rico ,facisk &ricotta! Cotter All Jewish News All Jewish Views WITHOUT BIAS CLIFTON AMNIA • CINCINNATI 30, OHIO The Only Anglo-Jewish Newspaper Printed In Michigan filEbETROIT LIVISR fiRONICrq and VOL. XLI NO. 7 THE LEGAL CHRONICLE DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, JULY 7, 1939 Bnai Brith Joins Anti-Nazi l EXPECT MANDATES Boycott, Adopts 5 -Po i nt COMMISSION WILL HIT WHITE PAPER Plan.to Defend Democracy P re d let . Adverse Report Will Be Issued in Auffud Aaron Droock, Detroit Leader, Elected President of District Grand Lodge M UF TEIRIZINNEFTDEIYIS No. 6 of the Order Greek Ship Lands 742 Refu- Telephone CADILLAC 1-0-4-0 Per Year, $3.00; Per Copy, 10 Cents UNITARIAN FELLOWSHIP FOR WITH CRITICISMS SOCIAL JUSTICE TO EXPOSE DEMAGOGUES' PROPAGANDA 1938 Year Book Shows Changes 'ATTACKS ON JEWS In Local Jewish Social Work! IN CONGRESS MEET Family Agencies Give More Service, Less Relief; Child, Care Institutions Decline; Aged Homes Rep, Thorkelson Assailed Turn to Medical Care by Majority Leader Sam Rayburn Government welfare programs! counted for 87 per cent of the Will Call Attention of Americans to the Alleged Kind of Social Justice Created by Coughlin and current economic conditions; care given in four hospitals for chronically i I and for 95 MRS. ROOSEVELT URGES are bringing about many chariot' I , per cent in nine hospitals for the INTERFAITH GOOD WILL in the work of local Jewish we's tuberculous. In 1938, Jewish pa- fare organizations, according to f tients comprised 60 per cent of Stresses Need of Coopera- gees Near Nathania the 1938 Year Book of Jewish admissions to 30 general hos- tian Among All Groups and Escapes ted Y Jews, ea 2 Social Work just published by i of Americana l iVetin' isceint rt — ad se'd 8t the Council of Jewish Federa- nine Jewish institutions mitt GENEVA. (WNS-Palcor Agen- for the e WASIIINGTON, D. C. (WNS) cy)—Observers familiar pith tions and Welfare Funds. tuberculous and 99 per cent of Mandates Commission procedure Family agencies, it was found, I all admissions to three hospitals —The subject of racial preju- dice was brought into the open saw signs of disapproval by a are now placing greater emph". for the chronically ill. on the House floor last week 20 majority of that body Of the sis on services other than re - The number of visits to clinics Chamberlain White Paper on lief. The number of children be- under Jewish auspices increased when House Majority Leader Palestine. ing cared for in institutions is by approximately 5 per cent over Sam Rayburn, Democrat, from The report which the Man- declining, with increasing stress 1937. Only 41 per cent of all Texas, in no subtle manner made dates Commission finally drew up being placed on foster home cars new patients in these clinics in it known to Representative Jacob Thorkelson, Republican, of Mon- is rumored to embody varied and assistance in their own 1938 were Jewish patients. tent, that his anti-Semitic inser- opinions by its members as ex-' homes. Other major trends are More persons applied for jobs tions in the Congressional Rec- pressed during the lengthy sea- I the marked development of through Jewish employment sere- District Grand Lodge No. 6 of Bnai Brith, in a along devoted to Palestine de- medical service for the aged and i ord as an "extension" of his ces in 1938 than in the previous three-day convention in Detroit from Sunday through velopments. It is understood that the chronically ill in recent year, it is reported in the Year speeches in the House, would not Tuesday, adopted an Americanism program for preserve- no unanimous conclusion• was years and the sudden rise of Book, but employers made fewer be tolerated. The Unitarian Fellowship for Social Justice, through upon by the Commission. Jewish vocational services. Thorkelson, who acted as aide calls for workers and fewer tion of democracy and pledged its resources to oppose agreed Minutes of the session. to be its Toledo committee, announces the inauguration of a Helped 50,771 Families placements were made. The to General George Von Horn Communism, Nazism, Fascism and other political ideolo- made available sometime in Au- Moseley when the latter appear- program designed to expose the propaganda technique Compared with 1937, the vol. business "recession" during a gust, may disclose that a major- gies that menace our form of free government. ed before the Dies Committee, — •.. I ity of the Commission were really ume of work done in 1938 hi large part of 1938 is reflected in has been using the normal rou- of self-seeking demagogues, regardless of whether their A revolutionary departure from previous final • B e ritnlin dependent New l ocal Jewish welfare organize. s this development. Jewish . b in their considers- tine of gaining permission of the support comes from Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy or Com- policies was the announcement. tions increased for family agens vocational service agenties were munist Russia. tion of the White Paper, regard- 'louse to extend his remarks In made at this convention that cies, employment services, homes