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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and

A. Schiller; chaplain, Mrs.
Ann Zierer; sergeant - at - arms,
RODIN CLUB
Mrs. Jack Moss. The installing
officer was Mrs. Jacob Harvith.
Election and installation of
The next meeting will be at
officers of Rodin Club was held the home of Mrs. A. Baier, 2947
lin . s
doers. L ook u p te h Rev. Charles E. Cough will find Jan. 8, at the home of the presi- Collingwood, on Feb. 5.
The Bible Has Not Been Discarded
Sunda y, Dec. 19, 1938, and you
dress
of
In this world of strife, there is still a yearn- that the Royal Oak wizard said exactly the same dent, Mrs. Nathan Fishman, 3411
ing for decency, and the spirit of sanctity has thing that Mr. Hecht expounded in PM magazine. Sherbourn Rd. The officers are:
Both need a few lessons in Biblical lore.
not disappeared.
Mr. Hecht will be—or should be—interested
The inauguration of our Presidents proves it.
It has become a tradition for our Presidents to in authoritative interpretation of the term Chosen
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select favorite Biblical portions in taking their People. In his splendid commentaries on the Pen-
tateuch and Haftorahs, Chief Rabbi Joseph H.
oaths of office.
In 1933, President Roosevelt selected from the Hertz of England stated: "The fact that they
13th Chapter of First Corinthians, "Though I were the Chosen People only meant that more
speak with the tongues of men and of angels, was expected of them than of heathens; and,
and have not charity, I am become as sounding furthermore, that their actions would be judged
brass, or a tinkling cymbal." On Jan. 20, 1941, by higher standards."
The fact is that every people possesses a cer-
at his third inauguration, he again made his
selection from this chapter of Corinthians, the tain amount of pride that causes it to think of
13th verse: "And now abideth faith, hope, charity, its achievements as superior to those of other
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these three; but the greatest of these is charity." groups. Americans think that they are scientific-
It is significant, that other Presidents were ally superior to other nations. We know that we
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deeply moved by Biblical wisdom. The Quaker have done a better job than any one else in the
Herbert Hoover, for example, chose the following movie, newspaper and other fields.
Also, Jews believe they have done a better
from Proverbs 29.18: "Where there is no vision,
the people perish; but he that keepeth the law, job in the field of ethics than any other people.
Having given birth to the world's greatest reli-
happy is he."
Grover Cleveland preferred the Psalms. At his gions, we are in a sense entitled to some recogni-
first inauguration, he took Psalm 112, "He shall tion, such as a people Chosen to propagate moral-
ity. The world at large, however, seems to prefer
not be afraid of evil things; his heart is fixed,
trusting in the Lord;" and at his second the 91st to give us the position of a people chosen to
Psalm, "Ile shall call upon me, and I will answer suffer.
If Ben Hecht does not endorse the latter as-
him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver
signment, he should go to the nearest synagogue,
him, and honor him."
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Woodrow Wilson also loved the Psalms. At the recite the "Al Chet". and declare publicly, as
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auguration he went to the 46th Psalm, "God is
The Courage of Jewish Air Fighters Winkelman and Mrs. M. Good-
our refuge and strength, a very present help in
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When Dr. L. M. Perlzweig was in Detroit, he man; recording secretary, Mrs.
trouble. Therefore will we not fear, though the
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in the present war. Dr. Chaim Weizmann's son, tary, Mrs. S. Rivkin; treasurer,
carried into the midst of the sea."
The Psalms were also the inspiration of Ruther- a member of the Royal Air Force, has been over
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The courage of Jewish fighter pilots in
of Americans, and at state functions. This is
the R.A.F. is commented on in the course of
perhaps the strongest encouragement that, in the
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words of President Roosevelt at his third in-
an a rticle in last week's Sunday Graphic, by
Captain H. C. Biard, who is contributing to
auguration, "our strong purpose is to protect
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typical of those self-hating Jews who become
don't want to see anything better. There were
aroused by Hitlerism, say some clever things,
some big Junkers bombers that came over
then make an about face and begin to hate them-
early in the Airblitz that seemed to make a
special point of beating up the Jewish quarter
selves again as Jews.
Last week we took occasion to commend Mr.
of London's East End—streets and hospitals
Hecht for his article in PM, in which he com-
their principal targets. There was one particu-
pared the frightened Jews of Hollywood to the
lar bomber—it used to come over always at-
bravery of the late Henri Bergson of France.
tended by three fighters, and it always
But only a few days thereafter he wrote another
dropped half a dozen 'Big Boys' and then fled
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GET IN TOUCH WITH
article, "The New Jew", in which he spoke of
home hell-for-leather. Three times it got
Jews as the founders of the Ilitlerian theories
across, put down its eggs, and hared off home.
and of the Nazis as the New Jews. It was das-
Three times the Jews of the Hurricane Squad-
tardly piece of work,—and a thoroughly untrue
ron failed to get there in time. The fourth
characterization of the existing situation.
night, something went wrong. Issy, a big,
James Waterman Wise, son of Dr. Stephen S.
hook-nosed, sloe-eyed, curly-haired lad of the
Wise, who is research director of the Council
type that provides some of the world's best
Against Intolerance in America, took exception
boxers, went 'upstairs' early through some
to Mr. Hecht's article in a radio address and in
sort of mistake in orders. They never quite
a letter to PM in which he evaluated the Hecht
got to the bottom of it. He picked out the
particular bomber with the escort, smote
article as follows:
"This is not only a malicious false charac-
straight through the escort as if it wasn't
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lin and Pelley.
"If Mr. Hecht were not a Jew himself—
although obviously not a self-respecting one
—and if PM were not by purpose and record
engaged in combating such stuff, it could
only be labeled a vulgar example of anti-

