4 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 President Entered as Second-class matter March 3, 1916, at the Post- office at Detroit, Mich., under the Act of March 3, 1879. General Offices and Publication Bldg., 525 Woodward Ave. Telephone: CAdillac 1040 Subscription in Advance Cable Address: Chronicle $3.00 Per Year JACOB MARGOLIS Publisher PHILIP SLOMOVITZ Editor MAURICE M. SAFIR ...Advertising Manager To insure publication, correspondcnce . and news matter must reach this office by Tuesday evening of each week. When mailing notices, kindly use one side of paper only. the Detroit Jewish Chronicle invites correspondence on sub• jects of interest to the Jewish people, but disclaims respon- sibility for an endorsement of views expressed by its writers. 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