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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., 708-1n David Stott Bldg. : Detroil 26- Mich., WO. 5-1155
Bubscription $4 a year, foreign $5
Entered as second class matter Aug. 6, 1942, at Post Office, Detroit., Mich., under Act of March 3. 1879.

PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
Editor and Publisher

SIDNEY SHMARAK
Advertising Manager

FRANK SIMONS
City Editor

January 9, 1953

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XXII—No. 18

Sabbath Scriptural Selections

This Sabbath, the twenty-third day of Tebet, 5713, the following Scriptural selections will b
read in our Runagogues:
Pentateuchal portion, Es. 1:1-6:1; Prophetical portion, Is. 27:6-28:13; 29:22, 23.

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Friday, Jan. 9,

5:01 p.m.

A Better [Immigration] Law Must Be Written

—President-Elect Eisenhower

In his pre-election speech in Newark,
N.J., President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower
made this statement:
"A better law must be written that will
strike an intelligent balance between the
immigration welfare of America and the
prayerful hopes of the unhappy and the op-
pressed."
General Eisenhower had the McCarran-
Walter Act in view when he spoke of the
need for a "better law." The admission was
clear, that we were facing then and what
is in force now, since Dec. 24: a bill that is
not a good law.
It is even worse: it is a disgraceful bill
which threatens to divide Americans into
two citizenship classes. The measure has
brought protests from a number of demo-
cratic nations whose seamen are affected by
its provisions.
While all Jewish organizations are on
record against the IVIcearran Act, the op-
position to it is not based on a Jewish issue.
It is an American problem and all liberal
and nearly all religious groups are on re-
cord against it. There are provisions in it
which threaten the citizenship status of nat-
uralized Americans — in a fashion that is
contrary to all American traditions. But the
manner in which it hurts our status with
foreign governments is especially deplorable.
Here. is an example of the hurt it rend-
ers our country's prestige abroad. - John P.
Koughan of Levittown, L. I., whom the
tors of the New York Herald Tribune de-
scribed as "a navigator on an, American
intercontinental air line," in a letter to the
Herald Tribune, in which he states that he
"would like to be among the many non-Com-
munist inspired voices to be raised against
at least one provision" of the McCarran-
Walter Act, declares:

"As a crew member of an international air-
tine a quick check of my logbook shows I have
been processed through the customs formali-
ties of European and African nations a total
of 832 times sine-e 1945. With the exception of
one or two isolated instances, I have been
treated with dignity and respect. This is, par-
ticularly true of French and Italian customs

Educational Triumph

The fact that 450 men and women have
enrolled in the classes of the combined Con-
servative Synagogue Institute is proof that
the fusion of forces in support of an impor-
tant project increases the chances of suc-
cess for the undertaking.
Detroit's Conservative synagogues-
Shaarey Zedek, Bnai Moshe, Adas Shalom,
Beth Aaron, Ahavath Achim -- displayed
good judgment by forming a single adult
education group. The large enrollment, the
setting aside of one night in the week for
Jewish studies, the cooperative spirit of kin-
dred congregations—these are elements in a
partnership that are certain to benefit the
entire community with the results to be at-
tained by the acquisition of understanding
of Jewish situations and needs.
With such a merger of educational ef-
forts as a beginning, the Conservative syn-
agogues have an opportunity for action in'
other fields, through cooperation and in a
spirit of amity. The Synagogue Institute
should serve as a signal to other groups, in
other fields of Jewish endeavor, to merge ac-
tivities that are inter-related whenever it is
possible to have time, energy and funds. The
results certainly are more impressive and
the satisfaction in the work is vastly greater.
Hearty congratulations to the Conserva-
five synagogues on the good judgment they
displayed in merging their adult education
activities. Let it be a lesson to other educa-
tional agencies to eliminate duplication and
-to strive for the formation of a single com-
munity-sponsored educational system.

where more often than not the wave of a
hand suffices.
"The Italian 'ciog- ana' has never questioned
my attitude toward Tito and the problem of
Trieste. The French `douanier', is ignorant of
my pre-war stand on Pierre Laval (though I
could reassure them), and, although I may
have very definite ideas on the subject, the
Egyptian customs officer has not deigned to
inquire as to my feelings toward ex-King
Farouk and Gen. Naguib—a revolutionary
question. I have not laid bare my youthful
membership in the Boy Scouts, nor have I told
any . -me of these gentlemen whether I once
belonged to the German-American Bund or
the Young Communist League. Had any agents
of a foreign nation asked me these personal
questions I think the independent American
inside me would have forced me to rebel. On
the Liberte 272 Frenchmen did just that. VIVE
LA FRANCE!
"The damage done to United States pres-
tige abroad by the enforcement of this act is
incalculable. Our methods, sometimes unfor-
tunately misunderstood, are in this case to-
tally indefensible. Picture our immigration
officer aboard a foreign ship—no files, no
handy private telephone to the F. B. I., speak-
ing another language—a guest astride a bit of
alien territory. There are hundreds of seamen
to screen in less than a week. Our agent would
be a -genius if he could do more than ask a few
questions with a Dr. Kinsey stare.
"In the midst of general condemnation
from the rest of Western civilization, the
United States has a well earned- right to in-
sist that people coming here meet certain
standards of behavior. This, of course, includes
not .trampirig up the White House drive,
dressed in a pea jacket and carrying a sea bag
full of atom bombS.
"The McCarran-Walter act in the present
form will not prevent 4his. As of today our
State Department and Immigration Service
are helpless either to explain the law to our
neighbors overseas or to cut the red tape. We
can expect retaliation in kind for the type of
treatment we are handing out to seamen and
airmen of friendly nations.
"President Truman vetoed this bill. Pres-
ident-elect Eisenhower has announced his op-
position to it. Public opinion can help kill the
bill, rebuild our position in the free world, and
restore to responsibile government the pre-
rogatives assumed by the distinguished states-
man from Nevada."

