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ATLANTA, gcv-mxv,.. FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 1953
No. 5
Jewish Morning Journal
Is Merged With ‘"'TheDay'
NEW YORK, (JTA)—The Jew
ish Morning Journal, oldest Yid
dish daily in the United States,
ended 52 years of independent ex
istence last week when it was mer
ged with the Day.
The two papers will appear in
combined format six days weekly
as The Day-Morning Journal. Out
of respect for the Orthodox readers
of the old Morning Journal, the
paper will not appear on Satur
days. The Day will continue pub
lication on that day.
About 15 of the 30 members of
the editorial staff of the old Morn
ing Journal will be employed on
the merged paper which will ap
pear under the editorial direction
of Solomon Dingol, editor of The
Day. Morris Weinberg, publisher
of The Day, is publisher of the new
paper. Approval of the merger by
Federal Judge Sidney Sugarman
ended a heroic effort by the staff
to maintain the Morning Journal.
The paper had halted publication
in April, 1951 when it went into
receivership. Efforts by prominent
members of the community and
the staff resulted*in the reopening
of the paper in August, 1951 but
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Red’s Anti-Semitism Spells
War Preparation—Sharrett
LONDON, (JTA)—“The anti-
Semitic and anti-Zionist policy of
Moscow can be taken as a clear
indication that the Communist
leaders have entered a new stage
in preparing their countries for
war,” Israeli’s Foreign Minister de
clared in an interview with the
Sunday Times which was publish
ed last weekend.
Mr. Sharett told Eric Sosnow,
Sunday Tim£s correspondent in
Tel Aviv, that "the recent purges
and anti-Semitic outbursts are a
process of blood-letting inside
Kahn Describes JDC Work
For War Orphan s In Paris
By EDWARD M. KAHN
Mr. Kahn, Executive Director of the Jewish Welfare Fund
of Atlanta, 33 Pryor St., is visiting the Old World on a special
survey mission for the United Jewish Appeal. This is his first
report, written expressly for this newspaper from Paris.
PARIS, January 25—Paris is gray rather than gay this time of
the year. Local residents claim with a curious kind of pride that their
city is even foggier than London,
inclined to agree with them.
Like many great places, Paris
addition to its being the city of
the Louvre, the Eiffel Tower and
the Arc de Triomphe, Paris is also
overseas headquarter’s of the Am
erican Joint Distribution Commit- ,
tee, a major beneficiary of the
Jewish Welfare Fund of Atlanta
Since 1914, AJDC has been carry
ing on its humanitarian work—
feeding the hungry, clothing the
ragged, healing the sick—quietly
and without much publicity. It re
mained for Soviet Russia to put
ADJC on the front page of the
world’s newspapers last week when
when it attacked the Committee as
a “tool of American imperialism”
and a “band of spies and sabo
teurs.”
One of the first things I did
when I landed here was to visit
AJDC’s central offices and speak
with its directors. What I found
out about the JDC’s current pro
grams and problems convinced me
that:
(1 The Communist accusations
against AJDC are a .tissue-of lies.
(2 Funds will be urgently need
ed to provide transportation and
reception in Israel for hundreds of
thousands of Jews living behind
the Iron Curtain who perhaps may
be given the chance of a lifetime to
emigrate from their native coun
tries.
Meanwhile, tens of thousands of
men, women and children in other
parts of Europe, North Africa and
Israel still look to AJDC for the
help they need to become useful,
self-supporting citizens. I met one
of them today at an ADJC-sup-
ported children’s home, one of 19
centers operated with ADJC funds
for Jewish war orphans in France.
His name is Noel C.
In the crayon drawings of this
12-year-old child lies the history
of nearly a thousand boys and girls
who, like him, still know no other
home but the children’s institution
supported in France by the ADJC.
Six years ago, when Noel first en
tered the ADJC children’s center,
the psychiatric social worker at-
After being here a few days I’m
is all things to all men. To me, in
tached to the institution asked him
to draw a picture of himself and
of a house. Noel sketched a house
suspended in space and construct
ed almost entirely of bars. The
self-portrait he drew showed a
thin, sad child dressed in the strip
ed clothing of a prisoner. The pic
tures, according to the social work,
revealed him as “unhappy, suspici
ous, filled with anguish.”
What experience had caused
Noel’s preoccupation with prison
bars and uniforms, symbol of his
uphappiness? Noel was only four
years old when the Nazis came one
day to his home in Paris, arrested
his parents and deported them to
a concentration camp from which
they never returned.
Little Noel, visiting with his
aunt at the time, was saved. But
the shock he suffered was deep.
Images of concentration camps be
gan to haunt him, although he had
never seen one. Noel so identified
himself with the fate of his parents
that he put himself behind (psy
chological) prison bars, shut him
self off from the outside world.
Further damage to his spirit was
inflicted during the three years
that followed, when—frightened
and hungry for affection as well
as for nourishment—he was hid
den in a boarding house and con
fined to his room lest a Nazi in
former spy him.
When Noel was placed in the
AJDC home for Jewish war or
phans shortly after V-E Day, he
began to know again—for the first
time since his mother and father
were taken away—what gentleness
and understanding and the friend
ship of other children his own age
meant. The directors of the home,
a young married couple, were good
to him. They made sure he ate hot,
nourishing meals and they entered
him in school. Soon new interests
were awakened; he felt, he was
part of a family again.
