MC Delegates to View Priority

Problems at Jan. 7-8 Meetings

These Israel-bound Jews, shown at - a Joint-Ditribution
Committee embarkation area near Marseille, are among the
500,000 needy Jews in Europe and hundreds of thousands of
Jews in Arab lands whose future will be discussed at the 35th
annual JDC meeting Jan. 7 and 8 at the Hotel Commodore,
New York City. Two thousand Jewish community leaders are
expected to meet at the ,conference which will be concerned
with high priority problems facing JDC, which receives its
funds from the United Jewish Appeal.

Jest for Fun

By I. ZAC

HANUKAH PRESENTS: Yan-
kele was a poor man but every
Hanukah Yankele felt like a
rich man, for then he always
received from Reb Itzig, the
rich man of the town, a gift of
10 rubles. Yankele used to look
forward to those 10 rubels like
a bride to her wedding or like a
landlord to the first of/the
month. He always saved the
shirt with a collar for a Hanu-
kah so he could dress up like
a millionaire when got the 10
rubles.
Can you imagine how much
10 rubles are? For 10 rubles, you
could buy the Brooklynski
bridge. For 10 rubles, you could
buy the big cathedral in St.
Petersburg. Well, you couldn't
exactly buy it, but still 10 rubles
was a lot of money. It would buy
him tea for the entire year and
a bushel of oats for his horse.
Well, you can imagine how
Yankele felt when this year's
Hanukah rolled around and Reb
Itzig sent him only five rubles.
He rushed to Reb Itzig's and
protested in vociferous tones.
"I'm sorry," said Reb Itzig,"
but it just can't be helped. You
see, my son has fallen in love
with a ballerina and he wines
and dines her and gives her ex-
pensive presents, so I can't help
it."
"Listen," said Yankele, "if your
son wants to make a fool of
himself about the ballerina,
that's his business but he can't
do it on my money."
* * *
He doubled it:
While the modern world seems
to confine its giving of presents
to one holiday, in days of old,
Jews used to give presents for all
the holidays, particularly on
Yom Kippur.
The Talmud tells a story of a
certain Reb Yossi who was ac-
customed to send five dinars on
the eve of Yom Kippur to a cer-
tain poor Jew. Just how much
five dinars are, I don't know.
The dinar has been devalued, I
believe, but in the old days, I
would say, a dinar would get you
a good dinner.
To come back to our story,
one time shortly before Yom
Kippur, a friend informed Rabbi
Yossi that the man whom he
sent five dinars on the eve of
Yom Kippur drank expensive
wines.
"If that is the case," said Reb
Yossi, "I'll have to double my
allowance for this poor man. I
didn't know he went in for such
luxuries."
* * *
Straus' Horse
They tell this story about Os-
car Straus, the first Jew to oc-
cupy a post in the Cabinet. The
incident is supposed to have
happened after Straus' return
from Turkey where he had
served as U. S. Minister.
Straus went one summer to a
swank hotel at Lake Placid
which made it a point not to
admit Jews. In the case of

Straus, the hotel management
was presented with a problem.
While they could discriminate
against Jews generally, they
were a bit apprehensive about
meting out the same treatment
to him. They were afraid that
the scandal would be too great,
that the hotel would suffer from
all adverse publicity. So they
decided they would admit
Straus, but would make it very
exhorbitant for him to stay.
At the end of his stay, Straus
was presented with a bill—$50
for each day, and added on was
a charge of $25 for the care of
his horse for one day.
Straus compared his bill with
the bills of non-Jews and saw
that he had been charged doll-,
ble that of everybody else. So'
he went to the manager and
said: "All right, I can under-
stand why you charge me as
you do, but my horse is not
Jewish!"

Col. David Marcus' Memory Honored
In Book by High School Students

On the Burma Road to Jerusa-
lem, there are monuments in
tribute to the memory of David
Marcus, the great American hero
who lost his life in the battle for
Israel's freedom. But it is not
in Israel alone
that this hero is
revered. Bloch
Publishing C o .
has just re-
leased the illus-
trated work by
three Erasmus
Hall High School
(New York City)
s t ud ents —
"Mickey Marcus,
the Story of &a„,
Colonel David Col. Marcus
Marcus"—which pays honor to
the martyr.
The book is intended for
children and for "adults who
have the hearts of children." It
was prepared as an English class
project with the class teacher,
Miss Josephine Carlton, as ad-
viser. The $1.50 per for this
hand-printed book is to go to the
Colonel David Marcus Founda-
tion Scholarship Fund for the
Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
"This is a really true story
about a real man" is the manner
in which the story is introduced
to the readers. The tale then
unfolds about the West Point
graduate, the former New York
Commissioner of Correction, the
World War II and Israel war

18 — THE JEWISH NEWS

Friday, December 16, 1949

the artist — Rita Schweitzer—is
at Pratt Institute, all on schol-
hero. The young authors con- arships.
clude their story significantly by
asserting: "We should be proud
REMOVE
of this brave man and YOU
UNWANTED
HAIR
should try to be as good and
SHORT WAVE METHOD
brave as he was."
PERMANENT—PAINLESS—SAFE
The two authors of the book
GUARANTEED RESULTS
Judith Halperin and Phyllis
BETTY
MAMLIN, R.E.
Kreink—now are at Oberlin Col-
WO. 5-6289
1219 David Stott Bldg.
lege and Cornell University, and

Labor Zionist Shekel Committees

Invites You to an

ONEG SHABBAT

FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 23, 1949

AT THE LABOR ZIONIST INSTITUTE

Guest Speaker

DR. HERMAN POMRENZE

of Chicago, Illinois

NOTED LABOR ZIONIST LEADER
JUST RETURNED FROM ISRAEL

The Public is Invited

Demonstrate Your Support
Of the Present Government of Israel

BUY A LABOR ZIONIST SHEKEL

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