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moving. The conglomerate, heavy mass
that is an industrial union will move for-
ward more rapidly when the yeast of
education begins to work.
This Klan demonstration proves again,
if proof is needed, that frustrated, resent-
ful, botched and bungled men can be
organized along bigoted, discriminatory
lines and there are always the racketeers
to take advantage of these human weak-
nesses and short-comings.

PLAIN TALK

by AL SEGAL

•

“Quiet Spot"

I N

A Welcome Truce

TOWN
V to r ( J ) f ( ml • t i s h
o a h
as
Reichert t has opened
Rabbi temple
tumul t
Iiiim•ntailons . full
for the nts
t arer who co m es by Zilch a d
wayf
M r.
oesn't wh•
mind
an ,
The advance of Rommel's army into and vva
o rest and p ray or fun
..casio'n al
E p as brought about a truce between (%)vfant sujeust
l
but
t
e
Itts o resit lori r n ibi l t e moment is it that's a funeral r
a life
the
da . . in and
the
Jews
and
Arabs
in
Palestine.
The
Sabbath Readings of the Law
day
out,
morning,
noon
:.11.1
night.
in th e' wO h and
d
Jews especially Even when Mr. Zilch sir: d
common danger has made them forget,
Pentatenchal portion—Num. 25:10-30:1.
own
may like to step out of it for o a session of gin rummy and
for
the
time
at
least,
their
enmities.
a brief while and sit there with s gratel that at
Prophetical portion--Jer. 1:1-2:3.
la
st
e has
According to the reports the soldiers God who knows all the answers. found a q
spot in J ewihsh life,
JULY 3. 1942
ors
are
o
whether
Arab
or
Jewish,
have
the
special
pe
and
in
the
third
round
ned
TAMMUZ 18. 5702
9 in
t ple's morning a n d u ntil ner begins to lament thc his
temhe
fate part-
of
designation Palestinian on their uniforms. 6 at The
Israel.
p.
m.,
every
day,
whoever
feels
This designation is correct and it may tired of it all and whoever • is
Hillel Buys a Home
there nothing else in Jewish
presage the emergence of a Palestine in troubled and whoever seeks a life Is for
Mr. Zilch but tiik riot,
A
m
otslc;n
n
which
all
the
inhabitants
have
equal
po-
v
this debating society, this crowd-
The
The purchase of a home for the Michi- litical rights, duties and obligations, just
t into front i summons ed bus, this county fair, thi
gam Hillel group at Ann Arbor is an as now the soldiers have the same mill- the passerby to come in for medi- noisy funeral? M r. Zilch is tired s
tation.
1. Zil ch want only peace. Mr. •
important event in Jewish cultural de- tary duties and obligations,
ve opment i n American schools of higher
The invitation is to Jews and Zilch should like to get away
learning.
Realistic people recognize facts, condi- Gentiles alike. The carved inscrip- from it all and be with God
tions
and circumstances and if they are tion under the temple's eaves ap- awhile. what
Hillel is that cultural activity that ap-
e at
propriatel y says
th erinidemother
g
o
hou: "My huse
shall tol
F
d rohnilm h
peals to all Jewish youth; for here there faced with a problem they proceed from be called a
se of pr ayer for
the
known
facts,
conditions
and
circum-
all the people."
God used to have a grea't e t lke a ti
are no class or economic distinctions. stances.
to do with Jewish life, Ills grand-
I hear that people do come mother
Democracy as a philosophy of free and
there to be in solitude with God He was kept
in God in her house.
A fact which cannot be altered by wish- awhile.
equal participation is exemplified by it.
all her speech. She
I should
ful
thinking
and
emotionalism
is
the
fact
guess
that
Jews
was
always
thanking Hint for
Its unusual appeal to the student body
.
are rather glad to find one quiet somethin
g.
that
there
are
hundreds
of
thousands
of
She
place in Jewish life. Jewish life
W88 no loud
at Michigan and scores of other Amer-
in Israel, never joined
Arabs in Palestine who have lived there is too much a debating society, her voice to
ican colleges and universities proves that for
the raucous debate.
many
centuries.
though
my
old
and
widely
known
Judaism
was
God who sat at her
a cultural program soundly conceived
friend, Mr. Zilch, things it's a table and who was at her bed-
Then there is the equally subborn fact great
and attractively presented can attract
deal like a crowded bus. side in the long time she was
Jewish youth . and enlist their support.
that there are 550,000 Jews in Palestine. Whenever
he stops to wonder ill and who was in the sunbeam
what being a Jews is all about that rested on her head when
We congratulate Hillel of Michigan All these men and women are or can be- anyway,
he
things of a crowded
come citizens of that country. If they bus.
upon this achievement.
she sat at her window in the
morning.
should recognize these facts and co-oper- The way Mr. 'Zilch
ilch gets pushed
God had to do with everything
ate for the purpose of building a Palestin-
around this way and that! Mr. of her gentle life—her unfailing
ian state in which the peoples can con- Zilch's head is in a whirl. Mr. kindness, her pity, her resigna-
A Job for the Union
tinue to enjoy their separate and distinct Zilch's feet are tripped from one tion to all the sorrows she had
The Ku Klux Klan was again in the culture and religions; it would not be position to another. One moment suffered, her patience, all the
headlines. This time it was at the Hudson long before they would be recognized aJ he is told he is a member of goodness of her •
r. , fich
nation, the next he is always thought of his gran d
plant where the members of the hooded a people capable of self-government and separate
a
culture
and
a
civilization,
and
mother
as
the
lovliest
manifests-
order showed their prejudice and dis- the mandate status now imposed upon then he is a religion. Or he is tion of Jewish life.
prophet who is told his func-
them would be removed.
crimination against Negro workers.
,
But nowadays nobody is say-
tion i is to he a lumious man of ing much, if anything, about the
This • prospect will not be acceptable to a
The officials of the U. A. W.-C. I. 0.
world; or he is a soldier good Jewish life—the serene life.
were aware of the Klan activities and we zealots who will not be satisfied with any- the
who should be fighting in a Jew- the Godly way, the quiet road
w
w
ish
army;
or he is a statesman by which a man may arrive at
are certain that they did all they could thing short of a Jewish state, but to
ose anifest destiny is in fi a llment
ful of his ch
Julia-
to prevent the Klan organization from those men and women of good will who separate
aracter.
Jewish state. Mr. Zilch ism has come to mean
carrying out its program. In the matter envisage a post war world of a federation
something
know from one minute else altogether—a complex variety
of racial discrimination among union men of Europe and the Near East, the idea of doesn't
to the next where he stand in of things other than the good
the bus. l'f•
the duty and obligation of the Union is a Palestinian state where ikrabs, Je
Sometime Mr. Zilch changes the
clear and the enlightened leaders of or- and Gentiles are free, self-governing citi-
Yes, sick and tired Mr. Zilch
metaphor. Jewish life, he thinks, should be a happy man in the
ganized labor know that they must carry zens, is devoutly desired.
is a great deal like a county quiet spot of Rabbi Reichert's
on a campaign of education if they are to
In any event the truce may bring under- fair
where, instead of cabbages temple where there is no pressu re
eradicate such noisome and shameful or- standing; and understanding may bring and tractors, they try to sell him of ideological sales talk but
only
ganizations as the Klan.
greater tolerance; and more tolerance all kinds of ideas • . . "M r , an invitation to be calm and
Zilch,
be
a
Zionist
and
inherit
The new industrial organization in the may bring a satisfactory settlement of the the promised land" . • . "Come meditate, possibly to consider
Penitently that being a Jew is
automobile industry took in all the men whole, rather difficult situation that has this
way, Mr. Zilch, and be a not just to be an overheated mem-
employed in the plants. Many of these obtained for much too long a time.
non-Zionist and inherit the earth"
• . . "No, Mr. Zilch! Be a labor ber of a debating society.
men had never belonged to a union, but
1' 1 f
Zionist! Mr. Zilch!" . . . "Just . 1
had belonged to all sorts of fraternal,
step
over
this
way,
Mr.
Zilch,
THINK
there
should be q uiet
religious and political organizations. It Bigotry
and be a Mizrachi!"
i spots like this in all communi-
is not surprising that among the hundreds
Mr. Zilch has an awful head- ties of Jewish life to provide
Intelligent men learn from experience. ache.
of thousands of men who make up the
escape for all who can't go along
Bigots
and
fools
never
learn
no
matter
Sometime, too, he thinks of
Union membership that there should be a

