DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle
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Passover Greetings to All!
DR. S. COLE
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LAUGH IT OFF!
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Rev. Vernon's Book of Humor
a Timely Tonic
e
Welfare Funds would have t
draw three checks to three dif - Rev. Ernest Edwin Vernon of
ferent agencies. Instead of on e Iroquois, S. D., provides the cure
Open All Night
ratio, each community would b e for present ills: through laugh-
called upon to decide for itsel f ter. Having spent many years "in
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what should be the ratios be - trying to help folks through the
at Clairmount
tween the Joint Distribution Corn - medium of readings, jokes, anec-
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mittee, the United Palestine Ap - dotes and funny stories," he has
peal and the National Refuge e collected his lore and has now
A JOYOUS PESACH TO ALL
Service. It was pointed out tha t incorporated it in a book, issued
all that was involved in the con by Fortuny's Publishers, Inc., 87
troversy itself was merely a Fifth Ave., New York, under the
friendly approach to the budget _ title "Laugh and Enjoy Life."
Sincere Season's Greetings
There are three parts to this
ing committees of the Welfar •
Bottles and Jars
book. The first contains the text
Funds.
This was in theory. In practice, of an address on humor, by the
"SEE WHAT YOU BUY,
and the talk is in itself
however, the demand that the author,
replete with stories, two of them
BUY IN GLASS"
Welfare Funds decide the ratios of a Jewish nature. Several na-
before they begin their campaigns tionalities are referred to, and
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led to an animated, partisan dis- all of them are treated without
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cussion, bitter, personal. Meetings affront or abuse. This is the
Complete Lawn and
were held. Pressure was brought spirit of the entire book, to the
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to bear on individual members of credit of the author.
Oldest House of Its Kind in
the Welfare Fund committees. Ar-
The second part contains 111
Michigan
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ticles appeared in the press. That jokes, anecdot es and funny
semblance of unity which the stories. Most of these will prove
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Welfare Funds or the Commun- quite suitable for the average
Highland Park
ity Councils or the Federations speaker. The third part has 28
TOwnsend 8-4486
of Jewish Charities had set up readings, 13 of a general nature
was greatly shocked and disturbed and 15 humorous. Most of these
by the reverberations of the con- are perfect for programs and
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troversy. It was a conflict. It was parties.
"Laugh and Enjoy Life" fills a
not merely a budgeting matter. It
Cinders, Slag for all purposes
opened up old partisan wounds need in our lives today. It offers
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that had been healed. It revealed as solution to our disturbed feel-
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the basic, unrepresentative char- ings the cure provided by humor.
acter of the Welfare Fund Bud-
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geting Committees. It revealed Four Metropolitan Stars
also the anomalous relations be-
On Sunday Eve. Hour
tween Community Councils, Wel-
An
all-American quartet of
fare Funds and Federations of four distinguished
of the
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Jewish Charities. It revealed fun- Metropolitan Opera soloists
Company —
damental differences between every one of them American-
Zionists and non-Zionists and an- born and American-trained —
ti-Zionists.
It revealed to the will be heard on the Easter pro-
Detroit's Finest
Zionists themselves the fact that gram of the Ford Sunday Even-
Artist, Drafting, and Sign Supplies
although they were playing im- ing Hour, which will be broadcast
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portant parts in the community, over Station WJR next Sunday
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the control was in the hands of evening between 9 and 10
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non-Zionists and anti-Zionists, o'clock.
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Wine and Liquor, Domestic
who were not susceptible to pub-
Each of the four soloists is
and Imported, and Food of
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lic opinion and regarded philan- the product of a small town or
Italian and American Dishes
thropic funds as coming within city and each attained success
the category of trust funds. through his or her own efforts
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Whatever may be said as to the entirely. The four are:
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quality of communal organiza-
Helen Jepson, soprano, who
tion, the controversy about ratios was born in Akron, 0., and
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and budgetings made every party started her musical career in a
to the controversy feel that they church choir.
