October 31, 1941
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle
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are seeking to destroy the coun- Hashomer Hatzair of Detroit Launches
try and lead us into chaos and
Project for Permanent Camp and
take full control."
(Continued from Page 1)
The day after the Post's reve-
trict Attorney Thomas E. Dewey lation Magistrate Hoppin ordered Agricultural Project
declared he had ordered McWil- that the suspension of the Amer-
With the slogans "Land Is invited to attend this gathering.
lians arrested on the complaint ican Nazi be revoked.
It is the hope of the Shomrim
Life"
and "Nahelu Is Only the that through other joint activities
of Brooklyn District Attorney—
Beginning," Hashomer Hatzair, of the parents, friends and Shorn-
mayoralty candidate William
Louis Bromfield Castigates
Zionist youth movement, greeted rim, there will be a closer under-
O'Dwyer.
America First
parents and friends at the harvest standing of the ideology and ac-
American Nazi Speaks
NEW YORK ( (JPS) — Recall-
held at Jericho Temple, tivities of Hashomer Hatzair, and
In the Bronx on Oct. 1, the ing Huey Long's prophecy that festival
Sunday evening, Oct. 26. The pro-
American Nazi said: "After the Nazism will come to the United gram consisted of two dramatic a closer tie between youth and
1905 revolution in Russia, Jews States as anti-Nazism, and con- presentations; one being a brief adult.
An outstanding event of the
began to import their compa- demning the America First Com- sketch of the life of the great
triots to that country the same mittee as the Nazi party of the Hebrew poetess, Rachael, which evening was the auctioning off
as they did in the United States. United States, Louis Bromfield, was made up of a number of of the "bikurim" (first fruits)
They plotted and fomented president of the Friends of De- her verses and dramatized with of the agricultural project; the
trouble in Russia the same as mocracy and noted novelist and shadow pictures; the other, en- proceeds going to the Jewish Na-
they are now doing here. After Pulitzer Prize winner, attacked titled "Youth and Nation," was tional Fund. This was accom-
a while they obtained control America First for its anti-Semit- Written by a member of the move- panied by the singing of harvest
songs and Palestinian dancing by
of key positions the same as they ism and its emulation of Hitler- ment.
the Shomrim. The remainder of
did here. Then came the revolu- ism in a press conference here.
Mrs. Naomi Lesowoder and the harvest was sold to parents
tion, the same as it is going to
Stressing the speedy unification Dovid Nemoff introduced the first and friends.
happen here. Then the killing of of America First and pointing project of the newly organized
20,000,000 Christians, the same out that the enemies of Germany Parents and friends organization:
as is going to happen here if we must fight on the propaganda the purchasing of a site for a Attend the historic Balfour Day
observance and Brandeis Me-
let the Communist Jews extend as well as the economic and permanent camp and agricultural
morial Meeting at the Shaarey
their control."
military fronts, Mr. Bromfield de- project. The next meeting of this
Zedek—Sunday, Nov. 2, 2:30
As though these anti-Jewish clared, "arousing anti-Semitism organization will take place on
p. m. Principal speakers, U. S.
attacks were not enough for a by charging Jews with responsi- Tuesday, Nov. 4, at 8:30 p. m.,
Senator Prentiss M. Brown and
man who had promised to behave, bility for the war" is one of the at the ulam (meeting hall) on Joy
Dean William Krichbaum of
McWilliams, two weeks later, outstanding phases of America Road and Wildemere. All parents
Detroit College of Law.
and friends of the movement are
spoke for an hour on his favor- First propaganda.
ite topic. "Roosevelt," he ranted,
"is a Jewish king; the govern-
ment is run and controlled by
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will continue until citizens elect men to public office who do not obligate
themselves.
I am willing to donate my entire salary as Mayor, for the next two years,
to clean up this city and build this into a Greater and Safer Detroit for you and
your children. I will donate, if elected, $5.000 per year toward new partly-paved
safety playgrounds: $5,000 each year to the U.S.O.. and $5,000 each year to the
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their welfare.
