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The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1955-04-08
Tallahassee, Florida
Elijah on Fourth Street

make great selling partnership.
I'll give you the ideas and you
sell 'em to the readers"
I accepted well start it
all in the Passover column this
year." I said. Well make a big
display of it like this: elijah
Opens up on Fourth Street
Big Campaign to Persuade Peo-
pie to be as Beautiful Inside as
Out. Get Dressed Up Inside. Toe"
THAT'S grand!" Elijah exclaim-
ed. Were partners" He took my
hand You know. columnis1
can make a big man out of a
prophet who has been pushed
around like me-"
Elijah had to be going
well, so long," he said "Got to
be on my way. I'll be seeing you
at Seder."
Just then / saw my wife coming
out of Gidding's.
''You should have been out g
few minutes earlier, would have
introduced you to Elijah. / was
talking with him."
"Oh. you're always seein g
things" she snapped back. (She
really has not the least idea Of
how a dream can be made real IL
you try hard enough.l
She had just bought a dress, she
said. At this I fell out of the high
elevation at which 1 had stood
with Elijah. I frowned: Il hope
that dress isn't going to cost me
too much. Anyway, as Elijah told
me, it's more important to be
dressed up inside"
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1955-04-08

Rabbi Sidney M. Lefkowitz
Rabbi Sidney M. Lefkowitz of
Temple Ahavath Chesed in Jack
sonville, Florida, will represent
The Jewish Chautauqua Society
as lecturer at Florida State Uni
versity in Tallahassee. He will
participate in the Religious En-
phasis Week program, April 1920,
1855.
The National Federation of
Temple Brotherhoods sponsors
The Jewish Chautauqua Society,
which sends rabbis to colleges as
part of an educational program to
disseminate authentic information
concerning Judaism.
Evening star., 1955-07-30
BY HERMAN BAUM

Gould you please give me,
and perhaps many others, some
information about the proper
care and maintenance of septic
tanks?" Mrs. r. L. D., jr., writes.
Answer-A home owner can
have all manner of troubles With
i'm his home and the neighbors
Iare none the wiser. But when
septic tanks start acting up, it
lis no secret. There is absolutely
lno humor in situation where
ia miniature "Old Faithful"
|squirts up out of your front lawn
every time water goes down the
drain. and if you fail to remedy
the situation within a few hours,
you won't have a friend on the
block.
A septic tank system is a simple
device that operates by bacterial
action. It consists of a tank that
may be either concrete or steel,
a distribution box that serves as
Ia terminus for the drain lines.
and a distribution field consist
ing of open joint or perforated
title pipe. Organic sewage that
enters the tank is acted upon by
the bacteria so that it is decom-
posed and liquefied. 1t then flows
out through the distribution box
to the drain tile and is absorbed
by the earth.
This water that comes from
the septic tank should be clear
and odorless. Gases that are
generated in the tank are
vented through the sewer line
from the house and up the vent
stack to-the roof.
A septic tank is one of the few
things around a home that re-
qulres no care except that the
sludge that accumulates at the
bottom should be pumped out
every three to five years. There
Us never a need for injecting
yeast or any other material into
the septic tank to act as a starter
for the bacterial action.
This action is automatic, even
in new tanks. but when new
tanks are put into service in very
cold weather, the action may
start very slowly and the LIQUID
in the tank may freeze unless
large amounts of hot water are
discharged Into it during the
first few weeks. After the bac-
terial action starts, the heat gen.
Grated by this will prevent freez-
ing.
A septic tank is intended to
handle sewerage only. If a gar
bage grinder is installed, the size
Of the tank should be increased
at least Is per cent to handle the
additional water.
The use in a home of normal
Evening star., 1955-07-30
Home Builders Name
.HuzeII TO Post

Gordon @. HAZEL, architectural
with the Veterans Ad-
ministration has been named an
assistant director Of the Con-
struction Department and Re-
search Institute of the National
Association of Home Builders.
Announcement of the appoint
ment. which will be effective
Monday. was made by NAHB
Executive Director John M.
Dickerman Mr.. Hazell has been
with the Veterans Administra-
ton for the last five years and
was an architectural engineer in
the construction and valuation
service of the Loan Guarantee
section.
Mr.. Dickerman also an
nounced the resignation of C. o.
Christensen, NAHB director OF
Technical Services. who is leav-
ing to accept the post of di-
rector of engineering and tech
nical services for John E. Bauer.
In dianapolis tInd.) home
builder.
Evening star., 1955-07-30
HOUSE DOCTOR
Need q Few Focts
About Septic Tonks?

