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The Detroit Jewish Chronicle and the Legal Chronicle, 1939-09-15

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September 15, 1939

PIEPLTROITILIVISit (Hht0/11011)

PAGE TWO

...i THE LEGAL CHRONICLE

NAMES AND PEOPLE

lost interest. Her father did not waste. The blanks were being)
tell her that he was one of the passed out to an endless line of
contributors to the club house be- students. She couldn't occupy this
cause he knew that the idea of seat forever. Someone might come
self identification with these un- to ask whether there was a ques-
By ANNETTE MENDELSOHN
No matter what you pay,
fortunates was distasteful to his tion.
...th
Rita.
no laundry
A question there was. But it
Rita Benton was inordinately directed. She was not loathe to
One night her father came wasn't the sort of routine question
can launder a finer shirt
proud of her name. There was neatly print her name: BENTON,
that
someone else could answer.
home
for
dinner
with
a
boy
of
no particular reason for her RITA. Place of Birth: London ,
WE HAVE THE BEST EQUIPMENT MADE
Hurriedly there flashed through
pride. The name unlike others England. Parent : merchant . about her own age. With his
Rita's
mind the problems in-
usual formal politeness, her fa-
of which people are proud did Names of schools:
So far, so good . . . Then, ther presented his 'companion to volved. She had had to listen to
not signify any great grand-
some conversation during these
W a s h
mother who had helped soldiers Rita reached the place that asked Rita. The boy spokeEnglish
years. She had been unable to
t Pieca l lrefully i S ed
in the American Revolution nor for "Religious Affiliation." She with a slight accent but seemed
Fl a
avoid seeing something of what
quite
at
home
in
London
and
in-
raised
her
pen
to
write:
"None."
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did it reflect a grandfather who
the newspapers said. Her father
had fought on either side in the But, the matter wouldn't be set- terested in Rita's description of
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did tune in on news broadcasts
the
last
soap
box
orator
she
had
tled that way.
American Civil War.
Any one coming along . would heard in Hyde Park, of her new- and she had not been able to
Asked about the Spanish Amer-
stuff her ears with cotton or little
est
acquistion
from
the
Caledonian
ican war, Rita would have re- have noted Rita's appearance. The
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rubber buttons.
turned a blank stare. There could passer by might have wondered market and of the matinee per-
Rita knew that some of the
have been no Rough Rider in her what was causing the puzzled formance at Covent Garden to
which
Rita
gone
with
her
school
people who had been forced to
frown on her forehead, and why
more immediate ancestry.
THE BARGAINS OF ALL TIME
leave Germany had been as un-
No, pride in fighting blood cer- the tip of the fountain pen was mates.
When the youth began to speak Jewish, so to speak, as she was. She
tainly played no part in Rita's tightly held between her lips.
love of her name. She simply And then, the passer by would about Germany, Rita immediately knew that they had been smartly
sensed the connection between the dressed and that they had names
Flat Pieces and Handkerchiefs
liked the sound of it. She felt have been gone.
• • •
slight accent and the situation as correctly German as hers was
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that "Rita Benton" portrayed the
Rita hadn't started puling which Rita had gone with her English or American. She knew
slim, dark haired young being
Bath Towels ■ and Underwear
that they were educated people
that was herself to anyone who the point in question at the mo- school mates.
Fluffed Dried
The boy hoped to go to Amer- who were as interested in art and
might happen to hear it. Having ment when the blank had been
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a name like that was, in Rita's handed to her. It had been in her ica as soon as there was room in in the fine things of life as she
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estimation, almost a gateway to mind ever since 1933 _when the the quota. Rita forgot her annoy- was. She knew that some of them
adventure that was beyond the first refugees from Germany ance because she, too, was inter- had been as careful to avoid Tem-
ken of Janes and Bettys and landed in England. She had ested in going to America which ple as she was. She knew that
known the whys and where— was, after all, her country most of their associates had been
Ediths.
Besides, Rita felt her name ad- forces of course, because one of though she had never seen it. Germans of a cultured type as
Not responsible for sun burnt or ninet-whipped endue.
ded a special flavor to her back- the first people to come back had They began to compare ideas of her had been English of the same
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ground. Since her father had been the German representative of the new world and the evening sort.
happened to be the English repre- the firm. lie had come directly to lasted no time at all.
"Religious affiliation":
Yet, the next morning had
sentative of his firm, she had London and had spent many eve-
It seemed almost menacing,
been born in England and had nings with Rita and her father found Rita wondering again. She staring her in the face. She could
Earle
lived most of the 17 years of in their home. True, Rita had shook it off, She, Rita Benton, say that she had no religious
her life there. Instead of having been young. But, she had played was above and beyond all that. affiliation. She had none. True,
spent summer vacations on Cape the hostess for her father even With her name and her self .. . her father had always belonged
She was secure. So, she rushed to a Temple and had retained
Cod as so many of the girls in in those days.
The stories, the forecasts, the from the house for school with membership in the Albany congre-
Albany had, Rita had gone with
per pound
\WARING APPAREL
her father to Paris, or to water- problems, had been a mixed up her usual cockiness.
gation during all the years that
Per pound
After the excitement of Munich, he had been abroad. Still, she,
ing places in Golgium, or to one set of facts, until her father had
