ME Denton:Awn
'
RONICLE
a,.. THE LEGAL CHRONICLE.
4 !
rilEDLTRon,JEwisnefRONICL
and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE
rabliaked .seta by The Jovial. Chronicle Publishing Cs, tea,
Metered as fleeend-class smatter Marsh I, 1911, at the Test.
oleo at Detroit. Mich.. ander the Asa of Marais I, 111/1.
General Offices and Publication Building
525 Woodward Avenue
Tolaph000: Cadillac 1040 Cab!. Addrocai Chroolclo
Lead. 0Mrei
14 Stratford Place, London, W. 1, Eaglaad
Subscription. in Advance._
._13.00 Per Year
T. Inure publicallort. all eorreepoodenee sad saws matter
most reach this ease. by Toesdey everting of sash week.
When maillog notice., kindly an ace Ma of the Raw NO.
The Detroit Jealeh Chronicle !nett. eorresponlesee ea sob-
'set. of letareet te the Jewish peyote. het disdains. reeposel.
halt, for an indoreenleat of the else.esyresse4 by the writer.
Sabbath Scriptural Selections
Pentateuchal portion—Ex. 35:1-40:38; 12:1 - 20.
Prophetical portion—Ezezk. 45 :16-46
Rosh Chodesh Ni..,, Readings of the Law
Tuesday
Num. 28:1-15.
Adar 26, 5699
March 17, 1939
Britain and Palestine
"The British plan will be callous prep-
aration for a period of murder and oppres-
sion, perhaps without parallel in recent
memory," is the editorial comment of the
New York Post on the new Palestine pro-
posals.
We believe this to be an exaggerated
opinion, in view of overwhelming proof
that the vast majority of the Arabs in Pal-
estine are opposed to terrorism and are in
favor of cooperation with Jews. The mere
fact that the neighboring Arab villagers
joined in a Chamisho Osor b'Shvat cele-
bration with the Jewish pioneers in Hanita
and that a mukhtar of the villages wel-
comed the Jewish colonists home with the
statement that Joshua ben Nun had won
Palestine for the Jews for all time, is of
sufficient signficance to show that there
will not be mass murder; that the Arabs
are longing for a return of prosperity and
peace to the land they share with the
Jews, and that they are tiring of destruc-
tion at the hands of vandals and murder-
ers who are inspired by the Grand Mufti's
followers.
But the New York Post makes an im-
portant point when it deplores the fact
that "the nations of the world have al-
lowed a situation to arise in which half a
million human beings have gambled their
lives and possessions on a specific pledge.
To maintain the status quo is the least
civilization can do."
In reality it is much more than this. It
is a question of giving a home for home-
less people, of honoring an historic affilia-
tion of Jews with their cradleland, of giv-
ing Jews a chance to live peacefully, to
create without hindrance, to live a normal
life.
Regardless of the restrictions imposed
upon Jews in Palestine, Great Britain must
realize that her pledge will not be treated
like a scrap of paper; that Jews will not
yield to terrorism; that the Jewish people
will defy Britain if she should insist upon
creating another ghetto for Jews, this time
in Palestine. Dr. Stephen S. Wise has
stated upon his return from the London
conference that "the fight is not over and
I know that eventually we will win." It is
in this spirit that the Jews in Palestine
are carrying on, and it is in this spirit that
they must be given the encouragement of
their kinsmen throughout the world.
Underground Germany
During the past few weeks, especially
since the new awakening that has come
to the German people from the mirage of
Munich and the pogroms of November,
there are increasing indications that the
underground movement in opposition to
Nazism within Germany is growing by
leaps and bounds.
One does not have to read the literature
published by the democratic f or c es
throughout the world to realize that such
a reaction is growing. Factual literature,
newspaper reports, the frantic efforts of
Nazi chieftains to keep up the spirit of
the German people, all go to prove that
not all is well within Germany.
But perhaps the best proof of existing
resentment is to be found in one of the
most impressive books of our time, Nora
Waln's "Reaching for the Stars" which
has just come off the press of Little,
Brown and Co. of Boston. Although re-
strained, this volume is effective in its
presentation of facts, in its relation of ex-
periences, in its fairness inspired by a
genuine love for German art and culture,
for the German land and people.
