DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle 8 Jackson, Michigan Extends Best Wishes for ==. 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 Schafer's Odorless Dry Cleaning WORKING FOR A STANDARD—NOT A PRICE 225 SOUTH MECHANIC JACKSON, MICII. DIAL 4174 HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL SEARS ROEBUCK and CO. Everything for the Family, Home and Car Jackson. Mich. 287 West Michigan SEASON'S GREETINGS AND BEST WISHES TO ALI.: WHITE LAUNDRY 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 - 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 : REGENT CAFE 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 1