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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle
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Detroit
Jewish Chronicle
and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE
Published Weekly by The Jewish Chronicle Publishing Co., Inc.
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JACOB H. SCHAKNE
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Sabbath Scriptural Selections
Pentatetichal portions—Gen. 5:9-11:32; Num.
28.9-15.
Prophetical portion—Is. 56.
OCTOBER 25, 1940
TISHRI 23, 5701
The Community Fund Drive
Once again we join in the plea for lib-
eral support of the Detroit Community
Fund, whose annual campaign will start
On Oct. 28.
In this land of plenty we can show our
appreciation for our liberties and the de-
mocracy which gives us our security by
making it possible for the less privileged
also to live like human beings.
The last decade has seen drastic
changes in our economy. The standard of
living of millions of our people has been
improved, they have been given a sense
of confidence and have been assured a
chance to share in the bounties of Amer-
ica. Such assurances make our democracy
stronger. They teach people the values of
life and they prepare them to oppose the
indecencies which have been brought
down upon mankind by the totalitarian
rulers who oppress and enslave the
masses of the people.
The new standards brought into being
during the last decade must be strength-
ened and must be given a chance to be-
come rooted in our economy. One of the
ways in which that can be done is by
supporting those agencies which provide
for the welfare needs of our neighbors
and which make it possible for the young
people to have educational and recrea-
tional facilities.
Give to the Community Fund! Help
strengthen our democratic institutions!
Raise the standards of the American peo-
ple's existence as an answer to the in-
decencies which rule important commu-
nities in Europe.
Do Jews Have All the Money ?
The Education of Our Children
In many quarters, there was evident a
spirit of despair during the past year. It
was a year drenched in tears and blood,
a year that crushed the confidence of
many people.
The new attitude of "what's the use"
is so foreign to the attitude of Jews, in
the light of historic experience, that new
obligations are placed upon the Jewish
people. We must think in terms of our
children, of their attitude on life, of their
reactions upon the happenings which
cause nation to war upon nation.
In the light of the needs created by
present conditions, observance of Educa-
tion Month, annually instituted by the
United Hebrew Schools of Detroit, be-
comes a matter of much graver signifi-
cance than in the past.
Our children must be given courage,
they must be steeped in faith, else they
will not be able to bear the brunt of new
responsibilities imposed upon them at this
time.
Jewish leadership is challenged by the
present crisis, just as world leadership is
challenged for solution of a problem
which has been created by the hegemony
of the jungle in a vast portion of the
globe.
Will our leaders, our educators, the
parents in Israel, be able to meet the
crisis as courageously as is expected of
them by the traditional Jewish attitude
of non-defeatism? If they do, then our
children will be assured of the right kind
of guidance. It is the kind of training
which we owe to them, and we dare not
fail in this responsibility.
Education Month is merely the begin-
ning of rededication to such a purpose.
May it mark the inauguration of a period
of faith and confidence merited by the
grave period in our history.
A Business Man's American Way
The Donnelley Red Book, the classified
telephone directory of New York City,
has just issued its fall and winter volume.
The front cover of the new directory con-
tains a colored picture of the Statue of
Liberty and the back cover is devoted to
"a business man's version" of the Bill of
Rights. Sidney Hollaender, president of
the Ever-Ready Label Corp. of New York,
paid $10,000 for the latter page on which
to outline his ideas of the "American
Way." He explains the reasons for his
liking of our mode of living as follows:
"I like the American Way, why?
"Because: I can go to any church I please,
"I can read, see and hear what I choose,
"I can express opinions openly,
"My mail reaches me as it was sent—un-
censored,
"My telephone is untapped,
"I can join any political party I wish,
"I can vote for what and whom I please,
"I have a constitutional right to trial by jury,
"I am protected against unconstitutional
search and seizure,
"Neither my life nor my property can be
forfeited without due process of law."
One of the most frequently heard fa-
bles is that Jews possess all the money.
But the truth was revealed by the Se-
curities and Exchange Commission last
week.
This Federal agency shows that the
wealthiest families in America are topped
by the following: Ford, duPonts, Rocke-
f eller, Mellon, McCormick, Hartford,
Harkness, Duke. Pew, Pitcairn, Clark.
Reynolds, Kress.
Where are the Jews in this monetary
picture?
The answer is obvious. The story about
Jews possessing much money is a myth.
Now the question arises: how can you
get the average non-Jew to see this truth?
This is well said, and it is worth $10,000
of anny rich man's money to be able to
explain the American Way of Life to the
people at large. The average American
lives this mode of life without talking
about it. For the few who need explain-
ing of this great libertarian system, Mr.
Hollaender has rendered!, a good service.
The Jewish Theater
Mr. Lipsky's Articles
The Detroit Yiddish playhouse—Litt-
The Detroit Jewish Chronicle is privi-
man's Yiddish People's Theater— has leged to have the exclusive right to use
commenced the new season and has intro- the special series of articles being writ-
duced to Detroit an able cast of actors. ten by Mr. Louis Lipsky for the Jewish
This theater should be given the commu- Daily Day. A master logician, a tried lead-
nity's support for the obvious reason that er, a pioneer editor and commentator, Mr.
it provides entertainment in a time of sor- Lipsky is today one of the best informed
row and therefore serves an important men in Jewish life. He interprets the con-
ditions of our time lucidly and with warm
purpose.
