1941
nth
Aside
to
Jew-
Cs
Detroit Jewish Chronicle
SECTION ONE
VOL. 43, NO. 34
will
iglwut
f rum
Irwish
enroll-
1:; to
by
eld of
ration,
New
eriran
luea-
-presi-
..1 for
sident
ksso-
Israel
the
Jewish
h ector
unit-
se rve
Jewish
L.
If the
Edu-
Cleve-
cation,
irman.
U. S., European
Anti-Semites
Hit Roosevelt
Dr. Weizmann Is Also
Subject of Nazi
Vituperation
and The Legal Chronicle
This Paper Printed in Two Section,
DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, AUGUST 29, 1941
10 Cents Single Copy; S3.00 per Yeas
Portrait of an Artist-Warrior
Arthur Szyk, Cartoonist Who Is a Front-Line Fighter
Against Hitlerism
By MAX HOFFBERG
Editor's Note: Arthur Szyk, the noted Polish-Jewish artist whose
collection of devastatin g anti-Nazi cartoons, "The New Order,"
has been delighting the booklovers, is revealed in this portrait
as a fierce defender of freedom, proud of his Jewishness and
the share he and his son—a fighter with the Free French—
are taking in the struggle against Hitler.
-
11 over
Ig hu-
a the
nee in
which
IRS,
Amer-
among
burden
(aim-
,' their
I
of
to
GENEVA. (JPS) — President
Roosevelt and Dr. Chaim Weiz-
mann are being singled out these
days for especial Nazi vitupera-
tion. The reason for the attack
on Roosevelt is not hard to find,
but the conclusions are—as is
usual in such cases—somewhat
difficult to follow.
"Roosevelt has stamped the
brand of Cain on his own fore-
head, for, like Churchill, he is
prepared to commit fratricide
against the rest of the civilized
world. He intends to deliver un-
bridled world domination into
the hands of Judaism," writes
the Diplomatisch-Politische Kor-
respondenz.
Meanwhile, write other Nazi
newspapers, Germany and her
allies will "solve the world Jew-
ish problem as radically as it
deserves to be solved in view of
the attitude of international
Jewry in this war,"
Given prominence is the state-
ment of Dr. Weizmann that
Palestine forms a b u l w a r
against Nazism near the Suez
Canal. This is taken as typical
of "utterances of international
Jewry that discuss and thus
openly admit the immediate in-
terests of Jews in this war."
NEW YORK. (JPS) — Evi-
dence of anti-Semitic influence
among the organization of isola-
tionist women known as Women
United was disclosed in a report
published in The Nation, in
which it is asserted that mem-
bers of this organization are
circulating rumors that Presi-
dent Roosevelt's grandfather was
a Spanish Jew. During a recent
march on Washington to apply
pressure on Senators and Con-
gressmen, in which Mrs. Burton
K. Wheeler participated, some of
the women were heard to refer
to the supporters of the Presi-
dent's program as "Jew inter-
ventionists" and "Jew Commu-
ists".
2, and sessions will be held in
the afternoon after public school
hours, the first session at 4
p. m., the second at 5:30 p. m.,
and the third at 7 p. m.
For information call the Phil-
adelphia-Byron School, Madison
8770 or the Rose Sittig Cohen
School, Townsend 8-0063.
Charge Is Made by the
Fight for Freedom
Committee
./414"— S3r
hew IT. (1'a
by Independent Jewish Press Service, 1941:
SELF PORTRAIT BY ARTHUR SZYK
Adolf Hitler and his staff are
having their problems these days.
But every time an American or
a British newspaper containing a
cartoon by Arthur Szyk reaches
Germany, Hitler, Goering, Goeb-
bels & Company are provoked into
a wild rage by the slashing pen
of the artist. Arthur Szyk is a
rather short, rotund man, slightly
beyond the border of middle-age,
with a weakness for 12-inch long
cigarette holders and a passion-
ately intense hatred of Nazism
which drives him on the rise at
six in the morning and work at
his drawing-board, which he con-
siders his front-line trench in the
fight for freedom.
