February 21, 1941
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle
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Detroit Jewish Chronicle
Maxa Nordau
This coming Sunday evening, Detroit
will
have a distinguished guest in the
Published Weekly by The Jewish Chronicle Publishing Co., Inc.
person
of Maxa Nordau.
President
JACOB H. SCHAKNE
A
brilliant
lecturer, writer and artist in
Entered as Seccnd-class matter March 3, 1916, at the Post-
her
own
rights,
Miss Nordau's visit is of
office at Detroit, Mich., under the Act of March 3, 1879.
particular significance at this time because
General Offices and Publication Bldg., 525 Woodward Ave. she will speak on the views of her father,
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the late Max Nordau, one of the co-
1,3.00 Per Year founders of the World Zionist Organiza-
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Publisher
JACOB MARGOLIS
Editor
The mere fact that she is in position to
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MAURICE M. SAFIR
speak authoritatively on her father's
views which have important bearing on
insure
publication,
all
correspondence
and
news
matter
To
must reach this office by Tuesday evening of each week.
Jewry's position at this time, ought to be
When mailing notices, kindly use one side of the paper only. sufficient to attract a large audience for
The Detroit Jewish Chronicle invites correspondence on sub- her. But she is a keen observer herself,
jects of interest to the Jewish people, but disclaims responsi- has lived in Palestine and in France, has
bility for an endorsement of views expressed by the writers.
visited the leading Jewish communities
in the world, and has opinions that should
Sabbath Scriptural Selections
Pentateuchal portion—Ex. 21:1-24:18; 30:11-16. be reckoned with.
Prophetical portion—II Kings 12:1-17.
We join in greeting Miss Nordau and
Rosh Chodesh Adar Readings of the Torah,
in welcoming her to Detroit, and we sin-
Thursday and Friday, Feb. 27 and 28
cerely hope that she will have a very
Num. 28:1-15.
SHEVAT 24, 5701 large audience to hear her on Sunday
FEBRUARY 21, 1941
evening.
• STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL •
Tidbits from Everywhere
and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE
Defeat the Budget Plan
The proposal for the establishment of
a national budgeting committee to pass
on community allocations in fund-raising
efforts should be defeated overwhelm-
ingly by Federations throughout the
country.
A Committee on the Referendum for
Budgeting, formed after the Atlanta ses-
sions of the Federations and Welfare
Funds, has issued an appeal for the de-
feat of the plan formulated by a majority
at that convention on the ground that
it would standardize Jewish life; that it
would create a form of centralization
that would affect the growth of our corn-
munities.
This committee could go a step further.
It could have pointed out that the estab-
lishment of a national budgeting com-
mittee will place the power to dictate
terms on division of funds in the hands
of a few people, and it would deprive
the local communities of the right to
evaluate needs for themselves. This com-
mittee has a great deal of experience to
draw upon to indicate how dangerous
such a step would be in a threat to demo-
cratic action by various communities. The
formation of such a budgeting committee
would mean the hammering of a few
more nails in the coffin of democratic
community organization in this country.
The proposal for such a budgeting com-
mittee should be defeated by an over-
whelming vote of the American Jewish
communities. It should be defeated in
Detroit, and it should be rejected in the
smaller communities in Michigan. It
should be defeated throughout the coun-
try as a demonstration of American Jew-
ry's desire to retain a democratic form of
community government.
Yeshivath Beth Yehudah
By PHINEAS J. BIRON
LISTEN HERE
SOURCE OF KNOWLEDGE
Congratulations to Rabbi Isaac
Warning to refugees: It's not
a good idea to meet in the cafes Landman, editor, and Louis Rit-
of New York to discuss ways tenberg, executive and literary
and means of rescuing what's left editor, on the appearance of
of your fortune from Nazi hands Volume Three of the Universal
. . . The local Gestapo repre- Jewish Encyclopedia, which brings
sentatives have caught on to this up-to-date knowledge on every
Jewish subject in 10 meaty vol-
tendency, and f requent your umes . . . Volume Three starts
haunts for the express purpose
with Canards and ends with Edu-
of listening in.
