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THE JEWISH NEWS

To Wed Serviceman

ACTIVITIES IN SOCIETY

Miss Ruth Factor of Clements Ave. and Miss Rose Weiss of
Glynn Court have returned from their vacations in Nassau and
Florida.

S 2/c Allan Mann, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Mann of 1470
Glynn Ct., is home on a 15-day rehabilitation leave before being
transferred to the Grosse Isle Naval Base. He was aboard a trans-
port in the Pacific.

Mr. and Mrs. Abe Weinstein of Hazelwood Ave. entertained at
a family dinner on March 29 in honor of Miss Pearl Rothenberg
and Jules Bello whose wedding took place on March 30 at Moss
Catering.

Mrs. Andrew Hartman of Ohio Ave., was at home to a group
of friends last Sunday evening in honor of her son, Pfc. Burton
C. Hartman, who has received his honorable discharge after 39
months in the U. S. Army, 17 months of which were spent in the
ETO. Mr. and Mrs. Burton Hartman are now residing at 2972
Gladstone.

ELAINE HELEN ISRAEL

The engagement of Miss Elaine
Helen Israel to 1st Lt. Norman
Mr. and Mrs. Mortimer H. Meyer of Suffolk Dr. have returned N. Robbins, USMCR, son of Mr.
from a vacation in Palm Beach, Fla.
and Mrs. Charles Robbins, is
Mrs. Julius Rothchild of Calvert Ave. has left for New York announced by her parents, Mr.
City where she plans to spend the next two months visiting with and Mrs. Jack Israel of Fairfield
her sister.
Ave. A June wedding is plan-
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Mayer have moved from the Lee Crest ned.
Apt. to 20250 Stratford Rd.

Dr. and Mrs. Michael Freeman of Wellesly Dr. left last Sunday
to spend a fortnight in Atlantic City and New York City.

Mr. and Mrs. Gilford Fred of Waco, Tex., spent a few days
visiting with their uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Lieberman
of Birchcrest Dr., enroute from New York City to Omaha, Neb.,
where they will visit with Mrs. Fred's parents before returning home.

Author of 'Focus'

Strikes New Note
On Anti-Semitism

$6,775 Given UJA
By Church Groups

Urge Sweden to Reverse
Decision on Immigrants

STOCKHOLM (JPS)—Jewish
organizations in Sweden have in-
tervened with the government for
reversal of its decision prohibit-
ing the entry into Sweden of
thousands of Jewish children
from Poland until it is possible
to transfer them to Palestine. The
Swedish government fears ap-
parently, that owing to the lack
of Palestine certificates, these
children, like the 9,000 Jewish
refugees in Sweden, will remain
in that country indefinitely.

Miss Hattie Avrushin of Webb Ave. spent the week-end of
April 5 in Chicago, Ill., where she was entertained at a party given
in her honor upon her recent engagement to Seymour W. Schwartz
of Chicago.

Mr. and Mrs. John A. Heavenrich of Longfellow Ave. have re-
turned from a stay in Coronada Beach, Cal.
Mrs. Mayer B. Sulzberger of Puritan Ave. is spending 10 days
in New York City.

Friday, April 12, 1946

Tuberculosis High Among
Displaced Jews in Germany
NEW YORK, (JTA) — Years
spent in hiding and concentra-
tion camps have left the 100,000
displaced Jews in Germany and
Austria with a tuberculosis rate
that may be eight times higher
than the rate nor/tally prevailing
in this country, Dr. William
Schmidt, overseas supervisor of
health and medical services for
the JDC, reported on his return
from a 13-week tour of

NEW YORK (Religious News
Service) — Gifts totaling $6,775
have been received by the Unit-
ed Jewish Appeal of Greater
New York from two church
groups here.
Dr. Jonah B. Wise, UJA chair-
man, announced receipt of $5,275
from the Church Committee ori
Overseas Relief, and $1,500 from
the Protestant Episcopal Church.

Labor Representatives Hit
Anti-Immigration Bill
WASHINGTON, (JTA)--Rep-
resentatives of the CIO, the AFL,
the Women's Trade Union League
and the National Conference
Labor Legionnaires denounced
the Gossett Bill, which would
halve immigration for the next
ten years. Testifying before the
House Immigration and Naturali
zation Committee, they opposed -
any cut in immigration quotas
until a commission of experts can
make a study of the problem
post-war immigration.

