John Roy Carlson to Address
Detroit Zionists Wednesday
John Roy Carlson, who be-
came famous for his exposes of
anti-Semites and more recently
attained nationwide prominence
again for his book "Cairo to
Damascus" in which he tells his
experiences in Arab lands, will
address the Zionist' Organization
of Detroit next Wednesday, 8:30
p.m., at the Shaarey Zedek..
A. C. Lappin, in extending an
invitation to all Detroit Jews to
hear this address, announced
that Mr. Carlson's topic will be
"The Middle East Powder Keg."
Albert Elazar, chairman of the
ZOD program committee, will
preside.
Carlson is author of "The
Plotters" and "Under Cover." Tn
"Cairo to Damascus" he tells of
the reactions of Arab leaders to
Zionism, as he gleaned them
during his dangerous trips in
and out of Arab lands, into Old
Jerusalem, then to New Jeru-
salem and to Israel, where he
witnessed the war . of liberation.
Gen. Klein Offers Amends
For Article by Merwin K. Hart
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THE JEWISH NEWS
Friday, January 25, 1952
Knesset Bans Beigin
Till Passover Recess
Leaders in Community to Participate
In Federation Pre-Budget Meeting
For the third successive year, local operating programs, loci
leaders in the Jewish -c o m- capital funds and national
munity will meet at a pre-cam- agencies. Recommendations
p a i g n budget conference, at emerging from the conference
10:30 a.m., Sunday, in the audi- will be presented to the Federa-
torium of the Woodward Jewish tion board of governors.
Center.
Invited to participate acre
• The conference is held under members of the Federation
the auspices of the JeWish Wel- Board, Detroit Service G r o u p
fare Federation, sponsoring or- Board, Federation's Women's Di-
ganization of the Allied Jewish vision Board, Board of the Com-
Campaign. Presentations will be munity Service Committee of
made by Morris Garvett, chair- the Young Adult Council (Jun-
man of the Jewish education ior Division), budget and plan-
budget and planning division, ning divisions and boards - a
Julian H.' Krolik, reporting on Federation member agencies.
overseas and Israel needs, Mil
Krolik, chairman of the Fed-
ton K. Mahler, chairman of the er a t i o n executive committee,
health and welfare division. and pointed out that "as an or-
Ben L. Silberstein, chairman of ganized community, we meet
community relations division.
our financial responsibility to
A special report will be made Jewish needs and programs
by Max J. Zivian, chairman of through a central fund-raising
the committee on local capital campaign. The budget confer-
needs. Samuel H. Rubiner, ence provides an excellent op-
president of Federation, w i 11 portunity to express the breadth
chair the meeting. Dr. Harry E. and proportion of our interests
August heads the steering com- in the fields which we finance."
mittee.
The formula to be decided by
The purpose of the conference conference participants will
is to develop a formula for the concern proportions of funds
allocation of funds to be raised raised to be allocated to fields
in the 1952 Allied Jewish Cam- of service, not to individual
paign for overseas and Israel, agencies within each field.
NEW YORK, (JTA)—Brigadier
General Julius Klein, former
national commander of the
Jewish War Veterans, issued a
statement apologizing for dis-
seminating in his newsletter a
front-page article on the econ-
. MENAHEM BEIGIN
omic outlook in the United
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — T h e
States by Merwirr K. Hart, iden-
tified by Bnai Bran Anti- Israel Parliament's House com-
Defamation League as orie of mittee voted to suspend Mena-
America's leading anti-Semites. hem Beigin, leader of the Herut
Party, from attending Parlia-
mentary sessions until the Pass-
over holiday recess which begins
April 2, for his part in the
demonstrations outside the
Knesset. The committee a 1 s o
By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
thanked the police for defend-
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ing the Parliament building.
