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Friday, August 28, 1942
THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
Page Five
What you fclUj, With
WAR BONDS
Barbed wire used by Uncle Sam'*
fighting forces is vastly different
from that used on American farms.
Army and Marine barbed wire is
much heavier and the barbs, about
three inches in length, are more
vicious than ordinary barbed wire.
They Serve Uncle Sam
About the Men in the
Army, Navy and Marines
The Marine Corps pays fifty cents
-or each twelve yards, or 38 feet of
this specially manufactured barbed
wire. The Army and Marine Corps
needs thousands upon thousands of
feet for defensive warfare. Your
purchase of War Bonds and Stamps
will insure sufficient quantity for
their needs. Invest at least ten
percent of your wages in War
Bonds every pay day.
V. S. Trinjury Dtfarlmjul
PIECES OF HATE
(Continued from page 4)
speakers was Congressman Clare
E. Hoffman of Michigan who ap
peared at Jefferson Hall, Milwau
kee, on July 28th. The crowd was
made up of pre-Pearl Harbor iso
lationists and followers of Father
Coughlin. Hoffman’s announced
topic was “Winning the War and
Losing What We are Fighting
For.” As was to be expected, it
was a violent attack against the
government with sinister innuen
does about how America got into
the war.
* * *
If the FBI is looking for more
seditionists, they might check over
the sermons of Luke Rader given
at the River Lake Gospel in Min
neapolis. In his preachings of sev
eral weeks ago, Mr. Rader stated
that Adolph Hitler is fighting the
greatest bunch of hypocrites the
world has ever seen, and that for
the Fuehrer to conquer Moscow
would be a fulfillment in accord
ance with the scriptures. Rader
also feels that Governor Stassen
is a communist and that nine out
of ten churches do not know what
they are talking about.
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By BEN SAMUEL
There are three stories this week
about four men named Irving,
each of whom has been involved
j in some unusual situation. Guess
| this must be Irving Week.
Private Irving Margolis, sta
tioned at Camp Upton, N. Y,
would not be the good soldier he
is today if it weren’t that a cer
tain young lady named Esther
keeps up his morale from week to
week with a steady flow of sac-
eharined messages, printed on
delicately scented lavendar sta
tionery. Up to last month, no week
passed without some sweet word
from Esther, and had anyone sug
gested that he had a rival, Irv
I would have laughed aloud at the
possibility. But somewhere in Up-
| ton there was another Private Irv
ing Margolis. who started causing
I trouble as soon as he was shipped
out of Upton. Arriving at an army
camp Somewhere in the Dakotas,
this second Irving was greeted by
a lavendar envelope . . . The Up
ton post office, flooded as it is
these days with franked mail, had
blundered.
Margolis I, meanwhile, won
dered why he never got any mail
from his Esther. Margolis II-
shrugged his shoulders and dipped
his pen into a USO Club inkwell.
“Darling,” he wrote. “1 don’t
know you, but I’d like to. I am
five feel two, have wavy hair and
. , . Love, etc, your new Irv.” Es
ther soon received this document
and promptly forwarded it to
Margolis I. at Upton, as a chal
lenge, perhaps. The real Margolis
gnashed his teeth and tore over
to the Upton post office. Now the
charms of Esther are not longer
being misdirected to the Dakotas.
The rightful heir has been restored
to the throne, and the Marines
I continue to win in the Solomon
Islands.
* * *
Private Irving Epstein, of Bos-
! ton, Mass, is having wonderful
time out in New Caledonia, ac-
! cording to a recent letter home.
| Irv acted in an AEF stage presen-
! tation in New Caledonia, and re-
j ports that ' it was sensational. We
I played to an audience of 1000, so
! I got a real kick out of taking
i part.’
While in town, Irv took the op-
portunity to devour a large num-
jber of ice cream cones and milk
i shakes, to go sightseeing, study
(French, and tuck away a few juicy
steaks. “I proceeded to paint the
| town red,” is the way he describes
it. “At home my program would
not have been considered a dull
pink, let alone red. But it proved
an enjoyable time and, after all,
I am not at home.”
While he was at it, he also “ob
served the natives,” about whom
he remarks: “Even in the city the
natives hold to some of their cus-
tomes consist of either shorts and
I shirt or sarong and shirt. They go
for gaudy colors, draping their
wrists or throats with rainbow-
hued cloths. Some still paint their
! faces. Male marriage eligibles dye
the top of their heads red to pro
claim to all and sundry that they
are in the bride market. ’
As for Irving, “It was fine get
ting back to camp. I really had a
grand vacation and should hold
me for a while.” What’s this wisp
of red hair stuck to the envelope
flap, though?
• • •
Private Irving Perlman, of
Brooklyn, stationed at Ft. Bragg,
N. C, is in line for the Soldier’s
Medal. He and another soldier
were swimming in a country club
lake in Fayetteville, N. C, last
week. A group of swimmers were
having trouble getting into shore.
Thanks to Perlman, they live to
swim another day. And a recom
mendation that Perlman be
awarded the Soldier’s Medal has
just been sent to the War Depart
ment by his commanding officer.
