EDITORIAL: Pay Your Campaign Pledge NOW As a New Year Gift to Israel

ALBEN
W.
VI" Pres

BARKLEY

says:

"The well-being of Jew and Christian
' alike hangs in the balance in the future
of Israel ' and r am • firmly convinced
that out of this new nation can come a
great force to safeguard the peace of
the whole world. I -urge the widest pos-
sible support of the Republic of Israel,
for it would be the greatest tragedy in
the world if that small new state could
not survive the economic and social'
problems that now confront her as a
result of • a record flow of immigrants."

Israel: is faced with many crises. There is, an eco-
nomic problem. The people are subjected to rationing.
All of it is due to the large influx of immigrants who
MUST be welcomed. The doors to Israel must remain
open. There are NO PARTY LINES, no partisan dif-
ferences, when the serious issue of ending the home-
lessness of oppressed Jews is involved. To the right
and to the left of this brief commerrt appears the
strongest argument for immediate action : Republi-
cans and DeMocrats agree on the humanitarian issue
involving the United Jewish Appeal's objectives, which
YOU are supporting with your gifts to the Allied Jew-
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help: PAY YOUR PLEDGE NOW. You'll be aiding the
UJA. causes as well as the numerous local agencies
which we • are supporting through the Allied Jewish
Campaign.

SENATOR

ROBERT A.

TAFT

says:

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"It should be an inspiration to all of us
that the surviving victims of the cruel-
est oppression of our time have suc-
ceeded in becoming' pioneers and build-
ers of a new democracy. At the pres-
ent time the people of Israel need our
help to carry on a great humanitarian
activity in the form of an immigration
of hundreds of thousands. The aid
which individual Americans and our
Government give now to the Republic
of Israel represents an investment in
humanity and in the future of the ideals
of freedom and peace•"

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Na Basis for Recent Economic Scare, Says israelOffice

€two 'percent of the total bank ',!)
deposits in the country, and
there has already been a marked Poland Eager to Rush Immigration to Israel
tendency towards redepositing
TEL AVIV, (WJA)—Prospec- next - few months."
of these funds.
It is estimated, the broadcast
"Public nervousness also ex- tive emigrants from Poland, ac-
pressed itself' in a further con- cording to the "Voice of Zion" says, that about 20,000 Polish
NEW YORK (JTA)—The with- uation '.7hich were made by the siderable rise of the free market (official broadcasting station of Jews desire to come to Israel.
drawal of deposits from banks Prinie Minister Of Finante at the price for gold sovereigns.' It the World Zionist Organization) About 750 emigrants from Po-
in Israel the last few days has Mapai Pirty 'conference last should, however, be borne in have been informed by the land left Venice for Israel in
amounted only to 2,500,000 Is- week, an erroneous report over mind ,_that these quotations have Polish government that it fa- mid-August. This group was the
rael pounds, which is not more the Swiss radio ascribed to the no influence on, and no relation vored speeding-up the rate of twenty - fourth contingent of
than two percent of total de Prime Minister the -intention to to, exchange rates and essential emigration and wanted it to emigrants to leave Poland since
posits in the country, the Israel freeze bank accounts and intro- commodity prices, the latter of proceed at a rate which would the Polish Government author-
make it possible "to dispose of ized emigration to Israel Nov.
Office of Information announced duce compulsory - government which have remained stable.
the whole problem during the 5, 1949.
here on the basis of a report loans.
received from Tel Aviv. The an-
"These false rumors aroused Orthodox In Israel Seek
nouncement said that a marked considerable disquiet, particular- Resignation of Dov Joseph
tendency towards redepositing ly as they coincided with the
TEL AVIV, (JTA) — The re-
of these funds is nosy being no- introduction of clothes ration-
ticed. The text of i the report ing and certain tension over moval of Dov Joseph -fromhis
post as Minister of Supply was
received from Tel Aviv reads: the international 'situation.
"During the last few days
"A limited volume of with- demanded in a resolution adop-
Through the kindness of Charles E. Feinberg of 872 W. Boston
economic matters have been in drawals of bank deposits took ted by the Religious Bloc, repre- Blvd., noted collector of ceremonial objects, rare books and art
the forefront of public atten- place,•amounting in all to 2,500,- senting all major religious groups
works, The Jewish News is in
km.
tion in Israel. Following detailed 000 Israel pounds. These with- in Israel.
'Ir41-'17 position to reproduce the splen-
The three Orthodox members
statements on the economic sit- - draWals represent only, . bout
did photograph which appears
in the Cabinet were also 'instruc
as the illustration on the first
ted in the resolution to request
page of this issue.
of the Cabinet that the author-
It is 'the photograph of a large
ity to fix prices and to determine
painting on display in Mr. Fein-
imports be transferred from the
berg'S - Mine. The painting, done
Ministry of. Supply to the Trade
by a Polish-JewiSh artist, Wein-
Ministry.
les, was Purchased originally by
Rosh Hashanah Greetings will be found in this
the late Congressman Sol
issue on Pages 37, 38, 39i 40A and 40B.
2 THE 1 EW I SH N EVVS
Bloom. Mr. Feinberg bought it
There are 84 pages in this New Year edition.
C. X. Feinberg from the Bloom Estate in 1949. Sol Bloom
Friday, September 8,•' 1950