Mrs. Waln writes dispassionately, and
her work is a devastating indictment of
the present German regime. Because she
never yields to hatred but consistently, in
true fashion of her Quaker family tradi-
tion, adheres to a viewpoint of pacifism
and love for the German people among
whom she lived for four years, Mrs. Wain
created an epic story which helps reveal
the true state of affairs within Germany,
and from which she passes on her convic-
tion that the Nazi dictatorship can not last
and will not last. Her "Reaching for the
Stars" shows that all is not well in Ger-
many; that there is grumbling and dis-
satisfaction ;- that men and women, in the
privacy of their homes, are beginning to
speak in protest against the outrageous
barbarities practiced by the stormtroopers.
One of the incidents related in this book
deals with the murder of a man who dared
to oppose the Nazis at the March 1933
elections. We read: "On July 16, not quite
six months after Hitler became Vice-
Chancellor, a law was published forbid-
ding all parties except the National Social-
c
let Party. Shortly afterwards this man
went for a walk one evening and did not
return. At Christmas the wife shot their
five-year-old son and herself 'while of un-
sound mind.' She had that morning re-
ceived a package---a cigar box marked
with a swastika and the word 'traitor' be-
. fore her husband's name. It contained
ashes. I was not yet used, to things like
consciousness to find
that, and
tr y
the narrator splashing cold water on ri„ m
SHEEAN TO SPEAK
HERE THIS SUNDAY
PURELY COMMENTARY
March 17, 1939
SOHNEOUR LECTURE
TUESDAY EVENING
quietly, as she scolded me; 'You have got
to learn to steel yourself against shock.
This thing isn't going to end in Germany
—or in Europe.' "
By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
Mrs. Wain tells incident after incident
heading. The editorial is of sufficient importance
of the manner III which Jews and liberals
Bible Outsells "Mein Kampf"
be given wide circulation and we present it Foremost Hebrew - Yiddish
were abused, humiliated, gotten out of the Noted Corespondent Was The Stackpole edition of Ilitler's "Mein Kampf" to
Poet to Address Kvutzah
k
here Lith:
Eye-Witness
to
Nazi
way; and also relates numerous experi-
deserves wide reading. There is no better way of
to the actiiill. of the German-
Ise i n
y
Ivrith and Hebrew Teachers
Persecutions
letting the public know Hitler's designs to under-
American Bond, the queotIon of boa to get rid of
ences of German resentment against such
prhole sronv• althout anybody'. rights or
mine the peace of the entire world than by mak-
hderfering with legitimate organisations has ronw in
practices. She tells the story of one woman
The reception in honor of Sal-
Bringing to Detroit the only
the true facts known.
for a testdeal of attention. Itrpresentatite luorhio
man Schneour, the foremost lie-
who was about to commit suicide when comprehensive eye-w i t n e s s ac- ing While
found • ,ay. Ills blit,
of IF &Iron. thin. be
Hitler's creed thus becomes known to the
brew-Yiddish poet and novelist,
pendin
g In the lImme, aould require cisilian military
she was ordered to leave the land she count of the frightful Jewish per- English-speaking world for the first time in an
orsanis ationo . to get h license from the President,
will be given in the auditorium
acting in his capacity of Commander In Chief of the
learned to love as her native country, but secution that followed the Vom unexpurgated edition of his book, it is encouraging
of the Philadelphia-Byron School
Army and Nast. 111e President au Id be directed to
Rath shooting, Vincent Sheean, to learn that in Germany the Bible still leads the
whose passport was taken from her. The world-famous foreign correspond-
make public Ms attion on each alzplicati... Ti,, D-
Tuesday evening, March 21, at
on
autobiography as a best seller. A report
ern. wouldt be permanent until confirmed by Cons
"family policeman" who had been cover- ent, will give a public lecture on fuehrer's
8:30 o'clock.
from Berlin states that the Bible outsold "Mein
gr... It on no be reimalde at .y lime by act of Con-
do
Selman Schneour, who is known
str.. The !secretary of Dar our Id be autherited
ing the beat for years was instrumental in "Europe After Munich" at 3:30 Kampf"—which has been made compulsory read-
ascertain . the proposed or *sainting purposes, actiliti.,
as the poet laureate of the Ile-
recovering her passport, while Mrs. Wain next Sunday afternoon at the De- ing--by about 200,000 yearly in the past six years
nimnhership, medium. of propaganda employed or to be
brew literature, will appear for
employed, preoent or propooell wources of information.
troit Institute of Arts. Sheean, since the Nazis assumed absolute power in Ger-
encouraged her during the last clay of her an uncompromising enemy of
and any other furl% that leeettletl to 111111 pertinent.
