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VOLUME XII — NO. 26
IN OUR TWELFTH YEAR
THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 1958
12 Pages — 15c Per Copy
Jaw Tours Israel—
“If The Arabs Want Peace..
Copyright-1958 Texas Jewish Post
Jimmy Wisch, Texas Jewish Post Ed-
i'tor-Publisher, returned fr^m Israel The Gaza Strip
recently. This is the 25th in a series en- .
titled, “NINE DAYS in Israel.” Ashkelon And A Desert Fox
jess jawin
You ride along the tree lined highway from Beersheba to Gaza
and see people of different origins waiting for buses, lolling in the
sun, hitch-hiking . . . and you wonder . . . the border is so cliose . .
it is miraculous that the people face this simulated peace and dig
into the soil and progress ... all the time hoping and trusting that
the peace will be permanent and that some sweet day the swords
will truly be beaten into ploughs ....
You can ride along this highway facing the Gaza Strip and see
the ridges of Egypt a few sniles away. People are oblivions to Egypt
and Nasserism and have to be “made” to talk of war. They believe
that Nasser is beaten, a man deserted by his Arabian allies and only
superficially goaded by the Soviets. Sinai proved that! The opinion of
the man in the kibbutz, whV) is a peace loving farmer, or the man in
the city, who is generally an industrious merchant or worker is main-
ly: “If the Arabs want peace they wil have peace, if they want war,
they will get war. For us, we’d rather have peace.”
The 1951 touring Chrysler sedan takes the road in its stride .
the radio is playing a L-P recording from the “Wizard ©f Oz,” and it
is difficult to contemplate and equate the strains of the song which
softty hits our ears, “Somewhere, over the rainbow ...” It is diffi-
cult because as you (observe the peaceful countryside and realize that
within moments this could well be the trigger to start World War III,
you get cold and despite the warm sunshine and the groves of green
citrus dotting the landscape you shivver inside and shudder at the
thought of man’s spiritual lag in his efforts to learn to love and live
with h's neighbor.
The tractor-ploughed fields are rich brown and oozing with fer-
tility. The furrows appear to look up, tufts outstretched like yearning
hands, saying, Gome, plant me, live with me, become part of
Sherman Kaplan
Heads Dallas
Federation
Sherman M. Kaplan, Dallas
businessman, was elected presi-
dent of the Jewish Welfare Fed-
eration, a Community Chest
Agency. He succeeds Henri L.
Bromberg, Jr., whose term of
office expired.
me
“ * • • • some day I’ll wish upon a star and hope to find you . ...”
And the Israeli answer is: we have wished upon our star ‘ . . we
havei found you . . . our blood is in your soil, our sweat in your fur-
rows, cur ingenuity in your tufts of brown, our industry in your
citops . . . Yes, Mother Earth. We have found you. And we love you,
want you and respect you.......
That is why we have hauled water by the thimbleful!. We turned
the trickle into a pipeline. That is why we have made this Northern (
Negev a Paradise. We worship you, Mother Earth! And now, you
are ours! Our own! Our native land!
Our car stopped by a checkpost at the Gaza strip. This is the border
facing the demilitarized zone. A few Israeli soldiers are practicing
with land mines and running through an infiltration course. A sec-
ond lieutenant, slim and bronzed by the desert sun, emerges from
a tent and walks to us with outstretched hands. He came from Ru-
mania tio Israel ten years ago. He’s 21 and in command of this desert
outpost which consists of a small contingent of men and a few tents.
A hundred yards from us, across a dirt road, is a htige warning sign
backed up by a swinging gate. Here is where the UN soldiers patrol
as policemen to make certain that the border truce will not be vio-
lated.
Lieutenant Ayre, of the Israeli army tells us, “The Danish soldiers
visit our Kibutzim, farm settlements, whenever they can. They watch
movies and dance with our young folks. Not so with the Yugoslavs or
the Indians. They don’t fraternize.”
Sudden-y there is a loud explosion. We all see a cloud of smoke
with soldiers running through it. “Just training,’ says the officer
smiling. “We’ve always got to keep ready. Seems the Arabs respect
that more than anything.” We book for the soldiers while the cloud
of smoke drifts skyward. The soldiers are lost in the mystery of the
sand dunes.
And soon we, too, take our departure towards Ashkelon, Israel’s
new resort town on the Mediterranean.
Continued To Page 4
Sherman M. Kaplan
Other officers elected at the
Federation’s Board meeting on
Wednesday, June 18, were Morris
I. Jaffe, Henry S. M'ller and Mrs.
Bernard Schaenen, vice presi-
dents; I. Zesmer, secretary; and
Julius Schepps, treasurer.
