Modern Hotel Overwhelms Tots in Iran Ghetto,

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She saw them first in a JDC-supported kindergarten in Iran. This time they were in a kindergarten in
Israel. Evelyn Peters, chief day care consultant for the Joint Distribution Committee, visited Israel in
preparation for a five-week tour of American-Jewish communities.
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By LOIS HACKETT
JDC Geneva
Dr. Morris H. Masserman 's Poems
SHIRAZ—For children from the M
ghetto of this ancient Persian city, I - . arked by Dry Wit and Humor
the marvels of a modern hotel put Dry wit and humor mark the State University. He and his wife,
Queen Scheherazade's 1001 Nights poems of Dr. Morris H. Masser- Mollie. reside at 19973 Marlowe.
in the shade. man. His new book, "The Artificial He has lived in Detroit for 50
Kleenex, flush toilets, inner- Falls and Other Poems," is a not- years.
spring mattresses—all were thrill- able edition to his creative efforts.
Dr. Masserman has received
ing new experiences for a group of Dr. Masserman is an optometrist wide praise for his poetry.
eight pre-school youngsters from whose avocation is poetry. He has
One
of the poems, was inspired
the Joint Distribution Committee's written hundreds of poems, which by a trip
to Israel. Entitled "In
day care center here who recently have been published in various
Upper Galilee," it reads:
Went on their first field trip. Or- magazines throughout the country. The
"The bus rides
ganized by Evelyn Peters, chief He received his degree from :he
On shaky hills of Time
up, past tombs,
JDC day care consultant, it took Massachusetts College of Optom- Up,
ringed,
the form of a visit to the hotel etry after attending Detroit City Of cloud
martyred rabbis,
narrow defiles of dec th
where she was staying. College, predecessor of Wayne Through
In the sacred dust
The youngsters are among 200
Which is History,
Saviors brood
who attend the kindergarten in
On the somnolent hills.
Shiraz, one of a network of five Permits to Return Home
The centuries gleam
day care centers which JDC has Unwanted Among Former In the marble sun."
Another acclaimed poem. "A
created in four of the largest
Good Woman." reads:
Jewish communities in Iran, West Bank Residents
"A good woman
(Direct
JTA
Teletype
Wire
with funds from the United Jew-
Is a boon
to The Jewish News)
poor fish
ish Appeal.
JERUSALEM — Of the 7,000 To To a make
him smooth
presentable.
With technical as well as finan- permits granted to former West .4nd
She cuts his tail off
cial support from JDC, they serve Bank residents to return to their To keep him from
Swashbuckling mischief
some 850 underprivileged 3-to 5- previous homes, only 1.000 have
A”dpombl
injury
year-olds. Each center is sponsor- been used, an interior ministry And
h e ad.'
What does he need a head
ed by a local women's committee spokesman said Wednesday.
Filled with fishy ideas
which helps raise funds and sets
Permits were issued early last If he has
.4 good tcontati7"
personnel and program policies.
year, but 7,000 of them remained
(Miss Peters was in the United unused. Their holders were given
States this month for a five-week six weeks to return. Only a few Czech President Svoboda.
tour of American-Jewish communi- of them did, and it was decided Dubcek Honor War Dead
ties. She reported on latest devel- to transfer the unused permits to
LONDON (JTA)—President Lud-
opments in JDC welfare programs 7.000 other former residents of vik Svoboda of Czechoslovakia led
in North Africa. Israel and other the West Bank who would apply to an assemblage officially estimated
areas:) return. When the additional three at more than 50,000 Sunday at a
Miss Peters said she organized months under the extension were peace rally at Terezin honoring
the expedition to show the director up 6,000 permits still remained the more than 30,000 men, women
and teachers in the kindergarten unused.
and children who died there in the
bow a simple field trip can enrich
Theresienstadt concentration camp,
the children's program of activi- Disturbed Teens Aided
which the Nazis frequently de-
ties.
BALTIMORE (JTA)—A 10-week scribed as a model Jewish ghetto. ,
The meeting was held on the '
"The children know only the experimental group counseling pro-
mahalleh (ghetto)" she explained. gram for troubled teen-agers in a site of the camp, and the raised
"Many of the parents are unedu- Baltimore high school has been set platform for the notables and
cated. The majority of the chil- up by the Jewish Family and Chil- speakers overlooked the rows of
dren have never seen a movie, dren's Service at the request of the Jewish graves in the national
cemetery. Among those with Presi-
never seen television, never been Baltimore public school system.
The program which was started dent Svoboda were Alexander Dub-
exposed to books in thir homes. A
walk down the main street of in March, has two goals: To meet cek, former first secretary of the
Shiraz on Saturday is about as far a general need and to serve as a Communist Party, and leaders of
as they ever venture into the great demonstration project so school the reform movement.
Dubcek, the principal speaker.
wide world. How can you expect counselors will be able to establish
them to bubble over with ideas similar programs as the need noted that most of the concentra-
tion camp victims had been Jewish
and curiosity when they come to arises.
The program is the only one of and denounced the "inhuman
the kindergarten?"
In Iran for her yearly round of its kind conducted by a social ideology of anti-Semitism."
agency
in a public school in Balti-
Consultations, supervision and re-
fresher training of the day care more, and is believed to be one of Jewish Books Seized
staff, Miss Peters, the director and the very few such programs in the by Polish Customs Aides
one of the teachers, set out with United States,
LONDON (JTA) — Polish cus-
the Children early one morning to
toms authorities confiscated two
walk to her hotel, where the man- `adjah' (surprise) as they took books of Jewish interest—one a
ager had agreed to receive them, turns Hushing it.
book on Yiddish literature and
"The piece de resistance was
"Then the room telephone rang the other on Zionism — among
a visit to my room," Miss Peters and the switchboard operator—I dozens of other books shipped to
said. "They were wide-eyed at had arranged for this—asked for Warsaw to be shown in the Inter-
the sight of the bathroom, since Rafael. Rafael had never held a national Book Fair which opened
they only knew the public baths, telephone before and he stared at there Monday.
Every child had to have his turn us—paralyzed—while the operator
The books, which the Polish
at running the water into the tried to make conversation with authorities described as "unde-
tub, and putting in and taking him. Finally 4-year-old Farahnaz sirable," were seized in a raid
out the plug. And none of them took over and—just like a woman on the Palace of Science and Cul-
had ever seen a Western type of —chatted away as if she'd been ture. The customs officials said
toilet before. They kept saying doing it all her life."
the books would be returned to
the publishers after the exhibit
40,--Pricloy.'.11 4ay
1969'
" THE DETROIT JEWISH. NEWS closes.

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