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What The Press Is Saying
Racist Atrocity and Southern Justice
Georgia Press Association
NATIONAL EDITORIAL
World Press
7 Arts Features
Adolph Rosenberg, Editor and Publisher
Kathleen Nease, Jeanne Loeb, Joseph Redlich
Vida Goldgar, Harry Rose, Betty Meyer
BUBER'S BEQUEST
IN A LITERAL and infinitely realistic sense, ail of civiliz-
ed humankind has suffered the loss of Martin Buber. A genius
of philosophic insight, a beneficence of spirituality, a light
unto the nations, Martin Buber was a child of his people, but
in the boundless generosity of his brainpower, he was the
possession of the world; in the same way, his bequests art
not for our time alone, but for generations out of sight.
He was an incomparable humanist, a seer who penetrated
to the core of human relationship; his philosophy of dialogue—
the celebrated I-Thou exchange—is intended to set man on
an ultimate path: to meet and confront himself— and, ulti
mately, God, whom Buber called the “Eternal Thou.” He may
well have been led on to this piercing concept by his Hasidic
experience, with its noble simplicity, its stirring ecstacy, its
incandescent communion with the Divine. It was Buber who,
in our abrasive and perilous time, taught man the lovable
and loving of God, the quintessence of Torah.
The aura of splendor which encompassed him in life will
continue to shine from him long after death; contemplating
his wonderfully long career, we feel a sense of gratitude and
appreciation, of enlargement and even exhilaration . . . The
Hebrew phrase expresses it with deep feeling: tzadikim
b misasom nik’r’u hayim—the truly righteous, even in death,
are regarded as alive.
—Cleveland Jewish News
LETTERS
to the
EDITORS
Dear Editor:
“WHY NOT THE JEWS?”
Have you tried to get a room
in any hospital here in Atlanta
lately? I hope you have not had
to worry about that. In case you
have then you will know what
this is all about. In case you
have not had to use the hospital
then I would really hope that
you will read on as it is a must
and a big need for this here in
Atlanta.
Getting a' room in a hospital
in Atlanta is worse than having
your teeth pulled. There is a
great shortage of rooms and you
might be on the death bed, and
even at that you might not be
able to obtain a room at one of
our fine but overcrowdep hos
pitals. I have a friend thl>t is a-
nurse at the Piedmont Hospital.
She had an attack of appendi
citis. When she went to Pied
mont she was told that she
would have to go elsewhere as
there was no room at Piedmont.
She then had to get on the phone
and finally ended up at the old
Crawford Long Hospital. There
the operation took place. An
other friend's father has to have
an operation and he had to make
an appointment with the hos
pital for 6 weeks in advance so
that he will be able to be as
sured of a bed in the hospital.
‘‘Why not the Jews?” — The
Baptists, Catholics and all others
have their own hospitals and we
the Jews have to go there for
our needs. There are Jewish hos
pitals all over the country and
in cities much smaller than that
of the size of Atlanta. They are
all self-supported and they are
run by local people and all seems
to be well with them.
Being in the real estate busi
ness I am in contact with peo
ple that are in the process now
or at one time have built multi
million dollar buildings for of
fice space and the rate of vacan
cy is so great now that they are
suffering a great expense at this
time. I would guarantee (not
that I would wish so) but I
would say that if a hospital were
built here in Atlanta and spon
sored by the Jewish people that
there would be no doubt in my
mind that it would be filled up
and there would be little room
for vacancies. Let’s give our
opinion through The Southern
Israelite and see if we can’t
start up something here and let
the big men of Atlanta Jewry
go forth with this.
Jerry H. Fields
Bernard Baruch
(Contiune From Page One)
to Washington to address a na
tional UJA convention appealing
for aid to Jews overseas. The
gifts he made to general causes
included $250,000 to New York
University, $400,000 to Columbia
University and $800,000 to vari
ous medical schools. Former
President Herbert Hoover once
said that he had seen Mr. Baruch
give a check for $1,000,000 to the
American National Red Cross.
