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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle

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Detroit
Jewish Chronicle
and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE

Published Weekly by The Jewish Chronicle Publishing Co., Inc.
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JACOB H. SCHAKNE

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Sabbath Scriptural Selections
Pentateuchal portion—Deut. 29 :9-31:30.
Prophetical portion—Is. 61:10-63 :9.
Readings of the Torah for First Day of Rosh
Hashonah, Thursday. Oct. 3
Pentateuchal portions—Gen. 21 ; Num. 28:1-6.
Prophetical portion—I. Sam. 1 :1-2:10.
Reading of Torah on Second Day of Rosh Hashonah.
Friday. Oct. 4.
Pentateuchal portions—Gen. 22 ; Num. 29 :1-6.
Prophetical portion—Jer. 31:2-20.

SEPTEMBER 27, 1940

ELLUL 24, 5700

An Army of Jews

What significance is to be attached to
Great Britain's yielding to Jewish re-
quests to be permitted to organize a Jew-
ish armed force for the defense of Pal-
estine? Does it indicate the approach of
serious trouble for the land? Are we to
assume that an impending attack by the
Italian air and land forces will soon strike
the Holy Land?
In this war of devastation and savag-
ery, anything is possible. But there is
hardly room for despair. We are in a war
to a finish. It is a battle for the very
existence of various cultural and national
groups—ours among them—and this war
must be won by the forces which stand
for ethical and moral principles.
The Jews are today the allies of Great
Britain—just as the United States is the
ally of Great 'Britain. For Jews, as for
the United States, the Battle of London
represents the showdown between the ele-
ments of destruction and those who seek
to perpetuate the moral law.
From time to time we hear comments
that indicate an attitude of defeatism on
the part of American Jews who say, with
regard to Palestine and the work for the
relief of European Jews, "what is the
use? It is all so futile and so hopeless!"
These people are wrong. Let them ask
the Jews of Palestine. In Eretz Israel
they do not despair. They do not throw
up the sponge in Zion. They have plead-
ed for the right to defend their positions,
and have won that right. For the first
time in two thousand years Jews will be
fighting as a unit for the defense of a
land that has been made famous in the
last twenty years by the creation of
strong Jewish centers and blossoming
Jewish colonies. Those who built these
colonies will know how to defend them—
there will be no despairing in the ranks
of people who know the meaning of a
battle for life.
Perhaps the explanation for the exist-
, ence of a spirit of defeatism among Jews
is to be found in lack of preparation. Had
these people understood the true meaning
of Zionism as a quest for life and as a
movement that seeks for Israel a place
where our people can be masters of their
own destiny, they would never apply the
term "futility" to Palestine and to Jewish
existence. There is no such word in the
vocabulary of a people that survived
Hebron, that conquered the Arab gang-
sters from the hills, that befriended the
Arab neighbors in the Emek Jezreel and
Emek Zebulum and in Galilee and where-
ever there are Jewish settlers in Pales-
tine.
We always had a Jewish army in Pal-
estine. Until Oow it was the army of
labor. Today it is like the army in the days
of Ezra and Nehemiah—an army that
has the spade in one hand and a gun in
the other, because it is compelled to de-
fend lives and properties and to preserve
that which has been built with so much
sweat and blood.
There is no despair in Palestine. In
Eretz Israel there is determination to ac-
quire life, for Jews to reach a status of
being masters of their own destiny. Those

in the Diaspora who are losing faith have
merely failed to acquire the spirit of the
pioneers and to learn from historic Jew-
ish experiences.

