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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle

Attendance Record
urely Commentary • By Philip Slomovitz Broken at Annual
Zion Ball Nov. 9
The Aftermath of an Important Election rose to the top of the industry, amassed a for-

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"Let bygones be bygones" is the plea of tried
and experienced politicians now that the bitter
political campaign is over. There are some, how-
ever, who refuse to heed this advice in their ardor
and loyalty for a leader whom they have learned
to idolize.
We doubt whether the appeals for a "crusade"
will continue to the liking of very many people.
The average person distrusts him "who doth
profess too much." An appeal to a "crusade"
smacks of a fanaticism that is not needed in a
democracy. This is a time for cool-headed reason-
ing and for cooperation with the choice of the
majority of the American people. Those who
act otherwise may do immeasurable harm to this
great land.
It is foolish to speculate on the election's
results on the basis of a possible swing of the
result to the loser had 450,000 people voted
against the President. These people should look
at it the other way: had President Roosevelt
received an additional 200,000 votes, well dis-
tributed in opposition states, he would have had
the unanimous vote of the Electoral College.
How do you like that, you jugglers of figures?
There were many regrettable incidents in the
campaign. Gen. Hugh Johnson's outbursts, which
were tinged with unfair taunts of the Jews, are
now matters of the past, since his apologies have
been accepted on the strength of his past record
of fairness and fair play. But the flooding of
New York with anti-Semitic pamphlets in an
effort to show that all Jews were for Roosevelt,
the quotations from the "Protocols of Zion" for-
geries in these pamphlets, the appending of al-
legedly Jewish names to the leaflets and their
being dumped from an airplane in an effort to
hide the tracks of the perpetrators of his out-
rage, is one of the most dastardly acts in Ameri-
can political history. Mayor LaGuardia sent a
police plane after this offending distributor of
prejudice and he believes that the source of this
dastardly leaflet will be located. It is to be hoped
that the offenders will be tracked down and will
be given the punishment due for such an act.
We have faith in the spirit of fair play of the
American people, and therefore believe that the
vast majority will follow the highest dictates of
fairness and will cooperate with the President.
There were manifestations of un-Americanism
prior to the election. For instance, we overheard
one man say to two companions, "two more years
of FDR and even Hitler won't take this country."
We know of nothing lower in self-degradation
than to utter such statements. It is not only
untrue—this country is infinitely better off today
than it has been in many years—(remember, the
8,000,000 unemployed represent less than the
increase in the population of this country since
1930)—it is unpatriotic even if it were true;
for, if this country were to suffer, the obligation
of citizens is to join hands to rescue American
principles and to strengthen the hands of our
leaders, not to destroy and to build an army of
fifth columnists.
There have been similar manifestations of un-
fairness in the past, and we shall no doubt have
them in the future; we have survived them in
the past, and America will survive all crises in
the future. The power of the American ideal
looms stronger today than in the past, and it
will be exerted not only for the good of America
but for the good of all the world.
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Schafer Goes Thorkelson's Way

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One of the happy results of the national elec-
tion is the defeat of another anti-Semite—Con-
gressman John C. Schafer of Wisconsin. Rep.
Schafer never failed to come to the aid of Rep.
J. Thorkelson when the latter's biased remarks
were challenged on the floor of the House of
Representatives. He was the Montana anti-Sem-
ite's strongest backer. Now, he goes Thorkelson's
way again—this time homeward. The next session
of Congress will be a happier one with the ab-
sence of two bigots.
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The Jew—Cum Laude Graduate of
School of Sorrow

tune which later dwindled, the business crumbling
after his death as a result of competition and
his children's failure to follow in his footsteps.
But Eliot rebelled against the wealth of the
father and sought to find his own way of life.
He beat about a lot, went to Australia, did the
most menial work, later becoming interested in
skin diseases and turning to medicine in which
he became a great success.
While in Australia, for lack of reading material,
Eliot snatched up everything he could get hold
of, and devoured it. By accident, a copy of
Bernard G. Richards' "The Discourses of Keidan-
sky" was among the literature he obtained, and
this volume aroused his initial interest in Jews.
He read and re-read this fine book, and was
influenced by it. So impressive are some por-
tions of this volume that Mr. Adamic quotes at
length from it to indicate the parts that influ-
enced the hero of his story. Keidansky muses
about the Jews:

