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Detroit
Jewish Chronicle
and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE

1 Jblished Weekly by The Jewish Chronicle Publishing Co., Inc.

JACOB H. SCHAKNE...

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Sabbath Scriptural Selections

Pentateuchal portion—Gen. 47:28-50;26.
Prophetical portion—I Kings 2:1-12.

JANUARY 2, 1942

TEBET 13, 5702

Why Forget the Jews?

Every nation fighting on the side of
the democracies was given a place on the
splendid program that was sponsored by
the Council for Democracy on Christmas
Day. That program could have been en-
hanced by mere mention of the Jews as
partners in this great struggle to re-estab-
lish sanity in the world. We have an im-
portant stake in the war, and we shall
no doubt have to continue to place em-
phasis on certain claims which demand
guarantees that our rights will not be
sacrificed at the end of this war. To be
completely ignored, therefore, is a rather
ignoble thing to do, especially in a pro-
gram for good will and democratic ac-
tion.
That very day, there were broadcasts
of messages from parents in England to
their evacuated children in Canada and
the United States. One message wished
the child "a happy Chanukah and a
merry Christmas"—overlooking the fact
that Chanukah was by that time over by
three days. The spirit of the message,
however, was important, by contrast with
the inexcusable oversight of the Council
for Democracy.

The Late David Yellin

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle

the front ranks of necessary projects to
guarantee an unbroken chain of activity
against the Axis.
Without the efforts of the Histadruth,
the Palestinian front would be weak and
ineffecti% c. It is the effort put forth by
the powerful Jewish labor organization
in Palestine in training its workers for
defense that has made Palestine an ar-
senal for the democracies in the Mediter-
ranean. Without Jewish efforts in Pal-
estine the British forces would have been
unable to secure the $12,000,000 worth
of supplies during 1941.
Jewish Palestine is the backbone in the
defense of the Suez and of the Middle
East. A strong Palestine will mean a
strong democratic front in the Middle
East; a weak Palestine will place the
British campaign against the Axis in
jeopardy.
Jews are therefore obligated to
strengthen the position of the Palestinian
settlement. Every appeal for Palestine—
whether it is for the Histadruth through
the Gewerkshaften or for the food-pro-
ducing colonies through the Jewish Na-
tional Fund—is an additional appeal for
the defense of the democracies.
Histadruth and Gewerkshaften spell
specific Jewish cooperation in the battle
against tyranny and totalitarianism In
the world. Every Jewish contribution to
the Red Cross and for relief should ba
supplemented with gifts to the Jewish
relief and Palestinian causes.

The Late Dr. Nathan Isaacs

Detroiters will recall the addresses de-
livered here on several occasions by Dr.
Nathan Isaacs, professor of business law
at Harvard University and lecturer at
other schools, including Yale and Colum-
bia. His death, at the age of 55 comes as
a shock to those who had learned to ad-
mire his Jewish devotion and his scholar-
ship.
Dr. Isaacs came from a very devout
Jewish family in Cincinnati. All native
Americans, they were nevertheless steeped
in orthodoxy and never found it necessary
to break a single orthodox Jewish law.
Five brothers rose to high professional
positions—and all of them adhered loyally
to their faith, at the same time remaining
uncompromising in their American pat-
riotism.
The late Dr. Nathan Isaacs was at one
time assistant dean of the Cincinnati Law
School. He was active in Jewish affairs,
was a delegate to the First World Jewish
Congress in Geneva, was president of the
Association for Jewish Culture and Edu-
cation, was a Captain in the U. S. Army
during the First World War, was a trus-
tee of Gimbel Bros., held other important
positions and was the author of several
important books and essays.
Those who knew him will miss him
greatly, because they know what an asset
he was to American Jewry.

