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The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1951-03-02
PLAIN TALK
STORY ABOUT cows
BY Alfred Segal


I have just been reading a story
about the vanity Of a couple Of
cows. It seems that some cows
may be like some people: like
rabbits even.
These cows had been liitched to
a cart in which the Holy Ark of
the Temple was being carried
back to the children of Israel.
According to the legend, the
Philistines, who had captured the
Ark, had for some reason of COM
passion decided to send it back
to the children of Israel in Beth
Shemesh.
oh. it was gorgeous time for
the two cows AZ they pulled the
Holy Ark toward th:Shemesh.
Everywhere along the rutted road
the Israelites came 10 meet them
with rejoicing. All this the cows
loved appreciativelY as cows do
when they are glad.
One cow said to the other: 1--WE
seem to be more than ordinary
cows. Look how the people are
reverencing us. We must be
divine"
The other cow said: I'VE have
become the most important cows
in the world. Doubtless. when
we arrive at Beth Shemesh we
shall be made governors Of the
place."
The story, as printed, went on
to say: 'But these cows knew
not, silly creatures, that it was
not to them that men bowed
down and paid homage but to the
precious treasure they were car
rying; that is to say, the Holy
Ark....And when the cows came
to the field of Joshua, the Beth
Shenite, the people took posses
sion of the Ark, but the cows
were slaughtered and offered up
as burnt offerings"
1.-THE cows remind me Of a flea
heard about. The flea happen.
Cd to be riding on the back Of a
Hon "oh". the proud flea
ecnltsd II am a royal flea. / am
q part Of this Ion."l
The story Of the two silly cows
had been told in a sermon by
Rabbi Simeon Singer who was
advising other rabbis not to be
like these COWS. Rabbi Singer
said: $50 many vain synagogue
functionary, holding the Law
aloft, and seeing the congregation
bowling down before him, is up
lifted in his own esteem and
deems himself more than COM
mon mortal: but he considers not,
foolish man, that not to him is
the homage paid but to the Torah,
and after it is taken from him he
is accounted a thing of nought.a
The story had been reprinted
in a pamphlet of the Hebrew
Union College. In this pamphlet
the college was reporting a ser.
mon Of Rabbi Victor Reichert Of
II town: he was speaking to the
fcon41n,,eA an Pare a
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1951-03-02

ham, Ala. on Sunday, March 4th.
Present at the gathering will be
members of the regional admins
trative committee, and local bond
drive chairmen from all over the
Southeast. as well as members of
the professional staff of the
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1951-03-02
"OLIVER TWIST" APPROVED
FOR SHOWING IN US.

NEW YORK AJpA Of the controversial
oliver Twist approval this week for
after the films distributors complied
ruling Motion Picture Association Of America 1nc and
the villain Pagan The film in its
original objected alegedlY antSemc
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1951-03-02
Weisgal 10 Confer With z. 0. A.
On Southeast Bond Drive

Meyer Wesgal Of the American Development
Finance Corp Israel will confer with z O. A ades from
the souhsa states plans for organizing their participation in
the nationwide campaign for Israel bond sales which begins in May
according by p BenamY regional z. O.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1951-03-02

Mairnon as adding that the tenn
porarY crisis could not affect the
basic solidness and solidarity Of
the young democracy Of Israel
which is going ahead under all
circumstances"
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1951-03-02
Ben Curions Defeat Called Proof Of
Religious Strength in Jewish State

AJP)-The collapse of coalition
cited this week proof Of mounting religious strength Israel
by Jewish Minister of Religions.
Evening star., 1951-11-18
By Belmont Faries

the Germans and continuing the
development Of new industrial areas
to the east. On the 34th anniversary
of the Bolshevik Revolution earlier
this month, Politburo Member L. p.
Beria boasted that industrial produc-
ton was running Is per cent ahead
of last year and would double the
1910 figure.
The bulk of this production still
comes from European Russia, close
to potential enemy bomber bases.
The vast new hydro-electric projects
Of which Beria also boasted are on
the Volga, the Don, the Dnieper and
the ANU Darya, all near the Soviet
Unions vulnerable southern borders.
Work is being done in Siberia, too.
But only one of Russia's major in
dustrial centers is there.
This. according to Theodore
Shabad's Geography Of the U. S.
S. r." columbia University Press)
is the Kuznetsk basin in Western
Siberia.
The Moscow area. heart Of the old
central industrial region, still is the
biggest industrial producer, with
nearly one-sixth of the U. S. s. RS
total output. 1t makes automobiles.
trucks. planes, locomotives, high
grade steel. machine tools, electrical
goods. precision tools, chemicals and
textiles.
To the north west is Leningrad, a
Evening star., 1951-11-18


