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7, 1941
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle
12
Beth El College
Op ens New Term
fearing man lying in an un- Congress Theater
marked grave outraged him.
Parties Continue
He collected a little money
Page
1)
(Continued from
with which to give the Jew more
March 10, 11 ► 12 The spring term of Beth El •
to see
All Detroit Is Talking
College of Jewish Studies
the great. Bialik and Schmaryaha proper burial and city
Lewin were his close friends; Sir the mayor of the city about the
The Detroit Women's Division open Monday night, March 17,
About
Ronald Storrs, former Governor disinternment of the body.
of the American Jewish Congress at 8 o'clock. The term will con-
of Jerusalem, was glad to re- "Give me my Jew" Choni said announces that all unused tickets sist of 10 successive Monday night
to the mayor. Choni does not sold for its theater party will sessions.
ceive him, as do Weizmann i
Courses are offered in "Cur-
Wise and Lipsky! M a u r i c e possess the faculty of circum- be honored by the management
Events," "The Essence of
rent
Schwartz gives an annual benefit locution.
of the Center Theater, Wood-
The mayor told him to go to ward at the Boulevard, next Jewish History," "The Literature
performance for him.
Monday, Tuesday and Wednes- of the Bible," "Hebrew" and
These are men of superior in- the board of health.
"Go to hell yourself" respond- day, March 10, 11 and 12. Tick- "Comparative Religion." Classes
telligence and perhaps of easier
Detroit's Newest
to 10ach
irritability than the average. They ed Choni. His English is a little ets are still being sold by the are held 8 to 9 and 9 o
Etch
would be apt to be less tolerant faulty in the hearing end as well ticket committee. student may take on
and Most Modern
seesr.
eTehuerseregeifstiiaotiosnueef
of the self-infliction of a person as in the speaking end.
successive
All monies, stubs and unsold courp
on their company than the aver-
tickets should be mailed or de- $1
age man, yet they not only tol-
livered to Mrs. Daniel Siegel, Monday
night sessions.
On Saturday
morning, March
livered
erated him but dined with him,
18655
Fair-
,
Rabbi
Leon
Frain
will preach
general
chairman,
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Choni has become almost a
shared their material possessions
at the Student Convocation at
as well as their time with him.— legend in American Jewry. It is field.
— Adrian College, Adrian, Mich.
and there was no law compelling time to prove that
- he is a real
• kl'n has re-
Dr. Leo M.
them to do so. It must be that flesh and bone—time to state the
turned from his vacation in
his-
Choni represents some significant basic facts so that future his- "In my heart," he says, "I want-
ed to and
shower
her with
flowers, ida and will
occupy the pulpit
torians will not contend so vari- stood
approved
nevertheless.
value to them.
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In the Heart of Chinatown
is that value?
ously as to the truth. Choni was
What is
I have sometimes thought that born in Shedlowitz, Poland. He money, so what else can I do?
0
Youth
Education
but unfortunately
have stood
no Friday
night,
March 14. League
Choni represents a sort of grape- was equipped with the full corn- showed
her ho .w, my I heart
REAL CHINESE
vine news system to them. By pleinent of nomeclature at the and she liked it. '
At the meeting of the Youth
his hobnobbing with the distin- beginning. The family name was
STYLE DISHES
fyr g e stories that are told testi- Education League Auxiliary on
guished of all factions, he may
to Choni's unique individ- Feb. 25, plans were discussed
now and then be of service em Mazdoff.
But the Mazdoff was soon
including
them
in communicating
them dropped. Choni was early seen to uality are legion. There is the
Jong party, to be held in
matters
about the other to
factions
Egg Roll and
factures
bestowed
Choni, April.
for the The
coming
charity
bridge
proceeds
will
go to
—offering a sort of type of news be too unique to be blamed, or one
of the who
cloak
and suit on
manu-
hool
supplies
Fried Shrimps
which is too personal to get by credited as the case may be, to rails of course, a new and extra
and clothing to needy Jewish
the
newspaper
desks. This
sere- Jewish
one family.
to the fine suit of clothes. He looked charity
ice may
be performed
uncon_
world. He
In belonged
fact, his family,
and for school
Open Until 4 A. M.
of Detroit.
on as Choni gave the suit the school children
Jean
Simon,
case chairman, re-
eiously
without
either
the
giver
as
in
not
the
too
case
eager
of
to
so
claim
many
him.
