Humor Against Politics is
Knesset's `Secre t Weapon'

Israel's Parliament has a "se-
cret weapon" whose "penetra-
tive force and direct effective-
ness can hardly be matched."
Unlike the hydrogen bomb and
. guided missiles, the Knesset'S se-
cret weapon is made up of words.
Whenever the Knesset is in
session and an unusually trou-
t bled situation occurs in which
, the gavel- is no longer effective
and tension threatens to disrupt
the proceedings, the secret wea-
pon is put into action.
With. a short remark Speaker
Joseph Sprinzak causes waves of
laughter and the tension soon
dissolves into. guffaws.
The "secret weapon," of course,
w Is the weapon of humor. -
Humor is used by Knesset
members, by government and
opposition forces alike, but
Speaker Sprinzak is the ack-
nowledged master of the "secret
weapon."
One of Mr. Sprinzak's main
problems is to keep the deputies
from delivering long speeches.
; This habit is a relic of pre-State

Turkey 'Regrets'a Riots
Victimizing Jewish Life

JERUSALEM, (JTA) — The
. Turkish legation in Israel has
expressed the Turkish 4 govern-
ment's regrets that Jews were
molested .during the recent anti-
Greek riots in many Turkish
cities.
The Turkish government, the
legation said, assures Israel that
, there is no intention nor ten-
dency to affect in any form the
security or rights of Turkish
Jews.
At the same time, the legation
drew the attention of the Israel
' government to a Turkish govern-
ment statement explaining the
background of the riots, which
began in reaction to Greek de-
mands that Cyprus be returned
to Greece.

Hadassah FOunder Dies at 64

NEW YORK, (JTA) — Mrs.
Gertrude Goldsmith Rosenblatt,
one of the founders of Hadas-
sah, died here Oct. 9. She was
64. Born and educated in New
York City, Mrs. Rosenblatt be-
came active in Zionist work at
an early age and in 1912 was 'as-
sociated with the late Henrietta
Szold in the founding of Hadas-
sah. She was also a founder of
Young Judea, Zionist youth
group.

Haifa Technion Professor,
Neumann, Dies at 68

TEL AVIV,. (JTA) — Funeral
services were held for Prof.
Heumann, who was a prominent
member of the staff. Hundreds
of members of the Technion staff+
and students, as well as many
Israel architects, attended the
services.

Mexican Chief Rabbi Dies
MEXICO CITY, (JTA)—Rabbi

Abraham Levy Villalobos, Seph-
ardic Chief Rabbi of Mexico, died
here at the age of 82. Rabbi Vil-
lalobos came to Mexico in 1923
from Instanbul where he had
served for many years as a mem-
ber of the Sephardic Beth Din.

In the service of love,' sacri-
fice becomes a grace.—Einstein

days, carried over from Zionist
conferences and party debates.
The speaker, however, firmly in-
sists that everyone strictly ob-
serve their time limits.
Once, during a debate on the
problems of the maabarot, a 15-
minute time limit had been set. A
General Zionist deputy was still
speaking when the Speaker re-
minded her that her time was up.
She replied that she was adding
the time of another of her party's
representatives who had signed
up, but had decided not to take
the floor.
"If he will not speak," observed
the speaker, "it will be the Knes-
set that benefits—but it can't be

you."

At another session one speaker
began by remarking: "I shall be
short . . .
"You may be long," the speak-
er interjected, "provided you
finish within the three minutes at
your disposal."
Sarcasm and humor often be-
come part of the battle among
various political parties. Dur-
ing a meeting of the Economic
Committee, after the members
had listened to a long report,
a Mapam representative turned
to the committee chairMan,
who belonged to Herut: "Now
that we've heard the report,
said the Mapam delegate, "we
can exchange views." To which
the chairman remarked: "Here,
we don't exchange views; ev-
eryone sticks to his own."
The chairman of the Labor
Committee' of Mapai, is reported
to be a faithful reader of the
Mapam daily, Al Hamishmar.
Asked why, he explained: "You
see I suffer from low blood pres-
sure and reading Al Hamishmar
is good for me."
The Budget debate had come to
an end and the speaker was now
calling for a vote. With the ex-
penditure items accepted, the in-
come section was now before the
House.
"Who votes no?" the speaker
asked.
"The taxpayer!" shouted a del-
egate.
On one occasion the Finance
Minister had taken three hours to
explain the government's econ-
omic policy. A deputy remarked
the U.S. Secretary of the Treas-
ury keeps his speeches very
short.
"Well," observed the Finance
Minister, "the U.S. Minister does
not have to talk so long, He al-
ready has billions. . "

Police Investigate
British Anti-Semitsm

LONDON (JTA) —A number
of Jewish owned shops in Bir-
mingham England's second larg-
est' city, were plastered with
anti-Semitic signs in the latest
of a recent wave of anti-Jewish
incidents in that city.
The signs read: "Nationalists
of the world unite. You have
nothing to lose but your Jews."
It is believed that the signs were
pasted up by members of a group
known as "Birmingham Nation-
alists." Police are investigating
the incidents.
This group is also believed re-
spOnsible for the painting of
white swa.stikaS on the doors of
the Birmingham Synagogue, the
chalking of anti-Jewish slogans
on walls during the last general
election campign, and the plas-
tering of "cancelled" notices over
billboards advertising a recent
concert in Birmingham of the
touring Israel Philharmonic Con-
cert.

