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" PHONE CADILLAC 7423 • TOO CAE BUT QUALITY EOM= MEATS WITH CONFIDENCE) from MARGOLIS Bros. & Sons Kosher Meat and Poultry Market No Connection With Any Other Bleat Market in Detroit WIC DELIVER 11537-41 DEXTER BLVD. /Waves Wattaganie ass Webb Fenkell Ladies Loan Ass'n Arranges Mothers' Day Program and Bridge Owing to unforseen circum- stances the Mother and Daughter banquet of the Fenkell Ladies Loan An'n will not be held at the Phalanx Club as scheduled but reservations have already been made at the Wilshire for May 6. The chairman of the evening will be Mrs. Dora Schwartz. The speaker for the mothers is Mrs. H. Jackson, and for the daughters, Miss Belle Fienman. There will be music and dancing after the banquet. The dessert bridge luncheon sponsored by the Fenkell Ladies Loan Ass'n will be held as planned in the auditorium of Fyfes, on Wednesday, May 13. The proceeds will go to the Allied Jewish Cam- We Phone HOGARTH 3042 paign and the Jewish Old Folks' Home. The chairman of the affair is Mrs. Rae Rim, and her co- chairman is Mrs. Stien. On the ticket committee are Mesdames Factor, Lipsit, Fabor and Davis. The hostesses are Mesdames Gold, Tobb, Varnen, Margolin, Weinman, Weitz, Fienstien and Denhoffer. Information can be had by calling Townsend 6-4136. CAMPUS ALUMNI CLUB Dr. Adolph Lowenstein ad- dressed the club on "Tuberculosis, Symptoms and Cures". Plans for the athletic program were completed and baseball games will be played at Central field. Plans for the annual "sports dinner" were discussed. This din- ner takes place in June and honors on outstanding Detroit Jewish athlete. ery in the grip of a hurricane. It was an impromptu outpouring of ideas and emotions which revealed that the speaker had lived with and for the Congress idea for a long time. Nothing but a ver- batim quotation of his own words can convey the power that ema- nates from the head of the Ameri- can Jewish Congress and animates so large a part of American Jewry today. Emancipation Foresworn Said Dr. Wise: "If only my fellow-Jews could come to see one thing, that lierzl in summon- ing the first Zionist Congress did more than summon a Jewish as- sembly on behalf of Zionism. Ile summoned a Jews assembly for the open and public discussion of what he believed to be the su- premely pressing Jewish problem —the problem of establishing a legally secured, publicly guaran- teed Jewish National Home, as runs the Basle platform. It might have been imagined in 1897, the year of the convening of the first Zionist Congress, that if a way out could be found, a Nachtasyl, as Nordau put it, that the chief obligation of Jewish life would be met. Who could have believed, less that 40 years ago, that within little more than a generation every postulate of the emancipa- tion, every underlying basis of the 19th century civilization would be foresworn and almost concertedly abandoned by the na- tions of Europe! Yet that is ex- actly what has happened. There are few lands in Europe, though they be lands of importance in which emancipation, whatever it may have meant, has not been thrown to the winds, in which the dreams of France of 1789, of America of 1776, of England of 1832, of Germany of 1848, to say nothing of Austria of 1792, have not been foresworn and— for s time, in any event—repu- diated.' "The question today facing the Jews of the world is this: We have lost, or are losing, the fruits of emancipation, however much we may once have cherished them. We do not surrender the battle against those who would destroy the values of emancipation, but these results arepassing, if not completely gone. What shall we do, even those of us who are Zion- ists in our viewpoint that no solu- tion of the Jewish problem is thinkable without the Jewish Na- tional Home? Generations will pass before the majority of the Jewish people will dwell in Pal- estine. What until then? Shall Jews, each in their separate star —or shall I say realm of dark- ness?