Julian Levine Heads Federation of
Pontiac; Annual Drive Now in Progre ss
The Jewish Welfare Federa- Jewish community have been
tion and Council of Pontiac an- distributed to workers who have
nounces the election of the fol- been appointed to see that each 1
member will have an opportunity
lowing officers for 1952-19n:
President, Julian Levine; vice- to make his contribution in sup-
president, Herman Dickstein; port of the many charities cov-
treasurer, Sidney Barnett; sec- ered by the Federation.
Plans also are being formulat-
retary, Dr. Samuel J. Chafets.
It was disclosed that the cam- ed for a cultural program under
paign for the Pontiac commun- the auspices of the Federation.
ity is under way, with Herman
Dickstein. as chairman of the Pythians Seek Action
drive. Pledge cards for contact
of every member of the Pontiac On Membership Bans
A Great Awakening
At Tunis ORT Center
'
In the ORT 'Vocational Train-
ing Center in Tunis, youthful
Jews learn the skills which will
emancipate them from poverty
and backwardness, which for
generations has been the lot of
North • African Jewry. Similar
ORT schools in Algeria, Morocco
and Iran are bringing modern
industrial trades and a new way
of life into these "forgotten
comunities." Funds are made
available to these projects by
ORT thrlyagh agreement with
the Joint Distribution Commit-
tee, a member of the United
Jewish Appeal.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y.,
(JTA)—The 84th annual con-
vention of the Grand Lodge of
the Knights of Pythias adopted
a resolution empowering the
leaders of the lodge to cooperate
with other organizations in
bringing about the enactment
of legislation in New York State,
making it illegal for any frater-
nal or benevolent organization
to reject applications for mem-
bership on the basis of race or
color.
The organization also adopted
a resolution recommending a
change in its state charter to
remove the restriction of mem-
bership to white persons. State
legislation will be necessary to
bring this resolution into effect.
Alexander C. Mailer of New
York, who was presented with al
scroll on behalf of the Israel
bond issue for having sold
$250,000 in Israel bonds, was
elected Grand Chancellor of the
Domain of New York.
Israel Vessel Aids Crew
Of Sinking Lebanese Ship
TEL AVIV, (JTA)—The Israeli
vessel Gabriel came to the rescue
of a Lebanese ship which was
sinking near Cyprus. The cap-
tain of the Lebanese vessel, in
thanking the Israeli crew, said
that his government will com-
pensate the Israelis in accord-
ance with the existing inter-
national rescue terms.
Purely Commentary
By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
The Name Adlai—The Candidate's Interpretation
Governor Adlai Ewing Stevenson, Democratic candidate for
President, has his own version of the meaning and pronunciation
of his name. He ascribes to Mark Twain "the confusion that exists
as to how to pronounce my first name."
He has written as follows to Cyril Clemens, head of the In-
ternational Mark Twain Society:
"While my grandfather, Adlai E. Stevenson, was vice-
president of the United States under Grover Cleveland, Mark
Twain was at a luncheon where grandfather was a guest. The
newspapers of the time quoted Mark Twain as follows on the
pronunciation of my first name:
"'Philologists sweat and lexicographers bray,
`"But the best they can do is call him ad-lay.
'But at longshorenten's picnics, where accents are high,
" 'Fair Harvard's not present, so they call him Ad-Lie.'
"Anyway," Mr. Stevenson wrote, "the correct pronuncia-
tion is 'ad-lay,' although to put it mildly, I have been called
many things."
Meanwhile scholars are groping in the dark for the meaning
of the name Adlai. The only interpretation we have come across
so far, as we indicated last week, is that given in Dr. Robert
Young's "Analytical Concordance to the Bible," which interprets
the name as "lax" or "weary." It certainly does not mean, as
Governor Stevenson said on another occasion, "to judge." "Shaph-
at," who is recorded in I Chronicles 27.29 as the son of Adlai,
means "to judge."
Bernard Isaacs is among the men whom we have enlisted in
the project to search for the meaning of Adlai. He agrees with
us that it could not be of Arabic origin, the First Book of Chron-
icles dating back so many years, to the Kingdom of David. Mr.
Isaacs, however, believes that the root could be Egyptian. He also
has tried to trace the meaning of the name to the Hebrew word
"edel," which means bitter grass.
The search goes on, meanwhile retaining an etymological
spotlight on Adlai Ewing Stevenson.
Fulton Oursler's Jewish Origin
The Carolina Israelite's editor, Harry L. Golden, makes this
interesting revelation:
"Like all converts and dogmatists, the late Fulton Oursler
went from one extreme to the other. Born a Jew, he spent most
of his adult life an atheist, and finally he became a convert to
Roman Catholicism. Mr. Oursler, in his last days was writing
Biblical literature and articles on miracles. In the Roaring
Twenties, he had edited Bernarr McFadden's Evening Graphic.
There were garbage men who used to make lots of money smug-
gling this paper into fashionable girls' schools up the Hudson.