Rumors, Called False, Lead
Only to Few Withdrawals

Page One Photo: Painting Bought by
Charles Feinberg from Bloom Estate

Rosh Hashanah Greetings in
This Issue Start on Page 37

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Purely Commentary • •

Year in and year out, we take stock on Rosh
Hashanah, exchange New Year greetings, repent mis-
calculated deeds—only to miscalculate them again
during the oncoming year. It may sound trite to in-
dicate anew that our Holy Day period is occasion for
reckoning and self-examination, in spite of the un-
predictable ways of Man.
In his treasury of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kip
, per traditions and legends, "Daye of Awe" (Schocken),
the brilliant Israeli writer, S. Y. Agnon, relates this
tale from "Likkute Mahariah":

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A tale is told one one who sat in study before
the zaddik Rabbi Mordecai of Nadvorna, of blessed
memory (19th century), and before Rosh Hashanah
came to obtain permission to be dismissed. The
zaddik said to him, "Why are you hurrying?" Said
he to him, "I am a Reader, and I must look into the
festival prayer book, and put my prayers in order."
Said the zaddik to him, "The prayer book is the
same as it - was last year. But it would be better for
you to look into 'your deeds, and 73ut‘yourself in
order."

This is the sum total of our restropection. It rep-
resents examination of past events, so that' we may

be properly guided in future action.
There is a great deal of planning to be done in
Jewish ranks, on the basis of the retrospective con-
templations of the past year.
Much, if not most, of the planning, in 5711, will
revolve around Israel. It is inevitable. The major
Jewish reconstruction activities are in Israel. Jews
who are oppressed are being rescued by, through and
in Israel. And Israel- has enough problems to keep all
the scientists, economists, city planners and healers
in the world busy concocting solutions:
, For this; condition, Jews who are given an oppor-
tunity to share in Israel's Planning should feel grate-
ful. There isn't a more interesting laboratory in the
entire -world:
Take as a typical instance the problem of the
integration Of Moslem Israelis or Jews from Moslem
countries into Israel's spheres of economic and cul-
tural activity. Reuters, in a recent despatch from
Haifa, described the resistance that is being displayed
by the Druses to attempts to get them to ,conform to
western ways. Reuters story is sufficiently interest-
ing to be quoted in full, as follows:

5711 as a Year of Retrospection, With Israel
As the World's Most Interesting Laboratory

