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March 3, 1939

and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE

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ish settlers, it is reasonable to ask wheth-
er Great Britain will receive the exiles.

and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE

Forgetting for the moment the national
aspirations of Jewry in a redeemed Pal-
estine, the major problem today is that
of settling the persecuted Jews in an
environment of freedom. By shutting Pal-
estine's doors to these unfortunates, Great
Britain definitely becomes an ally of the
Nazis.
It is easy to shout in protest against
persecutions in other lands, and it is very
noble to raise refugee funds to assist the
(lowntrodden. But it would be far nobler
if the protesting Christians in Great Brit-
ain would themselves stop hanging out
signs of "Gentiles Only," "No Jews Want-
ed," "Restricted," etc., etc.
But this is exactly what Great Britain
is doing in Palestine. "No Jews Admit-
ted" is the newly-painted sign that is
being hoisted on the Palestinian struc-
ture by the betraying administrators of
the mandate.
It is not yet too late to stop this latest
betrayal. We refuse to believe that the
British masses approve of such action. We
refuse to believe that the conscience of
the Christian world will tolerate it if the
facts are made known.
Mighty England will soon learn that
Jews will refuse to be submerged and to
be subjected to further humiliation. If
destined to remain the world's greatest
martyrs, at least Jews shall not be
trampled in the dust. If England is to
proclaim another Munich pact, we shall
at least refuse to be parties to such action.
It is to be hoped, of course, that Great
Britain will avoid nullifying the Balfour
1)eclaration and the Mandate for Pales-
tine which provide for the building of a
Jewish National Home.
But if betrayal is contemplated then
Jews must plan to let their voices be
heard in mighty protest. Surely, the lib-
eral Christians throughout the world will
join with us in similar protests.

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Sabbath Scriptural Selections

Pentateuchal portion—Ex. 27:20-30;10; Deut.
25:17-19.
Prophetical portion—I Sam. 15:2-34.

Readings of the Law on Purim, Sunday
Ex. 17:8-16.

Adar 12, 5699

March 3, 1939

The Lesson of Purim

The lesson of Purim is eternal.
In the Book of Esther we find an inter-
esting admonition for the Jewish people of
all times and all climes.
Mordecai had sent a message to Es-
ther:
"Imagine not in thy soul to be
able to escape in the king'a house
out of all the Jews. For if thou do
indeed maintain silence at this time,
enlargement and deliverance will
arise to the Jews from another place•,
but thou and thy father's house will
perish; and who knoweth whether
thou hast not for a time like this
attained to the royal dignity?"

Whereupon Esther sent this reply to
uncle: "Go, assemble s together all
the Jews who are now present in Shushan,
and fast ye for me, so that ye neither
eat nor drink three days, either night
or day; also I myself with my maidens
will fast in like manner; and then will
I go in unto the king, which is not ac-
cording to the law; and if I then perish,
I perish."
No comment is necessary on this age-
old story. It is condemnation of silence.
It is defiance of danger. It is affirmation
of the need of a policy of action in every
age and every clime.
The lesson of Purim is clear at this
time. We need action. Indeed, we shall
have action. It may not be "according to
the law"; but Israel's spokesmen shall
not be silent.
On Purim let us all resolve to speak,
to act, to be firm in our stand for justice.
Then all the Hamans will meet their doom,
as did the Haman of the days of Morde-
cai and Esther.

fi ller

'

Welcome Dr. Mann

PURIM PRANKS I

O,PNCLUDED EltOu PAGE ONE)

