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December 27, 1940

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE end the Legal Chronicle

1. FRANCK TO ADDRESS Rabbi Adler to Address
Melaveh Malkeh '
on Saturday

Congress Women's
SHAAREY ZEDEK GROUP
Division Panel
Will Review Maurice Samuel's
"The Great Hatred" on
Discussion Jan. 6

COUNCIL

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Two Collegiate
Fraternities Merge

where he will assume his new
NEW YORK.—M. Robert Her-
duties on Jan. 2.
man,
chairman of the national
Rabbi Morris Adler will be the
Sunday Morning
Mr. Boxerman responded with executive council of Pi Lambda •
guest speaker at the Melaveh words
of appreciation of the co- Phi Fraternity, and Joseph II.
A jury panel discussion on the
Isaac Franck, educational di- Malkeh sponsored by the Miz-
topic "What Can We Do in the rector of the Jewish Community rachi Organization of Detroit to operation which had been ac- Kraus, president of Phi Beta Del-
corded to him by the delegates ta. Fraternity, announced at the
Present Crisis" will be presented
at the meeting of the Women's Center, will address the Sunday be held Saturday, Dec. 28, 8:30 and officers of the organizations 46th annual banquet of Pi
Division of the American Jewish morning adult discussion group p. m., at Congregation Beth Ab- affiliated withannounced
ouCnocue nd c tilh. e ap. Lambda Phi Fraternity at the
Congress at the Detroit Leland of Congregation Shaarey Zedek raham, 12517 Linwood Ave. His
Hotel Biltmore here that the two
Hotel, Monday, Jan. 6, at 2 p.m. on Dec. 29. He will review topic will be "Needed: Vision
at perssuoneeneeslsorcomtz• ; national collegiate groups will
p oiitnt et e m
m
Maurice Samuel's book, "The and Action!"
shortly complete a formal til•r-
e to select
s o e fl e c a
Mrs. Daniel Siegel, Mrs. Rob- Great Hatred." This group con-
This final farewell to the Sab- Mr. Boxerman. This committee ger under the combined name
ert Drews, Mrs. Louis Glasier, venes at 10:30 a. m. in the old
Mrs. Benjamin Kohen, Mrs. Abe chapel every Sunday morning. bath which the Mizrachi revived consists of Judge Charles Ru- of Pi Lambda Phi. The union of
Rosenberg and Mrs. Samuel A general discussion concludes this winter has met with en- biner, Joseph Bernstein, Law- the two organizations will bring
thusiastic support from the Jew- rence W. Crohn, Fred M. Butzel the number of chapters to 33 in
Green will be the participants each session.
ish community. Among the pre- and Aaron Rosenberg. as many colleges.
and Mrs. Max Dushkin will act
The
public
is
invited
to
this
as
vious guest speakers have been
-
Vaad Ha - Yeshivoth Report
as moderator.
well as to all sessions of this Rabbis A. M. Hershman, Moses
Rabbi M. J. Wohlgelernter re-
A question and answer period discussion group.
Fischer, Jacob J. Nathan, Max ported on the Vaad Ha-Yeshivoth
FRANCE
will follow the discussion.
J. Wohlgelernter and Joshua which aims to systematize and
When the Windsors visited Sperka.
Members and their friends are
control the solicitations of Me-
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Miami, the Hotel Alamac, newly
invited to attend.
Sol Edelman, well known Miz- shulochim and other collections
acquired by the rapidly-growing rachi
leader, will be the chair- for religious, educational and escape from France and is in
Knut Hamsun, the Norwegian Andiron chain, featured "Chicken man of
the evening. Refresh- charitable causes in European this country to tell the tale of
author, and Gerhardt Hauptmann, a la Duke" on the menu . . . ments will be served. The public countries and Palestine. He ex- destruction and incidentally to
German dramatist and novelists, Asked to explain, the headwait-
plained that it schedules the give the timely warning against
are the only literary Nobel Prize er informed: "Our Chicken a la is invited. No collections are visits of these representatives in the dictatorships.
made.
winners who are pro-Nazis.
King abdicated."
Detroit and neighboring commu-
He does it in "Suicide of a
-
nities, issues credentials to them Democracy," published by Reynal
describing the status and activi- & Hitchcock, 386 Fourth Ave.,
ties of their respective institu- New York. In excellent transla-
By PHILIP SLOMOV1TZ
tions, receives and forwards the tion by Heinz and Ruth Norden,
monies collected, and acts as a Heinz Pol's book relates import.
clearing house for this phase of ant personal experiences in the
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course of which the author warn-
against those who seek to destroy it; that the episode. We have been backward in the fight for Philanthropic endeavor. The Vaad, ed against the manifestations of
our
liberties.
We
have
been
passive
and
on
the
which
originally