established in Boston, and Mil- less of the great pressure be- the Record by inserting in that This program is designed to call the attention of Bnai Brith is forming a national , there are lieved to have been brought upon for the aged and clinics, des waukee in 1938 and committee for the expansion of r U , ' Americans to injustices perpes now 15 communities with or- publication scurrilous anti-Semi- the members by the British gov- creased slightly in child care tic remarks which have been re- the boycott of all German goods trated under the slogan of "so- ernment. It is believed that a agencies and remained virtually ganized programs in this field. printed by "Liberation," organ and services. For a time Bnai the same in hospitals, thq Year Statistics in the Year Book of the Silver Shirts, and simi- Brith's national executive cons- On Board the SS. St. Louis majority of the Commission con- Book figures show. justic e t hat measure the volume of work of lar publications of propaganda. sidere d the White Paper incon- stent mittee was opposed to an active thrived these past 30 years, but Fifty-nine family agencies ass: the Jewish agencies in the six By SHOLEM ASCH sistent with the Palestine Man- boycott movement. When Mr. Thorkelson asked the new kind of alleged social I sisted 50,771 families in 1938 as fields but not the total number date of the League. permission to extend his remarks Addresses by national leaders Enp roas., pore::,, justice created by and for the , r,, this ,,,,,lid „,to,.. The attitude of the Commis-' compared with 43,762 in 1937, of Jewish persons receiving sera- in the Record, Mr. Rayburn of Bnai Brith at this convention Seven Art. Penton. vv wheal.. helm,. benefit of Father Charles E. ice from all sources in these gain of 16 per cent. The en- nairrs of The Detroit car“' lion is interpreted as being can- indicated that the new trend in %, "rirLeir, itir re-ovtIon. of the able to recommend to the League tire increase in the volume of fields : Man Jewish persons, it arose to ask if he intended "as Anti-Jewish Measures Are Coughlin." he does so many times," to place the movement is for a more u,,a,r„ otonfonttIng Jenholt novellot, o pointed oy ut, are also served by Rev. Walton E. Cole, minister Enforced; Children Are f Nations Council approval of work was for families receiving p liVr.h.oltx.Aseb;n t;, t,1:1:,ezttr.Tcon.1 in his extension of remarks "ma- aggressive stand than has ever of the F ws , the Unitarian Churc h services than relief. Thera Isublic and non-sectarian organi- White Paper. other The Council been taken before on issues at- Targets of Hoodlums w. isso. aaa us ee l renisres. or. will begin consideration of the was an actual drop in the num= rations. Many Jewish agencies, terial appealing to racial pre- of Toledo,irst who has achieved na- Anett'. nene.t book . The Nisvorene.” Pa judice." Rayburn's rebuke was - resting the Jewish people. OR the other hand, provide care l 0 tionaromience th ber of families eceivin s r lestine problem g • novel lowed tot the life of I 10.1.1, lec- relief on Sept. 8. provoked by a particularly viru- PRAGUE (WNS) — A deeply tures and articles onrough Droock Named President , on a non-sectarian basis. "III be pub11.1.1 thlx loll I,, u. P. from Jewish agencies. the sub- lent piece which Thorkelson in- significant and stirring spontan- ject of propaganda, will Putnanvs Son.. It I. eel/forded n. the I J have • IC A distinct honor was accorded Ship e of III. career no d . eronnIng nork Child Care Agencies ' d "^" R e f us s., ...Alm serted in the Record last Thurs- eous anti-Nazi demonstration in- charge of this program. An elo- Detroit when the convention, at reeeeirais au 'me. of preponstory HAIFA. (WNS-Palcor Agency) In 1938, the Jewish family 0 ork ELECTED NEW HEAD OF day naming the four Jewish mem- curred at a theater here when the quent speaker, Dr. Cole is ably its closing session on Tuesday, The Greek ship Astir which last agencies shared responsibility for bers of Congress who hold com- principal character in the play equipped to discuss the elected Aaron Droock president Royal es an poise I sit at my desk and ' my April was seized pear Nathania approximately 30 per cent of BNAI BRITH DISTRICT mittee poste and leaving the im- spoke the words: "I would de- Oak priest whom he has person- of District Grand Lodge No. 6. and ordered off the shores of all their cases jointly with the pression that they hold alleg- fend my state even if I had to ally interviewed on several oe- Mr. Droock last year served as pen to write about the refugees Palestine, succeeded in landing public agency, which provided ance to the "invisible" govern- die for it." The audience rose casions. During the past few first vice president of the district. aboard the SS. St. Louis—and it 742 refugees. The passengers the basic relief grant. ment of Jewry to which Thorkel• and, tears streaming down their months his He is a former president of Pis- public addresses in seems to me that I am a spirit had come from Germany, Czecho- son constantly refers. n fa nc te n s e ,m. Fifty Jewish child care agen- sang