Mobilize for House-to-House Campaign Canvas Women's Division Readies es or G-Day Solicitations April 29 At the "Gifts and Dolls" luncheon, April 11, left to right, seated: Mrs. Samuel S. Aaron, special gifts chairman, and her vice-chairman, Mrs. Milton M. Alexander; standing, Mrs. Milton K. Mahler and Mrs. Ben Mossman. Allied Jewish Campaign Worn- ed the opening luncheon at the en's Division workers are pre- Book April 11 and pledged a paring for their next big proj- record total for a women's meet- ect, G.-Day, Sunday, April 29, ing — $202,500 — representing a when general solicitation work- 15% increase over their gifts of er.:1 will see their prospects on a last year. "Great Day for Giving." Mrs. John C. Hopp, Women's More than 400 women attend- Division campaign chairman, announced the results of the James Laker, co-chairmen of Mrs. Altman Cancels meeting and praised Mrs. Harry - the Bnai Brith motor corps Becker, chairman of pre-cam- committee, are receiving cars Broadcasts on Pesach paign, and Mrs. Samuel S. Aar- and drivers from the 19 lodges on chairman of special gifts, who of Bnai Brith Council. Mrs. Hyman Altman an- with luncheon chairmen Mrs. Patrons of leading Jewish del- nounced this week that in Abraham Srere and Mrs. Melville icatessens are being offered a accordance with a tradition S. Welt, helped to secure the G-Day special—"The Most for established by herself and affair's success. Mrs. Harry L. Your Money"—during the weeks her late husband her Jewish Jones was in charge of arrange- preceding April 29. Cooperating Radio Hours will not be ments. restaurateurs include Albert broadcast on Passover, this Highlights of G-Day, which is Miller*, Al Miller's; Lou Boren- Saturday night and Sunday under the overall chairmanship stein and Sam Horen, Brothers; noon. of Mrs. Sidney J. Karbel, gen- Hyman Horenstein, Horenstein's; Broadcasts will be resumed eral solicitation chairman, in- Joseph M. Lefkofsky, Lefkof- on Saturday night and Sun- clude a breakfast rally of work- sky's; Murray 7. and Simon Li- day, April 28 and 29, Mrs. Altman stated. ers at 9 a.m., Sunday, April 29, berman, Liberman's; Harry Mil- at the Agriculture Building of ler, Harry Miller's; Isadore E. the State Fair Grounds, when Atler and Joseph Mosten, Nate's; Golda Myerson, Israel's top- Herman Herskowitz, Peacock; Yale Faculty Backs ranking woman diplomat, min- and Hyman Zieman, Whitey's. Conn. Anti-Bias Bill ister of Labor and Reconstruc- Women with special assign- tion in the Israel Cabinet, will ments for G - Day include Mrs. HARTFORD (AJP)—Approval speak. Charles Briskman, program of of proposed legislation intended More than 2,000 workers are the day; Mrs. Daniel E. Krouse, to eliminate discrimination in expected to gather at the break- emergency squad, and Mrs. Sey- fast, pick up their slips and go mour J. Frank and Mrs. Wil- the selection of students to be forth in a one-day drive to call liam B. Isenberg, general coordi- admitted to Connecticut c o 1 - leges and universities was urged upon 14,500 prospects for their nators. by 18 members of the faculty of gifts to the Allied Jewish Cam- the Yale University Law School. Dedicate Health Center paign—in support of the up- The letter by the faculty mem- building Israel, the Jews of Eu- To Jewish Labor Leader bers addressed to the Connecti- rope, new Americans, national NEW YORK, (AJP) — A new cut General Assembly followed cultural, health and welfare and health center established in the by three weeks a legislative community relations agencies memory • of Jewish labor leader hearing at which representatives and local Jewish social services. of all private Connecticut col- Workers without cars will Sidney Hillman was dedicated leges and universities, including by , garment workers and union have available a motor corps, Yale, denied there was any dis- supplied through the cooper- officials. Formerly a YWCA, the crimination. They urged defeat building was remodeled into a ation of the greater Detroit clinic and health center costing of the proposed anti-bias legis- Bnai Brith Council. Mrs. Ger- $400,000. More than 60,000 union lation, ald Goldberg is mobile corps members will be treated without co-ordinator of the Women's charge for eye, nose and throat 2 THE JEWISH NEWS Division. I r v L n g Davis and ailments. Friday, April 20, 1951 — Purely Commentary Freedom from Want—and from FEAR Passover has an important message. It teaches us the meaning of freedom. It also admonishes us and mankind not to be jittery, to refuse to yield to panic, to abandon fear. Yet we always become victims of fears. Some of our people have become panicky over the trag- edy of treason. Half a dozen Jews out of