NY Ban on Religious • Nursery Prayer Upheld by Supreme Court Ruling
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to The Jewish News)
phere that is nonreligious, detracts
NEW YORK—A Supreme Court from the prayer itself."
Experts called the Supreme
decision Monday upholding a New
Court ruling the furthest exten-
York ban on voluntary recitation
sion to date of the school prayer
of a religious nursery prayer in
prohibition since the court ruled
public schools was lauded Tuesday
by the head of a federation repre- in 1962 that state-composed pray-
ers were unconstitutional. In
senting 440 parent and teacher as-
1963, it barred state rules requir-
sociations in New York City.
ing classroom recitation of the
Directors of the Public Educa-
tion Association and the New York
Civil Liberties Union also hailed Nazi War Machine's
the decision, which stemmed from
a suit by parents against a public Use of Jews Related
school principal in Whitestone, in Milward's Book
Queens. He stopped kindergarten
An outline of the expansion of
pupils from reciting "God is great,
Germany's war production, as re-
God is good, and we thank Him
lated to the numerous aspects of
for our food" before eating milk the Nazis' economic program, is
and cookies each morning.
presented as an analysis of the
Mrs. Florence Fiast, president Hitlerites' contest for power in
of the United Parents Association, "The German Economy at War"
in praising the Supreme Court by Alan S. Milward, published by
stand, said, "We have always op- Oxford University Press (417 5th,
posed prayers in the schools, in- NY 16).
cluding the voluntary prayer be-
The manner in which skilled
cause it cannot really be volun- workers were utilized, some hav-
tary. The child feels under pres- ing been transferred from concen-
sure by the teacher."
tration and extermination camps,
is related as follows:
Francis Buono, chairman of
"In 1914 Germany was more in
the Queens parents group which
need of oil than of any other raw
was formed to fight the New
material and (Albert) Speer was
York state law against school
able to fight the battle over the
prayers, called the high court
Wuerttemberg shale-oil works on
stand "a terrible ruling."
A thrice-wounded World War II particularly favorable ground . . .
veteran, he declared that, "Now, Outside the frontiers of Germany
for the first time, it is clearly proper the SS was stronger. In
established that no prayer—vohtn- the occupied territories, especial-
tary or involuntary—may be heard ly in the General-Government of
in the public schools of the land." Poland, the SS had control of all
He expressed the belief that the the Jewish labor force. In the
high court ruling would spur ad- Lublin district in 1943 the SS dis-
vocates of a constitutional amend- posed of 45,000 prisoners for war
ment to permit school prayer. The production . . . After the Fuehrer-
Queens group. known as PRAY, Command on Oct. 13, 1942, even
those work camps which had been
for Prayer Rights for American
set
up by the civil administra-
Youth, was set up in 1962 and more
tion near to the .existing arma-
than 1,000 families in the Queens
ments factories had to be trans-
community contributed funds to
ferred to the SS. Agitation by the
carry on the court fight. Buono
Speer Ministry against this state
said the legal battle had cost near-
of affairs produced a Fuehrer-
ly $10,000.
Command on Nov. 3, 1943, which
Frederick C. McLaughlin, direc- withdrew Jewish labor from 'East-
tor of the Public Education Asso-
ern Industry,' a large SS concern
ciation, said that saying prayers mainly based in the Eastern ter-
in school by rote, "in an atmos- ritories. That particular com-
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pany had to be liquidated since
sufficient civilian labor was not
forthcoming after the withdraw
of the Jews. But although "East-
ern Industry' was closed down, the
much larger combine of German
Armaments Works was able to
survive. Its interests in the Lub-
lin and Lemberg areas were main-
ly textiles, shoe-making and print-
ing. Although it lost control of
8.000 Jews it was able to replace
the most important part of its
labor force, the skilled workmen,
by drafts from Dachau, Buchen-
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tion camps."
Orders for maintenance of fac-
tory installations, in March 1944,
brought an insistence from Hitler
"that two huge aircraft production
plants of 600,000 square meters
each, one of a special air-raid-proof
concrete construction, and the
other an extension of an under-
ground factory should be built."
According to Milward, "the de-
laying tactics on the part of the
industry led to Hitler's attempt to
bring in Hungarian Jews to sup-
ply 100,000 extra men."
Lord's Prayer and devotional
Bible reading.
The suit was brought by parents
of 21 pupils in P.S. 184 after Prin-
cipal Elihu Oshinsky ordered re-
citation of the nursery prayer
stopped in Sept. 1962. He said he
was acting in accordance with a
New York City Board of Education
decision.
Federal District Judge Walter
Bruchhausen ruled in favor of the
parents, who included Protestants,
Catholics, Jews, Greek Orthodox
and Armenian Apostolics. That
ruling was reversed by the Court
of Appeals of the Second Federal
Circuit. The Supreme Court, by un-
animous decision, left standing the
appeals court ruling.
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from Mr. Goldsmith, a prominent
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