10C
of the little towns on the shore explained the advent of Hitler Rita's father announced that he Rita Benton, had never done any-
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of the Mediterranean. There had and National Socialism in rela- thought a trip to America might thing about that. She hadn't sig-
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be very pleasant. Rita was de- nified her intention of having any-
been a summer in the English tion to the problems of Jews.
It had been hard for Rita to lighted and so wrapped up in thing to do with a Temple.
lake country and in Scotland.
So, at 17 Rita felt she had understand then because although the idea that th winter passed
What to do? Glancing to the
seen the world. And, her English she knew that she was Jewish, without thought of th eoutside
left, Rita happened to make out
accent was the delight of her new and although she had gone to world.
the word "democracy" as part of
Last spring they had sailed
Sunday school for a brief period,
group.
the title of a book was lying on
Having been brought up in she didn't feel that she, Rita from Cherbourg. There had been the table next to her neighbor.
a
bit
of a spree in Paris, visit-
London, Rita decided it would be Benton, could have anything in
As people do when trying to es-
fun to go to College in New common with the Jews of Ger- ing the little resturants that she cape a puzzle, Rita began to
and her father liked, going to
York City. It would serve to many.
think about the word in an idle
Life had gone on its usual some of the small museums as
round out her experience. After
way.
much study and discussion of th e way. There was school and there well as the Louvre again. Then,
She remembered reading the
various schools in the metropolis, were parties, and there were the the boat had been an experience
Constitution of the United States
n ver s it y. glorious vacations when she and in itself.
s h e chose New York Ui
emy of Judaism not only because
when
she had first come to Amer-
New York for a few days had
It was a big school which should her father always explored some
of the physical oppression it prac-
mean interesting people. Courses new place. Germany was never been exciting and Albany, the ica. After all, one should know
tices on Jews but because of its
something
about the government
in the fine arts were numerous suggested, but Rita didn't think capital of the state was amusing
alien psychology.
and good and that would be her of that because she was so fond with its old streets and the bustle under which one lives. And Amer-
"There can be no reconcilia-
of France and the lowland coun- around capital hill. It really ica was quite as important as
tion between Israel and totali- field.
England to her.
One day early in September, tries that there could never be seemed American.
tarianism, between Judaism and
In a democracy everyone is
When the relatives and new
time enough to explore all the
along
with
thousands
of
others,
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. (Re- tyranny," Dr. Liebman stated.
ligious News Service) —Judaism "The essential conflict, philo- Rita Benton smartly attired in a places her father knew about people in Albany began to ask treated alike. The girl next to
about
the
refugee
situation
or
to
her
had the same blank to fill
is fundamentally incompatible sophically speaking, is the strug- brown dutch boy suit with one there.
As Rita advanced into her discuss Temple affairs, Rita shied out. Rita knew that. They were
with Communism and Fascism, gle between a materialistic and of those hats that aim high and
handed
out to each person who
away
and
began
to
talk
about
and its chances both to survive fatalistic interpretation of his- have a tiny visor pulling them teens she had begun to read the
and to make valuable contribu- tory, on the one hand, and an back to earth followed the signs newspapers and the problem of other things. But, it had become came along the line. No one was
tions to society are best under idealistic and progressive phil- that led to the registration desk. the Jews always seemed to be increasingly difficult to escape forcing her, as an individual to
a democracy, Dr. Joshua Loth osophy of life on the other. It She felt quite self sufficient. After there. Seldom did she read beyon d this bogey which seemed to trail do anything.
"Religious affiliation": Jewish.
Liebman of Chicago told the has long been obvious that all, she had been taking care of the headlines of those articles be- her round the world.
She was still Rita Benton. New
Rita filled it out rapidly and
Cause there was something in
Williamstown Institute of Hu- Communism has reared its super- herself for years.
York University sounded excit- went straight down to the bottom
Blanks in quantity were hand- nately distasteful about them.
man Relations, meeting here un- interpretation of history, but it
Then, one day while wanderin g ing and she would not be bound of the card. She couldn't have
der the auspices of the National structure upon a materialistic ed to Rita by a Professor who
Conference of Christians and has only recently been under- seemed to think that sitting be- about London with her father by the small town social life said just why she did fill the
card out as she did. "Jewish"
Jews.
stood that racism, the theory of hind a registration table was they had noticed a new clu b which seemed to be Albany.
So, here she was in New York, certainly wasn't an exact answer
Communism, he said, although the blood, is perhaps the most quite as important a part of house. It turned out to be a plat
to the question. But, somehow, she
admitted
to
the
University
of
her
of
haven
for
refugees
who
wer
teaching
as
anything
else.
permitting Jews to survive as materialistic of all theories, one
Seated quietly at a table, Rita friendless, and in financia 1 choice. There was the question: decided that it belonged there.
people was attempting to stamp that would separate mankind
Walking in Washington Square
"Religious
affiliation."
straits.
As
soon
as
the
purpos
out Judaism along with other into predetermined and perma- pulled out her fountain pen and
There wasn't much time to about a week later, Rita was
started to fill in the blank as of the place was known, Kit a
religions; and Fascism is the en- nent zoological specimens.

