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etroit Jewish Chronicle
and The Legal Chronicle
SECTION ONE
DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, MARCH I,
VOL. 42, No. 9
Reid] Agrees
To Permit U.S.
Aid in Poland
A m e ric a n Pressure
Causes About-Face
by Nazis
WASHINGTON. — (WNS) —
American pressure was seen in
the sudden about face of the
Nazi Government in agreeing to
permit the American Red Cross
to supervise the distribution of
relief supplies in the Gouvern-
ment-General of Poland.
The American Red Cross here
received a letter from Hans
Thomsen, German Charge d'Af-
faires, confirming details of the
supplementary agreement, per-
mitting American representatives
into the Gouvernment General of
Poland, which was reached in
Berlin earlier in the week.
The new Nazi decision came as
a surprise here because of pre-
vious refusals on the part of the
German Government to allow
Red Cross representatives to en-
ter Poland. Recently, former
President Herbert Hoover and
Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg
of Michigan appealed to Presi-
dent Roosevelt to intercede with
the Nazi Government in behalf of
the various relief organization.
Nazi refusal in the past to per-
mit American supervision of re-
lief in Poland had caused inter-
minable delay in the shipment of
American supplies to Poland.
Both the American Red Cross and
American Commission for Polish
Relief, Inc.. had held up their
shipments, fearing that the Nazis
would divert the supplies for
their own use.
Non-Sectarian Relief
Norman H. Davis, chairman of
the American Red Cross, an-
nounced here that James T.
Nicholson, Red Cross representa-
tive in Berlin, had received per-
mission to enter Cracow with as
many assistants as was necessary
to supervise distribution of six
carloads of supplies now in the
Red Cross warehouse and eight
The Quest For Truth
This Paper Printed
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1940
Mrs. Srere Heads
Women's Project
An Ancient and a Modern Explore for Reason
By HENRY MONTOR
Whether the terms be Religion
and Science or Faith and Reason
or similarly juxtaposed concepts,
the search for their one-ness or
duality has been the theme of the
most dramatic exploits in life
and literature. Baffled by the in-
consistencies as well as the com-
plexities of existence, men have
sought serenity in the acceptance
of certain premises—or they have
defied their inner peace to search
for what they deemed a more
essential certainty.
ISSUE EHRLICH
TRIBUTE PLEA
Detroiters Are Asked to
Participate in Plant-
in g Zion Forest
That struggle of man to pierce
the riddle of the universe is at
once the most heroic and the most
despairing project that the human
intelligence has conceived.
Two men, one an ancient, the
other a modern, were among
those whose lives are engraved
on the roll of the phalanx who
wanted to trade personal secur-
ity for the universal secret. The
first was Elisha ben Abuya, no-
torious heretic of ancient Jewish
history; the other was Haim
Nachman Bialik, whose questions
were biting and acute even though
an age that was unfamiliar with
Hebrew failed to perceive their
essential iconoclasm. The story of
Elisha has been recreated in the
form of a novel by Milton Stein-
berg in "As a Driven Leaf"
(Bobbs-Merrill Co.), while Bia-
lik is represented not by his
poetry but by three long stories
entitled "Aftergrowth and Other
Stories" (Jewish Publication So-
ciety).
MRS. ABRAHAM SRERE
Appointment of Mrs. Abe
Srere as general chairman of
the Women's Project for the
1940 Allied Jewish Campaign
was announced by Fred M.
Butzel, following a series of
conferences with the leaders
of last year's drive, and the
chairmen of the women's un-
See WOMEN—Page 8
DR. WEIZMANN
GIVEN D. H. L.
See TRUTH—Page 6
WILLIAM FRIEDMAN
An appeal to Detroit Jews in
behalf of the Joseph H. Ehrlich
Memorial Fund for the planting
of a forest on land of the Jew-
ish National Fund in Palestine
this week set in motion efforts
for the carrying into effect of
this project.
William Friedman, chairman of
the committee, issued the follow-
ing call to the late Mr. Ehrlich's
CENTER BRINGS
NOTED ARTISTS
Zemach and Meisels to
Open Series on
March 19
As part of its educational pro-
gram, the Jewish Community Cen-
ter will bring to Detroit a group
of outstanding Jewish artists and
lecturers on Jewish subjects, in
a series of events which will open
See EHRLICH—Page 9
on Tuesday evening, March 19,
See NAZIS—Page 12
and will continue on alternate
Tuesdays.
