SPIRITUAL STRANGULATION OF SOVIET JEWERY

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CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- APPENDIX
Other local ventures include the Gateway
Center, with its commanding position at the
west end of the intercity viaduct in Kansas
City, Kans., and a number of extensive hous-
ing developments.
Multiply this work by the projects now un-
derway in 600 otherAmerican cities and you
see the scope of urban renewal. Only a start
has been made. A study, quoted in U.S.
News & World Report, estimates that it would
require $1.1 trillion in the next 12 years to
reshape American cities. Such an expendi-
ture would dwarf even the current level of
defense spending. U.S. News poses the
query:
"Time and again, this question is asked:
If.defense spending-now on a vast scale-
ever does decline sharply, what can take its
place?"
Urban renewal is one candidate, For a rel-
atively small part of the total cost, the Fed-
eral Government has primed the pump
across the land. Currently, some 1,200 proj-
ects are underway, and the U.S. contribution
to purchasing and clearing the land amounts
to about $3 billion.
It is a lot of money, but consider a second
statistic. Nationally, for, every dollar that
the United States contributes, private inves-
tors and others put up $5. In Kansas City,
the Federal and State office buildings have
become important developments for the civic
center area cleared through urban renewal.
But-such buildings are the exception rather
than the rule.
Applying the national average, the $3 bil-
lion Federal investment has attracted about
$15 billion in private capital. Based on its
national survey, U.S. News predicts that the
present level of development is "only a drop
in the bucket compared with what could
happen."
In our era, urban renewal is reshaping the
fgce of virtually every American city. Once-
blighted areas-that had. been all but writ-
ten off-are being converted into showcases
that promise a, better urban life for the en-
tire Nation.
A Young Ambassador
EXTENSION OF REMARKS
OF
HON. CHARLES,S..JOELSON
.O' NEW. JERSEY
IN THE HOUSE OF,REF.RESENTATIVE5
Thursday, March 14, 1963
Mr. JOELSON. Mr. Speaker, the
Eighth Congressional District of New
'Jersey points with pride to a young wo-
man of Clifton, N.J., who is in a very
real sense a true ambassador for the
United States of America. An article
appearing in the Passaic-Clifton Herald
ETHEL SILVERMAN, OTHER FORUM DELEGATES,
MEET. THE PRESIDENT
(By Edward J. Reardon)
WASHINGTON.-Ethel Silverman, 17-year-
.old Clifton High School senior, was among
the 39 World Youth Forum delegates who
were received at the White House this morn-
ing by President Kennedy.
It was the highlight to date of their
Week-long visit to Washington, first stop in
their 3-week tour of the eastern seaboard
which will end on March 21 with a session in
New York City's new Lincoln Center.
1. i Ethel has, the distinction of representing
the United States in the group of delegates
from 39 countries throughout the world, in-
cluding Argentina, Spain, France, Belgium,
New Zealand, and Nigeria. . Only Iron Cur-
tain country at the forum is Yugoslavia.
Ethel said all the delegates speak English.
"All of us are extremely close," she ex-
plained, "due principally to the orientation
period we spent together at Sarah Lawrence
College in Bronxville, N.Y., during the
Christmas vacation."
The delegates from foreign countries have
been in the United States since, living with
American host families. They have been
meeting weekly for discussions on world is-
sues and problems.
Ethel arrived in Washington Sunday and
says she has been having the time of her
life since. She and the other delegates
haven't wasted a minute since their arrival.
On Sunday they toured Washington, saw the
Washington Monument, the Lincoln and Jef-
ferson Memorials and other places of historic
interest.
On Monday there was a visit to the U.S.
Supreme Court where the delegates were
addressed by Associate Justice Arthur Gold-
berg. Then they were taken for a tour of
the Federal Bureau of Investigation. When
Atty. Gen. Robert Kennedy learned they
were in the Justice Department Building,
he invited them to visit his office.
"When we arrived," said Ethel, "we found
him moving chairs around to accommodate
us. He was friendly and very pleasant and
made a fine impression on all of us."
Yesterday most of the group went to the
Voice of America studios where records were
made for playing in their home countries.
But Ethel was one of four special guest
panelists on a prerecording of the "Youth
.Wants to Know" program. They were inter-
viewed by Howard K. Smith. The show will
be televised Sunday on the ABC network.