l. Addressing shipments to nom
existent companies in Western Berlin,
Or to actual companies which have
placed no such orders. Passing
through the Soviet zone. the trucks
are detoured from the autobahn and
unloaded in Russian-controlled terri
tory.
2. Causing shipments to be refused
by their ostensible consignees in
Western Berlin for underweight,
wrong specifications. poor quality
and what not. On the trip back,
again through the Soviet zone, the
merchandise, thought to have been
delivered in Western Berlin. can
easily be disposed of without attract
ing attention.
3. Shipping goods to an Eastern
Berlin establishment by way of fly
by-night address in Western Berlin.
The most popular and most widely
practiced deception, however, consists
simply of shipping the goods from
the West German factory to a "neu-
trail" port-Amsterdam, Rotterdam,
Antwerp and Copenhagen, among
others-whence they are trans
shipped to Russian-controlled port
on the Baltic.
It even happens quite often that
strategic materials produced in West
ern Germany, after having first been
sent to Holland or Belgium, are
routed back to Germany by rail, pro-
vided with false certificates of origin.
Now they are in transit" to an
easterly destination, of course-and
the German customs agents have no
right to deny them passage.
From past experience, it seems safe
to conclude that for every trick that
is foiled in this game the smugglers
have at least two new ones ready for
trial.
Evening star., 1951-11-18

Between now and Christmas, about
d fifth Of the residents Of Greater
Washington and perhaps tenth of
all Americans will suffer more or less
inconvenience from a strange defect
n Cur postal system. This defect Is
the non-delivery of large packages in
rural areas. 1t is relic of horse
and-buggy days, and has become
an acute problem here as a by
product of the sales tax.
Technically, of course, all parcels
Which are accepted by the post Office
are delivered. This is true In the
sense that the delivery man in good
faith takes them with him on his
rounds. Thousands Of these pack
ages. however. are returned to the
post office each day because they are
too large to be put in the mail boxes
approved by the Postmaster General.
theoretically, city dwellers are in
the same boat with country folk In
this regard Actually, in most
cases in the city. there is a hallway
or an Office at which large or surplus
mail can be left without risk. But
Evening star., 1951-11-18

shipbuilding center and producer of
machinery such as tractors. Far to
the north on the Barents Sea, but
linked to Leningrad by rail, is the ice
free port Of Murmansk, rich source
of minerals for making fertilizer and
aluminium.
The Donets basin in the Ukraine
Is Russia's most important coal min
ing area and produces two thirds OF
the U. S. S. RS pig iron and half OF
its steel. Agricultural and other
machinery Is TURNED out in large
quantities.
Caucasus for Oil
The Caucasus area has long been
the chief source Of Russia's oil sup
ply. The field around Baku on the
Caspian Sea in AZerbaijan is one of
the richest in the world. New sources
have been found to the north, be-
tween the Volga and the Urals. an
area the Russians call the new
Baku."
In the Urals, the range which di-
vides Europe from Asia, is the most
important mining district in the
U. S. s. r., rich especially in metallic
ores, which form the base for the
areas spectacular industrial develop
ment.
Farther south. in the Uzbek
o. S. S. r.. an important central
Asian industrial area is developing
around the ancient city of Tashkent.
specializing in agricultural ma
chinery and textiles.
Evening star., 1951-11-18
Russia Can't Hide Her Industries in Siberia

