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"This conference expresses the convic-
tion of Jewish people that the Jewish bins seems to have anti-Semitic
too, we gather from
community in Palestine is engaged today intentions
the news that Japan is registering
in a struggle not to safeguard its own in- all Russian Jews in conquered
terests but to protect the right of other Chinese territory .. . Remember
Jews to enter freely the land once theirs, that next time ycsu plan the pur-
.
a right incorporated Into the mandate of chase of silk • hose
• •
the League of Nations and given moral WE'RE TELLING YOU
sanction by 51 nations of the earth, includ- Governor Herbert H. Lehman
ing the United States, and a right rein- of New York may not run for
forced by their labors to restore it for the Senate after all The party
wants him•to run for Governor
the benefit of all its inhabitants."
again, against Dewey . . . Those
The challenge embodied in this resolu- in the know smile at the 'slogan
tion must be met as honorably as our pion- "Dewey for Governor," for it was
Lehman who appointed Dewey
eers meet the challenge involving a choice and
is backing him all the way
between life and death in Palestine. The . . . An amusing interlude at
honor of our people is at stake, and to Dewey's trial of James J. Hines
fail in this crucial moment will mean the cameo while Max D. Steuer was
on the witness stand . . . Trying
everlasting disgrace of this generation.
to protect his bald dome, Steuer
put on his hat, only to have an
usher brush it off and chide ItLin;
"Respect for the court, please"
. . . A famous American lawyer
taken a year off to study the
The spirit of America is reflected in the has
refugee problem, and is in Vienna
For a few hours on Monday, James J. pardon given the young Christian wife of now for that purpose . . . When
name is divulged it will he
Hines stole the headlines in newspapers an American Jew by the Michigan State his
news . . . Did you
throughout this country and Adolf Haler, Parole Board and signed by Governor sensational
know, by the way, that the anti-
whose speech was awaited breathlessly by Frank Murphy, in order to prevent her de- Semite who owned that Krum
a panic-stricken world, took second place portation to Germany where she would be Elbow estate which was sold to
in the judgment of American editors as a target for Nazi persecutors, In handing Father Divine originally tried to
down the decision in favor of granting a sell it to Fritz Kuhn for a Nazi
news value.
camp? . . . If his idea was to
This was a good sign. It was an indica- pardon to Mrs. Kate Rabinowitz, the State annoy President Roosevelt, whose
Parole
Board
stated:
Hyde Park estate lies across the
tion that the World can not be bluffed too
"The present anti-Semitic crusade in Hudson, he must be perry the
long and too often. It was proof, also,
Nazi deal fell through .. .
• • •
that Hitler's speech was another air bub- Germany would make it inadvisable, if
ble after that rash and arrogant address not impossible, for the applicant's husband BROADWAY LIGHTS
to
accompany
her
there
in
the
event
of
her
That play with a German back-
of Field Marshal Goering.
which Jed Harris has been
Also: At Strasbourg, France, immedi- deportation. There is considerable ques- ground
promising us for a long time is
tion
whether
or
not
her
infant
child
or
ately after Hitler's address, a German
scheduled for this season . . .
stagred into a French cafe, and when her husband would be permitted entrance Practically ready for presenta-
staggered
tion is the new play by Maxwell
asked what the Germans thought of Hit- into Germany.
"The inevitable result, therefore, of the Anderson on Peter Stuyvesant,
ler's speech, replied, "They think, thank
who, as governor of New York,
contemplated
deportation
-
would
be
to
God, that there won't be war."
Jews to live there . . .
up the family by separating the forbade
Just to get even, the music for
Now that Hitler had relieved himself break
mother
not
only
from
her
husband
but
play was written by Kurt
of another raving address which was from her infant child, at a time when the the
the cantor's son who has
awaited with so much anxiety, these facts latter needs her care and attention most. Weill,
had two shows on Broadway since
Hitler exiled him from his native
are clear:
"This case is an outstanding example of Germany some years ago.
The world does not want war and is
inherent occasional cruelty in the en- Maurice Bergman, originally of
relieved that a conflict, considered inevit- the
forcement of an inelastic law governing Chilicothe, is smiling these days
able, is postponed.
