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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle

scrapped, even if not as easily as it is
adopted. But it is safer to avoid blunder-
ing into a harmful position by acting
and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE
realistically in advance.
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Hadassah, the Zionist Organization of
President
JACOB H. SCHAKNE
America, the Bnai Brith, the American
Entered es Seccnd-class matter March 3. 1916, at the Post-
Jewish Congress, are opposed to the bud-
office at Detroit, Mich., under the Act of March 3, 1879.
geting proposal. In Cleveland, the Jewish
General Offices and Publication Bldg., 525 Woodward Ave. Community Council went on record
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against it by a vote of 81 to 2. We predict
$3.00 Per Year similar action by democratically organized
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communities throughout the land. Why,
Publisher
JACOB MARGOLIS
therefore, should the Council of Jewish
Editor
PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
Advertising Manager
Federations and Welfare Funds court
MAURICE M. SAFIR
criticism. Would it not be wiser for its
To insure publication, all correspondence and news matter
must reach this office by Tuesday evening of each week. leadership to give up this plan and to
urge the various communities in the land
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to act independently on budgets for their
(he Detroit Jewish Chronicle invites correspondence on sub-
lects of interest to the Jewish people, but disclaims responsi- campaigns?
bility for an endorsement of views expressed by the writers.
If this proposal is to be pressed for a
vote
by communities, we continue to urge
Sabbath Scriptural Selections
Pentateuchal portion — Ex. 27 :20-30 :10 ; Deut. that it be defeated.

