Friday, Janu ary 3 1, 1964—THE DETROIT JEW SH NEWS- 1 0
Israeli Chemist Iraq Anti-Jewish Law Wilbur J. Cohen- LBJ Architect in War on Poverty'
By JESSIE HALPERN
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Wilbur Cohen is not only
in Africa for Talk `Internal Problem'--
in the depressed areas of the making a significant personal
U.S.
State
Department
He explains: "The poor impact on Johnson Administra-
to Witch. Doctors WASHINGTON (JTA) — The WASHINGTON — One of the country.
are not a homogeneous group
JTA Corespondent in Washington
(Copyright, 1964, Jewish
Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)
REHOVOTH—One of the vet-
eran chemists at Israel's Weiz-
mann Institute is taking a five-
week tour of West and Central
Africa to interview witchdoctors!
Prof. David Lavie of Rehovoth,
who has spent nearly 30 years
in studying the medicinal prop-
erties of plants, wants to find
out more a b out the chemical
substances of "simples and
herbs" which Africa's tribal
"doctors" use as traditional
remedies.
• "I hope to bring back some
interesting speciments for fur-
ther study in my laboratory at
Rehovoth," he said prior to
departure. His tour will take
him to Nigeria, Cameroun,
Congo-Brazzaville, the Ivory
Coast, Sierra Leone and
Ghana.
Dr. Lavie heads the labora-
tory for natural products in the
Weizmann Institute Organic
Chemistry Department, of which
he has been a member since the
Sieff Research Institute was
opened in 1934.
Through Israel's foreign min-
istry and its diplomatic missions
in Africa, he has established
contact with a number of uni-
versity colleges and research in-
stitutes which have promised
him full support in his quest.
For many years he has been
engaged in the investigation of
the anti-tumor activity of cer-
tain cucurbitacins, taken from
the "squirting cucumber" which
is native to Israel.
One important result of Dr.
Lavie's visit to Africa may be
local production of pharmaceuti-
cal preparations developed from
imported African vegetable sub-
stances.
"If the witchdoctors in the
tribal areas can make these nos-
trums work, there must be some-
thing in them." he said.
George Rockwell Throws
Hat in Presidential Ring
CONCORD, N.H., (JTA) —
George Lincoln Rockwell, lead-
er of the American Nazi Party,
took steps to enter. the Repub-
lican presidential primaries. He
took out petitions to enter the
primaries as a Republican presi-
dential candidate.
State Department considers an
"internal problem" the recent
additional measures by the
Baghad government requiring
its Jewish citizens to reregister
at the pain of losing their prop-
erty. It would have "no reason
to interfere."
This was indicated by State
Department sources comment-
menting on a report by the
American Jewish Committee,
which characterized the new
Iraqi measures as further
anti-Jewish moves. The re-
port was submitted by the
AJC to the State Department.
Jews living in Iraq who can-
not prove that they are en:
titled to Iraqi nationality will
have their property impounded
under the new law published in
Iraq's official Gazette after ap-
proval by the Cabinet.
The measure appeared to be
directed at the small number of
wealthy Jews who remained in
Iraq.
Israeli Med Students
Sign for New School
to Open at Tel Aviv U.
TEL AVIV (JTA)—Some 50
Israeli students out of 300 cur-
rently studying in medical
schools in Europe have applied
for registration in the medical
school being opened this year
at Tel Aviv University, Dr.
George Wise, president, report-
ed.
He said Israel needs 250 new
doctors annually, but Hebrew
University - Hadassah Medical
school graduates only between
70 and 80 new physicians each
year.
The need for such a large
number of new doctors is ex-
plained by the high average
age of the present physicians,
some of whom arrived recent-
ly from abroad.
The Tel Aviv area has 3,000
beds in hospitals, providing ex-
cellent facilities for medical
students, Dr. Wise said, adding
that the new medical school
will provide adequate facilities
for veteran doctors to make ad-
vanced studies.
Another reason for the new
medical school is the requests
to Israel to provide medical
personnel for new African coun-
tries.
This, and the needs of the
defense forces, requires larger
numbers of young doctors, it
was indicated.
Government Manages
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LONDON (JTA)—The Czech
Ministry of Culture and Edu-
cation has taken over the Jew-
ish Museum which had been
previously under the authority
of that city's municipal council,
it was reported from Prague.
In turning over the opera-
tion of the museum to the
ministry, the municipality re-
ported that 327,000 persons
had visited the exhibits last
year. The report said that
two-thirds of the visitors were
tourists from abroad — East
and West Germany, France,
Italy, the United States, Cana•
da, Sweden and other coun-
tries.
