A merica Awish Peril,'lira! &ter February CLIFMN AVENUE - CINCINNATI 30, OHIO DETROIT JEWISH 7, 1941 CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle Junior Hadassah League of Youth Rally on Sunday , Being Organized By Philip Slomovitz The monthly meeting of Junior'', • p urely ommentary Death Calls an American Maskil • the foundation was removed, the, house, of course began to c ollapse. If hatred becomes Constitution to Be Adopted at Meeting Feb. 24 Hadassah will be held this Sun- ' day, Feb. 9, at 3 p. m., at Hotel Strider, with Rose Poskel, presi- dent, conducting an open board meeting. Every member is invited to be a "board member" for the day, and actively participate in discussions on policies and prob- lems of the group. Final preparations are being made by the honor roll commit- tee, headed by Helen Waldstein, for the honor roll victory ball, ; which the juniors are giving this year independent of the seniors. on Sunday, Feb. 16, at Hotel Statler. On Feb. 3, a delegated group the supreme norm of justice, any outrage Eldar Markson of Boston is no longer among of young people representing, nu- the living. But his memory will Live among those may be justified. merous youth organizations met If it is right for me to plunder you because at the Jewish Community Center who know what a splendid man he was. of your black e yes, you may plunder me be- to discuss a proposed League of He was a merchant; but in line with an old to cause of my blue eyes. If I have a right Detroit Jewish Youth. tradition in Jewish life he was also a Maskil, a destroy a JeW, I have a right to destroy an This proposed League is to be Hebraist of note, a man who loved his people and ven- Italian, Scotchman, Baptist, Republican open to all Jewish youth groups their culture. He was a devoted Zionist and he triloquist. of the community with 'a specific financed literary activities to spread Zionist and That sounds g rotesque, but Rumania sadly and positive Jewish interest. The Hebraic thought. shows it is true. Ten thousand rifles shouted , League plans to work in close The late Eldar Markson made possible the pub- it is true. The Iron Guardists murdered cooperation with the organized lishing, several years ago, of the collected essays Prime Ministers, Generals, national heroes, Jewish community, and to con- of the philosopher of labor Zionism, A. D. Gor- venom and fanaticism as as much just cern itself with problems that don: His charities are too numerous to 7: - With they murdered Jews. They assassinated the face the Jewish youth of 'today. Incidentally, Eldar Markson was a cousin „ of irch-nationalist, Prof. Nichola lorga, with All Jewish youth groUps are the late Aaron D. Markson, the eminent _Detroit as much zeal as the c heese seller, Mordecai 'invited to send their delegates - . educator who passed away seven years ago. Levi. to the next -meeting, on Monday, Eldar Markson will be greatly missed in the When any group in a nation bases its poli- Feb.' 24, at 8:30 p. m., at the tanks of Zionism and Jewish education in Amer- tics on hatred for another group in that na- Jewish Community Center. At TYLER ica, for he belonged not only to Boston but to tion, it is working for the destruction of its this time the proposed League country. all American Jewry. will adopt its constitution to as- 5-8400 • What else is there to be said,' •except to add sume its position in the commu- "He Who Digs a Pit for Others .. ." • that once upon a time there was a warning writ- nity. Reuben Gold was elected chair- The • Psalmist's warning that he who digs a pit ten on the wall of ,a palace in an ancient kingdOm for others shall fall therein ought to prove a which ich read: "Mene, Mene, Tekel Upharsin"— man of the constitution commit- grave warning for Rumania in her preSent crisis. „ Thou halt berin weighed in the balance, hnd tee and David Ashkenazi of pub- The examples of Norway and Holland, whose pen- :found • wanting." This inscription appeared on licity. For additional information call pies refuse to be fooled by Nazism and are con- the eve of the wicked kingdom's destruction. There ducting an aggressive, albeit underground cam- is handwriting on the walls of Rumania, and other Herman Jacobs at the Jewish paign against anti-Semitism, are too evident to nations who .oppress their minorities. But unfor- Cominunity Center. Leader be ignored even by the Rumanians -whOse. Jew- tunately, as in the case of Belshazzar's kingdom Dirt baiting at one time exceeded even that of tzarist of old, they are unable to read it! . Levinson, Peace Russia. ., .. • . , Will Rumania learn a lesson from history and. Advocate, Dies : Has Anti-Semitism Been Checked? realize the seriousness of the Psalmi§t's warning? Salmon 0. Levinson, who be- Will Rumanians realize that a nation can not sur-;, . the'. February issue of .the Hebrew Union Col- came famous for his peace plans vive if a portion. of