Laden with. Resolutions THE JEWISH NEWS Incorporating the Detroit Jewish Chronicle commencing with issue of July 20. 1951 Member American Association of English-Jewish Newspapers, Michigan Press Association, National Editorial Association Published every Friday by The Jewish News Publishing Co., 17100 West Seven Mile Road, Detroit 35. Mich.. VE 8-9364. Subscription $5 a year.' Foreign $6. 1942 at Post Offic,.. Detroit. Mich. under act of Congress of March Entered as second class matter Aug. ;), 187:: PHILIP SLOMOVITZ Editor and Publisher SIDNEY SHMARAK Advertising Manager CARMI M. SLOMOVITZ Circulation Manager FRANK SIMONS City Editor Sabbath Scriptural Selections This Sabbath, the fourth day of Kislev, 5720, the following Scriptural selections will be read in our synagogues: Pentateuchal portion. Toledot. Gen. 25:19-28:9. Prophetical portion, Malachi 1:2-7. Li , ht Benshen; Friday, Dec. 4, 4:43 p.m. VOL. XXXVI. No. 14 Page Four December 4, 1959 Lack of Realism Stymies UN's Actions Continuation of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency program, in behalf of the Arab refugees, presents an increasingly serious pr oblem for the democratic nations of the world and ag- gravates rather than solves the painful Middle Eastern problem. It has been admitted that the quoted number of a million Arab refugees has been padded and that at least 150,000 included in that list for relief allocations are names of dead people. U. S. Senators Albert Gore of Ten- nessee and Gale W. McGee of Wyoming have called such a program "immoral, dishonest and unfair," and have ac- cused Jordan of major guilt in such misuse of .international funds, 80 per cent of which come from the United States. Nevertheless, under pressure from the Arab potentates, the United Nations again yields into submission by renewing a program of unrealistic relief instead of striving to put many refugees to work, thus making them self-supporting. A practical program of -reconstruc- tion would call for the resettlement of most of the refugees in neighboring Arab countries. That would deprive the Arabs of a major weapon against Israel. The world organization must not give its approval to a program that continues a policy of despair, rather than introduce efforts to end the pariah status of the escapees from Israel and to provide them with homes, jobs, security. As a gesture to Senators Gore and McGee, who had protested to the State Department against the fraudulent prac- . tices by Jordan in the administration of the Arab refugee camps. Secretary of State Christian Herter asked the U. S. Embassy in Amman, Jordan, for a report on the charges. Herter acknowledged that the Senators' charge was in relation to corruption and misappropriation of funds used in American-financed projects in Jordan, especially pertaining to food cards distributed among Arab refugees. Since this is a UN matter, Herter, from all indications, will pursue an established policy of passing on responsibility to the world organization. He already has stated that the UN is giving "serious considera- tion" to the matter and that Jordan has promised cooperation to the UN in cor- recting the situation. Thus, "passing the buck" is a con- venient method of shifting responsibility method of approach that is being resorted to by all the democratic nations when they are confronted with major challenges involving many serious situa- tions. It would have been better for the entire world, and certainly for those interned in refugee camps in Arab coun- tries, if a firm stand were taken against the perpetuation of degradation for those who unwisely fled from Israel under pressure from their leaders upon the establishment of the State of Israel. The sins of unrealistic diplomacy thus are visited upon unfortunate victims of Arab plots against Israel, and Israel conse. quently suffers from a t r a g i c ally perpetuated UN policy. Meanwhile, the continuation of the United Nations Emergency Force, which is guarding the Gaza Strip between Egypt and Israel, has been continued, and the United States' share in its expense of $20,000,000 will be $9,700,000. Retention of the UNEF was accom- panied by an indirect rebuke to King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia who threatened to cut off Israeli traffic in the Gulf of Aqaba. The boasting Arabian king issued his threat in anticipation of the removal of the UNEF from that area. While it made the headlines in this country, the people who would have been directly affected by the effectuation of Saud's threat, the Israelis, were least con- cerned. They know that they could easily repulse any Saudian -attacks, and that they could repeat the Sinai Operation of 1956 with success. But such actions are not desired either by Israel or her fellow- members in the United Nations, and only the saber-rattling Arabs continue to threaten war even within the confines of the UN -- in defiance of basic peace principles of the world organization. .Here, too, it is most regrettable that large sums must be used for irrelevant purposes, such as border patrolling, while there is such great need 'to use the funds to relieve want and to raise the standards of the under-privileged nations who sur- round Israel. If the UN were to dedicate itself with determination to end- the state of war in the Middle East, and if a more serious effort were made to effect an Arab-Israel peace, there would be no need either for refugee relief funds or for border patrols. A more realistic UN purpose is yet to be attained, especially in relation to the unfortunate Arab antagonism against Israel. BACK FROM CONVENTIONS 1-1*Y*M*A * N K*A *P*L*A*N'S