A people's culture is incomplete with- concern for the future of our people. He
out the theater. A people's community is not satisfied merely with analyzing
set-up is incomplete without the theater. events: he also offers sorution and pleads
We have a theater. and by giving it de- for action.
served encouragement we are in position The first in his series of articles indi-
to urge that it offer the best that can be cate that he is writing a set of commen-
produced. Our Yiddish playhouse should taries that are well worth watching. The
be given the same support that one givesWorthcoming ones will be watched by us,
to other elemental factors in the commu- and we feel certain also by all our read-
nity, ers. with the keenest interest. .
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October 25, 1940
• STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL
Tidbits from Everywhere
By PHINEAS J. BIRON
• WAR ECHOES
Consolation : One thing the
Germans didn't find in Holland
when they marched in was the
immense store of diamonds for
which the Netherlands have long
been famous . . . It wasn't en-
gagement rings that the Nazis
wanted these diamonds for . . .
It seems the gems are an essen-
tial material in the manufacture
of airplane motors . . . Pierre
Laval, the man whom the Petain-
paid press agents herald as the
savior of France, needs two Ge-
stapo body-guards to protect him
from the "love" of his own coun-
trymen . . . Vichy-washy is what
Broadway calls the French gov-
ernment nowadays . . . All of
which reminds us that one of the
most objectionable books written
on the fall of France is the one
by Rene de Chambrun, entitled
"I Saw France Fall" . . . In
case you've forgotten, Rene is
the son-in-law of Laval, and
shares his father-in-law's preju-
dices against democracy . .. The
British War Office isn't very
happy today about having reject-
ed the Jewish offer of a Pales-
tine army of 100,000 at the be-
ginning of the war . . . If Brit-
ain had a well-equipped army of
100,000 in the Near East today
the prospects of the coming bat-
tle for the Suez Canal would look
better for her.
• ITEMS OF NOTE
It now seems that the real rea-
son why Father Coughlin stopped
his broadcasting was not that ha
couldn't find any radio stations
willing to take him on, but be-
cause his ecclesiastic superiors
told him to lay off .. . .. Nobody
denies any longer that George
Sylvester Viereck is a paid Nazi
propagandist . . . Yet Boake Car-
ter, of radio fame, goes out of
his way to defend George, in the
name of free speech . . . Note
to Bund members: Der Adolf has
issued a call for half a million
loyal Nazis to come "home to the
Reich" to help him win the war
by joining his labor front ..
Well, boys, what are you waiting
for?
• ABOUT PEOPLE
Fannie Brice has entered on a
new role, that of mother-in-law ..
Her daughter recently married
editor Ray Stark of Hollywood.
Max Band, the Jewish painter
from France, who's now in this
country, is going to have an im-
portant exhibition of his work on
the Coast in December.
Latest Broadway chatter is that
Libby Holman, the blues singer,
is going in for operatic training
in a big way.
You probably never heard of
Hollywood's Dick Klino, but he's
the real reason behind the glamor
of many a streamlined movie
star . . . Dick is the physical cul-
ture expert who directs the ex-
ercising of many of screenland's
most prominent citizens.
READY TO EXPLODE?
• LISTEN HERE
With the arrival of Franz W.
fel and Heinrich Mann on e
shores the most important of the
intellectual anti-Nazi rebels have
escaped the Gestapo in Frame
. . . But they themselves don't
know how close a shave they had
—because within the next four
weeks the Petain government will
decide to transfer all the anti-
Nazi refugees to the Nazi-occu-
pied area of Europe , • , Wi
wonder whether you noted Lion
Feuchtwanger's tragic comment
on his experiences in France .. .
Said the diminutive German Jew-
ish novelist: "The French put me
in a concentration camp because
I was German, while British
planes were flying over Germany
dropping propaganda leaflets
quoting passages from my anti-
Nazi book" . . . No wonder
France collapsed ... Why doesn't
one of the Jewish organizations
take up Joe Brainin's suggestion
for a Jewish Blood Legion? . .
The idea being to organize thou
sands of young Jews to donate
their blood, through the Ameri-
can Red Cross, for transfusions
to those injured by Nazi raiders
on the British Isles . . . In case
you didn't know it, the Red Cross
is looking for blood to be shipped
to England for that purpose.
•
LITERARY NEWS
The book reviewers seem afraid
to tackle Maurice Samuel's "The
Great Hatred", which came out
just recently . . . It is because
Samuel's interpretation of anti-
Semitism knocks the Pollyanna
good-will movements into a
cocked hat?
The battle around S h o l o un
Asch's "The Nazarene" is still
going on behind the closed doors
of the Fm-ward Association, the
body which controls the Jewish
Daily Forward . . . Abe Cahan,
editor and boss of the Jewish So-
cialist daily, is trying to oust
Asch entirely from the paper be-
cause of what he, Cahan, calls
Asch's "un-Jewish book".
To the Palestine Pavilion at
the World's Fair will go the rec-
ord for the participation of dis-
tinguished literary figures in its
functions . . . Thomas Mann laid
the cornerstone of the Pavilion,
Albert Einstein and Emil Ludwig
opened it and Lion Feuchtwan-
ger, at a special function, closed
it . . . This reminds us to tell
you that, like the Palestine ex-
hibit, the Polish Pavilion at the
Fair also is trying to sell its ex
hibit material to private individ-
uals . . So what list do you
think they used to circularize as
prospective customers? . . You
\ g ‘uh eo ss . ed it—the Jewish Who's
Have you seen "Haven", the
new book by Ludwig and Edna
Lewisohn? . . . It's an intimate
diary of the famous literary cou-
ple, and will convince many of
Lewisohn's admirers that the pre,
done him wrong in his recent
matrimonial difficulties.
by BRESSLER