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Thirkell Parent Clarifies
Report on School Group.
Editor, The Jewish News:
The news item titled "New
PTA Formed At Thirkell School"
which appeared in your Get. 15
issue inaccurately reported that
an independent parent-teacher
group had been formed under
my chairmanship.
At the meeting of the parents
and teachers held at Thirkell
Oct. 11, for which use of the audi-
torium was paid for by the Board
of Education, I presented a report
and resolution of a representa-
tive group of parents and teachers
which had been meeting during
the summer, recommending that
a Thirkell Parent-Teacher Or-
ganization be formed and that
this organization not affiliate it-
self with any of the existing
associations.
An alternate recommendation
was made by one of the parents
present that`the proposed organ-
ization be a local branch of the
National Congress of Parents and
Teachers, commonly referred to
as PTA.
While it was evident at the
meeting that the parents present
were interested in forming an
organization at Thirkell to work
with the teachers in a coopera-
tive effort and in mutual under-
standing, time did not permit a
full discussion of the form that
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such an organization should take
and it was voted 72 to 22 that
another meeting be held in No-
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vember to discuss and vote on
that question. Such a meeting is
now being planned.
LOUIS MENK.
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Judge Healy's Record
Editor, The Jewish News:
Judge D. J. Healy of the Juve-
nile Division of the Wayne County
Probate Court has rendered such
valuable services to community
causes and to all efforts related
to his judicial duties that I am
anxious in behalf of myself and
my fellow employees serving
with Judge Healy—a number of
them Jewish — to present some
facts to indicate his remarkable
record.
A member of a prominent
pioneer Detroit family, Judge
Healy, who is 65, is a graduate of
the U. of D. Law School and
practiced law here since 1933. ,
Judge Healy's reputation as a
socially-minded citizen has been
honestly earned through over 30
years of social service to the com-
munity, especially with boys'
groups. He has proven himself to
be judicially and temperamental-
ly suited to handling the thou-
sands of children's cases that
come before him each year. As a
result, the Juvenile Court of
Wayne County is recognized as
one of the outstanding Courts in
the country.
During his 16 years in office,
Judge Healy has built around
him an organization of highly
skilled and trained personnel,
which is so essential in dealing
with human lives and problems.
JOHN KURLAND
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A Valid Objection to
`Oliver Twist' Film
Editor, The Jewish News:
Objection has been raised to
the showing in America of the
J. Arthur Rank film version of
Charles Dickens' "Oliver Twist"
on the grounds that it portrays
Fagin as a false caricature of the
Jew and is "a vehicle of blaipant
anti-Semitism."
The objection is well founded.
For in this film Fagin is depicted
as a denizen of the underworld,
a bawdy character, the corrupter
of youth, the very incarnation of
evil. All told—a horrible Jewish
0101' caricature similar, in all respects,
to that which the Nazis, Goebbels
and Streicher, used to debase the
German people as a prelude to
the establishment of Hitler's
tyranny.
In short, this film, by its mis-
representation of the Jew and
by holding him up to scorn and
hatred, can contribute to the in-
crease Of anti-Semitism in the
United States which, however
much desired by the Fascist-
minded .in our midst, is bad for
America, an affront to good mor-
als, and repulsive to every firmly
established principle of this
Republic. --
To complain, as some do, that

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SIR HERBERT SAMUEL

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HE WAS BARELY 35 YEARS OLD,WHEN NE
BECAME PARLIAMENTARY UNDER-SECRET-
ARY TO THE HOME OFFICE. FOUR YEARS
LATER,HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE PRIVY
COUNCIL.

BORN IN LIVERPOOL IN IES70,HE WAS DES•
TINED TO PLAY A TOP ROLE IN ENGLISH
POLITICAL CIRCLES--

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EDUCATED IN OXFORD,Hf EARLY BECAME
INTERESTED IN POLITICAL AFFAIRS.111
RAN FOR PARLIAMENT AS A LIBERAL
IN 190? AND WAS ELECTED. THUS BEGAN
A LONG PUBLIC SERVICE CAREER WHICH
EVENTUALLY LED MM TO THE BRITISH CABINET

NIS ABILITY AND INTEGRITY BROUGHT
HIM IN 1916 TO THE SECRETARYSHIP OF THE
HOME AFFAIRS OFFICE. HE WAS MADE A
KNIGHT OF THE GRAND CROSS OF THE
BRITISH EMPIRE.
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HE AGAIN BECAME SECRETARY OF HOME
AFFAIRS IN 1931. IN I93S HE WAS CHOSEN .
TITULAR HEAD OF THE LIBERAL PARTY.
HE WAS CHAIRMAN OF THi PALESTINE
' ELECTRIC CORPORATION, AND CHAIR-
MAN OF THE COUNCIL FOR GERMAN JEWRY.

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IN 1920 HE ACCEPTED AN APPOINTM NT
AS THE FIRST BRITISH HIGH COMMISION-
ER TO PALESTINE,WHERE HE SERVED
FOR 4 YEARS.

