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The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1947-06-06
American Jewish Conference
521 Fifth Avenue
New York II, N. Y.
May 26, 1917

New York II, N. Y.
May 26, 1947
Dear Editor:
AS editor of an Anglo-Jewish
periodical, serving an important
Jewish community, you are un-
doubtedly aware that the recently
published basic plan for a perman-
ent, democratic, representative
American Jewish body, has arous-
ed a great deal of discussion and
interest, which is bound to become
more intense as we approach the
Fourth Session of the American
Jewish Conference in Chicago,
August 3O-September 1.
The discussion was launched
May Fl, when representatives of
the Jewish press in the Greater
New York area met with Mr..
Louis Lipsky, chairman of the Con-
ference Executive Committee, and
DR.. Maurice N. Eisendrath, Chair
man of the Committee on Future
Organization, to consider and an
alyze this plan.
We believe that further impetus
can be given to a full exchange
of views on the projected new
body throughout the country. We
intend to hold a series of regional
press conferences on the plan in
the very near future. A confer
ence has been scheduled to be held
in Washington, D. c., on Thurs
day, June 5.
It is needless to emphasize the
Importance of this subject to your
community, and we would like
very much to see your publication
represented. (Railroad fare for
your representatives will be reim-
bursed by u.s.
Please let us know by return
mail whether you will find it pos
sible to attend.
Thank you again for your CO.
operation in the past.
Sincerely yours,
Abram Rothfield, Director
Department of Public Relations
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1947-06-06
LETTER BOX
American Jewish Congress
1884 Broadway
New York %, N. Y.

4NNW Yin AOS AN' -
May 27, 1947
Mr.. Isadore Moscovitz
The Southern Jewish Weekly
Jacksonville, Florida.
Dear Mr.. Moscovitz:
Your editorial in your issue of
May 23rd on the New Leaders
attack on the American Jewish
Congress has just been brought to
my attention. I want to express
our deep gratitude to you for your
very intelligent and sensible COM
ments. I think you disposed of
the matter in precisely the man.
ner in which any fair and objec-
tive person would have done. My
earnest congratulations and ap-
probation to you.
Sincerely yours,
David Petegorsky
Executive Director
The frontiersman., 1947-08-30
CNt COUNCIL cEA7
 STILL VACANT AFTER MEETING

Clarence Epps was appointed to a seat on. the city council last ni- ght, but the second seat remains thrilled this mo- rning, despite a petition circulated by local resi- dents late: yesterday. req uesting the appointment of Dr.. Melvin Beltz and Forest Bush.
 Dr.. Beltz accepted his appointment, but said it would be impossible for hin to meet on the present Friday meeting might, which is the Adve- ntist Sahhaths He said if the council saw fit to meet or another night in tho week he would be gl ad to serve as trustee.
 ifre Bush. refused his appointment, as did Low ell T,,orsnGEs. W.,c had been appointed at last Friday's ract;1g.
 Ear. hcrr vas appo- intcd ac t:lc position of city clerk ard treasurer. He accepted on tno cond- iticn Shat tho --orll1 could be done 'at ny office, in
 (cont. page seyen)
The frontiersman., 1947-08-30
ANGIE. SON f:t AN : NlW ( p1RATiCN

It was disclosed yesterday that the J. rnuJch' groo5kof property on which the Federal. Jail and U, ,. Earoha- Is off ice ste.nGs hc.s been sold S.o Jack Ande1 s so1l Jr. for an a1nreported sum to be used for the construction of a now dock.
 Jack Ar derson ST |. stated yesterday that work on the new project will get under way as soon as the Tar Depart ment grants the p rnit.
 The new dock will be used for small boats and bsrges at it's beginning.
 Although further future developments are expected the jail will renc:in in it's present 1oc@tion until the expir- ation of it's lease.
 The partners of Ala ska She'll Fish will work wi tn hr. Anderson on the new enterprise, and work on a building to house the necessary lumber for cons struction has already started.
The frontiersman., 1947-08-30
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TJfEItEAS, ne City Of Seldovia is to be visit76 by a group of Fort Richa.- rdson residents who plan an excursion to this area over the Labor Day week. end,
 AND WHEREAS, the Trustees Of the City of Se1dovia unanimously ag- rec that eterv courtesy and cordial hospitality arc due 7. cur grest on the1c fto1iaay, NC-T THEREFORE, I, Tyndle 'Lipte, acting layor Of Seldovia, do hereby proclaim that the regular closing hour of 2 am. for all bars, cafes and places of amusement which would normally be in effect on this holiday be set aside on Sunday and Monday, August 3lst. and Sept. l, and these places shall be allowed to remain open until | 3. m. for these two days on- ly.
 GIVEN UNDER MY HAND AND THE SEAL OF THE CITY OF SELDOVIA, This 3Oth. day of August, lo47.
 CITY OF SELDOVIA
 By
 Tyndle Lipke
 Acting Mayor
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-05-24