First in the series will be a
joint recital by Benjamin Zemach,
interpreter of the Jewish
Temple Beth El's Rabbi as Active and Dynamic foremost
dance, and Saul Meisels, concert
tenor, in a dramatized program
at 70 as He Was at Height of Career as
of Hebrew and Yiddish songs.
This will be a return engagement
Detroit Jewish Leader
for Zemach and Meisels, who were
received with acclaim by an over-
Jul;: 'd by his manifold activi-
flow
crowd during the dedication
ties, indefatigable nature, the
of the new Jewish Community
part 1,•: plays in community af-
Center.
fairs, few will believe that Dr.
On Tuesday evening, April 2,
Leo M. Franklin will be 70 years
Ludwig Lore, foreign editor of
old m
i
.o. Tuesday. But
it is a
the New York Post, and well
fact thaton March 5 the rabbi
known interpreter of European
of Ten,ple Beth El will become
problems, will lecture on the sub-
a septuagenarian.
ject "The Jew in the European
A l‘rpid glance at his accom-
Maelstrom."
plishments during the past 10
Third in the series, on Tuesday,
years :done will indicate at once
his dy; : - .1nic character, his deter-
April 16, will be a recital by
mingle , : to serve, his willing-
Ernest Wolff, the noted baritone,
ness ti , be of help in human en-
who accompanies himself at the
deavor
piano and who will present a p•o-
grma of German "Lieder" and of
iecord of a Decade
Hebrew synagogue music. Mr.
Her is the record of a dec-
Wolff has made several tours from
ade vc1,,ri many leaders would be
please , : to crowd into an entire
coast to coast, and has met with
lifetime
brilliant success.
In addition to carrying on his
April 30 will bring to the
congre , ,,ational, communal and
Jewish Community Center one of
nation:' work, Rabbi Franklin
the foremost authorities on Jewish
served twice as president of the
wit and humor, and one of the
Detro:, Public Library of which he
finest tellers of Jewish stories,
is still ., commissioner. He served
in the person of Irving Davidson,
uhinte, dptedly on the board of
who will deliver an illustrated
director, of the Detroit Symphony
lecture on "Jewish Wit and Hu-
Society, and for the entire period
mor."
has I), n the chairman of the
The series will close with a con-
Nation;:! Tract Commission of
cert by Nina Gordani, brilliant
the Liven of American Hebrew
diseuse, who renders a program
DR. LEO M. FRANKLIN
Congregation s and the . Central
of Yiddish, Hebrew, Russian, Eng-
Confer nce of American' Rabbis. many boards of directors of Jew- lish and other folk songs, in cos-
In addition, he also served on ish social service agencies and tume. Miss Gordani combines a
the board of managers of the he also serves on the board of beautiful voice with outstanding
Union.
dramatic ability.
Dr. Franklin is a member of See DR. FRANKLIN—Page 16
Dr. Leo M. Franklin-- 70
Ask "Fearless"
Dies Probe of
The Frontists
Investigation Is Urged
by Group of Promi-
nent Liberals
The Great Chaos
So that the enthusiasm that
has been generated by Steinberg's
novel may not evaporate in the
length of a review, it should at
once be hailed as one of the out-
s t a n d i n g contributions of an
American Jewish writer to con-
temporary literature. It makes
memorable a universal character
embodied in a particular Jew; it
vividly recalls a great epoch
from out of the encrustation of
required history ; it illumines the
great chaos which has shaken the
spirits of untold thousands and
which today still grips the minds
of all in quest of truth.
in Two Sb...tion ■
Is Honored at Special
Convocation of
Institute
At a special convocation of the
Jewish Institute of Religion, at-
tended by distinguished scholars
and leaders in Jewish affairs,
Trustees, Faculty and students,
Dr. Stephen S. Wise, president
and founder, conferred the honor-
ary degree of Doctor of Hebrew
Letters upon Dr. Chaim Weiz-
mann, world Zionist leader.
The Citation
NEW YORK. (WNS) — A
"fearless" investigation of the
Christian Front by the Dies Corn-
mittee Investigation Un-American
activities was demanded here by
a group of prominent liberals.
