Coll to Action Against Bigotry
Catholic Fights Anti-Semitism
By MILTON FRIEDMAN
(Copyright, 1954, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)
6—DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, April 30, 1954
Senator Lehman Honored by ORT
U.D. Human Relations
Workshop Assisted By
ADL and Round Table
What chagrined Father
The University of Detroit Cen-
Foley even more "was that the
jokes were greeted by the au- ter for Human Relations will
dience, especially the non-lay sponsor a Human Relations
members of it, with loud guf-
faws." Reflecting subsequent- Workshop, June 28th to Aug. 6,
ly, he said, "I was disturbed to designed to a ssist educators,
recall how frequently I had professional and lay community
heard similar stories told to leaders, social workers, police
all-Catholic Audiences by and personnel officials and other
speakers intent on currying interested citizens in developing
favor with their hearers by the attitudes, knowledges and
making fair game of the ab- skills involved in the improve-
sent stranger, the undefended ment of human relations.
butt of ingroup ridicule. I be-
The director of the workshop
gan to ask myself whether
is Dr. Tibor Payzs, of the U. of
these pokes were in part re-
D. Center for Human Relations.
sponsible for the high inci-
dence of anti-Semitism in the Included on the staff are the
Catholic minority, at least Rev. Hugh E. Dunn, S.J., and
Dr. WILLIAM HABER, president of the American ORT Feder-
those caught in the dragnet of John T. Dempsey of the U. of D. ation, presents a silver Passover wine goblet handcrafted in Israel
social surveys in California, faculty, Dr. Dorothy M. Perry of to Senator HERBERT H. LEHMAN at a dinner in his honor. Sen.
the Detroit Public Schools, and Lehman is honorary president of the World ORT Union. The in-
Ohio, Massachusetts, and' else-
where. I have come to the con- Dr. Morton J. Sobel, Michigan scription on the cup reads: "To Herbert H. Lehman, ',whose deeds
clusion that anti - S e m i t i c d i r e c t or of Anti-Defamation have given heart and spirit to free men everywhere." The dinner
humor is a problem in Catho- League of Bnai Brith.
was tendered. by ORT on behalf of the 1954 United Jewish Appeal
The .Detroit Round Table of campaign.
lic circles."
Father Foley feels that "anti- the National Conference of
Semitism is no joke." He said Christians and Jews and the
that "Across the pages of his- Michigan ADL Office are co- Horwitz Named Assistant Counsel in Senatorial Probe
tory, religious, military, and po- operating in this Workshop.
WASHINGTON, (JTA) — Solis the sub-committee's regular
litical anti-Semitism is a sad
Scholarships for in te r e sted
Horwitz,
Pittsburgh and Wash- counsel.
record of tragedy. Under Hitler persons are available. through
Mr. Horwitz, who is 43, served
it has Cain-marked the 20th t h e ADL office, 140 Cadillac ington lawyer, has been named
century with the worst genocidal Square, the Detroit Round Table, assistant counsel to the Senate in the Reconstruction Finance
pogrom of history. Behind the 1603 Industrial Bank Bldg., or sub-committee which will 'in- Corporation from May 1951 until
last July and was named As*
barbed wire of H itler' s concen- by direct contact with Dr. Payzs
tration camps, an estimated 60 in the Department of Political vestigate charges and counter- general counsel when Senator
percent of all Europe's Jews were 'Science at U. of D. Contribu- charges by the Army, Senator !Stuart Symington was its ad-
exterminated by gas chambers, tions to make these scholarships Joseph McCarthy and Roy Cohn, ministrator.
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firing squads, crematoria, and available are b eing accepted
systematic starvation.
through these sources.
Tracing the action of recent
The 25 leaders serving as con-
Popes evoked by anti-Semitism,
Father Foley quoted at length sultants and resource persons
.-9mmoriality
our ctini
from directives and sermons of include Boris M. Joffe, director,
the Holy Fathers. He pointed Jewish Community Council.
Deep in every human heart is the
out the danger in what he con-
longing
for immortality. To be re-
siders the widespread use in this Parent-Faculty Council
country of epithets like "kike" Slates Central 'Fun-Fair'
membered not only during one's life-
and "Jew-boy," saying that such
time but when one is gone from this
crude antipathies "defame and
Central High School will be
earth, is the yearning which has filled
vilify, without chance of redress, the scene of a Fun Fair spon-
a whole segment of our people." sored by the Parent - Faculty
man's heart since the dawn of history.
He told of attempts to tharac- Council May 5, 7:30 to 10:30 p.m.
In Jewish tradition, nothing has been
terize Jews as "un-American- 1
Baked goods` and white ele-
so endowed with immortality as the.,
d" and recalled the role of
Jewry in the American Revolu- 1 phants will be sold by commit-
link with the Land of Israel.
tion. "They were Americanized tees headed by Mrs. Samuel
Ables
and
Mesdames
Nathan
When drawing up your will, include
enough to bear arms in that his-
toric struggle," according to Steingold and Louis Glieberman.
a
bequest
for
the
Jewish
National Fund (Keren Kaye-
The food committee is co-
Father Foley, "even though the
chaired
by
Mr.
and
Mrs.
