THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
8—Friday, August 26, 1966
Argentine Bishop Denies He Said MDs Face Firing
BUENOS AIRES (JTA) — An
Argentine bishop who was quoted
by an Uruguayan newspaper of
having said that Jewish doctors in
this country may lose their posi-
tions in hospitals denied he was
quoted accurately.
The clergyman, Bishop Jeron-
imo Jose Podesta, of suburban
Avellandea, was quoted as making
that statement in an interview
printed in the Uruguayan weekly,
Marcha. That weekly has been
barred by the new military re-
gime ruling Argentina.
Today, Bishop Podesta said
that the weekly had completely
misinterpreted him, declaring
the statement in Marcha was
"unauthorized." The statement in
Marcha, he said, "creates re-
grettable confusion."
opinion media" were "developing
a campaign to create the impres-
sion that in Argentina there exists
an anti-Semitic attitude."
Alvaro Alsogaray discussed his
tour of the United States and sev-
eral European capitals made on
an assignment from the new gov-
ernment of Lt. Gen. Juan Carolos
Cngania to explain that govern-
ment. He said he believed that
this "campaign" would continue
"for some time yet."
Quake Predictor
Does It Again
An Argentine leader scheduled
to become ambassador to the
United States said here Sunday
that he had found on a recent tour
of the United States that "some
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Hart Sees No Need for Amendment
Introducing Prayers in Public Schools
U.S. Senator Philip A. Hart
this week commented on The Jew-
ish News editorial, in last week's
issue, on "Legislation on the Right
to Pray," calling it "excellent,"
adding:
"I particularly like the state-
ment you quote that' . . . it is an
act of gross religious insensitivity
to involve in such a deeply sec-
tarian experience children of dif-
ferent faiths."
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(Sen. Robert Griffin told The
Jewish News that he favors the
Dirks-en amendment. He conceded,
however, that it has no chance of
passing.)
"My solution," Senator Hart said,
said, "is a few minutes of silence
at the beginning
of every school ws.
day, when each
child will pray
the prayer of his
o w n denomina-
tion without be-
ing held up to
ridicule as a non-
conformist."
Recalling hear-
ings before the
Senate Judiciary
on similar legis-
lation, in 1964,
when the then
Sen. Hart
pending bill was
not even reported out of commit-
tee, Senator Hart said, in his state-
ment to The Jewish News, that he
does not see "any need for such
an amendment" as that proposed
by Senator Everett Dirksen of Illi-
nois — the now pending amend-
ment which was criticized in last
week's Jewish News editorial. On
this score Senator Hart recalled
the following dialogue he held with
Senator Milward L. Simpson of
Wyoming in the U.S. Senate, March
11, 1964, stating he sees no reason
for changing the views he held
then:
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"This," Senator Hart declares,
"has been my position right
along."
Mr. HART. Mr. President, will the
Senator yield?
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Mr. SEVIPSON. I yield.
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on
the thinest of all political ice. I am
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that the Senator from
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It
was
Senator
from Wyoming referred to the
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who came to him and asked him
TO 4:30
purchased in 1959 for 5,000,000 mother
to explain to her two children why they
could not say a prayer in school.
pounds, $1,666,000.
Mr. SIMPSON. Yes.
El Al officials reportedly were
Mr. HART. Let us not blink a very
evaluating acquisition of super- difficult
problem that we have. It strikes
All deposits insured up to $10,000
sonic jets, now in the development me that it would be no less difficult to
by the Federal Deposit insurance
be
approached
mother who would
stage in the United States and ask the Senator by to a explain
to her two
c
a.:oration.
Britain when they become avail- children why they had been asked to
say a prayer which was not their prayer
able.
at all.
I would not wish to impose my prayer
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formula in a public school on children
whose faith was not my faith.
Mr. SIMPSON. That is why the
amendment calls for voluntary adher-
ence and no compulsion.
Mr. HART. To pursue the point a
little further, the Senator from Wy-
oming says this is voluntary. Voluntary
in what sense? The- children I seek to
raise are encouraged to recite the "Ave
?halt
Maria." In this, my children are in the
minority. In the unlikely event it was
that prayer which a teacher asked to
be recited in a public school, what of
the non-Catholic students in the class?
Would they be expected to leave? And
is that "voluntary"?
Mr. SLMPSON. No; they. would not
have to participate. In the New York
prayer cases. the nub was that the
prayer was composed and imposed upon
the children by the State authorities.
and that is what made it contrary to the
First Amendment to the Constitution.
I am not disagreeing with the inter-
pretation, and I do not mean to be
criticizing the Supreme Court. All I am
trying to bring about is an amendment
which will clarify the first amendment
so that its true meaning and purpose
JNF land supports the whole Israel
can be adhered to.
Mr. HART. The • reason I make this
economy—it grows Israel's food—
point is that at the outset we be con-
on it stand Israel's religious, edu-
scious, laudatory as is the objective of
insuring the acknowledgment that there
cational, and welfare institutions.
is a Divine Creator. we must realize that
there are many children with many
different prayer formulas in public
schools.
Mr. SIMPSON. That has always been
A bequest to the JNF is a bequest
true throughout our history.
to the entire Jewish people, link-
Mr. HART. We are approaching an
extremely difficult problem. I, for one,
ing the name of the Testator with
am not prepared to say that we resolve
this dilemma by saying to a 12-year-old
Israel in perpetuity.
sensitive child. "If it is a prayer that
you do not believe in, leave the room;
that is all right." That does not fit my
definition of "voluntary choice."
Mr. SLMPSON. It is not a question of
For information and advice
leaving. It is a question of not having
to respond to prayer. It is a matter of
in strict confidence apply to
staying there but not responding.
Mr. HART. This suggests what has
seemed to me to be a more logical way
to approach the question. Why not an
amendment that will insure that there
may be a period of silence in a public
school classroom. where one child can
invoke God as he has been taught and
understands Him, and the child next to
him as he has been taught and be-
lieves? Or if a child would daydream,
so be it. That would be a third choice.
Beyond that, it seems to be there is
an enormous element of pressure in-
volved in saying to an impressionable
child, "If you don't want to stand up
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with the rest of us, sit down; it is all
right." That would almost put a fire
under the child to require him to stand
up. I raise this question only to insure
at the outset that we realize the highly
sensitive area into which it is proposed
to move.
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