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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE
November 14, 1941
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The Allies' Chart—and the Jews
The Inter-Allied Review—A Monthly Summary
of Documents on the Allied Struggle for Free-
dom, in its latest issue carries the text of a reso-
lution adopted by representatives of 11.- Allies
"asserting their approval of the Roosevelt-Church-
ill declaration of Aug. 14, 1941," and affirming
certain agreements "to cooperate for the mutual
economic rehabilitation of their peoples."
"Allies Chart Post-War Plans" is the streamer
headline appearing over this declaration. We ex-
amined it and the statements following it. All the
afflicted nations are mentioned : the U. S. S. R.,
the United Kingdom, Czechoslovakia, Free France,
Greece, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway,
Poland, Yugoslavia, Belgium. Even "American in-
terest in post-war needs" is given consideration.
Only Israel remains un-named.
What does this augur for us? Will our woes
remain a symbol of world treachery? Will the
most sorely-afflicted people be forgotten when
the wounds inflicted by Nazism are finally healed?
In the face of such dangers, there are Jews
who would rather remain silent. Every nation in-
volved in the world conflict feels free to discuss
its post-war needs—but Jews are hesitant and
afraid.
When will Jews see fit to banish fear from
their hearts?
Or—do we need blunter augury than the ,sig-
m
nals which already begin to come to us fro
every conceivable front involvirig the post-war
plans?
We can cry out against future betrayals, and
they can serve as warnings; or we can keep
silent and suffer the consequences.
A self-respecting people must do the former.
Greed for Land : A Tolstoi Parable
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and the Legal Chronicle
60,000TH PRAYER BOOK
Bingay to Speak
FOR JEWISH SOLDIERS
Wednesday
Night
By Philip Slomovitz
NEW YORK (JPS) — What
.
Never Yield Your Posts!
A regrettable fact is related to us by a Jewish
parent.
There is a tendency in a certain neighborhood
in Detroit for Jewish boys and girls who are
about to enter an intermediate high school in
that vicinity to ask for transfetes to another school
because pampered non-Jewish boys and girls have,
in the past, displayed snobbishness and prejudice
against Jews.
The Jewish mother who told us the facts re-
garding this tendency become rightfully disturbed.-
She felt, correctly, that if Jewish children make
it a practice to stay away from a certain school
where they belong as of right and not on suffer-
ance, as Americans, they encourage continuation
of displays of intolerance. But if Jews will stick
to their posts, they are certain to gain in esteem
because they will, themselves, be giving evidence
that they are not lacking in self-respect.
We believe we have interpreted this mother's
sentiments properly. On the basis of such a view-
point, this Jewish mother has called together two
score other mothers, has explained the facts to
them and has urged them to encourage their
children concertedly to stick to their posts and
to go to the school they belong to.
If this mother fails in her effort, all Jewish
mothers will have failed in a sacred responsibility
—that of training their children not to leave the
scene of danger. The truth is that there is no
danger; that the school system is free from
major manifestations of prejudice that Jews
who adhere to principle need not fear reprisals
for being self-respecting. But there is possibility
of danger if Jews, by their actions, give the im-
pression that when some un-Christian and un-
American non-Jews display prejudice they must
leave the school system, they will themselves pro-
vide precedents for flying from an imaginary
scene of prejRdice.
Therefore wig. say to Jewish mothers and their
children : STICK TO YOUR POSTS!
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may be a partial key to the num-
be• of Jewish soldiers in the
American Army was made avail-
"The World's Revolution" will able with the presentation of the
be the subject of Malcolm W. 60,000th prayer book distributed
Bingay's address at the public by the Jewish Welfare Board to
meeting of the Private Abraham Menoff station-
t r o it Bnai ed at Fort Jay on Governor's
D e
Br i t h Lodge Island. Specially abridged, the
N o . 1374, i n prayer book is adapted for serv-
the Brown Me- ices in the field.
m o rial Chapel
of Temple Beth
El, at 8:30 p.
m. next Wed-
n esd ay, Nov.
19. The public
is invited to
this meeting,
admission being
free.
Mr. Bingay,
who will be in-
troduced by
P h i lip Slomo-
vitz, is the edi-
torial director
of the Detroit
Free Press and
M. W. Bingay
the author of
the daily column, "Good Morn-
ing," in the Free Press.
A musical program will be pre-
sented at this meeting by artists
`from the Detroit Conservatory
of Music.
Will Address Detroit Bnai Brith
Lodge at Temple
DEFEND
YOUR NOME, WO
with
1•R III GS•
John Garfield's been sued be-
cause he changed agents who col-
lect his 10 per cent, revealing
that the Bronx boy has jumped
from $40 a week with the Group
Theater to $2,500 a week.
At the bottom of all our troubles today is the
greed for land. Only the Jews are paying doubly
The "War-Mongering" Charges
for every inch of ground they redeem on a na-
U. S. Week, the liberal weekly, recently pub-
tional basis in Palestine.
Count Leo Tolstoi, the great Russian philoso- lished a series of letters from critics who defended
pher, had a parable describing the evils that Coughlin and the Christian Front and declared
come from land-grabbing. It is a parable that themselves in opposition to the present Ameri-
should be engraved for every person and every can policy of all-out-aid to the movement to
nation to read and to memorize. It teaches a les- smash Hitlerism. Whereupon a number of other
son of paramount significance in human relations. correspondents expressed their views exposing the
Coughlinites' way of life. Among them was Julian
It is the legend about Pakhom, the peasant J. Harris of Philadelphia, who wrote as follows:
whose wealth made him comfortable and who
I fully agree with the Coughlins, Christian
would be considered well-to-do in any age or clime.