Palestine has emerged as more than a
homeland. It is a great romance. And its
romantic qualities stem from the people
who have created its institutions and have
established its idealism as a basis for re-
constructing a people's existence.
The late Dr. David Yellin, whose death
occurred three weeks ago, was one of the
most fascinating figures in this ro-
mantic story. He was a third generation
Jerusalemite and to him the events occur-
ring in Eretz Israel were natural phen-
omena. His Hebraism was natural, He-
brew being his mother tongue, although
he knew Arabic, English, Yiddish and
other tongues well. His vision of a Zion Hitler: "Hysterical Ambloyopia' ,
redeemed was natural to him, since he
Adolf Hitler's medical record is de-
was a very religious Jew.
As associate of Eliezer Ben Yehudah scribed as follows in a letter written by
in the movement for the revival of He- Dr. Foster .Kennedy of New York to the
brew as a living tongue, he ranks high as New York Times:
a pioneer. He was a great teacher, an
HITLER'S MEDICAL RECORD
able leader, an inspirer of friends. He
To the Editor of The New •York Times:
John Cudahy, in today's description of
was, indeed, a great Jew. When the story
Isis interview at Berchtesgaden, unwittingly
of Palestine's redemption is completely
gives renewed currency to the falsehood that
told, his name will be among those on
Hitler was blinded by gas in the last war.
top of the list of the Builders of Zion.
This statement has been merely part of the

The Palestine Labor Drive

stage build-up of the Leader.
In 1935 1 was told by one of the greatest
medical men in the Reich that in 1932 he
had himself investigated Hitler's official
medical war record. It consisted of one hos-
pital admission: Diagnosis: "hysterical am-
bloyopia," i. c., blindness due to hysterical
fear-reaction. In 1934 my friend found this
record no longer existed.
Foster Kennedy, M. D.

Detroit's Palestine Pioneer Campaign
for the Histadruth—the Jewish Federa-
tion of Labor of Palestine—better known
as the Gewerkshaften drive, will com-
mence here the first week in January.
This campaign will meet with certain
No other comment is necessary. To the
queries which should be answered in ad-
civilized world Adolf Hitler is not a
vance.
While everything possible must be done genius but he was, is and will remain a
to give priority to the national defense "bloodthirsty guttersnipe" (credit Win-
program, no one in authority—either in ston Churchill) whose medical record de-
this country or in England or in Canada— scribes him as suffering from "hysterical
has ever undertaken to state that relief ambloyopia".
work or reconstruction efforts in demo-
cratic countries are to stop.
Now that Charles Lindbergh has offered
On the contrary, such efforts are neces- his military services for the defense of
sary as adjuncts in national defense pro- this country against the Axis, we assume
grams.
that the medal he received from Adolf
The truth is that Palestine's significance Hitler will be used for the scrap heap
in the defense of the Near and Middle to manufacture ammunition for the defeat
East places Jewish efforts in this land in of Nazism.

January 2, 1942

.'.Heard in the Lobbies:.

By DAVID DEUTSCH

WASHINGTON ECHOES
Pretty strict orders were given
to Winston Churchill not to be
indiscreet on Jewish affairs while
he's in Washington. His civil
servants are afraid his heart is
where his head should be. The
diplomatic boys for Britain were
quite shocked, indeed, when they
heard about the quite innocuous
letter which Churchill sent to the
London Chronicle on the occasion
of its centenary with brief refer-
ences to the hope of Jews when
the day of victory dawns.
Maxim Litvinoff may be on
hand for information on Soviet
strength and plans but it's Lau-
rence Steinhardt whom the State
Department is consulting. Rumor
is still strong that Steinhardt is
pretty fed up with the diplomatic
business and would like to go
back to the nice, peaceful law.
But F. D. R. doesn't let his good
men go so easily and it's likely a
new, heavy assignment will soon
be announced for Steinhardt .
When the censorship department
starts working, one of the Wash-
ington boys who'll have to watch
his step is Arthur Krock, the
white-haired correspondent of the
New York Times, who has been
given credit for more smashing
of confidences than any other top-
flight. reporter. One Army official
almost burst a blood vessel when
he saw a recent issue of the New
York Times carrying a story that
he thought he had told somebody
in strictest confidence. Exact op-
posites are Krock and I. F. Stone,
former New York Post editor and
now commentator for liberal week-
lies and PM. One of the differ-
ences is that Stone doesn't mind
being known as a Jew.

