etroit Jewish Chronicle
and The Legal Chronicle,
VOL. 44. NO. 9
DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1942
Detroit Allied Jewish Campaign Will Have Eight
Major Trade and Professional Divisions
Plan Outlined by Irving W. Blumberg and Maurice W. Enggass of Detroit Service
Group; Mrs. Hyman C. Broder Heads Women's Division; Junior
Bureau Is Headed by Jacob L. Keidan
Eight major divisions will comprise the organization of the trades and profes-
sional structure of the forthcoming 1942 Allied Jewish Campaign of the Jewish Wel-
fare Federation, as outlined by Irving W. Blumberg and Maurice H. Enggass, presi-
dent and chairman of the board, respectively, of the Detroit Service Group.
The Mercantile Division, to be known as Division A, will have Julian H.
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K rolik as adviser and will in-
clude the following trade groups:
.Jewelers, radios, shoes, retail
dry goods, wholesale dry goods,
furniture, upholstery and inter-
ior decorators; household appli-
ances, cartages and office equip-
ment; luggage and loans, de-
partment store employees, wo-
men's apparel, including milli-
nery and furs, men's apparel
and chain stores.
Services, or Division B, Will
have Louis C. Blumberg and A.
J. Blumenau as advisers, and
will include the following trades
and professions: Cleaning and
dyeing plants, merchant tailors
and independent tailors, linen
supplies, laundries, insurance,
loan c o m pa n i es, investments,
bank employees and stock brok-
ers, and public employees.
The Mechanical Trades, or
Division C, will have as their
adviser Gus D. Newman and
Ben Kramer, and will include
auto sales, parking lots, auto
accessories, filling stations, gar-
ages and auto service ; auto
parts, metals and metal dealers,
scrap iron, steel, machinery and
auto m a nu f a c turing ; bottles,
bags and barrels, waste mate-
rial and waste paper, and tex-
tiles.
The Building Trades, or Divi-
sion D, • will have Milton M.
Maddin and Ben B. Fenton as
advisers, and will include : Real
estate, painters and decorators,
architects and engineers, car-
penters and contractors, plumb-
ers and plumbers' supplies,
building supplies, masonry, plas-
tering and contractors, store fix-
tures and janitor supplies, elec-
tricians and electrical supplies;
coal and ice, property manage-
ment, hotels and clubs, hard-
ware.
Food Products, or Division E,
will have Irving W. Blumberg,
Harry Cohen and Max Schayo-
witz as advisers, and will include:
Bakeries, beverages, groceries,
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t
Niebuhr Assails
"The Liberals"
Christian Leader Sees
Zionism as Postwar
Solution
NEW YORK. (JPS)—Assert-
ing that the liberal world has
failed to aid the Jews because
it has not understood the Jew-
ish problem, Prof. Reinhold Nie-
buhr of the Union Theological
Seminary urges "a more gen-
erous acceptance of the Zionist
program" as basic for the post-
war solution of the Jewish plight,
in the first two articles to ap-
pear in The Nation entitled
"Jews After the War".
The famous Christian liberal
leader denies that with "the
overthrow of Nazism" Jews will
"be able to obtain the automatic
restoration of their rights," add-
ing that "it must be remembered
that the plight of the Jews was
intolerable in those parts of Eu-
rope which represented a deca-
dent feudalism long before Hit-
ler made their lot impossible in
what was once the democratic
world."
Assailing "the liberals" among
Jews as well as among Christians
for refusing to face the Jewish
issue squarely, Dr. Niebuhr de-
clares (1) "that the Jews are
really a nationality and not
merely a cultural group," and
"that any program for the
( 2 )
See NEIBUHR—Page 12
Stefan Zweig,
Wife End Their
Lives In Brazil
Leaves Note Saying He
Had No Strength
To Go On
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil.—
Stefa n Zweig, noted Austrian-
born author who became a man
without a country because of
the spread of nazism in Europe,
and his wife, Elizabeth, commit-
ted suicide Feb. 23. They took
poison at their home near Pe-
tropolis, Brazilian Summer cap-
ital.
The author left a letter ex-
plaining the suicide pact, ad-
dressed to Claudio de Souza,
president of the P.E.N. Club of
Brazil. The letter said :
"Before I depart from life
by my own free will, I want to
do my last duty, which it to
thank this marvelous country-
Brazil—which so hospitably re-
ceived me. Each day I spent
here I loved this country more,
and in on other could I have
had such hopes of reconstruct-
ing my life. •
"After I saw the country of
my own language fall, and my
spiritual land—Europe—destroy-
ing itself, and as I reach the
age of 60 it would require im-
mense strength to reconstruct
my life, and my energy is ex-
hausted by long years of pere-
grination as one without a coun-
; try.
"Therefore, I believe it is
r time to end a life that was deli-
; cated only to spiritual work, con-
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Srere Issues
Pre•Campaign
Statement
"Ample Funds for all
Essentials," He
Declares
As plans for the 1942 Allied
Jewish Campaign moved for-
ward at an accelerated pace,
Abraham Srere, president of the
Jewish Welfare Federation, is-
sued a pre-campaign statement
to the contributing public, in
which he said that our future
depends on the recognition that
we are engaged in a struggle
that is world-wide.
"As citizens of a country at
war," declared Mr. Srere, "we
must weigh all communal efforts
in the scales of national inter-
est. Fund-raising plans by Jew-
ish communities in 1942 need
to consider the primary place
which the conduct of war must
take in our individual and com-
munal planning, in the use of
our time and manpower and in
the expenditure of our wealth.
Every social project, whether it
be an established activity or a
new service will have to measure
its right to support in terms of
whether it promotes the well-
being of the country. There will
be ample funds for essentials ;
the task of placing our com-
munal activities high upon the
list of social priorities rests with
us.
