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Friday, August 1, 1947
THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
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SOFTBALL
Double A League
In the first game played July 22,
AZA 134 defeated Masada 18 to 2.
In the second game, the Jewish
War Veterans won from AZA 518
by a score of 11 to 3.
The schedule of games for Tues
day night, Ahgust 5, are:
7:30 p. m., AZA 134 vs. J.W.V.
9:00 p. m., Antiques vs. AZA 518.
The standings:
AZA 518
2
2
.500
J.A.O
2
2
.500
S.O.I
0
/4
.000
Team
Won
Lost
• Pet.
AZA JTC
4
0
1.000
ABC
,i 3
1
.750
AZA 518
3
2
.600
AZA 134 ..
.*.!3
2
.600
X Y Z. .....
....: 2
2
.500
J.W.V
2
3
.400
Antiques .
1
3
.250
Masada .
0
5
.000
“A” League
In the games played in the "A"
league on Sunday, July 27, D.S.I.
defeated S.O.Z., AZA 134 defeated
the Green Bees. AZA JTC won
from L A P. and AZA 518 defeated
AZA 357.
The standings:
Team Won
Lost
Pet.
The schedule of games for Sun
day, August 3:
9:00 a. m„ AZA 518 vs. J.A.O.
10:30 a. m„ S.O.I. vs. D.S.I.
CAMP DANIEL MORGAN
A week-end visit to Camp Dan
iel Morgan showed a beehive of
constructive and highly enjoyable
activity on the part of campers
and counselors. A new feature in
this«*eason's program was the tre
mendously popular innovation of
Palestinian Folk Dances and
Songs. Both boys and girls get a
great deal of enjoyment and won
derful exercise participating in
these activities.
The regular swimming and life
saving classes are proceeding with
the customary progress and pop
ularity, for swimming and boating
is a never ending favorite with the
boy and girl campers. Waterfront
games and stunts, initiated during
this session, are proving most
highly acceptable and popular.
The final session of the Co-ed
AZA 134
6
0
1.000
Camp begins on Monday and new
D.S.I
5
1
.834
campers are still being accepted
AZA JTC
4
2
.667
for tiiis period from August 4 to
Green Bees
2
3
.600
18 in both the North, boys unit.
AZA 518
3
3
.500
and the South, girls unit. For in-
S.O.Z.
2
4
.334
formation and registration cull or
LAP
1
4
.200
write to the Jewish Educational
AZA 357
0
6
.000
Alliance, 318 Capitol Ave., S. E.,
Sunday. Aug. 3,
will
see
the be-
MA. 2171.
ginning of the second round of
play with the following schedule:
9:00 a. m., S.O.Z. vs. Green Bees;
AZA JTC vs. AZA 518: AZA 134
vs. L A P.; AZA 357 vs. D.S.I.
“B” League
Results of the "B” league games
on Sunday, July 27, brings the
league into a three-way tie for
first place. D.S.I. defeated AZA
518 in their game and in the sec
ond game J.A.O. defeated S.O.I.
The standings:
Team Won Lost Pet.
D.S.I. 2 2 .500
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VACATION CLUB
Going into its final session, the
Summer Vacation Club of the
Jewish Educational Alliance dou
bled its attendance of the preced
ing four weeks of operation. Par
ents and children alike are finding
this activity a highly desirable
form of summer vacation pleasure.
All of the children have been mak
ing extraordinary progress in their
swimming ability and have far ex
ceeded the expectations of the
early part of the season. Many of
the children are now ready to pro
ceed with diving and other more
advanced forms of water sports.
The daily music appreciation pe
riod during which the children lis
ten to various classic and childrens
recordings is a most eagerly await
ed time. Story telling, on the part
of both the leaders and the chil
dren. is full of fun and Interest
for all. The daily singing session
is vigorous and enthusiastic and
is supplemented by the many songs
sung enroute to and from the vari
ous locations used by the club.
