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THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
Friday, December 27, 1957
GOLDEN
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— a one-hundred-pound-bag of
coal, he told me. But he was still
worried. He was worried about
a Republican Senator from Con
necticut, and so he decided to
tell President Wilson about it.
“Mr. Wilson approved.” Several
months later Mr. Daniels arranged
for the “Collier Starling” to car
ry “matzos and medicine” to Pal
estine. Mr. Daniels was not an
“azzes ponim.” He would have
mentioned the name of Roosevelt
especially in Brooklyn, New York
where Mr. Daniels was invited by
the Jewish Center of Brooklyn,
“who wanted me to know that
they remembered, and they gave
me a bronze plaque with the Ten
Commandments,” In accepting the
plaque Mr. Daniels related the
events in the sequence in which
I have stated here, — Mr. Bern
stein, Rabbi Wise, the "Vulcan,”
President Wilson and the “Star
ling."
I will not mention the names of
the several Jews “in the Govern
ment" who had advised Mr. Dan
iels against the project.
The confirmation of Justice
Louis D. Brandeis was due to the
efforts of many people who were
devoted to the late Justice, and
among these many people you
would have to place near the top
of the list, Josephus Daniels,
Jacob Billikopf of Kansas City,
and Henry Morgenthuu Sr. One of
the recalcitrant Senators on the
Judiciary Committee was Lee
Overman of North Carolina. In
April the City of Charlotte in
vited President Wilson to attend
their nnnual celebration of the
Mecklenburg Charter — (May 20,
1775) which declared the colony
free from British rule, 14 months
before the formal Declaration of
Independence. The City of Char
lotte automatically extends this
invitation to every President as
a matter of course. But Josephus
Daniels went to Wilson and urg
ed him to accept the invitation.
“This will get us Senator Over
man.” Daniels suggested that
Wilson make a speech from the
rear platform of the train at Sal
isbury Senator Overman’s home
town, "Put your arm around the
fellow, and leave the rest to me."
Upon their return to Washington,
Wilson asked Daniels, “Do you
think Overman will vote for us
(Brandeis)?,” and Daniels re
plied, “He will go back and not
only vote for us but he’ll become
our advocate.”
Jacob Billikopf won over Sen
ator Jim Reed of Missouri, and
Henry Morgenthau Sr. softened
up Senator Hoke Smith of Georg
ia, and Brandeis was confirmed.
A petition of “tremulous” Jews
was sent advising against the ap
pointment and it came from Mas
sachusetts. 1 suggested that they
were “leaders,” because Wilson
said, “I know some of these peo
ple.” The names of these people
I do not know, but all these facts
have come to me from the late
Josephus Daniels, whom 1 was
honored to call — friend.
Mr. Richards is now the third
source which calls my paper “the
Carolina Israelite,” a “nondescript
paper.” The other two sources are
the “White Citizens Councils" of
South Carolina, and the Ku Klux
Klan of Union County, North
Carolina. I am proud of the fact
that the editors of the daily press
of my state set aside their by
laws of 80 years standing in or
der to admit me to their member
ship. What little success I have
had is due to a gimmick, and not
“eccentricity." I evolved a scheme
a long time ago. I was devoted to
the Yiddish press and I under-
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stand the role it has played in
the history of the Jewish com
munity of America, indeed in the
history of the United States, and
so I decided to publish an imi
tation of the Yiddish Press. The
Carolina Israelite is a Yiddish
paper translated into English.
There, now my secret is out. I do
not know what is bothering Mr.
Richards. I hate to see the old
gent take out his bitterness on
me. I have shown him nothing
but sincere respect.
Cordially,
HARRY L. GOLDEN. Editor
The Carolina Israelite
RICHARDS
Continued from Page 1
galaxy of eminent Zionists. The
man who sailed on the Vulcan as
commissioner of the relief mis
sion was a rising young Jewish
leader who was to serve Palestine
and Jewry in different ways and
who later was at one time presi
dent of the American Jewish
Committee. His name was Mau
rice Wertheim.
Since the American Jewish
Committee, the Zionists, and all
other groups which then took part
in work of rescue and relief, sup
ported this venture, who, Mr.
