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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle

Orthodox Rabbis Vote Support of of the Assembly of Hebrew Or-
thodox Rabbis at the Hotel Sha-
National Defense Program

Rabbi Selwyn D. Ruslander to Conduct
Zedakah Jrs. Plan
Supplementary Services at Temple Beth El
Dance for Sept. 29

NEW YORK (WNS) — A res- ron.
olution pledging complete corpo-
Another point in the resolution
ration with the President's na- urged Jewish families "to open
Great interest is being mani-
tional defense program was adopt- their hearts and homes to ref- fested in this year's supplemen-
ed by more than 100 delegates ugee children fleeing the terrors tary services to be held in Tem-
attending the two-day convention of war."
ple Beth El during the High Holy
Day season.
This year the congregation ob-
tained the services of Rabbi Sel-
wyn D. Ruslander, youth director
of the Union of American He-
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brew Congregations. Rabbi Rus-
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lander is a young man of great
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scholarly attainments, as well as
real eloquence, and is a man of
attractive personality.
The social hall of the Temple
in which the services will be held
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this year has been renovated and
redecorated and a new and at-
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tractive lighting system has been
installed. The musical service will
trace of dirt and soil and at the
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same time restores essential ingred-
which has been especially trained
ients necessary to prolong the life
by George Galvani, musical di-
of the fabrics and to keep its body
rector of the Temple.
Inasmuch as cards of admission
and shape.
will be issued only to the seating
capacity of the social hall, it is
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For Americans the present cri-
sis is an opportunity to X-ray
some of our internal weaknesses
and turn them into democratic
strength, says Louis Adamic, au-
thor of "My America" and re-
cently appointed Consultant to
President Roosevelt's Advisory
Commission to the Council of
National Defense. In a keynote
article in the new magazine Com.
mon Ground, published this
month, Mr. Adamic, as editor,
writes: "One of our greatest
weaknesses, which is also one of
our greatest sources of strength.
arises from the unfortunately
named 'Melting Pot' situation."
The weakness, he explains, lies
itt a kind of psychological civil
war that is being waged among
s of •warious gackgrounds
within our population — old-
stock versus new, and vice versa;
citizens versus aliens; Gentiles
versus Jews; Polish-Americans
versus Americans, etc.
strength lies in "the common
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emotions, motives and impulses
that have brought most of us
here in the past three centuries."
The loyalty of most of the
foreign-born, Mr. Adamic as-
sures us, is almost beyond ade-
quate statement. The majority of
them, like their American-born
children, are more passionately
anti-totalitarian than a good many
old-stock Americans, but because
they have more recent memories
of what European oppression can
be like.

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September 20, 1940

"I have an idea," he says par-
enthetically, "that Europe is
crashing into ruins partly be-
cause too many 'Americans,' peo-
ple addicted to liberty, left there
and came here during the last
hundred years." The number of
these "Americans" arriving in
that hundred years totals 38,000,-
000.
Mr. Adamic warns against re-
petition of the "Americanization"
drives of 1914-21, "which did
not truly Americanize the for-
eign-born who got caught in
them, but did de-Americanize
some Americans; drives which
aimed to turn, as if by magic,
all the Albanians, Slovaks and
Lithuanians into imitation Anglo-
Saxon Americans quickly; and
thereby succeeded mostly in turn-
ing them into more conscious,
because intensely uneasy, Alban-
ians, Slovaks and Lithuanians."
A return to this kind of Ameri-
canization, he fears, would pro-
voke the very danger we wish
to avoid.

should make application without
delay to the executive secretary
of the Temple, Irving I. Katz.
Because of the increased mem-
bership of the Temple, seats in
the Main Temple Auditorium and
the Brown Memorial Chapel will
be held exclusively for members
and their families; the only ex-
ception will be such out of town
guests as may present courtesy
cards issued through their own
congregations by -the Union of
American Hebrew Congregations.
Sermons subjects for Rosh Ha-
shonah have been announced as
follows: For the Eve of Rosh
Hashonah: Dr. Leo M. Franklin,
"Every Man's Problem;" Rabbi
Leon Fram, "Cosmic Faith;"
Rabbi Selwyn D. Ruslander, "The
Force that Conquers." For Rosh
Hashonah morning: Dr. Leo M.
Franklin, "The Jew in a Symbolic
Role," Rabbi Leon Fram, "Trial
by Ordeal;" Rabbi Selwyn D.
Ruslander, "Courage—Adversity's
Lamp."

kind of situation.
Mr. Adamic agrees that mili-
tary preparedness is essential to
our defense, but "behind that
force of men and arms must be
a motivating spiritual force."
"Total defense will not be total,
nor defense of any sort, in the
long run," lie stresses, "no mat-
ter how many millions of men
we draft or how many billions of
dollars we spend on arming them,
unless the defense program is all-
embracing from the very begin-
ning; and is based on a firm
realization that the United States
is not just a big, rich hunk of
geography, but an idea, a body
of idealism, a way of life, a
promise as yet largely unful-
filled.' To be merely against
fascism, he says, is ipso facto
equivalent to being a fascist, be.
cause in that way we too are
fighting a negative battle, not
building.

