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D3troit Jewish Chronicle

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social concept of this kind should have
and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE
produced the Germany of the last nine
Published Weekly
years.
by Jewish Chronicle Publishing Co., Inc.
JACOB H. SCHAKNE
On the other hand Britain has had and
President
JACOB MARGOLIS.
now has a civil state. Despite the pre-war
Publisher•Editor
economic and social problems that faced
MAURICE M. SAFIR....Advertisin g Manager
by AL SEGAL
Britain there were but few who advo-
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a
police
military
state
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a
means
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pation in political matters. Religious and
R. SEGAL drew voluminous, Sevastopol? the
social disabilities were removed enabling
c ouldn't " ,t
The Detroit Jewish
fragrant clouds out of his thing about that.
Chronicle invites correspondence on sub-
He h a d ay
jects of
all men and women to become members pip e. He looked almost volcanic receives!
interest to the Jewish people, but disclaims respon.
his occupatioh question.
JUst
ng
i
v
room
sibility for an endorsement of views expressed by its writers
of the Commons. The development was as he sat in his li
from
d raft
ing
Out
vapors.
He
k.ard
(he
always does had registered ill
evolutionary and sound. And now when
the .1.- ■ •6,-, b
Entered as Second-class matter March 3, 1916, at the
wrap himself in smoke when giv-
he nall'ut.'
ket) and
Post-
there wasn't even
office at Detroit, Mich., under the Act of March 3, 1879. a crisis Occurs Britons continue to act in is feeling solemn or when sonic I s ‘ s . c:t e stit
i i(s)ti call liste
tist ) i
d liu n miiitistisha one
accordance with long established and other emotion intrudes upon Se the
Sis any
1 : r. •
g al was
g ood
Sabbath Readings of the Law
ood for, u in
time-proved procedures of free, illuminat- even tenor of Isis life.
no
ere
Pentisteuchal portion.—Num. 30:2-36:13.
in this
ing, sharp debate; taking to task the
When
he
gets
angry
he
lets
war.
Prophetical portion—Jeremiah 2:4-28; 3:4.
head man of the government and defense. himself out in short. quick puffs
WZ:ins(lis useles
si.li ( t .s sd
like a fretful switch engine. This in a . Segal
JULY 10. 1942
s h n s a n
It is heartening in times like these, that time
TAMMUZ 26, 5702
grew. h ::: , sis to oi:io
he was smoking slowly, de- what with
m a nki
hi
s ri le'
p e y e
men and women may still express them-
and p Is i I o s optically, s wl e it1 ( iiiiv
„ rs. what'
sf ut i .. tile The worhi
u
selves freely and forcefully upon funda- like Vesuvius in the long periods even
know
Churchill Faces Commons
mental issues.
between eruptions.
ith a
screw-driver.
Prime Minister Winston Churchill re-
His bells z so e lmn had to do c li.: s l ‘iltst ► sr:
as
: a at
(li b t o out
tli his
tu ined to London after • visit wi tFrank-
nil: i all
of g
with a certain event of his life. it coul d
h
in
Ile had come to a milestone and a g o n i z e d frustration,
tin D. Roosevelt, president of the United Community Council on the Job
tration, look n
Mr. Segal was looking
ki backward
St ates, to face an angry and perturbed
• •
ha kI
The JeWish Community Council h as and forward through the smoke. the
wCsrld
House of Commons.
.. in which the great part
He was having a birthday. It of his Isle
rendered the community and the cot intry
e had been lived.
is
enough
to
say
that
he
is
three
He was called upon to explain his con- a service of great value in having al 1 dis-
Anyway, it had se k T nnes i t:, (1 1. 1 .te
years
older
than
he
was
the
last
good
duct of the war and the Libyian debacle. crlminatory references in employmen t no- time he mentioned here
the
fact sitting on the edge of a volcano• as
His critics were not over-nice in their at- tices in Detroit Public Schools banne d.
of his having a birthday.
1"17.1;(1);u1shli'sts,ecalrioce;13b
tacks upon him. The debate was sharp,
'ubbles
of that
hat e
1
Heretofore the Detroit Public Sc hools
Alr.
