THEDernorrintisn til PM
GU
and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE
APPEAL FOR CASH
To Lead B'nai B'rith's
ISSUED BY ALLIED
National Membership Drive
JEWISH CAMPAIGN
icoNCLUDED coots PAGE ONE)
r:RAEUSENED
yoa4 plidection
IICHaior a ilitactit inawiNO CO. intitOir
NON-JEWESS GIVES
FOR REFUGEE HELP
era abroad cannot eat paper
pledges, representing promises in
the future. Help is needed now.
Contributors are urged not to
wait until teh special volunteer
collector approaches. They should
put their checks in the mail im-
mediately, or better yet, tele-
phone Columbia 1600, and a
Federation representative will call
for the check. This is a call that
must be answered at once. We
plan to complete the special col-
lection project within seven days.
Our oppressed fellow-Jews await
our answer."
Officers to Be Chosen Jan,
10; Several Committees
Function
JOSEPH oPATOSHU,
YIDDISH NOVELIST
iorsCLUDEL, MGM PAGE ONE)
through the crucible of passion-
ate thought.
J. EUGENE FARBER,
The passion for truth vitalizes
of Toledo, Ohio, who has been
Opatoshu's writing, gives it the-
named chairman ot the national
been so appalled at the dreadful matic reality. If his satirical in-
membership committee of n'nal
things happening in other coon- sight makes him quick to per-
Math, which will launch ■
tries which have made such un- ceive the beast in man, he is
nation-wide drive for members
believable hardships for the refu- equally quick to react to injus-
on February I with a simul-
persecution, hypocrisy. But
g ee families. We know from our tice,
taneous campaign In all the
h
d epression -experiences what it is is indignation is never general
seven districts of the organi-
like to be without necessities. It or rhetorical. The more satirical
zation.
is so hard, especially for children, his intent, the more sharply he
to have such tragic things come. focuses his attention on individ-
As you already know, we all ual portrayal. Every one of his
have a very warm spot in our characters becomes fixed in the
hearts for the Jews. After all, reader's mind. It is this ability
the founder of our faith was the to imbue his characters with ar-
child of humble Jewish parents, tistic authenticity in the process
and Ile made it very plain, al- of expressing his own passionate
though many who today profess reactions to men and events that
The Junior Congregation of
to follow His teachings over- places Opatoshu in the forefront
Shaarey Zedek will conduct serv-
look this fact, that He came to of Yiddish writers.
His ethical strain springs from icesin themain auditorium on
offer the Gentile who would ern-
brace the Jewish religion, kinship a long line of renowned rabbis Saturday morning. Jan. 14. This
with the children of Abraham, and scholars on his father's side.
will also be the occasion of the
thus making them joint-heirs un- His maternal inheritance endowed
der the promise. Today, Jew h im with the hot blood of men Bar Mitzvah of Ilarold Good-
who
live
close
to
nature.
This
man. Samuel Krohn will act as
and Gentile alike should join
hands to put down the pagan combination of intellectual re- cator. Harvey Weisberg will be
nations—is it not true that the finement and impulsive force the Bal Koreh. Marilyn Koffman
followers of Hitler and Mussolini early fashioned his hatred of Op- will summarize the Biblical por-
today are as deadly enemies to pression and the hypocrisy of tion of the week while Miriam
civilization as the I'hilistines of men in power.
Tobin wil give a resume of the
old?
In 1907, at the age of 20, his Haftorah, Milton Gordon will de-
"And so I come to my favor. heart aflame against Russian re- liver the sermon.
Here in Northern Michigan we action, his mind critical of a
On Dec. 31, Harriet Victor
do not know of any agency which Jewry in the grip of chassidic de- gave the resume of the Sedra
is accepting contributions to as- cadence, he determined to break and Celia Elson outlined the
sist the Jewish refugees. We with a decrepit past in Poland Prophetical portion.
can't do much—even the one- and embrace the pulsating life
On Jan. 7 the resume of the
tenth we should, under the Law, of a new world. When he reached Sedra will be given by Shirley
contribute yearly, has seemed New York his imagination was al- Rabinowitz and Charlotte Sonen-
Impossible during these past ready seething with themes for klar will give the Prophetical
years. But we'd like so much to many works. Having been en- portion.
have some little part in helping couraged by the great Peretz, he
—so will you please see that was eager to emulate that master
the enclosed $10 goes to some in the portrayal of Jewish life
group who are sending funds for as he saw it, to do for the Jews
this purpose? We'd especially like in Amerce what Peretz had done
to help some one who is trying for those in Poland.
to get started again in Paelstine.