the 14th (of Adar) water must
be cleared from the house and
yard. And place into which water
is not brought needs no search
(or clearing)." The first mishaa
of the tractate lasahan could not
have had a better parody. •
In the same vein the Ilaggadah
is made the butt of satire. A
Purim Haggadah follows the Pass-
over liturgy step by step, reducing
the manner and vocabulary to ridi-
cule. Or we find an "Order of
Penitential Prayers for Purim"
by an 18th century parodist, Judah
Loeb Bensew of Cracow, which
copies, to perfection the technique
of the penitential prayer, for
praises of Bacchus.
Many other literary caricatures
can be found. For example, there
is a Purim kiddash, where frag-
ments of verses are so strung to-
gether out of contest as to pro-
duce a maximum of nonsense; or
a Purim marriage contract, or a
Purim kaddish.
Frequently communities elected
as Purim rabbi the town wit,
whose office, that day, gave him
license to ridicule all the dignitar-
ies of the neighborhood. For once
in the presentation of plays men
took the liberty of wearing wo-
men's clothing (normally a viola-
tion of the law).
Purim, then, was certainly • the
festival of boisterousness. And in
an age when the "tears of things"
have become the order of the day
it may be well worth remember.
ing that In our heritage the tradi-
tion of "daughter holding both his
sides" has had its place.

O'opyriKlit 1939. 8. A.

)

"Rape of Palestine"
Rabbi Fram's Topic
at Services Friday

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itors are permitted in the class-
rooms. The general public is in-
vited. Visitors may come to any
class room the large class in cur-
rent events, conducted in the
Brown Memorial Chapel by Rab-
bi Leon Frani, to the small class
in liebrew -conducted by Miss Rose
Pike of the United Hebrew
Schools. Classes are held from 8
to 9, and from 9 to 10 o'clock.
Each visitor will, therefore, have
the opportunity of visiting two
classes. The school office will of-
fer the visitors a schedule of the
courses and they will be free to
visit any class they wish.
Rabbi Fram announces that the
spring term of Beth El College
of Jewish Studies will begin Mon-
day night, March 20. Courses con-
sisting of 10 successive Monday
night sessions in current Jewish
history, Jewish literature, ancient
and modern Jewish history, and
comparative religion, will be of-
fered. The faculty consists of the
rabbis of the Reform Temples of
the various cities in Michigan:
Pontiac, Flint, Lansing and Jack-
son.
The spring term will begin with
n a d special
d st yirt
e tilhearstse;a
assembly
b e l into the
be

