1 OIT JEWIS H NEW S — Friday, July 24, 1959 — Court Negates SCAD Ruling on ARAMCO Hiring Policy Sen. Morse Sticks to His Guns To Propose Amendment on Saudi Arabian Bigotry WASHINGTON, (JTA)—Sen. U.S. airbase leased at Dhah- which seem more interested in profits than in people begin to Wayne Morse, Oregon Demo- ran.) NEW YORK, (JTA)—A new exempted ARAMCO from State crat, served notice that he Sen. Humphrey pointed out understand this simple truth. Sen.• Humphrey explained York Supreme Court Justice's laws barring employers from would reintroduce an amend- that President William Howard decision that "no agency of New asking job applicants in the ment condemning Saudi Ara- Taft once abrogated a treaty that for an American firm to York State may subordinate the state questions about their re- bian discrimination against with Czarist Russia because agree to foreign demands for law of the state to the dictates ligion. that nation discriminated religious discrimination "goes Jewish Americans. beyond the bounds of legiti- Commissioner Carter ruled, of a foreign state which vio- The Senator pointed out that against Jewish Americans. mate compromise, and cannot lates our own public policy" after having consulted the state his amendment was defeated Condemning the Saudi Ara- will be appealed to the Appel- Department, that American in- by only a narrow margin when bian government and the Ara- be accepted if America is to late Division of the Supreme terests in the Near East "out- the Mutual Security authoriza- bian-American Oil Company for remain true to its cherished Court by the New York State weigh the abstract vindications tion bill was before the Senate. anti-Jewish practice s, Sen. belief in the dignity of man and his right to liberty." He Commission Against Discrimina- of state sovereignty." Some senators misunderstood Humphrey said: "I applaud the tion (SCAD), the commission Justice Epstein, in annull- what the amendment involved, Supreme Court of the State of called the court ruling against ARAMCO a strengthening of announced this week. ing the commissioner's find- New York for its decision" in The challenged ruling de- ings, said that the ruling made but have since noted the New the moral fiber of America and nounced the Commission for the commission "the vassal of York Supreme Court decision a case involving discrimination a "victory on behalf of free- involving Saudi Arabia in anti- in hiring by ARAMCO in New permitting the Arabian-Ameri- a foreign potentate" and dom." can Oil Compnay to practice added that "the film of oil Jewish discrimination against York. The Senator also com- mended Justice Henry Epstein Americans, he said. discrimination in employment which blurs the vision of DRIVING LESSONS Sen. Morse will use the op- "for his brilliant opinion." against Jews and told ARAMCO ARAMCO has apparently af- LESSON The Senator termed the portunity afforded when the to "go elsewhere to serve your fected the commission in this COURSE . 0 Mutual Security Appropriation ARAMCO case "a situation in Arab master—but not in New case. Dual Controls bill comes before the Senate. which the head of a foreign York State." No Permit Needed to Start "The discrimination practiced Justice Henry Epstein acted by ARAMCO in New York State This bill is necessary to imple- power is telling an American Professional Instructors on the complaint of the Ameri- must cease, and it is the duty ment the previously passed firm whom it can hire and Day or Evening whom it cannot." He said "such authorization measure. When can Jewish Congress that SCAD of the commission to see that Appointments his amendment comes up demands by a foreign power chairman Elmer A. Carter had Safeway Driver Training it does." Justice Epstein said there was again, Sen. Morse said, he will not only violate the law of the TO 9-7600 LI 2-6742 no treaty or Federal law to pre- discuss it "at sufficient length, State of New York and the so that Senators will not again Constitution of the United vent enforcement of the state's misunderstand what the amend- States, but also violate the anti-discrimination• law. basic moral principle that men "The Commissioner may not ment involves." The Oregon Senator's view is are created equal and are en- place the policy of Saudi Arabia PORTLAND, Ore., (JTA) — above the law and public policy that the United States should titled to equal treatment under World famous composer Ernest of New York State," the court make known its views on the laws of the land." Serving Detroit Bloch died here July 15 of can- continued. "No agency of New granting Mutual Security funds In the Senator's opinion, "hu- Homes and Industry cer. He was 79 years old. York State may subordinate the to nations that discriminate man rights are of prime con- for Over 45 Years After a distinguished career, law of the state to the dictates against Americans on a basis sideration, and nothing — not even Arabian oil — can take which began at the age of 15, of a foreign state which violates of religion. Mr. Bloch became interested in our own public policy. Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey, priority over them. It is about "ARAMCO cannot defy the Minnesota Democrat, immedi- time that some companies declared public policy of New ately announced he would sup- York State and violate its stat- port the fight for the Morse ute within the state, no matter amendment. He expressed the what the King of Saudi Arabia view that when the previous says." vote was taken, a number of The Justice declared the Con- Senators had not been fully stitution and laws of New York informed on the background of could not be "cast aside to pro- the Saudi Arabian issue involv- tect the oil profits of ARAMCO." Commissioner Carter said that ing Jewish Americans. (Saudi Arabia refuses entry the decision of SCAD permitting ARAMCO to make applicants to Jewish Americans and bars state their religion "is an appli- U.S. military personnel of Jew- cation of the consistent view ish faith from landing at the of this agency first made in con- YOU EXPECT MORE nection with Saudi Arabia in FROM HAMILTON Unveil Shrine to Late 1950. BEN GREEN AND GET IT ! JACK MANN "This ruling held that in mat- M. Weiss, Whose Will ters affecting the national secur- You Can't Drive Overhead — Why Pay For It! ity, SCAD will be guided by Built New Settlement statements of the Federal gov- With the dedication of Neve ernment as -to the best interests Michael, a new agricultural ERNEST BLOCH TO 6 - 2800 of the United States." 13519 HAMILTON at DAVISON SCAD challenged Justice Ep- settlement and urban center in Jewish themes, with the advent Adullam, Israel, a marble tablet of the Hitler regime in Ger- tein's contention. that there was was unveiled in memory of the no basis in United States policy many in 1933. for the exemption. Carter as- late Michael Weiss, of Orange, It was as a composer express- serted that the disputed ruling N.J., whose bequest to the Jew- ing the Jewish spirit that Bloch was in line with a judgment ish National Fund was made was best known. He said at one that "when a job applicant must expressly for the establishment time in an article that "it is travel to a foreign country to of the settlement. not my desire to attempt a 're- perform a job, SCAD will per- The bequest, believed to be constitution' of Jewish music. mit the employer to determine the largest made by one in- It is the Jewish soul that in- whether the applicant can sat- dividual to Israel's official land terests me, the complex, glow- isfy the entrance requirements development and soil reclama- ing, agitated soul that I feel as a prerequisite." tion agency, was augmented by vibrating throughout the Bible." The American Jewish Con- Mr. Weiss's widow, Helen, to In an article in 1938 dealing gress hailed Justice Epstein's the sum of $250,000. She and her family were with his 'Jewish' work he said decision "as demonstrating that "I have but listened to an once again the vital role of among the 500 guests who wit- Bermuda, 6 days Aug. 17 Ryndam inner voice, deep, secret, in- our American courts in up- nessed the traditional memorial holding the civil rights and service and unveiling on the sistent, ardent, an instinct much West Indies, 14 days Aug. 25 Ryndam more than cold and dry reason, civil liberties of American site of Neve Michael. a voice which seemed to come citizens. Mr. Weiss, who died in 1956, Sept. 25 Nieuw Amsterdam, Havana, 6 days It is said that "the opinion was born in Tarnow, Galicia, from afar beyond myself, far of Justice Epstein will long be and subsequently lived in Vi- beyond my parents ... Oct. 2 Nieuw Amsterdam, W. Indies, 12 da. remembered as establishing that "This entire Jewish heritage the onward movement in this enna, Essen, Germany, and in Holland where he and his wife moved me deeply, it was reborn country to strike down all bar- Oct. 23 Nieuw Amsterdam, to Haiti, 8 days in my music. To what extent it riers on grounds of race, relig- opened a wine business. They immigrated to the U.S. from is Jewish, to what extent it is ion or national origin will not Nov. 27 Statendam, 15-day cruise just Ernest Bloch, of that I be stemmed or reversed, either the Hague shortly before World War II. know nothing. The future alone in obeisance to Arab dictators or Dec. 4 Nieuw Amsterdam, to St. Thomas, According to Mrs. Weiss, they will decide." to the fancied notions of the Martinique, Curacao, Haiti, 12 days Especially popular among requirements of American for- reared four children but "de- cided to adopt" another, the Jews are his "Shlomo" and "Is- eign policy." For further information call and talk to our Jewish National Fund. "In writ- rael Symphony" and works like ing his will," she said, "my hus- "Avodat Hakodesh," a musical Milwaukee to Survey Needs staff who have taken these cruises. band assigned an equal share of setting for the sabbath morning of Changing Community his riches to this fifth child." From $150. service, and compositions such MILWAUKEE, (JTA)—Faced as "Rhapsodic Hebraique." No national literature will be Born in Geneva, Mr. Bloch with a rapidly changing com- came to the United States in munity and changing welfare produced in Yiddish. Anything 1916. He was director of the needs, the Milwaukee Jewish that may be worth preserving San Francisco Conservatory and Welfare Fund and the Jewish will be preserved in Hebrew professor emeritus of the Uni- Family and Children Service translation . . . the rest will 1244 WASHINGTON BLVD., DETROIT versity of California at Berke- have begun a study of Milwau- all disappear completely with the disappearance of Yiddish kee's Jewish casework needs. ley. WO 1-6631 The committee has brought itself. Can anybody doubt that In recognition of his work with orchestral music, Mr. in Mrs. Rae C. Weil, executive Yiddish will be forgotten in Give Us a Call and Have a Ball Bloch was the recipient of director of the Jewish Family two or three generations." — Ahad Ha'am in "Rival Ton- Association of Cleveland, as the New York Music Critics __ 1_1 101_1 7 Ernest Bloch, Composer, Dies $ 25 JACOBSON COAL & OIL CO. WA 3-3300 De Solo Plymouth NEW CAR! USED CAR! or SERVICE! 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