irtiS• rift Closes Drive ednes, ay. Heller, Shoshana Damari on Proo-rain ♦ 1, NI Friday, March 21, 1952 - Bloch, Sharett, Chafee, An impressive program has artist, respectively. the gather- Goldmann Awarded 1951 been arranged to conclude the ing is expected to attract an Stephen Wise Honors 1952 Israel Histadrut campaign overflow audience of campaign workers and contributors. Rab- Foreign Minister Moshe Sha- bi Morris Adler also will speak. rett of Israel': Prof. Zechariah Rabbi Heller, of Isaac M. Wise Chafee. Jr., of Harvard Univer- Temple, Cincinnati, is a former chairman of the United Pales- tine Appeal, a leader in many national organizations, a noted musician and composer. Shoshana Damari hypnotizes her audience with her .Yemen- ite melodies. She is accompa- nied by Moshe Wilensky, Admission tickets to 'the af- fair have been distributed to campaign workers and repre- sentatives of affiliated organiza- tions and may be obtained at the Histadrut office, 13722 Lin- wood. At the pre-closing gathering of workers at the Labor Zionist * Ernest Bloch Prof. Chafee ' DR. JAMES G. HELLER, Institute last Sunday afternoon, at the contributors' rally next which was addressed by Rabbi Wednesday evening at the Emanuel Green of New York, Shaarey Zedek. Chaim Gottlieb, executive direc- With Rabbi James Heller, tor, acclaimed the tireless work noted leader, and Shoshana Da- of countless Histadrut workers. marl, leading exponent of Is- LZOA and Farband branches rael's folk song in the oriental .have been in the lead through- manner, as guest speaker and out the campaign. Purely Commentary By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ All Agreed—on Retaining Term 'Jewish' There is one point of agreement on our proposal that Feder- ation and Council be merged into a single organization. After we had suggested that Welfare be dropped from the Federation's name and Council be removed from Council's name. and that a Jewish Community Federation be formed. it became evident that all were in favor of retaining one term: the word Jewish. Accents and Prejudices Rousseau once said: "Accent is the soul of language; it gives to it both feeling and truth." We can't possibly have total agree- ment on this poetic interpretation. Some accents grate on nerves, others soothe. Take the Jewish accents. There still are many of the. old school whose English is punctuated by emphases which are trace- able to speech in the Old World. There was a time when the German accent predominated. Then came the Russian (r-r-r-r) and Polish influences. If the thoroughly assimilated were to be completely intolerant, we would have accentuated- hatreds and dislikes. For that- matter, we have had prejudices in Jewish ranks against marriages between • various elements in American Jewry. Reform and/or Orthodox Jews frequently objected to the marriage of their offspring outside their own Jewish religious ranks. It was called intermarriage. The same feeling existed between Ger- man and Polish or Russian Jews. An interesting bit of evidence is offered in the "YIVO Annual of Jewish Social Science", just .released, in the article by Rudolf Glanz on "Source Materials on the History of Jewish Immigration to the United States, 1800-1880." He quotes the fol- lowing from The Asmonean, the first English-Jewish weekly to be published in this country (vol. iii-1850—p. 109), on the atti- tudes of Portuguese and German Jews: "Time which brings with it many changes in the condition of men, increased the nominal force of German Jews and rapidly advanced them in education and enterprise, while the intermarriages of Portuguese with Portuguese, gradually dimin- ished their number, and as at the present day it is generally admitted that the talent of Germany is with the Jew—certainly it must be conceded that there has been within the last century more enterprise, energy, and resolution, more ambition and more decision of character displayed by the German Jews among the Portuguese,-although we are bound to admit that the Portuguese Jews have ever been orthodox and strict in the observance of their religion . . . So fierce and vindictive were the prejudices entertained by the Portuguese toward the German Jews, that they mourned a son or daughter as dead who in- termarried with them." It is safe to say that such prejudices no longer predominate. The reactions against accents may still exist, but, then, the ac- cents are disappearing. The prejudices that existed against internal Jewish intermarriages certainly have been reduced in great measure. Which leads us to say that we are in . a happier frame of mind as an American community. We have differences -- of opinion, but on general principles the division in our ranks undoubtedly is strictly in accord with general differences in the population as a whole—politically, socially, economically—mostly the latter. , B. G. Richards — Versatile, Alert, Courageous — at 75 Bernard G. Richards will be given a party next Thursday— Dr. Goldmann Moshe Sharett sity; Dr. Nahum Goldmann, co-chairman of the Jewish Agency, and the noted composer. Ernest Bloch, have been named recipients of the