These highlights need to be
considered :
1. Certain classes in our pop-
ulation will earn less than in
See ZWEIG.-:-Page 9
1941, but many of these will be
JOSEPH GOLAN ,
in a position to draw on 1941
BNAI.BRITII
reserves.
The annual donor event of the dent of the Jewish National Fund
of
America.
MEMBERS'
DRIVE
2. Those engaged directly or
Ladies' Auxiliary of the Jewish
indirectly in defense work must
Joseph
Golan,
brilliant
10-
National Fund, whch will be held
be selected for intensive pre-cam-
year-old violin prodigy, who has IN FULL SWING
at 1:30 p. m. on Wednesday, already won national acclaim, Five Local Lodges of Bnai Brith paign approach, as individuals
March 11, at the Masonic Tem- will be featured on this program.
and as privately-held corpora-
Conducting Individual
ple, will feature an outstanding
tions, for the increased sums that
Although still in knee pants,
Campaigns
musical program, in addition to Joseph Golan has to his credit
must be raised.
the address by the guest speak-
The City-Wide Bnai Brith
3. Agency programs on any
See PRODIGY—Page 9
er, Dr. Israel Goldstein, presi-
Membership Drive which is be- level—local, national or overseas
ing conducted by Pisgah Lodge —are not being taken for grant-
No. 34, Louis Marshall Lodge ed. Budget committees are re-
No. 1203, Detroit Lodge No. viewing requests for allocations,
1374, Theodor Herzl Lodge No. with a view to overhauling the
13777 and East Side Lodge is entire Welfare Fund structure,
now in full swing. Harry Yud-
koff, a member of District Grand
See SRERF—Page 10
The greatest Jewish community project of the
Lodge No. 6, Bnai Brith, and co-
chairman of the local drive
year, the Detroit Allied Jewish Campaign, will get
states, "each lodge is conducting
its organizational phases under way on Monday,
its own individual campaign, al-
March 2, with the opening of campaign headquar-
though the workers in the cam-
ters at Hotel Statler, Room 1401, Telephone Ran-
paign will accept applications
dolph 9300. Campaign workers of past years and
from candidates for any lodge,
with whch they want to affiliate.
prospective workers are invited to get in touch
Every male Jew of good char-
with the office by telephone, or by stopping in at
acter, 21 years of age or older
headquarters any day of the week except Saturday.
is eligible for membership in
Bnai Brith."
Plans for an ambitious drive
by all lodges has been completed
William Gropper, Pablo Picas-
at a series of meetings held by so, Camille Jacob Pisarro and
the membership committees of Amedio Modigliani are among
the respective lodges during the the 21 contemporary Jeikish ar-
past week. This drive will offi- tists whose works will be hung
Many Out-of-Town Rabbis to Participate
cially conclude on April 1.
at the Jewish Community Cen-
in Local Drive
Bnai Brith, the oldest and ter, Woodward at Holbrook,
largest American Jewish service from March 1 through March 15,
An all-out drive for the sup- organization, whch has been in
port of the Rabbi Isaac Elchan- existence for almost 100 years, to celebrate the 21st anniversary
an Theological Seminary and offers the opportunity to be of of the Center's Art Department.
Yeshiva College of New York, service to every male Jew. The exhibition will also include
the foremost institution of high- Through i t s Anti-Defamation the works of Ben Benn, Aaron
er Jewish learning in America, League, Hillel Foundations, A.Z. Bohrod, Henry Botkin, Marc
was launched this week with the A. (Bnai Brith Youth Organiza- Chagall, Lyonel Feininger, David
arrival in Detroit of a number tions) , Vocational Service Bur- Friedenthal, Todros Geller, Sam-
of noted personalities. The drive eau and philanthropic agencies, uel Halpert, Dahlov Ipcar, Mor-
was formally opened by Prof. it provides a medium of defense, ris Karfiol, William Auerbach-
Moses Legis Isaacs, dean of the education and service. Follow- Levy, Jules Pascin, William
College, and former professor of ing a conference in Washington Schwartz and Max Weber. The
chemistry at Colombia, known with Government officials, Maur- sculpture of Chaim Gross, Wil-
to local residents as a brother ice Bisgyer, Secretary of Su- liam Zorach and Detroit's Sam-
of Dr. Raphael Isaacs, formerly preme Lodge sent a communica- uel Cashwan will also be shown.
of Ann Arbor, and of the late tion to the lodges that they
Arranged by the Center's Art
Dr. Nathan Isaacs of Harvard. should not curtail of suspend Appreciation Committee, headed
The work will be continued by its normal services.
by Mrs. Walter Laib, the exhi-
Rabbi Abraham Bender, who will
Harry Yudkoff, a member of bition marks the coming of age
remain in Detroit for a longer the general committee of District of the Jewish Community Cen-
period.
Grand Lodge No. 6, and Edmund ter's Art Department, according
A number of alumni of the Saperston, president of Detroit to Mrs. Samuel R. Glogower,
Yeshiva from other communities Lodge, are co-chairmen of the Center president. The exhibition
have volunteered to assist in the local drive, and Rudolph Meyer- also recognizes the servics of
drive. On Saturday, Feb. 28, sohn has been appointed public- Mrs. David B. Werbe, under
pulpits in various Detroit syna- ity director for this five lodge whose devoted leadership, for
See ARTISTS—Page 10
Dr. MOSES L. ISAACS
campaign.
See ISAACS—Page 10
10-Year-Old Violin Prodigy to
Appear at JNF Event March H
Allied Jewish Campaign Opens
1942 Offices at Hotel Statler
Jewish Artists
Will Exhibit
Paintings.' To Be Hung
at Center From
March 1 to 15
Dean Moses L. Isaacs Opens
Campaign for Yeshiva College