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JESSE F. HIRSCHMAN ...

Meticulous, Especially About the Truth

EDITOR'S NOTE: The foliating is one of a series of biographical
sketch. of outstanding loss/ lealsh leaders nitith sill be Pab•
lished meekly In The Iletroit Jewish Chronicle.

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NCE UPON A TIME—in the
era before the tail had be-
gun to wag the dog; when
children did not known more than
their parents; pre-dating the age
in which it became fashionable
for the younger iconoclasts to
discover feet of clay upon all the
idols of another day—there lived
a little boy .. .
Now, during this utterly be-
nighted period in our history one
of the fetishes of the time was
. . PENMANSHIP. Think of
that! So much so that the Pro-
fessor of Penmanship in the city
of Detroit was a very important
man. Indeed! Professor Lyons
used to travel from school to

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Julian Krolik found himself work-
ing under Jesse Hirschman. And
hated it. Because Jesse made him
dust the boxes.
At 21 Hirschman quit his job,
entered the U. of M. After a
year of Lit, he switched to Engi-
neering; earned his degree by
traveling through the country
during vacations, selling peanut
vending machines, celluloid cam-
paign buttons; selling enough of
'em to finance the nine months of
school without the necessity of
having to do chores at Ann Ar-
bor after classes.
Immediately upon graduation
he entered the office of Albert
Kahn: was a partner in the firm

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school and look, critically, over his
left shoulder, through lowered and
appraising eyelids, at specimens
of the handwriting of all the lit-
tle boys and girls. And who
more nearly achieved the perfect
Spencerian, he—or she—was fav-
ored of the Gods and bound to
rise to high places. (This was
before the hour of the Silent
Corona).
And one day the great profes-
sor of penmanship came to the
old Washington School, and her-
r-rumphed a "good morning" to
all the little boys and girls in the
classroom where our little boy
was a student. And admired,
all and several, their handwrit-
ings. And spoke, solemnly, thus:
"Now I want every child in
this room to promise me that he
—and she—will always remember
to write the true Spencerian I
Raise your hands."
And all the little boys and girls
raised their hands. All—except
ONE . .. And that was our little
boy. He wouldn't promise.
The great professor was hurt.
The schoolteacher was humiliated.
And all the little boys and girls
were shamed to think that in
their midst was one who would
not promise to remember to al-
ways write the true Sponcerian!
And the principal remonstrated
with him. And still he wouldn't
promise . . , So, a note was dis-

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stubborn, incorrigible."
"But our little boy, in front of
his parents, and the teacher, and
the principal, spoke up and said:
"How can I promise to always re-
member? Suppose, sometime, in
the years to come, I forget! Then
my promise of today will be an
untruth! I will not promise."
And the principal looked at the
teacher. And the teacher looked
at the little boy's mother. And
they all looked at him.
"My dear Mrs. Hirschman,"
said the principal, I think Jesse
is right. I would be proud to
have a son like that myself."
And so, on Columbus Day, 1892
—in the big celebration marking
the four hundredth anniversary of
the discovery of America—Jesse
Hirschman marched at the head of
the parade of all the students of
the old Washington School.
• • •
It is not often, in these days.
when so much of what we do, and
say—and even think—is moti-
vated; with • "slant"—as the
journalese has it—that it is pos-
sible to pick • parable like the one
above right out of historic and
authenticated fact. By the same
'token it isn't often that you find
I a character like Jesse Hirschman.

Historic

Architect, and for many years
president, of the North End
Clinic, Jesse F. Hirschman WI%
born, in Republic, Mich., son of
the company doctor of one of the
huge iron mines that dotted the
l'pper Peninsula in the '80's.
When he was six the family moved
to Detroit. Here he attended
grammar school, went to—but did
not graduate from—the old Cen-
tral High School, then tempor-
arily located in the Biddle House
—where the Krolik Bldg. now
stands. He quit to go to work
for A. Krolik & Co.; as city males-
man called on the Syrian merch-
ants along Atwater and Wood-
bridge. The Nadars and the
Kouris—and all that picturesque
colony—soon learned to take
!Jesse's word for gospel.
1 It was during this wholesale

THE ORIGIN OF THE ARYAN MYTH

(CONCLUDED from EDITORIAL PACE)

must be able to tell what the
words really men. He must be
able to use the words "race" and
"Aryan" intelligently, instead of
being blinded by passion and
prejudice. Often words merely
cover up ignorance. When you be-
gin to talk about race cooly and
dispassionately, you are forced
very noon to admit that there
is very much about the subject
which we do not know and can
never know. After explaining the
facts so far as we know them, it
is much easier to explain also the
real reason for race hatred in the
world today; the attempt to divert
the flaming indignation of starved
and exploited peoples throughout
the world away from those who
are responsible, by victimizing
those who are innocent.

