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The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1954-10-01
Fort Pierce, Florida
Judah P. Benjamin

Juo0h +. DenI0nnIn
"The last American known to
have called upon him was a
Cincinnati Jew, GustavuS Valid.
Arriving with a letter of intro
duction from Senator Jonas of
Louisiana, he was cordially re-
ceived by Benjamin. He took
Valid to hear him argue a case
before the Privy Council. "The
court above all others in Chris
tendon in which one can prac-
tice law like a Gentleman"
Thus two of the Jews, who
had served in the U. S. Senate,
Judah P. Benjamin and Benja-
min Franklin Jonas who served
from 1879 to 1885, came from
Louisiana. A third Senator has
already been referred to-David
Levy Yulee, of Florida, who
served from 1S45 to 1851.
Other Jews who had served in
the U. S. Senate were: Simon
Guggenheim, Colorado, 1907 to
1913; Isadore Rainier, Maryland,
1905 to 1912; Joseph Simon Ore
gon, 1897 to 1908. Herbert H. Leh-
man of New York and Barry
GoldWater of. Arizona, now serv-
ing in the U. S. Senate, are both
Jews.
Unique Personality
Judah Philip Benjamin was
unique personality in many re-
spects. Despite his unhappy mar
riage, he made the best of the
bargain, rejoined his wife in
Paris, saw his daughter well mar
ried (Mr. Meade tells us about
Benjamin's Creole wife: CAL
though Judah idolized her and
gave her everything she wanted,
she left the impression that she
resented being married to- a
Jew'O.
AS Senator, Benjamin tried to
re-establish his martial life, Sc
cure a home for his family and
brought his wife and daughter
from Paris to live in Washington.
But it ended in infidelity Yet,
Benjamin went on with his work,
and reached the height of success,
first in the Union, then in the
Confederacy, and finally in Eng
land where his earnings were
$4,000 year.
He was the first Jew to be Of
fered a Judgeship in the United
States Supreme Court, but he
turned it down. He was offered
the post of Minister to Spain and
declined that, too.
He was one of the most bril-
liant men in American history,
and it is a pity that he chose to
defend a cause which is contrary
to the teachings of his people
the aspiration for liberty for all
men.
But in whatever he would have
undertaken, Benjamin would
have succeeded. Contrary to, the
defense offered in his behalf by
Prof. Meade, he was not great
Jew; but he was a brilliant law
xo1. and statesman
Evening star., 1954-11-18

steom type locomotive, 4 cars, trocks
and electric transformer. Headlight in
engine. Realistic!
Evening star., 1954-11-18
Special Biscuits

Some days a menu just seems
to miss something special. For
added interest, arrange ready
prepared refrigerated biscuits in
an overlapping ring on a cookie
sheet; sprinkle with a little garlic
powder and a lot of grated cheese
and bake as usual.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-05
Secret Strike Vote Backed
By Workers, Weeks Says
By the Associated Press

Secretary of Commerce Weeks
said today the Eisenhower adj
ministration is firmly behind
a controversial proposal for
secret strike ballots as a matter
of common justice" and Demo
cratic procedure"
Many union officials have spok-
en- out against the proposal, made
by President Eisenhower in his
suggestion for revising the Taft
Hartley Act, but Secretary Weeks
said in a copyrighted interview
with the magazine United States
News and World Report that
polls show IAN overwhelming ma
jority" of workers want it.
IT'S a democratic right. tc
have a secret ballot" Secretary
Weeks said, land it particularly
ought to be extended to a strike
situation where the voters owr
pay check and his own individual
liberty are directly affected.
1T certainly is the one in
stance where a worker ought tt
have the right to walk in anc
cast his vote according to hi:
conscience and desires ir
secret"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-05
Mcclellan Reserves
judgment on Sears

