Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1958-09-19

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Vol. 36, No. 39
COLUMBUS, OHIO, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, (958
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Drew Pearson Speaker for Brotherhood Affair Oct. 21
Drew Pearson, nationally syndicated columnist, tele¬ vision and radio newscaster, will be the guest speaker at the Temple Israel Brother¬ hood's New Members' Night dinner In the grand ballroom of the Southern Hotel, Tues¬ day, Oct. 21, it was announc¬ ed by Marvin Frank, presi¬ dent of the Brotherhood.
"We are delighted M r. Pearson has accepted our in¬ vitation," said Mr. Frank. "Because of his national rep¬ utation and outstanding ac¬ complishments, we are Invit¬ ing all members of the Con¬ gregation to this event."
Although' a highly contro¬ versial figure In Washington circles. Drew Pearson is con¬ sidered Washington's top re¬ porter. He is the one man covering Washington news who gets stories others can't, and who dares print or broadcast what others will hush  up.
In his relentless search for news and crusade for good government, Pearson has cri¬ ticized and fought govern¬ ment officials, members of Congress and important busi¬ ness leaders, whenever he felt they w ere not acting In the public Interest. They have denied, and threatened, and evaded—but Pearson has been proved right so often that the warning "Pearson might find out about this" Is a red flag to secret connivers In government throughout the nation.
Pearson waged a powerful
campaign against the Ku Klux Klan, climaxed by his famous broadcast from the State Capitol In Atlanta, Ga., on July 21, 1946, when he answered a dare from the K/an  to eonie to Georgia.
In . 1947 Pearson staged a great project "The Friend¬ ship Train." Several hund¬ red carloads of food were collected for France and Italy. In 1951, as a follow-up project, he helped the Free¬ dom Balloon campaign, oper¬ ated by Crusade for Freedom, to reach people behind the Iron Curtain with air-borne messages of liberty and en¬ couragement.
He also organized the "De¬
mocracy Letters to Italy," credited with defeating Com¬ munism In Italy In the elec¬ tion of 1948, and In 1953 pro¬ posed the "Food for East Germany" program adopted by the Elsenhower Adminis¬ tration.
One of his outstanding in¬ terviews was with Igor Gouzenko, the Russian code clerk who defected to the West and. revealed the sensa¬ tional Russian spy rln§ In Canada which Pearson ori¬ ginally broke In 1946, eight years earlier.
His best-known single case was a running battle with the late Sen. Joseph Mc¬ Carthy, which culminated In a Senate hearing Into charges against McCarthy, and finally a vote of censure by the Senate, which ended In McCarthy's loss of power and prestige.
In addition to his daily column, "Washington Merry- Go-Round" and "More Merry-go-Round," Pearson is co-author of "Nine Old Men" and "The American Diploma¬ tic Game," and in 1958, Pear¬ son and his junior partner. Jack Anderson, wrote "USA; Second Class Power?", the story of how the United States lost the guided missile race to Flussla.
Members of Temple Israel Congregation will receive invitations to the affair with¬ in two weeks, and are being requested to return the res¬ ervation forms as soon as possible, to assure seating.
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I A DECADE PASSES
MR. PRYER
Philanthropist
Samuel A. Fryer, noted bio¬ chemist and West Coast philan¬ thropist, has made gifts totaling .$100,000 to help retire the mort¬ gage on the University of Juda¬ ism's building In Los Angeles, it was announced recently. The University Is the West Coast branch of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America.
Mr. Fryer, formerly of the Fryer Biological Laboratories of Chicago and now retired, recent¬ ly added $75,000 to a previous gift of $25,000 toward a University mortgage retirement campaign with a goal of $200,000.
FORMER S. S. 1V1EMBER.S WEAR   NAZI   DECORATIONS
VIEI^TNA, CJTA) - Former members of Hitler's Elite Guard have In recent weeks intensified holding of meetings at which prominent ex-Nazi have been principal speakers to audiences whose members openly wear for¬ bidden war decorations, including swastikas, Jewish community leaders reported this week.
^^Yom Kippur'' Period for Nations, Too
By DAVID HOROWITZ
UNITED NATIONS, (AJP) — The Rosh Hashanah—Yom Klp¬ pur season—a self-searching, re¬ flective period for us children of the Covenant—may be a good time to look into the behaviour of the nations of the world even from  this  UN vantage-point.
