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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.
JACOB H. SCHAKNE
President

Entered as Second-class matter March 3, 1916, et the Post.

office at Detroit, Mich., under the Act of March 3, 1879.

September 6, 1943

• STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL •

Tidbits from Everywhere

By PHINEAS J. BIRON

• QUESTIONS

• JEWISH NEWS
Did you see the interview which
The Agudath Haraboni m of
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Cable Address: Chronicle
Wendell Willkie gave to the Jew-
America
is trying to work out
ish Morning Journal, and in which
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he promised to open the gates of plans for the bringing over to
the United States to all refugees this country of 200 rabbinical
JACOB MARGOLIS
Publisher
if he is elected? . . . Why wasn't students at Lithuanian yeshivas
PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
. Editor
that statement released to the which have now closed their doors,
MAURICE M. SAFIR
Advertising Manager
general press? . . Have you If the plans are realized the s
To insure publication, all correspondence and news matter
been listening to Leslie Howard's dents will be distribute l,.. Ong
must reach this office by Tuesday evening of each week.
Monday evening short-wave broad- various American yeshiNas the
When mailing notices, kindly use one side of the paper only.
casts from England, dramatizing Ner Israel Rabbinical College of
historic occasions when things Baltimore already having accept.
*•e Detroit Jewish Chronicle invites correspondence on sub-
looked bad for the Britons but ed
jects of interest to the Jewish people, but disclaims responsi-
they came out on top none the
T5h0e of Bnai
B rith, which was the
henL
bility for an endorsement of views expressed by the writers.
less? .. . If you've been wonder- first national Jewish organization
A Day of Prayer for America
ing why David Ben Gurion, Pal- to move its headquarters to
Sabbath Scriptural Selections
Sunday, Sept. 8, has been set as a day estine labor leader, is coming to W ashington—an example which
Pentateuchal portion—Deut. 16 :18-2 I :9.
country soon, the reason is the Zionist Organization of Amer-
Prophetical portion—Is. 51:12-52:12.
of prayer so that Americans of all de- this
merely this: The only way he ica is now about to follow—is ser-
SEPTEMBER 6, 1940
ELLUL 3, 5700 nominations may ask God "to grant to can return from England to Pal- iously considering the removal of
this land and to the troubled world a estine is via the United States its national office to New York,
and the Pacific . . . Next time the city the ZOA is leaving.
righteous, enduring peace." The procla- the
conversation lags ask your
Rabbi Isidor Breslau, the newly
mation
for
this
day,
issued
by
President
Willkie Repudiates Coughlin
friends this riddle: "If Hitler and appointed
Secretary of the ZOA,
Roosevelt, reads:
Mussolini were in a boat in mid- will have four
titles that he can
ocean, and the boat were to burst append to his signature . . . They
Wendell L. Willkie's repudiation of
The American heritag e of individual free-
into
flames
and
sink,
who
would
Father Charles E. Coughlin is being ac-
Assistant to the President,
dom and of government deriving its power
be saved?" . . . The answer, you are:
Executive
Director, Secretary, and
cepted with relief by many people. There
from the consent of the governed has from
should know, is: the people of Director of the Political Bureau.
were some who wondered whether the
Europe.
the time of the fathers of our Republic been
Serious consideration is being
endorsement by a spreader of hate of a proudl y transmitted to each succeeding gen-
given to the plan of salvaging the
• THIS AND THAT
eration,
and
to
us
of
this
generation
has
fall-
candidate for the Presidency will be per- e n
entire exhibit now being shown in
the task of preserving it and transmitting
mitted to pass unchallenged. It is to the
You may remember that Wil- the Palestine Pavilion at the New
it to the future. We are now engaged in a
liam R. Castle, at one time Under- York World's Fair, and setting it
credit of Mr. Willkie that he has spoken
mighty effort to fortify that heritage.
secretary of State under Presi- up in a special building in New
emphatically and frankly on the subject.
Mindful of our dutie s in the family of
dent Hoover, quite frequently York City.
He wants none of Coughlin's support.
nations we have endeavored to prevent the
spoke out in an anti-Semitic man-
Louis Lipsky has signed up as
outbreak and the spread of war, and we
Only a McWilliams, or a Winrod, or a
ner . . . We've just discovered a regular contributor to The Day,
have raised our voices against international
that
he
has
recently
closely
col-
Pelley, or a Ward, or a Derry, will take
the Yiddish daily . . lie will
injustice. As Americans and as lovers of
laborated with Colonel Lindbergh comment not only on Zionist af-
that support.
on the latter's amazing addresses fairs, but on genes-al Jewish prob.
freedom we are humbly sympathetic with
