Education Month Is Underway,
Plan Broadcasts, Demonstrations

2—THE JEWISH NEWS

Federatioryo men Plan 'Stay
Home' ToLim September 28

Friday, September 16, 1949

L. N. Simons Named on
JDA National Council

Plans for annual observance of Education Month of the
Leonard • N. Simons of 19005
United Hebrew Schools were officially set into motion this
Parkside, civic leader and adver-
week, under the co-chairmanship of Jacob Kellma.n, one of tising executive, has been named
the first graduates of the schools, and Daniel G. Cullen. .
to the National Council of the
The initial meeting of the Education Month committee,
called for Sept. 15, was aimed at enrolling the participation
of staff members, directors o&_
the schools, officers of the Wo- l Education Month efforts. Stress
men's Auxiliary, Kvutzah Ivrith will be placed this year on the
and its Auxiliary and community organization of classes for con-
leaders. versational Hebrew and demon-
. Abe Kasle, president of the stration lessons will be arranged
schools, in his announcement of during the coming month.
Kasle said: "There is a great
demand for such classes on the
adolescent level as well as for
adults, on the subject of spoken
as well as printed Hebrew, and
the United Hebrew Schools are
fully equipped to meet this
steadily growing demand both
by supplying teachers as well as
classrooms and other facilities."

Federation Lists Films
On Israel for Circulation

DANIEL CULLEN

the selection of Kellman and
Cullen to head Education Month,
stated that while activities of
this year's Education Month ob-
servance will include many rout-
ine features of former 'years,
there will be additional projects.

A free 'circulating library of
films on Israel is maintained by
t h e Community Information
Program Jewish Welfare Fed-
eration for bookings by Detroit
JeWish organizations.
Nine films included in the li-
brary are: "Homecoming 1949,"
"Memorandum on a Victory,"
"Israel Reborn," Israel in Ac-
tion," "Birthday of a Prophecy,"
"House in the Desert," "Look
Homeward. Wanderers," "Assign-
ment: Tel AViv," "A Day in
Dagania:" -
All of the films are 16 milli-
meter sound. •
Bookings may be arranged,
without charge, by calling Jean
Braun, at the Federation office,
WO. 5-3939. The Community In-
formation program also ar-
ranges speakers, films and other
program materials on topics of
Jewish interest.

Bar Association Rejects
UN Genocide Covenant

ST. LOUIS, (JTA) — T h e
American Bar Association re-
jected the United Nations
convention to outlaw geno-
cide. However, in a "compro-
mise" resolution adopted after
a stormy three-hour session
in the Association's House of
Delegates the lawyers con-
demned the mass killing of
innocent peoples. The reason
given for the rejection of the
convention was that it in-
volved vital Constitutional
questions and it was feared
that an international tri-
bunal to punish violations of
the convention might super-
sede American courts.

JACOB KELLMAN

Radio programs, addresses in
synagogues during the Holy
Days, circularization of t h e
schools' objectives, organization-
al programs and efforts to en-
roll large numbers of children in
the schools will be among the

- Purely Commentary .

By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ

Robert Lovett and the Arabs

A paragraph in Leonard Lyons' column in the New York
Post throws light on past history. Lyons reveals: "When Bob
Lovett was Under-Secretary of State he listened to an Arab
representative list reasons why the Negev should be taken from
Israel and given to the Arabs. The representative said, by way of
illustration, that if King Farouk of Egypt should want to visit
another Arab country, his feet should not have to touch non-
Arab soil during this journey. Lovett listened to this travel talk
and then replied: 'I don't know at what pace your camels travel
—but haven't you heard that we have some now which travel
600 miles an hour?' " This story doesn't fit the cross-word puzzle
Lovett helped create when he was among the State Department
obstructionists in Israel's struggle for existence. If he had acted
in the spirit of the story related by Lyons, much hard feeling
would have been eliminated. But if Lovett was libeled when listed
as anti-Israel, there'll be many a high of relief by those who will
be happy to learn that the State Department had more friends
than we knew.

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Abdullah and Franco

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Here is an interesting historical note: The visit in Spain of
King Abdullah Of Hashemite Jordan (Transjordania) is believed
to be the first time that an independent Arab potentate is said
to have put foot on Spanish soil since the Moorish King Boabdil
el Chico surrendered the .keys of Granada to King Ferdinand in
1492. Abdullah was the first visitor with the rank of chief of
state to visit. Spain since Generalissimo Francisco Franco assumed
power. Anti-FascistS already • refer to the elaborate reception
arranged by Franco for Abdullah as another "Peronade"—the
reference .being to the welcome -given two years ago in Spain to
Senora Eva Peron, wife of the Argentine dictator. The Abdullah-
Franco fraternization story is not complete without mention of
the- fact that the year '1492—when Arabs stopped visiting Spain—
is the ; year of the Inquisition. And our "cousin" (sic) Abdullah
is a party to. some _sort of Fascist alliance coveted by Arabs in
their battle againSt Israeli • Such are the tricks played by history.

