, 1951-12-08
Straight Ahead
By Julius J. Adams

BY JULIUS >. Jan
NEW YORK lGlobab- A warning that no individual or
nation should eve ignore is that should never allow potential
enemies to become soidifed-if it can be prevented. 1t is one sure
way of creating a force capable of bringing defeat.
In the south today, the bigots and other enemies of progress
are forging a coalition that is certain to destroy them, and that
would be all to the good. 1t is only to be hoped that the allies will
stand together.
Down in Miami, Florida the other day, three dynamite ex-
plosions rocked a Jewish Center and a Negro apartment project
Targets of the attack were the Miami Hebrew School and the Carv-
er Housing Project. The most recent territories act was the fourth
against the Jewish House of Worship and the third against the Ne
gro project in The past two weeks.
Admittedly, Jews have not had quite as hard a time in Miami
and other places in Florida as have Negroes. While certain of the
resort places Systematically bar Jews, none of them will admit Ne
groes and that includes those places owned and operated by
Jews.
Understandabiy the Jews who W " manage hotels in
the Miami are being able to own and operate them De
cause their skin is white do not feel that they flout
the Florida jim CROW laws and open u their resorts to Negroes.
1t is feared, though, that too many of them have become compla-
cent, have become reconcled to the Negroes plight If this
be true, it is in striking contrast to the tradition of the Jew in
working toward fairness and justice to all men, and toward the
establishment of a real democratic society.
During the War Between the States, unlike the Baptists and
Methodsts, the Jewish Church did not split on the question of slav-
cry, and while the Church took no position in the controversy, the
leadership Of the Church was definitely opposed to slavery. Juda
Tauro of New Orleans, not only freed his slaves, but provided them
with supplies with which to establish themselves.
Berthold Auerbach, a German Jew, aroused public senh-
ment against slavery and the slave trade through the medium of
this country, Theodore .Winer, Jacob Benjamin and August Bondi
supported John Brown in his early efforts in Kansas All three serv-
ed in the Civil War on the Union side.
Rabbi Sold, who was compelled to flee Europe because of
his participation in the struggle for liberty in the revolutionary days
of 184S, though he had his pulpit in Baltimore, was extremely active
at great personal risk in the aboitonist and emancipation move
ments.
In o recent years, the late julius Rosenwalds name has
been linked with hundreds of projects designed to improve the lot
of the Negro. Of Mr.. Rosenwald, A. Philip Randolph, International
president of the brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, said, "He
"a a Jew who believed in the possibilities of growth and develop
ment Of the Negro people This anne Mr.. Rosenwald perhaps did
more toward the establishment of YMCAs for Negroes than any
other American citizen" Mr. Rosenwald also provided hundreds of
scholarships for Negroes and built hundreds of schools for Negro
es throughout the south.
Since Mr.. Rosenwalds death, one Of the leading figures OF
the Jewish Community following in the tradition of Sold, Auerbach
Winer, Benjamin, Bondi and Rosenwald, is Morris Morgenstern o.
New York,who is head Of the Morris Morgenstern FoundationHe, too
like Rosenwald, is a stanch supporter of the YMCA, as we'll as othe
agencies and movements working toward the ultimate attainment
of world brotherhood.
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