March 21, 1941 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle 4 Detroit Jewish Chronicle and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE Published Weekly by The Jewish Chronicle Publishing Co., Inc. President JACOB H. SCHAKNE Entered as Seccnd•class matter March 3, 1916, at the Post- office at Detroit, Mich., under the Act of March 3, 1879. Ave. Cable Address: Chronicle General Offices and Publication Bldg., 525 Woodward Telephone: Cadillac 1040 Subscription in Advance JACOB MARGOLIS PHILIP SLOMOVITZ MAURICE M. SAFIR $3.00 Per Year Publisher Editor Advertising Manager fo insure publication, all correspondence and news matter .nust reach this office by Tuesday evening of each week. When mailing notices, kindly use one side of the paper only. The Detroit Jewish Chronicle invites correspondence on sub- people, but disclaims responsi- jects of interest to the Jewish bility for an endorsement of views expressed by the writers. Sabbath Scriptural Selections Pentateuchal portion—Ex. 35:1-40:38; Num. 19 Prophetical selection—Ezek. 36:16-38. MARCH 21, 1941 ish Congress, the Jewish National Work- ers' Alliance, the Rabbinical Council of America, the orthodox Rabbinate, and others. Again, in the words of President Roose- velt uttered in his address last Saturday night, what these movements ask of the Council of Federations and Welfare Funds, which approved of the budgeting plan, is that it "sacrifice privilege" but "not fundamental rights." What the overwhelming opinion of American Jewry's outstanding movements asks of the Federations, and what the spokesmen for these movements in De- troit ask of the Jewish Welfare Federa- tion of Detroit, is the defeat of the un- democratic budgeting proposal. The Jew- ish Welfare Federation of Detroit should act in accordance with these sentiments. ADAR 22, 5701 The Drive Is On While major decisions are yet to be reached as to the total budget and the leadership for the 1941 Allied Jewish Campaign, the drive may well be con- sidered to be on at this time. During the past two years, the formation of the women's division in the drive has been a signal to the community that the major fund-raising effort is about to commence. This is also true this year. The women's work has commenced. This means that the city-wide solicitations are to begin within about six or seven weeks. It means also that all members of the Jewish com- munity of Detroit must prepare them- selves for action in the coming drive. The second, and by far the most im- portant, signal that the great fund-raising effort is challenging Detroit Jewry to ac- tion is the announcement of the appoint- ment of Henry Wineman as chairman of the drive. A campaigner with a good back- ground for leading successful Allied Jew- ish Campaigns, Mr. Wineman's acceptance of the chairmanship should serve to stimu- late large activity in preparation for the solicitations to commence soon. Volunteer workers must be mobilized, individual contributors must be prepared to give more than they did last year, organizations must participate in the work. The drive is on, and Detroit Jews must resolve to make it a success. Young Judaea's Progress Twenty years ago, Young Judaea was a power in Detroit. At that time, close to 1,000 boys and girls were enrolled in the local youth movement, and every impor- tant undertaking in this city felt the in- fluence of these junior Zionists. For a time, the movement lagged here. But in recent years it has been revived, and today it makes another strong bid for leadership as the community's leading youth movement. Young Judaea has a sound and most practical program. It seeks to strengthen the community's cultural needs, to be- come a vital factor in the upbuilding of Palestine, to be a contributor to the best interests of true Americanism. The move- ment deserves wholehearted support in its undertakings, and it is to be hoped that it will continue to grow from strength to strength. Federation's Responsibility An interesting debate is coming to a close. It is a debate involving democratic action in our community as opposed to centralization of power in the hands of a handful of people undemocratically chosen. In this debate on the question of the proposed budgeting plan, the Jew- ish communities, including Detroit's, are doing the truly American thing by argu- ing principles in the open. It is as Presi- dent Roosevelt said in his historic address .aA Saturday night, that America "talks out its problems in the open." The most important movements in American Jewish life have spoken and acted against the budgeting proposal. In- cluded in the opposition are the Zionist Organization of America, Hadassah, the Bnai Brith, Mizrachi, the American Jew- The Assorted Fascists We call the attention of our readers to the following editorial which appeared in the Nation: The drawn-out debates in Congress on the Lease-Lend bill at times seemed to exemplify Hitler's sneers at the hopeless inefficiency of democratic processes. But now the bill has be- come law, after minority opinion has been given ample opportunity to express itself, we have a chance to make up for lost time by rallying around the President and making it possible for him to use his new powers swiftly and effectively. Senator Vandenberg has given a good lead by pointing out that even the emphatic two-to-one vote in the Senate for the bill did not represent the true extent of the desire to aid Britain, which was shown more exactly by the fact that f.0 out of 55 Senators supported either the bill itself or the Taft substitute. We hope Axis commentators will ponder these figures, which should also serve as a warning to Senator Wheeler and his fellow irreconcil- ables who are threatening a raging, tearing campaign throughout the country in opposi- tion to the principles of the Lease-Lend Act. For if the Republicans now gracefully accept the fait accompli, these "crusaders" will have to seek support among a motley assembly of dubious elements—Coughlinites, assorted fas- cists, Jew-baiters, and Communist fellow- travelers. Anticipating the passage of the bill the President is believed to have plans drawn up for making it immediately effective. The news that Britain lost 148,000 tons of ship- ping in the week ending March 2 should act as a spur. Hitler's