THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS — Friday, August 8, 1958-8

B. G. R. Says . . .

Name Israel to Attend UN Atomic Parley

UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.
(JTA)—An international team
of 21 scientific secretaries, in-.
eluding one from Israel, has
been done; no apology; no recanta-
tion; nothing but patronizing and been named for the second
nauseating slobber. We must kiss United Nations International
the hand that strikes the blow; we
must exercise self-restraint; while Conference on the Peaceful
your clergical friends stand by and Uses of Atomic Energy, to be
raise not one word of protest, or held in Geneva, Sept. 1-13.
indignation, or of admonition, but
on the contrary, voice the gospel of
The UN announced that all
hate, of intolerance and of bigotry. of the secretaries, including
'No, the petition will not be with-
drawn. If there had ever been any Dr. Israel Dostrovsky, chairman
doubt as to the course to be pur- of the Isotope Department at
sued, your letter has solved it the Weizmann Institute of
effectually."
Science at Rehovoth, have • ar-
What shall we do about the rived at UN headquarters.
aphasia of American Jewry?
—Bernard G. Richards

We Forgot All About Melvil Dewey Issue

If there is an identity or a
consciousness still extant any-
where in this world or beyond
that is called Melvil Dewey, it
will be grateful to the Jews of
America for their forgetfulness.
Throughout the recent com-
motion and sensational reports
occasioned by the refusal first
of several societies and then of
the Conference of 25 New York
State Mayors to meet at the
Lake Placid Club on the
grounds of its discrimination
against Jewish guests, it has not
occurred to anyone of our many
organizations, nor to the Jewish
press, that this hotel figured as
a celebrated case of rishus or
enmity at the beginning of this
century.
We found the following in
the American Jewish Year Book
for 1905-06 (page 261):

fessorship- was named to this
chair and ironically granted to
a person of Jewish identity. At
that time, I retold the story of
"The Melvil Dewey Affair" and
it appeared in the Congress
Weekly of April 20, 1954. I
then said:

"This campaign against this af-
front to the Jewish people was led
by the late Louis Marshall. The pro-
test against Dewey's attitude and
activities took the form of an im-
posing document addressed `to the
Regents of. the University of the
State of New York,' which closed
with the assurance that 'we are
prepared to make satisfactory proof
as to all the statements and facts
herein contained.' It was signed by
the following, in addition to Mr.
Marshall: Adolph Lewisohn, Isidor
Straus, Nathan Bijur, Edgar Nathan,
Abraham Abraham, Jacob H. Schiff,
Daniel Guggenheim, Henry R. Ick-
elheimer, Cyrus L. Sulzberger and
Adolph S. Ochs."

Among the Christian friends
who took issue with Marshall
'A painful incident in the life of was the late Isaac K. Funk of
American Jewry was the Dewey the Funk and Wagnalls Com-
affair. A petition signed by Louis
Marshall, Jacob H. Schiff, and other pany which at the time was
prominent Jewish citizens of New issuing the Jewish Encyclope-
York, asked for the removal, by the
Regents of the State of New York, dia, thus bringing the subject
of Mr. Melvil Dewey, State Libra- close to the head of this pub-
rian of New York, from his office. lishing firm. In writing to Mar-
The reason assigned was that Mr.
Dewey was the "leading and guid- shall, Funk warned against a
ing spirit" of a corporation (The drastic measure of this kind,
Lake Placid Company which owns
a club from which Jews are rigidly expressing the fear that it would
excluded. It was stated that circu- arouse further resentment and
lars and other printed matter had
been scattered broadcast over the prejudice among Christians. He
country, which mentioned, among made reference to a dinner of
other advantages, the. fact that "no 25 New York clergymen which
one will be received, against whom
there is a physical, moral, social, or he had attended and at which
race objections, or who would be "this Dewey matter was talked
unwelcome to even a small minori-
ty. This excluded absolutely all over, and much feeling was ex-
consumptives, or other invalids, pressed. Old stories against the
whose presence might injure health
or modify others' freedom or enjoy- Jews were resurrected, and I
ment. This invariable rule is rigidly heard more talk of this kind at
enforced. It is found impracticable
to make exceptions to Hebrews or that meeting than I heard in
others excluded, even"when of un- the previous ten years of cler-
usual personal qualifications.
gymen's meetings which I at-
"According to the petition, these
disgraceful publications bore upon tended."
their face irrefragable evidence of
Marshall, in one of his mem-
the fact that Mr. Dewey was the
author. The petitioners, therefore, orable epistles, wrote to Wag-
while "not unmindful of the serious nalls on Feb. 9, 1905 (the letter
nature" of their application, begged is included in his two volumes
for Mr. Dewey's removal."
of Selected Papers and Ad-
This was not an empty gest- dresses recently published by
ure. It represented bold and the Jewish Publication Society),
courageous action on the part as follows:
of our leaders and because it
now, a word with reference
was daring and resented and to "And
your suggestion, that we with-
even opposed by distinguished draw our petition, in order to gain
for self-restraint, moderation
friends of the Jews who thought credit
and public spirit.' We have been
our demand was too drastic and smitten on the right cheek and are
fraught with danger and the in- told to turn the left to the smiter.
It is an exercise to which we have
cident created such a stir within become accustomed by the practice
our community, it should cer- of centuries. It has, however, grown
somewhat monotonous. Your clergi-
tainly have been better remem- cal
friends, and Mr. Dewey, who
bered.
believe that by prescriptive right
they may do all the smiting, are
Dewey was ultimately re- astonished that the smitten should
moved as State Librarian of cease to feel comfortable in the ab-
humiliation to which they
New York even though his fame ject
should have been inured. You for-
as an expert in library work get the glory of American citizen-
which has aroused the con-
went down to posterity and ship
sciousness of mankind. You ask us
there is a Melvil Dewey chair of to be magnanimous and • once more
assume our wonted attitude.
Library Service at the Columbia to
From Mr. Dewey there is no word
University. In 1954 a new pro- of regret for the wrong that has

•-i DOM

BY HENRY LEONARD

They have been assigned to
work at UN headquarters, and
later at Geneva, on specific sub-
jects which will receive major
attention at the conference.
Dr. Dostrovsky also served as
director of research of the Israel
Atomic Energy Commission, of
which he is now a member,
and was Israel's official dele-
gate to the first UN interna-
tional conference in 1955. The
United Arab Republic also will
be reprsented at the conference.

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