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bRtROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal chronicle

Detroit Jewish Chronicle

and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE

Published Weekly by The Jewish Chronicle Publishing Co., Inc.

JACOB H. SCHAKNE

President

Entered as Second-class matter March 3, 1916, at the Post-
office at Detroit, Mich., under the Act of March 3, 1879

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Sabbath Scriptural Selections
Pentateuchal portion—Gen. 25:19-28:9.
Prophetical portion—Mal. 1:1-2:7.

NOVEMBER 21, 1941

KISLEV 1, 5702

Education Month

Detroit pioneered in inaugurating ob-
servance of a Hebrew Education Month.
During the past few years, the country
at large followed the example of our
community, as introduced by the United
Hebrew Schools of Detroit, and Educa-
tion Month festivities are sponsored
throughout the land.
The National Council for Jewish Edu-
cation has taken up the call for the ex-
pansion of Jewish educational activities,
and this year it has issued an important
Manifesto to Jewish Parents, over the
signatures of Mark Eisner, president;
Bernard Semel, honorary secretary of
American Association for Jewish Educa-
tion ; Samuel M. Blumenfield, president of
National Council for Jewish Education;
Samuel J. Borowsky, chairman of Nation-
al Jewish Education Month and Week;
frank L. Weil, president of Jewish Wel-
fare Board; Edward Israel, president of
Synagogue Council of America ; Israel
Efros, president of Histadruth Ivrith
Joshua Bin-nun, 'president of Federation
of Hebrew Teachers of America.
The Manifesto is of sufficient import-
ance to be given wine, circulation. It
reads:

Your . children—what will happen to
them? Will they grow up to be sturdy
in body? No doubt you are looking a fter
their physical well-being. Will they be de-
veloped mentally? You send them to secular
schools in order to develop their minds. But
the soul and spirit of your children—are
you neglecting these or are you seriously
concerned with them?
The Jewish religious tradition is being chal-
lenged by the fierce pagan religion of Fas-
cism. Hitlerism declares that democracy is
a Jewish invention which must be destroyed
and the Jewish people who gave religion
to the western world must be exterminated.
Fascism glorifies the State and the Fuehrer.
Judaism declares that there is a higher
power than man whom we must worship—
God. Fascism extols war and declares that
might makes right. Judaism preaches peace
through freedom and righteousness.
These are but a few of the conflictin*
world-views which are being decided today
on the fields of battle. In this struggle the
poisonous weapon of anti-Semitism is being
used by reactionaries to divide th e popula-
tion, to incite one group against another so
that Fascism may triumph.
Mothers and Fathers in Israel! Your chil-
dren are growing up in this complex en-
vironment and charged atmosphere. Will they
be able to withstand the attacks being made
upon ,them and their faith? Are they being
fortified with the necessary knowledge to
enable them to appreciate their own heri-
tage? Will they be able to hold heir heads
high and live with dignity and pride?
A Jew who is well-rooted in the traditions
of his people is like a tree whose roots are
deeply laid—storms may sway and bend it
but they cannot break it.
And your children—they will be what you
make them. If you will let them take root
now in the glorious heritage which is theirs,
they will be a credit not only to you and
their people, but also to their country.
Mothers and Fathers in Israel! Do your
duty by your children! Enroll them in a good
Jewish religious school. Don't deprive them
of their birthright as Jews and Americans.
Let them sink their spiritual roots deeply
NOW in the rich soil of their religious heri-
tage.
Do this for the sake of your children's
happiness. Do this for the sake of their
well-being and self-respect. Do this for the
sake of their training in good American
citizenship.
Jewish schools are opening their doors at
this time of the year. Bring your children
there. Enroll them. It is their right. It is
your duty. Enroll your children now!

appeals issued by the local committee,
under the chairmanship of Lawrence W.
Crohn, in this annual Education Issue of
The Detroit Jewish Chronicle, this state-
ment forms an effective appeal to parents
not to neglect the Jewish education of
their children.
The calls being sounded at this time
for the cause of Jewish learning present
a challenge. Either our children will
know their history and the background
of their status as Jews, or they will suf-
fer when they are faced with the serious
problems of life into which have been
injected prejudices and venomous anti-
Semitic practices.
The obligations of parents are clear.
Will they meet the problem in loyal, tra-
ditional fashion, or will they be blind to
reality?
May the Education Month appeal meet
with a ready response.