. . . As advertising and publicity
our deportation policy."
director of Columbia Pictures he
Germany and her fuehrer do not hold
This
statement
deserves
to
be
recorded
is responsible for the staggering
the key to the European situation, and the
as
a
great
American
expression
of
senti-
campaign for "You
influence of England, France and Russia ment in behalf of the downtrodden and ballyhoo
Can't Take It With You" . . .
must not be minimized.
Years
ago
he
had something
against the persecutors. Under ordi- do with the also
building up of Ted
The insane attacks upon the Jews are nary circumstances the young Christian to
Lewis, who now is again enjoy-
indicative of an uninterrupted program of woman might not have received the con- ing a big success on Broadway.
anti-Semitism, and Hitler's approval of sideration of the parole board. But there What's this rumor that the re-
Mussolini's racist policies as well as his en- was much more involved than the guilt of cent Sylvia Sydney-Luther Adler
dorsement of Arab terrorism are signs that an individual offender. The fact that she marriage is already nearing the
because of the double
the deranged Nazi minds are bent upon would have been deported and that she rocks,
scramble for one limelight?
trouble.
would have become a victim of Nazism Paul Muni, we hear, is quite
It is clear that the present trend of made her case a matter for far deeper con- concerned about the fate of an
Vienna couple, veteran Jew-
even .s will lead to war, but it is equally as cern, and by granting her clemency the old
actors, who befriended him
clear that war will not come for some representatives of the great state of Mich- ish
in his boyhood and whom he took
time and that the Nazis are playing for igan handed down a deserved rebuke to pains to look up on his pre-Ansch-
luss visit to the Danube capital.
time God help the European peoples the Nazis.
September 16, 1938
Hines Overshadows Hitler
when that time comes, and Heaven protect
the innocent Jewish masses who will be
the first targets in a brutal conflict.
But when the war does come it will
mark the end of the Fascist powers who
are today bent upon destroying every ves-
tige of human kindness in the world.
Sel f-Respect vs. Humiliation
The Spirit of America
In the same issue of the Detroit News
in which the statement of the State Parole
Board was published appeared another
exceedingly interesting item. In his col-
umn "Let's Explore Your Mind," Albert
Edward Wiggam asks the question, "Can
a nation compete with other nations with-
out abundance of scientific leaders?" and
he gives the following answer:
"No, and that is why Hitler's policy of
expelling scholars, especially scientists,
must in the long run bring Germany to her
doom, no matter what may be the tem-
porary economic and political effects of
Fascism. A nation today can commit sui-
cide in two ways—failing to encourage
her scientists or expelling them. Not only
does their native country lose them but
they benefit the nations to which they are
exiled. My morning mail brings me a fine
research in psychology by one of Ger-
many's leading exiled psychologists and
I have my spectacles fitted by a Jewish
oculist—exiled by Hitler—probably the
greatest man in optical physiology in the
world. Thus what such a nation thinks is
its political poison becomes another na-
tion's scientific meat."
The declaration of the State Parole
Board and the answer of Mr. ,,Wiggam
represent the best sentiments of the Amer-
ican people and provide reasons for feel-
ing that the noblest sentiments of America
are not dead and that they will survive all
dictatorships and indecencies.
Add to these, evidences of common sense
the demonstrations in the baseball sta-
diums when "Hank" Greenberg comes to
bat, or Harry Eisentat goes to the pitch-
er's box, and compare them with the ruth-
less exclusion of Jews not only from the
sporting arenas but also from opportuni-
ties to earn a livelihood, and you have the
best proof that this great democracy con-
tinues to lead the world in decency. It is
very easy to understand why refugees ar-
riving in the United States flop to the
ground upon alighting from the boats and
kiss the soil of this land of freedom.
Sh olem Asch, the eminent novelist and
play Wright, writing in the Yiddish press,
tells of a conversation he had with a Jew-
ish colonist in Palestine, a refugee from
Nazi persecutions, who described his im-
pres 'ions of existing conditions. The refu-
gee stated bluntly and emphatically that
he w ould much rather die a martyr's death
in P alestine in defense of Jewish honor
rath r than submit to humiliations and
slave ry in Germany.
