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The Southern Israeli***
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A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry — F''
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XXXVI
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 25, 1961
Kennedy I^auds JWB Effort
In Service To Military
NEW YORK (JTA) — President Kennedy commended the Na
tional Jewish Welfare Board’s remobilization of resources and man
power this week. He called the JWB’s new program “particularly
important in the light of the current need for expanded Armed
Forces.”
The President’s message was addressed to Solomon Litt, president
of JWB, who had written to Mr. Kennedy, informing the Chief Execu
tive of the organization’s remobilization. “It is heartening,” Mr.
Kennedy wrote, “to have the assurance that young people in uni
form will be linked to home and religion through the essential activi
ties and programs of such agencies as the National Jewish Welfare
Board.”
Ben-Gurion F
NO. 34
Coalition Wit/oes
Woes,
JERSUALEM (JTA) — With
the elections over, and having
lost five seats in the Knesset, 74
year-old David Ben-Gurion will
now attempt to form a new eola
tion government with the parties
'which fought him bitterly during
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the campaign.
Latest, though not final, tally
on the vote showed there were no
surprises in the election. Mapai,
Ben-Gurion’s party, expected to
lose some of the popular votes
and, consequently, some seats in
Hadassah Conclave Hears
Goldberg 9 Kennedy Note
Youth Leaders Rap Parents
For Poor Jewish Identity
DENVER (JTA) — the 47th
national convention of Hadassah
opened here this week to formu
late a program of the organiza
tion’s activities in this country
and in Israel for the next year.
A message from President Ken
nedy was read at the opening
session to the 1,500 delegates at
tending the four-day gathering
by U S. Secretary of Labor Ar
thur J. Goldberg who was one of
the principal speakers at the ses
sion.
In his message, addressed to
Mrs. Siegfried Kramarsky, na
tional president of Hadaaaah.
President Kennedy said: "The
common language among all
those who speak for freedom is
that of compassion which knows
no country, no race and no creed.
It resides in the human spirit. It
is the most easily understood but
the most difficult to attain.
"Hadassah has a history of such
compassion especially in Pale
stine and in the democratic State
of Israel,” the message continued.
"For almost fifty years it has
eased the pains of the distraught,
sheltered the homeless and guid
ed the weak. This is the only true
posture for a free society and for
the citizens of that society. Your
efforts in behalf of assistance for
underdeveloped nations for medi
cal aid. for elimination of illiter
acy and for vocational education
in emerging societies have helped
show the way to freedom. In
these critical days you play a
large part in our battle of men’s
minds. I congratulate you upon
both your goals and your achieve
ments.”
Mrs. Mortimer Jacobson, Ha-
dassah’s national treasurer, re
ported that during the 1960 fiscal
year Hadassah chapters and
groups raised $10,936,209 — more
money than was ever raised in
any previous year of Hadassah’s
49-year history. Of this, $8,691,-
Argenfine Halutz
Camp Attacked
BUENOS AIRES, (JTA)—Sev
eral Jewish boys and girls at
tending a training camp for pio
neer work in Israel were injured
this week when their camp, lo
cated at Mercedes, about 100
miles from this capital, was at
tacked by a group of extreme
nationalists lined up with the
right-wing “Taeuara” movement.
The right-wingers stormed the
camp at 5 am. and beat many
of the boys and girls with sticks.
The camp for the training of pio
neer youth planning to join kib
butzim in Israel is conducted by
Hacsharah Ichud Habonim, an
organization of Argentine Jews
with headquarters in this city.
The incident created great ex
citement in the Jewish commun
ity here. RAIA, the representa
tive organization of Argentine
Jewry, lodged a strong protest
with the Ministry of the In
terior. The Ministry immediately
assigned guards to protect the
Mercedes camp
SECRETARY GOLDBERG
322 was used to advance Ha
dassah’s medical youth rehabilit
ation and vocational education
programs in Israel.
