1941

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August 22, 1941

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle

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London Calling, the Overseas Journal of the
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that singers and musicians in Berlin who were
once popular and who had gained fame through-
out the world, but who had been discharged
from Berlin's State Opera because they are Jews,
were asked a short time ago whether they wanted
to work again. Accepting eagerly, they were told
to report for "first rehearsal" at the Opera
House the next morning. When they arrived at
the appointed time and place, they found the
Opera House in ruins. It had been destroyed
two days before by R. A. F. bombers, although
few people in the neighborhood knew about it,
the district having been roped off and the de-
struction having been kept a secret. The famous
artists were put to work nevertheless. They were
enlisted as unpaid "scene-shifters"—t o clear the

debris.

Those who still doubt the effectiveness of R. A.
F. work will find this bit of news informative—
even though it is marked by the tragic angle of
insults meted out to great artists who suffer
for their Jewishness.

•

Faith Will Decide the Issue

Faith will decide our major issues, Maxwell
Anderson was motivated by such an ideal when
he wrote his "Journey to Jerusalem" as an ex-
pression of sentiment against Hitlerisnl. The
eminent Librarian of Congress, the poet and
author Archibald MacLeish, recently expressed it
in articles. Others are beginning to believe it
faithfully.
Archibald MacLeish put it well when he wrote
in the Survey Graphic;

"There are those, and they are not few,
who tell us now that liberty must retire,
that democracy must retire, that labor must
retire, that the Jews must retire and not be
Jews, that anything that any man might
question must retire, that the nation must
be unified along the cautious shores of silence
and beyond dissent.
"Let them look at others wh o retired,
others who waited, others who drew back.
"Let them look back at the history of
this (American) people.
"In th e wars of the spirit there is no
defense but to attack. For in the wars of
democracy, of the human spirit, it is faith
which will decide the issue. And faith cannot
be faith against but FOR."
It is interesting to note that Helen Keller,

the great woman who overcame many handicaps
in life, also believed in the power of faith. In
her book "Let Us Have Faith" she wrote:

Power, not 'comfort, is my demand upon
faith. Living faith is discomforting to the
last degree. It does not offer an escape from
life and its evils, but it gives a more abun-
dant life despite all obstacles and all hard-
ships. Faith, rightl y understood, is active, not
passive. Passive faith is no more a force
than sight is in an eye that does not look
or search out. Active faith knows no fear.
It denies that God has betrayed His creatures
and given the world over to darkness. It
denies that men are to b e judged after the
appearance of race, color and opinion instead
of according to the Law of Life. It denies
that a society in which good will shall re-
place hate and intelligent cooperation sup-
plant armed force is unattainable. It denies
despair. Defeat is simply a signal to press
onward. Reinforced by faith, the weakest
mortal is mightier than disaster. The GO
withi n braces him against the universe; his
soul is whole and equal to any emergency.
Faith has such might because next to love
it is the force most inherent in one's own
awareness. It directs to the light when dark-
ness prevails it; it supplies incentive to action
and converts ideas into realities. It fires the
imagination, and this is essential, for one
must envisio n th e higher life and behave as
if it were a fact before it ca n unfold. But
though faith belong s to the future, its energy
irradiate s the present, just as the green leaf
pigment—th e delicate link between the sun
and life—permeates the vegetable world..

Thus, faith must generate power. It has gen-
erated power providing for the survival of peo-
ples—and Jewish survival is the best proof of
it. It is generating power today in behalf of
the democratic forces in the world. It is faith
which gives strength to the men charged with
responsibility for building a better world—Roose-
velt and Churchill playing the leading roles.
Faith must provide that power within all of us.
With such power, we shall soon be on the
threshold of victory for the spirit of man and
for the better things in life.

•

Tacitus on the Germans

To the fellow who offers excuses for the Ger-
mans, maintaining that they are not all Nazis,
you might offer the following 1800-year-old de-
scription of the German people uttered by Tacitus,
the Roman historian who lived from 55 to
120 A. D.:

"The whole earth is not enough for them
to la y waste, but now they turn their eyes
towards the sea. East and West cannot
satisfy them. If their enem y is rich, they
are greedy; if he is poor, they are arrogant.
Alone of all races, wealth and want are
alike to their lust. Plunder, murder and en-
slavement, they call by the false name of
government; and when they make a desert,
they call it p eace."
This is peculiarly timely today, when the Ger-
mans, to avoid disaster, are launching "peace

offensives".

