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Friday, April 13, 1951

Open Registration
For Center Camps

By NATHAN ZIPRIN

(Copyright, 1951, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, inc.)

Jews in Trinidad
Trinidad is a unique place. It is the only country where Jews
have nothing to complain about. This has been revealed by Dr.
Maurice Perlzweig, leader of the World Jewish Congress, who just
returned from a tour of Latin America. The Jews of Trinidad
are utterly content.. There is no prejudice or discrimination of
any kind. Jews there are frequent guests of the Catholic Club.
The 200 Jews there have no rabbi or teacher. The Governor has
offered to pay half the salary of a teacher. The population con-
sists mostly of Negroes , and Chinese. The Whites certainly have
something to learn from them . . Dr. Perlzweig made a novel
proposal at the Santiago, Chile, session of the UN Economic and
Social Council. He proposed that whenever the UN helps an un-
developed country one or more members of the UN should be
members of whatever minority is the target for discrimination in
that country. The suggestion was warmly welcomed by various
delegates who felt that this approach might prove effective in
combatting racial, religious or other prejudices.

Registration for the summer

camps operated by the Jewish
Community Center will open
Monday at all Center buildings.
The Center will operate a

Attention Circus Fans
Now that the circus season is around the corner it is timely
to recall that one of the outstanding circus clowns in the world is
a Jew. You wouldn't know it from his name—Koko—but he has
been the biggest sensation in England for many years. Born Polia-
koff in a small town in Russia, Berl, as he was then called, was a
boy of six when he began his clowning career. Poverty had driven
the boy to the town's only cafe, where he offered to entertain the
guests with song for a loaf of bread. His "performance" impressed
the guests and when the show was over one of them invited him
to entertain at the home of a local army officer and landowner.
To the delight of the intoxicated guests the boy gave a clowning
performance to the sad tune of Yiddish folk songs. When the first
World War broke out Berl fought in the Czarist army. When the
Czarist regime collapsed he joined the Red Army even though the
Bolshevik regime was not to his liking. In 1922 he went to Berlin,
where he joined a circus and began perfecting himself in the art
of buffoonery and clowning. When he came to London in 1930 the
famous circus director Bertram Mills immediately signed him to a
contract. One of the features of the contract, still in effect, was a
provision that he would not have to perform on Rosh Hashanah
and Yom Kippur. While Koko is only moderately religious, his
Christian-born wife Rachael is extremely religious and maintains
a strictly orthodox home. When Berl first met the beautiful young
woman who was destined to become his wife, her name was Valen
tina. Because of parental objections the two young people could
not get married. However, they kept on meeting clandestinely. On
one such occasion the young lady confided to Berl that she had
become converted to Judaism and that her Jewish name now was
Rachael. The romance at once ended in marriage. Koko, now the
father of six children, is contemplating settling in Israel, where he
hopes to establish a Jewish circus.

camp for mothers and children
at Camp Chelsea near Grass
Lake, a n d four neighborhood
day-camps: Camp Northwest at
Vernor School, Camp Habonim
at the Woodward Center, Camp
Freilach at the Davison Branch,
12th St. Council Day Camp.
Mothers accompanied by chil-
dren 3 to 8 will be accommo-
dated at Camp Chelsea. Boys
and girls four to 10 will make
up the camp roster at Camp
Northwest, 3 to 8 at 12th St.
Council Camp, 7 to 12 at Camp
Habonim, 5 to 12 at Camp Frei-
lach. All campers must be Cen-
ter members.

A. Arnold Agree, Irwin T. Holtzman, Mrs. Irwin Holtzman,
Charles Levin and Herbert Aronsson (from the left) were among
the 100 members of the special gifts division of the Allied Jewish
Campaign junior division who participated in the opening cam-
paign dinner meeting at which $16,640 was pledged.

WALL TO WALL

CARPET CLEANING

Beth Aaron Religious School
Prepares Youth for Pesach

All classes in the Cong. Beth
Aaron religious school will dedi-
cate the last pre-Passover ses-
sion on Sunday to the prepara-
tion of the Seder service.
Every class will hold a model
Seder. Special Passover booklets
have been prepared by the
school, and will be distributed to
each child.
The Passover instruction and
preparation have been arranged
under the supervision of Rabbi
Benjamin H. Gorrelick, supervis-
o• and Bernard Panush, director
of the school.