He also made a large contribu
tion to the City College here.
Honored by many govern
ments, he contributed substantial
sums for the investigation of the
problem of war, its causes and
means of prevention. He was the
author of several books and
numerous pamphlets on econom
ics and war economics.
Presumably it comes under the heading of
national progress when ten white Alabama
jurors vote to convict a Klansman clearly
identified as one of the killers of civil-rights
worker Viola Liuzzo. But two held against all
the devastating evidence, and the trial has
ended in deadlock. Can we take much pride
in this form of advance? Or must we begin to
face the question of whether our cherished
tury system functions in the Southern world
of racial oppression. It is meaningful that 10
men dared to risk community ostracism by
voting for what seemed clearly elementary
justice. How many years must we wait before
the 10 becomes 12^ The murder of Mrs. Liuzzo
was the latest, if perhaps the most appalling,
case of racist atrocity. Time and again the
killers have been spared by all-white juries.
Can we derive any smug satisfaction from
this newest exercise in Southern “justice”
because 10 men tried to do the honorable
thing? Is there no valid deadline on the
South’s contempt of court? Nothing in our
legal processes can restore Mrs. Liuzzo’s life.
But surely there must be a national determi
nation that the case is not closed. The trial
concluded over a month ago and the murder
ers walk the streets as free citizens. But the
issue is still very much alive. On Monday,
June 21, memorial services were held for the
three civil rights workers who were murdered
in Philadelphia, Miss. Goodman, Schwerner
and Chaney were shot to death not by pro
fessional bandits but by, or rather at the
instigation of, city officials. These, too, have
escaped justice. And we ask: Isn’t there some
what of a parallel between Dallas and
Philadelphia? The New York Post
Surveying English-Jewish Press
If the English-Jewish weekly press sud
denly disappeared, the effect would be a
weakened American Jewry. This is a finding
of a survey report in the May issue of the Na
tional Jewish Monthly, published by B’nai
B’rith. Without English-Jewish newspapers,
self, its memories and dreams, may well be
its’chief gift to human culture. Nationalism’s
victories of the past two centuries have been
won against tyranny and colonialism. Those
who mouth the fragmentation of the political
map and long for larger political units should
recall how the explosion of nationalism came
about. In an area of Europe where there were
once two sovereignties—the Austrian-Hun-
garian and the Ottoman Empires—there are
now 11 states. In Africa, where once imperial
Britain, France and Belgium ruled, there are
now 33 nations . . The growth of nationalism
has been, in the main, a story of liberation.
National diversity can be a source of intense
and positive vitality, provided it is reconciled
with the restraints and solidarities of an inter
nation order. . . It is to the intellectual merit
of the UN meetings that they involve sover
eign governments in issues outside their
limited range of self-interest. To great nations,
the UN teches the humility of altruistic con
cern. To small nations, it offers an escape
from suffocating provincialism. . . If the UN
dialogue is broken off, we shall feel the icy
blast of the coldest of cold wars, while small
nations will lose the only platform from
which their voices can echo the hope of peace-
loving mankind. . . .
