Sign on the Door: 'Joint Subsidizes This Installation'
Derivation of 'Haifa'
name as early as Talmudic times.
Some, of late, have conjured that
the name "Haifa" is a combination
of two words "Chof Yafeh" mean-
ing "a beautiful coast," because of
the attractive sights at the coast
of Haifa.
Haifa, the second largest city of
the State of Israel, derives its
name from the fact that it is a
border town on the Mediterranean
coast. The term means "border"
and in the case of a coastal area,
may be taken to mean the shore
indicating that Haifa borders on ' If not for the mouse, what harm
the sea shore, which indeed it does. is there in the mouse-hole?—Era-
The city seems to have had its chin 30.
VOTE DEMOCRATIC
WAYNE STATE BOARD OF GOVERNORS
WILLIAM B. HALL
• Executiv.a Vice President,
Impoverished Jews are shown waiting for the
opening of the JDC soup kitchen in the Yekaterino-
slay district of Russia in 1921. After meeting basic
welfare needs, JDC launched a reconstruction pro-
Detroit Bank & Trust
• Graduate Wayne State University
• Post President Wayne State Alumni
Association
• 1960 recipient Wayne State
Distinguished Alumni Award
gram including vocational training, loan funds, and
rebuilding of homes and community buildings.
JDC, which will observe its 50th anniversary in
December, receives its funds chiefly from the UJA.
Eddie Cantor's Old-Fashioned Grandmother
BY DAVID SCHWARTZ
(Copyright, 1964, JTA, Inc.)
Fannie Brice took a special in-
if only they could open up some
business and grow along with. the
new towns, but always it seemed,
it would require more capital than
they could command. So they rode
on, puzzled what to do. Finally,
they came to Oklahoma City. That
territory, formerly an Indian res-
ervation, had just been opened up
to settlement and they liked every-
thing about it. This was the place
they wanted to be. Here, they
would snake their stand. But what
kind of business could they enter
with so limited funds?
They thought long. and finally
Abe came up with an idea. "Jake,"
he said, "let's start a bank. If we
have a bank, we don't need any
money of our own. People will
bring their money."
So they put up a sign about it
being a bank and bought them-
selves each a cigar and sat down
waiting for the people to bring
their money.
And sure enough, at the end of
the day, their coffers were filled
beyond their rosiest expectations.
"You know what," Jake says to
Abe, "I think we should put our
own $65 in it too. The whole world
can't be crazy."
Eddie, himself without resources,
capitalized on his voice. He started
terest in Eddie Cantor when he
was trying to make a go of it in
the theater, and Eddie once asked
her why she took all of this
trouble.
"Eddie," she said, "I had a dog
once who always had a hungry
look and he had large soulful eyes
and I lost it and I was very sad
and then I saw you and I thought,
I had my old mutt back."
Those large sad eyes of Eddie's,
no longer shining. perhaps in part
stemmed from the fact that he was
both a motherless and fatherless
child. He lost both of his parents
before he. was two years old and
was raised by his Grandma Esther.
The whole country knew about
Grandma Esther and the thing that
I liked especially about her — as
funny as any of the stories Eddie
Cantor told - was the job she had.
Grandma Esther was an old-
fashioned Jewish woman and in
order to support herself and Eddie,
in those days when there was no
Social Security, she had to get a I
job. But what kind of a job could
an elderly Jewish grandmother
get?
So what did this unemployed
Jewish woman do? She started an
employment agency.
It was. of course, no great Aeronautic Federation
shakes as an employment agency
—being confined to providing kit- Convenes in Israel;
chen and household help — but Women Get Honors
it netted enough for Grandma Es- REHOVOTH (JTA)—The Inteer-
ther to pay the landlord and keep national Aeronautic Federation
Eddie from starving.
opened its 57th congress at the
It always reminded me of the Weizmann Institute here with an!
two Jews who went west back in address by Israel Transport Minis-!
the Buffalo Bill days when the ter Israel Bar-Yehuda, who re-1
west was being built up. They turned from an official visit to'
didn't have much money. Between the Scandinavian countries.
them their whole capital was only
During ceremonies opening the
$65.
congress, in which 43 aeronautical
As soon as they got beyond clubs throughout the world are
Pittsburgh, they saw the signs of participating,
t h e Federation's!
the new dynamic life rising in the Gold Space Medal was awarded in I
West. Everywhere the covered absentia to Valentina Tereshkowa, I
wagons were unloading, and it the Soviet astronaut who last year,
seemed like a golden opportunity, became the first woman to go into
orbit in space.
The medal was received on her
behalf by V. K. Kekkinski, the
head of the Soviet delegation, who
also received the Federation's
Tissandier certificate on behalf of
the Russian parachutist, Ventina
Silverstova.
France was also honored when a
Gold Medal was awarded, also in
absentia, to Mme. Jacqueline Aur-
iol for her "entire aeronautical
career beginning in 1948." Vice
Admiral R. B. Pirie, of the U.S.
Navy, was among the recipients
of the Tissandier award as was
Rina Levinson, an Israeli pilot who
has been flying gliders since she
was 14 years old and who now
operates an air taxi service in
Israel.
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, October 30, 1964-25
singing, first on the street, then
in the restaurants. and finally with
Ziegfried's Follies. Irving Berlin,
Jolson, Jerome Kern — others of
New York's East Side boys did
more or less the same thing.
It all goes to show that if one
is without a job, there is no rea-
son for despondency. One can sing
or start an employment agency or
at least buy a cigar and open a
bank.
BILL HALL
BENJAMIN M. ROSE
• Past President Chelsea Clothes, Inc.,
Graduate, C.C.N.Y.
• Past Chairman Michigan Regional
Advisory Board, Anti-Defamation
League, 1954-55
• Member State Board of Control,
. Vocational Education
• Lecturer on Human Relations
• Past Chairman Citizenship Education
• Life Member Jewish War Veterans
BEN ROSE
VOTE FOR ROSE & HALL
Political Adv.
Elect . . . VINCENT J.
BRENNAN
For JUDGE Recorders Court
Non-Partisan — Wayne County
•
Special Assistant Attorney General
•
Veteran and Family Man
•
Graduate, U. of D., Detroit College of Law
• Former Federal-court Aid
•
Former Circuit Court Probation Officer
We wholeheartedly endorse Vincent J. Brennan as Judge of
Recorders Court, and urge our friends and neighbors to do
the same.
Irving Hermelin and David Hermelin
Political Adv.
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MEMBER OF:
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BOARD
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69th DISTRICT
• ATTORNEY
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Daniel S. Cooper
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ELECT COOPER ON TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3
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