January 31, 1941

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle

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Detroit Jewish Chronicle

Willkie and Aid to Britain

• STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL •

Wendell Willkie is inspiring all of us.
Tidbits from Everywhere
and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE
He is fulfilling a campaign pledge with
By PHINEAS J. BIRON
2oblished Weekly by The Jewish Chronicle Publishing Co., Inc. his present visit to England. Furthermore,
President
JACOB H. SCHAKNE
he is giving the British the comfort they
• WEEKLY GIGGLE
• NEWS TO You
Entered es Seccnd-class matter March 3, 1916, et the Post- need in an hour of stress—the encourage-
From London, via short wave,
ment that an embattled people needs
Our San Francisco readers will collies the story of the house-
office at Detroit, Mich., under the Act of March 3, 1879.
.s establishment in the
while it faces death and destruction.
be interested to know that Carlo
be
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the new Consul-General Jewish district which, after being
There
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who
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they conquer. When you see the example not only comes of a good Nazi painted
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munist regime which has been able to a good friend of Captain Fritz says the Christian Science Moni-
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MAURICE M. SAFIR
hold 170,000,000 in subjection with the Wiedemann, Nazi consul-general fledgedmembers
of the Axis . . .
but
has
an
impressive
Fascist
rec-
"We have bread like Germany's,
To insure publication, all correspondence and news matter
bayonets of less than a million—such
soldiers like Italy's, revolutions
must reach this office by Tuesday evening of each week.
domination is understandable.
Spain's and earthquakes like
When mailing notices, kindly use one side of the paper only.
at Barcelona when
The greater miracle, however, is the consul-general
the Spanish civil war broke out, like an's" they lament . . . Isn't
The Detroit Jewish Chronicle invites correspondence on sub-
power of British morale. The fact that and later became the first special Jap
it marvelous how our language
jects of interest to the Jewish people, but disclaims responsi- the English are retaining their courage
grows to meet our expanding
envoy
of
Italy
to
General
Franco.
bility for an endorsement of views expressed by the writers.
Insiders insist that General needs for expression, and how
under existing conditions is proof that the
Sabbath Scriptural Selections
human spirit can conquer many obstacles, Werner von Blomberg, who hadn't Walter Winchell helps that de-
k-
seeing eye to eye with Hit- velopment along? . . . contribu-
"Crac
Pentateuchal portion—Ex. 10 :1-13 :16.
and that it will conquer Nazism. But this been
ler on the European campaign, potriots" is his latest
Prophetical portion—Jer. 46 :13-28.
tion.
will be possible only if the remaining cita- is in the Argentine incognito.
From Berlin comes the story of
SHEVAT 3, 5701 del of freedom—the United States—will
JANUARY 31, 1941
the American who, seeing a huge
• THE OLD JEW
give the British added encouragement.
Jews are especially obligated to give
The 30 Jews among the troop' man collected around a little
Shades of . . . Unity
Relief
Fund
in-
such encouragement. A hospital bed, a that have gone to the U. S. base man
who
was collection
carrying a box,
Winter
Attempts at unity in Jewish ranks can mobile kitchen, a helmet, some warm in
as to why the crowd
in Newfoundland are well taken
col-
best be evaluated by a story we heard clothing—bearing the label that it comes care of spiritually as well as
otherwise,
thanks
to
the
30
aid-
should
be
milling
around
the
col-
the other day. A banquet orator was de- from the Jewish communities of America durim the Jewish Welfare Board lector . . "They're all Gestapo
secret service men," explained
scribing the values of co-operation and —will give courage to these brave men
his informant . . . "But why all
provided for them.
said : "For instance, take freckles. Think and women. It will be a signal to them
The Jewish community of those Gestapolicemen around one
what a nice shade of tan they would make that we are their partners in a fight Brantford, Oat., is mourning . ollector?" asked the American.
"Because," was the reply,
three of its young men, three c
—if they would only get together."
against the horrors of Hitlerism.
Dr. Goebbels."
chums who joined up with the ..
Freckles is the only tan of unity we
Give your contribution NOW towards Canadian fighting forces but died the collector is
have had in Jewish life.
the mobile kitchens which Detroit Jews while still in training . . . They • Mom SERIOUS
It looks like we shall be compelled to are to send soon to England. Join in the were Private Murray Cohen, who One Miami Beach hotel re-
in a Toronto hospital in No-
look for new shades in welding Jewish movement to aid Great Britain. Help win died
vember, Henry Levy, who died in cently broke out in a rash of ad-
Canadian Air Force vertisements proclaiming that it
cooperation.
the war for democracy. If we do not act a R in December,
and David wanted only a "restricted" clien-
crash oyal
now, we may be lost.
Axler, who was killed in an tele, if you know what that

At the Yiddish Theater

a .

m eans .

