September 18, 1936 711 EQerllDrI neasnCIRDN ICLE and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE PAGE EIGHT JEWISH HISTORY IN THE MAKING I1 711111119•11 5697 -:- 1936 1936 IN THE YEAR 5697 of the Jewish era and of the common era, we join with all those who marvel at the qualities of spirit and survival which have won for the Jewish people the designation THE ETERNAL PEOPLE s. (CONTINUED Fuom PAGE 'II attempting petty measures of charity and still more timid gest- every country of South and Cen- ures of political action. Economic- tral America last year. As a ally doomed with the sanction of whole, however, Latin America the Polish Premier, politically a gradually became one of the most football between the various par- important Jewish centers. Not- ties, and physically subjected to ; withstanding curbs on immigra- ceaseless terror despite repeated tion in Costa Rica, Chile, Brazil governmental assurances of pro- and Cuba, the Jewish population tection, Polish Jewry reached a of every country increased stead- state of hopelessness which ob- ily. The principal centers of Jew- jective observers qualified as ish immigration were Argentina, much worse than that of German Peru, Uruguay, Brazil and Chile. Jewry. While the spotlight of Most of the newcomers were Ger- world public opinion remained man refugees and Polish Jews. focused on Nazi Germany, the There were a number of schemes Polish government, notwithstand- broached for mass Jewish coloni- ing platonic gestures of friendship zation in various parts of Latin toward the Jewish population, America, notably in Ecuador and trampled on the minority rights Cuba. Among the German Jewish of the Jews and convicted itself refugees were many professional of being either a weak and im- men, scientists and scholars who potent regime or a party to the were given government posts in Endek policy. laboratories and universities in The sensational attempt to out- such countries as Colombia, Gua- law shechita and the last-minute temala, Mexico and Chile. ' Mexico, perhaps more than any compromise that enabled the Jews other Latin, American country, to continue shechita at the sacri- witnessed the blossoming of a mil- fice of seeing another 10,000 Jews 'tont anti-Semitic movement, in deprived of their livelihood; the itant the Gold Shirts. Although official- serious discussion in gevornment- ly suppressed, they maintained al circles of proposals for the In our fifty.fourth year as a business entity, we strive to uphold those ideals of service which make for continual confidence and respect of our select clientele so that we may retain the designation: We extend sincere good wishes for a New Year filled with happiness and blessed with full measure of prosperity and may these wishes continue' to find fulfillment into the many years beyond. CHARLES II. LOTT MANAGER DETROIT- LELA D - HOTEL ' AN INSTITUTION OF SERVICE AND INTEGRITY May the year 5697.1936 be a happy and prose perous one for the Jewish people of Detroit. `Rosh Hashonah greetings CASS • BAGLEY GOLD MINING IN BIROBIDJAN 000,- ROSH HASHONAII ... GREETINGS ... Rosh Ilashonah Greetings their existence underground and mass emigration of at least1, continued to harass the Jewish 000,000 Jews; the frantic efforts A floppy and Prosperous community. In Mexico City, where of the Jews to emigrate to Pal- New Year to You All. Jewish business men are gradual- estine, Latin America and Biro- ly adjusting themselves, Jewish Bidjan; the efforts to establish life flourished. The Yiddish news- ghetto regulations in the univer- papers and theaters and the Jew- sities and the railroads; the or- Distributors ish school system prospered, and ganized anti-Jewishboycott move- Ladies', Childrens' and Infants' there was a definite interest in ment in Lemberg, Lodz, Upper SAM LEVIN, Mgr. Wear visiting Jewish lecturers. A fine Silesia and Cracow; the steady building to house a new Jewish contraction of even the remain- Je eco- orning school was dedicated at the begin- ingecon the few remai ning of last year. nomic opportunities fwis h 310 W. JEFFERSON 14000 WOODROW WILSON professional people —.all these Attacks on Jews, inspired by graphically revealed the desperate RAndolph 9338 TOwnsend 7.9395 Nazi propagandists and native straits of the 3,000,000 Jews of agitators, were frequent