"He has talent to waste, and much of it

is really wasted because he lacks opportunity
for cultivation and frequently has not the
required concentration and application. Per-
haps it is better so; for if all Jewish talent
was brought out in the various forms of
greatness, what would—what would the anti-
Semites not say? They would say that the
Jews have stolen their talents. For anti-
Semitism is the cry of despair of defeated
mediocrity, or it is the plaint of the blinded
Christian maddened by jealousy because he
has been beaten by the wandering Jew in his
own game of trade, commerce, politics, or
art. But the Jew is kind, his kindness is
unsurpassed, and the Hebrew line in which
his people are called 'merciful sons of the
merciful' is literally true. He pities the anti-
Semite as he pities all who suffer and who
are in want of the good things and the good
qualities of life.
" . . . This on the one hand and the
strange world with its hard realities, with
its stumbling-blocks and stunning blockheads,
on the other, have created in the Jew a
striking two sidedness, a kind of duality
and, if I may so call it, a sort of concilia-
tion between the ideal and the real. This
forms another trait by which you may tell
him. Thus he is very practical, and still
dreams, hopes for the restoration of Pales-
tine, and loves his home and his country
wherever he abides. He is an ardent Zionist
and a good citizen at the same time.
" . . . People must live, you know, and
therefore they often live a living death. Not
permitted to live rightly and happily, they
still must live somehow. The instinct of self-
preservation preserves much evil, but life is
life. Those who have talent and are not per-
mitted to use it for the good of all, use it
for their own temporal good, regardless of
the consequences. . . . They who walk in
darkness find the ways that are dark. Over-
praise is damning, and I want to be careful.
The Jew has on the whole been far, far
better than he has been permitted to be—and
this, too, is one of the charges against him.
He is a graduate of the school of sorrow
CUM LAUDE. . . .
"The Jew is a great possibility. Sensitive
of and susceptible to all things, to the very
color of the atmosphere around him, with a
soul sharpened by sorrow and a mind of
keenest understanding, he can become any-
thing and everything, assimilate himself with
any and all conditions, and illustrate life
with a new meaning or adorn it with a
worthy work. . . . "

All attendance records were
broken last Saturday night, Nov.
9, at the annual Balfour Ball of
the Zionist Organization of De-
troit, at Hotel Statler.
Abraham Cooper, chairman of
Balfour Ball committees since
the inception of these events,

again headed the committee on
arrangements which managed
this year's successful affair.
Mrs. Albert Feldstein, executive
secretary of the organization, re-
ports that the previous number
of patrons was exceeded this year
and that a larger number than
ever purchased tickets at the door.
Proceeds from this dance will
be used to finance the work of the
organization and of Zionist ac-
tivities in Detroit through the
facilities of the organization's
office at 1044 Penobscot Bldg.
In addition to carrying on a
cultural program, the Zionist Or-
ganization sponsors youth activi-
ties, provides facilities for the
Zionist Council, aids in coordinat-
ed city-wide Zionist activities and
serves as headquarters for the
Detroit chapter of the American
Jewish Congress. The Zionist of-
fice also assists in the work of
the Jewish National Fund and
other community efforts.