the Czech national Boston and New York' have met gals Lodge of Detroit and has naenazrig. GaCra ptuzde des served 11,711 children in of another world transported into seltra:cti Defends Jewish Members been active in the movement for with great enthusiasm. He spoke lea shore D "In his extension remarks the many years. this The long row of automobiles Astir and her passengers were 1938, a decline of about 2 per Another instance of the hostile recently on the subject of. Fa- a' other day," Mr. Rayburn as- cent from 1937. Two major . re.. Philip Klutznick of Omaha, passing in front of my window, escorted to Haifa wher feeling of the Czechs towards the their Coughlin at the famous e the refu - sons have been offered for the serted, "he -referred to Commie , Nazis is revealed Neb., w as elected first vice presi- the spires of the tall buildings gees will be reld. The - 1w the informa• Ford Hall Forum In'Boatotr, Har - . Greek eas re nista, various persons engaged in tion obtained from German continued decrease in this field. vard University, the Institute of a dent and is the youngest man that come into my view through vleisseleth t her managed to give the un-American activities, etc., and There is a continuing trend in the order to hold this office. sources here that the personal Arts and Science at Columbia l onvi zmiagnedanets w hen named every Jew in the guards of Protector the transparent fog hanging over scapt. away from institutional care for He is the first of_ the leaders of T University, College of the City of Konstantin he Ht: go ' children toward foster home care House who is chairman of a com- Neurath have been so "de. New York, Tufts College and in mittee sr a ranking member of von Aleph Zadick Aleph, the junior New York seem to me as a managed to land in Palestine af- and assistance in their own moralized" th ba ittter bh y ert ehe tna et y titude many other similar institutions. Boat Brith order, to become an dream, a vision. I recall my ter months of wandering on the homes. a committee. of Czechs officer of a district grand lodge. For the past 15 years Dr. Cole Other officers were elected as youth when I learned the song high seas told moving stories of Just what does the gentleman being repla ced by a new deta 8-Year High in Aged Homes ch- has had charge of Congregational of the Hebrew poet, I. L. Gor- the suffering they had endured mean by mentioning the names ment from Germany. follows: Benjamin I. Morris of and Unitarian Churches in Chi- ' Despite the expansion of old- don, about the refugees of Spain on of these Jewish members when c the Greek ship whi h had A warning to the Czechs that cam Ill., and Toledo, 0. He is Chicago, second vice president; on a boat in the middle of the been caught off the shores of age assistance un der the he popu- Social re erring to those engaged in Godfrey Bernstein of Chicago, president of the Michigan Asso- Security Act, ho wever, ocean, and later the graceful Palestine. un-American activities? Then the Germany's patience is not ever- treasurer lasting was given by Konrad ciation of Unitarian Churches. lotion of Jewish homes for the poem of Morris Rosenfeld on the gentleman quoted the provision in The Women's Auxiliary of the same subject. Two hundred and seventy-four aged reached an eight-year peak Dr. Cole will .peak over the Constitution to the effect Henlein at the biggest German of the refugees were brought to on Jan. 1, 1939, 23 per cent Grand Lodge, which held its con- ralls, ever held in Prague. He Station WJR from 9 to 9:15 that no person holding an office "Is it possible," I asked myself, Haifa and were released. The greater than on January 1, 1931. vention simultaneously with the told the Germans they were no p. m. on Thursday. July 20, or trust under the United States men's order, elected the follow- "that I should also write about remainder were taken to the Forty-two homes cared for 5,776 shall accept a present, emolu- longer a minority but full-hon- on •the subject "Defending ing officers, all members of Chi- the same subject?" I will write, Sarafend concentration camp. Af- residents, a growth of 3 per cent ored citizens of the Reich. His Ourselves A g a i n s t Propa- ment or favor from any king or cago lodges: Mrs. Maurice Tur- but not from the historic point ter passing the quarantine in- over 1937. The larger and more ganda." a foreign State. Did the gentle- warning to the Czechs declared ner, president; Mrs. Aron Oari of view, not to bewail the plight spection, they will be released. progressive homes, it is stated, that "we can have confidence in , A feature of the program man intend to accuse the Jewish and Mrs. Benjamin Samuels, of the Jews during the Middle Ten of the refugees, men and are placing increasing emphasis undertaken by Dr. Cole gill members of being Communists or the Czechs only when we see vice presidents; Mrs. Benjamin Ages, not to curse the Spain of women, were injured in a colli- on the medical aspect of their AARON DROOCK infer that they are getting emo- them working not in a negatiee be his appearance at a public long ago, with its inquisitors