of
once-over,
waiting
for
some
word
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recipients analyzing just those destined for immortality, of appreciation. Suddenly it ported on various charitable
or the
came. "Where is the extra pair cases which the group is hand
HARRY CHUNG, Mgr.
what they are getting or giving. was
Beyond this, it seems to me Choni admits that his fatherrf pants?" asked Choni.
ling
looked askance at him, but Choni of
that
Choni
renders
a
more
dis-
tinct service. Abraham Lincoln lived to see his father change There have been quite frequent ---- _ —
about Choni's feet. They are not Good Neighbor Policy and Choni,
his mind in that respect.
used to enjoy what he called
Within himself, Choni felt that dainty.
comments
in the Yiddish
press a it is interesting to note that
Indeed,
if they were
"public opinion baths", that is to
for great things.
ng
i
of the
President.
The admirer
class in
plain
people
and
so the with
better
to Warsaw, as though moving picture, you might call Choni
is a
100 per cent
say. he
liked to
mingle
the Moving
he
feat-uses. But Choni which he put the President may
d
g u a g e what the politicians led by fate, he forthwith drifte has made capital o of the size of be gauged by an epigram of
to the office of the Yiddish daily them
double
MARSEILLE, France.—(WNS)
proudly boasts the
his feet
also. As the story goes,
brought to him.
York 's largest which he , to wit: The re are drei
Now, not all people are so there — Der Moment. Probably
—Dr. Leon Bramson, president
him was the desire department
one of the New
stores once, to dem- pate
aternityie
die velt, jene velt and
of the World ORT Federation happily constituted as Lincoln deep within
What wouldn't Mrs.
the ability to mingle to be a writer, but the niceties
Roosevelt."
and for more than 50 years a was—in
and absorb from the great pub- of prose composition eluded him; onstrate the wide range of their
champion of Jewish right s lie. Nowadays to bring the in- yet, this did not prevent him stock, offered to buy and give Winchell's boy have given to
thought of that.
throughout the world, died here
tomer
of this public to bear from pursuing a journalistic anything which the customer
At Jewish functions in Amer-
at the age of 72. Dr. Bramson fluence
we have such new devices as the career. Choni became a sort of free of
charge
to any
cutomer
which
could
not be
found ica, there would be of course no
came here recently from Paris
lunch editor. When the editor asked
in their stock. Choni straightways thought of barring Choni. The
where he had lived since 1933. Gallup Poll.
a plate of borsht, made for the store and of course But office wasn't made for him.
It is my contention to these was out for
Born in Kaunas and educated celebrities
that Choni represents more likely than not, it was soon had free of charge a new
cool But now and then abroad, where
d h'inself in Air of shoes.
at the University of Moscow, Dr.
oes. What store
his fame has not permeated a
active the common people. A reassur- Choni lure
an
Bramson
has played
the masses, there are times of
role
in Jewish
public life since ante come to them when they the editoria l chair and acce pted I have shoes of his ., size?
One of Choni s prize posses- difficult
but it is rare indeed
the age of 20. He received wide see Choni. At last, they feel they or rejected manuscripts.
In 1913 he
came
to
tne
United
a visit to Canada in sions is a raincoat formerly be- that Choni is completely stumped.
recognition for his work in fight- have their feet on the ground.
Un
One at which he had an interest-
ing anti-Semitism and advocating His presence is proof to them of
he States.
muse initial missionary
days, he was
d is- l was tendered Choni by the Su- mg narrow escape occurred in
Jewish rehabilitation
through
vo-
that,
and
no
one
so
much
as
the
activities
ta
cational retraining.
His duties in celebrity with his eyes so fee- Liu bed by the great amount
longing
Justice
Brandeis.
He was of
par-
preme to Court
justice
at his This
first
Belgium, when the
J e a n
Jewish multimillion airre,
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behalf of the ORT Federation, quently glued to the horizon is c mist
lowitz's famous son asked for a Fischer,
.
an organization which promotes as appreciative of an occasional Liiere among Jews.
gave a banquet in honor
agriculture and artisanship among touch with the common clay as ticularly vexed by a missionary meeting with Choni when meeting.
Shed- .
Dr. Sokolow.
who occupied a soap box in a Justice Brandeis thought perhaps
No amount of persuasion could
Jews, brought him to the United these
celebrities.
