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THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
Friday, February 25, 1944
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Minority Responsibility . ..
The dangers of war have served to an extent to unify the
American people. A plentitude of jobs has ameliorated
■omewhat the passions of envy and hate induced by eco
nomic deprivation. The Jewish people now have the greatest
opportunity they have had in many years to build up a reser
voir of good will which will be sorely needed during the
peril-fraught post-war era.
An editorial appearing recently in a large influential Florida
newspaper, and from which we have previously quoted,
pointed out:
“In the same way that Caesar’s wife, above all women,
had to be above reproach, so must our minorities take
special care to behave themselves and to curb their law
less elements. Undoubtedly it is unjust, but it is a fact,
deeply rooted in the psychology of majority peoples.
THESE INSIST ON IDENTIFYING THE MINORITY
INDIVIDUAL WITH THE MINORITY GROUP. The mi
norities simply have to reckon with this psychology and
take a little extra care to see that their members behave
themselves with circumspection.”
We’re all aware that if Smith or Brown or Jones is found
guilty of Black Market activities or unethical business prac
tices, he is to blame as an individual. But let a Jew be so
accused and Jews as a group are immediately castigated.
If we are to survive and bring up our children in a secure,
hate-free environment, let us each do what he can to curb
those few among us who follow practices which not only
bring discredit to themselves, but to all of us as well.
—From the Jewish Floridian.
Rumanian Atrocities
(Continued from page 1)
Bet breud at exorditant prices.
A few succeeded in securing odd
jobs and earned a little money,
but the majority of the Jewish de
portees literally starved.
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Bing Crosby
Dorothy Lamour
caped Jew continued, “nearly 4,-
000 of the 11,000 Jews who were
interned in Pecorka had died of
hunger or illness caused by starva
tion and cold. Many had been
frozen to death after they ex
changed their clothing and shirts
for bread. I have seen with my
own eyes how Jewish women ate
grass in order to still their hunger.
Jewish children whose fathers and
mothers had died from starvation
searched the rubbish heaps for
potato peels which were consider
ed luxurious food."
Deportation Used for Blackmail;
Jewish Millionaires Beggared
The entire scheme of mass-de
portation of Jews from Rumania
to Transnistria was merely a
means of blackmail, the escaped
Jew pointed out. “Enormous
amounts were asked by the Ru
manian authorities from Jews who
sought to avoid being deported.
Sometimes, they ran into millions
of lei. Those Jews who were
known to be wealthy were so ex
ploited by the Rumanians that in
the end they were reduced to beg
gary,” he said.
SOUTHERN NEWS
KNOXVILLE
Center Holds Dedication
An Honor Roli and Service Flag
were dedicated on January 30 at
the Center in honor of the ninety-
one Jewish boys of Knoxville who
are serving in the armed forces.
Approximately four hundred peo
ple assembled to pay homage to
the boys whose names are inscrib
ed with honor on the Center Hon
or Roll.
The program was arranged by
Rabbi M. M. Gdodman and Max
Wolf.
The principal speaker of the
DR. ISRAEL M. GOLDMAN,
director of the National Academy
for Adult Jewish Education and
Rabbi of Temple Emanuel, Prov
idence, R. I., has just been ap
pointed visiting lecturer in Adult
Jewish Education at the Jewish
Theological Seminary of America.
This is believed to be the first at
tempt to establish such a lecture
ship in the history of the American
Jewish Education.
dedication ceremony, City Man
ager George W. Dempster, was in
troduced by Aatomey Max Marri-
son, president of the Center. City
Manager Dempster delivered an
eloquent address to the large au
dience.
Special tribute was bestowed
upon the parents and relatives of
the boys in the armed forces. The
large assemblage of people rose
to sing “America” in tribute to the
parents.
Junior Hadassah
On Sunday evening, March 5th,
at 7:30 o’clock the Knoxville Unit
of Junior Hadassah will present
a three-act play, “The Mystery of
the Masked Girl.”
The leading characters will be
enacted by Rosie Cooper and Syl
via Cooper with other parts being
enacted by Bertha Klinkowstein,
Rosie B. Allen, Melba Billig, Dol-
lye Robinson, Marian Goodstein
and Helen Klinkowstein. This
play, under the direction of Ida
Tobe and Doc Weinstein promises
to be most entertaining and amus
ing.
Senior Hadassah
The Knoxville Chapter of Ha- j
dassah is offering the public an 1
outstanding treat at its Annual
Linen Shower which will be held
at the Jewish Community Center
Sunday afternoon, February 27th,
•at 3:30 o'clock.
Mrs. Alexander M. Dushkin,
noted nutritionist and lecturer,
will be the guest speaker. Mrs.
Dushkin is now serving on the
New York City Department of
Health Nutrition Planning Com
mittee and is a member of the
volunteer teaching force of the
Red Cross.
