By DAVID SCHWARTZ

(Copyright, 1957, JTA, Inc.)

It is told of the atomic
scientist, Dr. Robert Oppen-
heimer, that in his student
days, he wrote to a friend: "It's
so hot all I can do is lie on
the bed and read Gesenius'
Mathematical Equations of
Sublunary Gases."
The weather must have been
something like now. We would
not care under these conditions
to read the light literature that
regaled Dr. Oppenheimer. Our
preference would be to go to
the North Pole, like Peter
Freuchen, a good Zionist who
has spent years exploring the
Arctic regions.

Theodor Herzl forevisioned
Israel as teaching the world
how to make the warm re-
gions of the earth more con-
genial for man's habitation,
and I don't doubt that man
will also learn to make the
excessively cold regions more
suitable for people who are
not Eskimos.

There have been a consider-
able number of Jewish ex-
plorers of the frosty northern
regions. To mention two out-
standing ones: Angelo Heilprin,
the son of the distinguished
Michael Heilprin of Civil War
days, who headed the Peary
Relief Expedition; and the pre-
maturely cut off Edward Israel
who was with the Greeley ex-
pedition in the 'eighties and
of whom many expected great
things.
A considerable number of
our brethren are not too far
from the Pole—in Alaska. A
couple of friends of the present
writer moved there 10 years
ago. They came back some
months ago, but only for a
temporary stay.
They live in Teakell, Alaska.
In fact they, are the only resi-
rents of this Alaskan town.
The nights are long in Teakell.
For six months there is little
sun, but they like it.

in the seal • fisheries and they
succeeded in obtaining a 20-
year contract for the exploita-
tion of those fisheries.
The U.S. not only got Alaska,
but the company of Jewish
furriers paid Uncle Sam more
than $7,200,000 in fees and
rentals—as much as the U.S.
paid Russia for the whole of
Alaska.
Also, says Postal, the Ger-
stell company built roads and
trading posts and launched a
line of steamships between
San Francisco and the Alaskan
cities—all as part of the con-
tract.
The Jews and the Eskimos
seem to get along very well
According to Postal, many
Eskimos claim to be of Jewish
ancestry. There has been con-
siderable intermarriage.
The two Eskimos, Mala and
Rae Wice, both of whom star-
red in recent moving pictures
with an Alaskan background
both claimed to be of Jewish-
Eskimo ancestry.
A number of Jews have risen
to political prominence in
Alaska. Isidore Goldstein
served six terms as Mayor of
Juneau and Dr. Rex Swartz
has been Mayor of Nome.
There has been a Jewish
Federal Judge in the territory
and the former Governor of
the territory was Jewish.
Obviously, there is little or
no anti-Semitism in Alaska. I
suppose in a snowstorm no one
is an anti-Semite.

End of Polish
Jewry Predicted

LONDON, (JTA) — The his-
tory of the Polish Jewish com-
munity is coming to an end,
H. A. Goodman, Agudas Israel
leader, declared upon his re-
turn from a visit to Poland. He
estimated that " in a compara-
tively short period Jewish com-
munal life in Poland will be
Jews were among the first
terminated, for all practical
white settlers to go to Alaska, purposes."
some of them going with the
With the exception of a small
Russian fleets which first
hard
core, Goodman said, emi-
occupied that country and,
according to Bernard Postal, gration from Poland will go on.
an authority on Jewish He expressed the belief that but
for new problems which have
Americana, it was a couple
arisen, such as the arrival of
of Jews, by the names of
repatriates
from the Soviet
Gerstell and Goldstein who
Union,
emigration
would have
got Secretary Seward in-
been greater. He estimated the
terested in the idea of
number of repatriated Jews at
America buying Alaska from
about 6,000 and said they had
Russia.
to contend with many difficul-
The two Jews were interested ties.
Goodman reported that Polish
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Jewish leaders would like to
WE ARE NOW
see the remains of tens of
thousands of Jews slaughtered
and buried in Poland's fields
For WEDDINGS, SHOWERS,
and forests exhumed and rebur-
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year-old Sabra featured in sev-
eral Hollywood movies, has
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the cameras at MGM.

