Senator Thomas
Urges Ban on All
'East River Analyzes Economic, U. S. Immigration
Social Conflicts of New York Life WASHINGTON, D. C. (JPS)—
Sholem
Friday, January 24, 1947
THE JEWISH NEWS
Page Twenty-four
We'll Never Die
Asch Scores Again;
Sholem Asch's latest novel, ows and children is severely con-
"East River," (published by G. demned.
The social conflicts of the era
45th St.,
P. Putnam's Sons, 2
New York 19), is a story of the covered in the story emerge as
East Side of New York, of its more convincing writing than the
industrial rise and its economic love story itself. Life in the
tragedies, its humor and pathos,
its religious fervor and trends
to socialism, its loves and ideal-
ogical differences.
Its major theme is an inter-
marriage between a Jew and a
Catholic. The entire novel re-
volves around this tragedy which
at first divides families and an
entire neighborhood, but in the
end results in an amicable agree-
ment resulting from the obser-
vant Jew's tolerance in taking
into his home his Christian
daughter-in-law and grandson.
Asch's novel, brilliantly writ-
ten, is reminiscent of the famous
"Abie's Irish Rose," where Jews
and non-Jews live and work
amicably together.
But the story assumes more
important aspects through Nath-
an's activities in the labor move-
ment. Asch's descriptions of the
needle industry in New York
revives interest in the conflicts
between employers and employ-
ees in New York during the first
decade of the century.
The eminent author fascinat-
SHOLEM ASCH
ingly outlines the, struggle for
existence among the Jews and tenements, the struggle for exis-
excoriates those employers who tence by people of all faiths, the
resorted to all shady means of battle for the advancements of
building up their businesses con- standards—these angles in "East
trary to accepted agreements with River" reflect the elements of
unions. The distribution of great writing by the famous
"bundles" for home work by wid- author.
Ny•
I. A bill forbidding discrim-
ination by schools in New York
State be passed at the next ses-
sion of the- State Legislature.
2. The Board of Estimate of
the City of New York be re-
quested to embody in all future
contracts with all schools which
use the facilities of the City
hospitals for the instruction of
their students a provision pro-
viding for the cancellation
' thereof upon proof that such
institution is guilty of racial or
religious discrimination in the
acceptance or rejection of stu-
dents.
3. A local law be passed pro-
viding for the appointment of a
committee consisting of the
('ommissioner of Hospitals and
the presidents of the various
City colleges, empowering it, on
its own tnotion or on motion of
any person aggrieved, to inquire
into conditions involving or
charges of discrimination.
By MICHAEL ATZMONI
NEW YORK (JPS-Palcor) — I.
(Editor's Note: The author of this
poem is a well known Hebrew poet F. Stone, chi& of the Washing-
who has contributed to Palestinian
and American publications. The music
for the Hebrew original is being
written by Julius Chajes. Mr. Atzmoni
Senator Thomas, Oklahoma Dem- at present is teaching Hebrew at the
ocrat, has urged all immigration Shaarey Zedek).
into the U. S. be halted imme-
diately.
The Senator, who tried unsuc-
cessfully during the last session
of Congress to stop nearly all
immigration for at least five
years, declared: "I am against
immigration. There may be a few
exceptions but as a general prin-
ciple I am opposed to it until we
get our domestic economy a little
more stabilized — and that may
take years . . . I make no dis-
tinction as to race or nationality.
We already have too many peo-
ple in this country."
President Truman said last
summer, in calling for increased
immigration into Palestine, that
he was prepared to ask Congress
for liberalization of the country's
immigration laws to admit refu-
gees into the United States.
New York Council Asks Ban
On Medical School Prejudice
NEW YORK, (JTA) — Several
recommendations aimed at end-!
ing discrimination in New York
medical schools against members
of minority groups and graduates
of city colleges were adopted at
a special meeting of the City
Council. The Council urged that:
PM's stone; Deutsch
Receive Guild Awards
admission of graduates from City-
supported colleges.
In the last six years CCNY has
been keeping a record of its grad-
uates who have attained the
above-average scholastic record of
A- or better and who have ap-
plied for admission to the five
rn‹dical schools located in the City
of New York. The tables show
thdt the overwhelming majority
of these. students were rejected
without personal interviews. At
the committee's hearings, it was
admitted by faculty members
that the medical schools had ac-
cepted students from other col-
leges with an average of B or less.
The report criticizes Columbia
and Cornell Medical Schools for
destroying in recent years all
records of repected applicants for
admission.
Conference Urges United
Immigration Law Action
ton Bureau of the New York
newspaper PM and Albert
Deutsch, PM columnist, were
among the recipients of the New
York Newspaper Guild's annual
We'll never die,
journalism awards. Stone received
We'll live forever,
We see the ages come and So.
the award for his series of ar-
We're marching on
And we shall never
ticles, now availiible in book
Surrender to a hateful foe.
form, on his trip "Underground
In olden times
to Palestine." Among others who
We fought our battles,
Today we till and plough our fields. received awards were
Renee
But should we need
To show our mettle,
Fruchtbaum, of the Non-Sectarian
We'll know how to wield our swords
Anti-Nazi League, for her work
and shields.
in helping expose the anti-
We scold and loathe
Semitic, anti-Negro Columbians
The raving hater,
Inc.