Detroit Jewish Chronicle

March 7, 1941

CONFIDENTIAL •
• STRICTLY
Tidbits from Everywhere

By PHINEAS J. B1RON
❑ PRIVATE MESSAGES
0 RADIO COMMENT
Aside to .Dr. David Philipson,
No,. we didn't send a free cable
to Hitler, but we thought you'd rabbi
emeritus of Cincinnati's
Roc. kdale Ave..Temple: In your
like
hear wherefores
various views
on Nazi
the article on Cincinnati in the Uni-
whys to and
of the
dcast for versal Jewish Encyclopedia you
radio off er to pay formessages say: "It is interesting to note that
em
what
to
broa
telling th
American listeners . . . Thc F. the first instance of a rabbi's
B. I. is checking all the cables on occupying
a Christian
pulpit oc-
curred in the
city of Cincinnati
the theory that the whole thing in March, 1867, when Dr. Lilien-
may have been a blind for hour- thal occupied the pulpit of the
ly code messages from Nazi spies Unitarian Church" . . . Your sue-
in this country . . . Wineltail cesr,or in the Rockdale Ave. pul-
thinks that the idea was to help pit, Rabbi Victor E. Reichert.
snake up a list of Americans on reminds us that the famous Rabbi
whom local Fifth Columners Gershem Mendez Seixes of New
should keep their eye, while the York occupied the pulpit of St.
senders of favorable messages will Paul's in August, 1800 . . .
be approached as potential F. C.'s Which, however, still makes Dr.
. . . Another view is that the Lilienthal the first rabbi to have
whole business was started to get occupied a Christian pulpit in Cin-
the Nazis a million dollars' worth cinnati . . . Another aside, thin
25:17-19
of publicity at relatively low cost time to Walter Wincheli's Girl
Prophetical portion—I Sam. 15:2-34.
Mo'os
Chitim
Appeal
Readings of the Law for Fast of Esther,
l raynoth jk r a t,quajntecie . Friday: The Winchell whose
.From e sto
"Preadamites" quotation you
Wednesday, March 12
In our zeal to aid the needy overseas, comes
as a dictionary illustration
Pentateuchal portion—Ex. 32:11-14; 34:1-10.
we have never forgotten our obligations American exchange restrictions found
will soon make it impossible for of the meaning of "extramaterial"
Prophetical portion—Is. 55:6-56:8.
to the local community. These obliga- the Nazis to cash in on their is not your boss, but the giologist
Scriptural Selection for Purim, Thursday,
tions must not be overlooked now, when dollar balances here (derived from Alexander Winchell, who wrote
March 13
scientific books and at one
the needs of our fellow Jews in European messages sent to Naziland and many
Ex. 17:8-16
paid for in this country), the time served as president of Syra-
lands
are
more
pressing
than
ever.
ADAR 8, 5701
German masterminds figured out . cust University . . . He was born
MARCH 7, 1941
Funds will be necessary to provide
way l I of using Th up hsomettheoarft in Duchess County, New York,
in 1824, and at the time of his
Passover
relief
for
hundreds
of
thousands
thisss
e
On Purim—We Rejoice
death, in 1891, was professor of
ut the w eho tlemm gat
a
s
b
o.
ar
puzzles
us
Among the numerous messages sent to of Jews in lands of oppression. But the Mr. Goebbels, is why the messages geology at the University of Mich-
G e r m a n y , collect, during the recent tradition of Mo'os Chitim will not be for- couldn't be sent by Western Un- igan.
expressed gotten for our own less fortunate in De- ion or Postal Telegraph, but only
via R. C. A. the only one of the ❑ ABOUT PEOPLE
at Nazi expense, was one from a Newtroit.
Only five weeks remain before the three companies that is headed by Benjamin V. Cohen, the New
Yorker
who reminded
the "kneidlach"
brutaliarians necessary means for local Mo'os Chitim a Jew—i. e., David Sarnoff.
that on Passover
Jews eat
Deal lawyer, who now is the coun-
selor to the American Embassy at
work are to be made available. It should ❑ CONTEST NEWS
to commemorate redemption from Egyp_ be done promptly, and the response
To Abe A. Detwein, Memphis London, was born at Muncie, Ind.,
tian
bondage, that
Purim Jews
eat should be liberal. Mo'os Chitim is a tra- attorney, and Harry S. Gold- a town which a recent survey pick-
"Hamantaschen"
as on
a reminder
of the
regional deputy of Aleph ed as so average an American
asks Jews stein,
Zadek Aleph for Western Ohio city that no important people could
victory over Hamanism; and he asked dition of great significance.
It
who
households
expected to come out of it.
the Nazis to participate in a recipe con- -to provide for those do and Kentucky, our congratulations be Altar-bound
are Diana Klotts,
being the first two readers to
test for the type of delicacy Jews are to not have the abundance that the men and on
women approached for contributions pos- send in the correct answers to formerly of the Seven Arts and
eat when Hitler is called to the seat of sess. Such traditions help strengthen the our recent query about the most now of the New York Campaign
masculine first name in of the United Palestine Appeal,
eternal
justice. we may well think in terms morale of our people and to give their common
all the world . . . Their copies of and Lawrence Gould, of the U.
On Purim,
Dr Emanuel Lasker's "The Com- P. A. national office . . . Felici-
of such hilarity. There will be victory existence and their activities a meaning
here- munity of the Future" have been tations also to Sidney Hillman,
rta
over Hitlerism, just as there was conquest that is worth while. It is imp Moo ' os nt
to them . . . We're still on the engagement of his daugh-
C thitim sent
the tradition of
at
hoping to get a third correct an- ter, Selma, to Irving Lerner.
of Hamanism and Pharaohism. Then, th
be emphasized and that those who pro-
Isaac Carmel, well-known in
so we cannot divulge that
there will be rejoicing not for Jews alone, tact our traditions should be genuinely swer,
famous name now—but we warn Zionist and American Jewish Con-
all and sundry that if that third gress circles, suffered a broken
but for the entire world.
But for Jews the victory will be all charitable in their action.
correct answer doesn't reach us thumb in an auto accident last
before next column-time we'll re- week—which didn't, however, pre-
greater
since
we
will
have
overcome
the
vent him from being back at wo•lc
veal it ourself.
Our
Share
in
Defense
the greatest danger to our existence with
the next day, bringing the gospel
Whatever we are asked to give towards ❑ You SHOULD KNOW
of the Jewish National Fund to
the defeat of Nazism.
It is well to think of the coming victory. funds for defense should be given cheer-
You don't have to be afraid to our Connecticut brethren.
We are in a brutal war to a finish, and fully. This applies to our income tax, to order Heineken's beer, most fa- Playwright George S. Kauf-
of the Dutch brews, at your man is expecting to play the title
the end must be marked by triumph for the sacrificfies we may have to make in mous
favorite restaurant . . . Since the role in his own "The Man Who
civilization. That victory will introduce the future, to the special appeals for Nazi occupation of Holland this Came to Dinner" at a summer
funds to aid the British.
another great Purim on our calendar.
beer is being made in the Dutch theater this summer . . . Kauf-
man, incidentally, is often con-
As we celebrate Purim this year, we
There is a lesson for us in what it East Indies.
Back in his vaudeville days suited by Army authorities on en-
have the right to think in terms of the means to sacrifice in the report that comes James
Cagney used to delight tertainment projects for draftees.
Purim to come. The optimism which com- from London of the anouncement made New York audiences by singing Does Luise Rainer's leasing of
pels the thinking of Jews warrants our in the House of Commons that the de- "My Alice Blue Gown" in Yid- an East Side duplex apartment
thinking in such terms—in preparation fense budget for Palestine this year will dish—and he still does it at inti- in New York presage an appear-
mate private parties. once on Broadway? . . . Luise's
be £3,654,015.
for a better future.
Samuel Grafton, political col- ex, Clifford Odets, incidenta4,
What we give today—through taxation umnist
of the New York Post, started his theater career as an
The Unwise Budgeting Plan
or by voluntary subscriptions—is a drop wonders why nobody has ever actor . . . It was only incipient
During the two weeks that have elapsed in the ocean compared with such figures. established a German government- baldness that caused him to
Furthermore, if we can guarantee the in-exile, with headquarters at Lon- switch to the play-writing end of
since we first urged the defeat of the
don. the game.

