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Dear Girls and Boys:
During the warm weather, I
am continuing to select some
choice legends and stories for
you. I hope you enjoy reading
them and that these stories will
encourage you to look for addi-
tional Jewish reading material.
Our literary storehouse is very
rich, and our young people should
learn its contents.
A pleasant Sabbath to you all.
UNCLE DANIEL.

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RABBI MEIR THE WISE
Meir in Hebrew means "giver
of light" and Rabbi Meir was
indeed well-named. For he car-
ried forth light to the minds of
young and old. Especially popu-
lar was he with his young stu-
dents whom he delighted with
his talcs of adventure.
During his travels he once had
to stop at a little inn in a small
town. Late at night the inn-
keeper awoke his guests crying:
"Whoever wishes to come now,
I will take to his destination on
my donkeys." /All the guests hur-
ried to take advantage of this
offer for it meant saving time
and pains while traveling on
toot.
But Rabbi Meir thought this
sudden generosity on the inn-
keeper's part a little unusual and
did not trust him. His suspicions
were well-founded for the inn-
ke-e-per-'w.ranged with a band of
robbers to waylay the party
down ,the road and the guests
a ft0.10., being help up and
rogbed were killed. And so
Rabbi Meir refused to go
saying that he could not leave
-Ilse he expected his brother
to meet him. The inkeeper in-
quired as to the whereabouts of
this brother and the Rabbi re-
plied, "He must be in synagogue
praying. He is called Ki-Tov
(which in Hebrew means, 'Twas
Geed')." The innkeeper went to
search for this mysterious broth-
er. but in vain. Then he took his
guests on their fatal journey and
returned to his inn. By this time
day was dawning and Rabbi
Meir was packed and ready to go
on his way.
''Why are you leaving, your
brother has not arrived." cried
the innkeeper in alarm." "But he
has arrived," Rabbi Meir assured
him, and pointing to the rising
sun he explained, "That's my
brother, Ki-Tov. When God
made the sun, he looked at it
and said, `Ki-Tovi----or `Twas
Good.' And so I'm off with my
brother, Ki-Tov!"
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THE "KUPPAH"
Kuppah (Box) was the name
given to the charity fund found
in every Jewish community in
the Talmudic times and the Mid-
dle Ages which provided weekly
grants to the poor for clothing
and meals. Its echo is found in

SWEENEYiSON

Friday, August 7, 1942

THE ,JEW=ISH" NEWS

Page Twalve

Detroit Radio Script - Writer
Earns Laurels in Wisconsin

Marshall Shulman's Show, "Salute to Janesville," Presented
by Fellow-Students in U. S. Glider Detachment
Wins Praise

To a Detroiter last week went
the glory of the state of Wis-
consin.
Marshall Shulman earned the
laurels of that state for writing
and directing a radio show, "Sa-
lute to Janesville," the Wiscon-
sin community where he and
hundreds of other American
boys are stationed as students
in the Army Air Force Glider
Training Detachment.
It was a grand half-hour
show, and the military and civ-
ilian communities were full of
praise for Marshall Shulman
and his accomplishment.
MS WORK FOR DEMOCRACY
But those who handed him
the bouquets, over the radio, in
the press, in military quarters,
probably were unaware that
Shulman already has to his
credit several major achieve-
ments in writing, directing radio
programs, supervising demo-
cratic movements.
Before his enlisment in the
Army three months ago, Mar-
shall Shulman, despite his
youth—he is 26—was the execu-
tive vice-president of Council
for Democracy, the powerful
movement for the advancement
of democratic ideals which has
drawn the endorsement and
support of the country's lead-
ing people, including outstand-
ing government officials.
TAUGHT AT HARVARD
His association with Council
for Democracy dates back to
his year's post-graduate study at
Harvard where he won the con-
fidence of Prof. Carl J. Fried-
rich (author of "The New Be-
lief in the Common Man" which
was published last month) who
named him as his assistant in-
structor.
Shulman was graduated in
1937 from the University of
Michigan where he was the ed-
itorial director of the Michigan
Daily. He was on the staff of
the Detroit News and later ed-
ited Public Safety, the official
organ of the National Safety
Council, before going to Har-
vard.
THE RADIO SCRIPT
During the past two years,
Marshall Shulman became an
important factor in the fight
against intolerance. He directed
radio programs for Council for
Democracy, edited some of their
pamphlets, acted as research
director in compiling facts to
offset prejudiced notions regard-
ing Jews, Negroes and other
minorities and in fighting the
Nazi menace.
In the script "Salute to Janes-

ville" he made excellent use of
the knowledge he had acquired.
The radio play was a compila-
tion of soldiers' experiences, an
expression of gratitude for the

