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nrcT IN^EP^DENT^WE^KLY SERVING AMERICAN CITIZENS OF JEWISH
D MOST WIDELY CIRCULATED JEWISH PUBLICATION IN THIS TERRITORY
VOL. 26 NO. 51
PLAIN TALK
By Alfred Segal
FIRST FIFTY YEARS . . .
This Mr. Segal is conscious of
being somewhat of a character
on the occasion which marks es
pecially the year 1950. It's the
end of the first half of the 20th
century and Mr. Segal presumes
to notice himself as one who has
had something to do with it.
He has lived all through that
time, lived even before the year
1900 when it all began. When he
says that he has had something
to do with it he doesn’t mean
that he was in its management.
He was just one of the many
little guys who were in it. He re
members the eve of Jan. 1, 1900.
He was baby-sitter for his young
est brother, age 2 then. His par
ents were celebrating the advent
of the 20th century at the home
of some friends.
That’s how the 20th century
began for him. In the ensuing
50 years he went through school,
was married and in most of the
time was absorbed in the project
of bringing up a family and to
ward the end .receiving the re
ward of grandchildren.
You see. Mr. Segal really was
of no great shakes in the first
half of the 20th century only
one of the many who lived their
modest lives and dreamed pleas
antly of their children's future
and hoped everything would turn
out for the best. .
In the earlier part of the first
half he was an inhabitant of an
untroubled world. If, on the eve
of Jan. 1, 1900 he looked in to the
future at all, his meditations had
to do only with his own destiny.
There were no problems of the
whole earth to worry him.
The future had to do only with
himself and getting a suitable
job when the time came. That
wasn't much to worry him. When
the time came he would find a
place in the city in which to earn
his living. That was a period
when a Jewish boy could feel no
hindrances encumbering his feet
when he started to climb on
ward and upward.
Young Segal wasn’t made to
feel then that he was somebody
different because of his being a
Jew. (You see how a columnist
for the Jewish press i nevitably
comes around to the Jewish
problem, no matter what the
subject.) Anti-Semitism was a
term he didn’t know. Nobody
ever spoke it.
To be a Jew was to be accept
ed like any other like a Cath
olic, or a Scotchman, like an Ital
ian or a Presbyterian. Sure, once
i" awhile Segal heard of some
young hoodlums pulling a Jew
ish peddler's beard. But that was
just juvenile delinquency. It
wasn't called anti-Semitism.
As a Jew young Segal could
feel he would go as far as any
body else, provided he kept his
nose clean and worked diligently.
There may have been people who
didn’t like Jews but they were
n° bother. Practically everybody
knew some individuals or some
group he had no use for, but that
(Continued on Page Eight)
Broadcast About
Brandeis Slated
For Sunday
Sam Jaffe, noted stage, screen
and radio personality will be fea
tured on the Eternal Light pro
gram, “Brandeis”, by Morton
Wishengrad, according to an an
nouncement by the Jewish Theo
logical Seminary of America un
der whose auspices the program
is conducted. This broadcast is
the last in the Eternal Light’s
current Fifth Anniversary Series
and will be presented on Sun
day, January 15, 1950 (NBC Net
work, 12:30-1:00 P. M., EST—
WNBC, 1:00-1:30 P. M., EST).
“Brandeis”, tells the story of
the great American jurist who
learned half-way through his life
that true Judaism and the Ameri
can heritage are inseparable.
Israel Seeking Capital
For Development
Projects
JERUSALEM, (JTA) The
Israel Government is negotiating
with groups in various countries,
including some in the Middle
East, for capital investment in
large-scale development projects
in various parts of Israel, it was
learned here this week.
The Knesset Economic Com
mute, meanwhile, has been dis
cussing the proposed “Develop
ment Authoi'ity." The Parlia
mentary Finance Committee is
also considering increasing the
55,000,000 pound budget tenta
tively set for the Development
Authority to 70,000,000 pounds.
The successful negotiation of
six new trade pacts for small
scale exchanges with countries
in Europe, was confirmed this
week by the Trade Ministry. Bel
gium will accept Israel citrus
products for artificial silk and
scrap iron, while Italy will ex
change artificial silk for cotton
waste.
From Switzerland will come
aniline paints and artificial silk
for citrus products. Finland will
receive flannel goods for card
board, paper, pulp and timber,
while Sweden will accept nylon
hose in exchange for knitting ma
chinery.
7,000 Israel Families Open
Doors To Immigrant Children
During Rainy Season
TEL AVIV, (JTA)—Over 7,000
families in various parts of Is
rael have volunteered to receive
immigrant children from the
transit camps for the duration of
the rainy season, it was announc
ed here this week. About 1,500
children have already been evac
uated from camps to private
homes.
5,000 Israel Youths Will
Receive Aviation Instruction
This Year; All Bom in 1932
TEL AVIV, (JTA)—Five thou
sand Jerusalem youths who were
born in 1932 will receive aviation
instruction this year. Courses
will begin at once.
JACKSONVILLE, 'FLORIDA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 1950
Tearful Landing
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Tears express the anxiety of 19-
months-old Celina Wiener as she
waits impatiently to go ashore from
the SS GENERAL McCRAE, which
brought her and her parents, Wolf
and Pola Wiener, to New York from
Germany. She was one of the 78 OP
passengers who were taken to the
HIAS (Hebrew Immigrant Aid So
ciety), Shelter at 425 Lafayette
Street, New York, where the So
ciety is currently providing food
and shelter for close to 1,000 recent
arrivals. To cover the cost of feed
ing and sheltering so many, HIAS
this year has allocated an additional
sum of $500,000
SOUTHERN JWB LEADERS
TO MEET THIS WEEK-END
Delegates from more than twenty-two (22) communities in the
Southern Section-National Jewish Welfare Board will consider a
broad appraisal of the Jewish Center movement in light of com
munity trends and community planning for the financing of social
welfare needs, and a review of the Jewish Center role in streng
thening Jewish life in America, at the Fifth Annual Meeting of the
Southern Section-JWB which opens in Atlanta, Ga.. on January 14
and continues until January 15. Sessions will be held on Saturday
evening at the Ahavath Achim Center; on Sunday. January 15, ses
sions will be held at the Atlanta Biltmore Hotel.
