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Latest Effort to Make Ends Meet

With one dissenting vote—that of Sen.
William Langer of North Dakota—the U. S.
Senate Judiciary Committee reported favor-
ably on a bill to admit 100,000 displaced per-
sons to the United States at the rate of 50,000
a year for the next two years. Proposals for
larger quotas were defeated.
For the record it should be known, to the
credit of Sen. Homer Ferguson of Michigan,
although he was unsuccessful in his efforts,
that his proposal called for the largest
recommended quota-100,000 a year for two
years. He deserves highest commendation
for sponsoring a bi-partisan campaign for

American Jews, without distinction as to
their congregational affiliations, will join this
week-end in sending hearty greetings to Dr.
Nelson Glueck on his assumption of the presi-
dency of Hebrew Union College.
Great Hebraist and a noted archaeologist
who spent many years directing excavations
in Palestine, Dr. Glueck has won the esteem
of all elements in American Israel. The
events in Cincinnati this week, marking his
inauguration as Hebrew Union College presi-
dent, are a signal for congratulations both
to the college and its new head.

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS
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Philip Slomovitz
Fred M. Bntzel
Isidore Sobeloff
Judge Theodore Levin Abraham Srere
Maurice H. Schwartz
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PHILIP SLOMOVITZ, Editor

VOL. XII—No. 26

MARCH 12, 1948

Sabbath Scriptural Selections
This Sabbath, the second day of Adar II, 5708,
the following Scriptural selections will be- read in
our synagogues:
Pentateuchal portion—Ex. 38:21-40:38.
Prophetical portion—I Kings 7:51-8:21.

Mark Twain's Advice To Jews

By DAVID SCHWARTZ

a larger quota.

The HUC President

March 12, 1948

Urged Banding Together
To Compel 'Good Terms'

The Senate DP Measure

The measure as recommended by the
Senate Judiciary Committee has its advant-
ages and disadvantages. It is encouraging to
know, that it would admit as non-quota immi-
grants DP orphans lawfully adopted by
American citizens who are now in Italy or
the British, French and American zones in
Germany or Austria.
Widest powers of selection, however, re-
main with consular personnel which hitherto
have been extremely biased in dealing with
Jewish applicants for admission to the United
States. The fact that the U. S. consular forces
will continue to screen would-be immigrants
does not augur well for the DPs. It is to be
hoped, therefore, that the three-member com-
mission provided for in the Senate bill will
be able to correct some of the errors in .the
selective program now in force.
The Senate proposals call for the issuance
of at least 50 per cent of the visas to persons
previously engaged in agricultural pursuits
who are to be employed in the same type of
work in the U. S. Here, too, Jewish DPs may
suffer. While some of •the DPs have been
training for agricultural pursuits in Palestine
in Hachsharot under the supervision of Zion-
ist organizations, it may be questioned
whether they were "previously engaged in
_Agricultural pursuits" and they may be ex-
cluded from consideration in the allocation
of U. S. visas.
Since this is the best concession that could
be secured in the U. S. Senate, it is to be
hoped that it will be adopted, in order at
least that the minimum number will be
helped. It originally was expected that a
measure—like the Stratton Bill—Lproviding
for the settlement of 400,000 DPs over a
period of four years, would be adopted. Now,
we must strive for the minimum approved
measure. Even the minimal agreement can
not pass without a struggle, and the pressure
for such humanitarian legislation must con-
tinue on all fronts. The battle in behalf of
large-scale settlement of DPs in this country
appears lost, and the hope at this time is
that -at least the concessive measure should
hot be defeated.

: Friday,

Increasing Palestine Dangers

One would have to be exceedingly blind to reality not to
recognize the increasing dangers which beset the path of
Jewish state-building in Palestine.
Our relationship with the mandatory power—never a
very happy one and in a state of mutual antagonism and lack
of confidence since the issuance of the indecent White Paper
of 1939—is a matter for serious concern. While it is expected
that the British will be out of Palestine in about 10 weeks, it
is charged that their bags are being packed with the aim in
view of easy unpacking and therefore retaining power in the
Holy Land which they made so unhappy by misrule. Even
if the most optimistic plans of the Yishiw—that of having a
government ready when the British leave — should ma-
terialize, the interim period _of living with the retiring- man-
datory and the subsequent era of taking power from them
are packed with dangers under existing conditions which can
only be interpreted as being motivated by British vindic-
tiveness.
There is an element of immorality in the declaration
of the spokesman for 11 Christian groups in Palestine who
asserted that partition should be scrapped in the interests
of peace. These people were in the background when
Jews were murdered in Europe. They begrudged the
Jews the progress they were making in Palestine and
they were silent when there was need for action in
arriving at an amicable solution of the Holy Land issue.
They preferred perpetuation of Palestine as a museum
rather than a healthy center for hundreds of thousands
of Jewish settlers. Their latest statement comes with ill
grace undeseliving of Christians.
Meanwhile there are problems . not only of defense but
also of elementary human needs—primarily that of food.
Palestine's food supply is decreasing and the UN Commission
will be faced with the pressing problem of keeping the popu-
lation of the country alive in the unfortunate event of the
continuation of the present strife. The battle in Palestine is
not a laughing matter. It is a qUestion of life or death for
700,000 Jews. It is less serious for the Arabs who are closer
to sources of food supplies because most of the Arab settle-
ments border on the Arab states. For the Jews there is danger
of their being isolated and subjected to starvation.
The responsibility for the rescuing of those threatened
by want and lack of security rests upon the nations of the
world. The United States has a serious responsibility in the
matter, even if our Government must repudiate British ob-
structionist tactics as Herschel V. Johnson had done before
The UN General Assembly last November. If something is not
done immediately, there is danger both of valitly increasing
trouble—and therefore mounting deaths—and the charging
of responsibility for the troubles directly to the United States.
In view of the rising dangers, the responsibility assumed
by the UN is far greater than appears even on the present
gloomy surface. The Big Four, in their_ current negotiations,
owe it to the peace of the world and to the security of hun-
dreds of thousands in Palestine—men, women and children,
Jews and Arabs—to enforce decisions and to issue orders
that the great powers mean business when they reach de-
cisions. If this is not done, the world will, indeed, be in a
bad way.
At the moment there is a single element of encourage-
ment: the unity on the Jewish defense front. The merger of
Haganah and the Irgun should. eliminate the friction which
was responsible for so much difficulty and which invited
unnecessary additional difficulties with the British obstruc-
tionists. By emulating unity in Jewish ranks everywhere we
have a better chance to speed victory for the Jewish cause.

