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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE' and the Legal Chronicle

Detroit
Jewish Chronicle
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Yom Kippur Morning Readings of the Torah,
Saturday, Oct. 12

Pentateuchal portion—Lev. 15; Num. 29:7-11.
Prophetical portion—Is. 57:14-68:14.

Yom Kippur Afternoon Readings of the Torah

Pentateuchal portion—Lev. 18.
Prophetical portion—Jonah.

Reading of the Law for First Day of Succoth,
Thursday, Oct. 17

Pentateuchal portion—Lev. 22:26--23:44; Nuns.
29:12-16.
Prophetical portion—Zech. 14.

Readings of the Torah for Second day of Succoth,
Friday, Oct. 18

Pentateuchal portion—Lev. 22:26-23 :44 ; Nuns.
29:12-16.
Prophetical portion—I Kings 8:2-21.

OCTOBER 11, 1940

TISHRI 9, 5701

Yom Kippur

Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement,
is also known as the Great White Fast.
It is the most solemn day on the Jewish
calendar. It is the Sabbath of Sabbaths,
the day on which Jews atone for their
sins, a day of prayer and dedication to
the spiritual glories of Israel.
In celebrating this day it is well that
we should ponder on the sufferings ex-
perienced by millions of our people who
dare not go to synagogue, whose existence
has been reduced to hiding and flight,
whose future is dark unless the powers
of righteousness and justice, for whose
success we pray, should prove triumphant
in a world that has been degraded by
meanness and hatred.
It is not enough that we pray for our-
selves, for our children, for their security
and future. Our future, our children's
future, is closely bound with the millions
whom we shall never meet. If they should
be doomed to live in a world of slavery,
then we, too, will be reached by the ter-
rorist forces. If they are freed, we, too,
shall be happier and freer and more se-
cure.
Therefore, on this Atonement Day, we
pray and plead for a change in the status
of man, for the elimination of hatred
from the hearts of man, for the defeat
of terrorism, for an advent of liberty
throughout the world.

Great Britain's Pledge

Great significance lies in the words of
the Rt. Hon. Arthur Greenwood, Deputy
Leader of the British Labor Party, who,
writing in behalf of the British War
Cabinet, gives assurances that the wrongs
suffered by the Jewish people will be
righted.
For those of us who are confident that
the present war will end in triumph for
Great Britain and the democratic idea,
this is an important declaration. It be-
comes all the more significant in the light
of the additional news that a complemen-
tary statement on Palestine will be made
by the British Cabinet through Dr. Chaim
Weizmann.
Even if Mr. Greenwood's statement is
not as important as the Balfour Declara-
tion—a view held by Dr. Stepehn S. Wise,
president of the American Jewish Con-
gress—it is nevertheless sufficiently signifi-
cant to give us new courage in our pre-
sent stand as an ally of Great Britain in
the fight for justice and righteousness.
Great Britain will, of course be expect-
ed to right the wrongs of all oppressed
peoples who are now suffering at the
hands of the Nazis. The Jewish people
will look for redress in lands today con-
trolled by the Nazis-Fascists and will also
expect that England will make real the
pledge on Palestine. The end of the war
should mark the beginning of a new era
of decency and justice for all mankind.

The Yemenites' Plight

Detroit Jews are asked to give a small
sum towards the alleviation of the plight
of the Yemenite Jews and to enable the
settlement of some of them in Palestine.
The head of the Yemenite Palestine Corn-
munity, Zachariah Gluska, and his secre-
tary, Zachariah Gispan, are here in the
interests of this appeal. They should be
given the encouragement they deserve.
The Yemenites represent the sturdiest
element in Palestine. Hard working,
thrifty, devoted to the religious and na-
tional aspirations of their people, they are
an indispensable element in Palestine.
No matter what happens, once a Yemen-
ite comes to Palestine he is there to stay.
This can not be said for all other elements
of our people coming to the land.
Messrs. Gluska and Gispan have an im-
portant message for the Jews of Amer-
ica, and for the Jews of Detroit on their
present visit. They should not be sent
away from here empty handed in their
plea in behalf of their kinsmen.

A Yugoslavian Smokescreen

An Associated Press cable from Bel-
grade reports that Jews will be forbidden
to trade in foodstuffs. It is one of a
series of new anti-Jewish regulations in
Yugoslavia. But the cable gives away the
secret for the new outburst of bigotry in
Yugoslavia by reporting that it was Vreme
that blamed the Jews for rising prices
and shortages of foodstuff. The AP re-
port calls it "the strongest anti-Semitic
editorial yet to appear in a leading Yugo-
slav newspaper," but it does not tell the
American readers that Vreme has for
years been a mouthpiece for Germany
and has published everything fed it by
the Nazis.
Here is a clear case of misrepresenta-
tion by means of using a smokescreen.
But it is an old ruse well known to us.
It is not so well known to the world at
large which for the moment falls for the
libel against the Jews and temporarily
fails to recognize a symptom of trouble in
Europe—the admission made in the Nazi-
bought Vreme that there is a shortage of
food, a condition for which war-making
Germany is directly responsible.
Our press agencies, and our newspapers,
would be serving the cause of truth if
they were to explain some of the fantas-
tic charges carried in their stories. A
brief word regarding Vreme, that it has
an established record for anti-Semitism.
would clarify what it writes. Instead
its latest outburst is called "the strongest
anti-Semitic editorial to appear in a lead-
ing Yugoslav newspaper." When is an
anti-Semitic editorial strongest? Is it
when a report about it in an American
newspaper becomes most sensational?

`To Find a Land With Kinder Kin'

October II, 1940

• STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL.