History's Lesson: Backsliding into Political Inactivity
Turn back the pages of history and you'll find that our present
experiences are not new ones; that they had occurred before:. that $50,000 Is Pledged
the cycle of human events is a constantly recurring story of hero-
ism, loyalties and courage which often turn into sluggishness when At Histadrut's First
great accomplishments are taken for granted.
Campaign Meeting
Prof. Salo Wittmayer Baron, in his monumental "Social and
Religious History of the • Jews," now being re-issued in revised
Over 200 Histadrut workers
seven volumes, concurrently by Columbia University Press and the and representatives of affiliated
Jewish Publication Society of America, provides' proof for our organizations at last Sunday's
The Jewish National Fund's the Jerusalem Corridor. Detroit's
contention that the realization of a dream causes reality to drive first report rally of Histadrut message regarding its current JNF Council has undertaken to
the dreamers into a state of dull inactivity.
campaign • heard campaign and afforestation and soil reclama- raise a sum of $112,500 for the
This is not intended as a review of Dr. Baron's very great landsmanschaften leaders con- tion programs will be brought to
work. Your Commentator is compelled first to catch his breath vey optimistic reports of initial Detroit Jewry Tuesday evening ' planting of 75,000 trees and the
after benefiting once again from .a re-reading of this tremendous successes towards attaining the by Rabbi Irving Miller, former women hope to fill half of this
creation. At the moment he merely desires to make brief com- 1952 campaign quota of $300,000. president of the _American Jew- quota.
A minimum contribution of $6
According to the summarized ish CongresS, at the 21st annual
ment, through the medium of a quotation from "A Social and
Religious History of the Jews," upon our current Jewish experi- report of Julius Honeyman, cam- do-nor event of the JNF Ladies' I to the JNF will admit a couple to
ences.
paign financial secretary, nearly Auxiliary, in the main auditor- I this donor event. Contributions
may be made by calling JNF
Dr. Baron, describing the Maccabean triumphs, refers to a $50,000' was reported from labor ium of the Masonic Temple.
Georgie Price, noted "enter-1 Auxiliary members or the office
statement attributed by Josephus to the Syrian commander Lysias. Zionist branches and landsman-
"Explaining to his soldiers the sudden lifting of his siege of Jeru- schaften. Farband branch 137 tainer, will be featured on the i of the JNF, TO. 8-7384.
Many organizations are coop-
salem early in 162, Lysias said that it was 'much better to make a led with $19,000; Poalei Zion program. Mrs. I r v i- n g Arlin
erating in • this project Which
treaty with the besieged and seek the friendship of the .whole Branch 4, $4,500; Polaei Zion heads the program committee.
nation by permitting them to observe their fathers' laws." Dr. Branch 6, $2,500; Poalei Zion
Mrs. Albert Prag, president of has received the endorsement
Baron continues this portion of the narrative by . pointing out that Branch 2, $1,800. The furniture the Auxiliary, and Mrs. Sidney of Jewish communities in all
Jacon of Cyrene "voiced, with characteristic vigor, the elation of division, under leadership of Ravin, fund - raising chairman, EngliSh-speaking countries ; The
the majority of Diaspora Jewry over the military successes of their Nathan Shecter and Jack Mala- stated that this year's income donors, including 'organizations,
mud, reached $6,250 and expects will be devoted to the Forest of i are listed 'in the special section
Palestinian coreligionists."
to exceed last year's total.
the Martyrs being • planted in I (pages 11-14) in this issue.
Not so long ago, all of us were similarly elated, yet, today,
Louis Levine, reporting for the
there is in evidence a backsliding which we have ascribed to ful- landsmanschaften,
praised the
fillment of the dream. Thus it was, also, in the days alluded to by leaders of the division in mobil-
Prof. Baron, whom we quote again:
their memberships on be-
"As soon as the danger of .complete suppression of the Jew- izing of
Israel Histadrut. Hista-
ish faith had passed, however, Diaspora Jewry seems to have half
evenings are being arranged
relapsed into political inactivity. Certainly the constant internal drut
By BORIS SMOLAR
in all landsmanschaften with
conflicts under the Maccabean and Herodian rulers, often de- guest speakers and latest movies
(Copyright, 1952, Jewish
Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)
generating into family intrigues and cruel atrocities, must have on Israel.