In the 'eighties, Grover Cleveland ran as Presi-
dential candidate against James G. Blaine. In the
last week of the campaign, a group of Protestant
clergymen came to the Blaine campaign head-
quarters to pay their respects. They were just one
of numerous delegations which every presidential
candidate receives and Blaine paid no particular
attention to them.
The leader of the delega-
tion of clergy made a little
flattering speech. It was the
usual kind of a speech made
in these circumstances, but
there was one sentence to-
wards the end, which was
different. The speaker re-
ferred to the opposition
Democratic candidate as the
representative of " r u m ,
Romanism and rebellion."
Blaine paid only perfunc-
tory attention to the speech,
but a stenographer, who had
been sent by the Democrats L
to trail Blaine, copied down
the remarks in shorthand.
Returning to headquarters,
the stenographer read off
the speech from his notes,
as he was in the habit of Mark Twain
doing. When the stenographer came to the words,
"rum, Romanism and rebellion," the Democratic
campaign manager said to himself, "here is some-
thing."
H
Had Blaine repudiated this slur on Catholicism?
No, the stenographer's notes showed that Blaine
had simply passed over it. Certainly he could not
be thought to approve of it, for while Blaine him-
self was a Protestant, his mother was an Irish
Catholic and his sister had been educated in a
convent. But he had passed it by as one passes by
many things. You can't make an issue of every
offensive remark.
But this campaign manager did not pass it by
—and the Irish Catholics did not pass it by. The
Democratic party headquarters had this slur pla-
carded all over New York. And Blaine lost
enough votes in New York to lose the electoral
votes of New York and the Presidency. GroVer
Cleveland was elected.
The Irish in America have always possessed this
faculty of using the vote to shield themselves. It is
this group solidarity which account for the fact
that in almost every northern city, political party
machinery is so often in the hands of the Irish,
while Jews take almost no active part in politics:
`Jews have seldom displayed political solidarity.
They have been wont to boast of this -as proof of
their patriotism. But does it prove anything—is it
always the healthy and sound thing-the Jews think
it is. Is not the suffrage designed to protect one's
immediate interests as well as the larger interests
which each group shares with the others
Just about the time Grover Cleveland retired
from the Presidency, Mark Twain wrote an article
on anti-Semitism in Europe. He visited Austria. He
told of the 20 different parties in Austria and said
that while all of the 20 were fighting each other,
all of them were fighting the Jews.
As a result of this 'article, an American Jew-
wrote to Mark Twain asking him in the light of
his own statements, what Jews should do about it.
Mark Twain wrote back that they should emulate
the Irish and organize.
"In America," wrote Mark Twain, "as early
as 1854, the ignorpit Irish hod-carrier, who had
a spirit of his own and a way of exposing lit to
the weather, made it apparent to all that he must
lbiekep.olitically reckoned with, yet 15 years before
that, we hardly knew what an Irishman looked

"As an intelligent . force and numerically, he
has always been Crow l, but he has governed the
country just the;same. It was because he was
organized. It ma:de his ipte valuable in fact,
essential.
"Who gave t4 Jew," a ged Twain, "the right
to sit still in a f7
wee country and let someone else
look after hip, safety?"' TII.e Jew has learned
about
" You
charties, he added.
ation organiz
huddle to Y P •rselves alreae in your charities.
There you
compel clue recog-
e omnipotent
nition. You
have to beg for it. It shows
what you
yourselves to-
gether for a definite purnose. Ba7d together and
deliver the casting vote where you can, and
where Y°Ta can't, compel as oLl terms as
possible."
Copyrig
1943, Jewish Telegraphic ' Agency

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Facts Y ar t Should Know

Answers to Readers
Questions .

What the "Old Hanasheh? ".
The "---id
(-,
Hanasheh" is. known as the ` 3ineW
of Jacob" = and is technically called the "Mivus
ischiadichl,s,,, more commonly known as the
"sciatic nerve" which runs down from the 1143
to the ,to . ,,,s along the back of the leg. With r 1,11 s,,
nerve is )involved the long vein that runs para4 1
to it. Thi,S 'section was prohibited as food for Jev.
accordin,g to the Bible (Gen. 32:33). The difficulty
in Pr°Pcrly extracting it from the rest of the leg
is one oi th e
reasons for traditional Jews
not using
t e hindquarters of cattle today. The
he
most di
..g
,
ect answer to this -question is given ex-
plicitly: in the Biblical portion which relates the
struggl e between JaCob and-the angel. It is therein
relaterd that the angel "touched the hollow of hiS
(Jacob's) thigh and Jacob's thigh was strained as
he wl estled with him." (Gen. 32:26). At the end
of th .
(verse 33) the Bible says: "There-
fore, "the children of Israel eat not the sinew of the
fore
thigh vein which is upon the hollow of the thigh,
L rint `..) this day, because he touched the hollow of
J ac ob's thigh, even in the sinew of the thigh vein."

