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Mo os Hitim
II is not too late to assist those who do
not have the means with which to prepare
for traditional observance of the Passover,
through the Mo'os Hitim Fund. While aiding
the less fortunate overseas, let us remember
that there are needy families in our own
community who must be provided with Pass-
over necessities. Our local Mo'os Hitim com-
mittee hopes to be in a position to assist all
who are in need. They can accomplish this
task only with our extra gifts to this tradi-
tional Passover relief fund.
Volunteers to the Fore
This is not a new appeal: it is a repeti-
tio ► s reminder that the first requisite in
•ampaigning is the volunteer working force
'that will make possible the raising of the
large sum needed for the Allied Jewish
Campaign to assure unstinted support of the
1 ;nited Jewish Appeal as well as the local,
national and other overseas causes included
in the drive.
The free dollars for Israel. vitally need-
ed for the settlement of newcomers, are
provided through the UJA. Our community's
educational, social service. recreational and
nt her causes depend with equal force upon
U.IA's provider here— the Allied Jewish
Campa;gn. To assure the fulfillmen).. of these
needs. a large army of volunteers must be
reeruitcd. It is imperative that such a ..force
should be enlisted at once. '
Adas Shalom
Dedication of the completed Adas Shalom
structure, this week-end, marks an interest-,
ing development in communal planning. It is
of impoutaTice to all Detroit Jev.s and not to
this synagogue alone.
In le:s than nine yearS. the effewts of a
determined gi oup of northwest residents
have borne fruit. In need of a house of wor-
ship that would fill their needs as Conserva-
tive Jews close to their homes. a handful of
men banded gkh
toer for services in a pub-
he school. Out of it grew the present large
congregation.
The making of a congregation was ac-
companied by the establishment of a Sunday
School. Later, the congregation merged its
efforts with the United Hebrew Schools with
whom it now is co-sponsoring a good daily
Hebrew school.
These collective activities have gained
for Adas •Shalom--originally known as
Northwest Hebrew Congregation and Cen-
ter—the esteem of the entire community.
All of us join in extending our heartiest
greetings to Adas Shalom on the occasion of
the dedication of its completed structure.
Farband Conference
Detroit's Farband (Jewish National
%Vo•kers Alliance) branches have called a
conference for this xxeek-end to review the
status of this important national .organiza-
lion as \\ ell as of the local chapters and to
plan expanded activities. The expressed aim
of the meetings—to inject greater interest
among its members in local cultural activi-
ties and in national projects in support of
major Jewish causes—lends special signifi-
cance to the conference.
F arband members have been in the fore-
front of important movements. especially the
United Jewish Appeal—our Allied Jewish
Campaign's major beneficiary—and Israel
bond drive. They have encouraged Jewish
writers and have undertaken to be salesmen
of books and periodicals. By meeting to dis-
cuss - expansion of such activities. Farband
re-establishes its important place in our com-
munity and, by its efforts, encourages the
advancement of projects similar to its own
by other organizations and movements.
Fascinating Story of
Their Gifts to Medicine
**The Doctors Jacobi" by Rhoda Truax, pub-
lished by Little, Brown & Co. (34 Beacon St.,
Boston 6) is an interesting account of the lives
of two doctors—Mary Corinna Putnam and
Abraham Jacobi—husband and wife—whose
activities in great measure changed the course
of medicine in this country. It is the story of a
perfect partnership and a fine marriage and et
a joint effort to advance medical science, espe-
cially in the field of child care.
Light is shed in this biographical sketch on the
work of Dr. Jacobi,'who has become known as
"the doctor who saves the babies" and who is
considered the father of pediatrics. "The Jewish
Jupiter" is one of the titles that had been given
this great physician.
Mrs. Jacobi, the former Miss Putnam, daugh-
ter of the founder of the famous publishing
house, was among the first -vornen to become a
physician. Miss Truax's book makes important
references to the first "lady doctor," Elizabeth
Blackwell.
Miss Putnam had love affairs with two other
Jews before marrying Jacobi—Prof. Ferdinand
Mayer apd the Frenchman Noemi Reclus. There
are nufrerous references in this book to early
American Jewish history. An interesting story
also is related regarding Jacobi's Jewish back-
ground and the effect of anti-Semitism upon
Jews in Germany. Jacobi, like his friend Carl
Schurz, was one of the '48ers who left Germany
to come to this country.
The author makes this comment about
Jewish background and his medical af-
In view of the emphasis placed in our news story last Jacobi's
filiations in this country: "He did not consider it
week on the expose of the anti-Semitic outbursts in Con- necessary to forget that he had been born a
gress, we are pleased to be able to report that Rep. Ray J. Hebrew and a German' in order to be a good
Madden of Indiana, chairman of the sub-committee which American."
Justice in Washington
conducted the investigation of the Katyn massacre of Polish
officers. has retracted a damaging statement approving of
Rep. John Rankin's rantings about "Yiddish Communists."
In a speech in the House of Representatives on March 17,
Congressman Madden asked—and was given unanimous con-
sent—that his comment, with reference to the Rankin out-
bursts, that "the gentleman is absolutely correct" be strick-
en from the permanent record of Congressional delibera-
tions.
•
to be
It is to the credit of Rep. Madden that he
associated with anti-Semitic utterances. In the course of his
apology he made the feillowing explanation:
A number of members of. Congress asked me to yield dur-
ing the progress of this debate . . . Congressman Rankin did
not have a question to propound but proceeded to make an ex-
tended comment regarding Poland, the Polish Embassy located
in Washington, the Katyn -outrages, and the Nuremberg trials.
