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JEWISH CALENDAR
•ROSH HASHANA
Oct. 1-2
Thursday-Friday
*TOM KIPPUR
Oct 10. Saturday
•SUKKOT
Oct. 15-16
Thuraday-Friday
a rapid end to the farce —
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Oct 23, Friday
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Teenagers Again — Fronts and Center
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(Editor-In-Chief Emeritus, J/tJLV
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Thfe siimmer camp season is canting t6 -* doee
this weekend. And with it also the "silent prob
lem’' of combatting drug abused among teflbagers
~ in the Jewish camps, and even dmong some mem
bers of the staff.
With the number of Jewish “drug experimen
ters’* estimated to' be about 80' percent of the
Jewish youth in some schools and in some neigh
borhoods — especially in areas where middle-class
Jewish families reside — it was inevitable that
the drug abuse practice should also find its way
to youngsters in Jewish camps ibis summer. Of
the more/ than 200 camps nationally sponsored
by Jewish community agencies, some are known
to have, had sad experiences in checking drug
abuses.
Usually, for the sake of protecting the reputa
tion of the camp, little or nothing is spoken of
these experiences. It is known, however, that there
have been cases in some of the camps where teen
agers involved in experimenting with drugs Aad i
been sent,home ! , /
It is, of course, more difficult to acquire drug*
in a camp than in the city. Also, unlike in the
Anti-Jewish, Anti.-Black Bias
Phone-Cast All-Day in Cleveland
CLEVELAND, Ohio (JTA)—A
strident, hysterial voice oozes
messages of hate against Jews
ahd blacks 24 hours a day, seven
days a week. The voice, identi
fied as belonging to one Charles
■yeros, is transmitted on public
telephones by a Special record
ed announcement from the “Na
tional Socialist Bookstore” ip
this city’s WeSt Side.
The messages, changed week
ly, deal with the drug scene,
housing problems and social ills
Which are attributed to Jews
and blacks. The disembodied re
cording tells the listener to
“compare our conditions to Na
tional Socialist Germany” to
learn the answer to the ills
plaguing American society.
“The differences are eye-open-
_ SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
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{leathern Israelite invites literary contributions and correspondence
b#Ja not te he eeueidened a» sharing the views expressed by writers.
DEADLINE is 5 PJB.J1IDAY, but material received earlier will
tars'* much betU$jhance of publication.
. -.1 Adolph- Rosenberg, Editor end Publisher
Kathleen Neese, Vida Goldgar, Edward M. Kahn
Kathy Wood, Harry Rose, Betty Meyer, Gertrude Burnham
Georgia Press Assn.
Seven Arts Features,,
Jewish Telegraphic ,
Agency
World Union Press
,g to hear, our pronouncements
i talks with the Arabs. They
for self-preservation which has
have an uncanny
stood them in good steacT — so far.
But in case our readers are interested, let it be recorded
font we consider that poor faith has been demonstrated both
by the United States government and the Arab nations as
far as to Whet a “cease-fire” is and is not.
In view of the international developments, it seems to
ittean everybody involved stop rearming named Israel but
itfs okay for any country by any other name to go full-steam
ghead. And this anomoly is what has occurred. Egypt has
lunged immediately into an accelerated pace for receiving
issian arms while bellicosely building up missile bases near
Suez.
That Israel has balked over continuing under such con
ditions is not only understandable but an imperative if any
progress is to be made along the lines of peace.
And now comes the asinine suggestion for a joint U.S.-
Red $eac*-keeping force. -
Let’s beer -this again!. . The United States which was
moribund when the time came to guarantee the maritime
lorn of the seas when the Gulf of Aquaba was blocked in
by the intransient Egyptians is going to guarantee the
id-East peaceLjsdth Whom now? Russia?
Since when^Eu 'Russia lived up to a treaty commitment
with an$r_ nation in the free world? Much less any unwritten
' ' gentlemen’s agreement? True there is a temp-
for Israel but the Arab build-up will obviate
ivantage in no time at all
circumstances as a vir-
Ripper and King Henry
ing,” the messages recites
monotone. “There were no dis
senting, dissatisfied kids, no
longhaired grown men, no
drugs, no blatant sexual ram
paging, no decadence. And no
wonder:' National Socialist Ger
many was free of the corrup
tion of Marxist Jews.” To shore
up this contention, the message
hits home with this-venom:
Adolf Hitler put it another
way. He said, “Cut deeply into
an abscess in our society, and
crouching at the bottom you’ll
find a little Jew boy often blind
ed by the sudden light.”