Return Poses Problem of Propriety of Use of Mimicry Twenty years ago, writing under the pseudonym of "Leonard Q. Ross" (he was "afraid of what his professors might do if they discovered that whilst he was living in Washington on an honorific fellowship, he was spending his weekends in his secret vice—writing fiction"), Leo Rosten produced the sensa- tional story of Hyman Kaplan. It was the story of a classroom in which some of his fellow-students called him Keplen, some Kaplen, some Koplen, others Keplan. And Kaplan himself was the ingenious immigrant who was signing his name on the blackboard as IPY*M*A*1•1 K*A*P*L*A*N No one who has read that story could possibly forget it. That is why its sequel, now available under the author's right name. as "The Return of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N.," pub- lished by Harper & Brothers (49 E. 33rd, N. Y. 16), is once again such a howling success. But its very success poses the problem of the propriety of the use of mimicry and all-but-forgotten dialects. The author's preface, "The Confessions of Mr. Parkhill"— Parkhill, the teacher of Kaplan's class, is the patient saint who is "Mr. Pockhill" to Kaplan—is an essay on humor. Rosten had "wandered into the arctic reaches of soli- tude" one day during the horrid summer of 1958, and in search for "self-administered consolation . . . it was Mr. Kaplan who appeared—his zest administered by the years, his spirit un- vanquished." As a result, we have this revised entertainment—the recon- struction of the classroom ? with its collaborators—immigrants from many lands. At the very outset, Kaplan shows his skill, when he submits his first essay on "My Life:" Hyman Kaplan by IFY*NPA''N Ii*A*P*L*A*1 ■ 1 "The title plunged Mr. Parkhill into a kind of hypnotic daze. How had Mr. Kaplan decided where to place the stars? In the first 'Hyman Kaplan'? That would imply that it was the idea of Mr. Kaplan, not the real Mr. Kaplan, that was all-important. In both 'Hyman Kaplan's?' That would suggest a split personality. But putting the stars only in the second 'Hyman Kaplan,' as Mr. Kaplan had so masterfully decided—that seemed incontest- able: for it emphasized Kaplan the man, not Kaplan the subject, Kaplan the creator, not Kaplan the concept." And so, in the beginnis grat of American Night Preparatory Ten years ago, recognizing the need the needy, workshops for blind weavers, School for Adults, Mr. Kaplan is not so much a man who refuses of the handicapped and aged immigrants activities for invalids, opportunities for to learn but does not conform—and the result is a series of who were flocking to Israel from concen- artists to pursue their activities and for episodes that provide the laughs about a man and his fellow tration camps, the Joint Distribution craftsmen to preserve their talents in adult students who are subjected to lessons in grammar, pro- spelling, letter writing, etc. Committee set up a new medical-social many spheres. As a medical as well as a nunciation, When Fischel Pfeiffer is demoted to the beginnis' grat, - agency in Israel under the name of Malben social agency, Malben has performed a Kaplan suddenly discovers that he pronounces his sh and s and —taken from the Hebrew initials of the noble task in Israel. Then comes an expose: A typical example of Malben's con- vice versa. words "Institution for the Care of Handi- Litvak!' a clarion voice rang out. It was Mr. Kaplan, " tribution towards the rehabilitation of rejuvenated, 'Mein Gott, he's a Litvak'.' He wheeled toward capped Immigrants." During the decade that has elapsed, the handicapped is provided in Detroit Mr. Parkhill. 'Must be! Fromm Lit'uania! H_e pronounces `sh' thousands of crippled newcomers to Israel at this time by the exhibition of the art like stimm commink of of a pipe." So far, so good. The reader is entertained and there are have been aided by this agency which works of a Malben artist, Moshe Shomogi, received its support from the United who has overcome his handicaps at the many belly-laughs. But the student of history, he who knows the changes that have taken place in this country since the Jewish Appeal, the major beneficiary of Mahne Israel Malben hospital and is cre- curtailment of immigration, must, ask himself: is "The Return of Detroit's Allied Jewish Campaign. In the ating notable artistic works. H*Y*1‘1*A*N 1(*.A*P'''L*AN" real? Do such characters exist course of the 10 years of Malben's activi- Malben enters upon the second dec- today, or is this a continued banalization of an era that has long ties, 52,000 people have been rehabili- ade of its services with an excellent been forgotten? Is this a revival of the "stage Jew" and the tated, and the project has aided not only record of accomplishments and with plans burlesqued immigrant? Fortunately, Rosten's new book is not as offensive as other the East European survivors from Nazisi -n for an expanded program that aids many but also thousands of North African thousands of handicapped and thereby similar caricatures have been. Yet, it. lacks reality, and it does aids Israel with the works and the prod- pose the question whether it is wise to revive dialectal jargon settlers who were in dire need of help. The UJA has contributed $95,000,000 ucts produced in Malben institutions. This characters who are unknown to the present generation, thereby false views of Jews, even if they are supposedly people towards this program. It provided, in addi- agency lends great credit to JDC, UJA creating stemming from the preparatory school days of the East Side. Maiben's 10 Years of Service in Israel tion to medical care and to housing for and to Israel.