ales Out of Sthool
Christopher Sykes Dissents
"The Youth of a Nation are the Trustees
of Posterity."—Disraeli.
By
By
Judy
Nancy
Falk
Alzofon
Central
High
Central's halls buzzed with ex-
citment and curiosity last
Thursday as something new was
introduced to the student body
in assemblies held during • the
a.m. and p.m. groups.
This something new is a citi-
zenship recognition program,
organized to reward those stu-
dents who are good citizens in
school . even though they do not
have an all "A" record.
According to the committee in
charge of the program, there
are three basic points of good
citizenship:
Service — This is shown by
participation in extra-curricular
activities for which no credit
hours, school letter, or any oth-
er special award is given.
Co-operation — The ability to
work in harmony with a teach-
er, fellow classmates and to obey
school regulations.
Responsibility — Proven by a
high attendance and low tardi-
ness record.
A minimum of eight points is
required to receive an award
certificate. Explanatory leaflets
listing the sources of points and
number of points allowed for
each source have been distrib-
uted.
During the assembly a skit,
"Sam Will Get By," was present-
ed by Faith Greenbaub, Jerry
Bernstein and Moishe Dworkin.
Our Letter Box
Mumtord
High
School clubs have begun to
function, with the French Club,
Travel Club and Human Rela-
tions Club holding meetings last
week.
The past week was also a busy
one for 9B's, 9A's and 10B's, as
student council elections were
held Monday eliminating all but
eight students from each grade.
On Friday, after a lengthy cam-
paign, the final balloting took
place. Four students will be
elected from each grade. Win-
ners will be announced next
week.
On Friday, Mumford lost a
close contest with Cooley, in an
inter-sectional game, by the
score of 12 to 7. Even though the
game was lost, Mumfordites
still had plenty to cheer about,
and most of the large turnout
of students went home with sore
throats.
To 'Wed April 4
Men's Clubs
Worshipful master Julian S.
Tobias announces that PERFEC-
TION LODGE, F. & A.M. will
hold its annual members' din-
her-dance at 7 p.m. Wednesday
in the Fountain ballroom of the
Masonic Temple. Past master
Harry Zausmer, chairman of the
MISS ZELDA MINTZ
entertainment committee, an-
At a recent family dinner, Mr.
nounces that Willie Shore, re- and Mrs. Hyman Mintz, of
nowned radio, television and Glendale Ave., announced the
night club comedian, will head- engagement of their daughter,
line the floor show. Music for Zelda, to Jack A. Shiovitz, son
the dinner, show and dancing of Mr. and Mrs. Philip Shiovitz,
will be provided by Woody Her- of N. Martindale Ave. The wed-
man and his orchestra.
: ding will be solemnized on
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April 4.
The first social event of the
season, sponsored by the BNAI Hotel Executives in Europe
MOSHE MEN'S CLUB will be its
MIAMI BEACH, Fla.—Nat H.
annual family night program, to Hankoff, managing director of
be held at 8:30 p.m., Tuesday; the Monte Carlo Hotel has left
in the synagogue social hall. The Miami Beach for a two month
' congregation will be guests at tour of European countries
the program. Entertainment will where he is observing European
include a production by the Bnai methods of hotel operation. - He
Moshe Players, composed of is accompanied by Mrs. Hankoff.
sons and daughters of congre-
gational members. The public
is invited.
Editor, Detroit Jewish News:
I would be grateful if you
would publish this letter so as
to correct an error in Mr. Slo-
movitz's article in your issue of
the 18th September. Discussing
my book, "Two Studies in Vir-
tue", published by Alfred A.
Knopf, Mr. Slomovitz says: "In
spite of his (the author's) lack
of knowledge of Perez Smolen-
skin's 'Am Olam' he doesn't like
it."
This suggests that I am either
abnormally prejudiced or not in
my right mind. In truth I ex-
press no opinion on Smolenskin.
I mention him only once. Re-
ferring to Jewish nationalist
literature of the mid-nineteenth
century I say: "With the pos-
sible exception of Drishath Zion
and Smolenskin's Am Olam,
these books cannot be admitted
except by a prejudiced reader."
To this passage there is a foot-
note explaining that I have not
read either of the books whose
titles I mention owing to my ig-
norance of the language in
which they were written. _
Faithfully yours,
CHRISTOPHER SYKES
Dorset, England
5th October '53
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Reviewer's Note : Few books
have been given as much space
in these columns as were • al-
lotted to Mr. Sykes' thought-
provoking "Two Studies in Vir-
tue." We could not, therefore,
have questioned the author's
state . of mind or abnormality.
We . maintain, however, that Mr.
Sykes was unfair in his treat-
ment of some Jewish authors.
When he refers to them as shar-
ing "some main faults with
anti-Semitic literature : they are
full of careless and emotional
histOry . . .", he proves that he,
in turn, has been careless in
their study: Also: when he
writes that "there is an element
of sly anti-Christian propa-
ganda in Salvador and Hess
which is extremely repulsive,"
the reviewer believes thati he
has been hasty in his judgment.
Christians have criticized Chris-
tians for anti- Semitism and
were not called repulsive. For
that matter, we choose to en-
roll Christopher Sykes among
good friends who do not hesi-
tate to condemn their own kins-
men for wrong-doing.
Criticism on his lonely point
must not be interpreted as un-
fair treatment of either author
or book. In five consecutive is-
sues we found admirable ma-
terial in Sykes' work. We re-
peat the compliment with which
we concluded the final article in
our last week's issue: "we have
been stimulated by his book .. ."
(Smolenski is spelled
oor-
rectly when the reviewer quoted;
it is used incorrectly when Mr
Sykes makes his own references
to Smolenski.)
Barton's New Downtown Store
Returns to Israel
Prof. Shlomo Frank, head
of the David Wunsch Memorial
Laboratory of Mechanical Engi-
neering of Technion, Israel In-
stitute of Technology, returned
to Israel after an extended tour
of the United States.
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16—DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Temple Israel Men
Plan Children's Party
Judie Schuster to Wed
Kenneth. A. Dishell
A program of four acts—
magic, puppeteers, midget
clowns and acrobats—will fea-
ture the annual children's party
sponsored by the Temple Israel
Men's Club at 2 p.m., Sunday, in
the temple.
More than 500 children of
Men's Club members are expect-
ed to attend. Refreshments will
be served and favors given to
all who attend.
Sam N. Sussman, committee
chairman, is assisted in plan-
ning the party by Maurice Shep-
herd, Charles Rubenstein, An-
drew Gantz, Sol Babbush, Wal-
ter Berlow, Alan N. Brown, Wil-
liam Brown, Max Klarin, Ells-
worth Roston and Harry Man-
heimer.
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