A most popular event of the past
week’s schedule was the “wiener
roast" Friday afternoon during
which each of the children brought
and cooked his own lunch.
With the increased size of the
Efummer Vacation Club the group
was divided into two sections and
these were named, by popular vote,
“The Kiddoes’’ for the younger set
and “Our Gang” for the older.
An innovation which met the
distinct approval of the parents
was the '•Individual Evaluation
Record” which indicated the prog
ress of each of the children in each
of the various activities and in
many personality traits.
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Kedmah, the first Jewish-owned
vessel to initiate regular passenger
and freight service between Europe
ar\d Palestine.
Airplanes owned by Aviron, Jew
ish flying company, circled over
head as the vessel docked. It was
greeted at the pier by Mayor Israel
Rokach and Joseph Sprinzak of
the Hisladruth.
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By
Spotlight
Beatrice Heiman
If you happen to be a displaced
horse, ypur chances of getting
home, or to a home, are better
than for a displaced biped.
During the war the Nazis re
moved many valuable horses from
Hungary, which is one of the chief
horse-breeding countries of the
world. The Americans captured
horses along with Nazis, and ship
ped a number of both to the United
States. With the war’s efid and
disruption of the economy, Hun
gary needed horses to start up
agricultural production. A mis
sion was sent to this country to
find and identify as many of the
lost horses as possible. A good per
centage was found, and arrange
ments made with the United
States government to send them
home.
It's harder if you’re not a horse.
Yemen is that small and moun
tainous country on the Southwest
ern tip of the Arabian peninsula
which gave the Queen of Sheba
and Mocha coffee to the world,
and numbers among its population
Jews of ancient stock.
It added something new to
Washington press conferences.
Prince Saif al-Islam Abdullah,
sixth son of the Imam Yahya of
Yemen, was recently here, as a
guest of the Department of State,
to establish closer economic rela
tions between the United States
and his country. He did the rou
tine sightseeing, conveyed a sec
ret message to President Truman
from the Imam, and called a press
conference. Time came and went,
but no prince. At length fidget
ing reporters were told why.
The interpreter, a graduate of
the American University at Beirut,
had rusred out to buy a pair of
black shoes for a reception that
evening, but would soon return.
After many ar^d flowery phrases
about fioble Americans, the real
business was reached. The Prince
hoped that the United States
would treat Arab causes, which are
just causes, In a just way. The
questions of greatest concern to
Arabs, he said, are Palestine and
Egypt. All that the Arabs ask of
the American people is for support
in these just causes. A royal
handshake all around, and the
Prince retired.
Would the press please remain,
PANORAMA
Vitamins in Books
By DAVID SCHWARTZ
Having Just published a book trick on me, few- obviosuly if all
myself—"Bitter Herbs and Honey
—I thought I would do a piece on
the general subject of books.
Perhaps it was just a case of
my subconscious saying to me,
here is a chance to slide in some
thing about your own book under
some overall discussion of books.
As I say. perhaps it was just this.
I know how tricky that subcon
scious of mine can be without
reading Freud.
But anyway, the subjectwf books
is a great and worthy one, as you
will probably admit. Everybody
is willing to praise books. Almost
everyone, as the story goes, has a
book. That seems to be the trouble
in selling them any. The customer
already has one.
However, even writing about the
general theme of books among
Jews is not particularly easy and
this is mostly due to the late Israel
Abrahams and Dr. Joshua Bloch.
Israel Abrahams was a famous
Jewish scholar of England and Dr.
Bloch is the scholarly head of the
Jewis division of the New York
Public Library and both have writ
ten very distinguished essays on
the subject of books and the Jews.
Almost everything you want to
say about the subject they have
already said.
Dr. Bloch shows the esteem in
which books were held among
Jews by the laws which forbade
books being kept on the ground.
He refers to the custom among
Jews of kissing books. (My niece
wrote me that she thought “Bit
ter Herbs and Honey” was a lovely
thing, but even she did not kiss my
book.)
