PAGE FOUR THE DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE Berman Named Soviet Com- missar of Communications Civil Liberties In U. S. Unimpaired MOSCOW (WNS)—M. K. Ber- man, until now vice-commissar of internal affairs, has been named commissar of communications In the latest cabinet shakeup. Berman is known as the man who built the newly opened Moscow-Volga canal. A Message to the Jewish People on the Occasion of Rosh Hashonah By ARTHUR H. VANDENBERG United States Senator from Michigan I am happy to take advantage of another annual opportunity to present my New Year's greetings through the great courtesy of The Detroit Jewish Chronicle. Although Jewish people all round the globe are finding much perplexity and trouble — and often insufferable outrage — in these trying times, we in America may still proclaim our grati- tude that civil liberties in the United States are still unimpaired; and that this land of freedom tolerates no racial or religious prejudice. It is the crowning glory of the American Constitutional system and our immortal Bill of Rights. None know it better than our Jewish citizenship which bitterly sees what happens elsewhere under different auspices. None, therefore, will be more eager to assert a New Year's Resolution" that the American System shall be faithfully preserved; that our defenses—in the Constitution and the Courts — shall never be im- paired; and that Liberty-Under-Law for all faithful citizens, regardless of race, color, religion or creed, shall be irresistibly maintained. To this "Resolu- tion" we shall add the hope and prayer that this high American example may one day inspire emula- tion in other lands where intolerance and bigotry now hold dark sway. Sincerest holiday Greetings Hanover Fire Insurance Co. BEN PHILLIPS, JR. State Agent 519 FREE PRESS BLDG. CAdillac 2130 ROSH HASHONAH GREETINGS C. G. Conn, Ltd. DETROIT BRANCH IRV WILKIE. Mgr. 1427 BROADWAY RAndolph 1308 Happy New Year SEASON'S GREETINGS Connecticut General Life Insurance Co. TOM O'KEEFE, SCOVERA CARTAGE CO. State Mgr. 8723 W. Jefferson Ave. 1770 Nat'l Bank Bldg. VI. 2.2230 Life — Health — Accident Group Insurance CA. 3977 SEASON'S GREETINGS Capt. Edward Dennison William F. Otto Inc. Supt. SADDLERY Happy New Year Detroit House of 19372 WOODWARD AVE. Correction LOngfellow 2859 Holiday Greetings Johnson Piston Ring Co. ROSII HASIIONAll GREETINGS SUPERIOR SAFETY FURNACE PIPE CO. 5820 Forsyth Ave. 6010 WOODWAD AVE. MAdison 3033 TR. 2.2147 Rosh flashonah Greetings MORSE TOOL CO. , Season's Greetings Great Lakes Tool & Die Co. 7628 GIRARDIN AVE. 116 E. Goldengate Season's Greetings Phone TE 2.8090 ROMA. CAFE The Home of Good Italian Food 3401 Riopelle, Car. Erskine JOHN BATTLAGIA MORRIS SOSSI Proprietors PLaaa 0149 110015 HASHONAll GREETINGS JACK'S WELDING WORKS 10465 KNODEL AVE. The Origin of Priesthood in Ancient Israel Prof. Herbert II. Willett writes: "In early Hebrew days there was no special order of men consti- tuting a priesthood. Every man was both ruler and priest in his own family. The sheikh of a village would naturally exercise the some functions in behalf of the com- munity. In a similar manner the kings of Israel offered sacrifices in behalf of the nation. Saul, David and Solomon are represented as ministering in this manner. There appears to have been no restriction of priestly ministries to any one tribe or family group, although members of the clan of Levi may have been favored in the employ- ment of village priests owing to the prestige of the name of Moses, and the fact that they were too few to hold any tribal area. "The development of an order of priests, with ranks from high priest down to common • priests, Levites and Nethinim, or temple servants, was a gradual process. By their own efforts their privil- leges were augmented and their rewards increased. The earlier sources make no mention of the office of high priest. The first no- tice of a superior priest is in con- nection with the discovery of the law book (2 Kings 22:4,18) where Ilikiah is called the higY 'priest' But this may be due to the custom ; prevailing in the age of the writer, or to revision in the period of the priest code. The first authentic reference to a high priest by a contemporary writer is Zechariah's statement regarding 'Jushua the high