The coming to Detroit on March 11 of
Dr. Thomas Mann, the greatest of all
exiles, is an event of great importance to
the community. It is an honor for De-
troit, and it is an occasion for the mobil-
ization of all the forces that stand for de-
cency for a renewal of the fight on Naz-
ism.
At the root of all manifestations of
bigotry is the poison that comes from the
land that is ruled by the mad Adolf Hit-
ler. To combat these manifestations
means to fight for democratic and Amer-
ican ideals.
The gathering in honor of Dr. Thomas
Mann, at the Masonic Temple on March
11, will be an occasion for a demonstra-
tion for democracy and Americanism. It
will be a splendid occasion for honoring
the great exile.
It is important that the Masonic Tem-
ple should be filled to overflowing for the
A diversion from previous Allied Jew- lecture to be given by Dr. Thomas Mann
Quaker who has been the director
ish Campaigns is the new Women's Proj- on March 11.
of the Friends' Center in Berlin,
est which was launched this week.
which has been administering re-
lief to German Jews and aid to
In view of the unprecedented demands
prospective refugees. He will tell
that are being made upon the Jewish
the story of the activity of this
communities in, free countries, every ef-
remarkable relief group in behalf
fort, no matter how trying, will have to
of Jewish and other sufferers in
be made to mobilize forces for defense
Detroit's Gewerkshaften campaign is Nazi Germany.
of Jewish lives and to gather very large drawing to a close, and its leaders and
Gift to Hebrew Schools
sums of money for relief purposes.
rank and file appear satisfied that they
The United Hebrew Schools
The women are in position to make a are not only reaching their goal but that gratefully
acknowledge the receipt
substantial contribution to this effort. The they are making rapid progress in their of a contribution from Mr. and
new Women's Project of the Allied Jew- efforts to enlighten the Jewish masses rela- Mrs. Harry Cohen in memory of
ish Campaign is the instrumentality for tive to the great aspirations of Jewish Mrs. Sarah Bluma Tobin.
such work.
labor in Palestine.
It is the obligation of every Jewish
Much more important than the funds
woman in Detroit to participate in this raised through the Gewerkshaften — im-
work and to lend her energies in making portant as the financial assistance is at
it a success. The result of this special this time—is the educational value of the
women's effort will be the best test of labor Palestine appeal. Jewish workers
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the ability of the community at large to had been indifferent to Palestine for too
give what it should to this year's mercy long a time. Only the select among them rope where has was born and
spent his youth and the American
drive.
recognized the value of a free Jewish life continent where he found his call-
in the Jewish National Home. Thus it be- ing in journalism. His early train-
came necessary to conduct educational ing was for the Calvinist minis-
but the advent of the war
campaigns, to propagate among the mas- try,
led him to the battlefront and
ses, to awaken them to their responsibili- later to newspaper work. Ile
have made a great preach-
Senator Robert Wagner of New York, ties. The result of the Gewerkshaften cam- would
just as he emerged a great
Congressman John D. Dingell of Detroit paigns has been that the workers have, er,
newspaperman, — primarily be-
and Congresswoman Edith Nourse Rogers during the past few years, become an im- cause he possesses a passionate
of Massachusetts have earned the grati- portant factor in the work for Palestine's sense of justice.
Throughout his career, as cor-
tude of all humanitarians, and especially redemption.
The late Abraham Liessin, Fighter for respondent in France . where he
of the Jewish people, for sponsoring the
met and interviewed Europe's out-
Socialism
and
editor
of
Die
Zukunft,
was
resolution providing for the admission of
standing statesmen; in Palestine,
thousands of refugee children into this the first among the leaders of the Bund, where he called the bluff of the
the very strong Jewish labor movement, Mufti, risking his life for it; in
country.
Ethiopia, in Morocco, in Spain,
As the Pathfinder Magazine of Wash- to inaugurate a revision of the organi- his
interpretations of events de-
ington pointed out editorially, "the resolu- zation's traditional opposition to Zionism scriptive
of our generation are
tion is naturally non-partisan because its and its animosity to modern Palestine. marked by a desire to defend the
He
urged
the
Bund,
the
strongest
Jewish
downtrodden;
by a determination
purpose is wholly humanitarian."
It is encouraging to know that there is Socialist organization, to abandon its anti- to condemn bigotry; by un insa-
quest for truth in a world
unanimity of opinion in church and labor Zionist stand and to shape a new policy tiable
dominated by corrupt politics and
ranks in favor of such action. It is good to that would mobilize the Jewish working oppressive economics.
His book must be read for an
know that the press of the land endorses masses in behalf of Palestine.
appreciation of these elements
the proposal editorially.
"The
Jewish
worker,"
Mr.
Liessin
which today elevate Mr. van
We add our appreciation to the spon-
Paassen to the highest rank of
said, "is not only a part of the world
sors of the resolution. Their action mirrors
defenders of truth. The best ex-
proletariat, but also a part of the
ample of his passionate striving
the truest and best sentiments of Ameri-
Jewish nation. Therefore the Jewish
for justice is to be found in the
can tradition.
worker cannot stand aloof from, or
section "After Seven Centuries"

Women's Project for Drive

PURELY COMMENTARY

For Labor Palestine

By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ

Will England Betray Us?

Having created in Palestine the foundation for
a healthy and prosperous center for Jews, we are
now in danger of having new obstacles placed in
our path by the vacillating policy of Great Brit-
ain.
It is hard to believe that English politicians
are preparing a new Munich pact at the expense
of the Jews. It is even more difficult to enter-
tain the thought that Great Britain will abandon
the Mandate and will move out of the strongest
position she has in the Mediterranean, For this
reason it is reasonable to hope that the early
reports regarding the pro-Arab decisions are ex-
aggerated. Englund needs l'alestine, and her
statesmen know that the Jews are her best friends,
that the Arabs have betrayed her in the past
and may do so again. Therefore, it is necessary
that we do not despair over the situation, that
we realize that this is not the end, that we have
overcome obstacles in the past and shall over-
come others in the future.
•

