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March 15 1940

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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

p urely Commentary

Mkham's Cry for Brotherhood
Edwin ar

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By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ

BIBLE DOES NOT SUGAR-COAT
FACTS, SAYS PROFESSOR LEVIN

cha • ge that Malcolm MacDonald was emulating
Describes Elements of Economic Justice in Hebraic
. slogan of Judenrein in the application
poem Goebbels'
arkham, famous for his great poem
l
Culture in Lecture at Shaarey Z edek
Edwin n With the Hoe" was 87 when he died of his policies to Jews in Pa estine.
There was severe criticism of the government
" The a 7. But to his ying
in day he displayed a . in the British press, and the discriminating law
to befriend the homeless, help
By RICHARD L. STEIN
on March
the poor, deal justly and to act
sen se of justice and craving for the perpetuation was opposed also by the Palestine Arab press. The
of decency among men, and pleaded for the latter, however, were unable to publish their
Speaking on "Hebraic Culture kindly with their fellowmen.
"So the Jewish spirit lives on,"
realization of his idealism with the ardor of youth, editorial criticisms due to the stringent censor- and Economic Life," before the
Only a short time ago he expressed a longing to ship. But the Arab daily Sire expressed astonish- adult current events group at concluded Prof. Levin, "guided
plead for peace in the following brief statement: ment that the law should have been enforced at Congregation Shaarey Zedek, and nourished by its Biblical and
"If I had the time, the youth, the strength to this time, in the midst of the war.
Sunday morning, March 10, Prof. racial heritage of tolerance,
great poem, it would be against war. If
Membe rs of the House of Commons who were Samuel M. Levin, professor of justice, wisdom."
write one
I could have one wish fulfilled, it would be for staunch in their opposition to the MacDonald economics at Wayne University,
The discussion period that
poem that would expose the mockery, the Folicy included Labor Opposition Leader Major said: "Too often the Jew in eco- followed was conducted by, Na-
a
futility, the sterility of war in such a way as to Clement R. Attlee, Sir Archibald Sinclair, Cap- nomic life has been the butt of than Spevakow, member of the
warn every man who loves the world and hu- rain Victor Cazalet and others.
ridicule and persecution. Yet the Shaarey Zedek's educational
manity to watch vigilantly against war."
Of particular interest is the following: Dur- Bible and Jewish history prove board, who also introduced Prof.
The English-speaking world is engaged today
ing his address, Malcolm MacDonald said: "It the Jew's main concern is with Levin.
man who has left
is th e government's policy to assist the Arabs things of the spirit and intellect,
in paying tribute to this great
in his fellow men a
to develop the hill country." Whereupon our
rather than things material and
this world, but who has given deep-rooted
,.
p -rooted human
good friend Col. Wedgwood interjected: "At
heritage that is engraved n
economic."
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sentiment. Only a few years ago—he was then
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a
Jewish expense." To which Co
Explaining that the Bible does
wrote another great poem
at
regu ,
tha re he
t fle regulationswere
MacDonald rep *
already Past
not sugarcoat facts, Prof. Levin
which should be classed side by side with " Th
xible.
, and are
--e
"not for all time,
r
gave
. quotations from Biblical and
With the Hoe". It, was on the occasion of
Elisheva, one of the foremost Hebrew writers plulosophical
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an dvent of Hitlerism and the beginning of the
sources to prove his and Fine Repairs
of
our
time,
who
as
a
Russian
was
converted
to
a
the
era of unparalleled persecution of the Jewish Judaism from Christianity, was among those ar- Point. "The Jewish spirit," he
We also manufacture
people, that he wrote his poem "A Cry for rested as a leader of the women's demonstration continued, "has always striven
for progress and nobler living.
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Brotherhood" which ranks among the must signifi- against the government in Tel Aviv.
Furniture of Every Descrip-
cant protests against the inhumanity of man to
These interesting occurrences throw light on It has stood for centuries for the
of man; for tolerance and
tion — Period and Modern
man. This poem should be read and re-read at this the debate and on the general situation. It is clear d.i
ustice. And Jewry today should
that
just
as
MacDonald
himself
is
not
in
power
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time:
"for all time," so his restrictions are doomed not be dismayed by the war
A CRY FOR BROTHERHOOD
of material to choose from in
to be of as temporary a nature as the earlier abroad. There is no guarantee it
Through all these years this people carried
selecting covers for your
attempts at discrimination against Jewish efforts will crush this Jewish spirit. It is
chains;
a challenge to the Jewish held-
furniture.
Spains.
in Palestine.