After the White House visit with President
Kennedy, the remainder of today is being
spent on Capitol Hill. The delegates had
lunch in the Senate dining room with Sena-
tor PAUL H. DOUGLAS, Democrat, of Illinois,
and his wife as their hosts. Representative
CHARLES S. JoELSON of Ethel's home district,
was among the other House and Senate
Members invited to the luncheon.
Today is the delegates' last in Washington.
Tomorrow they go to Richmond, Va., and will
visit Philadelphia, New Haven, Boston, and
Brattleboro before ending the 3-week tour
'in New York City.
Ethel is. the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Irving
Silverman, 164 Randolph Avenue, Clifton.
An older sister, Mrs. Jules Bresslour, is a so-
cial worker in the Clifton school system.
Two brothers are physicians, - Dr. Joseph
Silverman, a New York pediatrician and Dr.
Michael Silverman, a radiologist stationed at
the Army Redstone Arsenal in Alabama.
What's Wrong With the Country?
EXTENSION OF REMARKS
OF
HON. DURWARD G. HALL,
OF MISSOURI
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Thursday, March 14, 1963
Mr. ALL. Mr.. Speaker, this morn-
ing's lewd editorial in the Washington
Daily News is so basic, sound, penetrat-
ing, and fundamental that I believe it
should be included in the RECORD for all
to review and perceive. I would call
particular attention to the ultimate par-
agraph and urge our colleagues to exer-
cise their judgement. The editorial is
entitled "What's Wrong With the
Country?" and follows:
WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE COUNTRY?
You look over the list of domestic eco-
nomic troubles as noted.by President Ken-
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nedy at his press conferences. There isn't
one that a healthy tax cut wouldn't cure or
at least help substantially.
And the only way to get a meaningful tax
reduction is to legislate a healthy cut in
Federal spending.
The basic problem is as simple as that,
although the solution is difficult in the pres-
ent political atmosphere.
Relief from the extortionate load of Gov-
ernment spending would generate energy
from top to bottom. It would give people
sorllething to work for.
To hear the talk as to lack of opportunity
for youth you would think there were just
so many jobs until the Government passed
a law to create some more. You wonder how
youngsters ever got a job in the past. This
same frightened scramble to divide up pov-
erty held back recovery from the great de-
pression and - now dominates discussion of
automation.
Jobs generate jobs. Wages and profits
create the demand for goods, which puts
more and more people to- work-unless the
chain is broken by bungling Government-
intervention-or expropriation of the fruits of
industry.
Talk about our crop of "war babies" grow-
ing up and needing jobs. They are relatively
few in numbers compared to the millions
of refugees from communism who streamed
into ' demoralized West Germany after the
war. Work was found for all of th
m
e
and
West Germany actually has a labor shortage.
Automation did it-along with sane, old-
fashioned fiscal policies which balanced
budgets, made the mark one of the soundest
currencies in history and produced the-feel-
ing of confidence in the future which comes
with a rising living standard. -
On the other extreme are such countries
as Argentina. There is a land potentially as
rich as ours-demoralized by massive govern-
mental bungling and an inflated currency.
Argentina's trouble is our trouble, al-
though we are not nearly so far gone and
had more fat in the form of capital to eat up.
The complacent tendency in Washington
to cut taxes while letting the spending run,
simply is a plan to eat up some more of the
capital which makes jobs. By inciting more
inflation it will nullify any tax - cut. By
breeding fear of an unsound currency it will
discourage enterprise and we will have more
unemployment, not' less.
The prosperity of Western Europe dates
from the time when it scorned the advice of
our frightened liberals, hardened its cur-
rencies and started paying the bills with
cash. We now owe them money in form of
balance of payments. Our Government now
is buying these currencies in great quantities
to protect the once almighty dollar.
More vocal politicians and economists in
the United States are in the grip of an eco-
nomic obsession that we can borrow ourselves
rich. This brand of mass insanity has run
its course in Europe but still afflicts a great
deal of the world including the underdevel-
oped countries, all of which somehow man-
aged to eat for centuries without our help,
or maybe in spite of it.
None of these new nations has a chance
until it discovers that only work creates
wealth and that capital accumulation must
be protected if their people are to have the
tools -which make work productive.
Under present policies, they are frightening
away- capital faster than it can be poured
down the ratholes thus created, through for-
eign aid from the U.S. Treasury.