Contributors to Allied Jewish
By Philip Slomovitz
Campaign Urged to Make Immediate
Payments on Their 1941 Pledges
Land in Zion Instead of a Bar in Detroit

Commentary •

Famous Musicians Who Collect Debris

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The Isaac Shetzers were preparing for the
marriage of their (laughter, Miriam, to Jacob
Keidan, and the usual Shetzer spirit cropped up.
This is not the time for an elaborate bar, they
said to themselves. So, when the many guests
arrived for the reception, they found no
schnapps. Instead of liquor the Shetzers ordered
a land purchase and incidentally bestowed one
of the most distinct honors that can be given
a young couple: they ordered their daughter's
and son-in-law's names inscribed in the Golden
Book of the Jewish National Fund.
Thus, the Shetzer tradition remains unbroken.
When Isaac Shetzer observed his 60th birthday,
his wife inscribed his name in the Golden Book.
When Simon Shetzer became 40, his parents
inserted his name in the Golden Book. Now, with
the Keidan-Shetzer combination also listed in
the historic volume in Jerusalem, the tradition
becomes a law in the Shetzer family.
'Tis better for all concerned that there
should be a new land purchase in Zion than a
little more schnapps.

•
Rabindranath Tagore and the Jews

Sir Rabindranath Tagore's death recalls his
interest in Jewish problems. The Nobel Prize
winner was an admirer and friend of Albert
Einstein. He took a deep interest in Jewish
affairs and in Palestine. The Hindu poet and
philosopher was a supporter of Zionism.
Back in 1929 he made some interesting state-
ments. He revealed that a Miss Flaume, a kinder-
garten teacher in Paelstine, had been sending
him literature of all kinds with translations in
English. He said that when she visited with the
Tagores she spoke with enthusiasm of the work
of Jewish pioneers in Palestine. Speaking of
Miss Flaume's reports on Palestine, Sir Rabin-
dranath said:
"Through her we came to know about the
Zionist movement and I was very much impressed
with the heroism and sacrifice of the people who
are building it. Jews have done work that is
astonishingly great. Rebuilding Palestine is a
challenge to the world. You are showing what
you can do with combined mental power, with
your power of sacrifice, imagination and loyalty.
I hope it will be a very fine work, and something
which will lead to permanent glory to the Jew-
ish people."
The imaginative soul of Rabindranath Tagore
caught the spirit of pioneering that was and is
at work in Palestine. What he and men like him
do to encourage Halutziuth becomes difficult to
evaluate. It is one of the helpful elements that
serve to eliminate bigotry and to appreciate the
creative genius of mankind.

•
Flood Versus Drought

A correspondent, writing to PM, the militant
New York daily, in commenting upon the Nazi-
Soviet case now facing this country, calls atten-
tion to the following quotation from the wife of
a wealthy and titled Englishman with which
G. E. R. Gedye of the New York Times closed
his book "Betrayal in Central Europe":

"We of the well-to-d o classes with cul-
tured minds must always fight against the
danger of either Socialism or Fascism put-
ting an end to our pleasant and useful exist-
ences. But if the choice—which God forbid—
should ever be forced upon us, I should feel
that we were being compelled to choose
between perishing in the drought of Fascism
and the flood of Socialism—perhaps of Com-
munism. Both, drought and flood, destroy,
and either way, our sort of life would come
to an end. But when the drought has passed,
it leaves behind it an arid desert where
nothing new can live. After the flood sub-
sides, new forms of life spring up, some
monstrous, some young, some vigorous and
healthy—we see it in this world of ours
today. I think that you and I (speaking to
her husband) could never choose the
drought."
It is a new and somewhat different angle on

the current conflict. Perhaps it is especially ap-
plicable to Jews. Germany and Russia divided
the Polish spoils among themselves. In the Nazi-
occupied territories there were persecution's of
Jews, suppression of the rights of Poles, the
enslavement of the population. There were no
reports of tyranny in Russia, other than the
enforcement of the Communist ideology upon all
alike. It is a drought in one instance, a flood,
which is already beginning to subside, in the
other instance. Already, Soviet Russia is begin-
ning to grant concessions to the religiously per-
secuted, to release Jews from Siberia, to make
pacts with Poland, pointing to the re-establish-
ment of the Polish Republic after the defeat of
Hitler and Nazism. The choice is clear. The flood
is subsiding. The Germans are perishing in the
drought of their own creation.

