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.:`ETROIT JEWISH 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.

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JACOB MARGOLIS
Editor
PHILI P SLOMOVITZ
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Sabbath Scriptural Selections

Pentateuchal portion—Ex. 18 :1-20 :23.
Prophetical portion—Is. 6:1-7:6;9: 5, 6.

FEBRUARY 6, 1942

SHEVAT 19, 5702

Henry Ford Did It Properly

Henry Ford has himself put an end to
a horribly un-American situation by
threatening to prosecute those who use his
name to spread anti-Semitic literature.
It was the proper step to , take. It was
a magnificent way of saying to the people
of America : my statement of a month ago,
repudiating anti-Semitism, was intended
to go all the way to put an end to the
rumors circulated about me and my atti-
tudes. I hate hatred and intend to have
that stand as my principle in human re-
lations.
Mr. Ford has well earned the respect
and appreciation that is due a man who
will refuse to tolerate the spread of big-
otry and the use of his name for discrim-
inating purposes.

A Significant Assembly

Zionist Membership

Membership in the Zionist Organiza-
tion of America is of extreme importance
as means of strengthening the Jewish po-
sition in Palestine. Numbers will count
when the world's diplomats meet at the
peace conference after the war to con-
sider the claims of Jews to Palestine.
Therefore, the appeal for a large mem-
bership in the Zionist Organization of
Detroit, issued by Rabbi Morris Adler, its
president, must be heeded. It would be
an act of great encouragement to Zionist
leaders if unaffiliated would call the Zion-
ist office or Rabbi Adler and offer their
services to the movement in the form of
memberships and in whatever other way
they may be in position to serve the cause
of Jewish reconstruction in Palestine.

A Noncomformist Is Punished

News from Belgium, the bulletin of the
Belgian Information Bureau of New York,
recently carried an item reporting as fol-
lows:
"Announcement has been made of the
death of Mr. Henry Swejer, following ex-
treme ill treatment in a German concen-
tration camp, where he was sent after
an argument with two German officers.
While in a cafe in Antwerp he remarked
to them that they had not yet won the
war. Mr. Swejer, a Zionist with noncom-
formist views, had served in the Belgian
army during the 191-18 war."
The important point in the story is
that the victim was not a comformist.
And even more important moral of it all
is that the noncomformists who refuse to
accept the Nazi way of life will win the
war for humanity.

90,000 J. N. F. Dunams

A total of 90,000 dunams of land has
been acquired by the Jewish National
Fund during the past two years, it was
reported by Dr. Israel Goldstein, presi-
dent of the fund in this country, at the
United Palestine Appeal Conference.
Here is one of the most encouraging
news items to come to us in a long time.
Not only is land redemption the most
important factor in our national existence
today ; but it is especially thrilling to
know that in spite of war's horrors Pales-
tine continues to function as a wholesome
Jewish community, and the Zionist move-
ment's land-reclamation agency makes the
best of a very bad situation and sends
forth word to world Jewry that the land
shall be reclaimed and rebuilt in spite of
all obstacles.
The 40th anniversary of the J. N. F. is
a signal for the intensification of land
redemption efforts. Palestine Jewry alone
has undertaken to reclaim 10,000 dunams
at cost of $500,000. The Zionists of
America pledged themselves to reclaim
an additional 40,000 dunams.
Forty years of effort in behalf of the
Jewish National Fund call for renewed
activity and even greater interest in Pal-
estine's regeneration in the future.

American Jewry's outstanding leaders,
meeting in annual assembly of the Coun-
cil of Federations and Welfare Funds, in
Chicago, set the stage for unlimited and
uninterrupted action during the national
emergency. It was a significant gathering
of men and women who are concerned
that there should be no setbacks in the
continuation of efforts to save human
lives wherever they may be, to carry on
the normal activities essential for the ex-
istence of Jewish communities and to
effect unity whenever possible.
Moved by a desire to strengthen the
morale of our people, it was evident
throughout the sessions that the respon-
sible leadership of American Israel is not
surrendering the right to life and the
pursuit of life's normal functions, that
those charged with the duty of providing
for the welfare of the unfortunate vic-
tims of totalitarianism are not giving up
the ship, that the participants in the
historic task of building Palestine are not
slackening their steps, that the sponsors of
our educational movements are carrying
on with dignity and courage.
The American Jewish community
emerged stronger than ever from the de-
Eggs—Only Two Bad Ones
liberations that were conducted by the
Council of Federations and Welfare
As long as a people retains its sense of
Funds in Chicago during the past week- humor, it can not be licked.
end.
The British are today submitting to ra-
tions, to unprecedented suffering at the
hands of Nazis, but they know how to
Coordinating Zion Funds
carry on and how to look at the troubles
A step in the right direction has been good-hu moredly.
There is a shortage of eggs in England,
taken by the formation of the American
Palestine Fund for the purpose of co- but the English know how to joke
ordinating important Palestinian institu- about it.
"Chronicler," in London Jewish Chron-
tions, such as Hechalutz, Habimah, Pal-
estine Symphony Orchestra, Hebrew icle, some time ago told us in a paragraph
Teachers College, Palestine Conservatoire that—
of Jerusalem, Biram Physical Training
It was the morning after Clydeside's blitz.
School of Haifa. The plan is to gather
In a shopping thoroughfare which had obvi-
funds for these institutions collectively,
ously received the attention of the Huns
was a grocery shop, on whose signboard
thus eliminating duplications and un-
was a name of undeniably Hebraic origin.
necessary expenses involved in fund-rais-
Many people paused at the shop, smiled, and
ing drives.
then walked on. The space formerly occu-
It is significant that the chairman of
pied by a large window had been filled by
stout pieces of timber, across which was
this effort should be one of the ablest in-
painted in bold lettering the following:
dustrial leaders active in Jewish life, Mr.
"Business As Usual. No Eggs To-day-
Edward A. Norman. Under his direction
Only Two Rotten Ones—Adolph and Benito."
this project should gain momentum and
That's the way the English have been
it should win the support of communities
throughout the land, through the Fed- taking it—in a spirit of fun. If they can't
erations and other agencies which are in have eggs, they at least won't forget the
position to encourage coordination of two bad ones who are responsible for
the shortage.
fund-raising activities.