Tidbits from Everywhere

By PHINEAS J. BIRON

• Foreign. A ff airs

•

Correction

Now it can be told that when
The Jewish Theological Semi-
the French Cabinet met at Tours nary of America informs us that
for the last time before the ar- it merely acted as host to the Con-
mistice to seek some solution for ference on Science, Philosophy and
the intolerable situation, Georges Religion at which Prof. Albert
Mandel said: "If my name were Einstein's paper against a per-
Durand instead of Mandel I could sonal God was read . . . The
become Prime Minister, and then Seminary therefore feels that ma ,
I could save France" . . . The were not quite fair in our recent
tragedy of it is that he was right. item chiding it for not having
When the air alarm siren issued the Einstein paper to the
shrieks in London Dr. Chaim press together with the other pa-
Weizmann and David Ben Gurion pers . . . We accept the correc-
don't budge from their executive tion, but we still insist that it
desks at 77 Great Russell St. . . . was a matter of routine for
They prefer comfort with dan- whoever handled he press for
this Conference to release Dr.
ger to uncomfortable safety.
Martin Rosenblueth, member of Einstein's statement . . . As a
the Zionist executive at London, matter of fact, we know that Dr.
has been released from concen- Einstein prefers to have the texts
of all his statements given out
tration camp, we hear.
in extenso to the newspapermen,
Wealthy Nazis have already so as to avoid being misquoted.
moved their gold to Pas-is, to
escape British bombings of Ber- • N. B.
lin.
Note to Rabbis: Don't miss Dr.
General Franco's official publi-
cation, ABC, predicts that Gen- Bernard Heller's "The Jewish
es-al Almazan, the defeated Presi- Concept of the Chosen People,"
dential candidate of Mexico, will brought out by the Union of
soon be President of Mexico, and American Hebrew Congregations
stresses that he's a friend of in a little booklet in the series of
Popular Studies in Judaism.
Franco.
A few hours before the dawn
We wonder whether Senator
Edward R. Burke of Nebraska, of the Jewish New Year Morris
one of the parents of the con- 'Margulies, former ZOA secretary,
scription law, doesn't blush when and his two brothers, Frank and
he remembers an interview he Adolph, donated considerable quasi.
gave a few years ago on his re- tities of their blood at Mount
turn from Germany, in which he Sinai Hospital to the Red Cross,
proclaimed Chancellor Hitler "a who shipped it to be used for
greater man than Bismarck" and transfusions for military and
declared that the annexation of civilian Blitzkrieg casualties.
A newly formed organization is
the Sudetenland by the Reich was
justified.
the Zionist Guild of Executives,
the purpose of which is to pre-
• Felicitations
serve, maintain and protect the
civil service rights of its mem-
Congatulations to James Water- bers . . . The unanimously elected
man Wise on joining the ranks of president of the new group is none
radio's political commentators ... other than our old friend Meyer
He'll be heard over Station W. Weisgall.
WEVD, New York, three times a
week, and will discuss men and • Here and Now
events of today . . . Congratula-
Only 18 per cent of the mesa-
tions also to Louis Rittenberg,
executive and literary editor of hers of the New York Stock Ex-
the Universal Jewish Encyclop- change are Jews, although in
pedia, who has just brought out population the Jews represent al-
the second volume of the work, most 33 per cent in this city . . .
setting a new high in Jewish en- This and many other interesting
cyclopedic achievement in any items are contained in a little
language . . . To Arthur Lam- booklet called "The Fiery Fur-
port, treasurer of the United nace Flames Again," by Rembert
Jewish Appeal, congratulations are Gilman Smith of Tulsa, Okla. . .
due on his recovery from an ill- Mr. Smith still hopes to combat
ness that alarmed his many anti-Semitism with statistics.
friends . . , And to A. K. Ep-
M-G-M is preparing another
stein, veteran Chicago Zionist, we short on Nostradamus, featuring
extend our felicitations on the the 16th-century prophet as pre-
marriage of his son.
dicting. England's victory in this
war . . . Believers in the sooth-
• About People.
sayer's forecasts point out that
General DeGaulle obviously is the
Expected to Clipper to these Gallic genes-al whom the Jewish
shores one of these days is Leslie astrologer foresaw as bringing on
Hore-Belisha, former British Was the end of Hitler . , All of which
Minister.
reminds us to tell you that de-
The Rothschild refugees who partment stores throughout the
recently came here from France counry will soon start selling
are considering the purchase of metal bombproof shelters, collap-
the late Walter Chrysler's estate sible and costing a hundred ber-
at Great Neck, L. I.
ries each.

The major problem today is that of
the refugee, and the child refugee is the
most pathetic of all.
In this time of anguish and sorrow, we 1313ILDINO MANPOWER
must not forget for a single moment that
mercy work must go on. Also, all honor
is due to those crusaders for justice who
utilize every available opportunity to open
new avenues of escape for children from
the hell that has been created by the de-
structive forces in Europe and Asia.
The recent Children's Crusade for Chil-
dren issued a series of rhymes for young-
sters among which was one patterned
after "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" which
read :

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ONE YEAR LAT

Row, row, row your boat,
Quickly down the stream;
Hurrily, Hurrily, Hurrily, Hurrily,
Life is a bad dream.

Another of the verses, a transliteration
of "Baby Bunting," tells of home-hunting:

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SERVICE

Bye, Baby Bunting,
Daddy's gone a-hunting,
To find a land with kinder kin
To let Baby Bunting in.

And a third, "The Mulberry Bush,"
adds eloquent description of the existing
plight:

Here we go round the mulberry bush, the
mulberry bush, the mulberry bush,
Here we go round the mulberr y
bush, all
homeles s and all mourning.

Here is the problem that must concern
all: the plight of the refugees, and espe-
cially the children. To find homes for
them, to provide them with some sort of
security, is humanitiy's obligation.

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