The Jewish Times

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Proper Use of "Liberal
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Austrian Talks Renewed
Norway To Select
100 Additional DPs
MUNICH � Ten years after V-E Day, a new effort to re-
move the last Jewish Displaced Persons from a German DP
camp has been undertaken.
A   delegation   from   Norway   ar-  _________________,__________________
rived here this week to interview
residents of Foehrenwald, last
Jewish DP  camp  on  German  soil.
The Norwegian government re-
cently agreed to accept up to 100
of the "hard-core" Jewish DPs who
have remained in Germany for
ten years without being able to in-
tegrate themselves into the Ger-
man economic life. These include
tubercular or post-tubercular cases.
Both "legal" and "illegal" inhab-
itants of the camp are eligible and,
if an insufficient number of candi-
dates is forthcoming, applications
also will be accepted from Jews
living in German cities who would
like to settle in Norway.
"This generous offer of the Nor-
wegian government to accept ad-
ditional DPs means that we move
a step closer to our goal of empty-
ing the DP camps, where thou-
sands have lived since the end of
World War II," declared Moses A.
Leavitt, executive vice-chairman of
the  Joint  Distribution  Committee.
It is to countries like Norway
that we look for help in the solu-
tion of the resettlement problems
of these former refugees, rejected
as candidates for emigration to
other countries because of their
medical histories.
Mr. Leavitt pointed out that to-
day there are about 12,000 dis-
placed persons, including 2,000
living in camps, in Germany and
in Austria. They are the residue
of the thousands of refugees
stranded in Europe after World
War II, and include the chronically
ill, the .aged and handicapped who
have not been accepted by the
country of their choosing because
of their illness.
The projected transport to Nor-
way is the fifth for the Scandina-
vian countries. In 1952 and in
1953, Norway accepted a total of
95 handicapped refugees, while in
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Center
Drive Hits
$200,000
The $200,000 mark has been
passed in the $292,000 cam-
paign for the new Jewish
Community Center now under
construction a t Sutherland
Road and Englewood Avenue,
Brighton, General Chairman
Louis R. Golden announced
this week as solicitation activ-
ity resumed following a cessa-
tion of volunteers work out of
deference to the Israel Bond
Committee.
With $92,000 remaining to be
raised by June 30, when all Center
campaigning will come to a stand
still to clear the decks for the
Combined Jewish Appeal, key lead-
ers of the campaign were confi-
dent of complete success provided
solicitors intensified their efforts.
Special Gifts Chairman Leonard
Kaplan this week disclosed big
gifts totalling $37,000. Included
was a $5,000 contribution by the
late John G. Sessler of Waban,
one of the earliest supporters of
the Jewish Community Center
building project.
In announcing the $5,000 contri-
bution from Mr. Sessler, who died
suddenly in New Brunswick on
Sunday,. Mr. Kaplan revealed that
the contribution will be used to
dedicate the Mr. and Mrs. John G.
Sessler Youth Lounge.
The new Jewish Community Cen-
ter, which is scheduled for com-
pletion in 1956, will be the first
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Sam Stouffer's Findings
.   On Who Fears What Today
By ROBERT E. SEGAL
The optimists among us have good, solid reason now to
raise the flag: a gigantic and thorough double-barrelled depth
study of opinion, just digested for the public, is available in
book form. And it shows that once the demagogues are shoved
aside, the great bulk of our fellow Americans are pretty broad
minded on the sharp issues of the day.
"Communism,   Conformity   and   Civil   Liberties,"   by   Dr.
Samuel A. Stouffer of Harvard, is a reassuring
manual on the theme that once you are able to
shove light into John Q. Public's noodle, he will
start to make like a reasonable human being.
But there's much more to the study than
that.    One finds here good home work on the
point that the civic leaders are more tolerant
than the rank-and-file.    In this  slender,  fact-
packed  volume,   one  learns   conclusively  that
most  people  are  a  darn  sight  more  worried
about their health, finances and little Jimmie's
chances for success in life than they are about
the big bad wolf from Wisconsin or the bear that walks like
General Zhukov.
Of special interest to so-called minority groups is the find-
ing that extensive interview showed no marked tendency on
the part of those interviewed "to single out a particular racial
or religious or other ethnic group as especially likely to harbor
Communists." To be more specific, here's Stouffer on Page 174.
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SEGAL
VOL. X   NO. 38
MAY 12, 1955             Price Ten Cents
Smith Organization
Outspends A.D.A.