Golden, were “the Jews in Gov
ernment” who had advised Mr.
Daniels against the proiect?
We come now to the second
Golden yarn "which has never yet
appeared in print.” He says:
“President Woodrow Wilson
was greatly distrubed because his
appointment of Louis D. Brandeis
to the United States Supreme
Court was being held up in the
Senate Judiciary Committee. The
appointee himself urged the Pres
ident to withdraw his name. But
Wilson was born and raised in a
Presbyterian manse and we Tar
Heels know what that means when
it comes to stubborn determina
tion. One day the President call
ed in Mr. Daniels, Secretary of
the Navy, and also the man whom
Wilson considered to be his clos
est personal friend. ‘Daniels, look
at this. What do you think of it?
It was a petition signed by fifty
‘leading’ Jews in America urging
the President to withdraw the
name of Louis D. Brandeis. ‘It
will hurt us,’ etc. (The shah'-shah
boys again.) Mr. Daniels didn’t
even look at the petition. He
knew all about it and he saved
Justice Brandeis for the Supreme
Court by telling the President a
story."
Now there are cryptic reports
or vague hazy rumors that both
in connection with the appoint
ments of Mr. Brandeis and Pro
fessor Frankfurter certain ex
tremely timed and tremulous
Jews, fearful of too much prom
inence for our people, voiced their
displeasure and perhaps wrote a
letter or two to some officials in
Washington. But that fifty lead
ing Jews (‘leading’ in what fosm)
should sign such a petition, should
humiliate and stultify themselves
in such documentary form, is
outside the region of fact.
While the “fancy petition”
which Mr. Golden avers “got lost
in the files of the Navy Depart
ment, of all places,, is a matter of
pure conjecture, it is entirely be
yond any doubt and proven by
notable letters from President
Wilson that he never considered
for a moment withdrawing the
Brandeis appointment, nor did
Mr. Brandeis himself ever dream
of relinquishing the great oppor
tunity.
The fine and humanitarian ca
reer of Josephus Daniels, as I
have indicated in an article else
where, will be remembered for
many more things than a little
story about the Negro and his
basket of newly caught crabs
which he leaves uncovered. The
crabs, he says, will not crawl out.
“Them crabs is like niggers; if
one tries to get out the rest of
’em are gonna pull him back.”
The parable also applies to Jews
and when the President heard the
story he decided to let one crab
crawl out of the basket. What a
pretty and edifying story!
Bernard G. Richards
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time to devote to penning his co
pious self-expressionisms which
often wander, charmingly and
wittily, quite afield from Jewish
relevance.
A raconteur of note, wide in
demand on the public and Jew
ish platform, H.G. appears to be
.serving best currently in his rare
rapacity of considering the segre
gation issue on a quasi-satiric
level. This racial subject in many
hands immediately becomes a
topic on which tempers rise and
backs bristle. H.G. makes you
smile, no matter on which side
of the subject you find yourself,
thus bringing the problem into
the realm of understanding and
rationale. His now familiar
“Golden vertical solution to de-
segreation” has brought him wide
fame and acclaim. His material
has appeared in such periodicals
as Commentary and the Jewish
Congress Weekly and he has been
widely quoted in Time magazine.
This attention and fame does
not come to editors of F.nglish-
Jewish newspapers. They must
often bear the snubs of the com
munities they serve anonymously,
finding their rewards in the un
nourishing but idealistic miasma of
satisfaction for positive participa
tion in the promotion of Jewish
life, in the raising of huge sums
of money for philanthropy and
need overseas, in their assistance
in promotion of new community
movements and construction. Bus
inessmen who look to the English-
Jewish press for support of their
favorite organizations, for per
sonal and professional publicity
often forget that the publication
of such material must be financ
ed and when the time comes to
lay advertising on the line, their
interest strangely wanes into
token aid or disappears complete
ly. —THE EDITOR
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• • • v e i n
By JACOB RICHMAN
OUTDOING HIS TEACHER
The master match-maker gave
his apprentice a talk on the rudi
ments of his art. “The first re
quisite in successful match-mak
ing,” said the veteran, “is exag
geration. For example: When a
girl has 1,000 rubles, say 3,000;
when she has 3.000 say 10,000.
