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Detroit Jewish Chronicle

and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE

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Entered as Second-dass matter March 3, 1916, at the Post-
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Sabbath Scriptural Selections

Pentateuchal portions—Lev, 6 :1-8 ;36 ; Deut. 25:
17-18.
Prophetical portion—I. Sans. 15:2-34.

Scriptural Selection on Purim, Sunday, March 24

Ex. 17:8-16.

MARCH 22, 1940

11 ADAR 12, 5700

The Human Challenge

Zionist work as an effective answer to
anti-Semites.
The courage of Samuel Untermyer in-
spired others to fight for justice. May his
memory serve to continue to inspire
courageous action in defense of liberty and
in condemnation of bigotry.

Good Purim!

The Festival of Purim has been a pow-
erful lesson to the Jews in exile. It taught
them not to rely altogether on the good-
will extended to them by the rulers of any
land, but to seek comfort in self-help and
in a Higher Force. It taught our people
not to despair when dangers were most
threatening and persecutions most cruel.
"Put not your trust in princes, nor in the
son of man, in whom there is no help .. .
Happy is he whose help is the God of
Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord his
God" (Psalms, 146:3, 5).
Purim's story has been repeated many
times in Jewish history, in one form or
another. Even noble-minded rulers, who
allowed the Jews freedom and equality,
were frequently influenced by policy, or
the machinations of zealots, or wily
schemers, to seek the destruction of our
ancestors. In such times the lessons gained
from the story of Purim helped them in
their attitudes. They learned to rely on
God and to have faith that right will tri-
umph.
There is a lesson in loyalty in the
Purim story. Mordecai, though next to the
king, remained steadfast and devoted to
his race and faith. He was "great among
the Jews" and "seeking the welfare of his
people."
Purim, although a minor festival on our
calendar, is great and inspiring because it
has many human qualities. It calls for fun,
for masquerades, for enjoyment, for faith.
It provides satisfaction in the knowledge
that every Haman—be it a Hitler in Ber-
lin or his counterpart in Royal Oak—must
meet his doom. It is a festival that pro-
vides respite in time of sorrow. It calls
for joy even in an hour of darkness. It
gives assurance that better days are com-
ing for Jewry and mankind.

