Friday, August 24, 1945
THE JEWISH NEWS
Dr. Hopkins' Quota' Plan
Is Upheld by Dartmouth
Weekly Review of the News of the World
(Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service)
Members of the College Board, Including Former Governor
of New Hampshire, Approve of 'Selective Admittance'
But Deny It Is Anti-Semitism
NEW YORK (JPS)—The board of trustees of Dartmouth Col-
lege, in New Hampshire, agree with the college president, Dr.
Ernest M. Hopkins, that enrollment of Jewish students should be
strictly limited, but deny that anti-Semititm is involved in Ile
Dartmouth quota, Leo M. Swain, Jr., reports in-the New York Post.
Dr. Hopkins contended earlier that increased Jewish enrollment
in Dartmouth would rouse widespread anti-Semitism there.
Asked to comment on Dr. Hopkins' stand, Robert 0. Blood,
former Governor of New Hampshire, and a member of the Board
of Trustees until last Jan. 1, declared that Dartmouth "could
not take all the bogs who applied. I don't see how the ctllege
could get along without a quota system." He added that he didn't
think anti-Semitism was involved but that from an academic point
of view, "selective admittance on a geographical, as well as a racial
and religious basis, is desirable."
Dr. John F. Gile, of Hanover, N. H., a member of the Board,
said: "I think only a representative proportion lof`Jewish students)
should be eligible," adding that the Board had never officially auth-
orized a quota. (A "spokesman" for Dartmouth College explained
earlier that the director of admissions can arbitrarily reject Jewish
applicants.)
William West Grant, of Denver, Colorado, a member of the
Bokd, denied that anti-Semitism was practiced at Dartmouth, but
said "of course we don't want a preponderance of any one group."
New Republic Hits ."Open and Secret" College Quotas
NEW YORK (JPS)—Approval of college quotas against Jews,
Which Ernest Hopkins, president • of Darthmouth College "ex-
presses openly, and many other college presidents maintain secretly,
would seem a poor reward for the aid given them (the colleges)
by the Government of a democracy," New Republic, liberal weekly,
declares in an editorial.
"It is quite often urged," the editorial says, "that privately
endowed colleges, since they support themselves, are entitled to
make any terms they= please regarding the admission of students.
These colleges, however, enjoy freedom from taxation of their
physical 'property, without which most of them would be unable
to survive on their present scale of fees. D&ing the depression
nearly all of them accepted funds—from the . federal government,
through - the WPA and the National Youth Administration . . .
Since 1941 most of them- have been kept alive only by money from
the War and Navy Departments for the preliminary training of
officer candidates."
Repatriated Jews
Flee Poland, Back
To German Camp
'Anti-Jewish Terror Cited by
Refugees; Report 185
Massacred in Village
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AMERICA
PALESTINE
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A Congressional study of manpower needs
in the 48 states to determine their capacity
o absorb refugees from overcrowded coun-
fries, was urged by -Maor F. H. LaGuardia --
in a letter to members of Congress. In his
letters he called for action to determine the
status of the remaining 969 "token" refugees,
housed at Fort Ontario, Oswego, New York.
Dr. Elisa Hirschhorn, plant pathologist of
La Plata, Argentina, is one of five Latin-
American scientists awarded Samuel Guggen-
heim Memorial Foundation Fellowships for
advanced study of Biology in the United
States, Science News Letter reports.
More than 10,000 disglaced persons in all
parts of Europe, have been located for their
relatives in America„ in the. past year, by
the Central Location Index, sponsored by nine
Jewish and non-Jewish welfare organizations.
The names of 550,000 displaced persons- in
Europe submitted by their relatives here are
on the files of the Index.
The revival of the Dies Commtitee on Un-
American Activities, though accomplished by
Republican votes, was proposed by "a reaction-
ary DeMocrat," Rep. John E. Rankin of Miss-
issippi who "has a nation-wide reputation as a
racial bigot, and the fact that our party's rep-
resentatives were willing to follow such lead-
ership, has not been helpful, and the next
campaign will prove it, particularly in margin-
al city districts," John D. M. Hamilton, former
Republican National Chairman, warns in an
article titled "What the G.O.P. Needs," ap-
pearing in Liberty magazine. "Having Mr.
Rankin vote for a Republican proposal is a
lot different from having Republicans vote
for a Rankin proposal; The Republican Party's
political box score for that inning reads 'no
runs, no hits, one error,." Mr. Hamilton writes.