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With the approach of the Hi
Holydays, our people will wa
appropriate texts of Selichoth.
Since only a few good transla-
tions of Selichoth are a`vialabl
"Selichoth for the First Day," •
Hebrew, edited, arranged an
translated anew by Rabbi :Lo
Feinberg of Avondale Synagog
of Cincinnati, will be welcomed.
It was published by Behrman'
Jewish Book House, 1261 Broad
,
way, New York.
PUBLISHED IN AMERICA
The destruction of the Jewish
publishing centers in Euro
makes it necessary for Americ
Jews to publish their own to
to suit the needs of Englis
speaking countries. Hence, • -
beautifully printed little volum
which presents the Selichoth Ser-
vice for the first day without ab-
breviation or omission, and with
a new and refreshing English
translation.
Selichoth have always served
to deepen the mood in prepara-
tion for the approaching High
Holydays. The beauty of the syn-
agogue, the inspiration of the
ancient chants and melodies, and
the religious fervor of the piyu-
tim—all of these conspire to make
an unforgettable impression on
the worshipper—all, heretofore,
except the text in use.
TEXT UNABRIDGED
To rectify this, Rabbi Feinberg
has prepared his' carefully edited
text according to the widely used
Polish rite (unabridged, to elim-
inate the need of constantly turn-
ing back pages), together with a
new translation that seeks to cap-
ture something of the Oriental
charm of the original.
Of this Selichoth Service, Rab-
bi Louis Newman says: "I com-
mend most heartily this little
service which Rabbi Feinberg
thus makes available to congre-
gations. With respect to the Sell-
choth Prayers, he has rendered
a fine service on behalf of their
recapture as Jewish observance?'

Loophole of Escape

By HEINRICH HEINE
(1797-1856)
If all Europe were to become
a prison, America would still
present a loophole of escape; and
God be praised, that loophole
is larger than the dungeon itselL

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by AL POSEN'

MY SON; YOUR POP
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SMARTEST MAN I KNOW-

NEW YORK (JPS) — Three
months after landing in Cuba on
the S. S. San Thome, 450 Jewish
refugees still are interned at
Tiscornia, the Cuban Ellis Island,
"without comfort, in overcrowd-
ed quarters, inadequatey nour-
ished, exploited by individuals
who sense an opportunity to en-
rich themselves," it is revealed
by Aufbau, German Jewish
weekly.
The paper also discloses that
Paul van Zeeland, former Bel-
gian Prime Minister, and chair-
man of the Co-ordinating Foun-
dation for Refugees, visited the
internees a month ago and
brought a spark of hope to the
Jewish immigrants that they
would soon be released, espe-
cially since van Zeeland met
with President Batista. But they
are still "confined there, with
their visas in order, their de-
posits paid and an often repeated
promise of freedom which thus
far has remained unfulfilled."

BELGIANS USE NOVEL
PLAN TO SABOTAGE RULES
LONDON (JPS)—Belgian sab-
otage of Nazi anti-Semitic regu-
lations in the homeland has taken
the form of using Jewish names
for spelling purposes over the
MARSHALL SHULMAN
telephone, according to a com-
plaint in the Flemish pro-Nazi
hospitality of the people of Wis-
consin and a plea for justice and newspaper, Folkstaat.
To spite the Nazis, Belgians,
tolerance.
identifying towns or other names
ALL RACES AND CREEDS
on the telephone, say "D as in
Christians and Jews, colored David, M for Moses, etc."
and white, participated in the
play, with Shulman as narrator, spectators who packed the
and the central thesis was a lobby."
salute not only to Janesville
Marshall Shulman was pre-
but to all America for the glory sented with a gold bracelet by his
of our democratic ideals.
fellow - students in appreciation
Russell
Coeling of
Grand of his having trained them for
Rapids is a student instructor in
the radio program and for tutor-
the school.
ing some of the students. The in-
The Janesville Daily Gazette, scription reads: "Keep us flyin',
commenting on the program, teacher."
wrote:
Marshall Shulman is the son
"WCLO listeners found real of Mr. and Mrs. Harry M. Shul-
pleasure in the invigorating pro- man of 2651 Webb Ave., both of
gram prepared and presented by whom are prominent in Detroit
glider students now stationed Jewish community affairs. Mar-
in Janesville over the Wiscon- shall enlisted in the Army on
sin Network . . . Their enjoy- May 7 at Governor's Island, N.Y.
ment was evident from the For a time he was stationed at
countless telephone calls re- Miami Beach and later was
ceived at the station . . . and transferred to the Glider Train-
the enthusiastic comments of ing Detachment at Janesville.

modern times in the Kuppath
Halim, or sick fund, which was
organized in 1912 by the Pales-
tine workers to provide for the
needs of workers in cases of ill-
ness. It maintains a chain of
hospitals, _ambulances, pharma-
cies and sanatoriums.

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