Annual Hebrew Schools Dinner
Tuesday to Honor Harry Cohen

The annual affair of t h e
United Hebrew Schools, .given
this year as a testimonial din-
ner to honor Harry Cohen, will
be held Tuesday evening at Adas
Shalom Synagogue.
Mrs. Joseph H. Ehrlich, chair-
of the ar-
rangement com-
mittee, will be
Ithe principal
:::speaker, with
Robert M a r wil
as chairman of
the dinner. The
invocation will
be read by
Rabbi Jacob
Segal, of Adas
Shalom S y n a-
gogue. The ben -
::ediction will be
delivered by
Marvin
Rabbi A. M. Hershman, rabbi

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THE JEWISH NEWS

Friday, June 6, 1952

Discuss AJC Program
emeritus of Congregation
Shaarey Zedek.
Abe Kasle, president of the
United Hebrew Schools, will sub-
mit his annual report which will
be supplemented by an educa-
tional report by Albert Elazar,
associate superintendent of the
United Hebrew Schools.
Greetings to Harry Cohen will
be extended by Bernard Isaacs,
superintendent of the schools,
and Sam Rubiner, president of
the Jewish Welfare Federation.
The choir of the Hebrew High
School will render several He-
brew selections under the direc-
tion of Miss Iola Schipler, music
director of the Hebrew Schools.
For reservations for the din-
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ner call TO. 8-0063 or write to
the main office of United He-
FRED F. SIMMONS (left),
bew Schools, 13226 Lawton.
vice-chairman of the mercantile
division of the Allied Jewish
Campaign, discusses the group's
progress to date—close to S450,-
000 already reported — with
ARTHUR LEEBOVE, worker in
the furniture section.
man announced the anointment
of Irving Bogorad as chief of Costa Rica Prevents
staff.
Anti-Semitic Display
The convention banquet held
at Bel Aire Sunday night was
WASHINGTON, (JTA) — Gov-
addressed by Governor G. Men- ernment
officials' received word
nen Williams and by Council-
that the Costa Rican govern-
man Charles Oakmin who ment
cancelled a permit for an
brought greetings from the outdoor
anti-Semitic demonstra-
Mayor and city officials, and tion scheduled in San Jose by an
who made a presentation of the extreme right-wing group known
resolution passed by the Detroit as the Costa Rican Patriotic
Common Council in recognition Union. The government refused
of the JWV convention. The to allow the group to parade,
banquet was concluded with an and announced that it would
address by Paul Ginsberg, JWV's
national commander, who de- have to hold any gathering in-
scribed his recent around-the- doors.
A spokesman for the Costa
world trip and urged an end to Rican embassy described the
the complacency that engulfs "Patriotic Union" as of little sig-
the American public and that nificance, and said anti-Semit-
might eventually mean the loss ism was virtually non-existant
of American liberty. He criti-
country. The-demonstra-
cized the Congress for "penny in the
was to have been in support
wise and pound foolish econ- tion
omy" in limiting military and of a proposed law for the nation-
of commerce.
economic aid measures, basing alization
Adtually, the measure and the
his observations on his inter- demonstration
were viewed by
views with world leaders includ- informed sources
as directed
ing Chiang- Kai-shek, Nehru,
against recent Jewish immi-
Ben-Gurion, Tito and others. grants.
The "Patriotic Union"
The UN intervention in Korea, charges that Jewish refugees ad-
he asserted, served at least to mitted
to Costa Rica as agri-
"postpone" World War III. He cultural workers turned to com-
added that this intervention was merce and gained dominant
not only justifiable but "neces-
positions.
sary and foresighted."
The Jewish community there
is concerned over a virulent anti-
Jewish campaign carried on
through advertisements in the
press, which has developed since
last Rosh Hashanah.

Bernard Hoffman Elected Commander
Of Jew ish War Veterans of Michigan

Bernard Hoffman was elected
Commander of the Department
of Michigan, Jewish War Vet-
erans, by delegates attending
the week-end convention in De-
troit. Hoffman, former com-
mander of Lt. Roy F. Green
Post, succeeds Ben Desenberg as
state commander. Other Depart-
ment officers elected are: Senior
vice-commander, Sol M. Hober-
man; junior vice-commander,
Henny Littman; judge advocate,
Walter Nussbaum; quarter-
master, Bernard Kersh. Hoff-

Israeli Composer Wins
Music Grant from ESCO

NEW YORK, (JTA)-,Yehoshua
Lakner, Israeli composer, has re-
ceived a grant of $500 to attend
the Berkshire Music Center this
summer, it was announced by
Mrs. Rose G. Jacobs, chairman
of Esco Foundation for Pales-
tine. Mr. Lakner is the fifth Is-
raeli musician to receive such a
grant from the Esco Foundation.
Earlier this year, he received a
three-month scholarship from
the Institute of International
Education.