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Polish Gov't. Aids ORT
Vocational Training

NEW YORK—With the coop-
eration of the Polish government,
the ORT has begun the organiza-
tion of vocational training courses
for metal workers, textile work-
ers and electricians in Lodz,
Kattowitz and Breslau, according
When I was a sperm and you were a to word received from the World
spawn
ORT Union office at Geneva,
In Cimmerian darkness of yore,
And bleak was the abyss wherein we Switzerland.

Evolution

were thrown,
Suppose you were mistaken
As the raging and fulminant waves
on us bore;
for a non-Jew? How would you
When in the clefts and the crags of
react when the High Holy Days
the rock
We mated to ever replenish our stock,
come around, and never having The
stock of cell protoplasm,
the wake of the glacial chasm
observed other Jewish traditions, In
When the Earth gave birth to new
life
you decide to take off three days In torments
and pangs of a spasm.
from work?
When I was a spawn and you were a
sperm
These things have happened
In the remote Mezozoic domain,
before and undoubtedly will And
we clove to each other more
happen again. They are accepted
close and more firm
In
utter
oblivion and utter disdain
as inevitable.
Of the 'dangers of Being, in hope to
survive;
But when a non-Jew is mis-
flagellate tremors helped us to
taken for a Jew and he goes When
strive
through tortures, finds himself For Freedom of Motion; we changed
then our ground
the victim of anti-Semites dur- From coral fixation to ichthyan bound,
ing an attack by the Christian Where we still were submerging sans
thrill and sans sound.
Front, finds his garbage can
emptied on his porch—that's a When I was a sperm and you were
a spawn,
subject for a novel.
When caves were our shelter and
fissures our home;
This is exactly what happens When
danger lurked ever, with
to Lawrence Newman in Arthur
moan and with groan
We
recoiled
from the blasts that
Miller's novel, "Focus," recently
. descended
published by Reynal & Hitch- From the canopied dome,
That now you and I
cock, 8 W. 40th St., New York 18. Call
the magnificent sky;
Newman loses his job when he At its wonders we marvel and its
secrets
we try
puts on eyeglasses and thereby
To unravel 'midst a web of con-
acquires a Semitic appearance.
fusion:
to us sleep took the place of
There is trouble for him all Then
Illusion
around, he is accused of marry- And our hearts were aglow in pair-
ing and fusion.
ing a Jewess and even though
he stops buying at Finkelstein's Now I am a spawn and you are a
•sperm
to prove his Aryanism, he is
heavenly bliss and ecstatic elation
eventually the butt of trouble In
Of the magic, which as mortals we
term
when both he and the Jew are
Love, Freedom, the World as One
attacked.
Nation;
in turmoil and most tragic
Although his wife tries to When
travail
find refuge in appeals to the We fight for survival, with titanic
Christian Front leader, Newman We assail
battle to rescue, redeem and
at last frees himself from his
maintain
The
structure and fabric of Civiliza-
complexes by taking his stand
tion.
with Finkelstein and by report-
Ah, were I a sperm and were you a
ing to the police.
spawn
Miller writes well. The ex- Badk in primordial darkness of yore!
Ah, were we again by hurricanes
treme fright the reader is sub-
thrown,
jected to by such a novel may Landing on night's Plutonian shore:
Once more would we wait in rifts
cause dissention over this type
and in clefts,
of novel-writing, and those who Mating in podial cloacae of depths,
To meet and to part for a better
desire a happy ending will be dis-
Creation,
pleased. Perhaps his next work And sounding the death knell to
Civilization.
will satisfy the dissenters.
ANONYMOUS

N. Y. Congregation Donates
1,000 Books for Europe

NEW YORK: The Men's Club
of Cong. Bnai Jeshurun, second
oldest Jewish congregation here,
has purchased 1,000 religious
books and contributed them to
the JDC for shipment to Jewish
communities in Europe. The
donation including 17 large vol-
umes of the Babylonian Talmud,
printed in 1886 in Vilne.

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