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Til IOD1BIIN ISRAELITE
Friday, October 7, 1960
The Southern Israelite
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national editorial
AMERICAN JEWISH PRESS ASSN
JEWISH TELEGRAPHIC AGENCY
SEVEN ARTS FEATURES
GEORGIA PRESS ASSOCIATION
HARVEST TIME
The pensive days of the High Holyday season are over
now and, properly enough, we are now entering oh a holiday
span whose gamut ranges from rejoicing over harvest to re
joicing over the Law.
The Sukkot holiday, both as a harvest festival and as a
reminder of our booth-dwelling days, is one of great symbol
ism even in our own generation. It is the period for ingather-
iftg, when man stands in awe and thanksgiving over the fruit
of his hands, ever-ready for new pilgrimages in the quest for
security of family and hearth. The joy of ingathering is a
unique one, the product of a combined bounty of soil and
hand and heart. Planting-time is a season of hope, harvest
time a season of fulfillment, of ripeness, of sharing.
If the Feast of Ingathering was one of boundless rejoic
ing in our ancient days, it is no less so in the days of new
Israel, where the word ingathering has taken on added mean
ing. However, the symbolism of the ingathering has not
changed much over the centuries.
Our season of harvest reaches its apogee on Simchas
Torah, when rejoicing is mingled with.awareness that one
cycle had ended and another was beginning. What could more
properly epitomize the meaning of end and renewal than our
Simchas Torah custom of completing and simultaneously re
suming the reading of the Law?
—GUEST EDITORAL
WHAT THE PRESS IS SAYING
A Digest of Contemporary Opinion
Ike’R “Single World Community”
In urging progress toward a world community, I cite the Ameri
can concept of the destiny of a progressive society. Here in what
was once a wilderness we have generated a society and a civiliza
tion drawn from many sources. Yet out of this mixture of many
peoples and faiths we have developed unity in freedom—a unity
designed to protect the rights of each individual while enhancing
the freedom and well-being of all. This concept of unity in freedom,
drawn from the diversity of many racial strains and cultures, we
should see made a reality for all mankind. Opposed to the idea of
two hostile, embittered worlds in perpetual conflict, we envisage a
single world community, as yet unrealized but advancing steadily
toward fulfillment through our plans, our efforts, and our collec
tive acts. Thus, we see as our goal, not a super-state above nations,
but a world community embracing them all, rooted in law and
justice and enhancing the potentialities and common purposes of all
peoples . . .
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, from His Address Before UN
Inviting Disaster
Oh the eve of Khrushchev’s arrival, President Eisenhower
solemnly called on the country for a display of “traditional dignity”
and for “calm and reasonable conduct.” We echo his words and we
wish his Administration had been more faithful to their spirit in
setting the stage for the occasion. Unhappily, two of Ike’s top asso
ciates were still giving utterly divergent and equally feeble ex
planations for the absurd travel restrictions imposed on Mr. K. and
Premier Castro. . . Many men had suggested it was unworthy of
a free society, acting as host to the UN, to descend to the tactics of
the commissars and parenthetically hurl Mr. Castro into Mr. K’s
arms . . .
THE NEW YORK POST, from an Editorial
Rush Hashonah Thoughts
In the swift-coursing flight of time, the Days of Awe afford man
pause to consider—in retrospect—the stature to which he has at
tained. During the solemn moments of self-searching, of humble
meditation, he is given opportunity to evaluate his personal accom
plishments. Has his life been purposeful? What shall be the measure
of that purpose? Eminence and material wealth? Popularity—and
the pleasures he enjoyed? Philanthropy—and his sympathetic re
sponse to human suffering? A patient interest . . . requisite of his
“station in the community” ... in the things that tend to satisfy
society’s quest for spiritual contentment. In a world—and in an age
.—that is concerned primarily with the material aspects of life . . .
the accumulation of wealth, of power and prestige, men are prone
to argue that it is folly to indulge in dreams and fantasies—that one
must be practical and realistic; must play the game as the others
play it; must drift with the tide. Only thus—they proclaim may the
individual’s hope for security be realized. There are, on the other
hand, a goodly number of earnest-minded people who cherish the
pimple virtues that are basic of man’s faith. To them, ’’money is not
everything”—fame holds but an abstract lure. They see beauty and
reason in the prophet’s injunction: “to do justly, to love mercy, and
to walk in humility with God.” For, from that meaningful command
Stems the rightful code for human behavior, for the genuine social
fellowship so urgently needed if we are to level the barriers that
divide man from his brother, and nation from sisternation. Especially
fcow. as the New Year approaches, and our lips speak solemn words
of supplication, do we need the awareness of something . . . mystic,
perhaps, yet powerfully compelling in its spiritual application that
■rill move us to walk humbly, indeed, in the light of prophecy
JACQUES BACK, Tke Observer
The Civil Liberties Union
by HARRY SIMONHOFF
That canaille such as John
Kasper could select anti-Semit
ism as a career should cause
little surprise. After all it is
easier than hauling trash to the
city dump on a truck. Hasn’t
Parson Gerald L. K Smith been
living in clover since the death
of Huey Long, from whom he
learned how to exploit hatred 0
The holy demagogue discovered
that Judeophobia could bring in
more dollars than pounding a
pulpit somewhere in the sticks
out in the Bible belt.
Then came George Lincoln
Rockwell who had been reading
"Mein Kampf.’ When mustered
out of the Marines he had to
find a job. But why go to work 9
Hitler, who had only been a
corporal, could start with seven
hoodlums and become dictator
of Germany. He, Rockwell, had
been a lieutenant and should go
further than a house painter out
of work. The procedure is sim
ple enough. Form an American
Nazi party out of several
rowdies, stand on street corners
and spew forth the venom about
the Jews that Hitler has in his
book.
