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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle
Detroit Jewish Chronicle
and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE
Published Weekly by Jewish Chronicle Publishing Co., Inc
JACOB H. SCHAKNE
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Sabbath Scriptural Selections
Pentateuchal portion—Ex. 10:1-13:16.
Prophetical portion—Jer. 46:13-28.
JANUARY 23, 1942
SHEVAT 5, 5702
President Roosevelt at 60
Next Friday's country-wide celebration
of President Roosevelt's 60th birthday
will be a signal for the nation's procla-
mation to the world that we all stand
united behind the Chief Executive and
our Commander-in-Chief in the present
crisis.
For several years, the President's birth-
day has been an occasion for an annual
March of Dimes campaign to provide
funds to fight the dreaded infantile
paralysis disease. This year, the repeti-
tion of this practice will be marked by
the signals that will go forth to the world
at large that the honors being shown
our President are symbols of our unity.
To our friends it will signalize encour-
agement in the battle for justice; to the
Axis it will be a warning that we have
only just begun to fight
May the President be given strength to
carry on the battle for humanity: This
will be the fervent prayer of all Ameri-
cans on his 60th birthday, next Friday.
The Day of Rest
Extension of efforts on the part of de-
voted orthodox leaders of Detroit to effect
an agreement whereby Jewish grocery
stores will be closed on the Sabbath de-
serves highest commendation.
Primarily, of course, it is essential that
food-supplying stores in Jewish sections
of the city should honor the Sabbath day.
It should be an easy matter to secure
widespread cooperation which will result
from early purchases of food necessities
for the Sabbath, in accordance with tra-
ditional injunctions.
Then there is, of course, the human
need of assuring a day of rest for the
storekeepers themselves and for their
employees. There is no earthly reason
why Jewish stores alone should be open
seven days a week, and why there should
be economic enslavement in such stores.
The committees that are engaged in
the effort to secure city-wide cooperation
from owners of Jewish grocery and other
food stores to effect a six-day week, with
the traditional Jewish Sabbath as the day
of rest, should receive the assistance of
the storekeepers themselves, of the Jew-
ish consumers and of leaders in all walks
of life in this city.
In Unity We Triumph
Two Worthy Causes
Spokesmen for two important causes
are at present soliciting nominal sums
here. Dr. Simon Ginzburg, one of the
outstanding Jewish scholars of our time,
is here in the interests of the Keren Ha-
tarbut, the Palestine writers' and educa-
tors' fund ; and Zechariah Gluska is
pleading for the cause of the Yemenites.
They do not ask for much, but that
does not reduce the importance of their
appeals. The Hebrew educational system
must be sustained. The colorful Yemenite
community must not be permitted to suffer
starvation, and its leaders must be given
the necessary aid to bring additional
members of the Yemen community to
Palestine.
The Keren Hatarbut and the Yemenite
fund should be given the encouragement
they rightfully deserve at the hands of
the Jews of Detroit.
Under Their Own Flag
Only the British cabinet stands in the
way of the formation of a distinct Jewish
fighting force in Palestine. Christians and
Jews have joined in propagating the need
for a Jewish army, and prominent mem-
bers of the United States Government
have endorsed the movement, in emphatic
statements and in addresses at the Na-
tional Conference for Palestine last week-
end.
The demand is clear: Jews are justi-
fied in asking that they be permitted to
fight as a unit, under their own flag, in
their homeland. To deny this request is
to be blind to reality, since there is dan-
ger of a renewed effort on the part of
the Axis powers to invade the Middle
East, and since every available bit of
strength must be used to defend the Brit-
ish position in the Mediterranean.
A Jewish army should be formed at
once. As a result of the pressure that
comes from many quarters among the
free peoples of the world, there is reason
to believe that this effort may material-
ize very soon. May it lead towards speedy
victory for freedom in the world.
The Late Jesse F. Hirschman
Detroit lost one of its truly interesting
public-spirited leaders in the death of
Jesse F. Hirschman.
Unassuming, modest, never searching
the limelight, Mr. Hirschman stood out
in his way as a very constructive leader.
His devotion to public needs, his truly
charitable spirit, his concern for the wel-
fare of the Jewish people, led him to
positions of leadership in the North End
Clinic, the Detroit Community Fund, the
Jewish Welfare Federation, the Allied
Jewish Campaign.
He will be greatly missed by his
friends, but his memory wil always be
cherished by all who knew him.
Not a Single Star Obscured!
There will be many hours of tribulation
and testing as this war goes on.
No one doubts our ultimate triumph.
We shall be victorious in the end. But
we shall have serious casualties, and we
must learn to accept them with courage.
In times of stress, the thing that mat-
ters most is that we should remain united.
Whenever this land was faced with dif-
ficulties, its unity was a major factor in
saving it.
The great Daniel Webster, in an ad-
dress in the United States Senate, once
remarked:
American Jewry is profiting by experi-
ence and is approaching a stage of unified
effort for the protection of the position
of Jews throughout the world.
The renewal of an united front through
the United Jewish Appeal, the enthusias-
"When my eyes shall be turned to behold,
tic response to demands for increased
for the last time. the sun in heaven, may
action in behalf of millions of unfortunate
I not see him shining on the broken and
Jews throughout the world as well as in
dishonored fragments of a once glorious
behalf of the Palestinian position, the
Union; on states dissevered, discordant, bel-
call for unity issued by William J. Shro-
ligerent! on a land rent with civil feuds, or
der on the eve of the convening of the
drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood! Let
assembly of the Council of Federations
their last feeble and lingerin g glance rather
and Welfare Funds—all these are evi-
behold the gorgeous ensign of the Republic,
dences of determination not to hinder
now known and honored throughout the
progress in fund-raising, and to approach
earth. still full high advanced. its arms and
a state of unity in the post-war efforts.
trophies streaming in their original luster,
All of which is exceedingly encourag-
not a stripe d nor polluted, not a single
ing. These manifestations point to the
star obscured, . . . "
coming of better internal relations among
American Jewry, and therefore for a
These are words worth repeating at
more hopeful approach to the solution of this time. In unity, we shall never
see a
the problems facing world Jewry.
stripe polluted or a star dimmed.