Our present Mayor reduced aid to sick Welfare cases and orphan children,
until forced to admit his mistake. He pays $5,000 per year to his two secretaries
and they In turn have secretarial stenographers at about $3,000 per year each.
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for political favoritism, but no medicine for Welfare or orphan children!
Have your tax assessments been raised last year? They were lowered In
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present Mayor was warned by Councilman John W Smith of a bribe offered in
the Herman Gardens Housing Project case In advance. Today this scandal, which
might have been avoided. has disgraced our fair city throughout the country.
Because this city needs a good, clean, efficient business administration, I
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that are quite as Jewish as they are Negro;
more, the prejudices which the Harlem in-
tellectual has to contend with have their
counterpart in Jewish-American life, The
Jew, racially, is also an Oriental and was
originally much darker than he is today. He
has the sad, the hysterical psychology of the
oppressed race. From the cantor grandfather
to the grandson who yearns 'mammy' songs
is no vaster a stride than from the Negro
spiritual to the white 'blues'. The minor-
major, what we might call amphibious, is by
no means a stranger to the Jewish ear. The
ecstatic songs of the Khassidim—the pietist
sect of the Polish Jews—bear striking psy-
chological analogies to the sacred and secu-
lar tunes of the Negro. I have heard Jimmy
Johnson imitate a singing colored preacher,
and the cantillation could have passed-
almost—for the roulades of a Jewish pre-
centor. The simple fact is that the Jew
responds naturally to the deeper implications
of jazz, and that as a Jewish-American he
partakes of the impulse at both its Oriental
and its Occidental end. The Khassid, too,
walks all over God's heaven."
Except for the ridiculous injection of the
color-line, the interpretation and analogy present
a most interesting and very correct explanation
of the reasons for Jewish influence upon jazz.
Insofar as the color element is concerned, the
late Dr. Isaac Goldberg, perhaps more than any
other authority, should have known that there
are as many elements among Jews as there are
in all humanity—ranging from traits of Scan-
dinavians to those of Slays. As for Orientalism,
Jews have been so far removed from it that only
the plaint remains—and that comes from the
psychology of oppression and nothing else.
Jews have had, and still have, a great share
in the development of jazz. Gus Kahn proved it.
George Gershwin's influence upon Tin Pan Alley
indicated it. Irving Berlin continues to provide
proof—if proof of it is still necessary.
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The American Jew's "Three Worlds"
"Hamabit," columnist for the South African
Zionist Record, gives an interesting version to
a good story which was first heard during F.D.R.s
1936 campaign. He tells of Zorach and Boruch
who, over steaming hot lemon tea, philosophized
in the Yiddish vernacular. Zorach remarked that
the average Jew has two worlds, but the Ameri-
can Jew is blessed with three.
This prompted Boruch to ask for an explana-
tion, which Zorach gave as follows: "In America,
the Jew has der velt and yener velt, and he also
has Roosevelt."
We wager that most European Jews would be
prepared to give up the two worlds they are
blessed ( ?) with in exchange for the third given
to American Jews.
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Talking About the World
An excellent story is in order at this point
when discussing the world and its effect upon
man.
It was at a meeting of geologists that an el-
derly Jewish gentleman arose to ask the speaker
a question. "Did I hear you say that the world
will be destroyed in seven hundred or in seven
million • years?" he asked.
The scientist replied: "In seven million years."
The Jew heaved a sigh of relief and exclaimed
as he sat down : "Thank God!"
•
George Eliot and Richard Wagner
A great deal has been written of late about
Richard Wagner's anti-Semitism. An interesting
incident which involved both Wagners and George
Eliot deserves, therefore, to be recorded.