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rather amused at all that had
happened within a short space of
time.
She almost pinched herself. Of
all people to meet at New York
University, she had run into the
German boy who had dined with
them in London. He was enter-
ing school too. Re had asked Rita
for a date and she had accepted.
Rita Benton had agreed to be
ready to go to Temple Emanu-EI
services on Rosh Hashonah. She
had agreed to be ready at 9:30,
Sept. 14, 1939. She knew she had.
Her date book said so.
What's more, Rita knew that
she would be ready and that she
would enjoy going. She was still
just Rita Benton bound for ad-
venture. But, she was at one
with herself and the world.
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for the continuation of the Los
Angeles Symphony Orchestra,
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concert at the Hollywood Bowl.

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John Lehman, son of the Em-
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ing into an expert potato peeler
this summer, at the Plattsburg
Citizens Military Training Camp.
"Marlene Dietrich returned
from a European trip which was
a flop . . . She tried to get her
mother and sister out of Nazi-
land, but Hitler refused to give
them their passports . . . Mar-
lene, as you know, is a pure
Aryan, but has never disguised
her dislike of the Nazis.
Sophie Tucker, who is holding
out against the entire 4-A com-
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union fight, is gaining the ad-
miration of those who know why
she is doing it . . . Although
Ralph Whitehead, her associate,
has been accused of having mis-
used funds, she says: "Until they
prove that he's guilty, I will
stand by him."
Benno Schneider is returning
to his old love, the Artef Thea-
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"Baal Shem".

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