited.
that every individual who an- sadistic hate that results in geno-
He loses all the richness that
swered the questiions might be cide, or mass-murder.
comes from contacts with other
able to take the measure of his
People who harbor prejudices people. Instead of feeling at one
own tolerance, or his own bigotry. and hatred are usually those who with his fellow-men, he is un-
The questions may be summed are kbsessed by fear and in- reasonably suspicious of them. He
up in this one test: Have you a security. The prejudiced man re- mark a step backward in the
single or a double standard of yerts to the state of an irresponl development. of humanity; and
measurement for your own ethnic,
racial, religious, economic, cul-
tural, or political group, and for
those of other groups? If you do
not have the same law and the
same judgment for all groups
equally—then you are prejudiced.
There are various grades in
prejudice: the harmless kind,
such as prejudice against the
color of wallpaper, or the dis-
like of certain foods; and the
dangerous prejudices that have
a devastating effect upon our
felowmen. The evil effects of
prejudice may be noted, (1)
upon the victim; (2) upon the
people who hold the prejudice;
(3) upon society as a whole.
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hatred and narrowness replace
love and expansion.
The effect of prejudice upon
society as a whole is evil, for so-
ciety depends for its continuance,
on the cooperation of its mem-
bers. Tensions and hostilities
due to prejudices between dif-
ferent groups in a community,
prevent it from making progress;
development and progress can
come only through cooperation,
not through strife.
If peoples will not work to-
gether, they will be exploited
against each other with the re-
sult that the standard of living
will be reduced, and the moral
standard will be lowered.
People of every race and na-
tionality have contributed to the
richness of our civilization, and
if minority groups are prevented
from making this contribution,
we are denied the personal rich-
ness that comes from the min-'
gling of peoples.
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PREJUDICE ROUSES the
worst instincts within us, and
thus hurts the perpetrator; the
victim of prejudice may lose his
life, but the evil-doer loses his
soul.
Prejudice and hate corrupt
character, undermine s o c i e t y,
breed war and obliterate the de-
cencies of civilization. I have no
panacea for the plagues of hate
or bigotry or greed—or the mal-
adjustments of life. But I should
like to suggest these remedies:
•
•
We can reduce the evils of
prejudice by fostering good-
will, and by detecting and
eliminating prejudice.
In order to neutralize prejud-
Prejudice affects the whole ife
of its victim. It often forces him
to live amidst squalor and dis-
ease, and denies him the oppor-
tunity to earn a livelihood.
• • •
PREJUDICE MAY be a pin-
prick of social discrimination, or
a sword-thrust of economic boy-
cott, or a political disability al-
lowing a minority group only. the
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factory in Israel examines parts for agricultural machinery. The manufacture
of agricultural machinery and equipment constitutes a close link between
Israel's expanding industrial and agricultural economies. Continued large•seale
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bond issue, which will be floated in the United States about May 1.
Bailin Lecture
to Be Delivered
at North End
North End Clinic will present
the 1951 Dr. Max Ballin Memorial
Lecture at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday,
May 2 at tlie Hotel Statler.
I. Snapper, M.D., director
Medical Education, Mount Sinai
Hospital, New York City, and
clinical professor of medicine,
Columbia University, will be the
speaker.
His subject is "Disturbances of
Lipid Metabolism."
The meeting is open to all inem.
hers of the Wayne County Medi-
cal Society and will be preceded
by a subscription dinner also held
at the Hotel Stetter at 6:30 p.m.
Those desiring reservations
should telephone TR. 5-5363.
North End Clinic is a con-
Aituent member of the Jewish
Welfare Federation and de
rives its suport from the United
Foundation Campaign through
the Detroit Community Chest of
Metropolitan Detroit.
It is staffed by one hundred
physicians and dentists and dur-
ing the year 1950, patients made
a total of 41,000 visits for diag-
nosis and treatment; Jewish pa-
tients made a total of 18,250
visits; displaced persons made a
total of 6,450 visits.
Service is given to individuals
who are unable to pay for private
care.
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ice, it is well to look at the record
of every case and to find out the
true facts, because judgment can-
not rise higher than the level of
information. Truth is the best
means of dispelling the fogs of
fanaticism and of slander, and
will be an antidote for poisonous
propaganda.
Each one can test his own
measure of bigotry and prejudice
by the simple test of brotherhood.
The words of the Jewish sage
will help us keep our balance,
namely, "Do not judge your
fellow-man until you have come
to his place," and "What is hate-
ful unto thee, do not do unto
another."
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