U.S. Archaeologists
in Jordan Unearth
Biblical City Shechem
Sharon Slayton and
Harold Smith to Wed
square miles.
Israel's Tax Humor
An Israeli Internal Revenue in-
vestigator was questioning a citizen
who did not pay taxes for seven
years.
"So you claim to be earning only
10 pounds a week?"
"Sometimes even less, 10 pounds
a week is real good."
"How can you live with a wife
and three children on 10 pounds a
week?"
"Live? Who is living? You call
it a living? I call it suffering . . ."
"So how come your wife has
expensive clothes and a new fur
coat in the closet?"
"It's all because of our cat. She
likes to search in refuse heaps and
garbage cans. Whatever she finds
there she drags home. Sometimes
it's only trash, sometimes it's a roll
of money or a diamond ring. That's
how we live, thanks to the cat, but
I am earning only 10 pounds a
week."
Percentage of Jewish
Patients in Jewish Hospitals
of Cincinnati Decreasing
CINCINATTI (JTA)—The per-
centage of Jewish patients in the
Jewish Hospital here has decreas-
ed from an estimated 24 per cent
in 1950 to 13.1 per cent in 1963,
according to a report submitted
by Dr. David H. Ross, executive
director-secretary of the Board of
Trustees of the hospital, and Nor-
man S. Finer, administrative dir-
ector. Similar decreases have been
reported also by other Jewish
hospitals throughout the country,
the report emphasized.
BY DAVID SCHWARTZ
Israel Imposes New
Tax on Motor Cars;
Will Check Imports
Registration Open
at Hebrew Schools
(Copyright, 1964, JTA, Inc.)
Registrations for September
JERTJSALEM (JTA)—The Min- classes of United Hebrew Schools
David Dubinsky started his labor
career leading a strike against his istry of Commerce and Industry are now being accepted'.
Eight-year-olds must begin their
announced a new tax on motor ve-
father's bakery in Poland.
Irving Berlin's father was an hicles which will increase the price Hebrew education next month in
of imported cars 20 per cent and order to fulfill the five-year study
East Side cantor.
requirements for Bar Mitzvah.
Eddie Cantor was a fatherless of locally assembled cars by 10
Most UHS branches will be on
boy. He was raised by his grand- per cent.
a threee-day-a-week schedule, be-
In
announcing
the
new
levy,
the
mother.
noted that the import of ginning in September.
Jerome Kern's father had the Ministry
For information, call the main
private
cars
increased by 75 per
street sprinkling concession in
office, DI 1-3407.
Reuters reports that the biblical
city of Shechem, the first Palestin-
ian city mentioned in the Book of
Genesis, has been unearthed in
Jordan by an American archaeo-
logical expedition led by Harvard
professor Ernest Wright.
The excavations, near the con-
temporary Jordan city of Nablus,
have cost $125,000 since their in-
ception in 1956. Awni al-Dajani,
director of the Jordanian depart-
ment of antiquities, stated that
ruins of fortifications and the
huge city gates, built in the 17th
and 18th Centuries BCE, can still
be seen.
Shechem had been one of the
largest Bronze Age cities, capital
of a state with an area of 1,000
Fathers
MISS SHARON SLAYTON
Announcement is made of the
engagement of Sharon Slayton to
Harold Smith, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Samuel Smith of Northlawn Ave.
The bride-elect, daughter of Mrs.
Jewell Slayton of Burlington Dr.
and the late Mr. Slayton, attended
Wayne State University. Her
fiance received his degree from
Wayne State's school of business
administration.
A Nov. 15 wedding is planned.
Hillel House Chapel
in Cleveland to Honor
Memory of Ginsberg
CLEVELAND (JTA)—A chapel
honoring the memory of the late
Bernard Ginsberg, a leader in the
founding of the Bnai Brith lodge
in the Cedar-Center area, will be
built with funds to be raised by
the Bnai Brith El Al lodge here.
Leo Goldberg, honorary chairman
of the special drive, and Harry J.
Elconin, chairman, said the chapel
will cost $15,000, and will be part
of the new $250,000 Hillel House
on the Western Reserve Univers-
ity campus.
cent in the first half of the current
Manhattan and wanted his son to year, causing an excessive drain on
stay in the same business of sprin- Israel's foreign currency resources
kling; but the son preferred tin- and imposing a growing burden on
kling with music.
the roads.
Dr. Chaim Weizmann was a
member of a family with a popu-
lation explosion: he was one of 15 Medical Scientists Meet
children.
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
Population explosions are not
JERUSALEM—Some 200 medical
always bad. The wealth and pow-
er of the Rothschilds was due in scientists from 14 countries assem-
the beginning also to the num- bled here Tuesday for the open-
erous Rothschild progeny. With a ing session of the third congress
Rothschild in the capital of each of the Asian-Pacific Society of
Hematology being held at the
of the leading nations, the Roth-
schilds were able to forge a kind Hebrew University here.
of international league of fin-
ance.
FOR THE BEST IN
Once, a schnorrer soliciting
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Baron Rothschild, expressed dis-
pleasure with the sum he was
given. "Your son gave me double,"
And His Orchestra
said the beggar. "Well, my son can
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afford to," said Baron Rothschild;
"he has a rich father."
He who brings up the child is
called the father, says the Talmud,
not he who gave him birth.
The reason why the command-
ment reads, "Honor thy father and
thy mother," giving preference to
the father, according to the Jew-
ish sages, is that the natural tend-
ency of children is to honor the
mother, more, so the text delib-
erately emphasized the obligation
of giving Pop a little bit of honor,
too.
The father of George Gershwin,
who had a Bronx accent, escaped
getting a ticket once when he told
the officer he was the father of
George Gershwin. The policeman
thought he was saying Judge Ger-
shwin.
The Talmud warns against dis-
crimination shown among children
by the father. Jacob's favoritism
for Joseph, it points out, eventual-
ly led to the enslavement of all
Israel in Egypt.
An old Talmudic saying has it:
"He who is descended from thee
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WALTHAM, Mass. (JTA) —
Brandeis University here has re-
ceived a $25,000 grant from the
Massachusetts Division of the Am-
erican Cancer Society, for equip-
ment of a virus research labora-
tory. The new laboratory will be often teaches thee."
Rabbi Judah ben Ilai said that
housed in the Friedland Science
Building, university officials said. "a father who does not teach his
son a trade, teaches him robbery."
Fathers are different from
mothers. When Oscar Levant
called up his mother and in-
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formed her he had proposed to
his girl, and would be married,
she answered, "All right, Oscar,
good, I am glad to hear it, but
did you practice today?" (If he
had called his father, the latter
probably would have said, "So
how much of a check do you
want?")
Abraham Mendelssohn was wont
to say: "Formerly they spoke of
me as the son of Moses Mendels-
sohn, the philosopher), but now
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