. And business took

RCAF crash this month.
such a sudden turn for the worse
At the Yiddish theater here there is
Lindbergh Wears His Medal
that both the policy and the man-
rejoicing. A play which had caught the
agement underwent a r a p i d
Americans must not forget, when they - • G REEK TO You
public fancy had a run of three weeks— read the statements by Charles A. Lind-
"Forward, guards! The holy change.
N. W. Rogers of Meadowbrook,
an unprecedented occurrence for Detroit Bergh in favor of a British-Nazi stale- Virgin
commands us!" is the bat-
tie
cry
of
the
Evzones,
the
heroic
Tompkins
Corners, N. Y., is a
during the past ten years.
mate and against American Aid to Britain,
What a pitiful condition this suggests! that the famous flier still possesses the Greek soldiers who've been en- rabid anti-Semite who carries out
the Fascists to march Goebbels' and Streicher's policy
There have been times when plays of Hitler medal. This decoration speaks vol- couraging
back to Rome .. The officer who in his own backyard .
great merit ran here for 20 or more per- umes in explanation of the position of the shouted this command at the battle amazes us it that in the local
formances. But the play over which there man who has been called "the spokesman of Tepeloni was Colonel Mardochi papers he is referred to as
is so much jubilation had nine perform- of the Fascist Fifth Column in America." Colonel son of Saloniki rabbi . . . "Judge Rogers."
was killed in that • ABOUT PEOPLE
The Gallup Poll gives the other side of battle . Frizis
ances.
.
.
He
was a native of
Which goes to prove that the Yiddish the picture. With 73 ,per cent of the Amer-
alkis, an it slant f l cit(cehthe iJr- Congratulations and sympathy
.
h
h
Sholem Asch— congratulations
theater_ does not _receive the support that ican people supporting the President's c
ol y the Nk l'so'rld's cclaimst foi tscb ar p oik ne g ‘ e lnil ti v e n from cthe e fire
program, the Lindberghs and their co- It 'o b e on m eun of
is dile it.
in his
There is a good cast in Detroit, and it horts should learn soon that their posi- tracing its establishment back whic h
2,500 years or so . . . The Greek cut home (he was overcome by
can be induced often to present the best tion is not only unreasonable but that it army, incidentally, includes about smoke and had to be revived with
selections from the available dramatic and is un-American because it is un-demo- a thousand Jewish soldiers . . a pulmotor), and sympathy for
sh the damage sustained by his house
comedy repertoires. The fact that the cratic. Americans are for the . perpetuation And there are quite a few Jewish
.
th
•s from Palestine fighting with —55000 worth, which adds up to
wide support solicited for the theater
of royalties.
not forthcoming is further indication of of
the democratic
way o i e, to this land the British Expeditionary Force a lot
Biggest lecture sensation of the
viewpoints
are detrimental
against the Italians in Lybia . . .
a deplorable spirit of indifference towards and its aspirations.
Which reminds us to pass on to year is Pierre van Paassen
Winchell's latest: The only whose tour in California is set :
things Jewish in our community.
If there are still people who doubt the you
thing the Italians can beat is a t i n g s. unprecedented attendance
aspersions on Lindbergh, let them judge
record
Resistance and Horse Sense
the
air-hero by his acclaimers. t At the retreat.
.
CBS News Correspondent Edwin Hart- rally of the Coughlin-inspired Mothers
of the United States of America," at the
rich is quoted as follows in Talks:
Religion in These Dark Days
Cass High School, at which former Sena-
Turning the pages of the "Boersen Zei-
hung" the other day, my eye was caught by
tor Rush D. Holt of West Virginia was
a headline, "All horses must learn German."
the speaker, only the names of Charles A.
The story related some of the problems the
Lindbergh and Adolf Hitler were not
Germans are having with their war booty.
booed. Among those who were booed
It seems that a lot of French, Belgian and
Dutch horses were captured and taken to
were: President Roosevelt, Winston
Germany. But they don't understand fine Ger-
Churchill, Col. Frank Knox, Henry L.
man equivalents of "whoa" and "giddap." In
Stimson Wendell L. Willkie. Judging by
fact s ometimes, the horses do just the re-
what happened at the American voting
verse what they are c ommanded to do.
To which the Christian Science Monitor oils last November, we have a pretty
appends the comment, "Passive Resist- good idea how this country stands, and
ante." how Lindbergh rates. There were 1,500
Also, it is horse sense in dealing with misguided people at the Cass High School
Nazis and Nazism—the type not possessed rally who applauded a man who was
by Hitler's unfortunate vanquished hu- called back home by his constituents and
who was therefore rebuked for what he
mans.
attempted to do in the Senate and re-
peated his stunts in his Detroit address;
Franz Werfel Salutes America
Franz Werfel, brilliant author, who has but there were 50,000,000 people who
escaped from the Nazi terror and is now supported President Roosevelt and Mr.
in this country, salutes America, with Willkie, both of whom—one at the White
House and the other, at present, in i Lon-
this tribute to the land of freedom.
fanatical
faith
that
in
don—stand firmly for defense of democ-
"I believe with a
this land of the greatest technological and
racies and the American way of life. The
material progress the struggle against death-
facts speak for themselves as judgment
dealing materialism will end in victory. I be-
of Lindbergh and his supporters.
lieve with fanatical faith that this new world

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is in truth the new world, and that it will
deliver from the house of bondage not only
a few intellectuals but the persecuted spirit
itself . . . Permit me to foreshadow our own
unimportant individual destinies with the sym-
bolic meaning of history. Nowhere but in this
mighty land does the ancient sacred flame
of brotherhood still continue to burn.

The Retiring Justice

Justice James Clark McReynolds of the
United States Supreme Court did not hide
his prejudices. He was discourteous to
former Justice Brandeis. He was absent
Let this be made the credo of loyal from ceremonies at which Jewish Justices
Americans. It is too much to believe that were honored. When Benjamin Nathan
those who, in this great land, seek to Cardozo was selected for the Supreme
play the Nazi game should understand Court by President Herbert Hoover, Jus-
such an ideal. Therefore, it is all the more flee McReynolds protested the selection
imperative that the loyalists should battle of "another Jew." There will be few re-
untiringly to perpetuate the truth con- grets over his retirement when this justice
tained in this salute to America and to our leaves the highest court in the land on
Feb. 1.
freedom.

Courtesy of The Synagogue

Union of American Hebrew Congregations

Bernard Segal