Purely Commentary

By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ

Shaw, Wells ... and ,Hoffman! ... on Intermarriage

H. G. lArells, George Bernard Shaw and other notables in their
group, who certainly can not .be classed as anti-Semites. had one
grievance against Jews: why don't they intermarry? Wells and
Shaw believed that the solution to the Jewish problem lies in our
intermingling with our neighbors.
Such a solution actually would mean the disappearnce of
Jews from the world scene. It would mean the swallowing up of
Jews by the majority through marital intermingling. Bertrand
Russell also is for intermarriage and we have no doubt that he
would admit that such mixture of peoples—and faiths—would
spell death for the Jewish people.
Their argument is that intermarriage would strengthen Jews
rather than weaken them, and they maintain that mixed marri-
age is desirable because it also would strengthen the Christians
who would gain from such an admixture of Jewish blood. But
from experience we know that Jews could not survive intermar-
riage, and if those who advise it also believe that Jews have some-
thing to contribute to mankind, they should alter their advice.
The issue of intermarriage was injected last week in the de-
bate on the adopted Walter immigration bill which has been
likened to the Nazi Nuremberg laws. Michigan's Congressman
Hoffman took occasion to challenge the chairman of the House
Immigi. ation Committee, Congressman Celler, in the following de-
bate:
MR. HOFFMAN of Michigan. Mr. Chairman. I have always
had difficulty in understanding just where the line of prefer-
ence ended and that of discrimination began." We all have our
preferences. As I suggested one day to a member of the minority
who said a great deal about discrimination, every one of us
discriminates when we exercise our preference for anything,
as for example, to get married, or almost anything else we do.
Our forefathers who founded this country came here, I have
been told. to escape persecution. They wanted to enjoy liberty
and freedom. But. if I remember correctly, about the first thing
they did when they got here was to say that no one here in
America should drink tea made from a certain shipment to Bos-
ton that came from Great Britain. They sure discriminated
against that tea—they dumped it into the harbor. Then. the
next thing they did was to fight Great Britain and finally kick
the British armies out. Yes, they surely discriminated against
the British in those days. There is no doubt about that.
The gentleman from New York, (Mr. Caller) just said that
what this country needed was a new people, new seed. Evident-
ly, he has so little faith in the present generation of Americans
that he thinks we must go abroad and import more people in
order to be able to continue our existence. He sure was com-
pletely wrong in his statement that our people do not live as
long as in other days.
I want to ask the gentleman from New York (Mr. Celler),
continuing his argument, does he mean that when people
came here from abroad, regardless of their station in life, their
knowledm_ their physical or mental condition, or their race,
that they should intermarry with those who are here and create
a new race of people? Is that your argument?
MR. CELLER. I said before that we are approaching a sit-
uation in this country, because of the lengthening life expect-
ancy, that in the not far-distant future our population will be-
come static.
MR. HOFFMAN of Michigan. Oh, the tendency is that we
now live longer than before?
MR. CELLER. Now you asked me a question.
MR. HOFFMAN of Michigan. I asked you whether you ad-
vocated intermarriage with those people who are, under your
amendment, to be brought here from abroad.
MR. CELLER. I advocated nothing of the sort.
MR. HOFFMAN of Michigan. What do you advocate?
MR. CELLER. I want to have this pending amendment
passed.
MR. HOFFMAN of Michigan. All right. That is all. This
gentleman wants to bring these people in. to strengthen this
Nation, but he discriminates against _them by saying that he
does not advocate intermarriage with those who are here. He
does not want to let them marry other people who are here.
Why is he not consistent? He advocates the practicing of dis-
crimination by those he would admit by holding that they
/ - should not intermarry with our own citizens.
One moment he condemns discrimination. With his next
breath he urges it be adopted by those his amendment would
bring here.
I go along with my friend f - om Mississippi (Mr. Rankin)
in one thing. I am glad to see hin. here. Over the years he has
insisted that if there were any people in this country that
needed protection from those who practice discrimination while
condemning it, it was the white gentiles. Is not that what you
have here? I have no question. My answer is "Yes." You will
find that is the right answer.
The venom is obvious. The :'white gentiles" argument is in-
dicative of deep-rooted prejudice. The Michigan CongresSman,
who has shown bias on many previous occasions, overlooked the
tact, in his rather inane intermarriage argument, that there are
religious views involved, that Catholics. who outnumber the Jews
in this country six to one, also oppose intermarriage.
Unfortunately, Congressman Celler, apparently flustered • by
the attacks that were leveled at Jews during the debate on the
immigration measure, found himself helpless. He did not defend
the religious rights of Americans in the issue of mixed marriages.
He failed to uphold the right of certain groups to retain their
religious identity.
Under a Hoffman—and his pal Rankin—intermarriage would
not help anyone attain status or win freedom. In Nazi Germany
the bigots dug up the records of grandparents to brand converts
to Christianity as Jews. Could a better fate be expected from the
Rankin-Hoffman clique?

