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AN INDEPENDENT WEEKLY SERVING AMERICAN CITIZENS OF JEWISH FAITH
THE OLDEST AND MOST WIDELY CIRCULATED JEWISH PUBLICATION IN THIS TERRITORY
VOL. 26 NO. 37
Action Being Taken Against Jew Hatred in South
PLAIN TALE
By Alfred Segal
MORRIS AND ABE AGAIN
I have just heard another story
about Morris and Abe. They are
the couple of gentlemen who
carry the world around and
whose awful travail has been
reported in this column several
•imes before this.
Their meager shoulders are al
ways full of pain on account of
the great load they carry and
when Morris meets Abe, or vice
versa, it’s oy, oy, oy both ways.
Their burden is aggravated by
the fact that they are Jews, as
you may already have guessed.
When you are a Jew like Abe
and Morris, you not only carry
the world around. After you have
piled the whole world on your
shoulders you take on the spec
ial load of being a Jew.
That’s Morris and Abe for you.
It isn’t enough that Morris and
Abe have the whole world to look
after; to take to their hearts the
bitter lamentations of China, to
plan for the Greeks, to worry
about the Jugo-slavs and even
in their sleep to indulge in night
mares about the U. S.
One night, not long ago, Abe.
who is in tailoring, had an awful
dream: In the United States
there was such a depression that
pants became scarce and practi
cally unobtainable. The pants
industry had stopped and not one
tailor was at work and not a pair
of pants had been made in
months. Abe's nightmare had to
do with his having to go down
town without any pants on.
Os such are the agonies of Abe
and Morris as bearers of all the
troubles of the earth. In their
leisure moments they pick up
their particular burden of being
Jewish and carried it hegvily
around.
When they meet Abe always
*torts the conversation by giving
out an "oy" and Morris replies
Oy". One day Morris let out a
w »h that was blasphemous, you
Wight say. As coolly like he was
ordering a dish of borsht, Morris
wid: "I wish I was born a goy."
"Morris!” Abe exclaimed in
horror. “Morris, you know what
you are saying?”
Morris replied that he was
*Peaking only byway of a figure
speech, you might say . . .
'What I mean is that a Gentile
has to worry only about the
w °rld. He doesn't have to worry
about being a Gentile. A man's
* Gen tile and that's all there is
0 it. He doesn't have any prob
,ems °f being a Gentile. He just
9°*s ahead being a comfortable
futile and other Gentiles are
nt much in his life."
said that Gentiles have
beir troubles too. A Gentile
®3y have a daughter who gets
vorced and has to take her
children back into his house. His
Wl * e roay get sour on him; his
run off with a no-good;
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1,000,000 Jews In
Europe Restored
To Health
NEW YORK, (JTA) After
having restored more than 1,-
000,000 to their health, the Joint
Distribution Committee is about
to complete its medical rehabil
itation program which is the
greatest postwar program of this
kind undertaken by a voluntary
relief agency, it was reported by
Dr. William M. Schmidt, over
seas medical director of the
J. D. C.
Dr. Schmidt, who recently re
turned to this country after three
and a half years of service over
seas to become an Associate
Professor of Harvard Medical
School said that “a basic improve
ment in the health of the sur
viving Jews of Europe is in evi
dence nearly everywhere. The
rate of communicable disease has
dropped sharply and malnutrition
is almost non-existent.”
Discrimination Against Jewish
Students Is Strong In
Northeastern Colleges
PHILADELPHIA, (JTA) Discrimination against qualified
Jewish students seeking admission to colleges is widespread in private
colleges in the Northeast section of the country, Elmo Roper, public
opinion analyst, declared this week addressing the 11th annual dinner
meeting of the Philadelphia Jewish Relations Council at the Hotel
Warwick here.
He said that this statement
comes as a result of a nationwide
study of factors affecting the ad
mission of high school seniors to
colleges which he completed
earlier this year under the aus
pices of the American Council on
Education. The study, he de
clared, was based on interviews
with 15,000 high school seniors
across the country who had ap
plied for admission to college,
and been followed up in Septem
ber to find out what happened
to their applications.
"Our study." he said, "leaves
little doubt that it is more diffi
cult for a Jewish student to get
into the college he or she wants
to go to than is the case, for
example, with a Protestant or
Catholic Student. The Jewish
students has to try many more
colleges in order to get into one,
and in many cases, he has to con
tent himself with going to a lo
cal, city college instead of going
away from home to an institu
tion where he might receive a
better education and which prob
ably has more prestige.
“The simple facts are that out
of-town institutions in the nat
ion as a whole get 11 percent of
their applications from Jews but
accord Jewish students only seven
percent of their places in the
freshman classes,” he continued.
“In the Northeast area, the con
trast is sharper than that. The
unfortunate thing is that the
group discriminated against most
heavily are the ablest students,
and those with a family back
JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1949
I U.S.N.A. Resettles Young DP I
Bom in Concentration Comp I
; tSk ' BE Mm ' -
* WIW v \
The little boy with the large chunk
of cake is perhaps the only child
alive today who was born in a Nazi
concentration camp. He is Simon
Herling, 5 years old, born in a con
centration camp near Leipzig where
courageous and resourceful prison
ers kept him hidden from the guards
until liberation. T
ground which makes a college
education most inevitable. The
highest ranking Jewish students
in the Northeastern area simply
do not have an equal chance with
top-ranking Protestant and Cath
olics to get into any colleges they
apply to.”