Disillusion was quick to seize
Those who succeed in reaching upon him, New York was not at
Discussion of Nazism, Fascism,
the U. S. will find willing help, all the utopia he had sought. At
nd Communism, with particular
but the ones who hope to build first he earned his living in a
emphasis
on un-American activi-
anew in Palestine will have so shoe factory where his hands
ties in the United States, will
many problems.
blistered and became as leathery feature the program of the meet-
"If it were permissible, we as the soles he worked on. Later
would be glad to offer a home he found employment in a shirt ing pf Detroit Louis Marshall
Lodge of Bnai Brith on Tuesday
to a Jewish child, refugee—al- sweat-shop, on a newspaper route
though I understand that Gentile where he met with the riffraff of evening, Jan. 17, at the Dexter
Center, Dexter at Lawrence.
homes are rarely considered. As the East Side, in a Hebrew school
you know, we haven't much, but where teaching unwilling boys the Dr. Albert Prussin will lead
assembly in community sing-
we'd make room in our hearts an outlandish liturgy proved the
ing following the discussion.
for another child, and share what most degrading job of all. The
Announcement of the appoint-
we have gladly. Barbara would dingy tenement in which he lived
ment of Samuel Gurwin as mem-
love to have a small sister."
repelled and humiliated him. Yet bership committee chairman was
all the while he wrote assidu- made Tuesday evening by Alvin
Symphony Faces Busiest ously. Recognition as a writer B. Levin, president of Marshall
made it possible for him to give Lodge. The committee now is
Period of Its Silver
up teaching and move away from comprised of Joseph Schwartz
the neighborhood of Goerck and Reuben Losh, co-chairmen,
Jubilee Season
Street. As his knowledge of Harry Ross, Dr. Bernard Schmidt
American ways increased and and Emanuel Heitman.
With the opening of the new his acquaintance with Jewish life
The memory of Louis Marshall
series of popular-priced Saturday extended beyond the alums, his
was honored Tuesday by a nar-
night concerts, in Orchestra cynicism became less scathing.
rative presented by Rabbi Harry
Hall, Jan. 14, and with regular He began to write more and Z. Gordon who recounted the
subscription concerts scheduled more with the irony of sympa-
number of his illuminating ex-
for the two days preceding, Jan. thetic understanding. On becom-
periences growing out of his
12 and 13, the Detroit Symphony ing a regular contributor to a close acquaintanceship with the
Orchestra faces one of the busi- Yiddish newspaper, the need of departed leader. A biographical
est and most important periods of writing a weekly piece sent him review of the life of the late Mr.
its current silver jubilee season. I in search of material in all the Marshall was given by Emmanuel
Both Franco Ghione and Victor highways and byways of human Heitman, and a report of cur-
Kolar will be seen in action dur- experience. Most of his stories, rent Beni Brith Anti-Defamation
ing the coming week. Ghione will however, deal with people work- work by Reuben Losh.
conduct the Thursday night and ing desperately for a living, suf-
Admission to the meeting of
Friday matinee concerts (the pro- fering the harshness of povetry, Jan. 17 will
be by invitation
gram being the same). while yet making love and bringing only.
Kolar will be on the sodium for up families. In depicting these
the first of the "pop" offerings. common tribulations and pleas-
ures he posed the individual in
New Johnson Milk Depot opposition to his environment—
an environment oppressing and
Opened on Woodward
thwarting and vulgarizing its em-
battled victims. Thus the strug-
and Seward
gle of class against class, in its
The next lecture of the Kvut-
various manifestations, is spread
Of interest to the Jewish com- Poignantly over his pages, as are zah Ivrith will be held Saturday
evening, Jan. 7, at the Philadel-
munity is the announcement that the vicissitudes of rare prejudice.
the Johnson Milk Depot Co. have In all these briefer pieces—some phia-Byron School. Solomon Kas-
opened a branch store at 8204 of them sparkling chips of him- den, the principal of the Tuxedo-
Holmur branch of the United
Woodward at Seward.
er works, many of inherent ex-
George A. Johnson, general cellence—Opatoshu is at pains Hebrew Schools, will speak on
the
subject of "Kabbalah," and
manager of the concern, stated to sketch human beings in all
that the opening of this store their commonplace piquancy, to Abraham Twersky on "Chasi-
makes available to the Jewish i ndicate that man's life remains dism." The subject of "Chasi-
population in this neighborhood essentially unaltered through the dism," discussion on which will
the fine products at tremudoiis apparent modifications of time start Saturday evening, will be
continued at the next meeting of
_travings for which the - "rohnson and circumstance.
the Kvutzah on Saturday eve-
Milk Depots—are- noted. In addi-
ning, Jan. 28. The Hebrew speak-
tion to fresh eggs and fresh but-
Eva
Jessye
Choir
at
Fisher
ing public is invited. There is no
, ter 4-percent milk with a mini-
admission charge.
mum butterfat content is sold
Town Hall Next
for 8 cents per quart while city
Wednesday
standard milk is sold for 6 cents
per quart.
