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As the Editor
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THE JEWISH NEWS

MR._ BEM

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(Based upon the ancient legends and philosophy found in
the Talmud and folklore of the Jewish people dating back
as far as 3,000 years).

"A GOOD HEART" -
"Go forth," said Rabbi Jochanan ben Zakkai to

his five disciples, "and find out for me what is
man's greatest possession."
Rabbi Eliezer went forth and returning to his
teacher, said: "A generous eye is man's greatest
possession."
Rabbi Joshua said: "A loyal friend."
Rabbi Jose said: "A good neighbor."
Rabbi Simeon said: "Prudence and foresight"
Rabbi Elazar said: "A good heart."
Then said the master, Rabbi Jochanan:
"I agree with Rabbi Elazar who says a good.
heart is man's best possession, because in his
answer all of yours are included."

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Children's Corner

"Good eavens! It's not restricted!"

Dartmouth College Has a - 'Quota'

Among the sensations of the week is the declaration
made by Dr. Ernest M. Hopkins, president of Dartmouth
College, that Dartmouth is "a Christian college founded for
the Christianization of its students," and his admission that
it denies entrance to most Jews simply because they are
Jews.
Prominent Christians were outraged by his statement.
The Rev. L. M. Birkhe'ad of the Friends of Democracy asks
whether Dartmouth College has gone anti-Semitic. Dr.
Reinhold Niebuhr, chairman of the Union for Democratic
Action, told PM, whose editors refer to Dr. Hopkins' state-
ment as "The Dartmouth Recipe for Suicide," that "the
problem of anti-Semitism is primarily one of the Gentiles
and not of the Jews and such an effort to place it upon the
Jews is utterly wrong."
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What should be the Jewish reaction to the whole
business?
Naturally, we, too, resent it.
It is wrong, and we hope that the Christians of America
The entire Jewish community of Detroit
has suffered a severe loss in the death of will continue to be the ones to declare that it is wrong.
H. C. Broder.
We sincerely hope that Jews will refrain from apply-
During his first year's service as .presi- ing for admission to Dartmouth.
dent of the Jewish Conirriunity Center, he
And in the meantime it is our deep conviction that
emerged as one of the outstanding com- whenever Christians will apply for admission to Jewish
munity planners, and his visions for a colleges—to Hebrew Union College, to the Jewish Theo-
powerful group of Jewish Centers served logical SeiniQary, to the Isaac Elchanan Yeshivah, to
as an inspiration to his co-workers.
Yeshivah College, to Hebrew Theological College- - - that they
For many years, before he was chosen will be admitted without question. This is the best answer
for the presidency of the Jewish Community we can give to the bigots who seek to set up quotas in
Center, he was active in many causes, and. AMERICAN institutions, of learning.
in all instances his judgment led to better
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community relations.
The stand taken by Catholic and Lutheran colleges in
As a member of the budget committee New York are in line with this principle.
of the Jewish Welfare Federation, and as
Church-supported schools like Fordham University and
chairman of one of the budget sub-com-
Wagner
College have gone on record opposing the "quota"
mittees, he was influential in cementing
good feelings among the various elements system and endorsing free selection of students, whether
they are white or black, Christian or Jewish.
in Detroit Jewry.
. This ideal MUST prevail if the merit system is to sur-
He was a very liberal man, and his
generosity made his name synonymous with vive and if American principles are to endure.
kindness. -
The community will miss him, and his
name will be remembered as that of a con-
scientious Jew and a noble leader.
An exile from Germany, Dr. Lise Meitner, heads the
list of eminent world-famous scientists who' cbiducted re-
search which led to the development of the atom bomb.
Another exile, who is now an esteemed American citi-
Member of Jewish 'Telegraphic Agency, Independent
Jewish Press Service, Seven Arts Feature. Syndicate,
zen—Dr. Albert Einstein—was consulted in the atomic re-
Religious News Service, Palcor News Agency. Wide World
search activities, and the principles of releasing atomic
Photo Service, Acme Newsphoto Service, King Features
Syndicate. Central Press Service.
energy are now admitted to be based on Prof. Einstein's
Member American Association of English-Jewish News-
pap ers and Michigan Press Association.
Theory of Relativity.
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Two other Berlin-born Jews, Dr. Rudolf Peierls, pro-
RAndolph 7956 Subscription rate. $3 a year; foreign
fessor of applied mathematics at Birmingham University,
$4 a year. Club subscription of one Issue a month.
published every fourth Friday it the month. to all
England, and Dr. Franz Eugen Simon, lecturer on thermo-
subscribers to Allied Jewish Campaign of the Jewish
Welfare Federation of Detroit. at 40 cents a club sub-
dynamics
at Oxford University, were among the British
scription nor year.
scientists who aided in the work which is revolutionizing
Enter'ed as second-class matter August 6, 1942, at the
Post Offi:v at Detroit, Michigan, under the Act of
science and the future of the world.
March 3. 1f279.
Other Jews who were active in the development of the
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
new discovery include Dr. Neils Henry David Bohr, Danish-
MAURICE ARONSSON
PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
V. FRED M. BUTZEL
ISIDORE SOBELOFF
Jewish scientist; Dr. J. Rudolph Oppenheimer, of the Uni-
THEODORE LEVIN
ABRAHAM SRERE ,
MAURICE H. SCHWARTZ HENRY WINEMAN
versity of California; Dr. Philip H. Abelson, who has been
PHILIP SLOMOVITZ, Editor
working • independently on the atomic -p r . inciple at the Uni-
A. R. BEASCH, Advertising Counsel
versity of California.
VOL. 7—NO. 22
AUGUST 17, 1945
Thus, the men who hail from a people that has been
selected by the Nazi-Fascist powers for extermination are
This Week's Scriptural Selections
the creators of the weapon which has put a speedy end
This Sabbath, the ninth day of Elul, 5705, to the last of the totalitarian powers.
the following Scriptural selections will be read
For the world at large, the one hope to be entertained,
in our synagogues:
now that Nazi-Fascist ideologies are doomed, is that the
Pentateuchal portion—Deut. 21:10-25:19:
great discovery will be used for - the good of mankind and
Prophetical portion—Is. 54:1-10.
not for destructive purposes.

