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THE WISCONSIN JEWISH CHRONICLE March 29, 1974 22 OBITUARIES appear in your paper at all? It is an insult to a scholar such as Max Lerner and a knowledgeable writer such as Carl Alpert to have his column appear side by side with them. His column is an insult to the intelligence not only to the Jewish people but to non-Jewish people who cannot believe that any publication let alone a Jewish publication would actually publish this biased propaganda based on no facts and completely and extremely bizarre in all its elements. In conclusion I suggest you cease from demeaning your excellent publication and "enough is enough" of Mr. Morrie Ryskind. DAVID RABINOVITZ Ryskind Demeans Chronicle David Rabinovitz is a Sheboygan attorney.

He was appointed by President Kennedy and later re-named by President Johnson as FederalJudge of the Western District of Wisconsin, a post which he served for a period. Ruth (Katz) Dubester Services for Ruth (Katz) Dubester (nee Rudman) were held Sunday, March 24 at Goodman-Bensman Funeral Home, 5831 W. Burleigh with interment at Mound Zion Cemetery. She resided at 2545 N. Frederick Ave.

Mrs. Dubester, 69, the wife of Louis, was the mother of Mrs. Marion (Alvin) Chasco, South Milwaukee, Mrs. Lucille (Walter) (Richard) Walters, New Berlin, and Paul (Doris) Katz, Bayside. She was also survived by 11 grandchildren and four great grandchildren.

Fannie Goldstein Funeral services for Fannie Goldstein, 62, of 1620 N. Hawley were held at Goodman-Bensman Funeral Home, 5831 W. Burleigh on Sunday, March 24. Miss Goldstein, who had been an employee at the Columbia Hospital for 25 years, died March 20. She was survived by four sisters, Mrs.

Sue (Joseph) Chovonec, Miss Rosetta Klett, both of Milwaukee, Mrs. Sally (VictorjTorgerson, Rhinelander, and Mrs. Shirley (John) Ernenputsch, Van Nuys, and two brothers, Irvin (Florence) Klett and Jack (Rose) Klett, both of Milwaukee. Interment was in Agudas Achim Cemetery. Mildred Stern Funeral services for Mildred Stern of 3007 N.

48th were held Thursday, March 28 at Goodman-Bensman Funeral Home, 5831 W. Burleigh St. Mrs. Stern, the wife of Ben, died Tuesday, March 26. She was survived by two sons, Bryan (Sally) Stern, and Wayne, a sister, Mrs.

Earl (Lillian) Rosenburg, all of Milwaukee, and one grandchild, Laurie. Interment was at Mound Zion Cemetery. Cantor George Surlin Services for Cantor George Surlin of 2461 N. 45th were held Thursday March 28 at the Goodman-Bensman Funeral Home, 5831 W. Burleigh St.

Surlin, 60, became ill on an auto trip to Chicago. He was taken, to St. Theresa's Hospital, Waukegan, 111., where he died. Surlin had been cantor of Congregation Anshai Lebowitz, 3100 N. 52nd since he moved to Milwaukee from his native Chicago in 1968.

He was a graduate of the Illinois School of Pharmacy in Chicago but never practiced pharmacy. He held a degree in music from Roosevelt College, Chicago, and sang with a Chicago operatic company before World War II. He served on the Army Air Corps medical staff during the war and took part in the invasion of North Africa in November, 1942. He also served as a chaplain's assistant during the war. Surlin entered the clergy after the war and for a while was a cantor in the Great Synagog in Tel Aviv, Israel.

He later returned to Chicago. Cantor Surlin was a past secretary and treasurer of the Cantonal Assembly of the metropolitan Chicago area. He was a member of Milwaukee Lodge No. 261, F. and A.M., and of the Independence Lodge of Masons in Milwaukee.

He belonged to the Jewish War Veterans, the Elks, the American Legion, the Veterans of Foreign Wars and B'nai B'rith. Survivors include Surlin's wife, Bessie; his mother, Mrs. Libby Surlin, Chicago; a sister, Mrs. Morton (Rosalyn) Schneider, Skokie, and three brothers, Al, Chicago, Ben, Los Angeles, and Sidney, Skokie. Graveside services were conducted Thursday at the Zemach Zedek Waldheim Cemetery, Chicago.

The family has suggested memorial contributions to Congregation Anshai Lebowitz. IT if? A number of my friends and your readers from various cities including a substantial number from Milwaukee have spoken to me about strong objections to your retention of the column written by Morrie Ryskind. This writer is not an attorney, nor an accountant and yet renders opinions in both fields concerning President Nixon. I made a recent legal study on the question of impeachment of the President and none of his arguments have any basis of law or fact. He has defended Nixon in the most extreme manner, exceeding even Nixon's own defense or that of his attorneys or Ron Ziegler, in charge of public relations.