Owing to the fact that the gentlemen from Mississippi was not
propounding a question, I immediately proceeded to search
through my file envelope to find and read the contents of a
letter which I proposed to present to the Congress. I did not
listen to the remarks of the gentlemen from Mississippi as my
mind was concentrated on the reading of the above-mentioned
letter.
That is how an innocent man fell victim to bigotry. The
apology gave Rep. Madden an opportunity to pay tribute to
Jewish loyalties, and to declare that "the patriotism of the
Jews has been tested in wartime and in peacetime." He made
it a point to declare: "I have done everything within my
power to aid in the establishment and growth of Israel and
the evidence today bears out that this small nation is our
great beachhead in the Middle East in the fight against com-
munism."
"These remarks of mine," Congressman Madden said,
"are not necessary to establish the position of the Jewigh
people as far as patriotism, liberty and freedom are con-
cerned. Their record speaks for itself." His speech, however,
should serve as a warning to others not to permit their
!minds to wander to other subjects when important discus-
! sions are being conducted and not to make rash comments
without being certain of their ground.
More than this: Rep. Madden's retraction of a I state-
ment, which was intended as a comment to Rankin's remark,
"Let us not leave this question to embarrass the American
people for a hundred years to come," rather than to his ref-
erences to "Yiddish Communists," should not be permitted to
end with a mere apology. Rankin is not known to drop a
case at this point. He is certain to pursue his hunt for
`"Yids" and for mythical "Yiddish Communists" unto the end
of his days, out of an unexplainable deep-rooted hatred for
all Jews.
In the course of his remarks, interjected in the Katyn
debate, Rep. Rankin made this statement: "Some months
ago the Michigan delegation invited me down to hear a very
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complete control."
PHILIP SLOMOVITZ, Editor
But the level-headed members of Congress—and they,
SIDNEY SHMARAK, Advertising Manager
like Rep. Madden, predominate—will. we are certain, refuse
FRANK SIMONS, City Editor
to condone anti-Semitic remarks or to tolerate anti-Semi-
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March 28, 1952
tism, even if it is attributed to a mythical "president of a
Sabbath Scriptural Selections
military academy." Congressman John Dingell of Detroit
This Sabbath, the third day of Nisan, 5'712, has- stated bluntly that the statement is news to him and
the following Scriptural selections will be read that he refuses to dignify nonsense. While it would be well
in our synagogues:
to expose the libel about "a little gang of yids at the top"
Pentateuchal portion—''Lev. I '1-5:26.
we agree that a fuss over a Rankin statement may give too
Prophetical portion—Is. 43:21-44:23.
much recognition to a man who has not learned to use dig-
nified speech even in the Congress he should respect. .
Lucht liahshen, Friday, March 26, 4,32
THE JEWISH NEWS
The Doctors Jacobi
In her descriptions of the Jacob's' contribu-
tions to medicine, Miss Truax states: In a sense
Jacobi was the history of modern medicine . . .
He had become a bridge not only between Euro-
pean and American medicine . . . but between
modern scientific medicine and the art of heal-
ing of the past."
. One of the notes appearing in this book tells
that Dr.. John Allan Wyeth, a member of the
staff of Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York, "who
could speak German, laboriously mastered what
he called .'the Mt. Sinai patois,' never realizing
he was one of the few Gentiles to learn Yiddish."
Another note reveals that "Mrs. A. Jacobi
was refused accommodations by a hotel in Lake-
wood, N. J , whose proprietor would have
'crawled' before the descendant of Havens and
Masons and Putnams."
"The Doctors Jacobi" is a fascinating book
that will interest doctors and laymen alike.
Valuable Research Work in
YIVO Social Science Annual
"YIVO Annual of Jewish Social Science" t VoL
VI), pnblished by Yiddish Scientific Institute-
YIVO (535 W. 123rd. NY27), edited by Koppel S.
Pinson, contains a great amount of valuable re-
search material which further enriches our liter-
ature.
This volume fulfills a great need on the
American scene while, at the same time. covering
a vast area of scholarly investigation on world-
wide fronts.
Elias Tcherikower's study,"Jewish Immigrants
to the U. S., 1881-1900," and Rudolf Glance';
"Source Materials on the History of Jewish Im-
migration to the U. S., 1800-1880," are of im-
mense value.
There is real educational -value in the study,
"Dynamic Role of Jewish Symbols in the Psy.
chology of the Jewish Child in America," by
Leibush Lehrer. .
Highly enlightening is A. Menes' "The Con-
version _Movement in Prussia During the First
Half of the 19th Century."
S. H. Horodetzky lists "The Genealogy of
Simon Dubnow." Victor Erlich shows the influ-
ence of the Polish poet Stanislaw Wyspianski on
Peretz.
A strictly American touch is given by the
eminent Jewish woman leader, Sarah Kussy, iita
her reminiscences of Jewish life in Newark, N. J.
Other essays in this volume are: "Charles
Rappaport, "The Life of a Revolutionary Emi-
gre"; N. Gergel, "Pogroms in Ukraine, 1918-21";
Joseph .Zelkovitch, "Picture of 'Communal Life
in a Jewish Town in Poland"; J. Brutzkus, "Jew-
ish Mountaineers in Caucasia"; Khaim
man, "Nakham Bratslaver and Maskilim of
Uman"; Shiomo Noble, "Rabbi Yehiel Mikhei
Epstein."'
Facts You Should Know.•
Why do some people throw almonds at the
bride and bridegroom during a wedding?
The almond tree is one of the ealtiest of the
fruit trees to blossom and bear fruits. Throwing
almonds at a newly wedded-couple indicates the
hope that the new marriage will bear elixir
fruits of happiness and joy.