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Purely Commentary

By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ

Yiddishists Should Be More Realistic

An intemperate series of articles by Dr. A. A. Roback on the
status of the Yiddish press and the opinions of this Commentator,
published recently in the Freie Arbeiter Shtimmer, a highly liter-
ary semi-monthly publication, inspired an interesting reply by
the eminent writer, Reuben Fink.
In four articles, Mr. Fink demolished the arguments of Dr.
Roback, who attempted to lead his readers into believing that
Yiddish is a predominant force in Jewish life in this country. We
are, of course, indebted to Mr. Fink for his fair analysis of this
Commentator's position, but we are much more interested in his
very realistic evaluation of the status of Yiddish.
Mr. Fink shows how the circulation of the Yiddish press has
declined. He upholds our own position that the decline of Yiddish
is in evidence in the demise of many daily Yiddish newspapers
which previously existed in Chicago, Philadelphia, Cleveland and
many years ago in Detroit.
A short time ago, Joseph Leftwich of London, whom we con-
sider the ablest translator of Yiddish poetry and prose into Eng-
lish, was in this country and his report of his visit, to his country-
men, was that Yiddish was flourishing here. To which Chronicler
of the London Jewish Chronicle, where Mr. Leftwiches impressions
of Yiddish in America were published, made this reply under the
heading "Hope for Yiddish!" (exclamation point is the Chroni-
cler's):
The article on "Hope for the Yiddish Language" in last
week's issue, by Mr. Leftwich, may prove that Yiddish is not
so much on the way out, especially in the U.S.A., as many of
us thought it was. On the other hand, I don't think Mr. Left-
wich will quarrel with me if I suggest that there is something
of the wish being father to the thought. I have a small offer-
ing to make on the other side of the argument. At the recent
Conference in Antwerp of European Maccabi, in which delegates
took part from 14 different countries, from Finland and Scan-
dinavia down to Italy, as well as from Israel, the three official
languages were English, French, and Yiddish, Yet from the
Friday evening to the early hours of the Monday morning, I
don't think that more than three short speeches in all were
made in Yiddish!
Except for a few Yiddish schools and an isolated group of
yeshivoth, the same statistics can be applied to Yiddish in Ameri-
ca. Less and less Jews understand or speak the tongue, It is, as
we have emphasized again and again, .a most deplorable condi-
tion, in view of the literary wealth created in Yiddish and be-
cause of the many memories that are associated with it. But
facts are facts and it is an indisputable truth that the language
Is declining in use and in influence.

Scientific Mission Sails
To Teach in Israel

NEW YORK, (JTA)—A scien-
tific mission, headed by Prof.
Israel Wechsler, Columbia Uni-
versity neurologist and deputy
chairman of the board of gov-
ernors of the Hebrew University,
sailed for Israel to teach and
work with local scientists. The
scientists also will attend a He-
brew University Medical School
symposium June 8-10.
Beside Prof. Wechsler, other
scientists include: Dr. Ernest
Chain, Nobel Prize winner for
co-discovery and development of
penicillin; Prof. David Nach-
manson, Department of Neuro-
physiology, Columbia University;
Prof. David Rittenberg, Depart-
ment of Biochemistry, Columbia
University; Prof. Louis Fieser,
Department of Organic Chemis-
try, Harvard University; Prof.
Severo Ochoa, Department of
Pharmacology, New York Uni-
versity; Prof. Harry Grundfest,
Columbia University; Prof. Kurt
S. Stern, Department of Chem-
istry, Brooklyn Polytechnic Inst.;
J. H. Quastel, Department of
Biochemistry, McGill University:
and Prof. Heinrich Wallsch,
Columbia University.
Dr. Wechsler will present a
painting of Prof. Albert Einstein
by Nikol Schattenstein to the
Hebrew University.

Youth Council Suspends
WINNIPEG, Man.. (JTA)—The
Winnipeg Jewish Youth Council
has ceased functioning following
a decision here that it no long-
er served the purpose of the
groups it represented.

Senate-House Conferees to Set
Mutual Security for Israel Aid

WASHINGTON, (JTA)—Israel
stands to receive at least $64,-
456,000 in Mutual Security Pro-
gram economic aid for 1953 and
may receive as much as $76,000,-
000 in addition to from two to
three million dollars in technical
assistance, as a result of Con-
gressional action.
The House of Representatives
which badly slashed the admin-
istration foreign aid program.
left the $76,000,000 administra-
tion appropriation for economic
aid to Israel intact, and also the
$3,000,000 administration allot-
ment for technical assistance.
The Senate, acting on the bill
after it: Foreign Relations Com-
mittee had made a billion dollar
across-the-board slash, which
reduced the Israel appropriation
from 76 millions to $66,380,000
adopted the measure after vot-
ing another $200,000,000 across-
the-board cut which reduced the
Israel appropriation to $64,456,-
000.
Senate-House conferees may
restore a portion or all of the
reductions made by the Senate.
Conferees to be appointed by
the Senate and House will dis-
cuss the difference between the
Senate figure for Israel and the
House figure and may compro-
mise at a point between the two
figures. They may, however.
elect not to compromise but to
accept the lower of the two fig-
ures, thus writing the Senate
version into the final bill. The
law requires that the conference
provide no less than the amount
voted by the Senate and no more
than the House figure. If the
conferees desire to compromise
at any point between the two
figures they are at liberty to do

A Swiss-Israel air agree
was signed at Lydda airpor ,
Swiss Minister H. Seipet an.
Bartur, director of the For:
Ministry's economic departm
The agreement provides for
full use of the Israeli and S
air facilities by Swissair an
Al.