A Good Will Gesture

"La France Libre," published in Lon-
don, relates an interesting story.
Archbishop Maurice Faltin of Bor-
deaux, France, gave his secretary 50
francs one day recently for a woman who
implored relief in her destitution. As an
afterthought, he asked the woman's age,
which was 70. He also was informed ,that
she was a Jewess. Upon learning this, he
doubled the gift and told his secretary
to "thank her for her confidence in Chris-
tian charity."
This is a significant reaction to the per-
secutions taking place abroad. It indi-
cates that men of good will, of true reli-
gious character and of faith refuse to be-
come parties to bigotry and injustice.
With such displays of humane feelings,
people have cause to retain faith that
justice will survive.

The London Jewish Chronicle

Some time ago, we took occasion, in
these columns, to greet our older con-
t emporary, The London Jewish Chronicle,
on the occasion of its approaching cen-
tenary.
Today, as this anniversary is being cele-
brated in England, we again rejoice with
our London colleagues on being able to
point to 100 years of its wholesome serv-
ice, and we wish them goat success in
weathering future storms.
The London Jewish Chronicle has sur-
vived blackouts, two bombings, paper
shortages and many other difficulties that
come with war.
May it continue to serve as a symbol
of Jewish idealism and of the strength
of newspapers to survive in democracies.

Jewish Book Week

This week-end inaugurates annual ob-
servance of Jewish Book Week, and the
occasion should be utilized to encourage
publishers and writers of Jewish books,
to assist in educational and cultural ef-
forts involving creative writing, tokacquire
the habit of buying Jewish books, of
building Jewish book shelves, of giving
Jewish books as gifts.
There will be several events of im-
portance during this week.
The Jewish Community Center, in col-
laboration with the United Hebrew
Schools and the 1(vutzah Ivrith, is spon-
soring a lecture by Dr. Simeon Halkin.
The Shaarey Zedek Library will have
a sppcial exhibit on the occasion of this
observance.
Other events will undoubtedly be spon-
sored.
Jews should participate in these cele-
brations and help make Jewish Book
Week the occasion for practical efforts
leading toward the advancement of Jew-
ish culture.

The Influence of the Bible

The Presbyterian, a weekly published
in Philadelphia, published the following
editorial on "The Bible":
"The Bible is so great a Book that na-
tions can read their doom within their
covers; it is such a deeply personal Book,
that the lowliest heart can find comfort
and strength from its pages."
It is brief and to the point, and its
message should be taken to heart by peo-
Coupled with the Education Month ple of all faiths.

November 21, 194I

**.Heard in the Lobbies.'.

By DAVID DEUTSCH

DETROIT INTELLIGENCE

A

Best wishes for speedy recov-
ery to Samuel D. Weinberg, edi-
tor of the Detroit section of the
Daily Forward, who—just a few
days before a testimonial banquet
was to be given him for his
pioneering Yiddish volume, "Jew-
ish Social Agencies of Detroit"—
suffered a heart attack. Those
who know Weinberg's humor and
hospitality will be looking for
his early return to the scene.
In the private office of Internal
Revenue Collector Giles Kavanagh
in the Detroit Federal Building,
right above the photograph of
U. S. Supreme Court Justices
Murphy and Reed, is a Jewish
National Fund Golden Book cer-
tificate for which Mr. Kavanagh
paid to enter F. D. R.'s name
in the famous Jerusalem volume.

