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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and Tho Legal Chronicle

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Detroit Jewish Chronicle

and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE

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

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

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Sabbath Scriptural Selections

Pentateuchal portion—Ex. 30:11-34:35.
Prophetical portion—I Kings 18:1 (or 20) -39.

FEBRUARY 23, 1940

I ADAR 14, 5700

The 1940 Campaign

Officers of the 1940 United Jewish Ap-
peal for Refugees and Overseas Needs in-
dicated this week that there are vast
possibilities for providing resettlement
and relief to large portions of the 5,500,-
000 Jews in Central and Eastern Europe,
and listed the following most pressing
needs of the drive:
1) War victims in Poland must be fed
and clothed. One meal a day must be pro-
vided for a minimum of 200,000 adults at
a cost of $360,000 per month ; at least
150,000 children must also be given food.
The Joint Distribution Committee must
expand its relief activities in Poland.
2) The war refugees who are now in
Lithuania, Rumania, Hungary and other
countries must be given the means of ex-
istence. At least 75,000 of the 170,000
refugees from Germany who are now in
havens in European lands, require sup-
port either in whole or in part. And must
be rushed by the Joint Distribution Com-
mittee to prevent wholesale deportations
back to Germany. Refugees in Latin
America are also in need of assistance.
3) Thousands in Germany and Austria
who still have the opportunity to emigrate
to Palestine, to the Americas, to Australia
and elsewhere, must be provided with the
means of transportation or face the threat
of concentration camps, or deportation to
Lublin.
4) Jewish communities in Rumania,
Lithuania, Hungary, Latvia and Estonia
must receive funds to maintain their eco-
nomic, educational, child care and medi-
cal programs.
5) Immigration to Palestine, which has
not been reduced by the war, must be sup-
ported because of the extraordinary pres-
sure to emigrate upon Jews from Ger-
many and other Nazi areas. Widespread
homelessness has driven large numbers to
seek haven in Palestine.
6) The Jewish community of 500,000
in Palestine is facing severe economic
problems as a consequence of the war.
Special measures must be taken to pro-
mote industrial and agricultural progress
and to help 80,000 men, women and chil-
dren who have felt the shock of the eco-
nomic recession.
7) The establishment of new colonies
and the purchase of land must be main-
tained through funds provided by the
United Palestine Appeal in order to ex-
tend the development of Palestine to en-
able it to absorb the continued flow of
refugee immigration.
8) Ref u g e es coming to the United
States in accordance with Federal immi-
gration quota require assistance in find-
ing new anchorage in American life.
9) Resettlement of refugees to assure
soundest means of integration is one of
many problems confronting the National
Refugee Service, which is called upon to
assist newcomers with relief, employment,
retraining and education.
10) Refugees waiting their turn in
Cuba, England and other lands to come
to these shores require special assistance
and guidance on migration conditions.
An effort is made in this statement to
analyze the complete tragedy of Jewish
existence. On the one hand, Jews must be
saved from the inferno in which they are
caught by circumstances that threaten the
future of the entire European civilization.
On the other hand, the Palestinian set-
tlement must be expanded and its econ-

omy must be saved. Furthermore, refu-
gees in havens of refuge must be cared
for and must not be permitted to become
public charges.
It is a program of staggering size. It
requires the cooperation of all Jews and
it places a responsibility of unprecedented
measure upon all of us.
Detroit Jewry will, before long, begin
to plan for participation in this immense
drive. Right now the budget committee is
completing hearings and is arranging for
allocation of funds which will, as in past
years, include local agencies as well as
the overseas fund. It is not too early for
the community to think in terms of the
large relief program. Right now it is the
only thing to be done to save as many
as possible of the millions of unfortunates,
and it must be done.

The Poland of the Future

At the recent session of the American
Jewish Congress, held in the nation's capi-
tol, Count Jerzy Potocki, Polish ambassa-
dor to the United States, delivered an ad-
dress in which he touched upon the ques-
tion of Polish-Jewish relations. In view
of the possible weight of this statement
upon future good neighbor relations in
Poland, his statement must be viewed
with considerable seriousness, and with
the hope that it will serve as a guide in
the re-establishment of true democratic
living when Poland is reconstituted as a
free republic.
"I extend my heartiest greetings to the
American Jewish Congress. I hope to see
in the time to come that Dr. Wise will
lead in the restoration of justice," Count
Potocki said. "I cannot speak of Poland
without deep emotion. You know what
this country has gone through in the way
of suffering and misery unparalleled in
the history of the world. The Jews have
suffered as much as the Christians. 'They
have united in a common cause. I ask you
whether only in time of suffering do Chris-
tiana and Jews unite. If ever there was
anti-Semitism in Poland this was due to a
chauvinistic middle class. I cannot tell you
what the future of Europe will be but I
know that for Poland's restoration, free-
dom and future Jews and Poles will fight
together in the common cause. We will
win the battle not only for Poland's future
and restoration but for Europe's and the
whole world's future."
Count Potocki did not commit himself
enough. It is necessary for the spokes-
men for the Polish government in exile
to make definite pledges, and to make up
their minds that they will be kept. It is
important that the Polish leaders should
not only admit that "a chauvinistic mid-
dle class" was responsible for anti-Semit-
ism, but also to pledge atonement for the
horrible position which the Polish govern-
ment created for the 3,500,000 Jewish citi-
zens.
On the eve of the re-creation of the
Polish state after the last war we also
heard promises that Jews will be given
effual treatment with their Christian
neighbors. Then, too, Jews joined with
the Poles in fighting "together in the com-
mon cause." What we are interested in is
that Jews should also share in the com-
mon benefits of mankind and that they
should be assured an honorable status in
Poland.
Only when such guarantees are estab-
lished will Poland be truly free. Polish
leaders owe it to themselves to strive for
a truly human attitude in the task of re-
building their homeland.

