2—THE JEWISH NEWS
Friday, June 3, 1949
Jewish War Vets, Auxiliary
Open 2-Day Parley Saturday Dr. Segal to Tell
Gov. G. Mennan Williams,
Mayor Eugene Van Antwerp,
Myer Dorfman, national corn-
mander, and many other prom-
inent speakers are scheduled to
address the two-day convention
of the Department of Michigan
Jewish War Veterans and Ladies
Auxiliar, at the Fort Wayne
Hotel, Saturday and Sunday,
June 4 and 5.
Herbert Burdick, general chair-
man, and Rose Cowan, auxiliary
chairman, expect more than 500
members to attend.
Saturday's program will get
underway following Sabbath
Services, at 9:30 a.m. dedicated
to the Department of Michigan
JWV at the Shaarey Zedek. Rab-
bi Morris Adler, Department
Chaplain of the Jewish War
Veterans, will speak. Gold Star
Fathers, Mothers, Wives and
Jewish War Veterans wearing
their JWV caps will be seated in
a special section of the Syna-
gogue.
Symposium Planned
At 2:30 p.m. a symposium on
veteran Affairs will be held in
the Ballroom of the Fort Wayne
Hotel. Speakers will include,
Myer Dorfman, Harry T. Madi-
son, national executive commit-
teeman; Nicholas Wagener of
the Catholic War Veterans, pres-
ent U. S. District Attorney; Wal-
ter Scott, regional attorney for
the VA; Percy Friedlander, Na-
tional Americanism chairman of
the JWV and national vice-com-
mander of the Fifth Region of
the JWV; Lee Richards, chief of
the GI division of mortgages and
finance for the Michigan Mort-
gage Co.
Arthur M. Lang will be the
Moderator. .
Mickey Woolf and his orches-
tra will play for a dance at the
Fort Wayne Hotel ballroom for
JWV members and their guests
starting at 9 p.m. - •
General Meeting
The convention's general meet-
ing Will take place at 10 a.m.
Sunday, which will include busi-
Of Israel Needs
At AJC Parley
ness meeting. At 2 p.m., election
of officers will be held. Installa-
tions will be held at the banquet
in the evening.
Introduction of distinguished
guests and a school of instruc-
Dr. Simon Segal, director of
tion will highlight the women's
convention activities on Sunday. the American Jewish Commit-
Working on the committee tee's Foreign Affairs depart-
with Mrs. Rose Cowan, chair- ment, Central Office, will ad=
man, are ritual,.. Rose Cantor,
.
. m.pRkqdress the an-
'nual meeting of
registration, Silvia Koss and
the Detroit
Lillian Fink; resolutions, Louba
Chapter of the
Lupiloff; guests, Birdie Rosen-
American Jew-
berg; rules, Elizabeth Shapero;
ish Committee
sales, Adele Simms and Trudy
on Wednesday
Bale; credential, Berte Troy;
evening, June 8,
publicity, Rosalind Marks, Lill
at Temple. Beth
ian Panzer and Fan genken.
El.
Dr. Segal, who
Dr. Segal has just re-
turned from a four-weeks sur-
vey of Palestine) will discuss
problems which confront the
State of Israel.
Election of executive commit-
tee members will be held. Isa-
NEW YORK (JTA)—Dr. Jo- dore Levin, chairman of the De-
seph J. Schwartz, JDC Euro- troit chapter, will review the
pean director, was honored by activities of the national or-
150 of his colleagues in the field ganization and the local chap-
ter of the American Jewish
of social work at a dinner for Committee.
the benefit of the United Jewish
An outstanding authority on
Appeal of Greater New York.
international affairs, Dr. Segal
In a testimonial delivered by attended the Universities of
City Councilman Stanley M. Paris, Geneva, Michigan and
Isaacs, Dr. Schwartz was cited Columbia. He was a research
as "the man responsible for the fellow at the Institute of Inter-
greatest single social service job national Relations at Geneva
and also at the Carnegie En-
in all Jewish history."
d o w m e n t for International
As overseas head of JDC, Dr. Peace in Washington, D. C. He
Schwartz directed the spending is the author of "The Individual
of more than $285,000,000 for the in International Law"; "New
emergency rescue, relief, reha- Poland and the Jews"; "New
bilitation and emigration activi- Order in Poland"; "Problems of
ties of Jews in 23 European Minorities Regarding an Inter-_
countries and North Africa dur- national Bill of Rights," and
ing the past decade.
other studies.