There is popular notion in this
country that the Russians, prepar-
ing for atomic war, are stealthily
moving their factories out Of bomb
ing range, into the Businesses of ST.
IBERIA. This notion is not borne out
by the available facts. Russia's in
dustrial center Of gravity is creep
ing eastward. to be sure. But the
line of growth apparently has been
bombing.
The idea of hiding basic indus
tries in the inaccessible regions Of
Siberia seems to have been aban-
doned, II it was ever taken seriously.
Weather and distance would have
proved big obstacles to any such
program. Russian planners appar-
emily are concentrating on develop
ing new industries wherever raw ma
terials are available, as the map be-
low shows.
The policy is at least as old as
the first Of the hve-year plans in
the 192os.
Eost Started First
The industrialization Of the east
was already well started when the
advance Of Hitlers armies toward
Moscow and deep into the Caucasus
forced the haSty transfer of hum
dreds Of factories to the Urals, where
a great Soviet arsenal was set up.
In the six years since the war,
great progress has been made both
in restoring the regions ravaged by
Evening star., 1951-11-18
By Randolph Leigh

and theft. II neither of those ideas
appeals to him, he can drive down
to the post Office himself, pick Up his
package and take it back home with
him.
If the addressee does not 70
promptly to the post Office for his
much-heralded free delivery package,
the postman has to waste time and
money on second and even third
postal reminders. When the ad-
dressee finally goes, it is at a waste
of time and gasoline. Meanwhile,
the post Office has been cluttered up
with these unbelievable packages.
The stage is thus set for a claim
that q larger post Office building is
needed. And many larger post offices
,0iH be needed If the present system
Of rural free come-and- -get-it con-
tinues.
Sales Tox Effect
For this problem has become acute
only recently with the increase in
population and purchasing power In
rural areas. In the area around
Washington. it is taking on new
meaning because of the possibility of
avoiding sales tax by having deliv-
cry made outside the city proper
Only few Of the Washington stores
selling millions of dollars of goods in
rural areas make their own deliveries.
The rest use parcel post. The rural
areas now are thick with handsome
homes, to which increasing numbers
OF large packages are being mailed.
But this is only half the story. With
the rapid increase in land values
Evening star., 1951-11-18

once the rural delivery section is
reached, the whistle-and-yell system
prevails. with loss to the Government
and the taxpayer.
Hey. Rube! MoiI Coll!
1t works this waH The largest ap-
proved rural delivery box will not
hold packages anywhere near as
large as those which can be sent by
parcel post. Nor will it hold a con-
siderable number of small packages.
The postal regulations have, therefore,
for decades provided that the route
man must whistle nowadays he also
is allowed to blow his horn to sum-
mon the addressee out to the road
side-if, that is, he happens to live
near enough to hear. Apparently i.
Is assumed that the languid rustic
spends his time with straw between
his teeth and hand cupped to one
ear, waiting for this miracle of serv-
ice from the great outside world.
Otherwise he misses his chance of
getting complete rural free delivery.
If contact is not made, the mail
man must put the package back in
place in his car. carry it with him
all day, return it to the post Office
and the next day send a postal card
to the addressee informing him that
three choices are open to him. He
can station himself beside his box at
an undesignated land often widely
varying) hour the next day and have
the package handed to him. Or he
can sign form authorizing the post
Office to dump large parcels Cor too
many small ones) beside the road at
his own risk as regards both weather
Evening star., 1951-11-18

near all cities, rural land Is being
cut up into smaller and smaller lots
Most Of these homes, however, are
served by community or semiprivate
roadways leading back from the pub
lie highway.
Since postal boxes must be placed
on the edge Of the public highway. to
facilitate deliveries, there are now
many mail boxes grouped around the
entrance to each important semi
private driveway. Even when these
boxes were only six inches wide, they
were rather unsightly and obstruc-
tive When, with the growth Of the
parcel post business to rural areas,
a new and much larger box was ap-
proved by the Postmaster General,
these expanding colonies Of boxes be-
came more of roadside problem.
Nevertheless. even these larger boxes
could not take packages Of maximum
mailing size.
To cope with that situation. dog
houselike structures are springing up
today along main highways, two or
three feet wide. three feet deep, and
as high as ones taste, or the neigh
borly competition, dictates. Each of
these contains several standard mail
boxes, but there is enough room left
over to accommodate large packages.
When there are a number Of these
doghouses near each other they clut-
ter up the right Of way, destroy the
beauty of the countryside and in
crease the hazards Of the road. Com
petition is keen for distinctive de-
signs and markings, each proud
ruralite striving to put his place
name morf conspicuously than the
Evening star., 1951-11-18
authorized the subcommittee to in