Reparation Notes
proved perplexing to Jews of other lands. Only when the fate
The negotiations between Israel and Germany on reparations
Morris Lieberman, campaign
of the Jewish commonwealth was at stake, as in Cleopatra's chairman,
emphasized that the are sure to be long and compliCated ... The Israel government
designs, did Jewish solidarity reassert itself."
results the first two weeks of is asking West Germany for only one billion dollars in repara-
What a familiar ring reverberates in these words! - Many of campaigning
far exceed all ex-
our people, less than four years after the occurrence of the miracle pectations. He urged all work- tions . .. The remaining $500,000,000 of the Israel bill is claimed
—the rebirth of Israel—have relapsed into indifference. Within ers, however, not to be misled from the Soviet-held part of Germany which is under Com-
Israel, there are regrettable party feuds which detract from the by early achievements as the munist control. However, authorities in the Communist-
glory of great achievements. Diaspora Jewry, whose enthusiasm road ahead is still hard and dominated section of Germany have so far ignored Israel's de-
was so great in 1948 that we had believed a $500,000,000 Israel bond coverage of prospects will re- mand, and all indications point to the fact that they will pay no
issue might have been subscribed in a very short span of time, is quire greater efforts and work. attention to it . . . Israel expects West Germany to pay the
debating with itself over loyalties.
The second report rally on billion-dollar reparations within eight years, part of it in pre-
History, indeed, repeats itself—t.x) often on the negative and Sunday, Feb. 3, 2 p.m., at Labor fabricated houses, agricultural machinery and irrigation pipes _
disappointing side.
Zionist Institute, will be ad- Israel is alSo determined to keep its. reparations claims separate
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dressed by Dr. Joseph Burstein, from the restitution claims of individual Jews . . . Some $175,-
Are We Spurred Only by Catastrophes?
director of the cultural depart- 000,000 have already been paid to Jews for personal restitution in
In his final report to the Central Zionist Council of Argentina ment of Histadrut in Israel. A the U. S. zone of Germany 0-The actual loss in wealth suffered
before returning to Israel, Joseph Weitz, director general of the musical program will be pre- by the Jews in Europe as:a result of the Nazis is estimated by
Jewish National Fund, launched an attack on local and world sented.
Israeli experts at $8,000,000,000 . . This amount is made up of
Zionist leaders. The Jewish Telegraphic Agency reports from
Jewish property in Germany which the Germans themselves es-
Buenos Aires that Mr. Weitz accused Jewish leaders of doing too
timated at $3,800,000,000; in Austria, at . $1,000,000,000, and the
little for Israel and with being spurred only by catastrophes. He Brandeis Lodge to Hold rest in other European countries where Jews were looted by. the
charged that second generation Argentinian Jews are losing their Annual Awards Night
Nazis during the occupation ... Although the composition of the
Jewishness and stressed the need for a Hebrew education. He said
Israeli delegation to the talks with West German representatives
that Zionist leaders are using fancy phraseology about the Jewish
Louis D: • Br andeis Lodge has not been decided, it can be predicted that its chief expert
state while - remaining unaware of daily developments in Israel. #1583,
Bnai Brith, will hold its will be Dr. Pesach Shinar who now heads the department for
He assailed party divisions in Diaspora Zionist movements, calling annual award night on Tuesday, claims from Germany established jointly by Israel's - Fore*: Min-
them a "limitation of bad things in Israel," and criticized party at 8 p.m., at Beth Aaron Syna- istry and the Treasury Department of the Jewish State.
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organization of pioneering training centers.
gogue.