Abraham Mazer, who contrib-
uted $500,000 to the current UJA
drive, was honored at another
dinner. Henry Morgenthau Jr.,
general chairman of the UJA,
and Israeli Chief Rabbi Dr. Isaac
Herzog paid tribute to Mazer for
his "extraordinary generosity."
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Dr. Schwartz Wins
Praise for Relief
Work in Europe
purely Commentary
By PHILIP SLOMOVI TZ
Dr. Weizmann and the Rulers of the World
George Kent, in his article "The 25 Men Who Rule the World"
(Collier's, May 28, 1949), informs us that members of the Over-
seas Press Club picked the people "who are shaping the world for
war or peace." Included in their selections are Dr. Chaim Weiz-
mann and Abdullah, whose choice is explained in this paragraph:
"Closer to Europe are the Arabs, with CHAIM WEIZMANN
dominating the non-Arab storm center of Israel. Israel's
neighbor, Trans-Jordan, has as its chief,- IBN HUSSEIN AB-
DULLAH, probably the strongest and most intelligent of the
Arab leaders. The Arab nations are important both economic-
ally and politically, for their conquest would mean immense
petroleum riches as well as the fulfillment of Russia's old dream
of access to the Mediterranean."
Dr. Max Lerner, commenting on these selections in an article
"Who Really Rules the World" (N. Y. Post, May 19, 1949), links
Abdullah with Franco and Peron who, he writes, "will be forgot-
ten before the members of the Overseas Club are dead," but ac-
cepts Weizmann in his own selection, for this reason: "I take
Chaim Weizmann not because he is President of Israel but be-
cause he is the moral leader of the world's Jewish communities."
In his own list, Dr. Lerner includes Albert Einstein, "both for
what he has done in science and what he stands for in people's
minds": "C. G. Jung as the outstanding figure in the area of
psychiatry, which gives us a new insight into man's nature and
thus enables the rulers of men to rule;" and adds, among others,
the names of Dr. Martin Buber, famous Jewish mystic, and Mrs.
Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Overseas Press Club members must, indeed, have decided on
their selections between hard liquor and cold wine. Somehow, we
are not impressed with their 25 powerful names—Stalin, Molotov,
Malenkov, Beria, Bulganin, Duclos, Tito, Mao Tse-tung, Hoffman,
Truman, Acheson, Spaak, Reuther, Attlee, Bevin, Churchill, De-
gaulle, Franco, the Pope, Nehru, Weizmann, Abdullah, Smuts,
Peron, MacArthur.
Strong Man in Israel: David Ben-Gurion
Why both Truman and Acheson? Why Attlee, Bevin and
Churchill? Is there any reason for including MacArthur? And,
indeed, why Weizmann, when the strong man in Israel is David
Ben- Gurion?
Dr. Lerner is just as impractical. Buber is, without ques-
tion, one of the great spiritual leaders in the world. But, who
knows much about him? How many are acquainted with another
name listed by Lerner, that of the eminent Catholic leader
Maritain? There is no doubt about the power of the Pope, or
of Stalin, or Truman; but most of the others, mentioned both
by Kent and Lerner, can be matched by rivals.
It is the old story of "ifs" and "buts." If Churchill were in
power today he would be among the men who hold the key to
many world problems. At present, the most powerful man in
Great Britain appears to be not Churchill or Attlee, but Bevin.
