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THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
Two
Fridoy, January 15, 1954
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
□tar Editor:
Just had the opportunity of
reading your “Jewish Hillbilly.”
It was well done and I appreciate
your handling of same. I never
rdalized you had so many readers
through the South as I have heard
fr6m many after they had read
tjtfie article.
Would it be possible to send me
about 10 copies of the issue and
bill me for same? Several of my
friends who heard of the article
wanted a copy of same and I told
them I would try to secure some
extra copies.
.Again thanking you for your
etforts and wishing you and yours
much future success. I am
BEN R. WINICK
Knoxville, Tenn.
Dear Editor:
I certainly appreciated your
well-written article about my
wife, and I want to take this op
portunity of expressing my
thanks.
Several of my friends are anxi
ous to sec the article and I would
like you to send me 24 copies of
the December 4th edition, together
with an invoice. . .
Thanking you again, I am
CHARLES M. BLOCK
Wilmington, N. C.
Mrs. Rlork’s picture as Wilm
ington's Woman of the Year
graced our Ilamikah rover.
There lias been such a pheno-
mlnal demand for extra copies
•f the Issue that we have run
•ut.
Accordingly It will be appre
ciated If any reader, who hus
finished or does not need hls
copy, will mall it to us so that
it can be sent those interested In
the special contents. Of course It
;will he forwarded gratis
—THE EDITOR
bear Sir:
, In a recent issue of your news
paper, you published the results
6f a survey made by the Federa
tion of Temple Brotherhoods. This
survey was one made to find out
the type of services and observ
ances used in Reform Temples,
r I had intended to save this ar
ticle, hut 1 misplaced it. I would
appreciate very much your send
ing me a copy of this issue.
I. B. MILLER
Huntsville, Ala.
We are happy to supply Mr.
'Miller with the material he de
sires.—THE EDITOR
Dear Sir:
The Synagogue Council of
America, which is the central co
ordinating agency of the Orthodox,
Conservative and Reform bodies
of American Jewry, is deeply
concerned about the increasing
use of depictions of Jewish cere
monial objects for commercial
purposes.
To all Jews, the Torah Scroll,
the Tablets of the Law and Mezu-
<tah (religious marker placed on
doorposts) are objects of the
greatest veneration, and any at
tempt to utilize depicitions there
of for advertising, cartoon or
comic purposes cannot be con
sidered anything else than a de
secration.
Wc therefore appeal to you to
respt'ct the religious sensibilities
of untold numbers of our people,
who are deeply offended when
ever their eyes are met by ad
vertising material which makes in
discriminate use of the above men
tioned articles In order to promote
the different kinds of commercial
enterprises. Rest assured that pub
licity ol this sort hurts rather
than helps the sponsor of such
advertising approaches.
Please fetil free to call upon us
for any assistance or information
you may need for purposes of
clarification.
Jfe thank you in advance for
your kind and prompt attention to
this very serious matter.
RABBI EMANUEL RACKMAN
Religious Observance'Committee
1 Chairman
Dear Editor:
I want you to know how much
we all appreciate the very nice
publicity which you gave the Jew
ish Home on the occasion of its
second annual Open House. In ad
dition to the news items, your edi
torial on the home contributed
further to the interpretation of
our program. We have always felt
that we could turn to The South'-
ern Israelite as a means of help
ing the Jewish community under
stand what we are trying to do
for our aging Jewish men and
women.
We were happy to see you at
the Open House which again
proved to be a very successful
affair. You will be pleased to
know that the income from the
sale of Hobby Shop articles will
total over $310.00. As you know,
the volunteers did an outstanding
job in selling the articles made, in
the floraf decorations, in serving
refreshments, and in making our
visitors welcome.
Thanks again for your help.
LOUIS NEWMARK
Executive Director
Dear Editor:
While reading an article In a
magazine about the top designers
who earn over fifty thousand dol
lars a year creating the fashions
worn by movie actresses, T. V.
Stars and the best dressed women
in America, my memory drifted
back to about thirty-six years ago,
to a young Jewish designer who
was designing cotton wash dresses
that retailed for $2.98.
This young designer was em
ployed by the Enterprise Mfg. Co.
owned by the Weisberg Bros., lo
cated on the second floor at 128-
1/2 Alabama Street.
It was my first venture in busi
ness and I would go up there oc
casionally and buy one or two
dozen dresses.
As I recollect,-it was a hot sum
mer afternoon and as I came up
there this young designer called
my attention to a dress that he
displayed on a wire hanger. He
stood at a long table and pointed
to the dress that was made of
printed cotton voil with a big
‘•Bertha" collar drooping around
the shoulders. “Jack, isn't it a
beauty? This is my own creation,”
he said, his eyes gleaming with
(satisfaction as tie stood there ad-
| miring his original design, just
! like a young mother admiring her
baby.
