Technion Presents Dr. Urey

Nobel Prize Winner to Speak
At Annual Dinner on• Jan. 14

Dr. Harold C. Urey, world has written numerous articles
famous scientist, Nobel Prize for the society's publications.
As discoverer of heavy water,
winner in chemistry in 1934, will
be the guest speaker at the an- used in certain types of chain
reaction piles for the release of
atomic energy, and as one of
the leaders in the Manhattan
District Project, the first in the
nation's atomic bomb projects,
Prof. Urey has served as one of
the three program chiefs who
were responsible for isotope-
separation aspects of atomic
power studies.
In his present task at the
Chicago University Nuclear
Studies Institute, one of three
established after the atom
bombs were dropped on Japan,
Prof. Urey is working on a
"thermometer of fossils." His
research may be the basis for
determining past climatic con-
ditions.
Detailed plans for the forth-
coming dinner to be addressed
by Dr. Urey will be announced
at a meeting of the Detroit
Technion Society next Tuesday
DR. HAROLD C. UREY
evening. Philip Slomovitz will
nual dinner of the Detroit Chap- speak on his observations at the
ter of American Technion So- Technion in Haifa, Israel.
ciety, at Huyler's in the Fisher
Building, on Saturday evening,
Three Groups Added
Jan. 14.
Reservations at .$50 a plate are To Community Council
now being taken by a commit-
tee headed by Harold Goodman.
The executive committee of
Leon Kay is president of the De- the Jewish Community Council
troit chapter,
has approved for membership
Dr. Urey, whose topic here will three additional Detroit Jewish
be "The Social Implications of organizations, according to Dr.
Modern Science," with special Shmarya'Kleinman, president.
reference to Israel, is Distin-
Newly admitted organizations
guished Service Professor of are: Lawrence H. Jones Ladies
Chemistry at the Institute for Auxiliary, Jewish War Veterans;
Nuclear Studies at the Univer- Tikvah Chapter, Bnai Brith; and
sity of Chicago. A national Workmen's Circle No. 470E.
Sponsor of American Technion
The new total of organiza-
Society, he has addressed many tions in the Community Council
of the society's gatherings and is 259.

Purely Commentary

By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
Reverberating 'Libels'

In this country you hear all sorts of stories. "Israel' doesn't
want tourists." "Israel doesn't have enough food for visitors."
• "There is a shortage of hotels in Israel." "American Jews should
stay away from Israel."
Itrael tells a different story. In Israel, beginning with Dec. 1,
there are four meat days. Gradually, the amount of meat rations
has increased. For visitors, hotels will have meat every day in
the week. New hotels are being built. Does this spell anything
like an inhospitable Israeli spirit? The contrary is the truth, and
reports that would indicate. an attitude other than genuine wel
: come to Americans and other visitors are reverberating libels
against the Jewish state. .
The fact is that Israel would be happy to hear of technical
men coming to visit the fledgling state. And if 'tourists will come
with the right spirit, they will surely become pleaders for the
cause of Zion rebuilt wherever else they travel thereafter.
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'Jewish Education Year': What Next?

Proclamation by the American Association for Jewish Educa-
tion of 1950 as "Jewish Education Year" raises the question: What
next? We started with an Education Week, extended it into an
Education Month that often lasts . for two or three months, and
now are proclaiming an Education Year. Are we so starved for
projects? After the Education Year, are we to have Education
Decades and Centuries? Are we expected to sacrifice the basic
principle that every day is Education Day on the Jewish calendar?
•
In an editorial proclaiming "Jewish Education Year," the
Jewish Education Magazine states:
"It is to be hoped that the forthcoming Jewish Education
Year will prove a memorable and spiritually uplifting experience
for all Jewish communities and for Jewish educational agencies,
. institutions and organizations, and that this new innovation may
prove the beginning of periodic communal celebrations of Jewish
- educational achievements in America."
What were the other celebrations? Were they less uplifting
• because they lasted a week or a month? Will a year's celebration
bring greater results? Will the celebrants break up the Special
Year with a vacation? Furthermore, what is meant by "periodic
communal celebrations of Jewish educational achievements in
America"?
The only explanation available for the silly idea of an Educa-
tion Year is that its sponsors are starved for publicity and are
' resorting to another stunt to gain newspaper space. Instead of
groping in the dark for periodic celebrations of achievements
that are becoming less noticeable, American Jewry would be
better off if all available energies were devoted to training the
youth rather than to building up public relations programs. If
the new project will bring out in the open the conflict between
genuine education and publicity-hunting (sic!!—public relations),
perhaps some good will come out of it after all.
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A Small World!

