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THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
Friday, September 4, 1942
The Southern Israelite
Published weekly by Southern Newspaper Enterprise*, Inc.,
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The Kiss of Reconciliation . . .
By DAVID SCHWARTZ
A good lady who has been in
the employ of one of the nutrition
agencies of the city of New York
for a long time, complnined to me
of her life. She said that for 20
years, she had to walk up three or
four flights through blocks in the
tenement section of New York and
tell the people NOT to eat toma
toes, and now in the last few
years, since the discovery that
there is lieulth and vitamins in
the tomnto, she has had to walk
up the interminable hordes of
stairs to tell the people to eat to
matoes.
The present writer recalls how
In his childhood, he was told that
tomatoes caused rheumatism.
Sourkraut was also once tabooed,
now It is recommended by the
best of physicians. Even Litvnk
Herring has now its supporters.
Scientists say that it has very val
uable oils, much needed by the
human body.
And so it goes—and whnt has
happened in the case of food has
happened throughout history In
the case of a multitude of things- •
In early America, Christmas, for
example, was frowned upon. The
Puritans despised nothing so much
as Christmas which they associat
ed with the Pope and Catholicism.
The news this week brings us a
similar story of recantation of at
titude. Official envoys of the So
viet government addresses a Jew
ish meeting in Palestine and one
of the Communist officials con
cluded his address with a few
words of Hebrew—“Shalom Cha-
verim."
The same news story further
tells us that the Soviet envoys
visited a settlement in Palestine
conducted on the same collectivist
ideas ns those of Soviet Russia,
and the Soviet envoy in his ad-
ish Inquisition. Thirty Years War,
Witchcraft! Think of all the mil
lions of people who have been
slaughtered because of the zeal
with which men held conflicting
opinions on matters about which
none of them knew anything fun
damentally.
So innocent a thing as Zeal re
sponsible for all this! Zeal—is this
not sincerity? And is not Sincer
ity a virtue? When we say a man
is sinctre, we ascribe a virtue to
kirn. Shall we then conclude that
a virtue has been productive of
more evil than any vice?
1 am afraid, if we are logical,
we must so conclude.
How shall we resolve the dilem
ma then? It seems to me that the
only answer is that we cannot fol
low a lone virtue. We must view
a thing as a whole. Zeal in the
doing of right is of course a virtue
but so is tolerance of other opin
ions. We can’t take our virtues
facts on the basis of which history
will have no difficulty in pointing
out those who are guilty of reduc-
alone like iron pills. We must take ing France to her present humil-
them together. The wise sages of
the Bible put it crisply when they
said: “With alL they getting, get
wisdom-” Wisdom is not one thing
—it is everything.
Palestine and Moscow kiss!
iating position ... It reads like a
well-written detective story,
though it is primarily a record of
in a posthumous citation from
Secretary of the Navy Knox . . .
Albert Kahn, the noted Detroit
architect who designed a number
of mammoth United States war
plants in record time, has been
awarded a special medal by the
the behind-the-scene machinations American Institute of Architects
that brought about the downfall
The award was given to him
of France, written by one who is in recognition of his services as
Churchill and Stalin embrace! But ! a thinker - a « reat French the foremost war plant designer of
even today could an ordinary Patriot. an d an ardent fighter for
American or Englishman rational
ly argue with a Russian Commun
ist? I am afraid not. This thing
of zeal is still too strong for that.
The old American Indians might
have conducted such an argument
dispassionately as befits men—
and not savages. Benjamin Frank
lin records the fact that it was a
practice in Indian assemblages
never to reply to an address until
the following day. If you answered
for democracy.
* • *
ON THE RECORD:
The late Ensign Ira Weil Jef
fery will be honored by the U. S-
Navy which plans to name an es
cort vessel of the destroyer type
after him ... It will be the first
naval vessel named after a Jew
. . . The B’nai B’rith recently
named one of its lodges after Jef-
the United Nations . . . Among the
plants he designed are Ford’s vast
Willow Run bomber plant, Chrys-
ler’s $120,000,000 airplane engine
plant in Chicago, and the Wright
Aeronautical Corporation factory
in Cincinnati . . . Samuel Zemur-
ray, head of the United Fruit Co,
the largest concern in the country
trading with Latin America, is
working on the development in
this hemisphere of natural pro-
fery
Ensign Jeffery was the ducts formerly imported from the
Far East
Among these crops
Immediately, they thought it was I first Minneapolis man killed in
rude, as evidencing that not prop- , thc P^sent war while in action are rubber, quinine, palm oil. ma-
* ! — h 1- nila hemp, and other products in
which shortages exist because of
I'earl Harbor . . • He was honored the war.
er consideration had been given to | abroard an American warship
what the other said. It was for durin « the J;, P anese attack on
this reason that many missionar
ies were confused, said Franklin.
