January 17. 1941

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the

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Legal Chronicle

• STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL.

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argument of the United Palestine Appeal
that the work of redemption in Eretz
Tidbits from Everywhere
Israel must not be paralyzed. To postpone
and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE
By PHINEAS J. BIRON
action on allocations would mean also
Published Weekly by The Jewish Chronicle Publishing Co., Inc. postponement in some campaigns, delays
• NAME NEWS
President
JACOB H. SCHAKNE
in the work of budget committees, penali- • DUTCH TREATMENT
The original name of Otto
Entered es Seccnd-class matter March 3, 1916, at the Post- zation of Palestine's work as well as in re-
Informed opinion has it that Brahm, famous German citic and
office at Detroit, Mich., under the Act of March 3, 1879.
before long the British will in theatrical director, was Abram-
lief efforts.
When the showdown finally comes— vade Holland, where the natives sohn . . . But the first name of
General Offices and Publication Bldg., 525 Woodward Ave.
out the Sarah Bernhardt, the Divine Sar-
Cable Address: Chronicle
during campaigns for funds in communi- will join them in diving
Telephone: Cadillac 1040
r
. . • How ah of the French stage, originally
Year
ties
throughout
the
country—it
is
to
be
$3.00 Per
Nazis occupying forces
the anti-Nazi sentiment is was Rosine . • . David Ben Gur-
Subscription in Advance
hoped that constituents of these commu- strong
in Holland can be seen from the ion, Palestine political leader,
Publisher
JACOB MARGOLIS
nities, forming the vast army of contribu- following incident, reported by started out in life with the name
Editor
PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
tors, will not punish causes out of dis- Pierre Lazareff, French editor, Gruen, and
Eliezer
Ben
Jehudah,
Advertising Manager
home
was the
first
in mod-
MAURICE M. SAFIR
approval of the efforts of the present now columning in the New York whose
Daily
Mirror
.
.
The
Jews
of
ern
Palestine
in
which
Hebrew
To insure publication, all correspondence and news matter
leadership. The breaking of unity in Jew-
was spoken
as the
language
of
must reach this office by Tuesday evening of each week.
speech,
actually
bore the
ish ranks is ascribable entirely to the one Dutch community, it seems everyday
When mailing notices, kindly use one side of the paper only.
were
charged
with
having
al-
name
of
Perlman
.
.
.
You
know,
faulty direction of Jewish affairs in Amer-
The Detroit Jewish Chronicle invites correspondence on sub- ica. A wise leadership could have avoided bored British fliers, and were as- of course, that Ittamar Ben Avi,
sessed a 50,000 guilder fine, pay- Hebrew author and lecturer, is
jects of interest to the Jewish people, but disclaims responsi-
a break in friendship; an antagonistic able within six hours • . . The the son of Ben Jehu ld. wm d ah,
a t hooi the e
h i Gaaoac
aoioong c s t tzt fhh
bility for an endorsement of views expressed by the writers.
leadership that is motivated by group fine was paid on time, by wealthY real name of Achad Ha-am, the
Netherlanders who hand- fB. r l m
Sabbath Scriptural Selections
i h .un e u of
i so dn s i lbs o yhooL
esa shu e tpw alm
hatreds is responsible for the rise to the Christian
u uds B
I .rtai lo. o 1A
ed the money to the local rabbi
s hEdaiGinsberg,
Pentateuchal portion—Ex. 1:1-6:1.
c r i tic
Prophetical portion—Is. 27:6-28:13; 29:22, 23. fore of a conflict that threatens to disrupt —while in five Protestant churches
American Jewry. The logical reaction of in Amsterdam protests were open-
Cohen
TEBET 18, 5701
American Jews ought to be to reject ',57 uttered . . . It was in Am-
kn ow
JANUARY 17, 1941
f ather's
unworthy leadership and to reaffirm de- sterdam, too, that a bookshop
owner recently was forced to re- name was Cohen too? . . . Then
causes.
Membership
Drive
votion to important
move Queen Wilhelmina's picture there is the Palestine labor leader
The Zionist
from his window display and sub- Isaac Ben Zevi, whose name real-
The Detroit Jewish Chronicle is pleased
.
stitute the picture of Badolf and ly is Shimshelevitz . . . And you
