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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 29 NO. 5
PLAIN TALK
By Alfred Segal
MR. HILLEL'S MILLION
Our Mr. Hillel is a very handy
man. He seems always to call on
me at a moment when my mind
is wrestling with what to write
about in the next column.
So, moSt coincidentally, the
other day, Mr. Hillel came to my
desk at a moment when I hadn’t
a thing on my mind to write
about. Welcome, indeed, Mr.
Hillel.
"Hdre's something for your
column." he began.
Mr. Hillel, as you may know by
now, is the president of Hillel
Widgets, Inc. When he feels tired
and bored with his prosperous
widget business, he takes time
out for recreation by writing a
column for me or, at least, giving
me an idea for one.
"Thanks. Mr. Hillel." I said.
"What's on your mind?"
Mr. Hillel had brought a most
sensational idea. It was nothing
less than this . . . "Suppose,” he
said, "I applied all my personal
profits in 1952 from the widget
business to the purchase of bonds
of Israel?”
"Oh. Mr. Hillel." I exclaimed
solicitously, "you can't mean
what you're saying!"
‘1 mean it exactly,” he replied.
“My personal profits from wid
gets will be about a million this
year, and I’m thinking of using
it all for bonds for Israel, byway
of behaving like a civilized man.”
"But. Mr. Hillel. you aren't
looking after your personal wel
fare. Isn't it just too much profit
to use that way?"
I was mindful of the spacious
living that Mr. Hillel does. His
big mansion on the hill, his three
Cadillacs . . . “Mr. Hillel, can you
afford to put all of a year’s prof
its in one basket, as they say?”
Mr. Hillel snorted derisively at
this ... *T won't starve." he said,
"and my three Cadillacs will
keep on running. And, what if my
wife has to wear her mink coat
another year? She bought it only
last year. And. besides, Israel
bonds are a good investment."
But I am writing this not to
show off Mr. Hillel as a smart
investor; rather it is to exhibit
Mr. Hillel as a rich man who has
much more than money. He also
possesses wisdom that knows the
meaning of money.
He said: "A man doesn't really
get rich until he knows that he
has enough money. Until then he
isn't rich: he's discontented; he
wants more. I have learned that
I have enough and what sense is
there in gathering more after a
man knows he has enough? Five
years ago I came to the idea that
1 had enough. More money could
not tempt me. Others in my posi
tion kept on after more and got
heart disease."
He thought that to pile up any
more money for his own use or
the use of his family was like a
man loading up on caviar when
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DOUBLE HONORS FOR
JEWISH BAND LEADER
WHO ASSISTED YOUTH OF
ALL RELIGIONS
DETROIT, (AJP) Double
honors for his work in helping
youth of all faiths were bestowed
upon orchestra leader Paul
Whiteman by the National Coun
cil of Christians and Jews and
the Detroit Round Table of Cath
olics, Jews and Protestants.
Both honors were given to
Whiteman at a luncheon attended
by 400 Detroit leaders and served
as an opening of Brotherhood
Week.
JEW SENTENCED IN
ISRAEL FOR MISTREATING
PRISONERS IN NAZI CAMP
TEL AVIV, (JTA) A Tel
Aviv court sentenced Mordecai
Friedman to three years’ impri
sonment after finding him guilty
of mistreating Jewish fellow pris
oners in a Nazi concentration
camp where he served as a trus
tee-supervisor. Testimony was
Miami Beach Te-Ba Scene of
Crucial UJA Meet
The United Jewish Appeal’s
1952 nation-wide campaign for
$151,500,000 —termed by UJA
General Chairman Edward M.
M. Warburg “the most crucial
campaign in the 14-year history
of the UJA” —will be formally
launched this week-end by more
than 500 Jewish leaders repre
senting communities in 41 states
as they meet for the Appeal’s
National Inaugural Conference at
the Saxony Hotel in Miami
Beach, Fla.
The two-day National Inaugu
ral Conference, which will meet
this Saturday evening, February
23, and Sunday, February 24, will
take action to keynote the open
ing of more than 5,000 cummu
nity campaigns throughout the
country.
The most important tasks fac
ing the Conference are:
(1.) The establishment of a 1952
standard of individual and corpo
rate giving to cummunity cam
paigns on behalf of the United
Jewish Appeal.
(2.) The formation of a Nation
al Campaign Cabinet and the
naming of a top level volunteer
general staff to help plan and
direct the $151,500,000 drive.
(3.) The mapping of emergency
actions in response to Israel’s
current grave economic crisis.
(4.) The stimulation of commu
nity action in adopting and set
ting local goals as a pre-condition
to success in raising the nation
wide goal of $151,500,000.