Had dark Assyrias and darker
1
"
A word is in order about the comments of the tage
They were the tribes of sorrow who were fed
STATE
Prof. Levin quoted German
Jewish M. C.—D. L. Lipson: It is true that Jews.
From wells of hate and exile's bitter bread.
regardlelss
of
the
latest
British
betrayal,
stand
economists
to
show
how
any
na-
the
tombs
of
Pharaohs
in
old
years,
Upholstering
They built
with England against Nazism. But that does not tion that ignores these Jewish
bricks with tears.
Exclusive but Not Exnensile
Mixing the but
justify the adoption of Nazi methods by British ideals of tolerance, love of God,
had no houses of their own;
In Business Since 1910
They built
authorities.
justice,
must
fall
economically
oan.
m
Tyre heard their dirge and Babylon their
Estimates call TO. 8-3696
For
In
the
meantime
there
is
just
one
thing
for
as
surely
as
they
fall
spiritually.
And now in Germany we see again
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Jews to know and to remember: Large tracts of "Our modern society is a
The old hard hand laid on these women and
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land are available for purchase and must be purely pecuniary one," Prof. Lev ,
men;
bought as soon as possible. Only the indifference in continued, "unlike the Jewish
And yet this wondrous race has given birth
of many Jews prevented the acquisition of land. way of life, it emphasizes the
To genius and a glory on the earth.
the sae of which the MacDonald government now financial, the material side of
Out of this people came
reeks to prohibit. The best answer that Jews life. So if Jews dominated mod-
The Book of books and many a glorious name—
can give to England is the raising of large sums, ern society, as their enemies
Moses who stood once in the holy place
for the Jewish National Fund, to double the pace charge; if they were as greedy
And gazed upon Jehovah, face to face;
of land redemption. Every restriction must b•:: as they are labeled, this would
Then standing on the cliffs of Sinai,
interpreted as an incentive to greater action. Let not be true." He pointed out that
He heard the wisdom of the upper sky.
this be our answer. in the Bible, wisdom is praised,
And handed down the Decalogue to be
not riches. And too, the Jewish
ea.
s
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A law for men on every land and
spirit lives on for today Jewry
MADE TO ORDER
It was a wisdom-word
A Human Act by Catholics Towards Jews is doing more than ever before
That centuries and continents have heard;
Cleaned
and Repaired
And never a man of earth has added to it—
A recent issue of Pathfinder, a weekly news
magazine, carries an interesting story that reveals Richard Stein Wins Broad-
This w onder-wisdom from the Infinite.
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the power of human instincts which rise above
casting Guild Award
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and Battleship
Yes, from the trembling lips of many a seer
racial or religious lines. The story:
The whole wide world has heard, and still can
"Jacob Freedman, a Boston tailor, is a Jew and
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hear
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The Psalms, the Torah, and the Talmud speak
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Protection for the plundered and the weak.
learn the whereabouts of his sister, Mrs. Chana Stein, 16555 Washburn, winners
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Shall not this race whose gifts have been so
Frydman, and her two children. But the American of undergraduate and graduate
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They who knew Egypt, who knew Babylon.
man finally appealed to Pope Pius XII. Last week test, Garnet Garrison, Guild di-
he had an answer from Lugi Cardinal Maglione, rector, announced. Each will re- I CALL TYLER 5-1230
Protest this cruel wrong
Papal Secretary of State. It said 'Mrs. Chana ceive $25.
In thunders of the sermon and the song.
Frydman and her sons are in good health and
Stein, a 1937 graduate of the
Let cries go forth in shrill tempestuous note!
University of Detroit now in
reside still in Warsaw, Plaza ul Siedlicka 18. 9
As if they rose from tempest's roaring throat.
"Exclaimed the Jewish tailor at the Catholic's Wayne's graduate school, wrote
Let there be thunders in the world; let be
aid: 'That they should take an interest in us "Before God," a phantasy con-
A protest that will shake the ruler's k nee.
with all the other things in the world to worry cerning judgment day. He has
Let there be protest till the happy hour
them. I think it's the finest, most wonderful thing. done radio work over station
When Justice shall unclothe her arm of power.
WMBC and W8XWJ. In his
So human, so much love and humanity.' "
Instances of similar acts of kindness are multi- prizewinning script: "Bef or e
Let there be thunders in the world—yes, more;
plying themselves by the scores. Human needs God," he told the story in flash-
Let there be Brotherhood in every shore.
are bringing forth human sympathy. It is en- back form of a maladjusted child.
Let all men rise into the higher place
couraging to know that all of mankind is not The judges for the graduate divi-