Fronters, Lindberghs, America Firsters, Amer-
For a time, Pakhom was contented, until he ac-
ican Quislings and Benedict Arnolds that the
quired envy upon visiting a richer relative in
Jews are war-mongers and I herewith submit
the city. Then he began to feel that his own acres
the names of a few which may be of special
were inadequate, and he began the struggle for
interest to the Four Blasters in your letter
more and more land.
column of Oct. 18 issue.
Pakhom sold a colt and his bees, and with the
A Jew by the name of Erlich declared war
proceeds bought more land. He sent his son to
on syphilis with salvarsan. Wasserman, an-
work away from his farm, and thereby secured
other Jew, had the temerity to pave the way
additional income for more land. He expanded.
for the continuance of the war against
He prospered. He was thrilled with his successes
syphilis. Ludwig Traube, you guessed it, an-
and he assumed the attitude that he knew how
other Jew, war-mongered heart disease with
much land a man needed.
digitalis. Jews both, Widall and Weill warred
But Pakhom listened intently to reports that
on typhus. A Jew research worker, Min-
people were moving to the rich and fertile areas
kowsky, war-mongered on diabetes with in-
of the Volga district, and he followed the trek
sulin. Two other Jews, Spiro and Eiloge,
of the new pioneers. His one craving in life was
warred on headaches with pyramidon and
for more land. He moved Volga-ward. Pakhom
entiphrin.
knew how much land a man must have, and he
Mary, a Jewess, gave birth to the greatest
knew how to quench his thirst for territorial
war monger of all—Christ Jesus, the Prince
expansion.
of Peace, who warred on all wars by sacri-
Then came other reports. In the land of the
ficing his life that all humanity may have
Bakshirs there was more land to be had. With
"Peace on earth and good will toward men."
For additional names of Jew war-mongers
his available money he traveled 500 versts to
kindly send a self-addressed envelope to the
make his mark in new fields. The reports were
writer, who also happens to be a Jew, who
true: he could have all the land he wanted, all
will fight against un-American activities in
the territory he could cover on foot in one day
the good old American spirit of facing the
—for the price of a thousand roubles.
issue.
Pakhom was never so thrilled. He would accept
In presenting this view, in which we share,
the offer. He even acceded to the only condition
we endorse a policy of fearlessness among Jews
made by the Bakshirs: that he must come back
that very day to the very spot he started from, in dealing with important national issues, and
after covering the ground he sought to acquire;
especially in hurling back stupid charges leveled
else his thousand roubles would be lost.
against our people.
The Russian peasant had confidence in his legs.
He began his walk at dawn. He was enchanted by
A Guide to Yehuda Halevy
the rich, black soil. Every once in a while he
would turn around and admire his possessions,
David Druck's "Yehuda Halevy: His Life and
but he could not turn back ; he felt that there Work," which Bloch Publishing Co. has just issued,
was still time to take in more and more and deserves recommendation for a wide reading pub-
more. The farther he went the better he liked lic. The comparatively small book of 100 pages
the land. But soon even his powerful legs began was written in Yiddish and was translated by
to weaken. Yet, he kept on going, rejecting the M. S. R. Frank. It is valuable because it not only
better judgment which told him to return to his reviews the work of the great poet who enriched
starting point. As the sun began to set he realized the Golden Period in Jewish history, in Spain,
that he must go back to protect his investment. but also gives a brief history of the period,
Now, he could no longer afford the luxury of
analyzing the activities of some of the outstand-
rest. To ease the pains caused by much walking, ing Jewish personalities of the time—including
he took off his boots and began to stagger on
Hisdai Ibn Shaprut, Halevy's friend Moses Ibn
barefooted. But he kept on weakening. His mouth Ezra and others. It is a splendid book and should
parched, his legs bent. He began to run. He ran be given a good circulation.
on and on, until he saw the starting point in the
distance. He thought he saw the starting point
and the Bakshirs waiting for him. At this point
A Good Title for a Poor Book
he collapsed. Blood spurted from his mouth. His
hand was outstretched to a point which he be-
Benno Silver of 38 Oakland St., Brooklyn,
lieved to have been the starting point and the
Y., seems to know the value of a good title.
achievement of another land conquest. But Pak- N.
He chose "Jews, Let Us Stop Dreaming" as the
horn was dead.
title of a dissertation which he calls "a treatise
Came the Bakshirs with shovels to dig the grave. on the Jewish problem." But it a thoroughly
They dug seven feet and buried the man whose weak book—except hi spots. He quotes Hebrew
greed for land brought him to the exact measure- sources, in the original, and we must admit that
ment of the territory he needed: the seven-foot he has selected some pretty good sources. But
grave.
his conclusions are confusing. He deals, for in-
What a lesson, in this Tolstoi story, for Hit- stance, with the problem of "Jesus and his ap-
ler and for all those whose great ambition is to pearance", and the impression he gives is that
grab more and more land!
he would like to proselytize. But even his prose-
Is this the lesson one must now tell Adolf lytizing is done poorly. His approach to Zionism
is bad. He wants Zion as a "Paradise of the
Hitler?
Individuals and nations before Adolf have World", but insofar as Zionism is concerned he
learned the value of Tolstoi's parable, but often does not even begin to touch upon its salient
points. A good title is lost on not-so-good a book.
too late. Hitler's turn is next.
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