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A ROSH HASHONAH MESSAGE

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By thee. H. Joseph.)

Another year. Just about the only occasion when sonic of us stand still
long enough to think. Sometimes I wonder if the New Year means as much
to the present generation, or let us say the younger generation, as it did to
our grandparents. I am using the term "grandparents" advisedly. I won-
der if it is only my imagination. But it does seem as if we do not take the
holidays so seriously as they used to. Surely the Jew hasn't such a happy
lut in the world that he should forget the significance of the Jewish holy
days, or that he can afford to remain indifferent to the lessons they convey.
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However, tradition, custom, habit, upbringing, environment, some very
deep seated sentiment makes even the most careless pause for a moment.
The Jew isn't a carouser on New Year Eve. Ile doesn't drink to forget the
year just ending and to dull his senses to the year that lies before him. On
the contrary, he tries to remember. Ile is given to introspection and retro-
spection. It is a solemn occasion this New Year day: this hour of remem-
brance. And the Jew, if he so wills to think, has much to think on. He
is still as much a mystery to himself as he is to the world. He fights for
what? Ile lives for what? He dies for what? Do you know? The all-
wise smile as one would at a child when the Jew's mission is suggested.
Well, then, why the Jew?

Is it, then, our mission to find a home in Palestine? Is that the purpose
for the Jew's living? After we are in Palestine, then what? They tell us
we have no mission. What matters then whether we be in the Holy Land
or elsewhere? Are we consecrating our lives to sentiment or to great
truths, to realities? Unless we be a spiritual community having a definite
religious idea and ideal why should we remain? Why hold together? Be-
cause we are more "at home" with each other? Because we are here and
have to stay here in this world because we can't get out? Why the Jew?
He surely wasn't called into being to join the Episcopal church? Or to be
a Socialist? Or a Communist? Or trader? Or even a good doctor or

lawyer?

God certainly had some other plan in mind for the Jew. He surely
hasn't preserved him all through the ages merely to make possible success
in the Diaspora or to return to Palestine and modernize it and live without
social or economic discrimination. Rather confusing. Are we a race or a
religious community, or both? What are we doing to justify all the trouble
we have had to maintain our solidarity, our integrity? I don't know, do
you? If you do I would be glad to hear from you. Some of the greatest
thinkers in world Jewry to whom I have put the same question answer
vaguely; they, too, seem confused. Maybe some of us may turn our thoughts
to the why of the Jew during this holiday period. Maybe it will help us to
be more worth while this coming year.

What shall I wish you? A happy year, of course. But I wonder if what
you consider happiness is what I consider happiness. The whole world is
seeking happiness, says Ralph Waldo Trine. But the whole world is going
away from home to look for it. You can't find it anywhere except inside
yourself. Don't try to find it in the club, in someone's else home, in some
social group; in short, it is really tragically humorous to attempt to seek
for happiness outside yourself. You can temporarily dull the pain of un-
happiness by an aspirin in form of restless activity—but you haven't re-
lieved the cause.

Just one more word and then I have finished with the thoughts of the
Old and the New Year. I want to express my appreciation of the helpful
interest taken in this column by a great many readers throughout the coun-
try. They have been of material assistance in bringing to my attention
many subjects for comment. They have helped me immeasurably by the
letters of friendly and unfriendly criticisms they have sent me. God bless
the letter writers! Certain persons never write letters, but they like to
receive them. Since I write you one long letter each week, isn't it fair that
you should write me at least one letter a year? That would be a good
resolution for the New Year.