The latest story to be put into
circulation at New York's famow.
Cafe Royale, where ambitious
alrightni/ meets blase Yiddish
writer, is about the Jew who
reads Social Justice. It's this way :
Levy meets Cohen on the sub
way. Cohen is reading the Jew-
ish Morning Journal and telling
Levy that he has been having
bad heart trouble. When Levy
asks why, Cohen says it's because
he reads so much horror in the
Yiddish daily that it affects his
ticker. But Levy want to know
why he keeps on reading it if
it's breaking him down. Well, be-
cause he has to keep in touch
with his people, Cohen replies.
Two months later, Levy meets
Cohen on the subway—and is
astonished to see him holding a
copy of Social Justice in his
hands. "But, Mr. Cohen, how can
you read such a paper when you
always used to read the Yiddish
daily?" Cohen explains that he
never felt better in his life. No
more heart trouble. And why?
Because he gets so much nachas
reading Charlie Coughlin's paper.
There, he reads that Jews own
all the movies; they have all the
papers; they head all the busi-
nesses. So with everything going
so wonderfully with the Jews,
he has no more heart trouble.

IN THE BLACK

Talk of the fund-raising sea-
son is Philadelphia's upward
climb in a record drive for its
Allied Jewish Appeal . . . Par-
ticularly swell in face of the
fact that its so-called "leading
citizen" Lessing Rosenwald is
reputed not to have contributed
a dime . . . Report has it that
one Jewish group in the town
wanted to run a big public meet-
ing to draw attention to the mail-
order magnate's antics . . . In
the cheerio spirit of boom time,
Boston too is doing itself proud
with bigger givinO, than ever.
Though some of its citizens woh-
der how the upstanding leader-
ship permitted the strange situa-
tion in which Jews contribute
directly to the U. S. 0. drive
but are expected to give another
10 per cent or so additional out
of their Jewish campaign . . .
Sounds like double taxation . . .
Cincinnati still claims to be the
nation's most generous city, hav-
ing climbed way above even last
year's figures for the Welfare
Fund . . . All of which proves
that if you know how to ask
you can get .. . Some enterpris-
ing planners of drives are be-
ginning to look up the SEC re-
ports on executive salaries and
bonuses which are far more re-
vealing than even Dun and
Bradstreet to shut off the tear
ducts of the big boys when they
begin to complain that the giving
"hurts".

OVER THE TEACUPS

Over the teacups the other
afternoon Count Sforza, Foreign
Minister in pre-Mussolini Italy,
told us this story to indicate how
completely assimilated Italian
Jews had become. When Musso-
lini adopted the Nazi anti-Semitic
program, he ordered all Jewish
households to give up their non-
Jewish servants. On the day the
new edict was put into effect,
and Christian servants were told
that they were forbidden to con-
tinue working for any Jewish
employers: "What is wrong? Are
they not as good Christians as
we are?"

Awl' OBJECTS

JEW WITH SOCIAL JUSTICE

THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT

Gershon Agronsky, Palestine
Post editor, who is on his way to
America for a visit by way of
the Pacific. Wonder how he feels
about the success of his young
nephew, Martin, Ankara NBC
broadcaster, who once held down
a typosetter job on his sheet in
Jerusalem . . . That New York
conservative rabbi who refers
every invitation he gets for a
speech, even for the most impor-
tant national Jewish bodies, to
his' lecture bureau . . . Danny
Kaye, whose facial antics in
"Let's Face It", Broadway's lat-
est smash musical featuring his
wife's hit tunes, is bringing him
an estimated $2,900 a week as
compared with only $250 last
year, when he outshone even Ger-
trude Lawrence in "Lady in the
Dark", which he left for his cur-
rent opus . . . Dr. Morton C.
Kahn, associate professor of
public health and preventive
medicine at Cornell University
Medical College, who after three
and one half years of research
found certain cells in the human
body to destroy tuberculosis
germs . . . Bruno Walter, con-
ductor of the New York Phil-
harmonic Symphony, who is do-
ing more for young American
composers such as Arthur Shep-
herd, Randall Thompson and Da-
vid Stanley Smith than any of
the American-born conductors .. .
That Jewish fellow at General
Electric in Schenectady who
doesn't like to see Jewish engin-
eers hired for the G-E labora-
tories because they "may not be
the right type of Jews."

by BRESSLEI