Dentists Get Increases for AJC

2 — THE JEWISH NEWS

Friday, May 9, 1952

Dine11, Schermer,
Linck Honored by
Workmen's Circle

Three prominent Detroiters
have been selected to receive
awards "for distinguished serv-
i c e to t h e community" by
Branch 463-E of Workmen's
Circle at its 6th annual presen-
tatiOn ceremonies, Sunday, 8
p.m., at the Workmen's Circle
Educational Center, 11529 Lin-
wood. •
Congressman John D. Dingell,
Dr. Orville Linck, associate pro-
fessor of English at Wayne Uni-
versity, and George Schermer,
director of the Mayor's Inter-
Racial Committee were selected
to join the list of Michigan res-
idents selected annually since
1947.
Rep. Dingell was selected for
his unique contribution to gov-
ernment and politics through his
mastery of legislation and his
tireless efforts to infuse tax and
social laws with humanity, prac-
ticability and justice.
Dr. Linck was chosen for his
aggressive. courageous and ar-
ticulate leadership in liberal
thought and action in the Amer-
icans for Democratic Action.
The citation to M'-Schermer
is for his intelligent and under-
standing leadership in the field
of human relations in a period
of great tension.

Happy Reunion During Passover for
Ex-Schoolmates Now GI's in Korea

A little late in transmission, but never-the-less of interest to
Detroiters is this picture of nine Detroit servicemen, who had a
reunion in Seoul, Korea, during Passover. Many of the men went
to school together. In the first row( left to right) are Sgt. ALBERT
BLAIZE and Cpl. EDWIN L. ACKER; second row, Capt. RICHARD
KAMIL, Cpl. BREWSTER BRODER, Pfc. MARK R. MILLER, Pvt.
YALE HARRISON, Pvt. EARL BENNETT; third row, Pfc. _]LARRY
KOPEL, 'Pvt. LAURENCE M. WISPE, Pvt. SOLOMON LEViNE and
Cpl. DAVID M. SELIK. All men are stationed in the vicinity around
Seoul.

Between You and Me

By BORIS SMOLAR

(Copyright, 11.52, „Tt , - ,sh Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)

Israel Among the Nations:

Israel Rabbis Revise
Ban on Argentine Meat

JERUSALEM. iJTA —The Is-
rael Chief Rabbinate announced
that 867 tons of a shipment of
1,127 tons of beef from Argenti-
na arrived is kosher.
The Rabbinate's statement
said that on the basis of addi-
tional information received here
it was decided that the 867 tons,
which was slaughtered at the
city of Rosario, was kosher and
that only the 260 tons butchered
at Gualicacio was non-kosher.
After a discussion of the Chief
Rabbinate's declaration that
some of the Argentine beef en
route to Israel is non-kosher,
the Ministers reaffirmed that it
is "the government's policy to
order only kosher meat." Re-
porting the decision. a spokes-
man added that the Cabinet has
undertaken to supply kosher
meat to those who demand it.
He declared that a special
rabbinical delegation will leave
for Argentina shortly to super-
vise the slaughter of beef des-
tined for Israel.

NEW YORK, (JTA)—The sup-
ply of rationed foodstuffs prom-
ised to the people of Israel—
including two meat rations
monthly—has been assured for
the next six months. Israel's
Minister of Supply Dov Joseph
announced here.

Center to Open Wayne

Art Show on Monday

The 3rd annual Wayne County
Art Show of the Jewish Com-
munity Center will open Monday
night in the auditorium of the
Woodward' Center. It will last
through May 23. announced Mrs.
Arthur Bloom, chairman of the
Center art committee.
A public reception will be held
at 8 p.m., this Monday. The
public is invited.
Judges will be Cyril Miles,
painter and teacher of art at
Highland Park High School;
Sarkis Sarkisian, painter and
director of the Society of Arts
and Crafts; and Walter Speck,
ceramist.
Besides Mrs. Bloom. the fol-
lowing are members of the art
committee: H e n r y Bernstein,
Louis Redstone and Mesdames
David Cooper, A_ J. Copeland,
Samuel B. Danto, Charles Fein-
berg, Ellis Fisher, John Heaven-
rich and•Benjamin Shwayder.

