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THE SQUTHERN ISRAELITE
Friday, August (, 1948
The Southern Israelite
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DELUXE JUSTICE
(GUEST EDITORIAL)
De luxe justice is the best description for the trial and
acquittal of the top directors of the IG Farben chemical
murder combine by an American military tribunal last
week. The spirit of U. S. Supreme Court Justice Jackson,
Chief U. S. prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials, has long
since evaporated. The right kind of people can feel pretty
safe these days when so many subordinate officials in
the American Military Government outfit, and their pa
tron saints in Washington, believe in placing the right
kind of Germans in strategic positions.
The charge against the top IG Farben directors was
that they conspired with Hitler to start World War Two.
All students of Hitlerism agree that were it not for the
support given him by Krupp. Thiesen and IG Farben
interests, Hitler could not have risen to power. There
could have been no Hitler without these boys. And, yet,
the gang has been acquitted.
But even Justice a la Mode requires some propriety.
• Hence, nine of the directors have been found guilty, not
of starting the war, but of benefiting from it subsequent
ly by the use of slave labor from the Oswiecism death
camp and despoiling Nazi-occupied countries. It’s like
reducing a first degree murder charge to grand larceny.
It’s a sham Several Nazi fat boys and skinny boys, now
dead, are deliberately being charged with the entire in
genious scheme of German war plotting so that the
Svangalis of the German war machine might be ac
quitted and perhaps reinstated soon into the positions
from which they have been temporarily suspended by the
* course of events.
America is not the sole culprit. All the Big Power
rivals in Germany are accomplices in the morbid game
in which Germans are seemingly being used as pawns,
but from which the pawns will eventually emerge as
masters.—JPS.
PANORAMA by David Schwartz—
Is Everybody a Little “Peculiar?”
REMOVE THE LOCK
BY DAVID SCHWARTZ
An ancient quip has it:
“Everyone is a little pecular.
If you are not, that is your
peculiarity.”
We Jews have called as a ^
whole "a peculiar people.” To
say that a person has a pecu
liarity is not necessarily to
criticise him. Peculiarity, of
course, may be a negative sort
of thing but then again it is
the spark of individuality.
As a matter of fact, it is gen
erally the great and profound
who seem most rife in peculiar
ities. The stories are many
about the absent-minded pro
fessor who put his umbrella in
bed and stood himself in the
corner all night. These absent-
minded^stories seldom have a
hod-carrier or plain Joe Doakes
for their subject.
I got to thinking about this
the other day, when someone
mentioned with horror that
Prof. Albert Einstein does not
wear any socks. I don’t see
why this is so peculiar in Ein
stein. After all, many of the
women nowadays go stocking
less. If the women can do it,
why shouldn’t Einstein? Not
so many years ago, there used
to be. a man in Congress who
was called “Sockless Jerry
Simpson” and who represented
Kansas. One day, he rose in
Congress, read some figures
showing how the protective
tariff increases the cost of
clothes, and ended by saying
that American pay 50 percent
more for their socks on account
of the tariff. As a protest
against the tariff, he announc-
• ed that thereafter he would
wear no socks.
The story is told that a lady
once wanted him to show her
whether he really didn’t wear
socks. Simpson replied he be
lieved in reciprocity.
Today Simpson wouldn’t
have to make such a remark,
for girls take the not wearing
of socks quite casually. Simp
son discarded socks as a pro
test against the tariff. Einstein
doesn't wear them for a dif
ferent reason. He once explain
ed that he tries to simplify
life, and since socks are not
absolutely necessary, he does
n’t wear them. He would
rather not, one would surmise,
*pend time in taking off and
putting on the socks, but in
thinking aibout some mathema
tical or physical problem.
These higher mathematicians
are seemingly very often the
butt of these stories of pecu
liarities. Twenty-five years
ago, they used to like to tell
these stories about another
great Jewish mathematician,
Prof. James Joseph Sylvester
of Johns Hopkins.
One story had it that Sylves
ter once kept walking along
the street, lost in thought, one
foot on the street and the other
THe
QUIZ BOX
By Rabbi Samuel J Fox
Question: What is a "Melave
Malke?”
Answer: “Melave Malke" is the
name given to the special meal
that is eaten on Saturday even
ing by pious Jews.
Question: What is the origin
and significance of this meal?
Answer: The name “Melave
Malke” gives away the purpose
of this meal. The term is made
up of two words: “Melave,” which
means “an escort,” and “Malke,”
which is the Hebrew word for
“Queen.” The meal is thus an
“escort for the Queen.” This is
quite reasonable when we under
stand that the Sabbath is always
likened to a Queen in Jewish life,
who visits her people on every
week-end. The Queen’s coming
and presence is heralded by spec
ial Sabbath meals. It is therefore
fitting that her departure be
heralded by
basing its claim on the passage in
Psalms where David asks, “Lord,
make me know mine end.” The
Lord did tell him that he would
die on the Sabbath. Cognizant of
this, he spent every Sabbath in
prayer and learning and when
each Sabbath would depart, he
would make a grand feast to
celebrate the fact that he had
been granted another week of
life.
in the gutter, and hen remark
ed that one of his legs must be
shorter than the other. Then
there was the story how Syl
vester once mistook the back
of a carriage for his black
board, and went running after
the carriage, working out some
mathematical equation on the
carriage back.
