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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal 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, 187.1.

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Sabbath Scriptural Selections

Pentateuchal portion—Lev. 1:1-5:26.
Prophetical portion—Is. 43:21-44:23.

Reading of the Law for Fast of Esther—
Thursday, March 22

Pentateuchal portion—Ex. 32:11-14; 34:3-10.
Prophetical portion—Is. 55:6-56:R.

MARCH 15, 1940

II ADAR 5, 5700

The 1939 Gottheil Medal

Editors of America's Jewish newspa-
pers are again asked to select as recipient
of the Gottheil Medal awarded by Zeta
Beta Tau Fraternity the American who
has done the most for Jewry during the
past year. As one of the judges, this edi-
tor offers the following two names:
1. Dr. Solomon Goldman, president of
the Zionist Organization of America, emi-
nent scholar, brilliant orator, master of
English, Hebrew and Yiddish. Dr. Goldman
has earned the 1939 award for the mag-
nificent efforts he put forth to protect the
Jewish position in Palestine. He took a
leave of absence from his pulpit and
divided his time between Washington and
New York to carry on the work for the
enlistment of American public opinion in
defense of the Jewish national home. It
is no exaggeration to state that the ac-
complishments in behalf of Palestine dur-
ing the past year on the political front
were conducted admirably under his gui-
dance.
But it is not as Zionist leader alone that
Dr. Goldman has earned recognition. He
has made Jewry his debtor by his efforts
in behalf ci.: Jewish literary enterprises.
He has personally contributed brilliant
thought to Jewish cultural movements. He
is a great interpreter of Jewish values, and
his written word is as brilliant as his
spoken one. He is a master of the classics
and is a creator of Jewish literary values.
He belongs to the handful of men who
make Judaism throb with life. Jewry
should recognize his worth and should
encourage him in his future efforts.
2. Oswald Garrison Villard, brilliant
editor, author of a weekly page in The
Nation, deserves consideration in the se-
lection of the awardee for the 1939 Gott-
heil Medal because of the initiative he
has taken during the past year to force
. the American press to recognize the mag-
nitude of the Jewish tragedy in Europe.
It was Mr. Villard who called the atten-
tion of the English speaking world to the
horrors forced upon Jews through the pro-
posed slave state in Lublin. On numerous
other occasions, Mr. Villard rendered
great service to the Jewish people by
joining the forces who are battling for
justice and especially by mobilizing
strength against the anti-Semitic elements.
American Jewry owes him a great debt.
In our judgment, these two names stand
out most prominently among those who
may be proposed for the Gottheil Medal
for 1939.

Don't Show Weakness!

In the course of the Parliamentary de-
bate on the latest land decree for Pales-
tine, one of the defenders of the Jewish
position accused his government of having
betrayed the Jews at a time when our
people are hounded and weak. He charged
that during the last war, when Jews were
strong and their help was needed, Great
Britain made promises to our people and
issued the Balfour Declaration; but now,
when Jews are hounded everywhere, Brit-
ain takes advantage of our weakness and
breaks a sacred pledge.
Out of our gratitude to the brave men
who defied their own government in time
of war to defend the position of the Jew
in Palestine we must not be swayed into
accepting as fact the assumption that we
are weak. True, we are weak in numbers,

we are everywhere harassed and abused;
true, we are everywhere becoming im-
poverished. But we can be strong if we
feel strong, if we adhere to principle, if
we defend an age-old ideal, if we defy
despair and accept with determination
our responsibilities as a people who must
rebuild the waste places and must reclaim
our heritage.
We may be persecuted and threatened
with bondage, but we are not weak if we
go on building and creating, if we go on
reclaiming our rights in Palestine and
elsewhere, if we reply to British discrim-
ination with even greater achievements
than the miracles that are today to our
credit in Palestine.
"And the land shall not be sold in per-
petuity, for the land is Mine" (Leviticus
XXV: 23), and "out of Zion shall come
forth the Law and the word of the Lord
from Jerusalem" (Isaiah, II:3)—not from
London.

For a Stronger Boycott

March

STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL •

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Nobody is paying much attention
Is Hitler also, like so mare o f
to the protests against Britain in his adjutants, building up 1,e.
connection with the stoppage of serves outside of Germany atminst
land sales in Palestine . . . It's the day when the Germans wiil
at
because England foresaw that the last kick out the Nazis? . . Th e
Jews cannot help supporting her suspicion is raised by the fact
in the present war that she timed that before the war broke on' the
this inhuman regulation so per- Eher Verlag, of which Adolf i- the
fectly.
head and the publications of hick
Before his return to London include "Mein Kampf", used t, ask
Dr. Chaim Weizman» arranged English purchasers to pay their
for the publication of a book bills to the firm's account in th e
that most probably will be en- London office of a bank of on e
titled "The Jew" . . . It loin of the now neutral countries .
contain cont ribut ions by st«.h And have we told you of the lat-
observers as Pierre ran Paas- est refinement of cruelty hatched
sen, Dorothy Thompson, John in the fertile brains of the g es -
Gunther, Thomas Mann, etc. tapo'? . . . They blindfold their
. . . A comprehensive preface prisoner, stretch out his :mils,
will be written by Dr. Weiz- and then put a pound of butter in
mann himself . . . This book is one hand and a pound of steak in
intended to serve as the Jewish the other . . . Then they remove
Blue -and -White Book to be the blindfold—and the poor vic-
handed to the statesmen who tim drops dead from the shock
some day are going to sit around .. It's new to the U. S, vy,
the peace conference table.
but the Nazis have been telling
Yehudi Menuhin, whose reia- the world that a British ba tile-
dons with things Jewish have been ship has sunk an American sub-
rather strained, has now agreed marine named—of all things—
to play his first New York con- "The Madison Square Garden"
cart this year for the Palestine Needless to say, nothing of
sort has happened, and no
sor
Conservatoire of Music . . . He
is not only contributing his serv- submarine of that name exists
ices and buying a box for his . . . Anything to stir up had
family, but is paying for his own blood, is the good old Nazi slo-
gan.
standing-room on the stage.