Semitism.
"As it is—and this no issue of freedom of
the press—Mr. Hecht should be informed
that the sufferings and s truggles and ultimate
freedom of the Jewish people are precisely
as important, if democracy is to prevail, as

those of the British or the Greek or any
other people. Meantime, if he were to culti-

vate

the acquaintance of such Jews as Bran-

Frankfurter,
Hillman,
Hore-Belisha,
Lehman and Einstein—not to mention mil-
lions of simple Jews in all lands who do not
"slink about in g hettos furtive•eyed to the
with dignity and honor
world" but who live
— h e might discover something better than
material for a s mart-cracking column.

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it was so full of lead it would nearly have
sunk by its own weight. hay came back sing-
ing a hymn—a hymn in Yiddish that no one
could u nderstand. No one, in fact, went near

him for a few minutes.
"In the days when Saul slew his thousands
and David his ten-thousands, I guess they
came home looking like that."

There is nothing more to be added to this
evaluation of Jewish courage and to the bravery
of Jews who recognize their enemies, who know
their friends and who know the necessity of
crushing the enemy of mankind.
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A Mobile Kitchen from the Zionists

The movement to send mobile kitchens to
England is strongly backed by Zionists. It is ex-
pected that one of the kitchens to be sent from
Detroit will bear the inscription of the Zionist
Organization of Detroit, this to be made possible
by contributions from local Zionists. This sou
wove a most important gesture, to emphasize
The trouble with Ben Hecht and those in his
British-Jewish partnership in the struggle for
class is that they heard something about Jews th
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claiming to be a "chosen people", and that at freedom and in the upbuilding of Palestine as
one time Ezra commanded them not to inter- the Jewish National Home.
marry; and they acclaim these discoveries as being
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the acme of Jewish idealism. The result is that
Helmets for British Civilians
they distort these phrases and "commandments",
Through PM, the militant New York daily
compare them with Ilitlerian ideas, begin to hate
themselves as Jews and therefore all Jews, and newspaper, an appeal is broadcast for steel hel-
nets to be used by the civilian population of
in the course of the time render immeasurable
harm to the people they sprung from, as in the England. It is an article that is considered of
instance of Ben Hecht. If the Hecht-group could greater value than any other item as protection
be induced to become acquainted with their own of civilions. A label with the address either of
people, as Jim Wise suggests, there would be a the local committee at 1044 Penobscot Bldg.
cure for their self-hatred. or the national committee in New York, with
only 9 cents in postage, will deliver a helmet;
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or it can be brought to the local office in person.
You're in Bad Company, Mr. Hecht
These helmets have great sentimental value.
What Mr. Hecht fails
in his al
response
ll to
as realize,
i his origin
article, But if a helmet, worn by a Londoer,
save
so can
would
. The best minds do a life, it is worth parting with. To n do
to Jimmy Wise as well
effort
that
is
ef
great
reli
a
is that he is in bad comp.
t these mean joining in -Britain mov ement.
not endorse the charges he has penned. Bu
's evil part of the aid-to
accusations have been mouthed by America

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