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Issues Statement to National
Conference of Jews
and Christians

PROCLAIMS UNITY IN
COMMON CITIZENSHIP

Urges Americans Not to Let
Foreign Ideologies Dis-
rupt Friendships

NEW YORK (WNS)—A plea
to American citizens not to per-
mit "divided opinions regarding
situations in other lands" to "cre-
ate cleavage between religious
groups in our nation" lest "phil-
osophies dominant in totalitar-
ian states . .. disrupt the cordial
relationships which now exist
among Protestants. Catholics and
Jews in America" was made by
President Roosevelt in a state-
ment released by Dr. Everett R.
Clinchy, director of the National
Conference of Jews and Chris-
tians. The President's statement.
given in connection with the 10th
anniversary celebration of the
conference of which Mr. Roose-
velt is honorary chairman, called
upon citizens to advance demo-
cratic principles in the United
States and declared that in this
nation we proclaim the equal
rights of all religious groups
whether of the majority or of
minorities, and find our unity in
a common citizenship."
The text of the President's
statement reads as follows:

This country is thoroughly
committed to the principle of
civil and religious liberty. In.
stead of deploring the variety
of racial strains and spiritual
traditions which are an inher•
ant part of our people, we wel.
come them as • token of the
freedom that we enjoy and be-
lieve that the common life is
enriched by what each of these
groups contribute.. In this na-
tion we proclaim the equal
rights of all religious groups
whether of the majority or of
minorities, and find our unity
in • common citizenship. Free-
dom of speech, of the press and
of assembly are guaranteed to
all by the Bill of Right.,
This American doctrine is
challenged or denied in other
parts of the world today. It
is my earnest hope that divided
opinions regarding situations in
other lands than ours will not
create cleavage between reli-
gious groups in our own na-
tion. .Philosophies dominant in
totalitarian states must not be
allowed to disrupt the cordial
relationships which now exist
among Protestants, Catholics,
and Jews in America. We be-
lieve in democracy, • happy
combination of freedom and re.
sponsibility. Our fathers fought
for it and left it to us as our
heritage. We are determined
to maintain it and to demon•
strata in American the possi-
bility of a community in which
men or diverse racial origins
and religious convictions can
live together in mutual respect,
friendship and co-operation in
all those matters that make for
human happiness and national
well-being.
The perpetuation of these
democratic principles demand,
as they deserve, our devotion
and sacrifice. We must not hold
them too cheaply at a time when
they seem to be receding in
some quarters where they were

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DR. MANNING MEETS
STREICHER ATTACK

DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1937

"Youth and Synagogue"
Theme of Services at
Shaarey Zedek Friday

BOYCOTT SPREADS Shaarey Zedek Accepts Gifts PREDICTS JEWISH
TERROR IN RANKS For Frank Memorial Building STATE BOUNDARY
OF POLISH JEWRY
TO BE EXTENDED