Evidence is piling up against the Mc-
Carran law. But its author pledges to fight
Carran
for its retention, in its entirety, "with the
last ounce of my energy." It is fortunate
that Senator Langer, who opposed many
provisions of the bill, is replacing Senator
McCarran as chairman of the Senate Judi-
ciary Committee, which is in charge of im-
migration matters. Perhaps a more realistic
Congress will recognize the injustice of the
Act and will either scrap it in its entirety or
will amend it so radically that its injudicious
and damaging portions will be eliminated.
We must place major hope for revision
of the bill upon President Eisenhower. He
has declared himself against it in no uncer-
tain terms. We appeal to him to exert his
influence with his party, now in power in
both Houses of Congress, to make the neces-
sary changes and thus to save the honor of
our country.

Lesson in Charity

A lesson in charity is recorded in Leon-
ard Lyons' New York Post column in which
we are told:

"At Dorothy Hammerstein's luncheon for
the Fed. of Jewish Philanthropies, Fannie
Hurst told of the pig which complained to the
cow: "Why do people pet you, yet use my
name, pig, as an ugly word? You give milk,
but I give too. After all, I give lard, bacon,
fat" . "That's trite : " replied the cow.-"But
I give while I'm alive,"

"Give while alive" is a good motto—ap-
plicable not only to making pledges but also
to paying them.
And there is no time like the present to
start giving while living.

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GUEST EDITORIAL

A Call To Action

MORRIS LIEBERMAN

Chairman, Detroit Israel Histadrut Campaign

During the past four years, 700,000 Jews have poured into
Israel In its fifth year, the country enters a period of consolida-
tion and integration. The Histadrut in Israel, during its three
decades of pioneering, haS succeeded in amass-
ing experience, know-how, institutions and
leadership capable of absOrbing these hundreds
of thousands of newcomers as free, equal, pro-
ductive workers upon whom the entire house of
Israel rests. The job is far from done—a house
half-built cannot survive.
From Dan to Beersheba to Elath, the initia
tive of Histadrut has blasted new trails for fu-
ture settlers, for tomorrow's civilization. Hista- ao*:-
drut is the pilot-plant of social progress in the
Lieberman
Middle East. Its institutions—health, vocational training, cul•
tural, economic—are the ingredients which make for a healthy
people on the road to fulfillment of a great - human . hope, the
creation of a society based on the principles of cooperation and
social justice, on dignity of labor and respect for democracy.
Histadrut resources have been placed at the disposal of the
State of Israel, and part of those resources are the deep under-
standing and loyalty of millions of American friends of Labor
Israel.
We call upon every segment of the Jewish community in De-
troit to help make our annual Israel Histadrut Campaign the
greatest drive of our times. American dollars are needed to im-
.plement the above program. Hard currency. from warm hearts
will enable Histadrut to expand its non-profit institutions that
play a leading role in productivizing the people of Israel.
The independent Histadrut Campaign, duly authorized by the
Jewish Agency for Israel, enables Histadrut to display its initia-
tive and thinking along constructive lines indicated above.
This year our local drive has undertaken to sponsor a surgical
pavilion in the Eliezer Kaplan Memorial Hospital at Rehovoth to
serve the needs of the entire Negev. The DetrOit pavilion, con-
sisting of. eleven fully equipped wards, is scheduled for construc-
tion early this spring provided the current drive is successful and
attains its objective of $300,000.
We summon friends of Histadrut, from all ranks and classeS,
to participate in the mass rally this Sunday evening at Temple
Israel, to mark the formal launching of the 1953 Israel Histadrut
Campaign, to pledge our wholehearted support to Israel Histadrut
and to carry on until our ideals will be fully realized.

H I STOR I ETTE

Daniel Boone's Jewish Associates

An American Jewish Press Syndicate Feature

Daniel Boone had a number of Jewish friends who were •
most helpful to him in those early pioneering days. Among these • •
friends was one Jacob I. Cohen who came from Prussia in 1733 and
settled in Charleston. Together with a. number • of Jews from' •
Charleston and the neighboring cities, Cohen volunteered in the •
War for Independence, serving in what was almost a Jewish
company until the British were driven out of the Carolinas.
In October 1781, before the surrender of Cornwallis, Cohen
settled in Richmond and took an active part in the affairs of the
city. Cohen died in Philadelphia in 1823, three years after Boone's
death.
Another Jew who rendered service to Boone was Isaiah Isaacs.
He and Jacob I. Cohen were partners in Richmond for some years
after the Revolution. Isaacs is said to have signed—possibly he
also wrote—the message sent jointly by the Beth Shalom
Congregation of Richmond and other Congregations to George
Washington congratulating him on becoming President of the
United States.
The pioneer Jewith merchants who helped Boone in 1781 were
important leaders in the early development of Richmond. The
record of Richmond Jews has been a notably proud one. Last
September the city celebrated its 200th anniversary.
Isaiah Isaacs must have been an unusual person as can be
seen from his attitude towards, slavery. Even at that early date he
was not in favor of handling slaves. In 1791 he and his partner
Cohen received a 24-year-old negro Charley as security for a debt.
Although most of the citizens around him had household slaves
and even traded them, Isaacs seems not to have been able to make
up his mind that slavery was the right thing. In 1799 he freed a
woman slave named Lucy and what was most extraordinary, his
will, which bore his signature in Hebrew, made it clear that after
his death slaves belonging to him should be set free. When Cohen
and Isaacs dissolved partnership in 1792 the agreement between
them was written in Hebrew.