George Eliot, the eminent author of "Daniel
Deronda," one of the most important pro-Zionist
novels written in pre-Herzlian days, was married
to George Lewes, a Jew. She had occasion to at-
tend a concert in London that was directed by
Wagner, and she met his wife, Cosima, who took
a liking to the British novelist. She was, in fact,
so carried away by her persohality that she in-
vited her and her husband to spend a month at
the Wagnerian home in Frankfort.
But George Eliot was noCappeaser". She told
Cosima Wagner: "Please excuse me, Madame
Wagner. Your husband doesn't like Jews, and
my husband is a Jew."
It was as much a matter of refusal to submit
to self-betrayal as well as of courage that
prompted such an attitude. Jews, please copy.
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The Return to Traditions
Dr. Barnett R. Brickner's congregation, the
Euclid Avenue Temple in Cleveland, is the latest
to abandon Sunday morning services and to
adopt the Friday night service as the major
religious event of the week.
Rabbi Brickner's synagogue thus steps to the
fore as one of the leading congregations in Amer-
ica to effect a return to traditions and to aban-
don the line-of-least-resistance attitude which first
led Reform Jews to Sunday morning services.
The Sabbath Eve is traditionally one of the
sublimest periods for the Jew. It marks the end
of a week during which one is upset by worries
over earning a livelihood and over everyday
problems, and the beginning of the holy day of
rest. It has become the most significant weapon
for faith in the existence of the Jewish people.
In issuing his announcement of the abandonment
of the Sunday services, Rabbi Brickner stated:
"Our people feel that in this time there is a defin-
ite return to religion and that there should like-
wise be a turning back to fine old traditions of
the Jewish faith. They believe the change made by
reform congregations many years ago to a
Sunday service was a demolition of old Jewish
customs."
The step taken by Rabbi Brickner and his con-
gregation is a move to rebuild and revive a de-
molished custom. They deserve the commenda-
tions of all American Jews for taking a step in
the right direction.
•
U. S. Senator Prentiss M. Brown
United States Senator Prentiss M. Brown's ad-
dress this Sunday, at the combined Balfour Day
and Brandeis Memorial meeting, at the Shaarey
Zedek, will be his second in two years before a
Jewish audience.
On Feb. 4, 1940, it was this Commentator' ,
good fortune to preside at the protest meeting
against Nazi atrocities in Poland and to intro-
duce the Michigan Senator, whose scholarly ad-
dress showed keen understanding of the problem
as it affects Jews and Christians under Nazism.
An interesting incident at that meeting was
the turn of the hands of the clock in the Caqq
High auditorium to an hour when a bigot used
to speak over the radio, injecting race and reli-
gious hatred. Frank Martel, president of the De-
troit and Wayne County Federations of Labor.
was speaking at the time, immediately preceding
Senator Brown, and he made a caustic reference
to the radio bigot. Whereupon the eminent Sena-
tor turned to this Commentator and said : "And
it is exactly 4 o'clock !"
Senator Brown speaks well, and there is
thoughtful content in his remarks. He will be
well worth hearing when he speaks here on
Sunday.
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The Flight to'Washington
The Nation's Capitol has become the center Of
such important activities that spokesmen for ow'
government have been frowning upon the un-
necessary converging upon Washington of or-
ganizations which have been in the habit of holding
conventions there.
Thus, the Inter-American Conference of the
17 Republics, which was to meet in Washingtr' 1
at the call of the World Jewish Congress, wo
convene in Baltimore the latter part of Novem-
ber. The United Palestine Appeal, whose national
conferences have been held in Washington, will
hold the annual gathering in January in Cleve -
land.
What do the various national movements hive
to say to this new reaction in Washington? 1 )0
the Zionist leaders still justify the removal to
Washington? Will Bnai Brith remain there? Is
the Union of American Hebrew Congregation s
adhering to the plan to abandon its traditional
home in Cincinnati and to go to Washington?
The flight to Washington is turning out some -
thing of a fiasco. But—will seine of the leaders ,
whose nostalgia for the Nation's Capitol VII'
them to the District of Columbia, admit it?
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