"How can anyone expect me to
paint landscapes and flowers when
the world is in flames?" the noted
The Battle on the Zionist Front
Major Issues to Be Considered at Cincinnati
Convention Analyzed
BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
WASHINGTON, D. C. (JPS)
—The Zionist Organization of
America is undergoing one of its
periodic bouts of indigestion. Its
distemper expresses itself in in-
ternal disturbances. When dele-
gates gather at Cincinnati for
the annual convention the shadow-
boxing will be between groups
which have bedeviled the Zionist
movement for two decades. This
year several new factors will enter
the situation. Outsiders do not
expect any startling changes to
occur. The facts and the back-
grounds are interpreted in two
ways, according to the viewpoint
of those who are "the administra-
tion," and those who are not.
The administration of the Zion-
ist Organization, headed by Ed-
mund I. Kaufmann, head of a
novelty jewelry syndicate with
chain stores in various cities of
the country, tells the following
story of a year's activity and pro-
jects its program in these terms:
The Kaufmann Angles
(1) Having moved the na-
tional headquarters of the organ-
ization from New York to Wash-
ington, it has facilitated contact
with the political headquarters of
the world, a factor of importance
The United Hebrew Schools
will be reopened Tuesday, Sept.
"Fascist" Book
Used in Army
—Portrait Copyright
Isolationist Women Whisper that
Roosevelt's Grandfather Was
a Spanish Jew
Hebrew Schools
Reopen Tuesday
to a movement which is founded
on political contacts.
(2) After long neglect by pre-
vious administrations of youth
and educational activities, it has
brought into the picture an ex-
perienced director for both de-
partments, in order to make up
for the lack of youth material to
replace adult leadership which has
died or fallen by the wayside.
(3) It has changed the format
of The New Palestine, organiza-
tion weekly, so that it is now
more widely read.
(4) It has brought new emphasis
to the need for larger member-
ship in the organization as the
basis for political strength.
(5) It has improved contacts
with both Zionist and non-Zionist
groups, the first evidenced by
closer relations with Hadassah,
powerful women's Zionist Organ-
ization, the second by reduction of
friction with important non-Zion-
ist personalities and organizations.
(6) The present administration
takes it for granted that Mr.
Kaufmann will be re-elected be-
cause the constitution provides for
a two-year term maximum; the
record of the administration would
See ZIONISTS—Page 16
NEW YORK. (JPS)—A 15-
page mimeographed pamphlet
designed to review maneuver
problems of the Second Army
during its exercises in Arkansas
is branded as "filled with in-
credible justificatons of Ger-
many," in a telegram sent to
Secretary of War Stimson by
the Fight for Freedom Commit-
tee. The pamphlet, signed by
Maj R. A. Griffin, is called "Al-
mat-Kotmk Situation". The Sec-
retary was urged to study "this
horrifying material" which thou-
sands of soldiers are supposed
to read in order to appreciate
the moral and physical differ-
ences between two contending
armies, one of a mythical "Al-
mat," the other of a mythical
"Kotmk". The Fight for Free-
dom group charged that Kotmk,
presumably representing Ger-
many, was pictured as strong
and righteous, while Almat, in-
ferentially the United States,
was corrupt and inefficient.
Jewish Issue
Is Growing in
N. Y. Politics
Anti - Semites Break
Party Front for
Own Ends
NEW YORK. (JPS) — The
careful grooming Democrats and
Republicans have given a few
hand-picked Jewish candidates
for high city offices has all gone
to naught in neighborhoods
where Irish Catholics and Ger-
mans are powerful. The Christian
Front and the German-American
Bund have found themselves a
"Jewish issue" in the election,
and have started a rebellion
against designated nominees on
both the Republican and Demo-
cratic tickets.
In the Yorkville district, where
the rantings of Joe McWilliams
have brought out crowds of
thousands and where the Ger-
man-American Bund still holds
clandestine meetings, John P.
Morrissey has stood fast against
the wondrous wrath of Tammany
Hall Chieftain Christopher D.
Sullivan by refusing to withdraw
in favor of Tammany's candi-
date for the Borough Presidency
of Manhattan, Dr. Nathan Rat-
noff. Sullivan, eager to preserve
party harmony and the delicate
"balance of power" among na-
tionalities which is the key to
the Tiger's method, has ousted
Morrissey as district leader and
patronage dispenser in the area.
But Morrissey, confident that he
will win the anti-Jewish vote
hands down has been unmoved.
