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DETROIT. MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1940
VOL. 42, NO. 43
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Intolerance
Repudiated by
Industrialists
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Hindus to Speak
Here Wednesday
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Replying to a letter of inquiry
concerning alleged discrimination
in employment by the National
Association of Manufacturers, H.
F. Prentis, president, informed
George Gordon Battle, chairman
of the Council Against Intoler-
ance in America, that the case in
reference was an isolated one,
"not in keeping with the general
policy of the Association. Ap-
propriate steps have been taken
to prevent any recurrence of
this nature.' 1
Mr. Prentis further states that
the National Association of Man-
ufacturers has "no policy of dis-
crimination for or against any
racial or religious group," and
expresses the belief that "nothing
is more important, particularly
at this critical time, than nation-
al unity."
In accepting the explanation of
Mr. Prentis and the statement of
policy which accompanied it, Mr.
Battle said:
"'It is the (unction of the
Council Against Intolerance in
America to investigate all in-
stances, or alleged instances, of
discrimination and prejUdice. We
are delighted to note that the
National Association of Manu-
facturers has, in reply to my
letter of inquiry, recorded its
regret over the incident in
sip.e§tion, and has made.
takably clear that it will, in the
future, prevent a similar occur-
ence. By its prompt action,
through the courteous and forth-
right letter of Mr. Prentis, the
National Association of Manu-
facturers join with all true
Americans in repudiating racial
and religious discrimination and
in standing four-square for the
American tradition of mutual
tolerance and equality."
• The inquiry which was ad-
dressed by Mr. Battle to Mr.
Prentis was based upon the pho-
tostatic reproduction in PM on
Oct. 10, of a letter from the Law
Department of the National As-
sociation of Manufacturers which
specified that the applicant for a
position must be "a gentile and
exempt from military conscrip-
tion."
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The Speakers
Maurice Hindus—author, jour-
nalist, radio commentator and
authority on European affairs—
will speak Wednesday evening,
Oct. 30, at Temple Beth El,
Woodward at Gladstone. He will
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France Continues Plunge
To Fascism by Curtailing
Interesting Community
Rights or Jewish Citizens
Program Arranged
The Rose Sittig Cohen Bldg.,
located at Lawton and Tyler,
which is housing the northwest
branch of the United Hebrew
Schools and the Jewish Commun-
ity Center, will be formally ded-
icated on Sunday evening, Oct.
26, at 8 o'clock.
Abe Srere, president of the
Jewish Welfare Federation of
Detroit, will preside at the cere-
monies at which greetings will
be extended by spokesmen for
the schools and the Center as
well as other community agen-
cies.
MAURICE HINDUS
The principal addresses at the
dedication will be delivered by
Dr. A. M. Hershman, Rabbi Mor-
ris Adler, Isidore Sobeloff, exe-
cutive director of the Federa-
tion; Bernard Isaacs, superintend-
ent of the United Hebrew
Schools; Herman Jacobs, direc-
tor of the Jewish Community
Center; Rabbi Leon Fram, chair-
man of the Center's education
committee.
The program will open with the
singing of "God Bless America"
in Hebrew by the Junior Alumni
of the United Hebrew Schools,
and in English by the audience.
Jacob H. Sonenklar, cantor of
the Shaarey Zedek, will sing the
XXXth Psalm. "House Dedication
Song."
New Decree Affects Jews in All French Con-
trolled Territories; Vichy Regime
Calls Laws "Humane"
LONDON (WNS)—The same French statesmen who
betrayed France to Nazi Germany continued their plunge
to Fascism with the announcement of a "Jewish Statute,"
drastically curtailing the rights of French Jews and pro-
viding for the internment of all foreign Jews.
With the publication of the special Jewish decrees,
Young Author
Here Sunday
L. R. Gould to Ad-
dress Jr. Service
Group
barring Jews from all high Gov-
ernment, educational and judi-
ciary posts and excluding them
entirely from the nation's press,
radio and cinema, the Marshal
Petain regime set France back
more than 150 years.
The anti-Jewish legislature, the
first in France since the revolu-
tion, affects Jews in France and
all French colonies, protectorates
and mandated territories.
