TI1E DETROIT JEWISH

CHRONICLE and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE

The Growing Good Will Movement

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By DR. LEO M
,standing among Protestants, Chris- slices of every petty ignoramus Outsized that good will will be
I brought about not by any mall
Rabbi of Temple Beth El, Detroit
of good ! tians and Jews," the notice that who seeks to malign us?
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F u r my own lout I do not be- yielding to the convictions that are
t
able
together
in
a
spiri
mutual 'In Sunday, April 29, 1934, there ,
In these days when misunder- se
lieve that this is the way to meet sacred to his soul but by honestly
their
fellowship to discuss the
standings between group and
s to be celebrated in every part , our problem. Of course I do not translating those convictions into
probles,
m are all steps in the di- i i
group and sect and sect is wide- reeon of better understanding , of the land what is to be known as
f i
believe in the "turn the other the terms of daily living. Not uni-
spread, vi n despite ;t II our pro-
and of mutual respect and sym- "Brotherhood Day" on which oc-
cheek" philosophy. But I believe fortuity of practice and belief but
fessions of brotherhood, prejudice
casion
the
message
of
good
will
is
pathy.
and partisanship are to be found
to be preached from thousands of essentially that the movement unity of spirit is what we need.
The Recent Tour
One of the best things that Lud-
practically wherever one turns,
pulpits of every denominational toward good will will be immeasur-
Most noteworthy was the recent
when ever sober-minded men who
strengthened and the ideals wig Lewisohn ever said was this:
iit.
are not given to impulsive judg- tour covcrine many cities and , str‘ivin.
y
abl
of
brotherly
minded
men
and
"The
greatest debt that the Jew
en
aking
movemt
taking
ever
h this we
ment express the firm belief that states that was made under the
m
ght to a speed- owes to the world is to be a Jew."
not be dis- women will be brought
the vicious influence of the Hit- auspices of the Commission of I new impetusmust
ier
realization
if
Jew
and
Chris-
Similarly
it might be said that the
signs
that
in
some
by
leristic philosophy is manifesting Good Will between Jews and I couraged
doctrine supreme obligation which the
prejudice has been newly liar not only preach the
itself in this country, it is hearten- Christians by a Catholic priest, a !quarters
thir
but
if
Christian
owes to humanity is to
awakened and that anti-Semitism 01 good will to each other
• lives by the decency of be a Christian. When Jews live ac-
ing to find evidences of the steady P ro testant minister and a rabbi. i is actually rampant among small be their
direct result of '
advance of a better spirit among
:
a i
their relationship in business in cording to the ideals of their sages
the line achievement to be credited I gaups in America.
important religious groups.
and in the church they and their prophets and Chrstians
Our Answer to Bigots
as
Y
, ac
One cannot be entirely blind to to that significant undertaking w
xemplify
the fact that what they like a truly Christ-like life the (lay
What shall be our answer to the . 5iat
of better understanding will he
the fact that even among certain the introduction into the high •
schools of many of the great cities, efforts made by these bigots to de- . preach they mean to practice.
III
ood
Above all it needs to be em- here. May that (lay come speedily.
so-called liberals the term liroth-
Detroit, of a good will stroy the friendship and the g
'
including
erhood, has been a rather empty
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I pi "grain in which the students will that despite everything is deep 1
phrase, pleasantly spoken but witl
were addressed by representatives rooted in the hearts of American
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little sincerity back of it. One is
men and women? Shall we answer „,
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frequently shocked by the lack 0 f of the three faiths.
it by emphasizing over and over a
of what constitute
'she Detroit program, In which again the false teachings of re- 1
underslandinK
Our Congratulations to
the true spirit of fraternity on the it was the privilege 'of the writer ligious leaders in the past? Cer-
part of many so-called leaders in
"THE ROMANCE OF A PEOPLE"
to participate, wa s greeted with tainly not. Shall we lift our voices
the religious, the educational and
in a song of hate against those
the utmost enthusiasm and we feel
who infected with the virus of an
sine that the message of good will
anti-Semitic philosophy would I
preached directly to the students
compass our undoing? Shall we
of the schools was carried by them
go about as alas too many of our E
into many thousands of homes
brethren have been doing with a 5
where previously denominational
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chip on our shoulder looking for
barriers had been built so high as
insult and diScrimination? Shall 1
to be almost insurmountable. And
we
magnify
into
mountain
propor-
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Conference of Jews and Chris-
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to grant that what has here been

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DR. LEO M. FRANKLIN

the political life of our nation.
Even the Congressional Record is
nut entirely free from allusions to
race and religious hatreds and
from rather definite implications
of prejudice and bigotry. More-
over, evidence at hand is only too
convincing that in this country
there is considerable organized ef-
fort to undermine the structure of
good W ill between groups and
classes that throunh the PrOCeSS • S
if education has been built up
through scores of years.
We Should Be Open•Eyed to Exist-
ing Conditions
One need not be the pessimist

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stated is factually true, but it is
desirable that in crucial times such h

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as these in which we are living

one should be open eyed to exist- ,
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ing conditions.
All the more significant is it.
therefore, that in opposition to
this un-American as well as this'
unslewish and un-Christian spirit 11,
of narrowness and bigotry there is
to be traced in our American life
a definite and widespread move-1
ment making for better under-1
standing.
This movement manifests itself 1 5
in many ways and in numerous
places. One traces it in the edi- E
tonal columns of a large lout of
both the secular and the religious
press. It nuty he found in the a
heroic utterances of statesmen
and scholars who speak to vast
audiences through the medium of
books and platform speeches and
radio addresses. One cannot step
into any one of dozesn of churches
in any of our great cities today 5-
and listen to the sermons that are •
preached from the pulpits of
almost all denominations without
realizing that an honest attempt is
being made by the forward look
ing preacher to establish the senti-
ments of brotherhood between
man and man more firmly than
ever before. In such pulpits the 5
creeds and the customs that divide
sect from sect are being less
stressed than they were and a new
enthpasis is being laid upon those
moral precepts and those spirited a
ideals which are common to all re-
ligion. The wider exchange Of la •
pits between preachers of differ-
ent faiths. the establishment of in-
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terdenominational services
Thanksgiving Day and other m
i-
portant occasions, the gathering 5
together into clubs and associa-
tions like the Detroit Wranglers
Club, where men of all faiths as-

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