Telegrams were sent to ali
the members of the Dies Com-
mittee in which the liberals ex-
pressed approval of much of the
work done by the Committee but
appealed for a change in its
methods in the interest of fair-
ness.
List Grievances
The liberals listed among their
grievances against the Dies Com-
mittee failure of the Committee
to investigate Father Coughlin
and tne Cnristian Front and "Mr.
Dies' speech at a meeting party
sponsored by the Front." The
linerals suggested that members
of the Committee who were un-
willing to investigate the Front
snoutd resign.
Included among the signers of
the telegram were William Jay
Schieffelin, chairman of the Citi-
zens Union; John Haynes Holmes,
chairman of the American Civil
Liberties Union; Frank Kingdon,
president of Newark University;
Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, pas-
tor, the Riverside Church; Guy
E m e r y Shipler, editor, the
Churchman; Dr. Henry Smith
Leiper, foreign secretary, the
Federal Council of the Churches
of Christ in America, and Prof.
Sidney Hook, chairman of the
Committee for Cultural Free-
dom.
Mobilizers Complain
In his citation, Dr. Wise said:
"As President of the Jewish In-
stitute of Religion and your as-
sociate in the task of translating
a long-derided Zionist dream into
the one saving Jewish reality,
mine is the honor of placing in
your hand the diploma of the
Institute. This is nothing more
Joseph McWilliams, alleged
leader of the Christian Mobilizers,
speaking at a closed meeting of
that organization, bitterly at-
tacked the Union League Club of
New York for no longer giving
him and other Christian Fronters
the cooperation which, he said,
was formerly extended to them,
according to the current issue of
See WEIZMANN—Page 9
See DIES—Page 16
Mrs. Roosevelt Aids Aligak
Becomes Advisory Head of Committee to Main-
tain Refugee Children Transferred
to Palestine
NEW YORK.—Mrs. Franklin York; Mrs. Dorothy Canfield
D. Roosevelt has consented to Fisher, of the Children's Crusade
for Children; Henry Monsky,
head a special advisory commit- president of Bnai Brith; Clar-
tee for the Youth Aliyah (im- ence E. Pickett, executive sec-
migration) movement represented retary of the American Friends
in this country by Hadassah, the Service Committee; Oswald Gar-
Women's Zionist Organization of rison Villard, former editor of
America, it was announced here the Nation; Senator Robert F.
by Mrs. David de Sola Pool, Wagner of New York; George L.
Warren, executive secretary of
president of Hadassah.
As the sole American agency the President's Advisory Com-
for Youth Aliyah, Hadassah pro- mittee for Political Refugees; Dr.
vides funds which help educate Stephen S. Wise, president of
and maintain more than 6,000 the American Jewish Congress,
Jewish refugee boys and girls and Lewis L. Strauss, member of
who have been transferred from the executive committee of the
Europe to Palestine since 1934. American Jewish Committee.
The announcement was made
Honorary chairmen of the com-
during a meeting of the national mittee are Mrs. Herbert H. Leh-
board of Hadassah at its head- man, wife of the governor of
quarters, 1860 Broadway. The New York; Mrs. Henry Morgen-
meeting was called to mark the thau, Jr., wife of the Secretary
sixth anniversary of Youth Ali- of the Treasury; Mrs. Roger W.
yah, and to accept a report by Straus and Ms. Felix M. War-
Mrs. David B. Greenberg, of burg.
New Rochelle, national youth im-
The first group of 60 exiled
migration chairman, who re- children to come to Palestine un-
viewed the effect of the war on der the auspices of Youth Aliyah
Jewish refugee children now arrived in Ain Ilarod, a coopera-
living in neutral countries.
tive agricultural settlement, on
Besides Mrs. Roosevelt, other February 19, 1934, Mrs. Green-
members of the newly-formed berg said.
Thirty-two children who had
advisory committee include Mrs.
Louis D. Brandeis, wife of the been receiving preparatory Youth
former United States Supreme Aliyah training with nrivate
Court Justice; Dr. John Lovejoy farmers in Beligum and Holland
Elliott, senior head of the Society are now en route to the Holy
for Ethical Culture of New Land, Mrs. Greenberg said.