They mistook the civility of the :
Indians for agreement. They did
not learn until the next week that
the Indian had objections to make.
But of course we nre not as civ
ilized ns these savages were!
BETWEEN YOU AND ME
By BEN LEWIS
EYES ON PALESTINE:
Capitol Spotlight
By CARL HARTMAN
Probably it was inevitable that Nazis had some success in arous-
some bona fide Jewish refugees ing it. So when war came, refu-
should be interned in this country!gees sometimes found themselves
as '’dangerous enemy aliens.” In
a war where family, racial, relig
ious, patriotic and ideological loy
alties are so confused, it is obvious
that officials who must view the
thc Jewish committee in Russia is
When these lines are printed, Vowing with every week ... If
Palestine and Syria may be front- \ H * s ‘kosher” for the Histadruth j situation according to law. that is,
along strictly national lines, will
page news . . . The strategic posi- to send $40,000 to aid the Russian
tion of Palestine will by that time Army, it cannot be "treif" for
have become more evident to the Zionists in America to do so, they
averuge
States .
sometimes act against our own
interests. Probably none of those
officials would advocate holding
refugees in detention camps for
reader in the United j argue . . , The role which Russia
. The defense of Pales- is to play with regard to Palestine
tine and Syria is now occupying at the forthcoming peace confer-I the duration. Yet a multitude of
the attention not only of London, enc * is not underestimated even | difficulties present themselves
by such Zionist leaders as Dr. | when the attempt is made to get
Weizmnnn, David Ben-Gurion and j them out.
Dr. Nahum Goldmann, all of
whom are now in the United
States.
* » *
RECORD OF TREACHERY:
included indiscriminately among
the “dangerous enemy aliens” in
terned south of the Rio Grande.
Authorities in Panama took an
especially large number of Ger
man nationals into custody. With
the vital canal so near, suspicion
ran high. Undoubtedly, United
States authorities suggested the
apprenhension of many who might
otherwise have escaped intern
ment—perhaps including some
refugees—on the theory that thru
relatives in occupied Europe pres
sure might be brought on them to
but also of Washington and Mos
cow ... It will be one of the sub
jects which Willkie will discuss
with Stalin and witti British gen-
eruls in the Middle East ... In the
meantime, A1 Jolson’s entertain
ment trek overseas is planning to
wind up in Palestine . . . The six
Jewish soldiers from Palestine! the reasons for France's fall in the man nationals lived within tho | item in their budgets. And at that
How did they get in to begin!spy or sabotage,
with? When Pearl Harbor came,) To the sma n countries of Latin
the republics of Central America J America, and especially to Pana-
| and the Caribbean joined the
[United States in declaring war
ma which had so many, the ex
pense of caring for the inmatas of
Tlie best hook written so far on against the Axis. Numbers of Ger- j internment camps was a large
who arrived in New York on a
British military mission last week
dress there expressed the hope were prohibited from talking to
that the Jews of Palestine would the press ... A collective inter-
realize their ideals "in their own vlew arranged by the Hadassah
way.
! headquarters had to be cancelled
present war is Henry Torres’ vol
ume "Campaign of Treachery”
published by Dodd. Mead & Co.
... A good Frenchman and a good
Jew, Torres kept notes on Fifth
Column activities in France both
borders of all these countries. j th e accomodations probably left
Some were long-term residents much to be desired. Under the Ge-
with few ties in Germany. Others j neva prisoners-of-war convention,
■ a certain standard must be main
lined for interned enemy nation-
Latin American governments a ] s _ j n the case of Germans, a rep-
were traders and strongly pro-
Nazi. Still others were refugees.
Tis a strange world and there at the last minute by order of the before and during thc war . . . He' have always been hesitant about resentative of the Swiss Legation
is no chemist as great ns Father j censor’s office . . . No objection
Time. What transformations he was raised, however, to a lunch-
makes! Anyone ten years ago pre- ■ °° n tendered the six in
dieting that a Soviet envoy would York hotel by a Zionist group
dare to speak a Jewish audience in j The affair was not open to the
Palestine or that he would be
warmly welcomed there would
have been thought below the level
of argumentation. At that time,
the Zionists were busy berating
now uses them in his book, show- | admitting refugees, on the ground
ing the remarkable extent of Ger- that they are mostly professional
New man espionage and propaganda people who might deprive natives
press . . . The mission on which
the six Palestinian Jewish soldiers and the Gestapo
reports regularly on their treat
ment. Washington may have fear
ed that if the Central American
Nazi | of clients. Among countries whose J camps fe n below standard, the
Nazis would be only too eager to
conducted in France by
agents and by French traitors who slang word for “sharper" and
were in the employ of Goebbels “tightwad is “Jew," anti-Semit
Anti-Jewish ism is not hard to arouse, and the
have come to this country has activities constituted no small part
nothing to do with Jewish affairs of this work, Torres proves . . In
. . . Nor has it any connection j fact, anti-Semitic agitation in
the Communists and the Commun- i whatsoever with Palestine defense France was the spearhead of the
Nazi invasion of French morale
... Dozens of French anti-Se-
jmitic publications, financed from
ists were busy incarcerating the i projects.
