DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and
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Detroit Jewish Chronicle
and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE
Published,Weekly by The Jewish Chronicle Publishing Co., Inc.
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JACOB H. SCHAKNE
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Sabbath Scriptural Selections
Pentateuchal portion—Ex. 30:11-34:35.
Prophetical portion—I Kings 18:1 (or 20))-39.
MACH 14, 1941
ADAR 15, 5701
The United Appeal
Leaders of the three major fund-raising
agencies—the Joint Distribution Commit-
tee, the United Palestine Appeal and the
National Refugee Service—last week - re-
stored unity in Jewish ranks and reached
an agreement for a joint campaign to be
conducted nationally.
This decision will be greeted with satis-
faction and with enthusiasm in Jewish
ranks throughout the country.
The new agreement will eliminate
strife and will make it possible for Jews
to work harmoniously in fund-raising ef-
forts.
In time of crisis and distress, such unity
is the only step permissible for Jewish
leaders who direct the destinies of Jew-
ish communal groups.
Unity should never have been broken,
and the agreement arrived at, with an
evident recognition of Palestine's position
and the necessity of giving efforts for
colonization in the Jewish National Home
a just share of the funds gathered among
Jews in this country, proves that the rift
that existed for three months or more was
unnecessary.
Since the break in unity was, in a sense,
an untimely act motivated more by anger
than Jpy seasoned consideration of Jewish
needs,' the new agreement should serve
as a warning to the leaders who play with
the sentiments of their followers not to
repeat the error that has just been cor-
rected.
Me, who speak for democracy, and in
the name of democracy, should strive also
to put into effect democratic principles
in the direction of Jewish affairs. If the
individual communities were given a
chance to speak their minds, the bitter-
ness that was engendered in the discus-
sions could have been avoided by popular
action.
Let the experience we just had on the
mooted question of unity stand us in good
stead in the years to come.
United community effort was, of course,
never in doubt in Detroit, but the latest
action taken by spokesmen for the three
leading fund-raising agencies will help
create that spirit of friendship among
workers which is so vitally necessary for
the collection of rarge funds for relief and
reconstruction.
March 14, 1941
the Legal Chronicle
standing between Jews and Christians, as
well as by their efforts for the building
of a finer Americanism in the field of
good will and tolerance.
One of the most important Hillel units
is at present located at Brooklyn College,
where Dr. Isaac Rabinowitz, former direc-
tor of the Hillel Foundation of the Uni-
versity of Michigan, is the directing head.
It is the only college whose president took
the intiative to invite the formation of a
Hillel Foundation. In his explanation to
the taxpayers of the New York for the
existence of Hillel, Dr. Harry D. Gide-
onse, president of Brooklyn College, made
some interesting observations. He stated
in part:
It has been often pointed out that New
York City contains the largest Jewish com-
munity that the world has ever known. To
this community, within recent years, has
fallen the religious, cultural and philanthro-
pic leadership of the Jewish people. The
burden of these responsibilities taxes the
Jewish community with the necessity to pro-
duce a quality of leadership capable of carry-
ing it; and the brunt 'of this c hallenge must
be borne by the community's most gifted
cons and daughters. The training of such
leadership, of course, is beyond the scope
of Brooklyn College; but it is to be hoped
that, with the collaboration of the Bnai Brith
Hillel Foundation, g raduates of the college
may find themselves well equipped to take
up such responsibilities.
In welcoming the Foundation to the cam-
pus, we are not merely fostering an endeavor
worthwhil e in itself, but pointing the way to
a richer efflorescence of the common culture
cf the borough and of our immediate con-
stituency at the college. We know that har-
monious intercourse between cultures fructi-
fies each individuality and fortifies the ele-
ments held in common. With the Founda-
tion on the campus, we shall perhaps be
able to see, in concrete form, how a single
group makes its own distinctive contribution
to a larger entity, while the latter shows
and adapts older habit-patterns and ideas
into new forms and directions.
The establishment of the Bnai Brith Hillel
Foundation at Brooklyn is not only a step
toward the solution of one of the greatest
weaknesses in public education; it also en-
riches our college with the services of three-
full-time professional specialists in personnel
and guidance work, as an expression of the
depth of conviction with which private groups
regard the urgency of our needs in this re-
spect.
More power to the Hillel Foundations!
They deserve wider support and more
intense interest on the part of students
and their parents. A far greater number
of students should be urged to participate
in Hillel activities and to help advance
this movement's important program. If
more parents will take an interest in this
work, it is reasonable to believe that the
number of participating students will also
increase.
U. S. Does Not Goose-Step
Another anxious period is over. The
overwhelming Senate vote in favor of
the aid-to-Britain bill definitely establishes
American policy in this war.
The debate in the Senate was marked
by some nasty moments. Some of the sen-
timents injected in the discussion tended
to incite to prejudice and to hatred.
But this is over. The Nazi-Fascist pow-
ers now know that the United States does
not goose-step.
Now we enter upon a period of na-
tional coordination in defense of democ-
racy and against totalitarianism.
The adoption of the American policy
for aid to Britain is the signal for greater
courage among those who are in the thick
•The Hillel Foundations
of battle. It was, in a sense, the greatest
The establishment of a counselorship of victory for the democracies scored off the
the Bnai Brith Hillel Foundations at the battlefield in the present war.
University of Washington, Seattle, Wash.,
is of particular interest for Michigan
Senator Wheeler
residents, since Rabbi Arthur Zuckerman,
formerly of Lansing, has been chosen to
George Gordon Battle of the Council
serve as director of this new Foundation. Against Intolerance in America has ad-
This week came the additional inter- dressed a deserved rebuke to Senator
esting information of the creation of the Burt K. Wheeler.
first Bnai Brith Hillel Foundation in
Also, Senator Wheeler has been con-
Canada—at Queen's University, Kingston, demned for his recent utterances by the
Ontario, bringing the total number of Anti-Nazi League.
