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The Detroit Jewish Chronicle and the Legal Chronicle, 1942-03-27

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27.

1942

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle

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PLAIN TALK

BOY MEETS GIRL

By AL SEGAL

In the Jewish Post of Indian-
apolis I find one of those small-
er items of human affairs that
historians like to pick up long
later and to reconstruct there-
with something of former life.
I should guess that in the year
2042 the historian may discover
more illuminating revelations in
this brief line of Jewish life
i most of the speeches that
than in
•i•c currently being uttered by
our leaders.
The Indianapolis item has to
do with a debate between young
people at a Jewish center in
Indiana polls: "Resolved, that
Jewish girls should go out with
non-Jewish boys and vice versa."
The historian may say, yes,
here at last is something—a clear
revelation of Jewish life in the
year 1942: Jewish life timidly
uncertain of its place in the
world. Jewish life still feeling
the obcession of ghetto walls
that were torn down long ago.
Jewish life with one side of its
heart eager for brotherhood and
the other feeling inhibited by
sep:iratistic tradition. Jewish life
valiantly thinking of survival and
not being sure of the best way.
The historian may sigh, if ob-
jective historians allow them-
selves to indulge in anything so
emotional as a sigh : "These be-
wildered children, just starting
out, and not knowing which way
to go. Wandering children who
very early take up the twisting
eternal road to find the way out.
Young shoulders having to take
up the everlasting Jewish prob
lem of survival."
If he is a thorough historian
he will search even farther.
What, he may inquire, did the
voices of Jewish opinion say
about this problem? His quest
may bring him to this column
and I must not disappoint him.
Besides, it is to be guessed that
many of the contemporary read-
ers expect me to say something
about it that will leave no doubt
where I stand.
* • a
The best way to do this is to
pretend being young again. Yes,
Alfred Segal has achieved the
wish he had nurtured ever since
the melancholy day he passed
the age of 40. On that day he
felt he had passed over to the
yonder side of life where the
shadows gather and winter comes
and frost gathers around the
corners of a man's ears.
From that clay on Mr. Segal
frequently made the wish:"I
wish: 'I wish I was young again.'
. . . 'I wish I had another
chance' . . . 'I wish I could catch
again the June day when I fell
in love' . . . 'I wish I was 18'."
One day this wish came true.
I shall not go into the meta-
physical details of the process
by which Mr. Segal reverted to
the age of 18 but there he was,
18 yPars old again.
He was back in school and
Jennie Culbertson was there too.
Jennie Culbertson! He remem-
bered her well from the former
time he was young. Loveliest of
all the girls! He could have
hanged himself on one of the
golden ringlets that clustered at
her neck, and rejoiced in this
happy death.
"Jennie!"
She remembered him . . •
"You're Alfred Segal."
That's how it began. There
was the occasion of the Junior
Prom. Segal simply said, "Jen-
nie, I should like to take you
to the party," and she replied,
"O.K."
It was a gorgeous evening for
in-
cident. Segal, except for an n-
cident. It kept coming back all
evening, like small dark clouds
skimming across the face of the
sun on a summer day.
It was something he heard
Jennie's !Pother saywhile he
was waiting for Jennie in their
living room. She was upstairs
but Segal distinctly heard her.
"But, Jennie, he looks i Jew-
ish to me." She said t re-
proachfully as if she had caught
Jennie going to the prom with
a smudge on her nose.
plie"d11.Iother, hush!" Jennie re-

Young Segal was falling in
love with Jennie Culbertson.
That's what often comes from
going out with a girl. It was
complicated by the fact that
Segal in his• previous life had

To Hold Bridge Parties
For Children's Home

Members
of
the
Detroit
League of the National Home
for Jewish Children at Denver
are busy with plans for the
League's
annual
simultaneous
bridge and mah jong parties
which are to be held in the
homes of members and friends
on Wednesday, May 20.
The home maintains its own
dental and medical clinic where
the children are watched very
carefully; it provides training in
the arts and crafts; and espe-
cially gifted children are not
overlooked. There are approxi-
mately 135 children at the
home at present, in addition to
a
large number of refugee
children.
Due to conditions, Mrs. Daniel
Siegel, president, advises that
this year the Detroit League will
eliminate its usual introductory
play, inasmuch as the majority
of its membership is devoting
most of its time to civilian de-
fense and Red Cross activities.
Mrs. Moe B. Berkman has
been appointed general chair-
man of this project, with the
following committee heads: Tick-
et committee, Mrs. Louis Zurns
and Mrs. Harry Solomon; host-
ess committee, Mrs. Phil Green-
wald, Mrs. Milton Mahler and
Mrs. Joe Newman; guest com-
mittee, Mrs. Charles Agree, Mrs.
Edward Schlussel and Mrs. Irv-
ing Smith; arrangements com-
mittee, Mrs. Moe Leiter, Mrs.
Barney Barnett and Mrs. Sidney
Sherman.