Senator McC lellan of Arkansas,
ranking Democrat on the Senate
Investigating Subcommittee, says
he has "Some reservations now"
about the selection of Samuel
Sears, Boston attorney, to be
chief subcommittee counsel in the
investigation of Senator McCar-
thy's dispute with the Army over
Pvt. G. David Schine.
Hitherto, Democrats on the
subcommittee have kept aloof
from the argument about Mr..
Sears qualifications.
The subcommittee selected Mr..
Sears as counsel last week under
the impression he had not taken
a position on the Wisconsin Re
publican and his investigating
activities. Subsequently it was
brought out that Mr.. Sears had
several times expressed public
approval of the Senator and had
launched INCREASING drive to
aid his reelection.
Senator Mcclellan, appearing
yesterday as guest on the CHS
television program, Man of the
Week. was asked by William
Hines, Sunday Editor of The
Star. whether he would demand
Mr.. Sears dismissal in view of
the conflict record showed.
well. now. I am going to
wait until I find out definitely
before I make any threat as to
what I am going to do" Senator
Mcclellan replied. II don't like
to try cases in advance of hear
ing the testimony: but Ito be
perfectly frank. naturally have
some reservations now, until this
matter is cleared up.
Reminded by Mr.. Hines of Mr..
Sears speech in a public de-
bate last fall defending Senator
Mccarthy, Senator Mcclellan
said that with all charity at the
moment. I think that the COM
mittee should have been made
acquainted with these facts by
Mr.. Sears.
He knew that we were seek
ing information as to his quail
f1cations, and I may say have
no doubt as to his professional
qualifications, but all of this may
be-this present question of his
suitability to serve, all of it might
well have been avoided if he
had voluntarily and candidly
acquainted the committee with
these facts beforehand. He still
might have been accepted and
chosen as our counsel"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-05
The Mccarthy Story
Fight Around Senator Began
With 77OWords in WheeIinq

Two radio men, James K.
Whitaker and Paul A. Myers,
both of Station VIVA at
Wheeling, were to swear that
he did.
They signed affidavits that on
February 10, after reading a
newspaper account of Senator
McCarthy's speech, they COM
pared recording used in a de-
layed broadcast with the script
of the speech Senator Mccarthy
had delivered to the station.
They attested that Senator
Mccarthy used the 205 figure
ano neither could recall any
mention of the figure 81. They
said Senator Mccarthy read the
script, but Senator Mccarthy
later said in a Senate speech
that he did not. Soon after, the
tape was erased for reuse.
Frank Desmond, reporter for
the Intelligencer, at first said
he covered the Mccarthy speech
and would stick by what he had
written-205.
Later MOdifieS Stand.
Later, in a deposition taken in
a law suit brought by Senator Nc
earthly against Senator William
Benton, Mr.. Desmond testified
that since he had an advance
copy of the speech he hadn't fol-
lowed the words closely and
couldn't be sure what Senator
Mccarthy actually said.
Senator Mccarthy has written
in his book. "McCarthyism, the
fight for America" that before
he began his attack on what he
called the Communist conspir-
acy." he went off into the Ari-
iona hills to do some soul
searching and thinking.
He wrote that he concluded it
did no good to attack commu-
nism in general: that the attacks
had to be specific. He related
that he thought of his buddies
in the Marines and Thoughts
their efforts in World War II
were being scuttled.
After communing with himself,
he wrote. he decided that it did
little good to argue about chang
ing what he called "our national
suicidal foreign policy so long
as the men in charge of shaping
that policy were in the camp of
the enemy"
It was after this deliberation,
he said, that he decided to launch
his public fight at Wheeling. -
Ride to Town Recalled.
Former Republican Represen-
tative Francis j. Love and Tom
Sweeney, now candidate for the
Republican nomination to the
Senate, were at the Wheeling air.
port to greet Senator Mccarthy.
So was Reporter Desmond.
In an interview this March 10
Mr.. Love recalled the event.
Mccarthy talked on the way
to town about whether to make
typical Lincoln Day speech or
to talk on Communists in Gov
ernment." Mr.. Love said. I'VE
advised him to talk on Com
munists in Government"
Then Mr.. Love, a member of
Congress in 1947-1948, added:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-05

