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September 5, f ,41
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle
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Sabbath Scriptural Selections
Pentateuchal portion—Deut. 21:10-25:19.
Prophetical portion—Is. 54:1-10.
SEPTEMBER 5, 1941
ELUL 13, 5701
A Splendid Project
mained far removed from the masses who
should form the backbone of the, move-
ment for national rebirth, and are lack-
ing in the quality which calls for
a leader's complete abandonment of al-
most all else for the sake of the cause
which will bring redemption to Israel.
The last-minute withdrawal from the
presidency of the incumbent, Edmund I.
Kaufmann, may or may not aggravate
the existing situation; but it should cer-
tainly serve as a challenge to the Zionists
of America to try to avoid chaos in the
ranks, and instead to aim at achieving
amity and a semblance of unity.
A tragic hour usually brings the de-
sired leadership to a people or a cause.
This has not been the case in the Zionist
crisis. Will better leadership emerge from
the Cincinnati convention?
Jews In the Army
•••Heard in the Lobbieso*.
By DAVID DEUTSCH
NAPPING ON PURPOSE
Once in a while a newspaper
will "overlook" a story because it
does not fit in with its policy. It
took the New York Times, which
has the biggest news bureau in
Washington, a whole week to dis-
cover that Justice Samuel I. Ro-
senman, who has collaborated on
the President's most important
public addresses, was in the na-
tion's capital trying to unscramble
the defense omellette known as
OPACS and OPAL The Times
was napping on purpose because
its publisher, Arthur Hays Sulz-
berger, doesn't like to see Jews
propelled into the spotlight of
public life. Remember the fev-
erish days before the President's
speech which marked the begin-
ning of the unlimited national
emergency? • Well, Mr. Sulzberg-
er was consulting with FDR at
that time. But you could not
find mention of that fact in his
paper. And the solid, chunky
Justice Rosenman, whom you
could always find in the lobby
of the Harmonie Club, has now
become a man of mystery and
his biography is as scarce as a
swastika in Moscow.
HANK CAN DISH IT OUT
The story has been pretty well
hushed up. But it should be told,
because somewhere somebody
wasn't giving Hank Greenberg,
the baseball star turned soldier,
a square deal . . . One of the
non-commissioned officers at Fort
Custer, Mich., had been provok-
ing Hank for some time. Final-
ly, after his repeated warnings
had failed, Hank let go a h a y.
maker and clipped the officer.
F. P. A. BOWS OUT
The genial, nostalgic F. P. A.,
whose column adorned Nuw
York's leading newspapers for
some 37 years, has bowed Out
with his departure from the New
York Post . . . In his Pepys
column Mr. Adams used to re.
cord his private life among the
great literati and know-it-alls of
his day. His petrol wagon will
now disappear from print, but
his doubtful baritone will carry
on with "Information Please" at
$750 per week . . . Talking about
old-timers, Sophie Tucker (mama
loves papa) and Georgie Jessel
will make a comback on the
Broadway stage in a musical
called "High Kickers."
A bulletin issued by the Bureau of
Public Relations of the U. S. War De-
partment declares that a tabulation of
religious preferences of soldiers shows
that 59 per cent are Protestants, 31 per
cent are Catholic, 2 per cent Jewish and
8 per cent who did not indicate any de-
nomination.
This is the first time that religious
preferences are listed by the United
States Army. With the various denomina- MURPHY ARNSTEIN
tional groups active among the men in
The hero of the Burma Road,
the service of this country—including the Daniel Arnstein, was once a taxi HIGH PRESSURE HIGH CLASS
Jewish Welfare Board—it is perhaps not driver. But few know that he The news releases will tell
to be professional athlete
unexpected that certain percentages of used
and played on Irish bowling you that the allotment commit-
religiously affiliated men should become teams under the name of Mur- tee of the U.J.A. is supposed to
known. It would be well, however, that phy. One day "Murphy" 's team divide the funds raised accord-
ing to a scientific and objective
care should be exercised so that there was playing a very important study.
But what are those per-
game
with
another
Irish
outfit.
should not be established precedents cre- When his turn came, the team sonal notes and telegrams float-
ating rules for listing the religious affili- captain's memory slipped and he ing around the country signed
ation of men in the service. That would called out "Hey, Arnstein, you're by William Rosenwald and Jo-
not be traditionally American, and it next." Balls and pins darkened nah 13. \Vise? Just a case of
high pressure for the
should be avoided. State and Church the air in the riot that followed. high-class
But when the brawl was over National Refugee Service. Now
must remain separate under any and all the opposing team had learned that's not cricket, even if Mr. R.
circumstances.
that "Murphy" was not an does have a nice air-conditioned
A most interesting project has been
launched by the Jewish National Fund
Council of Detroit.
Detroit Jews will be asked to join in
inscribing their names on a Scroll which
is to serve as this community's New Year
message to the Yishuv in Palestine.
It is a splendid idea which will serve
to emphasize America's interest in Pal-
estine. It will also bring to light in inter-
esting fashion the fact that Palestine and
America have the two freest Jewish com-
munities in the world.
The Jews of Detroit will be enabled,
in the fashion suggested, • to greet their
kinsmen in Palestine in a most novel way
on the New Year. They will reaffirm their
faith in the Jewish National Home and
at the same time will provide some means
with which to enlarge land purchases in
Zion.
