The Phoenix Jewish news., 1960-01-22

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berg, president.
All senior citizens are invited to
attend club meetings at 1 pm.
each Wednesday.
own government in an equally diff
ficult position. For President Els
enhoWer went on record 3 years
ago to the effect that ''if Egypt
does hereafter violate the ArmiS-
tice agreement or other interna-
tional obligations, then this should
be dealt with firmly by the society
of nations.
But the United States, largest
contributor to the World Bank,
made no move to stop the munifi-
cent loan to Egypt, or to postpone
it until Egypt showed come inclin-
alton to obey international law.
And thus our country, which
strives for peace, is in the position
of encouraging violator of inter-
national peace and in fact justify
ing it's war-like activities.
The advice of the London Daily
Telegraph might have been direct
ed toward our government as well
as toward the United Nations:
IF the U.N. is impotent to en-
force it's decisions about the free
dom of the canal, it might begin
by establishing the principle that
a nation at war with fellow-mem-
Der, as Egypt asserts, is not fit re-
cipient for international aid"
"A xYu,xx, NrONrrrTc, 80 - ,,,o- ~,
ported that Rod Serling had writ
ten a TV script about the Warsaw
Ghetto uprising against the Nazis.
"In the Presence of Mine Enc
mics" was purchased by CHS, ap-
proved by it's editing department,
and was to have been taped in
Hollywood, with Joseph Schild-
kraut playing the leading role.
Playhouse 90" was to present it
later in the season.
In December, however, Variety,
the entertainment weekly, an
nounced that the script had been
disapproved by some of the shows
sponsors and would not be shown.
It's quality was not questioned.
The objection was on the grounds
that the script was depressing.
Testifying before the Federal
Communications Commission, Rod
Serling expressed his dismay al
this type of censorship. He laShed
out at '1udicrouS and timorouS in
reference" with his writing by
program sponsors.
HE HAS, he said, been "heckled
constantly as writer by the in
sistence of advertisers that certain
words be omitted" He was forced
by one sponsor to delete from q
script the phrase ''have you got a
match" because the sponsor man
ufactured cigarette lighters.
In this connection it is worth
noting that the American Gas AS
sociation, which found Serling' S
newest script depressing" earlier
censored the words "gas chamber
from a Playhouse 80 script about
the Nuremberg trials.
Is it true, then, that business
men and advertisers are to be the
new arbiters of our our culture?
Do we wish them to control the
direction of our intellectual and
spiritual growth? Are they quail
fled to do so?
These questions should receive
some thoughtful consideration in
the course of the current FEC in
vestigation.
"DAYENU," SAY I, to the
nonsense perpetrated last month
by the usually effective cartoonist
Henry Leonard of "Dayenu' fame.
The picture of a Jewish father
and mother hastily throwing a
Christmas tree and Christmas dec
orations out the window while eX-
claiming TOuick Zede's com
ing'' was in my opinion in the
poorest taste and totally unreal in
the bargain. Families which still
refer to their grandfather as
"Zede" would not be likely to have
their home decorated for Christ
mas. And there are far fewer Jew
ish families this generation thar
last who celebrate the holiday al
all.
Furthermore, this perpetuation
of the legend that Chanukah is q
kind of "Jewish Christmas" is OF
a piece with Gertrude Berg's very
distasteful Christmas monologue on