Elected to the Executive Com-
mittee were Henri L. Bromberg,
Jr., Emil Corenbleth, Jacob
Feldman, Irving L. Goldberg and
Benjami* F. Lewis.
Mr. Kaplan, president of Ameri-
can Paper Stock Company, has
long been identified with philan-
thropic efforts in Dallas. He has
served as vice president of the
Federation for ot.veral years and
was the general campaign chair-
man this year. In 1957 he served
as co-chairman of the campaign.
A member of the Downtown Ro-
tary Club, he has also been active
in Community Chest campaigns
and in the Council of Social Agen-
cies. He is currently a member of
the Dallas Screening Committee
and of the Dallas Citizens Coun-
cil. Mr. Kaplan is a past president
of Congregation Shearith Israel.
UN Chief In Middle East
On Scopus And Lebanon
JERUSALEM (JTA) — United Nations Secretary General Dag
Hammarskjold flew to the Middle East this week to grapple with
two issues vital to Middle East peace.
One was solution of the Israel-Jordan dispute over the isolated
Israel enclave on Mount Scopus where, in the latest flare-up, a UN
official and four Israel policemen were killed by Jordanian bullets
last month. The other was the Lebanese-Syrian border where the Se-
curity Council had ordered a UN watch set up to halt the flow of
men and arms dispatched by Egyptian Dictator Nasser in an open
bid to topple th»- pro-Western Lebanese regime.
MANY VISITS MADE
Hammarskjold was engaged in a series of visits to Beirut, the
cafVal of Lebanon, and to Jerusalem where his excutive assistant,
Andrew Cordier, had preceded him as the third UN peace-maker to
tackle the Mount Scopus dispute in recent months. Cordier visited the
Mount Scopus area, in company with Maj. Gen. Carl C. von Horn, the
UN truce chief f!or Palestine, soon after his arrival. Mr. Cordier
conferred with Prime Minister David Ben Gurion and twice with
Jordanian Premier Samir el Riffai.
The key issue in the deadlock, from the Israel viewpoint, was the
failure of Jordan to comply with article eight of the Jordan-Israel
Armistice agreement. This article provided that Jordan permit full
resumption of normal cultural and humanitarian activities by Israel on
Mount Scopus, site of the abandonded Hebrew University and Hackis-
sah hospital buildings. The Israel position is that until Jordan com-
plies with article eight, there can be no solution of piecemeal inci-
dents created consistently by Jordan.
ISRAEL OPENS ROAD
Israel announced it whuld open the Issawia road which traverses
its M'ount Scopus territory for two hours each morning and two h®urs
each afternoon. The concession was made as a gesture of goodwill to
Cordier pending action in his effort^ to enforce Jordanian agreement
with the Armistice pact. The road, one of three leading to the Arab-
occuDied Issawia villaere in the Mount Scopus area, is the only one
sk'rting the Hebrew University buildings. It has been available only
to UN observers.
In Israel, meanwhile, the battle to upset the Lebanon regime was
brought closer to the alert Jewish State bv a report from its north-
ernmost settlements that, the sound of artillery and mortar fire could
be heard clearly from the direction of the Lebanese-Syrian border,
only a few miles away.
Hammarskjold Meets With Gurion
JERUSALEM (JTA) — United Nations Secretary Genera! Dag’ Ham-
marskjold left for Gaza, en route to Cairo, June 22 after a more than
three hour meeting with Premier David Ben Gurion that night. It is
understood that no substantial progress was made during the two-
part parley on the Mt. Scopus deadlock.
Mr. Hammarskjold and the Premier conferred alone for 75 minutes.
Then they called in their principal aides and continued to explore the
situation for another two hours. After the meeting’s conclusion,
close to midnight, one of the participants said that “nothing much
had been changed” in the situation.
It was expected before the meeting, that the two statesmen would
discuss UN proposals of a “technical nature” aimed at limiting the
likelihood of future incidents. Among these proposals, it is under-
stood, was one that Israel restrict its police patrolling on Mt. Scopus.
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Keeping You Posted!
SMOLAR TELLS ABOUT
JEWISH SELF SEGREGA-
TION.|
MILT FRIEDMAN RE-
PORTS ABOUT SHECHITA.
SEGAL TELLS ABOUT
HUNTLEY TELECAST
NAT Z I P R I N BLASTS
COUNCIL’S BERGER
DALLAS DOINGS TAKES
YOU PLACES, TELLS YOU
THINGS.