We like to tell how Naph-
thali Herz Imber, who always
had to be supported by others,
once rose at a Zionist meeting
and nominated himself for
treasurer of the organization.
There are many stories told
of Soldmon Schechter. “I see,
Prof. Schoechter, some of the
egg of your breakfast this
morning is on your coat.”
“No,” replied Schechter,
“that was from yesterday’s
breakfast.”
When Prof. Schechter first
came to the faculty of Cam
bridge University, a Catholic
theologian once paid him a
visit. He sent in his card to
Schechter. It read: “Father
Nott, Society of Jesus.”
When Father Nott was ush
ered into Schechter’s presence,
Schechter said to him: “You
know, I am a Jew and I hate
Jesuits,so now let’s be friends.”
That was a peculiar ap
proach, but it’s peculiarity lies
in its great honesty, which
could only come from a great
man—and it worked. Father
Nott and Schechter became
friends.
C^afenJar
FEAST OF AB
(First)
Friday, August 6
FEAST OF AB
Sunday, August 15
EREV ROSH HASHONA
Sunday, October 3
ROSH HASHONA
Monday, October 4
YOM KirPUR
Wednesday, October 13
Sigma Delta Tau to Create
Cancer Research Fund
(Special to The Southern Israelite)
Sigma Delta Tau, international collegiate sorority which recently
held its 14th biennial convention in Atlanta, will establish a new
fund for research on multiple sclerosis in addition to aiding the Cancer
sort 'of “farewell Research Memorial Fund originated by Sigma Chapter at North-
dinner” in the form of the “Mel- western University.
ave Malke,” an “escort for the
Queen.”
Question: Why is this meal re
ferred to as “Soudath David” (The
Meal of King David?)
Answer: The Talmud relates
that King David asked the Lord
to tell him the date of his death,
Refugee Doctor Applauded for Research
A refugee doctor who fled from Czechoslovakia
to the United States in 1938 was recently applaud
ed by Look Magazine for his outside research in
bringing medicine “within sight of a long-sought
goal—a vaccine against poliomyelitis.” He is Dt\
Frank Gollan, a graduate of the University of
Prague, who himself suffered pobo at the age of
3, but survi\ed uncrippled.
Dr. Gollan, whose research was financed by the
National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, was
praised by Look for isolating a polio virus that is
almost 100 per cent pure. He is one of the many
emigre physicians who have been aided to resume
their careers in this country in this country by the
National Committee for Resettlement of Foreign
Physicians, an affiliate of United Service for New
Americans.
^The polio strain obtained by Dr. Gollan is the
kind that strikes only animals, but its isolation,
The convention body, composed of some 150 active members and
alumnae of the sorority’s 26 chapters at universities throughout the
United States and Canada, voted to direct funds towards research on
multiple sclerosis, and at the same time provide financial assistance
and support to the cancer research fund founded in memory of Betty
Stone Morris, charter member of Sigma and that chapter’s first pres
ident.
The Stone sisters, Betty and Audrey, were twins, and continued
their interest in Sigma Delta Tau even after their graduation from
Northwestern. In June of 1947 Betty was married to William Morris,
brother-in-law of Audrey, her twin sister. Only two months later
she was dead, victim of cancer.
With Betty’s death came the founding of a memorial fund for can
cer research. The Northwestern alumnae originated the fund, and it
has been duly licensed by the State of Illinois. The plan is to have
two-fund raising affairs yearly, but the drive for donations is con-
Look points out, “promises that the same can be tinuous. Cards for happy and sad occasions will be sent, and contri-
done with the human polio strain. If it can, re
searchers will be 'able for the first time to try to
butions of any amount will be welcomed.
Mrs. Shirley Friedman Levy, 2221 North Arthur Avenue, Chicago,
produce a vaccine . . . His success has provided a Ill-, is chairman of the fund. Other board members are ft)rs. Audrey
Stone Morris, Betty’s twin; Mrs. Pearl Perkson Seller, Mrs. Shirley
Leibow and William V. Morris, legal advisor.
In her report to the sorority, Mrs. Leibow said:
“Let us all fight together to prevent others from such an untimely
odd medical-research jobs until 1946, when he was death as that of our beloved Betty Stone Morris. Sigma Delta Tau
called to teach physiology by the University of has suffered a great loss, bu(t! there is much to be done in her mem-
Minnesota. ory.”
reward for both his work and your dimes.”
Dr. Gollan was 28 and starting out as a doctor
when he had to flee Czechoslovakia to escape the
Nazis. After reaching this country, he worked at