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THE JEWISH NEWS

For Our Young People

DEAR BOYS AND GIRLS:

ON MONDAY AND TUESDAY

nights, you will ask your parents and
grandparents the traditional Tier Kashes'
—the four questions pertaining to Pass-
over. -
Perhaps we should ask YOU some
questions on Passover, so that through
you these questions may be directed at
our elders.
Let me ask you:
In your joy over the Passover, in your
happiness that you live in this great
land of freedom ',and plenty,. are you con-
cerned over the miseries of your fellow
Jews overseas who have been deprived
of the privileges WE possess?
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Friday, April 12, 1946

Passover Story—

By SHOLEM ALEICHEM

Elijah The Prophet

_This group of pictures portrays the
work of the three great causes Of which
the Allied Jewish Campaign asks us to
raise in Detroit an emergency fund of
$2,000,000.

IT IS NOT GOOD TO BE AN

only son, to be fretted over by father
and mother—to be the only one left
out of seven. Don't stand here. Don't
go there. Don't drink that. Don't eat
the other. Cover up your throat. Hide
your hands. Ah, it is not good—not
good at all to be an only son, and a
rich man's son into the bargain.

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P

ASSOVER HAS COME AT
last—the dear sweet Passover. I was
dressed as befitted the son of a man
of wealth—like a young Prince. But
what was the consequence? I was not
allowed to play or run about, lest I
catch cold. T must not play with,poor
children. I was a wealthy man's son.
Such nice clothes, and I had no one to .
show off before. I had a pocketful of
nuts, and no one to play with.

Above is another picture of newcomers
to Palestine. The Jewish Banner waves a
signal of freedom to them. Are YOU
ready to help more of our boys and girls
and their parents to go to Palestine with
the help of the United Palestine Appeal?

Above is a picture of children and
parents who experienced the horrors of
the Belsen concentration camp and who
were compelled to live like this, two and
three in each crude bed.
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But even. today, the Jewish children in
Europe and their elders have little to
sustain them.
Of the 1,500,000 Jewish children who
lived in Europe 10 years ago, only 150,000
survive today. This means that 1,350,000
were either murdered or died as a result
of disease and starvation for which the
Nazis were responsible.
We owe so much to the 150,000 remain-
ing children in Europe to make their lives
a little happier, to provide them with
food, to find new homes for them, prefer-
ably in Palestine.
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Those who celebrate the Passover this
year Will have to admit to themselves
that the Exodus we have to plan NOW is
a -more difficult job than was the Exodus
from Egypt.
But if all of us will it we can make it
possible for hundreds of thousands of
Jews to become free people and to be
settled in Palestine.

Then—study the face of this yotingster
of 6: Branko is his name; and the face of
his mother, Mrs. Rudolph Selan. Both
are shown at the U. S. Consulate in
Niagara Palls, - Ont., awaiting to be ad-
mitted with the aid of the National
Refugee Service.

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If we are to have a truly happy Pass-
over, we must see to it that the less
fortunate people also have a taste of joy,
and peace, and freedom, and that they
should' no longer suffer starvation.
This is my message to you on Passover.
I wish all of you a very Happy Pesach.

UNCLE DANIEL.

My father put on his best clothes,
and went off to the synagogue. Said
my mother to me: '"Do you know what?
Lie down and have a good sleep. You
will then be able to sit up at the Seder
and ask the Four Questions!" Was I
mad? Would I go to sleep before the
Seder?

"Remember, you must not sleep at
the Seder. If you do, Elijah the
Prophet will come with a bag on his
shoulders. On the first two nights of
Passover, Elijah the Prophet goes
about looking for those who have
fallen asleep at the Seder and takes -
them away in his bag." . . . Ah! will I
fall asleep at the Seder? I? Not evert
if it were to last the whole night
through, or even to broad daylight.
"What happened last year, mother?"
"Last year you fell asleep soon after
the first blessing." "Why did Elijah
the Prophet not come then with his
bag?" "Then you were small, now
you are big. Tonight you must ask
your father the Four Questions. Hush,
here is father, back from the syna-
gogue."
"Good Yom-tov!"
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"Good Yom-tov!"

T

HANK GOD, FATHER made
the blessing over wine. I, _too. Father
drank the cup full of' wine. So did I,
a cup full, to the very dregs. "See, to
the dregs," said mother to father. To
me she said:

"A full cup of wine! You will drop
off to sleep." Ha! 'Ha! Will I fall
asleep? Not even if we were to sit up
all the night, or even to broad day-
light. "Well," said my father, "how
are you going to ask the Four Ques-
tions? How will you recite Haggadah?
How will you sing with me—'Slaves
were we'?"
My mother never took her eyes
off me. She smiled and said: . "You
will fall asleep—fast asleep."

From Marconi to Television ....

I

N CONFERRING the hon-
orary degree of Doctor of Science
on David Sarnoff some years ago,
the Dean of St. Lawrence Uni-
versity read the following cita-
tion:
"David Sarnoff, born across
the sea, coming to America in
childhood, a worthy and not-
able product of American op-
portunity, a student and pro-
moter of the science of wire-
, less communication, tireless in
research, skillful in literary ex-
pression, recognized as a guid-
ing force in business affairs,
vice president and general man-
ager of the Radio Corporation
of America, a man of high
ideals, practical methods, and
untiring energy."
That, in a single paragraph,
sums up a remarkable personal-
ity, a Jewish executive who has
become an outstanding figure in
radio, art and industry, but
whose great talents also have
been put to good use by such dif-
ferent forces as the U. S. Army
and the City of New York. Not
only has he been a pioneer in a
new and mostly uncharted field

—that of television; not only has
he exerted influence in the one
subject that is now gripping the
world—the atomic bomb; but he
has come to the forefront at a
time when an industrial crisis
was gripping the biggest city in
the world.