By MILTON FRIEDMAN
WASHINGTON � The Gerald L. K. Smith hate organiza-
tion spent more money for political activities in 1954 than did
"Americans   for  Democratic  Acton,"   a  group   whose   liberal
ideology combats the Smith line.
Smith,
Failure Is
Anticipated
VIENNA�-Optimism dwin-
dled this week following the
long-awaited meeting between
the Austrian Government and
representatives of Jewish and
other organizations interested
in restitution for victims of
Nazism as Austria failed to
make any new offer of any
substance.
Finance Minister Reinhardt Ka-
mitz handed the representatives a
short memorandum outlining the
Austrian proposals following this
with an expanded oral presenta-
tions.
The proposals were similar te
those offered by him last fall. The
Jewish representatives then asked
a number of questions about legis-
lative measures Austria will put
into effect to aid victims of the
Nazis.
There has been some improve-
ment in this field, particularly in
reference to eliminating discrimin-
ation against former Austrian*
now living abroad and in restor-
ing  social security rights.
The   Austrian  Ministers  insisted
that these  improvements  were  of
major importance for needy Jews
abroad.     The     claims     committee
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who is listed by the
Anti-Defamation League as one of
the nation's most notorious anti-
Semites, heads the "Christian Na-
tionalist Crusade." The records of
the clerk of the House of Repre-,
sentatives show that Smith spent
$157,886.68 for political propagan-
da in 1954. The A.D.A. laid out
$149,558.84 in the same period.
Two appearance were made by
Smith before Congressional bodies
in April. He exploited the public
hearings of the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee on United
Nations matters and showed up
to advise the Senate Subcommit-
tee probing the dismissal of State
Department immigration adviser
Edward J. Corsi. On both occa-
sions he injected anti-Semitism in-
to his testimony.
Smith was associated with Gov.
Huey Long of Louisiana. When
Long was assasinated, Smith de-
livered the funeral oration. He
later moved to Detroit where Fa-
ther Charles E. Coughlin's "social
justice" agitation was under way.
In 1947 Smith founded the Chris-
tian Nationalist Crusade in St.
Louis. Today he operates from
Los Angeles.
In 1950 Smith figured in Wash-
ington affairs when he helped en-
gineer the abortive plot to block
Senate confirmation of Mrs. Anna
M Rosenberg as Assistant Secre-
tary of Defense. He led the hate
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Our    Wot
CJA Leader Places
Accent on Youth
By BETTE KLINE
When one hundred commit-
tee women gather tomorrow
afternoon to discuss the Ad-
vanced Gifts campaign of the
Combined Jewish Appeal,
Mrs Ferdinand Strauss II, will
make her "official" debut as
chairman of the Women's Di-
vision.
Official as tomorrow may be, this
serene and attractive mother of a
lively young trio, started working
in this capacity the very beginning
of February.
Her indoctrination into CJA cam-
paigning however, started more
than a decade ago, when she helped
form what is now known as the
Young Adult Division.
Mrs. Strauss' confidence in the
capabilities of young people hasn't
been shaken, since the days when
she worked to establish the first Jr.
Division.
j She's going to put some stress on
Introducing   the   new   faces,   new
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MRS.  FERDINAND  STRAUSS   II
Youngest CJA  Leader
SI� otiId Prodigies Be Treated Differently?
Talented Youngsters Differ
On Approach to Education, Art
There are about as many views on the problem of educating artistically talented chil-
dren, prodigies, if you insist, as there are notes on the scale.
The training, education and activities of two of Greater Boston's talented youths were
pictured this week for the TIMES, and although they did not make sweet harmony, they did
not resound in discord..
Directly concerned with whether
gifted children should have gen-
eralized or specialized educations,
the teen age artists, both of whom
started showing unusual musical
ability at the age of two, may
have talent and music in common,
but their ways of life resemble
each other's about as much as a
piano and a violin.
"I think that general education
is valuable, but talent should spe-
cialize,"   said   Alan   Fink,   son   of
the Robert Finks of Brookline, and
16-year-old student at Brookline
High School.
The varying attitude of 14-year-
old violinist, Charles Castleman,
was interpreted by his mother,
because the young musician was
not available at the time.
(He was practicing, not his vio-
lin, but his second baseman duties
for an approaching Pony League
game in his home town of Brain-
tree.)
Alan, who started to pick out
melodies at the piano when he was
three, and who was matching the
left hand chords by ear a few
months later, began his serious
study of music at the age of six.
"Both my parents and I decided
to continue my � general education
through high school, but those
years have been accompanied by
lessons, study, and practice," of-
fered the high school junior.
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