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May 1, 1953 THE WISCONSIN JEWISH CHRONICLE U. S. Jewish Groups Appeal to Supreme Court on Restrictive Covenants OUR FILM FOLK By LEON CUTTERMAN (CopyricM. lOS.l. JTA) Humor and Wise Cracks in Filmland the tycoons was evidently worried about the income tax bracket he was in.

He finally closed the deal with his friend and said, "Now, remember. If we make any money VOU have to keep it." Quote from George Burns: "Who said science has never aided business? Just look what the law of gravity has done for the suspender business!" "11 is estimated," Eddie Cantor tells us, "that for a $25,000 executive the time cost of reading an ordinarv book would be sixty dollars. Better read book while you are poor enough to afford it." Some would-be authors who think that fame and fortune can be had by merely spending a few moments a day at their typewriters can take a lesson from Hills surgeons th.it he hadn't told him, "for HOLLYWOOD One of our best known Heverly went hunting last week and came homo complaining killed anything. "That's what you fU't," George Jessel M. M.

O'Gara of Los Angeles, whose action for damages against Leola Jackson of Los Angeles was dismissed by the Superior Court of Los Angeles. Two subsequent appeals by the three plaintiffs both were denied by the District Court of Appeal, Second Appellate Department, Los Angeles. Sold Feb. 2. 19S0 by Leola Jackson, who did not include the proscriptive racial covenant in her deed, the property in question was later occupied by Negroes.

The action for damages by the three plaintiffs was for the defendant's failure to incorporate the racial restiictive covenant in her deed of Feb. 2, 1950. toy I ml I hr i -r r- mnnitjifinnw had an into the neglecting your practice." A Hollywood night club owner, Lou Holtz tells us. unusually bad day at his club. Not one person had ventured place all day long.

Finally he closed up around mid- night and went home to discover his wile with a lover. "Hurray!" he shouted. "People!" Judy Holliday says a woman in love certainly isn't economical. She'll go to a beauty parlor and face spend 20 dollars and the entire day getting ci with rri. ide up hoping the fellow she's going out Sholem Asch, who was accosted WASHINGTON (JTA) The United States Supreme Court was asked in an amici curiae brief filed by the American Jewish Committee and the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith uphold its ban against restrictive covenants in property deeds.

The case came to the highest court on appeal by three Los Angeles home owners who had asked money damages in the California courts from a woman who failed to include the restrictive covenants when she sold her heme. Later, the property was "ccupied by Negroes. Arguing that 'he case of Shelley vs. Kraemer. decided in 1948, was intended by the U.

S. Supreme Court to bat-any court enforcement of racial restrictive covenants, the brief states: "Anv narrow interpretation of this Court's decision in the restrictive covenant cases which would countenance suits for damages, would revive the effectiveness of racial covenants as a tool to perpetuate ghettos, black belts and restricted residential neighborhoods where Americans would bo excluded, through the assistance of the courts, on the grounds of race, color, religion or nationally. This would result in a denial of rights protected by the Fourteenth Amendment." The certiorari to the U. S. Supreme Court was filed by Olive B.

Barrows, Richard Pikaar and the other day by a gushing admirer. "Have you ever written that night will mess the whole thing up! Phil Silvers comments whenever you hear it that there is a beautiful tie between father and the son is probably wearing it. When a young starlet asked Tony Martin, vou cirov mv Tony replied: "What anything. Mr. Asch," she spouted.

lon (JiittFrmaa "that you think will live after you've gone?" "Madam," a ercd Asch gravely, "what I'm trying to do is to write something that will enable me to live while I'm here!" pany are you with?" "I wouldn't mind being a wallflower," says Joe K. Lewis, "if Ava was my gardner." Phil Harris says he drinks nothing stronger than there's nothing his pop doesn't drink. and P(P (a) un JJp5j2i presents JDC Helps Repair Ancient Synagogue in Venice Five anrient synagogues in the Venire Ghetto, damaged not by war but by the passage of time, have been repaired during the past year through the aid of the Joint Distribution Committee, the I'nion of Italian Jewish Communities and the Jewish community of Venice. Among them is the "La Schola Canton," and Ashkenazl synagogue founded in 1532. Both the Aron (ark) and the Tevah (lectern) were hand-carved with great care by medieval craftsmen.

The synagogue repairs were financed as a part of JDC's program of aid to religious, cultural and educational Institutions in Europe, the Moslem world and Israel. Funds for JDC's overseas programs are provided by the United Jewish Appeal. Kthol Merman suggests a slogan for parents wilh kids in college: "The dough must go on." Ed Wynn got a room on the 20th floor in a Heverly Hills hotel, then asked the manager, "Couldn't I get something nearer California?" The talkative movie star was telling Edward CJ. Hobinson about the bad manners of a recent visitor, another star. "If that woman George S.