That!s OUR view, and it can be challenged just as we are chal-
lenging the other choices.
Kent and Lerner have forgotten THE COMMON MAN. Grace in
a while, especially when he is pressed to the wall, he asserts him-
self. Isn't he, after all, the first to be considered among the men
Who rule the world?
Gold Star Fathers
To Elect Officers
Tuesday at Center
Meyer Silverman, temporary
chairman of the newly formed
Gold Star Fathers of the Jew-
ish War Veterans, announces the
next meeting will be held at 8
p. m. Tuesday, June '7 in the
Conference Room of the Jewish
Center. Officers will be elected
to carry on the work of the or-
ganization for the ,ensuing year.
At a recent meeting the fol-
lowing members were appointed
to work on the constitutional
committee:
Samuel Lieberman, Jacob
Stern, Isaac Rosenthal, Jack
Geller and Leo Grossman, who
is acting secretary.
Gov. Williams sent a message
to the group ..complimenting
them on their initiative in or-
ganizing the first JWV Gold
Star Fathers group in the
United States.
MI/ Seeks Names
Of Unlisted Heroes
Harold F. Moran, commander
of the Jewish War Veterans De-
partment of Michigan, expresses
his apology to tie families of
deceased heroes whose names
did not. appear in the recent
edition of The Jewish News and
in the window of the Wilshire
Motor Sales Co.
Moran said there were more
than 50 Jewish boys missing in
action and the Department of
Michigan JWV is in the process
of doing research in securing
the names of missing Michigan
Jewish boys. If readers know of
any names not listed, please
notify the JWV office, 206
Charlevoix Bldg. or call WO.
1-3089.
In order to complete the files
for the JWV Memorial Home, it
is necessary to have biographical
data on all deceased veterans.
Next of kin are urged to mail
or bring a photo and biographi-
cal data to 206 Charlevoix Bldg.
The name of Myron RoSen-
thal was inadvertedly left out
of the list last week.
Convention of Jewish Educators
Debates Church-State Separation
By Jewish News Special
Correspondent
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — Em-
phasis on Jewish education as
the primary factor in all efforts
for Jewish survival in this coun-
try as well as in behalf of Israel
was placed by prominent lay
leaders and educators at the
five-day sessions of the Ameri-
can Association for Jewish Edu-
cation, National Council f o r
Jewish Education and Hebrew
Teachers Federation of America.
Outstanding 'educators from
Jewish communities throughout
the land attended the sessions
and participated in planning
improved curricula and means
of securing of priority for educa-
tional efforts in community pro-
grams.
One of the most interesting
sessions of the convention was
devoted to a discussion of re-
ligion and the public schools.
In an address in which he ap-
pealed for strict separation of-
church and state in accordance
with established American prin-
ciples, Dr. John L. Childs, pro-
fessor of education of Teachers
College of Columbia University,
urged that state education laws
be changed to compel children
to receive half of their school-
ing in public schools. .He as-
serted that such a step would
"halt the tendencies toward
fragmentation and segregation
that have arisen with the
growth of parochial schools." He
declared that Roman Catholic
parochial schools threaten the
principle of separation of church
and state and expressed the
view that many Catholic par-
ents would support legislation
which would curb parochial
schools.
Rabbi Joseph H. Lookstein of
New York, a professor at Yeshi-
vah University, New York, dif-
fered with Dr. Childs. He said
that although the viewpoint ex-
pressed by Dr. Childs is demo-
cratic in intent that it "would
be totalitarian in effect ?'
Michael Stavitzky and Judah
Pilch of Newark were re-elected
presidents of the American As-
sociation and the National
Council.
De t r o i t delegates included
Bernard Isaacs, Albert Elazar,
Solomon Kazden, Norman Rut-
tenberg and P. Slomovitz. The
latter was one of the charter
members who were honored at
the 10th anniversary convention
of the American Association for
Jewish Education.
