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Kindergarten Prejudices

Mrs. Max Ascoli of the Bureau of Inter-
cultural Education, in a recent address in
New York, pointed out that racial and re-
ligious prejudices exist among very young
school children, including kindergartners.
Basing her conclusions on studies with child-
ren in kindergarten, first and second grades
ill five Philadelphia schools, Mrs. Ascoli
warned that prejudices increase rather than
slacken as children grow older.
These admonitions should serve to revive
interest in programs which encourage the
teac-hing of the values of democratic ideals
in our public schools. While emphasis hitherto
has been placed upon the introduction of such
studies in higher classes, there may be need
for new approaches which should include
courses for younger children.
The more effective way of achieving re-
sults would, of course, be to teach the parents
from whom the youngsters undoubtedly
derive their hatreds. While it is unavoidable
that "the street," like "the home," should
have an important effect upon the thinking
of children, the elimination of bigotry from
the hearts of parents, eventually, could serve
the important purpose of diminishing preju-
dides in broader community areas.
If we realize fully the extent of hatreds
which affect the thinking of kindergarten
children, we may be able somehow to reach
new approaches to guide the people of
America along lines of true democratic living.
At the outset, we must recognize that the
situation is far more serious than it appears
on the surface. If the children's prejudices
are not checked in advance, their growth may
undermine the entire structure of our
democracy.

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS
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Philip Slomovitz
Fred M. Butzel
Isidore Sobeloff
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Maurice H. Schwartz Henry Wineman

PHILIP EILOMOVITZ, Editor

VOL. XI—NO. 14

JUNE 20, 1947

Sabbath Scriptural Selections
This Sabbath, the third day of Tammuz, 5707,
the following Scriptural selections will be read in

our synagogues:
Pentateuchal portion—Num. 16:1-18:32.

Prophetical portion—I Samuel 11;14-12:21

Fifty Years Ago

Zionist Movement's Beginning
and Incidents of the Day

Center's Expansion

Long deferred for lack of finances and by
conditions created by the war, the Jewish
Community Center of Detroit at last is af-
forded an opportunity for much needed
expansion.
Already possessing extension centers on
12th St., at the D. W. Simons branch of the
United Hebrew Schools and at the Hampton
School, the gift of $15,000 assigned to the
Center by the liquidated Jewish Children's
Home, added to the memorial gift for $15,000
in tribute to the late H. C. Broder, provide
the nucleus for a fund which should lead to
the realization of a planned larger Center
expansion program.
The large Jewish communities in the Dex-
ter and Six- to Seven-Mile road areas have
created needs for effective recreational facili-
ties through our established Center. There is
particular need for expansion of the existing
programs both in the 12th St. and Dexter
areas, and there should be no delay in facili-
tating such programs. At the same time, it is
necessary that the Jewish Community Center
should have in view the needs for a branch
in the northwest area.
The leaders of the Jewish Children's Home
are to be commended for having recognized
these needs in allocating $15,000 to the Center
program. A real service to the community is
assured through this action.
If at all possible, an expanded Center pro-
gram should be put into force during the
summer months, when the need for recrea-
tionaPprograms becomes especially apparent.
There is no time like the present to plan to
fulfill these important needs.

Friday. June 20. 1947

NEWS

By DAVID SCHWARTZ'

(Copyright. 1947. Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)

The forthcoming Zionist convention will mar

the Golden Jubilee of Zionism. Fifty years ag
in 1897, the Zionist movement was launched.
I picked up a Jewish weekly "published in N
York in 1897. Louis Lipsky had just about reach
the age of voting then, but his pen was precoci
Stephen S. Wise was around the same age, and
was at the time rabbi of the Congregation
Jeshurun. Abba Hillel Silver was a todell'
young man of four whose elequence at the -
was probably appreciated by none save
parents.
What were the Jews thinking about in 1897,.

ask myself, as I turn the pages of this old Jew'
weekly. I flip the pages and see a story a
the first World Zionist Congress at Munich.
* a •
Much Controversy
There is much controversy, I see, about
propriety of Jews going to such a conferen
Dr. Kaufmann Kohler is quoted as strong
opposed. He says: "Because Theodor Herzl
been inflamed by anti-Semitism, is that
reason why the rest of us should turn m
men?"
I turn to another page where I see some Je
feel Zionism is unpatriotic. This "line" I see

Crisis Faces Jewish Survivors

A serious crisis faces the 1,400,000 European Jewish sur-
vivors from Nazism.
UNRRA's liquidation on June 30, the uncertainty of the
status of IRO (International Refugee Organization) which
will assume UNRRA's obligations, the famine and drouth-
these are circumstances and phenomena which threaten the
very lives of the displaced persons.
While rising costs have created the need of $1 a day to I
feed each survivor in Europe, according to competent econ-
omists, the cuts in budgets will reduce allocations to 20 or 25
cents a day for each DP.
Thus, as Gen. Joseph T. McNarney warned at the emer-
gency United Jewish Appeal Conference in Wernersville, Pa.,
a serious crisis is approaching—unless drastic steps are taken
to prevent a calamity.
Gen. McNarney was frank in his admonition that the
developing state of moral collapse in Europe may develop
into outbreaks of violence between Jews and American
soldiers. Such incidents must be averted for the sake of the
DPs, whose morale should be kept on a high level, as well as
for the sake of preventing the possibility of the injection of
the virus of anti-Semitism among Americans.