The lines are now pretty sharply
. . . Don't miss the September is- lems as well.
those who are facing tribulation in lands
across the seas.
sue of The Protestant Digest .. .
drawn. There are those who stand for
It will carry an article by S. R. • TRIBULATIONS
When every succeedin g day brings sad
the perpetuation of American ideals, and
Herbert, on Father Coughlin,
news
of
suffering
and
disaster
abroad
we
are
there are the elements who accept anti-
that's more revealing than any-
The world situation is getting
especiall y consciou s of the divine power and
thing else we've ever read on the into the hair of movie producers
Semitism and who would destroy the
of our dependenc e upon God's merciful guid-
subject . . . The scholarly "His- David Loew and Albert Lewis
American way of life if given a chance.
ance.
tory of the Jew" by the Hillel . . . They bought a story about
Mr. Willkie has chosen to stand with the
Foundations' Dr. Abram L. Sach- refugees a couple of years ago,
With this consciousness in our hearts it is
American patriots.
seemly that we should, at at imelike this,
ar has just come out in a new and began to make their produc-
pray to Almighty God for His blessing on
edition that brings it up to date tion plan . . The story was
our Country and for the establishment of a
through the fall of France.
about Austrian refugees who
just and permanent peace among all the
found safety in Czechoslovakia
All Agree on Tolerance
• ABOUT PEOPLE
Nations of the world.
. . . Before long it had to be
changed, and the happy ending
The candidates for the Presidency
Now, therefore, I, Franklin D. Roosevelt,
Congratulations to Rabbi Abra- was laid in Poland . . . Then
President of the United States of America,
agree on tolerance. It is evident that anti-
ham Shaw, new spiritual leader Hitler made another move, and
do
hereby
set
asid
e
Sunday, Sept. 8, 1940,
of Baltimore's Eutaw Place Tem- the ending had to be moved west-
Semitsm, bigotry, race and religious prej-
as a day of prayer; and I urge the people of
ple, on his engagement . . . Bal- ward into France . . . Now, an-
udice are anti-American symptoms.
th e United States, of all creeds and denomi-
timore's new rebbetizin-to-be hails other ending has been written,
In his speech of acceptance as candi-
nations, to pray on that day, in their churches
from San Antonio, Tex. . . . with a South American setting.
date for the Vice-Presidency on the Demo-
or at their homes, on the high seas or where-
Rabbi Shaw succeeds Dr. William And Loew and Lewis are hoping
ever they may be, beseeching the Ruler of
Rosenau, who, having reached the that Hitler won't hear about this,
cratic ticket, the Hon. Henry A. Wallace
venerable age of 75, is now re- so that they'll have a chance to
the Universe to bless our Republic, to make
declared that "a materialistic religion of
tiring.
us reverently grateful for our heritage and
shoot their picture.
darkness, based on force and lies and led
Victor Weisberger, a native of
firm in its defense, and to grant to this land
by prophets of evil, is striding across the
Austria and for years a resident • FROM SHADOWLAND
and to the troubled world a righteous, en-
during peace.
of Baltimore, made a special
world. This war is more than a clash of
study of the ancient arts of the
The Manhattan phone directory
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set
rival imperialisms. It is a war to destroy
American Indians, arts which the lists over three columns of Cohns
my
hand
and
caused
the
seal
of
the
United
freedom and democracy." Describing how
redskins
of
our
modern
age
have
--that is, exclusive of Cohens,
States of America to be affixed.
this destructive force which aims to pro-
completely forgotten .. . So suc- Kohns, etc.—but the Motion Pic-
Done,
at
the
Cit
y
of Washington this
cessful was he is in work that ture Almanac has only seven
claim "might as the supreme god and the
seventh day of August, in the year of our
now he is engaged in teaching . . . And the briefest biographical
new Nazi race as the mightiest of them
Lord ninetee n hundred and forty, and of the
the Indians their own lost arts sketch of the movie Cohns be-
all," Mr. Wallace said:
independence of th e United States of Amer-
at an Indian reservation in New longs to Columbia Pictures' presi-
Mexico.
ica the one hundred and sixty-fifth.
dent, Harry Cohn, whose vital
"Against this dark and bloody faith
Lincoln Kirstein, long a patron ,s.
are given in but four
People of all faiths may well heed this of the art of dancing, has be- tatistics
we of the New World set the faith
nes.
come
the
head
of
the
American
call, and Jews should advance this day
of Protestantism, of Catholicism, of
Latest Hollywoodite reported to
of prayer 24 hours so that the Sabbath Ballet School, whose teachers in- b e planning a Broadway appear-
Judaism. Our faith is based on belief
some of this country's fore- a nee in the coming season is spine-
day of Sept. 7 may be utilized for the elude
that the possibilities in an individual
most dancers.
hiller Peter Lorre.
purpose outlined by the President. These