Self-respecting barber shops would not permit it to come into
the premises. And yet when Oursler died, a bishop sang a high
requiem mass in St. Patrick's Cathedral. I wonder what made
Oursier tick"
It doesn't really matter much whether or not Oursier was born
a JEW. We have lost some forces to other faiths by conversion
in the past and we shall lose more as time goes on. We also make
gains. But our severest losses are sustained not through con-
versions of people who go from one extreme to another, but rather
through indifference and complete abandonment of faith.
The Fulton Oursler item is, simply, a curiosity—nothing more.
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THE JEWISH NEWS
Friday, August 8, 1952
Israeli Studies U.S.
Military Installations
Direct JTA Teletype
Wire to The Jewish News
NEW YORK — General
Mordecai Makleff, member
of the general staff of the
Israel Army, left for Israel
Tuesday after spending six
weeks in the United States
studying military installa-
tions in this country.
Before leaving, Gen.
Makleff expressed his g-ra•-
itude for the cordial hor:-
pitality he received from
American military authori-
ties all over the country.
During his extensive tour,
he was able to study Amer-
ican military training
methods, he said. "I am re-
turning to Israel with ex-
perience greatly enriched
by what I was able to see
in the United States," he
said.
Cantor Delivers Eulogy
At Mme. Peron's Bier
BUENOS AIRES. (JTA) — Dr.
Pablo Manguel, Argentine Min-
ister to Israel, arrived here from
Tel Aviv to attend the funeral
of Eva Peron, wife of the Argen-
tine President.
Dr. Ricardo Dubrovsky led a
delegation of the DAIA to the
Ministry of Work and Social
Welfare, where the remains of
Mme. Peron lay in state, to pay
the respects of the Jewish com-
munity in this country. Can-
! tor Arnram Blu. in the presence
of President Juan Peron and
leading Argentine Ministers, de-
livered a prayer for the dead at
1Mme. Peron's bier.
i (Twenty-five tons of textiles,
clothing a n d pharmaceuticals
donated by the Eva Peron Fund
in Argentina for the use of
needy immigrants in Israel ar-
rived in Haifa aboard the Ar-
gentine vessel. SS Rio Bellen.
Israel officials who accepted the
gift from Argentine officials
described the late wife of
the Argentine President as a
"comforting nurse for all the
needy.")
Australia 'Concerned' at
Israel Ministry Transfer
MELBOURNE, (JTA) — The
Austrailian government is con-
cerned over the Israel govern-
ment's decision to move its for-
eign Ministry from Tel Aviv to
Israel Told to Be Cautious of Egypt
Dr. Frank Kingdon, in his syndicated column "To Be Franks
in the N. Y. Post, urges Israel to be cautious in the present Egyp•
tian crisis. Reviewing the many aspects of the situation, Dr. King-
don writes with reference to Israel:
"Farouk's exile can be counted as one of the first effects of
the establishment of Israel. Israel was not the only cause, but it
was a powerful factor. The Egyptian Army has suffered for nearly
four years until the humiliation-of its defeat in Israel and has now
made Farouk its scapegoat. Deeper than the military side of the
event is the stirring of the masses in Egypt, as well as in other
Arab countries, resulting from contemplation of Israel's achieve-
: ments in reclamation of land and development of industry. A third
influence is anger that the Arab refugee problem has not been
resolved. Israel's government will be well advised to speak and
aCt with caution as the Egyptian crisis develops to give Egypt's
rulers no excuse for war."
Egypt Didn't Lack Arms
LONDON, (JTA) — Egypt lost
the war to Israel not because of
lack of arms and defective am-
! munition, as claimed now by
,Egyptian General Mohammed
Neguib who forced King Farouk
to abdicate, but because of stra-
tegic errors and the fact that
' the morale of the Israelis was
higher than that which prevailed
among the Egyptians on the
battlefield, Brigadier Yigal Al-
lon, commander of the Pal-
mach, the Israeli striking force
which defeated the Egyptians in
three Negev campaigns, declared
here.
Brigadier Allon, who is now
studying at Oxford University,
said that the Israeli forces were
never conscious at any time that
the Egyptian fighting units suf-
i fered from shortages of arms
and equipment. He emphasized
that during the 1948 fights in
the Negev and in the Sinai des-
, ert, the Palmach command had
the impression that the Egyp-
tians were rather well equipped.
"Whenever we captured an
Egyptian position, we found con-
' siderable unused stores of am-
Deposed Farouk and 7-Month
Old King Ahmed Fuad
munition," the former . Israeli
commander pointed out.
I "Throughout the campaign no
Egyptian post ever surrendered
because of its lack of arms. On
the contrary, we often took over
large captured supplies and were
able to make use of them almost
at once."
Between You and Me
By BORIS SMOLAR
(Copyright,
1952, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc..,
Zionist Trends
The prestige of Rabbi Irving Miller, as the new president of
the Zionist Organization of America, stands or falls in the eyes of
the Jewish Agency in Israel on what he can do to stimulate Amer-
ican youth to settle in Israel .. . Also on what he will achieve in
the field of strengthening Hebrew education in the United States.
