- Fridai,, January 21. 1944 THE JEWISH NEWS Page Three • BUY WAR BONDS WATt.M 2: -ARI . This Advertisement Sponsored By National. Tent & Awning Co. 2150 Bagley at 14th New Regulations Ban Hate Activities of N. Y. Police Incidents of Police Laxity and Sympathy Are Reported Despite Commissioner Valentine's Order Banning Officers From Associating With Hate Groups , NEW YORK (JPS)—New regulations for the Police Depart- ment have been announced by Police Commissioner Valentine in an attempt to stamp out subversive influences in the police force. Meanwhile, incidents in increasing numbers of police laxity or even of sympathy for the anti-Semitic vandals are being reported in the press. The new police regulations state that members of the depart- ment "shall not knowingly associate . . . with any person or persons interested in or connected with any group or organization advo- cating or instrumental in creating . . prejudice or oppression against any racial or religious group residing in the U. S. A. . . ." • The new rules also state that a member of the force "shall. not knowingly write, print, distribute, transport,, store or possess" any . literature. "containing any defamatory or false statements which :tend to expose any person. . . . to hatred, contempt, ridicule or obloquy because of race or religion . . . nor shall such member aid or assist any person . . . to disseminate, distribute, store, print or write such literature .. . " Accused of Actions Banned in Regulations Patrolman James L. Drew, who recently was reinstated in a 'Jewish section of Brooklyn by Commissioner Valentine, was ac- -- ctised of actions which now are banned in the new regulations. A. special board appointed by Mayor LaGuardia, to review , the case upheld • Commissioner Valentine's action. Drew was accused of using his home as a warehouse for anti- - Semitic literature and of consorting with Joe McWilliams ; now _under indictment on charges of inciting to mutiny among the armed forces of the U. S. and of conspiring with the Nazis. The decision of the Mayor's three-man board of review is not ••a •vindication of Drew, Carl Sherman, former State Attorney Gen- eral and chairman of the American Jewish Congress Commission to C —1 -at Anti-Semitism, pointed out. - It is merely limited, he said,• to an opinion that on the basis of the record, Commissioner Valentine had not exceeded his pow- ers in exonerating the policeman accused of dealing with the in- dicted anti-Semite Joe McWilliams and other un-American individ- ,.uals_ and groups. Van Loon Recommends "Beating" for Vandals The way to handle the anti-Semitic situation on the ,streets of New York and other cities where attacks have been rampant is to use strong arm methods, it was stated by Hendrik Willem van Loon, noted historian and biographer. Mr. Van Loon, who is a prominent Protestant layman, suggests that "some of our Jewish . prize fighter boys take a few nocturnal walks in those dangerous neighborhoods and let themselves be attacked and then • lick hell out of the attackers." - Gives Four-Point Program to Combat Racial Disunity NEW YORK, (JTA)—The American Jewish • Committee's four- .point• program to combat racial disunity in America, read over the radio this week by Judge Joseph M. Proskauer, president -, won the indorsement of Archibshop Francis J. Spellman. "I trust your noble efforts to be helpful in overcoming relig- . ious and racial animosities will bear fruit and will promote mutual respect. understanding and tolerance among all groups of Ameri- - cans." the Archbishop said in a- message to * Mr. Proskauer. • The four points, which Judge Proskauer urged be accepted by every American to .achieve that accord which is the basis and the •vindication of American democracy, are: 1. I will spread no rumor and no slander against 'any sect. 2. I will never try to indict a whole people by reason of the delinquency of any -member. 3. I will daily deal with every man in business, in social • and in political relations, only on the basis of his true individual worth. 