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The Southern Israelite
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A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry — Establ'" 1
Vol. XU
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MARCH 4, I960
The Human Touch
World In A Nutshell Israe,i “Private
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NEW YORK (WUP) — Harry
Fleishman’s “Let’s Be Human”
report, published by the Institute
of Human Relations, contains an
interesting item in its current is
sue which places the world pop
ulation, reduced proportionately
Into a theoretical town of 1,000
people.
Taken from the New Jersey
Blue Cross and Blue Shield
“Fast Facts,” the picture would
look something like this:
“In this town, there would be
60 Americans, with the remain
der of the world represented by
940 persons. This is the propor
tion of the population of the U. S.
to that of the world, 60 to 940.
The 60 Americans would have
half the income of the entire
town with the other 940 dividing
the other half. About 330 people
in the town would be classified
Christians; 670 would not.
“At least 80 Townspeople
would be practicing Communists,
and 370 others would be under
Communist domination. White
people would total 303 with 697
non-white. The 60 Americans
would have an average life ex
pectancy of 70 years, the other
uled address before the German
Association Club by a West Ger
man army officer and former
member of the Nazi Wehrmacht,
currently stationed with a NATO
contingent at Camp Shilo near
here, has been canceled after the
Canadian Jewish Congress and
other Jewih groups protested the
appearance.
NEW YORK (JTA)—Rep. Em
anuel Celler, New York Demo
crat, said here that public pro
tests are the only effective meth
od of publicizing the anti-Jewish
conditions in the Soviet Union.
Addressing a rally of some 800
persons in Brooklyn protesting
anti-Semitism in the USSR, Rep.
Celler urged the participants to
continue their efforts, hoping that
the Soviet Government’s “new
sensitivity to public opinion”
would bring reforms.
Before the rally, nearly 1.000
persons took part in a protest
march for Soviet Jewry. Partici
pating in the march were delega
tions from the American Legion,
Veterans of Veterans of Foreign
Wars, Jewish War Veterans and
other community groups.
MUNICH (JTA)—Unidentified
(A Seven Arte Feature)
Poor Purim!
Coming just a month before
Passover, the holiday of Purim
has been eclipsed by its great
sucoessor in the
calendar.
But it is time
for Purim to be
e 1 e vated. One
does not belittle
Passover if one
declares that the
s i gnificance of
the holiday
which highlights
the valor of Mor
decai and Esther, is great.
Along with its counterpart,
Hanukah, Purim has been rele
gated to the category of ‘minor”
holidays.
Long ago, Theodor Herzl de-
cUml, in effect, that a holiday
940 less than 40 years on the
average. The 60 Americans would
have 15 times as many posses
sions per person as all the rest
of the people. The Americans
would produce 16 per cent of the
town’s food supply. Although they
eat 72 per cent above the max
imum food requirements, they
would either eat most of what
they grow, or store it for their
own future use at an enormous
cost.
“Since most of the 940 non-
Americans in the town would be
hungry most of the time, it would
create some ill feelings tdward
the 60 Americans, who would ap
pear to be enormously rich and
fed to the point of sheer dis
belief by the great majority of
the townspeople. The Americans
would also have a disproportion
ate share of electric power, fuel,
steel and general equipment. Of
the 940 non-Americans. Two hun
dred would have malaria, and
three leprosy. Forty-five would
die from malaria, cholera, typhus,
and malnutrition. None of the 60
Americans will ever get these
diseases or probably ever be wor
ried about them.”
vandals uprooted and damaged
about 40 tombstones in the 150-
year-old Jewish Cemetery in Mu
nich and police said that the des
ecrations were committed by
drunken revelers at the height of
the current Fasching (carnival)
season.
However, Dr. Hendrick Van
Dam, general secretary of the
Central Council of Jews in Ger
many, charged that the vandalism
had obviously been done with
“calculated malice.” He added
that the crime was was “not to
be wondered at” in view of the
anti-Semitic headlines constantly
on display in the right-wing
newspapers widely displayed on
West German newstands.
A special Munich police com
mission began a search for the
vandals, who were believed to be
18 to 20 years old. A reward of
$3,000 marks ($750) has been of
fered for their apprehension.
Munich Mayor Hans Jochem
Vogel visited the cemetery and
expressed his condolences to
Munich’s Jewish community. The
city government debated whether
to publicize the desecration and
finally allowed photographers
and newsmen to enter the van
dalized cemetery.
which spotlights the cause of re
ligious liberty should not be la
beled minor. He lifted Hanukah
up and produced more Hanukah
uplift. In our day, it should be
pointed out that Purim, which
trumpets the refusal of Mordecai
to bow down to a bigot and
despot also merits a higher
rating.
Today we need the spirit of
Mordecai. Modern Hamans ask
us to prostrate ourselves before
them. Blessed be the courageous
who show the enemy not their
backs but their eyeballs.
In religious schools, of course,
and in Israel, Purim has long
ago been raised from the belit-
tlement implied In Its description
as “minor.” For weeks before the
jolly day arrives, youngsters in
Jewish schools rehearse the ex-
TEL AVIV (JTA)—An Israeli
restaurant owner, Abraham Na
than, of Tel Aviv, flew to Egypt
Monday aboard a 40-year old bi
plane which he named “Shalom,”
bent on what he called “a peace
mission” designed to convince
Egypt’s President Gamal Abdel
Nasser that peace talks should be
held between Egypt and Israel.
