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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle

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Detroit Jewish Chronicle

and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE

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JACOB H. SCHAKNE

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Sabbath Scriptural Selections

Pentateuchal portion—Gen. 32 :4-36:43.
Prophetical portion—Hos. 12 :13-14 :10 or 11 :7-
12 :12 or Obad. 1 :1-21.

DECEMBER 5, 1941

KISLEV 15, 5702

Judge Frank's "Revelations"

Before his elevation to the United States
Circuit Court of Appeals, Judge Jerome
Frank wrote a book, "Law and the Mod-
ern Mind," in which he said : "The process
of judging, so the psychologists tell us,
seldom begins with a premise from which
a conclusion is subsequently worked out.
Judging begins rather the other way
round—with a conclusion more or less
vaguely formed; a man ordinarily starts
with such a conclusion and afterwards
tries to find premises which will substan-
tiate it."
This could easily be used to explain
this judge's article in the Saturday Eve-
ning Post, in which he groups Jewish
Communists, Zionists and Jewish Fascists
as "merely sojourners in America," and
for whom he suggests the status that they
"should not be described as American
Jews but as Jews in America."
But there is no reason for being that
easy on a man who renders such disservice
to Jews in America, and who hurls insults
upon important sections of the Jewish
population of America.
Judge Frank makes the admission that
most Zionists "are not hyphenates. Bran-
deis, a devout lover of America, certainly
was not." But his generalization stands.
If Americans are to judge by what he
wrote, then Mordecai Manuel Noah was
a sojourner in America ; so was Brandeis;
so is Supreme Court Justice Frankfurter;
so is Judge Julian W. Mack ; so are hun-
dreds of thousands of American Jews who
endorse the Zionist ideal; so are millions
of Christians who believe in the Bible and
accept prophecy.
When such Daniels come to judgment,
they try to unleash hateful lions upon an
unsuspecting population. But they usually
fail in their mission. The clear-thinking
elements in the American population usu-
ally reject such conclusions "more or less
vaguely formed"—in Judge Frank's own
words. Better judgment will prevail—and
with it approval rather than rejection of
a movement which seeks to provide homes
for homeless wanderers—even if they be
of the faith and the lineage of the man
who would reduce them to "sojourners"
in this great land of freedom.

National Bible Week

Observance of National Bible Week,
beginning on Dec. 8, is beginning to at-
tract deserved attention.
In Detroit, it is to the credit of Congre-
gation Bnai David and its spiritual head.
Rabbi Joshua S. Sperka, that emphasis is
being placed on this week's observance,
and that an effort will be made by a
large group here to encourage study of
the Bible, to revive interest in the founda-
tion of the greatest moral and ethical
codes, as they were handed down by Jew-
ish sages, and to stimulate anew the devo-
tion that is necessary in order to make
true faith effective.
Inauguration of National Bible Deek,
by Christians and Jews, is an encourag-
ing occurrence in a time when all faiths
are being undermined in European lands
of destruction and chaos. May this observ-
ance lead to revival of sanity everywhere.

The Bill of Rights

On Dec. 15, Bill of Rights Day will be
observed in this country, by action of Con-
gress and by proclamation of President
Roosevelt.
Marking the 150th anniversary of the
they imply never be forgotten, so that
will once again be a signal to the world
that this country functions not on a bill of
sufferance or special privileges but on a
sacred code of principles which serve to
make men free.
Significant declarations are included in
President Roosevelt's proclamation of Bill
of Rights Day. The President states:

It is fitting that the anniversary of its adop-
tion should be remembered by the nation

which, for 150 years, has enjoyed the im-
measurable privileges which that charter
guaranteed: the privileges of freedom of re-
ligion, freedom of speech, freedom of , the
press, freedom of assembly and the free
right to petition the government for redress
of grievances.
It is especially fitting that this anniversary
should be remembe'red and observed by those
institutions of a democratic people which
owe their •very existence to the guarantees
of the Bill of Rights: the free schools, the
free churches, the labor unions, the religious
and educational and civic organizations of all
kinds which, without the guarantee of the
Bill of Rights, could never have existed;
which sicken and disappear whenever, in any
country, these rights are curtailed or with-
drawn.
Those who have long enjoyed such privi-
leges as we enjoy forget, in time, that men
have died to win them. They come, in time,
to take these rights for granted and to
assume their protection is assured. We, how-
ever, who have seen these privileges lost in
other c ontinents and other countries can now
appreciate their meaning to those people
who enjoyed them once and now no longer
can. We understand in some measure what
their loss can mean. And by that realization
we have come to a clearer conception of
their worth to us, and to a stronger and
more unalterable determination that here in
our land they shall not be lost or weakened
or curtailed.

Both the evaluations of the principles
of our American code of decency and the
warnings against their abuse must be
emphasized at this time.
Observance of the Bill of Rights anni-
versary calls for determination on the
part of all Americans not to permit abuse
of the rights which have made this coun-
try great. May these principles and all
they imply never be forgotten, so that
they may never be abused.

Judging "Loyalty"

A recent issue of The Presbyterian
magazine of Philadelphia carried the fol-
lowing:

"The Jewish Youth of America appear to
appreciate the blessings of American in-
stitutions. It is a serious mistake to suspect
our foreign born generally, or those of
foreign parentage, of holding an attitude
of doubtful loyalty to this country. This news
item from an exchange is evidence of the
feeling of thousands: 'A resolution adopted
at the second annual convention of the
American Jewish Youth, held in New York,
asks Congress to outlaw the Communist
Party and the German American Bund in
this country. The Dies Committee was com-
mended for its work in uncovering subversive
activities of Nazis, Fascists and Commu-
nists.' "

When "loyalties" are being analyzed
and dissected, there is dangerous ground
underfoot. No one should assume to judge
the relative loyalties of various groups
which make up the conglomerate mass of
Americans. In the above instance, the
Presbyterian might have come across an
item from a pro-Communist source—and
there are such groups—and they might
then have asked why Jews are Commu-
nistically inclined. In reality, such a group
would have formed such an insignificant
part of American Jews that it would bct,
wrong to take it seriously. The mistake
lies in the periodical's generalizations.
The point is that the entire history of
Israel, the philosophy of Judaism, the
economic position of Jews, places our
people outside ranks which are in any
way akin to the Communist way of think-
ing or acting. The Presbyterian should
have judged—if it found it necessary to
judge—on the strength of Jewish ethical
codes, not on the basis of a resolution by
a group of our people.

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By DAVID DEUTSCH

WASHINGTON WAGS

DOG BITES MAN

They're .still laughing at the
one Sumner Welles put over on
his good friend, Stephen Wise,
when, having been invited to talk
to a group traditionally known as
Zionists, he chose to laud the
Dominican Republic scheme . . .
To avert the laughter and the
ridicule the story is being in-
vented that Rabbi Morris Lazaron
of Baltimore had a hand in the
speech because he had lunch with
the Undersecretary of State. But
these versions forget that the
American Jewish Congress sent
out the Baltimore speech many
days in advance. . . . Mrs. Archi-
bald Silverman, darling of the
South American delegations, who
was responsible for bringing most
of them to the Inter-American
Jewish Conference, was boiling
at Welles' speech because she had
just come, as he had not, from
Sosua. And when Ida Silverman,
wealthy Zionist leader of Provi-
dence, has views, nobody can stop
her expressing them. Which she
did—somewhat to the annoyance
of her dear friend, Stephen Wise
. . . When Dr. Wise tried to ap-
pease Mrs. Silverman's wrath, he
spoke of numerous problems that
had arisen, and then said : "Now
we have another baby placed on
our doorstep by Sumner \Vellese
and Mrs. Silverman—of course
not together." Leave it to Dr.
Wise to joke his way good-
naturedly out of a dilemma. . . .
The Welles incident revealed the
vaunted but vain boast of vari-
ous groups that claim an "in"
in Washington. Fact is that de-
spite polite speeches made here
and there, Zionist stock in the
State Department is not very
high at the moment . . . Claim is
that the neglect of that situation
has been so great that Britain's
policy toward Palestine is based
on a pipeline to the State De-
partment's attitude . . . Reason
for the paradox of polite words
and impolite action is said to be
that F. D. R.'s Jewish friends on
the anti-Zionist side are more
outspoken in presentiM their
case than his friends in the Zion-
ist section.