Another Mean Libel

A vicious anti-Semitic organization
which calls itself the National Press As-
sociation, giving as its address a post of-
fice box number in New York, has pub-
lished an outrageous leaflet purporting
to show that Jews are disloyal and that
they plot to press Christians into military
service to fight their battles for them.
This pamphlet was distributed in Detroit
last week and will require serious action
in refutation of the ugly charge.
The facts speak louder than words or
distorted pictures of the kind that were
used to illustrate this un-American and
un-patriotic leaflet. The fact is that Jews
have participated in full proportion to
their numbers in the service of their coun-
try. The truth is that Jews have given
out of proportion of their numbers in the
last war and that young Jews today are
prepared to participate in the defense
forces of our land, and to join in the
battle for democracy.
But it is useless to argue with the peo-
ple who distributed that pamphlet. Their
origin is well known. They belong to
the same group as Joseph McWilliams
and his body guard, William Fox, who
are now in psychopathic wards for men-
tal observation. This insane group is un-
American, un-patriotic, insanely bent up-
on efforts to destroy the freedom and
unity of this land. They have been re-
pudiated at the polls; they will be re-
pudiated by the people at large when
they learn the truth about Jewish patriot-
ism as well as the insanity of the anti-
Semites.
Perhaps the battle for justice to the
Jew has only just begun. But with it be-
gins the battle for America and for our
American way of life. Apparently the
time is not yet over when we must, con-
sistently, propagate the truth, present the
facts to our neighbors, and to plead with
them for fair consideration of issues raised
by destructive forces as a means of pit-
ting one group in the population against
another and thereby use the Hitler meth-
od of destroying American unity.
We begin this battle for truth by quot-
ing the statement of the President of
the United States, made on Aug. 28. Pres-
ident Roosevelt greeted the Jewish War
Veterans of the United States in the fol-
lowing terms:

"In this day when the dark sha-
dow of war and its appallingrconse-
quences falls over the greater part
of the old world, it is a happy pros-
pect for the future safety and wel-
fare of our democracy that in meet-
ings of this kind the members of
organizations such as yours regularly
renew their comradeship because your
comradeship was born of that gen-
uine loyalty which has been seasoned
by unselfish service to your country.
The conscicusners of the value of
such service and the satisfaction of
rendering it is still your common tie.
We cannot reflect upon a thing of
this kind without being insp'red to
contemplate our country's future
needs and what, despite our oast
sacrifices, timid be expected of all
citizens in regard to supplying them.
"American citizens of Jewish ex-
traction can recount with pride their
contributions to both substance and

September 27,

• STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL •

Tidbits from Everywhere

By PHINEAS J. BIRON

LISTEN HERE

JEWISH Margulies,
erstwhile
secretary of the ZOA, to whom
the new leadership has not yet
assigned a new title, threw a
bombshell into the farewell get-
together of Zionist employes
leaving New York for Washing-
ton . . . Morris, in a humorous
speech, caused great consterna-
tion among all present when he
told the boys and girls that the
removal of the Zionist headquar-
ters to Washington was a
"frame-up" — until he explained
that he meant a frame-up on
the part of the New Yorkers,
who wanted to get rid of the
Zionist office in their town
Then a great wave of laughter
and relief swept over the crowd.
The Jewish Theological Semi-
nary went to all kinds of trouble
to get Albert Einstein to partici-
pate in its symposium on religion
. . . When they sent out the
story to the press, however, Prof.
Einstein's participation, which
had created a furor, was care-
fully omitted . . When asked
why, the press department of the
Seminary replied that Professor
Einstein's remarks were of great
importance to the conference.

After Gory Goer ing's recent
flight over London, when he took
a gander at the damage done to
Buckingham Palace, a British
wag commented : "It's a lucky
thing for Buckingham Palace
that Goering wasn't dropped on
it . . . His weight would have
smashed it to bits."
Charlie Chaplin and Walter
Winchell agree that the reason
why Hitler has hundreds of body-
guards surrounding him is his
fear that his predilection for
double-crossing will cause him to
stab himself in they back
No, there's nothing to the
rumor that King Carol and Mag-
da are taking up quarters in
Quebec, Canada . . . Carol wants
to remain within easy flying dis-
tance of Bucharest, as he be-
lieves that one of these days
conditions will change and per-
mit him to dethrone his son for
the second time.
Recently the German chief ad-
ministrator of occupied France
sent around posters to the local
French police stations with in-
structions to display them prom-
inently and with the warning
that the penalty for defacing
the posters would be death . . .
The posters depicted, a Nazi sol-
dier kissing a French child, and
were captioned "We love you."

