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Friday, June 24, 1949
THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
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On a Sunday Afternoon
BY JOSEPH A. LOEWINSOHN
Here s a delightful piece of writing to be enjoyed by those
who appreciate good-natured humor and innocent fun-poking.
The author is quite familiar to Southern Israelite readers and
here his breezy, scintillating style is just what the doctor or
dered for hot weather. If we didn't happen to know how-
crowded the clubs are these days—especially these Sundays,
we’d suspect he was drumming up customers. No matter. Read
it and enjoy it.—THE EDITOR.
A1 Shaftel, the major-domo of
the Club, met me one sultry Sun
day afternoon at the entrance to
the swimming pools.
He made a sweeping gesture to
ward the swarming multitude be
low and said, “Joe, that’s some
thing for you to write about!”
“You mean the naked and semi-
naked around the pools?” I asked.
“That’s right, Joe,” replied our
counterpart of Beau BrummelL
Well, folks, no sooner said than
done, and so here goes your
scribe’s panoramic view of the
aquatic shindig on a Sunday after
noon.
It’s about three o’clock in the
afternoon and the sun beats down
with equal vengeance on the
righteous and the sinners. This
being a Sunday, hard-working
grocerymen, liquor store operators,
army, surplus store merchants,
beer and wine joint moguls, pawn
brokers and other shoe string
capitalists, as well as executives,
professional men, property owners
and those who clip coupons for a
living, all are having a wonderful
time.
This is what I call a concrete
demonstration of a democracy in
action.
I take a look around and see my
old friend, Murray Karr, the
kitchen tile tycqon, in bathing
trunks, chatting with some of his
cronies. Murray would stand out
in any erdwd, you know, and there
is nothing short about him, not
even his . . . mustache.
Aron Franco, the handsome son
of Madame Mathilde Franco, looks
like a Greek god with his bronzed
chest and classic profile. (He is
married ,so keep your hands off,
girls!)
There goes Sidney Joffre, ready
for a plunge in the middle pool, j
His spouse, an exotic bit of femin
inity, and her comely sister, ■
Frieda, watch Sidney's cavorting j
in the water.
All three pools are alive with
the swimmers and those who only
playfully splash around or hang
on to the pool’s edge.
There are some girls and mar
ried women with alluring shapes,
but the majority of the bathers are
not the kind to excite one’s amag-
ination. So what? Not every Esther
is Williams and not every Ethel is
a Merman.
Up around the verdant grounds
sit, squat and recline folks who
are content just to be in the sun.
Sedate and buxom mothers and
grandmothers watch their young
ones. There is a surprising num
ber of youthful mothers with in
fants.
The war has been over 4 years
already, but nature’s battle for
survival of the species goes on
unabated, it seems.
There goes Joe Slutzky and his
wife. Joe has not changed a bit in
the last twenty years—still slim
and younglish looking, despite his
gray hair. So is his missus.
Lena Bartell, in a bewitching
bathing suit, is taking a sun bath
and within a herring’s throw from
her sit on the grass her blonde
daughter, Helen, with her hus
band, Lester Sobelson.
Come to think of it, Mrs. Bartell
looks very much like Marlene
Dietrich, the glamorous Hollywood
actress.
Helen and Lester have a year-
old son, Norman, who lies quietly
on the blanket, both parents
fondly gazing upon the cute mite
of humanity.
The skies above are azure blue,
the sun is hot and the giggling and
laughter float in the shimmering
summer heat. Everyone seems to
be happy.
At night the ball-room is half-
lit and delightfully cool and there
Sammy Feldman holds forth with
his remarkable orchestra. I say
“remarkable” advisedly, for Sam
my has only five musicians in his
band—one of them is a dark,
faced chap from Puerto Rico. He
plays the native instrument called
Tymbala.
Sammy Feldman has an uncan
ny way of making his small or
chestra sound as it were a Paul
Whiteman’s assemblage. His music
is refreshingly tuneful and one has
to be a real old shoe not to be
coaxed into tripping the light
fantastic.
Boy, the way some gals shake
their hips to the strains of the
sensuous rumba or the erotic
samba! And gents, too.
I get a real kick watching Aaron
Halpern swing his broad posterior
to the irresistible rhythm of the
rumba. And the graceful way he
swings his partner around him
while he executes the intricate
steps with his very nimble size
It’s. A regular killer-diller, that’s
what he is!
