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December 19, 1941
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle
Sincere Chanukah Greetings
Jefferson Linen
Supply Company
THE SENSATION OF THE YEAR:
HOW TO MAKE DEMOCRACY WORK
THROUGH TRUE COMMUNICATION
Introducing the sensation of inition of the word, simply is
the year: S. I. Hayakawa's "Lan- not there."
guage in Action," a Harcourt,
Thus, confusion of the term
Fitzroy 1135 Brace & Co. volume which has "Jew" is explained in the same
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been chosen as the December way as Prof. Hayakawa explains
Book-of-the-Month selection.
confusion of the term "WPA
It is a sensation for many rea- worker" with "Shovel-leaner".
Proper treatment of words is
sons. It is highly entertaining,
and the author's sense of humor what the author asks. There is
A Joyous Chanukah to All
is beyond description. It is very warning against absorbing false
instructive, and even masters of and lying words, which is equiv-
English will learn something alent to breathing a poisoned air.
ALICE PARKO, Mgr.
Hayakawa's "Language in Ac-
about our language from this
book. It contains a great lesson tion: A Guide to Accurate
Permanents, $3 and up
in democracy, since the author's Thinking," is effective. It can
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purpose in this book is to indi- be read and re-read, it can be
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most workable if the American joyed, in its entirety or in por-
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people will learn how language tions. Its entertainment and in-
can be turned into a true com- formation are splendid, and as
munication between free people. a guide against false thinking
There is a chapter, for exam- it is a valuable contribution to
ple, on the Jews, and the author democratic thought and action.
gives some very logical explana-
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tions of prejudices arising out of
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the very term "Jew". He tells of
Officials
the "affective connotations" in
Pittsburgh. (JPS)—In an in-
Christian interpretations and of
the fact that although Christian vestigation of the Ku Klux Klan
prejudices against certain prac- in this city, an Allegheny County
tices, money lending, for exam- grand jury, charging that the
ple, disappear, the "affective Klan was "un-American," in-
connotations" against Jews con- dicted James A. Colescott, Na-
tional Imperial Wizard, and four
tinue in the popular minds.
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other Klansmen on charges if
On this score, the author, S. I. illegal solicitation of funds nd
Highland Park
Hayakawa—Canadian-born, Eng- common-law conspiracy.
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lish teacher to university students
in Wisconsin, at present profes-
Look to First Sugar Crop
A. J. SIHLER, Prop.
sor of English at Illinois Insti-
tute of Technology in Chicago—
JERUSALEM. (JPS-Palcor)—
is worth quoting. He writes on The first sugar crop to be har-
the subject of the Jews and the vested by the Keren IIayesod
reactions to them on the part labor settlements will be taken
in the coming summer, it was
of Christians:
"The word 'Jew' came to have proudly announced by the Mer-
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increasingly powerful affective kaz Chaklai of the Histadruth,
connotations, expressing at once which has been conducting ex-
the terror felt by Christians to- periments in sugar-cane and beet
ward non-Christians, and the re- sugar cultivation for the past
sentment felt by people every- two years.
where toward money-lenders, who
are always felt to be 'grasping,'
'unscrupulous' and 'cunning'. The
moral objections to money-lend-
ing disappeared, of course, espe-
cially after people began to
found new forms of Christianity,
partly in order that they might
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freely engage in that profession.
Nevertheless, the affective con-
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notations of the word 'Jew' sur-
vived and have remained, even
to this day. They reveal their
continued existence in such uses
of the term as these: 'He jewed
me out of ten dollars.' Go on
Chanukah Greetings To All and give him some money; don't
be such a Jew.' . . .
"Let us return now to our
hypothetical Mr. Miller, who has
been introduced as a 'Jew'. To a
person for whom these affective
connotations are very much alive
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-and there are many such—and
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who habitually confuses that
A recognized authority for
which is inside his nervous sys-
tem with that which is outside,
25 years
Mr. Miller is a man 'not to be
Registered Appraisers—
trusted'. If Mr. Miller succeeds
U. S. District Court
in business, that 'proves' that
'Jews are smart'; if Mr. Johansen
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succeeds in business, it only
proves that Mr. Johansen is
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smart. If Mr. Miller fails in
business, it is alleged that he
nevertheless has 'money salted
away somewhere.' If Mr. Miller
is strange or foreign in his habits
that 'proves' that 'Jews don't
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assimiliate'. If he is thoroughly
American—i. e., indistinguish-
able from other natives—he is
'trying to pass himself off as
one of us'. If Mr. Miller fails to
give to charity, that is because
'Jews are tight'; if he gives gen-
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erously, he is 'trying to buy his
Most Modern
way into society'. If Mr. Miller
lives in the Jewish section of
town, that is because 'Jews are
so clannish'; if he moves to a lo-
cality where there are no other
Jews, that is because 'they try to
horn in 'everywhere'. In short,
Mr. Miller is automatically con-
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demned, no matter who he is or
what he does.
"But Mr. Miller may be, for
all we know, rich or poor, a wife
beater or a saint, a stamp col-
lector or a violinist, a farmer or
REAL CHINESE
a physicist, a lens grinder or an
orchestra leader. If, as the re-
STYLE DISHES
sult of our signal reactions, we
put ourselves on guard about our
including
money immediately upon meeting
Mr. Miller, we may offend a
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man from whom we might have
profited financially, morally, or
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spiritually, or we may fail to no-
tice his attempts to flirt with
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our wife—that is, we shall act
complete inappropriateness
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to the actual situation at hand.
Mr. Miller is not identical with
HARRY CHUNG, Mgr.
our notion of 'Jew', whatever our
notion of 'Jew' may be. The
'Jew,' created by intensional def
telephones in Germany, even for
Jews Barred from Phones
GENEVA. (JPS)—Jews have emergency calls in case of sick-
been barred from using public ness or accident.
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