AROUND THE TOWN —
ROUND UP OF FORT
WORTH’S SOCIAL SCENE.
This And Much More In This
Week’s Texas Jewish Post!
NAZI PARTY REBORN!
BONN (JTA) The Nazi Par-
ty was legalized in West Ger-
many las week end in a techni-
cal move which, however, is
not expected to result in the
rebirth in fact of the Hitler
movement. The legalization of
the party was included in a
bill which repealed a number
of Allied occupation statutes,
including the one which for-
bid reorganization of the Nazi
Party under a maximum penal-
ty of death.
Dr. Walter Strauss, high Bonn
Justice Ministry official, said
that the Bonn Constitution
provided enough safeguards to
take care of Germans who at-
tempt to rebuild the Nazi po-
litical instrument.
By Milton Friedman . . . Shechita Gets Headlines
CAPITAL SPOTLIGHT -
WASHINGTON —
Heavier mail was recieved by President Eisenhower
and (Congressmen advocating the so-calfed “humane
slaughter” bill than on any other single issue during this
Congressional session.
Pressure for the House-approved bill was greater than
the outcry of integration, atomic tests, foreign aid,
Soviet rockets, education, the question of a summit
conference or any similar major issue.
But the views of the relatively small Orthodox Jewry
helped influence the Senate Agricultural Committee a-
gainst the House Bill, H.R. 8308. The bill would have
made government regulation of animal slaughtering
mandatory. Instead, the committee voted a substitute
measure calling for two years of further study and crea-
tion of an advisory committee that would include Jewish
religious representation.
The Senate committee’s decision brought reilef to
Orthodox Jews. They were concerned lest the House
Bill endanger shechita, the ritual method of slaughter-
ing. The scholarly testimony of distinguished rabbis
made an impression on the committee. It is also true
that the Department of Agriculture, other government
agencies, and the meat industry thought the bill ill-
advised.
Opponents of the House Biill were not against the
concept of humane slaughter. Their objections ranged
widely. Orthodox rabbis held it would impose Federal
control on shechita, a religous function. The Department
of Agriculture thought the bill administratively undesir-
able. The bill went so far as to require the govern-
ment to buy meat only from the companies adhering
to rigid slaughter reuirements. Economists feared it
would cause a farther increase in meat prices.
Chairman Allen J. Ellender of the Senate Agricultural
Committee said mail and public pressure for passage
of the House bill surpassed anything he had experienced
in his Congressional career. At first mail came mainly
from members of humane societies and similar organiza-
tions of animal-lovers. Then religious leaders of the
Roman Catholic, Methodist, and Baptist faiths encourag-
ed the writing of letters to Washington. A flood re-
sulted.
Sen. Ellender, a Lou is fa"-’ democrat, said the House
Bill was rejected by his co — mittee because its enforce-
ment feature was ‘just a sep” and because “we don’t
know yet what methods really are humane.”
The Substitute bill reported out by Sen. El’ender’s
committee would require the Secretarj”- of Agriculture
to encourage humane methods on a voluntary basis,
study the entire problem, and to submit legislation
recommendations within two years.
A difference of opinion existed within the Jewish
community over the now-rejected House Bill. It was
favored by the Reform and Conservative religious or-
ganizations and such organizations as the American
Jewish Congress and American Jewish Committee. The
bill included a “Jewish emendment” that specifically
recognized shechita as an acceptable humane method
of slaughter.
According to the Orthodox rabbinate, however, the
bill’s provision for shechita was “illusory” because of
other provisions that could restrict or prevent its ex-
ercise. The rabbis told the Senate that “should this bill
be enacted, an agency of the government will be re-
sponisble for the supervision of religious practices . . .
such legislation flouts the fundamental American tradi-
tion prohibiting the government from interfering with
the religious practices of any faith.”
A Senator of the Jewish faith. Oregon’s Richard L.
Neuberger, favored the House Bill. He cited a Roman
Catholic statement in its behalf. But the Senate commit-
tee found itself closer to a view expressed by Rep.
Leonard Farhstein, New York Democrat.
A lone dissenter in the House debate, Rep. Farhstein
called attention to principles of religious freedom and
the Orthodox Jewish position. “From the historical view-
point,” said Rep. Farhstein, “the American Jewish com-
munity has cause for deep concern over such legislation,
for experience demonstrates that it leads in time to agi-
tat'on against shechita itself. Moreover, except shechita,
the methods prescribed in the bill as humane are highly
dubious. This demonstrates that further study and re|*
search are necessary before any legislation is proposed.”
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