A merica/ Avis* Periodical Cotter October 4, 1940 CLIFTON AMUR - CINCINNATI 20, OHIO 7 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle A Happy and Prosperous New Year Extended by Midland, Mich. OUR ANSWER TO CALL OF THE TIMES New Year Message Happy New Year to All ! Thomas McCann By HENRY MONSKY President of Bnai Brith By RABBI LEON FRAM "Return, 0 Israel" is our mes- sage for this season. The ideals for which Israel has lived—the dignity of man and the unity of mankind—have be- come the rallying cry of the civilized world. Millions of men and women have discovered in the past year that all their possessions can be lost overnight, that all their de- fences can be overrun in an hour. One possession only is secure. It is a man's ideals, his faith, his spirit. This no army can destroy. This no dictator can take away. Holding on to his faith, a man has a future, though he loses all else. "Return, 0 Israel unto the Lord thy God" said the prophet Hosea, and his voice vibrates down to us across the ages. Our faith remains our only security. We shall resist the ene- mies of mankind, we shall solve our problems, and secure a fu- ture for our children, only to the extent that we revive our faith, return to the synagogue, and learn again to pray. Rosh Hashonah Greetings to All! TROMBLEY MOTOR SALES Events of the past year have seen crises come and go. It has demonstrated the danger of pre- heard prophets of doom foretell Concrete Work, Gravel, Sand Sales—Studebaker Packard—Service dictions during an epoch of the end of civilization—as they . Service on All Makes of Cars . cataclysmic changes. To have are doing now—and it has seen Phone 1174 902 Baker St. foreseen but a fraction of the the mburied under their own D-X GAS and OIL Midland, Mich. grave happenings of the year to unrealized predictions, as it will U. S. 10 at Ashman which we are about to bid an again. It has lived through some PHONE 905-J un•egretful farewell even the of the most turbulent times that wisdom of the prophets of old mankind has known but not once Happy New Year to All' Pick Up and Deliver Your Car We would not have suffered. Yet has a national emergency found Midland. Mich. there were far-sighted men and Bnai Brith nor American Jewry, women who had the vision and of which it is a cross-section, Official A. A. A. Service understanding to see the trend wanting, for we have always Complete Collision Service helped fortify the efforts to keep We specialize in Frame and Axle of the times. Straightening. Body and Fender I lappy New Year to All: It was not so long ago that America safe for democracy. Repairing, Brake Service It is difficult to say Happy those of us who were denounc- 1 24-HOUR Towing Service ing Nazis, Fascists and Commun- New Year at a time when our 12207 Bay City Rd. Phone 2095 ists in America as a threat to whole system of modern society Midland, Mich. American democracy were cried is being challenged and threaten- Midland Housing Guild down as prophets of doom. It ed by menaces which have been Headquarters was only yesterday that those brought into dreadful actuality Happy New Year to All: who sounded a warning against by events overseas. In the Old NEW GUILDWAY HOMES the enemy at home, against the World nation after nation has and HOME IMPROVEMENTS pseudo-patriot who waved the gone down under the titanic American flag with his hand and force of the triple-headed jug- in his heart was betraying every- gernaut of Nazism, Fascism and Phone Midland 54 or 55 Kelvinator—Hot Point and thing that flag stood for were Communism. History has been Gibson Appliances likened to Jeremiah of old. Nor made with lightning-like speed. Midland. Mich. do we have to go beyond this All the human values and tradi- U. S. 10 Cutoff, at Ashman fast-ebbing year to remember tions which generations have been PHONE 82 the skepticism which greeted those taught to respect and uphold are Midland, Mich. who urged America to make her- being blotted out. Force is dis- Rosh Hashonah Greetings to All ! self strong by building her moral placing faith and fear is over- Happy New Year to All ! and material defenses. coming fortitude. Even here in Then foreign is ms were re _ America, which has • not heard Rosh Hashonah Greetings to All! garded by many as academic poll_ the tramp of the invader's boots tical theories without potential for more than a century, a wave danger to America. But slow that of alarm seems to be spreading Automotive Electrical Service REAL ESTATE these alien philosophies and their as the echo of European events Distributors of Pure Oil Gasoline PROPERTY MANAGEMENT advocates have come out of hid- reaches our ever attentive ears. and Oils ing and stand forth as a chal- But it is just in such extraord- (;all for and Delivery Service GROCERIES lenging menace to the peace and inary times that Bnai Brith has 1414 Elizabeth St. security of the nation, it is ob- an even greater responsibility to Haley at Carpenter COAL — COKE vious to all that