Noting the recent death of the cation, which seems to be a sig-
Third Reich's Minister of Justice, nificant sort of arrangement . .
Walter Winchell comments that We can't help wondering whether
the deceased no doubt has gone it was just a happy accident ...
We hope you—and you, and you
to join Justice herself.
The toast of Broadway as we —are among the subscribers to
write this is a song by Irving the Encyclopedia, and therefore
Berlin, called "When That Man have already received this new
Is Dead and Gone," and refer- volume . . . But, just in case you
ring to that happy day when aren't, we'd like to whet your
Charlie Chaplin's mustache will appetite with some choice bits
have lost its imitator . . . The we've gleaned from this one,
i the
furore about the Fuehrer was which, if you remember, is
introduced at Fefe's Monte Carlo volume that contains the ap-
herself proved biography of Charlie
a
Miss
byM
Chaplin . . . Did you know, for
Ethel Aryan.
distinctly, not
example, that back in 1750 one
Myer Hart was one of the found-
STAGE AND SCREEN
To Curt Bois, the comedian ers of the city of Easton, Pa.?
The Anti-Nazi League
who made such a hit in "The That Lewis Naphtali Dembitz, un-
Lady in Question," is credited ele of former Supreme Court
The Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League the remark that Hedy Lamarr Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis,
the gamut of emotions was one of the two Jews who
has to its credit remarkable achievements "runs
from A to X-stasy" . . . Which. were delegates to the Republican
which are not limited to its major task reminds us to tell you about National Convention of 1860, the
Gouda], whom some of you one that nominated Abraham Lin-
of sponsoring the boycott of German- Jetta
may remember as the Hedy La- coin? . . . That the first Jew to
made goods. The League has exposed mart of the '20s . . . She dropped occupy a Christian pulpit was
vicious anti-Semites, Nazis, Fascists and out of pictures when they began Rabbi Max Lilienthal of Cincin-
Communist propagandists. It has been the to talk—but she's one of Holly- nati's Congregation Bene Israel,
favorite interior deco- who in March, 1867, preached
spearhead in the movement to defend wood's
rators nowadays . . . If you're in his city's Unitarian Church?
democratic ideals.
interested in theater decoration , . . That that hitherto unknown
Now, with the appointment of Meyer and such, be sure you get your quantity, the middle name of the
of Mordecai Korelik's "New Free Synagogue's Rabbi Jacob X.
W. Weisgal to the position of executive copy
Theaters for Old" . . . Did you Cohen, is Xenab? . . . That the
vice-chairman, the League will no doubt know that Melvyn Douglas' fa- late Supreme Court Justice Ben-
become an even more vital factor in ex- ther was the concert pianist jamin N. Cardozo never attended
posing Nazi-Fascist activities. The dy- Edouard Hesselberg? . . . A a law school, but studied for his
screen version of the life of bar exam with the aid of a pri-
namic qualities of Mr. Weisgal are well George
Gershwin is promised by vate tutor—one Horatio Alger,
known. He is a genius for organizing na- Warner Brothers for this year ... Jr.? . . . That it is the view
tionally important movements. He has a "The Mechanical Heart," by Sam of many scholars that the word
large acquaintance among the most prom- Behrman, which is opening late "Hebrew" is derived from the
month, may or may not turn name of Eber, who was a grand-
inent Christian and Jewish leaders and this
out to be a box office success, on of the Biblical Shem, and
should be able to mobilize a strong force but it i is a significant play of our thus a great-grandson of Noah?
in the American movement of condemning times . . . It opposes two philoso-, . That the famous Jewish name
subversive activities of paid agents for phies—that of the late Ernst Tol-
the German playwright who R
of Rafts Hakohen of Porto,
Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin. We wish him ler,
committed suicide a couple of Italy? . . . And that Abraham
well in his new position.
years ago, and that of Colonel Ibn Ezra, the Hebrew poet who
Charles Lindbergh . . . And of furnished in the early 12th cen-
course the play is distinguished tury, wrote a poem in which he
Matzoth for European Needy
by the usual scintillating Behr- gave a move-by-move description
man dialogue. of a game of chess?
