A merica Jewish Periodical ( ' enter October 4, 1940 CLIFTON AVENUE - CINCINNATI 20, OHIO DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and 9 the Legal Chronicle Greetings of the Season Extended by Mount Clemens, Wichigan NEW DAY TO DAWN FOR HUMANITY bility, in an insignificant meas- ure, to find crevices of escape the victims may find tem- Louis Lipsky Writes a Brilliant Evaluation of where porary shelter. All Jewish overseas relief is a Conditions Affecting the Ailing program for finding havens of World We Live In refuge for the tens of thousands B y LOUIS LIPSKY —first of Germany, and in rapid succession of Austria, Italy, National Co-Chairman, United Palestine Appei Czechoslovakia, Poland, Denmark, Former President, Zionist Organization of Amer4 a Norway, Belgium, Holland, (WRITTEN SPECIALLY FOR DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE) France, now of Rumania and What can be said of the ailing resistance. Either a straight-jack- Hungary. It is an appalling world we live in to serve as com- et or utter destruction will end sight, and more particularly so fort on the High Holidays? It his struggle for power. to the kinsmen of the hundreds might be well to forego comment The manoeuvers of the Sabot- of thousands who have been dis- and let the ancient Service of Prayer speak the common thought eurs of the world are on an placed and who are constantly of all Jews. In the Books of amazing scale. They involve the forced to move from one haven to another. It is a terrible re- Worship are reflected what the encirclement of the globe, no less. sponsibility for the remnant of ancients had to say of the grief The master minds in Berlin find Jews living in security to carry and tragedy of life, and of their the map of Europe insufficient alone, for it is upon their should- for the planning of their attacks. faith in the Power that cleanses ers that the whole responsibil- They use the globe, turning on the world of sin, which sustained a pivot, which marks all the ity tests. Whatever interest oth- them in the Dark Ages that now highways of land and sea and ers take in the Jewish tragedy seem to have•come again. It might air. No place is too remote for is incidental—kind words and be useful for Sermon to give way their vision. They move from acts in passing. The old plans to Prayer. Norway down to the North Pole, of reconstruction and rehabilita- The like of what we are wit- down to Alaska, to China, down tion of the Joint and the Oct nessing was never seen as far to the Indian Ocean. They include have had to be discarded. The back as remembrance goes. There the Americas—North and South. Hicem and the Hias and the Na- are no records that reveal such These are not secret plans. What tional Refugee Service stand in a desperate threat to the sta- is even more amazing is the fact the foreground with their pro- bility of the world as is reflected that the book written by the grams of elementary succor. • in the amazing attack that has Master Destroyer has been read Even in Palestine, where the transformed Europe into a sham- by millions in all languages, in status of Jewish life remains as bles, and free peoples into slaves all lands; and that, although the recognizable as it was before of an insatiable despotism; that scheme of conquest is easy to the war began, and where we aims to destroy the intellectual follow, instead of a union against stand shoulder to shoulder with and spiritual bases of our lives the aggressor, one by one the the defenses of England, day by and to substitute a way of smaller nations have been broken day it becomes harder to main- thought that means reversion to and subjugated, and now only tain the program of building, the an incredible barbarism. England (and its Dominions) program of extension, and more In the olden times they never stand ready to resist the Destroy- and more the basic problems ceased to grope for the light, er; while the others still remain arising out of the coming of to seek the better life. In this unconvinced. They open their refugees — their safety and im- day, having seen the light, it is doors to spies and saboteurs, mediate living—take precedence Proposed to extinguish it and their press and radio stations over all other tasks. We are bring back darkness. The new are saturated with enemy propa- maintaining the Jewish National Conqueror comes to achieve an ganda, and they talk of defense Home in the full knowledge that end which cannot be formulated and preparation "when the time sooner or later it will be part of in definite terms. He conquers comes"—each for itself—await- the terrain on which Nazi and for the sake of domination, to ing the day of attack, and all the Fascist bombs will explode, and work his will on an enslaved civ- while still doubting that such the things created with so much ilization. His empire will have diabolism is possible, and all the labor and sacrifice will be devas- no boundaries. He will be halted while wondering whether defense tated by the same powers that by no inner compulsion or sens... will be really needed. are now blasting in their fury of justice or humanity. He can the democratic life the English be restricted only by the force mople have maintained on their In this world we Jews con- of arms and the power of moral island for so many centuries. tinue to be, as in the past, an It is our good fortune that in incident of the struggle—hard this struggle not only are we LE SHONO TOVO TIKOSIiVU substance that gets in the way. physically to be counted among Certain aspects of the propa- the forces arrayed against Hit- ganda of hate implicate Jews as ler — in the armies and navies if they were the chief cause of and air fleets of every land in the unrest that compels violence which we are loyal citizens—that and destruction. But that is one we are everywhere among the 369 N. GRATIOT of the many camouflages of the victims of Nazi oppression—but destroyers of the "falsities of that all our hopes and the con- PHONE 9101 liberty and equality." The Jew- Mt. Clemens. Mich ish participation, insofar as it firmation of our age-long faith appears under its own banner, is are represented by the force dis- largely passive defense. In fact, puting the progress of the Nazi Season's Greetings and Best Wishes the greater part of Jewish life destroyers. It is our duty to serve that is now devoted not to the affir- and mation of rights, not to the filing cause without hesitation, Whatever we can of demands, not to the making generously. of protests, but simply to the do, here in this land of liberty, alleviation of a universal misery for the defense of the demo- that depresses and absorbs every cracies and the defeat of Hitler, Jewish heart. The Jews of every should be done not only individ- 18 EAST BROADWAY land, with the coming of the ually and as American citizens, Scourge, must prepare for flight, but as Jews and collectively. It is PHONE 1296 and all those not in flight find our primary duty as Americans Mt. Clemens, Mich. their only consolation the possi- and as Jews to serve that cause. Here, there is no contradiction in interest or loyalty. Our Amer- SINCERE NEW YEAR'S GREETINGS ican and Jewish interests are one unequivocal patriotism. And what we are doing, or Sierens Automatic Phonograph Co. should do in greater measure, to strengthen the Jewish National PHONE 126 27!:; MARKET Home in Palestine is a direct MT. CLEMENS. MICH. • contribution to the defense of human freedom. Every refugee settled in Palestine means that TO ALL! HAPPY NEW YEAR a liability becomes an esset for democracy. The more Jews in Palestine, the more defenders of the Eastern Front of Eng- "SERVICE PLUS QUALITY" land. The stronger our econo- PHONE 1070 mic life in Palestine, the strong- 31 NORTH er the position of the military M. CLEMENS. MICHIGAN organization in the Near East, which is not only a defense of Palestine but a preparation for Rosh Hashonah Greetings to Our Jewish Friends an advance against the Nazi forces. The successes of Nazi Germany COAL—BUILDER'S SUPPLIES are illusory; they are seeming victories. There is no moral PHONE 1850 625 NORTH AVE. force behind them to retain loy- MT. CLEMENS. MICH. alty or maintain discipline. The hidden recourses of the civilized world cannot be destroyed by bombing planes, but buried un- SEASON'S GREETINGS AND BEST WISHES TO ALL! der the physical ruin of the world will rise again to confound and destroy the Slave Empire which Hitler aims to construct. On the day his Empire callapses —as it certainly will — our G. LONGSTAFF, Managing Director THOMAS faith in justice and morality will be vindicated, and a new MT. CLEMENS, MICH. day will dawn not only for the WRITE FOR BOOKLET — PHONE 70 Jewish people, but for humanity at large. 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