May 9, 1941
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle
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Detroit Jewish Chronicle
Palestine Will Fight
CONFIDENTIAL •
• STRICTLY
Tidbits from Everywhere
Palestine is in the limelight. The Mosul
By PHINEAS J. BIRON
Pipeline at Haifa is in danger. Iraq is a
• MILITARY NOTES
Published Weekly by The Jewish Chronicle Publishing Co., Inc. battleground. Nazi propaganda is attempt-
• TIMELY STUFF
H. SCHAKNE .................. Presides
ing
to
divide
the
Arabs
and
to
create
a
J'COB
Al Jolson, Eddie of daft a g d
n
Note to American business men
as Secondclass matter March 3, 1916, at the Post- new Arab-Jewish conflict.
with appeasement inclinations: Jack Benny
aren't
Entered
ore but
they're going to
m,
office at Deficit, Mich., under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Correspondents are cabling about the
bit by conducting some
l ir '•
Read T. Grayden Upton's piece lo l
of their broadcasts from arm
General Offi;as and Publication Bldg., 525 Woodward Ave. possibility that "the Jewish National in the May Harper's Magazine, an
Address: Chronicle
hich ought to by e
. . .
Home is in danger. "
Telephone: Cadillac 1040 Cable
in which he says, among other camps
o o d entertainment for the
are
upset
and
are
Diplomatic quarters
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things, that "German business draftees . . . Walter Winchell,
not
unjustly worried.
men are suffering more under WC learn from one of his col-
............ Publisher
JACOB tvlARGOLIS .......
Jews, in the meantime, are in danger the Hitler regime than any grouP leagues, is going into a training
...................... Editor
the rank
O
PHILIP SLMOVITZ
mmer, with an
Advertising Manager
sin
camp
sue
er in
of b
g thrown into a state of despair in the country, except the Jews"
MAU 11 ■ CE M. SAFI R .......
932
of a this
U.eutnant
Commd
••the
U.
S.
Naval
Reserve
. . .
.
.
.
Mr.
Upton,
who
from
1
nd
helplessness.
lication, all correspondence and news matter
a
•
. an
b
e to 1940 spent most of his time
pu
is st insure
mi
reach this office by Tuesday evening of each
week.
There
is
danger
in
the
air—and
in Europe, first studying German Then there's
Hank Greenberg,
aper only.
nr o iwt Tigersn gbaseball ssatma 1,•s ,
When mailing notices, kindly use one side of the p
greatest danger lies in a spirit of defeat-
E u r o p e a n who Di is t
banki ng and ten a New York
tshein wlilnlye, f o n •
The Detroit Jewish Chronicle invites correspondence on sub- ism and despair. This is Hitler's weapon: representative of a
if m tl
eonngoria
psychological
in
as
position
to
u
s
aley
i
acts of interest to the Jewish people, but disclaims responsi- to create panic and to win a py
surely
ish
ufaiiOnsil,
,
bank
ressed by the writers.
know what he is talking about hias:anugagoefmiTetw toyoMrkiss. Ay i:ialini
for an endorsement of views exp
bitty
war.
. . The Hitler-lobers hereabouts L and
Sabbath Scriptural Selections
Therefore it becomes necessary to re- a re
absence we expect the
re getting more and more opti-
mastic . . . One woman was heard title of the season's best Jewish
Pentateuchal portion—Lev. 16:1-20:27.
state the case:
predicting that before President baseball player to be taken over
Prophetical ortion—Amos 9:7-15; or
Palestine will fight, if necessary. The Roosevelt's term is over we will
Ezek. 22;1-19 (or 16).
15
Morrie
Arnovich,
of manage-
the New
. The
Jews of Palestine will defend what has have a new president (ex-Colonel by
. Giants
Lag b'Omer, Thursday, May
York
.
Lindbergh
was
her
choice
for
F.
ment
of
New
York's
outdoor
sym-
IYAR 12, 5701 been created over a period of 20 years
R.'s successor) . . . And a pi sh lion
o s n ctentr t s, given summer,
e tt hTl c conceits,
MAY 9, 1941
and will refuse to abandon either homes D.
local Nazi leader recently pro-
Sta di u m every
S.S. L -i.
ni in
Lo
c crossed
claimed (rat before long the
eeping
k
forts.
or
"
The Allied Jewish Campaign
in m e a d N tehwe behalf pi of
important
ole
a ti l l p Tes e nrt e nia
two
of
t
t i'o fingers
opulation
of
Palestine
will
o
ng
pw
The Jewish
n iele:
soloists on its program for the
To make an appeal at this time for the not
lay down arms and hand over the Yo ° 1 1nap
Emma Goering. . . . Leon coining season . . . The draft
Allied Jewish Campaign would be so com- garden spots created with the sweat and S.s.