participation in America and to Jewry. Our job Phone 1179 Phone 9144 the activities of Nazi, Fascist is to remain calm and to help and Communist inspired and di- others to stay calm, too; to be Midland, Mich. 801 ASHMAN STREET Midland, Mich. rected organizations is no longer ready for any emergency; to an- compatible with any pretense of swer and call our government Midland, Mich. loyalty to America and American may make upon us with all the ideals. We of Bnai Brith are resources and manpower at our HAPPY NEW YEAR TO A1,1.! proud that the public pronounce- commnad, but to shun defeatism panic. We must be alert and Hashonah Greetings to All: ments of our authorized spokes- Rosh men have always been outspoken to repel any and all dangers that and unequivdcal in opposition to may threaten our country from K. McKAY, President and condemnation of all move- within or without, but we will BAKER BLOCK PHONE 421 ments inimical to the American be playing into the hands of the MIDLAND, MICH. institutions and American free- hands of the enemy of America, dom. foreign or domestic, if we allow Local and Long Distance Moving Time was, and not long ago, ourselves to be driven into in- All Merchandise Insured when in too many quarters dividual or collective hysteria. While in Transit Best Wishes for a Happy and Prosperous New Year Americanism was regarded as For the coming year let our ral- Padded Vans and Trucks at Your blatant chauvinism. Now the lying cry be faith, determination, Service. Also Winch-Truck whole country is turning to a courage—faith in the future of renewed ferver of dramatized America; .determination that it STORAGE Cleaning — Pressing — Repairing Americanism, in its best sense. shall be the future that its fath- Phone 3 116 George PHONE 517 114 E. MAIN S r. Long before the present trend, ers planned for it .— courage Midland, Mich. MIDLAND. MICH. Bnai Brith carried on an inten- to help build that future, come sive Americanism activity as an what may. We live in a land which is the integral part of its year round last stronghold of that fighting program. HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL! There were many, too, who faith of equal rights to all and Rosh Hashonah Greetings to All! deplored the lack of moral fibre equal responsibilities for all. Our and lack of responsibility in flag—The American flag — has youth, who had been blamed for never been blacked out and it many of our political, economic never will be blacked out if we . PLUMBING AND HEATING and moral ills. 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We of Bnai Brith are puses where Jewish youth's vis- not among such doubters and Rosh Hashonah Greetings ion, energy and capacity for never will be. Rosh Hashonah Greetings to All! achievement are being harnessed We have confidence that the for constructive purposes. And dynamics of democracy are far from these young people will more powerful than any totali- and Best Wishes come our leaders of tomorrow. As tarianism can ever be. We have the Hillel Foundations bring faith that democracy will and CEMENT BLOCKS home to college youth the values can manifest its strength and and traditions of the Jewish peo• power to meet every and any BRICK - SAND - GRAVEL ple, so does Aleph Zadik Aleph challenge if all Americans—of SEPTIC TANKS imbue adolescent youth with a all races, creeds and political positive approach to Jewish p•ob- convictions — accept the dis- Phone 812 lents, guarding them against a ciplined responsibility that citi- 420 Benson distorted perspective and assur- zenship in a democracy imposes Midland. Mich. ing them of a broadened hori- and count no sacrifice too dear zon. And the Vocatoinal Service if only freedom may prevail. Bureau of Bnai Brith helps to We of Bnai Brith stand ready direct all Jewish youth in a more for that sacrifice today as we intelligent selection of careers always have and always will. That and occupations in a world in is our message to America, to LE SHONO TOVO TIKOSEVU flux. Jewry and to Bnai Brith every- We have confidence that what- where on the eve of the New ever the morrow may hold in Year. store, courage, patriotism, faith, loyalty and character will always Warning to short-wave listen- be desirable assets. And these are the attributes which Bnai ers: There is a woman who Brith has taught and will con- broadcasts German propaganda tinue to teach those who come within the sphere of its influ- in a perfect American accent, Sand - Gravel - Excavating and who claims that she's a Gold ence. Star mother, who pleads passion- As the year 5701 in the He- Mason's Supplies - Cement Blocks brew calendar takes its place in ately against American participa- the annals of man, Bnai Brith tion in the war . . . Fifth Col- MIDLAND, MICH. Phone I483J looks back upon 98 years of serv- umn stuff, incidentally, is being R.F.D. 2 ice to humanity during which broadcast from an illegally oper- Midland. 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