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The Phoenix Jewish news., 1951-08-31
Letters to The
Editor

Editor, The News:
/ am writing to correct the state
ment of Clara Smidt, formerly of
Phoenix, now living in Los Angeles,
in the July issue of The Phoenix
Jewish News.
Mrs. J. B. Feldman and Miss Ro-
della Tocker were the first organ
izers of the Hannah Senesch Group
of Pioneer Women. The first meet
ing was held at the home of Clara
Schaeffer. The second was at the
home of Mrs. 1. Preclude. With
the help of Mrs. Preclude, our
group began to grow. From 10
members we have grown to a mem
bership of SO.
RODELLA TOCKER
P. S. Mrs. C. Smidt Joined five
months after we organized.
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1951-08-31

The rabbi is teacher of the classes
and spiritual leader of Tucson's
Temple Emanuel.
What has given these classes ma
tional prominence is the fact that
this year the Rosenbaum prize
(given by the Rosenbaum Memorial
Foundation of Philadelphia to stu
dents at state universities who dis
tinguish themselves in Hebrew
studies) was won at the University
of Arizona by Catholic woman.
Mrs. Rood, a grandmother, was
long ago a student of classical
languages, but it was at least part
ly her interest in the Bible and her
desire to read it in the original
which brought her to Rabbi Bill
gray's Hebrew class.
Her record may well be an in
spiration to our Jewish grand
mothers and mothers, many of
whom may at one time or another
have dreamed of setting out toward
similar goal. They will find that
they have embarked on a glorious
adventure.
For this ancient but everything
language, in whose study Mrs.
Rood excels, is the language in
which our forefathers wrote the
most magnificent literature OF all
time.
It is the language revered by
generations of Jews, for whom it
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1951-08-31
THE WORLD OVER

needless precaution, as it turned
out).
Californians don't like having
him here. The Los Angeles Daily
News printed a lengthy expose of
his past history only few days
ago. But chances of his deportation
are slim unless the public is suffi-
Gently aroused. For Mr.. Artuko-
vich has some excellent political
connections in Washington, who
have made it known that he is an
anti-C Communist and is therefore
a desirable character.
Hitler too was an anti-Commu-
mist. Given six more years of life
and little patience, Hitler too
might have made it over here as a
Displaced Person. Would he have
had to assume an alias to persuade
the proper authorities to allow him
entry?
Mr.. Artukovich was Hitler's Gro
alton lieutenant. He was responsible
for the murder of hundreds of
thousands of Serbs and practically
the entire Jewish population of
Croatia. He Consigned a oecree
ordering the execution of 10 hos
tages for every one of his police
killed by the underground. He
caused thousands of deaths and
tortures in concentration camps.
Now he is living in luxury in a
fashionable colony on the shores of
the Pacific.
Is there any justice in his still
being free to roam the earth? Is
there any decency in forcing the
unsuspecting people of our demo-
cracy to call him fellow-citizen? Is
there any hope that the people of
Yugoslavia and of other European
countries will have faith in our
pronouncements against totalitar-
ianism if we allow this man to
speak for us in our struggle
against Communism
Our answer should be an out
pouring of indignation by individ-
ual citizens in the direction of the
U. S. Office of immigration. Then
perhaps some official action will be
taken to remove the blight from
our beautiful vacation spot, and
the menace from American demo-
cracy.
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1951-08-31

has represented at times the only
bridge across the widespread dis
persion.
Today it is the spoken tongue of
over million fellow Jews who are
with courage and dignity building
new democracy in an ancient
land.
Any of. us who thrill to the
rhythm of history must be stirred
by the sounds of history in this
Hebrew language. All of us who
acknowledge our Jewishness with
pride will find self-assurance in
learning to read and speak He
brew, which has always and every
where been one of the prime treas
ures of the Jew.
LOW CLOUDS IN CALIFOR-
MIA Vacationing on the shores
of the sparkling blue Pacific, we
have learned to our horror that we
are sharing this Incompatible
ocean vista with none other than
Andrija Artukovich, the infamous
Butcher of the Balkans.
Not far away, at Surfside, the 81
year-old Nazi war criminal wanted
by the Yugoslav government is
living quietly, awaiting an OK. on
his APPLICATION for permane
American residence as a Displaced
Person!
There is ample documentary proof
of his war guilt, of his undesirable
ity as a U. S. citizen, of his COM
mitting an act aimed at "uncon-
stitutional overthrow of the U. S.
government" Tin the words of the
McCarran Act), since he>was act
ing head of the Creation puppet
government in Dec, 1941, when
Croatia declared war against our
country.
All this is history. But the U. S.
immigration authorities aren't too
unhappy about Mr.. Artukovich.
They have been trying very hard
to find a loophole through which
he may crawl into U. S. citizenship,
despite his European career, and
despite his having entered this
country under false name Ia
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1951-08-31
Network Show Will
Feature Lew King