January
23, 1942
.'.Heard in the Lobbies.•
By DAVID DEUTSCH
MORE DEFENSE NEWS
BRONX GETS EXCITED
Rabbi Julius Mark of Nash
Eyes popped and voices strang.
ville deserves a nation's plaudits ed a few weeks ago in the 131 onx
He has one of the best pulpits in when the mother of Joseph P.
the land and the regard of Or- Lash had a visitor. Lash has got-
thodox and Reform. But he feels ten nation-wide publicity as the
the Army needs him now as chap- friend whom the First Lady re.
lain, and so away he's going. gards as her youth advisor and
Some rabbis apparently can't fig- as the fellow who gets knocked
ure out why others get such high twice a month regularly by ‘Vest-
regard . . . It might be a good brook Pegler. One day Joe took
idea, by the way, if some of those his mother to see Mrs. Roose-
Jewish organizations would stop vent, who was, as usual, gracious.
that cheap practice of getting Mrs. Lash, a Jewish Mother
for
publicity through "defense" sup- Whistler, was equally polite and
port gags. A Jewish activity can invited Mrs. Roosevelt to come to
be sound without being tied up New York and see her some time.
to a cannon.
And that's how it is that Ali's.
(Rabbi Mark is the brother of Roosevelt, knowing no monkey
Mrs. Harry Buchman of Detroit.) business, took a subway to the
A nice piece of gingerbread Bronx and found her way to the
should go to Barry Wood "Hit modest apartment occupied by
Parade" Star, for the swell job Mrs. Lash. They say that neigh-
he is doing on defense bonds. He bors now offer Mrs. Lash a cup
made a second-rate Irving Berlin of sugar even before she asks
lyric a nation-wide, catchy tune. for it, just so they can come
Ile's now on a swing around the into the little apartment and
country, lining up radio artists to stare at the woman who brought
hammer away for Uncle Sam on out the First Lady.
their own spots. While on a visit
to the Windy City for the Treas- WAR TALK
Several mid-Western cities are
ury Dept. he met an old friend,
Charlotte Manson, who is now taking a cue from Cincinnati and
also a network star. Both started are planning combined war chests,
their careers with Barney Rapp's ranging into millions. Nobody
orchestra in New York. Wood and has asked the Jews whether they
Rapp are brothers; the two mere- want in, but some of them are
ly decided to spell Rappoport dif- rushing forward with the sug-
ferently.
gestion. There's as much connec-
tion between an average Welfare
RANDOM TARGETS
Fund and the War Chest set-up
Congratulations to Jacob Billi- as between a Talmud Torah and
kopf, "Billi" to his friends, who a public park.
You should see the pride in
has just married. The noted so-
cial worker and labor arbitrator, the eyes of Jewish leaders through.
son-in-law of the late Louis Mar- out the land as they tell of a
shall, has ended his widower's son getting into the Marine corps
status with a charming Phila- or two boys into the Air corps
delphia woman. No more live or a son in the infantry. Jews
alone and like it.
aren't helping defend this coun-
Strange how Walter Winchell try on any percentage basis, but
can be brutally frank about must it would be stimulating to know
things except the word Jew. No just how many Jewish boys are
man in the land desrves greater enrolled. We're willing to take
credit for exposing the Ratzis bets it's far above the "fair per-
ever since 1933. But why, when centage."
Why is Adolf Berle of the State
he cited the Henry Ford letter
on his Sunday broadcast, did he Department so anxious to stifle
forget to say that Ford had re- propaganda for the free govern-
jected anti-Semitism? The letter ments? Is he expecting Germany
restored to her old ways, or Po-
meant nothing otherwise.
A reader, seeing the recent ref- land or Rumania?
erence here to Arthur Krock, THEY ALSO SERVE
chief Washington dyspeptic of
William Boxerman, Bnai Brith's
the New York Times, tells me
representative, tells me that
this story. Some years ago the Miami
famous Jewish correspondent had the first contribution for the sta-
a lecture date in an upstate New tue to Judah P. Benjamin, Con-
York town for Yom Kippur eve- federate Jewish statesman, un-
ning. The Jews of the city were veiled recently at Sarasota, Fla.,
outraged and approached him to came from Princess Julia Canto-
cancel it. Krock didn't know what cuzene, of Washington, Ulysses
all the noise was about bit he Gran't granddaughter. The mon-
decided it was too much trbuble ument is at the spot where the
Southern statesman eluded fed-
to go on with the lecture.
eral troops pursuing him and
Friends are still kidding Sam- sailed to England.
uel S. Leibowitz, famous crimi-
That new biography by Emil
nal lawyer turned judge, for his Ludwig on "Bolivar" was writ-
"illiteracy"—all because he had ten at the special request of the
to sign his name on a personal Venezuelan Government, which
check by making a cross after I iked his job on Napoleon and
slipping on the ice and breaking Lincoln. Ludwig, now a West
a bone in his right hand. "It may Coast resident, wonders why more
be illiteracy," he replies cheer- ,1 ewish organizations don't ask him
fully, "but I've got the dough." t o help in their work
'KEEP 'EM ROLTING--
AND RESTORE HOPE AND HEALTH
by BRESAER