in the Poland. newspapers of Peru, Argentina, RUMANIA Brazil and Cuba. In Brazil the Rumanian Jewry lived through anti-Semitic Green Shirts were a year of repeated anti-Semitic 11•111111111M dissolved, while in Argentina the police chief of Buenos Aires was outbreaks. The growing hostility New Year's Greetings dismissed for accusing the Jews to Magda Lupescu became the fo- Season's Greetings of being Communists. Two Jewish cus of opposition not only to and Best Wishes editors were arrested for treason King Carol's government but the Rosh Ilashonah Greetings in Cuba. In San Salvador a Jew rallying point for anti-Jewish ac- FURRIER was elected mayor of the leading tion. Fascists, Nazis, nationalists Repairing — Remodeling city, and in Chile Benjamin Cohen and anti-Semites joined hands in was named director of the diplo- an effort to rid the country of Cold 5tor.g.. for Furs matic service. Agitation against Lupescu. Their opening attack New (torments Made to (enter Jewish peddlers stirred the Jew- was always against the Jews, who were the chief sufferers while Manufacturers of My New Address ish communities of Panama, Cos- ta Rica and Cuba. Fascist regimes Lupescii continued in power. An- Texaco Can — Goodrich Tires 7619 SECOND BLVD. HIGH GRADE HATS Delw.rit Ituthune & PallIster came into power in Bolivia and ti-Jewish disturbances were fre- l'araguay. Jewish communal life, quent in the provinces as in pre- Remodeling, Cleaning and Blocking MAdison 2444 however, made rapid strides, as vious years, and Bucharest wit- 2800 WOODWARD at Alfred evidenced by the continued nessed two serious anti-Jewish ri- CHERRY 5759 CLifford 2800 1236 LIBRARY AVE. growth of the Zionist movement, ots. An attempt was made to as- the establishment of new Jewish sassinate Chief Rabbi Niemerower ABE LEMBERG and William Fildermann, presi- publications and additional Jew- BURT LEMBERG den t of the Union df Runianian ish cultural agencies. Rosh Ilashonah Thanks to the tolerant at- Despite the emergence of anti-)Jews. Greetings of the Tatarescu govern- Semitic movements, which prompt-1 titude meat the anti-Semites had an al- ed the American Jewish congress cop-' most free hand until Foreign MM- to appoint an investigation mission, the Jews of Latin Amer- inter Tituleseu's threat to resign Happy New Year! ica passed a year that can be best I ' forced the cabinet to take action. ThePeasant Party's uncom- described as a period of pioneer - opposition to anti-Sem- countries promising ing. Filtering i n t o where there have nevei been itism, the collapse of repeated ef- more than a handful of Jews,1 forts to create one united bloc Jog. GORMAN Latin American Jewry showed 1 of anti-Semites and Fascists and SIDNEY EnTIMAN genuine signs of becoming one of t h e restraining influence of .00 diplomacy prevented a SERVICE PARTS the largest sections of world French Il possible Fascist putsch. But eco- Hudson • Essex - Terraplane Jewry. 2750-2780 GRAND RIVER nomic discrimination against the POLAND Poland must be listed as thelJews was accelerated. Jewish law- CLfTord 0371 21 Hour Service were systema tically disbar- TEMPLE 1-6200 y x 1 ers in which the physical e- 4001 6TH ST. an d profession- count ry ed, a e of the Jews was in greate r r istenc danger last year than in any al numerus clausus was vigorous- 1815 DELAWARE at 12th St. a nd th e oppo rtu nities other country of the world, not ; ly enforced MAdison 1860 ws in the small towns Greetings! Years I open to Je Germany. even excluding WISHES ITS MANY JEWISH of consistent and systematic eco-1 were steadily curtailed. By and M. B. RICIIARDSON, Prop. lo t of Rumanian Jewry mimic strangulation, c o n d o n e d ' large the crit ica FRIENDS A II A P P Y AND and abetted by the government,1 remained l and desperate. Maker of Fine Furs RUSSIA were climaxed last year by an ! PROSPEROUS NEW YEA R. 7516 Woodward Ave. (Union of Soviet Socialist organized wave of terror. The, Republics) Trinity 2-9013 National Democrats (Endeks), no ! Soviet Russia during 5696 con- l etalia- Rosh Hashonah longer afraid o p - 'iti ca tinued to be a shining example tion by the government, let loose to all other countries in its treat- Greetings ■.