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***** Six
Friday, August Z, 1963
THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
Plain Talk
by Alfred Segal
Tlie Ohio wile writes ine: I’d
like to celebrate my husband.
Shortly he’ll be arriving at his
70th birthday . . . he’s a wor
thy man who has lived his Jew
ish life highly. Please print my
tribute to him as a birthday
Present. He no longer needs neck
ties and such as birthday Pres
ents. So I’m celebrating his birth
day by singing of his good life
of 70 years.
Yes, she tells me, her story of
his life should make a most
worth-while column. Not that this
life has attained high riches of
wealth, she says . . . “We live
very comfortably though, and he
doesn’t have to go to his job any
longer. He has been a worthy
Jew, and to be that is a man’s
main success, isn’t it? I know him
so well because we have been
married almost 50 years.”
She informs me that he has
cared much about being highly
Jewish . . . “Not that he is in the
Synagogue everyday,” his wife
goes on to say. "He knows God
as his Father along all the way
of his daily life, outside the Syn
agogue even, and that is why I
speak of him as a high Jew.”
She reports to me that he knows
all other kinds of people as his
kinsmen, regardless of their re
ligions or the color of their faces
. . . “And that’s why I speak of
him as a high Jew, and I’m
writing this tribute to him in the
hope that it may prompt others of
all the religions to rise as high
as he.”
There’s the Negro family he
has been troubling himself about,
his wife tells me . . . “He serves
them as brothers of his in the
family of mankind,” his wife
says. “There are five children
and their father who is sickly
and has been out of work for a
long time. My good husband is
helping to support the family
each week, though, as I have told
you, we aren’t very rich. We
have enough for ourselves,
though.”
The wife tells me she is re
porting this not by way of van
ity, but to suggest in this col
umn what it means to be a
worthy Jew . . . even if he doesn’t
attend schul regularly . . . “His,”
she says, “is high Jewish relig
ion, though not regularly in the
synagogue.”
She sends me a copy of a let
ter from the Negro clergyman
who also is concerned with the
welfare of the Negro family. The
clergyman had written: “Sir: I
feel that you of the Jewish faith
serve also my own religious ideals
by which I know all mankind as
brothers. I call you my brother,
and let us hope that the time
is coming when we’ll all know
each other that way.”
And that wife goes on to say
that her husband has Jewishly
served thus through all the years
of their married life, even though,
as business man he couldn’t al
ways be in the synagogue on the
Sabbath.
She adds: “And please don’t
print his name in your column.
My husband is so highly Jewish
that he would feel deeply embar-
assed if his worthwhileness were
noticed by name. And what more
should I tell you about his good
ness now that he has arrived at
70? There’s so much to tell.”
Yes, and he feels Jewishly
good on account of his sons who
have grown up to high manhood
. . . and are bringing up their
families Jewishly in character.
The sons are following on their
father’s Jewish way of life,
though he’s of an Orthodox syn
agogue while they are members
of a Reform temple.”
“My good husband,” says the
wife, “knows all the wavs of rp-
ligions as service to the One God,
and what is the difference if our
sons worship Him in another kind
of synagogue. He cares most
about the way Jews, and people
of other religions, serve the
Father and their brothers in their
daily lives. And he has educated
our boys in that highly Jewish di
rection. I am so happy to be cele
brating his 70th birthday this way.”
He gives for the welfare of
Jews, but also for people of other
religions ...” He is paying a
portion of rent for a Catholic
family and also for several Jew
ish families; though, as I have
said, we are not very rich, but
we have enough for our old age.
Our sons are getting along ok.,
and what more do we, at our time
of life, need except to keep going
comfortably.”
Her husband’s 70th birthday is
in the second week of July and
she says, “We’re having a family
party that evening, but I am
herewith celebrating the occasion
by this tribute to the good man
he has been through all those
years ... a good Jew who has
lived his Jewish life not only as
a Jewish brother, but as brother
to all other kinds.
“So, Mr. Segal, please print
this letter of mine and I shall
read it to the family at the birth
day dinner. But again, please
don’t print our family name.
Among his virtues is high mod
esty and my husband will feel
hurt to see his name so widely
published.”
And this column celebrates the
occasion with the good wife who,
together with her good husband,
understands what being truly
Jewish is all about.
Israel Facing No
Physician Shortage;
Needs Nurses
JERUSALEM, (JTA)—Depu
ty Health Minister Yitzhak
Rafael rejected assertions this
that a shortage of physicians
had developed in Israel in re
cent years.
Replying to a question on the
subject in the Knesset, Israel’s
Parliament, Mr. Rafael noted
that Israel’s ration of one phy
sician for each 400 population
was the world’s highest. He
admitted, however, that the
uneven distribution of physi
cians in various parts of the
country gave the impression of
a shortage.
Mr. Rafael said that the
number of pharmacists was
also adequate, but that there
was a severe shortage of train
ed and practical nurses.
Swastikas Plague
Mexico City Jews
MEXICO CITY, (JTA)—
Several synagogues, J e w i s h
schools and homes near the
houses of worship were smear
ed this week with the Nazi
swastika.
Complaints were lodged by
the congregations and other
Jewish organizations with
federal and city police au
thorities, who are attempting
to trace the identity of those
responsible for the anti-Semi
tic daubings.
