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The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1950-10-27

QUESTION: Why is it custom
AIRY to adorn Holy Scrolls with
metal crowns? Why do we find
the crown SO prominently dis
played in the coverings of the
Scrolls as well as on the velvet
draperies that adorn the Ark
where the Scrolls are kept? IS.
S. Savannah. Ga.)
ANSWER: In displaying the
crown in the ornamentations that
drape and cover the Holy Scroll
which contains the Divine Com
mandments, we show that no alb
solute monarchy is recognized
save the Lord himself. There
fore, when man enormously
makes laws that are contradictory
to that of the Divine Law the
people of Israel have always ad-
hered to the Divine Law. An in
teresting fact is disclosed by some
writers who point out that the 613
commandments found in the Holy
Scroll plus the seven added by
the rabbis make a total of $40.
It so happens that the Hebrew
word for crown (Keser) has the
numerical equivalent of $40, indi-
eating that the commandments of
Israel were meant to be crown
ing feature of the faith of the
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1950-10-27
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The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1950-10-27
people of Israel.
4 4 d =

QUESTION: Why is it custom
airy to give a proselYte the name
of Abraham? IT. T.. Palatka. Fla.)
ANSWER: Abraham, the. first
Jew, was really a proselyte him
self. He changed his faith from
that of his fathers to the faith
which later came to be called the
faith of Israel. A male convert
to the Jewish faith is thus given
the name Abraham just in case
any Jew by birth should question
his rank in Israel. The convert
can always point to the fact that
the very first Jew was himself a
convert and that he has the dis
tinction Of coming to the faith. in
the very same manner as the
common ancestor of all Jews.
This certainly was a commend
able method of making all Jews
feel equal.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1950-10-27
Number of Jews Reported
Arrested in Hungary

ROME, (JTA) = Reports re-
ceived here this week from Buda-
pest disclose the arrest of a num-
Der of prominent Jews in a new
campaign aimed at the middle
class e | e m n t S of the country.
Among those arrested are said to
be S. Weidermann, formerly a
prominent industrialist, and L.
Kancis, a landowner.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1950-10-27
Rabbi Morius Ransom
Continued from Page 81

to continue. And we must begin
here in Fort Lauderdale!"
Several apartment house own
ers who had previously refused to
accommodate Jews who applied for
rental, NOV d the sign ere
stricted clientele" fir m their
premises and stated that this was
partly due to their admiration of
the brotherhood exhibited by the
Christian minister and the rabbi.
Several Sundays later Rabbi
Ransom preached the sermon in
the Park emple Methodist
Church of Fort Lauderdale, the
first Rabbi ever to preach in any
Christian church of Fort Lauder
dale, possibly the first to preach
in any Christian church in Flor
ida.
When this correspondent asked
Rabbi Ransom for a short formula
descriptive of his philosophy he
replied:
Il made up my mind, when I
went to Fort Lauderdale and
Hollywood, that regardless of the
particular problems and indica-
tons of anti-Semitism, that there
must be many thousands of high
minded and God-loving Chris
tians in these communities. I am
happy to state that my optimism
was not misplaced. The heart of
America is as sound in Fort
Lauderdale as elsewhere in our
great country. 1t has been my
policy to acquaint the good Chris
tians of Fort Lauderdale with the
facts and have endangered to
challenge them to fight the anti
Semitism in our midst. Cold in
difference is the gre a t enemy
here as elsewhere. Melting the ice
of indifference has been our
problem.
PROBLEM Number Two has
been the strategic position of the
Real Estate Board. Every COM
munity has some special type of
organization of anti-Semetic
forces, and in Fort Lauderdale
the Real Estate Board has "bot-
tlenecked" the city against the
settling in Fort Lauderdale of
Jewish families.
''The members of the Real Es-
tate Board are unregenerate in
their prejudices and anti-Ameri-
can practices. Though the Su-
preme Court of the United States
has declared that the so-called
restrictive covenants are in OPP
position to the public interest,
these vultures of hypocrisy still
practice their so-called gentle
mems agreements So far as they
are concerned, we shall have to
wait for the next depression, as
one of the leading Christian min
listers Of this community has put
it.
Meanwhile, however, the truly
American and fine Christian peo-
pie of Fort Lauderdale have be-
gun to realige that theirs is the
obligation to uphold the ancient
virtues of American democracy"
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1950-10-27
Page Seven

