MISS MIRIAM SCHUMER

Jewish Education Habit Responsible Miss Pernick's Troth
to Dr. Spencer Told
for Numerous TV Quiz Winners

By DAVID SCHWARTZ •
There have been a large pro-
portion of Jews on television's,
quiz programs, probably all
traceable back to the Jewish
thirst for learning. The grand-
parents of many of those who
have appeared on this program
probably sat all day long and
"learned" the Talmud.
Education, not wealth, was
the old time Jewish ideal. Most
of the old old-
time Russian
Jews were poor
as church mice,
or shall I say
synagogu e
mice.
They tell the
story of one
Polish Jewish
rabbi whc
when handed BlOomgarden
a coin, didn't know what it was.
He was told you could buy fish
with it. Only then did he begin
to have a monetary concept.
The real wealth of the pious
Jews was learning. Today when
many Jews are not so pious,
they cannot get the old attitudes
about learning out of their sys-

At a recent dinner party, Mr.
and Mrs. Joseph Schumer, of
18464 Meyers, announced the
engagement of their daughter,
Miriam Sallie, to Cyril C. Ser-
vetter, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Morris Servetter, of 7138 That-
cher.
Mr. Servetter is a graduate of
Wayne State University's col-
planning an Aug. 11 wedding.
tem.
lege of education. The couple is
Among the Jewish winners
are Susan Sandler, of Oak Park,
Mich., Hank Bloomgarden,
`Statue of Liberty'
Teddy Nadler and Joyce Broth-
Proposed for Haifa
ers. Robert Strom is half and
HARTFORD, Conn. (JTA)— half. His mother is Jewish but
A proposal for the erection of not his father.
Teddy Nadler, the St. Louis
a statue in the Haifa harbor to
welcome new immigrants, sim- son of a Jewish shoemaker, can
name some 1,500 battles of the
ilar to the Statue of Liberty in
Civil War. Probably Grant and
New York harbor, has been Lee who commanded in the op-
approved by the Connecticut posing forces, couldn't have
Zionist region for action by the done so well.
next convention of The Zionist
Michael Hilprin, a distin-
Organization of America.
guished -Jew of the last cen-
Delegates to the state Zion- tury, might have matched.
ist convention urged the ZOA Nadler. Some of the generals
to conduct a nationwide fund of the Civil War would turn to
drive to finance the proposed him to verify „their accounts. He
statue as a gift from the Amer- had an encyclopedic knowledge
ican people to Israel. A pre- of the war and of many other
liminary sketch of tile statue things and, appropriately, con-
exhibited at the state conven- tributed to many encyclopedias.
tion showed a tablet of the ten
From the standpoint of dollars
commandments mounted on a and cents, it is debatable wheth-
Star of David as central theme. er it is desirable to know so
much. Nadler has a civil serv-
ice job paying $2 an hour. A lot
of people who can't quote all
of Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar"

I by heart as he can, earn much

More.

Nadler further admits that
sometimes people are annoyed
by his knowledge. They stand
around arguing and suddenly
he comes along—Mr. Know it
Master of Ceremonies
All.
and His Orchestra
However, the profitability or
Detroit's Leader in Entertainment
even the congeniality of know-
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ing so much is not the true
gauge. The old Jews emphasized
PHOTOGRAPHS by
that learning was reward in it-
self. Learning, said the Jewish
BERNARD H.
fathers, was not to be used "as
a spade" to dig. Up to the mid-
dle ages, rabbis were not even
paid.
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Dr. Kaufman Kohler used to
CANDIDS • 3-D • MOVIES
MISS ROSLYN PERNICK
tell of his teacher, a rabbi who
Mr. and Mrs. Harry C. Per
received no income from his
teaching or rabbinical job but nick, of Berkley, Ave., Oak
Plastic Furniture Covers
kept a little shop on the side.' Park, announce the engage-
MADE TO ORDER OR
He used to get angry when ment of their daughter, Roslyn
READY MADE
customers came in—they kept Nadine, to Dr. Milton H.
him from his studies. He had no Spencer, formerly of New York
CALL ANNA KARBAL
time to waste making money. and Chicago.
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Miss Pernick attended Wayne .!•;.• Separate Cushion Covers
A man who surely would have
done well on the $64,000 pro- 'State University, where she
gram was Abraham Ibn Ezra, majored in English. Her fiance
and how he could have used $64, is a graduate of New York and
Make It a Memorable Day
Cornell Universities.
to say nothing of $64,000.
With
An
associate
professor
at
He wrote • scores of books.
Whenever he wanted a book, he Wayne State, Dr. Spencer also
sat down and wrote one. He is an economic consultant to
wrote on the Bible, astronomy, several major corporations and
mathematics, poetry and phil- is the author of several books
and His Orchestra
osophy. He helped invent the and articles in the business and
astrolabe which Columbus used. economics fields.
The couple plans to wed on
Another man I would like to
Aug. 10.
see on the $64,000 program is
Louis Lipsky. For a knowledge
scarcely has a match. The Zion-
ist leader flirted for a time
From Corsage to That Special Occasion
with the idea of going on the
stage, but found the call of the
MAKE IT
drama of a restored Zion ir-
resistible.

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CARD OF THANKS
The family of the late Charles
J. Laskey . acknowledge with
grateful appreciation the many
kind expressions of sympathy
extended by relatives and
friends during the family's re-
cent bereavement.

Mr. and Mrs. Harry Nedel-
man, of Elmhurst Ave., an-
nounce the engagement of their
daughter, Bernice, to- Maurice
Betman, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Sam Betman, of Tuller Ave.
The young couple are June
graduates of Wayne State Uni-
versity. While at Wayne, the
bride-to-be majored in educa-
tion and her fiance in business
FRED MARRICH
management. He is affiliated
The Young.Marrieds Group of
Temple Israel elected Fred with Mu Beta Chi professional
Marrich to the organization's business fraternity.
presidency at the fifth annual
A December wedding is
meeting Tuesday, in the temple. planned.
Marrich, who succeeds Frank
Simons in office, will be assisted
Name Lee M. Shulman
by the following slate:
Mrs. Harold Boigon, program Junior B. C. President
vice-president; Mrs. Moe Trau-
Lee M. Shulman, who for
rig, membership vice-president; seven years was a member of
Mesdames Leslie West and the Recorder's Court psychia-
Albert Kaufman, secretaries; tric clinic and now is a consult-
and Albert Borkin, treasurer.
ing phychologist with offices in
Elected to two-year terms on the Penobscot Bldg., was elect-
the board of directors were ed president of the Detroit Jun-
Messrs. and Mesdames Louis ior Board of Commerce.
Fried, Bernard Goodman, Jerry
A native Detroiter, Shulman,
Graef, Jerome Ross and Norman who lives with his wife and
Ross, while elected to a one-year four children at 17680 Gran-
term was Mr. and Mrs. Sidney ville, is active in Jewish com-
Kirman.
munal affairs, including the
Dr. Leon Fram, rabbi of Tem- Evergreen Jewish Congregation
ple Israel, answered questions and Congregation Shaarey Ze-
on his trip to Germany as the dek.
guest of the Bonn government
He is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
in an "Ask the Rabbi" program Harry M. Shulman, of Wood-
which concluded the meeting.
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Miss Schumer Plans
to Wed on Aug. 11

