No 'Pussyfooting' in Clearing South's Name Truman and Israel Editorials Page 4 THE_ jEWISH NE S A Weekly Revi, Michigan's Only English-Je , VOLUME XXXI I I -- No. 10 Printed in a 100% Union Shop oz, r).\, 441 e.\ ,4 cZ • Events of Jewish • —Incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle Jewish Delicacies .. . Essays on Yiddish Etymo- logy . . 'The Magic Barrel' Enchants the Reader Commentary, Page 2 VE 8-9364—Detroit 35, May 9, 1958 $5.00 Per Year; Single Copy 15c Major 41 sh Organizations Call for 1Federal Laws, FBI cition, to re.4. ant. - BortibinOs. American Jewish. Congress Sited by - Miami Beach:Uotel for 'Withdrawing oncl.ave MIAMI BEACH (JTA) — A spokesman for the Deauville Hotel announced Monday that the hotel has started a suit to _halt the national convention of the American Jewish Congress here May 14 - 18 and to ban the organization's expected 500 delegates from meeting at any other hotel in Florida. The court action came after the organization cancelled plans to hold the convention at the Deauville and re-scheduled the meeting for the Carillon Hotel. AJC spokesmen here said the switch was decided on 10 days ago after the organizatiOn received information the Deauville allegedly was anti-labor. "We received repeated assurances that the hotel was not anti-union," the American Jewish Congress declared in a statement, "but on April 21 we learned that the Deauville had obtained an injunction restraining the hotel and restaurant workers and bartenders local from normal labor organizational activity. Walter Reuther, president of United Auto Workers, is a speaker scheduled for the five-day meeting. • "It has always been a basic principle of the American Jewish Congress to support the rights of labor to organize and bargain collectively," the statement continued. "Upon ascertaining the true situation and in order to protect the interests and relationships of the AJC, we were compelled to change our plans at considerable expense." Bernard Fuller, attorney for the Deauville, said the hotel would file a damage suit against the Congress, "but at this time we cannot tell what our damages will be, and we are unable to set an amount which may be used in the suit." Six major national Jewish organizations joined in urging Congress to pass a pending bill that would make illegal possession or use of dynamite 'a federal crime. They also called on the Federal Bureau of Investigation to launch. an investigation into the recent bombings of Jewish centers and places of worship in southern cities. The American Jewish Congress, Jewish Labor Committee, Jewish War Veterans of the U.S.A., Union of American Hebrew Congregations, Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, and United Synagogue of America expressed their views in a statement made public in New York through their coordinating agency, the National Community Relations Advisory Council. They chiled for prompt enactment of H.R. 11806, introduced by Rep. J. Carlton Loser, of Tennessee, to make it a federal crime to transport between states, or to possess any dynamite so transported, intended for unlawful use. It would create the presumption that a federal law has been violated by anyone found to have dynamite in his possession against local state law. While maintaining that there is ample basis for federal intervention in the bombings that damaged Jewish centers and places of worship in Miami, Char- lotte, Gastonia, Nashville and Jacksonville, and an attempted bombing in Birm- ingham, during the past several months, the Jewish groups support the LoserBill as clarifying the authority of the Attorney General to intervene. Southern Cities Pool Rewards; Mayors Act Against Terrorism JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (JTA) — Mayors and other municipal officials of 29 Southern cities conferring here on the bombing of synagogues and centers and schools attended by Negro children set up a liaison organization to exchange infor- mation about the attacks in an attempt to halt them once and for all. Mayor Haydon Burns of Jacksonville who, together with Mayor Ben West of Nashville, Tenn., had taken the initiative in calling the extraordinary parley, (Continued on Page '7) Sentimental Southerners Angered by Hoodlumism Civil War Study Shows Confederacy Was Freer of Anti-Semitism Than Abolitionist North BY MILTON FRIEDMAN Agency, Inc.) WASHINGTON—Millions of Southerners senti- mentally linked with the Confederacy are fighting mad. They are angered by the use of the name "Confederate Underground" by hoodlums dynamit- ing synagogues. Southerners with authentic attachment to the old South are indignant that the new self-styled "confederates" are giving the confederacy a had name. By dynamiting respected Jewish religious