We see two main sources of hope. One is
the amazing resiliency of the U.S. economy
which has survived and even progressed dur-
ing a generation which has expropriated half -
its profits and sterilized them in wasteful
Government schemes. The other is mount-
ing impatience with the whole red-ink busi-
ness, out through the country.
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When the people finally sense what has today. The production of religious objects. Sr. PATRICK'S DAY RHODE ISLAND MEMORY FOR
been happening to them and vote their in- such as prayer shawls (ta li lm) and phy (Remarks of II S. Representative JoxN E.
dignation. the politicians will sober up and lacteries itefilliml, are prohibited. The Finarks of
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annual celebration esenativ of JOHN E.
find a way. If the country-and particularly public baking and the sale of matzab are FOG ARTY aty annual North Providence of Sham-
rock Soci of at Bouf
the unemployed-are to be spared deepening forbidden.
troub] that ha better be soon. In the last 18 months, the Government fard Council Hall, North Providence, R.I.,
Its program of harassment March 10, 1963)
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has steppe
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to and denouncement of Jews. Synagogue I am happy to with the Shamrock /,f ~ So-
leaders have been forced to resign from their In honoring North Providence e tonight d to join ciety in
/JIf/ Spiritual Strangulation of Soviet Jewry jobs. Some who have been secretly tried and In honoring the memory of Ireland's great
convicted of alleged espionage ended up with St. Patrick on the even of his approaching
lengthy prison terms. In the press, the Jews feast day.
EXTENSION OF REMARKS have been vilified as money worshippers. For most of us the history of Ireland and
or Jewish rites such as circumcision have been the Irish race does not begin until the com-
mocked as barbarous. The synagogue has lug of St. Patrick to the Emerald Isle. It
HON. HARRISON A. WILLIAMS, JR. been painted as the scene for drunkenness Is difficult for any of us to even think of
of wzw JERSEY _ and brawling. Adult children of elderly Ireland, or to speak about its past, its prs-
jN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES pious Jews are held up to public scorn. Ad- ent, or Its future, without at the same time
vancement of Jews in political and eoopomic thinking and speaking of its patron saint.
Life of the country has been retarded. Of it is quite appropriate and necessary that
Thursdajr, March 14, 1963 40 individuals sentenced to death since May we of Irish birth or ancestry never cease to
Mr. WILLIAMS of New Jersey. Mr. 1961 for "economic crimes against the state," commemorate his feast day with gatherings
President, as has been pointed out pre- at least 42 are known to be Jews. in Vilna, such as this of the Shamrock Society of
viously by a number of our colleagues, the the people were invited to the "Jewish show North Providence. It is the one and only
last year and a half has witnessed RC- trial." time all tole year that page, to recall
noble our celerated harassment of Russian Jews. It is quite evident that the Jews In Soviet the vac which has I ash he rid e, much to
The tragic past history being he Soviet Union Russia would obviously leave the coup- the mainstream of our own American way
i n
in the is binrepeated again for Israel or other havens. But Soviet of life.
through the singling out of Jews for die- policy, unlike that of some satellite nations in a true sense we share the memory of
Criminatory treatment. In the Communist orbit In Eastern Europe St. Patrick and the celebration of his feast
Khrushchev's Cynical denials while which permits some emigration, severely re- day with many others of differing races and
official Soviet machinery Pushes inexor- stricts the free movement of Its citizens. nationalities for the simple reason that his
ably toward the extinction of Jewish There exists a body of opinion In the Amer- character and his contributions to Christian
cultural life have had little effect on the ican Jewish community which alleges that civilization are such as to command a uni-
reprehensible actions of Russian officials any protests organized In this country will vernal respect and admiration. This prob-
and publications. The closing of Syria- only do further harm to Soviet Jewry. They ably accounts for the fact that the patron
gogues and the incidence of so-called assert that the best approach is to mobilize saint of Ireland is not only honored in many
economic crimes, punishable by death, public opinion of outstanding liberal leaders other lands but also he is claimed as a native
throughout the world whose record of friend- son by a number of nations extending from
are the most obvious facets of the sinister ship for the Soviet Union is acknowledged by the Baltic Sea to the Mediterranean. As
pattern of Soviet anti-Semitism. the Russian leaders. Frankly, I remain un- you know, the exact place of his birth has
I invite the attention of Senators to convinced by their approach. If I read the never been precisely determined. Some say
"The Commander Reports" from the events In Nazi Germany correctly, our friends that Patrick came to Ireland from the sunny
February edition of "The Jewish Vet- never accomplished anything significant in shores of Italy or Spain; others say that he
eran" written by an esteemed constituent. the rescue of the German Jewish Comma- was born in the rocky uplands of Scotland or
pity. This Is our fight to be fought in the a lonely village on the French Normandy
National commander of the Jewish War arena of world public opinion. coast; some other authorities claim that he
Veterans, Morton L. London, of Tea-
neck N.J. Commander The world must be informed of the atroc- was really brought to Ireland from the Scan-
, London's charge Sties committed against the Jews of Soviet dinavian area as a young galley slave on one
to the Nation's oldest active veterans Russia. The neutralist nations who are of the Viking ships which frequently raided
organization is a challenge to Americans flirting with the Russian bear must be edu- communities along the shoreline of Ireland.
