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orld's Notables Join in Paying Honor to Memory
of the Park Bench Philosopher,' Bernard Baruch
Famed as "park bench con-
sultant" in World War II.
Canadian Mayors at Windsor Parley
Demand Action on Hate Literature
WINDSOR (JTA) — The Cana-
dian Federation of Mayors and
Municipalities has asked the post-
master general and the justice de-
partment to take action to bar the
dissemination of hate material
through the Canadian mails and
for "effective legal measures to
stop dissemination of bigotry and
racial hatred."
The proposals were made in a
resolution adopted at the organi-
zation's national convention which
noted that "the spread of hate-
mongering material continues to
flood the Canadian mails," much
of it going through the post offices
as third class material.
The resolution asked the post-
master general to "institute a
close scrutiny of all such .third-
class material throughout the vari-
ous post offices and to pass such
material on to the authorities con-
cerned."
Hale, hearty in his 90s.
A White House visitor under
a succession of presidents.
Major Canadian cities have been
flooded during the past year with
anti-Negro and anti-Semitic mate-
rial, leading to a ban on use of
Canadian mails by a state rights
organization in Alabama.
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Post Office Hearing
Baruch was a confidant of the great as early as a genera-
tion ago. Here he is (right), with Winston Churchill (left)
and Britain's World War I prime minister, Lloyd George.
NEW YORK—Messages of con-
dolence to the family of the late
Bernard Baruch and of praise for
his lifetime of humanitarian serv-
ices are pouring in from notables
from many lands. Mr. Baruch died
here Sunday at age .94. Ill for
several months, he suffered a heart
attack.
President Johnson's tribute
headed the many hundreds from
notables in this country, in recogni-
tion of Mr. Baruch's services in his
capacity as adviser to eight presi-
dents, from Woodrow Wilson to
John F. Kennedy.
Former Presidents Eisenhauer
and Truman paid tribute to the
memory of the deceased.
Simple funeral services at the
Shaaray Tefila, a Reform temple
here, marked the funeral Wed-
nesday. The ceremony was
simple at Mr. Baruch's request.
He was a member of the New
York synagogue since • childhood,
it was revealed Tuesday by Dr.
Bernard J. Bamberger, Rabbi of
Shaaray Tefila.
The rabbi said that Mr. Baruch
was a member of his congregation
when it was known as the West
End Synagogue prior to changing
its name to Shaaray Tefila. Burial
was in a family plot in Flushing
Cemetery, Queens, and was strict-
ly private.
The children of Mr. Baruch
Tuesday issued a statement declar-
ing "It was our father's express
desire that his funeral be as
simple and private as possible, and
in accordance with his wish there
will be no visitation."
Rabbi Bamberger, during the
service, spoke briefly about the
impact of the financier's life on
the country and world, and on
the significance of his name.
"Baruch in Hebrew means
blessed," he explained.
Mr. Baruchs career was a strik-
ing American success story. Son
of a German immigrant, Simon
Baruch, a distinguished Confeder-
ate Army surgeon, he was born in
Yeshiva U. Dean Hails Zambia Gains
Thru Education, Its Greatest Item'
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The newly-independent African
country of Zambia has made im-
pressive progress in the eight
months since it gained its freedom
from Britain, according to a lead-
ing American educator who re-
cently returned from a visit.
Dr. Morton I. Teicher, dean of
Yeshiva University's Wurzweiler
School of Social Work, said "the
transition from colony to inde-
pendent nation has gone beautiful-
ly, in contrast to the historical
pattern in so many other African
countries."
Dr. Teicher credited Zambia's
President Kenneth Kuanda with
providing an atmosphere "remark-
ably free of tension and vindictive-
ness."
Describing President Kuanda as
"a real statesman," Dr. Teicher
said he has established a relatively
stable government that places "its
greatest emphasis on education."
He noted that Zambia spends more
money on education than on any
other single item in its national
budget.
Because of President Kuanda's
policy, Dr. Teicher said, "Zam-
bia's European (white) popula-
tion haS not suffered from re-
verse discrimination and, as a
result, there has been no mass
exodus of Europeans as oc-
curred in some other newly-in-
dependent African countries."