Abba Eban, from an Article in Look Magazine
TALMUDIC
TREASURES
Collected and Translated
By JACOB L. FRIEND
There are seven marks of an uncultured,
and seven of a wise man (Hokhom). The wise
man does not speak before him who is greater
, 1 T • u • , than he is in wisdom; and does not break in
the survey notes. . Jewtsh organizations and speech of his fellow; he is not hasty
synagogues would lose an important commun- to P answer £ ut wails until the other has finish-
ity-wide means for publicizing their activities he questions according
and attracting new members. 2. Fund-raising ^ Vr , . , ./ A tn .u,,
to the subject matter, and answers to the
drives would be less effective. 3. The blackout
on
placed by any existing medium. The survey
by Harold Eidlin, newswriter and editor for
the “Voice of America, was based on ques
tionnaires sent to congregational rabbis, pub
lic relations directors of Jewish national
organizations and to Jewish weekly publish
ers themselves. Most respondents considered
the disappearance of the Jewish weeklies
“unthinkable.” But they were also unsparing
in their criticism. They agreed, among other
things, that many weeklies are “dull,” “unin
spiring,” “poorly written and edited with little
or no influence in molding Jewish community
opinion.” . . . The weeklies were widely criti
cized for placing “disproportionate” emphasis
on social news, and for “sensationalizing small
matters into great issues”—particularly anti-
Semitic incidents. Another criticism was that
most weeklies give “favored news treatment
for Israel”—that is, over-emphasizing news
items from or about Israel. . . Publishers who
responded to the questionnaire admitted many
of the charges. But they also maintained that
the shortcomings “stem not from a lack of
response to community needs or lack of per
sonal commitment, but rather are the result
of a financial squeeze which makes qualita
tive improvements difficult.” . . . About 80
percent reported that their papers had en
joyed circulation gains during the past five
to ten years. . . Jewish Floridian, Miami
Eban on UN Hope
It is because of planetary problems that
Be Kind
to
Dumb
Animals
news of Jewish interest could not be re- U Mnt ,’ he speaks upon the liist thing fiist,^nd
the last last; his mind works in oraeri\
sequence regarding that which he has not un
derstood he says, I do not understand it; and
he acknowledges the truth a sign of true cul
ture, if he is in error he readily admits it. The
reverse of all this is to be found in an uncul
tured man. . .
Once Rabbi Akiba was delayed, and on
his arrival, took a seat outside the Academy,
in order not to disturb the students. A ques
tion was asked in Halakha (Law), and ^the
reply was made: “The Halakha is outside. A
second time they said: “The Torah is outside.
A third time they said: “Akiba is outside.” All
the students arose anejf Rabbi Akiba was
summoned. f
In his youth Rabbi \Akiba sat at the feet
of R. Eliezer and R. Joshua for thirteen
years, unnoticed by either of them.
“And there arose no prophet like Moses.”
But a sage like him did arise, namely, Rabbi
Akiba. (Yalkut Reubeni Berakha)
Said Rabbi Ammi: “In the matter of judg
ment give the seat of honor to him who is
most learned; in social etiquette, give the seat
of honor to him who is oldest.”
We read: “My doctrine shall drop as the
rain, my speech shall distill as the dew.”
(Deuteronomy 32, 2).
If a teacher is incompetent, his words
seem to the pupils as harsh as falling rain. If
he is competent, his teaching ia_ distilled
gently like dew.
He who teaches his grandson is as if he
the urgency of preserving the UN framework had received his teaching from Mount Sinai,
becomes acute. With all its imperfections, He who teaches his neighbor’s son is as if
the UN is the only incarnation of a planetary he had created him, and will deserve to sit
spirit. It alone presents a vision of man in
his organic unity. It does not escape into a
vague universalism by ignoring the claims
of nationality. A paradox of our times is that
the proliferation of small nations goes hand-
in-hand with a search for wider forms of inte
gration, as exemplified in the United Nations,
the European Economic Community, the
Organization of American States and the
Organization of African Unity. The UN
Charter strikes a delicate balance between
national identity and universal solidarity. The
nation-state, after all, is still the main source
of distinctive culture. In some respects, all
nations are like others; and none can escape
the over-riding human destiny. But those
qualities that a nation holds especially to it-
in the Heavenly Academy.
JEWISH
CALENDAR
* First Day of Rosh Hoshanah
-Monday, September 27
* Yom Kippur—Oct. 6
* First Day of Succoth, October
11
* Shimini Atzereth, October 18
* Simchas Torah, October 19
* Hanukah, December 19
* Holiday Begins Sundown
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