Secretary Goldberg said in his
address that he hopes that “in
conference and by final action,
the Congress will give substantial
approval to the foreign aid bill
preserving in amount and in
principle what the President has
rightfully proposed.” He stressed
that “we can no longer exist as
an island of affluence and con
tentment in a world seething
with want and change. We can
no longer walk the proud path
of indifference turning our faces
away from those who already re
sent us too much because of the
past.”
STARLIGHT, Pa. (JTA)—Del
egates to a national Jewish youth
convention here criticized their
parents for failing to give them a
more adequate Jewish back
ground. “It is a sad commentary
on current status of the Jewish
home that the only way young
people can fulfill their needs for
Jewish identification, or to find
out what Judaism has to offer
them is to join organizations,”
said a committee report pre
sented at the 38th annual conven
tion of Aleph Zadik Aleph, the
boy’s division of the B’nai B’rith
Youth Organization.
This alleged parental disinter
est, the report said, “leads among
other things to confusion on the
part of youth as to which branch
of Judaism they wish to follow,
if indeed, they wish to follow
any. It is certainly true that
many parents cannot be looked to
for guidanct/^yi|gfa~ allegiance to
a particular {ranch of Judaism,
as often as not, stems from a
variety of factors—least of which
Eshkol To Discuss
New German Loan
JERUSALEM, (JTA) —Israel’s
Finance Minister Levi Eshkol
will discuss the possibility of a
loan from the West German
Government, totaling 180,000,000
pounds sterling ($504,000,000),
when Mr. Eshkol attends next
month’s meeting of the Inter
national Bank for Reconstruction
and Development at Vienna, it
was disclosed here this week. He
will confer about the possible
loan with West German Minister
of Economics, Prof. Ludwig
Erhard.
Frisco Committee Formed
To Fight HousingHias
SAN FRANCISCO, (JTA)—A
citizens’ committee has been
formed here to press for an ordi
nance to outlaw discrimination
in housing. Benjamin H. Swig,
the well-known Jewish leader,
is a co-chairman of the committ-
tee. According to members of the
committee, bias in housing exists
in this city, directed against
Negroes and against Jews. The
ordinance would affect only this
city.
In a number of community
apartments in this city, the com
mittee Charged, there is a
“gentleman’s agreement” to bar
the sale or rental of dwellings to
Jews. A committee leader said
“there are other evidences of
anti-Semitic policies in this field.
The American Jewish Con
gress, the American Civil Liber
ties Union and other civic and
civil-rights organizations in the
State asked the California State
Supreme Court to reverse a
county court ruling holding that
real estate agents are not sub
ject to it)c State’s civil rights
law.
At iasuc kra deefctou M the
Orange County Court exempting
a real estate agent from the pro
visions of the law which, among
other things, forbids racial or
religious discriminations “in all
business establishments of every
kind whatsoever.” The court
ruled the law did not apply to
real estate brokers who had re
fused to sell a house to a man
because of his race.
Aaron Copland
Receives Award
PETERBOROUGH, N. H. (JTA)
— ‘ Aaron Copeland, prominent
American-Jewish composer, re
ceived the Edward MacDowel)
Medal this week for hi* contribu
tions to American music. Presi
dent Kennedy, in a congratula
tory telegram to the composer,
described Mr. Copeland a* "a
significant force in the cultural
life at this nation and the world
community.”
the fifth Knesset, which it did.
Ben-Gurion termed the results
of the election a victory for Ma
pai. But he said, the results were
“disastrous" for the country be
cause they failed to bring about
a change in the electoral system.
The Premier has long advocated
a two-party system for Israel and
the elimination of the present
system which makes it virtually
impossible for a single party ever
to command a majority of the
parliament and exercise a clear
mandate. , .
