September 19, 1941
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle
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THE GREAT ADVENTURE
Straight Thinking for the New Year
Greetings
The undersigned friends of Detroit Jewry, fostering
good will and better understanding among men of
By RICHARD E. GUTSTADT
Director of the Anti-Defamation League of Bnai Brith
EDITOR'S NOTE—Facing America in the year to come will be
grave events and heavy sacrifices. In the first article he has
ever written for the English-Jewish press, Richard E. Gutstadt,
who is known to millions for his years of front-line fighting
for democracy, tells of the great adventure to be met dur-
ing 5702.
the enemies of religion, democ-
racy, and of humane society.
The year 5702 will be a crucial
one to Jews particularly, to the
American people generally. Of
this there can be no doubt. We
enter it, however, with confi-
dence in the eventual triumph
of decency over barbarism. Re-
ligion will outlive paganism.
Right will conquer might. ill
of us believe this, for it is dem-
onstrated in the experience Of
our people in Israel.
As the New Year approaches, already employs somewhat effec-
heralded by gloomy portents of tively the stamp of "Jewish war-
the future and profound yearn- mongering". This bogey some-
the doctrine of the fatherhood of God and the
Le Shono Tovo Tikosevu
ings for happier days, it is in- times frightens the uncritical in-
evitable that the more sensitive to harsh judgments of their fel-
brotherhood of man, take this opportunity of wish-
of the Jewish community should low-Americans. Its use extends
ing their many friends in Detroit and Michigan a
be assailed by doubts. Many, to many areas.
with
ample reason are apprehen-
In June, Congressman Edel-
Happy and Prosperous New Year.
sive about the future.
stein died dramatically as he re-
Detroit's Finest
With the recent ,past so vividly pudiated a specious slur on the
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before us, the less sanguine will Jewish people voiced without
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with difficulty murmur the con- warrant or fact by another Con-
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ventional "Happy New Year". gressman. Newspaper letter col-
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These words resound almost iron- umns reveal the smears of those
ically in a dozen lands subjugat- who employ the Nazi technique
ed by the masters of the so- of agitating public anxiety and
called "New Order", which has displeasure against the conven-
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been pronounced by one author- ient scapegoat—the Jew.
The Anti-Defamation League
ity as neither new nor order.
Our own beloved America is of Bnai Brith views from rather
in the grip of a transition as close perspective the arena of
titanic as any experienced in our combat between democracy and
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national history. This crisis is totalitarianism. It finds much to
provoked by the threat implicit inspire optimism. The increasing
AIIMAD ASAIM
in Nazi-Fascist successes abroad. number of Axic foes make their
With a world-wide revolution voices heard in increasing tempo.
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furiously waging, with humani- Many hitherto deluded by bril-
liant
propaganda
are
being
un-
tarian traditions of decency and
morality reviled and spurned by deceived. They could not realize
a new Genghis Khan, the major- the extent to which the Jewish
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ity of Americans believe that people have been made the vic- Sincere New Year's Greetings
our country is forced to make tims in the past. Recognition is
a last ditch stand against bar- dawning that despoliation of
barism. Once more America Jews but preludes the greater
plays the role of civilization's mass stripping of every value
dear to civilized people.
outpost.
Men and women of good will
gloom-inspiring
Despite
the
headlines, the lamentations of are united. Armed with the pow-
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our own Jereniiahs and remorse- er of righteousness and decency,
they
give
effective
opposition
to
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ful self-analysis, the dawning
year offers possibilities for those fortified only by thread-
bare
hate,
desire
for
personal
achievement which. have been
neglected for decades. True, we aggrandizement, and greed.
We must not entertain the
shall be called upon to tighten
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our belts. We Shall encounter thought that the current conflict
reduced food budgets. We shall is between the Jew and the Axis.
use less gasoline and tobacco, To do so is to lend ourselves
and. pay increased taxes. These, to the purpose of the Axis prop-
however, a. e but the surface de- aganda. We must make crystal
GENERAL CONTRACTORS
mands which stern necessity now clear the fundamentals of this
requires from a nation for years world-wide conflict, which is a
favored with the world's high- struggle in which leaders have
est standard of living. The op- misled masses into the belief
portunities ahead of us are in that despotism affords material
the reclamation of those areas security. The enemies of human-
of the spirit and the mind ity are cunning. They employ
which have been neglected, rath- the highest achievements of hu-
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e• than in the satisfaCtion of man progress—rapid transporta-
physical needs to which we have tion, inst ant communication,
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so easily become accustomed. We mass productionto accomplish
shall perhaps. witness a catharsis their purpose. The same in-
of the spirit. Its effectiveness strumentalities are, however,
will depend upon the fiber of our available to those who would sal-
Season's Greetings
national will to survive as a vage civilization from the wreck-
age
of
brutal
force.
