Jewish Post, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 June 1973 — Page 6
THE JEWISH POST AND OPINION
Friday, June 15, 1973
Palm Beach Clubs Defend Exclusion Of Jews
PALM BEACH, Fla. — Tremors are going through this community as a Jewish woman whose background is impeccable has raised the issue of barring Jews from two of this city’s most respected clubs. She used the Palm Beach Daily News to name the Everglades and the Bath and Tennis for not permitting Jewish membership. The Miami Herald sent its staff writer, Frank Greve, to Palm Beach, and he returned with all the gory details, including the fact that most people were running for cover, Jews included, over the issue. NATE APPLEMAN, president of the Palm Beach Country Club, whose membership is almost exclusively Jewish, told Greve that Mrs. Carlebach had dealt the cause of ethnic integration an unfortunate blow. Mrs Rose Carlebach is no Johnny-come-late-ly to Palm Beach, having first visited here with her Stock Exchange husband back in 1918. A scion of the “Our Crowd” group, she was a Goldman, of the Goldman Sachs variety, and won trophies in golf and tennis here in the 1920s when the problem was not accentuated because few Jews came here. Byron Ramsing, president of Bath and Tennis, said that membership was a private issue. “And fortunately,” he continued, “under our Constitution people are still allowed to combine in social groups of their own choosing.” GREVE CAME TO the conclusion that there
was the feeling that Mrs. Carlebach had done the community “a great disservice” and that the Jewish club wasn’t too eager to have Christian members either. But Mrs. Carlebach stood her ground, although she later used the word, “nice” to describe Jews who should be permitted to join the non-Jewish clubs. “Jews are becoming more or less a majority in Palm Beach,” she said. “They should be included in all the clubs here. I’m not ashamed of being a Jewess, but it’s perfectly ghastly down here to be told you cannot join a certain club because it will not accept Jews as members.” EVERGLADES president William Cluett asserted that the club has some Jewish members, but that was explained by one of the older members on the grounds that “years ago the club was in rather bad straits and took some in. I don’t think a Jew could get in now; they tell you not to bring them in.” The Club went so far to keep its escutcheon clean in 1962 by ruling that any club member who marries or remarries, the new husband or wife shall not become a member of the club. Before the ruling several Jews had come in through marriage. Appleman’s philosophy as a Jewish leader was quoted extensively by Greve: “I DON’T QUARREL with the fact that a club chooses its members,” Appleman, a respected figure in Christian circles, a trustee
of the resort’s biggest bank, a hospital trustee and a man of many friends, said. “But I do deplore the fact that a club will use the basis of religion to keep someone from belonging. I don’t deny their right to do that, but I do deplore it,” he said. “For that reason Mrs. Appleman and I have never accepted a social invitation to the Everglades Club. I think it’s a symbol of anti-Semitic policy — and I don’t think, if we were ever put to the membership, that they would want to be part of a symbol of bigotry and intolerance either.” Still, “I think this club thing is overexaggerated.” “CHANGE HAS to be accomplished slowly and carefully and judiciously,” he said. “To raise tensions divisively is not healthy. “The way to break down bigotry is to be friends with people.” Though his own club of about 300 members has included only three or four Christians (Joe Kennedy, a neighbor, rejected incidentally by Everglades; the Duke and Duchess of Windsor and social queen Mary Sanford among them), Appleman says it is hospitable to Christians as guests, and would consider Christians applicants “just the same as Jews.” “IT SEEMS to me that the secret of Palm Beach snobbery is really a lack of security among many people, and I am secure,” he said.
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