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VoL 37, No. 16
FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 1969
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New Chronicle  Feature
Harry Golden To Write New Column Each Week
Harry (3olden, the fabulous ed¬ itor of The Carolina Israelite and the man who could happen "Only In America," will present his column for the reading pleasure of The Chronicle's (iolumbus sub¬ scribers starting next week.
The Chronicle Is proud to an¬ nounce the acquisition of Mr. Goiden's weekly feature, one which has been snapped up by dozens of America's top dailies since it was offered on a syndi¬ cated basis two months ago.
SOME OF THE newspapers which carry the Golden column are the Cleveland Press, Toledo Blade, CSilcago Tribune, Washing¬ ton Daily News, Pittsburgh Press, Nashville Tennessean, Baltimore News Post, Miami Dally News, Detroit Free Press and Atlanta Journal   &   Constitution.
Carl Sandburg has this to say of the distinguished Mr. Qolden:
"He knows the American scene and the American people as very few men do. He has written the most interesting fo-Semittc book that I have ever read—-barring possibly the Old Testament. There are pages to give you rollicking laughter, others a pleasant smile, still others that might have you sombre over our American scene and its human conditions.
"AS A JEW who understands ghetto history Harry Golden sees the plight of the Negro north and South. He loves the Irish to the extent that has him marching in processions where the high cry was 'Erin Go Bragh.' I ha*e never met so sweet a salutation to Scots¬ men as we may read herein, "The Ten Lost Tribes? They Are The Presbyterians.'
"From many quarters the oij,t- cry  has   come ¦ that  there   Is   too
Iforry Golden
much of conformity and compla¬ cency, particularly among the young. Among the best healthy and wholesome non-conformlsta Is this writer. Friend of Man, Harry (jolden."
The one-time clerk, school teacher, reporter and newspaper promotion man settled In Char¬ lotte, N.C, 16 years ago where he founded The Israelite.
HIS OFFICE Is a Mecca for readers with auch varied views as Earl Warren, Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Cfeurt; Adlai Stevenson, Thomas E. Dewey, William Faulkner, Fannie Hurst and Mr. Sandburg.
"Where but in America," asks Mr. Qolden, "could an ^iast Side New York Jew move to Charlotte, N.C, start a Jewish newspaper and wind up selling more sub¬ scriptions to Gentiles than Jews?"
L. I. SCHOOL BOARO DROPS LORD'S PRAYER
CEDARHURST, L. I. (JTA)— The school board of District IB ended a two-year controversy over the recital of Protestant ver¬ sion of the Lord's Prayer this week by ordering an Immediate ban on the prayer.
Ernest E. Eldred, president of the achool board, said the board agreed unanimously to substitute the last stanza Of "America" in¬ stead. This begins: "Our Fathers' God to Thee, Author ot Liberty, to Thee we sing." Singing of "America" is a long-standing tra¬ dition in New York City public schools.
The decision was endorsed in a joint staternent issued by Rabbl Abraham V. Goodman of Temple Israel In Lawrence, president of the South Shore Jewish Commun¬ ity Council, and the Rev. William Galloway, Pastor of Our Lady of Good Counsel Catholic Church In In wood.
The Religious Council of the Five Towns, as the affected area is popularly known, endorsed the ban. The Religious Council, Rabbl (3oodman and Father Galloway also approved use of the New York State Regents non-sectarian prayer.
A protest rally scheduled by the Cijmmunlty Council at Rabbi Goodman's synagogue will go on because "It is too late to call it off," said the rabbi. He indicated the theme would be changed to conform with the amicable settle¬ ment.
Integration Grinds To Halt In South, Jewish Congress Counsel Reports To Senate
BEN GURION URGES UBOR GROUP UNITY AS HE ADDRESSES,MAPAI PARTY
TEL  AVrV   (JTA)—Calling  on   membership   figures   revealed   to
Israeli political parties to conduct the forthcoming campaign for November's general elections In a spirit of education In true de¬ mocracy. Prime Minister David Ben Gurion declared this week that separate labor parties in Israel muat sooner or later merge, Mr. Ben Gurloh voiced theae sentiments here In delivering the address which concluded the two- day convention of Israel's dom¬ inant political party, Mapal. The parley drafted platforms for Ita participation In two election cam¬ paigns—the elections .of Histadrut, Israel's federation of labor, and the national balloting tor Parlia¬ ment.
STRESSING Mapai's Socialist IdeaJs, Mr. Ben Gurion told the 3000 delegates and guesta at the convention: "One characteristic of our specific approach is that. In spite of our conviction that the interests of the community are supreme, our movement has al¬ ways recognized the decisive im¬ portance of the individual."
"The community's responsibility to the individual," Mr. Ben Gurion continued, "is an absolute aim by itself. Therefore, we have always opposed the talao theory of those who favor a totalitarian regime, who believe that a privileged min¬ ority Is destined to rule, to guide, to show the majority that the majority's duty Is to follow the privileged minority."