. . This has been indicated from Jerusalem as a broad hint to
the new ZOA administration . . . In this connection, satisfaction
was expressed with the fact that the new ZOA executive has al-
ready abolished budgetary cuts affecting its support to the Brit
.Ivrit Olamit and youth movements. On the whole, Israel is
very satisfied with the choice of Rabbi Miller as head of ZOA .
He is considered in Israel a forceful Zionist personality, with a
broad Jewish cultural background . . . The fact that he is the
founder of a Jewish day school where instruction is conducted
in modern Hebrew is considered very much in his favor . . . On
the other hand some Israeli leaders are not certain as to how the
new ZOA administration will interpret the ZOA resolutions con-
cerning political identification with the General Zionist Party in
Israel .. At present, both the General Zionist and the Progres-
sive wings in Israel consider the resolutions adopted at the re-
cent ZOA convention as a victory for their own particular points
of view . . . Rabbi Miller will have a hard job on his hands to
explain by action at what the resolutions were actually aimed.
Jerusalem, Australian Minister
for External Affairs H. Casey
said in Canberra. He revealed
that this concern had been con-
veyed to Israel by the Austra- Communal Opportunities
lian Minister to Israel.
About 40,000 persons are making a living in the United States
No country has thus far recog- by serving the religious, cultural and communal needs of Ameri-
nized Isreal's claim to Jerusalem can Jewry . . • Several thousand persons are engaged in the rab-
as its capital, and the recent an- binate alone . . . Their annual salaries range from $4.000 to $6,500
nouncement by Israel is a move and after about 10 years of service they average $8,000 • . In ad-
designed to compel the diplo- dition, depending on the size of their congregations, they enjoy
matic corps to move to Jerusa- fees from weddings, unveilings and bar-mitzvahs which range
lem and thus recognize that city from $25 to $50 in smaller communities to double that sum in
as the capital of the Jewish
state, the Minister charged.
This move will make even
more difficult the solution of the
problem of Jerusalem in the
United Nations, he added. Casey
also said Australia's policy on
Jerusalem was largely deter-
mined by a concern for the fu-
ture of the Holy Places.
Jews in Turkey to Elect
Rabbi by Popular Ballot
ISTANBUL, (JTA)—The Pres-
ident of Turkey has signed a bill
permitting the Jews of Turkey
to hold an election for the posi-
tion of Chief Rabbi, the Chief
Rabbinate's office here has been
informed.
The Rabbinate immediately
began preparations for the elec-
tions to fill the post which has
been vacant for 21 years. In the
past a Religious Council named
a candidate who had to be ap-
proved by the Turkish govern-
ment before he could assume
office. After the last Chief Rabbi
died in 1931 no candidate was
approved by the government.
The new law replaces this sys-
tem with a popular election
within the Jewish community.
larger communities .. . Some rabbis, however, do not accept fees
for services rendered to members of their congregations . .
Rabbis of large congregations enjoy salaries of $10,000 to $20,000
and more, although the latter are few .. . Orthodox cantors re-
ceive salaries averaging between $2,500 and $5,009 a yeear . • .
Cantors in Conservative synagogues enjoy salaries from $5,000 to
$10,000 a yeear . . . Like the rabbis, the cantors also have addi-
tional sources of income from weddings, funerals, etc. .. . Syna-
gogue administrators start with a salary of about $3,500 and range
to $10,000 a year ... Those employed in the field for five years or
more average about $6,000 a year . . . In the field of Jewish edu-
cation salaries range from $3,200 to $8,000 a year for teachers and
from $6,000 to $12,000 or more for educational directors in execu-
tive positions . . . About 3,500 men and women are engaged as
professionals in Jewish communal vocations . . . A substantial
number of executive jobs in this field bring salaries ranging from
$6,000 to $15,000 and more a year . . The greatest bulk of jobs
in Jewish social work are non-executive, starting at about $3,000.
Some 1,300 Jewish social worker; are engaged in Jewish commun-
ity centers, "Y's," Hillel Foundations, Zionist and fraternal organ-
izations . . . Salaries in this field range from about $4,000 to
$15,000 a year . . . About 500 professional workers are employed
by Jewish organizations combatting anti-Semitism. . Their sal-
aries range from about $4,000 to $15,000 a year, with a few run-
ning higher . . . More than 200 professional workers are employed
by Jewish organizations as fund-raisers ... Salaries for fund-rais-
ers start at $5,000 a year, but salaries of $10,000 and more are
not unusual for those who are long in the field ... All these facts
are called from the very interesting book "Opportunities in Jew-
ish Religious Vocations" by Walter Duckat, just published by
Vocational Guidance Manuals . . . The book, an occupational
analysis of Jewish vocations, is designed to be both a guidance
instrument for use in schools and a recruitment manual for those
young people who aspire to Jewish religious and communal voca-
tions.