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It has been said in some quarters that
the British Blockade no longer made the
boycott of Nazi-made goods necessary.
In order to prevent the destruction of all
the good that has been accomplished dur-
ing the six years of the boycott by such
fallacious reasoning, Dr. Joseph Tenen-
baum, chairman of the Joint Boycott
Council of the American Jewish Congress
and the Jewish Labor Committee, urges
strengthening the boycott by also boycot-
ting exporters who ship goods to Ger-
Overheard with our own ears, • Lend Us Your Ears
many and thereby aid the Nazi cause. so help us, the following sidelight
To prove his point Dr. Tenenbaum quotes on the lives of latter-day Mar- There have been all kinds of
ranos: "They keep a strictly kosh- prophecies about what Governor
figures released by the U. S. Department er
house, and don't even answer Lehman will do after his pres-
of Commerce to illustrate his point and the phone on Saturdays—but they ent term expires . . . The latest
states:
go to chapel every Sunday morn- is that he is tempted to accept
the nomination—which in his case
"Here are the facts: In December, 1938, ing."
would mean he election—to t he
under the shadow of the Munich peace, • About People
mayoralty of New York City .. .
Germany sold to this country $6,270,000
We are still ready to give odds
worth of goods. In December, 1939, in the confined
Not all the Frankfurters have that the governor and his lady
their talents to the legal will be glad to return to complete
fourth month of the war and with the profession . . . Otto Frankfurter, privacy.
double barelled blockade gun pointed at older brother of the Supreme
German exports, Nazi goods imported Court Justice, is one of the ad- The other day, we are told,
vertising brain-trusters of a Phil- Professor Einstein was quite de-
into this country amounted to no less that adelphia
lighted when somebody mistook
newspaper.
$3,383,000, more than half of the normal
him for Arturo Toscanini . . .
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the other
hand, Toscanini
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pre-war quota. To those who know how told,
is so
modest that we
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he rather
annoyed
not long ago
desperately Nazi Germany needs Ameri- was in the British War Office he when some other body addressed
can dollars; that their goods are being objected to nude statuary in his him as "Professor Einstein."
and had all such fig-
literally thrown on our market without quarters,
ures removed.
Charlie Chaplin has decided
regard to price and cost; that many Nazi
Congratulations to Alexander that he wants a less obvious
shipments reach our shores camouflaged B. Klotz on his election to the title than "The Dictator" for his
as neutral merchandise and consequently presidency of the New York Uni- long-promised film about dictators.
versity Law Review Alumni Asso- . . . If you get a bright idea just
escape registration—will realize how im- ciation . . . And to M. B. Zer- send
it on to Charlie in Holly-
portant it is for us to prosecute the boy- wick, ace political publicist, who wood . . . Our own suggestion,
cott in full vigor without the slightest just returned from a two-week to which Charlie is welcome, is
trip to Kansas City where he "He Painted the World Red".
let-up in forces or resources."
Katherine Mattern, refu-
Latest newcomer to the Metro-
The issue is simpler than it appears married
gee star of "Reunion in New politan Museum of Art is 60-
on the surface. A Nazi victory will mean York."
year-old Arnold Friedman, a re-
the destruction of every semblance of
Do you remember how many tired postal clerk who has long
democratic thought and of all human years of urging it took before made painting his hobby . . .
freedom in Europe, and it will also Hollywood finally agreed to put He made his Museum debut with
Haym Salomon short, "Sons a portrait of a beggar he found
threaten this continent. A Nazi victory that
of Liberty?" . . . Now the War- in his own kitchen, where Ms's.
will lead to the annihilation of millions of ner Brothers, who received the Friedman had been feeding him.
Jews. It is a matter of self-defense for all Academy Oscar for short sub- Fannie Hurst has a pet tee-
free peoples to help in the downfall of jects for this film, should feel as Fier whose hair is so long that
if coals of fire were being heaped she uses hairpins to keep his
Hitlerism. Every move in that direction on
their collective head. bangs out of his eyes.
means the aiding of libertarian causes.
Therefore, the boycott, as one of the
OLD GLORY TAKES "THE WRAP"
By BRESSLER
weapons against Nazism, must go on.

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Russia—and Matzoth

One of the serious problems that will
have to be solved soon will be that of
providing matzoth for Jews in Nazi-con-
trolled territories. In this connection, it
is interesting to read a report, under a
Paris dateline, to the effect that Soviet
Russia may supply German Jews with
matzoth. The report states that French
and English Jewish organizations are con-
sidering the possibility of negotiating
with the Soviet Union for such shipments
of Russian-made matzoth.
Considering the fact that the Russian
Jewish communities were the first in the
world, in our generation, to be deprived
of the right to eat matzoth during Pass-
over, this report proves the point that
"business is business" in political negotia-
tions among nations. Granted that the re-
port from Paris is true, it is evident on
the face of it that if Russia will actually
consummate such a bargain that it will
be motivated by the intention of capital-
izing on a situation which will bring for-
eign revenue to the Soviet, and may also
provide profit for the Nazis.
Great care should be exercized in
reaching a conclusion on this issue, and
Jewish organizations must be cautioned
not to fall victims to another Nazi-Soviet
agreement at the expense of the religious
feelings of Jews.

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