Only a few weeks ago, we were the guests of Dr. and Mrs.
Samuel Lewin-Epstein in Jerusalem. Last week we were again
with the eminent Israel dentist in the home of his sister, Mrs.
A. M. Hershman. With less than 30 hours of air travel separating
Israel from the United States, visits in the Holy Land may
become as common as a trip to our own western coast was only
a short time ago.
Dr. Lewin-Epstein, here to interest American Jews in the
• creation of a dental school in Israel, is meeting with some success
in his efforts: If dentists will take the lead, they can assure the
early establishment of this much-needed school in the Jewish

state.

2—THE JEWISH NEWS

Friday, December 9, 1949

Chicago Mayor
Takes Stand on
Prejudice Rioting

By Jewish News
Speeial Correspondent
CHICAGO—Five days of street
rioting in South Chicago follow-
ed by heated discussions as to
the cause, brought forth an open
letter to Chicago's Mayor Martin
H: Kennelly from Rabbi Morton
M. Berman, president of the
Chicago division of the , Ameri-
can Jewish Congress.
Rabbi Berman criticized Ken-
nelly for having failed to "take
a forthright public position" on
the rioting, which was allegedly
based on racial and religious
prejudice. His letter, which was
printed in' the Chicago Sun-
Times, asked that the mayor
"state explicitly, firmly and
publicly that the City will not
countenance any interference
with the right of any person,
regardless of his race, color or
creed, to live or visit anyone in
Chicago." He also recommended
creation of a Race Relations De-
tail in the police department, of
"200 men specially trained to
recognize and deal with racial
tension situation."
In an article in the same edi-
tion of the paper, Mayor Ken-
nelly stated that "All citizens of
Chicago are entitled to the same
rights, regardless of race, color
or creed. . .
"For years, in Chicago, people
of all races and religions have
lived together and worked to-
gether in harmony; I wish to
assure the citizens • of Chicago
that the full force of city gov-
ernment will be used to stamp
out any attempt to mar this re-
lationship.
"Police have definite orders
to disperse any crowd gathering
for the purpose of harassing
citizens or to do anything which
would disturb order in the com-
munity."

Cooperatives, Collectives and
Private Funds Blend in Israel

Continued from Page 1

establishments more than dou-
bled; the number of persons en-
gaged in industry trebled; the
value of gross output increased
more than three times; capital
investment increased fivefold.
Between 1937 and 1945, industry
again doubled its output to meet
the requirements of the Armed
Services as well as of the grow-
ing civilian population. In in
dustry alone (excluding handi-
crafts) , capital investment in-
creased from $8,400,000 if 1930
to $44,400,000 in 1937, and reach-
ed close to $100,000,000 in 1945.
Between 1946 and 1949, capital
investments increased by about
$50,000,000.
Economic expansion was ac-
celerated during the recent
war. Most of the goods needed
by the Allied Forces in the Near
East during World, War II and
later by the Israel army were
of kinds not previously produced
by JeWish industry. The special

machinery required could not
easily be obtained from abroad.
Many requirements, formerly
imported, were manufactured in
Israel through the ingenuity and
resourcefulness of the Jewish
manufacturers, technicians and
scientists. Presses for the manu-
facture of anti-tank mine com-
ponents, for example, were im-
provised from machines original-
ly intended for the production
of cement floor tiles. A machine
was developed for the manu-
facture of cast-iron shrapnel
balls.
The country's current' rapid
population increase means a
greater demand for construction,
housing and services which, in
turn, increases the den-land for
manufactured product s. The
chief hope . for the. effective ab-
sorption of large-scale immigra-
tion lies in the expansion of in-
dustry.

(The third article in this series will
describe the industries vitally needed
by Israel for her economic development).

Six Negev Settlements 'Shoot It Out'
With Gangs of Armed Arab Infiltrees

the Gaza area. Six Arabs were
killed in the various engage-
ments, and no Jewish casualties
were reported. -
The heaviest attack was on
Tkurna, northeast of Beersheba,
where attackers armed with
Sten guns and tommy guns
feigned a diversionary assault in
the North, then advanced on the
South. They were driven off- by
a determined counter-attack,
New Light on History
but managed to steal clothes
-from
store. At Nir Am, two
Documents Reveal Story horses a and
two mules were stol-
Of Jewish Life in Egypt en'. In the other kibbutzim the
attackers were repelled before
NEW YORK, (JTA) — A they were able to take anything.
series of documents dating At Saad, three Arabs were cap-
back to the fifth century B:C. tured and identified as coming
bringing to light the record of • from the Gaza strip.
the ancient Jewish community .
Arab infiltrees also attacked
that existed on the island.. of the village of Zacharia, near
Elephantine in the upper Nile. Beith Jubrin, ' and robbed • -the
in Egypt have beep recon- inhabitants of food and live-
structed and translated at the stock and kidnapped two Arab
:Brooklyn Museum here, from children. The Israel police pur-
the Aramaic.
sued the marauders to the
. Prof. Emil G. Kraeling, border.
Semitic language scholar and
former professor of the Old Iraq's Chief Rabbi
Testament, has been at work Reportedly Resigns
on the tattered manuscripts
since June and will report on
LONDON—(JTA)—The Chief
them to a group of scholars Rabbi of Iraq, Sasson Khedouri,
next week. He said one of the has resigned as a result of a
manuscripts may help to fix "disagreement with the JewiSh
the site of the ancient Temple community," Reuters reported
in Elephantine.
in a dispatch from Bagdad.