Noteworthy Celebrations

Geneva Jewry, I
Norway Centenai
Winnipeo's 70111

GENEVA, (JTA)—The Je
community of Geneva is .
brating its centenary
month, marking a law ena
in 1852 permiting the establ
ment of the first Jewish con
gation here.
In honor of the cente
celebration, the Swiss Federa
of Jewish Communities is h
ing its annual convention
Geneva this year. The prob.
of combatting rteo-Nazism
Europe and of uniting Je
organizations in Europe to -
common needs in education,
tural activities and comm
work were discussed at the
vention. The Federation h.
affiliated communities wit
membership of 3.900 tam'

OSLO, (JTA)—The cente
of the arrival of the first
in Norway and the 60th a
versary of the founding of
first congregation will be m
ed at a special celebration
month.
• • •
WINNIPEG, Manitoba,
SO.
It has been pointed out that —The Jewish communit •
Israel will not receive any Winnipeg Celebrated the
anniversary of the arrival
funds from this bill until fur-
ther legislation is passed to of the first sizeable grou•
authorize the actual appropri- Jewish immigrants.
The first group consist - •
ations. The present bill is
24 persons-15 men, eight
known as an "authorization
en and one child. The arriv-
bill" but an "appropriation
the first group, on May 26,
bill" must follow it to imple-
was
followed by the com'
ment the actual transfer of
a
much larger group wi
aid.
Sen. H. Alexander Smith of week. A total of 247 Jews,
New Jersey told the Senate that refugees from Czarist Russia
"direct aid is needed in the case rived on June 1, 1882.
of Israel because of the deplor-
able condition of the people." Urae Canadian Jews
He said "the State of Israel has
courageously assumed responsi- To Boycott Begin
bility for taking care of millions
MONTREAL, (JTA) —The
of homeless people who have fled
from persecution in Europe. nadian Jewish Congress
United Zionist Council .
especially from Germany."
asked all Jewish organiza
to disassociate themselves
U.S. Bank Grants 51,508,808
activities welcoming Menac.
Loan to Israel Airline
TEL AVIV, (JTA)—EI Al. the Begin, Herut leader, sched
national airline of Israel. is seek- to visit Montreal and Toron •
In a telegram signed by S
ing- private foreign capital with
which to enlarge and improve uel Bronfman, national p
its services. according to A. dent of the Congress, and
Pinkus, general manager. who ward E. Gelber. president of
just returned from the United Zionist Council. it was em
sized that "sponsorship of v'
States.
Mr. Pinkus negotiated a $1,- advocated by Begin is desti
500,000 loan from the Chase Na- tive to the unity of Cana
tional Bank of New York. The Jewry and contrary to our
loan was underwritten by the alty and patriotism as Cana.
Israel government which will Jews and to our devotion to
true interests of Israel."
help the company repay it.

Between You and M

By BORIS SMOLAR

(Copyright, 1952, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)

The Reparations Talks:

Germany's pre-war external debts which are now under
cussion at the international conference in London are esti.. -•
to be about $4,000,000,000 . Not included in this sum is the
lion dollar claim against West Germany by the Israel govern , .
and the ;500,000,000 which the Conference on Jewish ma
Claims Against Germany is seeking from the Bonn governor
. .. In London, the German representative said that his goy ,-
ment would be willing to pay $40,000,000 annually in settlemen
external obligations . . At this rate, it would take Germ
exactly 100 years to pay its debts . . . If this method of pa • ••
were also applied to the Istael claim, it would take at least
years for Israel to get the $715,000,000 which the German d
gation at The Hague reparations talks acknowledged as Germ ,
debt to the Jewish State ... And who can foretell what ch. •
Germany may undergo during the next 70 years? .. This is
of the reasons why Israel insists on pot being linked by G-erm•
with the outcome of the London conference on Germany's de
. . . Israel figures on collecting her compensation from Germ.
within five years, starting with 1952. . . In fact, Israel's bu•
this year is built on the assumption that the West German G
ernment will make a payment of many tens of millions of d•
before the year is over. . . . Incidentally, in offering an av••
payment of one percent to the creditors at the London parly-,
Bonn representative also requested that quantities of G• •
exports be accepted by the creditors as part of the parrx