institutions, including synagogues founded many years ago, the unknown terrorists have offended Southern sensibilities. Many who revere what is to them the dignity and grandeur of the former Confederacy are outraged. Such sentiments have been voiced in newspaper editorials throughout the South. They have been reflected in official Washington by Southern mem- bers of Congress. Most Southerners oppose the in- tegration of Negroes in public education. But they see the bombings of snagogues as uncouth and in- excusable. To them, such violent anti-Semitism is alien to the Southern tradition. Senators from states where synagogue bomb in- cidents occurred have taken a stand. They are Senators Holland and Smathers of Florida. Kefau- ver and Gore of Tennessee, and Sparkman and Hill of Alabama. They urged FBI action, suggest- ing that the conspiracy crossed state lines. But the U.S. Attorney General ironically cited "states' rights" arguments, claiming the FBI could ?tot legally intervene. Sen. Holland was especially moved. He personally talked with J. Edgar Hoover, urging the F.B.I. to aid local police in apprehending the synagogue at- tackers. Generally, Southern legislators dislike Fed- eral intervention in local matters. But agitators (Copyright, 1958, Jewish Telegraphic simply went too far when they lit bomb fuses in Jacksonville, Nashville, Birmingham, and else- where. Governors, Mayors, and police chiefs throughout the South would like nothing better than to expose the so-called "Confederate Underground." Chapters of such groups as the United Daughters of the Con- federacy have indicated considerable embarrass- ment. Southerners have mustered history books 'to support a case that the Confederacy was freer of anti-Semitism than the "abolitionist" North. There is evidence. Horace Greeley's abolitionist New York Tribune reads like the "Der Stuermer" of its day, Anti-Semitism among abolitionists was such that the Northern Jewish leader, Simon Wolf, sought action against "these (anti-Semitic) mani- festations . . - radiating from the highest official circles." A scholarly Jewish study of the Civil War con- cluded that "the volume of abolitionist anti-Semitism exceeded Southern bias, and its proponents were sometimes men of stellar prominence . . . " An anti-Semitic harangue delivered in the U. S. Senate in Civil War days was such that the Jewish community of Washington held a mass protest meeting. The speech was made by Sen. Henry Wil- son of Massachusetts. Gen. U. S. Grant, Northern Commander, was ordered by President Abraham • Lincoln to withdraw an anti-Semitic order issued to troops. The anti-Semitism of Yankee General Benjamin Butler was notorious. Jews under his command were court-martialled in the manner of France's Dreyfus trial. Like Americans of all faiths, Jews were found on both sides in the Civil War. Loyal to their re- gion, the Jews of the South served the Con- federacy to the extent that a Jew was Secretary of State and later actually premier of the Con- federacy. He was Judah P. Benjamin. He is praised throughout the memoirs of Mrs. Jefferson Davis, widow of the Confederate President. Moses Cohen Mordecai of Charleston, S. C., op- erated one of the most famous blockade runners. Dr. Daniel de Leon was Surgeon General of the Confederate Army. Abraham Charles Myers was Quartermaster General. The Memphis Daily Appeal reported in 1861 that "the Israelites of Memphis are behind none in showing their devotion to the South, both by liberal contributions and by taking up arms in her de- fense." At the Battle of Seven Pines, a 19-year-old Jew- ish youth, Albert Moses of North Carolina, seized the Stars and Bars from a dying flag bearer and rallied his company. He died heroically. Judge A. T. Watts of Dallas wrote of Max Fran- kenthal of the 16th Mississippi Infantry. He said that Frankenthal, "a little Jew, had the heart of a lion. For several hours he stood at the immediate point of contact, amid the most terrific hail of lead, and cooly and deliberately loaded and fired, with- out cringing. I observed his unflinching bravery and constancy." Frankenthal later became a leader of the United Confederate Veterans. Major Adolph Proskauer of Alabama was wounded several times. The confederate ranks in- eluded many Jews: Front North Carolina came six Cohen brothers. From. Georgia, Raphael Moses and his three sons. The five Moses brothers enlisted in Georgia. The three Levy brothers of Virginia served under Robert E. Lee. The history-conscious South is not ready toisper- mit hoodlums to attack the places of worship of a group that participated in the Confederacy. Nor will the South allow its dream of past glory to be shat- tered by individuals with a Nazi mentality who hide behind the name "Confederate."