Caught Napping

Nevertheless we should admit that once
again Jews were apparently caught napping. This
time it is on the Palestinian front.
It is an established fact that Britain is toying
with us, that we are being betrayed in the inter-
ests of British imperialism.
Dr. Stephen S. Wise and the late Jacob de Haas
warned against British insincerity in their book
"The Great Betrayal" several years ago. Pierre
Van Paassen condemns British methods in his
"Days of Our Years." The most effective expose
of British methods in dealing with the Jews is to
be found in William B. Ziff's "The Rape of Pales-
tine: A l'resentation of the Startling Facts Under-
lying British Rule in Palestine." But in spite of
these warnings, Jews have been inactive in pre-
paration for the almost certain repudiation of its
pledges by the British government.
Mr. Ziff's book, until now condemned as a fas-
cist document and as narrowly partisan in its Re-
visionist views, will now gain in popularity. Mr.
Ziff is unfair in his attacks on Dr. Chaim Weis-
mann and other Jewish leaders. He is brutal in
his description of certain activities on the part of
Zionists themselves. But he will be applauded for
his devastating revelations of the manner in which
Great Britain is violating the Balfour Declaration
and the Mandate for Palestine.
The time has again come to speak—and the
voice of all who are concerned that Jewish rights
shall not be sacrificed on the altar of international
politics will again have to be heard.
The sooner the protest is made the better.
•

An Avalanche of Speakers

America's most brilliant liberal leaders joined
in condemning bigotry and persecution, Nazism and
Coughlinism, at the sessions of the Progressive
Education Association in Detroit last week. The
convention was a great demonstration for de-
mocracy.
The appearance of some of the ablest liberals
here during a single week-end is not deterring the
democratic forces from bringing to Detroit fight-
ing men and women who will again be heard here
during the coming weeks. Here is a brief list of
persons you should hear:
Erika and Klaus Mann, who speak at the Art
Institute this Sunday.
Pierre Van Paassen, who will address the Zion-
ist Organization of Detroit next Thursday at the
Shaarey Zedek.
Dr. Thomas Mann, whose appearance at the
Masonic Auditorium on March 11 is an important
community event.
Julien Bryan, in an anti-Nazi address at the
Masonic Auditorium on March 16.
Miss Dorothy Thompson, who will address a
monster rally for democracy during the coming
two weeks.
...It is a long and imposing list of speakers, -but
each one of them has a message of importance.
They should all have overflow audiences at their
rallies.
•

The Bnai Brith in Palestine

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the
Bnai Brith lodge in Jerusalem. While only half
the age of the world order itself, the Jeru-
salem lodge is an important one, and this occasion
is 'deserving of considerable notice, since Bnai
Brith in Palestine is a tower of strength that chal-
lenges the indecency of countries where its sister
lodges have been banned, and their property con-
fiscated by the totalitarian states.
It is interesting to review the history of the
Jerusalem Bnai Brith. In its early stages it
created a common platform for all elements in the
Palestinian community, and attempted to mediate

Pierre Van Paassen to Address
Zionist Organization March 9

Aiding Refugee Children

Another Munich Pact?

Palestine is again in the limelight. This
time it is again the result of an attempted
betrayal.
If Britain is attempting to write an-
other Munich pact, with Jews as the vic-
tims, then it is evident where the so-
called democracies of Europe stand; it
is evident how the democratic masses are
being betrayed; it is evident that the
world is rapidly reverting back to the
middle ages and that the battle for hu-
man freedom begins anew where it was
left off in the 18th century.
The report of Great Britain's betrayal
of her pledges to the Jewish people came
simultaneously with the announcement
that the Nazis will force 100 Jews to
leave Germany daily. With every avenue
lof escape closed for the Jewish refugees,
land with Palestine remaining the only
!spot on the globe whose progressive pop-
lulation—the Jews--demand the admis-

bear animosity towards, that marvel-
ous experiment now in process in Pal-
estine after about two thousand years
of Galuth. What was to me twenty-
three years ago merely a dream, has
now become a reality. The Jews in
Palestine are going to teach the world
how to live a socialist life! There is
no regulation in any Shulchan Aruch,
whose tenets are accepted by either
capitalist or socialist, prohibiting the
Jews from having a country, a Father.
land of their own, and ordering the
Jews to be like the Gipsies, the eter-
nal exception among the nations."

