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November 7. I 94 I

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle

Dance of Phi Alpha Alumni
on Sunday

Jewish National Fund New Year
Honor Weinberg at
Dr. S. Levin Heads
Scroll Includes 1,000 Detroit Names
Dinner on Monday
Maimonides Society

The Detroit Alumni Club of
Phi Alpha Fraternity will have
its second annual student prom,
featuring Dick Stabile and his
orchestra, on Sunday, Nov. 9,
at 9 p. m., in the new Indoor
Eastwood Park Ballroom. The
dance is informal and tickets may
be gotten at the door.

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A prominent Chicago business man died recently
from cancer at 65 years of age. Five years pre-
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Nov.

Samuel D. Weinberg will be
honored at a dinner at the Jew-
ish Community Center on Mon-
day, Nov. 10, at 7 p. m., to sig-
nalize the publication of his book,
"Jewish Social Services of De-
troit," by the Jewish Welfare
Federation.
Myron A. Keys and Louis
LaMed, co-chairmen of the ar-
rangements committee, announce
that the musical program will
include selections by Cantor
Jacob H. Sonenklar of Congrega-
tion Shaarey Zedek who will be
accompanied by Miss Florence
Kutzen, pianist, and Harry Sie-
gel, 'cellist, who will be accom-
panied by Miss Lucia Wolton.
Leaders of educational and
communal activities will comment
on the significance of Mr. Wein-
berg's book as an interpretation
of the social welfare programs
represented by the agencies dis-
cussed. Speakers on the program
at Monday's dinner will be Fred
M. Butzel, Harold Silver, Shloime
Bercovich and Isidore Sobeloff.
Theodore Levin will be chairman
of the evening.
Reservai.ons for the dinner
may be made by mail or tele-
phone at the offices of the Jewish
Welfare Federation, 51 W. War-
ren Ave., Columbia 1600, exten-
sion 153. Price of the dinner is
$1 per plate.

William Hordes, president of
the Jewish National Fund Coun-
cil, and Rabbi Morris Adler,
chairman of the committee on
scroll, announce that more than
a thousand individuals have sig-
nified their desire to be included
among those who subscribed to a
New Year's sentiment of solidar-
ity and felicitation sent by the
Detroit Jewish community to the
Yishuv in Palestine. An appro-
priate greeting has been prepared
and the scroll, beautifully printed
with the list of names of people
who have made a contribution to
the Jewish National Fund, will
be sent to Palestine.
This project is a dramatic sym-
bol of the bond between American
Jewry, representing the most sig-
nificent Jewish community in the

Diaspora, and our brethren in the
homeland, and symbolizing the
hope and dream of Zion. It k
planned to make of the Scroll an
annual activity, thus enabling
members of the community hy
this symbolic means to re-dedicate
themselves to the important work
of aiding in the rebuilding of
the homeland and of signifying
their willingness to make every
effort to contribute towards it,
Although the project was started
rather late in the season, the im-
mediate response of more than a
thousand people is sufficient in-
dication of the interest. The na-

BROMFIELD

"If you don't stop this at once.
I'll issue a public statement tell-

Halevy Musicale
Dec. 7 at Central

The Detroit Halevy Singing
Society will present its first mu-
sicale of the current season on
Sunday evening, Dec. 7, in the
auditorium of Central High
School, Tuxedo and LaSalle. The
Halevy expects to have a series
of such affairs in which the Hal-
evy chorus will sing groups of
its most popular numbers taken
from its annual concert pro-
grams, with assisting solo artists,
vocal and instrumental. Admis-
sion will be free to the public.
General arrangements for the
musicale are under the super-
vision of Morris Shatzen, chair-
man of the executive board. The
musical program is being ar-
ranged by the musical commit-
tee headed by its chairman, Max
Levy. The chorus will be directed
1r, Dan Frohman, who is now in
his 11th consecutive year as Hal-
evy musical director. -
Applications for membership
are being received every Tues-
day evening in Room 123 of
Northern High School, Owen
and Woodward Ave. All persons
interested are invited to appear
at 9 p. in. when auditions can
be arranged.

HALIFAX

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units to fight with the British
against Germany, Great Britain's
ambassador to this country gave
a much more firm, and an equally
interesting, reply. He declared
that shortage of equipment stood
in the way of forming such a
unit, and stated That there has
been no change in British policy
relative to permitting the forma-
tion of a separate Jewish army
force. He added that it is a well
known fact that there already are
Jewish units fighting with the
British as part of the English
forces in the Mediterranean coun-
tries.
Viscount Halifax at this point
expressed the general attitude of
the British people in the state-
ment: "There is no people for
whom the British have felt a
greater measure of sympathy than
for the Jews."

Halifax Pays Tribute to Hebrew
University

tional office of the Jewish Na-
tional Fund has indicated its great
interest in this project and it
may perhaps become a nation-

wide activity.

(Continued from Page 1)

of Democracy a few weeks ago,
he came to symbolize the great
change in our thinking during
these two years of war. The Louis
Bromfield who plows his own
farm in his native Ohio is the
type of midvvestern American
who can never be rushed. But
he has made up his mind, and
now he spends much of his time
traveling on behalf of the or-
ganizations he heads, as well as
for the Committee to Defend
America and the British-Ameri-
can Ambulance Corps.

Louis Bromfield returned to
this country after 14 years as
an expatriate in France. He
saw there the men of wealth,
the old ladies, the zealots for
peace and those who feared
the people—all betrayed by
the Nazi advance guard. He
finds the same lineup in this
country. The America First
Committee—and he puts it
bluntly—is the Nazi party in
the United States.