amounts of soaps, detergents, and
various cleaning agents has no
i'll effect upon the action Of a
septic tank. The flushing into
the tank of large amounts of dis
Iinfectants such as might come
from a sick room. could possibly
impair the bacterial action which
would not re-start until the
chemicals have been flushed from
the tank by the admission Of
large amounts of water.
A grease trap is not recon-
mended for use with the sewer
age system of the average home
because it clogs easily and re-
quires frequent cleaning. A sep
tic tank of the proper size will
satisfactorily handle a small
amount of grease but the house.
wife should never deliberately
pour waste grease down the
drain, even where public sewers
are provided.
In areas where heavy, water
impervious clays are close to
the surface. in low swampy Sec
tions, or where the water-table
lis near the surface of the.
ground at certain seasons, or
where rock strata close to the
surface prevent drainage, a sep
tic tank viii not function prop
Ierly. In other and more favor
able locations, trouble with the
system may be due to ID a
tank being too small for the
volume of water flowing to it:
Cd by failure to clean the tank
regularly; (3) by improper con-
Istruction of the tank that does
mot permit a slow undisturbed
flow, or "a by the drain field
being too small or incorrectly
built. The correction Of these
troubles should be handled by a
person who specializes in this
work.
To Paint Brass.
please tell me how to paint a
brass bed. It was painted once
but the paint has peeled OF, !"
Mrs. E. M. B. requests.
Answer-There are special lac
quers available to industry that
etch the surface of a polished
metal so that the lacquer will
not peel. You would not be able
to buy these so ] believe your
best chance of success would be
Ito apply q brushing lacquer to
the bed first. Lacquer will bond
to brass much better than paint.
You can, then apply one or two
coats Of enamel over this lac
quer. I have made paint hold
to metal by this method, so per-
haps you will have the same
luck.
(Released by The REGISTER and Tribune
Syndicate. 1852
Evening star., 1955-02-24

ing doubt on the United Ma
tions and sowing seeds Of dis
illusionment. He opened his
personal chautauqua in his
native California. where the
U. N. was born, and carried it
clear across the country to
New York. where the U. N. sits.
He doesn't say the U. N.
should be disbanded, or that
we, who originated it, should
abandon it and withdraw
that is, unless Communist
China should be admitted, in
which case he would have us
withdraw and would work for
that as he announced in the
Senate several weeks ago. He
comedies that it is useful per-
haps as q forum, but for moth
ing else. It is not an effective
instrument Of collective secu-
rity, he declares.
His whole tone is discourag-
ing and negative. There is no
doubt he speaks for some Cali
fornians. In fact, antagonism
to the U. N. seems more con-
centrated and more insidious
there than anywhere else, de-
spite its origins in the State.
The Senator also speaks for
some in other parts of the
country.
1t is doubted that he speaks,
however, for a majority Of our
people. or that he represents
the spirit of a majority.
We should be entitled to q
constructive approach from 90
Evening star., 1955-02-24

sonalities in the administra-
ton admit privately that the
stage Is now set to admit this
outlaw regime into the peace
organization with full honors.
Our allies are confident that
with q little persuasion they
can make us swallow that pill.
The lack Of will to compel
Communist China to live up
to the armistice terms in
Korea--a United Nations en-
terprise-and return all the
prisoners of war still held by
them is a definite sign Of the
world organizations impotence.
The complete failure to accept
their responsibility to terminate
the conflict now raging in the
F'ormosan straits is a further
indication Of its premature
senility. Unlike the defunct
League, which lacked the power
to back UP its decisions by
force, If necessary, the United
Nations is provided with the
wherewithal to do so-if it so
decides.
The great weakness Of the
organization to provide the
world with collective security
lies in the fact that each Of
the five charter members has
the right to veto the decisions
of the powerful Security
Council. The Soviet Union, the
handspring of all the worlds
present troubles. is one Of these
select five and has used the
veto power 50 times so far to
promote its sinister goals.
The American people have
enthusiastically supported the
United Nations not only be-
cause they are fervently for
world peace but also because
they have been sold a neat
package called collective Sc
curity." We have been told
that in this age of nuclear
weapons no nation can rely
on its own power any longer
and that peace and security
must be a collective endeavor.
There is much truth in this
theory. Unfortunately, a ruth
less gangster has been ap-
pointed as one of the guard
ians of the worlds peace.
Dillinger has been entrusted
with the job of guaranteeing
the security of the world COM
munity and is now active as
Evening star., 1955-02-24
Thomas L. Stokes
Thomas L. Stokes
Sniping at the United Nations
The U. N. Was Our Ideo-It Was an American Idea;
KnowIond Should Build It Up, Not Teor It Down

