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Detroit
Jewish Chronicle
and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE

"ublished Weekly by Jewish Chronicle Publishing Co., Inc
Entered as Second-class matter March 3, 1916, at the Post-
office at Detroit, Mich., under the Act of March 3, 1879.

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle

We fervently hope that the Jews will
not be the goats in the post-war world, • ■ •
but will enjojy equality and freedom with
■
all the other citizens of their native
lands.

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The Sound Approach

Ac,

S TRICT LY CONFIDENTIt• L•

by Phineas J. Biron

1942

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WAR ECHOES
offered to write for tho , ii
reply
. :
Observers agree that the Suez to DIt,olli.lton Mayer's "Ca, Against
Telephone: CAdillac 1040
Cable Address: Chronicle
the
Jews".
Canal
area
will
be
a
hot
spot
Subscription in Advance
$3.00 Per Year
Chief Rabbi Hertz of England in a before long, because of the Nazis
Nazis'
othy S. Backer, gr.,•1Idaugh.
JACOB MARGOLIS
BBC
broadcast urged the reschooling of need to push through to the ter of Jacob Schiff, Wfit , ha s su,
Publisher-Editor
Mosul oil pipeline . . . So what s'ee'ded her husband, (,, , rge
MAURICE M. SAF1R....Advertising Manager
the German people and punishment of is
published
of Jewish
being done about
that
',.
the New
the
blood-stained
leaders
who
are
respon-
s taking her duties sari, Y, rk Posat,
Bible
has
been
dusted
off
by
-
;sl y
To insure publication, all correspondence and news matter
sible for the greatest catastrophe in hu- important factor in modern war- Not only does she actin, ' y direct
must reach this office by Tuesday evening of each week.
fare and defense, can be expected the Post, but she even i' ids time
man history. He said in part:
When mailing notices, kindly use one side of paper only.
reach new heights of effective- to help out the i•eporter, on regu.
"Wholesale condemnation of any race, to
ness now . . . A number of lar assignments.
The Detroit Jewish Chronicle invites correspondence on sub-
of any people, is inconsistent with Broadway's most noted scenic de- William B. Ziff's new 1..,k 'The
sects of interest to the Jewish people, but disclaims respon-
.
a rational approach to the great human signers, including our friends Jo Coming Battle of Germane' will
sibility for an endorsement of views expressed by its writers.
is the
. . /,i1
.
problem of how to deal with the enemy Mielziner, Mordecai Gorelick and be a best seller
Harry Horner, have organized the author of The Rape ■ , 1 Pales.
Sabbath Readings of the Law
peoples that will face us after the war. Camouflage
Society of Professional tine," published a few sea His ago,
Pentateuchal portion: Lev. 12.1-15.33—Num. It is true we cannot in justice condone Stage Designers, and are offering SIGNS
of THE Times
28.9-15.
the stubborn inhumanities of the Nazis, their talents to Uncle Sam.
When
Maurice Schwart z was in
Prophetical portion: Is. 66.1-24.
To
Soviet
Information
Commis-
or the unspeakable cruelties of the Japa-
Miami en route to South Amer.
S. that
A. Lozovsky
credited
an kitreports Harry Herslitiphi, the
APRIL 7. 1942
NISAN 30, 5702 nese in Hong Kong. But punishment sar
idea
brought is
quite
a few
was quite worried aliwit some
must be confined to the blood-stained German deserters into the Russian m FH'I
ad was
ous-loo manus;.ript s
leaders who conceived and the dehuman- camp during the winter . . . It h y in steriking
his
he
baggage
seems
that
one
exception
was
Goebbels Failed
a ' until Schw
ized agent who carried out these devilish
made in the Russian scorched- got a local rabbi to certify that
When the Nazis marched into Russia schemes. The argument that, for exam- earth policy—all the cabbages in they were not coded military sec.
on June 22, 1941, the fear of fifth col- ple, millions of German nationals have evacuated territory were left in ic;ts, but the scripts of th e, yid.
the ground . .. And inside each ( sh plays with which he was
umn activities and anti-Semitic outbreaks long approved these doings of their rulers cabbage
was a slip of paper planning to entertain Jewish au-
does
not
jujstify
vengeance
upon
the
en-
in Poland and the Ukraine was real.
'printed
in
German, telling of the , chances in the Good Neighbor
Happily, the pogroms, planned and tire German nation."
fine food awaiting those who would hinds "
Rabbi Hertz approaches the problem leave the Nazi army and enter Inventive Eddie Cantor has
promised by Joseph Goebbels, did not
found a novel way of raising funds
of
the treatment of the German people the Russian lines.
materialize. Why did they not? That is
for his camp, where kids from
THE WAR EFFORT
with
the
reasonableness
and
understand-
a very- intriguing question and its correct
his native East Side have a chance
We hope that as you spring- to catch a little fresh air in the
answer may be of great value to Jews ing of another Britisher, Edmund Burke, houseclean
this year you'll keep in summer . . . Instead of giving
in the defeated countries when peace whose immortal phrase has always ap- mind
Conservation the usual benefit show, he is this
pealed to thinking men, "You cannot in- Chief Industrial
