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THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
Friday, August 1, 1947
ABRAHAM HARRIS MEMORIAL AWARD
Southwest Ga. B'nai B'rith Lodge Awards Scholarship
FITZGERALD—Jean Muns,
17-year-old Dublin high school
graduate. Is the winner of the first
annual B'nai B'rith college schol
arship award.
Jean was selected in the final
contest held at the local Syna
gogue Wednesday afternoon over
ten other high school boys and
girls from eleven different South
Georgia counties.
Judges of the contest were Dr.
M. D. Collins, state superintendent
of schools; Dr. George King, re
tired president of Abraham Bald
win college at Tlfton; and Judge
O. T. Gower, of the Cordele Judi
cial circuit.
The winner, a pretty little
blond, was first honor graduate of
her class at Dublin this .spring,
walking off with many honors. She
Uvea with her family near Rent/,,
Ga., where her father is a farmer.
Jean indicated she will attend
Q.8.C.W. at Milledgeville this fall
and plans to major in Horne Eco
nomics. Wednesday night Jean re
ceived the $500, two-year scholar
ship. a beautifully engraved Elgin
wrist watch and a resounding kiss
from Dr. Collins.
Almost 200 guests attended an
elaborate banquet held in the Fitz
gerald synagogue annex prior to
the award of prizes and announce
ment of the grand prize winner.
Judge Gower was the first
speaker of the evening, being in
troduced by H. R. Kaminsky.
Southwest Georgia Lodge presi
dent. Judge Gower was voluble in
his praise of the B'nai B'rith pro
gram as a means of combatting
juvenile delinquency.
Dr. King pointed out the good
will achieved by the scholarship
and particularly singled out Mrs.
A. S. Harris, of Ocilla, for her gen
erosity in donating the first, year's
scholarship. The award this year
was named the Abraham Simon
Harris Memorial Award, in honor
of the late Ocilla merchant and
B'nai B’rith leader.
Dr. Collins echoed the plaudits
for Mrs. Harris and spoke of Geor
gia’s great need for improved edu
cational facilities, particularly in
the rural areas. Dr. Collins admit
ted the difficulty in selecting the
winner of the contest because of
the superior quality of all the citi
zenship essays which the contest
ants were required to write.
Charles Harris, of Ocilla. pre
sented Miss Muns with the schol
arship check after Dr. Collins had
announced her name to the audi
ence. The program was broadcast
over station WBHB.
The other contestants receiving
'Elgin watches for consolation
prizes were: H. B. Reynolds, Fitz
gerald; Lewis Southerland, Haw-
kinsville; Dan Fischer, Tifton;
Barbara Johnson, Ocilla; Helen
Johnson, Eastman; Don’l Johnson,
Alma; Ella Mae Dixon. Baxley;
Jeannell Ellerbe, Ashbum; Doro
thy Hamilton, Cordele; and
Yvonne Smith, Douglas.
Among the out-of-town guests
at the banquet were:
Ocilla: Mr. and Mrs. T. H.
Johnson, Philip Newbern, Mrs. A.
S. Harris, Charles Harris, Dr. and
Mrs. Raymond Harris, Mr. and
Mrs. Max Heller, Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Felson.
Hawkinsville: Sam Dobkins, Mr.
and Mrs. J. B. Southerland, Grady
McKenncy, Miss Barnes, E. J. Har
rell, James Wilcox and Earl San
ders.
Atlanta: George Harrison, Gar
land Babley, Aaron Cohen.
Cordele: Myer Miller, Miss
Elaine Miller, Dr. and Mrs. R. E.
Hamilton, D. H. Standard.
Douglas: Mrs. Seay Smith, Mr.
and Mrs. T. H. Waller, Jr., Mr.
and Mrs. Alex Slotin, Louis Jack-
son, Mrs. Hutch Williams, Mrs. S.
Silver.
Ashburn: Mrs. L. E. Ellerbee,
Sam Jones, Mr. and Mrs. William
Cohen, Joe Cohen arid- Irving Na
than.
Alma: Mr. and Mrs. Maryland
Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. Isey Elkins,
Mr. and Mrs. Shalloway.
Baxley: Mrs. Algie Dixon, Mr.
and Mrs. Mack Aarons, Mr. and
Mrs. Nathan F’inkelstein. Mr. and
Mrs. Willie Oibson, Mr. and Mrs.
Ramsey.
Tifton: Buddy Kulbersh.
Dublin: Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Muns, the brother and sister-in-
law of the grand prize winner;
Lew Kalin, Meyer Caplin, B. Ber
liner, Mrs. H. Dunn.
Eastman: Mrs. E. J. Johnson,
Irvin Harris.
Valdosta: Rabbi Gallinger.
Jack Kassewltz of Fitzgerald
was in charge of most of the ar
rangements pertaining to the pro
gram. He was a member of the
Citizenship and Americanism com
mittee which conceived the idea of
the scholarship program. Others
on the committee were Sam Dob-
kins, Hawkinsville, chairman;
Myer Miller, Cordele; Isidor Gel-
ders and Buddy Kniger, of Fitz
gerald.
SAVANNAH
Dr. Semon Eisenbcrg will be
among the Savannah dentists ex
pecting to attend the annual con
vention of the American Dental
Association to be held in Boston
for one week, opening August 1.
Dr. Eisenberg is a past president
of the Georgia Dental Association;
a past president of the First Dis
trict Dental Society, and is now
program chairman of the South
eastern District Dental Society.
