The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1942-01-23
BETWEEN YOU
AN ME
By BEN LEWIS

be glad to learn that it's viewpoint
is approved by a leading Chicago
Zionist He is III. L. Meites,
editor and publisher of the Chi
cagO Jewish Chronicle Here
is what he writes in his publica-
ton: ut is not only I'M
called for, but it is rank stupidity
for Jewish organization, big and
small, to come out in public print
prOclaiming their devotion and
their loyalty to the United States"
-. No one questions it, so why
emphasize it? ...- This is exactly
what the American Jewish Com
mittee said in the very early days
OF Americas entrance into the
war, when Jewish organizations,
"big and small" rushed into print
with patriotic statements =
Some of them are still competing
with each other in flooding the
newspaper offices with publicity
releases on the participation of
their members i'm Civilian Defense
activities Which makes as
good an impression on the news
editors of certain large American
newspapers as do the releases of
rabbiS on their sermons -
few metropolitan news editors
cOnfided to me that their waste
baskets prove too small to accom-
Odate all the publicity releases
which reach them from Jewish
organizations ...-
ARMY NOTES.: Among the
thousands of letters which Presi-
dent Roosevelt receives daily there
were recently two letters from a
Jewish refugee urging the forma-
ton in America of Refugee
Brigade The letters came
from Jules de Nesson, an author
and playwright who says that
thousands of refugees are burning
with the desire to fight for the
United States The refugees,
according to de Nesson, could be
trained separately from the Amer
lean selectees, but under Army
supervision And while on
the subject of armies do not be
too surprised if the British Gov
eminent after all permits the es-
tablishment of Jewish Army in
the Near East This will be
due not to the Zionist resolutions,
but to pressure which is now being
exercised by Australia : Fac
ing the danger of direct war with
Japan, Australia feels that her
sons should be fighting not in
Libya but in their native land. =
NAVY ECHOES: The Jewish
War Veterans have now started a
campaign to have Secretary Knox
name one of the new American
destrOyers after Commodore Uriah
p. Levy who was the first jew to
reach that rank in the U. S. Navy
Levy was given the highest
naval rank during the War of 1872
after he captured or sank % Brit
ish merchant ships and men-Of-
war He continued to serve
in the Navy during the Civil War
One of Commodore Levy's
first moves on assuming his high
Naval post was to abolish the
practice of flOgging as a discip-
Iinary measure aboard his own
ship His actions were fol-
lowed by other ranking officers
until the entire practice was
abandoned in the U. S. Navy :
Levy was born in 1892 BE-
fore he was eleven, he ran away
from his home in Philadelphia and
Joined up as a cabin boy ;. = AT
20 he was master of a schooner
He received his commission
as a sailing master in October
1912 when America was already
at war with England He
went to France on the "Argus"
and was placed in charge of one
of the prizes taken by the Argus
- Levy and his crew were sub
seouentIy captured and were held
prisoners by the English for IL
months When he was re-