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Stuart Office Supply
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9/5 Broad St.
(Call 4-3513 until July 21)
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA
MEANS BUSINESS IN AUGUSTA
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BRINGS BUSINESS TO AUGUSTA
FRANK E. FERRIS JOHN J BREDENBERG
F. E. FERRIS & CO.
Clothiers and Haberdashers
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA
752 Broad Street
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Phone P Ark l-:i512
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It. F. Goodrich Tires
G. E. Appliances
Kelvinator Appliances
Household Goods
Complete Sporting Goods Department
Two Locations
905 Broad &
Broad at 10th
Augusta, Ga.
SOUTHERN ROADBUILDERS, Inc.
Driveways & Private Work Municipal Work
Redimix Concrete
GENERAL OFFICE: Phones 6-8433 and 6-8434
REDIMIX OFFICE: Phone 2-83S4,
ADDRESS: P. O. Bov 1129
AUGUSTA, GA.
EARL L. BABBITT
PLUMBING AND HEATING CO.
PLUMBING
HEATING — OIL BURNERS
GAS BOILERS — GAS HEATING
Phones: Office 2-2520
Residence 3-4596 1128 Ellis St.
Day or Night AUGUSTA, GEORGIA
tion, is yet to be achieved. This
process of moulding a nation is one
of the most fascinating social pro
cesses of our day, without prece
dent in history, for never before
has there been such a multitudin
ous and varied convergence of im
migrants within so short a time.
The self-segregation of people ac
cording to Landsmanschaften and
their countries of origin, the exag
gerated loyalty to parties, the in
clination to sectarianism on issues
of political and social controversy,
will have to yield to the higher
priority of real patriotism, to pride
of membership in a new nation.
Unless this is done, the centrifugal
tendencies within Israel society
may assert themselves more bold
ly and disastrously, imperiling the
nation’s stability and cohesion.
Israel’s role within the totality
of global Jew'ish life will be de
termined by its success or failure
to work out a sound pattern of re
lations between Israel Jewry and
the Jewish people abroad. This in
ternal problem is no less import
ant and urgent than the exter
nal problem of resolving the Arab-
Israel relationship. A satisfactory
solution is of decisive importance
for Israel’s survival and the con
tinuity of Jewish communities out
side Israel, yet little has been done
until now to solve it. The present
relationship is unsatisfactory and
not too fruitful from a long view.
Diaspora Jewry's role is restricted
almost exclusively to economic
and political assistance, with no
provisions for truly sharing res
ponsibilities, with no structural
channels for reciprocal influence.
A relationship so restricted is
frustrating, must falter, and can
not last forever. Methods must be
found, with all due deference to
the sovereignty of the State of Is
rael, to vest in the Jewish people
the responsibilities, moral and
spiritual, for shaping Israel’s des
tiny and will convert the ancestral
home on the Mediterranean into a
focus and repository of our pecu
liar genius and will establish it as
the very center of Jewish moral
and spiritual influence and as a
fateful instrument in securing the
survival of the Jewish people
everywhere.
The final problem may at this
time seen remote and unreal. Yet
I think that it is a very real prob
lem. It is my sincere opinio i that
a good possibility exists that East
ern Europe may some day open
its gates for Jews wishing to emi
grate to Israel. This will test Is
rael’s capacity to absorb hundreds
of thousands of additional Jews.
Such a turn of events depends,
however, on the resolution of the
Arab-Israel deadlock. Arab-Israel
peace would improve the nature
of Soviet - Israel relations and
make the prospects of large-scale
East European immigration a defi
nite possibility. This would be the
greatest event in Jewish history
since the creation of the State.
However, it would also impose on
Israel responsibilities — economic,
social and financial — of astrono
mic proportions.
Should Israel succeed, in the
initial years of its second decade,
in solving, at least partially, these
five major problems, each of them
complex, each of them forbidding,
the Jewish State will have made a
tremendous advance toward its fi
nal consolidation and the realiza
tion of its most ambitious aims.
A. J.
KILPATRICK, Jr.
Investment Securities
405 N. MAIN ST.
138 Eighth Street
Augusta, Georgia
GENERAL ELECTRIC
1431 GREENE ST.
Refrigeration • Air Conditioning
Automatic Heating
AUGUSTA, GA.
ELECTRICAL
EQUIPMENT
COMPANY
Repair and Sale of Electric
Motors and Generators
AUGUSTA, GA.
Raleigh, N. C.
Richmond, Va.
Laurinburg, N. C.
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