"Youth and the Synagogue"
will be the central theme of the
late Friday evening services at
the Shaarey Zedek this Friday,
Dec. 24, at 8:30 p. m.
These services will be in com- Warsaw Commerce College
Closed When Anti-Sem-
plete charge of the Junior Con-
gregation of Shaarey Zedek. ,
ices Bar Jews
The speakers will be Ilene
Schiller and Herbert Levin.
Responsive readings will be led GHETTO SECTION FOR
by David Krohn, Marilyn Koff-
RUMANIAN REPORTERS
man and Muriel Singer. Cantor
J. H. Sonenklar and his choir
will participate in the services. Legislation for Ghettos for
Aliens in Mexico Wins
A social hour follows the late
Friday evening services, and re-
Aid of Gov't Bloc
freshments are served. The pub-
lic is invited,
WARSAW (WNS) — Terror
and fear of economic ruin are
rapidly spreading through Polish
Jewry as a result of the intensifi-
cation of the militant anti-Jewish
boycott campaign during the
"month of Polonization" lunched
by the Congress of Polish Traders
to effect the complete elimination
of Jews from all branches of trade
Dr. Friedlaender Ch osen and
industry. The boycott is being
Chairman of Commit-
carried out through mass picketing
of Jewish shops in the major towns
tee in Charge
and cities and the use of violence
Lawrence W. Crohn, president by anti-Semitic hoodlums. In War-
saw,
Radomsk, Minsk and Czesto-
of the Zionist Organization of
Detroit, this week announced the chewer long picket lines have
been
thrown around Jewish shops.
appointment of Dr. Bernard
In many cities the picketing has
Friedlaender as chairman of the
led to violence which has forced
hundreds of Jewish stores to close.
Protests to local officials and the
ministry of commerce have proved
unavailing. In some instances the
pickets are being fed by field kitch-
ens. The whole country is flooded
with millions of leaflets calling
on the populace to join the boycott.
A free delivery system has been
organized in many towns to aid
merchants who have joined the
boycott. To deal with the critical
situation an emergency conference
of all Jewish organizations and
Jewish members of parliament has
been called to meet in Warsaw.
Because of its membership in
the World Maccabi Union, the
Maccabi, Jewish sports organiza-
tion, has been excluded from the
Polish Tennis Association.

ZIONISTS TO HAVE
MEMBERSHIP DRIVE

DR. B. FRIEDLAENDER

membership committee which la
to conduct the current drive for
new members.
Dr. Friedlaender, who has been
active in the organization during
the past three years in executive
capacities, will be assisted during
this campaign by a large commit-
tee which will be named this
week.
Mr. Crohn also announced that
Rabbi Milton Steinberg. one of
the outstanding of the younger
men in the rabbinate, author of
"The Jew in the Making," will
address the Zionist Organibation
at a public meeting at the Jew-
ish Community Center.

Franklin to Preach
on New Year's Eve
•

Unable to maintain order, the
authorities ordered the closing
of the Warsaw College of Com-
merce for an indefinite period.
The immediate cause of the
closing was a picket line thrown
around the college by nation•
• list students to prevent Jews
from entering. The blockade
was the anti-Semites' answer
to the Jews' refusal to occupy
the ghetto benches.

Nazis Arrest Correspondent of
Jewish Morning Journal

KOVNO (WNS) — A demand
for the release of hi. Fink, a Lithu-
anian Jew who had been acting as
the Berlin correspondent of the
New York Jewish Morning Jour-
nal, presented to the German gov-
ernment by the Lithuanian foreign
ministry, has been rejected. Fink
was arrested by the secret police
in Berlin. He never signed his
name to his dispatches which ap-
peared under the pseudonym, "Ben
Yahuda."
The Day, New York Yiddish
daily, and the Pariser Haint, Paris
daily, have been ordered barred
from Poland.

"Can We Be Optimists Today?" Polish Melamed Finds Haven in
His Topic; Jews Urged to ,
Prague Through Interven.
Abstain from Celebrations
lion of Benes
PRAGUE (WNS)—Isaac Matz-
At the Sabbath Eve services to I kovitz, an impoverished Jewish

be held at Temple Beth El on
Year's
ear s Eve, Dr. Leo M.
Franklin will speak on the sub-
ject, "Can We Be Optimists To-
day?" in this address Dr. Frank-
IM will deal with a world situa-
tion, with special reference to
conditions in Jewry.

is especially urged upon
the Jewish people to abstain
from any frivolous and ribald
celebration of the incoming
secular New Year at the hours
when religious services are be.
ing held in temples and syna-
gogues throughout the land.

It

Hebrew teacher from Bialystok,
Poland, has been admitted to
Czechoslovakia as a permanent
resident through the personal in-
tervention of President E. Benes.
Dr. Benes paid Matzkowitz's trans-
portation from Poland. In report-
ing this incident the Prague press
says that when Benes was elected
president to succeed the late
Thomas Masaryk, Matzkowitz sent
him a warm letter of congratula.
tion and asked for permission to
come to Czechoslovakia.

