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Sabbath Scriptural Selections
Pentateuchal portion—Gen. 12:1-17:27.
Prophetical portion—Is. 40 :27-41 s- 6.
NOVEMBER 8, 1940
Both stand for liberty and equality and
democracy; both seek to create opportuni-
ties for the downtrodden and persecuted
and to uplift the lowly; both stand for
justice and fair play.
President Roosevelt, as the outstand-
ing champion of the rights of the perse-
cuted throughout the world, is the person
most deserving of such an honor in this
hour of crisis. It is most appropriate that
the tribute of the Jewish people should
be presented to him five days after the
United States of America chose to retain
him as chief executive for another four
years.
Thus, President Roosevelt wins our
plaudits not only on his re-election but
also on the honor Jewry has chosen to
bestow upon him.
Thus shall it be done to the Man whom
Israel has chosen to honor!
CHESHVAN 7, 5701
A Symphony of Peoples
President Roosevelt
In his address in Boston on Oct. 30,
President Roosevelt made a strong point
The American people have spoken in of the glory of the inter-racial set-up of
no uncertain terms and have shattered America. The President then said :
tradition in favor of the strongest avail-
"In our own American community
able leadership in time of crisis.
we have sought to submerge all of
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt,
the old hatreds, all the old fears,
having won the hearts of the American
of the old world.
people during seven historc years as the
"We are Anglo-Saxon and Latin,
guide of the destinies of this country, is
we are Irish and Teuton and Jewish
today the first to be entrusted with the
and Scandinavian and Slav—we are
great responsibility—and the great honor
American. We belong to many races
—of holding a third term in office as
and colors and creeds—we are Amer-
chief executive of this great land.
icans.
Tuesday's vote was a vote of confidence.
"And it seems to me that we are
It was the sacred voice of the people of
most completely, most loudly, most
America. It was a rebuke to low standards
proudly American around election
of campaigning. It was a repudiation of
day.
bigotry and intolerance. It was the re-
"Because it is then that we can
affirmation of the great American prin-
assert ourselves—voters and candi-
ciples of liberty and justice for all.
dates alike. We can assert the most
Both major candidates for the Presi-
glorious, the most encouraging fact
dency repudiated the Nazi-Fascist-Cough-
in the world today—the fact that
lin alliances. It was not Wendell L. Will.
democracy is alive—it is alive and
kie's fault that Father Coughlin, the Ger-
going strong.
man Nazis, the Italian Fascists, the un-
"We are telling the world that we
American Bundists rallied to his colors.
Nevertheless, once again, these combined
are free—and we intend to remain
forces of intolerance and hatred stand
free and at peace.
condemned and discredited.
"We are free to live and love and
America and Americanism now stand
laugh.
first and foremost as the dominating fac-
"We face the future with confidence
tors on the American scene, and the
and
courage. We are American."
Champion of the people is the Man Frank-
lin D. Roosevelt who overcame unbeatable
The truth of this magnificent descrip-
oppositon—the press, the radio, the power tion
of America and Americans was in
of heavy campaign spending, the threats
evidence
at the impressive Detroit Sym-
that go with rumors and whispering cam-
phony
Orchestra
concert the following
paigns.
night—on Oct. 31. A part-Jewish refugee,
President Roosevelt's re-election is a Bruno Walter, conducted the orchestra.
signal to the dictators that unlimited A brilliant Negro singer, Dorothy May-
American aid will go to Great Britain to nor, was the soloist. In the audience were
help crush the insanity of totalitarian rule. Jews and Christians, people of all colors
We believe sincerely that President Roose- and races. They met under one roof, as
velt's re-election means peace for America one people, cemented in friendship, moved
and peace or Europe, because we see as by the accomplishments of brilliant musi-
a result of Tuesday's expression of the cians, enjoying the freedom of a great
will of the American people the beginning land which makes it possible for all
of the end of the horrible Nazi assault groups to merge as a symphony of peo-
upon humanity through the aid and corn- ples.
fort that has thus been given to Great
Indeed, we are Americans rejoicing in
Britain and the forces that are fighting the genius and freedom of this great
for democracy.
nation.
It was not President Roosevelt who
broke the Third Term tradition; it was
the people of the United States that thus
Detroit's Jewish Population
decreed it.
The sacred voice of America has
The American Jewish Year Book for
spoken.
5701, just published by the Jewish Publi-
cation Society of America, gives 90,000 as
God bless America!
God bless President Franklin D. Roose- the figure of the Jewish population of De-
velt with all the strength that he needs troit, in the study of "Jewish Communi-
to carry on his important work for the ties of the United States: Number and Dis-
tribution of Jews in Urban Places and in
coming four years.
Rural Territory," prepared by Dr. H. S.
Li nfl eld.
Honoring the President
This figure will be seriously disputed.
At the annual conference of the Jewish About 10 years ago, the estimate of the
National Fund in St. Louis the week-end, Jewish population of Detroit was 72,000.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt will be Last year, Henry J. Meyer's study of the
presented with a replica of the Roosevelt economic distribution of Detroit Jews,
Golden Book created by the land-redemp- made on behalf of the Jewish Welfare
tion agency of the Zionist movement in Federation and the Conference on Jewish
Relations, estimated the Jewish population
his honor.
