issues to Settle THE JEWISH NEWS Incorporating the Detroit Jewish Chronicle commencing with issue of July 20, 1951 Member: American Association of English-JewiSh Newspapers, Michigan Press Association. Published every Friday by The Jewish News Publishing Co., 708-10 David Stott Bldg., Detroit 26, Mich., WO. 5-1155. Subscription $4 a year, foreign $5. Entered as second class matter Aug. 6, 1942, ai Post Office, Detroit, Mich., under Act of March 3, 1879. PHILIP SLOMOVITZ Editor and Publisher Vol. XXII—No. 7 FRANK SIMONS City Editor N GTKERAL ASSEMBLY SIDNEY SHMARAK Advertising Manager Page 4 October 24, 1952 Sabbath Scriptural Selections This Sabbath, the sixth day of Heshvan, 5713, the following Scriptural selections will be read in our synagogues: Pentateuchal portion, Gen. 6:9-11:32; Prophetical portion. 1s. 54:1-55:5. Licht Benshen, Friday, Oct. 24, 5:19 p.m. Welcome, Delegates to Hadassah Convention Detroit will be host this week-end to an important conclave of women leaders who will gather here to plan the advance- ment of Israel's health program and the es- tablishment in the Holy Land of a much- needed medical school. Hadassah's 38th con- vention — marking the completion of 40 years of outstanding activities by the wom- en's Zionist organization of America—takes place here in a crucial period in Zionism. But the practical efforts which distinguish the movement cause it to rise above controversy and to be charged with great responsibilities in behalf of Israel which should be shared by all American Jews. Hadassah's current convention must not be viewed merely as an occasion to plan fund-raising. While the raising of money is a major duty of all Zionists, in view of the trying conditions in Israel which call for our continued cooperation, there are other needs which must be fulfilled by the great Jewish women's movement. Hadassah has emerged strong in her accomplishments as well as in numerical strength. The enrollment of 350,- 000 women in a single organization attests to a recognition of the worth of the move- merit. It is an endorsement that increases the challenges to its potentialities. It creates burdens in behalf of the entire American Jewish community. While Hadassah is primarily engaged in providing medical care in Israel and to as- sist the Hebrew University in the establish- ment of the projected medical school, the organization includes in its program, educa- tional projects. It engages in the spread of Jewish knowledge. It encourages the forma- tion of study groups and the study of Jewish history. It is in this field that it can render great service to Jewry. * * * Jewish educators have been greatly dis- turbed of late over the decline in the enroll- ment of girls in Jewish schools. Bernard Isaacs, the superintendent of Detroit's United Hebrew Schools, last week deplored the fact that the previous ratio of even attendance between boys and girls, in our Jewish schools, now has radically changed so that there are 85 boys to 15 girls pursuing Jew- ish studies. This is a disturbing situation. As Mr. Isaacs has pointed out, the girIs, whom we seek to enroll in our schools, will be the managers of the Jewish homes of the morrow. "It is • inconceivable," Mr. Isaacs wrote, "to have a real Jewish home without an educated mother to guide it. Although the husband may have received a thorough Jewish education and may be anxious to have a Jewish home it is the wife who must do the implementation. If things Jewish are foreign to her, she is naturally unable and perhaps unwilling to inject Judaism into her home." * * * We endorse this viewpoint and we com- mend its consideration by Jewish women's groups and especially Hadassah. This problem is not unrelated to Hadassah's work. If there is to be genuine interest in and loyal devo- tion to the needs of Israel, whose welfare we are obligated to advance, it can only be accomplished if there is understanding of the problems involved; and an understanding of the problem must be attained through genuine knowledge and good Jewish train- ing. The problem we pose is directly related also to the Zionist idea. There have been too many unfair references to Zionism in recent months. Too many people have acquired the delusion that Zionist activities should be cur- tailed in view of the realization of the ideal's major goals. Zionists themselves, and es- pecially the women Zionists, must be taught that there is an important task to be achieved and that the affiliated members of the move- ment—the women's as well as the men's— must continue to spread knowledge about the cause in order that Israel may be pro- tected and Jews everywhere may benefit from the satisfaction of having aided a great cause. * * * Matthew Arnold, Forgotten Writer Many men of letters, whose writings dominate a historical period, pass into oblivion so that their names convey little or nothing to a generation or two after their death. Such a figure of the late Victorian age was Matthew Arnold, who died in 1888. A great poet, Arnold's. verses were invested with a strong strain of Hebraism, but it was to Greek models and thought that he turned for both style and inspiration. He was thus a link between the two great sources of human moral and intellectual power. Arnold wrote two works dealing with the Bible. The first, "Literature and Dogma," was an attempt to free the Bible from the theological net that enmeshed it, to give it to the people as a great literary and moral treasure. His second work, "God and the Bible," contrasted the decline of Greek religion, as Greek national greatness declined, with a very different story as far as Hebrews were concerned. "The Hebrew people and Hebrew history, when they begin, begin like the Hellenic people and like Hellenic history, with a religion of soberness and righteousness. And the after-decline of this religion in Greece we have seen. But in Judea, at the close of the national