DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle

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IT HAPPENED
IN PALESTINE

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that no further egg imports are
needed by the Jewish community;
the present output of Jewish
poultry farms in sufficient for all
local neds.
The Economic Research Insti-
tute of the Jewish Agency states
that during May, 1940, there
were 6,078 million eggs pro-
duced by Jewish farms in Pales-
tine compared with 4,855 million
in May last year.

July 25, 1941

What "Mein Kampf" Jews Compelled by Nazis to Bear Crucifix,
Priests Forced to Sing Sacrilegious Songs
Means to America

LONDON—A report of Jews intent of submitting Jews to acts
The world has begun to un- and Catholic priests tortured by banned by their religious belief
derstand what "Mein Kampf" Nazis, and forced, under terror, and of provoking Catholics
means to all mankind. It took to commit sacrilegious acts, has against them. However, the
catastrophe to bring about un- reached reliable Czechoslovakian church dignitaries well under-
derstanding. T h e "madman's sources in this country.
stood the Nazi intentions. A
dream," as the Hitler scheme is
while later, one of the Catholics
The
occurrence
took
place
at
described by the artist Arthur
was forced to mount the pulpit
the
Spielburg
fortress.
High
Szyk, is mirrored in Madman
church dignitaries were seized by and read a sacreligious address.
Adolf
Hitler's
book.
Then all assembled Catholic dig-
Production of Milk, Potatoes and
What does this book mean to Nazi soldiers, kicked with bobbed nitaries were ordered to march
Tomatoes Also Increased
boots
and
locked
up
in
the
chapel
America? It is "a handbook of
of the fortress. Polish Jews were around the altar and sing songs
Milk production has also risen, lawlessness," Francis Hackett also forced to assemble in the of an obscene character.
of "Mein Kampf" in his
and during May 3,403,000,000 says
This should further prove how
new book, "What Mein Kampf chapel, given crucifixes and told
liters were produced compared Means to America." This book, to march around the altar, in "sincere" the Nazis are, when
with 3,251,000,000 in May last just issued by Reynal & Hitch- the manner in which Jews march they claim that their war on
with their Torahs on Sinichas Soviet Russia is a "crusade for
year. The output of potatoes and cock, 386 Fourth Ave., New Torah. This was clearly with the Christianity."
York,
is
significant
for
its
care-
tomatoes has also increased, and
Thnuva sold 2,000 tons from the ful resume of Hitler's poisonous
beginning of the season until the volume, for its warnings to "Anti-Semitism Is Itself an Pictures Refugees
end of June. Other Jewish pro- Americans on every score in-
Excess"
ducers sold about 1,000 tons volved, for its clarity and its
As Being Flotsam
factual
approach.
more. The increase compared with
On
October
13,
1892,
the
fa-
That
which
may
be
described
last year was by a third in both
as bold warning in Hackett's mous physician, Professor Her- Ramarque Describes Struggle of
potatoes and tomatoes.
Expatriated Wanderers
book is one of its concluding mann Nothnagel, a founder of
sentences: "If democracy can- the Vienna Medical School, and
In a brief review of Erich
not meet this threat (the Nazi
New Jewish-Arab Companies for crime against humankind), can- honorary president of the Society Maria Ramarque's "Flotsam,"
Thnuva Reports In
Buffs Regiment
Activity
not meet it with greater will and to Combat Anti-Semitism, ad- just published by Little, Brown
determination than the German's, dressed a large audience on the & Co., Boston, Decision, the new
JERUSALEM (Palcor Agency) with truer single-mindedness, it anti-Semitic excesses of the day: literary review of free culture
TEL AVIV (Palcor Agency)—
edited by Klaus Mann, states:
Particular interest is attached to — New Jewish and Arab com- may bend its neck in submis-
"My friends! The sad and dis-
"The author of the most pop-
reports of increased activity on panies are to be formed within sion."
graceful events which are the ular war novel popularizes the
the part of Thnuva, the central the famous Royal East Kent Regi-
There are rebukes to the Lind- immediate cause for our meeting
marketing association of Keren ment, known as the Buffs, it was berghs and the America First today, have been designated as drama of exile. But, while he has
Hayesod settlements, in view of officially announced. The Govern- Committee in Mr. Hackett's in- anti-Semitic excesses. They are experienced the World War in
the celebration of the 20th anni- ment statement that resumption troduction. There are analyses nothing of the kind. Anti-Semi- the trenches as an anonymous
versary of the establishment of of recruiting in the Buffs regi- of all issues raised by Nazism. tism commits no excesses. It is youngster, he knows exile from
the Keren Hayesod. (Editor's ment would now be permitted, There are interesting comments in itself an excess. It is an out- the convenient observation post
Note: This short resume was and that 500 additional volun- on the Jewish problems and on rage against morality, against of a villa in Switzerland or a
written in Palestine in mid-Au- teers would be given the oppor- anti-Semitism.
justice, against humanity. The palace hotel in Hollywood,