The Budget Committee of the Detroit
Servicce Group has given the signal or
preparedness for the 1940 Allied Jewish
Campaign.
This year's drive carries with it a great
challenge.
It demands the opening up of heart
and purse.
It calls for understanding, for human
compassion, for sympathy on an unparal-
leled scale.
It demands that Jews should feel the
tragedy of millions of their kinsmen who
are being crushed under the heels of des-
pots.
We are asked to give more, and more,
and more—as time goes on.
But our fellow Jews are being perse-
cuted—more and more and more.
We must understand these elements in
an era that is marked by terrorism of the
worst sort.
This is not a time to prepare excuses.
This is a time to prepare for work—
and to be ready to give out of proportion
to previous standards.
Give your services!
Substitute for Nobility
Give your money!
GIVE!
In his touching address delivered in be-
Because millions of Jews must be saved! half of the United Jewish Appeal on
March 9, Dr. Thomas Mann made inter-
esting observations on anti-Semitism. This
The Late Samuel Untermyer
great novelist, who is a Nobel Prize win-
In the death of Samuel Untermyer the ner in literature, said in part:
country at large loses a great lawyer and
Anti-Semitism appeals to those wretched
the Jewish people a staunch defender of
people who, in order to feel bigger, must
its rights.
crush others under their heels. I hear them
saying to themselves: "I may be a nobody,
One of the country's greatest legal
but, at least, I'm not a Jew! So I AM some-
minds and perhaps America's most bril-
thing—something noble!"—Anti-Semitism, I
liant and most skilled investigators in the
maintain, is the mob's substitute for nobility.
To those, however, who are wary and
field of law, Mr. Untermyer was a power-
ashamed of racial hatred, the arch-seducers
ful factor for good and was one of the
speak: "Why bother about all this exagger-
most effective defenders of the democratic
ated talk"—so they say—"of persecution, de-
ideal.
portation and starvation. This is not YOUR
business! Let the Jews"—so they say—"look
In the final years of his life Mr. Unter-
out for themselves; don't you interfere lest
myer associated himself with the cause
you come to grief yourselves! Leave the Jews
of Palestine's redemption, with the move-
to us, and we promise to leave you alone."
Beware of such talk! The peoples of Eu-
ment for equal rights as embodied in the
rope were trapped that way, only to discover
program of the American Jewish Con-
later that the onslaught against the Jews was
gress and especially with the anti-Nazi
but the starting signal for a general drive
boycott work. He gave life and vigor to
against the very foundations of Christianity.
That humanitarian creed for which we are
the cause of true Americanism as opposed
forever indebted to the people of the Holy
to the infiltration of Nazism on our shores
Writ, originated in the old Mediterranean
and was responsible for the organization
world. What we are witnessing today is noth-
of the strong boycott work with the co-
ing else than the ever recurrent revolt of un-
conquered pagan instincts, protesting against
operation first of the late Dr. A. Coral-
the restrictions imposed by the Ten Com-
nick and later with other prominent Jews
mandments. The Jews of Middle Europe had
and non-Jews. He rendered important
the misfortune, as living exponents of this
old Mediterranean culture, to earn the wrath
service to the relief drive of the Federa-
of the younger Nordics first.
tion of Polish Jews of America.
The conclusion drawn by Dr. Mann is
It is interesting to note that when he
was actively engaged in work in behalf the conclusion agreed upon by all un-
of Palestine's redemption Mr. Untermyer prejudiced minds: that the Jewish cause
was as devoted to it as he was to other is not a Jewish question alone; that it is
causes he advocated. During his leader- a Christian problem; that it is an issue
ship in Keren Hayesod campaigns he pre- for the world to answer, since the Chris-
sented an interesting argument in favor tion world is certain to be subjected to the
of a Jewishly-rebuilt Palestine. His serv- same indignities as the Jews the moment
ices had been enlisted for the cause of tyrants are permitted to gain the upper
Palestine's redemption at the time when hand in world affairs.
"We shall all perish if we are not on the
the Ku Klux Klan was at the height of
its anti-Semitic drive. Mr. Untermyer alert to quench these flames before it is
pleaded with the Jews of America to too late," Dr. Mann warned. Jews and
realize that the only answer to anti- Christians must provide that aid which
Semitic bigotry is to convince our neigh- will save the sufferers and stem the tide
bors that we are not parasites, that Jews of reaction that is on its way to this coun-
are builders and that our people are con- try. The relief and defense movements,
structive and creative. He recognized Pal- working harmoniously are among the ele-
estine as the center of such constructive ments necessary to forge weapons of pro-
work and advocated wide participation in tection for humanity.

March 22, 1940

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CONFIDENTIAL*
• STRICTLY
Tidbits from Everywhere

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By PHINEAS J. BIRON

MEDICAL DEPARTMENT

Winchell reports that when Dr.
Emanuel Libman, the wizard
diagnostician, met Pr e s i d e n t
Harding at the White House he
told an acquaintance that Hard-
ing suffered from a coronary dis-
ease that would cause his death
within six months—which is what
happened . . . Our private au-
thority on the incident, however,
tells us that Dr. Libman never
met Harding personally, but made
his uncannily correct diagnosis
from a photograph . . . All of
which reminds us that when Lord
Northcliffe, the late British news-
paper magnate, was in New York
some years ago he fell ill, and
Libman was called in as consult-
ant . . . When he saw the doctor,
Northcliffe, who wasn't exactly
a philo-Semite, petulantly asked
his secretary: "Who's that little
East Side Jew?" . . . Libman
overheard, but said nothing at
the time . . . A few days later,
however, the Briton got a bill
that made his eyes pop out—and
with it a note saying: "That's
what an East Side Jew is worth."