NEWSPAPER BUSINESS
The Yiddish newspapers, for
whom an early demise has been
predicted for 20 or 30 years, are
having a pretty tough time these
days and they're talking about
upping the price per paper. Big-
gest blow to the papers has been
their inability to tell the folks
about the people on the other
side. With all the pogroms, de-
portations and retreats, relatives
here are worried. But if they
want any information they have
to apply to one of the official
'Jewish organizations or to the Red
Cross In the olden days when
wars were fought gentleman-like,
the Yiddish papers could print
long lists of "missing relatives"
and "searching friends." The im-
migration of Hitler days has not
been a Yiddish-reading element.
It takes to such papers as Aufban
or starts at once on the English
dailies, which the other genera-
tions didn't learn for quite a
while.

orations and Welfare Funds; (2)
that Dr. Abba Hillel Silver Will
be given the accolade of re-elec-
tion as chairman of the United
Palestine Appeal when his organ-
ization meets in Cleveland on
Jan. 18; (3) that someone ap-
proved by Rabbi James G. Heller,
president of the Central Confer-
ence of American Rabbis, will
be elected executive director Of
the Union of American Hebrew
Congregations to succeed the la-
mented Ed Israel; (-1) that sev-
eral national organizations now
having their headquarters in
Washington will move them to
New York, or another eastern
city. It's too crowded and nobody
is looking at Jews these days.

CONGRATULATIONS

To Jan Peerce who, having
made his Metropolitan Opera de-
but, is proving the old adage that
success makes success. The Colum-
bia chain has chosen him as the
tenor of a new weekly opera series
to be aired this month and
throughout the winter Jan, who
started life as a fiddler in the
Bronx, must feel mighty proud
as Alfredo in "La Traviata." . . .
To Roger de Koven, former Chi-
cago rabbinical student, who's
been doing well on air soap
operas for a number of years, not-
ably "Gang-Busters," and who
has now started the slow trail to
Hollywood by his swell perform-
ance as the menace in "Brook-
lyn, USA." the eerie play on
Murder, Inc. . . . To Martin Ag-
ronsky, who was hailed by Na-
tional Broadcasting Company as
its greatest "find" of the year
1911 for the military and diplo-
matic "beats" he scored at the
Ankara listening post, only a
few stones throw away from the
Palestine Post, where he used to
set type His only rival on the
NBC circuit was another com-
patriot by the name of Robert
Magidoff, covering the story at
Moscow. . . . To Lionel Stander,
another Bronx liberal who took
a plunge in backing "Brooklyn,
USA" and who, it seems, will not
have to be taking poor Holly-
wood roles to - earn a living. Last
year Stander made some money
as a backer of "Native Son." .. .
Lionel is all over the place on
Broadway, because he has a fea-
tured comic role in Eddie Cantor's
musical, "Banjo Eyes."

ODDS AND ENDS
Charles Laughton and Milton
Berle get along quite well on
their air show, but the thing that
makes Laughton boil is the way
Milton keeps on calling him
"Chuck." Ile doesn't think it dig-
nified for a dramatic actor like
him. But what's he doing on a
ELECTION PREDICTIONS program with Berle in the first
In the manner of Pearson and place?
Allen, and with just as much
Zelda Popkin, one of the most
chance that we may be wrong, competent publicity writers in the
we predict: (1) that Sidney Hol- .Jewish field, gets her mind off
larder, Baltimore social welfare the nonsense she encounters by
expert and manufacturer, will be writing swell mystery yarns. Take
re-elected for another term as a look at "Dead Man's Gift" if
president of the Council of Fed- you want proof._

NOW ALL TOGETHER

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