He recognizes the menace of
anti-Semitism for what it is.
When he hears repeated all the
"new" reasons for attacking the
Jews, he is inclined to scoff.
"Most of these fellows who are
hitting at the Jews don't even
know any Jews. If anyone
should, I do. Probably 50 per
cent of my friends and the peo-
ple with whom I have met in
business are Jewish."
What, then, does he think of
the charge that the Jews are
the "war party"? Would he favor
any single course of action for
the Jews as a group to disprove
the stigma of warmongering?
Identifying the Jews with the
war movement is so patently
"Nazi stuff" that he will not
even dwell upon it. But as for
a Jewish "answer," he is not so
sure. He feels that the Jews
should go about their business,
doing exactly as their conscience
dictates, and saying, in effect:
"Mr. Lindbergh, make the most
of it."'
For some time there has been
a mild boom in the State of
Ohio for Louis Bromfield as a
compromise Democratic candidate
for governor. He says that he
has no ambitions for an elective
office, and minimizes the signifi-
cance of the Bromfiefild-for-Gov-
ernor movement. But he does
say that the governorship woul I
be a splendid platform to get the
truth across to the people of
Ohio and beyond.
Would he favor a ban upon
the election of anti-Semites to
public office? Emphatically not.
Would he base his pleas for tol-
erance upon the Bill of Rights?
Once again, no. Would he seek
legislative action against the pur-
veyors of race hatred? Still the
answer was no.
How then does this attitude

of live and let live fit into his
philosophy of militant Ameri-
canism? Bromfield's answer is
simple and direct. "I have a
great deal of faith in the
common sense of 80—no, let
me say £0 per cent of the
American people. Give them
the facts and they will see the
truth for what it is. I say only
expose the Lindberghs and all
the rest, and this country
will have nothing to fear."

NEW YORK. (JPS)—Express-
ing the hope that "Palestine will
weather the storm safely," Brit-
ish Ambassador to the United
States Lord Halifax paid tribute
to the Hebrew University for
its scientific work and particu-
larly for its notable contribution
to the British war effort in a
message sent from Detroit to
the dinner held here by the New
York Council of the American
There is the essence of his
Friends of the Hebrew Univer- credo—to make the truth known.
sity.
That, he is certain, will be
enough. He tells of a case in
Emil Ludwig will blossom forth point. In Ohio the Coughlinites
with no less than three books attempted to stir up disaffection
very soon, the first to be issued among the farmers by agitating
being "The Germans," due to against a farm marketing bill.
appear at the bookstalls on Mon- Bromfield sought out the ring-
17.
leaders and told them bluntly:

ing who you are and what your
motives are." He reports that
they immediately disappeared and
were not heard from again.
In Ohio, which he consithTs
representative of the Middle
West, appeals to race prejudice
have, he says, fallen upon bar-
ren ground. In the one large
America First meeting held in
Cleveland which Lindbergh ad-
dressed, only 6,000 people came
to a hall which filled 9,000. "Most
of those 6,000 were the usual
crackpots," he said, "of the type
who came to Coughlin and Town-.
send meetings in the same place
a few years ago."

He admitted that the presence
of Congressman Martin Sweeney

at that meeting showed that the
lunatic fringe has won some
support. But Sweeney, he insists,•
is a clown who reached Congress
because he happens to represent
it district largely inhabited by
Germans and Italians. The prop-
aganda of the America First
Committee has already backfired,
and Middle Westerners have be-
gun to look askance at "these
felloWs who are making such a
fuss," he maintains.
As one who has dealt largely
in words for many years, he is
suspicious of shibboleths and
vague principles. "I wouldn't in-
voke the Bill of Rights on my
side,"' he said, "because the
other side could just as easily
distort it to their own ends. I
wouldn't take any direct action
against Lindbergh or his propa-
ganda. Just tell the people who
he is. The people appreciate di-

rectness

and honesty."
I recalled that a few weeks be-

fore John T. Flynn had de-
bored the "sidetracking" of the
peace vs. war debate into the
issue of anti-Semitism. "It was
inevitable," Bromfield replied.
"Anti-Semitism is not a side-
tracking of the issue at all. It
is a logical degeneration of the
kind of thinking the America
First Committee is doing." When
I repeated Flynn's contention
that continued denunciation of
men like General Wood as anti-
Semites would make anti-Semit-
ism "respectable," he dismissed
that kind of reasoning as "repre-
hensible and specious." In his
lf to on fes. values there are few
half
We were trying to tie up

sonic loose ends. I brought UP
Amos Pinchot's injunction to the

Jews to be more careful and 1.--s
"sensitive". Had Mr. Bromti. , I. 1
noted a peculiar Jewish sensitiv-
ity? Yes, he had felt that Jews

were sensitive. But as far as he
was concerned, that was no
jumping-off place for Pinchot or
P nyone else. His comments on
the Pinchot family as a grout)
of "fake liberals" of long stand-
ing made the latest outburst Of
A mo s seem (i a suo(s
p h ti a e t n iley. less dis-
tressing and
What was to be the new Pro-
gram of the Friends of Democ-
d n reg in iitit icn, ?.
iia t c w
y ausme le ats i ytht e o Bg ru o e m sfi s.el A

sive campaign through everY
channel of information to Wei"'
the truth, and to answer every
libel as it springs up. Above all.
to trust to the intelligence awl
the sense of fair play of the
American
ican
people to turn
a
way
from the false prophets of the
New

They're still unable to get met'
the fact that even though he

was editor of the New Palestine.
official Zionist organ, for quite
some time, Sidney Wallach of the
American Jewish Committee was
heard making the most vigorous
cracks at Zionists during recent
"unity" parleys.