Th Lis statement was quoted by Mr. Asch
on t l ie same day on which we received a
fran c is appeal from a refugee family
whit h described its plight and told how
one of its members, a young woman, who
graduate, was not only com-
is a university
t
pelle d to scrub sidewalks with her bare
hand s and with water mixed with acids,
but was ordered to lap up the sidewalk
with her tongue. This family pleaded
. for a chance to escape somewhere, either
to on e of the free countries on this conti-
nent or to Palestine, and to be offered a
new chance to reconstruct their lives anew.
The only alternative, they said, was sui-
tide.
TI e situation in Palestine will be viewed
diff e -ently when one studies conditions
, there from the point of view of the ex-
lief from lands dominated by Nazism. Dr.
Solon non Goldman's plea that Zionism
adop t a militant attitude in defense of
Jewi sh rights, made at the international
conf rence of the Keren Hayesod in Ant-
werp , Belgium, will also be read with
deep or interest and with approval, in view
of w lot is happening everywhere. Because
of th e international character of the pres-
ent t ragedy facing the Jewish people, it
is im perative that the appeal issued from
Nazi Dupery
Ant% 'erp be given a ready response. The
Duping the world has been a Nazi policy
resol ition adopted by the conference stated
ever since Hitler rose to power, and it is
in pa rt:
s
,
ieeting at a time of heroic struggle to the disgrace of the world's democracies
that they have yielded on many fronts.
But occasionally someone balks—and
then the utter stupidity of Nazism is dis-
closed.
An interesting instance of how two
spokesmen for free 'countries balked
against being duped into giving a prize to
a Nazi film is contained in the following
ealizing that only a systematic and cable received from Venice: Protesting
gene roue program of assistance on the part that politics had motivated the award of
of Je Ws more fortunately placed can ease the Mussolini Cup to a German documen-
the b urden of those who suffer innocently tary film on the 1936 Olympic Games in
for c .uses that might overwhelm any Jew, Berlin, Harold Smith and Neville Kearny,
ri
and British representatives. re-
"T his conference summons Jewish peo- American
plc t n renewed and enlarged activity for spectively, on the jury considering films
the b uilding up of Palestine which, on the shown at the world cinema exhibit, walked
histo rical grounds of the Jewish attach- out of the contest. Smith had favored
ment to country and because of the prac- giving the cup to Walt Disney's "Snow
tical demonstration of its capacity to re- White and the Seven Dwarfs."
ceive and absorb great masses of Jews,
There is a limit to attempts by Nazis to
repr events the hope for the rebuilding of capture everything everywhere, and woe
the Jewish national existence and the only to the German bigots when the world at
Oros oect for the preservation and fruition large begins to rebel against the Hitlerite
of th ose cultural and spiritual values from philosophy of hatred and destruction.
by P alestine Jews to preserve the Jewish
natio nal home and at a time of increasing
anxi Pty for the fate of great masses of
Jews from whom is being removed every
oppo rtunity for human, self-sustaining ex-
isten :e in the lands that they have enrich-
ed fc 1r generations with their ability and
their devotion and;
September 16, 1938
CM: CHRONICLE
PURELY COMMENTARY
(CONCLUDED FROM PAOZ ONE)
By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
We Are Not Irreverent
An eminent Catholic friend takes exception to
the book review of Upton Sinclair's "Our Lady"
which appeared in this column on Aug. 19. "Your
review," he writes, "indicates that the book weuld
unquestionably be insulting to Catholics. - In fact,
the very title 'Our Lady' is insulting, by the pen
of Upton Sinclair. 'Our Lady' to us Catholics is
by divine revelation the Blessed Mother of Jesus
Christ the only Son of God. How can the author
be so cheap as• to build up an imaginary story
around the sweetest character in Catholic Bible
history—a story that attempts to make our faith
look foolish?"
Our Catholic correspondent then proceeds to
state: "And you, Mr. Slomovitz, did not pass up
a review on such a book nor did you point out the
fact that it was insulting to Catholics. No! You
even implied that it was to Mr. Sinclair's credit
and that it would undoubtedly be the sensation of
the year. However, although you stated that it
may be condemned by the Catholic Church, you
undoubtedly approved of the book. I must say
you appear to be rather inconsistent."
