DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle
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Jackson, Michigan Extends Best Wishes for
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IN A CRYSTAL
ROSH HASHONAH GREETINGS TO ALL I
By AL SEGAL
Prestler Roofing Shingle Co.
"Jackson's Oldest Roofers—Established 1908"
902 E. MICHIGAN
PHONE 2-2344
JACKSON. MICR.
Rosh Hashonah Greetings to Our Jewish Friends
MODERN LAUNDRY CO.
Most Up-to-Date Laundry in Jackson
We Specialize in
FINE CURTAIN WORK—COMPLETE FAMILY SERVICE
PHONE 8196
1 701 WOODBRIDGE
JACKSON, MICH.
SEASON'S GREETINGS AND BEST WISHES TO
DR. T. E. MONTGOMERY
Dog and Cat Hospital and General Practice
539 N. BLACKSTONE
JACKSON, MICH.
PHONE 4818
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL'
BECKWITH'S FLOWER
8 GIFT SHOP
265 WEST MICHIGAN AVE.
JACKSON, MICH.
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL
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WORKING FOR A STANDARD—NOT A PRICE
225 SOUTH MECHANIC
JACKSON, MICII.
DIAL 4174
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SEARS ROEBUCK and CO.
Everything for the Family, Home and Car
Jackson. Mich.
287 West Michigan
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AND DRY CLEANERS
112 EAST WASHINGTON
JACKSON, MICH.
PHONE 41 17
SEASON'S GREETINGS AND BEST WISHES TO A1.1.!
PATIENCE - MONTGOMERY,
FUNERAL HOME, INC.
PHONE 4133
406 FIRST ST.
JACKSON, MICH.
Rosh Hashanah Greetings to Our Jewish Friends
GLICK IRON 8 METAL CO.
PHONE 4196
709 ADRIAN ST.
JACKSON. MICH.
ROSH HASHONAH GREETINGS TO AI.I.!
REYNOLDS SPRING CO.
MANUFACTURERS
Water and Bridge Sts.
JACKSON. MICII
Phone 2 8 I 61
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A certain young lady writes:
"Your readers await impatiently
the news of what you see in the
crystal for the new year."
Yes, I have a crystal. It's a
most kindly crystal. It always re-
veals to my eyes exactly what
they prefer to see. My eyes never
like to see any darkness ahead.
They desire long, wide, untrou•
bled vistas that are bordered by
petunias and other flowers that
I like. My beneficent crystal
gives me all that.
When I take up my crystal I
make a wish: I want to see this
and I want to see that. I want
to see a world made good. I
desire peace with justice.
And, miraculoUsly, I see pre-
cisely what I wish. It is more
beneficent than the crystals of
other seers who look darkly into
their crystals and can see noth-
ing good.
So, to see what the new year
holds, I take up my crystal and
make my wish.
What does a man wish for first
nowadays? Well, his mind runs
to Hitler. If he is a vengeful,
blood-lusting citizen he wishes
the most horrible conclusion he
can think of for Hitler. He
wishes him an end that will af
flict him with all the pain of
every man, woman and child who
has suffered the travail of the
dreadful year that has just pass-
ed—of every refugee on the
roads of Belgium and France, of
every Britain cowering in his
bomb shelter or looking at his
dead, of every Jewish exile hunt-
ing a new place in the world.
But I haven't cruelty enough
for such wishing. My thoughts of
vengence are more poetic and
exquisite. My wish returns to a
certain vision I had in this col-
umn some five years ago:
Hitler is dead! He died by one
of his bombs which fell prema
turely. Or he (lied before a fir-
ing squad of his own storm-
troopers who finally had been
fed fat with a sense of their
own power. Or he died by his
own hand as his empire crashed
about his ears.
In any event he was dead by
some process of poetic justice.
The cruel deaths that people
think of contain no more laugh-
ter than the hideous thud of a
Hitler bomb falling. The perfect
fulfillment of Hitler's destiny
must be accompanied by the
adbominal laughter of the whole
world enjoying the exquisite
comedy of power destroyed by its
own arrogance.
One day in his ruthless march
over the world Hitler has stop.
ned at the tomb of Napoleon in
Paris. People remembered seeing
the photographic pictures of that
incident: Hitler looking down on
the marble grandeur that en-
shrined another conqueror.
He must have felt aware of
intimations of immortality — the
glory of conquerors that reaches
far beyond the time they marched
on the earth : This shrine, the
ancient battleflags that surround-
ed it. It was all like the hom-
age an immortal saint gets.
But in the new and brighter
world even the pitiful relic of
ruthless power that was Hitler's
body must be reduced to the
(lust of the earth. There must
be no immortality of marble, no
arrogant memorial of the thing
all men despised, no painful re-
membrance of the evil moment
of his life.
So Hitler was buried in the
earth. In the dust he lay with
the women and children who had
perished under bombs and ma-
chine guns in Belgium and
France, with the multitudes in
Poland who had died by hunger,
disease and slaughter, with the
Jews tortured to death in con-
centration camps.
It was all most satisfying - to
the world that desired to laugh
after the years of bitter weep-
ing.
Years passed and the promise
of a new world was being ful-
filled. Immediately after the long
travail the world had suffered
there had been a loud demand
that all the' Nazis be cleared out
of Europe and safely quaran-
tined. Their cruelty, their ar-
t ogance, their covetousness, their
hate must never again be allow-
ed to afflict the earth. It was
nroposed to segregate them in
Madagascar.
October 4.
A
1940
Happy New Year
A THREE-FOLD TASK FACING
JEWS OF THE WORLD
By RABBI NAHUM SCHULMAN
Congregation Shaar Hashomayim, Windsor
It is with mingled feelings of
hope and apprehension that I
forward my message and greet-
ings of Rosh Hashonah to the
Jewish communities of Detroit
and Windsor.
