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Detroit Jewish Chronicle

and The Legal Chronicle

DETROIT. MICHIGAN. FRIDAY. APRIL 3.

VOL. 44. NO. 14

PM Calls Milton Mayer Article

An "Insult To Americanism"

Treolline` Jewish Welfare Federation
Holds Annual Meeting at Statler

Russian
0 1.171%
Folks Committee

ConfereAce on Sunday,
April 15, at Community
Center, to Discuss Plans

Author Denies His Statement Is Anti-Semitic; Clings
to Long-Held Isolationist Views; Cites Support of
With the presentation of $10,-
Sinclair Lewis; Saturday Evening Post Condemned 000 at the rally held at the

Olympia March 28, the Folks
Committee for Russian War Re-
lief marked the first milestone
in its campaign to attain its
quota of $50,000.
The Folks Committee Cam-
paign is at its height now. One
of its main activities at present
is the presentation of "What
A Life," a musical extravaganza,
starring Molly Picon and a cast
of 35 well known Yiddish ar-
tists. The spectacle will be per-
formed at the Wilson Theater
on the afternoon and evening
of April 19.
The proceeds of the afternoon
performance will be donated to
Russian War Relief. The Folks
Committee asks all Jewish peo-
ple and organizations to help
pack the house so that we will
be able to pack the ships carry-
ing aid to Russia.
The Molly Picon undertaking
and many other plans to raise

NEW YORK (WNS) — The
daily newspaper PM led the
attack this week against Milton
Mayer, assistant to Robert May-
nard Hutchins, ardent isolation-
ist and president of the Uni-
versity of Chicago, for an arti-
cle he wrote appearing in last
week's Saturday Evening Post
which PM called an "insult to
A merican ism."
Referring to Mayer as an
"isolationist and escapist of
long-standing," PM's answer to
011
his attack
Americanism
scored the article as "a glove
slapped across the American
mouth. Its challenge was not
alone to Jew or Gentile—its
challenge was to this country
as a whole, to America and all
Americans."
The newspaper further dis
closed that Milton Mayer is an
intimate friend of the isolation-

His recent article in the Post
asserted that the Jews "know
there is something tentative and
temporary in the nation 'that
we are all Americans now'," and
added that they are afraid that
the collapse which follows every
war "will remind a bitter and
bewildered nation that "Jews
got us into the war."
PM's critical answer took ex-
ception to these statements
pointing out that at the end of
our previous wars "the princi-
ples on which this country was
founded were not weaker but
stronger." Stating that Mayer's
article described America as a
"Gentile country of shopkeep-
ers without morals or . meaning,
competing only for the privilege
of exploiting one another," the
newspaper termed this an insult
to democratic Americans and
affirmed that the strength of
America lies in its diversified funds for Russian War Relief
creeds, races and colors blend- will be acted upon at a confer-
ence to be held at 2 p. m.,
Jacob Margolis, editor of ing into a harmonious unity.
Sunday, April 5, at the Jewish
The Detroit Jewish Chronicle, DENIES ARTICLE IS
Community Center. Professor
discusses, on page 4 of this ANTI-SEMITIC
Meyer Levin of Wayne Uni-
issue, under the heading "The
CHICAGO (WNS)—Milton S. versity will be guest speaker at
the conference. All interested
Case for the Jew," Mr. May- Mayer, the Jewish newspaper
man
and
publicist
whose
article,
er's article which ran recently
See WAR RELIEF—Page 11
"The Case Against the Jews,"
in the Saturday Evening Post.
in last week's issue of the Sat-
urday Evening Post created a
storm of protest, vigorously
ist Hutchins and has been known denied here that he was being
to ghost-write many of his arti- used as a "front" for a Fascist
cles. He has also written arti- movement in the United States
cles for William Benton- vice or that his article contained any
president of the University and anti-Jewish implications.
an ardent isolationist.
Mr. Mayer,. whose article was
an article for the Satur- the third and last in a series
Rabbi Fram" to Speak on
day Evening Post in 1939, en- of essays on what the Saturday
"If Jesus and Prophets
titled "I Think I'll Sit This One Evening Post editors described as
Out," Mayer declared that this the "Jewish question," disclaim-
Were Living Today"
war "will destroy democracy" ed any association with an or-
and "bring no peace," adding ganized movement in this coun-
Temple Israel will hold serv-
that he wasn't "so sure about try and said that his only pur- ices for the Seventh Day of
the democratic tradition in this Lewis? He knows America, he Passover on Wednesday morn-
country." PM pointed out that pose in writing the article was
this helpless attitude towards to sell it.
Fascism resembled strongly the
He added that before send-
position of Hutchins who in July, ing the article to the Saturday
1941 stepped forward as a Evening Post he had asked a
spokesman for the America
See PM—Page 12
First Committee.