It is a source of regret to us that the review
should have been interpreted as an insult. As this
commentator has told his correspondent, he "un-
dertook to treat the story purely from a literary
point of view, and as an unusually imaginary
creation. Under no circumstances would I join
in a slur on the Catholics or the Catholic Church,
and I wish to assure you that I had no ill in-
tentions."
•
ABOUT PEOPLE
We learn that Prof. Morris
Raphael Cohen, formerly of New
York's City College, will teach
at Harvard Law School this year,
though he has no law degree ..
And while we're on the subject
of Cohen's, Bob Ripley insists
that it's a Marjorie Cohen who
owns a black dog with a white
cross on his chest—a natural
marking in his coat.
A unique distinction is claimed
by Henry B. Kranz, non-Aryan
author from Vienna now in this
country . . . It seems that the
Nazis pirated one of his novels,
Publishing it without paying him
■ nickel in royalties.
The Imaginary in Literature
It is unfortunate that the treatment we gave to
what we considered a beautiful fantasy should
have met with resentment. Our readers will re-
call that in the concluding paragraph to the re-
view of "Our Lady" we said:
"It is a great novek It may be condemned by
the Catholic Church—in spite of Upton Sinclair's
concluding statement: 'To me it is a lovely story,
and deeply reverent. I hope that may seem so to
others.' But it will undoubtedly be read by tens
of thousands who will enjoy it for its splendid
writing as well as for the author's gift of imagery
and his ingenious way of fusing the past with the
present."
We, too, hoped that what we said would be
interpreted as comment made in "deeply rever-
ent" spirit. On previous occasions we treated in
the same spirit criticisms that were made of
Israel's great Prophets—beginning with Moses.
The legends and stories about the great Law-
giver in recent years by a number of writers, in-
cludink Louis Untermeyer and Edmond Fleg, might
have been interpreted as "insulting", were it not
for the fact that we do not reject fable and fan-
tasy and are prepared to judge realistically even
the•most sacred personalities in our history. Other-
wise Jewish critics could not possibly treat Louis
Golding's latest work, "In the Steps of Moses the
Conqueror," with favor. Mr. Golding brings Moses
down to our own time, travels with him in motor
cars, 'expresses indignation over the horrors that
infest Palestine, makes his tours incognito as an
Englishman, but the immensity of reverence for
Moses nevertheless remains in spite of his having
been brought down to earth and treated as a
very human being.
In other biographies, of Moses, Jeremiah ) Mai-
monides. not only the great personalities in
Israel are treated critically, but God Himself is
questioned and accused whenever a matter in-
volving social justice is involved. Is not this,
after all, the way in which the Prophets them-
selves dealt with the Almighty?
It is because we deal so frankly and so out-
spokenly about matters affecting our own theol-
ogy that we also undertook to treat the story of
Mary from a literary point of view. Irreverence
was farthest from our thoughts—just as we would
never, regardless of circumstances, undertake to
treat any religious matter with a lack of respect.
We bid for the friendship of Catholics and
Protestants too often and too earnestly to fall
into the error of being disrespectful. We fail to
see wherein we are inconsistent.
•
Speaking of Inconsistencies
This is not the time to search for flaws which
would tend to aggravate inter-faith relations. But
there are times when even the best of friends
blunder through inconsistent treatment of issues
affecting the Jewish people. Take, for instance,
the current issue of the attractively compiled
DR. GOLUB'S SURVEY OF HOSPITAL
NEEDS IN DETROIT SHOWS RISE OF
BED UTILIZATION IN 24 HOSPITALS
(CONCLUDED PROM PAGE ONE)
government grant more generous
subsidies to voluntary hospitals
or more generous per diem allow-
ances for the care of patients
classified ps public charges.
There is no known government
plan or program to increase the
hospital bed capacity in Detroit.
In relation to the objectives of
the present study, it could not be
argued that the addition of a rel-
atively small number of hospital
beds in the city would alter any
government program in hosiptal
facilities, and, conversely, a gov-
ernment program need not offset
the efforts of a voluntary group
to add a small number of beds.
Role of Organised Medicine
Local county medical societies,
stimulated by the American Med-
ical Association, are giving care-
ful consideration to the matter of
providing medical care to a large
portion of the people in accord-
ance with their ability to Pay.