the first time in Detroit. This is
opeolflooll o Ito lit not be lamed to oily group
Well
legal stay in Germany. She left her fortune Nazism and Fascism, journeying many.
the first opportunity afforded the
There is still some hope left that the enslaved
l 'O Welk by Its urines rubs or roloolltullorto or by it.
sand °Mho or tewthings adtocates the denial to any
local Jewish public to see and hear
behind her and departed for Paris, where to all parts of Germany after the German people will some day be emancipated.
rilisen or group or chow of tit I Len. of any protection.
the distinguished poet and novel-
her sister lived. Mrs. Wain thus concludes Vom Rath incident, making first- Here's hoping it will be self-emancipation—and
il
e o r
tonilinlly
..teed by the e ultil l It WWI
f the rase,
ist personally.
of
the
Nazi
at-
hand
observations
O
tollil flit. Of 1 he I tilted Slain on
very
soon.
her story of this day's experience: "I felt in tacks on Jews. He has personally
faith
ount of
ouch citizen,
color, or reboil... or political
faith
Selman Schneour tours the
•
group or eta. of Oise. by use of force, ziolence,
a horrible trance as I dressed for the opera. visited the concentration camps.
country under the auspices of the
threats, Intimidation or economic crcion.. Some
Should
Spread
of
Bigotry
Be
Penalized?
oe
are
made,
I was so slow that I did not slip into the
toe „, ,
Jewish National Workers' Alliance.
Sheean "covered" the Czecho-
The Tuesday night reception is
seat beside my husband until after the bell slovakian crisis for the New York One of the most serious issues facing America
b) fit
71,001)
1 1:1 " Slu o
d f l"K
" .."Aer o l f h"a 6'$.
an;s tzlate er.‘ "Th i ttser:w
today is the problem of how to deal with those
being arranged jointly by the
and Ii,, years' Imp riso nm ent
had rung for the last act. 'Tosca' seemed Times. His transatlantic radio who
Prezonnably the Wen. amid be a mere fornmilt1
spread racial and religious hatred. Liberals,
broadcast from Prague, during
Kvutzah, —the Hebrew Cultural
for . any 0.111, oelmol, moiety, fraternity, orderlentoe.
less tragic than present-day life."
Group, and the Hebrew Teachers'
which he gave the lie to many by virtue of their strict adherence to the principle
lodge, brotherhood Inolitute, ur any groulp of lao or
It is no wonder that the three copies of of Ilitler's claims, was a world- that freedom of assembly, freedom of speech and
more Demo.' elbow purpooex aere open and peaceful.
Organization of the United lie-
The law would clamp down eh.. the Puri.. acre In
her manuscript which she had mailed wide sensation. Sheean will tell freedom of the press must be maintained at all
brew Schools.
doubt. 1.1anifesIty the rights of the States are *midi
are on the spot.
protected. They can authorise any sort of orgtmisation
Recitations of some of Salman
from Germany disappeared and that Mrs. why he believes "the shameful be- costs,
they AM. lo, so long no such an ors -Imitation do.
The question, in its simplest form, is this:
trayal of Czechoslovakia by her
Schneour's poems, as well as a
Waln had to rewrite her book from her democratic allies is the greatest Granted that freedom must be defended, is it
not break existing Feder. Isms.
musicial program in which the
ale oorhis' bill ought to be taken off the obeli
notes after she had left Germany. An in- political disaster of the modern not a fact that right now it will help primarily
and diocusoed. Maybe It to the best al. of salmin
poet's songs will be featured, will
the ouldect and may. Is not. It do. break ground
cident like the following further illustrates world," and he will discuss Hit- those who would rob others of similar freedom if
be included in this program.
In a new and unfortunately urgent field of legislation.
they
were
in
power?
For
it
is
true
that
complete
The week of Schneour's appear-
why Adolf Hitler, who permitted Mrs. ler's present and latest dismem-
Today it is the Bund; tomorrow it may be a ance is known at the Hebrew
berment of that unhappy little and unabridged freedom helps the bigots. There-
Waln's earlier book "The House of Exile" country
Japanese outfit, and the day after an Italian Fas- Schools as the "Selman Schneour
that trusted her allies too fore there is justification for demanding that dras-
to appear in German translation, would implicitly,
tic steps be taken to curtail the spread of religious
cist organization that will strike at the root of Week." The biography of the au-
not tolerate a story like "Reaching for the On his way home to America and racial hatred.
civil liberties and that will preach doctrines of thor and many of his poems, es-
In
principle,
there
is
no
reason
for
deviating
race hatred on these shores. The sooner they are pecially those written for children,
Stars." The story deals with two boys, 16 two months ago Sheean visited
from adherence to the ideals of unabridged rights
checked the better. Congressman Voorhis' bill will be studied by the intermediate
the
Barcelona
front
in
Spain.