There perhaps is one more street almost wholly populated little
memento
their mee and get the door keeper to permit the
he wanted
an of autograph
States several times.
reason and that is that tne visit by Jews. To offset the missionary, signed his name on a card,
tangible uninvited Choni to enter. When
A member
of the first
an dgi e Choni in desperation resorted
ed to
Duma,
Dr. Bramson
was Russian
the au- of Choni is proof that you have unoni mounted a box on the op-
ke u hp entering without consent,
p corner cnailenging the mis- symbols. Th
The Jud
Judge looked
bee tnat seeks posits
arrived. Choni i s a b
the Russian
Equalities
Act of of 1917
which made
dis- out the flowers only. No others sionary, -denying his allegations in the skies. It looked like the door keeper simply pushed him
thor
need try to give him anything. and uerying tne alligator' as it Choni
goes
in for
more
ed for
the t after-
rain had
stopp
. back. It looked like ri. dark mo-
ve him the rain-
crimination against Jews because
merit in Choni's life.
This
is
not
to
say
that
Choni
were.
By chance Maurice Schwartz, noon and he ga
a criminal of-
But then—of a sudden, the
of
their His
religion
fense.
activity in behalf of has no fellow sympathy f or tne
Incidentally,
Choni at that guest of honor entered. Like a
Jewish and other causes led to common man. lie will fight hard the noted Jewish actor, happened coat
under his arm.
his imprisonment on two different
for Ali
tnem,
to been
their see
dis- ante
to be of passing.
was position
tne ob- time was a little disappointed in blitz, Choni had an inspiration.
tress.
his respond
life he has
Cnoni in It this
a Labor Zionist, but this aspect of defender of the faith that Justice Brandeis, when the lat- He seized Dr. Sokolow by
the
occasions.
con- first attracted Schwartz to him. ter asked him how he spelled his arm and entered at ri b
Great was the astonishment of
Dr. Bramson was appointed in of Choni i represents his
1894 director of the schools science, "categorical imperative" Choni regards Schwartz as one name.
"What sort of a Supreme Court the door keeper to see Choni
of that galaxy of his closest
founded by the Society for the in him so to speak.
enter and sit by the side of the
However, I do not wish to friends which includes Weizmann judge is it," he asked, "who can't guest of honor.
Enlightenment of Jews in Russia,
Has Choni any system? How
He also directed the program of _ minimize tnis aspect, for Choni and Lipsky and included such spell?"
Seven times Choni has crossed
figures as Sokolow, Schmaryahu the ocean and back, not a stow- does he get everything and
the Jewish Colonization Associa
tion in that country. Since 1924, has a very creditable record in
It was
he was a member of the Council battling fur tne underdog — in- Lewin
and Choni
Bialik. in quite another away but with all comforts and everywhere w i t h o u t money?
, i think it the most credit-
deed
struction
Foundation,
and
since able phase of his whole career. role that fascinated the former not infrequently with a banquet Choni
tern, disclaims
but if you
having
listen
any long
sys-
of the American
Jewish
Recon-
gh to him, you soon per-
o The Jewish writer Abraham Rei- Governor of Jerusalem, Sir Ron- to see
him
off.
most recent of enough
On
one
of
the
n
method
1925 of the Council of t he Uni s. sen has appropriately described aid Storrs. It was Choni's man-
career of Choni, the Revo- ner of taking his liquor—direct these trips, he returned to his ceive that there is some m
ion So cietie the
of Jewish. Emigration
lutionist. Few know that he from the bottle—that magnetized native Shedlowitz. All Shedlowitz —some broad general rule. Let
served terms totaling close to Sir Ronald. The sight of Choni turned out to see the home town us take the matter, for instance,
boy who had made good. It was of traveling abroad. That re-
Major
Work
by
Julius
his he-man
fashion
Major
him i beam
with joy.
He a reception like that given Lind- quires considerable money and
three years for his political ac- made
drinking
three
bergh in New York with only doubtless re presents one of the
Chajes Published in
tivities in the democratic n et l f
those great free
the of
ro-ofhspring
of the confetti left out. Jew and more difficult problems of life
ing whicn had its climax n tn e detected one
New York
ugh
spiits
in t
r
Russian Revolution of 1904.
To this day, tne claims of the Magna Charta embellished by the Gentile
of Shedlowitz
forgot
all on the
no-pay as
system.
