,'Priday, March 15, 1940
JEWISH WESTERN BULLETIN
Plain
Talk
By AL SSaAL
Ellen has just been bom. She weighed seven pounds. During the week or so inunediately following her birth, Mr. Segal went every day to the hospital to look at her through the ihow-window in which the new-rborn are exhibited.
Mr. Segal kept looking at her as long as an hour at a time^ For the purpose of invidious comparison, he glanced at other infants who were being similarly exhibited. I think, he said, her head is more significant than any of these others. It seems to have more in the occipital region. Her mouth gives evidence of refined breeding. Her hands possess the sensitivity of an artist.
In short, Mr. Segal was thinking that she was some kid. .
Mr. Segal's interest in Ellen was not anthropological. Certain sentimental impulses were bringing him to the window to look at Ellen every evening. Besides, he was poetically bemused by the way life goes on and ~n, a fact which had been recurring or millions of years but which Mr. egal was just discovering as a per-snal experience.
It had happened in this way: Mr. Segal was married and had ee children. In fact, this occurr-d only about a day before yesterday; o quickly has the time passed. In hat brief time the children grew up. t seemed to Mr. Segal that it was nly an hour or so ago that he had een wheeling the oldest boy in his ocar on Locust street when, one day, e boy announced he was going to married.. Mr. Segal felt flattened out by the ft wheels of time rolling over him. 's all like a dream in the night, lought Mr. Segal. In the wink of a am the boy had grown to be 26 ars old and was getting married d going his way.
Well, so it goes, said Mr. Segal aning thereby that time certainly fly.
Looking at Ellen through the hos-tal'srshow window Mr. Segal was re that he had arrived at another ilestohe on the swift coiurse of his Ellen, who was sleeping most jUie time, seemed to have no lui-tanding in the least of the part was playing in the poignant drain which Mr. Segal had become a tmdfather for the first time in his
ARABS PROTEST
AGAIN^LAND
REGULATIONS
JERUSALEM (WNS-Palcor Agency)—Giving "the lie to the British government's contention tliat its new land regulations were designed to protect the rights of the Palestine Arabs, protests continued to pour in to the government from Arabs themselves.
Following the exkmple of the Arab leaders who last week joined their protests to those of their Jewish neighbors, numerous Arab villages sent memoranda to the government expressing their objections to the White Paper banning sale of their lands to the Jews. The memoranda, made dear the conviction among the Arabs themselves that their own agricultural development would be seriously hampered should the liew restrictions actually be put into effect.
POPE NAMES JEW TO VATICAN POST
ROME (WNS).—While Italy moved to enforce its new legislation restricting Jewish professional men and women. Pope Pius XII announced the appointment of Professor Roberto Al-magia, a Jew, to restore ancient maps in the Vatican. Pope Pius has also appointed several Jewish scholars to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences.
LAND REGULATIONS
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THREE LEADING JEWISH PAPERS SUSPENDED BY GOVERNMENT
JERUSALEM (WNS-Palcor Agency)—Failure to comply with regulations laid down by the government censor resulted in the suspension of three leading Hebrew newspapers: Davar, labor daUy; Haaretz, organ of the General Zionists; and the Hat-zofeh, Mizrachi newspaper.
The suspension of three newspapers followed the publication in those papers of the outspoken Vaad Leumi protest against the land restrictions. The papers had been ordered by the censor to suppress the proclamation.
Berl Katznelson and Baruch Krup-nik, editors of the Davar and Haaretz, respectively, were arrested and released on bail of £50 each.
Isaac Spiegelman, Palestine correspondent of the New York Jewish Forward and staflf member of the Hebrew Labor daily Davar, has been sentenced to six months in prison by the military coiurt.
Mr. Spiegelman was charged with having organized a women's demonstration here, and was arrested near the prpcession._that-liad-jforme4_,tolJ^^ agricultiu-al workers move-
protest the new land restrictions.
Segal hadn't felt the required tacy when he was first apprised of matter: "It's a girl.' Seven ds." \ .
e took it rather solemnly as he estored the receiver to the hook and ushed the telephone away from him. t;is to be guessed that Mr. Segal's anity was feeling that he was alto-ether too young to be a grandfather, o, in the back of his head he had en resolving certain meditations on e wisdom of being bom in the ciu:-nt world.
(Long before he thought of being a dfather he had written on the ubject of being bom in today's world d had said that if it were up to lim, he would say, "No, I don't want o be born. I'll wait awhile. I'll wait or justice and compassion to rule e earth. Then I'll permit myself be bom.)
IVIr. Segal felt the more solemn bout the whole thing because he If was in part biologically re-nsible for Ellen. Yet, as day after day, he looked at his wonderful being in the show indow, he knew that everything he ad written against being bom was lain silly drivel. He came to the ospital every evening at seven and ung around the window until they uUed the curtain down at eight. No, he could never have advised lien not to be bom. That's what we eed in this hideous world, he said— yely creatures like this to remind ople of the divine beauty of life, ebple need to keep on being remind-d Of this in a time when human life become the offal of the butchers' ill.