His articles appearing in as excellent a publication as yours, concerning which your staff now and prior and in former years have attempted to be neutral in political matters, has tainted the reputation of your publication. I will not go into detail as to many and complete misrepresentations he has made concerning President Nixon's guilt. In your issue of March 8th in a letter written by Gerald S. Glazer properly refuted some of Mr. Ryskind 's statements.

I will highlight a few based on President Nixon's own admissions and on statements of influential members of his staff who have pled guilty to certain charges. He states that Humphrey and others also made deductions for memoirs given to the government. These were given and resolved before the law changed in 1969. Mr. Nixon campaigned, through his staff, to change the date and make his giving of his papers retroactive but Congress refused to change the law.

His chief counsel and tax advisor has been found by the state of California to have illegally back-dated a bill of sale and falsely notarized it so as to make it appear that the memoirs were given before the law was changed and before the 1969 law was enacted. Mr. Nixon admits that he approved the use of public donations to the Republican Party for the legal defense of people charged with crimes and also approved assistance to their families. He has publically admitted that the break-in into the office of the psychiatrist of Ellsberg meant nothing and it was not burglary because nothing was found. He said this both on radio and television when any child knows that burglary is an illegal entry into a person's premises regardless of whether larceny was committed or not.

Twice he offered to the judge on the Ellsberg case, during the very days that the trial was recessed but still in his court, the position of F.B.I, director and this same judge dismissed the case because of the illegal entry into the psychiatrist's office. Witness, an individual who is a plaintiff in a case and inviting the presiding judge to his home and offering him a position and not only that the President has the right and power to elevate this judge to as high a position as a member of the United States Supreme Court. Witness also the entertaining of groups from Congress with drinks, dinner and entertainment when the same individuals will be his jury on the question of impeachment. I ask Mr. Ryskind what would be the consequences if a private individual entertained at his home the jury panel who are about to try a serious case against him? Last but not least he condemns the late Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and in your issue of March 8, 1974 he speaks in glowing terms of Joe McCarthy who was a frank and open enemy of democratic principles and more particularly of minority groups including our Jewish people.

I was personally told the true facts by Federal Judge, Erving Kaufmann, who had the most awesome task of sentencing the Rosenbergs who were victims of an actual betrayal by the Communist party. My friends and I ask -WHY? Why should this biased and slanted column Session With Golda Meir (Continued from Page 5) leave their phone numbers. Next the open door let in an M.K. from the ruling party who informed the Premier that he had rheumatism and wouldn't be able to raise his hand. He enquired in passing if Communications was already manned.

"Not yet," thus Golda, "But Yitzhak Raphael enrolled ahead of you." I began to feel a bit dazed just then, Mr. President, the more so as it turned out that the portfolios of the Interior, Transport, Welfare, Religion, Posts; Housing and Justice would stay open for an unlimited period, or at least pending the collapse of one side. I asked Mrs. Meir if she hadn't better present a new Government with all the Ministries unmanned, as that would leave her wide scope for impromptu variations. Mrs.

Meir said that indeed, she had considered that possibility, and that actually that was the de facto situation anyway. Rather exhausted from our stormy agenda, we took a few minutes off to discuss troop disengagement and all that. We agreed I'd pass on a message to Sadat about freezing the NRP for a year, and that afterwards I'd go to Riyadh to discuss the status quo of Jerusalem. Taking leave from the Premier, I asked if it wouldn't be desirable to entertain the possibility of a National Unity Cabinet after all, but she rejected the idea out of hand: "With the Likud inside," she said, "how could I ever negotiate quietly with you?" Here the matter rests for the moment, Mr. President.

I guess I'll cut my visit short, and to save time and fuel come right back home and settle affairs directly with Rabbi Soloveitchik. Me, I don't need mediators. By arrangement with "Ma'ariu." Translated by Miriam Arad Monument Dedications Sally Cohen A monument will be dedicated in memory of Sally Cohen on Tuesday, April 9 at 3 p.m. in Spring Hill cemetery. Rabbi Dudley Weinberg will officiate.

Relatives and friends are asked to attend. There's more neighborliness in a few kind words than in a whole truck load of treats. tt TWO LOCATIONS v'yt" WHITEFISH BAY FUNERAL HOME SANTA MONICA AT HAMPTON GOODMAN-BENSMAN FUNERAl HOME BURLEIGH AT FIFTY-NINTH GOODMANBENSMAN JEWISH FUNERAL DIRECTORS SERVING ALL OF WISCONSIN.