Purely Commentary By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ Blessed Be the Memory of Dr. Weizmann 2 — THE JEWISH NEWS Tercentenary Group Named ByFederation Dr. Chaim Weizmann had been ill for many months, but the news of his death nevertheless comes as a great shock. Those of us who knew him intimately learned to love and admire him. He was a truly great man, and because he labored for a difficult cause like Zionism—so many consid- Philip Slornovitz; member of ered it a hopeless cause!—he was among the world's greatest the national American Jewish humanitarians. Tercentenary Committee, h a s He also was the Prophet. Speaking at a dinner in New been appointed chairman of the York on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Balfour local group to plan next year's observance of, the 300th anni- Declaration, he made this statement: "I feel certain that the democratic victory is so indis- versary of Jews in America, H. Rubiner, president of solubly bound up with adherence to a higher morality in the Samuel. Detroit Jewish Welfare Fed- relationships between nations and peoples, that the Jewish the eration, has announced. , Homeland in Palestine will inevitably result from that vic- Slon-iovitz and Isidore Sobel, tory. For a Jewish Homeland in Palestine is the only moral I off, executive director : of Fed , answer and atonement that the Christian world can give to eration, are the two Detroiterp the hounded Jewish people in their quest for • a home — a who serve on the national corn, home in the better world for tomorrow." mittee. This Prophecy has come true—and with the realization "Plans are being 'developed the name Chaim Weizmann becomes imbedded in Jewish his- nationally for observance of the 300th anniversary of Jewish co tory immemorially and indelibly. Rational Post-Election Thinking Many partisans (all of us are partisan in matters involving the welfare and security of the nation) already may be regretting having permitted the heat and passion of the political campaign to have enveloped us to the degree that it had. It was an in- evitp,ble heat, in a contest that has drawn greater attention than any similar one in many decades. Yet, certain rumors, accusations, reactions and suspicions could have been eliminated. We are thinking especially of the outbursts of Walter Win- chell, whose muck-raking has been a matter of great annoyance for some time In a pre-election column, under the heading "His- tory Department," Leonard Lyons wrote the following: In his telecast and broadcast • last _week, Walter Winchell twice referred to the President as "Harry Solomon Truman." Truman has no middle name, only the middle initial, S—be- cause his family couldn't choose between "Shippe," his paternal grandfather's name, ._or "Solomon," his maternal grandfather's name . The "Harry Solomon Truman" name was first used by an anti-Semitic group opposing him for the Senatorial nbm- ination in 1940. It appeared on "sample ballots" distributed by this bigoted group—the same ones who, in that year, falsely were referring to Roosevelt as "Rosenfeld" and Winchell as "Lipschitz." This is the • type `of appeal to prejudice that should be elimin- ated from public media. Winchell himself has been a victim of this type of propaganda, yet he has used it against a columnist whose original name he dug up as a weapon for attack. A survey conducted in Washington has indicated that Jews were about equally divided between the two political parties. In reality, the JTA survey means that Jews were split on the can- didacies of the two major candidates in ratio to the entire popu- lation. All talk about "a Jewish vote" is a lot of bunkum. The encouraging factor in the campaign is the favorable out- look for a revision of the McCarran-Walter Immigration Act which has been opposed by all Jewish and liberal movements. Both Presidential candidates and many members. of Congress— among them some who originally voted for the bill and agairist the Truman veto—joined in denouncing the measure. All indications also are that the new administration will con- tinue to sponsor the bi-partisan program of aid to Israel. No ma- jor changes are expected in the program of financial aid to the Jewish state, friendship for Israel having been expressed by both parties and both candidates. This, we believe, is an uncontradictable summary. McCarthy's Jewish Supporters Federation Policy Meeting, Dedication Of Tamarack Hills Slated for Sunday Friday, November 14, 1952 Ionization in America, since 1654," Rubiner said. "With the Federation committee as co- ordinating body, we hope to work out a local program that will reflect the aims of the na- tional programs and express the special character of Jewish con-. tributions in this community. T h e Federation committee, headed by Slomovit z, will work in cooperation with t h e member agencies of Federation and with other bodies which are ready to participate in a co- ordinated program." • EDITORIAL: Tribute to Murray The Jewish News joins in paying tribute to the memory of Philip Murray, president of the CIO, who died in Miami on Sunday. Mr. Murray's great contribu- tions towards the advance- ment of labor's cause are too well known to require elabo- , ration. We