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sizeable group of Klan members; inas- how many experiences they have had.
We are constrained to make the above
much as many Detroit workers have come
from the South where the Klan has con- observation by the report that certain
tinued to function if only on a limited Polish officials have been guilty of dis-
scale.
criminating against refugee Jews in Rus-
Only recently the Federal authorities sia in the matter of distribution of clothes
were compelled to issue cease and desist sent by Jews from America.
orders against firms that discriminated
It seems hardly credible that there
against Negros, Jews and foreigners. This are men who are still so activated by their
case of workers discriminating against deep-seated anti-Semitic prejudices, that
workers because of creed only emphasizes they could be guilty of such shameful
the fact that there are still groups of all behavior; and yet the reports come from
kinds who are not educated to the point authentic sources and in the absence of
of acceptance of the thesis that no man denial must be accepted as true
should be denied work opportunity be-
Bigotry is a form of unreasoning hat-
cause of race, creed or color.
red. It is a fixed idea and like other fixed
This painful and often discouraging ideas, can be changed only by a long and
struggle for equality and freedom goes patient course of treatment by competent
on incessantly. The responsibility of the specialists in mental disorders. There are
Union goes beyond fair wages, reasonable not enough specialists to take care of all
hours and humane conditions of employ- the bigots, but fortunately for us most
ment. It must include an educational pro- of our domestic bigots have never been
gram that will enlarge the area of equal- elected to important official positions, and
ity and make it possible for all men, re- all our bigots have not been able to
gardless of color, creed or race, to have change the fundamental laws of the land.
equal work opportunities. When this is It is only when bigotry it translated into
achieved they will still have much to do official decree and action that it becomes
to achieve a still elusive and now rather serious and hurtful. Nazi Germany is the
distant equality; economic equality. case in point. Bigotry was not uncommon
To those who are impatient and irked in Germany before Hitler, but it was in-
by these manifestations of intolerance and nocuous though annoying and unpleasant.
discrimination of workers towards other It became noxious and destructive when
workers, it is well to remember that it it became official and legal.
is but a short time ago that many unions
would not admit Negros to membership. be Let us hope that these Polish bigots will
instantly dismissed by those in auth-
They may be moving slowly but they are ority.

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