Texas Jewish Post (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 12, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 23, 1972 Page: 1 of 60
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The Passover story is a biblical history of freedom. Every Jew
knows the story by heart. The youngest of us are asked at the
Passover Seder table to recite the "Four Questions?" Ma Nishtana
Halalla Hazeh?-Why is this night different from all other nights?
Jesus recited these same questions as a boy prior to his Bar
Mitzvah. Karl Marx did as did Albert Einstein. All Jews do. It is more
than a rehearsal of the exodus. It is the great foundational ethic of
man who constantly yearns to be free.
The Passover story is one of great historic and humanitarian signifi-
cance because it said loudly and clearly what men were thinking at
the time but were afraid to say or do: "Do Not Enslave Thy
Brethren." Since biblical days the pattern has been set and man,
howsoever feebly and tardily, has progressed.
We entitled this column "Bus Stop" because a dramatic story has
unfolded before us this past week. We were witness to it and we
cannot withhold it from you because to think these words and not
say them would be a great sin for any writer and any man.
We told you last week about our trip to Washington and how the
President of the United States was "too busy" to see the invited
representatives of the American Jewish Press because he was preparing
a statement on the "busing" issue.
That was last Monday.
The following day, Tuesday, Wallace made his showing in Florida
and the democratic runners were trounced by him. Everyone attributed
the defeat of the primary-runners to Wallace's forthright stand on the
busing issue. He was against busing and he said it without hesitation and
had called upon the President of the United States to issue an executive
order to that effect.
After the results were in Tuesday every candidate used the busing
issue for political chicanery. It became an emotional football to stir a
caldron's brew of hate-again pitting race against race, brother against
brother.
The sad facts are simple: Busing as a method of curing the evils of
the under-educated or unequally deprived is one of the greatest make-
waste fallacies we have in this nation today. It is not the answer to our
ills. But we will come to this later.
Following our return to Texas early Tuesday morning we left on
Wednesday for a special New York meeting of the Council of Jewish
Federations and Welfare Funds immediately after we put the paper
to bed Wednesday. We were the American Jewish Press Association's
observer at a joint public relations-community newspaper workshop.
All our trips to the airport have always been photo-finish. Don't
ask why we catch planes by the skin of our suitcase. We don't know.
It just happens that way.
Our airport limousine driver to Love Field was black and before he
put too many miles on the road he started to speak. "Got to be real
careful driving this limo," he began while watching the road in-
tensely. "I hold people's lives in my hand. You think the passengers
realize that? No. They don't. Take rhe trip I had the other day. A
passenger got in downtown and we got to talking. 'That thing must be
easy to handle,' he said. 'Bet anyone could drive one.'
" 'Why you say that, Mister? I asked him.
" 'Dunno,' he answers, 'but I figure if you can drive it anyone
can.'
" 'Looka-here,' I tells him. 'What do ya mean iffn I can drive one
anyone can? You mean because I'm black?'
" 'He doesn't say anything. We knew we had a stand-off. Me the
driver and him the passenger. So he clams and I just keep drivin but
I'm burning all the time. Who in hell he thinks he is talkin to me
like that?'
" 'Some folks think we're dumb. Take this busin thing. Think I
like to see my kids bused? Hell no! But no one realizes that we blacks
been bused for years. Why those little ole kids in Weatherford had to
get up at 4:30 every morning so as they could come to school at
I.M. Terrell in Fort Worth. You know why? No school in Weather-
ford would have 'em.
"So there were maybe fifty or more kids travellin over a hundred
miles a day gettin up at four in all weather, not having time for a piece
of bread to make that bus if they wanted an education. Then they'd
come back home at six since most of 'em lived all the way out in the
back roads of the country. I never heard of no one puttin up a
holler about those kids. So until we get a chance at equality in educa-
tion I'm for the busin and I'll let my own kids travel another hundred
miles a day as long as others have to do tbe_same thing. But that
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OUR BEST WISHES FOR A HAPPY PASSOVER TO ALL!
Golda Ko's Hussein
Spotlight Attempt
(Bv TJP, JTA news sources)
The dawn of Passover, 5732, approached this week with another facade of the peace dove
flying through the tv airwaves with tlie rejection ol King Hussein’s proposal of a “United
Arab Kingdom” at the expense of Israel’s interests.
Premier Golda Meir said that the plan was detrimental and that the Hashemite monarch
was trading with “territories which are not under his control” and wanting to again “crown
himself King of Jerusalem [and] ruler of larger expanses of territorv than had been under
his control even before the Six-Day War. This plan shows that Hussein has not learned his
lesson from his defeat.” Continued on Page 2
Dr. Arieh L. Plotkin, Mid-East Expert
Speaker at Fort Worth 'Victory Dinner'
A victory celebration for the Fort Worth 1972 Federation
Campaign will be held Sunday, March 26, at Shad) Oaks
Country Club. Cocktails will be served at 6:00 P.M., and
dinner at 7:00 P.M. will be followed by an address by Dr.
Arieh L. Plotkin, who will be remembered as the featured
speaker for the Women's Division Brunch in last year’s
campaign.
Continued on Page 4
DR. ARIEH L. PLOTKIN
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