This consideration includes hos-
pital care. It is related to the
problem of medical economics, to
health insurance, and to govern-
ment participation in medicine. In
America, among the leading
thinkers of the medical profes-
sion, there is division of opinion
on all of these questions. It
could be said, however, that any
medical care plan, whether intro-
duced by government or by or.
ganined medicine, which on a
wide scale reaches the poor,
would discover many neglected
acute and chronic illnesses, and
because of the bad housing condi-
tions of patients in poor circum-
stances, and because it is almost
impossible economically for the
t r to care for their sick at
ome, many more patients would
be discovered and referred to hos-
pitals than in the past Then,
also, physicians cannot "work
up" at home many conditions of
bedridden patients who require
x-rays, laboratory examinations,
metabolism tests, electrocardio-
graphy fee diagnostic purposes,
and who Aiso require highly com-
plicated and time - consuming
therapeutic measures which can
only be gotten in hospitals. When
and if such plans are implemen-
ted, the. nsufficiency of beds in
Detroit will be intensified.
Jewish Hospitals In the
United States
Which cities
ROOSEVELT HAILS
DR. CYRUS ADLER
in this country
have hospital. under Jewish atm-
nice., and why does Detroit have
none? At least 23 cities in the
country have Jewish hospitals.
Among the 10 largest cities in the
country, Detroit alone has no
Jewish hospital.
One answer to the question is
that the community is young, and
has grown rapidly. When it ac-
quired a large and more or less
settled community, conscious of
the need and pressure for a Jew-
ish hospital, the economic depres-
sion came and retarded the
movement and the desire of many
people to establish such an insti-
tution. All of the other cultural
and social reasons that led other
Jewish communities to erect hos-
pitals have always existed in
Detroit. Perhaps the reason that
Detroit has not built a hospital
is that it has accomplished other
objectives in the field of welfare
service not realized by the com-
munities which did build them.
It is no longer believed that
there is a need anywhere for a
Jewish hospital merely for Jew-
ish patients. Neither could it be
said that such a hospital solves
medical problems of Jews differ-
ently from or better than any
other hospital. All that can be
said is that wherever there is
a need for additional beds, Jews,
like any other group of citizenry,
are justified in initiating plans
for the fulfilment of a public
need. When Jews undertake to
build and maintain a good Jewish
hospital, it adds to Jewish dig-
nity and prestige.
The beginnings of most volun-
tary hospitals are traceable to a
desire on the part of interested
people in the community to serve
the sick. Today, the situation
does not differ from that of a
generation or more ago. Where-
ever there is found an absence
or an insufficiency of hospital
beds, individuals or groups come
forward to meet the public needs.
Jewish communities in the past,
parallel with their non-Jewish
neighbors, have gone along with
this work. There is no reason
why it should not be so in De-
troit The request for this sur-
vey and the attitude of 'many of
Detroit's Jews indicate a desire
on their part to ascertain the re-
lated facts. It was, therefore,
important first to determine
whether there is a need in gen-
eral, for more hospital beds. For,
■ new hospital in a community
which already has a sufficient
number of hospital beds, regard-
Catholic Digest. There are two articles, one fol-
lowing the other, which deal with Jews. One, from
the Catholic Times of South Africa, states that
"the attack on the Jew is but incidental to the
whole misguided rebellion against irresponsible
privilege; it is indeed a proof of the misguided
nature of that rebellion." The second article, from
the Weekly Review of London, makes the dam-
aging declaration that it has been "the fate of the
Jew to be parasitical." The latter is based on
misconceptions and libels which have been spread
by anti-Semites for centuries. It quotes the silly
charges that have been made against the Jews for
20 years by Hilaire Belloc. From the point of
view of the non-Jew, either one or the other view-
point is correct. But to try in this way to be "im-
partial" in the preseentation of the Jewish issue
is to be most partial, since it is easier to spread
hatred than good will—and the damaging part
usually prevails.
•
We Quote to Prove Our Point
Take for instance the two statements that fol-
low these two articles, also, apparently, with the
intention of presenting "both sides" of the ques-
tion. The Catholic Digest publishes the following
two views on Jews and Bolshevism:
As for anyone who does not know that the present
retolutionary Hoishetist movement it Jewish in Rus-
sia, I can only say that he must be • man who is
taken in by the suppressions of our deplorable mono.