By DR. LEO M. FRANKLIN

While the appeal of Rosh Ilashonah as a day of Judg-
ment is essentially to the individual, it should not be with-
out its mandate to the Jewish community. A community,
like an individual, should have a conscience to which to
give account. A social or religious group must occasion-
ally pause for self-analysis and ask itself in how far it is
living up to its own best possibilities.
Thus, Rosh Hashonah should address itself to all
Israel. To Jews as Jews, the Shofar should be a call to
faith and to duty. It should bid all elements in our reli-
gious brotherhood take stock of themselves so that they
make accounting to themselves and to their brother Jews
of the part they are playing both in the solution of the
so-called Jewish problem—whatever that may be—and
in the building up of a more united and hence a stronger
Jewish life the world over.
Jews should ask themselves at this season to what ex-
tent they are guilty of fomenting against their fellow Jews
that same prejudice which they so commonly attribute to
anti-Semite. Indeed they should stand in conscious self-
judgment as to their own loyalty and fidelity to the basic
ideals of Judaism at a time when unity in the household
of Israel is more essential than it ever was before.
And again, the call to self-judgment comes to each
community group in Israel, for instance to us—the Jewry
of Detroit. Are we faithfully and fearlessly facing the
problems that confront us as Jews? Are we, many of
whom have been greatly favored of fortune, bending our
backs as we should, to the burdens of our whole commu-
nity? Or are we shifting our share to the shoulders of the
willing few? Are we as a Jewish community, unneces-
sarily divided into groups and classes, or are we beginning
to develop a community consciousness so that all of us—
Reform and Orthodox, Zionist and non-Zionist—work to-
gether for the furtherance of those ends which ought to
be of concern to every Jew in Detroit?
Are we giving to our philanthropic agencies, not only
the material support that they require or are we also mor-
ally helping them in the measure of our strength, to do
their work of social regeneration as efficiently as possible?
Are we doing what we may in the cause of Jewish educa-
tion, or rare we content to allow not merety our own chil-
dren but all the children of this great community to grow
up in ignorance of the history and the literature of our
faith and our people?
Above all, are we loyal to our temple and our syna-
gogue? Are our houses of worship more than beautiful
architectural piles of steel and stone because we through
our self-concentration are making them vitalizing forces
in our own lives and in the lives of others?
These questions, Rosh Hashonah—as the Day of Judg-
ment—should bring to every Jew. Pray that the majority
here and elsewhere may answer them to their soul's satis-
faction. Then shall the year 5686 dawn as a year of bless-
ing to our people, and all Israel "will be written down for
a good year."

While it is rather late in the day to make corrections, yet I think it is
due to Rabbi Solomon Foster to help remove the misunderstanding that
arose as a result of his discussion with Dr. William E. Rappard, Swiss mem-
ber of the Mandate Commission of the I.eague of Nations, at Williamstown,
Mass. Dr. Rappard spoke on the British Mandate for Palestine and the
Newark rabbi resented his remarks. When it was all over the news was
broadcasted throughout the country that Rabbi Foster had attacked Zionism.
Rabbi Foster assures on the contrary that he defended the Zionist leaders.

I commend Rabbi Foster's zeal in defending the Zionist leaders, yet at
the same time I would ask, is there any truth in the statement made by
Dr. Rappard that some Zionists are "philosophical agnostics and lack re-
ligious loyalties?" I am inclined to believe there are some, and I don't
believe the Zionists would deny it. After all, the Zionists say that it takes
all kinds of Jews to make a nation: Orthodox Jews, Reformed Jews, Jews
with and without Judaism, radicals, liberals, conservatives, etc. So why
shouldn't there be philosophical agnostics among them? As for Dr. Weis_
mann selling "his bases for the Balfour Declaration," that, of course, is
untrue and unkind. But I do believe that Dr. Weizmann's great services
rendered as a chemist to the British Empire during the war made it easier
for him to gain a hearing and to gain concessions for his people, and what
more natural? Surely nothing to criticize on that score.

Personally, aside from a few of those "witty" remarks at the expense
of the Jew that seem to be in so much favor with our foreign visitors, I
imagine the whole business was much a tempest in a tea pot and the Zionist
papers and leaders had no occasion for pouring vials of wrath on the head
of Dr. Foster. I have always discovered (as many of you doubtless have)
that when I mix in a family fight, I always come out third best.

A reader asks ire if I am going to let Ford and the Klan alone this com_
inc year . Why should I? What the average man doesn't know is that you
cannot hide an issue by ignoring it. Once the newspapers and magazines
of this country tried to ignore LaFollette by keeping his name out of their
pages. It was a joke. When Ford tells a lie in his paper he should be ex-
posed. I am glad that Herman Bernstein and Aaron Sapiro sued him for I
libel. Even though he pays a big income tax is no reason why he should
be permitted to villify a man because he happens to be a Jew. The result
of the Bernstein libel suit has been thus far to show Ford in his true colors
a man who seeks to escape responsibility and, to use a slang phrase,
as
to pass the buck." That was splendid. Then, too, Ford has learned that
there is a law in this country greater than Ford's own personal law. That's
another lesson he has needed badly. Of course, like all fanatics, it is diffi-
cult to make much of an impression on such a mind by reason.
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It is unfortunate that well known writers will sell their services to such
a sheet in order to pander to the prejudice of the Independent readers.
There have been a number of such cases. Because it is well understood that
anyone writing on a subject affecting the Jews must write to meet the
prejudiced standard of Ford and his hired men. So why shouldn't I point
these things out? What business has a writer like Tom Masson to add his
name to the slander that is being dessimated against the Jews? And I want
to
would
the Jewish reading public to know that Masson is doing it. I rd.
like
Any
hear what Masson has to say for himself for shoveling mud for Fo
too,
friend of his is at liberty to mail him this statement. There are others,
of equal reputation who lend themselves to such despicable performances.
Why shouldn't all this be brought to public notice? I am not worried as
some of my nervous co-religionists seem to be, that there will be an un-
pleasant reaction or that we are "advertising" the other fellow.

