Lehman Exposes McCarran
Commends Sen. Moody at
Labor Committee Rally
Senator Herbert H. Lehman
took occasion, during his visit
here last Saturday to accept the
award of a scroll from the Jew-
ish Labor Committee in recog-
nition of his many services in
support of just rights for all.
He also bitterly condemned the
McCarran Act and at the same
time pleaded for the re-election
of Senator Moody who aided
him in the fight against that
vicious bill. He also commended
the liberalism of Governor Wil-
liams.
Senator Lehman spoke to an
enthusiastic gathering at Cass
High School. The award was
presented to him by Adolph
Held, president of the Jewish
Labor Committee. Joseph Bern-
stein, local JLC leader, presided.
The McCarran Bill was de-
scribed by the New York Sen-
ator as aiming to make sec-
ond-class citizens of millions
of Americans. He said the
fight against it had only be-
gun and he dedared that he
had enough faith in the
American people to feel that
a change in it will be forced
before very long.
Paying tribUte to the Jewish
-Labor Committee and to the
Labor movement generally, Sen-
ator Lehman said that "organ-
ized labor has done more than
a thousand McCarthys to expose
and defeat Communism in this
country."
Senator Lehman said the re-
actionaries had offered the
country a blueprint "devoid of
specifics and certainly devoid of
anything resembling idealism. It
is a vague blueprint. for a re-
turn to the sweat shop era.
What they propose is sweat shop
government. They propose to do
in every social and economic
field what the Taft-Hartley Act
is designed to do in the field of
labor." • •
Senator Lehman said it was
more than a coincidence- that
the identical forces in Congress
who had put over the Taft-
Hartley Act had alSo joined in
support of the . McCarran Immi-
gration Act, the Internal Securi-
ty Act, and in putting over the
Wherry Rule which blocks civil
rights legislation.
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THE JEWISH NEWS
Friday, October 31, 1952
—
Bnai David Planning
Religious Night Event
Religious night, the third pro-
gram in a series of events spon-
sored by Cong. Bnai David in
celebration of the synagogue's
60th anniversary will be held on
Nov. 7, in the synagogue audi-
torium.
Called an evening of "Liturgy
and Dedication," Rabbi Joshua
S. Sperka, Cantor Hyman J. Ad-
ler and choir will officiate at
the special ceremony. New mem-
bers of the synagogue will be
installed.
Dr. Marvin Fox, professor of
philosophy at Ohio State Uni-
versity, who spoke at the syna-
gogue last -year, will be guest
speaker at this program. A re-
ception will follow services.
The remaining program in
the series will be a banquet on
Nov. 16, at the Latin Quarter.
Sen. Lehman Visits JWV Home Here
During his visit here Senator HERBERT H. LEHMAN visited
the Jewish War Veterans Memorial Home at 4095 W. Davison.
Himself a Gold Star Parent of World War II, Senator Lehman in-
spected the mural painting and the plaques in the Memorial Room
of the Veterans Home and met with a group of the Gold Star
Parents. He is shown here greeting. HARRY T. MADISON, presi-
dent of the Jewish War Veterans Memorial - Home Association.
Others in the photograph, left to right: MEYER SILVERMAN,
president, Gold Star Parents; SAMUEL J. RHODES, former presi-
dent, Memorial Home Association; BERNARD HOFFMAN, Com-
mander, JWV Department of Michigan.
Purely Commentary
Wilsonian Principles in the Struggle for Democracy
The repetitive elements in history have an impor-
tant bearing upon the current election. There are
some especially interesting expressions on political
issues in "WoOdrow Wilson's Own Story" ("told in his
own words from his private and public papers") as
selected by Donald Day: (compiler of The. Autobiog-7
raphy of Will Rogers), published by Little, _Brown &
Co. (Boston).
In its entirety, Mr.' Day's is a most interesting
collection of the Wilsonian ideas, some of which- were
expressed as ideals, Many of which were uttered- as
_ principles Iv, the great, Democratic
President., Thomas Woodrow WilSon
often spoke of principles. Some of his
thoughts and ptiblic utterances of a
generation -and more ago are appli-
cable. today.. In some respects he was
a -prophet. On Feb. 6, 1918, he wrote
to 'Senator John Sharp Williams: "I
do not know that I have ever had a
more tiresome struggle with guickSand
than I am having in trying to do the
right thing in respect to our dealings
with Russia." Many feel today that
Wilson
we are treading on quicksand in dealing with the
USSR. -
Since there is so much talk today about "a
change," Wilson's viewpoint again is- worth quoting.
The first Democratic President of this century once
stated : "Every man now knows (hat the world is to be
changed. The whole world has already become a sin-
gle vicinage; each part has become neighbor to all the
rest. No nation can live any longer to itself." In the
same statement he predicted .: "The East is to be
opened and transformed, whether we will or not."