In the course of time the Jewish work-
ing masses began to realize the truth of
this assertion. and they rallied to the sup-
port of the Zionist cause. Their endorse-
ment of the Gewerkshaften campaign is
one of the surest indications of the new
trend in the ranks of Jewish labor. Pal-
estine is today without question the most
important pillar of strength in Jewry, and
labor forces have contributed in large
on of large numbers of additional Jew- measure to its appeal.

in which he describes how Jewish
achievements in Palestine are be-
ing rewarded by betrayals on the
part of the British who help the
Mufti mislead the Arabs. Refer-
ring to the persecution of Jews
as "the scandal of history," he
asks whether it must continue for-
ever: "is there no balm in Gilead,
and is there no physician?" And
he answers:
"Yes, there is one last hope, one
last solution: the solutio Christi.
"If the Christian Church would
vet, at this late hour, understand
the signs of the times and realize
that the attacks on the Jew, as
they multiply in our day, are but
a prelude to an assault on Chris-
tianity's own foundations, that in
order to attain the last bulwarks
of Christianity and humanism and
democracy, the forces of darkness,
the false gods of state and race.
who have been set up in our time,
must first crush the Jew, who has
been the guardian of the spirit
throughout the ages, if the reali-
zation would penetrate and deep-
en in Christian circles that the
salvation of the Jewish people
through the rebuilding of the
Holy Land is a phase of the

between various Jewries in Eretz Israel whose
ideals came into conflict. Its outstanding achieve-
ment has been the fight against missionary work
conducted among young Jews in the early days
of the Jewish settlement. It has contributed
towards the advancement of the Ilebrew language.
It created the foundation for the Hebrew Uni-
versity and National Library by establishing, some
years ago, the National Library in Jerusalem. It
founded the Arza Sanitorium and the colony of
Motza.
Today there are Bnai Brith lodges throughout
Palestine, and their inspiration came from the
original lodge which was formed 50 years ago.
Out of this lodge came the inspiration of the $100,-
000 grant to the Jewish National Fund for the
establishment of the Bnai Brith colony in the
Beisan region, nearly all of whose settlers cone from
Germany and all of whom are sons and daughters
of members of the former Bnai Brith lodges of
Germany.
The history of Bnai Brith in Palestine is part
of a chapter of Jewish rehabilitation of Palestine
us the Jewish National Home. Jerusalem Bnai
Brith helped to make history for our people.
•

Calling Coughlin's Bluff

It is good to know that not all men who have
been singled out for attack by the Rey. Charles
Edward Coughlin of Royal Oak, submit to at-
tack and misrepresentation without reply. We
are indebted to Father Coughlin's own mouth-
piece, Social Justice of Feb. 20, 1939, for dis-
covery of the text of the letter sent to the radio
priest by Secretary of the Treasury Henry Mor-
genthau, Jr., in reply to charges hurled at the
member of the Cabinet. Mr. Morgenthau's let-
ter, dated, Feb. 9, 1939, follows:

Your radio address of last' Sunday, Feb.
5, contained statements the inaccuracy and
essential falsity of which should be called to
your attention.
1. At various points in your address, as
reported to me, you stated and implied that
am
operating the stabilization fund, not in
I
the interests of the people of the United
States or for the purpose for which it was
established by Oct of Congerss, but "for the
benefit of the British and French interna•
linnet bankers who reap the rewards of im-
perialism." This is completely untrue. I am
enclosing for your information a copy of a
letter on the subject of the stabilization
fund, which I have written to Senator Henry
Cabot Lodge, Jr., in response to an
• inquiry
from him.
In
your
address
you
referred
to a
2.
meeting which you said took place in Paris
in September of 1938. If I have a correct
report of what you said, you asserted that
others at the meeting were Ambassador Bul-
hit, Leon Blum and Litsinoff, Foreign Min•
inter of the Russian Soviet Government. I
did not attend any such meeting and know
of no such meeting. The only occasion on
which 1 ever saw Lit•inoff was when he was
in the United States on an official mission in
1933. I have had no communication, direct
or indirect, with him since that time. I was
not in France at the time you state this
meeting was held.
3. You stated that, "so it is reported,"
Mr. Bernard Bernstein is my assistant in the
management of the stabilization fund. Mr.
Bernstein is one of four Assistants General
Counsel in the Treasury Department, all of
whom work under the general direction of
Mr. Edward H. Foley, Jr., Acting General
Counsel. No one in the General Counsel's
office has anything to do with the manage-
ment of the stabilization fund.
I am not attempting to deal specifically
with all of the many inaccuracies and falsi-
ties both of statement and inference in your
address. I merely wish to avoid seeming to
give assent to them by silence.
Sincerely