five million turned traitors and too many in our midst yielded to fear. Perhaps Passover comes just in. time—to teach people not to be afraid, to recognize that you must face realities when a handful of sinners besmirch the great heritage of America and of the Hebrew Prophets. • Passover also should guide us against com- placency. In an area and an era of prosperity we run into the danger of becoming indifferent to realities. The Feast of Liberation should inspire us with spirit in support of recently-liberated Israel. Yet some of us are letting the little state down. On Passover it is well to remind our people again that Israel is a bulwark for democracy, that without Israel the cause of freedom is en- dangered in the Middle East, that it is to the best interests of this country that Israel should triumph. May the lesson of Passover triumph over fear, and to the elimination of complacency and indif- ference. Public Officials and the Judaism Council If the messages sent by public officials to the convention of the American Council for Judaism weren't so funny they would be tragic. President Truman, who prides himself on being Israel's first friend—having recognized the infant state a few minutes after Israel's proclamation of in- dependence—wrote to Lessing J. Rosenwald that "the Council deserves high credit for its program dedi- cated to the increasing national, civic, cultural and social integration of Americans of Jewish faith and for its belief that nationality and religion are sep- arate and distinct." So that's the "program" of the Council which has been branded as being neither American nor Jewish? Since when is separation of church and state the sole objective of Lessing Rosenwald's organization? All American Jews, without distinction as to party lines or affiliations, have been fighting for this principle as true Americans. The Council's new objective is funny! Better still: President Truman concludes his mes- sage with an expression of hope that "the success which so far has crowned the efforts of the Council will continue." Now, now, Mr. President! If the Coun- cil had actually succeeded, you would have been de- prived of the historic privilege of recognizing Israel! Your name would not have been inscribed indelibly in world history! For, there would not have been an Israel if this Council had its way! It isn't surprising that Dorothy Thompson has turned against Israel and was one of the speakers _ at the Council's annual convention in Chicago. last week-end. Nor are we shocked by the anti- Zionist position of the disillusioned Socialist Norman Passover Admonishes Us to Abandon By Philip Slomovitz Fears and Not to Become Complacent Thomas. But when we learn that Fannie Hurst has been misled into greeting this disruptive Council (don't you have a better platform, Fannie?) ; that the co-sponsor of the Israel Grant-in-Aid measure in the Ti. S. Senate and one of Zionism's staunchest friends, Senator Robert A. Taft, has commended the Council "for its efforts to maintain the basic principles of American tradition by founding its activities on in- dividual rights," we are puzzled. Senator, OH!, Sena- tor, since when do those whom the Council is fighting lack individual rights? That's just what you are propagating when supporting the Israel Cause which the "individual rights" (sic!) Council seeks to destroy in Zionism! Funny, isn't it? Or, have our friends put on masks? Remember what William Makepeace Thackery said?: "Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society." Is this another lesson from the Passover story: that people should acquire freedom from a nasty tongue-in-cheek habit? * * The Confused Councilites There may be a few Doubting Thomases left who will differ with our attitude towards the Judaism Council. If they desire proof of the Council's destruc- tive policies, let them study the speeches that were delivered last week-end at the Chicago convention. Dorothy Thompson made an impassioned appeal for the rejection of what she said is Zionism's at- tempt to make all Jews a part of the "Jewish People or Nation." This is an outright misinterpretation of the Zionist cause and of the objectives of those who aspire to aid Israel. It is as misrepresentative of fact as her charge that there is discrimination against mi- norities in Israel. Dorothy Thompson, the former Zion- ist propagandist, knows better. Something has gone wrong with her attitude, else she would not be so viciously antagonistic to Israel. Then there was a speech typical of the Council's obstructionist tactics by Lessing J. Rosenwald. He not only attacked the Israel bond issue but selected the Joint Distribution Committee for attack. He