How much more true these views are today! .
Definitions of Political Groupings
Politicians in our time are debating 'heatedly, the
meanings of designationS given to men. in public life.
On Jan. 23, 1911,—a year before he became Presi- -
dent—Wilson thus defined -political party terms:
RADICAL—one who goes too far.
.
,
CONSERVATIVE—one - who does .not go far enough.
REACTIONARY—one who does not go at all.
Hence we have invented the term, label
PROGRESSIVE, to -mean one who (a) recognizes'
new facts and adjusts law to them, and who (b) at-
tempts to think ahead, constructively. Progress must
build, build tissues, must be cohesive, must have a
plan at its heart,
*
Road
Away
FroMReliolutionl
'The
In the August 1923 issue of Atlantic - Vfonthly, six
months before his death, (on Feb. 3, 1924) he con-
cerned himself with "the road away. from revolution,"
He wrote then:
"The world has . been made safe for democracy.
But democracy has not yet made the world safe
against irrational revolution. That supreme task,
which is nothing less than the salvation of civiliza-
tion, now faces democracy, insistent, imperative.
There is no escaping it, unless everything we have
built up is presentk to fall in ruin about us: and
the United States, as the greatest of democracies,
must undertake it."
Detroit Organizations Ask
NH-Kosher Hospital Facilities
Approximately 400 representa-
tives of local Jewish organiza-
tion, at a meeting Monday night
at the Davison Jewish Center,
went on record urging all-
kosher facilities at the Sinai
Hospital.
Originally scheduled to be
held at the JWV Memorial, the
overflow gathering forced the
removal of the meeting to the
adjoining Jewish Center. David
J. Cohen presided.
Rabbis Morris Adler and Isaac
Stollman reported on negotia-
tions that were hitherto con-
ducted with the Jewish Welfare
Fedaration and the Jewish Hos-
pital Association. Regret was ex-
pressed that it 'iad become
necessary to resort to public
means of forcing the issue, but
spokesmen for the rabbis and
laymen who called the meeting
declared that they could not
compromise in the matter. They
asserted that only an all-kosher
kitchen for those who desire it
would fulfill traditional needs
and they declared that a partial
kosher kitchen would be a
"ghetto" within the Jewish hos-
pital.
Hope was expressed by spokes-
men at the meeting that the
Hospital Association will see its
way clear to change its original
plans and to establish and all-
kosher kitchen.
A . resolution unanimously
adopted by the gathering de-
clared that it considered it "an
indispensable requirement for
a Jewish hospital to be com-
pletely kosher in all its de-
partments, save in such cases
in which medical requirements
would indicate otherwise, and
A Lesson for All Americans for the
Tuesday to Come from the Experi-
ences 'of Thomas Woodrow Wilson
Perhaps this is the task which we are now in
the process of fulfilling—for the sake of the security
Of our children and the children of the entire world.
The IncalCulable
. and imagination
Perhaps there is a comparison, in this statement
about Theodore Roosevelt, which he -addressed on
Aug. 25, 1912, to Mary A. Hulbert, ..() the . present • Stev-
enspn-Eisenhower differences of our current crucial
campaign: •
that any other arrangement
constitutes a grievous offense
against Jewish sentiments in
the community at large."
The resolution concludes by
urging institution of a com-
munity-wide movement to urge
changes in the present plans for
both kosher and non-kosher kit-,
chens in Sinai Hospital.
Local organizations are being
asked by th - rommittee of 100
for a Kosher Hospital to -adopt
their own resolutions supporting
this movement and•thus formal-
ly to align themselves with the
action taken at Monday's meet-
ing. The Hospital Association
was notified of the action.
LJWO to Sponsor
Publications Clinic
•The first in a .series of com-
munity relations programs, spon-
sored by the League of Jewish
Women's Organizations, will be
held on Thursday, at Cancer
Center Bldg., John R. and Han-
cock,
The program will begin with-
breakfast at 10:30 a.m., followed
by a publicity workshop. Philip
Slomovitz, editor of The Jewish
News, will moderate a panel dis-
cussion in which Esther Beck
McIntyre, Detroit News; Pauline
Sterling, Free Press; and Vera
Nolan, Detroit Times; will par-
ticipate.
Presidents, community rela-
tions and publicity chairmen of
all affiliated organizations are
invited to attend. Mrs. Samuel
B. Danto, president of the
League, will preside.
By Philip
Slomovitz
lie, Wilson said: "The day to take political considera-
tion of that has gone by. People are every day read-
ing the casualty lists of American boys of every
creed." Every honest politician would, today, un-
doubtedly give the same reply with reference to Jews,
Negroes, other groups who often are labeled as "min-
orities" but who are, in truth, Americans on a par
with their neighbors.