For National Unity

To Hitler's "revolution of ni-
hilism," he sates, we must op-
pose a democracy in which all
Americans — whatever their na-
tional or racial origins, or relig-
ions—will be accepted as equal
partners. Tolerance is not
enough. Too often tolerance is
only inactive intolerance, intol-
erance grown subtle and polite.
"We need to be trained," says
Mr. Adamic, "or train ourselves
and others, to become interested
in a man partly because he is
different, because being different,
he is apt to have something out
of the ordinary to offer us per-
sonally or contribute to our
evolving culture and civilization."
Mr. Adamic is working on sev-
eral practical projects to bring
about national unity and under-
standing. In addition to his serv•
ice as Consultant to the Advis-
ory Committee, he is active in
the Common Council for Ameri-
can Unity, which publishes Com-
mon Ground. Under the direction
of Read Lewis and a representa-
tive board of directors, the Com-
mon Council is working to pro-
mote unity, to assist the new-
comer and eliminate prejudice.
"The central educational or
cultural effort," Mr. Adamic
feels, "both with youth and
adults, should not be toward uni-
formity and conformity to the
prevalent, but toward accepting
and welcoming diversity that can-

Zadakah Juniors met it the
home of Miss Yetta Manenberg
on Westminster Ave. Red Cross
activities were discussed and knit-
ting distributed among the gi rls
for their share of the club's con-
tribution towards the Red Cross
in Detroit.
The next meeting will Le held
on Sunday, Sept. 21, at the home
of Miss Estelle Weingarten. Final
preparations will be made for the
club's initial affair of the sea-
son which takes place in the
form of a dance at the Hotel
Statler on Sunday evening, Sept.
29, featuring Hal Berdun and
his orchestra. Mrs. Tllye Mar.
tin is chairman of the entertain-
ment committee.

Kfar Maccabi 5 Years Old
HAIFA (Palco• Agency)
Kfar Maccabi, a small holding
settlement established by the
Young Maccabi Organizatio n on
1,650 dunams of Jewish National
Fund land in the Haifa Bay, has
just celebrated its fifth anni-
versary.
The settlement numbers 30
families totalling 120 persons,
most of them immigrant s from
Czechoslovakia, with a number
from Germany and Austria. Last
year Kfar Maccabi absorbed fur-
ther immigrants and refugees
formerly associated with the
Maccabi Hatzair movement in
Czechoslovakia, Holland and Bel-
gium.
Mixed farming is the basis of
settlement; 1,100 dunams are un-
der grain, 80 dunams are orch-
ard and 40 dunams are truck
garden. There are 30 head of
cattle, 140 sheep and 2,000 poul-
try.

not conceivably ever conflict with
our national ideals and safety."
Through these diversities we can
best achieve unity.
As one of its features Common
Grounds, under Mr. Adamic's ed-
itorship, will include reports of
what different communities and
schools in the country are do-
ing in a practical way to pro-
mote better inte•-group relation-
ships and understanding.
The
magazine,
according to Mr.
Adamic, will be "a meeting place
for all Americans"—whether they
came by way of Plymouth Rock
or Ellis Island. As indicating
its scope, the first number of
the
magazine, Autumn, 1940,
carries articles by prominent
leaders like Robert M. Hutchins,
Mary Ellen Chase, Oswald Gar-
rison Villard, Arthur Meier
Schlesinger, and others. Among
the contributions by new writ-
ers is the autobiography of a
young man serving a twenty-year
sentence in an eastern peniten-
tiary. A young Italian Amen-
can points out the possibilities
for exciting literature and drama
inherent in the story of our
many peoples—possibilities yet
barely scratched.
Mr. Adamic feels "the story
of the coming and meeting on
this continent of peoples front
sixty different national back-
grounds, speaking as many ton-
gues, and adhering to as many
religions" is "one of the great-
est stories under the sun." He
believes that a study of it Is
necessary medicine for national
unity—but, unlike other medi-
cines, one it will be a pleasure to
take.

NAT EHRLICH AND BEAUTY CONTEST WINNER

To Halt Anti-Alienism

The crisis presents both the
necessity and the opportunity, lie
adds, to halt the kind of anti-
alienism now frequently aimed
not only at aliens, but also at
naturalized citizens and even
their American-born children. An-
ti.alienism and racism, he finds,
makes millions of our people
ashamed of their backgrounds,
and induces psychological predi-
caments which cause them to
function badly and contribute to
the country only a fraction of
what they could of their talents
and skills. Not only "new" but
also old-stock Americans suffer
a sense of insecurity from this

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Nat Ehrlich of the Clevelander Hotel in Miami Beach rtcent
was host to the "Dixie Belles," beauty and talent contestants, at! 0
formal dance. Mr. Ehrlich is shown here with the winner, Miss
Edythe Wray of Richmond Va.