Senate Internal Security sub.
committee. They invoked the
fifth amendment when appear
ing before the subcommittee.
The appointment of Mr.. Sears
assistants is subject to approval
by the Investigations Subcom-
mittee.
/ Senator Mundt spoke last
night on an NBC television
| show and in an interview after
ward.
Senator Mundt said the sub
committee will not keep Mr..
Sears as counsel if the Army
objects.
Mundt's Plan Upset.
He said the Army, by naming
a special counsel of it's own for
the probe, had upset his efforts
to work out an agreement on a
troublesome problem Of subcom-
mittee procedure-whether Sen
ator Mccarthy should be al
lowed to cross-queStion witnesses.
Senator Mccarthy temporarily
relinquished his Craftsmanship
of the group and said he would
not vote on any issues con-
nected with the inquiry, but he
has insisted on examining wit
nesseS. He also proposed that
Army counsel be allowed to
croSs-eXamine him.
Senator Mundt said last night
he had almost persuaded the
Wisconsin Senator to give up
his right, to cross-examine, but
that the understanding was
upset by the appointment of
Joseph N. WEIGH of Boston to
handle the Army's case.
Mr.. Sears also is likely to be
questioned about what interest
he may have expressed in OBJ
Itaining the job of special coun-
! sci.
Representative Laurence Cur
tbs, Republican, of Massachu-
sets, said last week that Mr..
Sears, a constituent of his, had
telephoned him that he was in
terested in the job. Senator
Saltonstall, Republican, of Mass
achusetts, said Mr.. Sears also
had sent him a telegram about
| it.
Senator Monroney. Democrat,
of Oklahoma. disclosed that he
recommended Mr.. Sears to Dem
ocrats on the subcommittee aft
er Mr.. Sears son-in-law, David
Busby of Ada, Okla, asked him
if he would be willing to do so.
Senator Mundt, however, said
he did not regard as important"
any such indications by Mr..
Sears of his availability.
The dispute centers about an
Army report charging that Sen
ator Mccarthy and the subcom-
mittee's chief counsel, Roy M.
Cohn, exerted pressure to win
favored treatment for Pvt. G..
David Schine, former subcom-
mittee consultant drafted last
November. and Senator Nc
Carthy's charge that the report
was an attempt to blackmail
him into dropping a probe of
Army handling of Reds in uni
form. Each side has denied the
| others charges.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-05
5000 Hail Mccarthy
At Catholic Meeting,
Urge Him 10 Fight On
BY the Assoeioted Press

NEW YORK, April Senator
Mccarthy. Republican. of Wis
consin got an enthusiastic recep-
ton yesterday from a Catholic
audience that later nearly
crushed him in efforts to express
congratulations.
The Senator's half hour speech
was addressed to some 5000 per-
sons, including Francis Cardinal
Spellman,, Archbishop of New
York, at communion breakfast
OF the city police department S
Holy Name Society.
The audience frequently in
terrupted with lengthy applause
Encouragement Shouted.
AS Senator Mccarthy neared
the end Of his talk, in which he
promised to continue fighting
communism at home and abroad,
his listeners shouted keep
going" you're only warming
up" and keep giving it to
them"
Afterward the crowd pressed
so close, trying to shake his
hand, that he was practically
carried from the room as police
bodyguards kept off the crowd.
Some Of the audience cheered,
Mccarthy for President!"
The Senator was introduced by
the Rt. Rev. Joseph A. McCaffrey
retiring police chaplain, as man
who "has fought untruth with
truth, disloyalty with loyalty,
treason with patriotism and God
lesSneSS with Goodness"
Spellman Nom COmmittal.
After Senator McCarthy's
speech, Cardinal Spellman said
MSgr. McCaffrey's remarks made
it unnecessary for the Cardinal
to comment on Senator McCar-
CnyS speech.
The audience cheered loudly
when the Cardinal added:
Senator Mccarthy has told us
about the Communists and the
Communist methods. l want to
say I am not only against Com
munists, but also against the
Communist methods"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-05
Sunday School Talk
Is Caught in Drognet
By the Associated Press

PHILADELPHIA (R.-Donald
West, a theological student, told
a Sunday School class that their
greater happiness was to be
found in the simple things of
life rather than in the dramatic
adventures they saw portrayed
on the TV screens.
He cited westerns and detec-
tive stories as examples.
AS the children filed out of
the room the organist began
playing. The selection was the
theme song from 'Dragnet."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-05
Mrs. F. M. Thieriot,
Boy Area Civic Leader
By the Associated Pres.

SAN MATEO, Calf, April s.
Mrs. Ferdinand M. Thieriot, bay
area social and civic leader, died
Saturday night at Mills Memoir
ial Hospital. She had been i'll
for some time.
Mrs. Thieriot was the daughter
OF Michael H. DeYoung, founder
OF the San Francisco Chronicle.
One of her sons, Charles De-
Young Thieriot, is assistant pub
Usher of the newspaper. A
younger son, Ferdinand M.
ThieriOt, is circulation director.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-05
Mccarthy
Continued From First Page


fund for the Senator's 1852 re-
election campaign.
Names Two Assistants.
Mr. Sears announced yester-
day as he left Boston to take
over his job here he had named
to assist him an attorney who
represented two Harvard law
students when they declined to
answer questions of a congress
sional committee.
The lawyer is Lawrence r.
Cohen, also of Boston. Another
assistant named is Russell ].
Coffin, a Harvard Law School
graduate.
Mr.. Cohen represented JON
athan and David Lubell, twins,
by request of the Harvard law
faculty when the students had
trouble obtaining a lawyer for
their appearance before the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-05

