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July 4, 1941

Noted Writers in
O'Brien's Collection
Of '41 Short Stories

Edward J. O'Brien's collection
of "The Best Short Stories of
1941" (Houghton Mifflin Co.)
rightfully ranks among the best
anthology of its kind in the 25-
year history of Mr. O'Brien's
efforts in this direction.
The trend of the times and the
changes taking place in the world
are reflected in the latest collec-
tion. Representing the choicest
writings of America's best men of
letters, "The Best Short Stories"
reflect the attitudes, the move-
ments, the characterisics of the
literary world.
Included among the authors of
stories in the 1941 collection are
Meyer Levin with his story "The
System Was Doomed ;" Stephen
Vincent Benet, with "All Around
the Town ;" Harold Garfinkel,
with "Color Trouble ;" Jerome
Weidman, "H o u d in i;" Albeet
Maltz, "Sunday Morning on 20th
Street ;" Irwin Shaw, "Triumph
of Justice." There are 29 stories
in all, besides the preface by
Martha Foley, the introduction
and a mass of factual information
about published short stories.
Mr. O'Brien's unique task is
all the more striking at this time.
He began publishing his antholo-
gies upon the outbreak of the
First World War. Since that time,
he has seen times change, has
watched situations arise with
lightning speed, and has had the
changes in the world scene re-
flected in the fluctuating changes
of his short story collections. Dur-
ing these years, he has remained
faithful to the standards he has
set for himself in the gathering
of these stories, and after read-
ing about 8,000 short stories a
year he can be referred to with-
out hesitation as the leading au-
thority on the short story.
The extension of the mechanical
structure and the fact that
"America has been much too clev-
er" are pointed to by Mr. O'Brien
in his introduction, as the chief
faults with American writers to-
day.

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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle

NEW YORK.—From the crowded deck of the Portuguese
steamer, S. S. Mouzinho, 111 refugee children greet America,
land of sanctuary. These boys and girls, brought to safety by the
United States Committee for the Care of European Children and
by German Jewish Children's Aid of the National Refugee Service,
were among the 735 passengers, mostly refugees, who arrived on
the Mouzinho on June 21.

Rabbi Henry J. Berkowitz Is
Author of Publication So-
ciety's "The Fire Eater"

Rabbi Henry J. Berkowitz of
Portland, former assistant rabbi
of Temple Beth El in Detroit, is
the author of a charming Jewish
children's story — "The Fire
Eater".
This 294--page book, beauti-
fully printed, with 10 full-page
black and white illustrations,

New Peak in NRS
Job Placements

Placements of refugees in jobs
in New York City by the Nation-
al Refugee Service totalled 585
in May, 1941, a new high record
for the agency. Active applications
of refugees seeking jobs during
the month numbered 4,714.
During May the NRS spent
$247,292 for all services including
granting cash assistance to 2,808
cases, involving approximately
9,000 individual refugees. The Mi-
gration Department of NRS ren-
dered 8,674 services by corres-
pondence and interviews during
the month. Other departments
gave an additional 17,000 services
to refugees. Refugees resettled
throughout the country by NRS
during the month totalled 399.

Newspaper Guild Loses NLRB
Decision on Day

NEW YORK. (JPS)—Mrs. El-
eanor M. Herrick, regional di-
rector of the National Labor Re-
lations Board, has refused to
issue a complaint against The
Day, the Yiddish daily, on
charges preferred by the Ameri-
can Newspaper Guild. The Guild
called a strike on Feb. 14, alleg-
ing that several of its members
had been fired.
Dr. S. Margoshes, editor of
the Day, claimed that the strike
leaders were Communists who
wanted to break the Jewish
Writers' Union (Peretz Verein).
The Jewish Writers' Union did
not support the strike. The
United Hebrew Trades, the Al-
lied Printing Trades and many
other Jewish and other trade
unions sided with the Jewish
Writers' Union.
The American Newspaper Guild
has appealed the decision and
has asked for the removal of
Mrs. Herrick.

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Hull Discloses Anti-Axis Propa-
ganda Measures
WASHINGTON (JPS) — Leg-
islation may soon be passed to
make it impossible for Nazi pro-
paganda films like "Victory in
the West" to have free access
to American audiences.
This information was disclosed
in a letter from Secretary of
State Cordell Hull to Senator
I James M. Mead of New York.
Senator Mead had asked for
measures against propaganda
films, and Secretary Hull wrote
that legislation was being
drafted.