Convention Chairman is Meyer
Balser, President of the Atlanta
Jewish Community Center. Bar
ney Medintz of Atlanta, Ga.
heads the Program Committee.
The convention will also con
sider how effectively the Cen
ters in the Southern Section are
meeting the unprecedented de
mands for services through en
larged programs and facilities.
Some 200 leaders of Jewish Com
munity Centers and YM-YWHAs
from communities in Alabama,
Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, North
and South Carolina, Louisiana.
Mississippi. Tennessee. Oklahoma
and Texas, will attend the con
vention.
The Southern Section is one
of the eight (8) through which
JWB functions as the national
association of Jewish Community
Centers and YM-YWHAs.
Dr. Salo Baron, professor of
Jewish History. Literature and
Institutions of Columbia Univer
sity. will be the featured speaker
at the session on Saturday eve
ning. January 14, to be held at
the Ahavath Achim Center. His
subject will be. "Has The Jew-
NAZI LOOT SHOWN
IN NEW YOBK CITY
One of the world's most macabre treasures troves the wealth
Adolph Hitler's Gestapo stripped from thousands of concentration
camp victims and looted from the tables of conquered European
nations went on public display in New York City for the first
time at the United Nations Galleries, Inc., 24 W. 56th St., in New
York City, this week.
Israel Premier Ben Guiron to
Attend Cornerstone Laying of
ZOA House in Israel
David Ben Gurion, Prime Min
ister of Israel, will head a list of
1000 guests who will attend the
cornerstone - laying by Daniel
Frisch, president of the ZOA, of
the ZOA House in Tel Aviv sched
uled to be held there on Friday
morning, January 13th, according
to a dispatch received by the Na
tional ZOA headquarters here.
Participating in the exercises will
also be Fred Monosson of Boston,
chairman of the ZOA House
Building Committee.
The ZOA House which will
serve as an information center
for prospective American invest
ors in Israel, tourists, visiting
scholars, both Jewish and Gen
tile, as well as the citizens of Is
rael who desire to obtain more
correct ideas about America, will
contain 20 rooms in addition to a
Civic Auditorium seating 1500.
ish Community A Future In
America?"
A panel discussion on, “How
Can the Jewish Community Cen
ter, the Synagogue and the Jew
ish School Cooperate?”, will be
featured in the Sunday morning,
January 15, session, chaired by
Max Morrison of Knoxville.
Tenn., Vice-President of the Sou
thern Selection-JWB. The dis
cussants will be Samuel Rosen
berg, Director, Atlanta Bureau
of Jewish Education; Rabbi Sand
ers A. Tofield, Jacksonville Jew
ish Center; and Herbert Millman,
Director of Field Service, Nation
al Jewish Welfare Board.
Mr. Isaac Heller of New Or
leans. La., past President of the
Southeastern Region, Council of
Jewish Federations and Welfare
Funds, and well-known Jewish
leader throughout the South, will
speak on the subject, 'The Jew
ish Community Center and Plan
ning in the Field of Informal Ed
ucation and Recreation." This ses
sion will be chaired by Dr. Will
(Continued on Page Eight)
The treasure, representing per
haps one of the world’s largest
collections of solid continental
and antique silver, was wrested
from salt mine hideouts in Ger
many by Allied Armies and turn
ed over to the International Ref
ugee Organization of the United
Nations to aid in the rehabilita
tion of Displaced Persons.
Simultaneously with the open
ing of the exhibit, the United Na
tions Galleries announced it was
beginning a nationwide search
for surviving victims of the Ges
tapo wave of conquest so they
might claim dozens of silver ob
jects looted from their homes and
relatives.
Scores of such heirlooms
bearing old inscriptions, anniver
sary markings, gifts from parents
to children, collections held by
some families for generations,
etc. have been set aside by the
U. N. Galleries and will be given
as gifts to persons able to sub
stantiate claims.
The tons of silver and heir
looms were taken from the liv
ing and dead at Dachau, Ausch
witz (Oswiecim) and other con
centration camps. The treasures
also were confiscated by Nazis
from prisoners of many nations
and of all nationalities.
The IRO disposed of the trea
sures to help provide a new start
in life for thousands of victims
of Nazi persecution.
Covered with the dust of the
salt mines, the silver has arrived
in this country in the huge orig
inal crates discovered by Ameri
can troops. When the mud and
dust were cleared by silver
smiths, inscriptions and names,
silent testimony to the Nazi
sweep in Belgium, France, the
Netherlands. Austria, Czechoslo
vakia, Russia, Poland and other
countries became legible.
(Continued on Page Eight)
Our 26th
Anniversary
On January 27th we are put
ting out our 26th Anniversary
Issue. The Southern Jewish
Weekly was first published in
1924 as The Florida Jewish
News. In June, 1933, its pres
ent editor assumed the man
agement of the paper. From
August, 1941 to August 1945
the paper was published by
Mrs. Isadore Moscovitz. while
the editor was away on mili
tary duty.
We would appreciate appro
priate remarks from our read
ers and advertisers throughout
the South to be published in
this issue. Please mail your
letters to The Southern Jewish
Weekly. P. O. Box 903, Jack
sonville. Fla.
$3.00 A YEAR

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