Lew King, Phoenix advertising
man and radio me-, will be fea-
tured in the first -wide-net-
work radio show to originate from
the Arizona capital city.
Beginning Oct. 6, KRIZ of Phoe-
nix will feed into the Ii erty
Broadcasting System and its 430
affiliates a regular Saturday morn
ing broadcast of Lew Kings Junior
Rangers of America.
The show will be produced at the
Fox Theater and will highlight
national talent hunt among child
rem.
Howard Loeb is owner of KRIZ,
which is the newest of the seven
stations in the Valley of the Sun.
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1951-08-31
Hebrew Classics Due

JERUSALEM, (JTA)-A ten
year plan for translation into He
brew of outstanding works of Jew
ish interest written in many Ian
guages and for the publication in
Hebrew of works of Jewish writer's
was announced this week by the
Mosad Bialik publishing house es-
tablished by the Jewish Agency.
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1951-08-31
Firms Get Tax Break

TEL AVN, (JTA)-A total of
519 enterprises which enjoy special
rights in relation to taxes and the
export of profits in foreign cur
rency were organized between April
and June, 1861, and an additional
399 businesses have already re-
ceived government approval !, the
Ministry of Trade and Industry re-
ported this week.
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1951-08-31

a Z w l , IL press
telling of the
Hebrew classes
being taught at
t h e University
Of A r i z o n a.
T h e S e courses
were the result.
Rabbi Albert T.
Bilgray tells us,
of p e tt t i 0 n S
signed by both
Jewish and nom
Ts1
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1951-08-31

l. nave 1lleQ per-
haps a thousand
affidavits a n d
countless letters
of inquiry and
search. l have
S e e n miracles
happen in the
discovery of a
c h il d alive in
the m i d S t of
death and reu-
n i t e d w i t h
American rela-
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1951-08-31
U. S., Israel Sign Pact

WASHINGTON, (JTA) = The
United States and Israel have
signed treaty of friendship which
extends "most favored nation treat
ment" to each of the two countries.
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1951-08-31

A factory with a yearly output
of 5000 motorcycles is planned for
construction in Israel in the very
near future.
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1951-08-31

More than half a million dunams
of land are expected to be made
fertile as a result of Israel's irriga-
ton program for the next three
years.
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1951-08-31
By Deborah Jaffa Metz
News Own COlumnist

HIGH HOPES IN ARIZONA !.
All of US, Pm sure, read with
special interest the articles in the
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1951-08-31

SINCE 1880 have been involved
in welcoming refugees and new
Americans to Jewish communities.
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1951-08-31

THE COLUMN extends a hand
full of orchids to David Bush for his
very real contribution to the well
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1951-04-27
KOREAN WAR DENOUNCED BY FRED SLOWER AT
Progressive PARTY CONVENTION

was adopted, calling for a return to
the principles of the UN Charter
and seating the Peoples Republic of
China; proposal by the u. S. of a
cease Fire" order and creation of
UN mediation commission, with
drawal of all foreign troops from
Korea, a Horsepower conference on
the German question, end of Ameri-
can support for reactionary govern
ments around the world; and called
for a UN agreement outlawing use
of atomic and other weapons of mass
destruction in line with recommended
tions made by the international Red
Cross
Citing the need for the Progressive
Party, and a determination to be an
active and permanent organization.
h statement adopted declared:
DAILY more people come to agree
with us on one or another of our
positions, and our steadfast opposi-
ton to the cruel, futile and unjust
war in Korea is now shared by ma
jority of all Americans. We stand at
IHt IIOnJ VI t1IOI 10 W pltNtiiL Tie
ultimate disaster. to our country and
all mankind-the third, the atomic,
world war We have no illusions as
to the pressure which can be brought
against us by the wealth and influ-
ence of monopoly which strives to
repeat the experience of Germany in
the United States of America. Our de-
sire and determination to secure life,
liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
for ourselves and our children; our
recognition of these rights as be-
longing to all people here and every
where, our loyalty to the great demo-
cratic experience of our country will
make US more than able to resist
this pressure We recognize with
sincere respect the many individuals
If other parties and the host of in
dependent citizens who stand with
is in any part of this patriotic re-
;istance. We are confident that we
are enlisted with the overwhelming
majority of the human race We say
lere today to the millions of people
n whose behalf we speak, and to the
monopolies which are
he enemies of all mankind, we have
lot struck our colors-we have just
,egun to fight!'
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1951-04-27