23 Turkish Jews
Set Adrift, Rescued
And Taken to Haifa
HAIFA, (JTA)—Twenty-three
Turkish Jews were rescued from
the Meditetrranean sea by a
small sailing boat and were
landed here. They told of drift-
ing on a raft and finally being
forced to swim for hours after
it sank. They said that at least
four or five companions had
been drowned. They had boarct-
ed the vessel at a Turkish port.
The capain of the ship raised
the price of their passage sev-
eral times until their ability to
pay was exceeded. Then he put
them aboard the life raft.
Palestine Post Given
One Day Suspension
JERUSALEM, (JTA)—For the
first time in the paper's history
the Palestine Post, Israel's only
English-language daily, was sus-
pended by censorship for one
day for an alleged censorship
infringement, the nature of
which was not disclosed. Gersh-
on Agronsky, editor of the Post,
has been apointed head of the
government's information office.
He will assume his new duties
June 1.
Between You and Me
By BORIS SMOLAR
(Copyright 1999, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
New York Doings:
Israeli Premier David Ben Gurion will come to New York to
help in the $250,000,000 drive for the United Jewish Appeal . .
This will be his first visit to this country since adoption of the
Palestine partition decision by the United Nations . . . He is be-
ing preceded by Golda Myerson, Israeli Labor Minister, who did
wonders for the UJA campaign last year, prior to leaving for
Moscow to head the Israeli legation there.
The American section of the Jewish Agency is now form-
ing a committee of 1,000 men prominent in banking, commerce
and industry to help stimulate American investments in Israel .
The Jewish Agency office in New York has, during the past two
months, received well over a thousand inquiries about investment
possibilities . . . About 100 of these contained proposals repre-
senting tens of millions of dollars in heavy and light industries
and are now being followed up by Agency economic exports .. .
These include projects for Americans wishing to establish new
enterprises in Israel, Americans seeking to invest directly in ex-
isting Israeli enterprises, and Israelis desiring American partner-
ship capital . . . Here are a few tips for investors . . . An Israeli
group is interested in establishing a modern kosher resort hotel
at a cost of $1,200,000 and is looking to the U. S. for seventy per-
cent of the capital . .. An Israeli food processing 'firm requires
$100,000 for the expansion of its present plant ... An Israeli man-
ufacturer seeks $300,000 to expand his present production of as-
bestos-cement pipes which are urgently needed for Israel's irri-
gation projects . . . More tips? . . . You can get plenty more by
writing to the economic department of the Jewish -Agency office
in New York.
U. N. Impressions:
You may be interested in the impressions about the Israeli
Government prevailing in the United Nations . . . Here is how
they are summarized . . . The Israeli administration gives the im-
pression of an old, old governmental machinery . . . It is as ef-
ficient—and as bureaucratic—as the governments of England and
France . . . Israeli Foreign Office directors are as pompous and
as skilled in diplomatic double talk as their most aged and ex-
perienced counterparts in the State Department in Washington
This characterization is, naturally, considered a compliment to
the young state of Israel ... Eyes of UN high officials are now
directed toward the Arab-Israeli peace talks at Lausanne., Switzer-
land . . . Although these talks have as yet not reached the stage
where the Arab and Israeli delegations can sit at one table, there
is, nevertheless, a feeling of strong optimism prevailing at Lake
Success . Chief optimist is none other than Dr. Ralph J. Bunche s,
UN mediator for Palestine . . He is certain that the Lausanne
peace talks, held under the auspices of the United Nations, will
be concluded successfully ... It is his considered opinion that none
of the Arab nations, or all of them together, is in a position to
again start large-scale military action against Israel . . Hence,
what else can there be if not peace, no matter how long the bar-
gaining talks may drag out . There are indications that Leba.*
non, the smallest of the Arab countries, is inclined to make oer-
manent peace with Israel . The relations between Lebanon and
Syria are no longer friendly, and Lebanon authorities are re-
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