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February 6, 1942

and the Legal Chronicle

.'.Heard in the Lobbies...

By DAVID DEUTSCH

PORTRAIT OF A MAN
TALKING TO HIMSELF:

(with acknowledgments to
Waiter Winchell)

You've got to talk to yourself
because no one else . will listen.
And because you have to say the
things that will .please people if
you talk out loud . . . This is a
wacky world and if you keep bot-
tled up in you the things you
want to say about the screwy
people you see and the crazy
things they do you can only end
up with a burst appendix . . .
You can't criticize the Zionists
because that would show you are
a Communist. You can't criticize
the anti-Zionists because that
proves you're an emotional slob-
beret.. If you take cracks at the
poor, you're a snob. If you poke
at the rich, you're a radical. If
you scoff at the pretensions of
the American Jewish Committee,
you're un-American; if you laugh
at the self-importance of the
American Jewish Congress, you're
un-Jewish . . . And so it goes.
And you decide that life is short
and altogether too filled with cir-
cumstance to worry about the
pomp of people.
Now, take Arthur Hays Sulz-
berger, as pleasant a fellow as
you'd want to meet. Handsome
and gentle, but getting deep per-
pendicular furrows in the middle
of his forehead because his fa-
ther-in-law left him the New
York Times . . . And he doesn't
like the Zionists and doesn't care
for Stephen Wise. He'll be help-
ful to the Zionists when he can,
but not helpful enough to be
helpful. But then a chance comes
along to be harmful and he gets
are of his best Christian editor-
ial writers to do a long editorial
against a "Zionist" Army. Sud-
denly the word Jewish becomes
sacred and it can't be used next
to the word army .. . But what
does Arthur really care about
Jews or Zionists? He doesn't. He
wants to be let alone. He'll be a
Jew in his way. But if you're
a Jew in London and want to
be a Jew your way, he wants
no part of you . . . Like his
nephew, for example, Cyrus L.
Sulzberger, crack war correspond-
ent in the Middle East, who mar-
ried Marina Lada in a beautiful
church in Beirut, Lebanon, not
so many days ago . . . The Sulz-
berger name is one of the most
honored in American-Jewish his-
tory . . . But some Jews are
tired of the Cross and they want
to stop being spat upon and
forced to feel the sharp thorns
. . . Well, who has the right to
say they've got to keep on the
steep road regardless of their
own wishes? . . . No one, I guess
. .. But it's funny, I think, that
people who don't want to be Jews
should tell others how to be Jew-
ish.
LETTER FROM S.E.P.
Like Jerome Frank, for exam-
ple . . . A lot of Jews agreed
with him absolutely on his Satur-

day Evening Post article. But
most didn't . . . And here is
Wesley Stout, editor of the Post,
telling me I'm wrong. What a
strange world, it is . . . No one
would think that the line I had
several weeks ago about the
Frank article would be garnered
in by the clipping bureau and
sent in one of those big batches
to the desk of the S.E.P. editor,
whose secretary would have the
publicity sense to write a short
note for her boss to sign . . ,
Says Mr. Stout, one of the great-
est article researchers in the
business before he took the edi-
torial seat, "we have just seen
your reference to the Jerome
Frank article." . . . Strange how
that editorial "we" persists after
all the gags shot at it . . Well,
I had thought that Stout was in-
discreet in thinking the Jews
would go for the Jerome Frank
article . . . But, says the S.E.P.
chief to David Deutsch, "I.in
afraid that you have been mis-
informed as to my discretion.
Not only are we publishing in
the February 28th issue a reply
to Judge Frank by Waldo Frank,
but we are following this in the
March 7th number with a third
article, this one by Milton Mayer,
and the provocative of all."
That's what the S.E.P.
"provocative" . . . And yet why
should it worry about a 'coin-
parative handful of Jews who
read its pages, hefty and well-
worth-reading generally? . .
Wonder what Waldo Frank will
say? I guess it's worth five cents
to find out . . . But Frank wrote
mystical plays and novels, went
to Palestine and got all enthused
. . . Came back and found salva-
tion in Communism and spent a
night in an Indiana jail for it
. . . And then embraced Judaism
with a convert's zeal . . . All
these magazines, the Nation and
the New Republic, Survey Graphic
and Current History, no less than
the S.E.P., usually get the Jew-
ish crackpots to write about Jew-
ish things . . . Now, what sensible
editor would ask Chaim Weiz-
mann to write on the origins of
the American Constitution? Yet
they ask Jerome Frank to discuss •
Zionism.

WHAT IS ZIONISM?
Funny thing about Zionism is
nobody knows what it is .. You
can get two of the most dis-
tinguished American citizens, one
called a Zi
onist and the other
called a non-Zionist, to agree on
their common principles . . . And
yet they have two different titles
. . . Take this Jewish Army busi-
ness, for instance . . . Most of
the so-called "leaders" of • Amer-
ican Zionism are really afraid
of it. But they haven't the cour-
age to come out in the open to
fight it. Publicly, they're all for
it . . . But in such a way as
to make the fight for it not too
incriminating or impolite

See DEUTSCH—Page 5

TWENTY-SIX-COUNT 'EM

(Courtesy Chicago Daily News,

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