Where they can see God's face in every face.
sinking into an abyss of destruction and that a sion were Myron Golden, educa-
Let there be Brotherhood: let this long cry
tional director of station WWJ,
remnant will yet save civilization.
Be heard on earth and under every sky!
and Mel Wissman, production
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manager of WWJ.
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Only live minutest° loop.
In these words, Edwin Markham has penned
Second prizes of $10 went to
The Next Zionist President
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for himself the greatest tribute that can be given
undergraduate
student
Max
FOpM
You can't eliminate politics from a movement
an author: that he stood for brotherhood and for
and to graduate stu-
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whit h numbers tens of thousands of adherents, Weinzweig
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human kindness.
dent Ralph Nottingham.
Edwin Markham's memory will be a blessing for and it is not to be expected that Zionism should be
The scripts will be used for
an exception to this rule. With more than 50,000 Guild programs.
many generations to come.
enrolled members, the Zionist Organization of
•
America represents a power of leadership to be
coveted. It will be nothing to wonder at, there-
Palestine and the House of Commons
fore, if there is a scramble for the presidency
Several interesting sidelights on the Palestine at the June annual election when the able Dr.
land decree debate in the British House of Com- Solomon Goldman of Chicago retires after two
mons are worth recording:
at the helm of the movement.
David Lloyd George and his daughter voted years
What Zionists must be concerned with, how-
against the government and in favor of the mo- ever. is that the choice in leadership should be
tion of censure; but his son supported the gov- made on the basis of merit and ability, and that
ernment.
the person selected for the job should be pre-
Winston Churchill, one of the staunchest pared to devote himself entirely to the problems
friends of it Jewish Palestine, and Leslie Hore- facing Zionism, to the exclusion of everything
We invite your mortgage business.
Belisha avoided embarrassment by absenting
themselves from the debate and thereby refrain- else.
It will receive our careful considera-
Rumors have it that Louis Lipsky of New York,
ing from voting.
Judge Louis Levinthal of Philadelphia, Dr. Israel
tion from inception to completion.
Former Palestine High Commissioner Sir Ar- Goldstein of New York, Dr. Israel Levinthal of
thur Gi Wauchope listened to the debate in Brooklyn, Rabbi James Heller of Cincinnati and
the spectators' gallery.
Barnett Brickner of Cleveland are potential
Accordin g to one newspaper report: The 292 Dr.
candidates for the ZOA presidency. No one will
government supporters, mustered up by a three- dispute the ability of any one of these men. Each
line whip, trooped into the division lobby at 11
has been tried and found staunch in his Zionism.
a. m., although hardly a handful were present What must be avoided is the selection of a clique
during the debate."
rather than the choice of the rank and file. If
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Five of the nine Jewish members of the .Con-
Zionist constituency does not begin to think
servativ e party voted to uphold the government, the
now, 10 weeks in advance of the convention, of
the other four voting for the motion of censure. the best material available for leadership in the
One of the five, D. L. Lipson, delivered a speech movement, then the cause of Jewish national re-
in which he said he could not but express repug- demption may suffer from the perpetuation of
n ance for the decree on land regulations but
clique politics which created an unnecessary con-
that ht. was voting for the government because troversy during the past few weeks.
it was th e duty of Jews everywhere to support
In order to create a strong movement, it is
ONE OF THE MOST MODERN IN THE STATE
British cause in the fight against Hitlerism. necessary that it should have a thinking constitu-
NEW PUPILS NOW BEING ENROLLED
Of
the
13
Jewish
members
of
the
House
of
., n ommons, six voted in support of the government. ency. The Zionist rank and file should have had
at 11812 Linwood Ave., corner Tuxedo, upstairs
a chance to act on the reorganization plan pro-
F° 11 nr e Colonial Secretary Leopold S. Amery posed by Dr. Goldman. Instead, two camps have
SIMON RICHARDSON, Principal
as consistent in his support of pledges made been battling over unknown issues, and the bit-
to Jewry by Great Britain and argued against terness injected raised personality problems rather
Private Lessons Can Be Arranged
his government.
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than questions of principle. In a time of crisis per-
Col. Josiah C. Wedgwood was, as usual, out- sonal issues should be eliminated. It is impossible
distance from the school.
spoken in defense of Jewish rights.
to divorce this principle from the responsibility
For information call HOgarth 1889
Noel-Baker, who presented the motion that will face the next Zionist convention.
of
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