Friday, February 8, 1957 — THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Our Letter Box

Reflections

Editor, The Jewish News:
President Eisenhower's re-
peated emphasis "that the only
aim of American foreign policy
is to establish peace with justice
throughout the world" recalls to
mind the following declaration
made by Chaim Nachman Bial-
ick shortly after the Kishenever
pogrom:
"Hem ,gash tzadek, yofia
meyad." -
"If there is justice, let it
come forth at once."
For, if, after I (Israel) will be
exterminated, will justice ap-
pear. Teh may its throne be
crushed forever.
Aaron M. Pregerson
17554 Roselawn.
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Seek Uncle

Editor, The Jewish News:
I am looking for my uncle,
Irving Schmerling, who, back
in 1938-39, used to live in Ann
Arbor, Mich. My parents corre-
sponded with him at that time.
Then something happened and
he stopped writing. During
World War II we lost track of
each other.
Although almost 20 years have
passed since we heard from
each other. I hope that he is
alive, and that you or your
readers may know of his where-
abouts.
Robert I. Schmerling
4, Shikun Ole Sin
Givat Olga
Hadera, Israel.

By MILTON FRIEDMAN

King Saud and The Concubine'

WASHINGTON—His Majesty
Saud Ibn Abd Al-Aziz, King of
Saudi Arabia, has aided Israel
by dramatizing the Arabs' medi-
eval feudalism before the eyes
of millions of Americans.
It is difficult for the average
American to .visualize the ex..;
treme backwardnesS: of Arab
regimes like 'Saud's. :l3Ut when
Saud arrived in WashingtOn he
brought the .10th Century with
him. His status as a despot was
visually demonstrated by Cruel-
faced bodyguards who wore
wicked scimitars and • huge
pistols.
At Washington's National. Air-
port, hundreds of women
pressed toward the landing strip.
They panted) eager for a v'i'ew
of the Lion of the Desert. But
when a bespectacled, elderly and
sloppy Saud shuffled from the
plane, the disappointment was
audible.
• Reporters noticed Saud'S at-

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tendants waiting on him hand
and foot. They heard a story
that he even brought his own
personal coffee cook along. He
apparently feared he might not
like the coffee brewed by Presi-
dent Eisenhower at the White
House.
The President's plane, "The
Columbine," brought Saud to
Washington. Reporters renamed
the plane; "The Concubine."
There wer é no concubines
aboard, however, only Azzam
Pasha, slick propagandist for
the Saudi Arabian legation, and
various other hirelings.
When the motorcade passed
near the Lincoln Memorial, • re-
porters wondered if Mr. Eisen-
hower called attention of the
Arabian slave trader to the
monument to America's Great
Emancipator. Men told members
of the fair sex they had better
go indoors lest Saud try to buy
them from Mr. Eisenhower. The

motorcade passed one of the 14
bands mustered for the gala
welcome. Pretty young drum
majorettes strutted in abbre-
viated little skirts. The king
stared, turning around in the
White House limousine to get a
better view. In Saudi Arabia,
women must go veiled. Even
wives of U.S. Aramco workers
may not wear shorts. So the
king strained his trachoma-
weakened eyes to appraise the
legs of American high-school
majorettes,

JDC Gets Norwegian Home
for Hungarian Refugees
The Fridtjof Nansen Home in
Bad Kreuzen, Austria, repre-
senting the Norwegian people's
contribution for the relief of
Hungarian refugees, was turned
over to the Joint Distribution
Committee to help meet the reli-
gious and other special needs of
Jewish refugees.

Israel Crippled by
12-Inch Snowfall

JERUSALEM, (JTA) — A
record snowstorm covered
Jerusalem and northern Gali-
lee with 10 and 12 inches of
snow last weekend, crippling
electricity a n d telephone
service.
The unusual cold wave ac-
companying the snow brought
a snowfall even to the nor-
mally hot Negev desert. Life
came to a virtual standstill
in snowbound Jerusalem,
halting what little traffic
normally exists on the sab-
bath. Sections of the capital
were left without electricity
when the storm knocked
down power lines.
Regular bus and taxi serv-
ice was suspended as vehicles
were unable to negotiate the
slippery streets.

ELECTRICITY--AND YOU

Judge Baum's Career
Marked by Success

Thirty -four -year - old Judge
Victor Baum is the youngest cir-
cuit judge ever to hold office
in Wayne County. Appointed
last December by Gov. Wil-
liams, he -has had a busy career.
A native Detroiter, Judge
Baum attended Central High,
where he earned state-wide
reputation as a debater. Gradu-
ating with honors, he attended
the University of Michigan.
He worked week-ends as a
shoe salesman, carried a heavy-
hour class load, continued de-
bating, joined a language club
and the school newspaper, and
was active in a charity drive,
there.
A 30-month stint as a combat
infantryman in France and Ger-
many interrupted his college
life. • He emerged as a Pfc with
the Purple Heart and a Bronze
Star.
After the war, he married
and entered Harvard Law,
School, where he was elected
editor of the Harvard Law Re-
view, a position honoring high-
est scholastic ability. He also
headed the school's Legal Aid
Bureau, which handled cases
for Bostonians too poor to hire
lawyers.
Returning to Detroit, he was
on the legal staff of the Ford
Motor Co. before entering -pri-
vate practice in 1950. He also
taught law at Wayne State Uni-
versity.
Recently, Justice Henry But-
zel, former Chief Justice of the
Michigan Supreme Court, - pub-
licly endorsed Judge Baum for
re-election to the circuit bench
in the Feb. 18 primary.

Algerian Rebels
Slay Seven Jews

PARIS (JTA)—Seven French
Jews were killed Sunday when
Algerian nationalists reopened
a campaign of terror aimed at
French rule in Algeria. The
seven, all occupants of an apart-
ment house at Nedromah, in
Western Algeria, included two
men, two women and three
young children.

what doth the
And now .
Lord thy God require of thee,
but to fear the Lord thy God,
to walk in all his ways, and to
love him, and to serve the Lord
thy God with all thy heart and
with all thy soul?
--neut. 10:12

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Published to observe the
anniversary of
Thomas A. Edison's birthwp
February 11, 1847.

FEB. 10-16. 1957

Electrical Association of Detroit