Challenge i citizenship Loss
For Youth in Palestine
Social Welfare Leaders Are Honored
At Two Conferences in Cleveland
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CLEVELAND, (JTA)—A dinner
honoring the past presidents of
the National Conference of Jewish
Social Welfare was the main fea
ture of last week’s activities at the
50th anniversary convention of the
Conference. Among the past pres
idents who spoke at the affair were
Morris D. Waldman, a former ex
ecutive vice-president of the
American Jewish Committee, Isa-
dore Sobeloff, executive director
of the Jewish Welfare Federation
of Detroit, and William J. Shroder,
chairman of the board of the
Council of Jewish Federations and
Welfare Funds.
Mr. Waldman, a founder of the
body and one of its first presidents,
declared that “the higher the
levels reached in welfare work,
the less likely that the world will
witness another recession to bar
barism. In a real sense we social
workers, by virtue of the very
labors in which we are engaged,
are among the peacemakers,” he
added.
Reviewing the progress of Jew
ish social work in the past half-
century, Mr. Waldman recalled the j
problems of the early days of the j
Conference when Jewish immi-
grants were pouring into the U. S. i
at a tremendous rate. One of the j
greatest achievements of Jewish
social work was to be found in j
the fact that in one decade—from j
1901 to 1910—the immigrants were ;
given a type of assistance which j
resulted in a reduction of the j
number who needed, to apply for j
direct relief although the rate of j
immigration had doubled.
CLEVELAND, (JTA)—-The Na
tional Association of Jewish Cen
ter Workers, convening jointly
with the National Conference of
Jewish Social Welfare, last week
urged the U. S. Senate to initiate
a public investigation of the ex
tent to which the denazification
program in Germany has been de
feated an dthe extent to which
Nazi leaders and sympathizers
have regained or retained control
of the economic, political and cul
tural life of Germany.
The parley also approved a res
olution giving full support to
President Truman’s civil rights
program and, in another resolu
tion, urged repeal of the Taft-
Hartley Act. Members of the or
ganization throughout the nation
were also urged to collect social
welfare literature, books and
audio-visual aid materials for
shipment to the Henrietta Szold
School of Social Work in Israel.
Sanford Solender was reelected
president of the group.
| American Jewish Congress last ;
I week announced institution of a j
! Federal court action to restore U.
S. citizenship to an American [
stranded in Palestine through no
fault of his own.
The action will test the consti
tutionality of a section of the
Nationality Act of 1940 which de
prives a naturalized U. S. citizen
Exiled Profs Back
At Leipzig U.
BERLIN, (JTA)—Two Jewish
professors who were forced to flee
the Nazis in 1933 have returned
from the United States to accept
chairs at Leipzig University, in the
Soviet zone of Germany, Der Weg,
organ of the Berlin Jewish Com
munity, has reported. The profes
sors, Ernest Bloch and Wieland
Herzefelde, have accepted the
chairs of Philosophy and Sociology
of Modern Literature, respectively.
of his nationality if he resides
abroad continuously for more than
five years. This section of the Act
has no application to native-born
citizens who, it is argued, are thus
given an unconstitutional prefer
ence over the classes of citizens.
The case involves the cancella
tion of the passport of Morris
Mendelsohn, a naturalized U. S.
citizen presently residing in Is
rael. Mendelsohn, who acquired
derivative citizenship when he
was 10 years old through the
naturalization of his father,
arrived in this country at the age
of 6 and resided here for 16 years.
At the age of 22 he was sent to
Palestine to manage certain prop
erties owned by his father and
was stranded there because of the
outbreak of hostilities in the Near
East area.
Poland Will
Continue Visas
To Israel
TEL AVIV, (JTA)The immigra
tion of Jews from Poland to Israel
will continue, Israel Barzilai, Is
raeli Minister to Poland, declared
this week in a statement to the
press. Mr. Barzilai is now in Tel
Aviv for his first visit since he
was named Minister nine months
ago.
Despite the fact that the Polish
Government does not permit the
emigration of Jews from the coun
try, he said, special arrangements
have been made for relatives of
residents in Israel to come to the
Jewish state under certain condi
tions. He estimated that the num
ber of such relatives averages
several hundred monthly.
Mr. Barzilai’s statement noted
that as a result of the Polish-Is-
raeli trade agreement signed on
May 20, providing for a $15,000,-
000 exchange of goods, Israel is
buying in Poland only commodi
ties necessary to develop her in
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