February 21, 1941 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle 4 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, Cable Address: Chronicle Telephone: Cadillac 1040 the late Max Nordau, one of the co- 1,3.00 Per Year founders of the World Zionist Organiza- Subscription in Advance tion and the World Zionist Congresses. Publisher JACOB MARGOLIS Editor The mere fact that she is in position to PHILIP SLOMOVITZ Advertising Manager 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.