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With so much loose talk cur-
rent about Aryans as a race
(when, as we have seen, there
really is no such race), it is no
wonder that there is also much
foolish talk about "Aryan super-
iority." This highly unscientific
phrase, whatever it may mean,
used to justify political actions
of the greatest cruelty. The idea
which it represents is entirely
false, of course. The myth of
"Aryan superiority" has had a
curious history. Most often the
phrase "Aryan superiority" is
used as if it meant the superiority
of the Northern European peo-
ples—the Germanic group alone—
not of all peoples speaking an
Indo-European language._
Strangely enough,., it was a
Frenchman who first advanced the
theory of Aryan (and Germanic)
superiority, using the phrase in
its narrower sense. The Comte
de Gobineau published a book in
1854 called Essai sur I'Inegalite
des Races Hum•ines (Essary Con-
cerning the Inequality of the
Human Races), dedicated by the
way, to King George, the Fifth,
of Hanover, Germany. In it he
claimed that the races of white
men were naturally higher than
all others, and among this chosen
group the "Nordic Aryans" were
supreme. In the north, he said,
the virtues of masculine activity
predominated; in the south they
were "lost in an excessively femi-
nine element." Gobineau placed
the black races at the bottom of
the human scale, next the yellow,
and on the top the white. He
listed 10 chief civilizations of the
past, and tried to prove that they
were all "Aryan" but one, the
Assyrian, which (he claimed) owed
its rebirth to the Aryan Per-
sians. Yet in his list he omitted
the Judaic and Arabic civiliza-
tions! When he came to describe
the "Aryan" Germanic people his
admiration knew no bounds. He
even went so far as to argue that
the Frankish (Germanic) element
in Northern France made it su-
perior to other French dialects.
Here is a typical quotation:
-me Aryan Is, therefore, superior to