—Hilaire Hell. in G. H... W.kly (4 Feb. '37)
w Com•
He .11 ourselles Christians! We won derwhy
monism gnats by frolps and bounds, and why there
are see many Jew* In it! The answer stares us in the
lace, only we refuse to see It. It Is largely because
Me have driven them to It. We have failed In follow
Christ's teachings. We have not loted our neighbor,
et en If he was oar enemy; we have not been our
brther
o
.), 1..per . . . above all, we hate not shown
I ben, the face of Christ either in fair beetle or in our
action., and thereby led them to Him.
Catherine lie Hoeck In Wisdom (April, .3s).
Here, too, either one or the other statement is
correct. But the truth, now firmly established, in
spite of the presentation by some periodicals of
lists of names which are falsely labelled as Jew-
ish leaders dominating the Soviet Union, is that
Jews DO NOT dominate the Communist scene. It
would be more to the credit of those who discuss
the Jewish problem if they were definitely to
align themselves either with the anti- or philo-
Semites. The issue would be clarified more speed-
ily, and would not be as confusing as it becomes
when tales "impartiality" is displayed by pre-
senting "both sides" of the question, at a time
when one is so utterly false.
•
The Pope and the Jews
We have faith that our Catholic friends will
remain consistent in their treatment of the Jewish
issue, especially in view of the fairness with which
the Pope deals with the question of racial and
religious prejudice. Referring once more to the
Catholic Digest, we are impressed with the inter-
esting story it reprints under the heading "With
Malice Towards None" from the Catholic Tele-
graph as quoted by the Acolyte and quoted by the
Liguorian in the August, 1938 issue. The story
follows:
was riding
xhorl D- after his coronation, N.
toward the (Nett° in Home, when his carriage woo
held up in the pre ,tenee of • rroad People in the
street. ...uniting • man who had fallen to the
ground in a M.
"15 hat is it 5" wilted the Pope.
"Only • Jr,,.' answered a Christian standing by,
•'l* not a Jr,, a man and a brother?" wad the
Pope. "Make
foie.
"Make way for us!" And he stepped from his
carriage.
crond opened for the Pope to approach. The
'nun ear raving on the ground ahem, no one wotild
touch him 17. IX look hito In hit arms, bore him
to Ids 's h o,,, and ordered ide coachman to drive to
the Je its home. Hhea the man had revovered. the
Pope left him with a omseni of MoneY awl his
sentativea of scores of Jewish and
non-secretarian organizations of
national scope,
Because of Dr. Adler. modesty
and his aversion to any public
manifestation, the presentation
took place informally at his sum-
mer home, Woods Hole, Mass.,
Tuesday afternoon. A small dep-
utation from New York and Bos-
ton—composed of Louis Kirstein,
Morris D. Waldman, Harry Sch-
neiderman, and others—made the
presentation and conveyed felici-
tations from the American Jew-
ish Committee, the Jewish Theo-
logical Seminary and the Dropsie
College, institutions of which Dr.
Adler has been president for
many years.
Among the messages were also
tributes from members of the
Cabinet, members of the United
States Congress, noted educators,
spiritual, civic, and communal
leaders. Virtually every state in
the union is represented.
Among the expressions is one
from the Hon. Tom English, May-
or of Van Buren, Ark., where Dr.
Alder was born on Sept. 13, 1863.
There are, also, tributes from
Mayors Fiorello H. LaGuardia
and S. Davis Wilson of New York
and Philadelphia, respectively,
cities wherein Dr. Adler has been
living most of his life.
A radio program, over national
hookup, was also dedicated to the
birthday of Dr. Adler on Tuesday
evening, with prominent speakers
participating f rom Washington,
Philadelphia and New York.
President Roosevelt wrote:
"Yours has been a rich and full
career of varied activity and
great usefulness. As President of
the American Jewish Committee,
of the Jewish Theological Sem-
inary, and of Dropsie College, you
have touched life at many angles;
whether in spiritual, civic or cul-
tural activities, your labors have
ever been directed to the happi-
ness of others and the well-being
of the community. I trust you
may long be spared is health and
strength to continue your devoted
labors in behalf of the interests
which have enlisted your support
and allegiance through so many
years."