—battle against Fascist op- pressors and destroyers of Jewish life, to say nothing of Jewish rights? Or shall there be a co- ordinated and unified attempt to see the problem steadily and to see it whole, to claim the glory, as a British statesman put it, of facing the facts, however dark and dismal, of Jewish existence and meeting Jewish problems ev- erywhere—which are essentially one problem—in an organized way? The emancipationists of an- Congratulate Temple Beth El on Eighty-Five Years of Attainments ... As Temple Beth El commemorates its 85th anniversary, we are pleased to add our congratulations to the vast flow of messages of friendship and good will which are pouring in from far and wide. Yours has been a remarkably influential Congregation, a power for much good, proponent of charity and justice, ably and illustriously directed. May your an- niversary yield renewed ambitions and project larger achievements. THE J. L HUDSON COMPANY 1* MUTUAL COMPANY, other day constantly maintained that anti-Semitism, like General be swept away like artificial scen- jlancock's tariff, was a local ques- THE BEST UNIVERSAL SERVICE Lace Curtains (CONCLUDED FROM PAGE 1) TURNING FIRST SPADEFUL OF EARTH FOR OLD FOLKS' HOME April 24, 1936 tion, but they forgot that the sectional hits become the ubiqui- tous and the local the universal. Anti-Semitism is not a local ques- tion. It is the inevitable result of the dwelling of J•ws with, by the side of and smog non-Jews. It rises in every land, sometimes hastened, sometimes postponed, sometimes concealed, sometimes denied, but it is and it rages from Japan to the United States, the world over; in politer forms in civilized countries such as France, England and America; in savage and brutal forms in the lands of Central and Eastern Eur- ope. Jews Must Meet Frankly "We who are summoning the World Jewish Congress into being cannot even understand the fears of those w: maintain that we Jews will be called international- ists if we summon representatives of the different Jewries together. There are international congresses of a thousand kinds—Internation- al Health Congress, International Labor Congress, International Tuberculosis Congress, Interna- tional Psychiatry Congress, Inter- national Religious Congress, In- ternational Legal Congress, Inter- national Medical Congress. I have never heard of a surgeon in Peru fear that his Peruvianism would be called Into question because he consulted at an International Con- gress in Paris or London with a surgeon from Chile or the Argen- tine Republic! The best proof of the unutterable status of the Jew is revealed by the fact that thete are Jews of status and seeming significance who are fearful of I`ourtesy 1)rtr•ll News. publicly meeting with Jews from other lands lest such meeting in- Jacob Levin, president of the Jewish Old Folks' Home, is shown volve an impugnment of their na- here treeing the first spadeful of earth for the new building for tional and separate loyalties. That the home for the aged, on Burlingame and Petoskey Ayes. Breaking dread in itself calls for a congress of ground for the new building began after the ceremonies last Sun- to deal with it, and to allay the day after, in the presence of more than 1,000 people. Seen in the psychoses which constitute that photograph with Mr. I e•in is Moses Weissw , superintendent of dread, in order to banish it from the Jewish Old Folks' Home; Mrs. Kate Levitt, 92 years old, one of the original founders of the Old Folk's Home, and David Oppen- Jewish life. "I have said before, and I am helm, one of the vice-presidents of the home. tempted to say once again: If I were a non-Jew and I was told as ery. .That philanthropy should ' of all, that we are pledged one a non-Jew that, although half the be regarded as almost the solu• for another, to use the ancient Jews of earth today are oppressed tion of the Jewish problem is Jewish saying, and that each is and would, if they could, be on token of the forfeiture of self- responsible for the fate of all the march; if as a non-Jew I respect of g masses of Jews, Jews, that no Jew is so poor and was told,. what as a Jew I know who imagine that relief can so abased by the injustice of the to be the truth, that the whole ever be more thanpalliative, world that he ceases to be within great Jewish belt of Eastern Eur- that philanthropy can do more the circle of Jewish brotherhood. o pe seeths with the agony of anti- that tentatively repair the rav- In other words, that there are no Semitism; and if the further in- ages of injustice of breach the Jewish untouchables. formation were given me that gaps left by an imperfect and Will Serve Jewish Cause Jews do not 'meet in a public way inadequate social order of life. "Brother Jews are we, living on for the open discussion of their "The World Jewish Congress the one common level of tradition problems and ills and oppressions must once and for all proclaim in many lands, the feeling would that we Jews are brothers, one to of which we are a part and which almost inevitably be mine that if another. No brother ever saved is the supreme dominance of our Jews do not meet frankly in a another through the medium of own life. The economic condi- public way, it is because they are relief; no brother ever delivered tions or accidents