■ organized hordes of hooligans in ment of racial Minorities. The Rosh Ilashonah Greetings the cities, towns and village who effective measures by the govern- to Our Many Friends carried out pogroms reminsiscent t to destroy the remnants of Czar- of the sanguinary as 1st Russia. Hardly a day passed ' Czarist anti-Semitism bore splen- 1 without some act of anti-Semitic ' did fruit. It, can be said without Choice Selection of 1141 MINDER CA11111. 5150 violence being reported from Po- i exaggeration that the Soviet Gov- Wines, Liqueurs, Cordials er ument proved to the satisf ac- land. Literally thousands of Jews , NEW YEAR'S GREETINGS .. . tion of the world that if • gov- and Whiskeys suffered physical injuries at the t the ernment wills it anti-Semitism can be uprooted. HAPPY NEW YEAR f ri otime ti em on ahni Ides t h eof d e aat n h ttoll h w The new Soviet constituti 8235.37 TWELFTH ST. source was estimated to be nearly I y of dem ocratic AUGUST STEINMETZ 100. Improving on the usual tech- climaxed a polic TYler 4.9687 ., adjustment which eliminated the nique of anti-Semitic assaults, the COOPERAGE erenti of cl ass diffa- 1 , last vestiges U.S.S.R. irlue n oc t Free Parking in Rear preri ea It brought in ins theirr yr ndT iEnoek 1 . , 1 hand ads , tion in the 44311 Mitchell Ate. 1Voaltne 503.3 complete emancipa- Plumber& Steam and Engineers' Supplies of buildings owned by Jewsit swake the remaining declassed Jews, tion of the destroyed or damaged by incen- opening the doors for them Pipe Bending, Welding and Vanstoning d 1: tn hewr oh . i to every social, political and econ- diary m Tr e explosions groms in Przytyk , HAPPY NEW YEAR The high in anti-Sam- I omic opportunity. The picture which the Soviet Union presents Rosh Hashonah I. F. COOKE DETROIT itic violence even for Poland.) today is one that should bring r; Greetings Complete reed MT.* Exchange t to world Jewry. Prac- tPratcritic-s ,ttrhicilkeenh lEtpert Repotting r hundreds ofthoethdeis ejoicing hid for days in cellars and behind i tically no foreign money was sent 2041 Eight Mile Road doors. The cruel irony 1 to the Soviet Union for private TOWNSEND 8-6467 barricated ar relief. The second five-year plan this pticular pogrom was , of ' also contributed to an improve- evidenced by the arrest and sub- THE SEASON'S GREETINGS sequent conviction of PrzytYk ' ment in the living conditions of p -charged with having killed the general population an i of the Jews. a Polish peasant in defending facto in that New Year Greetings to Our The Jewish colonies in the 14 The tee ial of the General Auto Repairs themselves. Many Jewish Friends FrzYtYk Jews and 43 Poles at Ukraine and Crimea, now on a Radom was • sensation. After self-supporting basis, continued to loans advanced several pay back weeks of hearings the Poles se- ago by the Joint Distribu- MANUFACTURER OF 1755 BLAINE AVE. cused of murdering two Jews years Committee. The colonization were let off with mild prison tion in Biro-Bidjan made stet FOUNDRY FACINGS and SUPPLIES TRinity 2.0176 terms, while 11 of the Jews re- project ceived long sentences. dy progress. The government as- BUFFING COMPOSITIONS The tragic aspect of the Polish- signed over 25,000,000 rubles for PLATERS SUPPLIES REAL ESTATE Jewish situation could best be the development of that area. It yet true factcontinued to give generous and EQUIPMENT gauged in the sad spry \f.w 3 Fin that even these pogroms failed I unprecedented state help to the ■ FACE BRICK — FIRE BRICK to arouse world Jewry to effective settlers. Upon the urgent request relief action or political protests. of a Jewish committee in the 22662 MICHIGAN While the Jews in Poland organ- , United States it extended the' OFFICE AND WAREHOUSE DIXIE INN BAR.B.Q iced a number of effective gen.: same privileges to a limited num- Phone Dearborn 0606 of foreign Jewish families. CORNER LARNED and THIRD STREETS 2606 John R eral strike IS protests against ber al l s o Government KURN'S Yolles - Gilbert Company Levin Drug Store WOODWARD at GR AT I OT S. S. MARX THE SALVATION ARMY WISHES TO EXTEND TO ITS MANY FRIENDS OF TIIE JEWISH FAITH HEARTY NEW YEAR GREETINGS COL. R. FITZGERALD STRETTON 564 MICHIGAN AVE. CADILLAC 2241 SANI•WASH LAUNDRY Rosh Has honah Greetings .. . Cadillac Management Co. Schwartz Investment Co. FOR A HIGHER YIELD PAID IN THE FORM OF A REGULAR MONTHLY INCOME WITH SAFETY We offer our .. . INCOME ... 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