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ist Medical Unit in Palestine in 1919. In
1920 she assisted in organizing Junior
Hadassah. From 1921 to 1922 she served
as national president of Hadassah.
Besides her work for Hadassah and
Palestine, Miss Seligsberg was the organ-
izer of the Jewish Children's Clearing
Bureau in New York in 1922, and was
its director until 1936. She formed the
Fellowship House, an agency for after-
care of orphans, and was its president
from 1913 to 1918.
Her career was one of service and well
earned for her Hadassah's tribute of set-
ting aside $10,000 for a war emergency
child welfare project to be carried on
in her name.

are not determined by race, social
background or wealth.
"We believe in the maximum of
freedom which can be obtained with-
out anarchy or intolerance. Democ-
racy is the very heart of the religions
which have the largest following in
the United States. Democracy and
Americanism are identical.
"Both are utterly opposed to totali-
tarianism, with its exaltation of
might, its suppression of freedom and
its claims to racial supremacy."

Thus, anti-Semites get their rebukes.
It is a sad day for the Coughlins and their
cohorts, the McWilliams group, the Pel-
leys and the Dillings and the Winrods.
They have no one to turn to. The Demo-
crats are against them. The Republicans
won't have them. The people of the United
States won't stand for anti-Semitism.
Americanism rules, and bigotry is doomed
to defeat.

The Late Alice L. Seligsberg

Hadassah has lost one of her founders
and a brilliant leader in the death of
Miss Alice L. Seligsberg.
In 1912 Miss Seligsberg was one of 10
women who, under the guidance of Miss
Henrietta Szold, laid the foundation for
the Women's Zionist Organization. Since
then she had rendered important service
to Jewry. She headed the American Zion-

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are exceedingly troublous times. In these
days of sorrow it will do all peoples well
to turn to prayer, to find consolation in
the knowledge that all men are created
equal, to give thought to the fact that
we are free in this great land from the
injustice which oppresses the old world.
On the day of prayer we should give
thanks that we are so fortunate, at the
same time resolving never to sacrifice the
rights which make us the greatest re-
maining bulwark against indecency on
earth.

The Late Lillian Wald

Lillian Wald was not only a pioneer
social worker. She was a great woman
who established precedents for humani-
tarian work and was responsible for the
inauguration of great reforms which
brought into discard intolerable social and
economic conditions in New York. The
country at large copied her work, and she
was therefore directly responsible for the
elimination of suffering and the assurance
of better social conditions for our genera-
tion.
It is deserving that the nation at large
should be mourning her death. Her work
knew no religious or racial boundaries,
and all creeds and people of all colors pay
tribute to her memory and honor her
name as that of one of the greatest wom-
en in American history.

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