Sunday School
The Community Center Sunday
School will present a hilarious
Capitol Spotlight
By MURIEL LEVIN
Joins Council Of
Christians and Jews
LONDON (JTA)—Msgr. Ber
nard W. Griffin, archbishop of
Westminster, and Catholic primate
of Britain, has joined the Council
of Christians and Jews, it was re
ported here at a meeting of the
council of the Anglo-Jewish Asso
ciation by the Rev. Henry Carter,
chairman of the Christian Council
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Buy War Bonds—We Sell Them
How can wc ask Turkey or
Spain or North Africa or Palestine
to lower their immigration bars
when we have built ours so high?
That is the question that has been
asked the United States Congress
recently and it will probably be
asked of the new War Refugee
Board’s diplomatic force in Eu
rope.
Philip K. L. Hitti, professor of
Semitic languages at Princeton,
was presenting the Arab side of
the Palestinian question at hear
ings on the Compton-Wright meas
ure before the Foreign Affairs
Committee.
Asked by Rep. Edith Nourse
Rogers, Mas. Rep., for a solution
of the Jewish refugee problem,
Hitti said that Palestine had ful
filled its obligations as a refuge,
that the population of Palestine
had multiplied by ten during the
years between 1919 and 1939. Then
he said, “If the Congress of the
United States feels it necessary to
do something about the refugee
problem, why don’t you allow ref
ugees to immigrate here?”
Chairman Sol Bloom ruled out
discussion of United States immi
gration policy as not germane to
the bill.
In November, when the Foreign
Affairs Committee was holding
hearings on the Baldwin-Rogers
bill for a commission to save the
Jews, another witness posed the
same question. Mayor Fiorello H.
LaGuardia of New York, put it in
these terms: The United States
must be prepared to do as much
as we ask other countries to do in
aiding the Jews of Europe.
j “If we ask the different coun-
| tries open their doors to admit so
j many oppressed people, we must
I be able to look them in the eye
and say we will do the same,’’ he
said. “It must be embarrassing for
I our representatives to ask asylum
and haven and then to say ‘Of
course, we can’t do it.’ We must
| do our share and participate pro-
j portionately to the extent we ask
I others to do it.”
| At that time, too, discussion of
j United States immigration policy
j was ruled not pertinent to the bill
j under consideration.
Only talking point for the Unit-
I ed States diplomat, embarrassed
< because of our immigration policy,
! is the Justice Department’s recent
frown on further restrictions. At-
: torne.v General Francis Biddle op
posed the Rees bill to halve im-
j migration quotas for the next ten
i years and the Allen bill to su6-
j pend immigration for the duration.
! He said they were not necessary
because only 20 per cent of the
I number of immigrants permitted
j in by law has actually been admit-
j ted during the last decade! He told
the House Immigration and Na
turalization Committee that such
legislation “hardly appears desir
able ... at a time when the Unit
ed States is at war, and the gov
ernment is seeking to promote
amity and good feeling with Al
lied and neutral countries.”
Our efforts to help refugees
would be considerably aided if
we could point to our own good
example. A liberal immigration
policy here would be proof of our
own good faith.
Purim play in three acts entitled
“The Belle of Shushan” on March
12 at 3:30 p.m. The play will be
directed by Ruby Katz. Mrs. M.
M. Goldman and the teachers will
assist her in the preparation of the
program. The entire program will
be in charge of Prof. W. M. Shaw,
the superintendent of the Sunday
School, who has selected the cast
for the play.
ASHEVILLE
$3,500 has been asked of Ashe
ville Jewry as their share in the
purchase of a new dwelling to
house activities of the Hillel
Foundation at Chapel Hill, N. C.
The campaign got under way last
week, and will reach every Jew
ish household in the community,
under a B’nai B’rith committee.
• • •
The February meeting of the
Sisterhood of the congregation will
be held on Monday afternoon, the
28th. Mrs. Joseph Patla is in
charge of the program. Another
excellent attendance is anticipat
ed. Several new fund-raising
projects are to be presented to the
membership.
BIRMINGHAM
National Jewish Welfare Board to
Hold Conference in Birmingham
The Jewish Welfare Board will
hold a tri-state conference in Bir
mingham of its workers in army
and navy activities, Saturday
night, March 4, and all day Sun
day, March 5, with participants
from Alabama, Mississippi and
Tennessee.
The entire Jewish Community
is invited to the luncheon session
Sunday at 12:30 at the Thomas
Jefferson Hotel, at which time
Moritz M. Gottlieb, cf New York,
chairman of the Third Service
Command, will be the guest speak
er. Mr. Gottlieb has just return
ed from a trip on which he covereJf*
the battlefronts and his talk^t
should be of interest to every
one.
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