Dr. Bloch quotes Zunz’s remark
that a book.—the Bible—was the
“portable fatherland of the Jews.”
Both Dr. Bloch and Mr. Abra
hams cite the vision of Ezekiel
where a Heavenly voice bids the
prophet shut his eyes and open
his mouth and “something sweet
as honey came “into his mouth
and lo, it was the scroll of a book.”
Incidentally, the term “scroll”
which we use in connection with
the Bible speaks to us of the origin
of books, and I believe this is a
point that neither Bloch nor Ab
rahams make. The early Jewish
books took that form, being mostly
written on skins or parchment
which could be rolled up and fast
ened with a string.
'' I think it would be a good idea
to get back to the scroll form.
Then you woudn’t have to buy so
many books. You could sit in the
subway with your, copy of “Bit
ter Herbs and Money” and every
one in the subway could be read
ing from the same book. (My sub
conscious here is playing a, mean
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United Palestine Appeal in the
United States.
read from the same book, I couldn’t
sell many.)
Jeremiah bade his amanuensis
put his book in an “earthen ves
sel.” Jeremiah lived in a troubled
era, when be knew that the books
would be likely destroyed. Thii
earthen vessel was deposited
the ground. That is probably how
the term “best cellar” arose.
It was Mohammed who first re
ferred to Jews as “the people of
the book.” It seems Mohammed
was giving^ us Just a little taffy.
We are not so much the people of
the book as we like to think. Not
if you can believe the late Dr.
Neumark.
Dr. Neumark was a great He
brew scholar, a teacher of philos
ophy at the Hebrew Union Col
lege, and he wrote profound works
on Jewish philosophy. One day, the
good doctor said to his students:
“Boys, it is not enough to write a
Jewish book. You’ve got to pub
lish it. You’ve got to read it, too.
Don’t depend on your friends too
read i,t.”
That’s how we Jews prize Jewish
books. No, Mohammed was prais
ing us beyond our desserts. Dr.
Neumark was right. Most Jews,
alas, do not know what it is to
read a Jewis book. We like pickles
instead of vitamins. We buy “For
ever Amber.” Good books that will
teach us to really know something
about ourselves, that will enable
us to really answer the anti-Semi
tes, that will make us appreciate
our Jewish heirtage, what Jew
wants such books? He already has
a book.
the interpreter called out. A mem
ber of the Prince’s suite wished
to see them, the son of the Prime
Minister. He came in bearing a
bulky package. It contained a num
ber of individual enevelopes, hand
ed to each startled reporter—a
memento and a sample of Yemeni
handiwork. Washington newsmen
are pretty well Inured to many
things, but hardly to sterling silver
filigree cigarette cases and strings
of genuine amber beads.
* * *
Secretary of State Marshall can
be frosty in the extreme on occas
ion. On a recent hot day he was
being closely questioned by mem
bers of the House Sub-Committee
on immigration about admission
of displaced persons to the United
States, as proposed in the Stratton
bill. Representative Ed Gosset,
Democrat of Texas, who is bitterly
opposed to the bill, had been
lengthily interrogating the secre
tary. Wouldn’t you say that the
United States has a larger propor
tion of immigrants than any other
country In the world, Gosset asked.
“That is the significance of the
Statue of Liberty,” snapped Mar
shall, with a crackle as of icicles.
When he turns on the charm
his usually stern face relaxes.
Newsreel photographers were sub
jecting him to a long, hot ordeal
at the State Department, telling
the former chief of staff how to '
read excerpts from his testimony _
on the DP’s. Patiently he went'
over and over it, finally did it to
satisfaction. Then one camera
man piped up, he had used the
wrong lens, please do it over.
General Marshall stiffened (no
doubt), but Secretary Marshall did
it over. His comment that Con
gress adjourns sometimes, but pho
tographers never, did not get into
the newsreel.
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