Greetings from Michigan Jews
included the following:
Detroit: Morris Adler, Rabbi,
Congregation Shaarey Zedek;
Fred M. Butzel; Moses Fisher,
Rabbi, Congregation B'nai Moshe;
Leo M. Franklin, Rabbi, Congre-
gation Beth El; Philip Slomovitz,
editor, The Detroit Jewish Chron-
icle; Rabbi Joshua S. Sperka,
Grand Rapids; Jerome D. Folk-
man, Rabbi, Congregation Eman-
uel.
Not hour after
• deputation of Jews, 0111 and
bearded men, called at the RAHN. They requested
to he admitted into the presence of Pope 17. IX, and
bowing before him, they offered him an etquialte an-
tique golden chalice, pried.. in worth, begging him
to accept it an • token of their gratitude to him for
bls Madness to one of their race.
Me Pope was greatly touched by their deed, and
sold to thetn,
*I weep( your magnificent gift, my children, with
pleasure and unditude. 11111 on tell toe how much
SERVICES AT
BETH JACOB
Announcement was made this
week that High Holy Day services
will be held as usual at Congre-
gation Beth Jacob on Montcalm
St., between Hastings and An•
II
toine Ste.
"'I n t "Zil i g: 550 Roman wadi," answered the chief
of the deputation.
Rev. Morris Wolf has been en-
Ti,. Polie steP1nd to the table anti wrote On
;tree
gaged to conduct the services on
of isilwe , 'Hood for 1.0. 11C111/1. Ms IX.' lie Landed
11
1% NO1Ing: "Accept In soar turn
the slip to the 1.111.
Rosh Ilashonah and Yom Kippur
00111111 Medge of my love for mY Moor Ham..
as well as on Succoth.
drew IlltItle It among the poor families of the Ghetto.
This synagogue is especially
in the name
Plo Nono." The men trled to decline
the s in, offering to raise four times an much them•
well
suited for those who live in
wiles for the poor, but the Pope would not accept
the downtown section of Detroit.
a relawd. The money had to be spent in his name
for the poor.
Those desiring to worship at
This commentator believes that as long as such this synagogue are urged to make
sentiments prevail all hope for the survival of their reservations for seats at the
human decency has not disappeared.
synagogue at once.
Sudeten Firemen Let
Jew's House Burn Down
PRAGUE (WNS)—A Sude-
ten (Nazi) German fire brig-
ade let a house burn down in
the village of Lauterbach be-
cause its owner was a Jew, the
German language newspaper
Sozial Demokrat charged. Re-
porting that other people at-
tempted to fight the fire, the
paper said they were held back
by shouts that the owner was
a Jew. Eleven Sudetens were
arrested for looting the burn-
ing house.
less of all other reasons for a
new hospital, would not hold
promise of successful operation.
Based on the facts discussed
in previous insta lments l of this
portion of the Hospital Survey, it
has been concluded that there is
a shortage of hospital beds in
Detroit. Voluntary groups, who
have already realized the need
for additional beds are contem-
plating provision for them. Ex-
cepting for the difficulties in-
volved in finding the necessary
funds for construction and main-
tenance, there seems to be no
good reason why the Jews should
not participate in meeting the ex-
isting conditions in Detroit.
Deals With Finances
The second half of the Jewish
Hospital Survey, directed by
Harry L. Lurie, executive head
of the National Council of Fed-
erations and Welfare Funds, is
a study of the financial ability
and readiness of Detroit's Jewish
community to erect and maintain
a hospital. The findings of this
portion of the survey will be pub-
lished upon the completion of Dr.
Golub's study involving the need
for a hospital under Jewish aus-
pices in Detroit.
Stating that participation in a
hospital movement on the part of
Detroit Jewry should be based on
a spirit of service to fellowmen,
as well as a desire to provide ad-
ditional facilities for clinical
teaching of Jewish physicians, Dr.
Golub has included in his study a
discussion of the status of Jewish
physicians practicing in Detroit
at the present time and their
hospital affiliations. The discus-
sion of this phase of the problem
will be published next week.
Bnai David A. Z. A. Chapter
Congregation Bnai David Chap-
ter 314 of A.Z.A. will sponsor a
dance at the Bnai David, Elm-
hurst and 14th, on Saturday eve-
ning, Oct. 22. Bernie Roberts'
10-piece band will provide the
music.
