4 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle Detroit Jewish Chronicle and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE . .iblished Weekly by The Jewish Chronicle Publishing Co., Inc. JACOB H.1A;;NZ President Entered as Second-class matter March 3, 1916, at the Post- sffIce et Detroit, Mich.. under the Act of March 3, 1879 'Dermal Offices and Publication Bldg., 525 Woodward Ave. Telephone: Cadillac 1040 Cable Address: Chronicle Subscription in Advance JACOB MARGOLIS PHILIP MAURICE M. SAFIR sLomovra $$3.00 Per Year Publisher Editor Advertising Manager fo insure publication, all correspondence and news matter must reach this office by Tuesday evening of each week. When mailing notices, kindly use one side of paper only. The Detroit Jewish Chronicle invites correspondence on sub- lects of interest to the Jewish people, but disclaims respon- sibility for an endorsement of views expressed by the writers. Sabbath Scriptural Selections Pentateuchal portion—Gen. 12 :1-17:27. Prophetical portion—Is. 40 :27-41:16. OCTOBER 31, 1941 CHESHVAN 10, 5702 Balfour Day This Sunday, Nov. 2, will mark the 24th anniversary of the issuance of the Balfour Declaration. For some time, a tendency was in evi- dence in Zionist ranks to speak less of the Balfour Declaration because of the whittling down of Jewish rights in Pales- tine by the British authorities. But there is a revival of interest i and concern over the Balfour statemen , and the change is to be commended as a natural reaction to a great and h storic document. Neither the late Arthur James Balfour nor the Declaration he issued are Ito be held responsible for the betrayals we have experienced. On the contrary they should be invoked from time to time as means of forcing reconsideration of Great Brit- ain's obligations under the Palestine Man- date, even though the League of Nations which issued it is no longer a functioning body, and the British pledge should be re- called whenever we fight for our rights in the Jewish National Home. The 24th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, which will be observed at Zionist gatherings throughout the land, should be an occasion for renewal of Jew- ish claims, and it should be utilized to remind British authorities that the home- less Jewish people must be restored to its ancient land. Millions of Jews have no other place to turn to, and Jewry will not abandon the hope of Zion or the guaran- tees on the basis of which a great com- munity has been established in Eretz Is- rael. The public gathering at the Shaarey Zedek this Sunday, which will be utilized also as a memorial for the late Mr. Justice Louis D. Brandeis, with U. S. Senator Prentiss M. Brown as principal speaker, should draw an overflow audience. May the Balfour Day celebrations be signals for renewed strength in Jewry in behalf of Palestine's redemption. The Late Edward L. Israel Dr. Edward L. Israel's death came as a severe shock. He was one of the most dynamic of the younger men in the Re- form Rabbinate. He was an ardent Zion- ist, a leader in the Jewish Congress, the president of the Synagogue Council of America and was about to assume the post of national executive director of the Union of American Hebrew Congrega- tions. In all these posts he combined the vision that was necessary in Jewish lead- ership to appreciate the vital factors in Jewish life. His death is a severe loss to American Israel. An Unusual Achievement The Jewish National Fund Council of Detroit has an unusual achievement to its credit. During the past year—from Rosh Hash- onah 5701 to Rosh Hashonah 5702—the sum of $23,000 was collected in Detroit, through this Council, for land-redemption in Palestine. To accomplish this end, this Council incurred an expense of $400. This seems to be an all-time low in fund-raising expenses. Other organizations would do well to consult with the Jewish National Fund Council and to learn how it harnesses vol- unteer efforts to reduce operating ex- penses to so insignificant a total. The Farband Colony Detroit's branches of the Jewish Na- tional Workers' Alliance (Farband) are engaged in a fund-raising effort to secure the sum of $10,000 assigned to this city towards the creation of the proposed Far- band Colony in Palestine on Jewish Na- tional Fund land, honoring the approach- ing 30th anniversary of the Farband. It is encouraging to note that spokes- men for all parties in Zionism are partici- pating in this project. The 1 ■ arband oc- cupies an important place in the Ameri- can Jewish community, and the organiza- tion has earned a sufficient amount of af- fection from American Jewry to receive support in this project. At the same time, this effort will serve to advance the cause of land-reclamation in Palestine and will establish new media for the settlement of large numbers of Jews in the Homeland. Farband's effort should be given the community's wholehearted support. Welcome to "Free World" "There will be a better day . . . " is the editorial introduction to Free World Magazine written by Secretary of State Cordell Hull. It is a fitting encouragement in pre- senting to the English-speaking world the first issue of a great magazine which is to serve as a universal mouthpiece in opposition to aggression and in helping create a better world order. The editorial in the first issue fittingly proclaims the following, among the other enunciated principles: "It should be almost unnecessary to affirm our opposition to and our repugnance for any kind of racial dis- crimination. The Hitlerian theory of the racial superiority of so-called Aryan peoples goes beyond all limits of infamy and absurdity and is itself the very antithesis of democracy. The world of tomorrow will not know the shame of anti-Semitic persecution. The defamation of an entire people is an insult to democracy and an offense to common sense." May the sentiment expressed in this paragraph prove to be the ideal of the better world order for which all free peoples aspire! Free World's first issue has many im- portant essays on the present world situ- ation, and a significant poem by the Li- brarian of Congress, Archibald MacLeash. Under the title "The Western Sky," one of Mr. MacLeish's five beautiful stanzas reads: "Be proud America to bear The endless labor of the free— To strike for freedom everywhere And everywhere bear liberty." The ablest men in the literary world are included on the international editorial board of Free World, and it is a tribute to the genius of Louis Lipsky that he has been invited to serve as one of this group. We greet the appearance of Free World as another demonstration for freedom in a sick world. May it prove to be a suc- cessful