Woodrow Wilson and Zionism
"I feel that Roosevelt's strength is altogether
Rabbi Stephen S. Wise figures once more in Don-
incalculable. He appeals to their imagination; I do
not. He is a real, vivid person, whom they have _ aid Day's "Woodrow Wilson's Own Story"—in the re-.
production of the letter President Wilson addressed to
seen and shouted themselves hoarse over and voted
him on Aug. 31, 1918,.on the subject of- Zionism. Presi-
for, millions strong; I am a vague, conjectural per-
sonality, more made up of opinions and academic . •dent Wilson's famous letter, which at once placed him
on the Zionist Bench in the worldwide debate anent
prepossessions than of human traits and red cor-
the re-establishment of Jewish nationhood, follows:
puscles. We shall see what will happen!"
"I have watched with deep and sincere interest
We know what happened it the Wilsonian cam-
the reconstructive work which the Weizmann Com-
paign against William Howard Taft, the Republican
mission has done in Palestine at the instance of
candidate, and Theodore Roosevelt, the Progressive.
the British, Government, and I welcome an oppor-
In the current campaign, the scholarly and bril-
tunity to express the satisfaction I have felt in the
liant Adlai Stevenson is the "colorless figure"; the
progress of the Zionist movement in the United
war hero Dwight Eisenhower is the romantic charmer
States and in the Allied CoUntries since the declar-
at whose sight crowds swoon. Yet, the Wilsonian ex-
ation by Mr. Balfour on behalf of the British Gov-
perience may prove once again that the. voter who
ernment, of Great Britain's approval of the estab-
retains the secrecy of- his preferences until the mor-
lishment in Palestine of a national home for the
row of electiOn day is not motivates- by "color" but by
Jewish people, end his promise that the British
"principle,"—again in the Wilsonian sense. Nov. 5
Government would use its best endeavors to facili-
will be a glorious day—because Nov. 4 will be a day
tate the achievement of that object, with the
of great privilege for all Americans.
-understanding that nothing would be done to pre-
judice the civil and religious rights of non-Jewish
Woodrow Wilson, Stephen S. Wise and Elihu Root
people in Palestine or the rights and political status
enjoyed by Jews in other countries.
The late Dr. Stephen S. Wise was one of Wood-,
row Wilson's closest associates. They conferred in
"I- think that all Americans will be deeply moved
matters involving the state of our nation. They agreed
by the report that even in this time of stress the
on the Zionist idea. On April 28, 1917, Rabbi Wise
Weizmann Commission has been able to lay the
advised President Wilson against appointing the em-
foundation of the Hebrew University at Jerusalem,
inent Republican leader, Elihu Root, to the Russian
with the promise that that bears of spiritual re-
Commission. "Wh3\," Rabbi Wise asked, "should. a man
birth."
be singled out for this great opportunity of service to
a fellow-democracy in the making who is not of your
mind, who is not a sharer of your own spirit touching
the fundamental issues of democracy?". Wilson replied
that he had already -asked Mr. Root to serve before
receiving Dr. Wise's letter; that "I convinced myself
that he was genuinely and heartily in sym'pathy with
the revolution in Russia • . that I cannot but feel
that he will prove to have been an admirable choice."
But on Nov. 25, 1918, when he was faced with the
challenge of William McAdoo's proposal that he name
Elihu Root' to the peace delegation, President Wilson
stated: "I could not think of appointing Mr. Root, be-
cause I have had more opportunities than he has had
of knowing just how hopeless a reactionary he is."
Stephen Wise proved correct.
Wilson's View on Catholic Candidates for Office -
.
In July, 1918, we learn_from. the selections in
Donald Day's enchanting book, Franklin D. Roosevelt,
then Assistant Secretary of the Navy, discussed with
Wilson the merits of Al Smith's candidacy for the
governorship of New York. "I should be entirely sat-
isfied with Smith's nomination," the President said.
When Roosevelt pointed out. that Smith was a Catho-
We wonder: did Woodrow Wilson ever dream that
this promise, that this spiritual rebirth, would become
reality?
Wilson's Rejection of Immigration Restrictions
This bewitching book is packed with interesting
opinions, prinCiples, data, that have a bearing, on
world affairs. Wilson's letters to Col. E. M. House,
Bernard Baruch, ,Otto Kahn and others are- relevant
to some of the issues today.
Of special significance is Wilson's veto, on Jan. 28,
1915, of the immigration restriction bill, and his de-
fense of the right to political asylum of newcomers
to this land. In this issue, as was the case of. Presi-.
dent Truman's oppOsition to the McCarran Act, he
fought a losing battle.
But he could not have battled aimlessly for gust
rights on the wider field, Many of his ideas have tri-
umphed. He failed with his great creation, the
League of Nations, but the United Nations is thriving.
Many other Wilsonian principles now are a. part of
the American way of life. Donald Day's book ably
reconstructs the Wilsonian period in American history,
and we may well use It as a guide in our owp. time.