"For $2.98 you will sell 10 dozen
a week," he said. He generated so
i much enthusiasm about this par-
; titular dress that I bought six
] dozen, and when I came there the
next day to get more of the same
i dresses, his eyes beamed with de-
i light.
He took just as much pride in
! his 2.98 creations as some of those
i top designers whose dresses sell
for $750.00 and more.
A few years later this designer
(went into business for himself
manufacturing brassieres.
This young designer was FRANK
GARSON.
—Jack Rothenberg
Atlanta
i We never know what subject
Let ter-Writer Rothenberg is going
! to tackle next. This account has
I been authenticated by Mr. G. his-
j self, who changed a phrase “about
i thirty years ago" to “thirty-six
| years ago."—THE EDITOR
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Macon News
Mrs. Charles Nadler and Mrs.
i Charles Bloch led a discussion on
! “Prayer” at the January meeting
I of the Temple Sisterhood, held
(January 11. Mrs. Gus Kaufman
presided. Delegates of the Sister-
! hood to the NFTS Convention in
Savannah will be Mrs. Kaufman,
Mrs. Gus Small, Mrs. M.ver Sigal
i and Mrs. Nadler.
southern Israelite exclusive Hungarian Chief
At Home in Israel Ra ! b, A T rre f ed
by
ANITA ENGLE
I’ve just said good bye to some
Americans who are leaving Israel
after three years. It’s sad to see
them go, because they’re among
the best Zionists I’ve ever met.
Why did they leave? Well it hap- |
pens that they’re not Jews, and
they’ve already stayed two years
longer than they intended.
The Miles family, who’ve been
neighbors of ours at Kiryat Amal,
came to Israel under the United
Nations Technical Assistance pro
gramme. Wayne Miles, a pasture
expert, was in charge of a soil
conservation area in New Mexico
about the size of Israel, when he
was invited over here to set up a
pasture programme for our
country.
“Drop around and see us any
time you like,” he told me when
we first met at the vegetable store,
“we're just farm folks.” In the
same simple, unostentatious man
ner, the lean, lanky American
tackled one of the biggest pro
grammes in the country, and did
a job for Israel which can never
be repaved in money.
He probably created a revolu
tion in this country by calling the
people who work on the land
“farmers." We’ve never had farm
ers tilling the soil in Israel before.
They've always been “kibbutz-
niks,” which automatically ele
vates them to a level far above
such mundane considerations as
economic expenditure.
"I’ve never seen a little country
with such big ideas,” he once re
marked dryly. “When I first came,
nobody ever seemed to stop and
consider whether a job was worth
i the money put into it, or whether
the return could ever justify the
expense.” He’s noticed a big shift
towards realism in this country
in the last three years, though,
and he’s full of enthusiasm about
Israel and its prospects. He’s en
joyed every minute of his stay,
had every bit of cooperation he
need«i, and is hoping to be back.
June Miles, a semi-invalid, had
never been out of Tucumcari, New
Mexico, until she came to Israel
with their two little boys. She’d
never even seen any Jews before.
“Now that I’ve been to Israel,"
she said, “I can’t understand what
all the fuss and discrimination is
about.”
Neither can her two freckle
faced, fair-headed little boys. Bil
lie went to school in Tivon, and
Lee went to kindergarten. They
changed from a New Mexican
drawl to Sephardi Hebrew with
out blinking an eyelash. They were
the centre of the neighborhood
gang, and one of their best pals
was a coffee-dark Iraki boy. Mrs
Miles has taken pictures of them
all together, to show back home
in the States.
She doesn’t know it, but she
talks like a life-long Zionist. "It’s
no use coming to Israel for what
you can get out of it,” she once
told me. “You've got to come for
the love of it.” I don’t thing I've
ever heard it better expressed!
SHALOM V’ L’HITRAOT
VIENNA, (JTA)-2Dr. M. Scho-
enfeld. Chief Rabbi of the Reform
Jewish Community in the Hunga
rian town of Arad, was arrested
by _the local authorities, it was
reported here.
The report also said that three*
Jewish leaders were sentenced
last week by an Hungarian court
to various terms of imprisonment
on the charge of conducting Zion*
ist activities. Those sentenced are:
Stephen Kraus—to three years’
imprisonment; Ludwig Gardos—to
one year: and M. Weisenberg—to
seven months. Three other de
fendants charged with the same
offense were acquitted, the re
port stated.
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