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Benzie paper lauding the virtues of the Traverse City Country (Sub golf course—‘and it says Visitors Welcome.’ Everybody was for going. We made a picnic of it.

G. M. COHEN Editor and Publisher

JANE CALVELAGE Manairng Editor

“Yessir! There it was! On a big public billboard on the outskirts of the city as you come in on U. S. 31: ‘Welcome’ in letters all across the twenty-foot billboard. T944 Golf Season

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Open. Visitors Welcome.’ In a few minutes we were there. Sandy was putting on his golf shoes and I was mentally polishing up my surprise. One more turn and we’d be at the entrance —and there, smack across the gate ‘Gentiles Only.’ No Jews

again.

“This time it was different. I was driving. Talking seemed to help. ‘So this is God’s country. Gentiles only. No Jews. Damn labor. It’s patriotic. Jesus was a Jew. Lived and died as a Jew. But his own people can’t pass or play here. Our Lennie was told he was fighting for religious freedom—for all his people. Millions of boys are' being sacrificed on fields of blood while here American Royalists decree ‘No Jews Gentiles Only.’ Sandy, these malicious signs are not the smearings of a fanatic, fur-

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lively splashed under cover of darkness. Back of these signs are directives, policies, cool decisions by Boards of Directors. This is the work of men who negate the four freedoms, who write their own brand of fascism into by-laws and on bulletin boards. This is Hitler’s Ger-

many in America.’

I don’t like it very much, but I don’t know of anything I’d care to do about certain private clubs which exclude Jews. Which brings up the point of the following which I am going to quote from Rev. O. Walter Wagner’s article, “This is God’s Country,’’ in the current issue of “The Protestant.” Rev. Wagner is referring to the state of Michigan. First I would like to recall to readers of at least two years vintage, the article I wrote describing my attempt to find a golf course where I could play at Clearwater Beach, Fla., and then un the road at Duneden, which was an experience almost Identical with that described by Rev. Wagner. I might point out that these are public clubs, offering their premises to vacationers, not private ones, and that the Jewish people living nearby phoned protest vigorously. T wonder also at the Ameri- * canism of those non-Jews who patronize these clubs, nonchalantlv see these signs, and do nothing about them. “All of us had underscored the line in the ad about this cottage, stating that we were in easy range of the nationally famous Crystal Downs course. With buoyant spirits and the good wishes of our families we set out for our first tilt. “We drove up to the beautiful entrance of Crystal Downs. There, on a huge stone, the kind one sees in pictures of the Sepulchre, in foot-high letters blocking your very entrance, stood the coal black words GENTILES ONLY. We stopped -looked—lamented. We drove up the lane to turn around and there on the bulletin board, as big as life lest you fail to see the first sign, were the cruel words NO JEWS. They fairly screamed at you. I was proud of my brother-in-law 7 that day. All he said was, “Let’s go home and play horseshoes.” - “A day later, when we came in from fishing, my oldest boy greeted us with the good news

“We had come to a gas station. I drove in and asked, ‘Where is there a golf course that is open to Jews?’ “The attendant looked at me for the distinguishing marks and finding none said, ‘There is only one course open to everyone. That’s out past the fairgrounds on route 37. It’s a miniature course. Anyone can play there. They only bar Negroes.’ ” * * * The voting in the poll of features of The Post came in heavy last week, and to show that you only thought you knew which features were best-liked, here are the results of the poll. Rabbi Benjamin Schultz’s, “Digest of the Yiddish Press” was far and away the first choice. Here is the order in w'hich they stand today, and just to get a larger cross section of opinion, I am asking that readers who haven’t voted, please take the trouble to do so. It’ll help us in guiding the future of The Post. Digest of the Yiddish Press □

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Takes Palo Alto Pulpit MANCHESTER, N. H.—Rabbi Berthold Woythaler has accepted the pulpit of Beth Jacob Congregation in Palo Alto, Calif. He has been spiritual leader of Temple Beth Sholom here for the past five years.

Robert Nathan’s Mother Dies WASHINGTON—Mrs. Hannah Nathan, mother of Robert R. Nathan, economist, died here.