4. In my daily conduct I will consecrate myself, hour by hour, .to the achievement of the highest ideal of the dignity of mankind, hUman equality, human fellowship and human brotherhood. • After "Hitler will be gone,' Judge Proskauer said, "rabble rousers who have learned a trick or two from him will remain and .may be expected to continue their attempts to stir up hatred be- tween groups." In a letter to Mayor LaGuardia, Mr. Proskauer asked that there be no delay in adopting a program to fight anti-Semitism, as dis- closed in Commissioner of Investigation Herlands' report. He ad- vocated the appointment of an inter-racial and inter-faith commit- tee as suggested by the commissioner. • Guild Will Represent Persons Affected by Anti-Semitism NEW YORK, (JTA)—Members of the National Lawyers Guild, in cooperation with the National Committee to Combat Anti-Semit- ism, have agreed to represent any person affected by any act of anti-Semitism throughout the United States. This was announced this week in a joint statement issued by the National Committee to Combat Anti-Semitism and the Guild. The National Lawyers Guild, of which Robert W. Kenny, the Attorney General of California, is - national president, is sending a notice to that effect to Guild chapters throughout the country, and the appropriate machinery is being set up. Invitations have .also gone out to all other Bar Associations to similarly volunteer -the services of their membership. The National Committee to Combat Anti-Semitism, which is "dedicated to the proposition that anti-Semitism in any of its form is fascism, is repugnant to the ideals of our democracy, and must be eliminated to safeguard the American way of life," is sponsored by several hundred prominent leaders in various fields. They in- clude Harold L. Ickes, Gov. Olin D. Johnston, Prof. _Emmanuel. Chapman of Fordham University, Thomas .Mann, .Rep. Emanuel Celler; Wm. J. Shieffelin and - others. 49 to 52 Vandals Found Non-Churchgoers NEW YORK—(Religious News Service)—Forty-nine out of 52 youthful anti-Semitic vandals whose case histories were studied did not attend church regularly, according to a report made public by Commissioner Herlands. In one South Bronx district, where 16 vandals were caught, few went to any of the 24 local churches, the 170-page report discloses. The study is based on a year's investiga- tion of anti-Semitic disturbances. Weekly Review of the News of the World (Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service) AMERICA A meeting to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the passing of Ezekiel Hart, Jewish pioneer, soldier and par- liamentarian, arranged by the Canadian Jewish Congress and the Canadian Jewish Historical Society was held at the Jewish People's " School in -Montreal. Adhernar Raynault, Mayor of Montreal, was the main speaker. The Argentine government's decree of censorship is meeting resistance from the two chief pro-democratic dailies, Prensa and La Nacion, which have declared in front-page editorials that they intend to continue to present the news as accurately as possible and to continue to comment on it as objectively as.. possible. • The Ramirez government's censorship regulations pro- hibit the printing of anything which might be contrary to national interest or endanger public security. A reception in honor of Edward Ran- dall Maguire, retiring principal of the Herman Ridder Junior High School, New York, was tendered by a committee of Jewish leaders in recognition of h i s pioneering in the introduction of the courses in the Hebrew language and liter- ature in his school. Eight hundred Jewish children from Paris were loaded into cattle vans and deported several months ago. According to this report, reaching the World Jewish Congress office in New York from its rep- resentativ es in Lisbon, similar deporta- tions of children are taking place in other sections of France. PALESTINE This year's recipients of the Chaim Nachman Bialik literary - prize, awarded annually by the Tel Aviv municipality on . the occasion of the late poet's birthday, were announced at ceremonies broadcast at the Bialik House in Tel Aviv. The prize was shared by Dr. Abraham Pollak for his work "History of the Jewish Kingdom of- the Khazars in Europe," and the Hebrew_ novelist A. A. Kabak for his novel "Void" describing the Haskalah period in Jewish life. The Haskalah was a movement which began in Germany in the middle of the 18th • century and which preached west- ernization of the Jews. OVERSEAS Meir Grossman of New York City, Jewish State Party leader, will be called by his party to come to London in antici- pation of the forthcoming unofficial dis- cussion of . major problems by Jewish leaders. The Nazis have ordered the sterniza- tion of all Jewish young men and women interned in Theriesenstadt, considered the most cruelly controlled of all ghettos established by the German authorities in occupied Europe, according to a report received by the Ciech government-in- exile in London. Support the . . . 4TH WAR LOAN to the limit of your pocketbook January 10 to February 29 SIECIAL C WOQVMARD 111.111111•1M111•1111•1•11 ■ 1•10•111M111W, STATE