`Color of Skin' Index Loses Meaning, Beersheba Mayor, German Sientists Urge Israel Ties,
- Author Declares in Book on Negro Balladeers Due at Colleagues' Withdrawal From Egypt

"My Face Is Black" by C. Eric
Lincoln, published by Beacon
Press, is a powerful evaluation of
the status of the Negro in America.
Previously having authored "The
Black Muslims in America," Lin-
coln approaches his subject with
a background of knowledge about
all elements in the Negro commu-
nity.
He pleads for an understanding
of the motivations of the extrem-
ists in his midst, in view of the
conditions which have .brought
about their propaganda and their
appeals.
This request for an understand-
ing of the thinking of the Black
Muslims is linked with an evalua-
tion of the entire color issue.
Lincoln shows that "Malcolm X
is not alone in his belief that a
racial conflagration in this country
and perhaps on a global scale is
the shortest and surest solution to
the problems of this civilization.
The primacy of the white races of
the West over the past 500 years
didnot win friends for them. and
hatred for the white man is not
confined to the black ghettos of
America. This is the price of con-
quest, and all conquering peoples
have paid it. But the point to be
established is that the Negro in
- America, who has received less
consideration and more abuse from
the hands of the American white
man than any other people any-
where in the world, has stood
steadfastly behind him (and. when
permitted, beside him). with a de-
gree of patience and loyalty that
is unique in the annals of time.
Let the white man recognize this
•
now. before it is too late, and learn
to love mercy and do justly."
The conclusion to the Lincoln
thesis is interesting: that there no

longer is meaning to color. He
states:
"The old order of things has in
truth passed away. The old values
and taboos that meant so much be-
fore are worthless in today's world,
or will be soon. Never mind the
color of a man's skin. That is the
least important index of his worth.
If Malcolm X means anything. it is
that America has but a little time
to learn the meaning of color,
which is. that it has no meaning."

Work

BY AVRAHAM SHLONSKY

Dress me, mother dear.

In a coat of splendid colors.
And lead me to work with dawn.

My country's enwrapped in it talith of
light.
The houses project like frontlets-
Like tefillin thongs dip the roads
bedded by our hands.

The lovely suburb chants a psalm of
dawn to its maker.
And among the makers — your son,
A v raham,
Poet. road-builder in Israel.

Father will return from his sufferings
with dusk
And murmur his pleasure in prayer:
Avraham is my one dear son:
Just skin and sinew and bone
Praise: Haleluja.

0 dress me, mother dear. with a coat of
splendor:
With dawn lead me to work.

(Translated
rratr
d , lated from the Hebrew by Dov

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There will be classes for begin-
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Histadrut Rally

BONN (JTA) — Fourteen West
German scientists and professors
A major Histadrut campaign demanded in an open letter the im-
rally is scheduled for 8:30 'p.m.
Jan. 14 to mark the midway point mediate establishment of diplo-
of the 1965 campaign. All volun- matic relations between West Ger-
teer workers and friends of His- many and Israel and all necessary
tadrut have been invited to the steps to withdraw West German
rally at the Labor Zionist Insti- scientists from Egypt where they
tute
are working on advanced weapons
Shimon and liana, folk duo, will systems.
present "songs for all people," and
The letter, addressed to Chancel-
Eliahu Navi. mayor of Beersheba, lor Ludwig Erhard, Foreign Minis-
ter Gerhard Schroeder and mem-
bers of the foreign committee of
the Bundestag, was published in
"Welt Der Arbeit," the weekly of
the West German trade union
movement.
The letter stressed that all
efforts to atone for the "horrible
mass persecution" of the Jews
committed in the name of the
German people were now endan-
gered.
The letter recalled that in 1952,
the then-Chancellor Konrad Ade-
nauer declared that West Germany
would establish diplomatic rela-
tions with Israel as soon as Israel
was prepared for this. "Whoever
denies Israel those diplomatic rela-
tions questions the very existence

of this state," the scientists and
scholars stressed. "This has been
done until now only by the Arab
countries, Red China and East Ger-
many."
West German trade unions re-
cently launched a cainpaign to col-
lect signatures from their 6,000,000
members for a petition for Bonn-
Jerusalem ties.

Another 183,000 whose cancers
will be diagnosed for the first
time in 1965 will live to join the
1.3 million Americans who have
been cured of cancer. A "cured"
cancer patient generally is one
who survives five years after
treatment with no recurrence of
the disease.

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from February 1948 to the end

of 1957. During the War of In-
dependence he was an officer
in a Druze unit of the Israel
Army. Discharged in 1954 with
the rank of major, Navi prac-
ticed law in Tel Aviv and Beer-
sheba and appeared in cases be-

fore the Moslem's religious
court. He is an expert on Be-
douin life and laws.

In 1957. Navi was appointed
judge in Beersheba, the first such
appointment in the Negev. In 1963
he was elected mayor of Beer-

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liana. known as The Balladeers,
have returned to the United States,
appearing throughout on radio and
TV programs and in concert.

Oneg Shabbat

Dec. 26—To Mr. and Mrs. Harold
Radin (Esther Greenblatt), 24818
By HAYIM NAHMAN BIALIK
Rensselaer, a daughter, Sheila.
I wish to explain the concept of
* * •
Oneg Shabbat. We are coming to
Dec. 23—To Mr. and Mrs. Sey- Eretz Israel to renew our life, to
mour Zack (Helen Levine), form- create for ourselves a distinctive
erly of Southfield, now of Los life, with features and character-
Angeles, a son, Edmond Roger.
istics uniquely our own. And in
*
order to create forms of life that
Dec. 15—To Mr. and Mrs. Gor- are rooted and genuine. that are
don Ryback (Molly Brown), 14420 true to the character of- the nation,
Northfield, Oak Park, a daughter, the founders of the Oneg Shabbath
movement felt that they must use
Rebecca Susan.
for their creative work only such
material as is derived from the
Dec. 13—To Mr. and Mrs. Bur- foundation stones of the original
ton Levitt (Suzanne Felsot), 22564 forms of life. They felt that they
Fargo, a daughter, Janice Anne.
must dig down to the strongest of
all foundations, to the very corner-
Dec. 13—To Mr. and Mrs. Sher- stone of Jewish life. And in their
win L. Sokolov (Barbara Schanz), search they found no form loftier
19272 Archer, a daughter, Cheryl or more profound than the Sabbath,
which preceded the giving of the
Susan.
Torah and Was observed by the
* * *
Children of Israel while they were
Dec. 12—To Dr. 'and Mrs. Jack still in Egypt. The Sabbath is in-
Singer (Karen Holtzman), 19225 deed the cornerstone of Judaism,
Woodbine, a daughter, Sheryl Jo- and it is not without cause that it
anne.
is called the "sign of the covenant"
• • •
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To Mr. and Mrs. Albert Binder Israel. In the Shabbath are en-
(Patricia Joyce Lieberman), for- folded many national and social
mer Detroiters, of Flint, a daugh- concepts. If in the Ten Command-
ments is enfolded the whole Torah,
ter, Elizabeth Aline.
then in the Sabbath are probably
enfolded all the Ten Command-
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