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New Song to Spur
Israel Bond Sales

City Smoked Fish Co.

Minneapolis Hotel
Names Room for Israel

distributors of

MINNEAPOLIS, (AJP) — The

NEW YORK (AJP)—A nation-
. al total of 100,000 volunteers will
be sought for the Israel bond
sale slated to start May 1.
The Zionist Organization of
America mailed out 25,000 ZOA
"Certificates of Appointment"
and a similar number of ZOA
"Bond Volunteer Identity" cards.
The ZOA is committed to selling
$100,000,000 of Israel Indepen-
dence Bonds.
The ZOA campaign will have
a song of its own. Morris A. Ep-
stein, bond chairman for Toledo,
a song writer, together with
Herman Paley, put a tune to-
gether for the inspiration of the
bond volunteer salesmen. The
two men are having the song
printed at their own expense as
sheet music f o r distribution
throughout the United States.

Ford Creates Expanded
Service Training Program

An expanded Ford service
training p r o g r a m—aimed at
helping to keep the nation's 47,-
000,000 cars and trucks rolling
and to conserve manpower and
critical materials—has been es-
tablished by the Ford Division of
the Ford Motor Company.
Carl T. Doman, service man-
ager, announced that 33 perma-
nent Ford Division service train-
ing schools have been set up
across the nation to assist thous-
ands of mechanics in 6,400 Ford
dealerships in maintaining qual-
ity service.

fad of dedicating hotel rooms
the Jewish state was ad-
vanced another step with the
dedication of the Israel Room
at a local hotel here. Delegates
to Hadassah's Upper Midwest
Regional Conference attended
the ceremonies.
"Israel has taken its place as
an important unit in the United
Nations of the world," Neil R.
Messick, general manager of the
Nicollet Hotel said, "and by in:-
eluding the Israel Room as one
of the rooms named for the
leading nations of the world, the
hotel has symbolized the ac-
ceptance of Israel as a young
but verile force in world af-
fairs."
Other hotels and meeting
places in Miami Beach, New
Yoe'?: City and elsewhere have

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extends its greetings

to all the Jewish community on the occasion

dedicated similar rooms to Is-
rael in recent months.

Golda Myerson Attracts 25,000
At Argentine Mass Meeting

of the Passover Holidays.

BUENOS AIRES, (JTA) —
Twenty-five thousand Jews at-
tended a mass meeting spon-
sored by the United Jewish
Campaign, which featured
Israel's woman Labor Minister,
Golda Myerson, as its chief

speaker. Mrs. Myerson called on
Argentine Jewry to become Is-
rael's partner in its great task.
Mrs. Myerson conferred with
Gen. Juan Pistarini, Argentine
Minister of Public Works. She
was the recipient of flowers from
Mme. Eva Peron, First Lady of
Argentina.

There are 33 instructors spe-
cializing on Fordomatic Drive,
Ford's new automatic transmis-
sion. In addition, 38 others reg-
ularly teach mechanics all other
phases of Ford service. All 71 in- Started as Messenger Boy,
structors are factOry personnel. Official Feted on Retirement

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Former Romanian Envoy'
NEW YORK (AJP)—Forty
To Head Premier's Office
years of service to the city by
TEL AVIV, (JTA)—Ehud Av- Jacob Lefkowitz, chief of the
rial, young Israel diplomat who Bureau of Law and Adjustment

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recently resigned as Israel Min-
ister to Romania, returned to
Israel. Although he had planned
to return to his kibbutz, Avriel
was expected to remain in Gov-
ernment service in the post of
Director-General of the Pre-
mier's office, a position offered

of the Comptroller's Office,. was
honored at a testimonial dinner.
Serving under nine mayors, Lef-
kowitz began his civil service
career as a private messenger
boy at City Hall and rose
through the ranks to his pres-
to. him on his return by Premier ent important post in city - man-
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