Here, on the second day of our high holy day, the spokesmen of the states seated themselves in the dome-capped "Temple of Peace" to debate the bedeviling issues of the times, including that, of course, of the decade-old Jewlah State within their midst. "In a sense, this is a sort of "Yom Klppur" period for the "goylm," too. For the many cri¬ tical problems confronting them amid a frigid cold war threaten¬ ing   momentary   annihilation   un¬
der the grim shadow of the lethal hydrogen and atomic weapons, have Injected such a spirit of solemnity into the whole political climate as to make the hour ap¬ pear as one of judgment.
Significantly, it is becapse the nation and people of Israel Inate- ly still have faith in a greater justice than that meted out by man, that the section in the Gen¬ eral Assembly Hall reserved for the Israeli delegation was vacant on opening day. Ambassador Eban and his colleagues—true to their heritage—had joined their fellow Jews in congregational worship.
The UN's    complete    disregard
for the sanctity of the high holy
day of one of its members;  nay,
its   utter  Indifference  to  Israel
j whether   she  was   present  or   not
at the official opening—well sym¬ bolizes the nations' general atti¬ tude towards the Jewish State, people and heritage. The 13th General Assembly might have opened one day later—a mere technical change.
It goes without saying that, had the opening date fallen on either a Christian or Moslem internat¬ ional holiday, the Assembly cer¬ tainly would have made a change. It would be unthinkable for the Assembly on the accepted New Year.
Why then this apparent disre¬ gard of Israel? The answer is simple. The Jew—persecuted and driven in every age—is taken too much for granted. The "goyim," nurtured on dogma breeding hate of, what they term, the "Judas" people associated  with a "betray-
Israel's Deputy Director Moshe Ofer to Speak For Israel Bond's High Holiday Appeals Here
Moahe Ofer, Deputy Director of Commonwealth Division of Is¬ rael's Foreign Office, is the high holiday speaker for Israel Bond Appeals at Beth Jacob on Kol Nidre Night, Agudas Achlm on Yom Kippur morning and Ahavas Sholom on Yom Kippur day.
A former air ace In the 1948 , War of Independence, Mr. Ofer served as personal assistant to Ambassador Abba Eban and was a viee-Coiisul in the Uaw York City Consulate office.
Mr. Ofer is a graduate of tho Herzlia {Hebrew High School In Tel Aviv and a graduate of He¬ brew University, where ho major¬ ed In Social Sciences. He was a crack fighter pilot, fighting over Negev skies In repelling Arab at¬ tackers.
Sunday night high holiday ac¬ tivity begins with a parlor meet-
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) ing at Leon Schottensteln's home. 50   N.    Drexel    Ave.,    where    Dr.
j Isaac    Swift,    outstanding    rafbi,
¦ scholar and  speaker,  appears. Arrangements at    Beth    Jacob,
[ where Rabbi David Stavsky will Introduce Mr. Ofiu-, are being made by Louis M. Levin, Dr. Charles   Young,   Joe   Swart2.   Dr.
! Mitchell Goodman and Milton Leeman, officers of the Congre¬ gation.
At Ahttvus Sholom. where Rab¬ bi Elliot Finkel Is spiritual lead¬ er, Mitchel Cohen and Sol Rising are In charge.
Rabbi Samuel Rubenstein will Introduce Mr. Ofer to the Agudas Achlm Congregation, and the Ap¬ peal will be conducted by Harold Schottensteln and Abe Wolman. Ell Levlson Is chairman of the usher committee and Samuel Luper Is president.
er," have become quite accustom¬ ed to believing that the Jew can take anything and still maintain his silence.
It becomes understandable, therefore, why, during the prev¬ ious emergency session dealing with the Middle East, hardly a word was uttered In Israel's be¬ half. On the other hand, every¬ thing was done to appease the Arabs, who, as all the delegates knew- -certainly Ike and Dulles- ¦ have sworn to annihilate the Is¬ raelis. Why did the representa¬ tives of the nations with a few exceptions indicated by this writ¬ er in a previous column-keep silent in the face of this known threat to the existence of the Jewish State? No move was made to force the issue for peace. "It would be untimely and unwise," Israelis were cautioned.