of all faiths. I ask unanimous consent cated regarding the denial of human rights Perhaps it is not too important for us to
exact
and fro
article oto Jews in ur Governmennttlthat they vigorously protest Imknow the portant thingoisgthatf we knowe that The
to have the article inted in
St. There beiril no objec ion, the
the United Nations this wanton attack brought the doctrine of the Christian gospel
against our fellow Jews. We are alerting our to pagan Ireland and achieved a victory there
was ordered to be printed in the RECORD, In
as follows: fellow veterans to join in this fight, and which has never been lost despite the erosion
THE COMMAND= REPORTS we are writing to Jewish veteran associations of the centuries on the spirit of man since on the (By Morton L. London, National whom we met In similar protests ~through thpeirmrespecc-- mind andespirityhasHnevererpbeen destroyed.
Commander) make Moreover, the peaceful force of Christian
Of growing concern the spiritual stran- suit governments. other major o we are con-
gulatiori of Soviet Jewry under a policy icp of sultig with the other mr Jewish organs- Idealism which he implanted in the hearts
and msnda of the men and women of Ireland
overt and covert anti-Jewish measures which zations on this subject as well. has minds of a he a d omendf Ir good produced of
While government-Inspired and directed. in all quarters of the globe right up until
While the present state affairs Is not as the present time.
ominous as that during g Stalin's "black St. Patrick's Day Has Special Memory for The tide of saints and scholars who have
years," the last 5 years of his dictatorial ventured forth from the green hills and dales
reign when masses of Jews were exiled to All in Rhode Island of Ireland to other lands has resulted in in-
signsn Siberia slower wantonly executed. all numerable achievements for the cause of
signs unity to a or death to the Jewish Christian civilization both yesterday' and to-
,omn in Soviet Russia through denial EXTENSION OF REMARKS day. No other country of comparable size in
to
to Jews of the ethnic and cultural rights Or the history of the world has done so much for
accorded to other Soviet nationalities, v the cause of Christianity, and It all began
A thriving Jewish cultural life has been 17 ON. JOHN E. I'OGAE with the planting of the seeds of faith by
extinguished through the closing of such St. Patrick himself.
institutions as Yiddish theaters, literary or RHDODE ISLAND The religious nature of St. Patrick's Day
pro and Loft the publication research institutions, the ban- . IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES requires that the first and most important
pfessional the publiof spapeh books. of our recollections is that of the spiritual
are not permitted and newspapers. Jews Thursday, March 14, 1983 heritage which we derive from our Irish an-
ad-
teach maintain r children to rect te not peeach Yiddish or Hebrew to their chidMr. FOGARTY. Mr. Speaker, under here ce ootwl~e true cona cepts ofrtChristianitp,
nor instruct them on Jewish history and cul- leave to extend my remarks in the REC- the Irish came r love and cherish freedom
ture. The study of Hebrew has been out- ORD I include the following speech and liberty and to despise oppression and
lowed, even for religious purposes. No H which I delivered to the Shamrock So- bigotry with such vehemence as to be willing
brew Bible has been published for Jews since te ciety of North Providence, R.I., at Bouf- to sacrifice their lives and fortunes in a per-
rent. Only four rabbinical students are ssz-
rentlp in tzaining throughout hout Soviet Russia fard Council Hall, on March 10, 1963: slatent struggle to achieve and maintain
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