Yizkor Services
at Temple Israel

Report Read by Abraham Srere, President; Hear
Professor Shuster; Directors Elected by Affiliates

The Allied Nations must win
four victories, not alone the vic-
tory on the field of battle, to as-
sure lasting success in the pres-
ent war, Dr. George N. Shuster,
president of hunter College, de-
clared Sunday night, speaking
before 400 persons at the 15th
annual meeting of the Jewish
Welfare Federation at the Hotel
Statler.
"The issue is not one of vic-
tory of one nation over another,"

the younger generation, but
there will be if we black out
the whole area of the mind and
opportunity."
He told also of the help being
given by Protestants, Catholics
and Jews, to aid the persecuted,
regardless of their religion, in
Germany and the occupied coun-
tries.

SRERE'S REPORT

Abraham Srere, president of
the Jewish Felfare Federation,
submitted the following report
to the meeting:
"This report may seem a bit
lengthy. I have tried to make it
HS brief as possible, but inas-
much as it touches on an entire
year's activities, I feel obligated
to review some of the essential
developments.
"Sixteen years have passed
since the Jewish Welfare Feder-

ation was organized in Detroit in
1920. Prosperity, depression and

war have marched across the
stage of world events since that
day.
"Today, with our way of life

challenged and the country unit-
ed for the preservation of every-
thing we hold dear as free men,
our time, our energy and mater-
ial resources will be re-dedicated
to the great task before us.
ABE SRERE
"American Jewry must devote
he said. "We are pledged in this all its resources and energies to
fight to preservation of the Ju- our' country's war effort and it
deao-Christian tradition. We must is also our special, sacred task
win if the world is to be a fit to sustain our distressed brethren
place for our children to re- who are the chief sufferers from
tyranny Wherever they are.
side."
"The work of the Joint Dis-
• The four . necessary victories
"Victotk • on the field, tribution Committee, the United
saying, "Cost what it may, it Palestine Appeal, the National
must be won"; victory in the Refugee Service and others has
hearts of youth, the victory of the wholehearted approval and
a better international organiza- endorsement of not only our
tion and the liberation of the government but of all high-
minded Americans.
peoples of the world.
"Similarly, the work of the
Referring to the danger that more than 50 essential local,
youth will lose its "inherent national and overseas services
love for democratic principles" in which depend an us, is part of
the Nation's total mobilization our total effort for democratic
for war, Dr. Shuster said that
"there is nothing wrong with See FEDERATION—Page 10

Young Circle League to
Hold Its 1st Essay Contest

Plans Made For 1942
Allied Jewish Campaign

winners of second places in the
Essays may be submitted in Yiddish and English sections.
either English or Yiddish.
The sponsors may increase the
1. What kind of peace shall announced prizes if the judges

SUBJECTS OF ESSAYS

Full Support to Be Given United Jewish Appeal
For Refugees, Overseas Needs and Palestine; Youth
Group to Hear Marvin Lowenthal

Asserting that total humani-
tarian effort must be made part
of our total war effort, Fred M.
Butzel, chairman of the 1942
Allied Jewish Campaign, an-
nounced that plans have been
drawn up for the launching of
the drive to give the fullest
support to the United Jewish
Appeal for Refugees, Overseas
Needs and Palestine as a means
of aiding Jewish victims of war
and hate in overseas lands,
strengthening the defenses of
Palestine as a democratic bas-
tion in the Middle East and
helping refugees in the United
States undertake their demo-
cratic responsibilities in behalf
of the country which has given
them haven.
Mr. Butzel, on his return to
the city this week, pointed out
that the local Jewish commun-
ity was preparing for an inten-
sive drive in behalf of the Unit-
ed Jewish Appeal and 50 addi-
tional local, national and over-
seas services, as an added con-
tribution to the cuse of democ-
racy, over and above its par-
ticipation in other activities de-
signed to further the successful
nrosecution of the war. The
United Jewish Appeal was the
fund-raising agency for the
Joint Distribution Committee,
United Palestine Appeal and Na-
tional Refugee Service, the three
major American organizations
which have rescued hundreds of
thousands of victims of Hitler-

