8 Friday, November 9, 1979 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS COMMERCIAL REMODELING & ACCOUSTICAL CEILINGS • Apt. Owners • Stores • Office Buildings • Restaurants • Home Owners 25 YEARS EXPERIENCE — LOWEST PRICES Call DON FIELD 557-2777 M F 8 5 - - D & K Construction Services HOME OWNERS — SUSPENDED CEILINGS DEAL DIRECT Concerned Citizens for Cambodia Set Rally Organized on a non- sectarian, inter-racial and multi-religious basis, Con- cerned Citizens for Cam- bodia have organized a rally for 2:30 p.m. Sunday at .Kennedy Square to show Detroit's concern for the people of Cambodia. Speakers at the rally will include Detroit Mayor Coleman Young, Governor William Milliken, State Supreme Court Justice G. Mennen Williams and other leaders from the religious and black communities, who will join in appeals for aid for the hundreds of thousands of sufferers in Southeast Asia. Mayor Young and Gov. Milliken will participate in the starting of a petition drive urging the responsible authorities in Cambodia to allow immediate delivery of food and medical supplies. The rally sponsors hope to educate the community to the tragedy occurring in Cambodia and apply public pressure on the Cambodian authorities. According to Larry Brenners, one of the or- ganizers who is a sur- vivor of the Nazis' Mauthausen concentra- tion camp, "We must not remain silent. The • genocide by starvation in Cambodia must be stop- ped immediately. "The agonizing suffer- ings, starvation and deaths bring painful recollections THE GRAND OLE DAME The morning light and she still was there Caressing the broken branches here and there Youth heals so very well When love and kindness sets the pace And so it was The child healed well in loving arms. And soon joined in song and play Her companions of the day. - Straight, ramrod straight, her head Among the heavenly clouds This lady of the forest the grand ole dame Raised high her head Far into the lofty sky A relic of another age So fine, so sturdy so upright All alone, among her race She stood the test of time's embrace. And then one fateful day Nature in all her fury Bore down at tree top level In one great and violent burst The grand ole dame was rooted out And fell smashing to the earth. Her friends had withered all away Slowly yielding to the fates Till now she stood, the last And most elegant of her proud race. A true aristocrat, forgotten in the pace Of time that had passed her by. In her last gasp of breath She brushed aside the children dear With arms still bruised and broken So that her very weight would not destroy Her children that she had loved so much. Not once did she disdain To bow her head In greetings with a welcome smile. Not once did she disdain to speak to The little children that round her milled The yearly saplings that shot up To form a ring of joy around her' roots. The forest now was stilled in calm Not a single whisper could be heard No longer did the children play In song and dance in their lusty way. A miracle, the legends say Around the edges of their friend They gathered, solemn and austere And bowed down their heads to eve her cheer. The children saplings played all day "Ring around the rosie" did they sway. They laughed, reached out their branches To each other to dance in step As the gentle winds caressedtheir boughs. In movement, rhythm to and fro Till all their strength was spent From their branches when the day was low. •In one single day 'tis said Their leaves so short grew long and strong To stretch across their fallen friend And further yet their heads bent down To guard the loved one that they lost. The children sang out each day then As the winds moved thru swaying arms But in the nite soft murmur flowed Between them, in whispers soft and low To not disturb their lofty friend on high. And if perchance you wandered by and listened close The words were plain to practiced ears. She is old, do not disturb her sleep" For many in the nite had heard her weep. . The children swayed with every welcome wind The sun brought out their faces to shine With warmth and gladness ever flowing in their veins They gamboled on the green As children ever do. One nite a wind, unknown before Came crashing down in fury full A crashing, wrenching, twisting noise rang out A sapling much taller than the rest Cried out in fearful pain, from out its stem The head lay broken, hung by such a slender thread A deep endless sigh and then no more. The grand ole dame looked down at once And knew exactly what took place. She bowed her head and curved her back. With gentle arms she grasped the broken limb And lifted it gently into proper place Field there in firm embrace until The life blood flowed once again And there was a smile upon her face. No mother cradled with more gentle arms To give succor to a child in pain All nite she held its head in place And whispered healing murmurs Kissed it with love upon its face. All nite she cooed soft words Unto the ailing child. And then they wept; giant gushing tears As if by signal they poured down Upon the earth where their friend lay. Some say their leaves were thus transformed To weeping willows- with hanging heads and hair astray. The earth reached out with loving arms To welcome home a friend so loved Who came back to earth from whence she grew To find a place so soft and true To rest forever among her kind. Myths and legends come and go In time they even grow and grow Until they overthrow the truth And who can say with absolute When fiction ends and truth comes forth. Go then yourself and see and hear To quench your thirst of what may be The living legend of the truth The weeping willows guarding well The one they loved in their bosom swell They still are there just where she fell. The legends say and truth bears out At midnite there is a sudden still Some say they can plainly hear The tears so large still falling down In never ending flow of that great grief For one they cherished so very dear. And that is how the legends say That this did happen bye and bye The weeping willows learned to cry. And who can doubt to this very day That forest children breathe the air They live, they love, they cry and die Even as you and I. Maurice Croll, M.D. July, 1977 of our own experiences dur- ing the Nazi Holocaust. It is our human and moral re- sponsibility to act now," he said. Cooperating in the rally are the Jewish Community Council, the Christian Communication Council, Shaarit Haplaytah, the Ar- chdiocese of Detroit and the the Detroit Round Tab) of National Confer, Christians and Jews. Plans for the rally were formulated Tuesday and Wednesday at meetings at the Southfield home of Dr. and Mrs. John Mames. For rally information, call Dr. Fred Minkow, 851- 9276, or Dr. Mames, 353- 0434 or 561-5504. * * * UNITED NATIONS i• (JTA) — Israel declared Monday that "firm actions, and not just words" are needed to help the Cambo- dian people and pledged to participate in the humanitarian efforts to save the starving people of Cambodia. Addressing the Pledg- ing Conference for Emergency Humanita- Han Relief to the People of Kampuchea (Cam- bodia), Yehuda Blum, Is- rael's ambassador to the - UN, said Israel will con- sider sending further medical teams to Cam- bodia "as circumstances dictate" in addition to the team and the two tons of medical supplies and equipment that have been sent already. He said the cost of those measures is estimated at about $55,000. In addition, Blum told the conference that Israeli citi- zens have contributed about $500,000 for aid to the Cambodian people and the campaign is still far from finished." The people of Israel, "who have known what it is to suffer and to be refugees, could not remain unmoved by this human drama," the Israeli envoy added, noting that "there is no more noble task, nor any more urgent, before us today" than to help the Cambodian people. He said "Israel wholeheart- edly endorses the efforts currently undertaken by the United Nations to alle- viate the suffering P C the Kampuchean people Israeli Teaching Technique for Canadians? MONTREAL (JTA) — The Canadian government has expressed keen interest in a cultural agreement with Israel that would further the application in Canada of an Israeli- developed technique to in- - crease the learning poten- tial of retarded persons and - others. The technique, pioneere Ey Dr. Reuven Feuerstein of the International Research Institute in Jerusalem, would be introduced into' the Education and Training Division of the Correctional