been a columnist for the Jewish
press; his mind was haunted by
the columnar habit of his old
life which taught him to make
a difficult Jewish problem prac-
tically out of every fact of life.
It is a dreadful situation to
have been a Jewish columnist
and to be in love with a girl
like Jennie Culbertson. He took
up the matter objectively as was
his practice with most matters
when he was writing columns.
He addressed himself as if Segal
were another person altogether.
"Segal," he said, "you can't
let things go much farther—
you're going out with Jennie
Culbertson. I agree with every-
thing that you think about Jen-
nie Culbertson. Her loveliness.
Her intelligence. Her luminous
spirit. And I grant that love
should transcend all the limita-
tions of race and creed. But I
am thinking of the kind of world
we are living in, my dear Segal.
It is horribly sad that in this
world a fine young man like you
has to consider differences of
race and creed before allowing
himself to fall completely in love
with a fine young woman like
Miss Culbertson. But that's the
way the world is and we can't
do anything to make it over.
"Yes, Segal, in such a world
it is made perilous for a Jew-
ish young man even to go out
with a non-Jewish young woman,
lest he fall in love with her.
That's the way it is . . . No,
don't let yourself fall deeper
into love. I am thinking of the
conflicts.
"You remember Jennie's moth-
er saying, 'he looks Jewish to
me,' as if being Jewish were
something fatally against you.
And your own parents, Segal!
Their traditions.
Their proud
prejudices. They'll be pulling
you one way and Jennie's moth-
er will be pulling her the other
way. No, this can't go on—for
Jennie's sake.
"For the sake of your love
for Jennie Culbertson you must
dismiss her from your heart—
a complete sacrifice for love.
You must spare her from these
conflicts."
Did young Segal, love-smitten,
ask Jennie Culbertson to marry
him, anyway? I can't be sure,
one way or the other, for who
knows the ways of eager, young
love? It is like the swift, fitful
humming bird among the flow-
ers. I leave it to the readers to
finish young Segal's love story.
a
Having read this column, the
historian probably will end up
saying, well, after all, being a
Jew in 1942 was just about the
same as it is in . 2042. Same
problems, same conflicts, same
bewilderments, same going 'round
and 'round on a, road that curves
like a question mark. Forever!

1

Ladies' Auxiliary 135
To Hold Bingo Party

1

Szold has written throughout
her long life. It contains ma-
terial gleaned from letters which
Mrs. Ehrlich herself has received.
Hadassah Drama Group will
present a program arranged un-
der the chairmanship of Mrs.

Detroit Ladies Auxiliary No.
135 of the Jewish War Veter-
ans of the U.S. are planning a
bingo party Wednesday, April
22, at Bnai Moshe, Dexter Cen- Joseph Jackier, with direction
ter, Dexter and Laurence. Pro- by Mrs. Sidney Winer.
ceeds of this advent to be used
to help. purchase six Cobia pur-
suit planes, pledged by the Na-
tional Jewish War Veterans of
the U.S. to the Government.
A Joyous Pesach to All!
The Auxiliary is collecting
books, radios and victrolas for
the boys in camps and hospitals.
Anyone wishing to donate any
HAUPERT
of these articles please contact
Mrs. Henrietta Niman, 1977
Plumbing Supply
Elmhurst, To. 5-4958.

Will Review Book

Mrs. Joseph II. Ehrlich, life-
long friend and confidant of
Miss Henrietta Szold, will re-
view Marvin Lowenthal's new
book, "Life and Letters if Hen-
rietta Szold," at a meeting of
the Detroit Chapter of Hadas-
sah at Hotel Stutter, Tuesday
afternoon, April 14, at 2 o'clock.
The book, which is just off the
press, is a compilation of the
beautiful letters which Miss

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