Morie
meth
Le'Israel)
Inc.
to
insure
that a tract of land or
-D.A.R. still refuses to give cog-
COleman, a n d entertainment
nizance to this fact."
trees or a forest or a colony in Israel bearing your
It is "singularly unkind for will be supervised by Ben Jaffee
name will confer immortality upon you and honor upon
one immigrant group like the and Mrs. Aaron Rosen.
Other
committee
chairmen
in-
your family.
Catholic minority, with all its
foreign-Sounding sub-groups, to I clude: Tickets, Mrs. James Mc-
hold up to derision the linguistic Clendon; faculty liaison, Don
difficulties of recent arrivals Kelly; hospitality, Fred Bar-
from Jewish ghettoes of Eastern tholomew; telephone, Mrs. The-
Europe. These language diffi- ; odore Masserman.
CONSULT YOUR LAWYER.
culties are no different from I Mrs. Albert Green, wife of the
those of Catholic newcomers like president of the Council, is gen-
For full Particulars write to
the Polish-Americans," he said. I eral chairman. Her assistants
Finally, Father Foley raised include Mrs. M. Rudner, Samuel
the question of "cultivating a Ables, Ernest Marshall and Mor-
JEWISH NATIONAL FUND COUNCIL
sounder • theology" to combat ton Hack.
anti-Semitism. "The emotional-
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terpretation sometimes given to
scenes from Christ's passion is
one of the salient reasons for
the almost unconscious trans-
mission of the outgroup antag-
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onism from generation to gen-
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eration." He said this came
home to him while telling of the
Two Israel dignitaries, Joseph life of Christ. "Before that," he
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Saphir, (left), Israel's Minister said, "I hardly realized how load-
of Communications, who will ad- ed with anti-Jewish feeling was
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paign next
Reminding that "Whatsoever
4Tuesday at you do to one of these least of
. ATem- p 1 e Israel, my brethren, you do 'it unto
and Mrs. Ada Me," Father Foley concluded his
Sereni, often heartfelt plea on behalf of
.termed Israel's Jewry.
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A luncheon, the proceeds of
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is a native-born Israeli who has ! nounces Eleanor Kasner, presi-
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Defense' Army.
WASHINGTON — A leading
Catholic sociologist has cau-
tioned against growing anti-
Semitic tendencies with a warn-
ing that "fears of real and imag-
ined infiltration of Communist
spies send the gullible off into
tirades against the perennial
scapegoats for many of the
West's frustrations."
The sociologist is Father Al-
bert S. Foley, S.J. He is noted
for experience in intergroup re-
lations. Shocked by what he
considers a disturbing rise of
anti-Semitism, Father Foley has
set forth his views in "Integrity,"
a: Catholic periodical. His con-
clusion is that "anti-Semitism
is on the upsurge" and he calls
on men of goodwill to rally
against it. -
Meanwhile, the Most Rev. Ber-
nard Sheil, Auxiliary Bishop of
the Roman Catholic Diocese of i
Chicago, directed attention to
the dangers of "McCarthyism."
Adolf Hitler, Bishop Sheil point-
ed out, was one of the noisiest
anti-Communists of recent his-
tory, but Hitler failed because
he tried to fight Communist
tyranny with Fascist tyranny.
Father Foley recalled that the
Nuremberg trials "revealed the
extent of the incredible cam-
paign of extermination carried
out in Dachau, Belsen, Erla,
Monthausen, Auschwitz, Birke-
nau, Maidenek, and Chmelno."
These, he said, "evoked a sor-
rowing response from the hearts
of all deep Christians. But times
change. People forget. Old ways
are resumed. The vast wave of
sympathy recedes. The flinty
rocks of anti-Semitic activity
• emerge again. Jew-baiters and
demagogues fill the air with the
cacophony of anti-Jewish propa-
ganda . . . The absurd and oft-
discredited Protocols of the
Learned Elders of Zion are re-
printed and surreptitiously cir-
culated ..."
Shocked by the extent of re-
cent anti-Jewish manifestations
which came to his attention,
Father Foley said "for the last
time I have unprotestingly lis-
tened in • silence to anti-Jewish
jokes as they are bandied about
in Catholic circles." He told of
attending a large formal banquet
of a Catholic organization con-
cerned with advancing human
relations. "The organization,"
he said, "had just given an
award to a very prominent Cath-
olic for his work in the field of
better relations between groups
of divergent nationalities . . I
was thoroughly dismayed, as
was a leading national inter-
group relations official sitting
across from me, when in the
course of the (acceptance) talk
he offhandedly gave voice to
some typical stereotype anti-Se-
mitic jokes, complete with derog-
atory gestures and phony foreign
accents."
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AS AN EVERLASTING I
REMEMBRANCE
CRYSTALIZING
Mother's :Day
Sunday,_ May .9
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