Mr. -Weitz need not have limited his attacks to Zionist leader-
Educational
Notes
Highlighting activities, which
ship. He could have, in truth, extended his criticisms to the will include - the presentation of
The penduluni is beginning to swing back in New York City
entire field of Jewish leadership—to UJA campaigners in this bowling and conservation schools which introduced classes in -Hebrew. In some schools the •
country who are totally uninformed of the true state of affairs, to awards, will be a minstrel show. number of pupils in the Hebrew classes has shrunk to a. point
men at the helm who find so easy an excuse for reduced working The show, presented last month, which makes it questionable whether the classes will be main-
and giving after Ben.LGurion delivers a speech unburdening his is being brought back by popu- tained . . . However, no such effect is noticeable in American
heavy heart, to the rapidly assimilating youth and to the elders lar demand, with Hy Pritz di- schools of higher learning where Hebrew is taught either as a
who are unable to hold their interest and their loyalties.
Semitic or a modern language , Of more than 200 such in-
recting the entertainment.
Prof. Salo Baron convinced us anew that history repeats itself,
Medals will be awarded to the stitutions, about 25 universities and 15 colleges teach Hebrew as
that the accusations that were heard in Buenos Aires in January following bowlers of the blue a modern language, while the remainder — which include 90
of 1951 merely echo the lamentations that were heard after the team: Max Somberg, captain; theological schools—teach Biblical or classical Hebrew •
Maccabean triumphs 2,000 years ago, and in eras when entire Julius Green, Sam Dubrinsky,
Among the approximately 35,000 teachers in New York's pub-
Jewish communities disintegrated and showed signs of disappear- Max Sosin and Albert Provin. lic and high school system, there are about 14,000 Jews ... The
ance—in Egypt and in Babylon and in Rome, in scores of Diaspora Members of the red team re- majority of them are American-born, while the remainder.. were
lands where assimilation took a heavy toll.
ceiving medals are: Roy LeVitt, brought to this country in early childhood by their immigrant
In our own time, we witnessed the horrible calamity of the captain; Harry Levitt, Al Allo- parents .. .• All of them are, of course, university graduates and
reduction of Jewish numerical strength by massacres and genocide. witz, Henry Miller and Al some have achieved high honors in the pedagogic world . Al-
Now, these very witnesses, see evidence of a new decline — by Morains.
though not interested in Jewish affairs as a group, the Jewish
assimilation. It is incredible that there should be indifference
Conservation awards will be teachers have established their own central fund for contribu-
even to a minor degree, so soon after the conflagration by the presented to George Levine, tions for Jewish needs in this country and overseas .
Towards
Nazis, so close upon the heels of Jewish triumphs in Israel, But Louis RabinoWitz; Ben. Fishman, this fund the teachers raise an average of $150,000 a year
. The
out of all these experiences there emerges the most positive and Gerald Mosher, Benjamin Berk- fund has been in existence for more than 13 years . .. It is es-
the most convincing phenomenon: that Israel lives. History's ley, Sam Dubrinsky, Norton Tay- timated that about 2,000 of the Jewish teachers do not contribute
lessons prove that anyone who doubts or denies the immortality lor, Harry Gutov, Milton Ribiat, anything for Jewish causes, not even to their own fund . On
and imperishability of Israel is utterly stupid. Our people's in- Morris Weingarden, Louis Gar- the other hand there are several dozen who contribute from $100
domitable will and spirit remains in evidence. Therefore, our ber, Hy Abramowitz, Moe Miller, to $500 a year , . . The average income of a teacher. is $5,600 a
faith that the current- backsliding into inactivity not only is Ed Rosenberg, Morris Bobroff year, but there are many whose income range between $8,000
temporary but will be short-lived.
and Morris Dickstein.
and $12,000 a year.
Purely Commentary
JNF Women's Donor Event Tuesday
ITo Help Finance Martyrs' Forest
Between You and Me