when he retired several years ago .
It was during the years with Kahn
that he took a prominent part in
several of the biggest engineering
jobs of the new century, among
them the erection of the General
Motors Bldg., and the construc- other men, chiefly In the measure of
tion of much of what the indus- his Intelligence and energy; and It is
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was Jesse Hirschman who recom-
tante Arran mina's. before
mended the removal of the Pont- 117 :S ".!. 1g ." orilin'h
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chartrain Hotel to make way for In looks, and a " arlike
In .1,101 so he
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I ppeared Ina admiring nose
the National Bank Bldg.
In Persia, RIO In Homeric
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After Jess Hirschman left the stood tit. on a /tort of pesleotal,
Kahn office he assumed the port- ,
tt (!e h:"„ r:41:1 '
the
AT; I ■ n t Ix% bark-
folio—without remuneration—of tore of great poser. -
The
flowery
language
of Gobin-
supervisor of construction of
eau, and his completely false doe-
community buildings. Among ' trines, were all too influential
them—North End Clinic, the Com- I especially in Germany. The Essai
munity Center, the Fresh Air was reprinted in 1884. Its doc-
Camp, Council Camp, and Frank- I trines were received with enthus-
lin Hills Country Club. As presi- iasm in many quarters. They are
dent of the North End Clinic partly responsible for such chau-
Hirschman's greatest embarrass- vinistic books as Problems des 19
ments were when someone dis- 1.1ahrhundorts (Problems of the
covered some of his surreptitious 19th Century) by Houston Stew-
benefactions. Over 200—and . art Chamberlain, an Englishman
only those connected actively with who became a German citizen more
the Clinic, were invited—attended fanatic than the Nazi natives.
the dinner given Hirschman upon His book justified Germany's
his retirement from the presi- ' claims to a world empire on the
dency.
basis of racial superiority. Gobin-
Today
eau's doctrines have also contri-
On the board of directors of the buted indirectly to the fantastic
United Jewish Charities; one of and incredible claims of National-
jhe governors of the Jewish Wel- Socialist writers on the basis of
- fare Federation;
member of the non-existent "Aryan purity."
Another Frenchman, Vacher de
board of directors of the Detroit
Community Fund; chairman of Lapouge, contributed to the same
the steering committee of the general result by his extravagant
North End Clinic—Jesse Hirsch. statement such as this:
11 14- has Infiesible sill-paver. the A ,
man's activities in behalf of his tan
protes thai be 1.1 created to he
fellows are still many. A shrewd molder ... This glIal its I. stronglt con-
solicitor for philanthropies, Com- '
munity Fund drive and Allied 1.1.1 sennor of Ii,. Mond long-
hended. the slate nu, 0.4 %nth In
Jewish Campaigns occupy much min-t
of modem . . "Irrom L'Arien,
of his time.
..on Role social, 1.•.1
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In the insurance business, with
These most unscientific quota-
offices in the Penobscot Bldg., Mr.
Hirschman has received the di- tions were all written before 1933.
ploma of a Chartered Life Under- Since that time, false doctrines
writer.
about race, race purity and race
An excellent golfer, keen on superiority have been used as n
contract; his great love is travel . pretext for the greatest cruelty.
An amateur—in the rarer sense— What is written and said today by
of photography. Jesse Hirsch- the leaders and teachers of Na-
man's movie camera has recorded tional-Socialism concerning Ary-
the interesting and the exciting on ans and non-Aryans is not only
the sands of the Sahara Desert. quite unscientific but also quite
the pampas of South America; mad. It would be unworthy even
along famous European boul e- to refute such statements in a
yards and byways. He writes serious discussion, but a few in-
charmingly; his book, "Our Tramp stances will serve to convict them-
Abroad," is • colorful account, re- selves of madness.
Herman Gauch, in Neue Growl.
plete with incident, of M editer-
ranean excursions and continental loges der Rassenforschung, raises
the question:
jaunts.
non-Nordies are more
si•
Meticulous in dress, manner. lint In mon.. nod ap. than t• No,
speech. A bachelor: but no mi-
sogynist. Jesse Hirschman is The answer I. Ii,),. It ha. not he.
Ihst non-Nordic.cannot mare
scholarly; but no sophisticate. muted
nllh
Quick at repartee—poised under
According to the name apostle
criticism—confused by praise. Ile of "new" race theories.
has a tall forehead, and when he
.. the Nordic nee alone ran emit
...Inds of on. rolibled eleorneas where**
laughs, all of his face joins in— among
non-NonlIe men and neve the
and the merry little wrinkles promtnelaMs in impocr, the indltkinal
eunfousi and like 1be
chase themselves from his eye- woo& •ore mon notmais.
ouch as bork-
aoloes ntste
brows clean up to the roots of is Ine.
rifle.
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slightly graying thatch.
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It isn't difficult to write about
Such incredible aberrations
Jesse Hirschman. The hard part would be laughable if they were
Is leaving out the things that not fraught with such tragic im-
would make no much more of a plications.
story.
Some day, when the causes of
Remember that opening bit race hatred have been removed,
about the little boy who would't the pogroms and persecutions of
lief That was Jesse Hirschman, contemporary history will seem
40 years ago. And, though the like a mad nightmare. When no

tion. None will be a foil for the
others; none will have to
bear the brunt of mistakes made
by others. Instead all will con-
tribute from their several tal-
ents and endowments to the gen-
eral enrichment and delight of
mankind. Today, while we are
still far away from this ideal
state, it is nevertheless important
to keep it constantly in mind as
the goal towards which we' must
work. And one of the most im-
portant immediate tasks is to en-
counter hatred and lies with the
scientific truth concerning the
false claims of any "race," wheth-
er Aryan or other, to dominate
over its fellows or to persecute
them on the grounds of a mythi-
cal, non-existent superiority.
tc,,eyrWit, 14 A I, 0. IOU/

STOWE TO REVIEW
EUROPEAN CRISIS

(CONCLUDED FROM PACE I)

bureau of the Herald-Tribune. Ile
has lived on the continent ever
since, returning to America only
for occasional visits. He was
president of the Anglo-American
Press Association of Paris.
Ile has covered practically every
big European story in the past
nine years, and covered approxi-
mately 10 new governments in
France, the Kellogg-Briand Peace
Pact, the Lindbergh flight, the
London Economic Conference of
1933, the Reichstag fire trial of
the same year, the Spanish re-
bellions, the Saar Plebiscite of
January, 1935, and the halo-
Ethiopian crisis.
During 1933 Mr. Stowe spent ■
great deal of time in Germany,
covering not only the Reichstag
fire trial, but the Disarmament
Conference in Berlin and Ger-
many's departure from the League
of Nations; he traveled through-
out the country studying condi-
tions under the Hitler regime and
making detailed inquiries into the
original unabridged editions of

