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

Member American Association of English-Jewish Newspapers, Michigan Press Association, National Editorial
Association.
Published every Friday by The Jewish News Publishing Co., 17100 West Seven Mile Road, Detroit: 35, Mich.
VE. 8-9364. Subscription $5 a year, Foreign $6.
Entered as second class matter Aug. 6, 1952, at Post Office, Detroit, Mich., under Act of March 3, 1879.

PHILIP SLOMOVITZ

Editor and Publisher

FRANK SIMONS

SIDNEY SHMARAK

City Editor

Advertising Manager

Sabbath Scriptural Selections
This Sabbath, the twenty-ninth day of Heshvan, 5717, the following Scriptural selections
will be read in our synagogues:
Pentateuchal portion, Toledoth, Gen. 25:19 -28:9. Prophetical portion, I Sam. 20:18-42.
Readings of the Torah on Rosh Hodesh Kislev, Sunday and Monday, Num. 28:1-15.

Licht Benshen, Friday, Nov. 2, 5:10 p.m.

VOL. XXX. No. 9

November 2, 1956

Page Four

Every Man a Ruler on Tuesday, Nov. 6

On Tuesday, November 6, we will
reaffirm our freedom to act as electors, as
participants in our Government, as the
selectors of our Government.
Having informed ourselves about the
issues in the current campaign, with
opinions that have a bearing on domestic
and foreign issues, we now owe a respon-
sibility to ourselves, to all our fellow-
Americans, to our Government, to cast
= our ballots so that we may truly be the
governing element in our _Government,
by having chosen our Government.
Our way is not by bullets but by bal-
lots. When all the shouting is over, let
it not be said that .the result was by de-
fault—by default of anyone's votes. Ogden
Nash defined the non-voter in this des-
criptive verse:

They have such refined and delicate
palates
that they can discover no one worthy
of their ballots,
and then when someone terrible gets
elected,
they say, "There, that's just what
I expected!"

When the votes are counted, let it
never be said that indifference played a
role in the result; let the American idea
of rule by the majority remain the dom-
inant factor in our political life.
Let it never be said that we lost our

voices on this important day in our lives.

the
voiceless

your vote is your yoke-
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don't lose it

Let us speak in the manner in which
we have been blessed as Americans —
through the vital instruments which give
us such great power on Election Day.
On Tuesday, the Day of Judgement,
let it be as effective as our democracy.
The whole world is watching us at this
time. Let the world know that we practice
what we preach, that we are truly the
People of Freedom.
Vote on Tuesday—and have the satis-
faction of knowing that you, that all of us,
"govern" the government,-thereby re-dedi-
cating ourselves, by our very lives, by our
ideals and devotions, to the preservation
of our government.

The UN, Israel and th e Armistice Agreement

Secretary General Dag Hammarskj old
of the United Nations has informed the UN
General Assembly, on the eve of its re-
convening for its 11th annual session, that
he does "not consider it necessary" for the
Assembly to consider the Palestine Ques-
tions. His reasoning is that the Security
Council handles that matter. Mr. Ham-
marskjold apparently has adopted this line
of action in order to pursue his own nego-
tiations with the nations involved in the
controversy, in the hope of assuring a
lasting cease-fire.
It is, of course, sincerely to be hoped
that his "direct diplomatic approach" will
succeed and that there will be an end to
the fighting that results from infiltrations.
The ultimate success of any peace mission,
it stands to reason, must end in the direct
peace talks among the contending nations
themselves.
In the meantime, the Security Council
and the spokesmen for the world powers
are being put to the test, in the debates
over Israel's and Jordan's charges and
counter-charges.
Last week, in his statement' to the Se-
curity Council, Israel's Ambassador Abba
Eban emphasized that his government
"will start no war . .. It will initiate no
violence • . . It will faithfully observe
the cease-fire so long as the cease-fire is
observed by the other side . . . We are
ready for the full implementation of the
Armistice Agreement by all its signatories.
We are ready for a transition to peace."
But he found it necessary to add:
"For one thing we are not ready. We
are not ready to sit back and suffer the
consequences of a unilateral Arab bel-
ligerency. We are not ready to be the
passive victim of a regulated assault.
We are not ready to admit that Arab
forces have a right to send their troops
and 'commando' units to kill and plunder
in Israel and then seek the shelter- of the
armistice line as a barrier against defen-
sive action . . .
"We do not believe that force is the
answer to the problems of Arab rela-
tions. The essential destiny of Israel lies
in its vision of social progress; its im-
pulse for economic development; its mis-
sion to vindicate and renew the oldest
of mankind's spiritual traditions. To
these horizons, and not to the fierce pas-
sions, of war, we would willingly dedi-

