As the Editor Views the News ... Our Belief Through the Ages Science in Israel There is nothing new in stories of ac- complishments by the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehoboth, Israel. The record speaks for itself. Yet, the recent report of advances made there provides a new thrill. Sidney Gruson, the New York Times corre- spondent in the Jewish state, made some striking comments on the results of visits at the Weizmann Institute of two distin- guished Nobel Prize winners, Prof. Harold Urey, the American nuclear physicist, and . Sir Robert Robinson, British chemist. Dr. Chaim Weizmann, "although aged and ail- ing," was "a student again for a day" to listen to Prof. Robinson's lectures. It must have been a great joy for the President of Israel to hear the British scientist say work at' the institute bearing Weizmann's name was of the "utmost fundamental importance." Prof. Robinson made some interesting revelations. He stated that scientists in his country and in the United States are taking up experiments by Prof. Aaron Kat- chalsky to transform electrical or chemical energy into mechanical energy, without in- termediary machinery. The British chemist pointed out that only in the living organism is such transformation made without an in- termediary step and that Dr. Katchalsky has succeeded in creating at the Weizmann laboratories a contractile system—a mole- cule that alternately expands and contracts, going a long way to explain what happens in manipulations of human muscles. Manifold activities distinguish the work of scientists at the Weizmann Institute. De- velopment, together with a group of French research men, of a nylon-like plastic from oil extracted from castor beans, which can be grown abundantly in the Negev, is ex- pected to be the basis of a large nylon textile industry. Efforts to desalt the water of the Negev, which is brackish, are expected, to result in the transformation of the southern area into a vast agricultural production cen- ter. The experiments at the Weizmann In- stitute in the study of cancer-producing sub- stances and numerous other activities serve to focus world attention upon the • great scientific laboratories in Rehoboth. That's . Israel's miracle expanding into reality. Continuing Tensions Assistant Secretary of State George E. McGhee expressed the view last week that tensions between Jews and Arabs are not lessening. His statement contained the com- ment that "unfortunately. there are some ex- pressions of anti-American feeling in the Middle East." "This," he said, "is true par- ticularly among the Arab states because of resentment of our Palestine policies. We feel, however, that we are regaining their confidence." Which poses the question: Are we "re- gaining" confidence at the expense of Israel? We have always fplt that a firm policy in the Middle East would speed, the possibility of peace between Israel and the Arab states. It is to be regretted, however, that too many concessions and a weak-kneed attitude has harmed rather than helped the cause of peace. The State Department could have been more helpful on this score. Tribute to ORT A JTA report from Geneva states that a group of 14 experts from the International Labor Organization, in the course of a visit to the ORT Central Institute for the Train- ing of Vocational Teachers, found ORT's pedagogical methods "extremely instructive." This is a deserved tribute to the work of a most important movement whose tech- niques have encouraged young Jews to enter productive pursuits by training them in vari- ous trades. The vocational program of the ORT has elevated the position of young Jews in many lands. The ILO tribute adds to the recognition so well earned by ORT. THE JEWISH NEWS Member: American Association of English-Jewish News- papers, Michigan Press Association. Published every Friday by The Jewish News Publishing Co. 708-10 David Stott Bldg., Detroit 26, Mich., W0.5-1155. Subscription $4 a year; foreign $5. Entered as second class matter Aug. 6, 1942 at Post Office, Detroit, Mich., under Act of March 3, 1879. PHILIP SLOMOVITZ, Editor SIDNEY SHMARAK, Advertising Manager Vol. XIX—No. 17 Page 4 July 6, 1951 Sabbath Scriptural Selections This Sabbath, the third day of Tammuz, 5711, the following selections will be read in OM' syna- gogues: Pentateuchal portion—Nun'. 16:1-18:32. Prophetical portion—I Sam. 11:14-12:22. Kr ED EQUAL The Catholic Priest Who Became a Jewish Preacher AFR _ 0,44.1ENA BLZ oe,ERIN AND THE vol sorr OF HAPPINESS _ The Struggle for Survival We would be totally false to our responsibilities if we failed to take into account the mounting challenges to our people's cultural autonomy and if we did not consistently admonish the leaders in our community to consider the problem of 'education the Number 'One Item on the agenda of planning our people's needs. - Last month, tens of thousands of young Jews received diplomas from high schools and colleges. In our community, Central High School alone issued diplomas to at -least 400 Jewish boys and girls. Nearly as many more were graduated from other high schools. Many hundreds were graduated from universities. We should pause for a while to consider what the atti- tudes of these young people are towards Jewish needs, what their reactions are to Jewish causes, how. many of them can be expected to affiliate themselves with Jewish movements, with synagogues, with cultural projects. . - If we are to judge the future by the past, we are not on the safest ground. If the very limited amount of training which serves as a background for Jewish thinking among these young people is to be a means of measuring their loyal- ties, we may consider the future rather gloomy. Nevertheless, experiences have shown that when the cause is important, our youth stands side by side with the adult community in sponsoring movements in the best inter- ests of our people. In Allied Jewish Campaigns we have learned that our young people not only are eager to cooperate in community efforts but they are among the first to render service with hearty responses in giving from their limited means and in volunteering as workers. If our position is to be made genuinely secure,- we must think in terms of enlisting more and more of these young people for leadership. The graduates of today are the people who will assume leadership of the community tomorrow, and they must be guided from the very beginning to think in terms of affiliation with their communities. History has taught us that in lands where