Washington. Faces Redden onl. Release
Of Silver Shirt Fueh•er Pelley
2
—
THE JEWISH NEWS
Friday, February 24, 1950
Israel Compositions
Have U. S. Premiere
At March 5 Concert
Chicago Leaders End Six-Month
Deadlock with UJA on Allocations
As a result`of an agreement on allocations reached last
week between Chicago fund leaders and the United Jewish
Appeal, a unified drive will open shortly in the midwestern
metropolis.
The agreement ended a six-month deadlock between the
Two orchestral works of Is-
raeli composers will be heard for
two groups and the threat of a separate Chicago drive by
the first time in this country
the UJA.
when they are performed by 45
Greatly reduced UJA allocations, deemed by the united
members of the Detroit Sym-
appeal
leaders to be out of line in contrast to sums allotted
phony Orchestra, under the di-
to local needs, had provoked the controversy.
rection of Valter Poole, Sunday,
In accordance with the new terms, the UJA will receive
March 5, in a concert at Ma-
64 per cent of all money up to $6,500,000 collected in the
sonic Temple.
Chicago drive. A graduated scale is prepared for sums above
"Emek," a symphonic' poem by
that figure. The UJA also agreed to accept a shrinkage fund
Marc Lavry, is based on a song
of five per cent covering collections below $6,500,000.
which became popular through
recordings. "Partita for Strings,"
the other composition to be pre-
Released on parole from federal prison in Terre Haute, miered, was written by Karl Federation Year Book Out, Lists AJC Donors
Ind., where he was serving a 15-year sentence on criminal Salomon, director of Kol Israel.
The Jewish Welfare Federa- Year Book, should be directed to
Marguerite Kozenn, soprano,
sedition conviction, Silver Shirt leader WILLIAM DUDLEY
and Joan Freeman, pianist, will tion Year Book, listing contrib- Lois A. Linden, WO. 5-3939, or
PELLEY (left) is arrested at prison gate, to be rushed to Indian- be soloists at the concert. Spon- utors of $10 and over to the addressed to her at Jewish Wel-
apolis for extradition hearing. North Carolina wants Pelley on sors include:
1949 Allied Jewish Campaign, is fare Federation, 250 W. Lafay-
a two-to-three-year sentence in connection with violation of
Mr. and Mrs. Julius Chajes. Dr. and off the press and available to ette, Detroit 26.
Mrs. Robert Drews. Dr. and Mrs. Sam- members of the Federation, Ju-
the state securities law. With Pelley are his attorney, T. EM- uel Dante, Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Fein-
The propellers on our current
MET McKENZIE (center) and SHERIFF JOHN TRIEWEILER, berg. Mr. and Mrs. David Feinberg. Dr. lian H. Krolik, president, an-
and Mrs. Michael Freeman. Mr. and Mrs. nounced this week.
intercontinental bombers have
who made the arrest.
Benjamin Laikin, Max Osnos. Herman
Requests for copies of the a length of 19 feet.
Osnos, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Rosenthal. Mr.
and Mrs. Ben H. Shwayder. Mr. and Mrs.
By MILTON FRIEDMAN
Albert J. Silber and Dr. and Mrs. Sam-
son S. Wittenberg.
(Copyright, 1950, Jewish Telegraphic AgeneY, Inc.)
Tickets are available at Grin-
WASHINGTON — When Wil- of Merit" for his work as an nell's and through the ticket
liam Dudley Pelley, anti-Semitic "emissary of good will from the chairman, Mrs. Robert Drews,
fuehrer of the Silver Shirts of people of the United States to WE. 3-3778.
By PHILIP SLOMOV.ITZ
America, was paroled, there the people of Israel." More than
Democracy at Work
were some red faces in Wash- 100 Jewish communal leaders
"Fear has many eyes," reads a Cervantes proverb, in "Don
ington. Some were flushed by applauded.
Quixote."
resentment; but maybe a few
Pelley was paroled from the
Fear had many eyes on the eve of the Federation election
were reddened by embarrass- U.S._ Penitentiary at Terre Haute,
last week.
ment.
Ind., on Feb. 14 after serving
Some Federation leaders were said to be deploring the en-
Federal Security Adminis- about one-half of a 15-year sen-
In order to secure the active -trance into the contest for the election of nine members at-large
trator Oscar R. Ewing, who was tence for criminal wartime sedi-
honored recently as a friend of tion. Pelley's Nazi-like Silver participation of all women's or- of the board of governors of six nominees by petition. They were
Israel, helped Pelley secure his Shirters attempted to obstruct ganizations in the 1950 Allied quoted as saying that a nominating committee had been at work;
e wish Cam- that the committee had chosen nine candidates after due deliber-
parole. Ewing wrote to the U.S. the U.S. war effort. There was
paign, Mrs. John ation; that these nine had accepted the nominations and there-
Parole Board, urging that Pelley much opposition to his parole.