He
and 19, whom the author had befriended.
as
they
affect
public
assemblies
and
the
press.
But
should be given serious and immediate considera- and high school classes of the
predicts a frightful massacre of
One day they were late for lunch. Otto, government
tion.
supporters. General even in New York City, where Mayor LaGuardia
United Hebrew Schools.
16, had his sleeve torn and the knuckles Franco, he charges, has black- and Acting Mayor Morris strictly abided by this
•
The president of the Kvutzah
of his right hand were bloody. They were listed for death more than 2,000,- rule in granting the American Nazis the right to
Ivrith is Hernias D. Bomb. The
A
Bouquet
to
"Dynamic
America”
meet in Madison Square Garden, there has been
induced to tell their story, which Mrs. 000 Spanish loyalists.
president of the Teachers' Organi-
Orchids to "Dynamic America, The Nation's zation is Michael Michlin.
Sheean's career as foreign cor- a change of heart. An order has since been issued
Wain relates as follows:
Economic Forum," published in New York, for the
respondent has taken him all over by LaGuardia to all owners of public halls to pro-
Busy about their own affairs, they had come
on Jew-baiting. -Dresden is the Saxons' town,
and they are Hamburgers, but the victim
being tormented was • woman—an old woman
—a German-Jewish woman with some spirit.
Her back was against a wall and she was
answering. She was not defending herself—
in no uncertain words she was defending the
honor of a Germany some people think dead.
A crowd had gathered. Taller than Saxons,
the boys could see over the crowd. The bait-
ing was being done by a boy in the Hitler
Youth uniform. Otto pushed in. and told him
to stop. He did not, so Otto warned him;
and when he continued Otto knocked the boy
down. A man then came at Otto.
"He had fine teeth. They are now in his
stomach," Otto informed me. .
and continued the
Rudiger silenced him, ■
narration. A policeman had taken charge of
Otto. They had walked a long way; they had
presumed it led to jail. But in a quiet street
the policeman had suddenly released Otto.
He had shaken Otto'. bloody hand and said:
"Congratulation.. I envy your youth and
courage. Now be off--quickly."
Europe and the world. He covered
the Riff War in Morocco, the
Rhineland Separatist War, the
Moscow Five-Year Plan, the be-
ginnings of the Revolution in
China.
One year ago Sheean again
plunged into the thick of things.
He visited the Spanish front, and
made a first-hand study of Nazi
activities in swallowed-up Aus-
tria. He was in Czechoslovakia
during the Sudetenland Crisis,
and studied the inner workings
of the Nazi regime during the
Vom Rath convulsion.
Sheean, wile lives in Europe,
has not made an American lecture
tour for six years. This will be
his only Detroit appearance.
Sid Pollick Heads
Durfee Graduates
Surely, the underground movement, and
Sid Pollick, 14-year-old son of
the natural individual spontaneous opposi- Mr.
and Mrs. Maurice W. Pollick
tion to Nazism in Germany can not be of 2740 Richton Ave., was recently
dead and must be growing in view of such elected president of the Durfee
Intermediate School graduation
experiences.
Mrs. Waln has stated that her only pur- class.
The graduation class consists of
pose in publishing her book "is that I have close
to 1,000 students and in or-
a hope that this rending of the German der to be eligible for the office
Veil' will help us all out of this Nazi night- of president it is necessary for
mare." We believe that if books like the student to attain an average
not less than "B" in all his
"Reaching for the Stars" are widely read of
studies.
they will help people out of the Nazi
Sid is also on the editorial staff
nightmare. Mrs. Wain has rendered a of the Durfee Review in the ca-
great service to'the cause of decency with pacity of boys' athletic editor.
•this splendid fictionized non-fiction.
Contributions to the Jewish
Children's Home
vide their own ushers for all public assemblies,
thus barring , ushering by uniformed Nazis. This
is the first step in the right direction. Similar
steps should be taken throughout the country to
make it unlawful for private groups to be armed
and to wear uniforms. Furthermore, it is impera-
tive that legislation be sought to prevent incitation
to riot. Unless such steps are taken promptly,
there will be further incentive for Nazis and
Fascists to create trouble.