This project should meet with whole-
A Plane for Palestine
hearted support from Detroit Jews, and
it would be well that several thousand
An important ceremony will take place
names should be inscribed on the Scroll this Sunday noon at Hartung Aviation
which is to be sent to Palestine as our Field.
New Year greeting.
The plane purchased by the Michigan
Linen Supply Board of Trade for pres-
entation to Palestine, in the program for
The Zionist Convention
the defense of the land and for the train-
A pitiful state of affairs exists in the ing of Jewish pilots, as a mark of tribute
ranks of Jewish leadership.
to Harry Schumer, will be brought here
Analyses of the claims of two factions by two Jewish pilots who have completed
in the Zionist movement reveal appalling their course of studies at the Hechalutz
factors. The presentation of these conflict- Training School, Cream Ridge, N. J. The
ing views, as presented in last week's formal presentation of the plane will be
issue of The Detroit Jewish Chronicle, made at that time.
ought to provide much food for thought.
It would be worthy of the occasion that
There are innuendos regarding the back- a large audience should witness the pres-
ground of some Zionists. Native Ameri- entation ceremonies. A devoted labor
can Zionists are said to be looking with Zionist will be honored and Palestine will
distrust upon foreign-born Jews. Old- be provided with means of expanding its
timers are being shelved. A feud is on defense work and its aviation industry.
among the children of Israel who have Detroit Jews should take pride in the re-
the good fortune to share the glory of sults of a well-motivated effort to do
American citizenship. The house is on fire, both.
but Jews are splitting ranks and are
adopting the worst methods of settling
Jewish Radio Programs
disputes.
Usually, when there is internecine
It is charged that there is unfair con-
strife, fault can be found on both sides. trol of nationally broadcast religious Jew-
It is possible that this is also true in the ish programs, and that there is a tight
internal Zionist battle. But this must be grip on the control of such programs by
said : if the administration in power seeks the anti-Zionist elements. Also, it is
to eliminate the so-called "old-timers" charged that Rabbi Jonah B. Wise of
and refuses to take them into confidence New York is the one-man dictator of such
or to share with them responsibilities for programs, that he has full control of the
conducting the movement for Palestine's NBC and CBS Jewish programs, that he
redemption, then it is guilty of inexcus- has complete say over the type of address
able error in time of national crisis. In that is to be delivered during the "Mes-
time of need, all groups are called to sage of Israel" hour, that he selects the
action, and partisanship must disappear. rabbis delivering these messages and that
In Zionist politics it appears as if this he is also the consultant for the CBS
principle is hard to put into practice.
"Church of the Air" series of programs.
The analysts who have dissected the Therefore, the suggestion is made that
ills affecting contending factions in Zion- the radio broadcasting systems should be
ism have mentioned names of prospective informed that Rabbi Wise represents only
candidates for the presidency of the Zion- one factor in American Jewish life, and
ist Organization of America. Among the that others, primarily the Zionist group
names mentioned are those of men who which is numerically the largest in Amer-
have decorated convention platforms, ican Jewry, should have an opportunity
have delivered a few speeches, have pre- to outline their cause before the large
sented "fronts". But the actual contribu- radio audiences. Perhaps Rabbi Wise will
tions to the Zionist movement of some of take the lead in urging the expansion of
the men have been limited to "graceful authority in deciding on the type of radio
gestures". Their achievements for Zion- programs that should be broadcast by
ism in their own communities have been Jews in this country, and in sharing re-
marked by the type of "sportsmanship" sponsibility for such broadcasts with Zion-
which brings them to occasional meetings ists and others. We certainly urge that
and finds them willing spokesmen for the he should do that and thus eliminate the
national movement they had embraced charges leveled against one-man control
in all seriousness, but in reality they re- of Jewish programs.
"Irishman" to be dealt with office in which he dines and
wines the Men from the pro-
lightly or rashly.
vinces.
NO MIRACLES TODAY
DOROTHY THOMPSON'S
Secretary of the Navy Knox YIDDISH
doesn't believe in meaningless
On East Broadway some pious
pleasantries. He is going to tell
the Jews of America in a special Jews who read the Jewish Align-
New Year message that it's no ing Journal religiously are shak-
use waiting for miracles to save ing their heads in admiration
civilization, even though the and wonder at the fine Yiddish
Jews were once saved by the which Dorothy Thompson is
miracle of the Red Sea.
writing these days in their pa-
Did you know that Hitler has per . . . One devout patriarch,
been settling a number of strikes stroking his beard, was heard
lately? It should be put on the saying: "Isn't she a wonderful
record that the C.I.O. Newspa- goye. Think of it! She likes the
per Guild quickly called off its Jews so much, she has even
six-month strike against the Day learned to write Yiddish to prove
because the Nazis marched on her friendship!" ... Miss Thomp-
Russia and the signal was flashed son's syndicated column appears
to patch up all inter-labor strife regularly in the Jewish Journal.
all along the line. So it is a big
They're making a play of that
victory for the Jewish Writers' muck-raking book about Holly-
Union, for the Guild had made wood, "What Makes Sammy
up its mind to blast the Peretz Run." That ought to make Father
Verein smack out of its place of Coughlin and Senator "Windrip"
supremacy in the Yiddish field. Wheeler very happy.
Ain't the united front wonder-
(Copyright 1911 by Independent JeWISII
ful?
Press SPINIVe, I Ile.)
VICHY'S "NEW ORDER" \
by BRESSLER