authorized the subcommittee to in
spect.
The ethical, If not strictly moral
aspect. may give pause to a police
man. Would refusal to cooperate
with the questionnaire amount to a
cover up of possible crooks and cor
ruption? Could signing, without
struggle. be construed in any way as
a reflection on the vast majority
OF policemen who are decent and
law-abiding?
Is not policeman clothed with
the constitutional projections af-
forded all Americans? But does he
Evening star., 1951-11-18

one nearest MIN. Lght.fenectlng
name plates are resorted to, to guide
guests arriving after dark.
Troffic Hozord
All this is taking place, quite unof-
ficially, on the edge of the surfaced
highway; that is to say, well within
the public right Of way, It is a plain
hazard to public safety-justified only
by the fact that 1t is apparently
the only way of securing rural free
delivery for all packages.
There seem to be only two possible
solutions. The first is to reduce the
size Of parcels acceptable at the post
office, which would be q backward
step. The other is an extra charge
II cost is the problem-for delivery
Of all large packages to the homes Of
the addresses, which are now gener-
ally quite near the highway.
On the other hand, considering
how slowly the post Office changes
its ways, the simplest solution might
be just to send all the country dwell
ers back to town. ~.
Evening star., 1951-11-18

not occupy special place of public
trust and responsibility which makes
him duty bound to assist willingly,
quickly and completely in assuring
maximum of protection for his fellow
citizens?
While the policeman thus PAGES his
room or his beat and reflects on
reporting much Of his past and
present and possibly charting his
! future. the subcommittee staff-in
an Office building only couple Of
blocks from police headquarters-
wrestles with problems of its own.
It wants to convince the policeman
Evening star., 1951-11-18
for stating assets and liabilities since

for stating assets and liabilities since
1945.
This section calls for compilations
of cash on hand and in banks and
anywhere else, and property holdings
in which the policeman has ANY in
terest of any description whatsoever"
When the QUESTIONABLE has been
filled out, the policeman has the ma
terial notarized and sends it in. He
still can be called before the subcom-
mittee, and probably will be if his
QUESTIONABLE shows great gaps. or
Inconsistencies with Federal income
tax returns which the President has
Evening star., 1951-11-18

one nearest him. Light-refiecting
name plates are resorted to, to guide
guests arriving after dark.
Evening star., 1951-01-21
Science Calendar
Technical Society
Meetings Listed

Scientific and Technical Society
meetings have been announced for
this week by the Joint Committee
on Press Relations of the District
Council of Engineering and Archi-
tectural Societies and the Wash
ington Academy of Sciences. All
meetings listed are open to the
public unless otherwise listed.
Tuesday.
Society of American Bacteriolog-
lists, Washington Branch S
pm, in auditorium of Research
and Graduate School. Army
Medical Center. Two talks: ''The
Cultivation of Endamoeba Coli. "
by Charles w. Rees and Eliza
beth Verder, National Institutes
of Health: and Infectious HaZ-
yards of archaeological Tech
niquesAa motion picture with
comments by A. G. Wedum,
Camp Detrick, Frederick, Md.
Wednesday.
American Meteorological Society.
D. c. Branch-8 pm, in lecture
room of National Academy of
Sciences. Two talks: Char
acteristics of High Tempera-
lures in Deserts" by Arnold
Court, and Temperature and
Radiation Measurements in
Death Valley" by Norman Sis
senwine. each of the Office of
the Quartermaster General,
United States Army.
Geological Society of Washington
3 pm, at Cosmos Club. Three
talks: Extraordinary Eocene
Foraminifera from Panama, -
by w. P. Woodring; "The Train
ing Of Biologists in Great Brit
ain" by Randolph w. Chap
man; and Wisconsin Frost
action in North-central Penn
sylvania," by c. S. Denny.
Thursday.
Society of American Foresters,
Washington Section - dinner
meeting $50 pm. in Barker
Hall, YWCA. The President s
Water Resources Policy Com
mission Report" by E. N.
Munns, United States Forest
Service.
Friday.
Philosophical Society of Washing
ton-8:15 pm. at Cosmos Club.
determination of the Earth S
Magnetic Field in Geologic
Time" by j. w. Graham, De-
partment of Terrestrial Mag
netism, Carnegie Institution.
Evening star., 1951-01-21
Reuther Wants Full Pay
I'm Conversion layoffs
By the Assoeiofed Press