Yoesef Almogi, secretary-gen
eral of Mapai, stated that his
party faces two alternatives in
planning the next coalition gov
ernment. One pouriUUty, ha said,
is a coalition comprised of Ma
pai, the Liberal Party and foe
National Religious Front The
other possibility he saw would
be a combination of Mapai, Ma-
pam, Achdut Avodah and he Na
tional Religious Party. In either
case, plans call for a 16 member
cabinet with 8 seats going to
Mapai.
Meanwhile, Men* him Beigin,
leader of the right-wing Herat,
officially wrote to leaders of foe
liberal party early thi
proposing the formation of
Herat-Liberal bloc in foe
set, which wouM hoM
and end the majority rale of Ma
pai.
Mapai polled an estimated 34.1
percent of the vote to hold 42
seats, a loss of five from the last
parliament The Liberals, contest
ing an election for the first time
panied on his official visit to as a merger of the General Zion*
Australian cities by Lady Waley- \ist and Progressive Parties won
Cohen, was received earlier by 13 8 percent of the vote and w*h
high Government officials, and . ia . . .. .
was tendered a reception by have 16 or 17 seat, m the house.
Sydney’s Lord Mayor Harry Jen- Herut party, With 13.4 per-
sen. cent will hold its 17 seats.
General Marshall To Speak
At JNF Breakfast Confab
are conviction and understand
ing.”
Another committee report pre
sented today sounded a warning
against intermarriage. “Aside
from very real problem of as
similation which could result
from intermarriage,” the report
stated, “facts are clear that mar
riages in which partners are of
different faiths are headed for
potential trouble, particularly
once children arrive and the
question of their religious train
ing arises."
London's Mayor
Welcomed
In Sydney
SYDNEY, Australia (JTA) —
London’s Jewteh Lord Mayor, Sir
Bernard Waley-Cohen, was guost
of honor at a dinner reception by
this city’s Jewish (Community.
Speakers at the dinner included
Abram Lancia, Housing Minister
of New South Wales, and Moshe
Yuval, Israeli Ambassador to
Australia.
Sir Bernard, who is accom-
Thc highlight of the Jewish
National Fund Breakfast on Sep
tember 1, one of the sessions of
the ZOA Convention, opening at
the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in
New York City, on August 30,
will be an address by the noted
military analyst and lecturer,
General S. L. A. Marshall. Pro
minent among the other speakers
addressing the JNF Breakfast
will be Albert Schiff, JNF Presi
dent, Judge Bernard A. Rosen
blatt, Chairman of the JNF
Foundation and Mendel N. Fish
er, Executive Director of the
Fund.
General Marshall’s close identi
fication with the State of Israel
dates back to 1956, when he flew
to Israel to observe the Sinai
Campaign. He has written ex
tensively about the campaign and
is considered to be a leading au
thority on this dramatic chapter
in the life of the State of Israel.
Bom at the turn of the cen
tury, General Marshall has serv
ed in both World Wars with great
distinction, participating lnbattles
on both European and Asiatic
sectors. He was named Historian
of the Armies of Occupation on
September 1, 1946. He was re
called to active duty in 1948 and
served during the Korean Con
flict in 1960-61.
General Marshall has long been
a staunch supporter of the fled
geling Jewish State and in his
address on September 1, before
top Zionist and civic leaders, will
highlight the vital role played by
the Jewish National Fund in the
upbuilding of Israel.
Scientist Finds
Ragweed Pollen
Allergy Agent
CHICAGO, (JTA)—Dr. Robed
Goldfarb, a scientist at the ■Chi
cago Medical School, has suc
ceeded in isolating a protein
from ragweed pollen which tests
indicate is the agent that causes
the allergic reaction in hay-
fever sufferers. He outlined his
discovery in a paper presented to
the fifth International Congress
on Biochemistry currently meet
ing in Moscow.
Dr. Goldfarb’* work, which
climaxed ten years of tests of
substances from ragweed pollen,
could give medical science foe
means to build up mosw thorough
and Mating psutsetian in suscep
tible; person*