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El Al Replaces Downed
Constellation with U.S. Craft

TEL AVIV (JTA)—El• Al-
Israel National Airlines has pur-
chased two new four-engine Con-
stellation passenger planes, it was
announced by Dr. Abraham Riv-
kind, general director of the
company. The two ships, pur-
chased in the United States, cost
$1,650,000.
One of the aircraft will replace
the Constellation shot down by
the Bulgarian fighters last July
and the second will be used to
expand the airline's service. Dr.
Rivkind noted that of the 63,000
tourists who entered Israel in the
first nine months of • this year,
40 percent came by El Al planes.

And . .. he appointed singers
unto the lord, and that should

praise the beauty of holiness,
as they went out before the
army. —Chron. 20:21

Washington Jeweler Now a Painter;
Exhibits First Work in One-Man Show

By BETH SIEROTY

(Copyright, 1955, Jewish Telegraphic
Agency, Inc.)

WASHINGTON — An artist
whose works belong to childhood
memories of Biala, Poland, is
presently charming Washing-
tonians with his colorful can-
vasses which recall Shadchens,
Seders and Simhat Torah.
Sixty-two - year-old Abraham
Blustein, who gave up his Wash-
ington wholesale jewelry busi-
ness five years ago to turn to the
painter's palette, is now publicly
presenting his first one-man
show at the Franz Bader gallery
here. The collection of paintings
is entitled "Folkways in Retro-
spect" and represents, for the
most part, the artist's emotional
communion with his early years
in the Polish Jewish community.
Blustein's style has been
described as "primitive," but it
is also personal and warm. Any
perceptive spectator can see that
this artist .paints from his heart.
The good portion of Blustein's
exhibited canvases are filled with
simple forms, glowing in color,
bustling with activity, ignoring
perspective. He has put much of
himself and his deepest memories
into his paintings. This is how he
thinks it should be. Mr Blustein
who left Poland for the U. S.
at the age of 18 says, "I am com-
pletely convinced that Jewish
themes are my field.. I want to
paint Jewish . it is my herit-
age. And if my paintings are in
any way good, perhaps my grand-
children will sense the culture
which I absorbed."
Recollections of a Jewish
funeral procession, a synagogue,
the village markets, rustic town
types, rabbis, horses, pigs, and
shrubbery are all detailed in - a
large and filled canvas entitled
"Biala."
Signs of , Marc Chagill, a Rus-

U. S. Jewish Leaders Warn
Against Cairo Arms Pact
The presidents of seventeen
major American Jewish organiz-
ations declared in a joint state-
ment issued here today (Thurs-
day, October 6) that they share
Secretary of State Dulles' con-
cern over Egypt's arms agree-
ment with a Communist state
and warned that it "can only
prejudice peace in the Middle
East and have adverse effects on
the security of the free world:"
The statement called on the
United States Government to
impress "on the Cairo Govern-
ment and on any other govern-
ment \of like disposition any-
where in the world, that we shall
not succumb to pressure on
matters of conscience and higher
self interest."

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sian.artist, pop up in Blustein's
paintings in the form of a blue
goat or an orange horse hoofed
in red. Blustein frankly admits,
however, that his prime influence
and inspiration during his past
painting years has been chagail.
When Chagall paints, it is from
hiS inner world, and this is "life
itself," said Blustein. "What I
like about Chagall's work," Blu 7.
stein continued, "is his sensitivi-
ty, his combination of colors, and
his expression of Yiddish idioms."

Yiddish Troupes Play
To Packed Houses in

Kovno

TEL AVIV, (JTA)—The Jew-
ish community of Kovno, capital
of Soviet Lithuania, is now un-
dergoing reorganization, and Yid-
dish is once again being heard
in its streets, it was reported
here by Mrs. Dinah Klonner, 6,5-
year-old woman who arrived in
Israel.
She said that a Yiddish troupe
from Moscow had arrived there
recently and had given perform-
ances before capacity audiences
in' various theaters.
• At the same time, an Israel
sailor, returning from the Ru-
manian port city of Konstanza;
reported that the synagogue
there is closed and that no High
Holiday services were held there.

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