Sidney L. Raskin, attorney, has
been appointed a member of the
Observers of the American oc
cupation of Germany have no
ticed for some months now a dan
gerous trend developing in the
Bavarian political arena.
It appears that once again Ger
man politicians—cashing in on
the great amount of freedom
granted them by the American
Military Government—are setting
the stage for a new "scapegoat"
—someone that German officials
can shake an accusing finger at
and blame for all the trouble in
which Germany today finds itself.
This is, of course, an old polit
ical trick used the world over. But
only in Germany, especially be
tween the two world war's, did it
assume such an important and
violent nature. The Versailles
peace treaty was the favorite
whipping boy of most German
politicians. This attitude opened
the way for a more nationalistic
and more violent politician—Adolf
Hitler—who tacked on the Jew
and the Communist to tire already
existing Versailles scapegoat.
This same development seems
to be taking place today—and lots
faster. German officialdom ap
parently spotted the usefulness
of this technique to Hitler and are
determined to implement it lots
sooner for their own advantage.
For about a year German po
liticos were content to chide, then
angrily blame, the four occupa
tion powers. Whether it was a
shortage of potatoes or rain, Ger
man authorities—ever cognizant
of votes and ballot boxes—pointed
fingers at the Americans or the
Russians or the failure of the four
district veterans affairs committee
of B'nai Brith, in which capacity
he will represent the lodges of the
state of Georgia. Mr. Raskin is
no wfirst vice president of Savan
nah Lodge N. 76. B'nai Brith.
Bob Brown, state commander,
Abe Tennenbaum, local command
er, Sam Goldberg. Morris Perlman,
Sa mRatesky, Meyer Adler and
Julius Palefsky are the Savannah
delegates who attended the JWV
state convention in Atlanta.
• • •
AUGUSTA
The Augusta Zionist district held
an outdoor open meeting July 28
on the lawn of the A. K. Steinberg
residence in August.
Prominent speakers featured a
report on the recent national gol
den jubilee convention of the Zion
ists of America in News York.
to get together. Always, it was
some external factor that was the
cause of it all. Seldom did one
German group blame another
German group.
It was left to the occupation
authorities generally to point out
various inefficiencies and corrup
tion by the Germans themselves.
On several different occasions
Gen. Lucius Clay, commander-in
chief and military governor, and
other American officials blamed
German farmers, for instance, for
hoarding food and diverting much
of it to the black market. A sharp
reminder that German authori
ties in Bavaria were being too
lenient with top Nazis also came
from AMG. But when the German
officials explained it all to their
constituents, they wiggled their
fingers at the "outsiders."
In recent months, however, the
Germans have been going after
the already much harassed dis
placed person. Perhaps, because
the German has had his finger
burned by AMG for blaming it
too often, or perhaps, because the
DP isn't in a very good position
to hit back, the German has
changed his tactics. More and
more he is blaming the DP for
ail his ills. And when the German
says. 'DP,"' he invariably means
"Jew."
It seems to have started this
past winter when various Germans
took potshots at the Jew and DP.
Oberburgomeister Karl Scharnagl
of Munich asserted that the Ger
mans owe nothing to the Jews
here because the Jews were most
ly victims of the Poles. Next came
Bavarian Agriculture Minister Jo
seph Baumgartner's slap at a po
litical meeting where he reported
that he'd been "forced” to attend
a Jewish DP conference, adding
happily that the one good thing
that resulted from the conference
was the “Jews’ unanimous deci
sion to leave Germany.”
There followed scattered in
stances where various Germans,
usually anonymous, pointed ac
cusing fingers at the DPs. Such
accusations generally came in
closed meetings of German politi
cians, or perhaps, at political ral
lies in the provinces far from the
publicity spotlight.
At any rate, the German people
got the drift of things. Even Dep
uty Minister President Wilhelm
Hoegner of Bavaria acknowledged
this general feeling when lie re
cently told an American forum
that the DP is blamed by the Ger
mans for many of their ills.
When this correspondent asked
Hoegner what he or any other
Bavarian official was doing to
counteract this misinformation,
Hoegner dodged and skirted the
question, going all around it but
never answering it. He couldn't
and wouldn’t answer it because
tiie German politicians not only
are failing to combat this trend
but rather are encouraging it.
And these politicians come from
the Christian Social Union, the
Social Democratic party and the
Liberal Democratic party — Bava
ria's three key parties.
That Uiio - 10 true was
vividly illustrated recently when
Dr. Rudolph Zorn, Bavarian Eco
nomics minister, blame.t all of
Germany's food ills on the Dis
placed Person. Again, the Jew was
not singled out, but the effect
could only mean increased anti-
Semitism. Bavarian Minister Pres-
ideht Hans Ehard’s reaction to his
minister’s statement was simply;
‘'Undiplomatic.’’
President Ehard’s profound com
ment, perhaps, best illustrates the
state of our occupation here two
years after our victory.
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Pioneer Women Plan
Benefit Picnic Aug. 24
For Moatzal Hapalofr
Mrs. A. Auerbach, president of
the Pioneer Women's Organiza
tion Club No. 1, wishes to annuonce
their annual picnic, for the bene
fit of the Moatzal Hapalot, the
Women's Council in Palestine. The
picnic will be held August 24 at
the Piedmont Park picnic grounds|
The Women's Council in Pales
tine aids primarily in the rehabili
tation of orphans coming from
Europe.
Deepest appreciation is ex
pressed to the committees for the
untiring effort to make this affair
a big success. A meeting for club
No. 1 is to be held in August. All
members are invited.
The entire community is urged
to participate in this worthy
cause.
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