TEL AVIV, (JTA)—Attacks by
armed Arab gangs on Jewish
settlements in the Negev were
climaxed during the week-end
when Nir Am, Tkuma, Beerot
Yitzhak, Said, Hefraz Mifalsim
and Dorot were compelled to
"shoot it out" with the bandits.
In all cases, the Arabs were
thought to have infiltrated from

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Yeshiva U. Prepares
Quintet for 14th Year

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Yeshiva University is prepa,r-
hag for its fourteenth season Of
competitive basketball with . a
seventeen game sqhedule on the
agenda.
Coached by Bernie Sarachek,
fifteen students are out for the
team, including team Captain
Howard Danzig, defensive guard;
6'4" Nathan Krieger; Ruby
Davidman, a short 6'2" sopho,
more, and 6'6" center Arthur
Stein. With Marvin Hershkowitz,
a six-footer transferred from
City College of New York, that
completes the first team. Re-
serve strength is handy with
four returning lettermen ex-
By .BOR IS SMOLAR
(Copywright, 1949, Jewish Telegraphic . Agency, Inc.)
pected to see action.
Tabbed the "Mighty Mites
on Washington
from Washington Heights," the Eyes The
eyes .of the Israel Government and of American .Zionists
Yeshiva squad meets Fordham, are turned
again on Washington . As in any critical moment
Brooklyn College, and Queens
for Israel at the United Nations,_a hint from the . White House
during the season.
can now, too; influence members of the United "Nations in casting
their votes at the General Assembly on the fate of Jerusalem --
JDC to Examine Israel
The UN resolution on internationalization. of Jerusalem is another
test case for Washington• . . It offers" another opportunity for
Role at 35th Meeting
President Truman to display his friendship for Israel and Trans-
NEW YORK—The 35th annual jordan, since both countries are opposed to internationalizatiOn
meeting of the Joint Distribu- of the city . . . On the other hand,; it is known that, President
tion Committee will be held Truman is under Catholic pressure to help secure the city's in-
Jan. 7 and 8 at Hotel Commo- ternationalization.
dore, New York, it was announ-
ced by Edward M. M. Warburg, Domestic Affairs
That Dr. Abba Hillel Silver intends to become active again
JDC chairman.
The meeting, expected to in the Zionist movement was indicated last week in New York
bring together. 2,000 Jewish com- at a ZOA dinner . . . He said that when he resigned several
munity leaders and delegates, months ago from the Jewish Agency and from . the American
will mark JDC's completion of Zionist Council that he did so becauSe he wanted a rest . . . Biat
three and a half decades of aid he added significantly, "Now I have had my rest."
The best-kept secret in American Jewish communal life was
to stricken Jews overseas, chief-
ly with funds provided by the the recent negotiations with non-Zionist industrialists and finan-
ciers which led to the announcement of the -formation of the
United Jewish Appeal.
High on the agenda of the Industrial Institute of Israel in this country . . . Much hope IS
meeting will be a consideration laid by Israel on this Institute inasmuch as its Board of Direct*
of JDC's new responsibilities in is composed of men who have great influence in financial and
industrial affairs in the United States.
Israel, according to Warburg.
Figures on Jewish education compiled by the American As-
sociation for Jewish Education reveal that 53 Federations and
U.S. Union Turns Over
Welfare Funds now contribute more than $2,000,000 to Jewish
educational institutions .. . 40 'percent of all Jewish children in
$100,000 to Israel
America attend Jewish schools . . . There are 126 Jewish all-day
TEL AVIV, (JTA)—Hugh schools in. the United States with a total enrollment of 19,000.
Those who attended the national conference of the United
Ernst, president of the Hotel
and Restaurant Workers Union Jewish Appeal • in Atlantib City were impressed with the - fact
of America, turned over the sum that the majority of delegates were new men who have never
of $100,000 to Israel authorities before attended UJA national conclaves . . . This "new blood" in
toward the cost of a new housing UJA leadership is taken by competent observers as an indication
project for newly-arrived immi- that UJA leaders in communities throughout the country are at-
grants at Iryat Amal. He was tracting new forces among the younger elements of the population
received earlier by Labor Minis- and are eager to push them to the forefront of communal ac-
ter Golda Myerson
tivities. - ,

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