"EL TENAMPA"

LISTENING

WITH THE HELP of Joey
Adams, we dedicate this column
to a session of marital • fun-
festing (that is, the masculine
side of it) . . According to
Joey, research tells us that 50%
of all Married couples today
are wives, and the other 50%
says that they are glad to live
in a free country where a
man can still do as his wife
pleases! . . . "The average wo-
man," says Joey, "worries about
the future until she gets a hus.
band. The average man never
worries about it until he gets
a wife. Don't misunderstand,
marriage is a wonderful institu-
tion, my wife tells me, and any-
way, this would be a pretty
scarce world without women.
When 'the boys' get together,
the target is always the little
woman.' My wife leads a dou-
ble life,' complained one suf-
ferer, 'hers and mine.' Another
husband moaned, 'One way to
get along with your wife is to
let her think she has her own
way and then let her have it.'
`When my wife goes shopping,'
wailed another, 'she comes
home with everything but
money.' One husband bragged,
`The neighbors have never
heard an angry word from us.
We have the apartment sound-
proofed.' Another sulked, 'My
wife's away and the whole
apartment seems empty—except
for the sink. That's full of
dishes.' Most bachelors,' groan-
ed one poor soul, 'have no idea
what married bliss is—and
that's true about us married
men, too!' The divorce courts
tell us, says Joey, that money
is the root of all idylls. You
can tell when a man is out with
his wife—he counts his change.
You can tell a bachelor—he
counts his janes—and you can
tell a divorced man—he counts
his blessings! One sour spouse
tallied up his - years of marri-
age, adds Joey. "I met her 181
checkbooks ago!" . . Another
grumbled, "My wife and I have
a joint account. I deposit it and
she draws it out." ... Joey tells
about the wife who phoned her
estranged husband that she was
going to kill herself. So he sent
her a few bucks. Next day she
phoned him in a fury and de-
manded, "How do you expect
me to live on this?" ". . . Joey's
swell wife Cindy gets into the
at (in his bank "Cindy and I"
published by Crown) and re-
lates about the woman taking
a stand in front of their friends
at the party. "Why are you
knocking marriage?" she
screamed at her husband. "You
never had it so good. You men
are all alike." "Don't misunder-
stand me," he tried to square
himself. Ninety-eight per cent.
of the men love marriage—but
it's a funny thing, I keep run-
ning into the other two per
cent."

Israel Expects 120,000
Immigrants This Year,
Rabbi Friedman Reports

Basil & Nate, Prop.

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Veterans Visit Israel;
Invite Israelis to U.S.

Bnai Brith Speaker
Optimistic About
Future of Yiddish

STARLIGHT, Pa. — Yiddish
literature— far from being a
cultural has-been—"is fast com-
ing into its own as one of the
great modern literatures of our
time," according to a literary
scholar speaking before a Bnai
Brith Institute of Judaism here.
Dr. Hasye Cooperman, a lec-
turer at the New School for So-
cial Research in New York and
an authority on comparative
literature, backed up her con-
tention that Yiddish is not dead
by citing the growth of new
courses in Yiddish literature
and linguistics among some of
America's leading universities.
She said courses have been
added at Columbia UniverSity,
Wayne University, the City Col-
lege of New York, the New
School for Social Research and
Brooklyn College. Harvard Uni-
versity, Dr. Cooperman pointed
out, has an outstanding library
of Yiddish works.
Dr. Cooperman said she has
been impressed by the growing
interest of American literary
scholars, bath Jewish and non-
Jewish, in Yiddish as a modern
literature.
(J. N. Editor's Note: Dr. Coo-
perman was wrong about her
reference to Wayne University.
While Wayne State University
will have a department of Sem-
irk languages and literatures,
it will not include Yiddish.)

JERUSALEM, (JTA)—A dele-
gation of representatives of
American veterans organiza-
tions, who toured Israel as part
of President Eisenhower's "Peo-
ple to People" goodwill pro-
gram, left Israel after five days.
The delegation invited Israeli
veterans groups to send dele-
gates to the conventions of the
American groups. The leader of
the American group, L. K.
Gough, a past national com-
mander of the American Legion,
said that the visit had convinced
his group of the "'general de-
sire for peace" in Israel.
Another distinguished visitor
left Israel Sunday. He was a
Chaundhry, vice president of
the Pakistan Labor Federation,
who said he was "convinced that
Israel's desire for peace is genu-
ine since no country can busy
itself so much with building
and not 'desire peace." A guest
of the Histadrut, Mr. Chaun-
dhry promised to convey his
impressions of Israel to other
Pakistani labor leaders.

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How to Keep Cool in Summer .. .
A Note on Jews Who Settled Alaska

