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WAS five years ago
Since then, the sly, dead-pan
comic has headlined the most
famous spots in New York and
Hollywood . . He's flown to
London for a single command
performance at Olympia Stadi-
um, at a record $5,000 fee .
and is acclaimed as the best
story teller since the late Will
Rogers ... Famed Broadway wits
Abe Burrows and George Kauf-
man have appointed him the
favorite guest star of their "This
is Show Business" TV hour .
Television producers are working
to tailor a show around his
unique talents.
* *
BUT THE ex-silk salesman is
still at his relaxed best in front
of an intimate group . like the
crowd expected at Knoliwood's
Israel Bond Night . , . many of
whom will probably complain of
a sore larynx the next day .
from laughing so much the
evening before.
* * *
SEATED AT THE dinner table,
young Roger Smoklar asked,
"Pop, will I look like you when I
grow up? . . . and dad, Gordon
Smoklar replied that everybody
seems to think so . . . "Well,"
replied Roger, "I won't have to
grow up for a long time, will I
pop?"

THAT

We Are Snubbed

Syrians, Iraqis Refuse
Visas to U.S. Officer

Raskin's

MYRON COHEN, who'll enter-
tain at Knollwood's Israel Bond
Night Aug. 23, is an ex-silk sales-
man who laughed himself into
a career . all because the
piece of goods he was sell-
ing were half -c en t above
competition . . . "Not much."
shrugs Myron, "but did you ever
try to sell a dress manufacture
50,000 yards?'" . . . So the bald
Myron Cohen tried a switch . • .
Instead of talking business he
just told stories . . . He could
go on talking for hours about
his family, his neighbors in the
Bronx and the characters he met
on his trips . . . Then, when his
prospect was weak with laughter;
Myron would murmer, - Now,
about that order." . . He was
the most successful salesman in
the east and his competition,
who cut prices in vain, couldn't
understand it.
,* • *
ONE NIGHT, Myron escorted a
group of out-of-town buyers to
the famous Leon & Eddie's night
club . . . Proprietor Eddie Davis
noted that Myron's table was in
stitches all evening long . . .but
always at the wrong time . . .
When Davis' comic told a joke,
the buyers were silent .. . When
he started the buildup for his
next joke, they pounded the
table, and rolled on the floor .. .
Davis investigated, found it was
Myron who was making the buy-
ers so happy and dragged him
up to the mike . .When the
night was over, the ex-silk sales-
man had his first night club en-
gagement . . with Leon and
Eddie's.

THE JEWISH NEWS - 13
Friday, August 17, 1951

colored nations of the world .. .
When New York's Governor
Thomas Dewey met with Malay-
an leaders, recently, the question
uppermost in their minds was,
"What happened in Cicero, Ill.?"
. . . where a Negro vet was pre-
vented by an angry mob from
moving into his new apartment
. . . At the same meeting, the
UAW's Walter Reuther disclosed
the startling "revelation" con-
tained in Soviet news organs . . .
that ex-heavyweight champ Joe
Louis, unable to get employment
because of his color, and pen-
niless, was forced to return to
the fight ring.
*
AMONG HIS MEMOIRS of re-
marks made during his 27 years
as a street-car conductor, Harry
Dashkin recalled asking a moth-
er how old her little boy was, to
determine whether he should
pay a fare or not ... "Just four,"
she answered truthfully, and
Harry acknowledged that it was
okay to take him through with-
out paying . . The lad looked
quizically at Harry, evidently
feeling that further information
should be vouch-safed . . . "And
mother," he said solemnly, "is
just thirty-one."
4' 4' *
LIL LATZER says there's a
"My Friend Irma" in every of-
fice ... The one in her office re-
cently related this incident . . .
and with a straight face . . :She
was driving her newly acquired
car on East Jefferson . . at a
speed considerably over the limit
.. . when she was waved to the
curb by a policeman . . said
"Irma" to the cop, "I suppose
you're going to give me a ticket."
. . . The officer allowed that was
what he intended to do . but
nothing in his police pra-Ctice
had prepared him for "Irma's
next remark . . "Well, I'm
afraid you can't because I don't
have a drivers license."
* * *
AT THE RECENT Louis Mar-
shall Lodge picnic, Al Farber
overheard two small boys dis-
cussing the capabilities of their
mothers, both very active mem-
bers in the woman's chapter .. .
"My mother can talk on just
about any subject," one lad de-
clared proudly • . . "Aw, shucks,"
retorded the other, "my mother
can talk without any subject at
all."
*
*
THE JOSEPH BALE JWV Post
is working on plans to send an
honor student, each year, on a
$5,000 scholarship to Michigan
State College ... the school Joe