JEWISH NEWS

Pity the poor Nazis . .
In
their unofficial capital, Munich,
the exclusion of Jewish physi-
cians from practice has resulted
in such an acute shortage of
medical service that people some-
times have to wait weeks before
'a doctor can find time to perform
an operation . . . If you scan the
passenger lists of incoming steam-
ers you will find an amazing num-
ber of Dutch Jewish names . . .
There is a definite feeling in Hol-
land that the land of the dykes
is next on Hitler's program, and
that Chamberlain will offer the
Dutch no more protection than
his worn-out old umbrella can
afford . . . German refugees in
Denmark benefit from a special
arrangement the Hechalutz or-
ganization and the Danish sec-
ABOUT PEOPLE
tion of the Women's Interna-
Rene Blum of France, who re- tional League for Peace and
cently arrived on these shores, is Freedom have made for them,
planning to start a French maga- whereby young men are trained
zine here . . . His brother Leon, on private farms, receiving free
the former French Prime Minis- board and lodging from the farm-
ter, is his chief backer.
ers while they learn how to till
The recent marriage of Brain the soil . • . In this country now
Truster Tommy Corcoran has re- is a German Jewess who used to
minded lots of ladies that Cor- run a large art gallery, for a
coran's partner, Ben Cohen is while even under the Nazi re-
one of the eligible males of the gime . . . And Hitler and Goer-
Capital.
ing were among her good cue-
Copper Tycoon William Gug- tomers, she claims . . . In Clare
genheim is taking his lyric-writ- Boothe's anti-Nazi play, "Margins
ing very seriously these days • . . for Error," one of the characters,
This youngster of three score and who had been under the impres-
ten has just authored the words sion that he was strictly "aryan"
to Abner Silver's new song, discovers that hisgrandmother
"You're a Glamor Girl"
was Jewish . . . In the cast of
There's a hot story to be told the play is Evelyn Wahle, who
about the pressure certain Catho- applied three years ago to Heinz
lie groups are trying to put on Martin, director of the Berlin
Jewish organizations to make is State theater, for a job. Her con-
public declaration in favor of tract was all signed when she was
Fascism.
i.equested by the Nazi authorities
Oscar Levant once was one of to present her ancestry papers
New York's best-dressed men ... . . . Examination of her back-
That was quite some Years ago , ground revealed, much to Miss
long before he became famous— Wahle's surprise, that her grand-
and when he had a lot wire father was Jewish . . . She left
money than his fame brings him Berlin immediately.
(Copyright, 1940, s A. F. 5.)
now.

There's a summer hotel, and a
very swanky one, at Long Beach,
called the Lido, which for years
applied the Aryan test to its
guests . . . Well, now that spring
is here it's being bought, for the
better part of a million smackers,
by a gentleman who once was
denied the privilege of vacation-
ing there . . . And the subject
of spring brings us to the April
issue of Living Romances, which
you hould get if you want to
know the details of 16 years of
Ludwig Lewisohn's life . . .
Thelma Bowman Spear, Ludwig's
ex, tells all in a long article
there, and announces that she
still yearns for Lewisohn's com-
panionship.

PURIM PLAYERS

(From Leusden, "Philologus Hebraeo-Mixtus," 1657) .

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There's quite a dispute goi , •g
on about the locale of the nt••st
Zionist convention, but it looi.s
as if Chicago will win out -
which will be a feather in ti
cap of the group led by 1,„
Solomon Goldman and Judr
Fisher . . . A dark horse f ,
the next presidency of the ZO
is none other than Rabbi Jam, -
Heller of Cincinnati.
The talk about Dr. Wise defi-
nitely relinquishing many of his
functions and retiring to devote
himself to literary work has con-
siderable foundation . . . He
been scouting around for a coup.
tryhome in New Canaan, Con:
. • . In the serene stillness
New England he will put td,'
finishing touches on his autobi
ography, which is unofficially de-
scribed as a sizzles. . . . Talking
of autobiographies reminds IN
that Dr. Weizmann has an old
contract with Harper's for his
'life story, but not even the first
chapter of it has been written
as yet.

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