Eddie Cantor, Chairman of the
UJA’s National Leadership Mo
bilization; UJA General Chair
man Edward M. M. Warburg;
Morris W. Berinstein, Chairman
of last year’s National Campaign
Cabinet; William Rosenwald,
UJA National Chairman, and #
other distinguished figures will'
JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1952
DURANTE BUYS ISRAEL BONDS
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IIS || A j
One of the peak moments of the Na
tional Planning Conference for Israel,
held this week in Miami Beach, Florida,
which witnessed the adoption of a
$200,000,000 quota in Israel Bond sales,
was the appearance of Jimmy Durante.
Stirred hy the address of Vice-Presi
dent Barkley at the Conference, Durante
promptly wrote out his check for $5,000
to cover his purchase of Israel Bonds.
introduced to prove that a num
ber of Jews died as a result of
beatings administered by him.
address the two-day sessions.
Mr. Warburg, who announced
earlier that this year’s United
Jewish Appeal campaign will be
conducted on a “crisis footing,”
called special attention to the
setting of a 1952 giving standard
at the Conference.
The UJA General Chairman
stressed that “this Conference
will be meeting at one of the
most decisive moments in the
history not only of the United
Jewish Appeal, but of the State
of Israel itself. The people of Is
rael are today face to face with
the most serious crisis to con
front them since May, 1948, and
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MOTHERHOOD WEEK
Iponiertd ky Tfco Netienel Conference of Ckristieni end Jews
FBI Maps Possible Florida KKK
Crackdown; Urge Stiff Federal Law
On Vandals; New Philly Arrests
(By the American Jewish Press)
A possible crackdown on the Florida Ku Klux Klan loomed
this week as Federal agents intensified their search for culprits
responsible for a widespread reign of terror.
Elsewhere on the hate front
there were these developments:
In Philadelphia, where a Hit
ler-like youth movement's exist
ence has sent authorities into
action, a new band of teen-age
hoodlums bent on assaulting
Jewish children, was cracked by
PAPER SHORTAGE LIMITS
ISRAELI NEWSPAPERS TO
SINGLE SHEET
TEL AVIV, (JTA)—Owing to
a severe shortage of newsprint
all Israeli daily newspapers have
been reduced to one sheet on
week days. The week-end edi
tions, published on Fridays, will
be limited to four pages. The
next shipment of paper from
abroad is not expected in less
than four weeks.
(In Washington the Interna
tional Materials Conference
granted Israel an emergency al
lotment of 400 tons of newsprint.
This is the first time Israel has
received such an allocation.)
KLAN BIGWIG GOES FREE
IN ATLANTA DYNAMITING
ATLANTA (AJP) A high
leader of the Ku Klux Klan went
free here last week in the bomb
ing of a Negro home.
Despite the testimony of a for
mer Klansman that the defend
ant, Charles H. (Chuck) Klein,
imperial secretary to KKK chief
tain Sam Roper, had asked him
to help carry out the bombing at
tack, Judge Walter C. Hendrix
ordered a mistrial.
probers. Seven youths, including
two brothers, ringleaders in a
mobile hate unit which hurled
insults at Jewish youngsters,
then piled out of an auto to
pounce on their provoked vic
tims, were under arrest at the
week's close.
In the nation’s capital, Rep.
Louis Heller urged the adoption
of a Federal bill which would
provide the death penalty for
acts of vandalism inspired by
racial or religious prejudice and
resulting in bodily injury or
death. The New York Congress
man’s measure provides for a
SI,OOO fine and a one year prison
sentence in cases where property
damage results from such acts..
Congressman Heller, in intro
ducing his measure, made specif
ic mention of the Florida bomb
ing wave against Jewish centers
and Negro projects and the oper
ation in Philadelphia of a seig
heiling youth group centering in
a local high school.
Even as Heller introduced his
bill, the FBI indicated action
might be forthcoming against the
KKK in Florida. Word from Jus
tice Department sources hinted
that Federal agents might soon
duplicate in Florida a series of
sweeping raids which last week
sent 10 former members of the
North Carolina Ku Klux Klan
behind bars for acts of flogging.
Though Florida remained quiet
—for the moment at least the
Philadelphia scene was gripped
with tenseness. The arrest of the
new band of teen-age hoodlums
failed to lessen the spotlight
fixed on Olney High School
where the Nasi-like youth group
is believed to have its roots.
Probers of the Jewish Commu
nity Relations Council, joining
with local police, are intensifying
their search for the "brains" of
the Jew-hating bigots.
Despite the demands by local
community leaders and all Phila
delphia newspapers for a full
probe of the fascist youth group,
a handful of officials apparently
remained unimpressed.
Olney High School principal
Andrew S. Haines was one such
person. On the heels of continu
ing reports that a Hitler-like
movement flourished at th •
school, Haines told a student as
sembly to "go home and tell your
parents not to believe what they
read in the newspapers about the
situation here. It is not true."
Hours later, it was learned,
handbills openly calling for high
school recruits to join the Hitler
Youth Group at Olney High
School were being distributed on
the school campus.
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