Isadore Mosovitz editor of The Southern Jewish Weekly
attending the American Association of English
Jewish Newspapers being held in Washington. D. c.
The slated for October a. 20 and 20 at the
Statler. will matters relative to increasing
the influence service of the English Jewish
Membership Association is limited the outstanding
Jewish weeklies in America.
Evening star., 1950-01-14
March of Dimes Poster Children
ToOpen Polio & Compoign 7 oday

The March of Dimes poster chill
drep. past and present, were to be
the principal characters in the
official opening of the polio cam
paign today after Mrs. Truman
makes the first contribution.
Besides the Presidents wife, the
five youngsters-on a fast road to
full recovery-Were to meet Com
missioner John Russell Young, hon.
orary chairman, and Edgar Morris,
general chairman of the District
drive, and 1t. Comdr. Robert G..
Merritt, former communications
officer of the battleship U. S. S.
Missouri, and his three children,
polio victims last year. The cere-
mony was to take place in front
of the Capitol Theater March of
Dimes BOOTH
The pint-sized models held a
press conference yesterday after
noon in the Hotel Statler that was
heavy on giggles, exchanges of
condolences and wrigglings.
Smiles From Wheelchair.
Wanda Wiley, 8, poster girl for
1850, from Austin, Tex, smiled en-
couragement from her wheelchair
to the more active quartet:
Linda Brown, S, 1949 poster girl,
San Antonio, Tex; Terry Tullos,
S, 1948, Laurel, Miss: Nancy
Drury, 7, 1947, Louisville, KY. and
Donald Anderson, 9, 1916, Warm
Springs Indian Reservation, Warm
Springs, Ore. =
Although only two of the chill
dren had met before their arrival
Evening star., 1950-01-14

in Washington-flrst leg of a
seven-State tour during the drive
bass-voiced Terry pulled
Llnda'S red sweater and asked ::
Have you any boy friends?"
II have lots of girl friends
and lots of boy friends, too," was
her answer. A chase around the
hotel suite followed, with Linda S
mother pulling the little blond
down beside her to rest.
when catch my breath, I can
run again." said Linda, whose
birthday was yesterday.
Mothers on Tour.
The mothers of the. children,
who also are making the tour,
watched the boys and girls play
ing. with only slight limps to mark
them as polio victims. Most of the
four past poster children wear
part-tiIne braces.
Wanda, who gets around on
crutches and in a Wheelchair, still
needs continuous care and possibly
corrective surgery when she is
more fully grown, her mother,
Mrs. Earl N. Wiley. pointed out.
The child is a second-grade stu
dent.
Smiling shyly and missing a
front tooth, Wanda smoothed her
new green velveteen dress, edged
in white lace, and said she likes
being a poster girl.
Your shoes are pretty" Terry
told Wanda. just as a large birth
day cake was wheeled in as sur
prise for Linda.
Evening star., 1950-01-14
Financing Authority
Asked in Maryland
In Pollution Fight

AS result of a recommended
tion by the Interstate Commits
sion on the Potomac River Basin,
the Maryland Legislature will be
asked to set up a State financing
authority to speed the construc-
ton of pollution control facilities.
At the final meeting of the
commission yesterday in the Hotel
Washington, Maryland State Sen
ator L. Harold Sothoron of Prince
Georges County, said he will in
troduce bill to create the flnanc-
ing authority when the Legislature
meets this year, If time permits
at this session.
If it is not introduced this year,
he said, it will be introduced at
the 1851 session.
The authority would be pat
termed losely after the New York
Port Authority and would be au-
thoriZed to issue bonds for mu-
nicipal sewage treatment plants
and waterworks. These bonds
would be paid off through service
charges. -
1t has been estimated that one
financing authority operating fol
the State would allow a saving OF
from / to " per cent in interest
rates. 1t also would enable small
communities that might otherwise
be unable to raise funds to con-
struct treatment facilities.
The idea of a basin wide f1nanc.
ing authority was first presented
to the commissions local govern
ments committee by M. x. Will
berding, Washington consulting
engineer and a representative or
the committee of the Washington
Board of Trade.
Since little is known about the
quality Of the water in the tide
water area, the commission votec
to obtain a survey by the Public
Health Service of the Potomac
from Washington to the Chesa.
lpeake Bay.
Another project would be ar
economic survey by Public Health
Of the Upper Potomac, to be con-
Quoted in relation with a study
about to be made of industria
pollution in the area.
The study of industrial waste.
in the upper river was made pos
sible bysafa $1,000 grant from tn,
Public Health Service and is to bt
conducted in cooperation witt
Johns Hopkins University.
The commission voted to holt
tits spring meeting next May II
lAlexandria,
Evening star., 1950-01-14
Mrs. W. n. Streefer Heads
Blind Prevention Society