American Nazis have already provided proof
that "it can happen here." True Americanism de-
mands that they be stopped NOW.
This raises the additional question of whether
the spreaders of hate are to be penalized, and
what form such penalties should take. In the New
York Legislature there are now pending several
bills which would make the inciting of racial and
religious hatred a misdemeanor punishable by fine
or imprisonment, or both. The New York State
Council of Churches, which represents "federated
Protestantism," has taken a stand against such
legislation through its legislative committee of
four lawyers and six ministers, who hold the pro-
posed bills to be "too broad and dangerous" and
who believe that the measures have been "too
loosely drafted" and "might infringe personal lib-
erty."
This being the case, the responsibility becomes
all the greater for the liberal forces to find a
way out of the dilemma by drafting such legisla-
tion that will retain the spirit of the Bill of Rights
and the Constitution but will prevent capitalizing
upon it by subversive and destructive forces.
The Bill of Rights remains sacred. But it will
aoLatay,sacred if the privileges it grants will en-
able . Nazi bandits in brown shirts to undermine
the peace of this land and to create hatred be-
tween racial and religious groups. The Bill of
Rights does not give complete freedom to scoun-
drels—whether they be in New York or Royal Oak
or Tompkins Corners—to lie and to incite to riot.
Proper legislation is necessary to check the new
wave of bigotry. At the same time, the made-in-
Germany Nazi brown shirt army should be out-
lawed in America. There is no room here for gang-
sters in disguise.
courage with which it has unmasked the Royal Oak
bigot. In its January issue this splendid magazine
carried a protest against Coughlin's activities
signed by prominent leaders from all parts of this
country, and a strong editorial denunciation of the
Coughlin campaign of bigotry. The February issue
had a splendid study of Coughlinism by Roy Whar-
ton under the title "Lies Pour Out of Royal Oak."
Coughlin is here referred to as "The Money Mad
Priest of Royal Oak," and his appeals for funds
for his hate-spreading Social Justice are analyzed
to show how "the poverty-stricken 'Shrine of the
Little Flower' shed its rags, having been trans-
formed by the voice of a microphone Midas into
a beautiful, prosperous church structure." The
March issue of Dynamic America carries a well-
written satire on the infamous forgeries, the Pro-
tocols of the Elders of Zion, under the title "Secret
Protocolas of the Philatelic Legion."
The article "Lies Pour Out of Royal Oak" car-
ries the following interesting footnote:
Den Marcia, who It described an a feature tirIter
on the ,tartof Social Justice, publiolted the tirot part
of no article In the Dee. la boue, called • . The Story
of Leon Tun..." In
article, 1)Pical of the material
rite, and other present In the Coughlin paper,
thin
resealed as • frame-up
lie recent German Spy Came
on the part of .111fluential Dodd. leadero—for the Kole
14 creating 111-aill against Den.. and caus-
ing, If Istosible, an early diplomatic nitaure..."1.-Man .
Leon Tarr., aim unemered the MD solo., is described
by March. ao 1•5 Irtenm agent of the !toilet 01.PU"
who o on planted by the Jr. In the American Secret
KM, Ire to pia, t Ile rote of agent imamate.. mai
cooled out of the ,hale sloth 1.; the
this Mori Otto
.d that It aux not
fertile imagination Of Ben
only nn indirtment again. "certain influential Jet.S .
hu e included the American golf...mm.111 Itself ax • party
to this net er 4.10441 ornery. . IS he edi-
torial ,mare of Social Joon,. The gloryaso
In far t It aas featured. !Roamer, after omen day.. of
reflection, II
dloioolerral that . The Story of Leon
Torr.." lot the words of Social Juslitss alto . not ac-
curate." Therefore,
,
In a full mar announcement, the
magazine on Dee. tfi, 193/1, eat* coat and rep...hales
M.I. e.
rel
r l.
heguat oratil:ymettihitotrh.
decided to olay one Jump nhesol of the law—for the
Miami parties bad a beautiful lase-tent In their lape
banded to them by Social Justiee, the editor of the
Magasine, Ben Martin and Father Coughlin. The latter
gentlemen derided to put their lace behind their hind
hogs nod run.
There will be a small admission
charge to cover the cost of the
lecture.
On Sunday evening, Schneour
will speak here under the auspices
of the Jewish National Workers'
Alliance.