Marcha l, the new Counselor of - may catch up with violinist
monplace that it would sound almost blood of the youth of our people to the the Fr ench Embass y at Washing Yehudi Menuhin before he can
ton, has a nephew who is an fulfill his engagement, is seems
Nazi-Fascist hordes.
childish.
doctors refuse to
officer in the German navy and
This is a time of great emergency, and -
• • • And
the
Palestine is not lost, and any one who _ a cousin on the Nazi general staff,
're commit
themselves
as to whether
ns of a com
ields to the dead reveals
Pierre
Lazaroff
. . to . We
e
one of the a major obcrisis
sure
you
won't
be
sorry
learn
violinist
Fritz
Kreisler,
victim of
ligatios
to
guarante
thinks
in
these
terms
y
i
Fritz von Werra, the a serious automobile accident, will
munity in n ho
liest of Hitler's weapons: his p sychologi- that Ban
b sufficiently recovered to play
Baron
the security of its people and its insti-
i i n
cal war of propagan a.
_ Nazi airman who jumped bail d
this year
which re-
' • All of you
in
•
u
which
tutions.
This is a war to a finish, and it is incon New York not lon g ago an d mae minds us to remind
We know of no simpler way in whi
tracks
for
Peru,
was
given
a
the last
world
war army
Kreisler
to summarize the importance of the 1941 , ceivable that the democracies should lose double Mickey Fnn in a Broad- served
in the
Austrian
and
and that the brutal forces of Nazi-Fascism way night spot one evening when received a serious wound in his
campaign.
im- should restore the rule of the jungle in he talked too much about the bowing arm—but, as music-lovers
The quota of $940,000 is not as
m
Iv completely recov•
M. b r well know, he
Therefore, Palestine glories of Hi tl eris
manse as it sounds. The needs are far s the civilized world.
that's why he lamme d • . . • ayOe
idered
as
part
of
a
struggle
maybe it was because Uncle Sam erect from that injury.
he numerous causes included must be considered
t
greater, and
that this uninvited
in the budget are too vital to require p res- in which democratic principles will sur- discovered
guest had been arranging and • WEEKLY GIGGLE
vive, and Jewish aspirations with them.
The following story is told by
sure in raising the goal.
escape of other Nazi
It is well to remember that even if financing the
In considering the quota we must also
the prisoners of war from a Canadian harry Hershfield, our favorite
cartoonist and commentator and
think in terms of the size of this commu- Palestine were razed to the ground,
concentration camp.
one of the most masterly of
of the wealth it possesses, of the work for Jewish redemption will then
masters of ceremonies . . . It
begin anew. But we are confident that • DISCOVERIES
pity,
privileges that are ours, of the necessity this will not be necessary; that the Jewish
concerns a Jewish lad who, in
• • Sign discovered in a Delancey search of a shave, landed in a
for safeguarding 'JUL f doms
will
survive
and
t
rive,
Street store: "Hitler must go-T, barbershop, only to learn, from
Our liberties are insecure unless we commonwealth
this merchandise!" the conversation the barbers held
assure the return of liberties to those who that the labors of the Jewish pioneers and so must
We never knew, until among themselves, that this was
.
.
.
have lost them and their retention for have not been for naught.
L e o n a r d Lyons revealed it a Nazi joint . . . By that time
brutalitar-
Palestine will survive the battle now the other day, that London's he was already settled in the
those who are threatened by
raging, just as it has survived other ser- famous chain of Lyon restaurants chair, and the barber, stropping
owned by a couple of gentle- a deadly-looking razor, was in-
ians.
If we keep these facts in mind, then ions conflicts. The Holy Land will suffer
as the rest of the world is suffering, but men named Salmon and Gluck- quh•ing: "Shave, mister?" . • •
t will be easy to raise the goal set for
stein . . . Our old friend, the To which our lad replied: "Yeah,
' h
i
. 1 will be a certain introduction indefatigable Zionist wo rke
the
travai
us in the current drive.
to
better
times,
when
mankind
will
begin
that
thing
.
.
.
You'll
have
to
use
T
NOT
Isaac Carmel, reports that in the
MUST
Because
Detroit
Jewry
of his travels about the I'll
a shave—but
no
an have
electric
razor on me•"
FAIL,
we are
confident
that WE SHALL to see greater humanitarian progress and course
of New York, he discovered
the elimination of all vestiges of inde- ity the
Borough of Brooklyn, a • ABOUT PEOPLE
•
NOT FAIL.