The Stipulations
Young author, publisher, finan-
cial analyst and newspaperman,
Under the new decrees, which
Lawrence R. Gould, of New oi•k
have been under discussion by
City, will bring
the Council of Ministers for the
an account of
past month, Jews are barred from
the relief and
France's governing bodies.
rescue work be-
The decrees
prohibit Jews
ing accomplished
from holding teaching posts in
for the Jews of
both higher and lower education-
war-torn Europe
al institutions. They cannot be
today, to the
officers in the French army, navy
members of the
or air corps.
Detroit
Junior
The legislation stipulated that
Service
Group,
To Present Key
Jews cannot edit or write for
at their first
newspapers. They cannot hold
The key to the new building meeting of the
By LOUIS LIPSKY
key positions in film or broad-
will be presented to the chair- season to be held
President Eastern Life Insurance man, of the buddingt committee,
casting companies. - •
Sunday
•
after-
--
Co., Former President - of
Loui , Stoll, and it. will . be noon, Oct. •27,.at
- Jews"• -nomr -holding prohibited
Zionist Organization of
accept 0 by Henry Cohen, former 2 :30 o'clock, in I. R. Go'uld
posts mat resign within two
America
months.
president of the United Hebrew the main audi-
•
'rind Henry Myers, presi- torium of the Jewish Community
Perhaps as a sop to the United
Editor's Note—The following is Schools,
of the Jewish Community Center.
States and other democratic
time second of a series of ar- dent
Center.
A staff member of the United countries, the anti-Jewish de-
ticles by the popular American
The erection of this building
Jewish leader who has bcco»te
Jewish
Appeal for Refugees and crees were not as severe as those
columnist for the Tog, New was made possible by the gener- Overseas Needs, Mr. Gould is in in effect in Germany and Nazi-
occupied areas. There is no rul-
Yiddish daily. The Chron- ous gift of the Rose Sittig Cohen
icle has the exclusive right for family, which was given to the a position to know the inside ing, for instance, forbidding mar-
Hebrew
Schools
and
the
Commun-
stories and dramatic incidents riages between Jews and non-
this series outside of New York.
ity Center through the United which have become almost com- Jews,
I have not had a way to write Jewish Charities, in whose name monplace tales in the offices of
It is reported that th6 Vichy
William Friedman, president of
or speak of Vladimir Jabotinsky, the United Jewish Charities, will the agencies of the United Jew- government yielded to a German
demand and sent Herschel Gryn-
which I have wanted to do since extend greetings.
ish Appeal, but which will not be
Leah Michlin, a senior pupil of written for publication for many
his untimely death in July. The
See FRANCE—Page 13
New Palestine—for which I have the new branch of the United years to come.
been writing for years—took its Hebrew Schools, will speak in the
The president of the Detroit
name of the student body of the
usual summer vacation; and the school. The Junior Alumni Cho- Junior Service Group, Jacob L.
general Zionists did not arrange i us will sing a group of songs.
Keidan, will preside at the meet-
any memorial meeting at which I
ing and will call for reports from
Auxiliary
Greetings
could have spoken.
committee heads.
Greetings will also be extend-
I remember Jabotinsky as a
The Welfare Council, compos-
writer as far hack as 1900, when ed by one of the young Ger-
I used in English translation sev- man Refugees, Theo Bach, and by ed of Junior Service Group mem-
eral articles he had written in a representative of the Mothers' bers who will study the work of
Russian in the first numbers of Study Club of the Center, Mrs. the agencies affiliated with the
Jewish Welfare Federation, is
The Maccabaean, of which I was Frieda Firestone.
Dr. William Haber of New
The Woman's Auxiliary of the headed this year by Joseph
then the managing editor. Being
ork City, executive of the Na-
Zwerdling,
who
will
repport
on
United
Hebrew
Schools
will
be
young and ignorant, I thought
that all European Zionist writers represented with a brief talk by the Council's plans for the sea- tional Refugee Service, will be
the principal speaker at the open-
must be older, settled men; for Mrs. Charles Robinson, president. son.