It is because of this fact that your correspondent cannot help but feel that here at the UN no general solution of any probli^m vviil or can be solved until the Palestine question involving the eternally persecuted Jew is ad¬ judicated—and adjudicated ac¬ cording to the biblical blueprint. Dag Hammarskjold may try to patch up matters in Jordan ori- gUially robbed by the British from Jewish Paleatint? ¦ ¦ and I'.VKJ'' may help Egypt in Gaza of biblical fame. All this will be t)i' no avail.
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As your correspondent sees it. not until the UN returns all of biblical l^alestine tu the rightful heirs can tliere be any real last¬ ing peace either there in the Mad- die East or elsewhere.
AU the land of Canium was promised to the children of Israel as an everlasting possession. This promise, we believe, was made by a Power greater than that of anything that may erimnate from Moscow or Washington.
BY EDWARD FISHER, EDITOR  (l!)4r-1.938)
It was a cool, cloudy afternoon in October, 11 years ago. Chronicle publisher Ben Neustadt and a half-.scared would-be editor were having hot corned beef sandwiches and Pepsi at Hepps Delicatessen (Main & Washington). Ben picked up the tab and he had himself a new employee.
The decade-plus since then has been — to say the least -— educational, and for the-most part, fun. We learned, above all, that one of life's most cherished trea.sures was—Page One of The Chronicle.
A week's work, however, didn't begin and end with that precious commodity. There were seven other pages, sometimes nine, occasionally H, a few times lb, to go with "the big one."
During these 10-years-plus-one, a candle was being burned brightly at two ends — at 35 E. Liv¬ ingston Ave. and at 34 S. 3rd St. (The Columbus Dispatchl. Finally, the eventual had to happen, and it did. There weren't enough hours in a day or a week. The moment of decision was at hand: Liv¬ ingston k\-e. or 3rd St.
SO WE TACKLED THE ANSWER mathema¬ tically: some 15 years with The Diispatch, H with The Chronicle.    Longevity won.
So away we go. The parting of the ways is practical . . . and most friendly. The severance isn't lOO'/f . . . that's impossible. We'll always feel to some degree attached to the growth of the "OJC" and its objectives.
We've gotten to know hundreds of people, many of whom we had the pleasure of being in con¬ tact with in presentation of organizational, social, athletic, religious and charitable news and cam¬ paigns.
We'll never forget such ardent publicitors and wonderful people like Sara Schwartz, Rose Caplan, Eve Luper, Mildred Tarshish, U.JF's Maurice Bern¬ stein and Ben Mandelkorn; the late, great Rabbi Leopold Greenwald; our foremost editorial "contri¬ butor," A. W. Robins: Mike Schwartz, Sam Stellman and the under-publicized Mayer Rosenfeld. and many, many more whose names momentarily es¬ cape us, and for which we sincerely apologize.
THE CHRONICLE, UNDER THE able and ag gressive guidance of Richard' (Dick) .Neustadt and Milt Pinsky, is about to swing into a vast expansion project which i.s certain to broaden the scope of the newspaper's service to the .lewish community.
A.s il preview, we'll re\'eal thiit, in becoming a n publication with at least 12 pages, instead of eight, \ Chronicle subscribers will see a heavy leaning to¬ ward national and international news and features, more local stories with "human interest'" fla\'oring, and with no recession of news from the many wor¬ thy organi- .ition.s, etc., in Central Ohio.
A ful -eport on the e.vpansion program will Ap¬ pear in nt .t week's issue, including the introduction of two new staff members who will operate this high-geared machinery.
AS STATED SEVERAL PARAGRAPHS ago, we're not completely disassociating from The Chronicle. For at least a while we'll handle some sports material (this i.s where we came in, inciden¬ tally), and occa.sionally offer a behind-the-scene a.'-- sist.
So, at the risk of sounding corny, trite and gushy, we'll say it has been an interesting decade . . . and a challenge we've tried to meet fairly and conscientiou.sly.
Ood ble.s.s you all — and "Viva La Page One!"
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The   Eleanor   Roosevelt   Institute   for   Cancer   Research
has been established at fhe American Medical Center at Denver to spur the fight against the nation's "Number 2 killer." The free, non-sectarldn center provides unlimited hospitalization to victims of cancer and chest diseases in oil stages. One of the few institu. tions bearing Mrs. Roosevelt's name, the new Institute will moke a unique contribution to cancer research by combining the medical center's policy of continuous treatment with prolonged research. The American Medical Center was known as JCRS until it. widened Its serviea lo include tho^e affiktad with cancer and olljed diteqsei.
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