Thus, Mr. Adamic not merely creates a great
work, but within that work revives interest in
one of the most significant American-Jewish
books of a generation ago. Bernard G. Richards,
it will be recalled, was executive secretary of
the American Jewish Congress upon its inception
and for a number of years thereafter. He is a
pioneer Zionist. He is today one of the educa-
tional directors for the Democratic national Corn-
mittee. Distinguished in appearance, he is even
more eminent as a writer and as interpreter of
Jewish life and as a columnist. His "Disclosures
of Keidansky" deserve to be perpetuated, and
Mr. Adamic's "From Many Lands" helps to give
it that status.
"From Many Lands" is the first of a series of
independent books to be entitled collectively "The
Nation of Nations Series." It is to be a five-year
project for Mr. Adamic. Americans of all faiths
and all national and racial origins will watch it
ivith interest, and those who have read "From
Many Lands" will continue to talk about the
book and to recommend it highly to other
readers.
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Automobile Club Basketball
Team Announces
Schedule

Cincy Sachs, coach and mana-
ger of the Automobile Club of
Michigan Collegians, announces
that his team will open the sea-
son with a game on Nov. 21
against Ditzler Color, local in-
dependent basketball team, at the
Neighborhood Club, Grosse Pointe,
and a game on Nov. 22, at Pon-
tiac, against Yellow Coach and
Truck Company, Pontiac City
champions.
Sach's line-up will contain Bob
McLeod, all-American football
player from Dartmouth, and class-
ed as the greatest basketball
player in the East during his col-
lege career ; Norman "Bull" Bor-
ton, 12 letter man at Alma Col-
lege; Howard McCarty and Bobby
Roth, former Wayne U. captains;
Charles Pink and Leo Beebe, of

Louis Adamic has acquired a position of leader-
shipamong writers who seek to interpret the
immigrant's contribution to this country. A
Yugoslavian by birth, he has visited in every
state in the Union, has been a factory hand,
mine worker, sailor, pilot's clerk, soldier in the
U. S. Army in the World War I. He has written
several books rejoicing in his American citizen-
ship, interpreting the alien in our midst, plead-
ing for a fair chance to the newcomers. "My
America," "Grandsons," "Cradle of Life" are
among his splendid works.
His latest book, "From Many Lands," tops
them all in significance. It is an epic volume
and is especially important for the present decade . Julius Chajes—Scion of Great Family
during which free-thinking people are assaulted
Detroiters—especially Zionists—will no doubt
with isms and dogmas of a dangerous character.
"From Many Lands," published by Harper & be interested to know that the new director of
Bros., is a blending of the gifts and character- the department of music of the Jewish Commu-
istics of many peoples. It contains character nity Center, Julius Chajes, hails from an important
sketches of Jews, Croatians, Japanese, Mexicans. Jewish family. The eminent Dr. Peretz Zvi Chajes,
It is supplemented with the news letter addressed who was for many years Chief Rabbi of Vienna,
two years ago by Mr. Adamic to leading citizens and who was one of the most eminent Zionist
in an effort to arrive at unity of all groups in leaders in the world, was a cousin of his father.
our population, and it contains the comments of Julius Chajes' parents are now in Palestine, and
those who have been touched by this serious effort his father is a practicing physician. The newcomer
to Detroit attained recognition in the musical
at cementing good will among all Americans.
The leading story in the book is "The Man in field when he was nine years old. At that time
a Quandary," the 25,000 word story about an he was brought to Vienna for a concert and in-
American Jew whose career touches all pha!')s stantly was acclaimed as a prodigy. His compo-
of our problem in this country. Naturally, the sitions are sung and played by musicians every-
right name of the doctor is hidden under the where. During the past week, Emma Lazaroff
pseudonym Doctor Eliot Steinberger, in order to Schaver, Noami Aleh-Leaf and Shulamit Silber
deflect undue attention from the eminent hero— included his works in their programs. Detroiten
a true character—who is prominent in New will find this young man to be a great asset to
York. It is the story of the son of a wealthy our community and will be enchanted with his
immigrant. His father entered the meat business, pleasant personality.

the University of Michigan; and
Jack Piana of U. of D.
The Auto Club will play in the
Triple A division of Greater De-
troit Basketball Association at
Holy Redeemer, and in addition,
will take on the strongest inde-
pendent and professional teams in
this part of the country. On Dec.
1, at 9 p. m., the House of David
bearded basketball team will open
the local season for the Auto Club
at Holy Redeemer High School
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