Ghetto for

Reporters in

Defies Anti-Semite; To Con- The services at the Temple will
Rumanian Parliament
tinue War on National,
begin, as usual, at 8 o'clock and
BUCHAREST (WNS) — Anti-
will be followed by a social hour Semitism in Rumania took two big
Religious Persecution

NEW YORK (WNS) — Assail-
ing racial or religious persecution
as "contrary to all civilized ideals
and to every rinciple of the
principle of the C h ristian religion,"
Bishop William T. Manning of the
New York Protestant Episcopal
Diocese replied to an attack on him
in Julius Streicher's Stuermer
with a statement expressing the
hope that "for the sake of the Ger-
man people" the Nazi leaders will
soon come to their senses" with re-
gard to their anti-Semitic policy.
"I will continue to speak against
the persecution of Jews or any-
body else in Germany or anywhere
and against national or religious
peecution or discrimination o f
any sort," Bishop Manning said in
answering the Stuerrner's attack
on him ' as "a child of hell, a
pseudo-priest and a wolf in sheep's
clothing" because of his recent de-
nunciations of anti-Semitism.

BERLIN (WNS) — Assailing
Bishop Manning of New York for
his speeches characterizing anti-
Semitism as un-Christian, the
Stuermer, Germany's leading anti-
Jewish paper, said that "if Christ
were again to come to earth and
heard Bishop Manning he would
say-, "I have prophesied that pseu-
do-priests would come, and wolves
in sheens' clothing would falsify
my words. Did I not say that Jew's
KO about and make allies for Jews
and make of them children of hell
two fold as evil as themselves. This
Bishop Manning is such an ally o f
Jews. Ile is a pseudo-priest, a wolf
in sheep's clothing and a twofold
child in That is what Christ
would say, and he would take a
whip and drive Bishop Manning
from the temple."

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ROOSEVELT URGES
AMICABLE STATUS
FOR THREE CREEDS

NEWSPAPER PRINTED c IN MICHIGAN
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sponsored by the Temple Sister- steps forward when the govern-
hood.
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CONGREGATIONS
ORGANIZATIONS CONGREGATIONS
CLASSES STAND
IN SYMPA WITH
THY
HUMILIATED STUDENTS IN POLAND

,

Call of Detroit Section of American Jewish Congress
Meets With City-Wide Response; Protest
Against Rumanian Persecutions

The Detroit section of the
American Jewish Congress re-
ports that congregations, classes
and organizations have responded
to the call issued last week that
all Jewish groups observe Dec.
15 to Jan. 15. as "Stand-Up
Month" in sympathy with the Jew-
ish students in Poland who are
being segregated in "Ghetto
Benches" and who refuse to take
the seats assigned to them and
remain standing rather than sub-
mit to humiliations.
Reports received by the local
Jewish Congress office indicate
that this month is being observed
throughout the city by all groups,
young and old.
Conference Jan. 9
•
Future activities of the Con-
gress will be planned at a meet-
ing of the executive and adminis-
trative committee, on Vi ednesday
evening at the office of Dr. H. E.
Lippitt, 12th and Clairmount
A conference of represents-
tines of organizations affiliated
with the Congress will be held
at the Bnai Moshe at 2:30 p. Tn.,

on Sundae, Jan. 9, to act on
recommendations of the execu-
tive.

Protest to Rumania

The American Jewish Congress
made nubile a telegram addressed
to Charles A. Davila, the Ru-
manian minister to the United
States, requesting immediate ac-
tion by the Rumanian government
to safeguard the right of the
Jews to cast their ballots at the
polls in the elections which were
held throughout Rumania on Mon-
day. Dec. 20.
The action of the American
Jewish Congress followed receipt
of information by it that Jews
throughout Rumania were being
threatened with death if they dare
to make their appearance at the
polls to exercise their right of
franchise on Monday. The gov-
ernment, it was stated, had taken
no action to 'nevem. the intimida-
tion going forward. The Ameri-
can Jewish Congress called atten-
tion to the fact that the continua-
tion of such action represents a
repudiation of the pledges made
by RuMania at Versailles.