The museum, which contains
a large collection of relics and
documents relating to Jewish
life in the Middle Ages and the
Renaissance era, is currently
preparing to exhibit in London
paintings and drawings by Jew-
ish artists in the Theresienstadt
Ghetto.
The museum also plans to ex-
hibit in the United States a col-
lection of drawings made by
children in wartime Theresien-
stadt, where the Nazis deported
Jews from Germany. The latter
exhibit was already shown in a
number of countries, including
Israel.
nation's most ambitious and
comprehensive welfare pro-
grams ever proposed is Presi-
dent Johnson's "War on Pov-
erty," the strategy of which is !
now being formulated in Wash-
ington.
And one of the strongest
voices on the committee behind
this masive proposal is that of
Assistant Secretary of Health
Education and Welfare for Leg-
islative Matter s, Wilbur J.
Cohen. His long and sustained
interest in the eradication and
prevention of poverty has re-
sulted in 30 years of experi-
ence in various aspects of wel-
fare economics, as well as in
his special contributions. to the
entire development of our pres-
ent Social Security System.
He has been labeled the "prin-
cipal architect" of President
Johnson's "War on Poverty."
His past experience and per-
ceptiveness have given a sense
of maturity to the ideas of the
governmental coordinating corn-
mitte, now working so hard on
the details of the President's
plan to be presented later this
month.
As far back as March, 1960,
at the Golden Anniversary of
the White House Conference
on Children and Youth, Cohen
declared, "we need an af-
firmative national program to
accelerate the reduction of
low incomes in the United
States. This problem cannot
be left to natural economic
forces . . . We can, if we
wish, and we must make the
abolition of poverty a na-
tional goal and policy.
Four years later President
Johnson isued the call to at-
tempt to implement this anti-
poverty atack as bath a national
goal and policy.
Key to the planned attack, ac-
cording to Asistant Secretary
Cohen, will be the "prevention
of poverty" via improved and
in the United States; they need
a t o t a 1 ; widespread program
which can be carried out local-
ly with federal support but with-
out federal control."
The major problem confront-
ing the program, he says, is
that of "pockets of poverty in
the midst of affluence" in the
United States.
Health, housing, employment,
education, skill training, gen-
eral welfare problems are only
part of the picture and all are
interrelated, notes Cohen.
Explaining his personal con-
cern for pushing the President's
"War on Poverty" program into
action, the Assistant Secretary
has said, "we have a moral re-
sponsibility to eradicate pov-
erty; it is strongly, emotionally
built into me, stemming from
my own background, ethical be-
liefs and Jewish heritage."
"The abolition of poverty
on every score is important,"
states C o h e n. "Here is a
chance for the first time in
the world for a great nation
to take a swing at eradicat-
ing poverty . . I feel for-
tunate to be part of an Ad-
ministration making such a
constructive effort."
tion plans, but is also well
known for his effective legisla-
tive efforts on behalf of the
late President Kennedy. Cohen
is an idealist, but one of a
very practical nature. He
speaks with confidence when
he says, "I think poverty can
be cut in half in another de-
cade; this will take hard work,
many people, and lots of money
— but it can be done.
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Employment Agency
Has License Suspended
for Practicing Bias
NEW YORK (JTA) — New
York City's commissioner of
licenses. Bernard J. O'Connell,
suspended for a month the li-
cense of an employment agency,
Lynhall Placement Associates,
Inc., on charges that the agency
"had utilized discriminatory
practices on the basis of race,
creed or color in the referral
of applicants for placement
with prospective employers."
According to the commis-
sioner, the agency had placed
certain symbols on its records
indicating bias. One symbol,
O'Connell s a i d, w a s "NJ,"
meaning "no Jews." Another
symbol, "POK," meant "person
of color." O'Connel added. The
agency's suspension is for the
month of February.
The Day-Jewish Journal
to Mark Its 50th Year
NEW YORK, (JTA) — The
Day-Jewish Journal, Yiddish
daily, will celebrate 50 years of
its existence with the publica-
tion of a special edition of the
paper, it was announced by
Morris Weinberg, publisher. The
issue will appear Feb.28.
Weinberg, who last week ob-
served his 88th birthday, receiv-
ed a congratulatory telegram
from President Johnson, read-
ing: "I know the habit of 50
years as publisher of the news-
pape• you founded is so strong,
you will continue in the active
management of the paper. I
hope the years ahead are
healthy and satisfying ones for
you. An 88th birthday marking
so many years of devotion to
community affairs is a note-
worthy event."
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