Mr. Johnson also stated that
The Eva Jessye Choir comes
Detroit is the only city in the to the Fisher Theater next Wed-
United States where the depot
system is available which means nesday morning, Jan. 11. at 11
Montefiore Lodge No. 12, F. S.
fresher, cooler, cleaner
a n d o'clock, to treat the Detroit Town of I., recently re-elected the fol-
richer products. An invitation is Hall audience to one of the
lowing officers for 1939: Presi-
extended to Detroit Jews to avail greatest melodic and acting com-
dent, Adolph Goldberg; secre-
themselves of this fine system.
tary-treasurer, Maxwell H. Em-
binations in many seasons.
Famed as the outstanding Ne- mer; trustee, Arthur Gottesman.
Attitude of Judaism Toward gro choral organizations of today, Maurice Merker was elected vice-
the choir was featured in George president, while Sigmund Schor
Trial Marriage
and Leo Michelson hold over as
Gershwin's opera "Porgy and
trustees.
Rabbi Felix A. Levy, writing Bess" and also Gertrude Stein's
in "Judaism and Marriage," de- "Four Saints in Three Acts,"
Donations in Memoriam to
clares that "Judaism, because both Broadway hits.
Director Eva Jessye is widely
of its high regard for marriage,
Jewish Home for Aged
known
as
author
of
"My
Spirit-
especially on the spiritual aide,
has no sympathy with 'trial' or uals," a book of folk stories,
The following have made con-
'temporary' unions of any kind. poems and spirituals. She was tributions to the Home for Aged:
By its very nature and that of musical director of the first Ne- Mrs. S. Cohen, in memory of son,
gro
talking
picture,
"Hallelujah,"
its participants, a union between
Beryl-Jacob; Dr. S. W. Green, in
a man and a woman must be for directing ensembles of 25 to 500. memory of mother, Beile; Mrs.
life. Family and home life can- She wrote the theme song for A. Goldberg, in memory of moth-
not flourish under trial systems." Universal's "Uncle Tom's Cabin," er, Judith; Mrs. Mary Wald, in
and directed the choir in a "pro- memory of Sender.
logue" for nine weeks on Broad-
Sunshine Club at Miami way.
Beach, Fla.
Tickets are at Grinnell's Music Contributions to the Jewish
Store, Ra. 1124.
Children's Home
The Detroit Sunshine Club
held • Chanukah dinner at Renne
There must be something wrong
The Jewish Children's Home
Cafe. 1614 Alton Road, Miami with the book of William Ziff,
Beach. Fla. The Piccadilly Club "The Rape of Palestine" . . . The acknowledges donations from the
of Miami Beach entertained with Goyim rave about it, but the Jew- following Mrs. B. Grosberg, Ben
Goldman, Mrs. Blackman, Mr.
music and singing.
ish reviewers call it anything but
Mary Harris donated • towel a good book . . . Ziff's views on Valinsky, Mrs. Braverman, Mrs.
Miller, Congregation Bnai Moshe,
set.
Zionism, which he thinks are orig-
The club meets every Tuesday inal and new, merely repeat the Mrs. Jack Gordon, Louis E. Kahn
evening at Renne Cafe, Miami old battle-cry of Jabotinaky and of Chicago, Mrs. A. Srere, Mrs.
Kalisch, Mrs. B. Lakin, Dr. and
Beset
his followers,
Mrs. S. Barnett.
coNOLUDED :ROE PAGE OSE)
JR. SERVICE GROUP
ACTIVITIES BEGUN
Jr. Congregation
of Shaarey Zedek
Marshall Lodge
to View "Isms"
Plans for the second edition
of the Junior Service Journal
were made at a meeting of the
public relations committee of the
Junior Section, Detroit Service
Group, held last Tuesday eve-
ning, at the Jewish Community
Center, under the chairmanship
of Richard Stein. Leonard L.
Lewis and Miss Dorothy Schetzer,
editors of the publication, have
assigned editorials, stories and art
work to the following staff mem-
bers: Alex Baruch, Miss Esther
Begrer, Louis A. Berman, Miss
Ann Grosberg, Miss Barbara
Lappin, Abe Slayers, Robert
Schiff, Miss Helene Schoenfeld
and Miss Beatrice Weiswas.ser.
