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THE JEWISH

NEWS

Friday, January 9, 1948

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0 ELISHA, THERE IS
DEATH 11,1 THIS POT!
THOUGH WE STARVE,
WE CANNOT EAT THESE
POISONOUS HERBS!

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FROM THE SECOND BOOK OF KINGS
CHAPTER$2-9)IN THE KING JAMES AND
J P . S.A VERSIONS OF THE BIBLE;
FROM THE FOURTH BOOK OF KINGS
IN THE DOVAT VERSION

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1 6'Y DON CAMERON AND
MONTGOMERY MULFORD
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DATER IN THE FAMINE A MAN CAME
BRINGING TWENTY LOAVES OF BREAD
,PROM ANOTHER TOWN AS A GMT TO

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ND THS
PEOPLE
WERE FED!
ELISHA HAD
NEUTRALIZED
THE POISON
IN THE
HERBS GO
THAT THERE
WAS NOT
HARM BUT
HOURSSHMENT
IN 11-SEM

GIVE IT TO THEM!
FOR GOD HAS
'THEY SHALL EAT
AND THERE SHALL
BE FOOD
LEFT!

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NOW I f IS NO LONGER
POISONOUS! GIVE IT TO
THE PEOPLE, THAT THEY
MAY EAT

OEANWHILE, MEN BROUGHT IN WILD GOURDS
FROM THE FIELDS TO COOK FOR F000
'- BUT THE GOURDS WERE POISONOUS

IIKNAV 11••1014

IN SYRIA. LIVED A GREAT GENERAL,
ilow
NADJAA.I.1- A. POWERFUL WARRIOR, BUT HE WAS

AND SO IT PROVED-FOR BY A. MIRACLE,
THE SMALL BASKET OF BREAD WAS
MORE THAN ENOUGH FOR THE HUN-
GRY PEOPLE OF GILGAL -••••••

NIAJAMAN WENT TO THE LAUD OP ISRAEL
TO SEE EL15HA....0--

AFFLICTED WITH LEPROSY---

I'M IN DESPAIR' I CAN
CONQUER ARMIES, BUT
NOT THIS DISEASE OF
LEPROSY!

WITH THIS LITTLE

BIT OF FOOD, HOW
AM I TO FEED
A WHOLE OTY,
ELISHA?
BUT I OBEY!

IN MY HOME IN ISRAEL
THERE IS A. GREAT
PROPHET,
I KNOW HE CAN
HEAL NAAMAN!

ELISHA SAYS IF YOU
WILL DIP SEVEN TIMES
IN THE RIVER. JORDAN,
YOU SHALL BE
HEALED !

WHAT KIND OF
PROPHET IS THIS?
I CAN WASH IN
BETTER RIVERS SW

DAMASCUS, MY HOME
LAND!

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NOW I KNOW
THERE IS NO GOD
BUT THE GOD OF
. ISRAEL.- LET ME
MAKE A GIFT TO
SHOW MY.
APPRECIATION :

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ND WHEN
HE HAD
BATHED
SEVEN
TIMES AS
ELI SHA
HAD SAID,
NAAMAN
WAS
HEALED

Z WANT

NOTHING

FOR MYSELF,-
I WAS ONLY
USING GODS
POWER TO
HEAL YOU t

UT GEHALI, THE SERVANT OF ELISHA,
THOUGHT THAT SOME REWARD
SHOULD BE FORTHCOMING FROM
NAAMAN FOR HIS HEALING...".

ELISHA LET NAAMAN OFF
WITHOUT PAYING - WHY
SHOULDN'T I. GO AFTER
HIM AND GET SOMETHING

FOR MYSELF?