Mr. Roper called the State of
Pennsylvania to enact a Fair Ed
ucation Practices law, similar to
the one which exists in New
York and in Connecticut making
all cases of discrimination in
State Department Criticized For
Allowing Ex-Nazis To Enter U. S.
NEW YORK, (JTA) Current visa regulations under which
ex-Nazi may be admitted to the United States were criticized by a
number of Jewish organizations as "a severe setback to our demo
cratic way of life" in a memorandum submitted to the State Depart-
ment.
The memorandum pointed out
that under existing law, all form
er members of the Nazi Party
may be excluded. It maintained
that to do otherwise is in effect
to give preference in admissions
to ex-Nazis at the expense of
anti-Nazis, underground fighters
against Hitler, and others who
were allies and sympathizers dur
ing the war.
Six Jewish national organiza
tions and twenty-seven local
groups throughout the country
associated themselves in the
memorandum. They include the
American Jewish Committee,
American Jewish Congress, Anti-
Savannah Attorney Charges
Preacher With Anti-Semitism
On Radio
SAVANNAH, GA. Charging radio evangelist Mordecai F. Ham
of Louisville. Ky. with violating the public interest by disseminating
anti-Semitism over 32 radio stations now broadcasting his sermons.
Judge Emanuel Lewis of Savannah, Ga., this week petitioned the
Federal Communications Commission in Washington to take im
mediate remedial action by warning radio stations carrying Ham's
broadcasts and not to allow him to continue abusing radio facilities.
Zionists Summoned
To Take Mass
Biblical Oath
NEW YORK Daniel Frisch,
president of the Zionist Organi
zation of America, in a procla
mation to the entire membership
of the organization, called upon
every Jewish man, woman and
child together in their commun
ities on a given day at a period
within the next four weeks to
participate in a mass biblical oath
to stand by Israel in its struggle
against the attempt to sever Jeru
salem from the Jewish State.
The Zionist leader’s proclama
tion, issued in connection with
the ZOA’s nationwide mobiliza
tion effort, laid deep emphasis on
the fact that “powerful forces,
with intent belying their pro
fessed motivation, are now seek
ing to render a death blow to the
State of Israel.” Mr. Frisch
stressed that “under the pretext of
safeguarding the holy shrines, a
world-wide movement has been
launched to sever the Eternal City
from Israel and thus tear out the
very heart and soul of the fledg
ling state.”
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judging applicants for admission
to universities a violation of the
law. "The law itself will not
eliminate discrimination, but it
will make it more difficult for
bigots to find encouragement for
their acts of discrimination," he
added.
Defamation League of B'nai
B'rith, Jewish Labor Committee,
Jewish War Veterans, and Union
of American Hebrew Congregat
ions which, together with the
local organizations, comprise the
National Community Relations
Advisory Council.
“Every ex-Nazi admitted is a
potential point of fascist infect
ion,” the memorandum asserted.
! “To the Germans of today, our
current immigration policy must
> be interpreted as an increased in
i difference to the crimes of Naz
, ism and an increased willingness
■ to let by-gones be by-gones.”
In his petition, Judge Lewis in
dicated his reluctance to protest
against the abuse and misuse
even of radio speech because of
his deep attachment to freedom
of speech. Judge Lewis stated,
however, that he is convinced
that it is impossible to have “a
free contest of speech and ideas
with professional hate mongers
over the limited channels of radio
communication. In the first place,
one attempting to combat bigo
try, hatred and falsehood over
the air is faced with the neces
sity of procuring money to pay
for the needed radio time. Sec
ondly, there is the problem of
procuring equivalent time.”
Judge Lewis also indicated that
he had no objection to Ham’s ap
pearance on the radio so long
as he does not abuse the facilities
created in the public interest by
stirring up religious hatred of
citizens and residents of the
United States.
In his petition. Judge Lewis
pointed out that Rev. Ham's anti-
Semitism has been apparent
since autumn of 1924 when dur
ing the course of a sermon at
Elizabeth City. N. C. Ham charg
ed that the late Julius Rosen
wald of Chicago had established
a vice quarter in that city as a
part of a "heinous Jewish plot to
undermine Gentile civilization."
AMONG OTHER SAMPLES OF
ANTI-SEMITISM CITED WERE
THE FOLLOWING:
On November 6. 1935, speak
ing over radio station WLAT in
Lexington, Ky. Ham stated that
the persecution of the Jews in
Germany was justified.
On May 28. 1949. speaking in
Minneapolis, Minn.. Ham stated
"Germany is not to blame ...
the Hebrews started it . . . the
Hebrews started all this misery."
According to an article in the
CHARLOTTE OBSERVER. Char
lotte. N. C.. October 14, 1943,
Ham spoke in Charlotte and made
the statement that he wanted
"the streets of North Carolina to
run with 'Jewish blood.'"
As recently as April 17, 1949,
Ham made the following state
ment in the course of a radio
broadcast, "Not all Jews are Is
raelites, many are still Jacobs.
Jacob was the name of the 'trick
ster. bargain-driver, the traffick
er.' "
As an indication of the objec
tivity of his position, Judge Lewis
indicated that in June of 1949,
in a Southern city, religious lead
ers representing the Protestant,
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