Miss Rosalind Schubot, co-
chairman with Eliot A. Magid-
sohn of the Junior Section col-
lection committee, presided at a
meeting of the committee held
at the Jewish Home for Aged,
also on Tuesday evening, In ad-
dition to its task of collecting
the pledges solicited by members
of the Junior Division in the
1938 Allied Jewish Campaign,
the Junior Section committee has
undertaken the collection of all
unpaid campaign pledges in the
smaller brackets as its share of
the work in the collection cam-
paign now being conducted by
the Jewish Welfare Federation.
Gus D. Newman, president of
the senior Detroit Service Group,
addressed the meeting.
The Junior Section drama
group, headed by Miss Regina
Schiller and the speakers' bu-
reau, under the co-chairmanship
of Jacob, Weisman and Morris
H. Shillman, have been active
the past week.
• Junior Section interest is cen-
tered in the election of officers
for the organization to be held
at the initial meeting of the
board of directors on Jan. 10.
The officers will be chosen by
the 26 board members from their
own group.
A. Z. A. Concludes
Regional Conclave
More than 400 A. Z. A. dele-
gates from two states registered
during the week of Dec. 25 at
the Book Cadillac hotel for the
Great Lakes regional convention
and tournament of Aleph Zodik
Aleph, youth organization of
Boni Brith.
The main topic of the regional
meet was the debate of the ques-
tion as to whether another home
than Palestine should be pro-
vided for Jewish refugees. The
Fort Dearborn chapter from
Chicago was winner in this con-
test. At the some time an ora-
torical contest was held on the
subject "The Brighter Side of
Jewish Life." Basketball pre-
liminaries and finals were held
during the three day meet and
the Deborah chapter from Chi-
cago emerged the victor.
Sixteen-year-old Joan Wodell
of Edison Ave. was adjudged the
sweetheart and queen of the
Junior Bnai Brith Tuesday night
at the convention ball in the
grand ballroom of the Book Cad-
iliac Hotel before a throng of
1,000 dancers.
January 6, 19 9
CHICAGO THEOLOGICAL COLLEGE
DRIVE COMMENCES IN DETROIT
The drive for the Chicago The-
ological College in Detroit com-
menced here this Friday.
At a meeting of the Detroit
Council of Orthodox Rabbis, held
on Tuesday at the home of Rabbi
Joseph Thumim, chairman, a call
was issued the community to
support this school. The appeal,
which was drafted by a commit-
tee consisting of Rabbi Isaac
Stollman and Rabbi Max J. Wohl-
gelernter, follows:
"The Detroit Council of Or-
thodox Rabbis calls upon the
Jewish community of this city to
extend a generous and courteous
response to the representatives
of the Chicago Hebrew Theologi-
cal College who are visiting here
in conjunction with a drive for
funds urgently needed for the
maintenance of the school, the
building of a new addition to
the Yeshiva, recently dedicated,
and the further expansion of its
facilities to provide for the en-
rollment of 72 refugee students
from the seminary at Frankfort-
am-Main, Germany, now closed.
e o equi
e f luo i pped a gteos an
eo t i m
na u r e tyr ts heof ark
d
to rally behind the leaders, m
t i the
t,he faculty yaenjilivEar
of the
hat
have come to Detroit to remi nd
us of our obligation for this
great national academy of higher
Jewish' learning."
Rabbi Mordecai Burstein of
Kansas City, Mo., one of a dele-
gation of rabbis who arrived here
to aid in this campaign, stated
Wednesday that the plan of the
Chicago Hebrew Theological Col-
lege is to bring to this school
76 German-Jewish young mien.
Rabbi Burstein is in possession
of a list of the names and ad-
dresses of these young people,
16 of whom are now in concen-
tration camps.
In addition to Rabbi Burstein,
other leaders who will aid the
campaign are: Rabbi Harold Ber-
ger, Rabbi alenachem B. Sachs,
Leonard C. Mishkin and Rabbi
Saul Silber, dean of this college,
all of Chicago.