Jews have en- joyed freedom withotit hindrance the temptations for assim- ilation have been great. Many Jewish communities have disappeared because the education of the youth Was reduced to a minimum and assimilation was greatly encouraged. Even in our own time, we are witnesses to a sad situation in France where, as was reported last week at a three-day conference of leaders of French Jewry, religion is vanishing. Judaism, it was reported, is holding its ground in Paris but is disappearing elsewhere in France at a very alarming rate. Marc Jarblum, one of the leaders, stating that the formation of a Paris Kehillah is progressing satisfactorily, declared that "the formation of such a central body would be of -the utmost importance if the present anarchy in French Jewish communal life is to be ended." What is possible in France also can happen to us. Our educational standards regrettably have been reduced in the past two decades. We have more two and three-day a week `schools, instead of the earlier five-day Jewish schools. There are more children whose education is limited to Sunday schools than there are daily students. This can not go on for long and a way must be found to enroll every child in a Jewish school, to interest every young adult in study courses, in congregational activities, in community projects. Our young people must be guided to judge issues prop- erly. From time to time, new antagonists are encouraged against us. Right now, Dorothy Thompson's new so-called pro-Middle East movement, which actually is an anti-Israel endeavor; is being fostered. Our youth must understand the frustrations among our former friends, who have turned against us, which cause the creation of such organizations. They must be taught to know the numerous factors which enter into the struggle for existence. Our struggle for survival goes on.' To make it an easy battle, we must extend a welcome hand to our youth and to share leadership with them. Our task - in seeking the advance- ment of Jewish learning and the enhancement of ,Jewish living, will be made easier. By FRANK SIMONS An American Jewish Press Feature A chance visit to a synagogue in his youth completely altered the destiny of Aime Palliere, born a Roman Catholic in the French town of Lyons. Witnessing the Neilah services on Yom Kippur, young Aime afterward taught himself Hebrew and began to learn about the Jewish faith. Palliere became a Catholic priest, but made himself a set of Telfillin and attended synagogue in Nice with regularity. Visiting Rabbi Elijah Benamozegh of Leghorn, advised him to adopt "the religion of humanity," Noachism. But Pal- here considered this "an unsatisfactory half-way house between Judaism and Christianity.' - About this time the Liberal Jewish movement was developing in Paris, and Palliere was given the opportunity of becoming their leader. He declined, wondering if their departure from cus- tomary rites would not interfere with the tradi-. tional Judaism about which he felt so keenly. He collaborated with the Chief Rabbi of the Union of Liberal Synagogues of France in stren- uously aiming to bring back Jewry to the syna- gogue. He lectured at the Rabbinical College, helped edit the rabbibical jounial and wrote a number of works on Jewry and his mission in Judaism. Though Palliere died on Dec. 24, 1949, as ft Christian, he asked that Kaddish be said for him in a synagogue. 'Journey to the Dawn' Angoff's Impressive Novel Charles Angoff, Harvard-educated, Russian- born writer, one-time assistant to H. L. Mencken on the American Mercury, writer for numerous magazines, already has made his mark as a short story writer, as playwright and historian. His stories, "When I Was a Boy in Boston," formed a collection that was well acclaimed. His "Literary History of the American People," is another of his six published books. His latest, "Journey to the Dawn," (pub- lished by Beechhurst Pres&, 296 Broadway, N. Y. 7), is his first full-length novel. In it, he reveals a deep knowledge of Jewish experiences. It is a sympathetic novel dealing with the life of im- migrants in this country during the first part of this century. The realism of "Journey to the Dawn," the thoroughly frank approach to the life led by newcomers to this country nearly half a century ago, suggest interesting contrast to the Situa- tion existing today, This novel helps perpetuate knowledge of conditions in American Jewry in ,the days of Taft, in the era of unrestricted immigration, in the period when Jewish traditions were para- mount among immigrants. Among the interesting contrasts suggested by this novel are the frequent discussions about Zionism and socialism—Zionism being tabooed and emphasis being placed on Judaism alone. How times have changed! But among the contrasts also is the devotion that is evidenced among the children in the novel to this very Judaism, to the Hebrew school, to religious practices in the home. It will be profitable for our people to read Angoff's book and to study it as a comparison with conditions in our time. The fact that Angoff possesses knowledge of Jewish life and knows the history of the Jewish settlement in this country 50 years ago has helped make his book more valuable. "Journey to the Dawn," well-written, backed up by factual knowledge ; is a story of conditions implied in the title—the journey by immigrants to the dawn, to a great appreciation of the values of America as important adenda to the values of Judaism. Struggle Between Generations Described in Hilda. Abel Novel "The .Guests of Summer," a new novel by Hilda Abel (Bobbs-Merrill Co., Indianapolis), has its setting in a resort where Julie, her mother and her uncle meet numerous people in the cru- cial month of August, 1939, when clouds of war were hovering over the .world. It is a story of a conflict between the young girl—the first generation American—and her mother. The Jewish challenges, the Hitlerian threats, the inner emotions of youth all are set in play here. The "differences" between generations spell tragedy in many of the relationships between parent and child. The fleeting love affair with the Nordic-looking Roger and later the affair with Friedrich Groscz who returns to Europe upon the outbreak of the war, form an important aspect in the life of the young girl. The deeply-moving personal conflicts finally are diSsOlved and daughter learns that mother has a warm affection for her. A conflict of gen- erations is healed. This . inner struggle domin- ates the interesting novel by the young author.