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THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
Friday, March 21, 1952
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normal people in Israel?” this
worker asked me.
And I had to admit that the
surprising thing was that there
were so many normal people
here.
Shalom v* L’hitraot.
Toledo High Frats
Reorganized
TOLEDO (JTA)—Reorganiza
tion of Jewish fraternity life in
Toledo high schools under the
guidance of the Jewish commun
ity has been accomplished here,
Albert M. Brown, director of the
Jewish Community Center, dis
closed this week.
Sensational' news reports about
fraternity activities in the high
schools—which did not involve
the Jewish groups — threatened
an official crackdown and dis
ciplining of members of secret
societies which are barred in
high schools by Ohio law.
Through the intermediary of
the Jewish Youth Council, under
the auspices of the community
center, the Jewish fraternities
and sororities were dissolved as
secret societies and re-establish
ed as social groups with new con
stitutions and adult supervision.
The new set-up meets with the
school requirements.
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Israel Makes First Payment on U.S. Loans
Paying up right on time, Israel last week made the first prin
cipal repayment on loans totalling $135,000,000 which the Jewish
State received from the Export-Import Bank. Here, Israel's Am
bassador to the U.S., Abba Eban, hands a check for $2,953,063.47
to Herbert E. Gaston, Chairman of the bank’s board in Washington.
The sum was split between a repayment of $1,458,351 on loans re
ceived by Israel from the bank and $1,494,722.47 semi-annual in
terest payment on these loans. (American Jewish Press Photo)
At Home'in Israel
A Housewife Confronts Rate Change Effects
With ANITA ENGLE
This is the second of two
timely subject of how Israel’s
its inhabitants. Miss Engle’s
in The Southern Israelite.
The Government with little
apparent regard for human psy
chology, has let everything run
out at the same time. So just
when you're worried about the
change in prices, and how it will
affect the family’s daily bread,
suddenly you find that practical
ly every staple article of food
has disappeared. But literally
disappeared. (I am not talking
about luxuries, or even ordinary
adjuncts—they have been non
existent for a long time).
I am talking about cream
cheese and lebenia, the main ar
ticle of food for practically ev
eryone in this country. Some days
you can’t get it at all, and on
other days the cream cheese is
doled out in quite inadequate
quantities. What happened? The
rumor is that the milk powder
required to make these articles
has to be bought with hard cur
rency—and you know how we
are about dollars. So there isn’t
anything that the Government
could save on, or could have sav-
parts treating with the very
new rate change is affecting
column appears exclusively
ed on a few months ago (when
this shortage must certainly have
been apparent to them) to pre
vent the people from facing this
serious blow to their nutrition
and their morale.
There is no butter or margar
ine. There is no frozen fish, there
are no salt herrings, no potatoes,
almost no flour. There are plen
ty of cakes and sweetbreads of
sorts to be seen in shops, with
some custardly-like concoction
on them. I don’t know why flour
and whatever ingredients are
needed should be available for
uneatable, expensive and unnec
essary luxuries, while housewiv
es trying to rear families are sim
ply left wondering what to do on
their inadequate rations.
I am not depressed. I’m just
annoyed. I don’t like people or
authorities taking unnecessary
liberties with my children’s wel
fare. I know that things will sta
bilize themselves shortly. It is
only by reaching rock bottom
that we will be able to build a
more stable and healthier econ
omy. When people get very hun
gry and restive, then national
needs will have to take the place
of party expediency.
But I can’t help feeling that
the food situation need not be as
bad as it is, had the proper au
thorities done their jobs prop
erly.
There are highlights, even in
these days. I took my meat grin
der to a welder to be fixed about
six weeks ago. The man said it
would cost a pound. That was
a lot, but I agreed, having no
alternative. I went to collect it
last Wednesday, the day the new
economic program was announc
ed. Queues were forming out
side shoe and clothing shops, and
shopkeepers were rocketing
prices on their own.
I took out a pound to pay for
my meat grinder, and the man
said “Only 75 piastres. There was
less work than I expected.”
“No,” I said. “That’s impos
sible. Things don’t happen like
this in Israel.”
“Don’t you think there are any
JWV National
Command
er in Israe
Visit
Paul Ginsberg of Atlanta, Ga., now on a world tour, is shown at
left in a recent meeting with Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion
of Israel and (at right) admiring X-ray equipment contributed
to the Tel Hashomer Hospital of Tel Aviv by New Jersey units
of the Jewish War Veterans National Ladies Auxiliary. Com
mander Ginsberg hailed the State of Israel as “a Middle East
equivalent of Gibraltar in the defense of freedom.”
The Jewish War Veterans leader's world tour has taken him
to American and allied bases throughout the globe, including
those in the Far and Middle East,
Newsboy Makes
News Discovers
Fire on Route
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AJP)—
An 11-year-old Jawish news de
livery boy made “uew;s himself
recently when he turned firejnan
and saved a customer’s home
from going up in flames.
While covering his delivery
route, young Brown noticsd
smoke pouring out of the rear
eft a customer’s home. Racing
across the street, the boy re
ported the incident to a neighbor
who though skeptical at first,
later called the firemen.
In the excitement, Buster for
got about delivering his papers.
A “hero" in ever sense, he finish
ed the day by making his usual
route for the Huntsville Times.
‘Jewish Scot’ Hugh
Herbert Succumbs
NORTH HOLLYWOOD (AJP)
The famed ‘‘Woo, Woo Man” of
the movies, Hugh Herbert, died
here this week at 66. Though a
Scotsman, he was generally re
garded as a Jewish comedian.
Herbert’s limited knowledge of
Yiddish coupled with gestures
helped convince audiences dur
ing the comic’s early years in
vaudeville that he was Jewish.
Southern Young Judaea
The executive committee of
the Southern Young Judaea Re
gion will hold its spring meeting
in Atlanta Sunday, March 23, at
the Jewish Community Center,
according to an announcement
made by Miss Mickey Friedman,
Birmingham, regional president.
Chief business to come before
the executive group will be se
lection of the summer camp site
for the June convention and dis
cussion of the program for the
four-day event. The committee
will also consider recommenda
tions to make the Regional Youth
Commission concerning awarding
campers’ scholarships to Tel Ye-
hudah, the National Young Ju
daea camp to which 100 teen
agers will be sent from the
Southern region this year.
Kingston’s Featured
In Manischewitz
“Food Store Review”
Kingston’s Market in Atlanta
is the subject of an article of
interest in “Food Store Review,”
national organ of Manischewitz
products.
Sevsral photographs of the
market grace the magazine, in
cluding the cover, and there is
an article inside telling the story
of Mr. Kingston’s twenty years
in the grocery and kosher foods
business. Mr. Kingston said his
place stocks over a thousand
kosher items, boasting the slo
gan. “The kosher store that has
everything.”
A specialty of Kingston’s is
preparing sandwich trays for Bar
Mitzvahs parties and other cele
brations. Home-made potato sal-
ald. dill pickles and dill toma
toes, herring salad and other
delicacies are made on the prem
ises. His wife, the account reads,
“is the guiding genius when it
comes to these home-made spec
ialties that keep the delivery
truck on the*go.”
The magazine continues, “Man
ischewitz the leader in Atlanta,”
ta,” says Louis Kingston, energetic
proprietor of Kingston’s Market,
“when it comes to matzos and
kosher foods. I make it my busi
ness to check customer prefer
ence in all brands. There’6 no
doubt but that Manischewitz is
way out in front,”