WASHINGTON, (JTA) — Syria
and Iraq have administered a
snub to the United States that
has State Department officials
red in the face and smarting ;
Washington columnist Robert S.
Allen reported this week.
An Air Force major, assigned
to a special mission in the Mid-
dle East, took his special pass-
port to the Iraqi and Syrian le-
gations for visas after having
received the Israeli visa stamp.
Both Arab legations refused to
give him visas unless he had the
Israeli visa removed.

attended before being killed in
World War II . . . But the big
evening looked forward to now
by the boys is the night of Aug.
29 . .. when the Bale Post bat-
tles Rex Lodge, champions of
the Bnai Brith Softball League
. . . at 9 p.m. . . at Robinson
Field, Linwood and Grand River
. . The first game, starting at
7:30, will also be a humdinger
with Dexter Chevrolet meeting
Sweetest Heart of Mary . .
Admission will be 50 cents do-
nation . ... with proceeds going
to the Veteran's Assistance Fund
. . Should be a couple of red-
hot contests because all four
teams are top notchers in their
respective leagues.
*

DISA 'N DATA . . Gerald
Bruson, local business exec, and
popular favorite around the
community, will run for a berth
on the Common Council in the
coming elections . . Ronnie
Fields, Sally's boy, left last week,
for Korea . . . He enlisted in the
Marines ; some time ago, with
four local buddies . . . Ilene Sa-
bin, District 6 BBG president
from Detroit, was awarded a $100
scholarship for her outstanding,
work in BBYO . . It was pre-
sented by the Keidan Bnai Brith
Chapter . . . The sparkler proud-
ly being worn by Agnes Simon
was given to her by handball
star, Leonard Meldman . . seal-
ing their engagement, last Sat-
urday.

Oscar Halpern, D.D.S., 14703
Kinsman ; Cleveland, 0., in a
long letter to the editor, com-
ments on the article regarding
the Cleveland Federation-Coun-
cil merger and the editorial on
the subject in our issue of July
20.
Dr. Halpern criticizes what he
calls our "superfluous claims"
and states that our view that
the fusion will enforce demo-
cratic practices "will come as a
surprise to some of us in Cleve-
land."
Referring to the right of fran-
chise given by the Cleveland
Federation to the 25,000 contri-
butors of $5 or more, Dr. Halp-
ern claims that it is "an ima-
ginary membership," that it is
"at best a camouflaged, ruse
democracy." He insists that the
delegate assembly composed of
representatives of 175 organiza-
tions "was the central body and
the base of the structure."
Stating that the Cleveland
merger plan has limitations
which tend "to obstruct the
evolvement of broader spheres
in affairs of Jewish life," Dr.
Halpern writes that "It was

frankly stated here that the
factual elimination of the dele-
gates assembly stems from the
fact that some of our leaders in
the Federation still cling to the
erroneous conception that cer-
tain segments of the Jewish
population are not competent
enough to be entrusted wi tl a
voice in Jewish communal af-
fairs.
Editor's note: Since receiv-
ing Dr. Halpern's letter, The
Jewish News has learned that
the Cleveland Federation has
voted, in adherence to the
wishes of many Council dele-
gates, to name the newly-
m e r g e d organization "The
Cleveland Jewish Community
Federation." Dr. H al p e r n's
views are subject to challenge,
especially when he contends
that the granting of franchise
to 25,000 people does not
represent true democracy but
is an "imaginary member-
ship." Our contention is that
the crux of the problem is in
getting people to take an ac-
tive interest in the commu-
nity. If the enfranchised will
vote, we shall have a true
democracy. When they fail to
vote, we have cross-sectional
CARD OF THANKS
action— on a par with the
The family of the late David response we witness in elec-
Aptekar wishes to thank its tions in all American munici-
relatives and friends for their palities.
many expressions of sympathy
during its recent bereavement.
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* * *

AT THE RECENT and hugely
successful FEPC rally in which
the Jewish Community Council
participated, Roy Wilkinson,
national administrator of the
NAACP, was relating the work-
ings of the FEPC law in New
York . . . One of the most dif-
ficult problems is that of ob-
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dinarily eight cashiers on duty,
he 'discovered that six were
Negroes ... "I was sorely tempt-
ed to make a complaint about
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In a more serious vein, Wilkin-
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use that the Communists make
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