(Three hours after Nathan’s
take-off, press dispatches report
ed from Port Said said, having
run out of fuel, Nathan crashed-
landed near the Port Said Air
port. There, the dispatches stated,
he was met by Port Said Gov
ernor Mohamed Saeef Talal, who
said he would turn the Israeli
over to Government authorities
in Cairo. Nathan was reportedly
uninjured in the crash landing.
Later he was ordered deported
from Egypt.)
Nathan, who is 38, was bom in
Persia. He had been a pilot in
the British Royal Air Force and
later flew for the El A1 Israel
Air Lines. In last November’s
general elections in Israel, he ran
as an independent candidate for
the Knesset, promising that, if
elected, he would fly to Cairo to
request Nasser to open peace
talks with Israel. He was badly
beaten in the election campaign.
Several weeks ago, Nathan an
nounced that he was seeking sig
natures from Israelis to back his
peace appeal. He said that if he
received 100,000 signatures by
March 8, he would attempt his
peace mission.
Monday morning, Nathan ar
rived at the small Israeli airport
near Herzliah where he had park
ed his two-seater steerman air
port. He told newsmen, some of
whom had accompanied him to
the airport, that he had received
70,000 signatures to his peace pe
tition from Israelis, and that he
had also received letters approv
ing his campaign from various
A scholarship to Massey Jun
ior College will be offered
through The Southern Israelite,
it was announced this week.
The offer was made by Dr.
citing Biblical story, prepare to
stage their Purim plays and
beauty contests, plan their ward
robe for the costume parties, feel
anticipatory mouth-watering for
their holiday feasts, and get
ready for carnivals and other
celebrations, many of which pro
duce revenue which goes towards
aiding the poor (exactly what the
Book of Esther recommends).
And in Israel Purim is mardi
gras and New Year’s Eve rolled
into one, except that the parades
and the fiestas hammer home, in
gay manner, the holiday's great
themes: hufnan liberty and the
perils of xenophobia.
Since mankind is still engaged
in a grim struggle between ha-
manism and humanism, Purim
needs upgrading. A happy and
meaningful Purim to youl
outstanding world personalities,
including Lord Bertrand Russell
of Britain and Premier Jomo
Kenyatta of Kenya.
At the airport, Nathan request
ed and obtained clearance for
what he called a "training flight.”
He said he bad sufficient fuel to
last him four hours. He issued a
statement to 'Nasser, declaring
that he was unarmed and did not
even carry a radio in his plane,
as a sign of peaceful intentions.
In his appeal to Nasser, he stated:
“Please ensure my safe landing
at Port Said.”
He told newsmen at the air
port that he had left a will with
his attorney in Tel Aviv, to make
sure that payments due for the
Edward Porter, Massey Junior
College president, and accepted
by Adolph Rosenberg, editor and
publisher, in behalf of The Sou
thern Israelite.
The scholarship will be award
ed to a young Jewish person in
accordance with policies of the
Hate Agitator Takes
Fifth as Klan
Hearings End
WASHINGTON (JTA)—The
House Committee on Un-Amer
ican Activities terminated its
public hearings on the Ku Klux
Klan with the questioning of
an anti-Semitic agitator, J. B.
Stoner, of Augusta, Ga., form
er Klan organizer and leader of
various anti-Jewish extremist
groups.
When Stoner took the Fifth
Amendment and refused to
answer questions, Rep. Joe
Pool, Texas Democrat, who
served as acting chairman, said
the Klan’s tactics "let the
America people know what
kind of dirty rats you are.”
Rep. Pool said the next step is
to draft laws to deal with hate
groups and Klan-like activities.
airplane are met, and that he had
also willed some paintings that he
owns to the Israel Museum in
Jerusalem. “I have a clear plan,”
he stated, “for bringing peace be
tween Israel and the Arabs. All
thaj has to be done is *to open
negotiations. The rest should be
left to the leaders of the differ
ent countries.”
As Nathan’s small plane took
off in a genera] southerly direc
tion, Israeli fighter planes took
to the air and followed him a
short distance, but did, not try
to force him down. His announced
peace mission to Nasser had not
been given much credence in Is
rael until he actually flew off
toward Port Said.
school and requirements estab
lished by the newspaper.
The scholarship will cover tu
ition for two years amounting to
$2,000 for the regular two-year
course or for $2,700 for the insti
tution’s special course in fashion
and merchandising.
Mr. Rosenberg stated that ad
ditional information regarding
applications and the basis on
which applicants will be judged
will be announced in future is
sues of The Southern Israelite.
“It is a pleasure,” Mr. Rosen
berg said, “to be instrumental in
affording a yoftng Jewish student
the opportunity to further his or
her education at Massey.”
“The purpose of Massey Jun
ior College,” said Mr. Porter, “is
to provide young men and wom
en with professional career train
ing for positions of responsibility
in the business world . . . while
offering numerous subjects in
general education.”
Should the scholarship winner
elect the merchandising and fash
ion course, studies will follow the
basic curriculum of the junior
college and then extend into the
field of fashion, merchandising
and retailing. This course of
study is guided by Massey Junior
College’s division, Fashion Insti
tute of America
... the short of it
WINNIPEG (JTA)— A sched-
SILVER LINING-by Dr. Samuel Silver
Should We Elevate Purim?
See CARE Opportunilies - Page 5
Massey Junior College Scholarship
Offered Through Southern Israelite