Do you get me?”
To acquire a working know
ledge of the profession, the stu
dent accompanied his instructor
on one of his visits to a prospect.
“Remember,” said the shadchan
to the novice, as they started out,
“you must amplify and magnify
everything I say.”
The two came into the house of
the prospect, and the leader, af
ter the conventional exchange of
greetings, proceeded to recite the
virtues and attainments of the
young lady.
"I have a wonderful proposi
tion for your son,” said the mat
rimonial broker to the father of
the eligible ‘bachur,’ who was
sitting nearby, blushing and fumb
ling. “In the first place, her
frmily is rich.”
“ ’Rich’!” repeated the tyro,
with a touch of ridicule in his
voice. “Why, they are regular
millionaires!”
“And she is very beautiful,”
added the expert.
“ ‘Beautiful’!” sneered the as
sistant. “She is a genuine doll!”
“ ‘She has just a wee bit of a
hunch,’ went on the Stradivarius
of match-making.
“ ‘A wee bit’!” reiterated the
apt disciple. “It’s big as a moun
tain!”
—0—
(From 373-page book, “Laugh
From Jewish Lore” — Hebrew-
Publishing Company, 77 De-
lancey Street. NYC)
Letter To The
Editor
Dear Mr. Rosenberg:
We have a fairly complete file
of The Southern Israelite from
volume 14. 1939 to-date which we
believe we could work into our
microfilming schedule this aca
demic year and from then on
film annually. Our space is limited
so we are trying to put on film
as much of our more bulky news
paper material as possible.
Do you know anyone among
your subscribers who might con
tribute eighty-five ($85.00) to the
Emory University Library to pay
for the cost of materials in mak
ing a negative microfilm? We
would furnish the camera and the
labor for making the film. Any
one who wished, with your per
mission, might have a positive
film run off from our negative
at. the local Recordak office for
about sixtv-eight Dollars ($68.00).
We are not equipped here to make
positive reprints. At some future
time, wo would give considera
tion to borrowing copies of the
earlier volumes which we do not
possess in order to have a com
plete file of the paper.
I bring this matter to your at
tention because I think there are
relatively few files of The South
ern Israelite held by libraries and
most of these are fragmentary.
There should eventually be a
complete file on film in at least
one major university library in
this area. If this project seems
desirable to you, I should be de
lighted to discuss the matter with
a potential donor. It is perhaps
not necessary to remind you that
such a gift would be tax deduct
ible.
Sincerely yours,
GUY R. LYLE
Director of Libraries
GRL:ew
It was most reassuring during
our fire of 1955 to know that if
our complete files had been de-
Shoemaker Lights
Hanukah Candle
for 100th Year
EVERETT, Mass., (JTA) — A
104-year-old retired shoemaker
last week lit the first Hanukah
candle and read the Hanukah
prayers for the 100th consecutive
year — a performance probably
unmatched in religious history.
Hershel Bregman lit his first
Hanukah candle when he was four
years old. The place w r as his home
in Minsk, Russia where he lived
through the periods of three Czars
and the Communist revolution be
fore coming to New York in 1930.
There he became an American
citizen at the age of 101.
Recently he has made his home
in Everett with his son Aaron,
one of his 13 children.
He credits his long life to a
powerful physique and a calm
nature, explaining “I do not get
excited.”
stroyed that a partical record at
least existed at Emory University-
ty. Fortunately, our records were
only damaged, not destroyed. But
there is academic and historical
value for the complete file to be
on tap at a seat of learning where
they will be available for re
search, not only to local scholars
but to others elsewhere through
the facile exchange of inter-li
brary material.
We wish we could take care of
the cost of the microfilming our
selves, but operating on a non
profit basis, there isn’t a cent for
such purposes. Perhaps among
our readers is the donor that
the Emory University librarian
has unsolicitedly suggested. If
this donor cares to underwrite
the second print, or if a second
donor came forward as well, this
second set could very properly be
donated to the American Jewish
Archives in Cincinnati.
—THE EDITOR
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