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CLIFTON AVENUE - CINCINNATI 20, OHIO
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE
June 27, 1941
P urely Commentary •
The issue is as simple as all that. We are at
war, and we are the first targets of Nazism.
Breathes there a man so stupid as to say that
in this hour of struggle we ought to kiss the
hand of the persecutor? Oh, General Wood, such
an article will not prove saleable even in the
mail order business.
"I question the credentials of some of
these men who now plead for peace just as
I have questioned the kind of peace they
would have us seek. I question their creden-
tials because some of them are the same men
who but a few months back were inciting
our people to the worst kind of war—civil
war. 1 refer to the men who were respon-
sible for that vulgar, hate-inspired campaign
which
fellow - citizens
against our Jewish
eventuated in attempts at racial discrimina-
tion and mob violence. It has been said that
liberty is the last refuge of a scoundrel;
peace, as I have described it, may well be
the last refuge in this country of the Nazi
propagandist."
These are words that needed to be said and
that need constant repeating. Bishop Hurley ren-
dered a service to the cause of our national
defense when he added: "Who has broken the
peace? Who has outraged the national or Europe?
These men of false peace have the wrong ad-
dress; let them direct their chain letters and
form telegrams, not to the White House at
Washington but to the Reichskanzerel in Berlin.
Well said, Bishop Hurley! The impression which
the America First Committee and its supporters
gathered from the lunatic fringes seek to cre-
ate is that Roosevelt is at fault. Hitler is the
hero of many of them, and among those who do
no defy the butcher of Berlin there is refusal
to direct the blame for the present world tur-
moil at the founder of the new creed of idola-
try for whom might is right and to whom the
end justifies the means.
Bishop Hurley's address should be head by
millions. There will then be a clearer and more
serious approach to peace problems, and there will
be a dwindling of the members who now fol-
law the lunatic fringe in America.
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Sammy Reshevsky remains America's chess
champion.
False prophets spread the word a few weeks
ago that he was weakening and that he would
be licked at the tournament held recently at
which the American chess championship was to be
decided. But you can't beat Sammy, our towns-
man who now makes his home in New York.
A few clays ago, Sammy beat Israel Horowitz,
a contender of no mean ability, and retained his
title. He repeated his tricks of 1936, 1938 and
1940, and now, in 1941, he won the chess cham-
pionship for the fourth time.
Those of us who knew Sammy at 7 and saw
him beat dozens of players, even blindfolded, at
one sitting, can appreciate his uninterrupted
feats. It is not so easy to beat Sammy Reshevsky
at the chessboard.
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Jews and America First Committee
Dr. Sidney Goldstein, associate to Dr. Stephen
S. Wise at the Free Synagogue in New York,
was to have spoken at an America First rally
in Washington on May 30. He is an avowed
pacifist and he explains his opposition to any
war effort on this basis. But on the eve of the
America First meeting he withdrew as a speaker
when he learned that Senator Wheeler was also
to be on the platform. He took occasion to con-
demn anti-Semitic references made publicly and
privately by the Montana anti-Roosevelt Senator.
At the same time, General Wood, the head
of the America First Committee, has been offer-
ing advise to Jews regarding their stand in the
present war, and he was adequately taken care
of in a letter to PM by Irving Fineman, of
Shaftsbury, Vt., as follows:
"I have been telling my Jewish friends
that they are unwise in all being on the
same side in this controversy. They should
split up as the Gentiles do," said Gen. Wood.
Must be it doesn't take any brain to run
a big mail order business.
Because anyone who thinks the American
Jews should get together like kids taking
sides in a corner lot game, and decide which
of them should he for and which against
all-out defense against Hitler have the men-
tality of a—well, I don't know what!
You see, I'm only a writer; I have only
my imagination to draw on; and I just can't
imagine what kind of mind it is that will
unabashedly deliver itself of such a judg-
ment—such a precious, such a priceless pearl
of advice.
And I suppose it is just too bad that half
the Jews in Europe didn't choose to be on
Hitler's side . . . No. I just can't imagine
it—that brain. And the HUTZPA! WE are
unwise!
So I obscenity on your wisdom and your
advice, Gen. Wood! (And God bless Hem-
ingway for that!)
Slomovitz
And I say to the Jews of America that
any one of us who, for fear of offending the
likes of Gen. Wood or for any other reason,
does not come out openly—"WITH ALL
YOUR HEART, WITH ALL YOUR SOUL,
WITH ALL YOUR MIGHT"—to stem and
turn back the terrible tide of Nazism is not a
merely as silly as Gen. Wood—he is worthy
of everything Herr Hitler has said of us.
Rejecting Acids Of Vituperation
The address delivered recently by Bishop Jos-
eph P. Hurley before the St. Augustine Diocesan
Council of Catholic Women at Gainsville, Fla.,
will go down on record as one of the most sig-
nificant declarations of its kind.
While this address was aimed at the Nazi
tactics in undermining American unity and dealt
with the problems of national defense, it carried
with it deeper implications.
Bishop Hurley did not mince words. "By way
of candid criticism directed against a few of
our national Catholic weeklies and reviews," he
stated "that we Catholics will be unwise if we
entrust any of our part in the work of national
healing to practitioners whose only merit is their
mastery of the acids of vituperation."
