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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE

Detroit Jewish Chronicle

and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE

Published Weekly by The Jewish Chronicle Publishing Co., Inc.,

Entered as Second-class matter March 3, 1916, at the Post-
office at Detroit, Mich., under the Act of March 3, 1879.

His contributions to Palestine's upbuild-
ing, his work for the creation of strong
Zionist groups, his recent activities in be-
half of the Jewish Publication Society of
America, his efforts to strengthen the
United Hebrew Schools are only a few
details in a significant program which
made him a powerful factor in commu-
nity building.
Tribute to Mr. Ehrlich's memory would
be incomplete without mention of his
beautiful partnership with Detroit Jew-
ry's outstanding woman leader, Dora B.
Ehrlich. On Jan. 25 of this year they
would have been married 30 years. Their
activities have been examples for good
to our entire community.
Our sympathies go to the survivors. We
mourn their loss with them. It is a loss
to the entire community.

January 12,

• STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL 4
Tidbits from Everywhere

By PHINEAS J. BIRON

1940 Chit-Chat

Add to your list of refugir-s
Interesting items among th who have made good the name
Telephone: Cadillac 1040
Cable Address: Chronicle
usual January first crop of pr 0- e Reinhold Schunzel, former U ■
phecies are the prognosticatio director, who in this country al
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that Hitler will attack Rumani n ready has "Rich Man, Poor Ci:
around the time of the vernal equ a and "Balalaika" to his credit
JACOB MARGOLIS
Publisher
With all those railroad wre,
nox and that internal trouble i
PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
Editor
Naziland will force his retire n in Germany, cracks sportswrL 0
MAURICE M. SAFIR
Advertising Manager
ment from the limelight befor - Toni Meany, i it's just the i,s1
the summer is over . . Tha e of the world's hard luck that
To insure publication, all correspondence and news matter
Near Eastern theater of war wil t le• travels by plane.
must reach this office by Tuesday evening of each week.
be seeing plenty of action befor e • Dramatic Bits
When mailing notices, kindly use one side of the paper only.
Valentine Day, Washington insid -
The Detroit Jewish Chronicle invites correspondence on sub-
ers augur . . . Then it will be to o
Right now we'll place a bet that
jects of interest to the Jewish people, but disclaims responsi-
late for the Zionist funds o f Helen Beverly, the girl who plays
bility for an indorsement of the views expressed by the writers.
s
America to adopt the ingeniou the feminine lead in the Artef
food-package plan submitted t o Players' beautiful production of
Sabbath Scriptural Selections
them by Adam Rosen, Palestine "Uriel Acosta," will soon gradu-
Pentateuchal portion—Ex. 10:1-13:6.
American shipping head, month 5 site to Hollywood stardom.
Prophetical portion-4er. 46 :13-28.
and months ago .. Aside to Nea 1
Many a Yiddish actor who's
O'Hara, who's worrying abou t out of a job has good reason to
JANUARY 17, 1940
SHEVAT 2, 5700
The Dies Investigations
how the Nazis will feed the 4, - be glad Paul Muni has a job on
000,000 horses they took over in Broadway this season . . . The
A major subject for discussion today is Poland: It's the horses that wil 1 less
prosperous Second Avenue
The New Chronicle
the question that has been raised as to be used to feed the Nazis . . boys, who have been receiving
Winchell relates the one abou
quietly given Muni largesse
The Detroit Jewish Chronicle is exceed- whether the Dies Committee is to be given the anti-New Deal Congressman t the
these months, are hoping there's
who
now
is
rooting
for
a
new
ingly pleased with the hearty welcome another appropriation to continue its work WPA project—to widen the At- nothing to the rumors that Paul
is going to cut short his New York
given the paper by the community when it of the past two years. In an editorial an- lantic.
engagement to return to Holly-
appeared in new garb and in changed alyzing the controversy over the work • This and That
wood for his scheduled Beethoven
film.
format.
of this committee, the New York 'Times
Look for the announcement, to
It took a law suit in the courts
Adhering to a policy of service to every points out that "in view of the methods be expected shortly, that the Bund to reveal to us that Paulette God-
is going to drop its official anti- dard is the daughter of one Jo-
section of the Jewish community, and to sometimes employed by the committee Semitism . . . Wo don't need to seph
R. Levee—or Levy, if you
a program of action in defense of the and the reckless statements frequently remind you that anti-Semitism is prefer.
only
a
part
of
the
philosophy
that
principles of American democracy, The made by its chairman, the final report of makes Nazism objectionable to By way of relaxation from writ-
ing plays Clifford Odets turns to
the Dies Committee is an astonishingly
Chronicle is determined, under the newly- able and balanced document. The intro- Americans , . . The most beau- the invention of mechanical gad-
tiful flower of our race' is what
established policy, to enlarge its scope ductory part of the report, in fact, setting Mussolini once called Roberto gets . . . He expects to have a