in the life of meeting in other ways, because another from bondage, except pos- individual Jews or Jewish com- their failure to meet it a method sibly for a time, through the in- munities, do not take them out of hiding the fact that they do strumentality of so-called phil- of that wide circle of Jewish un- meet. That would be my reac- anthropy. The basis of brother- ity. And the world, as well as tion to the incredible information hood is oneness. Oneness never, we ourselves, will see that we do that Jews cannot be brought to- save momentarily and in hours of not shut out Jews because they gether to discuss their common crises, expressed itself in terms hold political or social views to problems, though virtually half of relief and giving and so-called which we cannot subscribe. There of the Jews of the world would philanthropy. Out of this ac- are no Jewish social or political today leave the countries in which cursed notion that charity and re- views. Jews are independent as they live and move on elsewhere lief and philanthropy will solve political beings. Every Jew has if the chance were given them. all Jewish problems comes some- the right to think and to decide for himself on all social, economic Must Profit by Experience thing even graver and more tra- "I confess that I am no longer gic and that is the control of and political problems, and no patient enough even to discuss the Jewish life by the philanthropists. group of Fascists, whether in question whether Jews should The moment philanthropy is re- Nazi Germany or in Endek Po- meet together to discuss their garded as the solvent of Jewish land, or increasingly Fascist common problems in an open and questions, then philanthropists, Jews, is going to determine for us public way. The reasons for do- wise or unwise, assimilationista or that we Jews either have or ought ing this are so obvious that to nationalists, become the ultimate to have one political or economic dwell upon them would be insult- judgers of what is good and evil viewpoint. The coming together of a thousand varieties of eco- ing to the intelligence of the Jew- in Jewish life. nomic and political viewpoints is ish people. We have much to "Today throughout the Jewish the best answer to the mendaci- learn from one another in the world the philanthropists, which matter of experience. If Jews in means people who imagine that ties of those who maintain that Germany had sat together in a alms, relief, charity can solve per- all Jews are either capitalist or World Jewish Congress with the maneht problems, are elevated— Communist. There are capitalist Jews of Russia and of Rumania o r for the most part elevate them- Jews. There are Communist Jews. There are Jewish liberals and 25 years ago, they might has elves—to the place of leadership learned how to arm themselves in Jewish life. And that is a there are Jewish Liberty- intellectually, racially and spirit- grave disaster, for philanthropy Leaguers. Until a Jew affirms ually against the debacle which is o fttimes grows largely, if not that he has ceased to be a Jew, he now being visited upon them. Only wholly, out of opulence, abun- cannot throw himself out of the a generation of fools fails to pro- dance of means, without regard circle of Jewish life. And Herr fit by the experience of other to character or intellectual capac- Adolf Hitler in Germany has generations. We Jews, scattered ity in the opulent, in the well-to- taught him that he even then and dispersed in different lands, do, in the possessing class which, cannot shut himself out of Jewish learn nothing from one another through the device of philanthro- life and that he, Hitler, is pre- because we are too timid to ex- py, undertakes to determine the pared to resurrect his great- grandmother in order to affix the change experiences, because ours fortunes of a people. stigma of Jewishness upon him. is the absurd imagining that al- Problems Can though Jews of other lands have "They who look upon their "It is not for me to announce Jewishness is, • badge of hon. been oppressed, we are immune, the program of the World Jewish ours alone is the security which, or, as • token of responsibility, of course, for one reason or an- Congress. The World Jewish Con- will assemble in a World Jew- other, Jews in other lands could gress will be made up of groups ish Congress. They who are not expect to enjoy. And this is of men who will decide for them- fearful, they who stand in fear because Jews do not face funda- selves which are the supreme is- of their own Jewishness, they mental truths, the truths of the sues and how they are to be met. who are fearful of the resins- economic