It was 10 years ago that the
United Nations was created,
here in our country. in San
Francisco. 1t is in New York
that it now has its permanent
home.
The U. N. was our idea, an
American idea.
In June this year, in San
Francisco. there will be a 10th
anniversary celebration start
ing June 26 and running for a
week at which all of the go
member nations will be repre-
sented. In the autumn in New
York the U. N. General Assem-
bly, will undertake a review of
the u. Ms first 10 years and
consider proposals to revise
and strengthen it, as author
ized by the Charter adopted at
San Francisco.
We might naturally suppose
that our identity with the U. N.
would be a matter of pride
with us. and it seems to be
with most. The U. N, would
appear also to have a special
place in California, where it
was born and where its 10th
birthday will be observed.
Because of all these asso-
Citations. 1t is hard to under
stand the present attitude and
course Of the Californian who
happens to be the leader Of
the Republican Party In the
Senate. That is Senator VIII
liam F. Knowland. Recently
he has been going about cast
Evening star., 1955-02-24

influential a figure as the
leader Of the Republican Party
In the Senate, somewhat be-
cause of revived interest and
revived hope in the U. N. that
might be expected to be in
spired by the 10th anniver-
sary celebration in Senator
Knowland's State of Califor-
mia. but more perhaps because
Of the New York General As
sembly meeting later this year
where a real opportunity will
be offered to strengthen the
international organization.
The U. N. certainly has fail
ings. 1t has not capitalized
its opportunities always. In
revealing that, Senator Know
land is revealing nothing that
we don't know already. 1t is
a human institution. as Is the
Senate in which Senator
Knowland is so important a
figure, which has defects about
which we read in our news
papers almost daily-and the
Senate is many. many years
older than the IN.
But the U. N. has accom-
plished a great deal. It could
accomplish more If Senator
Knowland and other of our
leaders would give to its i'm
provement the energy and de-
votion Of those who pioneered
for 1t while World War II was
Evening star., 1955-02-24
Fletcher Knebei-
Potomac Fever

Democratic for everybody irrespon
sble Not single Republican is
running for Office this year.
Speaker Rayburn back at Ike for calling Demo-
irresponsible that Democrats responsible
musicians They're grooming to him that popular taxpayers
ballad: "NIr. Sam, man, bring me a dream.
France finally gets a Premier Radical Socialist Edgar
Under French logic he is called Radical Socialist Pre-
mer because he neither radical socialist todaynor Pre-
mier tomorrow
Republicans hail e's $100biion superhighway program
Republicans not be where they're going but they
want to get there in comfort.
The Chicago Democratic organization defeats Mayor Ken
nelly Kennelys outfit let good government riot Demo-
Of organization before he could get
parking ticket fixed '
Secretary tells Asians Bangkok that the United
Pacific striking Americans like
drng husbands The farther get from home the bolder
get
CIO labor unions aid for Asia President Walter
Reuther favorS takehome And he can't get 1t IN
Detroit-heu take it to Singapore.
Evening star., 1955-02-24
Chinese Industry Below 1887,
Repotriuted Japanese Claim

times the japanese retail price" "
Tatsuo Shiraki. correspondent
for the newspaper Asahi who
made a brief visit to Peiping,
said commodities are quite short
in Red China"
Juro Ujiihe. 43-year-old re-
patriate from Kanshuk, said the
slogan Oppose America, Help
Korea" is now completely re-
placed by I'VE Must Liberate
Formosa." Ga,
Industrial Picture.
Repatriates gave this indus
trial picture of China:
The real test Of China's indus
trial expansion capability still
remains to be seen.
The Russians are encouraging
the Chinese to develop their in
dustries nearest to the Soviet
border.
China's industrial buildup is
still concentrated in Manchuria.
China placed its pig iron out
put at 3,030,000 tons and steel
ingot production at 2.170,000
tons in 1854. It compared them
with 1949 in claiming that pig
iron production went up IL times
and steel ingot 1877 times. The
Evening star., 1955-02-24
Deep PARALYSIS Aff|icts the u. NJ.
Time Seen Near When We Must Take Serious Stock
OF Whot World Organization AetuoIN Means
Constantine Brown

