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IL The famous Jewish historian of the first century of the Common Era, Josephus Flay- ius, in speaking of the meaning of the Chanukah lights, does not seem to know the well- known Talmudic story of the cruse of oil which burned for eight days. This historian writes: And from that time to this we celebrate this festival and call it LIGHTS. I sup- pose the reason was because this liberty beyond our hopes us." Evidently the story of the little flask of oil must have arisen after the time of Jo- sephus. appeared to III. The story of the ciraculous oil is not the only explanation in the ancient Rabbinic litera- ture for the lights and the eight days of Chanukah. The Midrash has the follow. ing interesting statement: Why do we kindle lights on Chanu- kah? Because, when the Has- moneans conquered the Greeks and entered the defiled and desolate Temple, they found there eight iron spears, upon which they kindled lights. 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Radio Broadcast Sunday We Take This Means of Wishing You a Joyous Holiday c‘15 Rosebud Creamery Company "SILL INDEPENDENT" 2815 Willis E. take place on Chanukah, but not (CONCLUDED FROM PAGE 1) BOWLING PINS 99 EAST BALTIMORE AVE. The ancient Jewish code, the Mishna, contains the following law: If a camel was laden with flax and passed along the public road, and some of the flax penetrated into a shop, was set alight by the lamp of the shop- keeper and burnt the building, the owner of the camel is liable, because he has no right to put so much flax on his beast of burden. If, however, the lamp was outside of the store, then it is the shopkeeper who must pay the damage. Rabbi Judah said: If this lamp outside of the shop, happened to be a Chanu- kah lamp, then the shopkeeper is not liable; because it is the custom during Chanukah to put the lamp outside, near the door, and therefore the owner of the camel should have been exceed. ingly careful as he drove his animal through the streets. V. In the Middle Ages, it was customary in many synagogues to read on Chanukah a Megilla (scroll), just as we do today on the Purim festival. This Chanu- kah scroll, which contained the story of the Feast of Lights, was written about the eighth century and, it is interesting to note, became so sacred in the eyes of many people that rab- bis began to discuss the ques- tion whether a benediction should be pronounced before reading it or not. VI. According to the Bible critics, and many conservative scholars, there is a book in the Old Testa- ment which was written during those days when Israel was struggling against Antiochus. It is the Book of Daniel, which, they say, was written by a pious and patriotic Jew of those days to give courage to his co-reli- gionists who were struggling against the Syrian monarch. VII One of the monarchs of the Chasers, that people of South- ern Russia who accepted Juda- ism during the eighth century, was named Chanukah. VIII FOR PROSPECTIVE BRIDES AND GROOMS: Weddings can Plaza 7888 Next Sunday night the last of a series of broadcasts will be given over the Jewish Radio Forum on Sation WJBK, at 7:30 p. m. Ben- jamin Marcus, vice president of the lodge, will discuss anti-defamation work of the B'nai B'rith. Last Sunday, Joseph L. Staub, president cf the lodge. was the speaker. Samuel W. Leib, chairman of the social service committee, announces that his committee has arranged in behalf of the lodge • motion pic- ture show to be presented at the Jewish Children's Home on Dec. 26 as a part of a Chanukah party that evening. During the same week several reels of film taken in Pal- estine will be shown at the Jewish Old Folks Home. Members of the general commit- tee and the membership drive com- mittee are urged to be present at the meeting Monday night. Joe Penner is vacationing at California's desert Community Closeups . . Strictly Confidential • (CONCLUDED from EDITORIAL PACE) Hitler for the holy family of the Virgin Mary, Joseph and Christ ... Readers of Time maga- nine are getting a belly laugh from a paragraph dealing with Putzi Hanfstactigl, Hitler's press agent... EDITOR'S NOTE: Ti.. following Ix Rile of • miler of blographiml When asked "if the party sets so xtetchex of outtlandIng JeN611 looters which will be 1mb' lithed weekly In 'the 1)etrolt JOW11.11 Chronicle. much store by pure German blondes how does it happen that Hitler's hair is dark?" ... To which Putzi II0?" asked an absent-I Garcia; he hunches his broad is said to have replied: "On his minded hostess of her shoulders, metaphorically, slogs head, ja, it is dark—but you should see under the arms!" maid, one day early on, and on, to his objective. this past summer. "Who—did A Goodfellow—one of the na- JOURNALESE you say?" tionally famous Detroit organiza- Paul Block, New York publisher, It was just before dinner. There tion of ex-newsboys—this week is one of the insiders booming Gov- were six guests coming, and, in saw him on a corner of Lafayette ernor Landon of Kansas for the the manner of all young hostesses and Griswold doing his annual bit Republican presidential nomina- —and some older ones—she was a of paper hustling with all the fer- tion ... Iry Kupcinet, Seven Arts little preoccupied. vor of the lad who called War sports editor, is now on the sport- "Mistuh George Stutz and headlines