gust and, like most similar ma- tunity to join, declared that the
"He never sees the Jew in man who is shocked by these Cannes or New York. This may
terial these days, arrived here authorities "invite 250 Jewish human proportion," the author events does not really understand be one of the reasoss why
circuitously by way of Singa- and 250 Arab volunteers to join of "What Mein Kampf Means to the nature of anti-Semitism. It 'Fllotsam' falls so deplorably
immediately."
pore).
America" states. And yet, is in its very essence an evil, short of 'All Quiet on the West-
Certain items are being hand-
Enthusiasm for the formation "Wealthy Jews appeared, like and can only beget evil. Each of ern Front.' Remarque's soldiers
led for the first time, while other of Yishuv companies, which thus Gustav Oberlaender, hoping to the foregoing episodes had to were of flesh and blood; the ex-
staples have shown a definite in- far have only faintly tapped the flatter Hitler out of anti-Semi- happen. Be not deceived, gen- iles as he presents them are the
tlemen! Should the perpetrators most dreary cliches. Many of the
crease which contributes to Pal- available Jewish manpower which tism."
estine's self-sufficiency.
the Jewish Agency repeately of-
It is a sickening experience, of these wrongs win the upper details so sadly characteristic of
Carp Now Being Sold by Thnuva fered for the defense of Eretz of course, to re-read in resume hand, the guardian angel of man- the refugee's harassed life are
For some weeks past Thnuva Israel and for participation in the the Hitlerian view of the Jews. kind would have to hide his face compiled and sometimes arranged
has been selling carp from Nir broader British program against "All the rival pattern-makers- in sorrow, for they would change rather skillfully. There they are
David, in place of the carp for- Nazi aggression, has been reflect- the clergy, the newspapermen, into frightful deeds what until —the squalid little hotels and
merly imported from abroad.
ed in the participation of workers the writers, the aristocrats, the now have been only words. . . ." cafes in Vienna, Prague, Zurich,
Paris; the passport troubles, the
There are now carp-breeding of all settlements and of all par- Jews, the parliamentarians, the
ruthless officials, the melan-
ponds in five settlements, and ties and in the steady departure internationalists — all of them,
other reservoirs are being con- of Jewish recruits, who have each without the slightest exception, Rabbi Asks Newark Board to choly romances, disease and pov-
.A.ty, the occasional jobs, the
time quickly oversubscribed the he (Hitler) has cut off from the
structed.
Stop Kosher "Racket"
futile discussions, hectic hopes
No Further Egg Imports Needed Quota allotted them by the au- German people, and the German
never-ending Struggle—the
It has now been determined thorities.
NEWARK, N. J. (JPS)—The and
people have submitted."
nightmarish scenery of an at
"The sexually abnormal Julius problem facing a community when once restless and monotonous pil-
Streicher" comes in for com- Eupervision of kashruth comes grimage. But everything remains
■ ment
and dissection. We are told under government control was il- strangely dull, shallow and ex-
how world public opinion was lustrated here when Rabbi Meyer traneous—bare of the tragic im-
wiped out by Hitler, how the Blumenfeld appeared before the pact and mysterious splendor in-
Nazis plot to seal Jews in a Newark City Commission to urge herent even in the most depress-
the 1934 ordinance which in-
ghetto, how all evil was blamed that
stituted
supervision ing reality. The novel is almost
on Jews, how people who dis- should be municipal
completely lacking in both politi-
repealed.
agreed with the fuehrer were
It appears that the ordinance cal implications and deep enw-
immediately called Jews,—includ- provides that rabbis, given badges tional aspects, without which the
ing Roosevelt and Morgan.
to indicate this authority, have tragedy of exile degenerates into
A comparison is made of Hit- power to make inspections of a serial for Collier's."
ler's racialism with the platform butcher shops. Rabbi Blumenfeld,
Nevertheless, there is value in
of the Ku Klux Klan, and the pointing out that rabbis are given "Flotsam." A master writer has
author shows that the Klan, be- fees by butchers after inspection painted a picture of people in
On the shores of Lake Huron, at Jeddo, Mich.
ing a "democratic dynamism," has been concluded and authority flight, become as flotsam, at the
was quelched "and its racialism given for the hanging of a sign mercy of tormentors, seeking
made politically impossible for in the window, asserted Newark sympathy and refuge. It must
at least another generation." He is the only city where such a pro- bear fruit and bring a response
challenges those who call Euro- cedure exists.
marked by decent considerations.
The views of Rabbi Blumen-
pean racialism inevitable and
Jews and Christians. Commu-
10 thru Aug. 31—reserved for young
who desire to transplant it in feld were challenged by Com- nists and Socialists, all types of
Dates Aug.
missioner Brady, who said that fugitives figure in this story. Re-
America.
women from 18-30 and young men from
the health department could not fugees turned peddlers, students
"Unity
First"
is
the
final
ap-
21-35.
