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July

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.

19 4 2

PLAIN TALK

by AL SEGAL

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"Quiet Spot"

N OUR TOWN Rabbi Victor Jewish life as a big fu
n ,.. ,! f„,
I Reichert has opened his temple of a tumult of lamenta
ti, ' :- Nir,
for the wayfarer who comes by Zilch doesn't mind an oe, ,,,,,,, "'
The advance of Rommel's army into and wants to rest and pray or funeral but what sort of i life a '
Egypt has brought about a truce between wants just to rest in a moment is it that's a funeral da ■
the Jews and Arabs in Palestine. The of peace. It's a horrible bedlam day out, morning, noon and in and
Sabbath Readings of the Law
night.
in the world and Jews especially Even when Mr. Zilch sit, down
common danger has made them forget, may
like to step out of it for to a session of gin rumens and
Pentatenchal portion—Num. 25:10-30:1.
for the time at least, their enmities.
while
a brief
and sit there with and in h
Prophetical portion--Jer. 1:1-2:3.
at last
as tl
hi, is , ii:l
l I l i as .
h
According to the reports the soldiers God who knows all the answers. u.ndegainqs
uiet tolament
spot inthe
ewi:fililtelifocr,
n the third
.
The temple's doors are opened
grateful
round
JULY 3. 1942
whether
Arab
or
Jewish,
have
the
special
TAMMUZ 18. 5702
in the morning and until nee
designation Palestinian on their uniforms. at P. 9 m.,
every day, whoever feels Israel
This designation is correct and it may 6 tired
of it all and whoever is
Is there nothing else in J '
i
Hillel Buys a Home
presage the emergence of a Palestine in troubled and whoever seeks a life fm Mr. Zilch but this Jewish
riot,
quiet moment to think is in- this .s debating society, this crowd-
which
all
the
inhabitants
have
equal
po-
The purchase of a home for the Michi- litical rights, duties and obligations, just vited. A sign in front summons eel ous, this , county fair, this
gan Hillel group at Ann Arbor is an as
the passerby to come in for medi- noisy funeral Mr. Zilch is tired.
the soldiers have the same mili- tation.
Mr. Zilch want only peace. Mr.
important event in Jewish cultural de- tary now
duties and obligations.
like be
to with
get away
The invitation is to Jews and Zilch
from should
it all and
God
velopment in American schools of higher
Realistic people recognize facts, condi- Gentiles alike. The carved inscri p- awhile.
learning.
tion under the temple's eaves ap-
Hillel is that cultural activity that ap- tions and circumstances and if they are propriately says: "My house shall From what his grandmother
faced
with
a
problem
they
proceed
from
be called a house of prayer for told him he gets the idea that
peals to all Jewish youth; for here there
the known facts, conditions and circum- all the people."
God used to have a great deal
are no class or economic distinctions. stances.
to do with Jewish life. His grand-
Democracy as a philosophy of free and
I hear that people do come mother kept God in her house.
, there to be in solitude with God 1 n all her speech. She
A fact which cannot be altered by
equal participation is exemplified by it. ful thinking and emotionalism is the iv is h - awhile. I should guess that Jews was always thanking Him for
are rather glad to find one quiet something. She was no loud
Its unusual appeal to the student body that there are hundreds of thousands f act
o
at Michigan and scores of other Amer- Arabs in Palestine who have lived th f place in Jewish life. Jewish life speaker in Israel, never joined
ere is too much a debating society, her voice to the raucous debate.
ican colleges and universities proves that for 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 f act 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 Palesti ne. Whenever he stops to wonder ill and who was in the sunbeam
what being a Jews is all about
All
these
men
and
women
are
or
can
be-
that rested on her head when
We congratulate Hillel of Michigan
he things of a crowded she sat at her window in the
come citizens of that country. If th ey anyway,
upon this achievement.
bus.
should recognize these facts and co-op er- The way Mr. Zilch gets pushed morning.
God had to do with everything
ate for the purpose of building a Palest in-
this way and that! Mr. of her gentle life—her unfailing
ian state in which the peoples can c on around