taller who acts on the level
may be left holding the bag
when the Presidents campaign
has subsidized. For many such
have been cutting their mar
gins without any guarantee
that suppliers will back them
up.
Manufacturers in various
lines have stated definitely
that they have no intention of
shading current prices. They'll
wait and see" how costs shape
up, they say.
OF course the little fellow in
the retail field may be con-
soled by the SNUG editorials in
the Wall Street Journal ION
May 2, for example) which adj
NIT that in the price readjust-
ments some people will be
hurt" You can be sure it will
not be the friends of the Wall
Street Journal.
And if the pre-cut prices
were anything like normal"
then such cuts as are made by
wholesalers and manufactur-
ers, could be more easily re-
garded as sacrifices of COM
petitive profit margins.
But prices have been sky <
rockefing SO sharply since
January. l945-not to men,
fion wartime increases be-
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-05-24
DEMONSTRATION

A ADMINISTRATIONS efforts
Ato talk prices down to a
lower lever are having almost
negligible results.
Their national significance
lies mainly in the way they
reveal the bankruptcy of the
Truman-Big-Business leader
ship" 1t is reminiscent of Her
bert Hoover fighting off the
1929 crisis-with his tongue.
Forthcoming figures on the
cost of living will probably
show little reflection of the
Presidents advice with respect
to price cuts. All we know. at
the moment is that the cost Of
living, as measured by the con-
sumner price index of the U. S.
Bureau of Labor Statistics,
rose 2 percent more in April,
thus reaching an all-time high,
56.3 percent above the prewar
1869 normal level.
FINANCIAL periodicals de-
scribe retail prices as "spotty."
Some prices are still going up;
others are 'leveling. off" lit
tie.
AS prices are determined
under monopoly capitalism.
some goods have very little
price-elasticitY in demand.
as the economists call il. In
other words. lower prices
may not bring about much
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-05-24

IF, BY some miracle, the un-
lAmerican committee should
reverse itself and begin living
up to its name by exposing fas-
cists and hatemongers, it would
have no difficulty finding such
targets. Its Investigators need
look no farther than the list
of witnesses they now bring
in to testify against the red
menace"
Last week the touring ver-
sion of the Thomas Rankin
Follies opened in Hollywood.
In this stupendous and CO.
lossal witch-hunt opus have
appeared some of the most
notorious reactionaries of the
cinema citadel.
And yet R 0 b ert Taylor,
Adolph Menjou, Richard Arlen
and the rest could not match
the hard hate for the striving
masses shown by Mrs. Leila
Rogers, mother and business
agent of Ginger Rogers, when
she said her daughter refused
absolutely to speak the follow
ing line in the film, Tender
Comrade::"
Share and share alike -
that's democracy"
Our dream of equality, the
goal toward which America is
supposedly striving, is poison
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-05-24

ing OPA by giving leader
ship" to the community in
lowering living costs. The inn
plication is given that it's bust
ness, therefore, not unions,
that are protecting the con-
sumner.
THIS maneuver also might
be aimed to defect attention
from the vicious anti-labor
bill. When such bills are passed
this patriotic price cutting
can be quickly transformed
into outright pure and sim
pie" wage cutting.
This relation of wages to
lower prices should be care
fully watched. For sooner
or later price slashes lead to
a cry for compromising"
wage cuts just as wage in
creases have led TO unjusti-
fled cries for price increases.
You can expect the public
relations departments of the
corporations not to lose sight
of this talking point.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-05-24
United States"