DETROIT COMING TO THE FORE

By MAURICE D. WALDMAN

The past year has been a significant one for Jewish
social service in Detroit. Following upon the completion
of a comprehensive survey by the Bureau of Social Re-
search, a reorganization of work-processes of the United
Jewish Charities was begun last September. In spite of
the ordinary difficulties inherent in such an undertaking,
and some other unlooked for difficulties, sufficient prog-
ress has been made to warrant the prediction that within
the next half decade our community needs will be satis-
fied with a reasonable degree of adequacy.
The United Emergency Campaign demonstrated pretty
clearly that the Jewish people of Detroit on the whole,
like those in other large cities, are prepared to do their
duty when a sincere, intelligent, organized appeal is made.
That campaign brought to light hundreds of men as sub-
stantial contributors who hitherto had hid their light tinder
a bushel. It also brought out a number of earnest, capable
workers whose services in the future are likely to prove
invaluable. Though a few here and there may have been
disturbed because they were called upon to give after they
had for a long time rested peacefully under the assurance
that an annual contribution to the Community Fund would
be all that was required of them, the vast majority met the
situation cheerfully and some of them even eagerly.
Though perhaps the diversified character of the campaign
brought to the surface some differences, dissatisfactions
and preudices that had existed before, on the whole the
campaign served to bring the different elements of the
community somewhat closer together and to that extent
also has facilitated the larger plans which we have been
contemplating for the past year in the direction of ade-
quate buildings to meet the needs of this phenomenally
growing community. These plans received a particularly
strong impetus on June 28 at the significant conference
called by David A. Brown, who in spite of the heavy de-
mand made on his time and energy for international relief,
is eager to help promote our local philanthropies and is
prepared to give of his boundless energy to the welfare of

As for the Klan, why shouldn't we hit it on the head whenever it shows
itself engaged in undesirable acts? But this I will say, that the Klan is
simply resting on past laurels, and there won't he so much newspaper space
given to that organization. It only gets on the front page when it puts
over some dramatic achievement. But even with that sort of thing it has
hard work to keep in the newspapers. So the reader who wants to know
what I intend to do the corning year can go to bed and sleep comfortably.
rt h Jew. But I propose to keep
I shall never do anything t a
klicy I
on going after our enemies with a club. Those that don't li e my po
needn't read what I say. But so long as I am saying it I am going to say I

it my way.

Now that everyone has had plenty of opportunity to pry into his neigh-
bor's income, the fact remains that the Jews of the country are not nearly
such • money menace as their Christian neighbors. The names on every-
body's tongue are Rockefeller, Ford, Mellon. The only thing of value that
has been disclosed by this "Peeping Tom" business is that the man whose
income is derived from wages or salary is taxed to the hilt, while the man
whose income is derived from investments pays much less in comparison.

The law as it stands is inequitable.

DISCOVER KU KLUX
KLAN IN GERMANY

Branch There More Fanatic Than in
U. S. Abandon the Bible.

BERLIN.—(J. T. A.)—Further de-
tails with regard to the discovery of
the German edition of the Ku Klux
Klan were disclosed by the police au-
thorities.
The Knights of the Fiery Cross had
a membership of 900, who were main-
ly persons of good standing. The
German klansmen met under the sign
of a skull and sword, abandoning the
American K. K. K. insignia of the
Bible and the cross as the Bible and
the cross are not sufficiently Aryan.
being of Jewish origin. The chiefs
of the German klan were called by
names from the Nordic mythologY,
such as Aejard, Valhalla and Wodin.
The oath of allegiance pledged the
`amen to fight "for the extinction

of the Jews, the Roman Catholics, the
Frenchmen, the Poles, the yellow races
and the Negroes." Treachery to the
order would be punishable with me-
daeival brutalities, such as breaking
the hones and gouging out the eyes
of the offenders. It is probable that
the klan me mbership included persons
who had committed political murders.
The names of the two Americans
extraction who were ar-
of German
rested as the founders of the klan
are Rev. Otto Strohsheim, 50 years
old, and his son, Gotthard Strohsheim,
30, of Chicago. The third, who is
being sought by the police, is Donald
B. Gray, 21 years old, a student from

Illinois.