A Job for the Union
Zilch's head is in a whirl. Mr. kindness, her pity, her resigna-
tinue to enjoy their separate and disti net 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
is told he is a member of goodness of her life. Mr. Zilch
headlines. This time it was at the Hudson long before they would be recognized as
nation, the next he is always thought of his grand
plant where the members of the hooded a people capable of self-government and a separate
culture and a civilization, and mother as the lovliest manifesta-
order showed their prejudice and dis- the mandate status now imposed upon then he is a religion. Or he is tion of Jewish life.
a prophet who is told his func-
them would be removed.
crimination against Negro workers.
But nowadays nobody is say-
tion is to he a lumious man of ing much, if anything, about the
This .prospect will not be acceptable to the
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- who should be fighting in a Jew- the Godly way, the quiet road
are certain that they did all they could thing short of a Jewish state, but to ish army; or he is a statesman by which a man may arrive at
whose manifest destiny is in a fulfillment of his character. Juda-
to prevent the Klan organization from those men and women of good will who se
mrat J '.11 state.
1. Zilch
Z ch has come to mean something
carrying out its program. In the matter envisage a post war world of a federati on doesn't know from one . minute
else altogether—a complex variety
of racial discrimination among union men of Europe and the Near East, the idea „, to the next where he stand in
of things other than the good
u l the bus.
the duty and obligation of the Union is a Palestinian state where Arabs, Jew s
life.
Sometime Mr. Zilch changes the
clear and the enlightened leaders of or- and Gentiles are free, self-governing cit
Yes, sick and tired Mr. Zilch
i- metaphor. Jewish life, he thinks, should be a happy man in
ganized labor know that they must carry zens, is devoutly desired.
the
is a great deal like a county quiet
to
spot of Rabbi Reichert's
on a campaign of education if they are to
In any event the truce may bring unde r- fair where, instead of cabbages
where there is no pressure
eradicate such noisome and shameful or- standing; and understanding may brin and tractors, they try to sell him of ideological
sales talk but only
g
all kinds of ideas . . . om r , an invitation to be calm and
ganizations as the Klan.
greater tolerance; and more tolerant e Zilch,
be a Zionist and inherit meditate, possibly to consider
The new industrial organization in the may bring a satisfactory settlement of th the promised
land" . . . "Come Penitently that being a Jew is
automobile industry took in all the men whole, rather difficult situation that ha e this
way, Mr. Zilch, and be a not just to be an overheated nun-
non-Zionist
employed in the plants. Many of these obtained for much too long a time.
non-Zionist and inherit the earth" l'e'i' of a debating society.
• . . "No, Mr. Zilch! Be a labor
men had never belonged to a union, but
I I I
Zionist! Mr. Zilch!" . .
"Just
had belonged to all sorts of fraternal,
step
over
this
way,
Mr..
Zilch,
I
1 THINK there should be quiet
religious and political organizations. It Bigotry
and be a Mizrachi!" spots like this in all communi-
-
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is not surprising that among the hundreds
ache.
Mr. Zilch has an awful head- ties of Jewish life to provide
Intelligent men learn from experience.
escape for all who can't go along
of thousands of men who make up the Bigots and fools never learn no matter
Sometime, too, he thinks of
Union membership that there should be a how many experiences they have had.
See SEGAL—Page 9

A Welcome Truce

sizeable group of Klan members; inas-
We are constrained to make the above
much as many Detroit workers have come
from the South where the Klan has con- obser , t' n by the report that certain
l ao
l
have
timed to function if only on a limited Polis . hofficial
ave 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 '
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
Let us hope that these Polish bigots will
would not admit Negros to membership.
instantly dismissed by those in auth-
They may be moving slowly but they are be
ority.

THE MODERN MINUTE MAN

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