won between a military truck program. Additions to bed capac. Bolotin, secretary; Mrs. J. M. and pyres. My subject is meeting at 8 p. m. on Monday, ■ liv- and a train while they were be- ity in recent years have been luments from foreign countries? manner—conspiring and passive. Arvey, treasurer. July 24, at the Naval Armory, I would like to know what is in ly resisting—but positively." ing problem; an event that we ing conveyed to the Sarafend largely to provide fur persons Meanwhile anti-Semitic meas- on :cat Jefferso n Ave., De- The Democracy Program the gentleman's mind." ourselves witnessed; a tragedy amp. The British driver of the requiring medical uspervision Establishment of classes in de- that to being enacted before truck was killed. "I don't know any reason," ures were sharpened further by troit, where he will deliver an and nursing care. the Reich Protector, Baron Eon- mocracy and democratic ideals our eyes from day to day through address under the title "Hit- Mr. Thorkelson replied, "why I Originally thought to be the von Neurath in his et- Forty-eight s u my hospitals hold tell and schools and colleges main• the reports of the newspapers. "Astir," the ship was later idea- under ler Over America," the con- ell the gentleman what fort to "Aryanize" the economic tents of is in First ll they were robbed of their ti ed as the two•masted barque J ew i sh au spices provided care for tamed by public funds, as a which are the prod- life of Bohemia-Moravia by al- ucts of eight years of study of property, property accumulated "Marseis". Six or seven members 245,695 patients. The volume of Tidbits from Everywhere Bigotry Condemned (PLEASE TURN TO PAO)! I/ service a More imately "The gentleman makes terrible teration of the definition of through generations of hard la- of the crew, all Greeks, are re- same as in was 1937. than the (PLEASE TER ,: TO PAOLI II Jew." All persons of mixed bor, wisdom, knowledge and ported to have been arrested. one- accusations against the Presi- By PHINEAS BIRON ability—with one stroke of the dent," Mr. Rayburn said. "and Jewish and "Aryan" parentage The refugees said they had third of all care given by 31 (CoPYrIglit general hospitals in 1938 was R A. P. I inferentially a g a i n s t certain who were confessional Jews last (PLEASE TURN TO PAGE 2) (PLEASE TPRN TO LAST PACIEI on a free basis. Free service Be- groups. I wonder if the gentle- March 17, were included in the ORCHID PRESENTATION man really desires to spread ra- measures, regardless of any sub- sequent change in religion. The Congratulations to the London cial prejudice throughout a new regulations net this date News Chronicle and the New York country in which all races and back to September le, 1935, to Post for that most vivid account of creeds have lived together in Poignant Appeal to Ameri- include all those who have l i f e e in a Nazi . concentration camp friendship and patriotism." "I have the same right to speak changed their religion since that cans for Truer Under- • . . . The--of course anonymous— Civil . Liberties Union Re- time. author, imprisoned in the same as you," was Thorkelson's re- standing of Issue Jews are forbidden to acquire ports Restrictions Are camp where Pastor Niemoeller sponse. "I have the right to de- 1.1t1Tolt, Nines: The Detroit Jeolmh passed the third anniversary of his fend constitutional government a business, real estate or stocks Decreasing I hrottic le and ..e‘en .Sri. bring von and bonds. Their wealth must be arrest last week, reports that, and to speak on it." Ihi• poignant o I to MO HMC, for o Ismer umIer.htfollog of the while the pastor is exempt from "I do not deny that," said reported to the authorities. Jew- NEW YORK (Religious News von llll yr, enender Or Jollnhon and ish enterprises may not be oper- the physical torture other inmates Mr. Rayburn. "Does the gentle- demo/Ilse,. nritten vino!, 1110 Service) — Restrictions upon re- are subjected to, special efforts are 41•1,1.: end aperarina in the current I...,, (T•RN TO SAPITORIAL PaGEI TI'llN !lxious freedom in the United ('Aug THREE) of ..1.nek" Munster. made to torment him in various States are slowly but steadily more subtle ways ... Incidentally, being remored, according to a Jewish refugee children are to the only books Niemoeller is allow- report published here by the he the "shork troops of the revo- ed to read in cancentration camp American Civil Liberties Union lution." said a woman who an. are the New Testament and Nazi on • recently completed survey neared recently before a congress literature by Hitler and Rosenberg seine! committee which was inves- —and so far the Pastor has stuck Fair Play Prevails as Leading Catholics and Protestants of current and past restraints. tigating a propseel to admit 20,- to the Bible. The 48-page pamphlet contain- Oppose Intolerance; Dr. Macfarland and 000 German refugee children to ing the report, entitled, "Reli- THIS AND THAT M. Maritain State Their Views the United States. Although former gious Liberty in the United It doesn't look as if the 1944 President Herbert Hoover and State, Today." has a '