A merica favisk Periodical eater October 4, 1946 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle L E SHONO TOVO TIKOSEVU Jensen 'Belting 8 Supply Company 4708 HASTINGS COlumbia 5440 ST. Smith's Garage 2723 JOY ROAD TYLER 4-9295 COMPLETE AUTO REPAIRS Towing Anywhere Collision Work WILEY SMITH. Prop. Season's Greetings and Best Wishes G. H. Gross 8 Son's Market TWO DELIVERIES DAILY: 10 A. M. and 2 P. M. ROBSON and GRAND RIVER Phone VE. 5-7256 Season's Greetings and Best Wishes Park Print Shop MARIA S MASAK 602 Marquette Bldg. RA. 5452 Happy New Year to All! Hawthorne Metal Products Company TOwnsend 8-5761 18350 Hawthorne Season's Greetings and Best Wishes ANDORIA HOTEL A Little Hotel and Tea Room "Mid the Throb of the World's Big Things" One Block from Fisher and General Motors Bldgs. MAdison 8700 Season's Greetings and Best Wishes MILLER'S SUPER SERVICE Complete Lubrication Motor Tune-Up Service Tire and Battery Service Vacuum Cleaning 2nd BLVD. at PHILADELPHIA •MI• Season's Greetings and Best Wishes WAYNE Patrol and Detective Service reit) Shadowing - Investigations DOMESTIC and COMMERCIAL Missing Persons Located Uniformed Police and Guards A Strictly Confidential Service at Reasonable Rates Will Call at Your Home or Office DAY OR NIGHT TRinity 2-7665 9105 Hamilton at Clairmount LICENSED - BONDED ON DISCOVERING OUR SOULS RANDOM HOU SE TO PUBLISH OR HALL" "PAST Jewish Women Challenged to Honor Their Heritage and to Observe the Sabbath James Roosevelt's first motion picture presentation, "Pastor Hall," a stirring anti-Nazi play by the late Ernst Toiler, will be published immediately by Ran- dom House, 20 E. 5th St., New ork, in a translation by Stephen Spender. The volume will also in- clude "Blind Man's Bluff," an- other play completed by the un- fortunate Toiler just before his death. By MRS. JOSHUA S. SPERKA Happy New Year to All 6520 THIRD CLIFTON AVENUE - CINCINNATI 20, OHIO During the course of the last summer I had occasion,. to visit several small Michigan commu- nities. In each of these there re- sided between 100 and 500 fam- ilies. Each of these had a syna- gogue. I watched the daily lives of the Jewish women as they pur- sued their separate ways—their household tasks, marketing, cook- ing, eating, cleaning and perhaps a bridge club on an afternoon to relieve the sameness of the days that followed one another. When I visited on Fridays they were somewhat more occupied because the cooking was more involved. And then came Saturday — and they repeated the same routine that had gone before—the same cycle of eating, and cleaning and perhaps a little bridge playing in the afternoon. I went to their synagogues and I found there three or perhaps four of the older generation of Jewish wo- men. The young matrons and mothers were hardly aware that it was the Sabbath or that there was a synagogue in their city. I came home to Detroit and I took courage because I felt that here, in a community so much larger, there will be the aware- ness of the significance of the Sabbath among a greater num- ber. And I observed Jewish homes, and how my heart sank to see fresh washing on clothes lines in Jewish backyards, coal being delivered and shovelled into Jew- ish basements, the doors of Jew- ish homes opening and Jewish matrons emerging—but not to go to their synagogues, there to commune with themselves as Jewesses or with their God. They walked to nearest bus line for a shopping trip downtown. I walked to the synagogue with a heavy heart. Saturday afternoon bridge clubs are most popular, for, as one woman explained, "One doesn't have to rush home to get dinner so early". The children were all hustled off to the near- est movie theater, they did not join in companionship with their mother nor their mother with them. And I sat down to ponder. Here was a generation of Jewish women, heirs to a tradition of womanhood immortalized in liter- ature for her fear of God and devotion to the faith of her fathers as the "Aishith Chayil" and the "Princess Sabbath". And anyone who walked past a Jewish front porch as I