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On the Record

By NATHAN ZIPRIN

(Copyright, 1949, Seven Arts Feature Syndicate, Inc.)

Straws in the Wind
Two articles in the Yiddish press this week bear close scrutiny
as indicating where the wind is blowing on the question of cen-
tralized fund raising campaigns . . . As long as the issue was the
right of the communities to participate in the distribution of
funds opinion was divided on the extent rather than the fact of
such participation . .. Now that the welfare fund leaders are
pushing the idea of amalgamation and centralization we may see
some heavy fighting on many Jewish fronts in America .. . The
first salvo was fired by A. Hamlin, national secretary of the Hista-
drut campaign . . . In an article in the Forward, Hamlin says in
the name of his organization and its affiliates as well as in the
name of the Histadrut in Israel that "we will not surrender our
independence and we will carry on our work as heretofore . • ."
He asserts that amalgamation would mean virtual liquidation of
his organization and as an illustration he cites the ' fact that
merger with financially superior organizations has always led
to the liquidation and the ultimate disappearance from the scene
of the smaller organization . . . He sees in the attempt. of the
welfare funds to "engulf" all funds into a central campaign an
endeavor "to create a monopoly and a virtual dictatorship over
Jewish public life in America" . . . Petrification of Jewish life
in America will be the inevitable result if the funds, for whatever
purpose, are to be concentrated in the hands of the few wealthy
donors, he says • Under such a set-up, he argues, initiative
and enterprise would become dependent "on the mercy of a
central, or a local,. budget committee" with power to decide which
organization is entitled to aid and which body is to go under .. .
Concluding Hamlin says whoever cares to "submit to such
monopoly" is privileged to do so but that under no circumstances
will the Histadrut become a party to such an arrangement . . .
Similar views on the subject were expressed in the Jewish
Morning Journal by Louis Segal, general secretary of the Jewish,
National Workers Alliance .. . Segal, advocate of a democrati-
cally constituted central Jewish body in America, maintains that
only authorized bodies can claim the right to central control . of
Jewish organizational life and fund raising activities .. . The
welfare funds as presently constituted are not representative
bodies and they cannot claim the right to control of Jewish life,
the veteran labor Zionist maintains . . . Now that the issue has
been joined the debate promises ti be both sharp and acrimonious.

Jewish State Theater
Pledged Anti-Zionist
By Director in Romania

BUCHAREST (JTA) — The
Jewish state theatre of Rom-
ania must "fight for the un-
masking of Zionist nationalism"
and for "fraternization between
working people of all nationali-
ties," Bernhard Lebli, director of
the theater, declared in the or-
ganization's first annual report.
Lebli outlined one of the
primary aims of the Jewish state
theater as "depicting", the Jew
not as a passive victim of past
regimes, but in an active role as
a fighter, a hero of labor, a man
of the new type who is now in
the making in the Romanian
Popular Republic."
Reports that Romanian au-
thorities ordered all members of
Zionist groups to move from the
cities of Bucharest, Jassy, Tim-
isoaro and Cluj into "pale" areas
of Dobruj and Altenia were
termed "absurd" in authorita-
tive quarters here. . The fact
that all local Zionist leaders are
at present in Bucharest p,roves
that the reports have no basis,
it was pointed out.

Indicted N. Y. Solicitor
Not Rabbi, Statistics Show

NEW YORK—Solomon Eichen-
stein, recently . indicted in New
York City for fraud in connec-
tion with solicitation of funds
for Israel, is not a rabbi, ac-
cording to the records of the
Jewish Statistical Bureau. The
Bureau's records list him as
finance secretary of a small
congregation in Manhattan, but
at no time has he been ordained
or served as a rabbi in a con-
gregation, the Bureau director
declares.

THE JEWISH NEWS
Friday, August 26, 1949

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300 Displaced Jews
Arrive in Canada

MONTREAL, (JTA)—Three

hundred Jews, all former in-
mates of DP camps, are arriv-
ing here this week and will be
integrated in the Canadian
economy as millinery workers.
The project for their admission
was worked out by the millinery
workers trade union and the
Canadian Jewish Congress and
received the full cooperation of
the Canadian immigration and
labor authorities.

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Sheaves
Henry Montor declared at the recent meeting in Israel about
the UJA campaign that he did not intend to be in charge of the
drive in 1950 . .. Montor is now more strongly entrenched than
ever before . . . The Yiddish P.E.N. Club has not yet received
a reply from the Soviet Ambassador in Washington to its inquiry
regarding the fate of Jewish culture and the allegedly arrested
Jewish writers in Soviet Russia.
The second volume of Dr. Solomon Goldman's monumental
ten-volume survey of the Bible will be published in October by
Harpers . . • It is called "In the Beginning" and treats entirely
of the Book of Genesis ... The first volume was the highly
successful "The Book of Books" .. . As in the case of the first
volume, a special edition will be published by the Jewish Publica-
tion Society.

Brevities

Comedian EDDIE CANTOR
auditioned SHERRY KAYE, tal-
ented daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Hy Katz of 2684 Fullerton, Aug.
18 at the Book-Cadillac. Cantor
advised Sherry, a pupil of Eve
Meister, to continue her study
of the arts. She will be a fea-
tured entertainer at the Michi-
gan State Fair Sept. 5.
* * *
An indoor picnic will be held
Sunday, Aug. 28, by the ZHITO-
MER PROGRESSIVE AID SO-
CIETY, at the Jewish Cultural
Center, 2705 Joy Rd. Meyer
Sherman is chairman. Refresh-
ments, games and dancing are
planned. The public is invited.
* • *
IZOA BRANCH NO. 5 will
have a weiner roast at Lola
Valley Saturday, Aug. 27, meet-
ing at the home of Rena and
Dave Borodawkin, 2652 Fuller-
ton, at 8 p.r*. Members, friends,
and prospective members are
.welcome. For reservations and
further information call TO.
9-8710 or TO. 7-1108.
* * *
"TOP VIEWS IN SPORTS," a
15-minute film highlighting the
sports activities of the previous
week, will be telecast every Fri-
day over WWJ-TV, sponsored
by the Altes Brewing -Co., De-
troit. The program will be viewed
from 6:30 to 6:45 p.m. on Fri-
days until Sept. 30, when it will
move back an hour to the period

from 7:30 to 7:45 p.m., after
the ending of daylight saving
time in the East. This 15-minute
all-sports film is produced by
the United Artists and is their
first venture in television. Jim-
my Evans, former Northwestern
University football star, is the
narrator.
* * *
Mae West, who made the ex-
pression "Come on up and see
me sometime" a household quip,
is again bringing laughter to
American theater-goers in "Dia-
mond Lil," the
same play that
won her world
acclaim when
first produced.
She opens in
the play of her
own authorship
at the Shubert-
Lafayette Thea-
Aer on Tuesday,
Aug. 30, playing
through Mon-
Mae West
day, Sept. 5. The show concerns
the life of a Bowery Queen,
played by Miss West, who makes
her headquarters in one of the
most notorious saloons in his-
tory. Producers Albert H. Rosen
and Herbert J. Freezer have
built several lavish new sets for
this ageless comedy-with-music.

WARSAW — ( JTA ) — Twelve
Jewish students who received
their master's degree this year
from various . colleges in this
country will each receive a 10,-
000-zloty gift from the Central
Committee of Polish Jews.

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