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Detr It Jewish Chronicie Invites eormsponiimee me tab- het. of terodt to tb• J•pleh people, bat dlecIsims moonlit- indoreement of the .dm. expressed by Om Patent betty for Sabbath Scriptural Selections Ponta teuchal portion—Deut, -26:1-29:8 Proph etical portion—Is. 60 Elul 20, 5698 which mankind has already benefitted so STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL greatly; (CONCLUDED ?ROM PAGE ONE) "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.