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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. 31 NO. 47
PLAIN TALK
BY ALFRED SEGAL
OUR OUTSIDE HELPERS
I have a letter as follows:
Dear Sir: Recently, in the mail,
there came to me an invitation in
a four-page folder.
First page carries the names of
12 gentlemen—six Jews, six non-
Jews. The non-Jews are men in
politics arid in business—fine
people enough and I haven't a
word to say against them. To
paraphrase an old saying, some of
my best friends are non-Jews,
and I mean it.
I skipt to Page 3 which says
that these 12 are inviting me to a
men’s reception buffet that is
being given by the Guardians of
Israel.
Page 2 carries the portraits of a
couple of gentlemen whom I could
hear making speeches if I accept
the invitation of the Guardians of
Israel—Federal Judge Luther W.
Youngdahl of Washington and
Governor Frank J. Lausche of
Ohio—each a great citizen.
Page 4 explains what it’s all
about: Israel Development Bonds
and Gov. Lausche and Judge
Youngdahl were going to make
speeches for that.
Now, believe me, I am all in
favor of Israel Bonds and have
bought my share and expect to
buy more, but Mr. Segal, please
tell me why for a great Jewish
cause we have to call in non-Jews
to speak up to us toward our duty.
As if in our own aspirations we
felt weak and inferior and needed
outside backing! As if. by reason
of weakness we entertained doubt
of our own merit!
Why was it necessary to enlist
these six most estimable Christian
gentlemen to help summon me to
a Jewish duty?
I understand that this is not a
weakness of Jews only in our
town. I read that non-Jewish Is
rael Bond salesmen—one may call
them that—have been traveling
around the country to stir up Jews
for the support of Israel; among
them, Mrs. Roosevelt and Gov.
McKeldin of Maryland.
I am not quarreling in the least
with any of these fine people,
good Christians all; I thank them
for wanting to help. I am quarrel
ing with ourselves, with our lack
of full faith in ourselves which is
suggested when we summon out
side help in a cause so Jewish as
Israel Bonds.
It reminds me of a quaint old
time of American-Jewish history;
a time when Jews not long out of
Europe felt weak and quite help
less. They were starting syna
gogues in storerooms in their
neighborhoods and made quite an
occasion of the dedications.
They invited the ward council
man to attend the ceremonies and
make a speech. To have the coun
cilman there was thought to be
a gesture that would enlarge the
occasion’s importance. The march
of the Torah down the aisle was
grandeur enough but the council
man, Mr. McGonigle, had to be
around to make it complete.
The current practice of inviting
non-Jews to call on Jews to do
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An Ort Menorah for President Ben Zvi
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The director of ORT vocational schools in Israel, Jacob Oleiski.
together with a delegation of students, present a menorah to Israel's
President Itzhak Ben Zvi. The menorah was made by first year stu
dents in metal working classes of the Jerusalem ORT Vocational
Center and inscribed as a momenlo of the President's visit. Con
cerning the students. Pres. Ben Zvi declared, "It was with great
pleasure that I saw the fruits of their work."
Trade Union Development
GENEVA. (JTA) lsrael is the
only country in the Middle East
where the development of trade
union and employer movement
has reached a level which, in
practice, embraces all forms of
occupational life. This was re
ported in an International Labor
Organization survey of freedom
of association and industrial rela
tions in the Middle East, distri
buted here last week.
In Israel, the survey comment
ed, the right of occupational asso
ciations is neither guaranteed nor
restricted by legislation, “but is
exercised as an established and
U. S. POLICY NOW FAVORS ISRAEL
BY MILTON FRIFDMAN
(Copyright, 1954, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)
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—WASHINGTON
| The State Department is now
reviewing its decision to grant
arms unilaterally to the Arab
states. It is a result of bi-partisan
Congressional sentiment for fair
and equal consideration of Israel.
This development dramatizes
the impending retirement of Louis
Lipsky, the dean of American
Zionism. Lipsky’s resignation as
I chairman of the American Zionist
Committee for Public Affairs comes at a time when
the committee has reached a climax of achieve
ment in its challenge of the current pro-Arab drift
in the State Department.
A recent canvass of Congressional candidates
by the Zionist committee did much to crystallize
public opinion against the State Department’s one
sided arms policy in the Near East. The nation is
now aware that Israel’s request for military aid
has been ignored since 1952 while such assistance
has been granted to the Arabs. Many leading Con
gressmen today view the arms policy as a violation
pf fair play and good judgment.
State Department officials never anticipated
that so many Congressional leaders would take a
position so frankly critical of the department’s
stand. The department may have been misled in its
previous evaluation of Congressional thinking by
JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1954
traditional practice.” Trade unions
are, in fact, organized under a
“general law” which provides
simply that “any number of per
sons may establish a society for
any lawful purpose.” The survey
noted that Israel’s trade union
system covers all branches of the
economy, both public and private,
and the liberal professions, and
that government workers are ex
tensively organized.