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53

Midtown Council Historic Photograph
Schools Are Here—Parents Must To Hear Talk by When JDC Was Formed In 1933
Citizen of Month

`Thou Shalt Teach Them Diligently'

Assure Education For Children

- The Coneluding Article in a Series
By RUTH MIRIAM 1.EVINE

"And these words which I command thee this day shall
be upon thy heart . . . Thou shalt teach them diligently unto
thy children . . . "
In response to this admonition, one of the earliest in the
traditions of Judaism, Jewish family and community life I
through the centuries has laid particular emphasis on the

education of the children.
These columns, in recent
weeks have considered the ways
in which the Detroit Jew-
ish community is fulfilling that
Biblical adjuration. We have dis-
:cussed the major educational
facilities available to Jewish
-children in Detroit, including
those offered by the several con-
:gregational schools, United He-
-brew Schools,- Yeshivath Beth
Yehudah, Sholom Aleichem In-
stitute, Farband Folk Schools,
- . United Jewish High School, the
Jewish Community Center and
the 121h St. Council Center, as
yell as many of the adult edu-
,:atione.1 programs.
- In addition to these, there are
•several. less widely known
. schools, such as the Detroit He-
brew Parochial School (Yeshi-
-vath Chachmey Lublin), the Car-
ruel Hebrew School, the Yiddish
School of the Jewish Fraternal
Order and otherS. Many parents
prefer to engage the services of
a private teacher for their chil-
dren, and a number of rabbis and
'teachers give home instruction.
Wide Scope of Schools
It is evident, from this survey,
•that Jewish education, in Detroit,
is thorough. and all-encompassing
in scope. The schools visited, for
the mest part, employ the most
progressive educational to c h-
niques with which to impart to
their students a love for their,
Jewish heritage and a positive at
Crtude toward the expression of
Judaism in their daily lives.
One of the most stimulating
• discoveries made in a tour of
Jewisa schools is the consistent
emphasis on the children's po-
sition in the community. No
Jewish child can leave a De-
troit Jewish school without an
awareness of his responsibility
to his fellow-Jews—to be ful-
filled through. service and
leadership, as well as through
, financial contributions.
With this promising picture be -
fore us, it is highly disturbing to
tarn to the statistics of popula-
tion, which show that less than

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25% of the children in the city
are receiving the benefits of a
Jewish education. How any par-
ent, faced with the disastrous
condition of world Jewry and the
knowledge that, at least until the
Jewish State is a reality, Amer-
ica is the only remaining strong-
hold for the unhindered practice
of Judaism and development of
Jewish . culture,. can withhold a
Jewish education from his child,
is beyond comprehension. Cer-
tainly the financial aspect can
have . no bearing, since no .eom-
Inunity school will deny a - place
in its classes to children who
cannot afford its fees.
Special Training for Teachers
It is true that many of the
existing facilities are overcrowd-
ed, and teaching staffs are short.
But these difficulties are rapidly
being overcome. There is a
steadily increasing movement to-
ward special training programs
for teachers in Jewish schools,
and more and more of the schools
are offering sufficiently high
compensation as to attract to
their staffs those teachers with
the best in pedagogical training
and Jewish background. Physical
facilites also are being increased,
with one new school building in
progress of construction, and
others in the planning stages.
Another movement which is
gaining momentum is toward the
all-day school. Many educators
and religious workers regard
this as the ideal set-up, allowing
for a thorough Jewish back-
ground as well as individualized
:-...eculae 'instruction. It has this
disadvantage, however—that the
children have little contact with
non-Jewish children and, there-
fore, may find it difficult to ad-
just to the predominantly Gentile
society in which they will spend
their adult lives.
The type of Jewish school
chosen, the ideology or prac-
tices it teaches, the length of
time spent in its classrooms,
are all matters of choice. What
is important, is that some

