DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE

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Sabbath Scriptural Selections
Pentateuchal portion—Ex. 21:1-24 :18.
Prophetical portion—Jer. 34:8-22; 33:25, 26.
Reading of the Law for Rosh Chodesh Adar
Rishon, Friday, Feb. 0—Nuns. 28:1-5.

FEBRUARY 2, 1940

SHEVAT 23, 5700

Protest the Atrocities

The voice of humanity is at last being
heard in condemnation of the savage acts
of the Nazis in the territories they have
captured, especially in Poland.
The Vatican has spoken, and the United
States Congress daily hears reports of
the barbarities that are unparalleled in
history for brutality.
In Detroit Christians are joining with
Jews to protest the outrages against Jews
and Christians.
Cass High School should be filled to
overflowing this Sunday when Senator
Brown and other eminent Christians speak
their minds against the perpetrators of
horrors.
Let the voice of America be heard : Join
in the protest against the inhumanity of
the Nazis.

Coughlin's "Graciousness"

A promise of "graciousness" is given the
United States Government by the Rev.
Charles E. Coughlin in the proposed inves-
tigation of his activities and alleged asso-
ciation with the Christian Front. This con-
descending kindness. should be marked
down among the gems in the radio priest's
utterances. After years of rabble-rousing
he assures us that he will be gracious to
our Government's investigators. Apparent-
ly this man has begun to consider himself
above the powers of the state. If there is
an investigation he proposes to be "kind"
to investigators. For his sake, on the con-
trary, we hope the investigators will be
kind to him, since it should take a lot of
forgiving to condone the amount of poison
the radio priest has injected in many Chris-
tian hearts against the Jews.

United Jewish Appeal

American Jewry will hail with satisfac-
tion the announcement that the structure
of the United Jewish Appeal will be re-
tained i intact and that the three important
agencies—the Joint Distribution Commit-
tee, the United Palestine Appeal and the
National Refugee Service—will again work
jointly for the collection of funds for relief
and reconstruction work.
The announcement of the agreement for
Joint activities comes a bit too late, and for
a time there was anxiety over the danger
of a break in the united front because of
differences among the leaders pf the three
agencies. The news that unity' in fund-rais-
ing is more assured is most welcome and
should be a signal for preparations for un-
precedented activities to save the millions
who are threatened with total destruction
in Europe.
Unparalleled cruelty and savagery marks
the present tragedy for world Jewry. Five
weeks ago the World Jewish Congress re-
ported that 250,000 Jews have already
died as a result of the inhumanity of
Nazism, and last week these figures were
substantiated by the Joint Distribution
Committee. Poland is a vast concentration
camp. Vienna is to be made "Judenrein"
during 1940, and all Jews under German
rule are threatened with expulsions, mur-
der or incarceration n i concentration
camps. It is necessary to take these people
out of the hell they live in, to provide op-
portunities for settlement and rehabilita-
tion elsewhere and to assist them in their
adjustment in lands where they find wel-
come, especially in the United States and
Palestine. At the same time, large sums are
needed for relief work among refugees in

Lithuania, Rumania, Hungary and other
lands.
The United Jewish Appeal represents a
challenge to the Jews of America to mobil-
ize their forces for unified relief and re-
construction work, to give more liberally
than ever to the fund that represents the
bridge between life and death for millions
of Jews and to give the signal of gratitude
for our own security by helping those who
live in insecurity.

"We Will Go On"

The bulletin of the Free Synagogue of
New York in a recent issue carried a "Plea
to an Anti-Semite" by Dr. R. Emmet Kane
in which a plea is made to all creeds for
more light, and in which the author im-
plores, "Why can't we be brothers in fact
as in name?" Dr. Kane's moving plea is:

I am a Semite. This God did ordain,
In His wisdom, as part of His plan.
He breathed a Jew's soul in my body of clay
And so I fall under your ban.

We both have this creed, "There is only one
God,"
And as you are His son, so am I.
That He wants you to love Him and wants
my love, too,
Is a truth that you cannot deny.

The warm blood of David gives life to my
heart,
So the Carpenter's Son is my kin.
If you curse and revile me because I'm a Jew,
You wound not me only but Him.

Will you say that Christ dying died only for
you?
Do you hold what He taught you is dross?
Can you say that you hate me and still that
you love
That Symbol of Love on the Cross?

Wh y can't we be brothers i n fact as in name,
And strive to give each man his due?
Together let's beg God to give us more light,
The Protestant, Catholic, and Jew.

It is perhaps more than coincidental that
the issue of the Free Synagogue Bulletin
which carried this touching appeal also
contained a significant statement on "The
Jewish Problem" by the eminent novelist
and essayist, Louis Golding, as follows:

"In any given generation, some Jews
are destined to carry on the torch, the
tradition, the destiny. I think it is not a
common sense of race, of religion, of
colossal tradition, of moral impulse that
makes Jews of them, though each or all
of these may function. It is a sense of
decency, it is a sense of loyalty. When I
meet a Jew and he meets me, we salute
in each other without knowing it the
conqueror of Titus and Torquemada and
Hitler. I know that he will need my help,
and I will need his, five hundred years
from now. We cannot fail each other. We
will go on.
"There is another knowledge we bear
with us, some of us obscurely, too deep
for words, some of us clearly; and we
render it in word or sound or stone. It is
not only that we need each other, but
that the world needs us. We have stood
since our beginnings for certain values,
which the world would cherish without
us, but with us cherishes more bravely
and continuously. We have stood for the
idea of one God, for Peace throughout
the Lands, for Love to All Men. The
treatment of us is a touch-stone of a
land's chivalry. Where things are well
with us, there the newer values flourish,
Religious Liberty, the Right of Free
Speech. Where things go ill, these values
sicken, and soon after those older val-
ues follow.
"The world needs us. We cannot fail
each other. We will go on."