Exchange Commission, draw half of
all the dividends in American cor
porations.
This reveals story quite diff
ferent from that which is told by
newspapers and radio, as indeed there
is another side to their story on sub
sides and parity. Subsidies to farm
ers-unlike the $3.5 billion presently
being given to industry in the form
of tax amortization-are made sy-
nonymous with Communism, social
ism and un-Americanism But during
the last war, subsidies not only held
food prices in check but increased
needed production. Once subsidies
were instituted it was possible to roll
back prices, and in December, 1914,
the cost of foods was actually per
cent below May, 1913, while farm
production was % per cent over
1889.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1951-04-27
Montana Power Company's-.

CONTINUED from page one)
for bill boards telling the passerby
that Montana Power is a great friend
of the Montana farmer, bringing the
blessings of electricity to every re-
mote farmstead, would build this line
and many more like it. Speeches by
the propaganda boys employed by
Montana Power sound just a little
hollow when they condemn public
power, when they berate their gov
eminent, and when they oppose ex-
tension of REA. Especially do such
speeches sound little hollow to the
farmers of Lump Gulch, after the
1t is anticipated that the VigiIante
Coop, in spite of the difficulties of
service, will lnow build the line. The
coop went all the way with Montana
Power, as did the farmers, to let them
build this line. After the line is
built by REA you may be assured
Montana Power will complain that
the REA invaded its territory in
Lump Gulch. WHEN THEY DO, RE-
MEMBER THIS STORY OF HOW
POWER SERVES THE
FARMER!
The committee representing the |
farmers at the Helena meeting with
MPCo.'s district manager, included |
Herman Lee, Ivar Jenkins, Forrest
Angstman and Waldo Newston.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1951-04-27

An enthusiastic body of delegates
at the annual convention of Montana
Progressive Party, April 9Th, filled
Carpenters Hall at Great Falls, to
elect officers, adopt Resolution pro-
gram, and hear Fred Slower. President
of the Iowa Farmers Union, denounce
the war in Korea as another example
of Company activity with which Mon
tanans are already familiar. Pointing
to the decline in farm income, strike
breaking and the worsening con-
ditions resulting from Big Business
control of a war economy, he con-
demned the Truman Administration
for subservience to monopoly, and
for hypocritical lip service to farm
ers, labor and New Deal liberalism.
Speaking of the Federal Farm Pro-
gram, he said, "You wanted Parity
they gave you Koreaw
Slower emphasized that the anti
labor activity, destruction of civil
and assaults on Negro and
other minorities was primarily to
enable Company Control to be con-
tinued, and to silence people who
would otherwise defend traditional
American Liberty. Despite all the
violence and propaganda, however,
Company Control is coming to an
end, Slower asserted, and pointed out
that even the late Wendell Willkie
recognized this as fact. Slower in
sisted that war is not inevitable.
Jerry J. O'Connell, former Montana |
also spoke, giving an ac-
count of recent struggles against
legislation such as the
Vood-McCarran act. He also called
.ttention to the neglect and abuse
# the aged citizens in Montana, say
ng in his opinion it was a major
of Progressives in Mon
ana to organize and fight for these
Id people.
Officers were reelected after CIV
ng their reports to the Convention,
Chairman L. L. Price, First
district Vice Chairman John Goforth.
econd District Ernest o. Redlin, Sec
etary Chester Kinsey and Treasurer
era Foutch.
Resolutions pledged support to the
ational Progressive Party program,
e-affirmed state platforms and pro-
rams previously adopted, and in adj
ition outlined specific measures to
remote full citizenship for Indian
nd other citizens in Minority groups ,
l Montana. A positive program of
md reform and maintenance of fam
Y farms, an end to Government ,
trike Breaking, opposition to UNIT t
nd similar legislation were record :
/. Delegates pledged to make Mon !
ma a Public Power State with +
ublic Utilities District law. MVA,
nd eva. as a means of improving
conditions in Montana and
lrbing Company Control" Il
A program to secure world peace n
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1951-04-27
Are Farmers Getting the Crazy?
By A. G. MEZERICK,