device for the improvement of
of work, constantly to make improve- forth the general principles involved in Sarfatti, world war victim who phonographic sound ready for pat-
was
the
son
of
his
Jewish
secre-
ments, to offer more features and to cover its investigation, is a model of sound dem- tary, Margheretta Sarfatti . . . enting in the near future.
John Garfield is returning to
But that was in the days when
the field of Jewish news as widely as ocratic reasoning. Whether the committee Hitler
was aping Mussolini, and Broadway for the lead in Albert
is justified in every inclusion in its list
possible.
s loa tviceNersa . . Now that the Bein's "Heavenly Express" — a
of 'Communist-front' organizations and i Nazis
have got around to ban- play for a walk-on part in which
An improved Chronicle means an organ Communist-led unions only those who are ning Quaker Nora
Waln's "Reach- he pleaded some years ago, when
he was just a kid dreaming of
with greater force for the Jewish com- willing to weigh the evidence in each case ing for the Stars" watch for its becoming
a great actor some day.
rise in the best-seller lists . . .
can
determine.
But
the
committee
report
munities of Michigan. It is our aim to
All his life Composer Sam Po-
Did
you
ever
see
Charlie
Chaplin
shows considerable restraint in the inclu-
hoped for a Broadway pro-
make ever more powerful this voice that sions and comments when compared with Glance? • . . Anyway, he's going krass
to perform a bubble dance in his duction of his operetta "White
for close to a quarter of a century spoke previous statements of individual mem- "Dictator" film using a globe of Plume"—but now that the dream
the world as his bubble . . . Did is coming true Pokrass isn't here
the sentiments of the Jews of this State. bers."
you know that Esperanto, brain- to see it . . . He died last year.
To our many readers who have either
The New York Times editorial contin- child of the late Dr. Ludwig Laz- • About People.
arus Zamenhof, has won a couple
telephoned or written to us expressing ues to state: "The report makes out a of
million adherents in its half
Supreme Court Justice Felix
good
case
not
only
for
what
the
investiga-
century of existence?
their appreciation of the new appearance
Frankfurter, accustomed to the
tion has already accomplished but for its
austerity of life at Harvard, felt
of The Chronicle we extend hearty continuance. If the movements that it was • There and Here
so ill at ease in the luxurious pri-
thanks.
seeking to combat were always what they
Whether Hitler likes it or not, vate office Uncle Sam provided
him that he swapped offices
professed to be, if their methods were the fact remains that the old- for
fashioned Bible that was written with his law clerk, whose quarters
open
and
direct,
if
they
were
content
to
A Beautiful Gesture
Jews still outsells its Nazi are more modestly furnished.
operate only through peaceful and consti- by
The Washington Merry - Go -
rival in Germany, having sur-
By appropriating the sum of $250,000 to tutional processes, they could be dealt passed the "Mein Kampf" sales by Rounders nominate as "newspa-
of the year" (meaning
aid Catholic and Protestant refugees, the with without special means. But the evi- 200,000 copies even in that be- perman
1939) Walter Winchell, "because
nighted
country
in
the
last
six
United Jewish Appeal made a beautiful dence is overwhelming that these move- years.
in addition to writing one of the
gesture. There are hundreds of thousands ments are in general directed, controlled
world's most scintillating columns,
German refugees with a liter- he arranged the surrender of
of non-Aryan Christians who are suffering or subsidized by foreign governments or ary flair are hereby advised of
Public Enemy No. 1, Louis
and need help and encouragement, and agencies, and that they seek to change a prize competition with a first Lepke."
award
of
$500
and
eight
other
this sum will be exceedingly useful.
the policies and form of government of p
There's a South African mil-
rizes ranging from $250 to $20 lionaire by the name of Haskell,
This appropriation is, however, more the United States in accordance with the f or the best unpublished auto- who
has a brother well-known to
than a gesture. It is the continuation of wishes of such foreign governments. Even biographies on the theme "My denizens and habitues of the Bow-
apart
from
this,
the
methods
employed
Life in Germany Before and Af- ery as "the man with the monkey
a definite policy adopted by the Jewish
ter January 30, 1933." . . .
overseas agencies to provide aid not for by these groups to forward their pur- Manuscripts may be submitted in on the stick" . . . The million-
provides his brother with
Jews alone, but also for Christians. Ever poses are usually devious and essentially either English or German, and aire
enough money for comfortable liv-
conspiratorial.
Against
such
methods
in-
information
on
details
of
the
con-
since the advent of Hitlerism, Christians
ing, but the New Yorker insists
test may be obtained from Dr. on parading with the monkey,
have found help in Jewish quarters. In vestigation and enforced publicity are the Sidney
Bradshaw
Fay,
776
Wid-
with tin cup, because he
the past few months, Christians have even best safeguards. The constant vigilance ener Library, Cambridge, Mass. complete
has nothing else to do
which a special Congressional committee