Music
Study
Club
Project
to be in position to dedicate a special
display of "Mein Kampf" . .
ought to know that Rosa Bon-
Perforce the bookseller followed
French 19th
supplement, as Section Two of this issue,
ue
the
Music
Study
Commendation
is ds efforts which have orders—but beside Hitler's book heur, the famous animals, was
luation
and
recounting
of
the
Club
of
Detroit
for
import
he placed a copy of a volume by century
painter
of Bordeaux as
for
the evaluation
i t
known in
her native
contributions made by the Jew-
There's a
famous swimming teacher, M.
ish builders of Palestine and the Zionist rendered distinct contributions to the the
A. Braun, entitled "How to Swim" Rose Mazel Tov . .
b ea ou ve t
vanguard responsible for the great and community. By encouraging able and . . . The reference, of course, lot more we could but tellwy eolu i al
,
musicians,
whose
debuts
this
club
two worthy
being to Hitler's inability to get people's
it to you names
to dig up additional in-
historic achievements of the past
sponsors, and by cooperating with the across the English Channel'.
formation yourselves by consulting
decades.
the Universal Jewish Encyclo-
Three weeks ago, in editorial endorse- music department of.. the Jewish Commu-
• LISTEN HERE
pedia, the excellent reference work
t of the Zionist membership drive, nity Center, the club has acquired
a posi-
•
.
f
Local Nazis who want to go which under the editorship of
don of importance in this city. Its gi
men
we pointed out: "Numbers will count a a piano to the Center, its concerts, at home to the Reich are being urged Dr. Israel Landman and Louis
nd
do so as quickly as possible kittenberg is rapidly approaching
that conference as much as the morally
which outstanding musicians are featured, to
by
the German travel agencies, completion . . . And no doubt
spiritual elements in our appeals. is its musical programs before important in-
which foresee that soon all routes from one of the forthcoming vol-
important that Jewry be united for the stitutions, have earned for Music Study will be cut off (the only one open umes you will learn that the real
great battle for human rights. A numeri-
now is via Japan and Russia) name of the man who calls him-
cally powerful American Zionist move- Club a good name.
. . . To all of which we fervently self Hitler is Schickelgruber.
sayAmen . . . From Yorkville,
ment will be in a position to exert great
Manhattan's Nazi center, come re- • YOU SHOULD KNOW
influence upon the spokesmen for the What Nazism Has Done to Jews
ports of a sidewalk inscription
The Department of Youth and
powers of the world, and it is essential
"God Blitz America" . .
Reporting to the New York Times from reading
A
lesson
in
how
to
talk
back
to
Education
of the Zionist Organ-
that it be mobilized at once."
We repeat this statement at this time. "Somewhere in Greece," by telephone, Nutzis was recently provided by ization is setting a high standard
L. Sulzberger brings the news that the a Scandinavian consul in a Latin- . in
n . its activities. . . The mater-
We urge community-wide cooperation in C.
Royal Air Force engineers frequently hear American city . . . The consul
the current drive of the Zionist Organiza- German spoken among their members. has been very active in an anti- ial it . has published by Yehuda
Nazi sense, taking every oppor- Haley!, and the prize essay con-
tion of Detroit. And we urge our readers
tunity of blasting his country's test it has launched on Halevi,
to study the important facts included in He reports:
conquerors, with the result that a as well is the various news bulle-
belong to an R.A.F.
question
The
men
in
the special supplement in this issue. It
local Nazi representative finally tins it s putting out, augur well
ground
crew.
They
are
Jewish
refugees
from
f
the
know o
utur
k neo.
itd heyo fu
to
ill
them
laeky
Germany
who
have
established
themselves
in
ill no doubt
o ca fflled . on .hipi ,ya ou n r d told him toba
Eretz
w that the Jewish
in
J
ews
by
thrments
Palestine and have volunteered for service
will
a cc omplish
g
home
will
suffer
for
your
deeds,"
year
may
be
anywhere
from 353
them
believe
with the Allied forces. Some of
Israel.
threatened the Nazi menace . . . to 355 or 383 to 385 days
thy are fighting merely against the machine

