September 19, 1941 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle 18 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 Artist, Drafting, and Sign Supplies before us, the less sanguine will Jewish people voiced without 6408 WOODWARD AVE. with difficulty murmur the con- warrant or fact by another Con- TRINITY 1-0150 ventional "Happy New Year". gressman. Newspaper letter col- Free Parking in Rear of Store 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- 1105(1 11ASIIONAII 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 BOWLING-16 ALLEYS 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. 8523 LINWOOD AVE. 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 SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS 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- 6538 RUSSELL ST. our own Jereniiahs and remorse- er of righteousness and decency, they give effective opposition to MAdison 1486 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 Rosh Ilashonah Greeting, 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- 1365 E. L ARNED ST. e• than in the satisfaCtion of man progress—rapid transporta- physical needs to which we have tion, inst ant communication, UNITED STATES DISTRICT ATTORNEY 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. American Bureau of Shipping 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. • makes up the naton. a conflict of rival imper- To the old world, America has merely MADISON 4942 ialisms. record is too clear. been the symbol of adventure Murder, The arson, kidnapping, ex- GLADYS EDWARDS, Regi1st r.ir GENERAL MANAGER and daring. Its growth has been propriation, paganism, and the marked by the conquest of new denials of all elemental decen- DEPARTMENT OF STREET RAILWAYS 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- Rosh Ilashonah Greetings demand courage and stamina. scribe to the Presidential state- 350 EAST JEFFERSON 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- To, Our Holiday Egg Chale , 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- 8916 TWELFTH ST. price, but what Americans have dicate where each stands. We, vowed we shall have them. as Jews, are well on record in Madison 1755 These may furnish a defense our unalterable opposition to against external foes. What of the enemies within? What of 84 W. MONTCALM ST. 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 W J aware of these sinister cowards, UPHOLSTERY FABRICS AND SUPPLIES and yet our internal defense against these has barely started. Jefferson and Cass The battle lines are being drawn CAdillac 5 164 for the war to seize the public mind—the domain of the propo- COMMISSIONER gandist. It will profit little to Dept. of Buildings and Safety Engineering 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; 13342 W. McNichols Road 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- UNiversity 1-8910 visible by day.—Longfellow. stop raining. of a crusade. The Hate Brigade all religious creeds and racial origins, believers in Lewis Artist 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. • 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 •