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN EXILE
(CONCLUDED THOM PAGE ONE)
you believe it, the most exhilarat-
ing joy was the right, the freedom
to express our own thoughts, to
question, argue and take our fill
of friendship.
Mine is not an unusual story;
every one of my comrades has
a bitter life behind him, and none
of us is older than seventeen.
There is Hans, for instance, who
came from a little Hessian vil-
lage and had never seen or snok-
en with a Jew before Hitler came.
He knew his people were Jew-
ish, but all his comrades were
native German children and all
of them loved him until the anti-
Semitic edicts began to rain down
on the little town. Then one day
Anna, his best friend, the girl he
liked more than all the others,
turned on him and threw a stone
In his face. Hens said she called
him something he shall never for-
get. He will not tell us what it
was, though all of us can guess.
At first Hans was unhappy in the
Youth Aliyah camp because he
knew nothing of Jewish life, could
speak no Hebrew, could not read
our books; he was unable to sing
our songs, or dance the Hora with
us. But his comrades soon found
that Hans' father, who had been
a cattle dealer, had taught the
boy an invaluable fund of nature
lore. Ile became an expert stock
breeder; he loved the soil and
had a knack for making things
grow. By the time Hans was
ready to come to our cooperative,
he was the acknowledged leader
of our group.
Then there Is Karl, who • lived
in Munich and loved the museums
and art galleries there; he was
going to be an artist. One night
his father's commission house was
raided and the shock so torment-
ed the poor man that he took to
gambling. Finally, he disappear-
ed. Karl and the rest of the fam-
ily fled to France. But before
long their resources gave out
and they became charges on the
French community. Karl was des-
perate until he heard of Youth
Aliyah. Once in camp, he adapted
himself quickly to group living.
He is one of the most courageous
and zealous of our pioneering
group. Ile will go with us to
break new soil when, our two
years of training completed, we
go out to build our own settle-
ment.
Nor can I ever forget Sophie,
who wan born In Poland in 1920
and brought up in Breslau by her
poor and very orthodox parents.
Yehudith, her younger sister, was
born in 1921. The family man-
aged to make both ends meet un-
til the coming of Hitler. Then, in
1933 they were suddenly expelled.
Penriless and beaten, the whole
family wandered to Paris. The
father was unable to make a liv-
ing so the Committee for Refu-
gees suggested he take his brood
back to the Polish community
from which he had come. They
went, but in Poland thirteen years
had brought changes. What had
once been home was now a hos-
tile place. Sophie's father was
unable to establish himself and
once more the family broke up;
this time the father went to
Trieste and the mother and chil-
dren went to another Polish vil-
lage.
The Youth Aliyah bureau ag-
reed to take Sophie and prepare
her for a life of labor in Pales,
tine. But our little Sophie had
been 80 intimidated by the bru-
tality of her poverty and the
uncertainty of her life, that she
became backward and afraid. A
peculiar hysteria made her shrink
from contact with children of
her own age. Because she had
had to change her language so
often, Sophie developed a stutter
which forced her even more deep-
ly into herself. Meanwhile her
younger sister, Yehudith, who had
known almost no stable environ-
ment was also taken into the
Youth Aliyah group, and before
long the children began to un-
fold. With renewed mental and
physical health they were able to
Ito to Palestine. Sophie is not yet
integrated among us; but she will
be. She most be. We shall care
for her as though she were our
own sister. Sophie shall be well.
We have all sworn it.
In our cooperative the white
huts are set wide apart. From
this window can see the com-
rades coming in from the fields.
I hear them calling to each other
in the dusk. One by one the
lights go on in the rooms where
the Haverim sit studying. Off in
the distance I can hear the night
birds screaming. And behind the
gate I can hear the measured
footsteps of the comrade who is
taking his turn on the nightwatch
in the farmyard. I can see the
white outline of our Beth Hahi-
tuch; it is a fine new two-story
building which I helped to paint
last month. There is a wierd
sound being made by a hyena.
howling in the wood, but I am
not frightened. There is peace
in this place. We shall make it
a real peace, the only kind that
counts. It shall be built of work
and study ... and justice.
iCapyrIght, till. A A. F.