that nation—be it Jewish' loge Monthly, in its leading editorial entitled and as a collaborator in the draft- l or Catholic or Protestant—is persecuted? "False Prophets," takes . exception to the state Psalmist's admonition finds excellent appli- m ent made by Dr. Salo W.' Baron on. Nov. 17, ing of the Kellogg-Briand pact to Mon: that "it is quite possible that .anti-Semitism, Sunday outlaw war, (lied Chicago on cation in an article in the Christian Science Mo at the age in of 75. ,, ' m, under the title "Hatred rather than advancing, has been 'checked -in 1939. " Digs Pit." Markha tor by a R. H. Mr. Markha is eminently well quasi Since that time, the annual report of the .. In 1917, this went internationally stated that Ameri- anti- ramous lawyer to ' Europe • fled to discuss the subject he deals with. He has can c ' Jewish Committee for 1940 to aid in advancement of n peace r LEADER is not just a cleaner written a series of articles for the Monitor on the Jewish agitation in - America "s truck a new low, • ., pacts. He originally supported' the various groups which make up this nation, and his of disrepute during the ,past year." —LEADER is a specialist in '-' League of Nations,. later opposed observations served to cement good will among all cleaning Rugs, Carpets . and Hebrew ' UniOn College Monthly's „comment on it 'and then 'advocated entry of elements in the American melting pot. His "Hatred Dr. Baron's analysis was that "the facts show this country into the World Court. Upholstered Furniture.. . , Digs Pit" is therefore a splendid observer commentary from a the pen of a dispassionate and a that, far from being curtailed, the activities of He recently advocated outright LEADER our native 'merchants- of . hate' • have increased gifts to Great Britain to aid in man who is without rancor. reprint "Hat- considerably." While':this may be too pessimistic the victory of the democracies .Carpet Cleaning Company red Digs a Pit" in the hope We that it will his reach enough Rumanians, and others who are in danger an attitude to, adopt, •we: are inclined to agree that over dictatorships. ■ of joining their ranks, to bring some relief from hatred of Jews• has not din* ished. There were numerous' incidents in tile past few oppressive bigotry in the world. Here is Mr. Mark- CUSTOM MADE QUILTS & REMODELING months which provided proof that the Coughlinitus, ham's article: the Bundists and the spreaders of hate' in numerw Rumania is a sad and glaring example of ous other quarters have not abated their -activities. how a social fabric unravels. The main cause Joseph E. McWilliams, in spite of the repudiation TYLER 4-11726, of this disintegration is hatred. When the he received at the. hands of voters in the German 8823 12TH ST (our only store) Rumanians began fanatically to hate Jews, Parking in Rear of Store section of Yorkville in New York City, appears to they dug the abyss into which their nation have • enough funds to continue his anti-Semitic barrage. Trouble-makers in Philadelphia and in is falling. What is happening in Rumania is not at Detroit gathered sufficient strength to create dis- turbances at meetings for democracy—at a Quaker all u nique. Just the opposite. It is an ex- ample of the universal working of hatred. meeting in Philadelphia and at an American What characterizes Rumania is that hatred Jewish Conress meeting in Detroit. KOSHER as a political policy is working in an espe- Also, in a column he wrote for the fascist cially swift and dramatic way. In most re- Restaurant and Dining Room newspaper Publicity published in Wichita, Kan., spects, Rumania is not radically dissimilar UNEXCELLED FOOD the anti-Catholic admirer of Coughlin, Edward Ca•rIng to Bridge Parties and Banquets from France, Yugoslavia, Hungary, or the James Sp-lithe,. advocated emulation of Hitler in rrivate Dining Boom for Parties United States. It is a richly endowed country America and launched an attack on Jews. Robert O 12017 DEXTER BLVD. with a heterogenous population. Among the 0 Edward Edmondson has not slowed up his presses NOrthlawn 9786 Rumanians are many Jews, Hungarians, for the dissemination of hate-arousing propaganda. O Germans, R u ssians. With such divergent eth- 0=0=10=0=10 The work of the anti-Semites goes on. Cough- 1 2)=01= 1 0=0 nic groups c o-operation was difficult, as it is linite salesmen are still on our street corners. The in many lands. mails arc still free for the dissemination of pro- Nevertheless, many Rumanians made noble Nazi propaganda, most of which is aimed at the efforts to establish harmony and maintain a Jewish people. regime of democratic fairness. They saw It is true that Coughlinite literature • does not that was the only possible course for a na- have many customers, and that sentiment against enemies without and withi:t. tion assailed by peddlers of bigotry has increased. But these Rumania's old Liberal Party was as good as