And now the public has been
treated to the astonishing spec
tacle of a public spirited organ
ization committed to safeguard
civil rights coming to the assist
ance of a Kasper and Rockwell
when such repulsive delinquents
are charged with breaking the
law.
Liberals generally have been
under a kind of taboo about criti
cising the A.C.L.U. since its in
ception in the 1920s. Hasn’t its
defense of communists or left
wingers aroused the ire of re
actionary elements such as fol
lowers of the late Joseph Mc
Carthy? Then this sacred cow
can do no wrong since it has set
out to secure freedom of speech,
regardless who it hurts or what
damage poisonous ranting might
cause.
This unqualified worship of
free speech might account for
the A.C.L.U. staggering into a
blind alley. Idolatry is an evil
not because it worships an
image but because it fails to
distinguish between a symbol
and the living reality. Free
speech can also become an idol
if worshipped without discrim
ination or evaluation. During
the excesses of the French
Revolution, Madame Roland, a
revolutionary and intellectual,
was led to her execution. Stand-
ding before the guillotine she
made a deathless statement, “O
Liberty, what crimes are com
mitted in thy name!”
It would seem that the A.C.
L.U. has fallen under the spell
of untrammeled free speech. Ap
parently these idealists think
little of Solomon’s warning in
Proverbs 18:21- “Death and life
are in the power of the tongue.”
In some mysterious way, our
liberties, or constitution, or dem
ocratic way of life will be safe
as long as people are free to
say anything they wish. Thus a
Kasper might defy the injunc
tion of a Federal judge by har
anguing segregationists to pre
vent the admission of Negro
children in white schools. The
A.C.L.U. deems it a matter of
conscience to rush into court and
defend this firebrand’s right to
harangue a mob in Clinton,
Tenn. A public sphool is dyna
mited into a heap of rubble
What of it as long as the rights
of a demagogue to stir up pas
sions are upheld.
If anyone concludes that this
writer is indifferent to free
speech he is wrong. But the dif
ference between liberty and
license has been often defined.
The famous dictum of Justice
Holmes about shouting “fire’ in
a crowded theatre has passed
into current Americanese; it has
become a popular maxim. My
quarrel with the A. C. L. U.
springs from a fanatical inter
pretation of the 1st or 14th
Amendments that leads to dang
erous absurdities. Freedom of
speech like any other rule of
life or conduct must be con
strued with reasonable common
sense. The courts have never de
fined civil rights as a license to
shout from the house tops any
scurrility regardless of its ef
fect or consequence. Frank Mur
phy. one of the most liberal
judges ever to sit on the Su
preme Court, wrote an opinion
that became unanimous in
Uhaplinsky vs. New Hampshire
(315 U.S. 568):
Allowing the broadest scope
to the language and purpose of
the Fourteenth Amendment, it is
well understood that the right of
free speech is not absolute at
all times and under all circum
stances. There are certain well-
defined and narrowly limited
classes of speech, the prevention
and punishment of which has
never been thought to raise any
constitutional problem. These in
clude the lewd and obscene, the
profane, the libelous, and the
insulting or “Fighting” words—
those which by their very utter
ance inflict injury or tend to
incite an immediate breath of
the peace. Resort to epithets or
personal abuse is not in any
proper sense communication of
information or opinion safe
guarded by the Constitution, and
its punishment as a criminal act
would raise no question under
JEWISH CALENDAR
•SUKKOT
Thurs., Oct 6
•HANUKAH
Wed., Dec. 14
(First Day)
Wed., Dec. 21
(Last Day)
•PURIM
Thurs., March 2
•PASSOVER
Sat., April 1
(1st Day)
Sat, April 8
(Last Day)
•Holiday begins
preceding evenings
that instrument
Legal aid to Rockwell’s Nazis
is even more absurd, if not more
dangerous, than support to Kas
per. Surely the A.C.LU. has
leaders with a moral sense of
public responsibility. Are they
blind to the implications of a
Nazi movement in America? Did
they ever read “Mein Kampf?”
Can they be insensible to the
perils lurking in anti-Semitism
as a political weapon? Are they
ignorant or merely indifferent
to the events that transpired in
the 1930 and 40 decades? Is it a
matter of small moment that
6,000,000 Jew were elminated
by a racist philosophy now
taken up by Rockwell? Yet the
A.CLU. furnishes legal protec
tion as soon as a Rockwell
copperhead is arrested for spew
ing forth venom that calls for
extermination of Jews in Amen
ca and elsewhere.
The Hebrew word saichel has
no equivalent in English. It de
notes reason together with com
mon sense joined to intuitive
understanding that avoids pit
falls and leads to wise decision.
The trouble with the A.CX.U.
is that it lacks saichel. And the
Jewish lawyers who jump to the
defense of Rockwells’ henchmen
are the most naive of the lot
Morocco Announces
Nationalization
of Jewish Schools
NEW YORK, (JTA)—The As
sociated Press reported from
Morocco that one-third of the
Jewish schools operated by the
Alliance . Israelite Univereelle
will be taken over by the Moroc
can Government, Education
Minister Abdel Krim Ben Jal-
loun announced.
He called it the first step to
ward nationalization of all pri
vate Jewish schools. The step
affects 11,000 Jewish children.
The curriculum in nationalized
schools will be modeled on that
existing in state schools, the an
nouncement said.
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