Passover's approach will bring the per-
WE'RE TELLING YOU
ennial appeal for Mo'os Chitim—the tra- SUR-PRIZE OFFER
This time there's no maybe
We have the urge to ask our
ditional fund to provide holiday necessities
readers a question the answer about it . . . Dr. Chaim Weiz-
for needy.
to which we ourself didn't know mann will be here before this
The need for Mo'os Chitim funds is till the other day . . . It is: shortest of months is over.
greater than evert this time because we What masculine first name oc- That full-page ad of the Prot-
most frequently in the estant Digest's, which will appear
must think not onIgNin terms of the hun- curs
whole world? To the first three in the New York Times by the
dreds in our own community who must readers who send in the correct time this column reaches you, is
be helped, but of the millions in European answer we, in our turn, will send a corker . . . It asks the Chris-
lands who are under the heels of oppres- a copy of the late Dr. Emanuel tian world what Jesus would
have said to the pogroms in
sors and who must be provided with nec- Lasker's last book, "The Com- Rumania.
munity of the Future".
essities of life at all times.. It is estimated
by the Joint Distribution Committee that
a fund of $250,000 will make it possible
By BRESSLER
SENTINEL OFIOURIFREEDOM;
to sent quantities of Matzoth to Jews in
Nazi-controlled lands. It is indicated that
such a relief effort will provide the needy
with food which they are unable to
secure at other times in the year, and as-
surances are given that safe delivery will
be guaranteed for such shipments.
Under the circumstances, it is impera-
tive that an immediate effort be made to
secure this extra fund of a quarter of a
million dollars for Passover relief for
European Jewry. Aside from the suste-
nance it will provide for them, it will be
a signal to them not to lose courage in
time of crisis and to have faith that free-
dom—as symbolized in the Passover story
—will again be restored to lands at pres.
ent reduced to slavery.
A special supplement included in this
issue of The Detroit Jewish Chronicle is
devoted to the activities of the Yeshivath
Beth Yehudah. The material incorporated
in this section provides an excellent op-
portunity for Detroit Jews to study the
needs as well as the accomplishments of
the Yeshivah, to evaluate its importance,
to learn what the major aspirations of
this Yeshivah are. In view of the Yeshi-
vah's current drive for a fund for the
construction of a new building, it espe-
cially necessary that the community
should become fully informed with the
needs of this school which has made rapid
progress under the direction of`olls new
dean, Dr. Samson R. Weiss. We urge
careful study of the material incorporated
Curbing Propaganda
in the special supplement in order that
our readers may become fully informed
A bill has been introduced in the New
on the needs of the Yeshivah.
York State Assemb by Jane H. Todd to
make it a misdem , anor to publish and
Language and Picketing
circulate pamphlets, handbills or posters
There are times when Jews should and which do not carry the names of those
must act as Jews. But in matters of state, responsible for printing them.
in affairs affecting labor and industry and
This measure is a step in the right
disputes between employers and employ- direction. Most of the vicious propaganda
ees, there should be no division among the circulated during the last political cam-
population on the basis of creed, language paign, and much of the anti-Semitic trash
or race. Therefore, when pickets marching being spread in this country, are pub-
in front of downtown stores or theaters lished anonymously. If the responsible
carry Yiddish signs they abuse a privilege. parties were known, it would be easy to
Union leaders should investigate such ir- deal with peddlers of lies; otherwise the
responsible action and should be The first
battle is a difficult if not a hopeless one.
to condemn it.