Dealing, with public housing,
the recording offered comments
about “the kind of people who
will be coming to take over our
stable white neighborhoods.”
Referring to a rock festival in
the area that had been cancelled
but to which young people came
despite the cancellations and al
legedly took drugs and smoked
marijuana, another recording
offered an explanation of what
happened there. “You will want
to know how these things hap
pen and who organizes them.
You don’t have to look far. It
is almost a sure bet that in a
day or two there will be another
article about some Jew who loot
a bundle when the festival was
cancelled.” The, daily tape re
cordings, which have been spew
ing its venom for months and
also provides the latest “line”
according to the ‘“National So
cialist White Peoples Party.”
Discussions have been, conduct
ed with Ohio Bell Telephone of
ficials about the legality of using
telephone lines for hate propa
ganda. Officials have said they
■felt they could not take legal
steps to halt the telephone serv
ice. It is estimated that hun
dreds of' local residents dial the
number daily—for various rea
sons including curiosity—and re
ceive a full dose of ugly, semi-
obscene poisonous comments.
clty' ^eW teMrigert are hot under the constant
eyes 6f their fciMnts and feOhOof teachers, they are
under th<T watchful observation’ 24: hours a day
in the 'eattip by counsellors and camp officials. This
makes the use of drugs more difficult for them.
Nevertheless the administrators in a number of
Jewish camps faced unpleasant cases.
They were prepared for this. Camps sponsored
by Jewish community centers had received guid
ance in advance of the opening of the camp season.
In the larger communities where serious attention
is now being paid to the drug abuse problem
among Jewish youths, special attention was also
paid this summer to prevent the using of drugs
by the young campers as well as by some of the
young counsellors. ,
SUMMER EXPERIMENT
Fighting drug abase among Jewish teenagers
in the city has also become part of a summer
project upon which the Bureau for Careers in
Jewish Service has embarked In New York.
Utilizing the vacation months, when college
students are looking for jobs, the Bureau has re
cruited a number of them to learn, while earning,
about the various fields of Jewish communal
service; also to serve as a link between troubled
Jewish teenagers and Jewish social workers and
psychiatrists.
The students mbiUMRfer all of them
majons have, been assigned by the Bureau „
careful screening and Orientation, to, street*
New York, where Jewish middle-clas* teenagep ,
usually congregate. There they were mingling ,
with these teenagers and became members of their
groups into which they were easily accepted be
cause they talked the language of the teenagers
and came from the same middle-class environ
ments.
It did not take them long to become confidants
of the misguided youngsters. They spent time in
the “street” with the teenagers, not only days
but also evenings. Some of them mingled, with .
the youngster* every evening of the week. When
friendship was cemented, the teenagers confided
in them not oxly their own problems, but also
the problems of other Jewish youngsters caught
in the net of using drugs. The students then tact
fully influence^ the troubled teenagers to volun
tarily seek counselling, psychiatric assistance and
other aid from the Jewish Community Services
in' their neighborhood.
Especially active in this project was the Jewish
Community Services of Long Island, where some
of the areas are populated by Jewish middle-class
families. In these areas there are many cases
where Jewish adolescents are facing serious
troubles with their families, in their schools and
are but a short step from becoming runaways and
from
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Careers in
ing users of
cases
i-WWStm* far
concentrated on rOach-
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;” drugs — marijuana, barbituates,
and other forms of
work with “hard” drug
are beyond their competence.
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PENDING PiANS .... . ;u ., oiiV r
With thousands of Jewish teenagers now t*'
turning frowj foeuj summer camps to. the <3ty, and
on the «vq,of the opening of the new school year,
practically every Jewish community in the coun
try Is now preparing educational programs on
many aspects of drug abuse for parents, teachers,
social workers gnd teenagers.
All major Jewish communities are unanimous
in their conviction that the drug abuse problem
is serious, growing worse and of great concern to
all segments pf the Jewish community. It has been
established that the proportion of cases in whieh
Jewish teenagers are treated successfully for the
elimination of any form of drug use tt, unfortun
ately, quite small This is true regardless of
whether the treatment is conducted by a Jewish
family' agency, psychiatric clinic or residential
treatment center.
The problem of treatment of Jewish drug
users — as well as of discouraging drug experi
mentation among Jewish teenagers — will there
fore be high on the agenda of Jewish communities
as the new school season opens. Jewish Family
Services will in, the coming months be busier
than ever, since all' indications show-that drug
abuse is rather increasing, and not decreasing,
among Jewish youngsters; especially among
those who come from affluent families.
(Copyright 1910, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)
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