The Catholics, according to this brilliant evalu-
ation of the national defense case, want "the
peace and justice and charity, of law and in-
dependence, of national life and not of na-
tional death, the peace of the four freedoms."
By Philip
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and the Legal Chronicle
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Leeser Goldschmidt, born in
Madfeld, near Brilon, Westfalia,
Germany. He emigrated about
60 years ago to the United
States, and supposedly had three
sons. Mr. Goldschmidt or members
of his family are sought by Mrs.
Alma Frohmann, Essen, Germany.
Do You Know These
People?
Relatives abroad are trying to
locate them. If you know of their
whereabouts, kindly communicate
with Dr. Jack Stattmann, Re-
settlement Service, 51 W. Warren
Ave., Columbia' 1600.
Moses Schaechter (Aspler) from
Suceava (Bukowina).
Send a note of felicitation to
Abraham Aspler, from Czudin
(Bukowina), sought by Chaim Samuel Mellitz of Bridgeport,
Pellet. , at present in Lyon, who has been raised to the Con-
France. necticut Superior Court.
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Harpo Marx Solves Anti-Semitism
One of the truly classic storys of our time is
related by Ben Hecht in PM. It is a tale of anti-
Semitism and of the manner in which Harpo Marx
handled a challenging situation.
Harpo heard an argument between a taxicab
driver and the doorman of a famous jewelry
store on Fifth Ave. in New York. "Get away
from in front of here, you dirty Jew," he heard
the doorman say. "Go on before I break your
dirty Jew head. There'll be a law soon keeping
you and all Jews off this street. Go on get
back to the ghetto where you belong."
Whereupon Harpo plunged into action. In 15
minutes he reappeared, his pockets full of five-
and-ten-store cheap jewelry. He entered the fam-
ous jewelry store as the doorman bowed. Twenty
minutes elapsed and Harpo emerged from the
store, but as he stepped into the street he tripped,
fell flat on his face and all the glass emeralds
rubies and damonds scattered on the pavement.
The doorman threw himself on the sidewalk in
search for all the $3 worth of novelties. He was
on his hands and knees, and finally, after 10
minutes, he approached his elegant customer.
his hands scuffed, his pants torn.
"Please," he panted blissfully, "look quick.
See if they are all here."
Harpo examined the jewels coldly as the
doorman handed him a glittering handful.
"Yes," Harpo barked, "they are all here."
The doorman mopped his brow and stood by
vibrating joyfully. Harpo strode to the curb.
A cab was waiting. At its wheel sat the
same Jewish driver at whom the Nazi flunky
had been screaming insults a half hour ago.
The doorman limped ingratiatingly beside
Harpo and opened the door of the vehicle
with a happy bow.
Harpo paused before the opened door. He
examined the jewels still in his hand and
selected the largest diamond from among
them. He handed it to the doorman.
"Here, said Harpo, "for your trouble."
The doorman gaped and almost fainted.
"And give this one to your best girl,"
said Harpo, selecting another huge diamond,
"and to your dear mama, this ruby."
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my afternoon prayers."
For a day, poetic justice ruled. A famous
comedian sized up a situation and took care of
it normally—as he would have been portrayed in
action on the screen.
Here is one instance in which humor saved
the day. Occasional use of it is essential—for
the public good.
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Humor Pointed Road to Russian Clash
With the Axixs
Would you know how a people reacts to in-
ternational affairs? Study its humor and listen to
the stories the masses circulate.
On May 20, more than a month before the
latest Nazi violation of agreements in the at-
tack upon Soviet Russia, the Associated Press
cabled from Moscow a series of stories that were
going the rounds regarding the Axis and its
chief opponent. The pro-British sentiments ex-
pressed in these stories should have indicated in
advance that all was not well in the muddled
Communist-Nazi peace gestures.
The stories may be only variations of jokes
that have been heard in this country for sonic
time. But they are nevertheless indications of
opinion that was more deep-rooted than a non-
aggression pact that is merely a scrap of paper'
in the hands of unscrupulous dictators.
Among the stories in circulation in Russia, as
reported from Moscow, are the following:
There is the one about Hitler, Mussolini and
Churchill going to ask a fortune teller who would
win the war. The soothsayer produced two fish-
bowls, one full of water and fish, the other
empty, and said:
The one who captures the fish first will win
the war."
Hitler immediately plunged into the full bowl,
splashing water around and grabbing for the
fish, but got nothing. Mussolini danced around
the edge, afraid to get his hands wet, but hoping
in vain for Hitler to throw the fish his way.
Churchill produced a teaspoon, patiently dipped
the water from the full bowl into the empty one,
picked the fish out of the bottom and was pro-
claimed eventual winner of the war.
"But didn't it take him a long time?" comes
the tag-line.
"Sure," is the answer, "but Churchill is in no
hurry."
The jokes often take the Italians as their butt.
There is the very brief one about the "British
communique":
"Ten thousand Italians and two thousand mules
have been made prisoners in East Africa. The
mules offered fierce resistance."
The wit and wisdom of a people is more often
than not the best barometer of its true senti-
ments. The A. P. report of May 20 seems to
prove in its instance of the Russians.
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