HE didn't know what speech he
was going to make when he ar
rived and when he left he didn't
realize the impact of his speech
at least that is my impression. I"
But the speech, whatever the
figures, had been made. People
cooked an ear in Senator Nc
Carthy'S direction. He has been
in the public eye ever since.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-05
The Mccarthy Story
By Benz Price
Associoted Press Stoff Writer

ASsocIdfed PFeSS Sfoff Writer
WHEELING, w. Va, April S
| (P. - McCarthyism was born
here sometime between 8 and 9
pm, February 9, 1850. 1t was
chriStened in 10 words.
In that hour Joseph r. Nc
Carthy, Junior Republican Sen
ator from Wisconsin, delivered
a Lincoln Day speech before the
Ohio County Women's Repub-
liican Club of Wheeling.
At the end there was a burst
of applause, and Senator McCar-
thy shook hands all around.
It was too late for the morn
ing paper wires when Charles r.
Lewis. night editor in the Asso-
ciated Press Bureau at Charles
ton, w. Va. received a telephone
call from Norman L. YoSt, man.
aging editor of the Wheeling In
telligencer.
Mr.. Yost, part time Associated
Press correspondent at Wheeling,
dictated a paragraph or two
from Senator McCarthy's speech.
One Figure Questioned.
AS Mr.. Lewis began writing
the brief story, he came to a
figure he queStioned-205 Com
muniSts in the State Depart
ment? He called Mr.. Yost back
and asked him to verify lit.
MI YoSt told him to hold on
and he would have his reporter
sre-cheek with Senator NC
earthly. In a moment he came
back on the wire and said the
figure was accurate.
Shortly after 2 am. the no.
word story clattered over the
teletypes. It began: Senator
Mccarthy charged in an address
here tonight that 205 Commu-
mist Party members are work
ing and shaping the policy in
the State Department."
The story continued. quoting
Senator Mccarthy: Il have here
in my hand a list of 205 that
were known to the Secretary of
State (then Dean Acheson) as
being members of the Com
munist Party and who neverthe-
less are still working and shap-'
ing the policy in the State De-
partment."
State Department Denies.
AS soon as the State Depart
ment was advised of the story it
said it knew of no Communists
within its ranks, that it would
fire any it could identify, and
invited Senator Mccarthy to
produce his list.
Senator Mccarthy. mean
while, was flying to Salt Lake
City. There, in a recorded radio
interview on February 10. he
commented on his Wheeling
speech:
Last night discussed the
Communists in the State De-
partment. I stated I had the
names of 81 card-carrying men,
bers of the State Department. /"
Fifty-Seven or 205? A stirred
nation fastened it's eyes on the
fast-moving Senator and awaited
his return to Washington.
Until February 10, 1850, Sen
ator Mccarthy had been known
on Capitol Hill as a man who
fought in 1947 to end rationing
on sugar for industrial purposes.
as a vigorous opponent of the
Truman administrations public
housing and as the man who de-
nounced American investigators
in the war crimes trial of the
German storm troopers accused
of shooting down $50 American
prisoners and 100 Belgians at
Malmedy Crossroads in 1914.
Now Senator Mccarthy was
in the banner headlines.
Figure of 2O5 Disputed.
Soon he was to deny on the
Senate floor and later in a book
and before a Senate committee
that he used the figure 205 at
Wheeling.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-05
Congress Should End
Mccarthy Sidetrack,
Jackson Declares
BY the Associated Press