Urgent Statement Issued by Henry Wineman, Chairman
of This Year's Drive

Quoting Morris Troper, Euro- them are already en route.
pean chairman of the Joint Dis-
"Headway has begun to be
tribution Committee, who recently made, he says, in the clearing up
arrived in New York from Lis- of the situation in Casablanca,
bon aboard the Atlantic Clipper, Morocco, where the refugees are
Henry Wineman appealed to Al- in a living hell, driven like slave
lied Jewish Campaign subscribers labor under the African sun to
to make substantial cash payments build a railway across the Sahara
on their campaign accounts, im- Desert. After half a year strenu-
mediately.
ous effort it was possible to put
Chairman of the 1911 campaign, 300 of them aboard ship the last
and a member of the executive week in July.
committee of the Jewish Welfare
"According to Troper," con-
Federation, which sponsors the tinued Mr. Wineman, "the Por-
annual drive for the • Joint Dis- tuguese situation is being cleared
tribution Committee, the United up more rapidly. Where a little
Palestine Appeal, the National more than a year ago, just after
R efugee Service, and other over- the Blitzkrieg, we had almost
seas, national and local causes, 10,000 refugees in Lisbon, there
Mr. Wineman is in constant touch are only about 1,500 left in Por-
with the heads of the important tugal today.
overseas and refugee agencies. In
Must Grasp Opportunity
a two-page letter, to a group of
Allied Jewish Campaign contri-
"But we cannot let the oppor-
butors, he outlined the highlights tunity for these people to escape
of the report presented to Ameri- slip by," he emphasized. "They
can Jewish leaders by Mr. Troper possess valid American visas. We
shortly after his arrival on July must rescue them before their
25.
visas expire. To do less would be
"Mr. Troper stressed the neces- unthinkable."
sity of immediate cash to keep
In conclusion Mr. Wineman
the European work going," said urged subscribers to make large
Mr. Wineman. "The problem of payments on their Allied Jewish
cash has become acute. In Nazi- Campaign accounts at once. "Pay
held Poland the demand for help your account in full if you can,"
is so great that child-care and he said. "But, in any event, let
feeding stations are being forced us have the greatest amount of
to turn away many applicants cash you can spare. We will
for lack of funds.
transfer it to our beneficiaries at
once—and they will turn it into
Polish Incident
"An incident typical of the way food, steamship tickets and other
the J. D. C. is able to carry on necessities."
Allied Jewish Campaign ac-
feeding programs, without send-
ing any supplies through the counts may be paid in person, or
British blockade, was told by Mr. by mail, at the Jewish Welfare
Troper. 'It occurred just a few Federation offices, 51 W. Warren
days ago in Warsaw. The War- Ave., Room 308.
saw committee was informed that
there were 12,000 cans of evap-
orated milk stored in a warehouse
there. The milk belonged to an
American firm which was unable
to dispose of it. The Warsaw
committee took it over and the
purchase was financed in this
country. That milk is now being
used to stave off starvation for
thousands of children.'
"But such deals needs cash,"
pointed out Mr. Wineman.

1,300 En Route

"Troper tells us, also," stated
Mr. Wineman, "that 3,300 refu-
gees will have left European
ports for the United States and
Latin America, during the month
of August. Thirteen hundred of

Joseph D. Rosenberg, Prom-
inent Furrier, Dies

THIS SERVICE TO

LUDINGTON

and MICHIGAN'S
GREAT WEST COAST
VACATIONLAND

Joseph D. Rosenberg of 7342
Poe Ave., prominent Detroit fur-
rier, died Aug. 14. Funeral serv-
ices were held last Sunday at
Temple Beth El.
Born in Latvia, Mr. Rosenberg
had lived in Detroit for 28 years.
He entered the raw fur business
in Gladwin, where he married
Esther Jacobs on Feb. 5, 1907,
and came to Detroit six years
later to establish the Ideal Fur
Co. In 1923 he founded the firm
of Furs by Robert. He was a
member of Temple Beth El, the
Standard Club of Detroit, and
was a 32nd degree Mason and
an Elk. He leaves his wife, Es-
ther; four sons, Robert T., Ed-
ward, Michael C. and Wallace
H. Roberts; three brothers, Ju-
lius Rosenberg of Detroit; Man-
del and Edward Rosenberg of
Flint; and three sisters, Mrs.
Harry Bielfield, Mrs. Leonre Ja-
cobs and Mrs. Maurice Roe.

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Commander of Legion

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GREYHOUND TERMINAL
Ark, Jewish lawyer and com-
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named New York State Com-
Phone Cadillac 9000
mander of the American Legion
at the annual convention of the
organization, which was held
here.
LINES

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•
"Releasabeth" the Free

"Chronicler," columnist for the London Jewish
Chronicle, recently wrote the following brief
paragraph:

They are telling this tale concerning the
refugees. Some births have occurred in the
wcmen's internment camps in the Isle of
Man. The most popular names give n to the
infants, it is said, are, for the boys, Douglas,
and, for the girls, Releasabeth.
How glorious is freedom! Its joys are re-

fleeted even in the names given the children
born in a period of quest for liberty?

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