It's a good thing Ellen was bom, a pod thing that these other sacred ings have come defiantly into a orld dominated by Hitler and Stal-They lay in their cribs in a long w with Ellen. Their respective rel-tlves were looking through the win-ow at them. Mr. Segal saw that eir eyes were bright and soft as of bple looking at holy things or at :periences that brought them not X from God. He had never seen i'es so glowing with reverence in lurch or synagogue. He thought this is about as close
as people ever get to God. This ?how window contained the living Commandments to love and to be kind and to be compassionate—Ellen and
little McGuire and little Shapiro and little Maish and little Campbell.
Mr. Segal said there must be a bright new world made for them. It would be hideous outrage to send yoimg McGuire and Shapiro, Maish and Campbell to perish on some battlefield eventually. Ellen mustn't be allowed ever to suffer the pain of seeing her sons sent up in airplanes to be blown to fragments against the stars.
(Mr. Segal felt enchanted by the sight of Ellen and McGuire, Shapiro, Maish and Campbell lying side by side at peace in the lap of God.)
He had a whimsical notion: Some day Ellen and these others must run this world. Yes, they will command the heart of man who will say. For the sake of these infants we've got to turn decent. We can't throw bombs on them. If we aren't beasts we can't let things go on as they have-^-for their sake we can't let things go on in this way.
Thus Ellen within the very brief span of her life has converted Mr. Segal from a cynicism that said it wasn't worth being born into the present world and that living in it was something that must be endured until the happy time of escape. She has done this just lying asleep in her crib, occasionally stretching, at times smiling (though Mr. Segal has been informed that smiling means there is gas on her stomach).
When she opens her eyes she looks up at Mr. Segal with perfect trust that tells him, I know this is a perfect world into which you helped to bring me. It must be perfect because you look so wise. I know you would not have helped to bring me into it otherwise.
Mr. Segal is embarrassed by her trustful gaze. Yes, he swears in his heart, it's going to be all right. It must be all right in good time. I am not really wise and there isn't much wisdom in the world, but we're getting a glimmering, Ellen. Dawn is breaking.
(He Is told that she isn't really looking at him, is scarcely aware of him at all at her age. But the other day he caught something reproachful In her eye: "You're sure you haven't deceived me about this world? I'm trusting you.")
hehnets and steel shields, repeatedly charged the crowds with theh: clubs, but were unable to disperse them.
Among the pasters carried high were those inscribed "Down with MacDonald's Nuremberg Laws!" "We Shall Fight for Our Rights hi Our Homeland!"
Two American Students Lead Demonstration JERUSALEM (WNS).—TWO Arner-icans attendhig the Hebrew University, Robert and David Goldwasser, 19-year-old twins whose home town is Paris, N.J., led a demomtration of students in front of the United States Consulate here. The consul-general assured the students that Washhig-ton would be informed of the effect of the new land laws on the rights of Americans in Palestine.
The demonstrators were soon joined by large numbers of old and young alike as they left theh: synagogues, which were packed as they had been on Thursday at the Ihrst outpouring of popular resentment. Special sermons featured the services at all congregations. . .
In one outbreak, a crowd of about £.000 built a barricade across the important Ben Yehuda Street, stoning the police who tried to tear it down. The police, after unsuccessful attempts to storm the obstmction, finally shot a warning volley which also had no effect. They then shot into the crowd, wounding a niunber.
At noon, mounted troops with drawn sabres marched into the town and an hour later a 68-hoiu: curfew was imposed. It required fully' an hour, however, for the troops and police combtoed to clear the street of marchers.
Among those injured in Tel Aviv clashes, although not seriously wounded, were Abraham Harzfeld, leader
ment, Jacob Vitkin, noted writer who uses the pen name Sumbavel, and M. Lipshitz.
Violent Demonstrations in Jerusalem, and Haifa
Delegations of women, of nurses, and of Hebrew university students joined with other Jewish citizens as demonstrations were held in Jerusalem. Led by the women, a group broke throiigh the police cordon about Government House and successfully demanded entry.. A deputation received by the chief secretary declared that their sons would fight to the utmost for the preservation of Jewish rights in the homeland.
In Jerusalem, too, helmeted and shielded police charged the crowds with clubs. In this city as well, the demonstrators stoned the police, but were forced to disperse, with 50 demonstrators, five seriously enough to be taken to hospitals and a score of police slightly injiured.
Two demonstrations developed in Haifa, one in the morning and one in the evening. The latter meeting drew about 4,000 people who carried banners and placards. After trampling down the fences surrounding the Court of Law, the crowd attempted in a burst of frenzy to raze the building. This the police and troops together managed to prevent, but the interior of the structure was damaged in the melee. About 100 demonstrators were injured before the crowd was broken up. A night curfew was imposed, beginning at 7:00 pjn.
On Sunday troops and police in cars equipped, with firearms were held ready in all cities. Although the curfew in Tel Aviv had gone into effect at mid-day on Saturday, women were permitted to buy food for two hours on Sunday morning. When the lines of shoppers tumed into a women's demonstration against the land ordinances, however, the concession was withdrawn by the authorities.
The Hebrew dailies Davar, Haaretz, and Hatzofe, were forbidden to publish last Thm-sday the full statement of the Vaad Leumi protesthig agahist the new hnplementation of the White Paper. After the deletion of the statement by the censor, the dailies enclosed their front pages within heavy black borders.
The bitterness now current among the Yishuv has been caused, it is felt, particularly by the imposition of the regulations at this time when domestic conditions have materially improved in Arab-Jewish relations.
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