German Refugees
To Be Entertained
The Jewish War Veterans of
the United States, including all
posts, Detroit Post No. 135, and
Auxiliary, and Lawrence Jones
Post No. 190, and the Julius Ros-
enwald Post of the American Le-
gion, will hold a party arranged
for by Nathaniel H. Goldstick, As-
sistant Corporation Counsel of De-
troit, and the entertainment com-
mittee.
This affair is to be held at the
Knights of P y t h i a s hall, 114
Erskine, at John R, on Monday,
March 20, at 7:30 p. m.
Several prominent speakers will
give talks on "Americanism."
There will be movies, refreshments
and dancing.
W. Bea Waldrip, State Depart-
ment Commander of the American
Legon, will be one of the speakers.
Frank Klett, State Department
Commander of the D.A.V., will
also speak. Eugene VanAntwerp,
national commander of the Vet-
erans of Foreign Wars, is ex-
pected to be among the guests.
The purpose of this gathering is
to acquaint the German refugees
with the various veterans' organ-
izations and the true principles
of real democracy. All interested
are urged to attend—especially all
war veterans.
It is not too late to record these facts now,
almost three months after the Coughlin-Marcin
crew ate crow and repudiated a lie. File this story
for reference. You will have occasion some day to
refer to it when some of the other lies, especially
those incorporated in the Marcin articles, are given
Orchids to Ernest L. Meyer of
a thorough airing. the New York Post for coining
By the way, it would be interesting to know the name "Bunditti" for Fuehrer
who hides behind the moniker Ben Marcin. Fritz Julius Kuhn's gang.
Respected Judges
•
The Jewish Children's Home
donations from the
"Hitting at Private Annie,"
American Jewry has reason to be proud acknowledges
following: Mr. Left, Mrs. Sam
That the problem created by the formation of
of the record that has been made by its Berger, Mr. Louis Wolnansky, "private
armies" of the Nazis in this country is
sons and daughters who have shared in Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Koper, in a very serious one is indicated in the editorial
honor
of
son's
Bar
Mitzvah.
that
appeared
in the New York Times under this
the conduct of community and govern-
ment affairs. While there has been em-
phasis on the great contributions made to
GRYNSZPAN TRIAL
this land by Jewish scholars, merchants
IS SET FOR MAY
and industrialists, particular reference has
been made in recent years to the gifts to
PARIS (WNS).—The trial
Annual Campaign Begun to Provide Necessities for Needy
America by men like Justices Brandeis
of Hershel Grynszpan is to
During Passover
take place in May at the Paris
and Cardozo. Recognition of their work
is an indication of appreciation of their Addresses by Joseph Baratz, Rabbi Berman, Joseph Assizes, it was announced here.
Under the chairnianship of it can expect no real let up in
According to a report by the
Haggai and Morris Scheyer and Rich
greatness which elevated them above par-
Charles A. Smith, the annual the demands that will have to be
doctors appointed by the court
Musical Program
Moos Chitim campaign to pro- met this year.
ties and classes.
to examine his mental condi-
"Our friends have always re-
vide necessities for the needy
In our own state, three judges have
tion, Grynszpan was "respon-
during Passover began this week. sponded splendidly in the past
An event of unsual brilliance izations participated in the cam-
sible" at the time he shot Ernst
similarly distinguished themselves: Justice
To meet increasing demands, a and I know that they will do so
marked the Palestine festival at paign.
vom Rath, Germany Embassy)
Henry M. Butzel of the Michigan Supreme the Art Institute on Sunday eve-
sum of $10,000 is asked this year, again this year and I want to im-
official.
Court, Judge Harry B. Keidan of the ning, on the occasion of the clos- An impressive appeal for the
according to the committee. It is press it upon you that the com-
Allied
Jewish
Campaign
was
also announced that plans are to mittee would like to refrain from
Wayne County Circuit Court and Judge ing of the 16th Gewerkshaften
give
each needy family 50 cents having affairs such as dances,
made
by
Isidore
Sobeloff,
execu-
campaign
in
Detroit.
Charles Rubiner of the Common Pleas
more this year than was allotted radio appeals and the thousand
of encouragement tive director of the Jewish Wel- LERNER TO SPEAK
Court. All of them have won wide acclaim in Sentiments
last
year,
in view of increased and one schemes that detract
the present Palestinian crisis fare Federation.
AT FEDERATION'S
and have received the plaudits of men and were expressed by Joseph Baratz, The splendid musical program
from the dignity of this work.
costs.