These declarations complement each
other. Israel lives on, and will go on. Is-
rael's gift to the world will also live on.
This existence can, as it must, go on in a
spirit of harmony and dignity. But men
must learn to be brothers in fact as in name.
Is it too much to expect such humane ideal-
ism? "We have stood for the idea of one
God, for Peace throughout the Lands, for
Love to All Men." What else is there to
say in these tragic times but that we shall
continue to stand for these things and
that we shall strive for freedom and
for humanitarian principles? "We will go
on"—and so will true Christianity which
also aspires for these ideals. To refuse to
believe in them is to see only horror and
approaching death; to believe in them
means to carry on the battle for life and
for dignified existence.

February 2, 1740

• STRICTLY
CONFIDENTIAL 0
Tidbits

from Everywhere

By PHINEAS J. BIRON

WEIZMANN WIT

Crowley of the Federal Depo,,it
Insurance Corporation is abo , tt
to retire from the post he his
filled so splendidly you ought
to know that the discoverer of
Crowley and the first to get him
into a government agency pe.t
was Henry Morgenthau, Jr.
We trust that official Washin;;-
ton is keeping a strict eye on
Lobbyist Louis B. Ward, edi-
torial director of Father Cough-
lin's "Social Justice," which has
given so much aid and comfort
to the un-Christian Front . .
And we hope that by the time
you read this Morris Ernst will
have refused to take over the
defense of the "Christian Front-
ists" . . . Have you, by the way,
read "The Censor Marches On,"
a biography of censorship since
the dawn of history, written by
Ernst together with Alexander
Lindley? . . . And, while we're
on the literary angle, we'd like
to recommend "From Another
World," the autobiography of
one of America's finest poets,
Louis Untermeyer.

The other day John Gunther
entertained Dr. Chaim Weizmann
at his home, the other guests in-
cluding some of America's fore-
most journalists . . . When some-
body asked Weizmann just how
well he knew Gunther the presi-
dent of the World Zionist Or-
ganization replied: "We know
each other so well that at the
last Zionist Congress Mr. Gun-
ther dispatched a demand for my
resignation" . . . On another oc-
casion, when Dr. Weizmann was
talking with a number of finan-
cial and theatrical notables,
among them Sam Behrman and
Clare Boothe, he was asked (by
Miss Boothe, if you must know)
what he, as a chemimst, would
consider the formula expressing
the chemical make-up of a Jew
. • . "Thirty per cent fear, thirty
per cent chutzpah and forty per
cent sweetness," was the Weiz-
mann reply . . . Whereupon both
Mr. Behrman and Miss Boothe
were observed to take notes—so
that you needn't be surprised if
you hear this description in a
BOUQUET DEPARTMENT
Broadway play some day.
Orchids to Dr. Samuel Mar-
THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW goshes for leading the fight
Transatlantic whispers have it against those Jewish leaders who
that Hitler won't find the road refused financial aid to that
through Holland as simple to group of Jewish refugees stuck
traverse as he hopes when his on the upper Danube . . . The
big spring drive opens on the refusal was due to the fact that
Western Front in about the the salvaging of the group would
middle of March . . . The Hol- redound to the credit of the Re-
landers haven't been napping, visionsit party.
Three rousing cheers for Ben-
and have the goods on quite a
flock of Nazi spies who are try- jamin Winter, president of the
ing to undermine their country. Federation of Polish Jews in
Remember that story of a America, for coming out pub-
couple of weeks ago about eight licly with the statement deplor-
German refugees who arrived on ing the choice of the notoriously
our shores after being detained anti-Semitic General Jozef Haller
on a French submarine for some as the Polish "good-will ambas-
days?. . . Well, one of them is sador" to this country.
said to be a Gestapo agent who,
Hats off to Al Jolson for in-
after fulfilling a mission in Pales- terrupting his Florida vacation
tine, is now turning his attention to hold on to Ben Bernie's radio
to these United States.
job for him while Ben is in the
Latest Broadway quip to reach hospital with a major operation.
Felicitations to Jack Benny
our ears informs that "the Ger-
man people are getting sick and for his seventh successive elec-
tired of the goose-step—right tion as the nation's most popular
now they would rather have the radio comedian.
goose."
We've not yet heard of a law-
Pierre van Paassen, whose ex- yer who doesn't like Judge Birdie
tensive lecture tour has had to Amsterdam, first woman to be
be cancelled to date because of elected to sit in the New York
his prolonged illness, is on the Municipal Court, but a lot of
road back to health, but still barristers are having trouble re-
can't extract from his physician membering that in her court the
a definite promise as to when he traditional phrase should be
to "if her honor
will be able to go out to lec- changed
pleases".
ture.

NEWS BITS

ABOUT PEOPLE

There's a Republican in Con-
gress whose fear of Ben Cohen's
influence on administration poli-
cies is so great that he is pre-
paring a House fight against the
National Power Planning Com-
mission, of which Cohen is gen-
eral counsel, in the hope of
chasing Ben out of the Capital
by cutting his salary off from
under him.
Now that Chairman Leo T.

David Ben Shalom, wrestling
pride of Palestine, who is now
in this country, was a prize stu-
dent at the Chasam Sofer Yesh-
iva, rabbinical seminary of
Bratislava, Czechoslovakia.
Proudest member of the audi-
ence on the opening night of
"Two on an Island," Elmer Rice's
new play, was Sylvia Sidney,
wife of the show's star, Luther
Adler.

"Any Ideas for a Good Purge This
Morning, Sugar?"

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