peal of this important volume— undertake the inspection because turned laborers, offsprings of dif-
unity of all Americans against it was not qualified to decide ferent classes and creeds unite
Rates $15 per week. Week - ends may be
the false offers of the Lindberghs what meat was or was not kosher. to help one another, to stand on
A further study of the situa- guard against Nazi spies bent
arranged.
and the America First Committee
and their ilk. The author asks tion was ordered, with a view to upon persecuting them even when
which is better: "to consume repeal of the ordinance if jus- they are away from their
Community Center, Woodward at
Register Jewish
motherland.
sugared Mein Kampf out of the tified.
Holbrook Ayes., after one p. m. any
"Flotsam" is not as good as
Lindbergh feeding-dropper or to
week-day or evening. MAdison 8400.
"All Quiet on the Western
probe for yourself what the Hit-
ler argument is?" Mr. Hackett Nazis Move Eastward; Persecu- Front." But it serves a purpose.
tions Increase
The criticisms leveled again t'.ie
shows what the Hitler idea is,
(Council Camp will be open to young women only thru Aug. 9)
book by other refugees like
and he offers fair and timely
LONDON (JPS) — With the Klaus Mann who expect a more
warning in his book. "What
Registrations may still be made for the remainder of this
Mein Kampf Means to America" month during which Adolf Hitler emphatic outcry against injus-
should be widely read, if its promised complete triumph over tice may do the desired good of
segregated period, as well as for Co-Ed Camp.
the Red Armies gone into his- encouraging firmer speaking and
warning is to be heeded.
tory, the Germans had to be con- acting on the part of Remarque
tent with claiming further advance and others in his class. Every -
Blumenthal Will Contains Large toward Moscow and with boast- time a word is spoken against
ing about the murders they were injustice it must bring results.
Bequests
committing among the Jewish
NEW YORK (JPS)—The will populations of the captured cities. Rothschild ' Off Legion Honor
A systematic pillaging of Jew-
of George Blumenthal, banker and
Roll
art patron who died on June 26, ish homes is the first step under-
contains substantial bequests to taken by the Nazi armies when
NEW YORK (JPS) — Word
various charities — including 19 they enter a Russian city, says was received here that Barons
per cent of his residuary estate a report here. The homes of Rus- Edouard, Henri and Robert Roths-
to Mt. Sinai Hospital, which he sians are left untouched, so that child, now living in this city.
headed for 27 years, and 3 per in case the city is recaptured have been purged from the rolls
cent to the New York Federa- by the Red Armies, the Russians of the French Legion of Honor by
tion of Jewish Philanthropic So- will have no grudge against the official decree published in Vichy.
cieties. Large art gifts were also Germans. Hans Frank, the Jew- All of them had contributed not-
made to the Metropolitan Museum baiting governor of Nazi Poland, ably to the development of French
System
Succeeds
Blue
Goose
Lines
A Great New
of
Art. The widow inherited 54 has been transferred to the newly cultural and industrial life before
and Eastern Michigan Motorbuses
occupied regions.
per cent of the estate.
the Nazi invasion.
great new name in travel! Great Lakes Greyhound now serves
Dr. Kurt Mendelsohn and Dr.
A
Other Jews listed in the purge
Michigan and the entire "Blue Waters Region". Greyhound's
GIFT TO JEWISH CENTER Hans Epstein, two refugees from included another New York resi-
famous Super-Coach travel now links all the towns and cities once
territory, who dent, Henri Torres, noted attor-
reached by Blue Goose Lines and Eastern Michigan Motorbuses
The Jewish Community Cen- German-occupied
cool saving—
have lived in England for sev- ney and defender of such famed
Ws the cool way to go—at a as
with all America.
well!
ter
wishes
to
acknowledge
a
gift
these
Unitied
States,
and
to
Canada
anywhere in
eral years, have invented a new
to the scholarship fund from Mr. anaesthetic, to be patented as Jewish clients as Shalom
GREYHOUND TERMINAL
and Mrs. David Erman and fam- "Oxford Vaporizer," which has Schwartzbard and Hershel Gryn-
Washington Blvd. at Grand Riser
Phone: Cadillac 9000
ily of 3294 Blaine Ave., in mem- been heralded as a boon to the szpan and Edouard Jonas, former
member of the Chamber of Depu-
ory of their son, A. Earl Erman. war wounded.
ties and art collector.

"Look at those mountains," I
said one day to a Jewish com-
panion, pointing to a barren
range of hills to our left. "There's
nothing you can do with those."
"Those hills," he replied,
"were once beautiful with figs
and olives. We shall make them
beautiful again."
"How will you do it?" I asked.
"We shall terrace them," he
said, "as they were terraced in
the old days. Those slopes are
not mere sand and rock. There's
soil there still. And the soil that
has been washed away into these
valleys, we'll carry it back, bas-
ket by basket, shovelful by shov-
elful, until the hills are green
again.
You can't do that," I cried,
"not in a hundred years!"
Then came the bravest words
I heard in Palestine: "What's a
hundred years to a Jew?"
—Rev. John Haynes Holmes
in "Palestine: Yesterday,
Today and Tomorrow."

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