Wouk Wins Pulitzer Prize

Herman Wouk, author of the
In the dentists' section of the Allied Jewish Campaign (left
to right) Drs. BERNARD SCHMIDT, ROBERT MOSS, FRANK best seller "The Caine Mutiny,"
&EISMAN, chairman, JACK LAWSON and SAMUEL WILLIS are has been awarded the annual
Pulitzer for fiction,
r/lowing. good increases.

The interest which the U.S. government takes in Israel—from
other points of view beside financial aid—can best be judged by
the fact that the State Department has sent Prof. Allan Nevins,
noted American historian, to Israel to lecture on American his-
tory at the Hebrew University . . . Gen. Franco of Spain is also
keeping an eye on Israel. although he is now engaged in a flirta-
tion with the Arab countries .. . We learn on good authority that
the Spanish Ambassador to Italy paid an unpublicized visit to
Israel on a mission, the nature of which has been kept secret . .
Spain is one of the few countries which still does not recognize
Israel.
The "peace feelers" put out from Egypt to Israel are being put
to the test by the United Nations . .. Gen. William E. Riley, chief
of the UN truce staff in Palestine, has approached Egypt with a
suggestion to convene the Israel-Egyptian armistice commission,
which has not met for some time ... So far Egypt has been stall-
ing, apparently awaiting the outcome of the present British-Egyp-
tian talks ... It is well known that, unlike the Israel public which
is indifferent and skeptical of good relations with the Arabs, top
Israel leaders favor a rapproachement between Israel and Egypt.
. . Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett is known to want to come to
terms with the Arabs . . . Premier Ben-Gurion does not think
much of peace with the Arabs generally, but is optimistic on the
chances of peace with Egypt specifically . He regards Egypt as
the most advanced of the backward Arab countries and the one
whose economy and position are most important for Israel.
The Domestic Scene:
More than 60 Jewish communities have borrowed money from
banks and rushed it to help the United Jewish Appeal meet the
desperate need for dollars in Israel . . . About $14.000.000 has
reached the UJA through these loans, including $4,000.000 bor-
rowed by the UJA of Greater New York . . . Many communities
which have not yet •borrowed from banks are now in the process
of negotiating loans . . . The action is greatly appreciated by the
Israel government and is taken as evidence of the williness o4
American Jewish communities to do everything possible to help
Israel meet its financial crisis.
Philanthropic drives in the United States for food and parcel*
to Israel are no longer effective in meeting Israel's needs • • The
Jewish Agency office in New York has, therefore, reaffirmed its
opposition to such drives and will make a strong effort to elimin-
ate such drives in 1952 .. . The Jewish Agency is similarly oppos-
ing mass campaigns for clothing . .. However, it has authorized
the Material for Israel organization to collect clothing within the
framework of its general program of obtaining material supplies
for the Jewish state ... The Agency also has authorized Hadassah
and Pioneer Women to continue this year those collections of sup-
plies in - which they have traditionally engaged ... The Material*
for Israel organization cannot engage in cash fund-raising and
is not authorized to engage in any mass campaigns for gifts ist
kind . . . It can only solicit contributions from individual manu-
facturers and distributors. or facilitate the purchase of supplies
by the Israel government at reduced prices . . . Solicitor4 for the
organization, in contacting manufacturers and distributors, must
inquire whether they have made their contributions to the UJA
and must make clear to them that contributions to the Material*
for Israel are not to take the place of contributions to the WA.
. . . They are also to make clear to the contributors that gifts to
Materials for Israel are not deductible for income tax purposes.

$10,000,000 Enterprise for Israel

Pictured is an architect's drawing of the $10,000,000 Hadassaio•
Hebrew University Medical Center in Jerusalem, ground for widoib
will be broken June 7. When completed, the medical eenter

contain a 430 bed university teaching hospital, nurses
school, out-patient department and buildings for the

school. Mrs. Samuel J. Rosensohn, national Hadaseals preoldieN1116
will leave s/aertlY to be Pretoellt far the inanligetthlitilliPestaligh
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