PLAN COUNTRY-WIDE NETWORK
OF SPEAKERS TO RESIST HATE

111 War Waifs Greet New Home

Former Detroiter
Writes a Jewish
Adventure Story

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schoolmates and his "gang".'
When the World War breaks out
in 1917, our hero enters an of-
ficers' training camp, wins his
bars as a "shave-tail," and goes
to France with his outfit.
The pugnacity of this young
fire-eater comes to full flower
in the Battle of the Argonne
Forest. There he becomes in-
volved in the most desperate
fighting of the war and the book
describes in detail the hair-rais-
ing adventures of Adam and his
courageous Company D.
This is a swiftly-moving story,
with a gripping climax, which
every boy will find delightful
reading.
There is not a normal boy or
girl above the age of 12—and,
no doubt, secretly many adults—
who will fail to find this story
absorbingly interesting. If, as
one may well expect, this story
has the wholesome „mental effect
hoped for, the Jewish Publica-
tion Society will again have put
the American Jewish community
in its debt by undertaking this
experiment in Jewish youth liter-
ature which is likely to revolu-
tionize the field.

A program of "home defense"
against intolerance was set in
motion by leaders of the Na-
tional Conference of Christians
and Jews at a dinner of New
York members of its speakers
bureau at the Town Hall Club
where plans were mapped for
organization and training of a
country-wide network of speak-
ers.
Heeding the counsel of Charles
H. Tuttle, former district attor-
ney of New York, that "we must
be ever vigilant in our efforts to
increase practical measures of
cooperation between all America-
cans" and "to be ready to speak
out promptly and courageously
at a moment's notice against
fomenters of discord and strife
among Protestants, Catholics and
Jews," the participants urged
sponsorship of "training dinners"
for speakers in other cities of
the country and the drafting of
a speakers' manual to aid spokes-
men for the National Conference
whenever they appear on a pub-
lic platform or before a micro-
phone. The recommendations were
accepted for the National Con-

ference by Dr. Everett R. Clin-
chy, president.
The speakers were told that
the threats to "democratic gov-
ernment now evident throughout
the world" will conceivably be
marked in the United States dur-
ing the coming months by re-
newed efforts from those opposed
to "our way of life" to stir up
religious and racial conflict as a
"trick to weaken and destroy
us."
"The imperative action for
Americans in this situation must
be a conscious and united edu-
cational effort to keep America
cafe for differences," Dr. Clinchy
declared. "Upon you as speakers
for the National Conference rests
much of the heavy task to im-
munize Americans against mu-
tual mistrust and the generaliza-
tions of prejudice.
"Since the President has de-
clared an unlimited national
emergency, it is incumbent upon
Protestants, Catholics and Jews
to set an example of civic col-
laboration. Here lies a job for
school, college, community and
youth organization leaders, as
well as the clergy."

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was just issued by the Jewish
Publication Society of America,
225 S. 15th St., Philadelphia, Pa.

A crying need of the time is
wholesome literature for the
Jewish adolescent. The present
situation and environment are
calculated to emphasize the prob-
lems of adjustment and to raise
questions in the mind of the
growing boy and girl to which
Jewish teachers and parents can
find but inadequate answers.
Fundamentally it is a question
of encouraging normal reactions
and of convincing the adolescent
of the possibility of smooth and
successful human relationships.
In this direction, this latest book
offered by the Jewish Publication
Society represents an experiment
the results of which are highly
promising.
This is a story of youthful
courage and daring on the street,
in the school. on the gridiron,
and on the battlefields of the
first World War. The hero, Adam
Levy, is a boy who has to fight
every inch of the way to win
the respect of his schoolmates,
because he lives in a neighbor-
hood where he is the only Jew,
and hostile gangs roam the
streets. He works at a big league
baseball park where the toughest
elements rule with fists and
curses. but Adam is not afraid.
He will fight at the drop of a
hat to avenge the insults heaped
upon him and his people.
Out of this environment he
emerges with the friendship of
his enemies and goes on to high
school and college, where his
athletic prowess makes him a
brilliant quarterback. There are
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