spring Blitz has begun. Let us speed the tools to counteract it. In the issue in which this appeared, there was a special article on "Wheeler's Cliveden Set", indicating that Mrs. Wheeler has been responsible for some of Mr. Wheeler's attitudes and that the former liberal Senator has actually thrown in his lot with the fascist reactionaries. The assorted Coughlinites and fascists, al- though they have suffered one defeat after another, appear intent upon remain- ing in the same camp, and the regrettable angle is that men like Wheeler should suddenly have steered their paths in the direction of this reactionary group. CONFIDENTIAL • • STRICTLY Tidbits from Everywhere By PHINEAS J. BIRON To Jean Gabin, star of the French film "Pepe le Moko" which is wowing Broadway these days, is attributed the story about the Paris restaurant whose French patrons walked out when- ever a group of Nazi officers en- tered . . Army officials pro- tested that this was contrary to the traditional French politeness, which would demand that the Frenchmen remain present for at least 15 minutes after the Nazis' arrivals . . . So thereafter, on the appearance of Nazi diners, the French patrons would place their watches on the table and leave after exactly 15 minutes had passed. is known as one of France's most rabid anti-Semites . . To be entirely fair, however, one must allow that at times a spark of humanity is perceptible in Vichy . . . We're thinking in particular of Marcel Markus, now a Major in the French army, who was promoted to this rank after the Hitler armistice . . . This because of Major Markus' extraordinary valor during the Blitzkrieg • . Major Markus has made no secret of his Jewishness—and there is abroad a suspicion that it is for his own sake that his superiors have sent him to a North African post, where it will be harder for the Nazis to lay their hands on him. • IN THE AIR • LIVE AND LEARN • WEEKLY GIGGLE There are a jot of things we about Bnai Brith's history in Chicago, where the order's convention will be held next week-end, and we hast- en to pass on our newly ac- quired information . . . Bnai Brith's association with Chicago dates from 1851, the year when the Bnai-Brith-sponsored Hebrew Agricultural Society started a short-lived Jewish farm colony at Schaumberg, in Cook County . . The first Bnai Brith Lodge in the Windy City was chartered in 1857 . . . It's still active under its original name, Ramah Lodge . . The powerful Jewish Chari. ties of Chicago is an outgrowth of the United Hebrew Relief As- sociation, brought into being un- der Bnai Brith leadership in 1859 . . . During the Civil War, Ra- mah Lodge recruited a Jewish company for the 82nd Illinois Infantry . . . The first identifica- tion of a member of the Julius Rosenwald family with Jewish affairs in Chicago was with a Bnai Brith function . . . Lessing Rosenwald, an uncle of the fa- mous philanthropist, represented • FOREIGN AFFAIRS the Sprinfield, Ill. Lodge at the The grapevine reports that exercise marking the establish- Hitler is quite annoyed over the ment of Bnai Brith District 6 in Luftwaffe's failure to subdue Chicago way back in 1868. England, and over his Fifth Col- • WHO'S WHO? unm's failure to stop passage of H. R. 1776 . . . Radio commenta- There's a film agency in Mon- tor H. V. Kaltenborn insists that treal that boasts a Charlie Chap- the war will end in a British lin of its own . . Ile's a Jewish victory—but that it'll take two boy from Toronto, whose name is more years , . . which can't be Charles S. Chaplin ... Ile claims much of a consolation to the Jews no kinship with the famous Char- in Lublin .. . Are you following lie, however . . . And, to make William L. Shirer's revelations of matters more confusing, the fa- life in Naziland, in the Atlantic mous Charlie plans to make his Monthly? . . . When in Rome, next picture—which will concern quips Broadway, do as the Ger- refugees in New York—the occa- mans do . . . Paul Marion, sion for the film debut of his Vichy's new Propaganda Minister, elder son, Charles Chaplin, Jr. Did you know that the Knights of Judea, Inc., have organized a Flying School and a Jewish En- gineering Corps for the training of young Jews who are not elig- ible for training under the au- spices of the Civil Aeronautics Authority? . . . If you're inter- ested, write to the organization at General Post Office Box No. 547, New York City . . . The Knights of Judea aren't taking students interested in commercial aviation, however . . . Their idea is to provide trained pilots for Uncle Sam's defense program or, in the case of men not subject to the draft, for volunteers serv- ice in the Royal Air Force, which at their request will then send these volunteers to defend Pales- tine . . Incidentally, there's a California Flying Club in Los Angeles which is trying to pro- mote interest in aviation among Jewish youth . . . And a com- mittee of American aviators who will raise funds for the families of R. A. F. heroes killed in ac- tion will be headed by Roger Wolfe Kahn. never knew till now , . z Challenge to Israel Liberty—Undiscouraged One of the most eloquent declara- tions of faith in liberty came more than half a century ago from one of the great- est American writers. In the preface to his 1872 edition of "Leaves of Grass", Walt Whitman had the following: "Liberty is poorly served by men whose good intent is quelled from one failure or two failures or any number of failures, or from the casual indifference or ingratitude of the people, or from the sharp snow of the tushes of power, or the bring- ing to bear soldiers and cannon or any penal statutes. Liberty relies upon itself, invites no one, promises nothing, sits in calmness and light, is positive and composed, and knows no discouragement." Free men must make this assertion their slogan in an hour of need, when some people begin to lose their faith and to despair. "Liberty . . . knows no dis- couragement" are words to be engraved wherever there is a threat from forces of tyranny. Liberty, "positive and com- posed," will gain nothing from those who are upset by a failure or two. But those who have faith--and therefore also pos- sess confidence and courage—will make liberty function. C.ourtesy of The Synagogue Union of American Hebrew Congregations Bernard Segal