SARAN SCHNEOUR
COMES TO DETROIT

Will Address Two Meetings,
on March 19 and
March 21

The distinguished Hebrew poet
and author, Sidman Schneour, will
be the guest of the Kvutzah Iv-
rith, the Ilebrew Cultural Group,
and the Ilebrew Teachers' Organ-
ization of Detroit, Tuesday eve-
ning, March 21, in the auditorium
of the Philadelphia-Byron School.
This is Salman Schneour's first
visit to America since 1922. Mr.
Schneour ranks as one of the
foremost Ilebrew novelists and
poets. His novel "Noah Pantile,"
the first of his words to be trans-
lated into English, was acclaimed
by the critics in England and
America as a remarkable achieve-
ment.
Sidman Schneour's present visit
to this country is under the aus-
pices of the Jewish National
Workers Alliance, and is looked
upon as an event of great signifi-
cance by lovers of Ilebrew and
Yiddish literature.
Sunday, March 19, he will speak
in Yiddish under the auspices of
the local National Workers Alli-
ance, and on March 21 he will
speak in Hebrew at the Philadel-
phia-Byron under the joint aus-
pices of the Kvutzah lvrith and
the Hebrew Teachers Organiza-
tion of Detroit.

NEW YORK.—Salman Schne-
our, distinguished Yiddish-Hebrew
poet and author, arrived from
Paris on the Ile de France Wed-
nesday, Feb. 22.
Mr. Schneour came to this
country on the invitation of the
Jewish National Workers' Alli-
ance, Labor Zionist Fraternal
Order, and will make a trans-
continental lecture tour cover-
ing most of the important cities
in the United States and Canada.
Called the Jewish Charles
Dickens, Salmon Schneour was
born in 1887 in Shklov, White
Russia, a descendant of great
men of the Chassidic movement,
son of a dealer in antiques and
precious stones. Ile began writ-
ing at the age of eight, and
some of his earliest poems are
considered of high literary merit.
At the age of 13 he ran away
from home to Odessa, where
Bialik, the doyen of Hebrew po-
etry, befriended him. After-
wards he went to Warsaw, where
he became secretary of Peretz,
the greatest Yiddish writer of
his time. In 1906 he went to
Paris for his studies and has
lived there since.
Schneour's Hebrew works have
appeared in a collected edition
of nine volumes. and his Yiddish
works in a collected edition of
eight volumes. Ile has been the
subject of numerous memoirs,
monographs and articles in all
languages, exceeding 300 in num-
ber. The translation in Eng-
lish of his novel "Noah Pandre"
was hailed by critics, in Amer-
ica and in England as a master-
piece of the first order.

HENRY MORGENTHAU, JR.,

Secretary of the Treasury.

The concluding paragraph is significant. Mr.
Morgenthau is to be congratulated on his re-
fusal to give assent to lies by silence.
It is interesting to note that in the Social
Justice of Feb. 20, it is stated that Mr. Morgen-
thau's letter, dated Feb. 9, "cane to Father
Coughlin's attention" just as the edition was
going to press, that there was no space available
to answer it and that "next week Father Cough-
lin will handle the case." Miracles may happen:
perhaps Father Coughlin will make this an oc-
casion for the first in a series of apologies.
Father Coughlin will be interested to know that
the Jewish people always welcomes penitence on
the part of sinners.