By A. G. MEZERICK,
In New Republic, April %, 1851
A. C. Mezerick. industrial con-
sultant and magazine writer, is the
author of several books dealing
with economic and political prob
lens, the most recent of which is
THE Pursuit of Plenty"
Food prices are too high. No doubt
about that. Justifiably housewives
get new proof of skyrocketing prices
with every trip to the butcher and
the grocer. Men pay soaring restaur-
ant checks with rising gorge which
wipes out, in fit of indigestion, any
vestige of enjoyment in dining. Who
is to blame?
Headlines such as Farmers Fat
tening on Price Law" and Farmers
Get the Gravy" editorials and radio
e2perts-demanding an end to sub
sides and benefits for farmers-have
famed fire designed to place all
the blame for high food prices on
the farmer. The campaign has caught
on. In food stores, the customers NUT
ter epithets against greedy farmers.
Angry letters to editors call for an
end to their privileged position.
BREAD UP, WHEAT DOWN
The facts show that the farmer
is not the villain of the piece. Not |
long ago Sen Burnet Maybank (D-S.
c. pointed out that when wheat was
S2.S1 bushel, in June, 1913 a pound
leaf of bread sold for 1873 cents.
Then the price paid the farmer for
his wheat started down, until in Oc-
tober, 1850, after Korea, it brought
only $1.91 bushel. Despite the drop
in wheat prices, pound loaf of bread
wen5 up to AT cents, the result of
professors, and not farmers, price
boosts.
Increased markups are being taken ,
at an unprecedented rate at every {
stage between the farmer and the
consumer. Price control, which never
controls but always threatens, has t
proved to be bonanza for the big {
which process and hand
e food after it leaves the farm. The 7
National City Bank of New York I
las just released its report on net
income of leading corporations in
1880. Meat packers increased their
profits SO per cent over the previous
ear; sugar professors upped their
Profits 35 per cent; and the corpora
ions which process other food prod I
cts increased their profits by an Q
verage of Ia per cent. While all this n
yas taking place, the farmers income u
ropped. 0
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1951-04-27
FARM INCOME DOWN ALMOST
A THIRD, SINCE 1947

Not that it would have been fatal
if farmers had been able to improve
their income position by quite lot,
for agriculture, unlike industry or
even labor, has had a diminishing in
come over the last three years. The
net income realized by all farm OPP
orators dropped from a peak of al
most S18 billion in 1947 to $16.5
billion in 1913 1t declined again to
S14 million in 1949 and sunk to
postwar low of $13 billion in 1850.
drop of ~ per cent in three years.
Compare the farmers position with
that of other groups of the popula-
ton. Wages in 1850 were 10 per cent
above the 1947 level, which is not to
say that they were keeping pace with
the rise in the cost of living. In what
labor got, or gets, cannot be found
the answer to the rising price of
foods. The story of corporate profits
over the last three years reveals
where the bulk of the money now be-
ing taken from food purchasers real
~ goes. Corporate profits have
mounted from $18.5 billion in 1947
to the present rate of more than
24.5 billion annually.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1951-04-27

few hours after it leaves the farmer
For the corn inside 10 cent can, tht
farmer gets 24 cents. His share Of
a Decent can of tomatoes is three
cents. Onions for which you pay si1
cents pound have brought the farm
Ell one cent. Cabbage brings him
even less. This same kind of situa.
ton exists with regard to clothing
The cotton in a shirt for which you
pay $3.50 or $4 brought the farmer
80 cents. The wheat in the loaf of
bread selling for Is cents or more
brings him 2 25 cents. The price of
a loaf of bread has increased IL per
pound since Korea.
THE REAL AIM
Perhaps the desire, so fervently
expressed by special interests, to
place the blame for every rise in food
prices on the shoulder of the farm
ers has motives quite different from
a beneficent regard for the pocket
book of the consumer. Some farm
leaders see the present campaign as
preparation for big business drive
against the farming population,
scheduled to follow the current eff
fort to put labor in the doghouse,
for the purpose of guaranteeing the
profits of corporations
which have resulted from lack of
real controls.
Says James G. Patton, president of
the Farmers Union:
Month after month, we farmers
were told that labor's wages were
responsible for the high prices we
pay for gasoline, oil, fertilizer,
chemicals and machinery. We
knew better, the profit figures of
the corporations told us that Now
labor is being told that it is the
farmer who should be blamed. Both
attacks are part of the same often
sive-to freeze the worker into a
rigid wage pattern and keep the
farmer in his familiar depressed
position"
LABOR-its education having been
lurried by the events of the past
ew mOnths-sees it about the same
way. Philip Murray summed up la
,or's attitude as follows: eve know
hat food prices are too high but we
re convinced that the reasons for
,rices being so high go back more to
he unprecedented billions garnered I
" big business last year than to the
UNI, approximately half that amount, !
yhich was divided among 20 million |
armers.
HE ANSWER-REAL CONTROLS
Meanwhile all the necessities need :
d by farmer and worker continue +
leir memorable march toward the 7
The farmer is told that 2
is the worker who is responsible. g
abor and the middle class are har- G
ngued to the point where they may
ell believe that it is the farmer who :
ouges them. The answer to today's Z
9Th prices is neither in labor nor
lie farmer. 1t is to be found in real :
,ntrols exercised across the boards. .
cal controls include control of cor :
orate profits-or has that idea, und- .
the barrage of big business pro- =
Uganda, become un-American?
4.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1951-04-27
Teton County Farm People
Want Rural Telephones