Gladys Swarthout, mezzo-so-
were breaking the solidarity of
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prano, who was born in Deep-
the community.
water, Mo., and who also made
In short, the peace now an- her first professional appearance
nounced for the campaign of 1941 in a church choir.
was brought about by the pres-
Charles Kullman, tenor, born
sure of an overwhelming public in New Haven, Conn., who was
sentiment coming from all groups forced to quit medical college
and all elements. It was not due because of financial difficulties.
to peacemakers. It certainly was
Lansing Hatfield, bass-baritone,
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not due to the Council of Wel- who comes from Hickory, N. C.,
G. T. R. R. Siding
fare Funds, which, in this in- and who captured headlines re-
2030.2040 HOWARD
stance, instead of playing the cently when he won the Metro-
part of the neutral, took sides politan Opera Auditions.
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TOwnsend 8-2830
in the controversy and lost its
The four famous soloists will
join their voices as a quartet
status as a non-partisan body.
* * *
for the first time when they ap-
From the point of view of re- pear with the Ford Symphony
lations, the United Palestine Ap- Orchestra and Chorus, which will
peal made a decided gain in the again be under the direction of
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arrangements for 1941. It is as- Fritz Reiner, conductor of the
and
sured 28.6 per cent against both Pittsburgh Symphony.
Another notable musical event
"Nuts to You from Kar's"
the Joint Distribution Commit-
tees and the National Refugee on the program is the presenta-
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Service, and 37 per cent against tion of the Hallelujah Chorus
the Joint alone. Its initial mini- front Handel's "The Messiah"
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mum exceeds its initial minimum by the studio audience of 5,000.
of 1940, while the initial mini- It was exactly 199 years ago —
April 13, 1742 — that "The Mes-
mum of the Joint is reduced by siah"
was first performed in
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about $1,000,000, and of the Na-
Dublin. When "The Messiah"
tional Refugee Service by $1,500,- was
presented in London the
MAJESTIC FLOWER SHOP
000. The independent campaign, following
year, the audience, in-
Est. 1912
however, was not achieved.
cluding the King, was so affect-
All
efforts
to
raise
funds
in
Holiday plants of all varieties
ed by the Hallelujah Chorus
the United States will have to that at the words, "For the
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be adjusted to the forms of or- Lord God Omnipotent reigneth,"
ganized life which the Ameri- it rose instinctively. Ever since
can Jewish community adopts. Ex- that memorable occasion, audi-
perience has shown that the idea ences throughout the world have
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of communal solidarity has grown stood through the performance
and is stronger than many be- of this inspired aria.
lieved. It is strong enough to
make impossible a reversion to ❑ Ether Records
the old system of "free" cam-
Ezekiel Rabinowitz is being
paigns of all sorts, coming at all dubbed "the historian of the air"
times of the year. The new order these days, and his business is
is incoriwatible with the absolute sometimes referred to as the only
freedom of movements and in- existing "clipping bureau of the
stitutions. At the same time, it air." . . . What Rabinowitz has
ALEX G. MARION, Pres.
has revealed the value and need is a compilation of 125,000 items
of communal organization based in the form of recorded broad-
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100 E. Cicotte
upon democratic principles. The casts . . . Anything that comes
Ecorse, Mich.
more difficult it is for a free over the ether and that he con-
agent to approach an organized siders as having lasting value, be
community, the more insistent it the speech of a prime minis-
will be the demand that that com- ter, a debate between Senators
munity be organized upon a dem- or even an address at a Zionist
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ocratic basis. The idea that convention, is recorded in his lab-
"money" can take possession of oratory . . His Hall of Fame
communal responsibility and run of voices is something that some
things to suit itself has now been progressive and public-spirited in-
challenged and it will be chal- dividual might present to a spe-
lenged again and again. These cially created department in the
"wars" will continue to break Library of Congress.
out until democratic communal
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organization is achieved. Through state of affairs Zionists will
repeated shocks of violent contro- have to adjust themselves. It is
HEADQUARTERS
versy democracy in Jewish life possible to "capture the Jewish
will come.
communities" for Zionism, but
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Communal unity depends upon only if they become democratic
democratic procedure and demo- and representative. There is no
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