comes.
Lessing T. Rosenwald's re- year asking his friends to send
dict a whole nation".
quest to keep discarded metal and him checks for the privilege of
Poland and the Ukraine were notori-
not
There is yet another compelling rea- rubber items out of the ash heap, going to see a performance that
ously and infamously anti-Semitic in
turning them over, instead, to your is not being given for the camp.
Czarist days. Poland continued her anti- son why such opinions as those voiced local salvage agency.
And Mrs. Mortimer Lehman, WEkKu GIGGLE
Semitic and discriminatory policy under by the chief rabbi should be widely dis- director
We must pass on to you this
of the voluntary work-
seminated
and
special
efforts
made
to
the republic, while the Soviets made anti-
shops of the American Women's story, which Leonard Lyons insists
see
that
they
are
heard
by
the
German
Semitim a crime with the consequence
Voluntary Services, has found a comes straight from Vichy . . . It
that whatever anti-Semitism may have people. For, according to all reports corn- use for that most useless of all seems that a Freanch statesman
your worn-out hose . . . woke up one morning with a bad
existed was entirely personal, innocuous ing out of Germany, there is great war things,
The New York AWVS has acquir- case of indigestion . • . Discover-
weariness
and
much
grumbling
among
and• unofficial.
ed a loom on which stockings, trig that the nearest doctor was
We must, however, bear in mind that those who produce the war materials after being cut into narrow strips, an Englishman, while the nearest
needed
by
Hitler's
armies
to
carry
on
the
can be woven into coverlets and Nazi doctor was many blocks
although there were no anti-Semitic man-
for military or civilian away, he called in the Britisher
ifestations in the Ukraine after the an- war. If these war weary, grumbling peo- blankets
welfare use . . . . . . And in due time the patient
ple
should
begin
to
believe
that
the
nihilation of the Petlura and Denikin
Add to your long list of com- recovered . . . But when he re-
United Nations do not intend to wreak mittees
for anti-Fascist action, the turned to his ministry he discov-
armies, yet the Ukrainian Separatists their
upon them, they will Loyalty Committee, which is ap- ered that the Gestapo had been
were considered as definitely anti-Soviet, cease vengeance
to believe Joe Goebbels' propa- pealing to refugees from Fas- watching his every move, and had
anti-Semitic, waiting only for an oppor-
ganda
that a worse fate awaits them if cism and Nazism to chip in to a reported the incident to Berlin
tunity to proclaim their independence.
to be used for purchasing a . . . And Nazi representatives
they are defeated, than ever befell any fund
fighter plane for the United entered a protest with the Vichy
Under conditions such as these one people
in
the
history
of
civilization.
States
Army.
government about this flagrant in-
could have reasonably expected the
sult to Nazi medicine . . . Hitler's
To
undermine
the
will
to
work
of
the
READER'S
GUIDE
openly anti-Semitic Poles and the clan-
workers is important and neces-
Recommended reading is Pierre Pet'n'Darlan had the culprit on
destinely anti-Semitic Ukrainian Separa- German
van Paassen's article in the cur- the carpet, and pointed out to
sary
if
the
war
is
to
be
ended
soon
and
tists to take advantage of the golden op- the aggressors defeated.
rent Redbook Magazine, in which him how he had harmed the noble
he tells of some additional "pro- cause of collaboration . • . Deeply
portunity offered by azi "liberation" and
•
phecies" by Hitler's Jewish sooth- distressed, the statesman thought
reenact the Petlura and Denikin pogroms
sayer,
Eric Jan Hanussen, which and thought and thought and
A Free Press
on an even more grandiose scale. But
have recently come to light . . . thought, trying to find a way out
nothing like this has happened. The Poles A bill is now being discussed by Jus- Our scouts tell us that since this of the dilemma . . . At last he
a solution, and joyfully an-
and the Ukrainians have not become tice and War Departments that would article •appeared many a family found
nounced to his frowning superiors
readers
hastening
to
check
up
Quislings. They refuse to play the Nazi end all foreign language periodicals. on the Book of Daniel, on which that everything would be okay
game. In many cases, even at the risk of The proponents of this bill are no doubt Hanussen based his last predic- now . . . "I'll just call the Nazi
in to treat me," he ,:aid
summary execution, threat of concentra- motivated by the sincerest patriotic feel- tion, made when the storm doctor
... But you don't need a doctor
tion camps, deprivation of food and de- ings. They believe that the pro-Axis sym- troopers were already hot on his now . . . Your indigestion is
portation, they have cooperated with pathizers can carry on their subversive trail.
cured," Hitler's Pet'n'Darlan chor-
Wendell Willkie was turn- used . . . "That's true," conceded
their fellow-Jewish sufferers. activities more effectively by using their ed Even
down by the editors of the the diplomat, "but now I hay( a
Why has the Nazi propaganda of native language than if they are com- Saturday Evening Post when he terrific headache."