Philip Murray w is h t o ex- press appreciation for the services this noted leader has rendered earnestly and un- stintingly to the cause of Zionism and a redeemed Is- rael. In times of greatest stress for the Jewish cause, he was amonc, the first to come forward with encour- agement and with assistance in his movement's and his own behalf His memory will be blessed in the annals of the builders of the new state of Israel. - Community policy on financ- and lay conferences will also ing Jewish education and recom- use the facilities, Jaffe said. mendations of the committee on The plant, as it is now envis- capital needs will be major top- ioned, will be in operation 52 ics under , discussion when the instead of only 10 weeks out of board of governors of the Jew- the year, Jaffe said, and it will ish Welfare Federation holds provide a variety of program its board institute at 10:30 a.m., possibilities to all age and inter- Sunday at- the Tamarack Hills est grcups affiliated with Fed- eration. camp sites Invited to attend the institute, in addition to the federation $1,500 Bequest to INF :board, are 'members o f A bequest to the Jewish the board of National Fund of $1,500 was h e Detroit left by Harry Wexler before Service Group he died on Oct. 9. The funds and members will be used to plant a grove of Federation of 1,000 trees in Israel in committees memory of Mr. Wexler and with a special his late wife, Eva Wexler. interest in the .:wo main sub- Zivian jects of the program. Samuel H. Rubiner, Federation president, will pre- side. Presentations will be made by Samuel Cohen, secretary of Fed- eration's education division, Lawrence W. Crohn, vice-presi- I A Weizmann Memorial meet- dent of the United Hebrew ing., to be held Nov. 23, at the Schools, Max M. Fisher, member Davison Jewish Center, has been of the committee on capital announced jointly by Rabbi, needs, and Max J. Zivian, chair- Joshua S. Sperka, president of the Detroit League for Religious man of the committee. Labor, and Morris Garvett, chairman of Dr. Max Ka- the education division, will pre pustin, new- side at the session on financing ly - elected Jewish education. :president of Planned at 3 p.m., Sunday, H a p o el Ha- will be the dedication of the Mizrachi. camp site, which, according to Rabbi Is- Benjamin E. Jaffe, chairman of sachar Levin, Federation's committee on of Tr enton, community camping, will open .J., a prom- up new vistas to the entire inent leader Jewish community here. of religious The purchase of the 600 acre Zionism in tract will make it possible, Jaffe Rabbi Levin the U.S. ; will added, to plan to meet a great variety of needs. When repre- be ,guest speaker. Rabbi Lev _ in sentatives of the Fresh Air represented the movement at Society, Jewish Community many international conclaves in Center and Federat'on met in Europe and Israel. As a representative of both 1951 to plan additional facilities for the community, it was de- religious labor movements at the cided the most pressing issue last World Zionist Congress in was more adequate facilities for Jerusalem, Rabbi Levin dis- cussed with Dr. Weizmann plans children's camping. Center clubs, Jewish school for strengthening the Zionist classes, professional seminars movement in the Diaspora. Even in the issue involving Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wis- consin there were Jews in both camps. There naturally were many Jewish opponents of McCarthy, yet a number of Jews held key positions in the McCarthy political organization. Among them were James J. Packman, managing editor of the Milwaukee Sen- tinel; State Senator Bernhard Gettelman; Charles D. Ashley, GOP chairman of Milwaukee County, and Steven J. Miller, chairman of the Wisconsin McCarthy Clubs. In simplest terms, it means just this: that McCarthy, the opponent of every liberal thought and action, can claim that he is not anti-Semitic. It is an ideological contradiction. If a search were to be made, we have no doubt that Jewish supporters would be found in the camps of Senators Jenner and Kern, and it is an established fact that Dr. Abba Hillel Silver is not the only intimate Jewish friend of Senator Taft. And so, when speaking of Jewish Americans it is wrong to Closing in on the $275,000 speak of them as "Jewish voters." It is more correct that there mark in cash payments brought are American Jews who vote like their neighbors. in to date, chairman Harold Michigan Bar Association and the FEPC Much more discouraging than some of the manifestations in Kukes of the Detroit Service the recent political campaign are the reactions to liberal legisla- Group Cash Mobilization Drive has announced that "our suc- tive efforts in professional ranks. At the recent annual meeting of the Michigan Bar Association, cess thus far enables us to set in Grand Rapids, the lawyers defeated, by a 2-to-1 vote, a pro- a final closing date for the posal by a Negro group for endorsement of fair employment prac- Drive—Dec. 15." The drive, in which trade and tices laws. The argument of the majority was that it was "a po- litical issue." The question is: when does a human issue cease professional workers of the Al- being a political issue and since when is a political issue so