Per Year, $3.00; Per Copy, 10 Cents

Mrs. Warburg Elected
Honorary J.D.C. Head;

Succeeds Her Husband

NEW YORK (WNS)—Mrs.
Felix M. Warburg was elected
Board Acts on Offers of Samuel Frank to Contribute
honorary
chairman of the Joint
Towards Erection of School Building
Distribution Committee at the
Adjoining the Synagogue
Moshe Smilanaky Stites annual meeting of the commit.
tee's board of directors thus suc-
2,000,000 More Jews
ceeding to the post occupied by
The board of directors of Con- publication of a young people's
Will Be Absorbed
her late husband. Mr, War-
gregation Shaarey Zedek voted to manual
accept the gifts of Samuel Frank
burg's place on the executive
Since that time, Mr. Frank has
committee was filled by the elec-
for the erection of a new school created a Frank Memorial Fund ASK AUTHORIZATION
FOR
ARMED
FORCES
tion of Lewis L. Strauss. George
building to adjoin Congregatibn out of which further contributions
Shaarey Zedek on Rochester and are to be made to the building
Backer was elected vice-chair-
Lawton Ayes., for the purpose of fund of the newly-proposed Shea- Ten Arabs in One Family man of the J.D.C. and Leon
Falk, Jr., of Pittsburgh was
housing the school and youth ac- rey Zedek structure which is to be
Are Sentenced by
tivities of the synagogue.,
elected vice-chairman of the na-
known as the Frank Memorial
Military
Court
tional
council, of which James
Mr. Frank's gifts were first an- Building and which is to be a me-
N, Rosenberg is chairman.
nounced at the 75th anniversary morial to Mr. Frank's wife, Kate,
TEL
AVIV
(W N S—Palcor Other additions to the board of
banquet on Dec. 12. At that time who died 10 years ago.
Mr. Frank made cash gifts of
In addition to providing addi- Agency—The prediction that 2,- directors were Abe Bronfman
$12,000 for the following purposes: tional quarters for the Shaarey 000,000 more Jews could be ab- of Montreal and Judge Philip
$5,000 for the purchase of the lot Zedek school, it is proposed to sorbed in the boundaries at pres- Forman of Trenton, N. J.
National officers elected were:
upon which the new building is to have the new building serve as ent proposed for the Jewish state
be erected; $5,000 towards the quarters for youth activities of was made by Moshe Smilanskv, Paul Baerwald, chairman; Gov-
new school building fund; $1,500 sons and daughters of Shaarey president of the Palestine Far- ernor Herbert II. Lehman,
as a gift to the Jewish Theological Zedek members and as headquar- mer's Federation, author and James II, Becker, David M.
Seminary and $500 to the United tees for the Junior Congregation noted exponent of Arab-Jewish Bressler, Alexander Kahn, Wil-
friendship, in an address at the liam Rosenwald, George Backer
Synagogue of America for the of Shaarey Zedek.
Federation conference. Mr. Smi- and Rabbi Jonah B. Wise, vice-
lansky gave full endorsement to chairmen; Marco F. Hellman
the proposal for the establishment and I. Edwin Goldwasser, treas-
Earlier Deadline For
of a Jewish state. The adoption urers; William A. Koshland,
The Issue of Dec. 31
of that program, he asserted, is associate treasurer; Mrs. H, N.
the key to the amelioration of L. Goldstein, comptroller, and
the economic difficulties gripping Joseph C. Hyman, secretary
Due to the fact that there
will be no mail delivery on
the country. The speaker, who in and executive director.
Saturday, Jan. 1, the next issue
the past has frequently been crit-
of The Detroit Jewish Chron- Honorary Chairman of 10th ical of the Jewish Agency, ex-
premed confidence that the boun-
icle will go to press a day
Anniversary of N. C. J.
daries of the projected Jewish
earlier than usual and the
C.
of
Michigan
state will be enlarged beyond
deadline will also be advanced
those envisaged in the Royal
one day. All copy for the next