In many instances, collective
agreements contain provisions
whereby the employer recognizes
the right to organize and bargain
collectively.
the American Council for Judaism and the Ameri
can Friends of the Middle East. Both of these anti-
Zionist groups approved and encouraged the Arab
arms program.
The failure of the pro-Arab lobby was a serious
blow to the Arab League propaganda apparatus.
The Arabs had been duped into believing that
Israel was losing support in this country.
Developme n t s
have vindicated
the position of
those who main
tain that there
continues to be an
urgent need for
Zionist political
action in the Uni- j
ted States. Two j
leading advocates
for such action are
Lipsky and I. L.
Kenen, executive
director of the
American Zionist
Committee for
Public Affairs.
The Congres- i
sional canvass is )
but one phase of
the political work that has been done by the Zion
ist movement in Washington in the last four years.
In 1951 Kenen assumed direction of the Washing
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MCE MTE THUG
IS ACTIVE HERE
BY BETH SIEROTY
(Copyright, 1934, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)
—WASHINGTON
An assault which began against Negro children peacefully inte
grating into the public schools has been widened to include the
Jewish community. The failure of the "National Association of White
People" to effectively challenge the constitutionality of desegregation
has caused the desperate organization to atack Jews.
The NAAWP was brought into
being on December 14, 1953 by the
self-appointed president, Bryant
W. Bowles of Hillsborough, Flor
ida. The Supreme Court ruled in
May, 1954, that the “separate but
equal” doctrine in public educa
tion was unconstitutional. But the
constitution of the NAAWP
sought to legalize segregation.
The NAAWP claimed that "ra
cial separation is no sin—hatred
is." Yet, apparently anticipating
criticism, the NAAWP explained
that it is "not motivated by pre
judice, bigotry, or hatred; nor are
its policies Un-American, Un-
Democratic. or Un-Christian."
Nevertheless, “Un-American”
was the term which several or
ganizations, including Jewish
groups, used to describe the
NAAWP. The Delaware attorney
general termed the NAAWP a
conspiracy to disrupt the schools
systems in Kent and Sussex
Counties. He took steps to re
voke the NAAWP’s charter for
“abuse and misuse” of its power.
Bowles recently spoke in Jack
sonville. Florida where he lumped
together in a steam of criticism
President Eisenhower, Vice-Presi
dent Nixon, the U. S. Supreme
Court (especially Justices Frank
furter and Warren), the Anti-
Defamation League, the B'nai
B'rith, Attorney General Brown-
M s ' iiyik ■ • •
LOUIS LIPSKY
ell, Negroes. Jews, Communists,
and other organizations and indi
viduals. He called the Negroes
"dupes" of Communists and "left
wingers." He said "The National
Association for the Advancement
of Colored People is not a Negro
organization. The bosses are
Jews."
“I’m not fighting the Jews, they
are fighting me,” said Bowles.
“They jumped on me first and
I’m retaliating. They’re the peo
ple telling you to mix.”
Semanticisls and language ex
perts tell us that all sentences are
not necessarily reasonable or true
to fact. Often the "sense" of a
sentence is its charged expression
of feeling and its intent to incite
anti-social activity. The agitator's
emotionally packed words-to-kill
are not to be taken for objective
truth. Their aim is not to convey
the fact- nor to express an intel
lectual belief. The racist deliber
ately distorts to appeal to a fixed
emotional attitude in order to
light up an explosive personality.
Bowles was the top man in the
desegregation protest in Milford,
Delaware. He warned against
violence and advocated passive
resistence whan 3.000 people
gathered to hear him at a mass
meeting the day before school
began. Yet he appealed to vio
lence when he seized his three
year-old daughter, lifted her high
above his shoulders and shouted:
“Do you think this little girl will
attend school with Negroes? Not
while there’s a breath in my body
or gunpowder burns.” The next
day the Milford school board was
pressured into dropping 11 Negro
high school students from their
rolls. Bowles came away from the
incident with $3,500 worth of new
members.
The "pro-white, not anti-Negro"
formula used in Milford, was tried
by Bowles in Baltimore and
Washington. There integration
had begun on an orderly basis.
Officials finally threatened that
the police force would be utilized
if necessary. At present Bowles is
out on bail awaiting legal action
in Delaware where the Attorney
General has called the NAAWP a
conspiracy to disrupt the school
systems.
Lately, Bowles was arrested in
Washington charged with an at
tack on Roscoe V. Cooper, a Negro
postal employe. Cooper weighs
only 138 pounds and stands five
feet five inches. Bowles is a six
foot ex-Marine sergeant. Bowles
admitted “striking him once, pick
ing him up, striking him again,
picking him up ... ” Cooper said
he was under orders to handle
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