C. Hopp, chair- fore should not have been "embarrassed" by uncertainty of elec-
be freed (Pg. 13281, Congres- Hate organizations lobbied here
man of the tion, due to an impending contest.
sional Record, Sept. 19, 1949). In for Pelley's release, quietly
Then came the election. Seven of the nine won the contest
camp aign for
1942, as Special Assistant U.S. pointing out that he was only
the W o m e n's and two of the men whose names were placed on the ballot by peti-
Attorney General, Ewing prose- a foe of Communists and Jews.
Division of the tioners displaced the other two committee nominees. It appears
cuted Pelley.
Jewish Welfare to this Commentator that the electors weren't stupid by any
•(Pro - German S e n. William To Ask ABA to Drop
Federation, has means; that they recognized the worth of two candidates-by peti-
Langer, of North Dakota, used
called a break- tion and placed them in office. The fact that two other good.
Ewing's letter as an argument Discriminatory Practices
Mrs. Hopp fast conference people thereby were deprived of office does not disprove the val 7-
for a Senate investigation of the
idity of democratic action through a popular election—even if
Parole Board's original refusal
NEW YORK, (JTA) — The for 10:30 a.m. Monday, Feb. 27,
to release P e 11 e y. Langer's American Bar Association will at the Dexter-Davison Jewish only two per cent of the electorate utilized its franchise. (Read
story and editorial in this issue.)
speech was reprinted in full by be asked by the New York Center.
The Federation's ,nominating committee should feel flattered
Presidents and community re-
Gerald L. K. Smith's anti-Jew- County Lawyers Association to
ish "Cross and Flag" under the ban all questions concerning lations chairmen of 100 women's over the results of the election. On a percentage basis it did not
headline, "U.S. Senator Langer race from its membership ap- organizations. have been invited score such a bad triumph—the winners of seven out of nine
places on the Federation board being a better-than-average sue.-
Defends Persecuted Patriot.")
plication blanks. It was pointed to attend, to aid in the .plan-
A luncheon was recently ten- out that the A.B.A. eliminated ning and execution of the 1950 cess in a political contest.
---------,- Thus—the - election dispelled many fears. Two displace-
dered in Ewing's honor by the restrictions against minorities drive.
ments on the Federation board through a democratic process
American Association for Jew- some years ago, but that its ap-
by no means endangers the status quo of the community; on
ish Education in New York. He plication form still requires an-
the contrary, "new blood" may inject added spirit in the Federa-
was presented with a "Certificate swers to racial questions.
tion's work and may render it a lot of good. ,
We were primarily interested in the fright complex that
marked the preparations for the election. Franklin D. Roosevelt
must have been inspired in his oft-quoted utterance that "we
St. Louis University, a Roman have nothing • to fear but fear itself" by two famous sayings:
Catholic Institution, this month "Nothing is so much to be feared as fear" from an unpublished
presented its ninth honorary manuscript by Henry David Thoreau, and "nothing is terrible ex-.
By BORIS SMOLAR
degree in half a century, and cept fear itself" from Bacon's "Fortitudo." Why should anyone
(Copyright, 1950, Jewish Telegraphic Agenej,.Inc.)
the first in its 132-year-old his- have become panicky over the democratic process in an election?
tory to a f acuity member,
The Home Front
Perhaps even the fear-stricken now will admit that the elec-
Gustave Kadysh Klausner, tion carried with it some good. It aroused some thinking as to
Frank Goldman, president of Bnai Brith, is greatly upset over Prof.
now
honorary
Doctor
of
Laws.
the democratic idea in Jewish life. It caused the Federation's
false reports carried by some newspapers presenting "facts" con-
refugee from the pogroms president to pose some interesting questions. It was the inspirer
cerning events which never took place ... These reports said that in A
White Russia, Klausner came of re-evaluation of the meaning of democracy as a factor in the
the Bnai Brith participated in an anti-Communist conference to-
to the United States in 1907. Jewish community.
gether with Melvin K. Hart's anti-Semitic organization, the Na- Three
years later, at 35, he en-
What is Democracy? R. M. Maclver's "The Ramparts We
tional Economic Council . . . To make matters worse, the reports
stated that the Bnai Brith is represented on a permanent com- tered the St. Louis University's Guard," published this week by Macmillan,, makes some interesting
commerce
s
c
h
o
o
1,
earning
a
comments. Mr. Maclver wrote:
mittee which emerged from this conference.
bachelor's degree in night 'class-
The first article of the democratic creed is the belief in
Nothing is further from the truth . . . The truth is that the es, then a master's. In 1920 he
Bnai Brith, being opposed to Communism even as it is opposed to quit his job to teach full time humanity. Democracy puts its trust in the people • . This deny.