However,
Choni intimates,
past differences
to unite
on the
The Transcontinental Music underdog never fail to stir him. western frontier.
his man who had put Shedlowitz on if you analyze and break down
Corporation of New York City Several years ago, he was in a
o . h• the map. Choni was greeted at the problem—it becomes simpler
Choni was summoned to
it-
announces the publication of the Southern city. Just what ne was presence.
"You are an American, the railroad junction by a band —the larger problem resolves it-
142nd Psalm, Cantata for Soli, doing there only Choni knows. are Chom's
two
smaller
problems,
w
English
aroused
some
and
officially
welcomed
by
no
self
into
t
you not?"
Mixed Chorus, Organ and Orches- It has been said that he went
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an the
e mayor o of namely (1) how to get abroad
person than
ess a person
less
tra by Julius Chajes of Detroit. there to see if it was true what suspicions in him, but there was
(2) how to return from abroad.
himself.
• the High
Of course, a speech was tie- Now, it is self-evident that your
This composition was a p rize- they say about Dixie. But be no doubt in
, High Commis-
Commis-
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winning composition in an Inter- that as it may, it happened that sinner's
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, mind
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of Choni and he spoke friends will be glad to be rid
of Choni s kindred
national Competition for Choral
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't
t
those
free
broncho-
like
rival
there
he
heard
i an American ambassador of you for a while and . will con-
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Works in 1937, and was per-
busting spiritss of the American might have spoken. He said he tribute to that purpose. That
had heard that the Poles had not takes care of No. 1 and simi-
so poor, that he had been buried plains.
cities.
. in Potters Feld.
Probably it was the gentleman been nice to the Jews. He hoped larly your friends abroad will be
Hugh Ross, well-known conduc-
G d in Choni which also unconsciousl y he was in error, but if he was only too happy to chip in if you
The idea of an honest, God
for of the New York Schola Can-
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acted upon the High Commis- not, he hoped that their relations go back. That takes care of No. 2.
torum, gave the first American —
sinner, for beneath the rough ex- would become harmonious. It Choni will reminisce of any-
performance of Mr. Chajes' Can- Bnai David Sisterhood Plans terror beats the vibrant heart of was a speech in full coformity one but of Dr. Weizmann. "He
tats in July 1939, at the New
gentleman. How else explain with the President's Good Neigh- is our leader. We must be care-
Purim Party, Event for
a
York World's Fair. The English
the bouquet of flowers for ex- bor policy. He concluded with ful to do nothing to embarass
Mobile Kitchens
ample which Choni sent anually a message from the President, his position." When it is pointed
version of the Psalm was adapted
to the music by Hugh Ross and
The Bnai David Sisterhood will to a very wealthy Zionist lady which indicated that nothing was to him that we speak of Presi-
Isaac Franck, the latter of De-
meeting on Mon- of Canada. There are some who closer to the White House than dent Roosevelt and he is our
hold
a special March
day evening,
10, in the attempt to make light of it by the good lad of little old Shed- leader also, he answers that
troit.
Roosevelt is the head of a firmly
be a party.
special Purim pointing out that Choni sent lowitz.
form of a Purim
The reception was a great established government. America
these flowers C.O.D. But what
There will
to satisfaction to Choni, but best can take it, but the Jewish posi-
Bnai David Scout Troop
party, Sunday, March 9, at the of that? Money was no object
of all he liked what it did to his tion is too infirm.
Receives Charter
good
lady.
that
synagogue for the Sunday School
"Ask me," he says, "about
"She never got such flowers father. It made Choni terrifically
happy to note the joialness w ith iak,
B li about Schmaryahu Lewin ,
On Thursday evening, Boy children.
The organization is giving ii as from
me," Choni
explains.
He admits
that the
good lady which tho father trated out the abo ut Wise and Lipsky and Mau-
Scout Troop No. 135 was host
ah Jong and card party on
later
pointed fatted gefilte fish for the return- rice Schwartz."
their
sponsors,
Mon
to parents and Men's Club on Monday evening, March 17. All smiled when she
Ask him—he's got a g ood an-
the Bnai David
proceeds will go towards the out to him that she was billed ing prodigal
son.
Speaking
of the President's saver.
the occasion of receiving its mobile kitchens.
for the flowers, but she under-
CHONI
CHUNG'S
Chinese
Restaurant
Dr. Leon Bramson
Dies in Marseille
charter.
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