Now let the un-Americans
make something of this doc
trine uttered publicly by
high churchman in deep Dixie.
And while they are at it, let
them ponder also these words
written by Jimmy Cannon,
New York Post sports writer,
concerning the thr e n ed
strike against Jackie Robinson
of the Brooklyn Dodgers:
1--WE are a people guaran-
red more freedoms than any
other on earth. Yet there are
among US some who would
refufe those documents which
pledge US the things that peo-
pie fight for everywhere and
rarely achieve.
when such prosecutions be-
come the aim of a government
it is the record of history that
men rise in revolt against the
leaders of their state
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-05-24
Wall Street medicine men have magic number 3"

Commission. They d e m a n d
that the Commission ignore the
three. What are three little
stockholders? Ignore them.
Push them aside. Get on with
the case. Let the merger go
on; forward with the mach of
civilization-and railroad prof
its.
And they climax their case
with the moving plea that the
three are unwilling to go
along with the great majority
of stockholders"
You see the magic in the
number three.
THREE WORKERS riding on
the backs of the majority and
drawing free benefits: that's
democracy and they must be
protected to the death. They
must be protected even if un-
ions themselves have to go.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-05-24

jority of workers can force 8
innocent workers to Join a
union.
So. they organize a cru
SADIE TO free America from
the clutches of union lead
ers who would force" three
poor workers to surrender
their American rights. They
don't tell US that these three
workers are hitch mixers"
They don't tell US they col
lect higher pay and seniority
and vacations with paY-all
from the efforts of the ma
jority-and without paying a
cent Or turning a finger to
earn if.
Then you turn a page and
notice a small little item on the
financial pages. Again it's the
magic number three" But
this time it's different. The
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-05-24

But three little stockholders
Who are they? What do they
count against the great ma
jority of stockholders" Throw
the case out of court. /.
You see. the trouble with
the American people is they
don't understand the finer
points of democracy. They
think 3 is 3 under all cir
cumsfances ~ and tn ats
where they're wrong. That's
why they need government
of their natural born superb
ors TO explain these mYster-
les TO them.
If you left the people to
themselves, they would use
plain, simple, majority rule.
And, as Riley says on the ra-
dio, what a revolving deyel-
opment that would be''-for
Wall Street.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-05-24
SPEAKING
Ginger Rogers hatred
Frank Vars! Davis

nounce the fundamental DEM
ocratic duty TO share and
share alike.
And if the desire to share
the wealth in this, the richest
nation on earth, is communism,
then there. are several million
Communists and Congress
full of Rankins can't quiet us.
LAST WEEK in Augusta,
Ga, Bishop Middleton S.
Barnwell, Episcopal prelate of
Georgia, phrased it well when
he told the diocesan conven-
ton:
Every poor man who seeks
an advance in wages or tries
TO make little more money
for himself is seeking the
abolition of inequalities in
the possession of property so
far as he himself is con-
cerned. To this extent he is
a Communist and in all prob
ability a loyal citizen of the
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-05-24

to reaction. The selfish and
well fed spokesman for the sta
tus quo are so afraid of shar--
ing with the impoverished and
the downtrodden that they
dare not even mouth the
phrase.
Thomas, Rankin and Ginger
Rogers would silence those who
spread the doctrine of equality
by calling them Communists"
and "subversive."
WHEN the multi million dol
lar corporations fight the eff
forts of labor to get better
pay, it is because Big Business
is opposed to sharing its in
come with the workers who
make huge profits possible.
When the white suprema-
cists resist Negro efforts TO
obtain the ballot. equal
schooling and opportunities.
they. like Ginger Rogers. re-
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-05-24

fore then-that any descent
now is like coming d wn
from the top shakespeare to
the middle shakespeare.
The preWar distribution of
the national income was, as we
have pointed out in our Labor
Fact Books, biased against the
American workers. 1t did not
give them adequate standards
of diet. housing or health ex-
penditures.
THUS even a return to the
prewar percentage share in ma
tlonal income and prewar
profit margins (even assum-
ing no reduction in employ
menD would not spell prosper
ity to the workers.
In one sense also price-cut-
ting, as played up in the press,
may be regarded as an appro-
pirate anti-union move.
Where it does any cutting of
prices business is pictured as
correcting its error" in knit
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-05-24
Smoking EN- out
BY HERMAN scHENDEL

