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THE JEWISH NEWS

Incorporating the Detroit Jewish Chronicle commencing with issue of July 20, 1951

Member Ameritan Association of English-Jewish Newspapers, Michigan Press Association, - Ni.tional Editorial Association
Seven Mile Road, Detroit 35, Meta., VE. 13-9304
Published every Friday by The Jewish News Publishing Co 17100 West
Subscription $4 a year. Foreign $5.
I Entered as second class matter Aug. O. 1942, at Post Office, Detroit, Mich., under Act of March 3, 1879
FRANK. SIMONS
SIDNEY SHMARAK
PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
City- Editor
Advertising Manager
Editor and Publisher

January 14, 1955

Page Four

VOL. XXVI. NO 19

Sabbath Scriptural Selections

This Sabbath, the twenty-first clay of Tebet, 5715, the following Scriptural selections will be
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Es.
1.:1-6:1.
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Prophetical
portion,
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27:5-28A
29:22, 29.
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Budgeting and the Multiple Drives' Problem

When the annual pre-campaign IcTudget-
ing conference is held on Jan. 23, in behalf
of the Allied Jewish Campaign of the Jewish
Welfare Federation, the basic facts will be
presented to our community regarding the
status of the • past year's income, the availa-
bility of funds and the prospects for the ap-
proaching 1955 campaign.
Participants in the conference will learn
that reductions had to be made in alloca-
tions to a number • of national movenients"
which benefit from our campaigns. It was
Inevitable and unavoidable — due to a drop
in income from contributions in the last
drive. The only way of assuring undim-
inished distribution of funds is by increasing
incomes—increases for local causes becoming,
vitally necessary in view Of the greater de-
mands for our expanded educational pro-
grams, for the enlargement of health and
care-for-the aged facilities and for the ex=
panding Jewish Center program. ._•
This, in turn, raises anew the serious
question of the multiplicity of drives and of
an overlapping of communal activities. The
following Jewish Telegraphic Agency report
from Milwaukee emphasizes the problem:

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"The Milwaukee Jewish Welfare Fund has
established, a special committee to study the
problem created here by multiple fund cam-
paigns which, according to a Federation
financial report, siphoiled off $1,200,000 in
capital, and current operationi campaigns in
this `city in 1953. The multiple campaigns,
some of them conducted without clearance
from the welfare fund, are considered one of
the major reasons for the diminishing -returns
in the all-community, one fund annual cam-
paign. The committee will seek to acquaint
the Jewish community with the problem, to
make remedial recommendations and to work
out adequate methods of control."

The "multiple drives" problem is not
limited to any one community. It affects us
all. It is challenging and it does not lend
itself to an easy solution ,because of the
numerous needs which call for extra help
and for funds in addition to those raised in
the great and major Allied Jewish Cam-
paign which includes the United Jewish
Appeal as the major, beneficiary.
Thus, the Technion and the Hebrew Uni-
versity are in dire need of capita l funds.
lVfizrachi urgently needs the means — with
which to finance its new university, the
Bar-Ilan. Histadrut depends upon income
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from .American Jewry for continuation of
its numerous projects in Israel. HadasSah
and the Jewish NationM Fund remain vital
functions in • the Jewish state. Brandeis The Interpreter's Bible'
University, Yeshiva University and a score
of national agencies in this country continue
to ask for our support.
One of the very •great creative efforts in Biblical studies as;
While all these needs are vital, the mul-
tiplicity of appeals must cut into the income "The Interpreter's Bible : A Commentary in Twelve Volumes," - the
of the major fund-raising effort: the Allied first of which already has been issued by the publishers, Abingdon.-
Press, Nashville 2, Tenn.
Jewish Campaign; and this chief undertak- Cokesbury
The country's leading Bible scholars, under the guidance of
ing in our community can not afford to suf- the editor of Abingdon-CokeSbury Press, Nolan B. Harmon, and
fer -further diininishing returns. That is why the editorship of the Rev. George Arthur Buttrick, have compiled
the problem is 90 vital. That is why it is more than 1,100- pages of Volume I which contain general articles
necessary that the problem should be on the Old Testament, the Bible and expository articles on Genesis
Awned, that men of vision should come and ExOdus.
Seven maps illustrate the text.
forth with a solution that will eliminate
While it is entirely the work of Christians it is a thoroughly
overlapping and will avoid multiplicity of
labor in the gathering of funds, while, at unbiased work and is certain to be- helpful to Jewish as well as none
religious leaders and Bible students:
the same time, assuring support for all of . Jewish
with the presentatiOn of the text, this comnieni-
the Israeli and educational movements tary • Simultaneous
presents the exegetical expositions.
which must lean upon American Jewry for
In its general review of the Hible, the scholars review its.
support. Is there a solution at hand? Are significance and authority (Herbert H. Farmer), the Old Testa-
there men and women of wisdom who can ment Canon and its text and ancient versions (Arthur Jeffery),
cure our communal illnesses and solve this the Canon and ancient versions of the New Testament--(Edgar a.
I -Goodspeed and Ernest C. ColWell).
mounting problem?

