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$ Texas Jewish Post #
6AF—St-ven Ar:: FeaCwich
WI S—Worldwide News Service f
UNS—United Nations Service
hedicated to Truth, Liberty and Justice Member
American Aaaoilation English-Jewlsi Nowsrapeis
THE SOUTHWEST’S LEADING FNGLISH—JEWISH WEEKLY NEWSPAPER Texas Pret. Aesoriw-oi.
IN OUR THIRTEENTH YEAR
VOLUME XIII NO. 25
THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 195S 12 Pages — 15 Cents Per Copy
Dr. Eisendrath Named
“Clergyman” Of Year
WASHINGTON, (JTA) - Rabbi
Maurice N. Eisendrath, president
of the Union of American He-
brew Congregations, has been
named the “Clergyman of the
Year” by the Religious Heritage
of America, an interfaith gro'up
(of Jews, Protestants and Catho-
lics organized to remind Ameri-
cans of the religious background
of American history. Rabbi Eisen-
drath was chosen by a committee
of 500 religifous leaders and reli-
gious writers.
jess jawin
SCOOP FROM BROOKLYN
MAURICE EISENDRATH
MARILYN GAIL ROBINSON, left, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Morris Robinson and Mark Winer, right, son of Dr. and Mrs.
Harold: Winer are shown receiving the Teen Citizen Awards from
Mr. Maurice Giller, Chairman of the Julius Schepps Community
Center’s Youth Committee. This award based on leadership, citizen-
ship, character, sportsmanship, and cooperation is given annually,
by the Center to the outstanding Jewish youth in Dallas. Names
(of winners will be placed /on a plaque at the Center along with
past and future winners.
The Julius Schepps Community Center is sponsored by The Jew-
i ish Welfare Federation, A Community Chest Agency.
Ben B’riths Off To Convention
A large Texas delegation will
attend the 84th Annual Conven-
tion of B’nai B’rith, District
Grand Lodge No. 7 in Hot
Springs, Arkansas., June 20-23,
1959 it was announced by RICH-
ARD F. FOX, Texas State As-
sociation President who will head
the Texas State Delegation. Ba-
sil O’ Conner, head of the Na-
tional Foundation, will be the
featured speaker.
The following Lodge Presidents
of Texas will serve as leaders
of their own city delegations:
ISRAEL ALTMAN, Lodge No.
802, Amarillo, MARK E. SIL-
These yo jngsters in the bus above are among |t!he nearly 100,000
children, teemage/rs and older adults who will enjoy summer days
at m,ore that 300 country and day camps conducted by Jewish
Community Centers and YM-YWHA affiliated with JWB, the Na-
tional Jewish Welfare Board, and by three of JWB’s regional sec-
tions. While camping is generally considered a vacation for kids,
these community agencies have developed special programs which
give /older folks and family groups the benefit of Center activi-
ties in an out-of-doors atmosphere. For teeners, Centers have stepped-
up the kind of work camps, career-planning institutes, pioneering
projects and counselor-in-training programs which answer their
need for the kind of recreation which adds a plus value to having
fun.
VERSTONE, Hill City Lodge No.
241, Austin, JOE GELBER,
Goose Creek Lodge No. 1383,
Baytown, JOE PERL, Dodge No.
4 3 5, Beaumont, WILLIAM
HOLTZMAN, Marc Baumoel
Lodge No. 1260, Brownsville, EU-
GENE GOLDGAR, Henry Cohen
Lodge No. 790, Corpus, Christi,
HERBERT SILVERBERG, Dodge
No. 275, Corsicana, MORRIS
SHWIFF, Lodge No. 197, MAR-
VIN SHWIFF, George A. Levy
Dodge No. 1811, DAN GORMAN,
White Rock Lodge No. 2109,
Dallas; DAVE SAKS, Reuben
Weinstein Lodge No. 509, El
Paso, BEN COPLIN* L. F. Shan-
blum Lodge No. 519, Fort Worth,
NELSON DROSNES, Zacharias
Prankel Lodge No. 242, Galveston,
CY BROWN, M. N. Dannenbaum
Lodge No. 1456, Gtonzales, NOR-
RIS GOODFRIEND. Bellaire
Lodge No. 1958, WILLIAM
SPITZ, Herzl Lodge No. 608, DR.
SOL L. DITTMAN. Downtown
Lodge No. 2113, M. M. HAMBUR-
GER. Lodge No. 434. ISRAEL
WUNTCH. Memorial Lodp’e No.
1790, ROBERT SHAPIRO. San
Jacinto Lodge No. 2054, LOUIS
C A PLAN. Brotherhood Lodge No.
2222. Houston, Texas; SAM
GOLDMAN, East Texas Lodra
No. 1324. Kilgore. PHILLIP
FREED, Albert Granoff Lodge
No. 444, Laredo, JERRY JA-
RETT, Lodge No. 1416, Lubbock,
AL LEVINE. Pasadena Area
Lodge No. 2172, Pasadena. JACK ',
GRAUER, Reuben Lodge No. 257.
