March 13, 1941 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle Detroit Jewish Chronicle and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE Published Weekly by Jewish Chronicle Publishing Co., Inc President JACOB H. SCHAKNE 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 Publisher and Editor JACOB MARGOLIS MAURICE M. SAFIR....Advertising Manager to insure publication, all correspondence 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. iects of interest to the Jewish people, but disclaims respon- sibility for an endorsement of views expressed by its writers. Sabbath Scriptural Selections Pentateuchal portion—Exodus 35.1-40:38; 12:1-20 Prophetical portion—Ezekiel 45:10-46:18 MARCH 13. 1942 ADAR 24, 5702 Jewish Postwar Problems Russian War Relief Common danger makes strange bed- fellows, and rarely if ever have there been found a stranger assortment in the same bed than in the case of Russian War Relief. All the opponents of the military police regime called Bolshvism are wrestling with the problem of helping or not help- ing to salvage, rehabilitate, succor and heal the wounded, diseased soldiers and citizens of Russia. It is difficult for the most forgiving to forget the two decades of brutality, purges and degradation of the human spirit that were implicit in Soviet policy and practice. Then, too, the Hitler-Stalin pact of August, 1939, that precipitated the war is still a fresh memory. Besides all this there is the profound fear that a Russian victory in Europe will expose us to the pervasive, poisonous propaganda of Bolshevism. All of this has produced what the psy- chologists call a "mind set." Can we and should we try to change that "mind set" in the face of the present and urgent medical needs of these hard pressed people. We must first answer the questions, are these people responsible for the actions of their government? Did they ever have a vote or a voice in the affairs of their country since the Bolsheviks came to power? To both these questions we ans- wer categorically and emphatically, no. Something can be said in favor of the Bolsheviks in their treatment of the Jews as an ethnic or racial group. True, they treated them with the same ruthlessness as a religious or dissident political group as they treated all religious and dissident political groups. We believe in religious and political freedom and consequently condemn them for their suppression of religious and political dissent. We are not committed to an accept- ance and approval of the Bolshevik creed and philosophy when we join in the Rus- sian War Relief movement. ...Heard in the Lobbies... By DAVID DEUTSCH has beentraveling around mak. PROFIT AND LOSS David Sarnoff's son , Robert, ing Zionist speeches when he had plenty • of opportunities to hasn't been exposing rackets. Sol Rosenblatt has a hard jolt meet his fiancee, Esme O'Brien, .th press James Cromwell's libel as she sat at the reception desk on the sixth floor of the Na- on his hands, having undertaken tional Broadcasting Company, suit against the Communist New working for his father. Wonder 1% hisses with the hope of shuttin e. how the RCA president, a He- it down forever. Rosenblatt, for- brew scholar and deeply con- merly counsel for the National cerned in Jewish problems, w ill De mocratic Committee, and adjust himself to his Catholic Cromwell, former Minister to Canada, have had plenty of past- environment? Eddie Cantor, who used to be ings in the Red weekly. Hats off to Mike Jacobs, who the pride of benefit shows, has started a movement to ban all made possible the navy relief benefits on the ground that the show and now the March 27th war puts too many demands on army relief show by arranging it the actors. He urges artists give all as a gift. Jacobs is now fisti- their own checks to the cause planning a huge carnival of ana at the greatest New York instead of their presence. The first Jewish version of ball grounds to raise a fund for men. Life will be on the stands soon the families of MacArthur's under the title of Now. After BEG PARDON three years of trying, its pub- Alert David Robinson, pa st lisher, Brahams, who put swell president of District Grand picture magazines in Europe, has Lodge No. 4 of Bnai Brith, re- convinced some backers to go me again of the vigorous in for a monthly illustrated re- minds organization which he so ably view of Jews and Jewishness. represents on the West Coast. Louis Lipsky's Eastern Life Commenting on my recent obser- Insurance Company reported that vation that the "civic defense 1941 was the biggest year in agencies in the prewar days its history. The biographers who gave a kosher label to Agfa films are still using the blurb of 20 and cameras," Mr. Robinson years ago that Lipsky is "the writes from Portland, Ore.: "I famed theoretician" of the am in a position to speak for Zionist movement ought to wake ono of the agencies, to wit, Boni up to the fact that he's as skill- Brith, as I am national chair- ful a practical business man as man of Bnai Brith's Boycott the insurance field knows. Committee. Notwithstanding all RABBIS WANTED the representations of, first, The Treasury Department is Agfa Ansco Company, and its interested in rabbis—but not for successor, Genes-al Aniline and income tax this time. It seems Film Company, Bnai Brith, that a special religious press sec- through its Boycott Committee, tion has been formed by the steadfastly refused to accede to defense savings staff of Mr. Mor- the request by these companies genthau's outfit and it is anxious for our approval. My personal to obtain the texts of all ser- investigation convinced me that mons dealing with the war. Nat- notwithstanding all the pressure urally, reference to the purchase which was developed, the bene- of bonds and stamps makes the ficial ownership of the company sermon doubly useful. moment Rabbis was directly and indirectly in who spend a leisure German hands. As a matter of Bnai by investigation . reading this miscellany are asked con- to send the texts of such ser- fact, mons to Mr. Edward Mayle, Re- Brith's Boycott Committee con- Division, Defense tributed materially to the offi- ligious Press ment, 709 — 12th St. N. W., cial government files and records Savings Staff, Treasury Depart- of this