issue will have to be in the
NEW YORK, N. Y. — Gov. Commission report. He added
hands of the editor not later Frank Murphy will act as honor- the belief that the Negeb, the
than Tuesday morning, Dec. 28. ary chairman of the committee large stretch of land in southern
for Michigan in the 10th anniver- Palestine, would remain in Brit-
Orthodox Leader to Be
sary celebration of the National ish possession.
In the course of his speech, Guest Speaker at Confer-
Conference of Jews and Chris-
tians, Everett Ross Clinchy. di- Smilansky also urged Jews to
ence Banquet Jan. 2
rector of the conference, announc- give their utmost support to the
ed. The celebration will be the Keren Hayesod and the Keren
occasion for a campaign, to cul- Kayemeth, in view of the basic
The first midwest regional con-
minate shortly after next Wash- Part played by these two insti- ference of Mizrachi, to be held
ington's Birthday, to multiply the tutions in the development of the in Detroit, Jan. 1 and 2, will be
addressed by Rabbi Herbert S.
Kirstein, Vladeck, Taft to number of local "round tables" of country. Hail Farmers Unity
Goldstein of New York, local
Jews, Catholics and Protestants
Address Federations
The assembly included 321 Mizrachi leaders, in charge of
which meet to foster mutual un-
Assembly Jan. 8.10
derstanding and to promote co- delegates representing 4,000 far- arrangements, announced this
operation on matters of common mers and planters of Palestine. week. The prominent spiritual
This year's conference is notable head of the institutional Syna-
Louis E. Kirstein, vice-president concern as American citizens.
President Roosevelt is honor- for the amalgamation of the Fed- gogue of New York, who is pro-
of William Filene's Sons Company,
eration with the National Agricul-
Boston, and B. C. Vladeck, newly ary chairman of the national cele- turists' Union, both of which
had
elected member of the New York bration committee, and local com- been at odds for years. For the
City Council on the American La- mittees are being formed in the first time in the history of the
48
states.
In
accepting
the
chair-
bor Party ticket, will be the lead-
Federation,
of the lar-
ing speakers at the opening ses- manship for the committee for ger private composed
planters, an official
sion of the fifth annual general Michigan, Governor Murphy wrote invitation to address the confer.
to
Dr.
Clinchy:
"The
purpose
of
assembly of the Council of Jewish
ence was addressed to a member
Federations and Welfare Functs, the campaign of the National Con- of the Jewish Agency Executive.
meeting in Cincinnati, Jan. 8, 9 ference of Jews and Christians is The spokesman was David ben
merits the whole-hearted
and 10, Max Hirsch of Cincinnati, one that
active support of every citi- Gurion, chairman of the execu-
chairman of the program commit- and
zen. We as a people cannot rea- tive, who expressed satisfaction
tee, announced.
sonably hope to achieve the condi- with the closer approach of the
Mr. Kirstein is president of the tion of universal happiness and farmers to the Zionist Organiza-
Associated Jewish Philanthropies prosperity to which we aspire as tion and the Vaad Leumi.
of Boston. Mr. Vladeck is manag- long as we are divided by reli-
A demand for the arming of
ing editor of the Jewish Daily For- gious and racial prejudices. Only the Jewish community of Pales-
ward, president of the ORT, chair- through friendly discussion and tine in view of the continuing
man of the Jewish Labor Com- mutual understanding can these disturbances was one of two
mittee, a director of Hies and a prejudices be eliminated."
principal resolutions adopted by
member of the executive commit-
Lansing and Pontiac, Mich., it the Federation. The other reso-
