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THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
•ON A POSTAGE STAMP
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great deal of anarchistic, social
istic, single tax discussion in
the air and the cigar workers
turned their working hours in
to seminars on politics and
economics.
Oompers never actively asso
ciated himself with any Jewish
cause, yet he did not deny his
Jewishness. In his autobiogra
phy, he tells us that as a child
he studied Hebrew, not, he
writes, “the mongrel language
spoke and written by many
Jews of the present time but
that honored language that un
locked a literature of wonder
ful beauty and wisdom." Thus,
does Gompers praise Hebrew
and condemn Yiddish. Yiddish,
"the mongrel language," pro
duced some pretty good mater
ial in Gompers’ day but he was
ignorant of all this. He did have
respect for the ancient Hebrew
and he went on to say that he
had some acquaintance with
the Talmud and that it was the
study of the Talmud which was
responsible for much of the in
tellectual quality which many
Jews have.
We may assume that his
knowledge of the Talmud was
very limited and his whole
identity as a Jew, overtly at
least, was very attenuated and,
in his role as labor leader, he
identified himselK completely
with labor even where Jewish
interests were jeopardized.
Thus, although he lived at the
time of the great Russian
Jewish immigration to the U.
S., he was anti-immigration.
Gompers was against labor
into politics in the broad sense
we take those things today. He
was not like another Jewish
labor leader, Sidney Hillman,
who became a pillar of the
New Deal and who insisted on
labor’s helping to mould the
entire pattern of the state.
In Gompers’ time, probably
the country was not ripe for
this. The wise man perhaps is
Delicious
the man who knows what to do
I might append here a little
at the particular time,
personal anecdote. Just after
the first World War, I was a
reporter on the staff of the
Washington Herald. One day, I
was sent to cover a banquet at
which General Pershing and
Gompers were to be the two
principal speakers. It was pro
hibition time and banquets in
prohibition time were gener
ally marked by excessive
drinking. I think everybody,
including the speakers, was
imbibing a little too freely.
Gompers got up and made a
speech, telling labor’s part in
winning the war. Then General
Pershing got up and thunder
ously challenged Gompers, say
ing that "labor did not win the
war.”
I felt gratified when, the
morning after, Gompers quoted
from my account in which I
had said that Gompers had not
acclaimed that labor had “won"
the war but had simply told of
labor’s significant part in its
winning.
50,000 CHILDREN
NEW YORK, (JTA)—Alan M.
Stroock, president of the Ameri
can friends of the Alliance Israel
ite Universelle, announce this
week that for the first time in the
history of the Alliance the num
ber of students in the schools of
the organization throughout the
Mediterranean area has passed,
f he 50,000 mark.
U. J. A. SUIT
(Continued from page one)
this week by the plaintiff, John
Fuchs.
After the court session the plain
tiff stated, “an amicable settle
ment had been reached and suit
was withdrawn in the interests of
the Jewish community.” His suit
was based on the report of the
1948 U.J.A. campaign which, dis
tributed to 2,600 contributors, list
ed the names of 17 individuals, in
cluding Mr. Fuchs, alleged to have
refused to contribute to the drive.
Spudnuts” Being Introduced
to Atlantans at 751 Ponce de Leon Ave.
“Spudnuts,” the new confection-
pastry, is now available in At
lanta at 751 Ponce de Leon Ave
nue, N. E.
"Spudnuts" resemble doughnuts
in shape, but according to Fred J.
Trusdale who has the Atlanta con
cession, the resemblence stops
there.
It is made from potato flour and
cooked in deep vegetable fat, mak
ing them “kosher-type,” he added.
Actually, “Spudnuts” absorb
less fat than regular doughnuts
and when done have a fluffness
and flavor that is distinctive. Mr.
Trusdale glazes most of them but
daily prepares a bath with cara
mel and chocolate.
The recipe for the product orig
inated in 1945 at St., Lake City,
Utah, where two ex-G. I.’s, A1 and
Junior Hadassah
Meets Sunday at
Peachtree Center
Atlanta Junior Hadassah will
meet at 3:15 p. m. Sunday, Jan.
29, at the new Jewish Community
Center on Peachtree.
Samuel Rosenberg, director, At
lanta Bureau of Jewish Education,
will speak on “The Challenge of
Junior Hadassah.”
An open board meeting has been
called for 8 p. m. Thursday, Feb.
9, at the home of Miss Sybil Gill-
man, 940 Virginia Avenue, N. E.
Hadassah Sponsors
Program Tuesday at
Women’s Institute
Atlanta women are invited to
hear the symposium which Hadas
sah will sponsor at 11a. m. Tues
day, Dec. 31, at the Jewish Com
munity Center on Peachtree.
The program is a part of the
Jewish Women’s Institute, spon
sored by fifteen Jewish women’s
organizations of Atlanta.
Mrs. Abe Fitterman has planned
the program in which the par
ticipants and subjects will be Mrs.
E. M. Manning, discussing "The
Government and its Leaders;” Mrs.
Joseph Glazer, “The Economic
Problem;” Mrs. J. M. Rosenfeld,
“Hadassah’s Role in Israel”: and
Mrs. Joseph Albert, “The Renais
sance.”
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Bob Pelton, were hunting for a
different type of business. They
developed the “Spudnut'’ which is
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Mr. Trusdale says special prices
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With each bag, Mr. Trusdale
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