I)avar Scores Iraq's
Treatment of Kurds
TEL AVIV (WUP)—Comment
ing editorially on Iraq’s treatment
of the Kurds, Davar declared re
cently: “Despite the differences in
motives and circumstances, there
is a certain common denominator
between the behavior of the
Egyptians towards the Yemenites,
and that of the Iraqis towards
the Kurds. The common element
is the cruel and illegal character
of their actions. Another common
aspect is the elegant silence with
which important international
factors are attempting to ignore
them. Genocide remains genocide,
even if it is carried out by the
Arabs and not by ‘white men’;
military intervention in a foreign
country and the cruel treatment
of its population remains an in
tolerable aggression act even if it
is carried out by an Arab country
that claims to lead the struggle
against colonialism.”
St. Petersburg
HORIZONS
Congregation
li’nai Israel
301 Fifty-Ninth St., North
St. Petersburg, Fla.
Phone 341—1471
Saturday, Aug. 3— Conserva
tive Service will be at 7 a. m.,
and the Traditional Service at 9
a. m.
Sunday, Aug, 4 — Conservative
Service will be at 9 a. m.
Friday, Aug. 9 — Family Sab
bath Hour will be at 8 p. m.
HEALTH
TOPICS
A Service of Your Doctor of Medicine,
Your Ivora) Medical Society and the
Florida Medical Association.
GARBAGE DISPOSAL:
HEALTH PROBLEM
One of the big health prob
lems of today is safe disposal
of trash and garbage. A sur
prising amount of garbage piles
up in even a small community
in a few days, and garbage is a
well known source of trouble
from flies and other insects and
rats, mice and other vermin.
Most cities and towns have
reasonably efficient pickup and
disposal services for garbage,
but the householder must do
his part too. Sanitary storage
of refuse requires observance
of a few simple rules—
•Providing and using properly
covered containers.
•Maintaining the containers
in a clean sanitary condition.
•Placing the containers in the
right place at the right time
for the pickup trucks.
•Draining liquid from gar
bage and bundling bulky
rubbish.
•Where required, separating
garbage, ashes and rubbish.
Observance of these precau
tions is a small price to pay for
the protection you will receive
against disease, accident, fires
and vermin. Disease-bearing in
sects and animals are attracted
to an unsanitary environment.
All containers should be me
tal or plastic and should have
tight-fitting lids. It is advisable
to provide some type of enclo
sure so that the surrounding
area can be kept clean and so
the containers will not be easily
upset by stray animals.
Improperly stored garbage is
unsightly as well as unsanitary.
Your physicians urge everyone
to examine his trash and gar
bage disposal facilities and
make certain they are sanitary.
Senior Srienclship l/ji
leivA
By HARRY ROSE
Henrietta Tirk has been dis
missed from the Lenox Hill Hos
pital and has returned to the
home of her sister Estelle Ham
mer in Newark, N. J., where she
will remain for the next few
months but still under the
guiding influence of her attend
ing physician. Henriette is
making wonderful progress and
it won’t be long before she is
again hitting on all 8.
Alma Mardenfeld writes from
Accord, N. Y., that she is having
“A Ball” and that the weather
has been so delightful up in the
mountains that she is staying
another week. She will then re
turn to her family in New Jersey
for the balance of the summer.
Cupid took a look down the
isle, put an arrow in his bow,
pulled back and whang—the ar
row went straight to its mark.
Standing in the isle were Kate
Waterman and Joe Meyers, both
members of the SF Club, and
Cupid’s aim was so good that he
hit both in the heart and so they
announce that they will be mar
ried in New York City on August
6. SF Club membership wish you
both well and we know great
happiness will come out of the
union of two wonderful people.
We all will be looking for you
in the fall when you return to
the Sunshine City.
Illness is again troubling a
number of the members of SF
Club. Jacob Braun has been con
fined to St. Anthony’s Hospital,
still suffering from his previous
ailment and will have to under
go more tests and x-rays. Max
Kochman and Harry Goldberg
have both undergone surgery and
both are reported to be making
wonderful progress. Ida Bush is
reported to be doing nicely, but
having to use a walker to get
about. Mary Shapiro is keeping
her chin up and able to be ac
tive.
Committees are now being
formed for the new year of 1963-
1964 and many of them will be
extended and enlarged. There
will be several new committees
in order to meet the growing
needs of the Club and its mem
bers’ desires. The Projects Com
mittee will be headed by Barney
Socol, who will have the cooper
ation of several very active
“leaders” in SF Club affairs.
New projects are under consider
ation and some of them will be
introduced on the October pro
gram now being prepared by
Manny Ward and Nancy Rubin.
Many of the most desirable pro
grams from last year will be re
tained.
SF Club membership is on tip
toes awaiting the coming of Oc
tober and the opening of the
Jewish Center Building. With the
closing of Camp Kadima, ground
will be broken early in August
and it is definitely stated that
the new building will be opened
early in October. However SF
Club indoor season will start with
the first week in October and if
the new building is not com-
petely ready for them they will
make arrangementments to hold
the early October meeting in
Temple Beth El.
One of the newest projects for
SF Club will be the formation
of a Little Theatre Group, which
is now in process of formation
and which will be under the sole
direction of Ada Marx, musical
director of the Senior Friendship
Players. The Little Theatre will
introduce Broadway stage hits as
well as specially written playlets
and skits and will be the means
of opening the door to many of
the members with talent, who
have been a bit backward in
bringing themselves forward for
participation. Only members of
SF Club will be used in most of
the productions.
“Project Up,” the drive for
funds for the erection of the new
Jewish Center, continues on its
very successful orbit and mem
bers of the Fund Drive are most
pleased over its success.
BAKED ON OUR
MADE FRESH
ON SUNDAY
OWN PREMISES
NANCY and CHUCK S
The Cake Box
6601 Central Avenue
(West Central Shopping: Center) 342-8331
St Petersburg, Florida