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Ptfe 6 Da))as Texas Jewish Post Thurs., July 2, 1959
postcolumn
Plain Talk
Alfred Segal
MORE ABOUT THOSE HOTELS
A few weeks ago I reported here that I couldn’t go along with
the Anti-Defamation League which in B’nai B’rith s monthly maga-
zine protested because a hotel on Lake Placid, N. Y , didn t care to
have Jews as guests..
As* I said then, in self-respect I won’t scream out loud just be-
cause some ethically and socially low-down hotel won’t take me in.
Don’t 1 demean myself and my people when publicly 1 make it wide-
ly known that by some suoh hotel I and my fellow-Jews are con-
sidered a lesser species of the human race?
So I just keep still and hold my head high, far above any of
those low-dbwn hotels. I go my way in proud self-respect, looking
down on them.
If am brought back to the matter of such hotels by a letter from
Lawyer Harry A. Kovenock, formerly president of the Milwaukee
Jewish Council. (He reads this column in the Wisconsin Jewish Chro-
nicle.) ________
He disagrees with me on the
matter of those hotels. Says he:
“Your column suggests that when
a Jew encounters a ‘Restricted’
sign in a hotel, he should retreat
in dignified silence and you ob-
ject to Anti-Defamation League
‘screaming’ by publishing arti-
cles exposing hotel discrimina-
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ti-on. . .You seem to think that
the problem of hotel discrimina-
tion is not important enough to
call for speech or action.”
Mr. Kovenock says I’m all
wrong: “For a large segment of
the American people. . . .notably
Negroes. . .the problem is some-
times as basic as simply finding
a lodging for the night. It might
still be so for the Jew were it
not for the campaign of agita-
tion. . .which you find undigni-
fied. . .which has been carried
on by many people and by orga-
nizations like the Anti-Defama-
tion League. It has made thje
American public at least partially i
aware of the affront to human
dignity which is committed when
any person is denied public ac-
comodations because of his race,
color or creed. In fact, in many
states,, including yofur State of
Ohio, such denial is by law made
punishable.”
Lawyer Kovenock goes on: “The
question, however, is not how
much or how little hurt Jews
suffer from a particular type
of discrimination. The question
rather is whether we Jews, as
individuals and through our in-
stitutions and organizations, can
and should wherever possible
through speech or action discour-
age discrimination in any form
whatever against any man be-
cause of his race, religion, or
natural rights.
“Our religion, our tradition
and our experience as a people
for more than 2000 years. . .if
it has any meaning for out times
. . .compels a vigorous, affirma-
tive answer to discrimination
against any part of the human
family. If we are not for our-
selves, who will be? If we are
for ourselves alone, what are we?
And if not now, when?
“The road of human degrada-
tion that begins with exclusion
from hotels and ends in confine-
ment in concentration camps is
a long one; but such a road was
built in our times, and it was
paved with stones of silence. On
this issue it is neither safe ntor
at efforts to arouse the human
prudent to be silent; and we
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should support, rather than sneer
conscience to the shame 'of dis-
crimination.”
My reply: W^ell, Mr. Kovenock,
I keep on believing that discri-
mination which keeps me out of
some V>f the hotels is one of
the lesser of the foulness in the
human race. So that no-good-ho-
tel-keeper doesn’t want me in
his house! I am happy to be re-
jected by one so indecent. Why
should I want any association in
the environment of such a per-
son. I just don’t want to let my-
self down to his level by protest-
ing. I go my way.
Indeed, our being kept out of
such low places is the least of
discriminations. Much more pain-
ful than my own self being kept
out of such a hotel, is what may
happen to a grandson of mine*
when, finally, he’s looking for a
job. Indeed, as 1 understand,
there are more business houses
that don’t want Jewish boys on
jobs than hotels that don’t wanti
Jews as guests.
I know of business places in
our own town that won’t take
Jews into their employ. (And, for
that matter, there are those who
won’t have Catholics, either.
To fight all such discrimina-
tion that goes on in employment
is far more important than car-
ing in the least that some Hotel
doesn’t want me because I’m a
Jew.
Yes, to deny a man the divine
and social right to make a living,
is a hell of-a-lot more of a crime
than Ho keep me out of some so
called swell hotel because I’m a
Jew. I just don’t care.
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