Kaufman comments: "The longest word in the English language starts off: and now a word from our sponsor'." Hedy Lamarr says the only person who is really sure that yawned once, f.ddio, wnile 1 was his wife has a genuine mink coat Coming to U. S. May 1 is a mink. Paulette Goddard explains it this way: "It isn't what a man says that counts. It's what his SPORTS WORLD wife guesses." Harpo Marx declares that all MARTIN GABEL if starring in totalitarian countries have free talking to her, she yawned a doen times." "Maybe she wasn't yawning, dear," Hobinson replied.

"Maybe she was trying to say something." The giants of the movie industry don't make money anymore. They just hold it for the government between income 'ax collections. Two of the heads of a major studio were arguing at dinner table the other night. It seems that they were trying to get together on a new picture which would be released soon. One of By Bill Wolf speech.

In most of them you can talk your head off. Jerry Lewis confides that he's become an inventor. He has perfected an electric chair that can be crossed with an electric toaster. The prisoner pops out when done. (Copyright.

1953, by JTA.) Why So Few Jewish Women in American Sports? The question has been raised from time to time bv sports fans, but there haven't been attempts to draw any definite conclusions. It is a fact that there are not many Jewish women taking part in major athletics in the United States. Cyn you name any? Perhaps there have been some in past years, but a search through the record books does not list them. In one column JTA reported the accomplishments of Betty Cohen the swimming grandmother from Brooklyn. Mrs.

Cohen, who has been swimming just about all of her life, became an international sports figure through her swimming exhibitions in Europe, Canada and the United States. 'J ML Thinking Machine By David Schwartz being considered is Ramat Can. Meanwhile, plans are under way to provide housing accommodations for September. Some 800 athletes from many parts of the world are expected. They'll probably stay in the same village they used Inst year, an army camp known as "Machaneh Yonah." Richard Bergmann of England was on the British team that won the world table tennis championship.

The squad captured the Swaything Cup in matches at Bucharest, Rumania. Sid Gordon has been enjoying the baseball season with the Milwaukee Braves. While the Braves won their opening games as a Milwaukee club, Sin added his talents by being among the club's leading hitters. In a pre season exhibition game, Joe Ginsberg, Detroit Tigers catcher, touched off a last minute rally against Cincinnati that promised to tie the contest. Ginsberg smacked a homer in the ninth inning.

But after getting the bases loaded, Detroit hit into a double plav and lost 7-4. (Copyright, 1953, JTA. Inc.) "3:05 P.M." "3 05 P.M." in your Jewiih hoipi-tol, and lh clock tlopt. Lilian. Ok the clank ol inilrumenli end the woil of a ntw-born child take you into the world behind the operating room.

Produced by HIMAN BROWN This radio drama it part of the teriei covering the world-wide Jewish needs met by the united Jewish campaign BE SURE TO LISTEN! TIME: 9:30 to 10 P. M. DATE: May 2 STATION: WTMJ Sponsored by The Milwaukee Jewish Welfare Fund There are some newcomers who show promise in the athletic world. For example, Bobbie Fischer of New York is an up-and-coming swimmer who took part in the first Maccabiah and probably will participate again this fall. But in general there is a marked lack of Jewish women in sports.

To find the reason, the question of Jewish women cannot be examined alone. Their situation is part of a general situation that raphy that he is a descendant of Rabbi Akiba Eger. The book mentions this fact only incidentally. Dr. Weiner is better known as one of the most famous child prodigies.

When he was ten years old, he was delivering lectures on higher mathematics. His father. Dr. Leo Weiner, was a professor at Harvard. Among the other things his father did was to write a history of Yiddish literature.

I am old enough to remember the days when Dr. Weiner was a boy prodigy. At the time he was not the only Jewish boy so featured. There was also another youngster, William James Sidis, son of Prof. Boris Sidis, who was hailed in the newspapers for similar precocious achievement.

Many vears later I met Sidis. He had exists for all American women I'lNCHAS LA VON. Israel Government Cabinet Minister, and one of the new republic's most dynamic statesmen, will arrive in the United States May 1 to begin a nationwide speaking tour in behalf of the State of Israel Independence Bond Issue. Mr. La von, whose tour will take him to major American cities from coast to coast, has achieved fame in Europe and in the Middle East both as an informed government official and as a progressive agriculturist and soil conservation expert.

An organizer of several farm settlements in Israel, he has been for more than twenty years one of the foremost figures in the Jewish community of Palestine. with respect to athletics. And that is: Men have a much greater opportunity to take part in sports than women. But, someone always argues. men should have more opportun Machines that think and Rabbi Akiba Eger! They are the new thing.

Newer than three dimensional films. We saw a demonstration of them last election night. The machine was "fed" certain data and asked to predict whether Eisenhower or Stevenson would win. Some day. maybe the President instead of having a Cabinet, will just have one of those machines to advise him.