The Late H. C. Broder

ailes Seal Doom of Nazi-Fascism

THE JEWISH NEWS

Talmudic Tales

By DAVID MORANTZ

Peace on Earth

Mankind awaits the fruits of peace.
All faiths may well join with Israel in
uttering an age-old prayer:
"Blessed be the • Lord who has caused
• . us to live to see this day!"
Humanity today recites the words of
Isaiah and Micah—
"And they shall beat their swords into .
plowshares and their spears into -
yi run ing-h ooks . . . "
And as words of Prophecy are read, man-
kind prays and hopes that this shall be a
lasting peace and that "nation shall not
make war upon nation any more."
For the millions who had sons in service,
for the tens of thousands whose sons had
made the supreme sacrifice in this war,
V-J Day, like V-E Day, came as symbols
. that evil can not last forever; that the good
to which mankind aspires must supersede
the meanness which had plunged the world
into misery and the darkness of warfare.
The lesson of those who have suffered
directly from the war, if it will be learned
fully by all men and women of good will,
should lead to a lasting peace. It should
cause men to revolt against warfare and
to rebel against any manifestations of big-.
otry which lead to war.
. If the world is still lacking in stamina
with which to oppose all wars and all op-
pressive measures leading to conflicts among
nations, let the leaders of the various na-
tional powers make a study of the tragedy
of Israel, and they will surely devote
the rest of their days to the cause of as-
suring a lasting peace.
Israel's ranks have been reduced by more
than six millions of men, women and child-
ren who have been murdered in cold blood,
or burned to death by inhuman means in-
vented by the crazed minds of the Nazis.
The creators of such devices have been
defeated on the battlefronts.
They must also be defeated whenever
they or those who feel like them raise their
heads in time of peace.
Anti-Semitism must be relegated to the
ashes of defeat for all time, if the fruits. of
victory are to be considered completely ripe.
May the peace prove real for all time
-and for all men!