More than 1900 families in the
Teton county area have signed up
for establishing rural telephone
coop in the area west of Great Falls,
it was announced at the Teton Coun-
ty Farmers Union meeting, April 10.
A five-foot mower costing $3.50
in 1919 (also postwar boom year,,
now costs the farmer $197.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1951-04-27
1870 OF PEOPLE GET 100
OF INCOME

In terms Of numbers Of people in
volved the comparison as between
the income of farmers and Of corpor-
atoms is doubly startling. Eighteen
per cent of the population, over 27
million people, live on farms. They,
among their tremendous number, di-
vide the 10 per cent of the national
income represented in the $13 bill
lion total agricultural net income last
year. A person on farm averaged
in 1850, only about half of that re-
ceived in urban areas. Of Ameri-
cas- ST million farms, two million,
according to very recent report
by the Joint Economic Committee of
Congress, produce less than $1,000
of farm products, including the value
of food used by the farm family.
Contrast this with the $1,000 people
who, according to the Securities and
Evening star., 1951-11-18
Deb-of- Year Works
AS Professional Model

What does being deb-o the
year mean to a girl? "It doesn't
mean life of champagne and
Orchids" said 1951s Jennifer
Lowther, in London.
She lives in the country with
her mother and has become a
professional model. She recently
finished a weeks modelling of
clothes costing from $45 to $500
before an audience of Army wives.
Evening star., 1951-11-18
Italian Army Directs
Rescue and Police Job
In Worst Pc Flood
BY the Associated Press

ROvIGO. Italy, Nov. 17.-Th,
italian Army tonight took ovel
the direction of rescue and police
work along 100 miles of the
stricken Pc valley. where 10000
persons filed Italy's worst flood o1
the century.
British and American military
forces rushed aid from Trieste
Florence, Naples and as far away
as Frankfurt, Germany.
Police shot and killed four loot
ers in the deserted village of Mar
zana. raising the known toll oi
dead to SO since November 8
Scores more were missing. With
the ITO victims Of last months
storms in Southern Italy and
Sicily. the raging Po flood
amounted to 1taly's worst natural
disaster since the Messina earth
quake of 1908.
New Water Wall Reported.
Early tonight new wall of
water was reported rolling down
the rain-fed river, threatening
CastelmaSsa, a city of 10000.
Roviga, with 10000 population,
and Adria. with $4,000, were
ghost cities with mud brown tor
rents two to three feet deep rush
ing through their streets and lap
ping at Adria'S cathedral steps.
Half hundred other towns and
villages were under water.
Despite fog, helicopters dropped
food to isolated communities and
rescued marooned rural residents
from shrinking hilltops. officials
estimated 5000 to 1000 still
awaited rescue from hills and
roofs.
Red Cross Urged to Help.
Appeals went to the Interna-
tional Red Cross for medicine,
bedding and clothing for refu-
gees who jammed churches.
schools and private homes in
Padua, Verona, Vicenza and Gre
mona. Emergency kitchens were
serving 10000 hot meals a day to
the haggard homeless arriving by
bus, truck. OK cart and boat.
Officials reckoned that 10000
cattle had been drowned, and said
the damage would amount to mil
lions of dollars.
American military forces at
Trieste sent six Army trucks
loaded with sandbags. Capt. Ar
thur w. Kipp set up a liaison
headquarters here. Two United
States Air Force flying boxcars
brought dismantled helicopter
from Igor France, to aid in
rescue work.
The British sent 5o-man
team OF Army engineers from
Trieste with bulldozers, assault
boats. small landing craft and
lifebelts.