company. These investi- gations were not limited to the Washington, D. C. Thanks, fellas. United States but were conduct- f p ethese well. OUR RESPECTS ts weren't facts A word of sympathy to Nata- e d Too Europe lie Sobol, daughter of the Broad- more widely known, for many a way columnist, who was engaged Jewish magazine took ads from to Lieut. Charles Reiter, surgeon Agfa on the express statement on the ill-fated naval ship Trux- by New York civic agencies ton, which was sunk off New- that the outfit was OK. foundland. Miss Sobol is in her MUSICAL NOTES last year at Smith. If Samuel Chotzinoff, NBC The Jewish boy who wrote "White Cliffs of Dover" is reap- commentator and music super- ing a justly due harvest now visor, seems specially proud of that his song has appeared first the Chatham Square Music on the "IIit Parade" five weeks School in New York, it's because in succession. Only 31, too,— of his good friend and brother- married and family, girls. in-law, Jascha Heifetz. The If Tom Dewey gets the nomi- school takes poor kids of the nation in' 1944, as he hopes, a East Side and gives them a mu- right-hand man will be Murray sical chance. Ruvin Ileifetz, the Gurfein, Chief of the Rackets violinist's father, and himself a Bureau in the Manhattan Dis- virtuoso at the strings, is head trict Attorney's office. Gurfein of the school. Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr discusses the Jews after the war in two articles in the New York Nation. He asks Jews and Christians to sup- port more generously the legitimate aspir- ations of the Jews for a Homeland and to preserve and extend the democratic standards of tolerance and of cultural and racial pluralism which allow the Jews lebensraum as a nation among nations. Dr. Neibuhr complains that liberal and rich Jews oppose the idea of a Jewish Homeland and we may add that inter- national, cosmopolite, assimilationist, radi- cal and Messianic Jews also oppose a Jewish Homeland. All this opposition, however, is only academic and unorgan- ized. There are no organizations among Jews that are so definitely committed to opposition to the idea of a Homeland that they have been moved to present any memorial to the British government. The opposition to a Jewish Homeland comes from the Arab world, and should we suc- ceed in achieving a unity of world Jewry in the Homeland question, we would still have to face the fact of Arab opposition. Britain has wrestled with this problem for 25 years and seems as far from a solution as she was when she accepted the • Palestine Mandate. Now let us go further and assume that The Yeshiva Drive the Arab opposition is removed and the Jews have achieved their legitimate aspir- Many of our readers who are completely ations and have a legal Homeland in Pal- absorbed by the practical aspects of the estine. How far will that take us on the war may ask : why a drive at this time for road to a solution of the problem in the the Rabbi 'Isaac Elchanan Theological postwar world. Seminary and Yeshiva College? Let us examine the physical and popu- Some of our people may think this is lation facts. There are still upward of an inopportune time for such a campaign. 10,000,000 Jews in continental Europe in- But is it really? Is any time inopportune cluding the Jews of Russia. There are less for learning and the building of institu- than 750,000 Jews in Palestine and many tions of learning? We say it is most op- of these have come there since the rise of portune for it is proof that there are men National Socialism. In more than half a and women who believe that the brutal- century less Jews have gone to Palestine ities and obscenities of war will pass; than the normal increase of births over that the aggressor militarist states will be deaths among the Jews of continental defeated and that men and women will Europe. And we cannot ascribe the re- return again to the activities of a world at fusal of the Jews of Europe to migrate peace. to Palestine to the opposition of rich and All are agreed that morale is enor- liberal Jews to Zionism, but rather to the fact that the Jews of Europe realize that mously important. What is morale? Mor- the Homeland has a very limited absorp- ale is a belief that there is a bright and promising future despite all the present tive capacity. The only ones who would object to the setbacks and defeats. Those who are conducting this cam- extension of the democratic standards of tolerance and cultural and racial plural- paign have such faith in the future that ism which allow Jews lebensraum as a they are now uniting and planning for it. nation among nations are the assimilation- Such faith is truly heartening. Why do they have this faith? They ists, who are now a negligible minority ; the internationalists, cosmopolites and have it because they know that wars have those who fear that the espousal of any torn humanity asunder for thousands of Jewish cause exposes them to the charge years. In fact there have been 8,000 wars in the last 3,400 years according to recent of dual allegiance. Professor Niebuhr proposes "an inter- researches, and that only in nine years national commission of both Jews and out of every century during these 3,400 Gentiles, Zionists and non-Zionists to ex- has the whole world been at peace. They plore the problem. This is not a problem know that notwithstanding these grim for Jews and Gentiles, Zionists and non- facts men have moved forward steadily Zionists. This is part of the European though painfully. They know that the for- problem and should be on the agenda of ward movement would have been arrested had it not been that men have handed the Peace Conference. And as a doleful postscript we will down from one generation to the next add that if this peace conference fails to their accumulated wisdom, knowledge and bring about a Federated Europe patterned learning. upon the Federated United States of They know that more people have been America, the Jews of Europe as well as destroyed by inner decay; by the decline all other weak nations cannot hope or ex- in learning and the destruction of skills pect to live in peace and security for any than by armed conquest. length of time. "AMONG MY SOUVENIRS . " _ WO'T SA MATTA — WHY DEY NO MENTION BENITO NO MORE ??