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By BENN ETT CERF
On his recent trek to Israel,
John Steinbeck had some diffi-
culty persuading the natives to get
his name straight. He was hailed
in the press successively as Stein-
berg, Steinwitz, and Stonebaum.
One waiter took his order for
orange juice. scrambled eggs and
coffee, brought up a dish of
prunes, oatmeal and tea instead,
but brushed aside Steinbeck's ob-
jections with, "N ever mind Mr.
Steenbaum, I'm going to let you
Knesset Picks Committee
to Study Sr.hool System
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The cab-
inet Tuesday requested the Knes-
set (Parliament) to select a com-
mittee of 19 of its members to
study the entire structure of Is-
rael's elementary and higher edu-
cation system. The cabinet asked
the Knesset to co-opt for that com-
mittee four representatives from
Israeli teachers' organizations, and
to complete a report by March,
1967.
The step was taken by the cabi-
net because organizations of teach-
ers had protested against recom-
mendations by another committee,
headed by Prof. Y. Prayer, which
has proposed that high schools en-
roll students after only six years
of elementary schooling. At pres-
ent, high schools do not accept
students until they have completed
eight years of elementary work.
Honor Samuel Daroff
With Scopus Award
NEW YORK ( JTA ) — Senator
Abraham Ribicoff of Connecticut
urged that the United States and
bhp Soviet Union use their in-
fluence to end the arms race in
the Middle East.
He spoke at a dinner of the
Society of Founders of the Ameri-
can Friends of the Hebrew Uni-
versity at which Samuel H. Daroff,
of Philadelphia, was presented
with the Scopus Award, the high-
est honor of the American
Friends.
Nathaniel I.,: • Goldstein, presi-
dent of the American Friends,
told the 500 guests at the dinner
that the award was intended to
honor not only Daroff, but also
his brothers, Michael and Joseph,
for their long service to the He-
brew University and to Israel.
Goldstein announced that a new
science building at the Univer-
sity will be named the Daroff
Center for Isotope Research in
honor of the Daroff family.
$15,000,000 Road in Peru
to Get Israeli Know-How
write my life story for me." He
also suggested better endings for
Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men"
and "The Grapes of Wrath."
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Famed newspaper editor Her-
! belt Bayard Swope prided himself
on his incredible fund of worth-
less information and, furthermore,
could never understand why his
friends found occasional lectures
by him just a wee bit long-winded.
To a gathering of handkerchief
manufacturers hoping just for a
pleasant get-together, Mr. Swope
scolded, "I'll bet not one of you
fellows are aware that the finest
Belgian linen you import is
achieved by patient women beating
the cloth for hours on end on the
shore of the Ypres River — the
Belgian side of the river, of
course." He added hastily, "And
if you ever advertise wool sheared
from Llamas, I urge you to let the
public in on the fact that llamas,
when angry, spit on the objects of
their ire."
By this time, notes Swope's
biographer, E. J. Kahn, Jr., there
wasn't a dry throat in the place.
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Henry David Thoreau's "Wal-
den" is now generally recognized
as one of the truly great books in
American literature, but during
Thoreau's lifetime, neither "Wal-
den" nor his "A Week on the
Concord and Merrimack Rivers"
received Much public acclaim. In
fact, the latter volume, published
in 1849, when everybody was read-
ing about the new gold rush in
California, never even sold out its
first and only edition of one thou-
sand copies! Thoreau eventually
bought the sizeable remainder
himself. In a letter, Thoreau corn-
plained, "I have now a library of
nearly nine hundred volunies, over
seven hundred of which I wrote
myself."
Thoreau's publisher was the still
prosperous firm of Houghton Mif-
flin. The late Robert Linscott, one
of that publisher's best editors, re-
members the aged head of the sub-
scription book department telling
him, "It makes me ashamed to
collect ' money from anyone fool
enough to buy that Thoreau's
books. He was just a loafer who
never did an honest day's work
in his whole life. No one in Con-
cord had any use for him except
Ralph Waldo Emerson — and HE
was a little cracked!"
Shazar to Visit Chile
SANTIAGO DE CHILE (JTA)-
Israel's President Zalman Shazar
will visit Chile in July, it was an-
nounced by Haim Gvati, Israeli
Minister of Agriculture. He made
that discolsure after a conference
here with Chilean President Edu-
ardo Frei, concluding a week's vis-
road section. The contract covers it to this country by the member
two sections of the Central High- of Israel's Cabinet.
way on the eastern slope of the
During his stay here, Gvati vis-
Officials of the Israeli firm, now
qualified to make bids for public
construction projects in Peru, said
they would bid on other major
projects, including a section of
the Pan-American Highway toward
the Chilean border, as well as for
4,000-unit housing project valued
at $20,000,000. The company plans
to open offices here.
Meanwhile, Israel's Minister
of Agriculture, Haim Gvati, cur-
rently on an official visit to
Peru, was received here by Pres-
ident Fernando Velaunde Terry,
for a discussion about the tech-
nical assistance given by Israeli
experts in various parts of Peru.
Gvati, who was accompanied by
Israel Ambassador Netanel Lorch,
also called on Peru's Agriculture
Minister Rafael Cubas Vinatea.
The latter stressed the need for
more Israeli aid in the fields of
irrigation and farm cooperatives.
A clean neighborhood begins in
your own backyard — Keep De-
troit Beautiful.
A published draft of the "New
Program of the Communist Party
of the U.S.A." just published by
New Outlook Publishers reveals
the party's attitude on religion.