Perhaps when we go to temple or church, we will hear a sermon by machine. Could a machine think up a better sermon than Rabbi Akiba Eger? Whv do I happen to mention Rabbi Akiba Eger? He was a rabbi of Prague a distinguished rabbi who lived about a hundred years ago. The first time I ever heard mention of Rabbi Akiba Eger was in an anecdote about the rabbi who succeeded him at Prague. The story ran that this rabbi was a man of many striking qualifications, "that he was like God, 'ike Moses and like Rabbi Akiba Eger." "He is like God. because he is no man.

He is like Moses, because he has an impediment of sneech as Moses had, and he is 'ike Akiba Eger, because just as Rabbi Akiba Eger couldn't speak ity, at least in the heavier sports. Aren't athletics mainly for men to show off their strength and physical ability? become an operator of a mimeograph machine and collected trolley car transfers as a hobby. He resented all the studying and dis Learning Thrift is Part of a Good Education Jewish law a usurer will not par ticipate in the resurrection. He, therefore, will occupy the ground ciplining imposed by his father in In many foreign countries, this attitude does not prevail. In Israel, for example, women play a major role in athletics.

There are Olga Wittenberg, the discus star; Raya Bronstein, who excels in the shot put: Tamar Metal, in the women's broad jump; Lea Hur-witz, who does the 180-meter hurdles. At the Olympics in Helsinki last summer the majority of Israel's track and field team were women. Also at the Olympics, Llona Elek, Hungary's famous fencer gave an outstanding performance. Tamara Tyshkevich was on Russia's winning gymnastic team. In many other nations women athletes are developing at a rapid pace and the old idea that certain sports are not for women is rapidly being pushed aside.

That is why the U. S. Olympic team was so handicapped in the women's events. Does a major Olympic official suggest that women athletes get more of an opportunity? To the contrary. Avery Brundage, chairman of the International Olympic Committee, proposes that women's events be withdrawn from the Olympics and that women have separate Olympic competition.

This is like the little boy who is losing and wants to pick up his marbles and go home. The performances of some of the women athletes who did participate at Helsinki show that America has a wonderful potential for developing some of the best sports women in the world. When a s'rong effort is made in this direction, many Jewish women will be numbered among the successful. SPORTS BRIEFS: There are plans to build a permanent Maccabiah village in Israel to house the competitors who converge on Israel every three years for the Maccabiah games. The corner stone for such a venture may be laid this fall after the upcoming Maccabiah competition.

The site for all time, so we must charge him more." The other story about Rabbi Akiba Eger that I would like to tell is the night a poor widow came to him crying that she was Gestapo Officer Goes on Trial in Germany FRANKFURT (JTA) Former Gestapo Lieutenant Fritz Hildebrandt went on trial in Bremen on charges of being responsible for the murder of thousands of Jews at several concentration camps he headed in Poland anrl the Carpathians. Thirty witnesses, including who were summoned from new homes abroad, were to testify against Hildebrandt. Mtmbs federal Ml1 "Mm the course of creating him a child prodigy. Happily in the case of Dr. Weiner, there was not this sharply hostile reaction, but I think Dr.

Weiner would agree that the creation of boy prodigies is a very precarious undertaking and should be practiced with extreme care. Rabbi Akiba's Wisdom Coming back to Rabbi Akiba Eger. I recall two other stories which I think are worth retelling. One was about a mean and stingy Jew of Prague. He had made a fortune by usurious interest and had never contributed to the Jewish community's charities.

The community, on his death, demanded more for his burial plot and the family of this mean jew Deposit other rabbi mv first ac-Rabbi Akiba German, so this couldn't." That story was nuaintance with Corporation 625 N. Water St. Just south of Wis. Ave to be evicted the following day for non-payment of rent. ftabbi Akiba Eger went clown to the Kehilla offices, but none of the leading Jews were there.

He thought he would try the Sports Club and there, sure enough, he found all the leaders playing cards. When they saw the rabbi thev stopped playing. "Hold," said Rabbi Eger, "the game must go on but the proceeds I will take to pay the rent of the poor widow who is threatened with eviction tomorrow." What I would like to say to Dr. Norbert Weiner, master of the science of thinking machines, is, "Doctor, you can create machines that think machines that have brains but can you create a machine that has a heart that will be moved by the plight of a poor widow? "(Copyright, 1953, by JTA.) National Hardware shop 'til 9 p. SKNPKU I1KNSMAN.

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Dr. Weiner, a professor of mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is the man who coined the name for the new science, I discover from reading his autobiog- had Rabbi Akiba summoned to court to justify the higher charge. "It is this way," Rabbi Eger explained to the Czech officials. Thursday, Friday and Monday SH SALE "we charge rent for the burial ground for the time it is occu pied. Most of the Jews buried here will rise on the great day of Resurrection, but according to All Really Useful and Practical 21 Top Quality FOR THE I 111 111 Ti: OF HOME SAVINGS BANK N.

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