HE ancients used to think
three" was a magic number.
They had nothing on our mod
ern medicine men.
Three workers in a small
plant refuse to join the union
that the majority of workers
have chosen. The men of bust
ness get all excited. They shed
tears for these 3 workers. They
take full page ads, run radio
programs, and put out expen-
sive, glossy pamphlets.
The three must be protected.
The union is depriving them of
their fundamental American
rights.
CONGRESS has to do some
thing about it. The country
will be undermined if ma
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-05-24
JIMMY CANNON. so far as


] know, has never been called
Communist, so perhaps the
Thomas-Rankin committee and
their Hollywood hed-fellows
will heed this lesson from his
tory. For in their drive to sup
press the champions of free
dom and stamp out the roots
of democracy, they may arouse
the militant wrath of the plain
people.
These continuing perse-
cutions by the un Americans.
the purge of federal employ
es. the Truman doctrine
abroad and the Hartley anti
labor bill are cut from the
same cloth of oppression. and
the patience of many Amer
leans is being strained TO the
breaking point.
AS for the Hollywood pro-.
fascists, they have grown fab
ulously wealthy because you
and l paid to see their pictures.
Unions. liberals and prog
ressives should begin an inn
mediate boycott of every
film featuring Ginger Rogers
and tine others who have con-
tempt for democracy.
We put them where n ey
are; since they don't belong on
high, we must bring them
down to earth again.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-05-24
Price cutting talk is
prelude to woge-cuttinq
By Labor Research Assn.

faster sales. except for spor-
adic. local. bandwagon cpl
sod e S like Newburyport
which are distinctly phoney
and temporary.
Note also that such relatively
permanent price cuts as there
have been to date seem to be
confined to slow-moving dur
able items like table-model
radios and semi-luxuries.
ONLY if price reductions
spread extensively to food,
shelter, utilities, gasoline and
basic clothing will workers
family budgets really notice
the difference.
The clearance" prices on
shoddY. low quality goods
are also something to watch.
People in the retail business
admit that piles of relatively
-saleable merchandise. of
doubtful utility TO the GUS
TONER. are being thrown on
the counters in the current
sales.
The so-called brand name"
stuff is not being reduced. The
public is said to be waiting
rather impatiently until these
sales" offer goods of standard
make.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-05-24

three are stockholders. And
they oppose merger of a rail-
road in which they hold stock.
so the chant of the medi-
cine men changes. They run
to the Interstate Commerce
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-05-24
Next week:
Special Memorial
Day Issue

Articles by Howard Fast and other staff writer's
will tell the story of the Memorial Day Massacre of
Hepubc Steel workers in South Chicago 1887 Labor
and the people marking the 10th anniversary this
tragic episode in labors fight for better America.
Don't it!
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-05-24

IN ANY event the little re-
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1947-10-31
WI PROXY WRAPS
Continued from page l

the University's accreditation by
the North Central which regarded
his administration as the most
outstanding and progressive.
Regarding the institutions finan-
cial condition, the Wilberforce
prexy declared that at no time in
the history of that institution had
Wherefore University been able
to secure as much funds in one
year as she has been able to in
the last two months and those
who have stated that the Univer-
sity's financial status is bad are
merely wishful thinksre. We chal-
lenge them to visit the campus and
see therapid progress we are MAX
ing with all bills paid promptly,
concluded the president.
DR. Hill also announced that
more than $1,000 worth Of equip
ment has been ordered for the
health service which is newly
created and a very competent
doctor of medicine has been add
ed to the staff in the person of
Mrs. Nancy Lautzenheiser, a we'll
known resident physician of Ken
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1947-10-31

