February 7, 1941

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the moulding of their characters towards •
constructive humanitarian purposes. It has
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become
a symbol for democratic living,
and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE
By PHINEAS J. BIRON
Inc. for decency, for human kindness. g But in
Weettly by The Jewish Chronic l e P cblishing Co.,
dertaken a special project that
European
lands
the
youth
are
oranized
President
may eventually culminte in the
JACOB H. SCHAKIsIE
for opposite purpose. Children as young LISTEN HERE
te collec-
Did
you
know
that
the
Ger-
publication
of a comp e
as
seven
and
eight
are
taught
to
carry
Entered as Second-class matter Much 3, 1916, at the Post-
Jewish one-act plays.
office at Detroit, Mich., under the Act of March 3, 1879. guns, to hate those who speak different man Library of Information, tion of
Hollywood, we hear, has dis-
fountainhead of Nazi propa-
anguages, to despise religion.
in-
ganda on our shores, has
covered
a beautiful and talented
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Cable Address: Chronicle
In the Boy Scout celebration we have creased its budget tenfold in the young actress named Irma Salz-
Telephone: Cadillac 1040
. . But the movie moguls
the symbolism of the democratic spirit past year? . . . According to man . showing
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her to the eager
ies
aren't
before the D
whic h defies destruction of human values testimony given
$200,000
the so-called
library a public till they've found a more
JACOB MARGOLIS ................... Publisher
Committee,
and reaffirms faith in the survival of the
"glamorous" name for her . . ..
ow
PHILIP SLOMOVITZ .................... —Editor
n
ow has a budget o
.
best instincts in man. -
Year, whereas formerly it used We suppose the same fate will
MAURICE M. SAFIR ........ Advertising Manager
Therefore, Boy Scout week assumes to spend only $20,000 annually. meet Jinx Falkenberg, famous
To insure publication, all correspondence and news matter great significance for the democratically-
"Blitzkrieg in Weston" is the model and show-girl, who also
must reach this office by Tuesday evening of each week.
Nazi-made movie of the conquest has been signed up by a motion
When mailing notices, kindly use one side of the paper only, minded people.
This celebration serves to encourage the of Western Europe which Nazi- picture firm.
The Detroit Jewish Chronicle invites correspondence on sub-' strengthening of this movement. ., Many loving movie exhibitors are show- VIA SHORT WAVE
isclaiMs responsi-
ing in various American towns
of interest to the Jewish people, but d
he writers. sy nagogues have Boy Scout troops. Those
jeers
as . . . The idea being to
nowady
bility for an endorsement of views:_expressed_by_t___
sease-
We had a very interest ing
without such troolis would h ave.them.if a s core Americans into an app
time fiddling with our radio the
Sabbath Scriptural Selections
. . men poltcy.
sufficient number. tif . leaders 'woiild
No Foreign War Commit- other evening . . . We got Berlin
Pentateuchal portion—Ex. 13:17-17:16.
tear to organize sroups. It 15 a. movemen t tee at a recent Long Island and heard a German short-waye-
4:4-5:31.
Prophetical' portion---Judges
America,
Chamisho Osor b'Shvat—Wednesday, Feb. 12 - worth encouraging'— among presP.,eetive meeting barred "God Bless Amer- cast, directed at North
e of the Brit-
ica" because it was written by explain that becatis t n rit t h ae n Jews
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Detroit. Jewish Chronicle