Foundations to 55. Additional units are
The leader of the opposition to the
being opened at universities in New Eng- aid-to-Britain measure in the United
land, and the entire country is being States Senate, by using the language of
dotted with these Foundations. With the the Nazis and of Coughlin in singling
addition of the Canadian branch, the out Jewish names when speaking of "in-
work is assuming the significance of a ternational bankers" has shown his true
movement that must soon embrace an colors. •
entire continent.
The former liberal Senator has chosen
Bnai Brith's Hillel Foundations have his friends in the ranks of inciters to
acquired a position of great merit by their racial and religious hatred. In one address
contributions towards the advancement of he has erased all the gloiy that was pre-
Jewish culture and the mutual under- viously attached to his name.
CONFIDENTIAL •
• STRICTLY
Tidbits from Everywhere
By PHINEAS J. BIRON
ings in a search for hidden evi-
dence of the espionage activities
Europeans accustomed to read of which they suspected the gen-
storm signals believe that the time tleman.
Nazi soldiers recently invaded
is coming 50051 when Swiss neu-
the famous Montmartre Ceme-
trality will be a thing of the tery of Paris and destroyed the
past . . . Perhaps
tomb of the famous German Jew-
Goering,
Goebbels that's
et al, why
are re-
ported to be conveying their spare ish poet Henrich Heine. While
cash to South American banks Heine's "Lorelei" is so famous
in Germany
now, while Hitler's little pal Pierre and
the beloved
Nazis couldn't
kill it that even
off, it's
Laval is said to be establishing
now listed as the work of an un-
quite a balance in a New York known author in the Nazi-spon-
bank.
Nazi capital is said to be buying sored collections of immortal Ger-
up quite a lot of hotel properties man poems.
in New York.
Washington is keeping a weath- E PRIZE OFFER CLOSES
er eye on the United States of
Well, we've about given up hope
Brazil, which is showing an in- as regards that third reader who'll
clination to flirt with the Axis, send in the correct answer to our
in order to be on the safe side question anent the most common
just in case. masculine first name in the world
Since, in accordance with nor- . . . Of course, if we get a third
mal business custom, the Nazi correct answer before this appears
government won't get its bill for we'll send the erudite one his copy
those free radiograms of advice of Dr. Emanuel Lasker's "The
till sonic time this summer, there's Community of the Future" . •
a possibility—if world events move But the moment this appears in
fast enough—that RCA will • be print our prize contest is off .. .
left holding the bag for this par- The answer, as two of our hun-
ticular piece of business . . . Is dreds of thousands of readers cor-
that why it was RCA, the only rectly stated, is: MOHAMMED
major communications company . . By way of consolation for
headed by a Jew, which was those who guessed wrong: It
chosen by the Nazis as the only wasn't one of those things you
company through which those mes-
could guess . . . The prize-win-
sages could be sent? ners didn't guess—they had read
it somewhere, and remembered.
❑ EcoNomic FIELD
WAR NEWS
Why is so little attention being ❑ THIS AND THAT
paid to Dr. Mordecai Ezekiel's
New York, we hear, has 303
plan to provide jobs for every-
body in the industrial depression new business enterprises founded
that will follow this war unless by refugees, with employees total-
some preventive measures are ing over 3,000.
taken quickly? . . And why is Scripta Mathematica, Yeshiva
equally little attention being given College's mathematical quarterly
to Samuel C. Lzunport's proposal for laymen, has issued a most in-
to set aside five million bales of teresting catalogue of 85 books
government-owned cotton now, to and portfolios that would make
be used when our cotton mills be- a most valuable addition to any-
gin to feel the effects of that de- body's library . . . The collection
pression? . . . You'll be interested stresses the philosophical, literary,
to know, incidentally, that Lam- artistic and recreational aspects
port's daughter, Felicia, is quite of mathematics,
is chess player, and the other eve-
March 17, which this year as
ning, at a simultaneous chess ex- every year marks not only St. Pat-
hibition, won a game against the rick's Day, but also Dr. Stephen
combined strength of Frank Mar- S. WiFe's birthday, will this year
shall and Ulvstead.
—as we believe we told you some
time ago—be the eve of Jacob
❑ FROM FETTERED FRANCE
Fishman's 20th anniversary as
Georges Duhamel, famed French the Jewish Morning Journal's fea-
poet and dramatist, did his best tured columnist . . . He promises
to appease the Nazi conquerors of an extra good column for the
his country in his new book, and occasion—March 18—and we're
even proclaimed, on the jacket, sure he'd appreciate comments
that "this is a book which even from his readers.
the German authorities would not
Lillian Taiz, who died last week
ban" . . . The Nazis, however, (she was the wife of Sam Jaffe,
proved that their tactics toward the noted actor), was not only
appeasers haven't changed . . . a very talented singer and actress
They've burned the entire first who was slated to become one of
edition of the book-55,000 copies the stars of the Metropolitan
. . . This reminds us of the ex- Opera Company, but was one of
perience of an American in Paris, the most gifted parodists of opera
who thought he might just as well singing in the country . . . Kaet-
play ball with the bosses . . . So zele, as Sam always called her,
he spent a lot of time and money was a most charming hostess, a
on parties for Nazi officers . . . devoted friend and, above all, a
With the result that the Nazis, genuine person who never was
finding it impossible to believe interested in money at the ex-
that an American could actually pense of art . . . She was only
like them, ruined half his belong- 35 when she passed away.
THE "HAMAN" OF TODAY !
by BRESSLER
HAMAN, TOO, TRIED
THAT SCARE STUFF
— BUT IT
DIDN'T WORK o t