Fraternities Build
Jewish Bookshelves

The Jewish Publication So-
struggle for the establishment of ciety of America announces
the Kingdom of God on earth, I that through the cooperation
believe, there is still hope. And of the national officers of the
Beta Sigma Rho Fraternity,
not only hope of saving the Jew- the eight chapters of this na-
ish people from frightful disaster, tional Jewish fraternity have
but hope of saving society!
been enrolled as members of
"For the Christian Church, in the society, and will each re-
a great and sacred gesture of ceive three of the society's
. The Jewish
books during 1939.
audacity, should recapture some-
thing of its old prophetic spirit— Publication Society is endeav-
the power of moral expression it oring to build Jewish book-
lacks at present—it could still es- shelves in the libraries of all
of the Jewish fraternities in
tablish a new contact with life
America. The first fraternity
and take up the contact of human
to join the society was the Phi
society . . . "
Epsilon Pi Fraternity, which
There is a passionate plea in
enrolled its 31 chapters in
behalf of the Zionist cause, which
Mr. van Paassen understands as 1936, and the second was the
Alpha
Epsilon Pi Fraternity,
well, if not better, than any liv-
ing Christian, and as well if not which enrolled its 20 chapters
in
1938.
better than the average Jew. Re-
ferring to the claim that Pales-
tine cannot take care of all refu-
gees and prospective refugees, he
writes: "Perhaps it cannot. Yet,
vast tracts of land are available
for settlement and acute shortage
of labor prevails. Eretz Israel is
calling its wandering children
Simon Shetzer, president of the
home, and millions of Jews have Jewish Community Council of De-
a passionate longing to enter its troit, will speak at the New Eng-
gates. Let a beginning be made land Conference of Jewish Com-
in taking the Jew there before munal Agencies in Boston on
it is too late and the barbarians Saturday and Sunday, March 4
carry out their threat to extermi- and 5.
nate the remnant- of Israel by the
On Sunday, March 12, Mr.
sword and the fire." And he con- Shetzer will address the annual
eludes his appeal for a Jewish dinner meeting of the Jewish Corn-
Palestine, in the portion of his munity Council of Toledo.
great book "Days of Our Years"
devoted to a discussion of the Special Purim Program at
Jewish national ideal, with these
Bnai David Sunday
words: "More cruel, more inhu-
A special urim program of the
man than persecution and ostra-
cism and the imposition of ghet- Religious School open to the pub-
tos and of the yellow badge of lic, will take place on Purim, Sun-
shame it would be to keep the day morning, Starch 5, at 11, at
door of their home shut in the Congregation Bnai David, Elm-
face of the clamoring multitudes hurst and 14th Sts. During as-
sembly the Megliah will be read.
of Israel."
Whatever has thus far been Following this program, parents
said about this book is inadequate. and pupils will be guests of the
Mr. ,van Paassen's description of teaching staff and the Sisterhood
conditions in Spain is as touching at the Purim party during which
an exposition of school childrens'
AS his view of Palestine. Similarly,
his chapters dealing with condi- efforts will be displayed.
tions in Africa and Ethiopia are
historic. There is no other way Temple High School
Dinner-Dance March 18
of describing this great book,
whose author will once again
On March 16, the annual dinner
grace a Zionist platform in De- dance of the Temple Beth El
troit on March 9.
High School will be held at the
Temple.
Erika Mann, daughter of
The dance is to be semi-formal,
Thomas. claims that 37 per cent but corsages will be banned.
of Nazi youth have flat feet, be-
Bernard Moray is president of
cause of too much parading .. . the Council.
And sprained shoulders because
For further information call
of too much Heil Ilitlering?
To. 7-2611.

Shetzer to Speak
In Boston, Toledo

Jr. Congregation
of Shaarey Zedek

The Junior Congregation of
Shaarey Zedek held its regular
Sabbath service last Saturday in
the synagogue chapel. The Jun-
ior Congregation is looking for-
ward to moving into its new home
in the annex building shortly. It
always welcomes newcomers most
heartily, every Sabbath morning
at 9:30 o'clock.