was
founded
by
liberties of the people and their right to rule
Nazism. Frenchmen laughed at
themselves remain supreme ideals in our democ- defensive. Unless we assume the offensive, we the Michigan Synagogue Confer- him when he interpreted a riot
may
have
much
to
regret.
In
France,
Maurois
once,
state-wide
body
of
tradi-
racy. We are, indeed, a democracy in a republic;
this tional, orthodox congregations, instigated by the De La Rocgue
and under no circumstances are destructive forces should have pleaded for more airplanes; in
rop- group as being similar to the Nazi
and the Detroit
etroit Council of a rt
to be permitted to destroy democracy under the country, today, we should demand uncompromis-
rep- outbursts in Germany. Now, the
Rabbis, of
now
guise of defending the republic. Such an appeal ing defense of the basic principles upon which dox
resentation
Congregation Shaa- men he warned admit he was
is historically false and is purely an effort to this great nation was ofunded.
Let there be no compromise on this score. Let rey
and
an by
unofficial
ob- right.
befuddle the minds of the people. It should not
ted
the Jewish
appointed
, Zedek
For Jewish readers, two chap-
there
be
no
concessions
to
bigotry
and
to
persecu-
server
be permitted to work, for the sake of our freedom
Council.
mu y ouncit
.
ters
in this significant book are
and the traditions of America which must be tion. Let there be an end to excuses and to Community
The ounci l went on record as of particular importance — the
apologies. We should demand that our legislators,
defended to the last.
our spokesmen in the state and national govern- endorsing that portion of the chapters dealing with "Anti-
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ments, should write a single chapter of history Vaad Ha-Yeshivoth relating to the Semitism and Separatism" and
We Must Learn from Experience
Georges Mendel. Those who
a day—reaffirming the faith of America and let- European and support of the with
Several hot-headed and panicky individuals—a ting it be known that this faith and the principles uropean and Palestine Yeshi- have read reports of accusations
correspondent for a New York daily among them for which America stands will never be aban- voth and similar institutions, The against Mandel without attempt-
—made much of the incident that took place at doned; and we should ask that this chapter be - council urged that all the of- ing to sift the truth will find
Central High School during the address by Dr. repeated daily so that there should be no mistake hcers of its affiliated organiza- the facts in the chapter in this
L. M. Birkhead. They described the occurrence as about the determination to carry on the battle tions houl 1 blicize the work of book to be revelatory. Mandel is
. h , and ed- a great Frenchman, a daring
tH a-Y
litl es h ivot
s
the e Vaad
having been marked by fright, by the shedding for democracy.
ucate their members so that they statesman, an avowed anti - Nazi
of tears, by a state of demoralization in the
will request the credentials of who insisted on fighting the Fas-
audience. These people are rendering a disservice
the "Vaad" as a means of as- cist menace to the bitter end.
The Answer to Christian Frontists
when they inject such a note of fear into an in-
Pol records an interesting story
cident which in reality ended very peacefully and
This should be our answer to the Christian certaining the nature of the in-
to the credit of an audience that refused to be- Frontists, to those who speak in the name of stitutions appealing for funds regarding Mandel, who, together
come upset by the act of a group that was bent Christ and who abuse Christ when they seek to and the integrity of their rep- with the other Jewish member
of the French Cabinet, Minister
upon disturbing the peace of a very orderly meet- disrupt peaceful meetings. Good Americans—all resentatives.
Rabbi Leon Fram outlined the of Education Jean Zay, were not
ing.
good Christians—and good Jews, of course—are ac i vities in which the public re- invited to the conference held
People must know how to learn from experi- those who abide by the principles of law and act
has been en- with Ribbentrop before the out-
.
ence. There have been disturbances, affecting order, not those who seek to destroy the peace la
He
spoke
of
the speak- break of the war. Zay protested,
Jews and other peaceful citizens, which were of of the community. Those who aim to divide the
a truly grave nature. The history of this country population and to undermine peace are the worst er s' bureau now being formed, but it was beneath Mandel's dig-
consisting of a selected number nity to complain. But when he
is not altogether free from events in which type of Americans.