Stephen Wise Awards for 1951, it was an- nounced by Dr. Israel Goldstein. president of the American Jew- ish Congress. The awards, each bearing a cash value of $1000. were estab- lished by the Jewish Congress in 1949 to mark the 75th birthday of the late Dr. Wise and are made annually in four major areas of activity to which he had dedicated his life. These include the growth and development of Israel, civil rights and civil lib- erties, the welfare of JeW's in all lands and Jewish culture and education. Nominating Committee Selected by Council Dr. Shmarya Kleinman. pres- ident of the Jewish Community Council, announces the appoint- ment of a nominating committee to present a slate of candidates for vacancies on the Council's executive committee at the next delegate assembly. The commit- tee, chaired by Morris Zwerdling, consists of Mrs. Irving Hencken, Mrs. Harry Frank, Jerome Kel- man, Norman Naimark. Mrs. J. Sauls and I. Sosnick. Nominees must be presented by a nominating committee at the April meeting. Additional nomination may be made by petition signed by at least five qualified delegates and accom- panied by the consent of the nominee. Such petitions are to be filed at the office of the Council on or before the 14th day following the delegate as- sembly at which the nominating committee makes its report. No other or subsequent nominations are received and election of can- didates nominated takes place at the Council's concluding meeting in May. on his 75th birthday—by friends and admirers who embrace every field of thought in American Jewry. He is a remarkable American Zionists Will Back Miller-Neumann man—alert, courageous, versatile. He is the founder of the Jewish Information Bureau and his birthday also coincides with the 25th anniversary of this creation. Reuben Fink,. an outstanding publicist who will be re- membered for his monumental work on Palestine and the U. S. and for his reporting from Washington, has written the best story of Richards' life in an article in the Yiddish Day. Fink points. out that inquiries for facts about Jews and Jew- ish life come to Richards' bureau in Hebrew, Yiddish, English, French, Russian and German. And when Richards responds you can rest assured that he gives you the proper information. He digs deep to get the facts and he is not the type of man to yield to "thought control"—a disease that has become evident in. some Jewish circles, even when they call themselves democratic. This Commentator is especially happy to have this opportunity to greet B. G. Richards with whom he has worked in Zionist ranks for nearly three decades and in the ranks of the Jewish Congress since its inception in 1914 by Brandeis, Mack, Wise, Rutenberg, et al. A happy birthday, B. G., and may your hair stay black, may your spirit remain strong, and may you be blessed with the courage to continue to call the bluff of those who under- mine Jewish life with unnecessary pressure. TEL AVIV, (ZINS)—There is no doubt that Rabbi Irving Mil- ler will be elected president of the Zionist Organization of America at its forthcoming Con- vention in June, and that he will have behind him 90 percent of American Zionists, declared Dr. Emanuel Neumann! member of the Jewish Agency Executive, upon his arrival at the Lydda Airport. Dr. Neumann also reported that he met with Dr. Abba Hil- lel Silver, who continues to fol- low developments in the Zion- ist world with great interest, al- though he is not active in the Zionist Organization at the present time. U. M. Graduate Club to Hear IFeinberg on. Whitman March 27 Charles Feinber*, noted De- troit collector of rare books and manuscripts a n d ceremonial objects, has been invited to ad- dress the Graduate Club of the University of Michigan on Walt Whitman. The meeting will be held in the U. of M. Library on March 27—a day after the 60th anniversary of the death of Whitman. Mr. Feinberg's address will be accompanied by an exhibit of Whitman manuscripts, including 100 rare items that have been secured by the Detroit collector over a period of years. Many Whitman items have been presented by Mr. Feinberg to Yale, U. of M., the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and other schools. Mr. Feinberg points out that. Whitman is popular in Israel where his work has been trans- lated into Hebrew. - Con.ore ss Asked to Allocate 576,000,000 for Israel Refugee Aid WASHINGTON, (JTA)—Legis- I proposing the extension of the lation prepared by the Adminis- program inaugurated this year tration to implement President ` for the relief and resettlement of Truman's , Mutual Security Aid [refugees into Israel and we are program and asking $76.000,000 proposing a contribution to the for the relief and resettlement of United Nations fund for the re- Jewish immigrants in Israel was lief and resettlement of the Arab presented to a joint meeting of I refugees from Palestine and an the Senate Foreign Relations ' appropriate program of aid to Committee and the House For- the Arab states concentrating in eign Affairs Committee. those sheltering the refugees in The measure asks for the pay- order to provide a setting in ment of $65.000,000 to the United w h i c h reintegration can take Nations for the resettlement of place." W. Averill Harriman, Arab refugees in Arab lands. It head of the Mutual Security Aid totals $141.000.000 of the $196.