Ocratic trust in humanity is a faith in the capacities of the hu-
Fascism, originally sent two delegates from the Anti-Defamation at the University.
man being
League to attend and observe the conference, which was arranged
Prof. Klausner, always devoted
The philosophy of democracy • . aligns itself with the very
by the American Legion . . . The delegates were instructed not to to his own faith, never failed to
commit the Bnai Brith in any way, since no one is empowered to remind his Catholic students _of principle of life. It is the miracle of life that it successfully re-
fuses to be bound by the seeming mechanics of the physical uni-
commit the organization except its executive committee.
their churchgoing duties. He
UpOn discovering that Hart's organization was included in brought a personal touch to his verse. All other political systems ape the iron laws that govern
the inanimate. But life creates, life generates, life synthesizes,
the list of the groups which were invited to . attend the party, the
classes in accounting, often per-
Anti-Defamation League advised the American Legion that the sonally tutoring students who life builds up its structure from within, life exhibits itself in
endless variation, life succeeds by being different always from
Bnai Brith representatives would not attend the gathering . . . were having difficulty.
what it has been. Life does not abrogate one jot or title of the
Whereupon the American Legion informed the Jewish group that
An active Zionist, he has been
an official list of participating organizations would be made pub- honored by St. Louis Zionist law that binds it to the inanimate cosmos; nevertheless it
lic and that Hart's group would be dropped from the list . . . True circles which have planted 10,- achieves what the inanimate forever lacks. Eternally it struggles
enough, neither Hart nor any other representative of his group 000 trees in Israel in his name. for its own freedom and its oivn renewal. Eternally it combats
chaos and uniformity and the lifeless clutch of power and the
was present at the conference . . . The Bnai Brith representatives
St. LoUis University is en- downward low of entrophy.
did not speak nor vote on any resolution at the conference.
deavoring to raise $250,000 to
So far as the great cosmos is concerned the hard distinction
Nevertheless, there appeared a report in the New York press establish a Gustave Klausn'er
stating that Jackson Holtz, the national commander of the Jew- Chair of Accounting when the we here draw between the living and the inanimate may be no
ish War Veterans, was appointed to a committee of the confer- professor retires in June. $180,- more than the way things appear to our ignorant eyes • , But
ence which is to prepare a plan for a permanent organization .. 000 already has been subscribed. for our purpose here the distinction serves as an analogy. It is
sufficient that democracy, in its way, is true to the principle of
This report was also not true . . . Holtz was not sent by the Bnai
life, in that it renews itself from within, in that it respects and
Brith and does not represent the Bnai Brith . . Incidentally,
Haifa Industrialist Seeks utilizes difference and shuns uniformity, in that it animates the
Holtz did not even attend the conference.
Purely Commentary
JWF Women Called
To Breakfast Meeting
:
Between You and Me
Inside Israel
The transfer to Jerusalem of the Israel - Government offices
has so far turned out to be more demonstrative than real . . .
Only the Parliament and the Ministry of Health have moved from
Tel Aviv . . . The Premier and every Minister have offices in
Jerusalem, but the bulk of the administrative work continues to
be handled at Hakirya, in Tel Aviv . . . However, by April the
majority of the administration will have gone to Jerusalem.
The work of the Parliament has suffered as a result of the
transfer . . . Deputies must commute between Tel Aviv and Jeru-
salem, and committees—the backbone of the Parliament—work
much more slowly . , . At present the Parliament finds itself with-
out any legislative work, as the government has not prepared any
bills . . . Thus, for a number of weeks, the Parliament has been
marking time—debating and redebating the same issues.
Catholic U. Honors
Jewish Professor
Fund for Textile Project
CHICAGO—(JTA) — A project
to organize a $4,000,000 Israel
textile enterprise with funds
raised in the United States
among private investors was re-
vealed at a meeting of indus-
trialists arranged by the Ameri-
can Technion Society.
Eric Muller, Haifa industrialist,
is in this country in connection
with the project. It was decided
to arrange an exhibition of 200
American industrial products in
Israel this year.
integral being of the body politic. Democracy lives in and
through the community; dictatorship operates on the commun-
ity from without, forever curbing its vital energies.
Well, then, if we believe in humanity, in the faith of the in-
dividual, in the renewal from within of the most potent energy-
inspiring ideals of our people, some in our midst should blush over
the blunder of having feared—of having been unreasonably
panicky enough to yield to alarm.
Have we learned the lesson that the community becomes
stronger when there is 'an increase in the number of those who
challenge our thinking? Then we must prepare for more nomin-
ations by petition. If we have more such interested people, there
will be more voters. If we have more voters, we shall have more
participants in our community's life. It may be that through -
such reasoning we also are arriving at a method of assuring corn-
plete success in fund-raising. We shall see—in due time.