ANNUAL
MEETING
Contributions
to the Moos We are putting it up to you.
women in all parties. Judge Keidan on Palestine labor leader; Rabbi was featured by the appearance
Send in your contribution and
fund
may
be
sent
to
of
Jan
Peerce,
tenor,
of
New
Morton
M.
Berman
of
Chicago;
several occasions led his entire ticket, and
(CONCLUDED F11011 PAGE ONE,
Charles A. Smith, 1935 Glynn help us by calling your friends'
Haggai and Morris L. York. Other participants who
his triumphs have been tributes to his Joseph
attention to this worthy cause so
Court.
Scheyer, chairman of the drive, distinguished themselves were:
ability and integrity. It is encouraging, on who presided. Speakers were Emma Lazaroff Scheyer, in a cies. This year the Fresh Air In his appeal for contributions that they, too, can help to make
every Jewish home in Detroit re-
the eve of the forthcoming election, to unanimous in declaring that Jews group of songs and in duets with Society, the Jewish Child Place- to this fund Mr. Smith said:
Bureau, the Jewish Home
"The report as audited by the flect truly the spirit of Passover.
know that similar acclaim is being given will carry on the battle for justice Mr. Peerce; Halevy Choral So- ment
for
Aged
and
North
End
Clinic
"Let us all get into the spirit
Jewish
Welfare
Federation
for
Palestine and that there will ciety. under direction of William
by spokesmen for all parties to Justice in
no let-down in the program of Gayman; Rebecca Katzman-Froh- will hold their elections on this the year 1938, shows that we of our ancestors. When we sit
Butzel and to Judge Rubiner. Their im- be
occasion.
Elections
to
member-
down
to our Seder, let us all feel
spent nearly, $7,000 (an all-time
building the Jewish National man and Celia Plotnick, accom-
partiality has caused them to be looked Home.
panists. A sketch, "On Guard," ship on the board of governors high). Twenty-seven thousand that there are no needy in local
of
the
Jewish
Welfare
Federa-
Israel,
at least for the week of
pounds of matzos were distribut-
Mr. Scheyer announced that directed by Moshe Haar, was
upon as transcending party lines. We are
will be held also. A joint ed and over $4,000 was divided the Feast of Freedom.
confident that the voters of this state will close to $20,000 has been raised staged by the Young Jewish tion
"Give liberally and give speed-
report covering Federation activi- among 1,377 families. The com-
reward their faithfulness to duty by re- in this drive and that 90 organ- Dramatic Group.
ties during the past year together mittee is reliably informed that ily."
with an exposition of the activi-
electing them to their respective offices.
ties of the agencies represented
the community resources. A
and a report on United Jewish CHILDREN'S HOME
of greetings was read
PICKS DIRECTORS telegram
Charities and the Detroit Service
from Abraham Srere, president of
"Only Ten Jews"
BRILLIANT PROGRAM FEATURES
FESTIVAL OF GEWERKSHAFTEN
A nasty situation has arisen in connec-
tion with the complaint of 10 Jewish em-
ployes who charge that they were dis-
missed from the Old Age Assistance Bu-
reau because of religious and racial preju-
dice.
The new director of the bureau has
stated that "we dismissed 100 employes
over the state as a whole, and only 10
were Jews." There were 12 Jews among
the 91 employed in the Detroit office of
the bureau and of the 17 dismissed 10
were Jews.
"Only 10 were Jews," we are told—and
the public is expected to swallow this
statement as a genuine excuse in the face
of such wholesale dismissal of Jews.
There is an implication in the statement
of "only 10 Jews" as if Jew's are or were
in that offi e out of proportion to the en-
tire force. The statement smacks of haste
and lack of forethought. It is a lame ex-
cuse—since there is no need for such apol-
ogies if the original reasons for their dis-
missals were just.
The issue should be aired freely and
openly, since there is a principle at stake.
Either merit and devotion to duty are the
guiding principles under the civil service
nf
provisions, else _ the American
fair play is at stake.
AUDIENCE OF 5,000 ADDRESSED HERE BY
DR. THOMAS MANN
Group affairs will be presented by
Abe Srere, Federation president.