proposed budgeting plan sponsored by security of our liberties through such
the Council of Jewish Federations and sacrifices, we should make them gladly,
Welfare Funds, the community has had a with utterances of thanks on our lips for
chance to study the pros and cons of the blessings that are ours to be in position
plan through the statements we have pub- to preserve democracy for the entire
lished presenting both sides of the ques- world by merely giving up a little bit of
our material possessions.
tion.
In this issue of The Detroit Jewish
The Nazi Scheme Analyzed
Chronicle, two prominent leaders present
their views on this issue. Based on this The Christian Science Monitor recently
debate and on previous expressions of analyzed the Nazi way of thinking—and
opinion on the subject of budgeting, we acting—in an editorial under the heading
reiterate our appeal to the local leaders "Lessons on the 'New Order' " which
to defeat the proposal and to make it reads:
THEORY:
possible for individual communities to
"PRAGUE, Bohemia—Moravia Protector-
make their own decisions on and "evalu-
ate, Jan. 21 (AP)—Otto Dietrich, Adolf Hit-
ations" of causes for which they are to
ler's press c hief, asserted yesterday that just
as human beings are unequal so nations also
raise necessary funds.
are unequal and only those nations which
The Council of Jewish Federations and
accomplish most for mankind deserve to stand
Welfare Funds should be encouraged to
at the top."
conduct a "fact-finding" bureau. But un-
APPLICATION:
"BERLIN, Jan. 21 (AP)—Jews in Ger-
der no circumstances must a group of in-
many must pay 15 per cent additional gross
dividuals, each of whom is motivated by
income tax to c ompensate for their 'social
likes and dislikes of certain movements,
inferiority,' a decree published in evening
be permitted to "evaluate" the work of
papers disclosed y esterday."
QUESTIONS.
such causes in order to "advise" commu-
Who decided that Jews are an inferior
nities on action they are to take. Experi-
race? What would prevent those self-appoint-
ence ought to teach us that such "advice"
ed judges from deciding that any other race
is certain to turn into policy-making which
that they may conquer by might or by guile
is also inferior? Who wants to be the equal
will prove damaging to democratic com-
of a Nazi?
munity organization.
It is not unreasonable to assume that
Prof. Mordecai M. Kaplan may have
the
vast majority of the American people
been harsh when he said, in his article in
strongly
adhere to this viewpoint, which
The Chronicle two weeks ago, that the
adoption of the budgeting plan would be rejects the Nazi ideology and sticks to
tantamount to accepting a receivership the American way of treating all groups
in Jewish life. After all, a plan can be as equals.

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