New York Times said today that
C. D. Jackson left his White
House job last week with the
conviction that it is now time
for Congress to clean up the
Mccarthy issue and get busy on
President Eisenhower's program.
The Times printed an inter-.
3 view with Mr.. Jackson, former
publisher of Fortune Magazine,
obtained by Anthony Leviero of
the newspapers Washington
staff.
Mr.. Jackson, who had been
a presidential adviser on cold
war planning, was interviewed
before returning to New York
to rejoin the Time-Life publica-
tons. His resignation at the
White House became effective
last Thursday.
Mr.. Leviero wrote that Mr..
Jackson had "the conviction
that it is now time for Congress
to match President Eisenhower's
sense of responsibility" by clean
ing up the Mccarthy issue and
getting busy on the Presidents
program.
Other Items Discussed.
Among other items in the in.
teryieW were these:
Mr.. Jackson viewed Gen.
Eisenhower in his first year in
the White House, as largely
caretaker of the inherited poll
cieS, problems and budget of the
Truman administration.
During the first year, Mr..
jackson said, Gen. Eisenhower
squared away for the task of
developing true Republican
program under Republican lead
ership.
Gen. Eisenhower has led the
way with a forward moving"
program. Mr.. Jackson said, but
Congress has let the people for
get it by getting sidetracked by
emotional issues like the Bricker
treaty making limitation amend
ment and Senator Mccarthy
wrangle with the Army.
MI. Jackson declared: 1.-THE
prestige of the Senate requires
that this case be brought to trial
promptly"
Mr.. Jackson was asked: us
that the way the President feels
Rbout it?"
He replied: Darn right"
Comment On Criticism.
Mr.. Jackson was asked:
"What about the criticism that
the President isn't showing
enough leadership"
He replied:
S"Why that's perfectly terrible.
The President during his first
year was not administering his
own program and his first bud
get. He was just getting things,
Strengthened out and squared
away to operate his first real year
in Office. =. :"
Mr.. Jackson cited Gen. Eisen-
hower's United Nations speech
proposing that the Soviet Union
join the United States and other
countries in creating an inter-
national pool of atomic energy
for peaceful purposes.
HE prepared a program be-
fore Congress met, and every
congressional (Republican) lead
er was brought in and it was
all explained to them carefully
in advance" Mr.. Jackson de-
clared. adding:
Then came the state-of the
Union message, which was a
complete. forWard-m o ing
thing. 1t was not retrospective.
It was followed at rapid inter-
walls by a series of special mes
sages They all added up to a
superb, dynamic package for 160
million Americans, and for I'M
told millions of others who de-
pend on 100 million Americans.
And then the fracas started
and people forgot the whole
thing"
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1954-01-27
March OF Dimes

IKE every other civic minded newspaper,
- the Zajednicar has gone al-out to publ
cize the vitally important 1854 March Of
Dimes since it began on January g.
The publicity has cost us some valuable
columnar space, but certainly nothing in cost
to compare with the value of human being
suffering from the ravages of Infantile
Paralysis or Polio, one of the greatest cne-
mics ever to plague mankind
The fact that the last five years have
been kind to Polio and contrariwise to
humanity is enough to cause alarm in any
editorial office, more than enough to get
every newspaper to appeal on high for an
outpouring of dimes and dollars to hclp those
who need our aid
While many have contributed in one
form or another toward promoting the
March of Dimes on the widest possible basis
certainly none has done more for the cause
at his own expense, than bro. Anthony j
BraJdlc, Pittsburgh widely known member
of our 'Liberty' Lodge 234
Bro. Brajdic, member of the Societv's
Home Office Clerical Staff, has given lavish.
ly of his American-Croatian Radio Houl
time these past several years to appeal fo1
funds from those who follow his McKeesport
Pa, Stations WEDO and WMCK programs
Further, he originated and still sponsors the
late January March of Dimes fetes held r
the Rankin, Pa, Croatian Homo as another
means of supporting the cause.
Through these years, five in all with the
advent of 1854, bro. Brajdic has raised over
S2,5O0.00 for the March of Dimes No matter
how you look at it, this is remarkable
record for man who regards himself as
common, ordinary American citizen.
We cannot help but admire the work he
has done for the March Of Dimes.
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1954-01-27
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1854
True Fraternalists Cannot Be Communists

Ben jamin Disraeli, in his time, must have
fought people of like stripe for the late
great Prime Minister of England one said
There are three kinds of lies: Lies, damn
lies, and statistics"
The only one of Dsraeli's three defini-
tions which fits the filth uttered against
Americas Houses of Brotherhood, the Gro
attain Fraternal Union included, is damn
lies" They are the lies we live, the lies which
arc running many innocent lives.
And what manner of people are these
sadistic perverters of the truth, the loath-
some liars in our Society's midst?
What better way to answer than to para
phrase a remark made by Samuel Johnson
about the Irish: Croatians must be honest
people they seldom speak we'll of one
another, Shocking, isn't it, yet it unfortu.
nately fits our people to the provcrbial "T'.
Those who would argue to the contrary
must have forgotten the Croatian Fraterna
Unions horrendous 7th Quadrennial Conven.
ton of 1947 at Pittsburgh, the living lie in.
scent in their fanatical unsuccessful drive
to rule or ruin the Society.
No, those eXponents of "Thc Big Lie" of
1917 weren't Germans, Italians Russians
Bulgarans Jews or Swedes. They were Gro.
atians out to cXtcrminatc their fellow Croats
Even worse, if that is possible, they were
out to destroy the Croatian Fraternal Union
of America itself.
And the CFU - remember - is YOU.