Mrs. w. N. Streeter, SIS Van
Buren street NV, today is the
new president of the District
Society for the Prevention of
Blindness.
She was elected yesterday at
meeting of the group in its
headquarters at 839 Seventeenth
street NV.
Mrs. Streeter is president of
the Council of Church Women
and also heads the Salvation
Army Auxiliary here. In addition
she is on the Budget Committee
of United Community Services.
Others named to Office were
w. L. Robinson, traffic safety en-
gineer of the American Automo-
bile Association, first vice presi-
dent; Robert Lohr, who is in the
real estate business, second vice
president: Miss Katherine Schin-
del, medical social worker with
the Alexandria Community Health
Center, secretary, and w. L. How
enstine, general accountant fol
the Potomac Electric Power Co.
treasurer.
The society voted to affiliate
with the National Society for the
Prevention of Blindness, whose
Offices are in New York.
Evening star., 1950-01-14
Star Staff Photo.

But Martha Washington died
before the body was moved. Then
Washington's six executors-f1ve
of them his nephewsvintervened
The Capitol grew. In 1915
workmen began rebuilding what
the British had burned in 1872
In 1918, they started the center
and by 1929 it was done. Congress
was ready to try again.
In March, 1880, the Senate and
House jointly proposed to remove
Washington's remains before De-
cember to a basement sepulchre
installed under the center of the
dome. A statue would be erected
in the rotunda.
Tomb Remains Empty.
George Washington Parke Gus
tis, Washingtons ward and
Martha's grandson, capitulated.
"It is left for the Government
to determine =" he declared.
But nothing happened until the
following year. Then the remains
were moved-to the new tomb at
Mount Vernon, ordered erected in
Washington's will 80 years earlier.
Vice President John c. Calhoun
made the final effort, in February
1882, in q letter to John A. Wash
ington. But it was the General
Assembly of Virginia that re-
sponded, proclaiming sarcastically
that Congress plans were mot
necessary to perpetuate and
strengthen the national gratitude. F."
To this day, the tomb in the
Capitol basement has remained
empty.
Evening star., 1950-01-14
Runaway Truck
Halted by Man
Who Never Drove

A passenger who had never
driven a car succeeded in stop
ping runaway truck yesterday
after the driver was taken i'll.
William c. Bell, 81, of sos r
street NV, a Salvation Army
truck helper, reached for the
brake and finally turned of the
ignition as the truck rolled two
blocks out of control with the
driver slumped over the wheel and
his foot on the accelerator.
The truck sideswiped three
autos and ran a red light before
it stopped. 49,. ..>. ~
The driver, Luke r. Sheridan, a
Salvation Army employe of the
F street address, was taken to
Casualty Hospital for examina-
ton, but neither man was injured
in the accident.
Evening star., 1950-01-14
29 Outstanding Sevicemen
Meet Military Leaders

TWenty-nine outstanding serv-
icemen yesterday visited the De-
fense Department and met the
Nations top military leaders.
They were luncheon guests of
Defense Secretary johnson with
Assistant Secretary Paul H. Grif-
fifth acting as host. They then
visited the service department
heads.
The men were selected by their
respective services on the basis
of leadership, conduct, bearing
and initiative. The soldiers are
from Fort Bragg, N. c., the sailors
from the Atlantic Fleet, the air.
men from Polk base, N. c., and
the Marines from the Quantico
(Va.) school.
Today the group was at the
Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md,
and tonight they were to be
guests at a formal ball at the
Naval Gun Factory. After a sight
seeing tour and religious services
at Fort McNair chapel, the serv-
icemen will return to their home
stations.
Evening star., 1950-01-14
Man Fined 500 for Biting
Ear Off Friend in Row

Howard johnson, 26, of the 1900
block of Swami, street NV, yes
terday was ordered to pay 500
or serve 80 days for biting of
the ear of a friend during an
argument.
johnson, who originally was
charged with mayhem, pleaded
guilty to a reduced charge OF
simple assault.
The man whose ear was bitten
off, Vincent Suber, SO, of the 1900
block of S-street NV, testified he
was reluctant to prosecute since
he had struck the first blow. The
ear was bitten off Saturday dur
ing a fight in a restaurant in the
1900 block of Fourteenth street
NV. The ear was sewn back on al
Freedmen's Hospital. Both mer
are colored.
Evening star., 1950-01-14
Mother Of Marty Gallagher,
His Most Avid Ring Fan, Dies