DETROIT, Jan. 20.-Walter
Reuther proposed today that
workers laid off during the CONVEX
sion to defense production be given
their full pay in the form of job
less benefits.
The CIO United Auto Workers
president made the suggestion in
a letter to President Truman.
Mr.. Reuther said Congress
should appropriate enough funds
to provide the idle workers the diff
ference between their wages for
a 40-hour week and what they get
through State unemployment COM
pensation.
Mr.. Reuther said Congress has
provided industry subsidies for
new plants and machinery and
liberal tax rebates which guarantee
corporation profits during periods
of conversion.
Evening star., 1951-01-21
Servicemen's Week

This calendar OF eUentS OF
interest to service personnel is
compiled By the Armed Services
Hospitality Committee. Addi-
tional information may be OBJ
tanned at the Volunteer IN
formation Service Desk, 1850
PENNSYLVANIA dpenue NV, Re-
public 4104. The desk is open
Saturday and Sunday. to
8 pm.
TODAY.
Dances.
Catholic Youth ORGANIZATION, 91S Tentf
street NV. orchestra, pm. 60 cents cents
Jewish Community Center Sixteenth
and @ streets NV. record dance, so
''na: AsAFsYMcA lfe NJ Club. 1856 6 street NV
record dance in assembly hall, to 10
m. 10 cents, ESQ hostesses.
YWCA. Seventeenth and K streets NV.
penthouse, record dance, pm. free.
Social Hour.
AsAF-YMcA Club. 1896 6 street NV NV
s:i5 I pm. rs cents; coffee hour am
~ YMc;s., 1916 Twelfth street NV, CNegro>.
words and Music to Live BY" . p'm.'
YwcA. Seventeenth and x streets NV,
penthouse. music and games. 3 pm:
St. Matthews Cathedral Club. 1914 N
'street NV open 10 a. an TO 10 AeHs Rm
SSs!inF sSs5 street Tiea NW sFp@p PM, IS cents
Music
YWCA. Seventeenth and x streets NV
Barker Hall, afternoon concert. 4:3o p.m''
YwcA Alexandria. Va, eos Cameron
street, concert, pm; free; s+reet ord
National Gallery of Art, sixth street sno
concert
Garden Court. pm, free.
TOMORROW.
ava deT5Sa s,reefs efs9 NV. ballroom dancing,
and pm, free to those in uniform. ~,
Roosevelt Center Thirteenth h,,,a and sronp opo
A'' Thomson Center, Twelfth and L streets
NV, folk dancing instruction s;3o pm
free. ,,
Phillips Memorial Gallery; 1900 twenty {ros
hrSt street NV e1nceTis sSn pm and iFef
streets NV. Don Cossacks. Serge Jaron'
conductor. $50 pm:
YMcA, 1916 Twelfth 8 street e n N;M;, frse
'NeslSF AsAF- YMcA NC CUB CUB, 1886 G street NV,
Lounge POI opens at ! pm. Tree.
Cardozo Center. Thirteenth and C!llton
streets NV. 0nterracial group badmin-
ton. $50 pm free.
ASAF-YMC Club, 1875 G street NV
Special.
Howard University. JUNG and tne
Peacock" How ard University Players, $3.50
IIline Arena. Third and NJ streets NE.
Ice Capades, S:3E I'M: Matinees .Satur-
days and Sundays. 2:15 pm. through
TUESDAY.
Glasses.
Roosevelt Center. Thirteenth and Upshur
streets NV, Sokol exercise group for men
and women. Q pm Hebrew language group
1conversational). pm Gaelic languaee
group dancing. to 10 pm. The Roose-
Evening star., 1951-01-21
Britain Plans 10 Settle
Israel Debt in Two Years
BY the Associotsd Press

LONDON, Sunday, Jan. 21.-
The Treasury announced today
that Britain will release in the
next two years the remaining f13.7
million ($38,360,0O0D owed to Is
rael.
An agreement reached here
provides for release of f7 million
the first year and f6.7 million the
second.
1t also was agreed that Israel
in case of need. may draw up tt
e million of its second-year re-
lease during the first year.
Britain agreed that, as in 1850
charitable remittances may be
made to Israel in 1851 up to g.
$50, 900.
"The repatriation Of funds in
Israel belonging to former British
residents will continue to be al
lowed within reasonable limits,
the Treasury added.