We are faced, therefore, with manifold responsibilities:
1. The minimum goal of $170,000,000 for the United
Jewish Appeal must be raised if the DPs are to be adequately
cared for. The Detroit delegation at the Wernersville confer-
ence took the lead in urging continuation of all drives until
the maximum sums are secured in all community drives. This
step involves an obligation upon all American Jews to secure
$12,500,000 more during the coming weeks to boost the total
of $115,000,000 already secured to the minimum requirement,
until the end of the summer, of $127,500,000. We dare not rest
until this responsibility is fulfilled.
2. Gen. McNarney pointed to the urgency of settling
large numbers of Jews in Palestine—the country of preference
among all DPs—and of providing for as many refugees as can
be accommodated in the United States. Palestine therefore
remains a major obligation on the Jewish reconstruction
front, and we must be on the alert that all international
pledges to Jews should be adhered to and that there should
be an end to betrayals on the Palestine issue. At the same
time, there should be no let-down in efforts to enlighten
members of Congress on the humanitarian purposes of the
Stratton Bill which calls for the admission of 400,000 DPs-
Jews and non-Jews--over a four-year period.

The Jewish community of Detroit, in the main, has been
loyal to all obligations on the-relief and rescue fronts. There
has been an outpouring of gifts to the Allied Jewish Cam-
paign and a strong effort to protect the Jewish position in
Palestine and to secure support for measures to admit DPs
to the U. S.
While the Allied Jewish Campaign is far from the goal
set for 1947, a comparison with other communities will indi-
cate that Detroit Jewry still is either on top of all community
drives in the country, exceeding comparable efforts elsewhere,
or is at least doing as well as other cities. This, of course, is
no consolation in a situation which requires maximum re-
sults. The fact that Detroit spokesmen at Wernersville took
the lead in moving for continuation of the drive until pro-
spective contributors are reached, and in securing additional
gifts, is an indication of commendable determination to
achieve maximum results in - this critical period in Jewish

history.
There is one special fact to remember at this time, when,
in spite of our having completed several months of hard cam-
paign, we are called upon to continue soliciting for the Allied
Jewish Campaign's unfilled goal:
There still are thousands who have not contributed.
There are hundreds who are in position to give more than
they already have given. There are many who have
underestimated the critical needs of the hour and have
decreased their contributions.
The special extended appeal is to these people. Their
new or enlarged gifts, as the case may be, are needed for the
completion of the worldwide Jewish rescue. program and for
the continuation of efforts to build the Jewish Homeland in
Eretz Israel. Let them come forth promptly with the proper

response to a great mercy campaign.

peated again and again in various issues of

paper. I turn to another page and what do
see. Yes, this is something new to me. One Jew'

leader charges that what Herzl is trying to
is create a Socialist state. He says that He
plans to inscribe the Palestine flag seven stars, f
the shorter seven hour labor day. "Herzl does
want these seven stars to represent the sevent
day of rest or the seventh year of release,
the seven-hour labor day," he complains.
Well. that is something new. Quite an idea.
Herzl had it. More pages. I see an Orthodox rab
attacks the "mission of Israel" idea urged by R
form Jewry. Dr. Gotthard Deutsch defends
idea. He says it is not a new idea originated
the Reform Jews, but that it was actually or
nated by Isaiah.
• • •

He's a Jewnitarian
Another page takes to task Dr. Emil
Hirsch, Reform Rabbi of Temple Sinai,
cago, for urging the abolition of the Suet
holiday. Dr. Hirsch is asked by a non-Jew
whether he is not really a Unitarian and
replies, "No, I am a "Jewnitarian."
Again I see a story about the forthcoming fi

World Zionist Congress at Munich. Then co
a story reporting an American author, Mar
Twain. who was present at a meeting of the in
nicipal council in Vienna where the anti-Semi
created a great furor.
Another page and there is a Jewish "joke."
Jew was held up. He surrenders his money. bu
he asks the brigand to shoot a hole through h'
hat so he can tell his boss, whose money it i
that he struggled to retain possession of it.
robber accommodates him. The Jew asks him
take a few more shots at it. The robber plugs
hat three more times. "Once more," says
Jew.
"I can't," replies the robber, "I have no m
bullets."
"Now give me back my money, or I'll kn
you down," says the Jew, realizing he need fe
the thief no longer.
Well, the "Jewish jokes" in 1897 were no be
than the current crop.
• • •

Another Story

Another story about the first World Zion'
Congress at Munich . . . There is mention a
of Joseph Fels. Henry George, the great preache
of the single-tax had just died, and Fels,
wealthy soap manufacturer, had become •
apostle . . . One anti-Zionist thinks it is presum
tuous for either Herzl or Nordau to attempt
lead the Jews, since neither, he says, had e
before taken any part or shown any public •
terest in Jewish affairs.
Ah, at last I come to it. The story of the act
meeting of the first World Zionist Congr
But what is this? It is not held in Munich. I

takes place instead in Basle, Switzerland!
story says it was decided not to hold the Zioni
Congress in Munich, because leading Jews o
Munich were strongly opposed to the Zion'
meeting there.
Munch was destined for something else. It w
at Munich that Hitler staged his first "putsch.
Munich was the capital of Nazism. If you wan
historical irony, here it is.

Make Ready Your Buckler.

(Based upon Prophecy to Nations In Jeremiah 41
By DR. NOAH E. ARONSTAM
Make ready your buckler, make ready your shi

,arer the battle!
Draw
You never shall cringe, you never shall yield
Like dumb driven animals.
To the travesty wherewith the nations bid
desist;
You shall answer with a clarion call:

Don't fear!
Stand fast,
Resist.

Stand forth with your helmets, furbish y

spears—
Must you ever be slaves?
An end to your wailing, an end to your tears
And an end to all knaves!

To the travesty wherewith the nations sooth
to desist.
You shall answer with a trumpet blast:
Don't fear!
Stand firm,
Resist.