tee of the Joint Distribution Com- was said at the National Confer- lution called for the revision of DR. HERBERT S. GOLDSTEIN
mittee.
ence of Jews and Christians, are Article 18 of the League Man- fessor of homiletics at Yeshiva
Krolik to Speak
two of about 100 American com- date on Palestine, declaring College, will attend the four-state
Other outstanding leaders in munities already having local that it was jeopardizing the de- Mizrachi convention here as rep-
Jewish communal affairs, including round tables which will serve in velopment of trod. and indus- resentative of the national execu-
Sidney Hollander of Baltimore, some measure as models for oth- try.
tive committee of which he is a
Rabbi Abbe Hillel Silver of Cleve- ers throughout the country. Mich-
The place of Jewish labor in member, together with the presi-
land, Julian II. Krolik of Detroit, igan members of the National Jewish-owned plantations evoked dent, Leon Gellman, and the ex-
Joseph P. Loeb of Los Angeles, Conference include Dr. Edwin W. a heated discussion in view of ecutive secretary. Rabbi Max
Robert J. Koshland of San Fran- Bishop, the Rev. John O'Rafferty, the charges being made that Jew- Kirshblum. Rabbi Goldstein will
cisco, and George Barker, Solomon and Rabbi Herman Rosenwasser, ish employers were discriminat i speak at the banquet to be given
Lowenstein, James Marshall, and all of Lansing; Rabbi Eric Fried- Mg against Jewish workmen. in honor of delegates and guests
Ira M. Younker of New York land of Pontiac: and Rabbi Leo Some of the delegate, present at the conclusion of the sessions,
City, will address the three-day M. Franklin of Detroit.
demanded that the Federation go Sunday evening, Jan. 2, at the
Formation of these round tables, n record an favoring the em- Philadelphia-Byron Hall.
sessions,
The speakers will concern them- where Anglicans, Evangelical Pro- ployment of a one hundred per
Graduated from the Jewish
selves chiefly with the general testants, Greek Catholics, Jews, c ant Jewish staff. Others insisted Theological Seminary and Colum-
theme of the organization of local Mormoms, Roman Catholics, Qua- I t hat the ratio should be kept at bia University in 1915, Rabbi
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communities throughout the coun-
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try to help them cope with their
reapnsibilities in meeting all Jew-
rmi sot i c r a n a cje:wTi shhe uW
1 da
ish needs, local, national and over-
seas.
Ch
eyrattoanding
A panel of prominent speakers
will participate in a symposium
By FRANK MURPHY, Governor of Michigan
on "The Position of the Jews in
the Modern State" which will lea-
tore the closing dinner meeting of EDITOR'S NOTE: This able analysis of the philosophy of American democracy by one of the most
the assembly, Mr. Hirsch said.
brilliant of the younger figures in contemporary American public life was part of an address
Symposium Participants
Governor Murphy made at the 50th anniversary jubilee dinner of Yeshiva College, which
Charles P. Taft, a director of
marked the launching of a nationwide effort to raise $1,000,000 for the maintenance of that
celebrated institution of Jewish learning.
the Cincinnati Community Chest;
Prof. Max Ascoli, member of the
Three hundred years ago a lone! of this movement have an-
graduate faculty of the New School
the y would provide a vote to
for Social Research, New York Englishman, expelled as a heretic nounced that it is their plan to
determine whether the resi-
City, and former professor of the from the foundling commonwealth "subjugate" the entire Jewish
dents of these Hebraic commun-
philosophy of law in several Italian of Massachusetts, ventured into race. To effect this end they
ities would be permitted to de-
universities; Alfred Bottm a n, the fringe of the great American would purge the schools of all