Local Jewry is proud of the
growth of this center of Torah
and Judaism in the Middle West
to which we are particularly at-
tached as neighbors and because
of a close contact through the
15 Detroit men enrolled as stu-
dents of the Beth Midrash Le-
Torah and its alumni holding re-
spectable positions of spiritual
leadership in nearby communi-
ties. It is the duty of every con-
gregation and organized group
to assist in the campaign, and
individuals approached for con-
tributions and help should con-
sider it a privilege to serve this
sacred cause. In these times of
trial for our people it is signifi-
cantly true that we have nothing
left to us of as much permanent
value and abiding strength as
the study of our law and the
practice of our "Ein Lonu shiur
"We barely escaped a war, by a
rak ha-Torah bozos!" We urge narrow shave. Chamberlain was
all those who wish to build here. actually expecting German bomb-
in America for the preservation ers over London one night."
of our people and its spirit, who
-- Letter from one of the most
want to see a generation of
eminent statesmen of Europe,
Jews raised in this country
November 11, 1938.
Highland Park A. Z. A. 313
Elects New Officers
New officers for the corning
term were elected by the mem-
bers of the Highland Park 313
chapter. Officers who are to serve
till June 1939 include Philip
Rothschild, president; L e r o y
Heitman, vice-president; Ernest
Denefeld, secretary; Louis Iloex-
ter, treasurer; Richard Cole,
publicity; Seymour Jacoby and
Alfred Rodner, sergeant at arms;
and Wilfred Katz, chaplain.
A combined installation with
chapter 337 will be held during
the month of January.
C. F. SMITH CO.
Neugarten Club
Elects Officers
PURE FOOD STORES
The Neugarten Sunshine Club
elected the following officers for
1939: Mrs. Samuel Blocher, re-
elected president for her second
term; Airs. Morton T. Snyder,
first vice-president; Mrs. Charles
Aller, second vice-president; Mrs.
Jacob E. Newman, third vice-
president; Mrs. Carl Myers,
fourth vice-president; Mrs. Har-
old W. Kline, treasurer; Mrs.
Martin Krause, auditor; Sirs.
Fred Gross, recording secretary;
Mrs. Lester Smith, financial sec-
retary; Mrs. Jack Langer, cor-
responding secretary; Mrs. Har-
vey Elbinger, publicity.
Installation of officers will take
place later in January at which
time board members will be
elected.
The next general meeting of
the Junior Section, Detroit Serv-
ice Group, planned for Sunday
afternoon, Jan. 22, at 2:30
o'clock, will be held at Temple
Beth Et Gladstone and Wood-
ward Ave. The group will be
addressed by Rabbi Fram. A
musical program and an original
one-act play, presented by the
Junior Section drama group, will
be features of the afternoon.
Membership in the Junior Sec-
tion, Detroit Service Group, in
open to every Jewish young man
and woman, between the ages
of 16 and 30 years, in the city.
The Junior Section is sponsored
by the senior organization which
serves as the fund-arising arm
of the Jewish Welfare Federa-
The Jewish National Fund Coun-
tion.
cil acknowledges the planting of
trees in the Butzel Forest in Pal-
France Pardons Illegal Entry of estine, as follows:
Refugees
One tree in memory of Sarah
Horwitz of Buffalo, N. Y., by Mr.
Paris. (WNS) — The release and Sirs. Louis Goldberg.
of refugees who entered the
Two trees in memory of the fifth
country illegally was expected to Yahrzeit of Louis and Albert Liber-
be completed shortly with a dec- son by Mr. and Mrs. Saul R. Levin.
laration of amnesty from the
Two trees in memory of Celia
French government. The general Becker Strauss by her friends.
pardon of all imprisoned refugees
Two trees in memory of Harry
and other unwanted and perse- Nide, by Zeta Alpha Rho Frater-
cuted political exiles was believed nity.
certain following the filing of
Please call Mrs. P. Slomovitz,
petitions with the government by University 1-6972, 17417 Stoepel,
many organizations who have for the planting of trees in the
pledged to aid refugees.
Fred M. Butzel Forest.
A
i
WHERE PRICE TELLS
AND QUALITY SELLS
Trees Planted In
The Butzel Forest
•
A STORE IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD
.
•
•
•
O rnhiti alio&
Kvutzah to Meet
Saturday Evening
.a new 'ear
..a neu, SMOKIN G,
HEASURzr.
Make Chesterfield
your New Year's resolution
...they'll give you more plea-
sure than any cigarette you
ever smoked.
Chesterfields are better be-
cause of what they give you
—refreshing mildness, better
taste and aroma.
Chesterfields are the right
combination of mild ripe
American and aromaticTurk-
ish tobaccos — rolled in pure
cigarette paper.
Montefiore Lodge
Elects Its Officers
When you try them you will know
why Chesterfields give millions of
men and women more smoking
pleasure.., why THEY SATISFY.
Copyright 1939, Lowry & urn TOM= CO.
... the blend that can't be copied
... a HAPPY COMBINATION of the
world's best cigarette tobaccos