1938 FEDERATION YEAR BOOK
IS READY FOR DISTRIBUTION

232-Page Brochure Contains List of Contributors, Explana-
tions of Aims of Agencies, Statement by Srere

The 1938 Jewish Welfare Fed- Detroit Community Fund drives,
eration Year Book is off the press and listing the officers and boards
of directors of these affiliated
and ready for distribution.
causes, the book contains a graph
A resume of the past year's charting Detroit's contributions to
work, accomplished by each Fed- the annual Jewish drives from
eration agency, local, national and 1935-1938 and an analysis of
pledges in the 1938 Allied Jew-
overseas, is included in this 232- ish Campaign. The chart records
page booklet, as well as the names
the
interesting figures of 8,063
of over 10,000 subscribers who contributors
in 1935 as against
pledged $5 or more to the 1937 13,451 contributors
in 1938, rais-
and 1938 Allied Jewish Cam- ing the respective amounts of
paigns.
$220,500 in 1935 as against $391,-
Describing the purpose and 500 in 1938.
contents of the 1938 Year Book
The analysis of pledges in the
in his foreword to the 1938 edi-
tion, Abe Srere, president of the 1938 Allied Jewish Campaign re-
veals
that the greatest percentage
Jewish Welfare Federation, states:
"In keeping with our policy of the total amount of subscrip-
tions
was
raised by givers in the
each year, a list of local, national
and overseas welfare agencies $100 to $249 group, whose com-
bined
contributions
totals 17.1
which are maintained wholly or
in part by your Jewish Welfare per cent of the total quota.
Federation, as well as the names
of contributors whose generosity MANN TO LECTURE
makes this work possible, we pre-
HERE ON MARCH 11
sent our 1938 Year Book.
"You will note from this list
icciwctenuP mast PAGE ONE)
the comprehensive, all-embracing
nature of the work of the fifty- Detroit by two members of his
two agencies included in your
Erika and Klaus. Erika
Federation. The record shows the f Tamil
am s'
-
amounts raised by the Allied Jew- Mann addressed a huge meeting of
ish Campaign for local, national the convention of the Progressive
and overseas agencies and also Education Association at the Book-
notes the appropriations by the Cadillac Hotel last Friday night.
Detroit Community Fund to eight
of our local Jewish organizations. She spoke on the subject of her
a
"Schools
is ediclbo
ap r abn l s?h,
''Nhe eproblems i e n v i dt n e t lteci ete vfeerwy recently
for
J ew have ari sen
the
Erika
years. At the very time this book Mann together are appearing in
is going to press we are faced
with problems that seem over- a symposium at the Detroit In-
whelming. We dare not. however, stitute of Arts, Sunday evening,
lose courage. With a united and March 5, on the subject: "Chil-
cooperating community the work dren in Goosestep."
It is expected that the Masonic
of your Federation can be made
lighter. More funds than ever Auditorium which seats 6,000 peo-
raised before are essential to the ple will be crowded and standing
continuation of our established room occupied. The lecture is held
agencies unimpaired and to meet under the auspices of the League
the additional pressing demands. for Human Rights, an agency of
"The name of every Jew or the Jewish Welfare Federation, of
Jewess of the community should which Rabbi Leon Fram is chair-
be listed among the contributors man. Members of the Jewish com-
in our Year Book unless they munity are advised by the League
themselves are receiving relief. To not to delay securing their seats.
support your Jewish Welfare Fed- Most of the seats in the Masonic
eration is a duty you owe to your- Temple are already sold out. Only
self and to the Jewish community a few seats in the various price
of Detroit—a duty you should be categories, 55c, $1.10, $1.65, and
happy to fulfill completely and $2.20 are left. Tickets may be
obtained at Grinnell's, at the office
generously."
In addition to recounting the of the League for Iluman Rights,
aspirations of every Jewish agen- 2302 David Stott Bldg., Cherry
cy included as a beneficiary in the 6906, or at the office of Temple
1938 Allied Jewish Campaign and Beth El.