in front of Boesky's- ing staff of the Chicago Times ... Mistuh Gus Newman," announced then Goldstein's—at Farnsworth Rudolph Block, Jr., son of the the maid. globe-trotting Hearst writer, Bruno and Hastings, twenty years ago. "Oh, dear! Oh, dear! Tell A bachelor. No golfer. Rides Leasing, is now secretary to the them we have subscribed already," !horseback occasionally ("I talked mayor of Seattle ... He used to be she began, and then, suddenly re- hint into buying the boots, so what city editor of the Seattle Times... Publisher Eugene Meyer of the Washington Post picks his board of directors from the Capital's mer- chants, press agents, bankers and other big shots ... Mark Hettinger has changed his mind about desert- ing journalism for Hollywood .. . LONG LABOR LOST Mini Theilade, the Danish dancer whom Max Reinhardt has featured in a number of recent productions and whom he has imported for his presentation of Franz Werfel's "Eternal Road", had her picture taken by one of the major news photo agencies the other day . The photographer, anxious to get an unusual pose, spent an hour persuading Nini to let herself be snapped standing on her head ... Nini consented at last, and ac- complished the difficult feat of standing perfectly motionless on her head long enough for a good time exposure ... The photograph Was a huge success . .. Then the Yiddish daily The Day bought a copy . . . Mid the make-up man, feeling that some one at the photo agency had made a mistake, nulli- fied all of Nini's and the photo- grapher's efforts by putting in the picture—upside down ... of GEORGE M. STUTZ . . . Earnest Young Man J. N. F. LUNCHEON CAMPAIGN OPENS membered—Stutz and Newman were two of her expected guests. George M. Stutz, profession- ally, is a lawyer; was, for several years, an important and efficient cog in the Prosecuting Attorney's machinery of guarding the public weal and morals. Gus Newman, of course, sells hats. Individually you bracket 'em with their voca- tional backgrounds; taken as a team you instinctively anticipate the touch philanthropic and realize that it's gonna be a bigger check than you had figured on, but . , Mak! Those who found themselves pacing the alley back of the De- troit Times between 9 and 10 of a morning during last spring's Allied Jewish Campaign were wit- nesses to a curious spectacle. As the brilliantly colored orange trucks pulled in to take on the "bulldog" • edition, they were boarded by two energetic young men. Followed a whispered con- fab. Then a stentorian announce- ment. "Jake Bernstein is down for ten bucks. And Smitty, his jumper, for two." It was George Stutz and Gus Newman doing their stuff for the drive. And it was great and ef- fective soliciting. Because the moment one of the drivers was committed to his pledge he im- mediately became an ally of the two solicitors and helped—so to speak—"put the bee" on the rest of the boys. (It's tough to do a scenario on Damon and leave Pythias out of the script . . . Gus! You stay out of this story!) George Stutz — Strong Right Arm of the Allied Jewish Cam- paign—is a seasoned campaigner. He matriculated under Nate Sha- pero five years ago; in the last drive was co-secretary (could the other fellow have been Gus?) of the Pre-Campaign division. Spe- cializing in raising the modest giver of more-than-modest means to where he ought to be. Did the same job for the Community Fund. A classic example is one subscriber whose 1934 pledge was $50, in 1935 signed for $1,000. Governor of the Jewish Welfare Federation; secretary of the He- brew Free Loan Association; treasurer of the Jewish Social Service Bureau; director of the Fresh Air Society, of the Jewish Old Folks Home, of the House of Shelter, Detroit Service Group. Member of campaign planning committee. Helps draw up the blueprints and delves into techni- calities of campaign set-up. One of the organizers of the Jewish Emergency Relief Council—born of the Depression—Stutz was in strumental in having that agency brought into the Federation, where it now functions under the auspices of the Jewish Social Service Bureau. The young man with the jutting jaw, assertive eye, blue-black thatch • subject of our sketch. looks like Cable, acts like Carney. George N. (for Morton) Stutz was born abroad, Dec. 26, 1901. He came here with his parents in 1914; shortly thereafter pre- empted one of Detroit's most profitable corners—Farnsworth at Hastings—where he sold news- papers to help swell the family income. Did 12 years primary and high school work in six; took his LL.B. at the Detroit College of Law; practiced for five years; won appointment to the staff of Prose- cutor Harry S. Toy; is now a member of the firm of Freud. Markus & Stutz, in the Penobscot Building; is now • Public Ad- ministrator for Wayne County. Earnest, thorough, not spec- tacular in action—either in the court room or on the philanthropic firing line. But dependable. TTI31- Ending a two months member- ship campaign, the Ladies Auxili- ary of The Jewish National Fund held a luncheonette for paid up members in the Italian Garden of the Book Cadillac Hotel, Tuesday, Dee. 17. The president, Mrs. S. Heyman, welcomed the new members. Mrs. Harry Kraft, chairman of the membership drive, gave her report. Mrs. P. Slomovitz, chairman of the 5th annual donor luncheon to be held at the Book Cadillac Hotel on March 