history, what do we find to be the condition of this religion? Has it weakened, has it grown obsolete, has ht fallen out of sight and out of mind? "So far from it," writes Arnold, "that it has grown into an enthusiasm, turbid, passionate, absorbing and all-pervasive, to bring in everlasting righteousness." The women Zionists, like the men's or- ganizations, will be unable fully to reach their specific goals unless their members are well informed on what is transpiring; unless the community at large understands the aims of a sacred cause. Fund-raising will be more difficult unless there is this under- standing of the values of the movement. In greeting the Hadassah convention, as the delegates begin to gather here from all parts of the country, we urge serious consideration not only of the financial obligations that challenge the movement but also the cul- tural and educational aspects without which even so great a movement can not last long. If the children are to follow in the footsteps of the parents in future planning, then the mothers must understand the objectives of the movement to be able to pass them on to sympathetic daughters. And if you have ardently devoted Hadassah mothers and daughters, we also shall have equally ardent fathers and sons. It is in this area that Hadassah can render an especially great service to American and world Jewries and `It Takes All Kinds': Zolotow's therefore also to Israel. We welcome the Hadassah delegates. We Brilliant Stories of Eccentrics wish them success in their deliberations and we hope that their attainments will be as Whoever has read Maurice Zolotow's "No People Like Show great in the educational area as they must People" will find it impossible to resist the temptation of securing be in the financial field. his follow-up book, "It`Takes All Kinds," which has just appeared from the press of Random House (457 Madison, NY22). And hat- ing read this second book, the reader won't regret following the Well-Deserved Award to Senator Lehman This Saturday night, the Jewish Labor For his great contributions to the welfare Committee will present an award to Senator of the United States and to Jewry, we join Herbert H. Lehman, at Cass High School, in acclaiming Senator Lehman on the occa- in recognition of the distinguished leader's_ sloe of his visit here to receive the well- courageous services in defense of civil rights deserved award. \ and in support of legislation to guarantee and uphold the highest American traditions. Senator Lehman's devoted services to City of Hope, the hospital, located 20 Jewry antedated by many years his political miles east of Los Angeles, "where no one activities. The honor to be accorded him pays and everyone shares in running it," therefore represents an expression of grati- has for many years had the wholehearted tude not by a single group in Jewish life support of a large group of interested De- but by the entire American Jewish corn- troiters. A number of Detroit Jews have rnunity. been sent to this.famous hospital for healing The able New York Senator was unsuc- and restoration of their health. cessful in his efforts to prevent passage of Nathan R. Epstein has been the mainstay the McCarran Act. But he succeeded in sur- of the local movement in support of City of rounding himself with splendid support from Hope, frequently referred to as the Los some Of his ablest associates, from Senators Angeles Sanatorium. On the occasion of his Moody, Morse, Douglas, Humphreys and 65th birthday, the local support group's an- others. It was The inspiration that came from nual event, to be held on Sunday evening, Senator Lehman that resulted in the strong hopes to raise $65,000 for this important Truman veto message against the McCarran cause. In recognition of Mr. Epstein's activi- Act. Perhaps this inspiration will result in ties and in support of a worthy movement, the repeal of the 'un-American bill by the it is sincerely to be hoped that the objective ilext Congress. —the $65,000 goal—will be attained. City of Hope eminent writer along the paths of his many experiences with interesting and curious people. In "It Takes All Kinds" you'll read about Jules GIaenzer, the famous salesman of jewels; Maurice Dreicer, authority on steaks; Dunninger the mind-reader; Richard Himber, orchestra leader and practical joker; Feedback Jack Auerbach, the turf adviser. There is a fine chapter on Bruno Furst the - memory. There is an interesting story about Furst's escape from Hitler Germany. He saved his heavy furniture but left his $150,000 account behind him, coming here to gain fame. What has made Zolotow become so interested in eccentrics? He relates his personal background and tells the story of his father, who was a militant atheist. "Not even on the high holm days (Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur), when the most latitud- inarian. Jews went to the synagogue, would my father bow his head to what he considered unscientific and outworn supersti- tions." He was not a passive opponent of orthodoxy, but an argu- ing kind. • "He loved to upset the sensibilities of all his relatives, including his wife, by eating bread during Passover and ham sandwiches at other times." But when his diet underwent a revo- lution and he came under the influence of Bernarr Macfadden, Zolotow's father changed his tune. He bedame a devout vege- tarian and a big change came over him. Zolotow Pere also changed his Socialist tune and later beeame less belligerent in his political advocacy. His son writes: 'It seems to me now that his primary motivation in espousing unpopular ideas was to establish his validity as a human being, to shock other people into an awareness of his existence." The son there- fore evinces marked ability in describing eccentrics and their tricks, and he has succeeded, in "It Takes All Kinds," in delineat- ing interesting people in a most interesting style.