- program. also testified for the 000,000 asked for the Near East bill. for the 1953 fiscal year by Presi- Aid to Israel is Now U. S. dent Truman in his Mutual Se- Official Policy, Eban Says NEW YORK. (JTA)—American curity Aid message. The re- maining $55 000,000 is expected Jews were told by Israel Am- to be distributed to Iran and bassador Abba Eban that they among the Arab states en- "may take comfort from the gaged in resettling the Arab fact" that their objectives in aid- ing the economic consolidation refugees. Secretary of State Dean Ache- of Israel" have now become the son, testifying on the Mutual official policy- of tAe government Security program, told the joint t of the United States." He spoke session that "the problem which i at a dinner in his honor given by confronts Israel and those which the Mizrachi Organization of face the UN and the Arab states ! America in the interests of the giving asylum to the Arab refu- Israel bond drive. gees have been :ameliorated but are not yet solved. The solution Sharett, 1.11 with Influenza. to these problems with all of Postpones Trip to Rome LONDON. (JTA)—Israel For- their connotations of human suf- fering, and the establishment of eign Minister Moshe Sharett stable conditions are still im- was confined to bed suffering portant in the hearts and minds from influenza and his sched- of the people of the 'United uled visit to Rome as guest of the Italian government was States. "Therefore," he added. "we are postponed for a week. Between You and Me By BORIS SMOLAR (Copyright. 1952, Jewixb Telegraphic Agency. Inc- ) Washington Echoes: For the first time in many years American Zionist leader! now have complete confidence in the White House and in the State Department ... The official Zionist leadership in this coun- try is convinced that President Truman and the State Depart- ment will sincerely support maximum United States financial aid for Israel this year ... Also, that Congress, while reducing Amer- ican aid for other countries. will not request any reduction in the appropriations to Israel and the Arab countries proposed by Tru- man for 1952. Washington does not seem to be much impressed with the peace feelers" coming out of Cairo which try to create the im- pression that Egypt is considering negotiating peace with Israel. ... These feelers are taken with a grain of salt ... They come at a time when Egypt seems to be eager to play a dominant role in the projected Middle East Command which she rejected last October ... Egypt's idea now is that the Arab states should join the Middle East Command not individually but as a block on a regional arrangement based on the recently concluded Arab Col- .. But this pact contains a clause defin- lective Security Pact itely directed against Israel ... And it is obvious that the West- ern Powers could not entrust military equipment .for the defense of the Middle East to a regional unit built on a security pact conceived as an anti-Israel instrument .. . Hence. the Egyptian "peace feelers" to conceal the real danger for Israel in the form- ation of a strong Arab military bloc free to make its own re- gional strategic decisions as partners in a Middle East Command. ... Needless to say that Israel itself is definitely not anxious to see more arms pumped into the Arab states under the pretext of a Weglern defense alliance. . On the Record: I have just finished reading the 143-page Schmorak Report on the Jewish Agency which created such a stir in Israel . . . Ameri- can Jews will be pleased to learn that this report, which criticizes many aspects of the work of the Jewish Agency, has nothing but praise for the Agency's office in New York . . . It says that "the planning and organization of the work were excellent" and that the examination of the accounts of the. Jewish Agency's treasury office in New York "proved the t. the books*are kept in good order" .. No faults whatsoever were found by Dr. Schmorak, director of the Comptroller's Office of the Jewish Agency, with any of the Agency's departments in New York .. . Incidentally, a lot of the faults found by Dr. Schmorak with the departments of the Jewish Agency in Israel, France and Switzerland pale in significance after reading the 87-page reply of the Jewish Agency executive to Dr. Schrnorak's charges . . . If you wish to have an idea how United 'Palestine Appeal funds—raised through the United Jewish Appeal — are being spent, here are the figures . . . Of every UPA dollar raised in 1951, 54 cents was spent on agricultural settlement and land development in Israel . . . Twenty-three cents was spent on initial absorption of immigrants, eight cents on transportation of immigrants to Israel, eight cents on youth immigration, four cents on education, culture and other activities .. Only three cents was spent on administration . . . These figures come directly from the United Palestine Appeal headquarters in New York. .