When Senator Barkley accepts this as being approximately 84,000.
It is generally believed in well-informed
tribute in behalf of the President, he will
be cementing a bond of friendship be- quarters that there are about 85,000 Jews
tween the cause of a Jewishly-rebuilt Pal- in Detroit. We are inclined to agree with
estine and the cause of Americanism. this estimate.
IN■
November 8, 1940
*STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL.
Tidbits from Everywhere
By PHINEAS J. BIRON
NAZTI STUFF
LITERARY NOTES
A new Nazi propaganda meth-
od in this country, used to an
increasing extent
in
recent
months, is the spiritual seance
racket . . . Hitler-lovers organ-
ize groups of "psychic research
students" everywhere, and then
tell the suckers that their loved
ones in the Great Beyond want
them to work for the Greater
Germany.
Joe McWilliams, Yorkville's
would-be Hitler, who at the mo-
ment is at large on bail—he's the
same fellow who was kept in Bel-
levue Hospital Psychopathic Ward
for a time while his sanity was
being investigated by the medicos
—is disgusted with his Nazi fol-
lowing . . . He claims that he
was double-crossed by some big
Bondsmen, who apparently want-
ed to get rid of him.
We have Hitler to thank for
the presence in this country of
the royal family of literature, the
Mann family, with Thomas
Heinrich, Klaus and Erika Mann,
all being very much in demand
by publishers . . . Klaus Mann,
son of Thomas, is going to edit
a monthly magazine called The
New World.
I. J. Singer, author of "The
Brothers Ashkenazi," has just fin-
ished a new novel.
Sholom Asch's new novel will
again deal with the beginning
of the Christian era. Also forth-
coming is a new Jesus novel by
a Palestinian Hebrew author. Dr.
Solomon Goldman tells us that
it is the greatest Jesus novel
ever written.
A question which we want to
ask today, and will answer our-
self in a subsequent column, is
this: Why has Maurice Samuel's
"The Great Hatred" been ignored
by the book reviewers so far?
To the best-seller list of the
coming book season add Louis
Nizer's "Thinking on Your Feet,"
which Thomas Mann calls "a
book of extraordinary charm"
Nizer, as you know, is one of
New York's most active Jewish
leaders in addition to being the
most sought-after of theatrical
attorneys.
YOU SHOULD KNOW
The Jewish National Fund will
soon be moving its New York
offices to 41 E. 42nd St. . . This
building is rapidly becoming the
new Zionist address, perhaps the
most important in the country . .
It is already housing the United
Palestine Appeal, the Zionist
Emergency Committee, the Zion-
ist Archives, the Keren Hayesod
and the Educational Department
of the Zionist Organization of
America.
At the end of this month Franz
Werfel will be the guest of honor
at New York's most important
United Jewish Appeal function,
where he will address the Jewish
leadership on a timely topic.
The Zionist Guild of Execu-
tives has been officially recog-
nized by the ZOA leaders as the
negotiating body on affairs af-
fecting executives in the organ-
ization.
Arthur Weyne and Daniel
Schorr will be the president and
vice-president of the American
Jewish Press Club . . . They de-
feated, respectively, Maurice
Samuel and Joe Brainin, in a ra-
ther close contest.
The financial statement of the
Palestine Pavilion at the New
York World's Fair, which now has
passed into history, will show that
it cost $450,000 to build and
maintain the Pavilion . . . And
that out of this total only $136,-
000 was contributed by what are
usually called Jewish public funds
. . . Another way of looking at
the Pavilion expense account is
to consider that the exhibit was
visited by nearly 4,500,000 peo-
ple, so that it cost just about
10 cents to show Eretz Israel to
each person who saw the presen-
tation of it at the Fair . • . In'
other words, it would have cost
just as much to send out 4,500,-
000 leaflets on Palestine, and
such a snail campaign wouldn't
have been nearly as effective as
the Pavilion proved to be.
ABOUT PEOPLE
.Chief Rabbi Isaac Herzog of
Palestine will arrive in this coun-
try in the near future, per Clip-
per . . . The primary object of
his visit is a very delicate opera-
tion that he will undergo at
Rochester.
Orchids to Pierre van Paassen,
now on a lecture tour . . . When
asked by members of his audi-
ences how democracy can be
made to work in this country, he
invariably answers that the first
requirement is to the total stamp-
ing out of anti-Semitism here.
A bouquet to Stephen S. Wise,
for his editorial on the Presiden-
tial campaign in the last number
of Opinion . . . It confirms what
our last column had to say about
intimidation by Willkie campaign
managers.
The late William W. Cohen,
one-time New York Congressman,
was one of the least known but
most admirable of Jewish phil-
anthropists . . . He believed in
doing his own charity work, out-
side of local or national organi-
zations • . . The young men he
helped through college and
through the first difficult years
of a career add up to several
score.
"You'll be interested to know
that Lion Feuchtwanger performs
strenuous physical exercises every
morning, and that the trainer
who puts him through his paces is
Mrs. Feuchtwanger . . . In Eu-
rope the famous author's wife
enjoyed a wide reputation as one
of the continent's most daring
mountain-climbers.
"HE'S STILL GOOD ENOUGH FOR ME!" by BRESSLER