relationships which are Not that final solutions can be rection of their great-grandpar- bound up with the peculiar status improvised or that new panaceas ents they who assent to the of the Jew as a landless and seem- are to be invented for the occas- judgment of our enemies that ingly uncreative middleman in a ion. I have little doubt that the Jewishness is • badge of shame world of industry. It Is because end of the Congress will be the instead of • mark of honor, the members of the Jewish race— constituting of a series of commis- I will sedulously absent them- and race we are—are forever re- slang which will for a year or more selves from the World Jewish garded tag aliens by so-called na- consult with regard to problems Congress. It will beiicid and it tives, even when these Jewish to be enttusted to them, the prob- will serve the Jewish cause. aliens have been native for a lem of the unceasing defense of The World Jewish Congress thousand years in the lands which minority rights, problems of mi- will, just as truly as did the deem them alien. And that diffi- gration, problems of economic re- first Zionist Congress, mark the culty will not for generations be adjustment, problems of Palestine. inauguration of • new era of "The Geneva World Jewish Jewish self-awareness, self- immeasurably increased because of the growing racial supersti- Congress will propound questions self-govern- and tion that a land belongs to the rather than answer them, but it ment." members of the dominant race will propound them publicly, sol- Thus spoke Dr. Wise. He had and because of the Fascist-in- emnly; it will submit them to the forgotten the interviewer and the spired contempt for minorities, judgment of the Jewish people and stenographer who took down his which exist only to be scorned lay them at the door of the trib- words. Ile was exhorting, plead- unal of the world conscience. I n ing and warning the Jewish world. and to be destroyed. "What an illustration we Jews one word, the World Jewish Con- His words, uttered with the fire could•give, if only we had the de- gress summons Jews to think to- o f a world tribune, were a clarion cent courage to do so, of real gether, to consult publicly and call to American Jewry. As he Jewish solidarity. In one word, openly about their own questions, stood there, forgetful of his sur- I am not interested in the Polish which involve life and sustenance government protesting against end even death; and at the same roundings, one was forcefully re- Arab outrages in Palestine or time invites the non-Jewish world minded of the Knot figures of the Nazi crimes against Jews, against to face those problems, the Jew- Jewish leaders of a past era, Herzl even Polish Jewish subjects in ish problems, which arise not out and Nordau, who by the magnet- Nazi Germany, as long as vio- of Jewish life in itself, but out ism of their personalities had lence, oppression, disorder and de- of the relationship of Jews to charted an indelible course in Jew- struction threaten to become the other peoples, out of the inhospi- ish history. order of the day in Poland. The tality of non-Jews to Jews, out Polish Jews may not be able in a of the flagitious injustices of World Jewish Congress to speak mighty peoples throughout the Bridge Dance of Equality Club Sunday the whole truth, but we non-Pol- the world to the Jewish peoples ish Jews are free to speak and to and above all to Jewish mniorities. demand of Poland not sympathy "The Congress will then serve A special meeting of the Equali- with the Jewish victims of Nazi these purposes. It will move Jews ty Club was held at the home of oppression or Pan-Arab conspir- to see that they can with secur- Mrs. Sarah Weingarden, 3222 acy, but decent and just treat- ity, and they must with self-re- Richton Ave. and plans were com- ment for its own millions of Jews, spect , meet together to face the pleted for the bridge dance to be justice to whom was made, by consideration of Jewish questions. held at the Barium Hotel Sunday Woodrow Wilson, Clemenceau and Second, it will show that there is night, April 26. All proceeds from Lloyd George, the basic condition • capacity for leadership in Jew- this affair will go to alleviate the of Poland's independence. ish life, leadership other than "A World Jewish Congress is that w' eh now resides in the needs of destitute Jewish families, needed today in order to banish realm k philanthropy. Third, it to the Allied Jewish Campaign, forever from Jewish life the na- will reveal to us and to all the and to the Old Folks' Home. The tion that relief and Wan. world that we Jews are one. that president, Mrs. E. Goose, asks all Amp, can become the core-all the fate of all, that the misfor- organizations to cooperate. •f Jewish woes sad Jewish ails- tunes of one Jews are the tragedy Despite not small favors. Become a part owner of this Mutual Company For five successive years the percentage of new business purchased by existing policyholders has shown a steady increase, and last year reached a new high figure. 