of younger people who are pre- met the culprit, Bonnet, at the
Jews, Protestants and Catholics have suffered
paring themselves to appear be- next Cabinet meeting, Mandel
•
from fanatical attacks upon them. But the Amer-
fore non-Jewish organizations, said, "What, you're still in Paris?
ican spirit has survived in spite of it all. There
Unity—Honorably Pursued
particularly youth groups. He also I thought you'd gone to Berlin
is nothing in our history to indicate that might
All of Andre Maurois' "Tragedy in France"
the manner in which with Ribbentrop"
always makes right. In a long range experience carries with it a great lesson to Americans. There described
tons of Naziz propaganda were
The endless flow of anti-Se-
like ours, the contrary is true. It is right that is the question of preparedness, of the abandon- being mailed free by our post-
mitic literature was part of the
finally rules, and might stands discredited in the ment of appeasement, of genuine unity.
men because of the fact that INIzi scheme to use anti-Semitism
end.
We can learn so much from another episode
United States is a member as the force to undermine morale
There was an experience in Detroit 16 years related by Maurois. Before the submission of the
of the International Postal Union and to create Fascist sentiment.
ago when a small group of Jews, meeting on France to Nazism, Maurois was received by Rey- to which Germany also belongs. Pol reveals that Leslie Hore-
Simchas Torah night in the north end section of naud. The Prime Minister was "striding up and
Detroit, for holiday services, were brutally at- down his office at the Quai d'Orsay with his hands Through its membership in the Belisha, former British War Min-
Union the Nazi government is ister, upon his return from
tacked, windows were broken, the Scrolls of the in his pockets, he talked ,to me in ringing tones able to print its own postage France, was very critical of
Laws were defiled. In the course of time, Jews about the situation he had found upon assuming
and require our post the Maginot Line. Did this have
settled in that neighborhood, established friendly power. Ithorrified me." Then Maurois records kstamps
office department to distribute its some effect upon his eventual re-
relations with their neighbors, continued their the following
un-American propaganda without moval from the Cabinet?
Rowing conversation:
peaceful existence, conducted business there,
" The tanks," he (Reynaud) said, "existed
any cost.
"Suicide of a Democracy" is
worshipped in accordance with the traditions of
In order to remedy this evil, one of the most significant books
only on paper. Disorder was so great that the
their people. Might was conquered, just as might
Congressman Dickstein of New written on the existing situation
cannon and machine guns that the army
will always be conquered by the peaceful and
York has introduced House Bill and the collapse of France. It
needed were lying idle in the storehouses.
the loyal adherents to the ideals and principles
No. 604 which will enable the should be read by every loyal
The Germans had two hundred divisions, pos-
of their land and their faith.
Post Office Department to reject American who should learn from
sibly two hundred and forty; we had barely
material tending to create racial it a lesson for ourselves, so that
one hundred. Daladler, through his inertia,
•
or religious hatred. Rabbi Fram we should be doubly vigilant
Speak Up for Demorcacy I
thwarted all reforms and rendered govern-
suggested that the Council take against the rising tide of Nazism.
ment impossible."
The time has arrived for those who are de-
action on this bill. A motion was
"Nevertheless", I (Maurice speaking) said,
termined that the American way of life should
Kissed unanimously, authorizing
"Daladier is certainly a man who loves his
prevail to take the offensive and not to wait for
the Jewish Community Council Jewish college students and cash
country. He speaks of it so eloquently over
miracles.
to communicate with all Michigan prizes will be awarded for the
the radio and in a way that goes straight to
In "Tragedy in France", (Harper publication),
Representatives a n d Senators best treatment of the subject.
the heart."
Andre Maurois opens his presentation of the rec-
urging their support for the bill. The prize-winning essay, when
"Yes",
Reynaud
said,
"I
believe
he
desires
ord of his country's collapse by relating an inter-
Lawrence W. Crohn, chairman properly edited, will be issued
the victory of France, but he desires my de-
esting episode. It was in 1935. At lunch at the
of the literature committee, in a printed form for widespread
feat even more."
home of Lady Leslie in London, Winston Church-
stated that the committee has distribution. This plan already
"A terrible judgment .. . "