Safeguards for Democracy, .

President Roosevelt has given the coun-
try another great lesson in democratic
principles. Stating that freedom of in-
formation of the press are the greatest
safeguards of democracy and the best
protection against infiltration of foreign
ideologies, the President advocated that
every side of every story be presented as
a means of arriving at the truth. These
sentiments, expressed at a press confer-
ence, reflect the attitude of a great leader
who is concerned that the great principles
of freedom of thought and speech should
be preserved. The President's advice will
find a favorable echo in the heart of every
American who is concerned that the truest
principles of Americanism should be per-
petuated.

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February 23,

• STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL ,)

Tidbits from Everywhere

By PHINEAS J. BIRON

• YOU SHOULD KNOW

Our Washington sleuth informs
us that before the Ides of March
rolls around the Capital will be
the scene of sensational revela-
tions relating to the Pelley-Dies
incident that will blow the roof
off the shrine of Cie Dies Com-
mittee.
Some one would do well to
look closer into the American
Coalition set-up . . . Although its
constitutent societies include some
of the foremost and most respect-
ed patriotic organizations thee
are also some avowedly and pri-
marily anti-Semitic groups in its
membership.
The hornet's nest that James
Waterman Wise stirred up in
Montreal with his speech, when
members of the audience walked
out on him, is additional evidence
that the anti-Semitic groups in
the Province of Qt.ebec are look-
ing for an opportunity to start
a new campaign against the Jews
. . . The French-Canadian papers
openly said that it wasn't that
they so much resented what Wise
said but that they were not go-
ing to take that, kind of stuff
from a non-Canadian, and that
coming from a non-Aryan it was
positively outrageous.

• AND THIS TOO

In spite of the death penalty
that threatens Germans who lis-
ten in to foreign sh•t-wave
broadcasts the National Broad-
casting Company still gets letters
—anonymous of course, because
of the censorship—from Germans
who manage to catch its pro-
grams without getting caught.
There's a rumor that an Amer-
ican millionaire whose business
was being hurt by Leslie Hore-
Belisha's conduct of Britain's war
is the person responsible for the
War Ministry shake-up in Eng-
land.
Credited to Jackie Elinson is
the gag about the new way the
French have found of torturing
the starving Nazis—by dropping
seven-course dinner menus into
German territory . . . And Win-
chell claims that the war in Eu-
rope boils down to a battle be-
tween the Haves and Have-Not-
ziz.
Actor Karl Stepanek, a refu-
gee from a concentration camp,
is in England now and hopes
eventually to reach Hollywood—
where, incidentally, the film col-
only is making every effort to
prevent the threatened deporta-
tion of Aryan Refugee Albert
Bassermann, who has a chance
to get a good screen part if the
red tape concerning his visa can
be untangled.
Important research work in
neuropathology is being carried
on in an old storeroom at New
York's Montefiore Hospital by
Prof. Otto Marburg, formerly of
Vienna.

o ABOUT PEOPLE

You've heard a lot about nun
mogul Harry Warner's wrath
the smallness of the charita,
donations of some of Hollywoo.
big money-makers . . . But e
you know that when he gets A
gift that he considers disprop -
tionately large for the give
means he makes a refund to
donor, paying the difference
of his own pocket?
Not everybody who goes Sou.
in the winter spends all his time
on amusements . . . New York's
Magistrate Jeanette Brill, for es
ample, has been making a sociolo-
gical study of the Havana slums,
which are among the worst in
our hemisphere.
Congratulations to Dr. Albert
Einstein on the marriage of hi ,
great-niece, Marie Louise Gut -
mann, now Mrs. George Elbert
. . . And to Bennet Cerf, to ■
being named among Ameri•a's
22 best-dressed men.
When did David Sa•noff get
of Honor ribbon he
sports?
Strange
Strange though it may seem,
Comedian Teddy Hart is a mem-
be• of Junior Hadassah, which
we had always thought to be a
strictly feminine organization.

* INFORMATION PLAYS

Things you ought to know and
that you will learn by a careful
perusal of the new Universal
Jewish Encyclopedia as its suc-
cessive volumes appear include:
That the private house of the
Jewish peasant in ancient times
was more strongly built and snore
sanitary than that of the ordi-
nary Arab peasant in Palestine
today . . . That Alfred Praga,
for many years president of the
Society of Miniaturists, was re-
sponsible for the revival of the
art of miniature painting in Eng-
land in the nineteenth century
. . . That practically all the as-
tronomical instruments, tables
and charts used by the explorers
of ;Ire 15th and 16th centuries
were the work of Jews . . . That
the ancient version of the mod-
ern setting-up exercises was to
bend down and kiss the ground
while standing with the big toes
dug into the ground . . That
the first person to cross the Eng-
lish Channel in a glider was a
Jew named Robert Kronman, who
performed this feat in 1931. . .
That all the most scholarly in-
terpreters and biographers of
Goethe have been Jews, their
names being Creizenach, Morris,
Geiger, Meyer, Simmel, Gund-
olf and Bielschowski . . . And
that it was Benjamin Gumpertz
who, in the 19th century, laid
down the principles as to decline
in resistance to death which were
the foundation for all later ac-
tuarial tables used to determine
the cost of life insurance.

OFF TO JOIN THE WARS?

By BRESSLER

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