A small minority of the Arabic-speaking Druse
sect in Israel is adding to this country's problems.
Experts and social workers endeavoring to bring,
this small community of 'some 18,090a part of- the
250,000 Druses scattered over •Israel; the Hashemite
•Kingdom of Jordan, Syria, and the Lebanon—into
the western way of life, are encountering Consider-
able difficulty.
Main obstacle in their efforts to teach, the Druses
the••ways of Western - democracy is , their religion.
Although they speak Arabic, they are racially not
ArabsL-and the religion which rules their lives is
a highly secret creed hedged about by tradition
and age-old prejudice,.
The Druses. are good winners who always man7
age to fight on the winning sid&--usually by the
simple expedient of waiting to enter the war in its
conclusive stages. Thus, in the recent war in Pales-:
tine,- the Druses fought—eventually—on the JewiSh
side.
Rek-mat, their founder, taught that women are
the equals- of ?hell. • Yet no women' are ever seen-
at the great annual pilgrimage to the tomb o_f Yetro
(Nebi-Shnaid), the Dr-use saint buried in Galilee,
near Hittin.
Recently a party of press Men, specially, invited,
visited the tomb of Jethro, near Hittin, at • the time
of the annual pilgrimage.
Jethro is mentioned in the Bible as the father,.
- in-law of Moses, a fact which cause the Druse to:
claiin,kinship with the Jews.
The Druse seven-colored flags were decorated
with 'the shield of David. But the visitors were told
that before the emergence of Israel as 'a state, these
sante flags' bore the mark of the crescent, the sign
of Islam.

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The problem, is much more difficult than appears
on the surface. In his proVOcative book, on Israel,
'"New Star in - the Near East," the New 'York Herald
Tribune's former correspondent in Israel, Kenneth
W. Bilby, 'describes the alarming - disproportion
Oriental. Jews who are gaining ascendancy- in Israel's
population. He indicates that the .Moslems are re-
sentful at attempts to westernize them. He tells' the •:
story of a 25-year-Old Beirut electrician who,."was
uninterested in the relative wages of skilled Jewi&h
electricians• who lived less than an hour's plane kali-

By Philip
Slomovitz

ney south of him along the Levantine coast. -He
quotes _the Beirutian as telling him, in comment upon
his $3 daily wage: "I got enough. I can live on it.
I'd rather get back Palestine than get more money."
This is a danger to keep in view, in our planning
in defense 'of little Israel.
But there is another side to the coin. Mr. Bilby
takes the Beirutian's statement "at less than face
value." OtherWise, why did the able-bodied Arabs
"fail to enlist for "th6 - great venture" of destroying
Israel? And to strengthen the point, Mr. Bilby, else-
where in his book; states:

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"The old myth that the Jew was a clever finan-
cier but not a fighter was crushed forever under
the wave of Jewish victories in 1948. Jewish money
might have purchased the guns and planes and
tanks that insured the victory. But the men who
manned them were not purchased."

There. is a powerful lesson in this comment. As
long as a people refuse to become mercenary, as long
,as it fights for an ideal, it can not be destroyed. Is-
rael, if she remains motivated 'by- ideals, by basic
principles which distinguish our historV, can Sur-
vive many 'obstacles. 'There are differences over _re-
ligious precepts, over economic theories, over absorp-
tion of immigration, over the state's duties to the
United Nations, to the United States, to Christianity,
to the nations of the world.
Up to this point, judged by the severest challenges
and by her severest critics—not -least among then?.
Kenneth Bilby—Israel has - done well. The road ahead
is not becoming easier to cover. The task is becoming
More difficult. The state exists, contrary to Mr. Bilby's
warning that "if this flow .of "dollars (through UJA)
were to halt today Israel would be bankrupt within
a year:" There, are less UJA dollars coming in -than
needed or' anticipated. Yet; every dollar - is urgently
needed, the. income frOni touristS is valuable. Israel
must have American JewrY's support to prevent col-

lapse.

This 'is the point that needs stressing more than
any other. We ,shall undoubtedly be able to solve
most of our internal problems. We should be equally
capable 'of providing the means with which to. as-
sure Israel's security. If we do this during 5711, we
shall 'add another iinnortant year to our history-
making lifetime through-'constructive. efforts.'