• • •
David Shuman, aged eleven, re
cently walked into the USO Club
operated by the Jewish Welfare
Board in Baltimore. Accompanied
by seven of his pals, who ranged
in age from four-and-one-half to
twelve years, Dave plunked down
the sum of $6.01 on the Jewish
Welfare Board director’s desk.
“These people,” he incicated the
seven youngsters, "nre my co-
stars. They just came along to see
that I get a square deal.”
“As for the money,” he moved
the bills a little further onto the
JWB man’s desk, “we produced a
play, you see, and we wondered
what to do with the proceeds. So,
since everybody’s going USO,
we’ve decided to turn over our
proceeds to the Jewish Welfare
Board. And my cast (pointing once
again to his line-up of stars) and
me are here to give this to you. So
here. It’s exactly six dollars and
one cent and we don’t care how
you use it so long as it goes to help
us with Victory. (All bow, ex
eunt.)
* * *
Private Alex Schwartzman,
Army Air Corps, stationed in Mi
ami, Fla., fought fascism in 1937
and has been waiting for his
chance to take another crack at
the enemy for the last three and
a half years.
Schwarzman went over to Spain
with the Abraham Lincoln Brigade
during the Spanish Civil War, and
saw 18 months of action during
that conflict. He rose to the rank
of captain and fought in five cam
paigns, including the battles of
Teruel, Siguros de Bauros, Bel-
chite, Hyar and Caspe.
At Caspe, where almost 100
American volunteers gave their
lives, Schwartzman was wounded
by machine gun fire. He did not
recover until the Spanish war was
over.
Schwartzman went to Canada
and tried to enlist in the Royal
Canadian Air Force. He was re
jected because of his wounded leg.
Back in this country, he tried to
join the army, but the leg stood in
his way again.
That wound has healed now and,
after working in a defense plant
for a while, Schwartzman, after
three unsuccessful tries, has been
accepted in the Air Force as a
private,
• • *
Private Peter Despot, of Jeffer
son Barracks, Mo., walked into the
USO Club operated by the Jewish
Welfare Board in St. Louis, Mo.,
for the purpose of attending a
dance—and carelessly jotted his
name and address on a card hand
ed to him by one of the hostesses.
Private Despot had a good time
at the dance and returned to camp.
Meanwhile, JWB machinery was
at work. It is the custom of Lazer
Grossman, the Board's St. Louis
director, to communicate with the
parents of servicemen who attend
the club. Grossman wrote to the
Despot family in Calumet, Mich,
and said Pete was looking well
and getting along fine.
This information was not taken
casually by the private's family.
Soon afterwards Pete’s brother
wrote to Mr. Grossman that the
family hadn’t heard from the 31-
ycar old soldier in 15 years.
Pete had run away from home
at the age of 16 to "seek his for
tune.” He had intended to get in
touch with his people when he
found the fortune, and not before.
Success had eluded him, however,
and he “didn’t have the nerve to
write.”
Through the post chaplain, the
JWB worker found Private Despot
and showed him the letter from
his brother Since then, Pete has
written to his people, enclosing a
picture of himself. He’s changed
his mind about writing until he’s
“made good,” in the Horatio Alger
sense, and will visit them on his
next furlough.
“But it’s uncanny,” he says. “I
just wrote down that address be
cause somebody handed me the
E. B. DYKES CAMPAIGNS FOR COMPTROLLER GEN.
violate the trust imposed in me
by being appointed to any receiv
ership covering insurance com
panies or insurance funds, and
that my only compensation will be
card. I didn’t think they even lived
there any more.”
• * *
Private Roland Goldberg, with
the Army Air Corp’s technical
training command at Chanute
Field, Ill., expects to spend the
rest of his spare time, for the dur
ation of the war, answering a let
ter. And no wonder. The letter to
be answered is 84 feet long. It
contains 103 separate messages—
from his parents, friends and for
mer business associates. It took
him six hours just to read it.
Private Goldberg left Merrick,
L. I., for army service a few
months ago. He used to be in the
lithographing business with his
father. He was a member of the
Merrick Jewish Center, of which
his father was organizer and first
president. That’s where he made
all those friends.
E. B. Dykes, of Vienna, is con
ducting a state-wide campaign of
intensive nature for Comptroller
General. Mr. Dykes was born In
Bartow county, graduated in law
at Mercer University, received
a degree from the Atlanta Law
School and has served Dooly
county 12 years in the legislature
and one term in the senate, during
which time he was president of
that body.
In his announcement for the
position Mr. Dykes says:
“The Comptroller General is
also Insurance Commissioner.
When elected I promise that I will
not exact tribute from Insurance
Companies, or their agents, for ad
ministering the insurance laws of
this State. The funds provided by
law for investigation of suspicious
fires, and for examinations of in
surance agents, will not be supple- j
mented by any arbitrary demand
for expenses in connection with
such investigations
“I further declare that I will not I
the salary provided by law for the
office. I further state that no other
members of my immediate family
will be employed in the Depart
ment during my administration.”
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