cate every resource of hand and mind.
But if we are submitted to armed attack
we must act, as would any government
in our place, to give our hard pressed
people a minimal sense of security and
protection."
Surely, the nations of the world must
recognize the logic of such claims to the
right to defend the lives of the people of
Israel and the security of their state. Ele-
mentary justice demands that a people's
right to defend itself should be encouraged.
Once this is established, there will be a
better chance for the United Nations to
secure the cooperation of the Arab nations
in an effort to stop infiltrations, and to end
their organized fedayeen invasions.
Actually the UN is on trial. If the
outrages against Israel can not be stopped,
it means that the UN is helplesss in the
matter. The world organization must re-
gain strength in that area of world ten-
sions. Else, the entire peace effort, every-
where, will be greatly weakened.
The new tragic developments, Israel's
defensive action, which must be inter-
preted as having been taken under com-
pulsion, proves again that unless the
world's powers take decisive steps for
peace, we will always be on the brink of
war and the United Nations will end in
a farce. That must never be. Let there be
positive and wise action, before there is
worldwide collapse.
No one can speak with certainty at this
time about the outcome of the new erup-
tions in the Middle East. These editorial
columns, dating back at least four or five
years, will attest to our having pleaded
with our own Government, with the demo-
cratic nations of the world, to strive for
peace in the Middle East at costs, to insist
upon direct talk between Israel and the
Arabs. These appeals have been ignored.
There was criminal indifference to the
tragic world situation. But even now it is
not too late for action, for peace talks, for
agreements which will straighten inequit-
able border lines that must lead to strife
as long as they invite friction. The present
outburst may not last, but its aftermath
may lead to a worsening of conditions.
Let there be a striving for peace — by
both contending factions — through a
recognition of the reality of Israel's ex-
istence. Then we may, at last, achieve
peace for mankind.

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`A Confirmation of the Book of Books'

'The Bible As History'

"The Bible As History," by Werner Keller, translated from
the German by William Neil, is presented as "a confirmation of
the Book of Books." It delves into 4,000 years of archaeology
and science to document the analyses.
A best seller in Germany, this book was circulated in Europe
and now appears in this country for the first time from the
press of William Morrow & Co. (425 4th, NY 16). It is an all-.
inclusive volume, leading up to the finding of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
There are two sections, Digging Up the Old and the New
Testaments, a third, "Let There Be Light," describing discovered
manuscripts, and scores of illustrations. The analyses of the Testa-
ments are interestingly executed, and are explained by applica-
tion of facts derived from archaeological expeditions and scientific
research.
The author poses the question that has been "pressing for
an answer since early times: How is it possible that apart from
the books of the New Testament no contemporary records exist"
which deal with the events in. the days of Jesus? "It was only
when the numbers of his followers made them a force to be
reckoned with in terms of world history that his name began
to be mentioned at all."
The chapter "The Last Journey, Trial and Crucifixion" there-
upon states:
"Josephus, in his Antiquities of the Jews, which he wrote
in the last part of the first century of the Christian Era, in
referring to the early Christian community in Jerusalem, speaks
of 'Jesus who was called Messiah.' Tacitus, the Roman historian
mentions Jesus specifically in his Annals while explaining the
meaning of the word 'Christians': 'Christ, from whom they de-
rived their name, was condemned to death by the procurator
Pontius Pilate in the reign of Emperor Tiberius.'
"The most important comment comes, however, from the
Roman Suetonius. He is describing a Messianic movement during
the reign of Claudius, who was Roman emperor from A.D. 41 to
54. Suetonius says of him in his book The Twelve Caesars: 'He
drove the Jews out of Rome who were rioting because of
Chrestus.' The writer Orosius mentions that this expulsion took
place in the ninth year of Claudius's reign, that is, A.D. 49. That
means that a Christian community is attested in Rome not more
than fifteen to twenty years after the Crucifixion.
"There is, in the Acts of the Apostles, an amazing corrobora-
tion of this Roman evidence. When Paul came from Athens to
Corinth, he found there 'a certain Jew named Aquila, born in
Pontus, lately come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla: because
that Claudius had commended all Jews to depart from Rome.'
(Acts 18.2).'"
Perhaps this will serve as added incentive for those who
have blamed the Jews for the crucifixion to learn anew the truth:
that the killing was not by Jews but by the Romans.
The third portion of "The Bible As History" deals with
"The Creation Story" and has two concluding chapters of great
merit: one dealing with the Dead Sea Scrolls and another,
preceding it, "Rebuilding With the Help of the Bible." Here
the author states that since 1948 the Book of Books "has been
playing the role of a trusted adviser in the rebuilding of the
modern state of Israel ... The inexperienced settlers, to whom
the country was a completely unknown- quantity, found the
Old Testament of priceless assistance. It helped then to make
many a decision in questions of cultivation, afforestation, or
industrial development. It is nothing unusual even for experts
to consult it on doubtful problems." Dr. Walter Clay Lowder-
milk, the expert on agricultural economics,.is quoted to show
that he, too, turned to the Bible for guidance.
A fine evaluation is given of the Dead Sea Scrolls. The author
writes that "the final evaluation is yet to come," but he concludes
by stating that "perhaps we are on the eve of new and revolu-
tionary finds, which will bring the life of the earliest - Christian
communities to us." He expresses the view that the 2,000-year-
old manuscripts "add their unmistakable evidence," that "their
sacred words, handed down to us with integrity and faithfulness,
are the same as those that stand in our Bibles today."