Recently Simon Guggenheim of
Corpus Christi, Tex., contribiced
$25,000 to make possible the
building of a Y. M. C. A. in his
town, although nobody believ,•d
that anybody else would contra!).
ute. As a result of Guggenheim's
start and active promotion, $100..
000 was raised . . . When a local
leader, a patriarch in the Corpus
Christi community, sent the story
to Time Magazine as an illustra-
tion of the good will of a Jew to
a Christian enterprise, Time 01 -
itors replied that there wasn't
much news in it, since it was a
dog-bites-man story, the same
thing being done by Jews all over
the country all the time.

PEOPLE

You

SHOULD KNOW

COLUMNIST CAN BE WRONG
That even a columnist can be
wrong was proved for me by my
fellow scribe on the Nation. Ile
said recently that the State De-
partment had introduced some-
thing entirely new in demanding
of Jews that they specify their
race. To quote him accurately,
he said : "New entry visas for
this country require applicants
to tell whether they are 'Negro,
Chinese, Japanese, Hebrew or
White.' " The information is now
passed on to me by way of Avra
Warren, chief of the Visa Divi-
sion of the State Department, who
says "the racial classification
specified on immigration visas has
not been changed, having been
adopted in 1924 when immigra-
tion visas were first issued and
was based upon the classification
of immigrants required for im-
migrant and naturalization statis-
tical tabulations." . . . Well, a
lot of water has passed over the
dam since 1924—but the Nation
just woke up to it.

DOES IT PAY TO GRADUATE?

Morrie Ryskind, writer and
producer, wasn't considered up
to scratch when he attended Co-
lumbia University not so many
years ago. So the school and he
politely agreed to part company.
But now he is a teacher at the
school from which •he couldn't
graduate, giving a month's course
of lectures on stage and screen
technique at the School of Jour-
nalism.

One of the most generous—and
the most anonymous, with the LEWIS-BROWNE DEBATES
Lanky Sinclair Lewis and Hus-
possible exception of Bernard M.
Baruch — Jewish philanthropists ky Lewis Browne have been stag-
in the land, Commodore Louis D. ing literary wrestling bouts
Beaumont, founder of the May throughout the land, arguing on
Department Stores, who used to most any subject the customers
spend many years in France and would pay for—and always giving
to return to America from time v, th ,oe customers their money's
worth.
to time to lavish his benefactions.
h. The Nobel Prize winner,
His small-framed figure is all too after doing part of his transcon.
rarely seen by the folks who tinental tour with Browne, corn-
benefit from his gifts. plained that thus far he had
Alan Shulman, Maryland na- been miscalled Upton Sinclair
tive,
won a scholarship
'Lewis,
but introduced
now he was as constant-
the Juilliard
School and at
who
iy being
Sinclair
has done arrangements for An- Lewis Browne . . . The most pop-

dre Kostelanetz and Lyn Murray, have subject of the debaters, who
and whose compositions have been ave been scheduled for 20 towns,
played
by the
Columbia
Concert
Can It Happen
Orchestra
as those
of one
of the is husband
(soon Here?
to be ex) of
the most promising American Dorothy
Thompson
saying
No!
copy right, 1941, by Independent
Jewish Preys' tier v b.t., hi'.
composers.

SHIEkS OF ARABY, IN REVERSE

by BRESSLER

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