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Campau Ave. GOLDA MYERSON HERE THURSDAY Prominent Palestine Woman Leader to Speak at Detroit-Leland Golda Myerson, eminent Pal- estine labor leader, who has just concluded a lecture tour of Can- ada and the United States, will speak on Thursday evening, April 30, at 8:30 o'clock, at the De- TO. 8-5880-81 Children to See "Land of Promise" Tuesday Bernard Isaacs, superinten- dent of the United Hebrew Schools, has announced that children of all branches of the Hebrew Schools be excused at 4:30 p. m. on Tuesday in or- der that they may all attend, in a body, a special children's performance of "The Land of Promise." There will be a special feat- ure for the children, a brief address and an especially ar- ranged program of songs. The teachers of the schools will act as ushers and the school buses will be on hand to take the children home from the per- formance. Renew Appeal for Yeshiva of Lomza GOLDA MYERSON troit-Leland Hotel, under the aus- pices of the Detroit branches of the League for Labor Palestine. Mrs. Myerson, a former teach- er in midwestern public schools in this country settled in Pales- tine with her family and has de- voted her life to the cause of a redeemed Jewish homeland. Her tours to this country in behalf of the Palestine labor movement have won for her large audiences which are recalling her again and again because of her fluency as an orator and her deep understand- ing of the Jewish issues. The League for Labor Palestine has made great progress since its formation here three, years ago. There are two branches at this time which have attracted large groups of professionals. The lecture by Yrs. Myerson next Thursday ever log is open to the public. All • Sports Tournament of Campus Club Rabbi Yechiel Mordechai Gor- don, dean of the Lomza Yeshiva, and his brother-in-law, Rabbi M. Halpern of New York, this week renewed the appeal for this world famous Jewish theological school and called upon Detroit Jews to supply funds which will help keep the school's building in Jewish hands. Many Detroit Jews are expected to enroll as $100 members in the nationwide drive to enlist 350 such donors whose names are to be in- scribed on a tablet in the Yeshiva in Lomza. Contributions additional to those announced last week are: Mrs. Ida Solai and Mrs. Peshe Cohen, $200; Mr. and Mrs. S. Chesluk, $100; anonymous, $100. Rabbi Gordon is the guest here of Mr. and Mrs. Levin, 2015 Glad- stone Ave., telephone Garfield 7044-W. Yeshivah Banquet May 24; „Memorial Services May 3 The Yeshivah Beth Yehuda announces the change of date for the banquet from April 22 to May 24. Mrs. H. Rottenberg is chairman of the banquet and Mrs. H. Len- n y is supervisor. Those desiring to donate for the banquet should get in touch with either Mrs. Rot- tenberg at Townsend 8-7995, or Mrs. Lensky, at Trinity 2-5203. Mrs. S. Friedman is chairman V the tickets and may be reached at 2225 Blaine Ave., Apt. 306, telephone, Garfield 9540. Yeshivah Beth Yehuda an- nounces that a memorial day for its members who passed away has been set for Sunday, May 3, at 8 p. m., at 1705 Pingree. Relatives of the members who passed are invited. Tributes will be paid the memory of Mrs. Annie Caplan, Mrs. Annie Katz, Mrs. M. Cohen, Mrs. L. Katzer, Rabbi J. -Levine, Rabbi A. Sheskin, M. Ginsberg, E. M. Friedman, Mr. Miller and D. Tucker. The Campus Club of Wayne University is arranging its all- sports tournament with the Cam. pus Club Alumni. In the first event, an interclub basketball game, the senior members were routed 56- 23. The bowling match was' also taken by the undergraduates with Leonard Tigay turning in a high of 214. With the first two events already lost, the Alumni will be out to even the count in the corn- ing golf and tennis meets. The tournament will include all season- al competitive sports and will con- tinue throughout the school semes- ter, the winners Jo be announced at the club's annual Webster Hall The Adam Rosens of the Pales- banquet. tine Tours had to add another nursery room to their apartment Louis Friedland, young director for a little girl who made her en- at Universal, was once a child trance into this bad world of ours actor on the stage and screen. • week ago.