A thorough stocktaking of
the worth of the United Ma
tions is expected to take place
in Congress before long.
The speech made on Wash
ington's birthday by Republi-
can Senate Leader Knowland
before the Sons of the Revolu-
ton, warning about the U. Ms
weak attitude in the present
turmoil, was not an expression
of personal feeling on the part
of the Californian. In the
Republican and Democratic
cloakrooms in the Senate and
House the paralysis of that
10-year-old peace organization
is frequently discussed in the
light Of the present intense
international crisis. More and
more legislators have reached
the conclusion that the U. N.
is even weaker than the de-
funct League of Nations. The,
late Geneva organization was
able at least to go through the
motions Of a "make believe"
intervention when Japan en-
tered Manchuria in 1891 and
Italy attacked and eventually
conquered Ethiopia. It col
lapsed only after the Nazi die
tatorship overran Poland. But
It must be noted that Hitler at
least had the decency to re-
sign from the League Of Ma
tions some time before he de-
cided to plunge the world into
a war. It must also be put on
the credit ledger of the League
that before it expired it did
expel the USSR from its
membership when the Soviet
attacked little Finland in De-
cember. 1899.
No such manly gesture has
been indicated by the U. N.
so far. The chief promoter of
international disturbances, the
Soviet Union, still is one Of its
most important and revered
members, although the Mus
covites have been guilty of one
thinly camouflaged aggression
after, another since the birth
of the organization of which
they are charter members.
And had it not been for the
strong stand of America, the
membership of the U. N. would
have a omitted Communist
China into its fold long ago.
Even the most optimistic per-
Evening star., 1955-02-24

going on, which included mem
bers Of Congress.
They were building up, not
tearing down.
Still hopeful and construc-
tive Of purpose as regards the
U. N. is the national leader Of
the Republican Party, Presi-
dent Eisenhower. He was
asked about Senator Know
lands criticism of the U. N.
at his weekly news conference.
He replied:
well. of course. ladies and
gentlemen, it would take a long
time to 60 back through the
entire history Of the United
Nations. I think I can best
sum up my opinion about the
need for the United Nations
and about its work, about the
reasons we should support it,
in very short, simple analogy.
I'VE do not cease our efforts
in research in cancer, nor do
we abolish the laboratories in
which the research goes on
merely because of lack of sic
cess, and we have had a tre-
mendous lack of success.
Here is a laboratory where
nations come together and they
explore and they talk. and I
am not going to bother this
morning TO recite to you some
of the good things they have
done in the mid East and else
where. They have. I must
say, as long as we have got a
forum, regardless Of the fact
that our opponents do de-
liberately use 1t as a propa-
ganda platform, it Is a good
thing to keep it going, because
here is something for which
mankind has had a yearning
ever since the dawn of history,
and am not going to give up
in my time on it,"
Is it too much to ask that
Senator Knowland not give
up in his time, either?
Evening star., 1955-02-24

one of the police commits
sioners.
At q time of dire necessity
the Western world joined forces
with the USSR. although the
Kremlin's duplicity was well
known to London and WASH
ington. Stain had shamelessly
betrayed France and Great
Britain in the summer of 1899
when. while discussing in Mos
COW terms Of military CO.
operation against Germany
with the British and French
representatives. he signed be-
hind their backs a military al
lance with Hitler and thus
gave him the green light to
start World War II. He Joined
him in dividing up Poland,
despite the treaty of nom
aggression with that country
which had to run for another
Is years. Moreover, with the
help Of his German fellow
gangster. he deprived the SOW
ereign Baltic states of their
independence.
The mental confusion which
prevailed during the last war
forbade the American and
British leaders from seeing
things in their true light. Be-
cause the Reds were fighting
their former Nazi ally, the
Western wishful thinkers be.
lieved that they were actually
lone Of u.s." The late Presi-
dent Roosevelt made extensive
sacrifices at the expense of our
Chinese ally, as much to get
Stains consent to join the
United Nations as to obtain
his useless support in the war
against Japan.
We are now paying heavily
for this wishful thinking. The
Reds and their growing num-
ber of satellites and sympathiz-
ers are using the peace organi-
zation in New York as propa-
ganda forum against the
West and alse as a shield for
their aggressions. The time
is nearing when, through no
fault Of ours, we shall be
forced to take serious stock Of
what the U. N. actually means
and decide what can be done
about it. Collective security
works only if all the component
parts are like-minded. This
is not the case, unfortunately,
in the United Nations.
Evening star., 1955-02-24
Bill iIIAsksCommission
On Atomic Defense
BY the Asseeiofed Press