did and watched this saintly Jewess' daughter or granddaughter spending her Sab- bath afternoon card playing and smoking cigarettes could not help but feel that here a glorious heri- tage had certainly been sold out for a miserable mess of pottage. Jewish women consider them- selves devoted mothers. Who would deny that they are most careful in the planning of their children's diet, in the prepara- tion of their children's wardrobes; in their concern when the chil- dren do not eat. Does it ever occur to these mothers that a soul is more vital than spinach, and a rich life than adequate vitamins or a new school dress? Generations have survived with- out Cod Liver Oil but never without God. The secular New Year is the time for new resolution. Our Rosh Hashonah is the time for sacred resolve. Is it not time that the American Jewess awoke to her responsibilities and resolve to fulfill them? Would it not have a far greater value if on the Sab- bath morning instead of taking the bus downtown, each week she take her boys and girls and to- gether go to the synagogue and pray. or at least think and listen to the voices within and with- out? and thinking realize that "Man cannot live by bread alone." The American way of life which has given to our Jewish women for tho most part a high- er material level on which to fashion her life has also placed unon her greater spiritual respon- sibilities. Because of her hus- band's economic preoccupation the education and training of the children rests with her. Let then, each responsible Jewish woman resolve within her soul that on this New Year coming to us when Jewish mothers in so many lands are bereft of the must elemen- tary needs for human existence, she the most fortunate of all the family of Israel will fulfill her obligations to her people and her God. Her children when they grow to maturity will bless her for her vision and devotion, for the richness of their lives and the beauty within their souls. They will remember these, the gifts of their mother long after they have forgotten the clothes she bought them. And they will be fortified against difficult times with strength that only religious faith can give. The community will long be her debtor for the time has come when all Jews must give account to their God and their fellow men, and those Jews who have forgotten or never knew their religion will be heavi- ly burdened in their way through life. Jewish women must awake to their responsibilities. Rosh Hashonah Greetings Season's Greetings and Best Wishes Steen Industries Small Dies, Experimental and Development Work Machine and• Tool 320 BEAUBIEN ST. CH. 9096 WE THANK YOU! We appreciate the patronage of our Jewish clientele and extend sincere wishes to them — each and everyone for a Happy and Prosperous New Year. Everett Bennett PLUMBING and HEATING CONTRACTOR 1125 Southfield St.. Lincoln Park ATiantic 1202 FAULTLESS Curtain Laundry and Cleaners HOGARTH 1010 4737 ELMHURST Michigan's Largest Exclusive Curtain Cleaners Happy New Year to All! CARNELL REALTY CO. New Year's Greetings and Best Wishes to All • 13342 West McNichols UN. 1-8910 Happy New Year to All! FRANK G. MILES, Inc. FORD Sales and Servi;e 4400 CASS AVE. TE. 1-3673 Happy New Year to All! George Bernhardt's Restaurant GOOD COFFEE AND MEALS Dinners - Sandwiches - Steaks Chops - BEER 2508 GRAND RIVER 3rd at Henry PROVIDENT UNION AGENCY WILLIAM HORDES, President MEYER KAUFFMAN, Vice-President IRVING HERMELIN, 'Treasurer HENRY BURSTON, Secretary 605 FOX THEATRE BLDG. 5701 1940 Rosh Hashonah Greetings • Happy New Year to All! Harry R. Brethen MANUFACTURERS' REPRESENTATIVE CHERRY 6780 and may the New Year bring you in abundance, health, happiness and prosperity—and to your household a wealth of Good Cheer! 11341 Woodward Ave. TOwnsend 8-2577 Happy New Year to All! ATTENTION— Metal Refiners and Junk Yard Operators We manufacture a Special Burner for MELTING METAL FOREST CLEANERS ZI . DYERS 533 - 547 E. FOREST ' Cor. John R. and Piquette W. G. CHAUSSE 4453 Fourteenth St. Tyler 5-4866 Vitalize THE DRY CLEANERS