as- serted that the merger of JDC with Zionist fund- raising "has built a tremendous machine to lobby for Israel." He rose to unusual heights in his repri- mand of Israel for failing to restrict immigration. You may ask: Where would Thompson and Rosen- wald put the persecuted? They were asked the same question when it was not a matter of rescuing a quar- ter of million Jews from Moslem countries but of. saving the lives of a million Jewish survivors from Nazism. If it did not matter then, why should they be concerned now? And the Council calls itself Jewish and American! Rosenwald, Thompson and their ilk have forgotten their heritages—the principles of justice, freedom and equality which they surely claim for themselves. Those who help Israel, also want the freedom they enjoy for others. That's the crime of Zionism that they cannot condone. * * * Tactlessness of Propagators fora Cause The Rev. Charles A. Hill, chairman of the Emer- gency Citizens Committee Against Police Brutality, has committed an inexcusable blunder. In his appeal for aid in defense of the two Negroes, Charles Gordy and his son, in a letter which was circularized among large number of Jews, the Rev. Hill saw fit to write: "While Jews were not directly involved, the parallel is too clear and the danger too close to allow us the luxury of non-concern . . . No Jew is safe in an at- mosphere of racial violence, especially when the bias appears to have official sanction. Jewishness, and the freedom to keep it are in peril in a city that will tol- erate such a pattern of police brutality . . . It is the immediate concern of the Jewish people that Ne- groes be protected from beatings, illegal arrests, un- authorized searches. It is for the protection of the Jewish people that the city officials be forced to alter the brutal race-policy of the police department. And it is in the interest of the Jewish people to make their protest known now." We quote the Rev. Hill's appeals to Jews as Jews in full in order that there should be a clear under- standing that tactlessness never accomplishes any- thing and does not help good causes. Mr. Hill's ap- peal is in behalf of the two Negroes who became in- volved in a police fracas. Mr. Hill asserts: "The police entered his (Gordy's) house and dragged off his son on suspicion—no warrant, no forewarning, just 'sus- picion.' Then, after verbally abusing him, a shot rang out. He grabbed his gun and returned the fire and killed a policeman, wounded another." There is a charge of prejudice, of "race policy of the police department." It is a serious charge and must be fought in the courts—the American way. And the responsibility is that of all Americans—not by fanning race hatred or by issuing infiamatory calls on the strength of "minority problems." This can't work Mr. Hill. American issues must be fought the American way—through the courts. There are higher courts, and the United States- Su- preme Court proved only a few days ago, in the case of two Florida Negroes whom the Justice rescued from the chair, that justice can and must triumph in this great land. That was the American way. We are ashamed of the people who provided the Rev,. Hill with the mailing list, thus becoming partners in a policy of tactlessness. Perhaps this, too, points to. a Passover lesson : the need for acquisition of freedom from tactlessness. * * * Ernest Bevin is Dead Ernie Bevin is dead. We would be hypocritical if we said we mourned his passing. We are saddened by Death and we do not wish any one ill. But in he case of Bevin we are doubly saddened by pity and regret. Bevin, as a labor leader out of power, was a strong defender of the Zionist cause. That was in the days when even our staunchest friends thought Zionism. was an impossible dream, and it is so easy to propa- gate the impossible. But Bevin the Foreign Secretary of the great British Empire became a bitter enemy not only of Zionism but of the Jewish people when the fighters for liberation of Israel were victorious. The pity of it is that Bevin's name could have been engraved in golden letters in Jewish and world his- tories as a consistent adherent to the cause he once espoused. Instead, he chose to become abusive and to be responsible for violence and for implied anti- Semitism. The Bevin who made an about-face when he as- sumed political power we pitied. He died with a blemish that will be remembered longer than any- thing else he did in his lifetime, Yet, we owe a debt of gratitude to Bevin. If he had consented to President Truman's plan to admit: 100,000 refugees to Palestine there would have been: no Israel. He opposed the plan, the Jews had to fight• for independence—and won!