By the time the ADJC social
worker asked Noel to draw an
other house and another self-por
trait, the boy was able to sketch a
well-constructed building with
smoke curling form the chimney,
and a round-faced boy sitting at a
school-desk. Although the house
did not yet have a solid foundation
(symbol of a child’s sense of secur
ity), the outside world was begin
ning to emerge in the forms of a
few outlines of trees and earth.
Noel’s next series of drawings, a
year later, showed that he had be
come completely adapted to his
surroundings. The house was
placed solidly on the ground; two
roads led to it, and it was sur
rounded by mountains and s^in, by
flowerbeds, insects and a man
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their system with the aim of
strengthening it for war. Its pur
pose is to make clear to all peoples
of the Soviet Union, as well as the
satellites, that the Communist sys
tem cannot tolerate any group
within its midst which forms part
of a world-wide unit. The Jewish
people are singled out as an ex
ample that even a spiritual alle
giance is not permissible at a time
when the Soviet Union is prepar
ing itself for the next war,” the
Minister declared.
LONDON (JTA)—The British
Government is appalled by the re
cent developments behind the Iron
Curtain including the Prague trials
and the Moscow accusations
against the Jewish doctors, An
thony Nuttifjg Undersecretary for
Foreign Affairs, told an Agudas Is
rael delegation that called him this
weekend. The British official said
that "these sad events have a hor
ribly familiar ring about them.”
NEW YORK (JTA)—Israel is
the “sole, hope of resettlement” for
any large-scale movement of Jews
from the Iron Curtain countries
provided that the American Jew
ish community helps to make avail
able the necessary funds through
philanthropic sources, Rudolf G.
Sonneborn, national chairman of
the United Israel Appeal, asserted
here. He spoke at the 17th annual
meeting of the United Israel Ap
peals board of directors which was
held at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.
The U.I.A. national chairman
called upon President Eisenhower
to use “his good offices and the
prestige and influence of our
country” against the - “official and
state sanctioned exploitation of
anti-Semitism as a principle of the
Soviet government.” At the same
time, he urged President Eisen
hower to “help bring about nego
tiation of a peace settlement in
the Middle East within the greater
framework of his avowed and
strong desire for world peace.”
Details Revealed for Youth Aliyah
Event at Hadassah Parley in Columbia
COLUMBIA—Plans have been
completed to make the Youth Ali
yah Luncheon one of the outstand
ing events of the forthcoming
Southeastern Regional Conference
of Hadassah in Columbia, Febru
ary 14-16.
Mrs. Ralph Gotlieb, conference
chairman, announced that the
luncheon will take place at noon
in the grand ballroom of the Col
umbia Hotel on Sunday, spotlight
ing Hadassah’s internationally re
cognized work for‘youth.
Mrs. Samuel Solomon, national
conference advisor, of Mt. Vernon,
N. Y., will be guest speaker. Mrs.
Solomon, civic and communal
leader in her community, has a
quarter century record of distin-
quished interest in Hadassah.
Mrs. Jack Levy of Savannah
will preside at the luncheon. Rabbi
David Karesh of the House of
Peace Synagogue in Columbia will
give the invocation.
Rabbi Jack Levy of Sumter, S.
C., will give the benediction.
Mrs. Solomon is national Youth
Aliyah fund raising chairman. She
recently said, “Youth Aliyah con
tinues to play a vital role in Is
rael’s program of rehabilitating the
youth and using them as ‘pioneer
shock troops’ on the land and as
cultural ‘bridgeheads' to reach
their parents, many of whom have
lived until very recently under
literally medieval conditions.”
Latest recognition for the Life
saving Youth Aliyah came through
the International Society for the
protection of Children, which con
ferred a gold cross and diploma of
honor of the Order of Merit on
Mrs. Vera Weizmann, wife of the
late president of Israel.
Southeastern Regional CJFWF
Parley In Atlanta February 21-22
PARIS—Atlanta’s Ed Kahn with several war orphans at a JDC
home he inspected in Paris
Representatives of organized
Jewish communities in the South
eastern states will assemble in At
lanta February 21-22 for the
seventh annual regional conference
of the Council of Jwish Federa
tions and Welfare Funds.
Mrs. I. F. Sterne, president of
the Atlanta Federation for Jewish
Social Service, has been appointed
chairman of the program commit
tee for the conference.
Mrs. Strene was recently elected
to membership on the national
Board of Directors of the Council
of Jewish Federations and Welfare
Funds.
She has announced that two of
the problems to be considered dur
ing the sessions will be the effect
of the new wave of anti-Semitism
and developing local community
relations programs.
The public will be invited to the
sessions, Mrs. Sterne announced. A
dinner meeting will be held Satur
day evening and a luncheon Sun
day. Reservations can be secured
at Lamar 1282 or by writing to 601
MRS. L F. STERNE
. . . Program Chairman
Chamber of Commerce Building,
Atlanta.
Stanley C. Myers, Miami, former
national present of the CJWF, and
other national figures are to take
part on the conference programs.