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Impressive, Scholarly Volume

Of special interest is the article "The English Bible" by
Allen Wikgren. The student acquires excellent knowledge from
him on the. methods and types of translations, dating back many
centuries and including the 14th century Wycliffite Bible, the
15h
t t I th
Kin
J'ames
g Version the later
t century
rans
a
e
No
one
dares
to
imply
that
prominent
Except for the few years during which all
revised
versions
and
the
Jewish
and
Ronian Catholic Versions.
phases of anti-Semitism were held in disre- Government officials, are in any sense im-
The works of Rabbi Isaac Leeser and the Jewish Publication
bued
with
anti-Semitic
ideas.
We
have
too
pute, because we were at war with the Nazis,
Society are given special mention. -
vicious _propaganda against the Jews always much faith in the good sense of Americans
Then there are the articles on the history of the interpretation
was in evidence in Washington. Our nation's to believe that right-thinking people can be of the Bible through many periods, ancient, medieval and refor-
capital continually is flooded with the vilest misled too often. But the-American Jewish mation and modern. Essays on the literature of the Old Testament
type of literature disseminated by anti-Se- Congress and t h e Jewish Labor Cbmittee and on Prophetic literature will be -found to be of great merit.
Norman H. Snaith's "The Language' of the Old Testimen0
mites T- h e desks of all members of both seemed to agree that a man who was ready.
similarly
will claim great attention by Hebrew students and
literature
in
a
securi-
.to
employ
anti-Semitic
Houses of Congress often are cluttered with
those
interested
in the languages of Biblical times, including
fit
to
hold
an
'important
office.
ty case is not
the filth distributed by the bigots. Our Con
The Ladejinsky Case arose almost simu - ' the Aramaic and Arabic. The author comments interestingly,
gressmen and Senators showed the good
on modern recovery of Hebrew words.
sense of ignoring the trash, of relegating it taneously with. the release of the report of
The Old Testament World, the history. of Israel, the history of
,[
of
Representatives
Select
Com
the House
to the wastebaskets.
Israel's
religion and the faith. of Israel are subjects of special essays
Aggression in which by William F. Albright, Theodore .11. Robinson, James muilenburg, -.
But there comesa time when men in mittee on Communist anti-Semi
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inues
t
tism
con
it was _revealed that
and G. Ernest Wright.
high positions, who. should know better, - fall _ to
t-
.
A
exist
be
in
the
Iron
great
commentary
is
a.
welcome
addition
to
Biblical.liter.#.,..
This
prey to the lie of anti-Semitism. That is ex- that is alert, as ours is, to the dangers - of
ature, and is a remarkable compilation of Christian viewpoints on
actly what had happened in the Wolf Lade-
anti-Semitism .in foreign lands, must not major subjects related to the Bible. It will be cherished by all who'-:

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Anti-Semitism Gets a Hearing in Washington