"Watchman, what of the New
Year?" is the passionate outcry
heard today from the lips of mil-
lions of Jews in the war-torn
areas of Europe and in the still
remaining few free and demo-
cratic lands of the world. While
waiting for the answer, we ap-
proach the High Holidays with a
heavy-laden heart. For we are
the living witnesses of the havoc
wrought by the war: the break-
down of civilization and human-
ity, death and destruction, terror
and carnage, crushed communi-
ties, uprooted men, homeless chil-
dren, helpless women, pillage and
rapine, exile and wandering over
the face of the earth, starvation
and degradation, untold misery
and agony and unbeatable suffer-
ings. All in all, a terrifying pis-
tore. It reminds one of the strange
old tale of the Jewish folk-lore of
a Second Deluge, not of water,
but of fire. Today, we are the
eyewitnesses of such a fire de-
luge dreamt of by the ancients.
An enormous conflagration — the
Second Great War—is consum-
ing the very foundation and
structure of mankind. Its flames
are reddening our skies. "Watch-
man, what of the New Year?"
Apprehensive as we may be
about the future, we still will
welcome the New Year with
gladness and joy. In fact, more
so than in the past. For Hoch
Hashonah radiates light into a
darkened world, and generates
warmth into the body of a cold,
cruel mankind. It brings to us a
message of inspiration and hope,
of courage and strength to carry
on. Saddened as we are, we are
not discouraged. We hear again
the voice of the prayers of Roth
Hashnonah, comforting and reas
swing us of the great future, of
a redeemed mankind and a re-
deemed Zion. The sounds of the
shofar arouse in us aspiration ,
for a brighter and hopeful fe
turf.
Threefold is our task at this
hour. We must maintain the mor-
ale of the Jewries of Eastern
and Central Europe who have
been the victims of the most
brutal of all wars. We mus,
supply these people with at least
a semblance of aid so that they
may be enabled to 'carry on the
battles of Israel where they now
reside. In addition we must also
prepare an extraordinary effort
to meet our obligations to the
Yishuv in this critical hour. We
must strengthen the foundations
of Eretz-Israel which have been
laid in the cities, towns, - villages,
colonies and agricultural settle-
ments by Jewish pioneer strug-
gle and effort. And last, but
not least, it is high time that we
turn our faces to our own •prob-
lems at home. Every effort must
be exerted to establish a more
integrated functioning of Jew-
ish communal life. Judaism must
be revitalized for the masses of
Jewry. An intelligent and well-
informed Jewish laity must be
created. Service, redemption
and reconstruction are the three
great tasks before us.
Let us at the opening of the
New Year pledge ourselves anew
to fulfill the trust placed upon
us and to labor in the vineyard
of Judaism. Let us usher in the
New Year with faith, courage,
confidence and good will. May
God shower his bountiful bless-
ings upon all of us and inscribe
us in the Book of Life.
But in the end compassir pre • She was an old hausfrau, the
vailed. For the sake of the great widow of a soldier who had died
Germans who had been—Mozart, for Hitler.
Beethoven and Mendelssohn, Goe-
The grain of dust blew away,
the, Heine and Einstein, Mann was taken up to the stratosphere,
and Wassermann—Germans were then, swiftly it was hurled back
allowed to remain in Europe. to the earth toward a certain
Eventually, after a long proba- Village, to a certain barnyard. It
tam, they were taken into the fell into a dung-head and there
fraternity of the human race. it lay.
All this is in my wish as I
Hitler's grave had been for-
gotten. His bones mingled with bend my eyes over the crystal.
the (lust of the earth. At times Yes, there it is: I see in the c•ys-
the winds took up handsfull of tal a small object no bigger than
this dust and carried it about a nin point. It seems unmistak-
here and there, over mountains ably a grain of dust. Some peo-
ple, looking into this crystal,
and to chimney pots.
may say: Don't be so foolish,
One day a grain o Hitler's Segal, what you see is only a
(lust was separated from its di feet in the glass.
neighbors. It flew alone in the
But I insist: This looks like
wind. It was a swift, rather vio • what I wished for and my crys-
lent wind just before a rain tal always gives me what I wish
storm. On this journey the grain for.
of dust fell into a variety of
vicissitudes.
A man should never be asham-
It blew into the eye of a Jew ed to own lie has been in the
in Berlin. He was walking on set ong, which is but saying., in
Einstein st•asse (it had been so other words, that he is wiser to-
renamed in memory of the great day than he was yesterday.
Philosopher) when he suddenly
—Pope.
became aware of an irritation
in his eye.
To reach a port, we must sail,
After rubbing his eye with his sometimes with the wind and
handkerchief, in vain, he thought sometimes against it, but we
of an old remedy. He raised his must sail, and not drift, not
eyelid and spat three times. He lie at anchor.—Oliver Wendell
was amazed to be immediately Holmes.
relieved.
The grain of Hitler dust was
Happy New Year to All
picked up by the wind again and
• aS
blown against a window
pane.
Next (lay the hausfrau
dusted
off the Winslow, then
HENRY S'EERNKOPF
dusted ofi the rag into the air.
2014 Tyson
Dial 4244
"So much (lust," she sighed,
Jackson, Mich.
"There seems no end of dust."
Lakeside Dairy Co.
Best Wishes for a Happy and Prosperous New Year :
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JACKSON'S LEADING RESTAURANT
COMPLETELY AIR CONDITIONED
215 OTSEGO. opposite Post Office
JACKSON. MICH.
Phone 9455
Best Wishes for a Happy and Prosperous New Year'
Black's Tire 8 Battery Service
GOODYEAR TIRES and BATTERIES
644-46 E. Michigan
Phone 5088
JACKSON. MICII
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