General Offices and Publication Bldg.. 525 Woodward Ave.

blaming the Jews for the war and its pelled to use English. In this we think
attendant miseries and obscenities not they are mistaken.
been effective? It has not been effective
Pro-Axis sympathizers are interested
because the conquered peoples now know in reaching the vast masses of English
that the Jews of their countries are not readers. They cannot do this unless their
the authors of their woes and suffering, propaganda is printed in the language
and are not responsible for the war. In that can be read and understood by those
this connection Lincoln's apt description intended to•be reached. Consequently, to
of the people comes to mind: "You can print in German or Italian or even in the
fool some of the people all of the time, language of the satellite states would
and all of the people some of the time ; not achieve the desired results.
but you cannot fool all of the people all
Then there has been the hue and cry
of the time." The people may not always that many of our citizens should have
understand clearly why they do certain learned to read English, and their failure
things, or why they react in certain ways, to do so should deprive them of period-
but on the whole, when permitted to for- ical reading matter. In this connection
mulate their own judgments and make one should bear in mind that millions of
their own decisions, one may be fairly our citizens emigrated when they were
certain that their judgments and deci- fully grown and, with the most earnest
sions will be sound, reasonable and hu- and diligent effort, have been unable to
mane.
learn English well enough to appreciate
The Poles and Ukrainians knew that and understand the language of their
the Jews were not responsible for the adopted country as well as that of their
war; they experienced the same ruthless mother land. 'These men and women are
brutality at the hands of the Nazis as as patriotic as any of our native-born
did the Jews. They felt or knew that the English-reading citizens, and it would not
word of the Nazis was worthless and be fair to per,lize them for their lack
that any favors shown them was the of capacity.
price of betrayal and, consequently, they
We should also do well to remember
refused to do the dirty work which Quis- that the subversive newspapers and pe-
lings are ever ready to perform for their riodicals are not issued, edited and pub-
masters.
lished by non-English writing editors and
This time the clever and subtle propa- publishers but by those who have expert
ganda to make of the Jew the scapegoat knowledge of the entire English vocabu-
missed fire. Even Joseph Goebbels could lary of subversion and anti-Americanism.
not make a scapegoat out of the Jew The Pelleys, Christians, Hudsons, Dil-
without first having a goat on which to lings, Coughlins, et al, are not Axis na-
load all the crimes, failures and frusta- tionals. They do not use German, Italian
tions of an unhappy people. or Japanese in their periodicals.

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TREASURE HUNT FOR METAL

A new
has been taken on by
Iccal Boy Scouts who have begun
collecting empty brass razor blade
cartridges. In order to help con-
serve this metal, men are being
urged to save the cartridges which
encase Schick Injector razor blades.
Users of these blades are asked to
notify local Boy Scout Headquar-
ters when they have empty blade
cartridges. A Boy Scout will be

glad to call and pick them u2.

This move, according to C .
Schick Injector Razor Company,
expected to conserve a consider-

able amount of metaL
the amount of brass used in eac:i
razor blade cartridge is not much,
the total which the Scouts should
be able to collect is e::::ected to
make very real saving3 in th::

commodity,