Sorrotv—But NOT Despair T ESS than six hours ago, as this is being We Jews have needed such encouragement, JL' written, the world was informed of the and in times when utter frustration might death of the President of the United States. have overwhelmed us, his was a sustaining Millions of words will doubtless be written and friendship. Every smallest group which has uttered in the week that elapses before this sought security and survival in this harried appears in print, yet no obituaries or encom- world has leaned upon the great promise imiums, no matter how beautifully or emotion- P 1 ^ in the leadership of President Roosevelt ally expressed, will be adequate to convey the Tl 16 danger now Is that the sudden loss of the true significance of this loss. Writers must leader will engender a mood of despair. When need grope, and in vain, within the limitations the first flush of sorrow has died, it may be of language, to transmute instincts and feel- followed by a spirit of resckless despondency ings deeply rooted, into the base words of and helplessness, leading to a grave moral everyday speech. The nobility of the human let down. mind, the dignity of the human spirit, the This must not be! If Franklin D. Roosevelt sacredness of the soul, cannot be subjected was great as the symbol of ideals of liberty to the alchemy of words without becoming and justice, we must remember that the ideals dross. themselves live after him. The vision Of the Inscrutable are the ways of the Almighty, better world was not his alone, nor did it At Yalta Franklin D. Roosevelt stood on the originate with him, though he had done most heights of his Nebo. He could see the out- to advance it nearer to fulfillment. We, the line of the better world toward which he was little peoples, we Jews and Negroes and Czechs destined to lead mankind, but like that other and Norwegians—we the homeless and pergreat leader of yore, on his Nebo, it was not secuted and dispossessed, must bear our grief fated that he should enter into the Land of bravely. To lose hope is to be untrue to the Promise. memoxy of a man who could rise over perOur President was beloved by the Jewish sonal ailments, who could smile and be brave people, and for the same reason that every though his was the burden of leading a mighty other national, religious or racial minority nation through its two greatest disasters, an loved him. He knew truly the meaning of almost fatal depression and a terribly arduous democracy. The famous opening phrase of war. all his speeches had the ring of genuine sin- We shall not despair. The little peoples of cerity; every auditor felt that Roosevelt was the world, who in the aggregate make up the his fi-iend. The President never placed him- whole, will that wise statesmanship prevail, self upon a pedestal. Rather he walked among and that the globe adjust itself to sane livthe common people, and spoke with them ing. San Francisco must be at one and the same in the market and at the hearth. His was the time -a memorial to President Roosevelt and gift for entering deep into the hearts of peo- a glorious culmination of the noblest aspirapie—and to those who have suffered woe or tions for world justice and freedom for which experienced travail such friendship and such he yearned. understanding was encouragement of the sort The peoples of the world so will it!—Carl that lends life new meaning and fresh hope. Alpert. Should Have Clarification on Rose Memorial Hospital T^TO one can find fault with the announced of the country to contribute to a hospital for XA| plan of the Denver Jewish Community the Denver Jewish Community, then that is to erect a million dollar hospital as a “national another question. People here and there may, shrine” to the memory of Maj. Gen. Maurice after reading the announcement, want to conRose. And it is hoped that public-spirited citi- tribute. But to put on a full fledged drive zens from all parts of the country will con- throughout the country, as the first announcetribute to the fine gesture in behalf ofa great ment indicates, that is something else. Jewish military hero. But the Denver Jewish Community is not But—and there is a but—the Denver Jew- altogether to blame. Under the present setish community, which has made this announce- up in U. S. Jewry any organization can on its ment without consulting the rest of the U. S. own without consulting anyone else go throughJewry, should make it clear that the hospital out the country soliciting funds, even for ix>will be open to patients from all parts of the stitutions that do not exist. It is this situation country, and is not merely a local Denver which the Council of Jewish Welfare Funds hospital. and Federations would remedy when it seeks to Sevei'al months ago the Denver Jewish com- return the authority for spending that affects munity embarked on a drive to build a Jew- the U. S. Jewish Community to the organized ish hospital there. If the name of Gen. Rose U. S. Jewish community, which is the some is being used as a means of getting the rest 275 members in the CJWF.

Why Not Work On The Jewish Women?

'IX THY our Jewish women’s organizations T T are not put to better use by those interested in adult Jewish education is a mystery to The Post. Better organized than any other segment of the Jewish community, the Jewish women’s organizations such as Hadassah, the Council of Jewish Women, the sisterhoods and the auxiliaries, include practically every Jewish woman who admits she is Jewish. Jewish educational leaders continually talk about the need for adult Jewish education, pointing out that the good they do with the children at Hebrew School is almost always undone in homes barren of any observance of specifically Jewish characteristics. So that when Passover draws near, the women’s organizations should all devote part of a meeting, if not more, to displaying a model Who Is TUST where the blame lies because of the ridiculous arrangement whereby the Amexican Jewish Committee, which represents almost no one, is given equal recognition at the San Francisco Conference with the American Jewish Conference, is hard to determine. But it is evident that almost any of the tens of organizations in the American Jewish Conference, not to mention The Zionist Organization of America, the B’nal B’rith or the American Jewish Congress, would be more representative of the American Jewish community, than is the American Jewish Committee, which despite its attempt to organize local chapters here and there has less reason for its existence than almost any of the minor American Jew-

Seder Table, and if possible, conduct a model seder. When the High Holidays approach, these organizations should give their members an opportunity to learn how a Jewish home should observe the occasion. The same is true for all Jewish holidays. And in this connection, the home in relation to Sabbath observance especially should be stressed. The prayers, the songs, the other parts of the day of rest which add meaning t > the observance, all need to be explained and shown to our Jewish women. The Post would venture the opinion that this type of program would be eagerly welcomed by those who attend these meetings. That they are needed does not require elaboration, for the ignorance of even our hardest workers in Jewish coui'ses about things Jewish is one of the anomalies of our times. t o Blame ? ish organizations. But the fault probably lies in the lack of statesmanship in the American Jewish Conference. It must have been obvious than unless some agreement was made with the Committee beforehand, the gamble that the Committee importunations to Washington would be ignored, was too great. The revelation that the State Department" originally had decided to Invite only the Conference, but was forced after many protestations to issue an invitation to the Committee, indicates that it was not the considered judg ment of the State Department that the Com mittee represents any significant portion erf U. S. Jewry.