Zionists. *
Now a strange thing has hap- RUSSIA CALLING:
pened. The Communists find We hear that the executive com- Berlin, paved the way for the mor-
something good apparently in the mittee of the American Jewish al degration of many Frenchmen
Zionists and the Zionists find that j Congress has seriously considered in higher circles . . Extremely
many of the ideas being put into the question of responding to the revealing is the fact that Marshal
practice in Palestine are along call of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Petain and Gen. Weygand was
identical lines with those in Rus-1 Committee in Russia for 1,000
aia tanks and 500 bombers as a Jewish notorious JE
Why couldn’t they discover these K*ft for the Red Army . . , We the French
among thoses subscribing to the
SUIS PARTOUT—
“Stuermer"—which
couldn’t! learn that the majority of the exe- j no decent person would think of
if they i cutive, including Dr. Stephen S. ; taking into his hands . . . Himself
going
Land
similarities before? Why
they discover that even
were taking different trains, they Wise, were for having the Ameri- one of France’s outstanding law-
to the! can Jewish Congress initiate a ! years and a member of Parlia-
where 1 campaign to secure the funds to ment. Torres mb re than once drew
purchase this gift . . . Furthermore, the attention of certain French
But they didn’t discover this, it is understood that a number of statesmen to the 5th Column pois-
They were too busy tearing at leading labor unions from both on and to its degenerating effect
each other's throats Their zeal the American Federation of Labor even on military circles . ■ . His
would permit no MODUS VTVEN- and the CIO, were ready to coop- warnings, however, remained a
were all bent on
same place, that
Things are Better?
DI
It is
orate with the Congress in raising call in the wilderness
Ah Zeal, what crimes have been the funds ... A last minute hitch, heartbreaking to leam from Tor-
committeed in Thy name! Not the however, has prevented the Con- res’ book how well some French-
black plagues, nor the white pla- gress from this undertaking ... In men and large French daily news-
gues nor the yellow bubonic pla- the meantime, it can he said that papers served Goebbels for pay-
gues have decimated such multi- the desire of leading Zionists in ment received . . . The volume
tudes of people as has Zeal. Span- America to respond to the call of constitutes a dramatic analysis of
JEWISH CALENDAR
All Holidays and Fast Days
begin at sunset of the day pre-
ceeding the dates given below'.
ROSH IIASHONAH.
Sat. and Sun., Sept. 12-13.
YOM KIPPl'R,
Monday, September 21.
SCCCOTH (Tabernacles),
Sat. and Sun.. Sept. 26-27.
HOSHANAH RABAH,
Friday, October 2.
SHIMTNI AZERETH.
Saturday. October 3.
SLMCHAT1I TORAH (Feast of
Law), Sunday, October 4.
CHANUKAH.
Fri., Dec. 4. to Fri., Dec. 11.
PURIM,
Sunday. March 21.
PASSOVER (First 2 Days),
Tues., Wed., Apr. 20. 21.
PASSOVER (Last 2 Days).
Mon.. Tues., Apr. 26, 27.
LAG B’OMFR.
Sunday. May 23.
SHEVUOTH (Feast of Weeks),
Wed-, Thurs.. June 9, 10.
TISHA B’AB (9th of Ab),
Tuesday. August 10.
retaliate against American citi
zens in Axis hands.
Most important, it was doubt
less considered here that all po
tential spies and saboteurs would
be safest in our hands, under our
own officials, and as far away as
possible from the canal.
So the State Department agreed
w’ith the Central American repub
lics to take custody of their “dan
gerous enemy aliens” for the dura
tion. Those exchanged could leave
! in the regular repatriation vessels
sailing from United States ports.
Those who could not, or did not
. w’ant to be exchanged, w’ould be
detained here and returned to
Central America after the war—
unless a more satisfactory ar
rangement could be worked out
meanw'hile for all parties. Thus
the United States is acting simply
as a custodian for its sister re
publics, and the persons brought
here under agreement with them
have never been formally admit
ted to this country.
Now the State Department,
which negotiated the agreements,
does not operate anything so crass
as a police force or an internment
| camp. So it must hand over its
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