The program will conclude with
Lorraine Wolf, appointed chair ing session of the East Central
they wrote with such wide knowl-
"When world events are so edge, such assurance and dog- songs by the Junior Alumni cho- man of a new Red Cross Knit- States Regional Conference, of
absorbing we are apt to forget matic conclusiveness. Especially rus, and the singing of Hatik- ting Unit, will explain the set- the Council of Jewish Federations
and Welfare Funds, to be held
our local problems," wrote Abra-
at the Claypool Hotel, Indiana-
See DEDICATION—Page 12
See YOUTH—Page 16
See JABOTINSKY—Page 8
ham Srere, president of the Jew-
polis, Saturday and Sunday, Nov,
ish Welfare Federation, in a let-
16 and 17. Max Hirsch of Cin-
ter sent this week to a number
cinnati, program chairman of
of Federation members, "but, in
the Conference announced.
spite of all the tragic happenings
abroad, there is nothing more
By virtue of his job, Dr. Ha-
personally important to us than
ber is in touch with local, na-
the coming Community Fund
tional and international develop-
Campaign." The Detroit Com-
The Union of American Hebrew branches in Detroit for many president of Hebrew Union Col- ments. He is on a leave of ab-
munity Fund campaign will be Congregations will hold its 37th years.
lege, Dr. H. Zirndorf and Dr. sence from the University of
officially conducted from Oct. 28
In 1867 Dr. Isaac Mayer Wise, Louis Grossman were professors Michigan, where he is a member
Biennial Council in Detroit, April the founder of the Union, dedi-
to Nov. 12.
of the faculty. From 1933 to
at Hebrew Union College.
"Conscription
and munitions 27 to April 30, 1941.
cated the first Temple Beth El
1937, he was state relief admin-
are not the only ways by which
Temple Beth El's rabbis are istrator of Michigan and execu-
Melville S. Welt, a member of in Detroit. Detroit was one of
a nation prepares to defend it-
the organizers of many boards graduates of Hebrew Union Col- tive of the WPA here. He is a
self," stated Mr. Srere. "There the executive board of the Union, and commissions of the Union.
lege. Dr. Leo M. Franklin is member of the consulting staff
is another vital line of defense has been appointed chairman of
In addition to Mr. Welt, Mrs. chairman of the Tract Commis- of the Social Security Board and
necessary to the home front. the Detroit convention committee Harry Krohn is on the national sion and Rabbi Leon Frama National Advisory Council on
One that we must maintain right and he will soon name additional Sisterhoods executive board, and member of the educational m Social Security.
here in Detroit.
committees.
Robert N. Mazer is a member of mission, both being subdiv . ions
Simon Shetzer, of Detroit, is
"The social services supported
Rabbis Samuel
Harry C, Grossman, president the newly organized Youth Fed- of the Union.
by Detroit's Community Fund are of Temple Beth El, has been ap- eration executive hoard. Henry Mayerberg and Henry Berkowitz, vice-chairman of the East Cen-
formerly of Detroit, were gradu- tral States Region of the Council
foremost among our front line
of Jewish Federations and Wel-
defenses," he said in his letter, pointed by the Union as chair- Wineman is a member of the ates of the College.
man
of
the
national
advisory
board
of
governors
of
the
He-
fare Funds. Michigan members of
urging generous contributions to
committee
for
the
37th
Council.
brew
Union
College
and
Milton
It is expected that 1500 men the Region's executive committee
the drive. "Weakness created in
The Union and the three na- Alexander is a member of the and women will attend the con- includes: Clarence H. Enggass,
our home community by disease,
delinquency, despair and depend- tional Federations of the Union board of managers of Synagogue vention in Detroit. The sessions Mrs. Joseph H. Ehrlich, Charles
f'ricy. carry over into our state Sisterhoods, Brotherhoods and and School Extension. Three of of the Council and its auxiliaries Rubiner, Abraham Srere and
and nation. We must strengthen Youth—which will hold their con- Detroit's spiritual leaders were are intended not only for the Henry Wineman, of Detroit; Irv-
ventions here concurrently with prominently connected with the delegates, but for the general ing Steinman of Pontiac and El-
the Union, have had active Union. Dr. Kaufmann Kohler was public. lis H. Warren of Flint,
See FUND—Page 9
See HINDUS—Page 16
Jab tinsky
And Zionism
A Thought-Provoking
Eulogy by Eminent
Leader
Haber to Speak
At Conference
Will Address Region
of Federations
Nov. 16, 17
Fund Starts
Drive Monday
Appeal Issued by Abe
Srere, Federation
President
I 4
Soctions
New School
Dedication
This Sunday
by Agencies
State Reported Case of
Prejudice an Iso-
lated One
This Paper Printed in . 1
Convention of Union of American Hebrew
Congregations in Detroit in April 1941