Who fosters cruelty and crime.
We put our faith
In our Creator
Who vindicates his truth in time.
Whether we'll live
To see salvation,
We do not know and do not care.
But we do know:
Through us our nation
Will have in life a better share.
Failure To Help DP's
Labeled No. 1 Crime
NEW YORK, (JTA)—The al-
Our names will not
In books be written,
Though ev e rlasting is our toil.
And should we fall.
Our bodies smitten
Will fructify our people's soil.
Well never die.
We'll live forever.
We see the ages come and go.
We're marching on.
And we shall never
Surrender to a hateful foe.
lied problems of finding perma-
nent homes for the 250,000 dis-
placed Jews in Europe and of
determining the status of the
Jewish homeland in Palestine
must be solved by the demo-
cratic nations if thousands of the
DP's are not to perish in the
coming year, Herbert R. Abeles,
who has just returned from a
two-month tour of Europe and
Palestine on behalf of the UJA,
warned.
Branding the failure to aid the
displaced Jews, the "No. 1 crime
of 1946," Mr. Abeles, president-
elect of the Jewish Community
Council of Essex County, N. J.,
said that the DP's are teetering
on the edge of despair. Aware of
the many obstacles in the way
of emigration to the United
States and Palestine, many are
resigned to going anywhere that
they can be permanently re-
settled.
Palestine, Mr. Abeles stated,
"is as much a conquered country
as any that was occupied by the
Germans." Barbed-wire entangle-
ments and fortified police and
military posts dot the country.
Despite British restrictions, how-
ever, the Jewish population and
its economy are thriving, and
the Jews are determined not
only to maintain what they have
built but to enlarge the area of
Jewish settlement and make pos-
sible the absorption of thousands
of refugee's, he added.
Santiago ORT School Gets
Full Educational Status
(JTA)-
SANTIAGO, Chile,
NEW YORK (JTA) — The President Gabriel Gonzales Vi-
American Jewish Conference has dela has issued a directive grant-
called upon its 63 affiliated or- ing the Santiago ORT School the
ganizations to drop all independ- status of a public school.
The ruling authorizes the ORT
ent campaigns for the admittance
of 100,000 displaced persons to Industrial School to issue di-
the United States under the im- plomas giving its graduates the
migration quotas which were not rights enjoyed by graduates of
The recommendations were used during the war years, and public vocational schools.
• atitopted on the basis of a report to rally behind the newly-created Ask Authorities to Extradite
submitted by a special investigat- National Citizenship Committee Nazis' Oswiecim Physician
ing committee appointed last Sep- on Displaced Persons headed by
WARSAW. (JTA)—The Polish
tember by the Council to investi- Earl Harrison, American member
military mission in the U. S. zone
gate charges of discrimination in of the Intergovernmental Corn- of Germany has requested Amer-
professional schools made by the mittee on Refugees. •
ican military authorities to ex-
American Jewish Congress and
tradite to Poland Dr. M. R. Mon-
other organizations. The report Jewish Lawyer Is Named
gle who, as chief physician at
Romanian
Consul
At
Haifa
substantiates these charges. It pre-
death camp, sent
BUCHAREST, (JTA) — Solo- the Oswiecim
sents a thorough investigation of
hundreds of thousands of Jews
mon
Herscovici,
a
Romanian
Jew-
the admission practices of, Col-
to asphyxiation chambers. A
umbia University's College of ish lawyer, has been named Ro- transport of Nazi war criminals
manian
consul
at
Haifa.
The
Ro-
Physicians and Surgeons and
arrived in Stettin this week from
Cornell University's Medical Col- manian government has accepted
Luebeck in the British zone.
lege. Relevant statistical tables of an ORT plSn for the vocational
admissions to New York Medical training of approximately 25,000
College (Flower Hopital), New young Jewish men and women
Dr. Gilbert J. Roth
York University College of Medi- which will permit their rapid in-
cine, and Long Island College of tegration into the country's econ-
OPTOMETRIST
Medicine are included.
omic life.
The evidence gathered by the
Announces The Opening
committee shows conclusively U. S. Request for Admission
that the medical schools have a Of 25,000 DPs Unanswered
of His New Offices .at
WASHINGTON, (JTA) —Ital-
quota directed against students of
Jewish. Italian and Negro extrac- ian Premier Alcide de Gasperi
2069 W. GRAND BLVD.
tion. The existence of a quota told the Jewish Telegraphic
4 Doors East of Dexter.
against Jews at Cornell was ad- Agency the Italian government
mitted in a letter by the former has not yet replied to the U. S.
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dean of the Medical College. Dis- request Italy give temporary
Glasses Fitted
crimination at•the other schools is shelter to 25,000 Jewish refugees
shOwn by the statistical tables of from the U. S. zone of Austria.
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