A FIVE-YEAB plan for guid¬ ing Israel toward economic Inde¬ pendence, calling for doubling of the investments In Industry, and tripling of Israel's exports, was presented to the convention by Finance  Minister   Levi. Eahkol.
The platform also propoaed the setting up of an Industrial odvls- ory committee for the government which would include representa¬ tives of workers, the Histadrut, and other sectors In management- worker   relations.   Mapai    Party
the delegates showed that 45 per cent of the members are "non- Ashkenazl"—Jews who stem from countries other than European. Fifteen per cent of the members are Israell-bom.
ONE OF THE chief purposes of this year's convention was the drafting of an election platform for Mapal, which the party will place before the country in the next general elections, scheduled for November. The platform will also be laid before the electorate of Histadrut, the Israel Federa¬ tion of Labor, which will ballot for officers prior to the country's general elections.
Mr. Eshkol's plan envisages an annual increase of eight per cent in Israeli production, and stabil¬ ization of consumption. Above all, the Finance Minister said, Israel must talte advantage of the great possibilities for developing Its natural resources in minerals, mining and oil.
IN THIS ISSUE   I
Amusements       18
Editorials         2
Smolar         2
Socdety         ^
Sports            11
Synagogues    12
ISRAEL OFFERS EXPERTS
UNITED NATIONS (AJP) — Israel has Informed the Interna¬ tional Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) In Vienna that she is ready to offer the servicea of ex¬ perts In the various fields of the peaceful uses of atomic energy to the agency. It was revealed this week by Agency Director-General Sterling Cole. Fourteen other countries have made offers of funds Intended for fellowships and technical assistance.
American - Israel Trade Hits Mark
NEW YORK (JTA)—Trade be¬ tween United States and Israel exceeded $100 million last year, Israel Consul General SImcha Pratt reported this week at the annual dinner of the American- Israel Chamber of C3ommeroe held at the Hotel Blltmore. On behalf of the Israei Go\femment, he in¬ vited American businessmen to invest capital tn Israel and to provide "know-how" for the coun¬ try.
Mr. Pratt noted that the figure in America-Israel trade reached last year brings the total volume of economic relations between Israel and the U.S.—Including in¬ vestments, long term loans, travel —to the quarter billion dollars mark. Israel, he said. Is now aug¬ menting the production of goods for local consumption with the manufacture of export items and capital goods, and will extend every facility to foreign Investors who wish to share in these de¬ velopments. He lauded the Cham¬ ber's role in promoting the eco¬ nomic relations between the two countries.
Speoial to The Chronicle
WASHINGTON, D.C. — School desegregation In the South is "Slowly grinding to a halt," ac¬ cording to the results of an eleven-state survey presented to the  Senate  Judiciary  Committee,
Win Maslow of New York, gen¬ eral counael of the American Jew¬ ish Congress, told a Committee hearing that Federal action on civil rights is necessary to halt what he termed an "alarming slowdown" in implementation of the Supreme Court decision out¬ lawing segregation In public schools.
OUT OF 2018 bi-raclal school districts In the South, according to the American Je'wish C^ongresa survey, desegregation has begun in only 141—of which 124 are In West Texas, which has a small Negro population. This Is an In¬ crease of only 34 school districts in more than two years, Mr. Mas- low said.
The 11 states covered were Ala¬ bama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Car¬ olina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia. The American Jewish Congress survey was pre¬ pared on the basis of reports from the various states on their school populations.
WHATEVER progress toward desegregation has been made dur¬ ing the past two years, Mr. Mas- low told the Committee, has been almost wholly confined to border states where the 1954 desegrega¬ tion decision of the Supreme Court was accepted almost as soon as  it was announced.
In Delaware, Kentuclcy, Mary^- land,    Missouri,    Oklahoma    and
West   Virginia,   he   said,   647   bl-1 Maslow   described   as   "the   best racial school districts have begun   approach   yet   suggested   for   em-
to integrate classes, as compared with 525 school districts two years ago. The total number of achool districts with Negro and white residents In these states Is 813.
OF THE EIGHT Southern states that were completely segre¬ gated in 1956—Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South (Carolina and Virginia—only North Carolina has made any effort to integrate its schools, Mr. Maslow reported.
He said this consisted of a "to¬ ken" integration plan, noting that only 11 Negro students In the entire state are attending pre¬ viously all-white schools. In Vir¬ ginia, Negroes are now attending previously all-white schools in four of the state's 114 school dis¬ tricts, following Invalidation of state anti-integration statutes by the U.S. arcult Court.
Among the border states, Mr. Meislow said, there was some pro¬ gress toward desegregation In Arkansas, Tennessee and Texas immediately after the 1954 deci¬ sion. But In the past two years Intensified resistance by the state governments has brought progress to a stand-still, he said.
MR. MASIOW presented the findings of the survey to the Judiciary Committee in urging enactment of a strong and com¬ prehensive civil rights measure that would give the Justice De¬ partment authority to seek In¬ junctions against school Ixiards that refuse to begin racial inte¬ gration.