Inter alia, the published pro-
gram states that communists
"oppose all attempts to create
division and antagonism among
the people along religious lines,"
and the program adds:
"Marxists disagree philosophi-
cally with the supernatural, mysti-
cal elements of religion; neverthe-
less we recognize many positive,
humanist. values in ethical and
moral precepts of the several re-
ligions . . . We subscribe to the
fundamental tenets of democracy
that are deeply imbedded in Am-
erican tradition (even though
they are too often violated) : the
right of freedom of conscience
(which includes the right to
atheistic convictions as well as re-
ligious beliefs), and the separation
of church and state."
Swastika Smearings
Alert Utica Leaders
UTICA, N.Y. (JTA) — Utica
Jewish community leaders sched-
uled a meeting with police offi-
i cials over swastika smearings on
the homes of two Jewish couples
who fled from Nazi Germany in
1938 to find a haven in the United
States.
Leo Simon, his wife, and Mr.
and Mrs. Solomon LoHg, his sister
and brother-in-law, settled in up-
state New York, going into the
cattle business in a rural area
north of Utica. As practically the
only Jewish families in the area,
they were obvious targets for hate-
mongers. according to the Utica
Jewish Community Relations Corn-
mittee.
The swastikas and Nazi slogans
were smeared on the home the
two families occupy. Community
relations officials indicated doubt
that the smearings were a prank
of youngsters. They cited the
height of the markings, the choice
of a penetrating yellow paint and
the slogans as indicating older
anti-Semites. The Utica Interfaith
Commission of Religion and Race
plans to participate with the Corn-
munity Relations officials in talks
with the police in the search for
the vandals.
Britain Ponders
Action Against
Arson Attacks
Canadian Minister
Pledges Liberalization
on Immigrant Law
LONDON (JTA) --- Under per-
sistent questioning by Members of
Parliament, Attorney General Sir
Elwyn Jones said in the House of
Commons that consideration was
being given to whether further
criminal proceedings should be
started in London's recent rash of
arson attacks on synagogues.
The deputies questioned the At-
torney General about a recent
arson trial, in which four former
members of the British National
Socialist Party were freed on
charges of setting fires to two syn-
agogues. The questions concerned
evidence by the prosecution at the
trial, during the first week of
April, that Mrs. Colin Jordan, wife
of the British neo-Nazi leader, had
encouraged some of the defendants
to burn down synagogues. Sir El-
wyn informed the House also that
the police were continuing their
inquiries into such reports.
Reginald Freeson, a Labor MP,
declared that members of the neo-
Nazi group, "together with ether
Fascists and anti-immigrant organi-
zations, had in the past 20 months
or more, been organizing arson,
violence and even death against the
Jewish and colored members of the
community." Sir Elwyn noted that
Mrs. Jordan was currently outside
the jurisdiction of British police.
MONTREAL (JTA) — Jean
Marchand, Canada's Minister of
Immigration, said he will do all he
can to liberalize the Dominion's
Immigration Act and "will strug-
gle for the end of discrimination
in this law." He made that state-
ment when he appeared as the
principal speaker at a memorial
rally, marking the end of World
War II in Europe, held by the As-
sociation of Survivors of Nazi Op-
pression.
Emphasizing that his aim is to
establish a Canadian policy based
on 'human law," Marchand con-
ceded that a recent public opinion
poll had shoNvn that 50 per cent of
Canadians fear increased immigra-
tion. "This situation must change,"
he declared.
The early automobile manufactur-
er, Ransom Eli Olds (1864-1950),
had two cars named after him —
the Oldsmobile and the Reo, named
for his initials.
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MONTREAL (JTA) — The 50th
anniversary of the death of Sho-
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versity of Montreal, addressed by
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LIMA (JTA) — The Israel Water
Resource Development Interna-
tional Ltd. has won a contract val-
ued at $15,000,000, in association
with a Peruvian firm, to build a
Andes.
Religious Attitudes
in Communist Party
Programs Revealed
ited a number of agricultural ex-
perimental engineers aiding Chile's
agricultural development. He had
also discussed agricultural meth-
ods with various government offi-
cials. In his conversation with
President Frei today, Gvat and
Chile's chief executive discussed
various problems of mutual in-
terest to their governments.
Gvati left for Lima for a one-
week visit to Peru during which he
will participate in the Day of Agri-
culture celebration as guest of
Peruvian Minister Cubas Vinatea.
He will make an extensive series
of visits to sections where Israeli
experts are assisting Peruvian
farmers, irrigation projects, co-
operatives and agricultural sta-
tions and universities. He will be
guest at a Jewish community re-
ception and at a luncheon Sunday
at the La Molina University of Ag-
riculture where Agriculture Week
will close with an exposition which
President Belaunde will attend.
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, May 20, 1966-19
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10 MILE AND GREENFIELD • OAK PARK • LI 8-0800
Dear Mr. and Mrs. Public:
This is how we at Northland Ford feel about you . . as our customers.
A Customer . .
Is the most important person ever in our dealership.
A Customer . .
Is not dependent on us . . we are dependent on him.
A Customer . .
Is not an interruption of our work . . . he is the purpose of it. We are not doing him a
favor by serving him . . he is doing us a favor by giving us the opportunity to do so.
A Customer . . .
Is not an outsider to our business . .
he is part of it.
A Customer .
Is not someone to argue or match wits with. Nobody ever won an argument with
customer.
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is a person who brings us his wants. It is our job to handle them profitably to him and
ourselves.
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We wish to thank our many customers for their past patronage and look forward to
serving you in the future — without you there would be no Northland Ford.
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Sincerely,
ED KASPARIAN
Sales Representative
PRESIDENT, NORTHLAND FORD