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THE JEWISH NEWS

Friday, larch 23, 1945

Detroiter's Fiancee

I ACTIVITIES IN SOCIETY

Miss Arleen Barnett celebrated her 16th birthday wish a
Iancheon for a group of friends at the Book on March 17. ,

Fraternities and Sororities
Are Assailed as Anti-Semitic

Article by Mrs. Glenn Frank Demands That Legislatures
Abolish Snobbish Greek-Letter Societies; Calls
Them Un-Democratic

Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Fuller of 12325 Broadstreet held open
house Sunday in honor of their son, Cpl. Sidney Fuhrer, who has
just returned from three years of service in the South Pacific

Dr. and Mrs. Eugene Roberts and daughter, Judith, are spend-
ing a two-week stay in Detroit visiting their parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Ruvin Rabinowitch of Atkinson Ave., and Mr. and Mrs. A. Stein-
berg of Clairmourit Ave. They arrived here from Rochester, N. Y.,
where Dr. Roberts is doing research work for the government at
the Rochester University.

Mrs. Joseph Ehrlich of the Belcrest Hotel is visiting her son-in-
law and daughter, Capt. and Mrs. Samuel Gingold, in Temple,
Texas.
Fred and Jack Winkelman are spending their 10-day vacation
from St. Johns Military Academy, Delfield, Wis., with their parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Leon G. Winkelman .of Fairfield Ave.

Lt. Aleck Bloch, who has recently returned from 19 months serv-
ice in the Pacific, is visiting his parents, Dr. and Mrs. Peter M.
Bernstein of Boston Blvd.
MISS BERNICE M. ROUTMAN
Mr. and Mrs. William Mazer of Birchcrest Dr. have as their guest
Mr. Mazer's brother, Staff Sgt. Robert Mazer, who is on Hough
Announcement -is made of the
from his post at Egglon Field, Fla.
engagement of Miss Bernice
A/T Donald Hartman returned to his post at Sioux Falls, S. D., Marian Routman, daughter of
after a few days' furlough spent with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Mrs. Frieda Routman of 14783
Samuel Hartman of Shrewsbury Rd.
Euclid, Cleveland, and Frank
Technician 5th Grade Sidney Fuhrer, who has recently returned
from three years service in the South Pacific, is spending his Delay Routman of Cleveland, to Pvt.
En-Route to his new post with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Donald D. Silberblatt, son of Mr.
Fuller of Broadstreet Blvd.
and Mrs. Aaron A. Silberblatt of
Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph F. Marks of the Wilshire Hotel have re- 3311 Chicago Blvd., Detroit.
turned from Toronto where they visited with their son, Warrant .Of-
Private Silberblatt attended
ficer Robert Marks, R.C.A.F., who was on a few days' leave from
his post in Mountain-View, Ont.
Western Reserve University
, Lt: Norman Ash,. who is on leave from his post with the U. S. dental school prior to entering
Army Air Force, is the guest of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry B. the Army.
Ash, of LaSalle Blvd.

Lt. Herbert Seligman has returned to his post at the Maxton Air
Base. Maxton, N. C.; after a short leave spent with his mother, Mrs.
Henrietta Seligman of Rochester Ave.

Histadrut Theater "Ohel"
Honors 18th Anniversary

Seaman 1/C Yale Brown returned. on Monday to his post in New
Yory City after a 14 day furlough spent with his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Benjamin H. Brown of Cherrylawn Ave.
Capt. and Mrs. Samuel Stulberg (Judith Victor) will arrive on
Wednesday, March .28, from Thomasville, Ga., to spend the Pass-
over holidays with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Victor and
Mrs. Pearl Stulberg. While here, they will be at the Victor home,
17607 Fairfield Ave. Capt. Victor is stationed at Finney General
Hospital, Thomasville, Ga.

The Palestine Labor Theater
"Ohel," which is supported by
the Histadrut, is celebrating its
18th anniversary. During its ex-
istence it has presented 50 pro-
ductions in 40 cities and settle-
ments all over the country and
has played to audiences totalling
4.000,000.

Writing in the current issue
of the Woman's Home Compan-
ion, Mrs. Glenn Frank„ widow of
the noted educator who was for
many years the president of the
University of Wisconsin, urges
students, parents and educators
to bring concerted pressure on
legislatures - to enact laws abol-
ishing fraternities and sororities
as being totally undemocratic
and un-American.
For more than a quarter of a
century, says Mrs. Frank, "as a
sorority woman myself and as
the wife of the president of one
of our largest state universities,
I have had a close-up view of
the operations of the Greek let-
ter societies. What I have seen
has convinced me that any good
which these societies accomplish
is far outweighed by the unhap-
piness and heartbreaks which
they inflict upon thousands of
young people every year, and by
the class-consciousness, religious
bigotry and race prejudice which
they foment right in those in-
stitutions which should be the
most liberal. They have no more
place in our public educational
system than a Hitler youth
movement."
War Vet Snubbed .
A few weeks agO at a large
middle-western university Mrs.
Frank talked with a student who
had recently been discharged
from the army for poor health.
The boy said he liked the school,
his courses and his professors.
There was one thing, however,

which he did not like. He had
come to the university as a leg-
acy to one of the leading frater-
nities, but after looking -him over
the fraternity brothers had not
invited him to become a mem-
ber. "I guess the war had made
me too old," he said, grinning.
"But for all his nonchalance,"
says Mrs. Frank, "1 could see the
hurt in his eyes. He had been
cruelly snubbed."
The high school fraternities
and sororities are, if anything,
even more brutal than the col-
lege societies which they imitate,
declares the Companion article,
because they are unsupervised
and they victimize students of an
even more impressionable age.
Religious Bigotry
Even more sinister than the
other forms of snobbery, main-
tains Mrs. Frank, is the religious
bigotry and race prejudice which
fraternities and sororities foster
in the minds of the young.
"As for Jewish students, they
are excluded generally by lead-
ing fraternities and sororities.
A few weeks ago I heard of a
group of liberal-minded youths
in one fraternity at an eastern
college who rebelled against
this taboo. By threatening to re-
sign all at once the group forced
this chapter to pledge a popular
Jewish student. That was
splendid, but I regret to say it is
the only case of the kind I have
ever heard of. In most houses,
anti-Semitism is almost a part
of the ritual."

Woodward
a
thru to Washington

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