Detroit Jewish Chronicle

Unity, Budgeting, Paralysis

of Hitlerism and Nazism, and expect to re-
establish themselves in the Reich when the
war is won and the mechanism destroyed.
Others are true confirmed Zionists and believe
they are fighting with the British cause
in order to safeguard the future of the Jew-
ish race and natural homeland.
The writer talked with a young German
Jew from Munich, who left his native city
ease
in 1934 and who is considerably ill at under-
with English, although he can now
stand that language well enough to interpret
to some of his comrades in arms. It was his
belief that the future of the German Jews
was in Palestine and not in their land of
birth. He said he still had many so-called
"Aryan" friends in Germany about whom he
heard from time to time, and that many of
them were now serving in the German Army.
Despite the feeling of personal sympathy
he felt for those persons, he said, he believed
he was fighting something greater than Hit-
lerism. It was his belief that he was at war
with Germany—a Germany mesmerized, per-
but which had
haps, by an a rtificial system,
be considered as an
be
defeated
and
had
to
to
entity and not just as the victim of a po-

"They're our hostages, and we'll in length, but that the number
take full advantage of our power- of its days never amounts to
ful position."' . . . Whereupon anything from 356 to 382? . . .
the Scandinavian retorted: "You're And that none the less every 19-
9
wrong—you're the one who is the year period includ es exactly 1 al
norm
es
the
hostage . . . If anything should times 365 days, pl
happen to any of my family, I additions for the secular leap
year?
will kill you."
Gotham's Mayor LaGuardia has
Sidney Lumet, the boy actor on
a
new
legal secretary—Mrs. Flor-
whom we've been telling you to
keep your eye glued since we first ence L. Shientag, wife of the N. Y.
saw him in Max Reinhardt's pro- Supreme Court Justice . . . Her
duction of "The Eternal Road," salary is a dollar a year.
Advices from Britain are that
is wowing them in "George Wash-
ington Slept Here," in which he Leslie Howard ay return to
plays one of the comedy's funniest Hollywood for a m p icture before

Sidney Hollander, president of the
Council of Jewish Federations and Wel-
fare Funds, has proposed that the Federa-
tions, at their meeting in Atlanta on Feb.
2, be permitted to organize a budgeting
committee, acceptable to both the United
Palestine Appeal and the Joint Distribu-
tion Committee, which should recommend
allocations to local communities. His pro-
posal was made with the intention of re-
pairing the damage done by the dissolu-
roles. long.
tion of the United Jewish Appeal.
In reply to Mr. Hollander's plan, the
HOW MUCH LONGER ?
United Palestine Appeal has pointed out,
in a special resolution adopted by its ad-
ministrative committee, that delays which
would be necessitated in 1941 commit-
ments in the event Mr. Hollander's pro-
posal were adopted would paralyze work
in Palestine, and this proposal has there-
fore been rejected in advance of the At-
litical despotism.
This young man, who had admitted himself
lanta meeting.
ago,
It is generally regretted that unity—
to be a German citizen until seven years
said
he
was
a
convinced
Zionist,
and
that
even though it was cooperation without
when the war was over he expected to settle
heart and represented amity only on the
in Palestine.
face of things—has been broken. It is
There is so much vital significance in
deplored that conflicts have arisen, hat
this
story that it is difficult to evaluate it
there will be competition in requests for completely.
While Zionists are clamoring
funds before community budget commit- for an all-Jewish
military force to help
tees, that ill feelings will again mar re- in the defeat of Hitlerism, Jews, as indi-
lationships among leaders.
by the report just quoted, are al-
Nevertheless, Mr. Hollander's statement cated
ready fighting as Jews for the defeat of
comes a bit too late. His proposal should
have been considered five years ago, as an Nazism.
Also, German Jews, for whom attain-
approach to genuine unity ; at the latest, ment of German culture was the supreme
it should have been considered a year aspiration in life, are now fighting for a
ago, when talk of disunity made the air Jewish principle,—"to safeguard the fu-
thick with rumors. When the Council ture of the Jewish race and natural home-
of Federations and Welfare Funds met
in Detroit exactly a year ago, there was land."
Those who quibble over details in fund-
tense feeling, there were stories of battles raising, and seek to understate the im-
in inner circles over the invitations ex- portance o Palestine in the program of
f
tended to Dr. Chaim Weizmann to ad--
ion of Jewish economic and
struct
the local sessions. January 1940 was
re ss time
d the
for Mr. Hollander's proposal. social existence, should take these hel
facts
to
haps it will warfare
Right now it is a t too late, all efforts into consideration . Per internecine
f
unfair
at retaining unity having failed, and all do away with
concessions by U. P. A. having been re- and veiled conflict and will lead towards
jected. After all, there is validity to the genuine unity.

by BRESSLER