crim- lied Jewish Campaign visited inal that people who should be concerned with legislative matters prospects to raise cash on pledges, will end at a report fail to see the justice of an FEPC proposal? But what can you expect from a professional group that has meeting, 12:15 p. m., Dec. 15, at insisted upon opposing ratification of the UN Genocide Conven- the Fred M. Butzel Memorial Building. tion? To make final arrangements for the last stretch of the drive, the executive committee, whose members are the drive division chairmen, will meet at This year's dance will be the 12:15 p.m., Friday, Nov. 21, also Detroit's number one social event of the year, the Balfour 20th annual ball, called to com- at the Fred M. Butzel Memorial Ball, will take place on Satur- memorate the historic document Building*. The executive com- day night, at the Hotel Statler, issued on Nov. 2, 1917 to the Jew- mittee includes: Samuel H. despite the death of Dr. Chaim ish people by Great Britain's Schwartz, mercantile ; Maurice Weizmann, Israel's first Presi- Lord A rt h u r James Balfour, A. Klein, services; Nathan Kolb which contributed to the dream and Jack 0. Lefton, mechanical dent. trades; Mandell L. Berman and In a statement issued to The of a Jewish homeland. Jewish News, A. C. Lappin, presi- Tickets are still available at Daniel A. Laven, real estate and dent of the Zionist Organiza the Zionist House, Linwood at building council; Tom Borman and Louis J. Cohen, food; Dr. tion of Detroit, said, "We know Dr. Weizmann would want us to Lawrence, TO. 8-9413. Tickets Perry Goldman, professional, continue with our plans to mark may also be purchased at the and Sol Balaban aid David Saf- ran, arts and crafts. this important occasion." door. Success Marks MC Campaign for Cash Balfour Ball Goes on as Planned Religious Zionists Plan Memorial To Dr. Weizmann Between You and Me By BORIS SMOLAR • (Copyright, 1952, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.) The Washington Scene: American Zionist leaders are adopting a "let's wait and see" attitude toward President-elect Eisenhower's policy on Israel His stand on Israel was, of course, outlined in the statement which he issued through Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver the week before the elections . . . And there is also the policy on Israel adopted by the Republican Party at the Chicago convention which named Gen. Eisenhower its candidate for President .. . These two doc- uments offer sufficient ground for the belief that the new Presi- dent will continue the present government policy of aid to Israel . . . However, it is , knovsn that certain pro-Arab persons are very close to Gen. Eisenhower . . . It remains to be seen whether he will be influenced by their views . . . It is also known, here—that Gen. Eisenhower was not exactly encouraging in a talk with Israel Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett . . . On the contrary, it was in- dicated during that talk that he entertained sympathy for the Arabs . . . This, together with the fact that some of Gen. Eisen- hower's intimate friends make no secret of their fro-Arab senti- ments, is naturally a source of concern to some Zionist leaders ... On the other hand, it is assumed that Gen. Eisenhower will take into definite consideration the advice on Israel of such Republican leaders as Governor Dewey of New York, who may play an import- ant role in Eisenhower's Cabinet, and others who are friends of Is- rael ...Not to speak of the fact that people like Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver, Congressman Jacob Javitz and other Jews will, no doubt, have access to the White House during Gen. Eisenhower's term in office. International Moods: German experts in Egypt—and there are several hundred of them—are advising the Egyptian government to use caution with regard to a "second round" against Israel . . . United Nations circles familiar with the situation in the Near East estimate that there are about 500 German military and technical experts on the Nile, while others are working on building a new steel plant for Egypt at the foot of the Pyramids . . . It is known in UN circles that an airplane factory in Germany has started mass pro- duction of a new model for the Egyptian Air Force ... This Ger- man infiltration is of great concern to members in the United Nations who are especially interested in the defense of the Middle East . . . They have no doubt that German influence in Egypt will continue to grow as a result of this infiltration It is known that during World War II, Gen. Naguib's sentiments were pro- German and it is believed that he intends to restore the Germans to their pre-war influential position in his country and thus re- introduce them to international politics in the Middle East .- . How this will affect Israel is all a matter of speculation ... Some UN observers believe that no matter what Egypt's stand vis-a-vis Israel may be, Germany will not pay any serious attention to Egypt's objections against the German-Israeli reparations pact ... . On the other hand, it is taken for granted that Germany will do all it can to strengthen its relations with Egypt and other Arab countries in order to gain both marets and influence.