The best fan Marty Gallagher
ever had when he was boxing as
the Pride of Foggy Bottom" in
the decade before World War II,
died early today in Georgetown
Hospital.
She was his mother, Mrs. Ellen
Gallagher, of 45O1 Harling lane,
Bethesda. She was Sc years old.
Marty, who fought the best of
the heavyWeights in his day and
retired to become a fight referee.
was always her favorite son and
fighter, her family said. On her
television set she had been follow
ing his work as a boxing referee
with the same avid interest she
displayed when he was beating
his opponents in the ring. Marty
also is coach Of Georgetown's box
ing team.
Mrs. Gallagher was born in Ire
land, coming to the United States
and Washington when she was Is
years old. She lived in Washing
ton ever since.
About four years after she came
Evening star., 1950-01-14
New Psychiatry Head
At Ga|Iinger 10 Get
Support on Changes

Gallinger's new psychiatry chief
has been given assurances from
city officials that he will be backed
up in trying to improve the long
criticized psychiatric department,
Health Officer Daniel L. Seckinger
said today.
Appointment of DR.. Gerhart j
Gordon. Delaware State Hospital
psychiatrist, to fill the job of chief
medical officer in psychiatry at
Gallinger was revealed by The
Star yesterday.
DR.. Seckinger said DR.. Gordon
has been assured that we'll try
to do what he suggests to improve
the service, even if it costs some
money"
Clinic Among Needs.
One of the Health Department
plans, which DR.. Seckinger said
the new chief is eminently quail
fled to carry out, is a mental
health clinic at Gailinger-one of
the long-recommended and un-
filled needs. DR.. Seckinger point
ed out that when the new pedi-
atrics building is completed, the
children will be moved out of the
second floor in the psychiatric
department, thereby providing
clinic space.
Both DR.. Seckinger and DR.
Gordon are agreed that acute
cases requiring short-term treat
ment should be cared for at Gal
linger rather than being shunteo
to st. Elizabeths.
"The treatment program GER
tainly can be improved" DR.. Cor
don said in a telephone interview
with The Star from the hospital
in Farnhurst, Del. Acute cases
should not just be herded over to
st. Elizabeths. Some could be
relieved without being sent there
and others could be improved by
treatment before going there"
"Shackling" Method Criticized.
When the reporter recalled that
one of the recurrent criticisms
of Gallinger's psychiatric depart
ment was the manacling of dis
turbed patients, DR.. Gordon said
Stacking patients was an old
fashioned method of coping with
them.
''The IDEAL" he said, sis 24-hour
hydrotherapy. With the expan-
sion of hydrotherapy and estab-
lishment of shock therapy, shack
ling should not be necessary ex-
cept in rare cases."
DR.. Gordon emphasized that
teaching course for resident doc
tors, interns and nurses in the
psychiatric department is badly
needed. He said he intends to
start teaching and added that
he hopes an arrangement van
be worked out to get some help
from st. Elizabeths.
The new psychiatrist is expect
ed here in about a month.
Evening star., 1950-01-14

Mrs. Washington has con-
sented to the request of the
President and Congress that the
remains OF the General should
be inferred in the Capitol" -
Centinel OF Liberty, January II.
1900.
It was a painful decision fol-
Martha Washington to agree to
allow the moving of her husband s
body from Mount Vernon.
Congress asked her consent only
nine days after Washingtons
death on December IA, 1899. A
marble monument" was to be
erected in the Capitol. and the
body was ito be deposited under
it." A funeral procession also was
proposed, and an grafton.
Already, however, Washington S
own instructions had been carried
out. In accordance with his "ex-
press desire"-stated in will
made only five months before
he had been given a simple, pri-
vate funeral and his body laid in
the old family vault on a Mount
Vernon hillside. Later, on a spot
he himself had marked out, a new
vault was to be built. -
Consent To Public Will.
But Martha found herself moved
by another compulsion.
while I feel with keenest an
guish the late dispensation of Di-
vine Providence" she wrote Presi-
dent John Adams, II cannot be
msensible to the mournful tributes
Of respect and veneration which
are paid to the memory of my
dear deceased husband.
Taught by that great example
which I had so long before me
never to oppose any private wishes
to the public will, I must consent
to the request made by Congress.
I need not, cannot say, what
. sacrifice of individual feeling
I make to sense of duty"
Evening star., 1950-01-14
Mrs. Corowoy Reported
Definitely Improved

