THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, May 23, 1980 7 •• ■ ••wiminw 1980 Presidential Race Lacks Excitement of Previous Elections By DAVID SCHWARTZ (Copyright 1980, JTA, Inc.) 1 , (Editor's note: This is the last column David Schwartz wrote for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency before he died on April 29 at the age of 84.) Despite the number of people willing to be President, the race for the office seems to us a bit more quiet than usual. In the past, election years have been more exciting. The present election year can't compare at all with the ce that took place when -yan ran against McKin- Arde.y. The eloquence of Bryan enthralled the nation. It was like a great show. 'Bryan was the Democratic star. The Republicans had the money but no orator to compare with him and were forced to hire hundreds of minor orators to offset the oratory of this one man. And Franklin Delano Roosevelt was no piker either. During his cam- paign, even the popular song writers got busy. "Happy Days are Here Again," sang the F.D.R. fans. After Roosevelt, "Give 'em hell, Harry" Truman stirred the country. The current crop of candidates do not seem able to stir up the people as much. Robert Strauss, manag- ing the Carter campaign, did inject a bit of heat in his speech recently. He was ad- dressing a JeWish group and trying to explain the Carter policy toward Israel. Strauss, referring to the State Department attitude, said, "There are pro-Israel people in the State Depart- ment" but also he added "some God-damn Arabists." So finally we did get a little heat. It was the kind of ex- Smolar Award Contest Opens NEW YORK — Entries are now being accepted for the 1980 Smolar Awards for Excellence in North Ameri- can Jewish Journalism, sponsored by the Council of Jewish Federations. The competition for 1980 will be organized around four new categories: Public affairs, human interest, opinion and magazine writ- ing. The CJF Smolar Awards recognize distinguished achievements by journalists whose work appears in American and Canadian newspapers and magazines 0° . Ai redominantly devoted to "t he coverage of Jewish communal affairs. The awards were founded in honor of Boris Smolar, editor-in-chief emeritus of ir the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. . Award presentations will be made at the CJF General Assembly — the major con- vocation of North American Jewry — in Detroit, Nov. 12-16. * pression Harry Truman would like. This is the first campaign in which there has been talk of a specific Jewish vote. This is due, of course, to the Middle East issue and the United Nations. The United Nations organization doesn't seem able to do anything towards solving its own problems. It hasn't been able to do anything about getting the American hostages in Iran released, but its action on Israel may affect possibly the American Presidential elections. I recall a similar incident some years back. It was in the northwest. I asked an old timer about the pros- pects of a certain candidate for office. Well, he replied, he has a chance now that one of the newspapers noted for its reactionary politics had come out against him. A lot of people would vote for hirii because that paper was against him. 5 lbs. of MATZO If I can't Beat Your Best Deal says the Israeli general, for which a solution cannot be found. Margolis Household Furniture * * * , Good news from Israel. You can now get the equiv- alent of Kentucky Fried Chicken in Israel. It is being exported successfully to Europe, but there will be no effort to sell it in America as chicken is cheaper here. "Is- rael Fried Chicken" has one advantage over the Ameri- can article. It is free of chemical additives. The Is- raeli scientists found a way of steaming it so as to make chemicals unnecessary. 6 Mile, 1 Blk. 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A Moslem judge, says the Ayatollah, can dis- pose of 20 cases in the time a Western judge de- cides one. * * * The Chicago Tribune the other day quoted Gen. Dan Shomron who commanded the Israeli hostage rescue team in Entebbe as saying on Israeli radio that the American hostages in Iran could easily be rescued, but political considerations prevented it. There is virtu- ally no hostage situation, Guide to Aid Catholic Schools NEW YORK — A cur- riculum guide to help Catholic parochial school teachers provide "new appreciation of Jews and Judaism" has been pub- lished jointly by the Na- tional Conference of Catholic Bishops and the' Anti-Defamation League of Bnai Brith. The guide, titled "Ab- raham, Our Father in Faith," underscores the pronouncements of Vatican II that Catholics should combat anti-Semitism and engage in dialogue with Jews. Box e Breakthrough! Now w2closest to tar-fre ' TM NOW Less than 0.01 mg tar is the lowest Also available in 100's and Soft Pack. 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