LEONARD N. SIMONS

Joint Defense Appeal, it was an-
nounced by Charles W. Morris
Of Louisville, Ky., JDA Council
chairman.
JDA is the fund-raising arm
of the American Jewish Com-
mittee and the Anti-Defamation
League of Bnai Brith.
As -a member of the JDA Na-
tional Council, Mr. Sin-ions will
join with more than 800 com-
munal, trade and industrial fig-
ures from all sections of the
country who have enrolled as
representatives of their com-
munities to advance the twin
tasks of interpreting the work
of the JDA agencies and in se-
curing the funds with which to
carry on the program for ex-
tending human rights.
Vice-president of the Detroit
Jewish. Welfare Federation, Mr.
Simons was vice'-chairman of
the Allied Jewish Campaign for
1949. He is a member of the
executive board of the Detroit
Jewish Community Council and
the Jewish Home for the Aged
and vice-president of the De-
troit Service Group. He is vice-
president of the Detroit Histori-
cal Commission and a member
of the °advisory committee of
Detroit Round Table of Catho-
lics, Protestants and Jews.

Pisgah Honors Leib
As New District Head

Monday, Sept. 26,. at the North-
west Hebrew Congregation, Pis-
gah Lodge of Bnai Brith will
honor Samuel W. Leib, past
president of the lodge, upon - his
elevation to the presidency of
District -Gra,nd. Lodge Number
Six.
The program will introduce
the Bnai Brith quartet, a vocal
, 35%; g
- roup -.recently
selected • to rep-
resent the Jew-
ish community
at. the songfest
conducted by
he National
ouncil. of Oath-
01 i c s, Protest-
ants and Jews
at the Rackham
Foundation. The
quartet is ..un-
Miss Shapiro der the guidance
of Harry D. Siegel, and includes
Maurice Short, Joseph Finkel-
stein, Sidney Resnick and Nor;-
man Bazelle.
Also featured in the program
will be Beatrice Jean Shapiro,
vocalist, accompanied by Mary-
ann Fleisher.

Announce Possible Oil
Discovery Near Tel Aviv

TEL AVIV, (JTA)—The pos-
sibility that oil has been dis-
covered near Petach Tikvah,
one of the satellite towns of Tel
Aviv, was reported here.. The
government is expected to start
a geological survey. Workers at
a quarry struck a gas pocket and
later came upon oily, lumpy
soil. Oil.has frequently been dis-
covered under similar conditions
in other countries, it was pointed
out.

Four Detroit wt will act as "conductors" for the
"Stay-Home" tour v Will ' be a feature, of the Annual
,x )iv ision of the Je ',Ash Welfare Fed- .
Meeting of the Wom(
eration at 1 P.m., "sday; .Sept. 28, 't the Detroit In.
c
sti.tute of Arts.
:- .
The four, all lea in Women's )
cc
immunal
activities,
include Mrs. Harry Beck4, si _ <
dent of the Laegue of ish
Women Organizations an ir- '6,000 I Vomen Seek
man of the Women's 'on
Program Committee; Mrs,th ii
Davidson, past president (. 3 _
assah; Mrs. Hyman C. T,
Duri g the summer plans were
chairman of the Women's,,_ formul.
ci;
unte
ion executive committees ' raeisrcr ta eclfafio rr o th f e tt h h eird Gr fea
Mrs. Joseph Welt, presidf raising
Dt
it Bnai Brith Warner's
the International Courlif
Jewish Women, and of th . Cour cil. New 6,000 women, rep-
tatives of 17 chapters, have
tional Council of Jewish W res
All have recently returned s.t rted. on the campaign :IA
trips to Europe and Israel. IP se funds for Bnai Brith phil-
-
throphies.
The "Stay-Home" tour o
' Mrs. Morris Tack, general
take Women's Division men
on a trip through France,;' chairman of the fund-raising
gium, Germany, Italy, G.' committee for the Council, an-
nounced that Nov. 21 has been
and Israel.
All members of the Won selected as the date ,of the .al.
fair.
Division,
contributors
to the ) s 1, Tickets
Allied
Jewish
Campaign,
are now available. Mrs
sales
been invited to attend- the s ' Kalman Bros
nual meeting, which will be i Among the destinations for Bnai
ceded by a buffet lunch( Brith funds are Israel, to which
Reservations may be made recently, a shipment of Quonsei
the Jewish Welfare Feder at: huts were sent to help in tilt
stortage, and the Na-
office, 250 W. Lafayette, or housing
n. Jewish Hospital in Den-
phoni ng Mrs. Talbott, WO. tional
ver. Emergency funds also art
3939.
up to help in such appeal.
Chairman of the meeting w et the
current one by the Na-
be Mrs. Max Frank , w omen as
tional Foundation for Infantilt
Division president.
Paralysis.