Polish-Jewish artist told his in-
terviewer, as he refilled one of
Anti-Semitic Leader Calls Hill-
Speak in Rumors
his elongated cigarette holders.
man "1919 Bolshevik"
It is still the tendency of local
HUMAN INTELLECT
CAN'T BE ISOLATIONIST
WASHINGTON. (JPS) — The leaders to play down the Jewish
Senate Finance Committee in- issue, and comments such as
"My son is fighting with the vestigating the current tax bill these are still heard: "Rumors
Free French under De Gaulle was told by Miss Catherine Cur- have reached the Tammany Wig-
somewhere in the Middle East. I tis, Director of Women Investors wam that district leaders in dis-
am a bit too old for that, but in America, and associated with tricts in which the Jewish vote
as an artist I believe that my pen enterprises regarded as anti- is not predominant may support
and brush must take their place Semitic, that Sidney Hillman, Morrissey over Dr. Ratnoff."
in the thick of the fight. No part associate director of the Office
With all the tenacity typical of
of the human intellect can remain of Production Management, was his supporters, Morrissey will
isolationist in a world in which "active in the 1919 Bolshevist doubtless run as an independent
every sphere of our lives is plot
in this country." Mr. Hill- in the election if he is defeated
bound up."
man has been especially noted in the primaries. The only ef-
Arthur Szyk speaks with a for the venom with which he fect of such a move would be
great deal of pride of his Jew- has been consistently attacked to elect Edgar J. Nathan, an-
ishness and his Jewish ancestors by Communist leader's in the other Jew who is a Republican,
who go back in a direct line to United States.
See POLITICS—Page 12
some of the greatest scholars
among Polish Jewry. His parents
were industrialists in Poland, but
they stemmed from the immortal
scholar Judah Halevi. Szyk is
By MICHAEL FREDERICK
many times a great-grandson of
the chief rabbi of Emperor Maxi-
milian of Austria. He is also a Ben Hecht, "Bad Boy" of Modern Literature, Gives His
People a Bit of Advice
descendant of the chief rabbi of
Poland. And the name Szyk is
Forget "Eili Eili" and the
a mnemonic of the names of his Wailing Wall. Laugh away the world, wants to give to the Jews
of America.
illustrious forebears.
pinpricks of hate. Laugh and be
The author of "The Front
free
and
elated
and
proud—until
HIS JEWISHNESS IS
Page," "Count Bruga," "A Jew
it's
time
to
run
or
to
shoot.
That's
A POINT OF HONOR
the advice which Ben Hecht, the in Love" and many other plays
and books is disturbed by the fail-
Although he is filled with a "bad boy" of the American stage, ure of the Jews to recognize that
great deal of racial pride, Szyk screen, literary and newspaper wit is their greatest strength
is quick to insist that he is not
and weapon. "The Jew is about
a Jewish jingo. His Jewishness is
80 or 90 per cent wit. Without
a point of honor, but it has very
it he might just as well be a
little in common with the outlook
gypsy," Mr. Hecht says. If you
of the pious Jew and the syna-
ask him for a method to fight
gogue. His famous illustrated Hag-
anti-Semitism he'll tell you to be
gadah and the Book of Esther are
of good cheer and read Sholem
a vivid testimonial to his rich
Aleichem every night before going
religious background.
to bed.
At the present moment Mr. Szyk
In the "Bad Boys" Setting
is devoting all his time to war
Ben Hecht has been a bad
cartoons, considering himself a
boy for two decades. It was a bit
private soldier in the battle for
sad to see the wrinkles of re-
democracy. However, there is one
spectability around his eyes. And
task which he has outlined for
the fact that the writer who
himself and which he hopes to
stood Hollywood and the literary
make his greatest work in the
world is its ear was dressed in
Jewish field; and that is, an il-
the dull-toned, somber fashion of
lustrated volume of the Book of
a middle-class businessman was
Job.
merely another testimony to the
"The Book of Job is the greatest
fact that he had given up play-
picture of what we, the Jews,
ing the role of the bull in the
are living through today. It is our
china shop.
'J'Accuse' to the Gentiles. My
Bu there we were in the perfect
work will have a dedication which
"Ben Hecht setting"—the exclu-
See SZYK—Page 8
BEN HECHT
See HECHT—Page 9
Until It's Time to Bun or Shoot