Marshall, LEON DANZIGER, Fort
Bend Lodge No. 1501. Rosen-
berg, MANNY GOLDBERG, Lodge
No. 1595. San Angelo, AARON
RABITCHEV, Alamo City Lodge
No. 2037, MOSES M. RUDY,
Lodge No. 211 ; ARTHUR GOCH-
MAN, Brandeis Lodge No. 2176.
San Antonio: DONALD BRANDT,
Jake Exstein Lodge No. 1350,
Sherman, PHILIP HURWITZ, Ed-
ward Lasker Lodge No. 347,
Tyler, SIMON MIRON,, Lodge No.
2173. Texas City, DR. HAROLD
KLEIMAN, Max Brettin Lodge
No. 212, Victoria, JACK SCHAE-
VITZ. Irving Ginsburg Lodge No.
198, Waco. DAVID SELIGMAN,
Shearith Yisrael Lodge Nb. 835,
Wharton. BEN BROOKNER, Noah,
Lodge No, 784, Wichita Falls.
Dr. Samuel Greif, a subscriber from Brooklyn, and the father
of Dr. Lawrence Greif of Fort Worth, sends us the latent scoop
from Brooklyn.
Sam Greif was one of the pioneer dentists in that section of Long
Island’s Brooklyn called “East New York.”
The district borders upon Brownsville and has given to the world
the famous and infamous. Mickey Marcus, was a young lawyer
and boy scout leader years ago and in his later life he used his
West Point training to help Israel through her hard times and gave
his life on her behalf. And on the other side of the coin there were
the Bugsy Siegels and his entourage, who, too, wound up dead in
one way or another. But certainly not fighting for freedom or in
behalf of his fellowman.
Dr. Greif is a man of education.
How we remember him coming down from the “El” station with
the New York Times tucked under his arm, his closely cropped
mustache> biting the wind, and his brisk, hurried walk. He was
going someplace! ^
And where did he go?
It was a few decades later that we learned from his son, Larry,
that, after Sam Greif treated all the neglected teeth, he retreated
to his basement where he had a small hand press. He used to set
his own type by hand and print treatises on various subjects. And,
to be sure, some of his letters even wlon their way into the columns
of that forever and closely clutched New York Times. And this is
Something one could be proud of.
Well recently we received a letter from Sam Greif which said,
“I want to pass along a “scc-op” to you that was never before pub-
lished.. The enclosed photostats of correspondence, particularly- the
latter from the late New York State Attorney General Albert
Ottinger, should be of interest to your readers. It is now part of
the FDR Library in Hyde Park, N.Y. I have chosen you and your
paper because I believe in the great minds behind ‘little’ newspapers.
The Emporia Gazette had its William Allen White and the Carolina
Israelite its Harry Golden; so too has the Texas Jewish Post its
Jimmy Wisch. Your recent Israelite travelogue was a masterpiece*”
And what of the scoop?
Dr. Greif discovered that Franklin Delano Roosewelt defeated
Albert Ottinger,, the Republican candidate for Governor of New
York in 1928 by only 25,000 votes. Since the Tammany tabulators
gave Roosevelt a New York City plurality of 400,000 votes Dr.
Greif opines, “Here is something for future historians or biogra-
phers of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Someday they might ask thejmselves,
‘What man or what event was most responsible for the election of
Franklin D. Roosevelt as President of the United States’.
“They will find the answer in the failure of Albert Ottinger
and his party to contest the Gubernatrial results in 1928, when
Tammany tabulators countered an up-state Republican plurality
by a like number of 400,000 votes.”
A letter photostat is also presented as evidence from Mr. Ottin-
ger who concedes that a recount should have been taken because
only four weeks before the election, “the Board of Elections deter-
mined to eliminate voting machines in Richmond and Queens. About
four days before election, they suddenly decided to eliminate all
voting machines in the Borough of the Bronx, so that in three
boroughs paper ballots, and the uncertain count incidental to the
length of time necessary to a proper tally, practically determined
the result” which Ottinger says he accepted, “philosophically” but
also thought “served a purpose” to keep citizens on their guard on
insuring proper conduct during elections.
Dr. Greif’s correspondence with Albert Ottinger has been made
an official part of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library at Hyde Park.
Now, concerning, the part this recount might have played in
History had it been done, this writer can not do.
Conjecture says Dr. W. Hammond, head of TCU’s Department of
History and a former mayor of Fort Worth, is not for historians.
And since* we’re still struggling throkgh a last chapter of our
Master’s, we will abide by Dr. Hammond’s sage advice.
But to Samuel Grief we extend our thanks.
Ahd to Franklin Roosevelt and Albert Ottinger we say, “Alva
Sholom.”
Rest in Peace.
"UJA Seeks $40,000,000 In Cash by June 20th
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