part from them and travel at
chairman of the Cincinnati City wilderness and founded a colony Jews) eliminate them from pub.
will throughout the country.
Planning Commission and legal where he might espouse - without lie office; and segregate and
This, mind you, in • land whose
consultant for the Tennessee Val- let or hindrance his heretical idea. confine them in 48 specially ere.
supreme law sets up as the first
ley Authority; and Rabbi Solomon That colony was destined to be- sited Jewish cities. After •
in • bill of fundamental rights
Goldman of Congregation Anshe come the tiniest state in the Amer- probationary period of 17 years
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Emet, Chicago, honorary vice- ican Union, but the idea was des-
chairman of the United Palestine tined to be the cornerstone upon ,
Appeal, are scheduled to take part which that Union is built. The
Englishman, as you know, was
in the symposium.
Federation leaders from several Roger Williams, and the principle
cities will take part in a discussion which made of him an outcast was
on the changes confronting Jew- briefly this: "It is the will and
ish federations. L. Edwin Gold- command of God that permission
man, former president of the Bal- of the most paganish, Jewish, Tur-
timore Jewish Social Service Bu- kish, or anti-Christian consciences
reau, Isidore Sobeloff, executive and worships be granted to all
director of the Detroit Jewish Wel- ' men in all nations and countries."
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Today the tiny state of Rhode
Island is but one of forty-eight—
states united to form a great
democracy posse , sed of a material
culture such 85 no man dreamed
of in the year 1636. Would that we
might say this glorious nation has
A. Jerome Himelhoch, a sen- progressed spiritually as remark-
ior at Harvard University, son of ably as it has materially! But, sad
Israel Himelhoch, 461 Burns Drive, to relate, such is not the case. To-
has been selected for a Rhodes day, in 1937, the same forces that
Scholarship to Oxford, it was an- caused the "enlargement" of Rog-
nounced at Indianapolis by the er Williams from the colony of
Midwest Regional Rhodes Scholar. Massachusetts are still at work,
ship Committee.
seeking the ostracism, if not the
The scholarship provides for expulsion from our ahores, of those
two years of study at Oxford with whose creeds are at variance with
a possible third year, depending on the faiths that are in the majority.
the record of the student
Recently, the headlines of •
Himelhoch was graduated with middleweetere daily shouted the
The Hon. Frank Murphy, governor of Michigan (standing)
honors from Cranbrook School in news that organization work
sounded • poignant warning to American public opinion when he
1934. He has received two honor- was proceeding in • movement
said that "Democracy cannot become • reality in every phase of
ary scholarships at Harvard where whose avowed objective was to
life while movements to discriminate against Jewry or to persecute
he studied philosophy and eco- drive Jewry out of the nation."
the Catholic or the Mennonite are being planned."
nomics. Ile has been prominent In Selecting from the many me-
From left to right: Rabbi Irving Miller, chairman of the national
extra - curricular activities, and talled justifications for Jew. jubilee committee, who presided ever the conference; Ludwig Levi-
this year Is vice-president of the baiting the theory that the Jews s•liss, well-known novelist; Dr. Bernard Ravel, president of Yeshiva
Harvard Student Union. He Is 21 are the proponents and spou-
College; Samuel C. l.amport and A. B. Joffe, photographed at the
years old.
ses.* of comm•nism, the leaders
opening session I. the Yeshiva College auditorium, New York City.