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free democracy, with the con-
Many other signs indicate that
tinued exercise of the freedoms
DOCTORS AND
and acceptance of the responsi- America will not be lulled by
bilities connoted by that term. protestations that the war is
NURSES REGISTRY
This national will to live is, how- merely a battle of rival econo-
ever, but the collective expres- mies. No one can now success-
sion of every individual who fully delude the American peo-
ple into believing that this is 2320% EAST GRAND BLVD.
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a conflict of rival imper-
To the old world, America has merely
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ialisms.
record is too clear.
been the symbol of adventure Murder, The
arson, kidnapping, ex- GLADYS EDWARDS, Regi1st r.ir
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and daring. Its growth has been propriation, paganism, and the
marked by the conquest of new denials of all elemental decen-
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frontiers, geographical, political, cies, speak too clearly to Amer-
and social. Again the spirit of ica to permit the issues to re-
adventure beckons. The weeks main clouded. Almost unani-
and months which lie ahead will mously the American people sub-
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demand courage and stamina. scribe to the Presidential state-
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The American Dream will be put ment that Britain must be added
to its most rigorous test. We to victory. From this decision
shall learn whether our adher- there will be no turning back.
ence to democracy has been one
Interest in .a British victory
of talk rather than action.
diminishes not one whit of devo-
Our country is dedicated to tion to America. This is partic-
an all-out defense program. Ex- ularly true since America's na-
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penditures of billions of dollars tional policy has been formulat-
Honeycake and Sponge Cake
are involved. No plane too cost- ed on aid to the democracies.
ly—no tank too expensive—no The months ahead will exert in-
for the Holidays
COUNTY ACCOUNTANT
military equipment, at whatever exorable pressure upon all to in-
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price, but what Americans have dicate where each stands. We,
vowed we shall have them. as Jews, are well on record in
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These may furnish a defense our unalterable opposition to
against external foes. What of
the enemies within? What of
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the furtive undermining of the
Rosh Hashonah Greetings—A Year of Happiness to All
bastions' of democracy by pro-
fesional haters, reactionary ad-
mirers of totalitarianism, and
the bigots? The country is now
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aware of these sinister cowards,
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and yet our internal defense
against these has barely started.
Jefferson and Cass
The battle lines are being drawn
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for the war to seize the public
mind—the domain of the propo-
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gandist. It will profit little to
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save the body of America if we
Rosh Hashonah Greetings—A Year of Happiness to All
lose its soul.
It . is imperative, therefore,
that the public be aided to .think
straight during this national
Hurrah! Just when we were emergency. Truly this is a Her-
For age is opportunity, no less
REAL ESTATE
Than youth itself, though in an- afraid there was nothing left culean task, yet it must ne
to
blame
us
for,
the
Nazi
radio's
achieved;
for
deeds
of
outstand-
other dress;
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And as the evening twilight fades "Paul Revere" laid the gasoline ing valor are made possible only
and oil shortage here to the through the motivation of heart
away
Jews.
Say,
Lapidus,
make
it
and
spirit,
and
in
the
devotion
The sky is filled with stars in-
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visible by day.—Longfellow. stop raining. of a crusade. The Hate Brigade
all religious creeds and racial origins, believers in
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Supply Co.
JOHN BRIDGE
Brotherhood of Maintenance
of Way Employees
Orient Recreation
GORDON S. COCHRANE
FRANK CODY
WALTER A. CODY
Superior Welding 8
Brazing Co.
HUGH DEAN
Dunker's Club Coffee
ESSLINGER-MISCH CO.
Falls Spring
Wire Co.
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TELFER'S
BOKAY
COFFEE
JOHN C. LEHR
CHARLES LINCOLN
NEW ERA POTATO CHIPS
FRED A. NOLAN
McCONNELL - KERR CO.
EINAR OSBECK
A. Hoptman's
Bakery
BENJAMIN B. PELHAM
ED THAL
"TY" TYSON
w
FAY McKINNON COMPANY
JOS. P. WOLFF
CARNELL REALTY COMPANY
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