]Cllala Brith Funds

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By BORISOOLAR

(Copyright, 1949, Jewish 'graphic Agency, Inc.)

UN

Moods

The Jewish New Year will stain the midst of discussions :al
the UN General Asseinbly which. 1 have to settle the status of
Jerusalem . . . The _Jerusalem prom will be one of the .majo,i
issues at the Assembly which dls its session on Sept. 20.; .at
Flushing MeadoWs . . However,' A safe to predict that whatd
ever the outcome of the discussiowill be, the Jewish .part.of
Jerusalem will . remain in Jewish his, under a Jewish adminisr.
tration • responsible to a UN High )mmissioner .. . What will
haPpen to the Arab-populated Oldty, where the Wailing Wall
is situated, will depend on what wbappen to the Arab part .of
Palestine . .. If the Arabs in thatea form their own govern-
ment, then they will, of course, alscaim the Old City . . . How-
ever, if they decide to become citi2; of Transjordan, then the
Old City will fall under the admirtation of Transjordan .
In both cases the final authority ► 1 rest with the UN High
Commissioner, until after a plebisc is conducted among the
population of the entire city ... Thrael government seems to
have given half-hearted approval ithe division of Jerusalem
into two separate administrative unitwith the Jews administer-
Ing the new section of the city and t. Arabs controlling the Old
City .. Israel leaders would not hithat this state of affairs
remain permanent . . . They conside.t essentially a transitory
situation which will be changed whermal territorial settlement
of Palestine is achieved.

The Domestic Front

Anti-Jewish propagandists continuto lose ground through!.
out the country .. . Gerald Winrod haaeen forced to cancel his
nightly broadcasts on three radio stns because of lack of
funds . . . For the same reasons he lo cancelled his Sunday
morning broadcasts on a fourth station . He also reduced the
size of his magazine, "The Defender," om 32 to 20 pages ..
He indicated that "one of the nation's ading commentators"—
apparently his associate Upton Close—h been forced to cancel
his weekly radio broadcast on more thant0 stations . The rea-
son? .. . Business men "refused to conibuet sufficient money"
to keep him on the air Anti-Semiticiteratur.e originating in.
Ireland is now being disseminated in Us country from Seattle,
Wash., by the local pamphleteer Williamy. O'Connor .. "War"
against Zionisni has been proclaimed b3 the Nationalist Action
League, described as "Fascist" by the U. Attorney General .. •
The League plans to set up "permanent qanizational headquar-
ters" in Phildelphia within a.. few weeks . Bitter attacks on the
Zionist movement are being conducted mw by an anti-Semitic
ex-Army intelligence officer, Robert Willians, in a monthly bul-
letin which he began to publish recently nder the title, "Will-
iams Intelligence Summary" And in Union, N. J., the publisher
of the local pro-Nazi newspaper, "Commn Sense," announces
that his "records and correspondence" hare been returned to
him after a long absence . This materia was awarded to his
creditors in lieu of cash settlement for unpfid bills . . The pre-
Nazi publisher explains the whole incident by saying to that "Zion-
istrJews" took his property.

Movie Lines

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A second film dealing with the stormy days in Palestine prier
to: the establishment of Israel is attracting attention in New. York
Unlike "Sword in the Desert," this film was produced in Italy
It is being shown in one of the Broadway motion-picture
.
houSes under the title, "The Earth. Cries. Out" . . This film is
more "Jewish" than the Hollywood-produced "SwOrd of the
Desert's ., .. It lays more stress on the plight of the Jewish DPs
in the camps in Europe and .on their trials and tribulations on
the high seas prior to landing in Palestine as "illegals" . . Zt
presents life in the Jewish colonies in a more sentimental way
than does the Hollywood film . . It brings oat the strife between
Haganah and the Jewish extremist underground groups •..
However,. on the whole the Hollywood filth is superior to the
Italian-made moving picture although the former does not have
a single Jew in its cast . . . "The Earth Cries Out" lacks the
tempo which makes "The Sword in the Desert" so absorbing AO
the audience . . Although all actors in the Italian-made picture
act convincingly, they nevertheless give the impression of bein.g-
amateurs as compared with the acting in the Hollywood film .
On the whole, however, "The Earth Cries Out" is a fine produc-
tion and is drawing large crowds of Jews and non-Jews in Nevi,
York.
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