Congress was asked yesterday
to authorize a commission to
study ways Of defending the
country against atomic war.
fare.
A bill introduced by Senator
Bennett, Republican Of Utah,
would authorize creation Of an
l8-member commission. It would
be composed of members Of Con-
gress, officials and private citi-
zens.
Senator Bennett said.
"The dramatic developments
in the field of thermonuclear
warfare make such a study i'm
perative. Much has been said
about the dangers Of fall-out
from explosions of H-bombs.
Much has been said about
the wisdom or futility Of in
dustrial dispersion. The truth
of the matter appears to be that
no one really knows what should
Je done or what is feasible"
Evening star., 1955-02-24

in history, this, was cavalier
treatment indeed of the head
Of half the legislative branch.
He wasn't, he told reporters,
crisply, fixing to call UP the
White House any time soon.
He also paid his respects to
the Presidents tax remarks.
He couldn't see any difference
in. responsibility, he suR-
gested. except that the Repub-
licans helped the rich and the
Democrats did something for
poor people.
The exchange was sharpened
on the House floor where the
Speaker, faced with another
presidential message, was able
to say he'd never heard of it
before that moment.
The Importance Of these
incidents is that they truly
reflect Democratic impatience
with the situation in which
they find themselves.
They feel trapped into a
cooperation which Mr.. Eisen-
hover, in their view, treats as
a one-way street. They COM
pare his remarks on taxes with
the fact that only their votes
saved his reciprocal trade pro-
gram last week. They wonder
If the President is really dis
ingenious when he praises the
majority of both parties for
voting for passage Of that bill.
The fact is that on the key
vote on free trade, only &C
Republicans voted for the
Presidents program and 119
against. This vote came on a
motion to recommit the bill,
made by Representative Reed.
New York Republican, and it
was taken after Republican
Leader Martin read an eloquent
Evening star., 1955-02-24
Bill Relieves Retailers
Of Certain Sales Taxes

Senator Bible, Democrat, Of
Nevada, chairman Of the Fiscal
Subcommittee Of the, Senate
District Committee, yesterday
introduced a bill to excuse Dis
trict retailers from having to
pay city sales taxes on items On
which they cannot collect the
tax.
Particularly interested are re-
tailers who operate vending ma
chimes.
In ordinary sales. under the
2 per cent sales tax, the break
ing point is IA cents. In the
case Of groceries. with a per
cent tax, the minimum amount
is 28 cents. The sales tax on
lodgings is 3 per cent.
The Nevada Senator's bill is
an answer to the protests of
some retailers that they are re-
quired to pay a sales tax on items
that are not taxable.
The bill was referred to the
Senate District Committee for
consideration.
Evening star., 1955-02-24
Doris FIeeson-
Who Violated Political Truce?
Eisenhower Manages to Provoke Royburn Twice
In On Afternoon and Draws Some Curt Retorts

plea from the President in its
behalf.
'If they don't tell him the
facts at the White House, :"
said one embittered Democrat.
II will give him . subscrip-
ton to a newspaper so he can
read 1t himself"
Many Democrats view Mr..
Eisenhower as the front man
for his Big Business cabinet
who do the operating while
he makes what they describe
as "those Madison avenue in
spirational speeches" They
feel strongly that Treasury
Secretary Humphrey is the
vital force in the administra-
ton and that he is another
Alexander Hamilton.
There is much politics in
this tug of war on both sides.
Democrats are naturally
hypersensitive in such mat
ters because they do feel
trapped into supporting Re-
publican President who is
widely expected to run again
and win again.
AS for the morality of the
tax questions, few people here
would give one party higher
marks than the other.
It is true that former Presi-
dent Truman always asked for
taxes to, balance the budget
and Mr.. Eisenhower does not,
but Mr.. Truman knew he
wasn't going to get the taxes.
Actually a rare few, notably
Senator Byrd of Virginia, are
entitled to claim that they
have unwaveringly placed a
balanced budget ahead of
spending and tax cuts regard
less of who was in power.