Histadrut Plaques Honor Veteran Workers
Broadway Boombahs Israel's Anniversary
By DAVID SCHWARTZ
(Copyright, 1958, JTA, Inc.)
At a program officially closing the
annual Histadrut campaign, NORMAN
COTTLER (right), campaign treasurer,
presents plaques to veteran drive work-
ers, shown, from left to right, MAU-
RICE BAKER, MORRIS HAYET, BEN-
JAMIN LAIKIN, NATHAN ROSE and
JACK MALAMUD.
Elect Seven Jews
UAHC Leader Predicts Decrease
S. African Posts
of U.S. Jewish People by One-Third to JOHANNESBURG
(JTA) —
KANSAS CITY, Mo., (JTA)
The number of Jews in the
United States will drop below
5,000,000 by 1975 and their
percentage within the entire
population will decline by
nearly one-third, Dr. Arthur
T. Jacobs, administrative secre-
tary of the Union of American
Hebrew Congregations, de-
clared at the five-day meeting
of the National Association of
Temple Secretaries of the Re-
form movement.
Drawing on a recent Federal
Census Bureau survey of the
population, Dr. Jacobs said
that while Protestants and
Catholics were increasing in
numbers and percentages, Jews
were failing to maintain their
own position and would, in
less than 20 years, decline from
3.2 percent of the population
to 2.2 percent.
The Census Bureau's survey
was the first in which a re-
presentative population sample
was aked: "What is your re-
ligion?"
Other than increasing the
birth rate, Dr. Jacobs pointed
out, two possibilities exist for
increasing the number of Jews:
through immigration or conver-
sion of Christians.
He said large-scale Jewish
immigration was "beyond the
realm of our expectations' but
replacement of the McCarran
Walter Act by "a decent im-
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migration law" might swell the
"present trickle of Jewish im-
migration into a small stream."
Dr. Jacobs expressed the
opinion that there are hun-
dreds of ,thousands of nominal
Christians who would find Re-
form Judaism a "satisfying re-
ligion," but it could not come
about "unless our rabbis come
to believe it necessary and are
given time and tools to do the
job," he said.
The Reform leader noted
that population statistics high-
lighted another important con-
gregational problem—service to
aging Jews. The latest statis-
tics, he pointed out, showed
that over 37 percent of Ameri-
can Jews were past 45 and
that there were already an
excess of 43,000 Jewish women
over Jewish men in the age
groups past 65.
He warned that unless the
Reform congregations became
"sensitive to this problem,"
they would "either lose this
older group or retain them as
nominal members" but fail to
serve them adequately.
Seven Jews were among the 163
new members of the South Af-
rican Parliament in an election
which strengthened the nation-
alist party of Premier Strijdom.
One Jewish MP lost his seat and
four other Jewish candidates
were defeated.
Hyman Miller, Helen Suzman
and Abraham Le Kowarsky were
returned unopposed for the
United party in three Johannes-
burg seats. Dr. E. L. Fisher and
Dr. Boris Wilson were elected
by large majorities for the
United party in two other Jo-
hannesburg contests. MP Leo
Lovell, Labor party member,
lost his seat by a heavy vote to
the United party in Benoni.
The other winning Jewish
candidates were Abe Bloomberg
and Charles Barnett, both of
Capetown, who won election in
a special balloting two weeks
before the general election. The
special election was for four
seats to represent the interests
of the Cape colored and the
mixed population.
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"You can't keep the wind from
blowing, Boombah!
You can't keep the tide from
blowing, Boombah!
You can't keep the spring from
turning again
And you can't keep the dream
from growing,
The dream that has become Is-
rael, Boombah.
Then there follows a whole
chain of Boombahs, climaxing
with a final shouted Boombah.
Rome's first hit was Pins and
Needles, for which he wrote the
music and lyrics. Some 20 years
ago, the entire country was
singing his song, "Franklin D.
Roosevelt Jones."
Rome got the idea for the
song first when he visited Is-
rael in 1954. He was tremen-
dously thrilled then. He had a
feeling of pride and of being
at home. Maybe, he says, it
was like the feeling that a
Catholic has in being in Vatican
City, or an American Irishman
visiting Ireland.
Rome visited Israel along
with James Waterman Wise,
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Gov. Wiliams States
Recession May Bring
Race Relations Tension
NEW YORK (JTA)—A warn-
ing that "a deepening of the
economic recession may bring a
crisis in groups relations" in
this country was sounded by
Governor G. Mennen Williams,
speaking at the inaugural din-
ner of the 1958 Joint Defense
Appeal campaign at the Wal-
dorf Astoria.
"In times of economic ten-
sion, it can be very easy to set
one group against another in
the competition for jobs," the
Governor said. "It can be very
easy to wipe out the principle
of equal opportunity in promo-
tions and equal pay for the
same work. In Michigan, steps
are being taken to assure the
strictest, fullest enforcement
of the state's Fair Employment
Practices Act in view of the
serious unemployment situa-
tion."
Noting that more than 14
percent of Michigaris labor
force is now idle, the Governor
said that, "the economic crisis
faces us all, no matter what
our race or religion." He added
that "discrimination is a politi-
cal liability to us on the world
scene. I am not referring to
discrimination in education and
jobs only, but discrimination in
housing and resorts and promo-
tional opportunities,"
he stressed.
The dinner formally opened
Joint Defense Appeal's national
drive to raise $5,600,000 in be-
half of programs for combating
bigotry and discrimination and
safeguarding democratic rights.
JDA is the fund-raising agency
for the American Jewish Com-
mittee and the Anti-Defama-
tion League of Bnai Brith.
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DETROI TJEWISH NEWS—Friday, May 2,
Broadway is going boombah
over Israel's tenth anniversary.
Harold Rome, one of Broad-
way's top popular song writers,
has written a song for the an-
niversary celebration called
Boombah. The chorus goes:
the son of the late Stephen
Wise. One of the places they
visited was a little village
named after Wise. The two
came to the office of the Mayor
of the settlement unidentified.
In the office, they looked up
above the desk to see a large-
sized painting of Stephen Wise.
The Mayor looked at Jimmy
and then at the picture.
"You are the son of Rabbi -
Wise?" he asked.