Jewish Post, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 May 1956 — Page 6

THE NATIONAL JEWISH POST

Had Faith Jn_ His Way To Achieve World Amity Jew Who Gave Awa y $1 Million In Bulls Dies

By IRVING GRAY CLEVELAND, O. (NJP)— Judging from his appearance, you’d expect Isaac Evans to be a poet, a writer or maybe a musician, but not an industrialist. Judging from his wealth, you’d expect him to be anything but a farmer. Judging from his humble beginnings, you could hardly be expected to believe that he was often called a 'One-Man United Nations.” Yet Isaac Evans, the son of a poor Russian immigrant, became famous in all three of these unrelated fields of endeavorbusiness, farming and international relations. AND IN ALL three tasks, he was guides by one rule, “Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.” He didn't just have the Golden Rule posted on a sign in his office. He lived by it. In business, for example, he evolved unique and progressive labor-management policies, assuring his employees work even during depression days when he sent them to his farm when part of his shop was forced to close. As a farmer he raised mostly cattle. He would handle a calf as gently as he w r ould any of his 16 grandchildren. AS AN international ambassador he personally sent more than $1 million worth of “brotherhood bulls” to six different countries

to aid them in their rehabilitation programs after World War IT. He believed that he could help cement goodwill with-other nations by sending them pedigreed bulls. On four farms in northeastern Ohio he produced prize Holstein and Brown Swiss dairy cattle. As a gesture of international accord he shipped these cattle to Colombia. Mexico, Italy, Turkey, Cuba, the Philippine Islands, Guatemala and Israel. To aid the Jewish State fuj !her, he paid for the planting of five forests there, each named for one of the United Nations, to commemorate the World War II victory. EVANS WAS active in Jewish affairs in Cleveland as a member of Rabbi Silver’s temple and a founder of the local Zionist society. He also was actively interested in the Leo Levi Memorial Hospital, Hot Springs, Ark. Why Evans was a one man ambassador can best be explained in his own words: "I hope to demonstrate that we may become one people in one world in practice as well as in spirit.” Did his theory work? On one occasion he was honored by the emmisaries of Israel, Latin America, Turkey, the United States and the United Nations. HIS PHILOSOPHY that good will and generosity always defeat a much greater volume of

hatred, fear and evil has won untold numbers of friends for the American way of life. Of course Evans owe^ a great deal to America. As a youth of six he came here with his family from a farm near Minsk in Russia. He quit school to go to work and later started his owm business with a borrowed §750 in an abandoned blacksmith shop. When he died recently at the age of 72, he was president of his own chemical manufacturing firm. But America owes a great deal to him. In fact his benevolence was so w r ell known that a Cleveland newspaper named him an “Alias Santa Claus” in a series of tributes paid to outstanding citizens during the Christmas season of 1945.

AWARD WINNERS NAMED TEL AVIV—Pioneer Women’s Hayim Greenberg prizes this year will be awarded to Marie Syrkin, the American writer, for her book on Golda Myerson; Rachel Korin, the Canadian Yiddish poetess, and Miss Ada Maimon, former member of the knesset, for her book, “Fifty Years of the Working Women's Movement.”

HOPES FOR FRUIT RUINED TIBERIAS, Israel—Hopes for a record fruit year here were ruined recently by two days of rain and hail.

COMING EVENTS Kay 29-30- Eighth annual convention of National Association of Hebrew Day School P-TAs, Elizabeth, N. J. June 3-6—Eighth annual conference, Long Island Hadassah,

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How Religion and Schools Cause Problems Is Shown NEW YORK (NJP) — Presenting the theme that “religious intrusions in the public schools” leads to division of citizens “along religious lines, and conflict ensues,” Congress weekly this week editorially listed three such inflamatory incidents in different areas of the country.

Wouk To Write Novel On Israel JERUSLAEM, Israel (NJP)— Here to visit his grandfather, Herman Wouk, noted American novelist said he planned to write a novel with Israel as the locale.

The strictly Orthodox author, w f h o s e current bestselling work, “Ma r j o r i e Morning star” treats of Jewish life on New' York’s West Side, came here from London where

he supervised the staging of the stage play, "Caine Mutiny,” from his novel of the same name. Wouk's grandfather w r as one of the members of the family that “understood” his marriage to Mrs. Wouk, who is non-Jew-ish, the author declared in an interview' which appeared recently in an American publication.

JWV Rejects Request To Aid Nazi Soldiers WASHINGTON,. D. C. (NJP) —A request from a German war veterans group asking the Jew*ish War Veterans of the United States to use their influence to secure “charitable” treatment for tw'enty-one German soldiers now imprisoned for life was rejected this W’eek. Reubin Kaminsky, JWV president, told the German organization that his group would not act because “the men are responsible for the death and destruction of millions of innocent lives. ...” He added that their case had been considered by various boards of appeals, and already their death sentences had been commuted.

Nasser Preoccupied Elsewhere—Davar

TEL AVIV' (NJP)- The view that Nasser is turning his attention away temporarily from Israel to solve problems in other areas of the middle east and North Africa was advanced by the political editor* of Davar,

afternoon daily newspaper.

Congress Weekly is the organ of the American Jewish Congress. The one incident involving a rabbi concerned released time in Woonsocket. R. I. IN A PROGRAM carried on by the Woonsocket public school for years, said Congress Weekly, children were released an hour early one day a week to participate in religious instruction. Catholic educational authorities requested that the hour be changed from the last in the day to the first. An interfaith advisory committee, consisting of tw r o Catholic priests, two Pro testant clergymen, and a rabbi voted three to two to turn down the request, because the change w r ould make it impracticable for the Jews an^ the Protestants to participate. THE SCHOOL board disiegarded the decision, howevei. and voted for the change, where upon the non-CatholTc members of the committee resigned. Another incident which involved a Jew was one dealing with Bible-reading in the Cliff side Park, N. J., schools. THERE THE Catholics object ed to the reading, required by state law, from the King James or Protestant version. They offered to supply the schools with Catholic versions so that the community wrould be saved the expense of purchasing new Bibles. THE ACTION upset the community and caused consternation in its board of education, in which Dr. Samuel Mogibow, irs one Jewish member, steadfastly abstained from voting on any aspect of the resolution. THE THIRD incident listed by Congress Weekly concerned the U. S. Military academy at West Point, at which Protestants and Catholics attend chapel on cam pus, and Jewish students, services at the town synagogue. In the conflict here, the differences were between Protestant denominations, which ob jected to the exclusive use of Episcopalian Protestant chaplains, and unsuccessfully fought for representation of larger Protestant denominations. Each incident indicates, concludes the editorial, “that when-

ever the state becomes involved directly or indirectly in religious

THE POST is the only Jewish education, divisiveness inevitpaper which maintains a fully ably replaces unity, and bitterstaffed bureau in New York C ity, ness succeeds harmony.”

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