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FEBRUARY 7, 1941

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,z .., a Jew, Irving Berlin.
Did you know that Jews in i s shhou I
A Peace Advocate
Is Dead
.
- - ........ .2.—,....,
.L....-:.,,,......,.... hetto-ized Polish cities are son- And we wondered whether the
The Rumanian Horrors
tenced to jail terms if they leave Nazis were expecting the Ger-
Jewish refugees in this coun-
Had the world accepted the proposal to the ghetto without special per- man
try to swallow that stuff . '. .
The barbarians of the middle ages ap-
English-language
pear as humanitarians in the sight of the outlaw war, made long before the advent
One thing that amazed the Then came
butcheries which have stained another of Hitlerism, by Salmon 0. Levinson of mil!
Germans in Paris, reports Pierre speech, delivered in a 'perfect
speaker
Chicago, the internationally famous law- Lazaroff, is the small number o f American accent . . The
f or the
peat
a
•
'
page 'of Rumanian history last week.
h
•
ld
y, e war mig t Jewish-owned shops . . . The oc- made an eloquent
who died last Sunday,
e lanti-
Jews were, led to slaughter houses and yer
eupying
forces,
it
seems,
came
to
development
of
N
have been saved from the present sorrows.
acoua n z tr i-y sil and dis-
former
French
capital
provided
Semitism
in
this
were murdered wholesale. Men, women
This em inent advocate of peace believed with scads of yellow posters coursed at length o l ow true
a nd children were victims of i outrages
that
the task of world peace should be the bearing the words Juedisches' Ge- democracy is possible ony among
that have no parallel in all history. The
people —by whtch
e-
looting and robbing of Jewish possessions outlawing of war. He believed in a • uni sehaeft—but found only a very a homogeneous
nt a nation '
few such stores to use these of course, he leant
was the mildest of the horrible demon- versal treaty to become the law for all posters 'on . : . Anti-Semitic via- that doesn't include
animosi . 't •
strations during several days of pillage nations. He neglected his private business,
in "We must have no he
spite
said d y an ot- 1
traveled widely—to Washington, to Eu- lance is comparatively
d
rare
the
w.ir
France de
' lll
noccupied
Jacques
and destruction.
Doriot,
who
then
went
on
to
call
them
wherever he felt he could press his efforts of
—
l b‘u t
_ e from headquarters ' in what used sorts of unpleasant things—but
, In "Selicha" by Dr. Leopold Zunz we rope,
.
have a description of such a pogrom : pleas in behalf , of world peace.
As col
most polite way • • .When,
be Baron Rothschild s
laborator in the Kellogg-Briand peac e to
villa is trying to organize French finally, he had finished, the an-
pact he became a world figure in •the
"High above in Heaven's regions,
Nazi
broadcast
struggle for peace. In 1929, in . a lengthy youth along thethe Doriot outh
Far and wide in Halls of Learning,
did make a tentative excursion had come from the Third Reich
' And where . people meet together
into the art of pogrom-making, over a wavelength of 620 kilo-
Century
.wrote,
in
part,
about
the
Levin-
., Be my, sacrifices published
smashing the windows of Jewish Hertz—using the name of the
How my tender infants perished,
son peace efforts:
stores at Vichy . . • But these "non-Aryan" discoverer of the
nd
self-
How Their tortures laid me prostrate;
activities were discontinued when radio waves.
a
Restless and tireless, resourceful
- Learn to know their deeds of horror—
confident and unselfish, he neglected his
i t was found that they invariably PROFILE
were followed by mysterious
private business, became almost a commute
We were crushed and rent asunder,
breakage of the windows of the
between
Chicago
and
Washington,
carried
on
lay
buried."
Now in this country, as we told
Until corpse by corpse
local Doriot headquarters.
watched with 'an eagle
l 'a vast c orrespondence,
you last week, is Captain p.
orahleopening
to
get
his
i
eye for every favorable
Gruenblatt, husband of
• Maxa
But the p icture of Rumania in 1941 is
•
DRAMATIC DEPT.
tit itiotoon othseeoloiptes
omsae
s
f po
poro
.Nordau,
who
is
the
(laughter
of
much worse. The corpses of Jews are not
inject it
, publicist or or to
recdgnizable. Jews were not only slaugit-
Congratulations to Moss Hart, the great philosopher and Zion-
debate, or to get favorable mention of it in
playwright, Ira Gershwin, 1Yr- ist leader . . . Captain Gruen-
ered, but their bodies, were mutilated b , • s in a Presidential message (all the earlier ref-
icist, and Kurt Weill, composer, Blatt has a very distinctive claim
erences to outlawry by Presidents Harding and
recognition. Even burial is no longey
yon re
for Broadway's biggest hit of to fame . . . He was one of the
Coolidge were the direct result of Levinson 's
possible for victims of pogroms in bask-
the season, "Lady in the Dark" flying aces during the first world
.
efforts), or to establish contacts with re-
. . . The play has one of the war, and was decorated for brav-
ward countries like Rumania.
sponsove minds in Britain and on the Con-
most complicated stage sets ever ery . . . Gruenblatt doesn't look
Brutality has reached its lowest state.
t
ti nen'.
to hit the Great White Way— exactly like the popular concep-
created
the
American
Committee
for
There will not even be precedent 'for
He
and this scenery is the work of tion of a heroic warner, being
retribution when history avenges the blbod 46,eAltlawry of War, under whose auspices
Harry Horner, the young scenic of rather small stature and hav-
his activities could be carried on more im-
ing the face of a student . . .
of innocent victims.
designer who only a few years But
personally, although the headquarters of the
that, of course, doesn't make
for
ago was a newcomer looking
committee were his own law office.
. . . • He
any kind of job that would en- him any lees of a hero
On April 7, 1927, when he read in his
him
to
eat
in
our
Hitler-
;Teaks
English,
Yiddish
and
He-
Expel the Nazi Agents!
morning paper that M. Briand had on the
less
New
World
..
.
And
one
of
brew
fluently,
in
addition
to
his
day before proposed a bilateral treaty "out-
the featured players supporting native French, and for the last
If _doiibt still exists in the minds of
!awing war" as between France and the United
Gertrude Lawrence in this show 20 years has been dividing his
some Americans that Nazi agents in this
States, Mr. Levinson left immediately for
is Danny Kaye, the young Jewish time between France and Pales-
Europe. Hurrying from England to France,
country . are undermining the security of
his mark on tine • . . The Vichy government
onverse-
c
comedian who made -
he *pent three weeks in frequent
this land, let them read the warning of
Broadway
last
year
after quite has great respect for him . .. It
by Mr.
, fiord at Quai d'Orsay, accompanied
a number of seasons of trying. offered to make an exception of
Egon L.' F. Hanfstaengel. Son of Ernest
Harrison Brown, the European r epresentative
If you or any of your friends his case and give him an impor-
F. S. Hanfstaengel, who was known as
of ,the American Committee for the Out-
have an unpublished one-act play tant job in the aviation ministry
lawry Of War, an Englishman living in
"Putzi" and who was Hitler's personal
of Jewish interest hidden away . . . But Captain Gruenblatt
France. Mr. Levinson found the French offi-
entertainer at the piano until be .curried
in your desk, get in touch with didn't want to be an exceptional
cial mind perceptibly disappointed at the
Nazi disfavor and was compelled to flee
Rabbi Samuel Sandmel, director Jew . . . He preferred t o co me
lukewarm reception the Briand proposal had
of the Bnai Brith Hillel Founda- to this country . . . He's a good
the country, young Egon told the Foreign
received in the United States, and hesitant
tion at the University of North bet as a lecturer on European
about taking any further step until • some
Relations Club of Harvard where he is a
Carolina, Chapel Hill, N. C. . . . affairs . . . He doesn't merely
proposal
was
indicated
by
of
the
recognition
student that "it is time Americans woke
The Hillel Foundations have un- know Europe—he lived it.
Department.