Friday, August 17, 1945

Dear Boys and Girls:
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Com-
mittee, in its J.D.C. Digest, relates a true but a
very sad story about a boy of 14. The story
is typical of Europe's youth. It is the story of
Walter Mundstein. who endured during the last
six years the horrors of Italian and German
concentratior• camps.
He escaped from both camps. The American
Army arrested him as a war prisoner. For nine
months he hid alone in the woods of Northern
Italy, tormented by the knowledge that he was
unable to help his father who was then in the
terrible torture cells of Buchenwald and Dachau.
Last month, 14-year-old Walter Mundstein
walked into the office of the American Jewish
Joint Distribution Committee in Florence, Italy.
He was dressed in a dirty old raincoat, wore
baggy trousers and large broken boots. In very
good English he asked to be sent south to re-
join his family. He was supplied with new short
trousers and was given a good pair of shoe's-. and
a leather jacket. The J.D.C. discovered that his
parents were living in Rome and he was - taken
there 'at once.

Walter told the story of his sufferings and
the J.D.C. Digest printed it under the title
"Saga of a Child." It is an important statement
which each one of you should read so that you
may know how some of the Jewish children—
those who survived their tortures—had suffered
in Europe. I am therefore printing it here.
In wishing all of you and your parents .a
pleasant Sabbath, I urge that you should read
this boy's story so that you, your families and
all your friends should' be fully prepared to help
in all efforts to make .a repetition of such suf-
ferings impossible. All of us must be prepared
to help those who survived the horrors of Naz-
ism in Europe to become human beings again.
UNCLE DANIEL.
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SAGA OF A CHILD

By WALTER MUNDSTEIN
-- On Aug. 3, 1939,, my family and I left Vienna
for Trieste. After nine months in Trieste we set
out for Palestine, going first to Rome, then Syra-
cuse in Sicily, then by steamer to Bengazi. At
Bengazi we waited in vain for the steamer to
take us to Tel-Aviv.
On June 10, 1940, Italy declared war, and
some days later we were interned by the Fascist
authorities at Bengazi and put into barracks.
After three weeks we were transferred to a
camp at Palmetta outside Bengazi and at the end
of August we left Africa for Naples. At Naples
we were kept in prison for three weeks and
then we were sent to a concentration camp at
Ferramonti-Tarsia (Cosenza). We were kept at
the camp for a year. In September 1941 we
were allowed to become "free internees" at
Civitella Marittima in the province of Grosseto.
On September 8, my family and I fled to the
woods of Bagnolo in the Grosseto province where
we lived with the Partisans for nine months. On
June 22, 1944, I was caught by the Italian militia
during a "mopping up" operation and taken to
a concentration camp in Germany very close to
the Brenner Pass. Soon after, however, I suc-
ceeded in escaping from the camp and came to
Northern Italy, where I lived in the Trento
region with peasants who were very kind to me
and who helped me considerably.
When the Allies crossed the Po River at the
end of April 1945, I was ..determined to try to
reach my family in •Southern Italy. I managed
to obtain an Italian uniform and went to a hitch-
hike post on the road, - where, as I speak German
very well, I was soon picked up by a lorry going
to Verona. At Perchiera the truck was stopped
by German MPs who told us that American
troops were two kilometers away. I got off the
truck and went to a farm just off the road and
waited there for the Americans to arrive. After
a few hours the first patrols arrived and,., find-
ing me in Italian uniform, thee Americans arrest-
ed me as a prisoner of war. I was sent to Verona
with other German prisoners and spent the
whole night in the open air in the rain. The
next day I was interrogated by, an American
corporal who turned out to be from Vienna too.
He knew my father at the concentration camps
of Dachau and Buchenwald. The corporal took
me to Florence where I arrived on April 29 and
then to Scandir,ci to see an American Captain
who was also Viennese and had known my father
a t Dachau.
After -this I was released and taken
by motor car to the Refugee Center in Florence.

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Which Jewish coneregPtinn in Eurone pre-
served the Pao- it received in honor of having
saved the city?
—P. S.
Up to the outbreak of the war. the congre-
gation at Prague preserved in the Old New
Synagogue the tattered remnants of a flag pre-
sented them in honor of the heroic resistance
made by its members during the siege of the
city of Wallenstein in the Thirty Years' War.
There is no way of knowing what has happened
to the flag since the invasion of Czechoslovakia
by the Nazis.