priest.'" The late Fritz Haber, German Jewish scientist who won the Nobel Prize in physics for his develop- ment of the artificial nitrogen fix- ation process which helped Ger- many stand out against the British wartime blockade, received almost lyric praise in the Essener Na- tionalzeitung, Goering's paper, in an article written by Dr. Dietrich, chief of the Nazi press chamber. Ousted from his job after the Nazis came to power, Haber died in exile, but the Nazi official called him "a genius", without, of course men- tioning the fact that he was a Jew. American tourists are so scarce in Germany this year that the Nazis have hired two big-time American press agents to plug the beauties of Naziland . . . The job will cost 60 grand. ROSII IIARIIONAII GREETINGS Telfer's Bokay Coffee LONDON (WNS) — Jewish emigration organizations, seeking an outlet for the hundreds of thousands of Jews in Eastern and Central Europe, may turn to New Zealand if the mass immigration plans said to be favorably con- sidered by the New Zealand gov- ernment should be carried out, it is reported in "Round Table," a British review. According to a New Zealand report in this jour- nal, a substantial part of the New Zealand press, economic and welfare organizations and cham- bers of commerce are in favor of lifting immigration restrictions. Mass immigration to New Zea- land is said to find its strongest r advocate in Mr. Barnard, speaker of the New Zealand parliament, who is understood to favor ad- mitting a maximum of 5,000,000 immigrants. New Zealand busi- ness circles are also reported to be favorable because of the ire portance of mass consumption. The chief opposition is concen- trated in the labor unions who fear that increased immigration would lower the wage level. The present population of New Zea- land is 1,600,000. The Jewish population is 3,000. Every time you get your pic- ture taken in one of those photo- matons, drop coins in slot machine games in arcades or try to win a prize by playing any other kind of coin-operated gadget you're put- ting money in the pocket of Bill Rabkin, president of the Interna- tional Mutoscope Reel Company, which makes all those games. Rosh Haslionall Greeting. E. & L. Transport Company 5511 MILLER ROAD A HAPPY NEW YEAR Walter S. Ryan Co. MACHINE TOOLS 4363 Woodward Ave. Royal Oak Nagel-Ryan Co., Inc. Antomatic Machinery fur the Graphic Arts Washington Square Bldg. Royal Oak Rosh Ilashonah Greetings J. W. Pattern Co. F. E. JONES General Mgr. 7742 W. DAVISON HO. 4029 Federal Life and Casualty Co. VINCENT D. CLIFF President 2980 W. GRAND BLVD. MAdison 3930 DEARBORN ORegon 7770 ROSH IIASHONAll GREETING.; SEASON'S GREETINGS Samuel G. Keywell Company Blue Boat Inn The Finest in Liquor, Food, and Entertainment Jos. A. BUIDDENDORG, Prop. 1642 East Eight Mile Road A HAPPY NEW YEAR O'Neil & Hoffner, Inc. FICII AND SEA MODS 18 Broadway Market RA. 4077 TO. 7.9784 Telephone Ttizedo 4-0166 Maintenance Tunings Herbert Leadbetter Rosh IIashonah Greetings Wholesalers Marketers of the Famous FORD BENZOL Best For All Cars Over 500 stations in the Detroit Area ORGAN BUILDER Rebuilds - Electriflcallon Addition. 4002 COURVILLE AYE. Detroit, Mich. Rosh Ilashonah Greetings Heintz Service Station 8432 MT. ELLIOTT AVE. PLan 1654 BENZOL STATIONS Inc. 14310 WOODWARD AVE. LOngfellow 2010 A HAPPY NEW YEAR C. & H. Nielsen Cartage Co. GENERAL CARTAGE 1338 CLAY AVE. TRinity 2-2212 Detroit Display and Cabinet Co. Rosh Hashonah Greetings Builder of Modern Store Fixture. 121011 CLASS DECORATING 106 E. Atwater CA. son Metal Mouldings Corp. NEW YEAR '0 GREETINGS TOM A. JOHNSON nOODISORKINO Eetablished Since Ills EMI- m.11y I-9397 4559 WESSON AVE. IMIA IL JEFFERSON ATE. Murray 0433 Streicher, whose paper, Der Stuermer, is notorious for its filthy contents, has been appoint. ed special commissar to watch over the utilization of garbage . . He's the perfect man for the 'ob. Holiday Greetings 110011 IIASIIONAII GREETINGS Floor Shone Every Night COCKTAIL BAR PLata 0342 Eye New Zealand as Outlet for Some one in the Nazi regime Mass Jewish Immigration has a sense of humor . . . Julius 1365 E. Lamed St. Brigham Young's is3 7 SEPT. 3, 364 Puritan Ate. A HAPPY NEW TEAR LAfayette 7010 John D. Busch & Sons Sleet Metal and Roofing I ontracters 639 East Fort St. RA. 7889 ad all