In the Berlin City administration, where
a Movement has been created to aid the
"victims of Fascism," only concentration - camp
survivors who were imprisoned for actually
engaging in anti-Nazi political activities, can
qualify as "victims," the Associated Press re-
ports in a dispatch from Berlin.
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A labor settlement named for Yehuda Hale-
vi, greatest Hebrew poet of the Golden Age,
and comprising 30 Sephardic Jewish families
from the Balkans, mostly from Bulgaria, was
established at Emek Hefer. The first houses
are now being erected. The settlement was
Sounded with a special donation to the Keren
Hayesod from the •Sephardic community of
Argentina, and the balance of colonizing ex-
penditures • will be supplied from regular
Keren Hayesod funds.
A new settlement has been established on
.j&wish National Fund land at Habila, near
Mar Etzion, in the Hebron hills, by Youth
Aliyah (youth immigration) graduates from
Czechoslovakia and Hungary, members of the
Hapoel Hamizrachi, religious orthodox Zionist
labor organization. It is planned to establish
three more such hilltype settlements, which
will absorb also ex-servicemen belonging to
Hapoel Hamizrachi.
A memorial meeting for Berl Katzenelson,
labor editor and leader, held under the auspic-
es of the Council of Mapai, Jewish Palestine's
Labor Party, was attended by thousands of
persons who came from the farthest settle-
ments to pay their respects to his memory.
OVERSEAS
German mayors have been stalled in an
attempt to prevent the return of German Jews
to their former home towns, through inter-
vention by Allied military auhorities, which
forced them to cancel their decree which for-
bade the return of Jews without special per-
mission under the guise of housing shortages.
The mayors are now allocating priorities for
new homes to returning Jews whose houses
were destroyed and are sheltering them in
provisional barracks, it was learned here.
The first survivors of the chain of Nazi
de'ath camps, known collectively as Gusen, on
._the upper reaches of the Danube, have recent-
ly arrived in Poland, with eye witness ac-
counts of sadistic murder methods practiced
at the camps.
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LET US BE THANKFUL
By IDA LANDAU
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Correspondent)
FELDAFING, Germany, (JTA)
—Polish Jews liberated from the
German concentration camps in
Oswiecim and Dachau and re-
patriated to their home town in
Poland arrived here stating that
they prefer to be in the Felda-
fing camp which is under Amer-
ican military supervision rather
than remain in Poland where a
wave of anti-Jewish terror is
raging. .
More than a dozen Jews de-
scribed the Polish terrors to this
correspondent. After spending
about two weeks in Poland they
decided to return to the Felda-
fing camp from which they had
been repatriated, they said. One
of them, Joseph Grabczak, re-
lated that upon his arrival in
Lodz, he saw at the railway sta-
tion large signs "We Want Pol-
and for the Poles. Go Back,
Jews."
As the evening hours ap-
proached, Poles waylaid Jewish
pedestrians, beating them and
using knives upon them, Grab-
czak said. He told of reading a
report in a Polish newspaper
that 185 Jewish repatriates, -men,
women and children, were mas-
sacred one night in a Polish vil-
lage.
Grabczak's report was corro-
_borated by Moses Krascutsky, 15,
an orphan,, who returned from
Poland after spending two weeks
-in Lodz and Warsaw.
Stockholm to Warsaw
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I
KE . the mammoth whisper of a wind through the
forest—a great- sigh of relief vibrates- throughout
the world. Tears of joy and thankfulness flow freely—that
loved ones have been spared, that peace has returned once
more to our land.
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The way to victory has been 'difficult and the cost fearful.
Many hearts carry burdens of grief almost too heavy to bear
for dear ones who will never return. Their !lives have been part
of the price of victory. But through the blood, the sweat and
tears a new era is dawning. An era whose horizons hold prom-
ise of a better world.
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The infinite wisdom of Providence has seen fit to give us the
victory. Likewise, may Re grant that the vision and strength
Air Service Resumed
of the United Nations be such that they will discharge wisely,
NEW YORK—Regular com-
mercial plane service has been
resumed between Stockholm
and Warsaw, it was revealed in
a cable received by the Joint
Distribution Committee from
from Ragnar Gottfarb, its Swe-
dish - representative, who re-
ported that he had sent 110
pounds of Sulpathiazol for the
medical assistance of distressed
Polish Jews by the first plane
between the two capitals. Coal
boats also have started to go
from Sweden to Poland and
these will be used to carry JDC
relief supplies.
and with justice, the great responsibility of making certain that
this awful calamity may never again fall upon this earth.
THE J. L. HUDSON COMPANY
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