J,
ws
he0 Syrian ligeiou
cency.
community of 5 t00
By the time you read this.
The greatest need is for faith and con- w ho are one of
s
most re
publisher George
Backer of the
Every Sacrifice a Blessing
b e
fidence. Without it, Hitler's hands are groups in the city . . . Their
York Po st will probably
leader, one Mr. Shalom, is a noted New bele
gettin g
aguere
London,
d
In opening the sale of Government Sav- strengthened. our renewed plea to our merchant and shipper . . . In in
behind-the-scenes
Gotham's silk-stocking district, some first-hand
Therefore
ings Bonds, President Roosevelt said:
people not to lose faith, to retain confi- again, Carmel has made another material for the benefit of his
readers.
dente in the ultimate triumph of decency interesting find . . . Namely, the
a nother call,
Eddie Cantor, they say, is plan-
L.
p-
Mrs. Harvel
". • . At this time we add
and to believe in the eventual successes fact that wife
of the district's ning to become a Hollywood pro-
a frank and clear appeal for financial suor
Schwamm, leader, is the daugh- ducer now, and is negotiating
which will make Palestine the home of Republican
port to pay for our arming, and to pay ons.
f
Pick-
xistence
of
later
generati
tel of the famous Chassidic tab- for the purchase of Mary Pick-
eo ple.
the American e
wages
a
free
Jewish
p
.
ford's
share
of
United
Artists.
"With jobs more plentiful and
and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE
e omission of f
higher, slight s acrifice here,
a few luxuries there, will swell the ffe
and
of our Federal Treasury. The outward sacr
visible tokens of partnership through i-
se
def enre,
fice will be the possession of those h
tamps,
whic
a
bonds and defense s avings s
at the same time, a guarantee of our future
" I
Am An American" Day
bi, Reb. Dovedel Talner.
By BRESSLER
IT'S ALL YOURS, MOM!
By special resolution, the third Sunday
in May has been set aside as "I Am An
American" Day.
In a statement designating May 18 as
security.
the
prescribed day, President Roosevelt
vernment
asks
that
you
make
this
"Your go
called
"upon all Federal, State and local
s acrifice? I s it a sacri-
acrifice.
But
is
it
a
s
n more than
fice for us to give dollars whe
officials, and all patriotic, civic and edu-
a million of our finest young men have been
cational organizations to join in exercises
withdrawn from civilian life in defense of
calculated to impress upon all our citizens,
our country?
both native-born and . naturalized,
the spe-
"No, sacrifice is not the word. This iledge.
.
a prive
h . na-
•
vial significance of citizenship
fense savings program Is ra th er
n opportunity--an opportunity to share
and a
tion."
w e c herish against
t
en o fthings
In a time like the present, this day as-
in the defense
against
them.
We
is
made
the threat that all
a ppears;
sumes
unusual significance. We live in a
must fight this threat wherever it
found at the threshold of every
land
which
is the last bulwark for free-
and it can be
dom.
We
are
the final fortress in the bat-
home in America.
ask you to demon-
and in rejoicing over our
"Fellow Americans, 1
"Fellow
oin-
tie
for
liberty,
P
again your faith in America by j
•
.
Americanism
we
also express faith that
ing me in investing in the new defense say-
this
battle
will
be
won
by the forces that
ings bonds and s tamps."
service and stand for decency in .the world.
c t
. a great occasion in your
This in a
call emu st not fall . Make this day
that
all
.
It
is
a
c
on actio
deaf n ears, and every American should lives and in the lives of your children. Im-
to
press it upon them that America stands
conside r it a privilege to be a participant for the right of man to speak and to think
in It
the
liberty.
is battle
also a for
call
that is applicable to freely, to act fairly with his neighbor, to
ief . In the present permit the other fellow to live as you
d Jewish Campaign, would build your own life. By understand-
a ppeals for relief funds
rincipl es, generations to come
drive for the Allie
cherish thei
for instance, people should consider it not ing l these pnot only
a sacrifice but a privilege to give liberally wil know how r
to a fund that will help relieve suffering Americanism, but also how to fight for it.
and therefore continue to build confidence "I Am An American" represents
the
the mos
in men and women in the face of want most
thrilling
declaration
by
fortunate group of people alive today.
ir.
threat of ll be heeded
despit
by The day to observe this glorious
feeling
and
t
ca despa
May the e President's
the
should be an occasion of great rejoicing.
every American!
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