Franz Werfell Calls
Palestine Workers
"Soldiers of Bible"

Strictly Confidential

(CONCLUDED

from EDITORIAL PACE)

the University its chair is Romance
languages and literature ... That
(CONCLUDED from EDITORIAL PACE/ chair was established two years
ago by the Italian Government,
that the people who gave the which has been paying the salary
Bible to the world have their of Professor Heinz Pflaum
future in Palestine. Revealing PERSONALIA
that he had written a number of
Justice Louis D. Brandeis gives
articles on this point and that half his salary to the American
he had done some work for the Economic Committee for Palestine
Keren Hayesod, the great liter-
Altheugh he doesn't attend the
ary genius called those who work Committee's meetings he keeps in
for Palestine "soldiers of the such close touch with its work that
Bible". Werfel also said that he members who are remiss in atten-
was very familiar with the work dance or achievement are indirect-
of Bialik, Aach, Peretz, Ansky ly advised of his displeasure .. .
and other Jewish writers. "The Ellen Lehman, niece of Governor
greltest production on the world Lehman, is going places with Dick
stage is the life and work of the Nesbit ... Among the notables on
Jews in Palestine," he asserted.
Now York relief rolls is Mrs.
"My latest work, 'The Road of the
Emma Swift Hammerstein, widow
Promise,' was inspired by the of the great Oscar Hammerstein...
achievements of the Jews in Pal- Edna Ferber is one of the few lit-
estine."
erary lights who neither smokes
Although ho declined to discuss nor drinks ... Financing a get-
politics, Werfel took occasion to rich-quick invention of one of his
point out that there was no
has cost cartoonist Rube
danger of Austria going Nazi be- friends
Goldberg a young fortune ... He's
cause the Austrians were an in- consideriog a financial come-back
dependent people who would via a comedy act on the radio
never tolerate German domina-
of New York ,
tion. For this reason and also be- Mayor LaGuardia
some votes when he
cause the present government probably lost
a letter to the Beth David
there was led by men of culture sent
Hospital's annual banquet saying
there was little chance of Austri- "I love the Beth David Hospital"—
an Jewry suffering the fate of
wrote on the stationary of
German Jewry, he said. Werfel and
Mount Sinai Hospital where he's
also took occasion to emphasize recovering from an attack of arth-
that he had been living in Vienna
for many years and that he has ritis ...
not been in Germany since 1932. Prof. Einstein Hails Election of
Nevertheless his books are
Dr. Bergmann
banned in Naziland and he has
PRINCETON, N. J. (WNS-Pal-
been expelled from the German
literary societies. Ile will remain cor Agency) — In an exclusive
in this country only a short time statement to the Palcor Agency
but will not leave until after the Prof. Albert Einstein, who has
premiere of "The Road of Prom- closely watched the progress of the
Hebrew University in Jerusalem,
ise" on Dec. 23.
hailed the eledion of Dr. Hugo
the Dictator's famous book, "Mein Bergmann, who introduced him to
Zionism while the world-famous
Kampf."
Mr. Stowe was born in South- scientist was a member of the fa-
bury, Conn., the son of Frank culty of the university of Prague,
Philip and Eva N. Stowe. Ile Professor Einstein owes his deep
was educated at Wesleyan Uni- interest and participation in the
versity and received his B. A. work to! the development of Pales-
there In 1921,
tine.

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decades may have taught him
much, he has refused to learn to
compromise with his conscience.
He has the kind of respect for
the .truth you read about, but

human beings have the power to
exploit their fellows, when the
few no longer profit by the star-
vation and misery of the many,
then race hatred will dies because
rarely meet. He tells it frankly it will have nothing left to feed
—but kindly—individually or to on. In that happier age, all the
a group. He is the good friend—! races of mankind will be devel-
oped to the highest of which they
to the whole community.
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year's blessings.
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Republic, survives as our oldest
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