GOY. MURPHY HEADS
INTER - FAITH TASK

MIZRACHI TO HEAR
RABBI GOLDSTEIN

WELFARE RALLY
SPEAKERS LISTED

THE ONLY ROAD:

LAUNCH $1,000,000 YESHIVAH FUND

A. Jerome Himelhoch
Given Rhodes Award !

"GHETTO BENCHES"
PROTESTED BY 994
U. S. PROFESSORS

Scholars Associated With
110 Universities Sign
Emphatic Statement

ISSUE OPEN LETTER
TO POLISH SCHOLARS

Appeal to Colleagues to Op-
pose Plans for Segre-

gation of Jews

Acting in behalf of 934 out-
standing American scholars as-
sociated with 110 of the leading
universities in the United States,
the American section of the In-
ternational League for Academic
Freedom addressed itself to the
Ministry of Education of Poland,

calling upon it to take steps to

end the segregation of Jewish
students in "Ghetto Benches" in
the academic institutions of that
country.
Accompanying this request was
an open letter sent to academic
leaders in Poland and signed by
994 American academic leaders,
appealing to them to oppose the
"Ghetto Benches" and warning
that such. discrimination against
Jews is "alien to the spirit of aca-
demic freedom and of free co-
operation in the pursuit of knowl-
edge that is no essential to the
world of scholarship."
The signatures were obtained
through the initiative of the
American section of the Interna-
tional League for Academic Free-
dom of which Dr. Alvin Johnson
of the New School for Social Re-
search, is president; Prof. Albert
Einstein of the Institute of Ad-
vanced Study, Prof. John Dewey
and Prof. Wesley C. Mitchell of
Columbia University, vice-presi-
dents; Prof. Horace M. Kellen of
the New School for Social Re-
search, secretary.
Transmitting the open letter to
the Polish Ministry of Eudcation,
in behalf of the International
League, Dr. Kellen warned that
the continuation of "Ghetto
Benches" would bring about the
isolation of Polish academic In-
stitutions from free educational
institutions throughout the world,
The letter to the Polish ministry
of education declared that:
The feeling is universal her.
that the establishment of "Ghet-
to Benches" cannot but have
negative effects upon the free.
door of mind which is indispen•
able to the search for truth and
the progress of science; that it
would tend to isolate Polish in-
stitutions of learning from con-
tact with the free educational
institutions of those countries
in which today the teachers and
students in the arts and sci-
ences are protected regardless
of race, faith or sea, in the
equal liberty of the pursuit of
knowledge and the discovery of
truth.
At the' same time, the view
was expressed that despite the au-
tonomy of Polish academic insti-
tutions, "the ministry of educa-
tion has the duty as well as the
power to take effective measures
to bring an end to the policy of
segregation of the Jews in 'Ghet-
to Benches' now practiced by Po-
land's academic institutions." Po-
lish scholars were warned that the
"Ghetto Benches" are "a masked
attack on academic freedom it-
self and fraught with the most
dangerous consequences to the
arts and sciences."
The open letter to Polish schol-

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SOUND CALL: "WE
WANT FRIEDMAN"

Movement Started for Foot-
ball Star as U. of
M. Coach

By IRV KUPCINET
Seven Ar*•' Sports Editor

Only a short time ago the na-
tion was shouting, "We want Can-
tor, We want Cantor." But now
the chant has turned to, "We
Want Friedman, We Want Fried-
man." and it's being sung in a
rising crescendo from New York
to Ann Arbor, where the Univer-

sity of Michigan is located.
As this piece is being con-
structed, brick by brick, Bennie
Friedman, as fine a passer as

ever drew a bread on a herring,
is being Doomed as the next
coach at his Alma Mammy, and
from this angle it's not a bad

idea. Bennie has been doing
himself proud at City College of
New York, where the students
are so athletically minded that
they won't give one good sub-
stantial cheer because it smacka
too much of fascism!
That's what he's had to put up
with ever since he took the head
coaching jot at C. C. N. Y. But
he attacked the problem with the

same perspicacity that once made
him the most feared back in the
nation. And while he hasn't been
able to turn C. C. N. Y. into a
Notre Dame, speaking of football
only now, he has developed his
material, such as it has been, to

the utmost
So our Benr.eh, today, is rated
one of the sremrter of the younger
net of coaches. And that Is what
Michigan Is looking for at the
present moment, with no asper-
sions cast at the deposed Harry
Kink,, as thorough a football
scholar as exists.
It was only a few hours, com-

paratively speaking. after Kiehl-

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