Ferguson Commended
For His Efforts for
Fair DP Bill, Israel

Country-wide commendations
are pouring in acclaiming the
valiant efforts of Michigan's U. S.
Senator Homer Ferguson in be-
half of the State of Israel and
liberal DP legislation.
Senator Ferguson- took the lead
in fighting for - a fair bill for the
admission of displaced persons.
He voted against the Congres-
sional conference report which
approved a measure that is
charged with being anti-Semitic
and anti-Catholic. He is among
the leaders counted upon to strive
for the elimination of the dis-
criminatory sections in the bill
in the next Congress.
His consistent activities in sup-
port of the Jewish State have
brought messages of thanks from
outstanding Jewish leaders. The
American Zionist Emergency
Council is on record with a strong
message lauding Senator Fergu-
son for his help.
Senator Ferguson was the spon-
sor or co-sponsor of every mea-
sure introduced in the Senate in
the last four years for the relief
of Jewish DPs, for the State of
Israel and in opposition to
Nazism.

IN I910.HE BECAME POSTMASTER-GENERAL ,THE
FIRST JEW TO HOLD THIS POSITION,AND A
FULL-FLEDGED MEMBER OF THE BRITISH
CABINET.

IN 1931 NE WAS MADE A VISCOUNT. HE HAS BEEN PRESIDENT
FOR MANI YEARS Of THE BRITISH INSTITUTE OF PHI-
LOSOPHY. A WRITER AND STATESMAN,HE IS STILL GREATLY
INTERESTED IN JEWISH AFFAIRS

SIR OSBERT
AMUEL.

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26—THE JEWISH NEWS
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Friday, October 29, 1948

Bnai Brith Arranges Aid to Israel
Shipment; Plan Dinner for Nov. 21

I. Agree Memorial Society
Honor 2 Departed Members

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At the October meeting of
Isaac Agree. Memo *al Society,
two resolutions to honor depart-
ed members were adopted.
It was resolved to send a cash
donation of $600 to the Old. Folks
Home of Stamford, Conn., the
favorite charity of Chaya Rosen-
bloom, the society's honorary pre-
sident, who recently passed away,
and to have a Torah given to the
Downtown Synagogue in mem-
ory of Paul Hoffman, who also
recently passed away.

WOLF WROTSLAVSKY
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Artistic Memorials it Lowest Prices

A Tribute — Everlasting

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DANNY RASKIN, Jewish News columnist, Ictoking over the
trailer of food that was gathered at a food shower of the Fannie
Gordon family dub.

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Detroit Bnai Brith groups are
completing final solicitations and
winding up all loose ends of the
Aid-to-Israel drive, Bnai Brith
leaders stated this week.
With almost all contributions
already received, Bnai Brith
workers are arranging packaging
it is a violation of the Bill of and shipping arrangements so
Rights when objection is made to that the materials contributed
the showing of this film in Amer- may reach Israel as quickly as
ican theaters, is to misread the possible.
meaning of human rights alto-
Recent gifts include:
gether.
A 32,000 pound planer, David licvine
For the principle of human of Federal Engineering Co.: car-load
food, Michigan Bnai Brith Council;
rights does not state that one of
1 1/..•-ton Dodge truck, Odessa Progres-
has the right to do, say, and print sive Aid Society; one-ton pickup
Ruzhiner' Society; l'i-ton Dodge
anything—&Vil as well as good— truck,
truck, Jewish Metropoliatn Club;
that he pleases. A right is the bicycle, Deter Toyland; fleet of bi-
cycles, Federation of Lithuanian
moral power to do something— Jews
in memory of Julius Kurland;
the power to do something for specially-built ambulance, Keshen-
ever
Bessarabier
Society; 1,000
a good end. The man who shot cases of Pet Milk, Aid
Brandeis .lodge.
Ghandi had the power to shoot
a gun. He did not have the right
to kill Ghandi. He was using
a power for an immor-al end.
The men who make motion pic-
tures have tile power to make
them, but this power becomes
a right when used for good ends.
It ceases to be a right when em-
ployed to encourage anti-Semit-
ism which, as we know from
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Nazism, results not only in the
denial of rights of Jews, but fi-
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nally in the denial of rights to
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everyone else too. This is evil.
No one has the right to propa-
gate 'recognized evil.
The World Council of Churches
pronounced anti-Semitism to be
a "sin against God and man."
It is all of that—and so is a mo-*
tion picture of anything else
which encourages it. A society,
Owned & Operated By
which values its integrity, cannot
SIDNEY A. DEITCH
pOrmit recognized evil to go un-
checked.
Full Size Monuments
It •does little good to make
as low as
sound and noble pronouncements
against anti-Semitism if, at the
same time, we do nothing to
challenge the means by which it
is spread.
COMPLETELY INSTALLED
REV. WILLIAM C. KERNAN,
Others Correspondingly
Director, Institute for
Low Priced.
American Democracy,
2744 W. Davison — TO. 8-6923
369 Lexington Ave.
Evenings — TO. 8-7523
New York 17, N. Y.

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A contingent of trucks, jeeps
and ambulances will be on dis-
play Nov.- 7 in Mt. Clemens for
the Michigan Bnai Brith Council
meeting.
East Side Lodge is planning a
victory meeting Nov. 8 at Fisher
Synagogue.
A Salute-to-Israel dinner is set
for Nov. 21 at the Northwest
synagogue. Harry Cohen is chair-
man, assisted by Arnold Michlin.

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