The liar's punishment is not In the
least that he is not believed. but that
he cannot believe anyone else.

Charity is like pruriency: it feeds

on the evil it pretends to abhor.—

G. B. S.

his own city.
Though we expect the next few years to stand out con-
spicuously as a constructive period in the history of Jew-
ish communal effort and will overshadow the modest efforts
of the first year of reorganization, I believe the commu-
nity has reason to be fairly well satisfied with what has
been accomplished in the year 5685. Apart from the com-
fortable feeling we experience in having relieved the offi-
cers of the United Hebrew Schools from worry over current
incom e for a year or two . in increasing the revolving fund
of the Hebrew Free Loan Association so as to enable that
organization to extend its services to self - respecting per-
• the Y W H A. to be free once and for all from the
annual worry and inconvenience of finding a new place for
the summer vacations of its girls and the United Jewish
Charities, through the sympathetic liberality of the Com-
munity Fund, enabling it to carry on its routine work more
effectively, it would not be an exaggeration to say that a
new spirit has shown itself in the life of the community.
New standards of giving have been established, reflected
especially in the munificent gift of $75,000 for a new clinic
and health center in the place of the North End Community
Clinic by Mrs. Leopold Wineman in memory of her late hus-
band, and in the gift of a tract of land of 50 acres by Mr.
and Mrs. Edwin M. Rosenthal as a new site for the Fresh

Air Camp.
Last year also was significant in disclosing new leader-
ship in communal affairs, for example, in the person of
Henry Wineman, whose wise and enthusiastic administra-
tion furnished added strength to the already substantial
and experienced leadership of the Butzels, Krolik, Fried-
man, Selling and their active associates.
The task ahead of us is threefold. First, to enlist as
many more Jewish contributors to the Community Fund as
possible. There are hundreds of comfortably situated peo-
ple who have not as yet been reached by the Community
Fund. Second, to establish a real federation to which all
Jewish organizations dependent upon philanthropic sup-
port will belong. Third, to raise sufficient funds to meet
our local building quiremen and other Jewish activities,
not covered or which do not
and foreign,
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local
a which
re are
ts
come within the province of the Community Fund.

PAGE FIVE

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ANNOUNCEMENT!

KING WAH LO CAFE

Formerly Operating Hotel Cadillac.

Established 1906.

PHONE CADILLAC 5074

American and Chinese Organization.

118 MICHIGAN AVE.

To Our Patrons:—
As a Fall announcement the management of the King Wah
Lo Cafe wishes to inform you that every effort will be made by
them to make the coming season the best ever.
Special separate dining rooms for private card parties, wed-
ding dinners or banquets without extra charge. Reservations to
accommodate from 15 to 300.
Two dance floors. Music furnished by the King Wah Lo Or-
chestra. Daily from 12 to 2, 6 to 8 and 9:30 to 1, including Sunday.

BUSINESS MEN'S LUNCHEON

Served from 11 to 2

60 c

EVENING DINNER
Served from 5 to 8

$1.00

SPECIAL SUNDAY DINNER, FROM 12 TO 5, $1.25.

NO COVER CHARGE AT ANY TIME

Respectfully Yours,

THE KING WAH LO CAFE COMPANY

J. L. YOUNG, Manager.

GIVING IS LIVING

"For giving is living." the angel said
"Go, feed to the hungry sweet char
ity's bread."
"And must I keep giving again and
again?"
My selfish and querulous answer ran.
"Oh, no;" said the angel, piercing me
through,
"Just give till the Master stops giving
to you."

What is really important in man is
the part of him that we do not yet
understand.

Pure, Wholesome Milk

. Every Precaution Taken.
You Can Be Assured of Cleanliness and Quality.

"FROM FARMER TO CONSUMER^

People's Creamery Co.

Phone ARLINGTON 1000
9025 CARDONI AVE.
Morris I. Goldfeder, M.