A few mo nt h s ago, New
York was on the verge of be-
ing paralyzed by a threatened
subway strike. Mayor O'Dw-
yer called upon the one man
who enjoyed . the confidence of
labor—David Sarnoff. Sarnoff
sat down with Philip Murray,
head of the CIO, and a few
hours later the strike was off.

His is an amazing rags-to-
riches story. Born on Feb. 27,
1891, he was brought to Amer-
ica, as a child, from Russia. The
oldest of a family of five chil-
dren, he had to shift for himself
and for them early in life be-
cause of the death of his father.
He was, in turn, delivery boy,
news boy and messenger, but his
last job as • a youth proved the
inspiration for his biggest career.
It was in 1906 that he secured
a job with the Marconi Wireless
Telegraph Co. of America as an

office boy. He learned to be a
telegraph operator—and then he
began to rise. Wireless operator,
station manager, contract mana-
ger—finally commercial depart-
ment manager.
In 1919, when the Radio Corp.
of America was formed, Sarnoff
was taken over • by the new or-
ganization. He subsequently was
promoted t o general _ manager,

- DAVID SARNOFP

I

FELL ASLEEP, and dreamt
that ' my father was already saying,
"Pour out Thy wrath." My mother her-
self got up from the table, and went
to open the door to welcome Elijah
the Prophet. It would be a fine thing
if Elijah the Prophet did come, as my
mother has said, with a bag on his
shoulder, and if he said to me:•

"Come boy." And who else would
be to blame for this but my mother,
with her "Fall asleep, fall asleep."
And as I was thinking these thoughts,
I heard the creaking of the door. My
father stood up and cried:. "Blessed art
thou who comest in the name of the
Eternal."

I looked towards the door. Yes, it
was He. He was bent in two, and
leaned on a big, big stick. He had a
bag on his shoulders. And silently,
softly, he came straight to me.

It is not good to be an only child,
and fretted over—the only one left
out of seven, and a wealthy man's
son into the bargain.

,

(From the translation in Leo W. Schwarz's
"A Golden Treasury of Jewish Literature"),

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"NOW, LITTLE BOY, GET
into 'my bag and come." So said the
old man to me, but in a kind voice and
softly and sweetly.

I asked him: "Where to?" And he
replied: "You will see later." I did not
want to go, and he said to me again:
"Come." And I began to argue, "How
can I go with you when I am a
wealthy man's son?" Said he to me:
"And as a wealthy man's son, of what
great value are you?" Said I: "I am
the only child of my father and
mother." Said he: "To me you are not
an only child." Said I: "I am fretted
over. If they find that I am gone, they
will not get over it, they will die,
especially my mother."
Then he said to me more sternly:
"For the last time, little boy. Choose
one of the two Either you say good-
bye to your father and mother, and
come with me, or you remain here,
but fast asleep for ever and ever."
Having said these words, he stepped
back from me a little, and was turning
to the door. What was to be done? To
go with the old man, God knows
where, and get lost, would mean the
death of my father and mother. TO
remain here, and fall asleep for ever
and ever—that would mean that I
myself must die.

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I

STRETCHED OUT my hand
to him, and with tears in my eyes, I
said: "Elijah the Prophet, dear, kind,
loving, darling Elijah, give me*. one
minute to think." He turned towards
me with a smile: "I will give you one
minute to decide, my child—but no
more."

I ask you. "What should I have
decided to do in that one minute,
so as to save myself from going
with the old man, and also to save
myself from fallMg asleep for ever?
Well, who can guess?"

By PAUL GOULD

(Copyright, 1946, J.T.A. Inc.)

vice president and, in 1930, was
elected president of RCA. Even
when he became a colonel and
then brigadier general in the
Army, surrendering his $100,000
a-year post to serve his country,
he never forgot the most exciting
moment of 'his life.

The signals were faint that
April night in 1921, but kis .
trained ear in a radio shack in
lower Manhattan caught the
Morse taps: "Steamship Titanic
Ran Into Iceberg. Sinking
Fast!" From that hour on,
Sarnoff stayed at his key for
three days and three nights di-
recting,rescue ships and record-,
ing t h e • anxiously aWaited
names of 706 survivors.

was published with the perinis-
sion of the War DePartment}
Surveying the atomic age and
the 'possibilities of energy ta , be
found in a cup of disintegrating
atoms, Sarnoff had written these
solemn words:
"Our great hope .fOr World
peace can best be advanced by
achieving freedom from want,
through man's ingenuity: in
atomic energy, electronics chem-
istry, physics and the ...other ,Sci-
ences.
"Peace now depends , upon , the
recognition by all nations of their
individual responsibility to pre-
vent war. They must foster; the
will to peace.
Gen. Sarnoff's report was Com-
piled after he had,-;been assign-
ed as special consultant on Com-
munications to Gen. Eisenhower.
He largely was responsible for
D-Day communications arrange-
ments which made'instantaneous
news coverage possible with : the
reopening of communications : in
Paris with Britain and America-
As a result he was awarded the
Legion of Merit, fourth highest

An alarmed nation suddenly
became aware of his- work when
President Taft shut down every
other wireless station in the
country during the 72-hour emer-
gency.
In distinguished articles for the
leading newspapers and maga-
zines, Sarnoff has been the first
to advance breath-taking vistas
of the future. In the press of
August 10, 1945, an article entitl-
ed "Science for Life or Death," award in the nation,