11, officially opened the Luncheon campaign. For reserva- tions or information about the donor luncheon please call To. 7-0168. Rabbi Leon Fram was the guest speaker, Mrs David Kaltman, ac- companied by Mrs. Gertrude Freed- man, and the Harmonica Twisters, comprised of Henan Kraft, Her- bert Gach, Martin Hoffer and Joe Jasgur, presented the musical pro- gram. can he do?" says Gus). No card player. Handball, once in a while. A smoker of strong, black cigars. Tilts his chair invariably on its hind legs, with his own crossed. Once promoted a prize fight (Jack Berg-Billy Wallace) during the lean year '31 and managed to net $4,000 for charity on the event. This at a time when pro- fessional promoters and big time fighters couldn't even muster a corporal's guard-size house. Not without humor; but pre- dominantly an earnest young man. Who has risen from a youth of short rations himself; knows what it means to be the under- dog—from his years in the Prose- cuting Attorney's office—realizes that the first step to self-help often must be a hand up extended to Independent Detroit Lodge the "Have-Nuts" by the "Haves." To Hold Election of George M. Stutz is young in Officers years; ripe in experience; has traveled far up the steep incline The Independent Detroit Lodge, to material success and commun- at the next meeting on Wednesday ity responsibility. evening, Dec. 25, at Jericho Temple, G. B. S. will elect officers for the coming year. Nominations were held at the meeting on Dec. 11. The presi- dent, Meyer Cohen, recording sec- retary, H. Elford, and financial secretary, II. Jackson, are assured of re-election since they are un- opposed for the positions. The Sisterhood of the I. D. L. Peretz Hirshbein, well known announces its card party to be Jewish writer, will be in Detroit held Wednesday evening, Jan. 15; at Jericho Temple. Proceeds will from Jan. 3 to Jan. 6, and will be used for charity. Mrs. T. Nanes, deliver two lectures, the first at chairman of the entertainment Jericho Temple, on Jan. 3, on the committee, and Mrs. L. Weintraub, subject "From the green fields to assistant chairman, expect a rec- ord gathering. the red fields," Mr. Hirshbein will The lodge extends its condolences go through the history of the trans-1 to the bereaved relatives of Louis formation of Jewish small town life I Citron, a member of 20 years' during the Czarist regime to the standing, who died suddenly Satur- communal life under the Soviet : day, Dec. 14. regime. The second lecture will be deliv- ' Zion Myers, associate producer ered on Jan. 6, at the Jewish Cen- with RKO-Radio, has left for East- ter, Woodward and Holbrook, one, ern points on a month's vacation., the topic "Biro-Bidjan and Pales- I From New York he will go to Key tine." West and Havana. HIRSHBEIN COMES TO DETROIT JAN. 3 SOME THOUGHTS ON THE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY OF NEWSPAPERS ,CONCLUDED from EDITORIAL. PAGE) them will doubtless laugh at it; but some will be credulous enough to believe it. In consequence the news agency in question will be assisting in the propagation of falsehood and in the growth of prejudice. Difficult to Answer Libels It will be argued that the way is always open for the Jews to deny that they are carriers of foot and mouth disease. The difficulty is that the Jews do not always feel impelled to answer ridiculous libels, and in any case the denial is rarely as convincing as the libel. More- over, a retort by the object under attack is rarely the most effica- cious reply. Then again, it is some- times hard for the Jews to get space from editors for replies to libels because by the time a proper reply has been formulated the original libel is no longer news and the answer, therefore, has ceased to be news. Here we come to the conflict between news, the time element and the social responsibi- lity of the newspaper. Usually news and the time element win over the social responsibility with the result that the ends of justice are not served. The proper solution, of course, Is that stories containing libelous statement should either be "killed" outright or, where the matter is controversial, the allegedly libelled group should be given an oppor- tunity for a reply which should be released rirn eltasfoWly with the offending statement, or as near so as possible. 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This, I should say, plays right into the hands of the Nazi propaganda machine, Imagine the delight of the Goebbels factory when Hugh Baillie applied for an interview with Hitler! By all fair standards of journalism the arranging of such interviews for propaganda purposes, the handing out of state- ments with similar intention, are not to be counted as normally and genuinely news but as artificially manufactured news, and newspa- pers which accept such "news" are either badly in need of a break or are dupes of the first water. News agencies and newspapers, I believe, ought to become cogniunt of their special social responsibili- ties, which are to serve the ends of justice and goodwill if they are to serve any ends at all. "Scoops" which work harmful consequences do not, in the long run, add any Chanukah Greetings and sincere good wishes to the Jewish Community " II \I KU: OUTDOOR ADVERTISING Commercial Signs (Throughout Michigan's Largest Tr•diag Area) U CUSTER AVE. TRINITY 2 - 6030