The need for skilled personnel
remains a serious problem in
Zambia, h o w e v e r, Dr. Teicher
said. "There is still a tremendous
shortage of skilled workers, and
since most Zambians are unskilled,
a serious unemployment problem
exists despite the booming nature
of the economy."
Zambia's emphasis on education
is designed to help solve this prob-
lem, Dr. Teicher said. He cited the
experiences of graduates of the
country's first institution of higher
learning — the Oppenheimer Col-
lege of Social Service, in the capital
city of Lusaka — which he helped
establish in 1963.
Oppenheimer College is a school
of social work, he pointed out, but
the graduates aren't necessarily
becoming social workers.
At a Congress hearing. His
opinion often was sought.
OTTAWA (JTA) — The second
Post Office board of review on a
ban of hate-mail concluded Wed-
nesday in Ottawa after a two-day
hearing. The two hate mongers
involved were David Stanley, 20,
formerly of Toronto and more re-
cently of Vancouver, and John
Ross Taylor, 52, of Gooderham,
Ontario, and their organization
"Natural Order."
John Bentley, lawyer for the
federal justice department, wound
up his case by saying to the three-
man board: "This is the most
scandalous sort of attack on peo-
ple. I don't enjoy reading it and
I'm sure you don't enjoy hearing
it."
He demanded that the interim
orders prohibiting the two men
and Natural Order from using
Canadian mails be made final.
Last November a similar hearing
was held in Ottawa at which both
Taylor and Stanley appeared but
they were then appearing as re-
presentatives of an Alabama or-
ganization, against which the ban
was upheld.
The paper from which Bentley
had been reading was entitled
"The Coming Red Dictatorship,"
and deals with "a sinister Com-
munist _conspiracy directed by in-
fluential Jews." Taylor admitted
he had distributed thousands of
copies of the paper across Canada
since it was first printed in the
United States in 1954.
Hebrew Corner
Martyrs
Between thick walls, in Jerusalem, are
the paper store-rooms of the Jewish
Agency. But till the emergence of the
State this place served as the central
prison of Jerusalem. Between the thick
walls were Israeli youths sentenced to
death by British judges.
Fifteen youths sat there, ill the red
garments of the condemned and waited.
Four of them were executed in Acre
prison. Nine young men were pardoned
and two prisoners carried out the death
sentences on themselves.
Meir Feinstein and Moshe Barazani,
members of the underground of the Etzel
(initials of National, Fighting Organiza-
tion, Irgtfh Zvai Leumi) and Lehi (ini-
tials of Israel Freedom Fighters, Lohamei
Herut Israel) were captured by the Brit-
ish and sentenced to death. Before the
carrying out of the sentence the two
secretly passed out to their friends a slip
of paper: "Send us a grenade immedi-
ately."—They wanted to blow themselves
up together with the British hangman in
the execution chamber.
But the two prisoners had pity on the
Jewish rabbi who was about to accom-
pany them in the last moments of their
lives. Therefore the two changed their
plan at the last moment. Meir Feinstein
and Moshe Barazani killed themselves in
the prison cell with a grenade a few
moments before they were to be taken
to the gallows.
Several weeks ago there assembled in
this cell hundreds of former prisoners
who had spent the best years of their
lives in this prison. They gathered to-
gether for the ceremony of turning the
place into a "shrine of heroism" to re-
mind posterity of the story of the doom-
ed ("those who went to their death").
Everything has been left as it was
20 years ago. But they have added
there only a mezuzah with a short in-
scription: "For always—a tribute to the
martyrs (literally "the slain of the ty-
rannous government").
(Translation of Hebrew column pub-
lished by Brith Ivrith Olamith, Jerusa-
• lem.)
Camden, S. C. His father decided
to move his family to New York
to assure his sons a good Jewish
education, and the future financier
ahended a typical heder.
He was graduated from City
College of New York, where the
Bernard Baruch School of Business THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
and Finance was later established 40—Friday, June 25, 1965
in his honor.
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work in Wall Street where he
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a check for $1,000,000 to the
American National Red Cross. He
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the City College here.
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he contributed substantial sums
for the investigation of the prob-
lem of war, its causes and means
of prevention. He was the author
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