Invitations have been extended
to all members of the Jewish Wel-
Declaring that striving for so. judgment would be to the disad- fare Federation. Contributions to
annual Allied Jewish Campaigns
cial democracy is the order of vantage of Fascism.
constitute memberships in the
the day and that responsibility
Asked to comment on the
Federation.
devolves upon this country to claim. of the Nazis that their re-
strive for the perpetuation of gime will last a thousand years,
YOUTH CONFERENCE
democratic ideals, Thomas Mann, Miss Mann, speaking for her
FOR ALLIED DRIVE
the world's outstanding man of father, said that while he could
letters, last Saturday evening not act as prophet he would ven-
(CONCLUDED FROM PAGE ONE)
addressed a capacity audience of ture the lamas that Nazism will
6,000 at the Masonic Auditorium not last as long as it has already. vision 10: Joshua Horwitz, Edwin
Rabbi Leon Fram, who presid- Wolf.
under the auspices of the League
ed, made a strong plea in favor of
for Human Rights.
The division "generals" are now
the
boycott of German-made contacting their captains who in
Pleading for a militant de-
mocracy, Dr. Mann stated that goods and services as a weapon turn are organizing their respec-
democracy must not give en- against the spread of Nazism.
tive teams and the near future
couragement to destructive forces
will find the entire "army" ready
like the Bund and that self-
action. In selecting its "gen-
Gift to Scholarship Fund of for
preser•ation demands a strong
the Junior Service chose
Hebrew Schools in Mem- erals,"
stand against permitting those
not only from its own outstanding
ory of Morris Kaufman leaders but from other active Jew-
who would destroy freedom from
gaining ground.
ish youth in the Detroit commun-
Declaring that Fascism is not
The United Hebrew Schools ity who have exhibited marked
the bulwark against Communism, gratefully ,acknowledge the re- executive a b i l i t y. These new
Dr. Mann said that Fascism ceipt of a contribution to the leaders are now paired with ex-
learned its technique from Corn- scholarship fund from Mrs. M. perienced workers in order that
munism and that both were alike Kaufman and children of E. they may gain the necessary ex-
in that they were dictatorships. Philadelphia Ave., in memory of perience for future campaigns and
During the question and answer their husband and father, Morris thereby strengthen the entire
period, when his daughter, Erika Kaufman, who passed away Sat- Junior Section structure.
Mann, replied to queries from the urday, March 4,
Elisabeth Bergner, whom many
audience, the further explanation
actress
of
was given that whileFascism
and
Eddie Cantor
is expecting
a consider the greatest
. .
.
.
.
.
.
Communism are technically alike, granddaughter in the late sum- our time, is seriously il in Lon-
on a question of morality the mer, we hear.
don,
APPEAL FOR MO'OS CHITIM
the Federation.
(CONCLUDED FROM PAGE ONE)
Dr. David Kliger submitted the
boys and girls during the year report of the nominating com-
mittee
which consisted, in addi-
and lauded the co-operation of
the North End Clinic and the tion to himself, of Robert Mar-
will and Harvey Goldman.
Mendelson Fund.
The medical-dental staff of the
Children's Home consists of the
following:
Dr. Sidney Beigler, who heads
the surgical department; Dr. Saul
Barnett, who conducts the eye,
ear, nose, and throat work: Dr. Dr. Lee M. Franklin to Lead
Leo Orecklin, who is the derma-
YPTC Discussion Sunday on
tologist; Dr. John Freedman,
This Subject at Temple
roentgenologist; Dr. Lenard Sid-
low, Dr. Harry Topcik and Dr.
Peter Bernstein, who comprise
"What• can young people con-
the dental staff; Dr. Daniel Stie-
tribute to the survival of the
fel. the orthopedist; Dr. David
Kliger and Dr. Harry Metzger, Jew?"
who comprise the pediatric de-
This topic will be the central
partment; Dr. David Levy, who Is theme of discussion by the Young
the chief consultant of the staff. People's Club of Temple Beth El
Louis, Newmark, superintendent at 3 p. m. this Sunday, March 19.
of the home, stated in his report in the meeting room on the third
that the home had reached a stage floor of Temple Beth El.
of being a well organized social
This general discussion meeting
agency working as part of a plan will be conducted by Dr. Leo M.
for unifying the community's Franklin.
child care program. Ile lauded
Members are urged to bring
the president, Herman Cohen, for their friends to this meeting.
his devotion to the home.
Isidore Sobeloff. executive di-
Of the six woman judges of
rector of the Jewish Welfare Fed- New York City, three are non-
eration, addressed the meeting Aryans . . . They are Jeanette
and lauded the Children's home G. man, Anna Moskowitz Kross
for its co-operation in building and Justine Wise Pelier.
The Youth and
Jewish Survival