This authority is Included in the Douglas-OUer bill, which Mr.
ploying the full powers of the Federal government to. end state- imposed  racial  segregation."
IN URGING that the Justice Department be given authority to sue school boards that refuse to integrate, Mr. Maslow reported that in 1937 segregated school districts In 11 Southern states, only 25 private suits are pending against school boards.
No suits at all are pending in Alabama and Mississippi; only one each in Georgia, South Oaro- Itna and Tennessee; two lA Ar¬ kansas; and three each In Florida, Louisiana, Te*as and Virginia, he said.
"VICrrORY m all these suits— which may well take years—would affect only the school districts against which they are brought," Mr. Maslow declared. "Thus, even if each case were won, segregation Would remain In 1,912 Southern school districts."
The American Jewish Congress spokesman commented that "the Federal government has a clear responsibility to enforce the Con¬ stitution under which It operates.
"The vindication of constitu¬ tional rights cannot be left to In¬ dividuals o r to private organiza¬ tions," Mr, Maslow told the Com¬ mittee. "The Constitution gives to Congress the power to adopt legis¬ lation to enforce its commands. Responsible exercise of that power requires this Committee to recommend a civil rights bill recillstically using the full powers of the Federal government to end state-Imposed racial segregation as soon as possible."
Nasser On His Bicycle Again
BY   ELIAHU   SALPETER
(Copyright, 1059, JTA, Inc.)
JERUSALEM — When Israel, more than three yeara ago, coined the phrase that 0>1. Nasser Is like a cyclist who must push on to keep up his speed or else fall off, the reference was primarily to the Egyptian dictator's policy ot expansionism and subversion In the Middle Eaat and Africa. In recent weeks, Nasser's dispute with Iraq's Brig. Kassem proves the correctness of Israel's analy¬ sis tn yet another respect: That of Nasser's relationship with the Soviet Union.
Ntisser does not make any ae¬ cret of the fact that he assisted Kassem's bloody revolution, which
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overthrew Iraq's pro-Western re¬ gime. His main agent in Iraq was Col. Areff, and Nasser was quite sure that the "new Iraq" would quickly join his United Arab Re¬ public, putting In Cairo's band the Immense richness of Iraq's oil fields. However, Kassem had no desire to do so, and Nasser began his plottlngs  against Kassem.
WHEN THE IRAQI director discovered the first Nasser-spon¬ sored plot, he quickly arrested and sentenced (!!ol. Areff Eind his accomplices. However, Nasser did not give up his trouble-making which, several weeks ago, culmin¬ ated in the abortive Mosul upris¬ ing.
The Mosul rebels fled to Syria, which is now the northern part of the United Arab Republic, and the campaign of vituperation tietween Nasser and Kassem reached an unprecedented  crescendo.
Ostensibly, Moscow was caught in between. Since the Soviet Egyptian arma deal, Nasser was Moscow's main agent In the Mid- die East. However, under pressure of Nasser's propaganda, Kassem had to rely more and more on Iraq's Communists and on the Soviet Union itself. When Nasser began attacking the Communists in the Arab world In general, Moscow had to speak up, mildly rebuking Nasser. He persisted, however, and accused the Soviets of being the new Imperialists In the Middle East.
MANY WESTEIRN observers somewhat hastily concluded that a total break between Moscow and Cairo was imminent. Israeli experts, who have repeatedly proven their keener and more penetrating understanding of the situation, doubted and still doubt that such a total break will occur. They point out that Nasser's ver¬ bal attacks on Communism and on Russia Itself are of relatively
little importance, and may even actually be welcomed by Moscow.
What counts more Is the ques¬ tion of Soviet aid to Nasser. Thla aid would stop only if Moacow stopped It, or if Nasser rejected It. Moscow does not want to stop It, and Nasser cannot afford to give It up.
As long as it can, Moscow pre¬ fers to have two agents In the Middle East. Nasser, as the self- appointed prophet of Arab nation¬ alism, is Moscow's principal tool in liquidating Western Influence In the Middle East. Kassem, by being dependent on the support of the Communists In face of Nasser's attacks, gives Moscow the hope of making Iraq ihe first "Peoples' Democracy" in tfie Arab world.
THE PAtTT that Nasser con¬ tinues to accept Soviet aid, ex¬ perts and technicians, despite at¬ tacking the Coramtmiats, Is used by Moscow to prove that Arab nationalism simply cannot do without Soviet assistance. This lesson is not lost on nationalist elements in other Arab countries and in Syria, where It only strengthens those elements who would like to secede from Egypt and join Iraq.
This is the first vicious circle In which Nasser has to pedal fast in order not to fall off his bicycle.
But why, then, does not Nasser give up Soviet assistance and turn to the West, which sometimes seems only too eager to rush to hia aid? Nasser could do thla If economic asslstunce were a means to him to develop his country and raise the standard of living of his people. But, in fact, economic aid Is only a means tor Nasser to con¬ tinue in his role of leader of Arab nationalism, which Is tantamount to his efforts to dominate other nations.
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