bring Christianity and brother
hood to certain Negro School
in the South. The man was cru
Gifted by the mixed faculty of
that school, and the Negroes were,
if anything, harsher with him
than the whites. They finally ae-
cused him of being a Communist
and got rid of him. Although he
is not Autrs Negro, he somehow
feels that the celoCed people don't
deserve to be free because they
themselves don't desire freedom.
OF course, he is wrong, but 1t
would be difficult to convince
him that he is. His mistake is
simply this: he expected Negroes
to be different from any other
human beings, and they are not.
The average human being, wheth-
err black, white, brown, or yellow.
is not afraid of changes, but re-
sentful of being proded.
AS I have said above, I hope
for his sake, that Mr.. Patton will
have some measure of success
I hope that he will not feel too
strongly his mission. Negroes don't
like conscious missionaries-that
is, persons who 60 "all OUT and
feel that they should be appreciat-
ed for giving up so much for the
cause. And above all I hope Mr..
Patton doesn't labor under the il
fusion that Negroes, because Of
their many years of persecution
are broader, more liberal, and
more tolerant than other people,
because they are not. Persecu-
ton makes people little, not big
this is why it is such horrible
thing That is also why most Of
the race martyrs" in American
history have been white and not
colored. I make all of the cynical
observations not in Disagreement
of Patton's experiment l welcome
his determination to do something
about our damnable race situation.
We need more like him. My posi-
ton, however, is simply this: I'M
less he comes in knowing all the
facts, he will become another
enemy of the race.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1947-10-31
THE ROUND UP

Friday, Oct. 18th-Spook night
but Prairie View must lay her
tidy and priced undefeated, united
record on the line in Houston
against TSU's ambitious Tigers,
Philander Smith will probably
need a heavy supply of "Snuffy
Smiths liant Killer" potion in or
der to cope with Eddie Robinson's
Grambling Tigers in the latters
own stadium $780,. Saturday, Nov.
1st-Shannon d. Titles Bishop
Tigers will play Arkansas State
before Bishop Homecoming
throng on Bishop Field .... Tex
as College, after an off week
journeys to Southern for a tough
and dubious assignment in the
Jaguar den 49,. Samuel Houston
plays Langston in Oklahoma in
a conference joust that looks very
very close from this corner ........
Jarvis tackles Tilletson in Austin
in another close one ........ Fred
Longs Wiley Wildcats, emerging
from their intersectional game a
gainst Lane in good physical shape
and looking like the fighting new
er-say die Wiley teams of yester-
years have an open date and will
be pointing for their Nov. 9th
night game with Langston on
Wiley Field.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1947-10-31

Yancey, G. W. Bigsby, S J. Wad-
dy, S. H, Napier, d. H, Tate, Mrs,
A, B. Broadus, Skylark Club,
Rose McClain, jamie Mckinley,
Ola Mcfarland, Zeola Whitmore,
Lillian Atkins, Mrs. James Casey
Jessie Oliver, Mr., and Mrs. IT.
Wilson, Williamsteen Beauty Shop
Mrs w, E. Hynson, Thelma Min
ton, Cleveland Jones, Mrs. F A.
McNorton, p. L, Cole, Mrs, f, |,
Fitzpatrick, George McNorton,
Mrs. |. W. Dean, Mrs II. Coulter,
w. r. Huff, Dora Nicholson, Floyd
Williams, Augusta Hill, p. l., Dor
man. 50 cents Rev. Isaac Glover
MFR. Johnson Thanks Contributors
and Workers.
Dave Johnson, chairman of Ne
gro Business section of the l94l-
AZ Community Chest, Arkansas
Childrens Home and Hospital
Campaign. thanks the contributors
and workers for their splendid CO.
operation in the achievement OF
l24 per cent of the assigned goal,
The goal was S165000 and the con-
tributions and pledges total $205l.
Whereas President Harris of Phil
ander Smith College, was not list
ed on any forms as a worker, re-
cognition certainly must be given
him and his praise shouted loud
ly for his extreme sacriflcial ef-
fort in getting $685. so in the name
of Philander Smith College
We as Negro Business people
should take our assigned quota
from the Community Chest each
year little more serious because
when individuals contribute thru
their places of employment and
then again through the Business
section, it places an extra burden
on them, That is what happens
because they fully understand the
sincerity of the Community Chest
and want the Negro Business sec
ton to get its quota.
Notwithstanding we have eX-
ceeded our goal this year by "a
per cent, some of the cards are
still out and we expect them to
be sent to the Phyllis Wheatley
Branch of the YWCA or directly
to the Community Chest head
quarters.
When all these cards are re-
turned our campaign this year
should reach the $1,000. or last
years contributions.