our State
to the urgency of the times" and expelled
Despite this reserve, Mr. Levinson outlined
all Nazis from the United States. He said:
a procedure w hich he was convinced would d
"Certainly these bund movements all over
meet with the a pproval of the American pee
pie. He asked, first, that M. Briand's pro-
the country and the overstaffed consular
posal be not left in the air as a mere casual
staffs are not accidents. It has been sug-
and informal suggestion, but that it be drafted
gested that America should expel all Nazi
in the form of a treaty and that this treaty
officials in this country. I see no reason
be presented formally to the State De-
partment of the United States; secondly, that
why they should not be expelled and
this treaty b e written in simple language, and
every reason why they should be kicked
very briefly. so that a child or the man in the
the
out." •
rtreet could understand it; thirdly, that
Is it possible that in the face of all
draft treaty should not undertake to provide
any mechan'sm whatever for ■ he maintenance
warnings the State Department and the
that if mechan-
of , peace, hi, theory
FBI will 'continue to slumber?
isms, and the essential thing—the renun-
Americans must continue to demand
ciation of war—would be e clipsed; and fourth-
that the responsible members of our Gov-
ly, that the draft treaty should u ndertake to
make no distinction whatever as to "kinds"
ernent
should
stop
dreaming
.and
should
m
of war. but should renounce war itself, as
awal5e to the necessity of ridding this land
an institution.!
of the destructive forces, acting on behalf
H e stressed particularly the futility of
of Germany, who are bent upon destroying
outlawing "aggresiive war.'
our unity and undermining our democratic
Apparently, Salmon 0. Levinson was
form of government. ..
ahead of the times with his plans. Now,
in a period of horrible world conflict, it
National Scout Week .
it well to think of his proposals and to
Synagogues have joined with churches retain the hope that when the minds of
and civic institutions to observe National men who conduct wars have sobered they
will think in terms of outlawing blood-
Boy Scout Week.
shed
for all time. When that day comes,
This celebration provides an excellent
the name of Salmon 0. Levinson will
opportunity for comparison. The Boy
Scout movement. represents , the organiza- loom big as one of the great proponents
tion , of yoUth for cooperative efforts, for 'of world .peace.

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