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Thomas Quinlan, who was
chosen citizen of the month by
the Junior Chamber of Com-
merce, for his work in the West-
ern High School area, will ad-
dress the Midtown Neighborhood
Council Jan. 30.
Quinlan, a counselor at Western
High, led a group of students, the
Committee of 100, in interview-
ing residents of the area asking
them what they considered to be
their number one problem as
householders. As a result of the
replies received, which indicated
that the number one problem was
rat control, the students organ-
ized a campaign under Quinlan,
which met with much success.
The meeting also will be ad-
dressed by George Edwards,
president of the Detroit Common
Council. All residents of the 12th
St. area are invited to attend.
The committee in charge of the
event is planning exhibits show-
ing ways in which the neighbor-
hood can be improved. These will
be placed in the office of the De-
troit Edison Company, 12th and
Clairmount, and the 12th St.
Council Center, 12th and Blaine.
The committee is composed of
Mrs. Helen Kulka, Rabbi Max J.
Wohlgelernter, Mrs. Peter Kellie,
Jack Halperin and Mr. and Mrs.
Joseph C. Jenkins.

League Says Sen. Gillette
Will Remain in Presidency

Completion of a third of a century of aid to distressed Jews over..
seas marked the annual meeting of the Joint Distribution Committee
held in New York last Sunday.
JDC was formed in response to an urgent cablegram, dated
August, 1914, from Henry Morgenthau, Sr., U. S. Ambassador to
Turkey, warning that 60,000 Jews in the Holy Land, cut off by warring
armies, faced starvation unless American Jews immediately sent aid.
JDC operations began at its first business meeting in November,
1914, with Chairman Felix M. Warburg (left of globe), Jacob H. Schiff
(right of globe) and Louis Marshall (behind Warburg) in attendance.
Standing in back of Mr. Marshall is Herbert H. Lehman, later gov-
ernor of New York and director general of UNRRA, who was among
the featured speakers at the 33rd annual meeting of JDC.

Refinery Massacre Alleged
To Be Premeditated Plot

JERUSALEM (JPS)—Evidence that the massacre of 41
Jews by their Arab co-workers in the Consolidated Refineries
in Haifa Dec. 31 was a well organized, pre-arranged act and
not a consequence of the Irgun's bombing of a queue of Arab
workers outside the refinery gate was offered by the Palestine
Post which reported how company police barred Jews from

getting rifles to save the lives of
other Jews.
Four thousand Jewish em-
ployees of the government in
Haifa have been absent from
their jobs since the massacre, 'the
Palestine Post reports, and un-
less the government takes mea-
sures to protect the Jews essential
services will be paralyzed.
Many Jewish refinery workers
had been warned by Arab and
Armenian friends not to go to
work that day because trouble
would break out. Those who did
report for work were meticulous-
ly searched at the gate by Arab
guards who, contrary to previous
choice be made, and that
practice, confiscated even their
EVERY Jewish child be equip-
ped with a sound, positive pocket knives and anything else
which might have been used as a
basis for Jewish living.
The community has made pos- weapon. When the massacre
sible the implementation of the broke out company officials were
Biblical command. It is up to the helpless.
Jewish members of the com-
rarents to carry it out. .

NEW YORK (JTA)—The
American League For A Free
Palestine announced that former
Senate]. Guy Gillette "has no in-
tention of withdrawing from the
presidency of the League at this
time."
The announcement said that
Gillette will issue a statement
outlining his plans for future
work with the League. The state-
ment was issued in connection
with press reports from Iowa
quoting the former Senator as
stating that he planned to resign
as of Jan 1,

pany staff, who were locked in
their offices for "security" reas-
ons, begged to be given the six
company rifles stored in the
clinic. But _ company police re-
fused while the massacre went on
Just outside. The Army arrived
on the scene 90 minutes after the
outbreak began. The police ar-
rived a little sooner but were in-
effective.
Jewish representatives and
government authorities in Haifa
are discussing security measures
but so far Jewish demands that
Jewish police be allowed to re-
place Arab legionnaires in mixed
areas have been turned down.
An offer by Jewish business men
in the old commercial center of
Jerusalem to pay for special Jew-
ish' supernumerary police to
guard that mixed area was also

rejected by the government.

