16 • Friday, March 30, 198411 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Detroit Chapter THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY program ISRAELI VIDEO * THE BEDOUINS OF ISRAEL * SWIMSUITS * SAVING HEART ATTACK VICTIMS * HELP FOR HARD •OF HEARING * RAISING STUDENT LEVELS * THE P.L.O. AND THE LEBANESE * MEDICAL SERVICES IN LEBANON * LASER SURGERY * MEDICATION FOR BRITTLE BONES * WHEN JERUSALEM WAS DIVIDED program moderator ... HYMIE CUTLER Chairperson, Programming Committee, Detroit Chapter, Technion Society It's commonly said that Israel has one real resource - brains. But those brains must be properly educated in order to be fruitful. And education costs. UNITED HEBREW SCHOOLS 7:45 p.m. Thursday APRIL 12 21550 West 12 Mile Road / Southfield MOMS, DADS , KIDS . celebrate spring at - SHAAREY ZEDEK with the MASK PUPPET THEATER performing THE MONSTER THAT ATE YOUR GARDEN" and learn about RAINBOW CONNECTION for kindergarten, first, and second graders AN ENRICHMENT PROGRAM FOR FAMILY EDUCATION AND HOLIDAY CELEBRATION on SUNDAY, APRIL 8, 3:00 P.M. Refreshments will be served Confirm Reservations 357-5544 Admission Free Flexing their muscles Continued from Page 15 sing the Agency altogether by taking UJA funds from the federations and contributing them directly to worthy causes in Israel. Still othei-s, aware that Israel is more able now to provide for its social needs than it was 30 years ago, have started talking about using a greater share of UJA money for community needs or for strengthening Jewish life in other countries. Wherever these ideas for the fu- ture of the Agency ultimately lead, it is clear by now that an increasing number of informed and active Dias- pora Jews will be influencing the proc- ess that takes it there. Charles Hoffman is a reporter for the Jerusalem. Post. `Letters Home' from. Truman Harry S. Truman left many legacies as the head of this government. In the cru- cial era of his Presidency, he dealt with the most power- ful in the world. Yet, besides the many pressures, there was always a major factor in his life: a devoted father-daughter re- lationship. It comes to light in Letters Home by Harry Truman (Putnam). The entire era of his Presidency comes under re- view in this volume edited by Monte M. Poen, professor of history at Northern Arizona University. The General Douglas MacArthur controversy has its echoes here. There are comments on Charles de- Gaulle, Josef Stalin, Dean Acheson, Clement Atlee, Lady Astor, Warren Austin and scores of others. Never- theless, the deep affection for his daugher predomi- nates, in spite of a busy life. The very title of the book, "Letters Home . . ." also has the strong link of the affec- tion for Bess, the wife and the mother of the recipient of the bulk of the letters. In the references to the personalities dealt with there is the prominence of the man with whom Tru- man was in business when he was in haberdashery. Eddie Jacobson is thus re- ferred to: He left the guard in 1912, and when he reenlisted'after the war broke out, he was commissioned a first lieutenant and shipped to Camp Mniphan at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. The colonial put Truman in charge of the regiment's canteen, and he launched his business with money col- lected at two dollars per man from each of the artillery batteries. Lieutenant Graballsky, they called him. That changed to "Curly Trumanheimer" when he teamed with Sergeant Eddie Jacobson, a Jewish mer- chant from Kansas City. "Dear Bess: "I am writing you in the canteen, the picture of which is enclosed. It is not a very good picture either, be- cause it was taken the first day we moved into the building and things weren't very clean around the out- side (or inside either). "The work still piles up. They find something new to do every day. Drill from seven-thirty to nine-thirty on the guns and all after- noon on horseback. "I have written you a let- ter every night and gave it combination, Jacobson & Trumanheimer . . . I wrote checks until my bank ac- count is as weak as Morgan & Co.'s used to be when I had paid for drilling rig, etc. I have taken in about $5,400 and bought some $9,000 worth of goods. I always manage to get back to the canteen no matter where I start to talk. "I sure wish I could see you. I'd almost desert to do it. I'm of the opinion that I'd better cripple Chas. Mize. (Mize's mother had invited Bess to visit the camp with her, but then delayed the Harry Truman with his trip.) daughter Margaret. "Send some of that cake. to a nut to mail and he failed It never did get hard; it only to do it. He gave them to me had 15 minutes to work in this morning. You should after it arrived and it was have heard the cussin' he sure good. got, or rather you should not "I am going to see that have heard it. It would have Uncle Frank doesn't beat to be edited to go into the you to the- postman from Police Gazette. Some of now on if I have to sit up those letters were works of until 3 p.x. (a.tn.) to do it. I'll art at the time of their com- send you some more pic- position but are stale dope tures when they are done. now . . . "Your Harry" "I almost bought a car- There is justification for load of apples yesterday but stating that the Truman they wouldn't take .off letters, their historic as- enough on the price. I am pects, the saltiness of a man some purchaser. Everyone who gained admiration for says ours is the best canteen courage, has much value as on the job. Jacobson is some an historic American docu- manager. That's a grand ment. Arens denies controversial remarks on Weinberger New York (JTA) — A sharp dispute has developed between Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Arens and writer Lucinda Franks over remarks she attributed to Arens in a March 25 New. York Times Sunday Maga- zine article, which Arens in- sists he never made. According to Ms. Franks, Arens called U.S. Defense Secretary Caspar Wein- berger "a prime candidate for psychoanalysis" and suggested that he had a "hangup" over the fact that he had a Jewish grandfather. Arens, who saw a copy of the article shortly before its publication, was quoted Sunday by Times Jerusalem correspondent David Ship- ler as saying, "I would have been insane to say these things, even if I thought them. And I don't think them." Shipler reported that Arens telephoned Weinberger to assure him that he had never made the statements reported by Ms. Franks. Arens' spokesman Nachman Shai, and later Arens himself, called the Times Jerusalem bureau to discuss portions of the arti- cle. Arens also denied vigor- ously that he had offered to return disputed territory to Egypt if the Egyptian De- fense Minister would meet with him, as reported by Ms. Franks. "This was never my opinion, never my position. This is totally mis- construed." Arens said. But Ms. Franks is stand- ing by her attributions. Shipler reported that she told him in a telephone interview from New York that her notes confirm what Arens said. Franks' hus- band, Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgen- thau, who accompanied her at her meeting with Arens in Jerusalem last De- cember, offered further cor- roboration, Shipler re- ported. • Arens' alleged remarks about Weinberger referred to the time the Defense Sec- retary visited Israel and was accompanied by Arens, then Israel's ambassador to Walhington, to Yad Vas- hem, the Holocaust memo- rial.