10c Single Copy: $3.00 Per Yea

1942

there be after the war?
2. My creed, as a Jew, in the
present crisis.
3. Who is the greatest living

ism since the beginning if the
Nazi regime in 1933.
Declaring that since the out-

person, and why?

find that the essays are of a
-quality deserving such added
award.

JUDGES

Yiddish Section : Joseph Bern-
stein, Detroit Manager Jewish
Jewish boys and girls who Daily Forward; Chaim Radin,
have reached their 14th birth- Teacher, W. C. Schools; Dr.
date and those who have not Shmarya Kleinman.
English Section : Solomon W.
passed their 18th.
To be considered, your essay S c h k l o v e n, Attorney-at-Law ;
shall be written or typed on any Louis Rosenweig, Attorney-at-
ordinary composition size paper, Law; Aaron Gornbein, Teacher,
must be on one of the announced Detroit Public Schools.
subjects above in either Yiddish

RULES OF THE CONTEST

RABBI LEON FRAM

MARVIN LOEWENTHAL

break of the war in September,
1939, the agencies represented
in the United Jewish Appeal
have been confronted with an
ever-expanding theater of Jew-
ish suffering and need. Mr. But-
zel stressed the fact that Amer-
ica's entry into the war has
imposed upon the Joint Distri-

See CAMPAIGN—Page 16

ing, April 8, at 10:30, in the
Lecture Hall of the Detroit In-
stitute of Arts. In accordance
with the new reform ritual,
Rabbi Fram will lead the con-
gregation in the Yizkor or the
English. It shall be not less
Memorial Service. He will or
than one thousand words. Neat-
preach on the subject, "The ness
and legibility will be con-
Song of Songs of Solomon."
sidered important.
"If the Prophets and Jesus
The essay must be placed in
were Living on Earth Today, a sealed envelope and addressed
What Would They Say About to "Young Circle League Essay
Our Contemporary Personal and Contest, c/o W. C. Educational
World Problems?" will be the Center, 11529 Linwood Ave.,
subject of Rabbi Leon Fram's Detroit.
sermon Friday night, April 10
Your name and address must
at 8 :30 in the Lecture Hall of be in the upper right hand cor-
the Detroit Institute of Art; ner of each sheet of paper with
This is the second in a series the date of birth.
of sermons which Rabbi Fram
Your entry must reach us no
is delivering under the general later than May 20, 1942.
title, "If They Were Living To-
You must attach a last sheet
day, What Would They Say?" indicating bibliography and sour-
The third in the series will be ces of your material. You are
on the subject, "What Would free to use the W. C. Library
Confucius Say?"
for reference purposes.
Young men of Detroit,'s or- PRIZES
will
be
the
der of De Molay
Two First Prizes: $10.00 in
special guests of Temple Israel Defense Stamps to each of the
at the Friday night service winners of first places in the
April 10. The Sisterhood of Yiddish and English sections.
Temple Israel will be their host-
Two Second Prizes : $5.00 in
Defense Stamps to each of the
See FRAM—Page 12

Rosenwald Post
To Hold Dance

Regular Legion Meeting
Changed on Account
Of Passover

The Julius Rosenwald Post,
No. 218 of the American Le-
gion, will sponsor its 11th an-
nual Past Commanders dinner-
dance at Saks Cafe, Woodward
Ave., on Wednesday, April 22.
Past Commander, Myer Water-
stone, who is arranging details
for this function, will receive all
reservations, and he may be
reached at 3816 Fullerton, or
phoning Northlawn 6849. Saks
Cafe will furnish their current

See RONNWALD—Page 12