DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle SINCERE HOLIDAY GREETINGS Richardson's Drug Store Passover Greetings to All! DR. S. COLE LIPSKY LAUGH IT OFF! (Continued from Page 3) 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 9053 WOODWARD what should be the ratios be - trying to help folks through the at Clairmount tween the Joint Distribution Corn - medium of readings, jokes, anec- Ma. 7395 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 2903 BEAUBIEN led to an animated, partisan dis- all of them are treated without CAdillac 5581 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 Golf Equipment 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 SINCERE HOLIDAY GREETINGS ticles appeared in the press. That jokes, anecdot es and funny semblance of unity which the stories. Most of these will prove 14544 THIRD AVE. 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 TRUCKING CONTRACTOR 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 SINCEREST PASSOVER GREETINGS that had been healed. It revealed as solution to our disturbed feel- 8810 DIX AVE. the basic, unrepresentative char- ings the cure provided by humor. acter of the Welfare Fund Bud- VINEWOOD 2.0771 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 SEASON'S GREETINGS 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 100 ROOMS WITH portant parts in the community, over Station WJR next Sunday PRIVATE BATHS 6408 WOODWARD AVE. the control was in the hands of evening between 9 and 10 In the Grill Room We Serve non-Zionists and anti-Zionists, o'clock. TRINITY 1-0150 Wine and Liquor, Domestic who were not susceptible to pub- Each of the four soloists is and Imported, and Food of Free Parking in Rear of Store 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 2203 CASS AVE. Whatever may be said as to the entirely. The four are: RA. 6268 quality of communal organiza- Helen Jepson, soprano, who tion, the controversy about ratios was born in Akron, 0., and SEASON'S GREETINGS 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 SINCERE HOLIDAY GREETINGS 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, 1551 CANIFF 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. Phone Lafayette 1070 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 PASSOVER GREETINGS 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- KAR NUT PRODUCTS CO. Service, and 37 per cent against tion of the Hallelujah Chorus the Joint alone. Its initial mini- front Handel's "The Messiah" Lafayette 4255 3055 Eighteenth St. 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 PASSOVER GREETINGS 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 CAdillac 2964 Majestic Bldg. Lobby 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 HOLIDAY GREETINGS 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- Phone VI. 1-8656 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 PASSOVER GREETINGS 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 PHOTOGRAPHIC 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 David Whitney Bldg. Communal unity depends upon only if they become democratic democratic procedure and demo- and representative. There is no RAndolph 7163 1563 Woodward cratic representation. To this alternative . OPTOMETRIST—OPTICIAN 1107 FARMER ST. Opp. Crowley Milner Co. RAndolph 6776 M. JACOB 8 SONS Lawn Equipment Corporation Edward C. Levy, Inc. • Lewis Artist Supply Co. MICHIGAN SCRAP IRON 8 METAL CO. April 11, 1941 SINCEREST PASSOVER GREETINGS Springwells Hardware Co. D. Sobel, Prop. Hardware, Paint, Glass and Crockery 2038 SPRINGWELLS AVE. VINEWOOD 1-1578 SINCERE HOLIDAY GREETINGS Carl's Chop House STEAKS—CHOPS and SEA FOOD FREE PARKING 3024 Grand River Ave. TErrace 2-8600 Passover Greetings to All! WINDSOR HOTEL Detroit Refrigerating Company Keystone Engineering Co., Inc. Eastman Kodak Stores, Inc. In All Flavors Wolverine Ginger-Ale Co. 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