symbol in the battle for a decent world order. October 31, •••Heard in the Lobbies•• By DAVID DEUTSCH WoNDEit Wily: The Department of Justice doesn't publicly announce that the internment camp built re- cently at Camp Upton on Long Island is not intended for Jewish refugees but merely for Axis prisoners brought to this hemis- phere? . . . So many people who had only a bowing acquaintance with the late Louis D. Brandeis are suddenly sprouting forth with claims of intimacy and so many others who disagreed com- pletely with the famous Judge are now stressing how close to his views they were? . . .The president of Hadassah is said to be playing down fundamental Zionism in order to win over non-Zionists—and this includes a willingness to refer to Palestine as "Jewish homeland" and never again as 'Jewish National Home?' . . . The president of the He- brew Union College in Cincinnati is reported to have exacted a promise from his local backers that he remain in his post until retirement before -agreeing to the merger between the College and Stephen Wise's Institute of Religion? . . . Representatives of a certain civic-protective agency flit about the country alleging that a poll was taken by experts to show that 21 per cent of the American people are anti-Semitic, 28 per cent pro-Semitic and the balance "don't know?" . . . Mor- decai Ezekiel, economic expert, was virtually howled down when he suggested at a recent refugee conference that it might be a good idea to spend some time and money selling some of the refugees the American conception of democracy? . . . It's consid- ered impolite to tell that Louis B. Mayer, highest-salaried execu- tive in America, gave a measly $7,500 to his Los Angeles Jewish drive when he was giving tens of thousands in Bundles for Bioff? . . . The Associated Press is conspicuously free of Jewish correspondents in key spots and reports at length on Nazi efforts to eliminate Jews from all walks of life? . . . Certain obtuse Jew- ish publications buy pro-Zionist articles from yellow-mustached Albeit Viton when he sells such vicious anti-Zionist stuff to Pal- estine-baiting papers like Chris- tian Century? . . . That congre- gation in Detroit did it and any self-respecting rabbi permitted the circulation of a questionnaire to applicants for the succession to Leo Franklin with questions asked on the most minute details of their social and political be- liefs? . . . Advocates of a Wel- fare Fund as the cure-all for competitive Jewish drives see no paradox in permitting special drives among frightened biggies for additional money outside but protest the selling of tickets for a ladies' auxiliary 25-cent cake sale? WILLKIE IN TIIE Moms? There's a lot of schmus about Wendell Willkie crashing the movies. If he does, it will be on the business side of the kleig lights. It all ties up with his election as a director of the Lehman Corporation and rumors that are flying thick and heavy that the banking organization is planning to buy a big pile of Warner Brothers' stock. If if pan out, Mr. Willkie will become a movie mogul. To prove that you can't do business with Hitler in any sphere of life, the Office of Emergenc,. Management is now preparing a series of weekly broadcasts dra- matizing the best seller, "you Can't Do Business with Hitler", which will be heard over more than 100 radio stations. Comic Milton Berle says : If a picture is a failure the pro_ ducer blames it on the director; the director blames it on the star; the star blames it on the writer and the writer blames it on the fellow he stole the idea from." The largest number of new tunes ever to be written for a single motion picture has just been completed by Irving Berlin. Berlin has composed all of 11 new songs for the new Paramount picture entitled "Holiday Inn." The police are still looking for the hoodlums who wrecked the Warner Brothers' Belmar Thea- ter in Pittsburgh and painted the word "Jew" in red, white and blue all over the movie-house walls. There's reason to believe this organized piece of vandalism is directly linked with KKK agi- tation. EDITORS, PLEASE S-T-R-E-T-C-It There's a bit of a minor panic in the ranks of the Jewish press agents these days as a result of the growing shortage in memeo- graph paper. Some of the pub- licity men are now busy work- ing out a code that will save space without sacrificing any part of the story. For example, the mention of Hitler in any news release will be followed by a parenthetical note to the editor to fill in a modest paragraph on the plight of the Jews in Ger- many. The editors will no longer be required to cut items. Now they will have to fill in and stretch skeletonized stories. LORD RUSSELL CHANGES HIS MINI) Lord Bertrand Russell, the world-famous mathematician and educator, was until a short time ago uncompromisingly opposed to any form of nationalism, includ- ing Zionism. But today in his quiet Pennsylvania farm retreat he is no longer so sure that he was right. World events in the past two years have changed his outlook. Jewish nationalism is no longer taboo with him. Congratulations to George Jes- se] on becoming a papa. Now Georgie has only four daughters more to go to catch up with Eddie Cantor, his friendly rival on Broadway this season. Good Luck to Meyer W. Weis- gal, who will assume the job of general factotum for the World Jewish Congress on the day this column appears. Lavy Bakstansky, secretary of the Zionist Federation ill Eng- land, returned last week to Lon- don aboard the Clipper after a short visit here. While in New York he polished up on his bridge so that he would be better pre- pared for the nights he would have to spend in air-raid shel- ters during the blitz over Britain. Friends for Zion One of the most thrilling stories of the war comes from Mishmar Haemek in Palestine. This Emek Jezreel collective settlement has been presented with a piano as a gift from ?, Australian officers and privates who did agricultural work there during recent furloughs. The Aus- tralians made their presentation by ex- pressing admiration for "the wonderful work done by the Jewish youth in build- ing up their Homeland," and they made a promise : to take word of Jewish achievements in Palestine to their com- rades and superior officers and to support the Zionist movement after the war. Is there a more impressive incident to indicate genuine good will resulting from admiration by Christians for Jewish ac- complishments? More constructive work in Palestine will create increased self-re- spect among Jews and multiplication of reasons for an increase of respect for our people in non-Jewish quarters. 1941 C)The National Jewish Monthly, B'nal NO COMMENT NEEDED.