Former Senator Hattie w. Car
away, Democrat, of Arkansas was
reported" definitely improved" to-
day at George Washington Uni
versity Hospital.
Mrs. CaraWay. II, who served
in the Senate for more than 13
years, was taken to G. w. We'd
nesday after an illness. Her
nurse said she rested we'll last
night and was much improved. -
Evening star., 1950-01-14

here to live with sisters (she was
one of family of nine sisters and
one brother. she married. Hel
husband, who died 40 years ago
operated an odd fashioned saloon
in Foggy Bottom before his death,
the family said.
Other SURVIVORS are a sister.
Mrs. Della Funk of Arlington, two
other sons, James Gallagher and
Patrick Gallagher, and a daughter,
Mrs. Mary Janezeck, all of Wash
ingtOn.
Evening star., 1950-01-14
Dr.. Wexberq to Speak

DR.. Leopold E. Wexberg, direc-
tor OF the Health Department Bu-
reau OF Mental Hygiene, will speak
to a group of parents of the Ha-
dassah at the home of Mrs. Albert
MeSirow. 1914 Appleton street
NV. at $3.50 o'clock tonight. His
subject will be "Pschiatry and
Children"
Evening star., 1950-01-14
Flanagan Says PUG
Will Hold Hearing on
Transit Fare Increase

Washington transit riders had
assurance today from Chairman
James H. Flanagan of the Public
Utilities Commission that the Cap
ital Transit Co. will not be granted
proposed fare increases without a
formal public hearing.
Mr.. Flanagan said the date Of
the hearing, as yet undecided, will
be announced later.
The transit company wants to
eliminate weekly passes, increase
cash fares to Is cents and bring
the price of tokens to six for 80
cents. 1t asked the PUG to per-
nit the new rates to go in effect
January % without hearing, as
an emergency measure, or to grant
the fares and then hold hearing.
Concern Over Hearing Noted.
The company said it would go
broke unless it is granted higher
fares.
The request to bypass public
hearing drew expressions of con-
cern from numerous sources, in
cluding one from Representative
Wagner, Democrat, of Ohio.
Mr.. Wagner wrote Mr.. Flanagan
it was his intention next week
'to take further action on the
floor of the House to block any
attempt by any one or by any cor
poration to jam through any such
move without first giving the bus
and streetcar riding public an op-
portunity to have it's say on this
matter, which so vitality affects
the pocketbooks of thousands OF
Government workers and other
Washingtonians."
Decision Preceded Letter.
The House member declared
that regardless of the merits OF
the lack thereof as to the proposal
itself. I am against anything which
smacks so strongly as this does
of star chamber proceedings"
Mr.. Flanagan had made his
announcement that a hearing
would be held, however, before
this communication reached his
office.
Letters protesting the increase
are reaching the PUG offices. They
show particular opposition to the
proposed abolition of the weekly
pass.
One writer suggested that passes
be issued for a month. rather thar
. week, to save printing expense
and that they have distinctive col
oring or marking for men ane
women in order to limit the us,
Of on4 pass by an entire family.
Evening star., 1950-01-14

Dell, 1OllOWlng
the action of a
siX-man cor
oner's jury in
District Court
yesterday.
Myers, "A, a
shade salesman,
of 2110 North
Lincoln street,
Arlington, was
ordered held
after a three
hour inquest, at
which all the
principal figures
l., ~ ooco ov
Evening star., 1950-01-14
Myers0rdered
Held in Death of
Mrs. Campbell
Arlington Salesman
Silent at Inquest
On Illegal Operation

Ralph Willard Myers today
faced grand jury action in con-
nection with the abortion death
of 20-year-old Nina Jean Camp
Montana labor news., 1950-01-12
Health Coop Wins
Court Battle
With ANA Affiliate

Second oi the current cnnr, ndi
Tie, Ia break the hold 81 the Nnef
lean Medical \>,ociaiion over
plN STEFAN, job right, i now under
waS in seattle. Wash Prcirial
hearings Of the sui, by Group Health
Co-opcratiAc oi Puget Sound against
the local medical association hav.
ended. With decisions on nearly ever
rpin, iaynrine the coop
Group health, formed fonr wears
ago. noN serves more than 2n,ofl
member patients, has the services Of
% ply ,iclans under contract. aud
owns a hospital whose facilities haze
been approved by the ANN
The coop charged the local med
zeal society threatened to cNpcll any
doctor who furnished prepaid mcdi-
cal care in competition with its own
and that the local hospital had adj
opted a rule barring all doctors who
do not belong to the society.
Superior Court Judge Meakir
ruled tina, Group Health has a right
10 relief from the society's prac-
tees ii they are as pictured by {
co-up. He recommended promp.
hearing 81 the suit.