HOT STUFF

A. Guttman of 115 W. 45th
St., New York, is carrying on a
one-man campaign advocating
what amounts to race suicide
for Jews . . . The way to stop
anti-Semitism, says Mr. Guttman
very seriously, in a leaflet which
he sends to any one who sends
him a three-cent stamp, is this:
First, no more kosher food; Sec-
ond, all Jewish religious serv-
ices to be held Sundays; Third,
the high holy days to be observ-
ed on successive Sundays; and
fourth, no Hebrew or Yiddish
ever to be spoken in the streets.
. . . Religion, says Mr Guttman,
should be felt but never seen ..
"A religious belief cannot be
flaunted in the face of the world
without arousing resentment and
hatred," is the 45th Street philo-
sopher's great contribution to-
ward the solution of the Jewish
problem . . . Our reaction to the
whole business is that hobbies
are all right, but golf is prefer-
able to many others.

THINGS TO NOTE

Did you hear Theodore Gra-
nik's American Forum of the Air
on the Mutual network the other
Sunday, when Senator Styles
Bridges of New Hampshire de-
bated with Harold L. Ickes? . . .
In the course of the question-
and-answer exchange the Sena-
tor had the bad taste to inquire
why it was that President Roose-
velt had started talking about
American defense only after the
Rothschilds' money had been tak-
en away from them . . Ickes,
of course, refused to answer this
anti-Semitic question.
Otto Tolischus is a good for-
eign correspondent, but could
well use a bit more tact . . . In-
vited to address a gathering
where funds were to be raised
to bring intellectual refugees to
this country, he warned the au-
dience to look out for fifth-col-
umners among those applying for
refuge . . . A rather ridiculous
warning, because that particular
organization under whose aus-
pices he spoke deals only with
refugees who have an unques-
tionable record of action against
the Nazis.
That Italian Consul in New
York will get himself into trou-
ble unless he stops taking such
an intensive interest in the "Stop
Roosevelt" campaign.
Why should Chicago's police
chief Costello have banned "Pas-
tor Hall," Jimmy Roosevelt's
screen story of Niemoeller?
Aside to Winchell : Won't you
tell us who that Washington
army officer is who, when he was
in Berlin, received from Herr
Goering a medal inscribed "To
a true friend of Nazi principles?"
If the merger of Sam Goldwyn
and Warner Brothers comes
about, it would mean the biggest
motion picture combine ever es-
tablished.

FAIR TALE

On the (lay when Mussolini's
airplanes bombed Tel Aviv the
lighting arrangements for the
model of the 1909 Tel Aviv in
the Diorama Hall of the Pales-
tine Pavilion at the World's Fair
suffered a sudden breakdown .. .
Wondering whether this was a
psychic phenomenon, Director
Weisgal instituted an intensive
search for the cause, and discov-
ered a number of electric wires
that showed signs of having been
gnawed by a rodent . • . A trap
baited with Palestinian cheese
provided by the Cafe Tel Aviv
was rushed to the cubbyhole be-
hind the diorama, and within 12
hours the culprit was caught—a
little gray mouse . . . Before
disposing of the enemy's carcass
the Pavilion staff conducted a
solemn ceremony posthumously
dubbing the beastie Mussolini.

service to their country. From the
Declaration of Independence to the
present time they have proven their
unfaltering patriotism. More than
200,000 of them participated in the
Wcrld War. The glorious record of
your past warrants beyond doubt the
conclusion that your people will give
whole-hearted and full cooperation

in the development and execution of
our present National Defense Pro-
gram."

This is a factual statement that speaks
volumes in repudiation of the indecency
of anti-Semitism. The dastardly un-Amer-
ican act of the Nationalist Press Associa-
tion—whoever the un-patriotic group hid-
ing under this name may be—and its co-
horts in Detroit will not go unchallenged.
The American people will know how to
deal with distorters of truth.

1940

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1..!‘"04 " lii tY"IAS ItAZ

"Courtesy, The National Jewish Monthly

"VICHY WATER"