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jinsky case. A vile piece of literature reach-
- ed the desk of the executive assistant of the
Secretary of Agriculture. It struck him as
"classic,7 and the naive fellow released it.
The result of it may have been the meting
out of justice to the accused, Mr. Ladejinsky,
who, while fired as a "security risk" by the
Secretary of Agriculture, has now been as-
signed .to the Foreign Operations Adminis-
tration by the FOA director, Harold E.
Stassen.
In a sense, the reassignment of Wolf Lade-
jinsky to the FOA is an indictment of the
entire security investigation poliey in prac-
tice in this land at this -time. Mr. Ladejin-
sky's innocence is virtually admitted by his
reassignment to another Government agen-
cy, yet the department that has blundered
refuses to admit the error of its ways, and
instead of retaining its innocently-accused
employe it becomes a party to a_n anti-Se-
mitic scandal.
We are in accord with the statement of
the American Jewish Congress that while
the appointment of Mr. Ladejinsky to the.
FOA "rectifies a serious injustice to an in-
dividual, it does not lessen by an iota the
need for a thorough overhaul. of the entire
Federal employe security program." Per-
haps the stupidities that create scandals like
this one will force the clarification of the
entire security issue. At the moment, we are
concerned' with the anti-Semitic issue and
with the_shocidng manner in which an im-
portant Government official had been 'taken
in" by crackpot literature.

blunder into the error. of giving a. platform possess it.
to anti-Semites in this country. This is our
chief warning to naive officials who believe
they can atone for blunders with half-heart-
-ed apologies.
-INCIDENTS OF TRAVEL AND ADVENTURE

Far West Adventures

IN THE FAR WEST. By Solomon
N. Carvalho. Introduction by Bertram W. Korn, Jewish Publication :society.

The "Inequifable' Act

The exploration and settlement of the Middle and Far West
is one of the most dramatic episodes in the history of the United
of adventure was in every AMeridan heart; and
President Eisenhower, who has referred States. The spirit
perhaps even more than the discovery of gold, that
was
*that,
it
to the McCarran Immigration Act's "inequi- lured and made Easterners look with longing towards the Weat.
table" and "discriminatory" provisions, in John C. Fremont vas the embodiment of this spirit. Young, gifted
his message to Congress, is being reminded of and courageous, he stood out as the hero of the day. All A _ meriei :
his 1952 campaign pledge to revise the un- was interested in the expedition which he undertook in 1854, to
find an easier route to link the Atlantic communities to the newer .
just law.
' It is generally agreed, as the New York ones • along the Pacific Coast.
When Fremont invited Solomon Nunes Carvalho to accompany
Times stated it editorially,_ that . the Presi:
Carvalho probably
dent should give "more push" to his efforts the expedition, he could not refuse. Indeed,
considered it an honor to accompany an explorer so lionized by
for the revisions of the unjust -measure.
the nation. Carvalho was an artist. His job was to 'record the
In the meantime, however, reports from journey.
in pictures, since he was also a daguerreotypist. Strange-
Washington indicate that the unfortunate ly enough, while the pictures and drawings which he made of the
Republicans
and
Democrats
who
alliance of
trip appear to have been lost, his verbal description has remained.
so staunchly suppOrted the bill, in spite of it iS, in fact, the only full description we have of this-adventurous
the warnings 'against it by liberals through journey under Fremont. •
The book was originally published in 1856 and has- been out
out•the land and in definance of the strong
print
for many years. The Jewish Publication Society has now
f
was
over
which
wofded
Truman
veto
ly
ridden overwhelmingly continues to .domi republished it as part of its contribution to the tercentenary: celer-.
bration of Jewish life on this continent. But while reissuing Car—
nate the scene. Predictions are that there valho's
account, without any change, the Society's edition also
the
measure
is no hope of revision and that
number of important additional features. Dr% Bertram
will remain in force. contains
a an authority on 19th century American Jewish history,
W. Korn,
of
enlightenment
against
The campaign
has written an introduction to the volume which gives the biogra-
the 'reactionary measure must, therefore, be phy of Carvalho and describes the background of the expedition.
continued with renewed vigor. Perhaps even Carvalho emerges, from this introduction, as an ardent Jew„ deeply: .
' concerned with the fate of Judaism and the. Jewish community.
the , mild words of President Eisenhower will
Moreover, Dr: Korn has added to the volume whatever examples,.
sere as a, aaiion-

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