General Offices and Publication Bldg., 525 Woodward Ave.

accompanied Jewish pioneers on their
homeward trek to Palestine, and the non-
Jews have been given a welcome to the
Jewish National Home.
The beautiful gesture is an endless one.
It is the continuation of a policy to aid
needy regardless of race or creed. Let
mankind perpetuate this principle and
there will be an end to bigotry.

The Late J. H. Ehrlich

The death of Joseph H. Ehrlich comes
as a shock to the entire community.
For those who knew him intimately and
who had spoken to him only a day or two
before his sudden illness, it is difficult
to realize that this friend, who always
appeared robust and in the best of health,
should be taken from us so suddenly.
His loss to the community can not be
measured in words. It is almost impos-
sible to replace him, and he will be missed
for his guidance, his faith, his spiritual
strength, his devoted leadership.
Zionists, Hebraists and educators, cam-
paigners for relief funds, his former asso-
ciates in the Detroit Jewish National
Fund, of which he was president, and the
American Jewish Congress, will mourn
his passing as one of the severest losses
the community has suffered in many
years.

could exercise seems highly desirable.
Though the case for continuing such a
committee is a strong one, Congress ought
not to tolerate the unfair methods which
the committee has frequently employed.
Its chairman, Mr. Dies, has on various oc-
casions encouraged or tolerated one-sided
inquiry, wholesale innuendo and unsup-
ported charges. He has only recently made
the absurd statement that the investiga-
tion ultimately would result in the 'de-
portation of no less than 7,000,000 aliens
employed in American industries." If Con-
gress continues the work of the commit-
tee—as it should—it ought to express
g th uo ii r to y ugh disapproval for the methods of
which Mr. Dies has frequently been

This is a summation of the case that
strikes at the very root of the problem.
Congressman Dies has been guilty of
blunders. Also, he has been responsible
for important services to the cause of
democracy. But the wrong methods have
too often overbalanced the good he has
done. The rash statement about the de-
portation of 7,000,000 aliens is unworthy
of a good legislator and condemns him
in no uncertain terms.
We endorse the New York Times' con-
clusion. If the Dies investigations are to
continue, the work should be done ra-
tionally and without resorting to wild
witch-hunts.

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