ill said to him: "You must not write any more
Yes, it is a horrifying judgment, and it ought been examining the various leaf- has been discussed„,,,,with Rabbi
novels. No! And you must not write any more
Jehuda M. Cohen, new head of
biographies. No! All you must do now is to write to serve as a warning to all of us. In time of lets andbrochures dealing with the Hillel Foundation at the Uni-
tragedy,
when
Jews
of
America
should
have
been
Jews
which
have
been
issued
by
one article a day, a single article, and the same
versity of Michigan, who is lend-
one every day. Articles in which you will ex- united, the rift widened. Instead of making the the national Jewish agencies. In ing his cooperation and super-
press in all the different ways you can think of, one-ness and unity of a council representative so doing, they were struck with vision on the project.
a single idea: the French air force, which used of all American Jewry, there developed a cam _ one astounding fact — the ab-
Aaron Rosenberg, chairman of
to be the best in the world, is slipping back to petitive spirit in the quest for large funds for sense of a single pamphlet
the Yiddish Culture Section,
i
place.
The
German
air
force,
which
our
national
organizations.
What
a
pity
that
we
which,
in
brief
form,
answers
the
fourth or fifth
at length about the plan-
used to be non-existent, is in process of becoming have been so blind to existing conditions! What question "The Jew — What Is spoke
ning which this group has un-
the best in the world. Nothing else. And if you a crime it will be if we continue on that path! Ile?" in an appropriate manner. dertaken
for the current year.
Our leaders, unless their weakness and slug- Most of the material is either of
proclaim these tniths in France, and if you force
France to listen to them, you will have performed gishness drags them down the abyss of irrespon- a negative character or apolo- Already two folk celebrations
sibility, must learn for all time to come that getic in its tone. There is no have been held and tentative a•-
a much greater service than in describing a wom-
vengeance and the elevation of a single group affirmative presentation of who rangements are being made to
an's loves or a man's ambitions."
When Maurois protested that he knew nothing have no place in our lives today; that the per- the Jew is, what his background bring to Detroit a number of
about aviation, and that "despite his advice, I petuation of the highest ethical and moral codes is, what he believes, etc., writ- outstanding Yiddish writers and
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should continue to write novels and biographies," and of the American principles must occupy the ten in a style simple enough for lecturers, particularly those
were
formerly
connected
with
Churchill said "in his vigorous and ironic tone": position of priority on the calendar of our ac- the average non-Jewish reader.
"You will be wrong. At this moment the threat tivities. The committee feels very strong- the famous Yiddish Scientific In-
lv the need for a fairly con- stitute at Vilna. Mr. Rosaaberg
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embodied in the German air force in the ONE
pamphlet which gives this announced the Chanukah cele-
theme that should interest a Frenchman. For
Chanukah and Christmas
Chanukah
basic information to the non- bration being held on Satuplay
. your country may die because of it. Culture and
Dec. 28, at the
Church Editor Joe Maloney of the Detroit Jew. Accordingly it has under- evening. Dec.
literature, Mr. Maurois, are all very well, but a
culture without strength soon ceases to be a living Free Press is never satisfied unless he knows the taken to stimulate the compila- men's Circle Educational Center,
whole story. He was curious as to how often tion of this kind of material by under the auspices of the
culture."
Culture Section. Mr. Rosen-
Maurois thereupon makes an important con- Christmas and the First Day of Chanukah coin- sponsoring a contest through the dish Culture
tide. We therefore sat down together and dis- Hillel Foundation of the Uni- berg also reviewed the problem
fession :
of Negro-Jewish relations wit'
"I never wrote the articles Winston Churchill covered that the last time this happened was in versity of Michigan and an ap- which
a special committee of the
1902, and that it will recur again in 1978. Put propriate agency at Wayne Uni-
advised me to write and today I bitterly regret
Council has been coping for over
this down among the interesting facts about 1940, versity. •
it."
The contest will be open to all two years.
The lesson of our age is embodied in this as sandwiched in between 1902 and 1978.

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