Segal, most unoriginally, at his feet but he was
sure
acrimonious and forthright. Leslie Hoare used a form in which reference was
begun by thinking how time these were only trifling blisters
Belisha went so far as to charge the to religion. This form was similar made just flies away. He couldn't be that would subside.
a that old. He's always kidding Now,
Prime Minister with winning all the de- form used by the Federal Governm to
ent. himself by saying he surely can't tive
swathed in this medita-
bates and losing all the battles. Every Neither the Federal Government nor
smoke, he remembered fond-
be as old as the number of Isis ly the time when hating was only
indicate. He says this mere
member of Parliament who had something Detroit school authorities had any ide a the yyears
a private e
Of boy that he is can't be as ol .s1
that specialized
to say said it, fearlessly, unequivocally discrimination in mind.
as
Isis
years
suggest.
and in some cases, even passionately.
There s on individuals. It was not dif-
fused over great masses of peo-
If the experiences of many applic t kl h ila ti t z, some mistake.
After the opposition had stated its case for jobs had not proved conclusively
Only when he looks at his con- pie. It was fastidious and there-
more enjoyable than wad.
temporaries with whom he went I f s(s)
as strongly as it could, the Prime Minister employers discriminated against a
to
:Ving in a gallon of it. In that
answered his critics. cants because of religious affiliation ppli-
school
does
lie
conic
to
the
time
Mr.
Zilch might be hated
S
Five hundred members of the Commons would not be necessary to remove s UCh it horrible realization of being well but not all his sisters, cousins
along in his years. They look and aunts as well. It was nowhere
voted. Four hundred seventy-five voted references.
like aging men. Ralph is weaz- a n a ti ona l
po li cy to hate all
confidence in Winston Churchill and 25
This state of affairs is not a too ha
ened, tired looking old gentle- Zilches, nowhere a wide-spread
voted against him. One hundred fifteen one. Men and women, boys and girls, ppy man. "Bud's" head is all - what.% social policy.
From time to time he is an
N ho
did
id not vote. Some of those who did not have religious convictions and afliliati w
Mr. Segal thought it was ra-
ons honorar y
pallbearer at funerals. then to the credit of his ripe
vote were not present and others ab- are not ashamed of them, and under
or-
He
feels
distresed
at
having
ar-
years
that he himself had kept
stained from voting because they were Binary circumstances would do noth
rived
the stately old age Of on hating people only in 'milieu-
ing be
undecided.
i ng at
a pallbearer. Ile rumens- ear. T o
to disavow such beliefs and affiliation S.
his mind hate was an
The size of the confidence vote is of
hers that when he was us young individual, purely personal dish
At every turn one is met with evide
little significance compared with the fact that we are yet far from genuine to nee reporter, covering funerals, ho not a big platter from which to
used to notice that honorary pall- wolf with a lot of other people.
that such a debate could take place at ante. Bigotry and discrimination still p ler- bearers invariably were vener- For example, he could thoroughly
re-
such a time as this. Contrast this with vail and the job of education is not
able-looking people, faded an- enjoy hating Hitler, Goehbels
the last appearance of Adolf Hitler be- completed, however, there are many ca yet tiques.
and Goering, but he couldn't
1 / I
fore the Reichstag, when he explained his of unintended discrimination such as t ses
hate all the German people. He
Russian failure. Not a single member of one; and all that is needed is to call his 1\4 R. SEGAL, couldn't feel any thought there must be a saving
iv"- too joyous about this birth- remnant of them, some millions
the Reichstag offered one word of criti- to the attention of those in authority i it
n day. In fact, he had received of them with whom, on the ui-
cism. The Fuehrer made his statement; order to correct the evil.
rather churlishly the handshakes Ornate day of reckoning., he could
his conduct of the Russian campaign was
of his friends. He had been al- join arms and march them to-
An alert Community Council such
unanimously approved and for good meas- the Detroit body can be depended up as most rude to insurance agents ward the brotherhood.
tire his powers were enlarged so as to to render this kind of service to the co On who had called up to congratu- To think this made him feel
enable him to remove humane, reason- munity. Not only is Detroit Jewry app m_ late him. They are inexorable that even though he may have
able judges.
re- time - keepers who keep books lived too long to be of t o ny use
ciative and thankful, but we are certa ;‘, on a customer's years and on in the war, he had lived t some
What an amazing difference between that Catholics and Protestants who ha "' his birthdays seem to take sad is- good; for he had arrived at sonsc-
two Western European countries with suffered from religious discrimination a ve tic pleasure from calling him up thing of the wisdom that dis-
re and reminding him he is a year crim inates in judgment. It was
equally literate populations; with equal equally appreciative and thankful.
older and that life is short, lir! only y a foothill of wisdom, yet
industrial, scientific, artistic and cultural
d evelopment.
is earnest and maybe it's about Mr: Segal could feel that even
tinse to thi nk of more insuran
hn.; a foothill w as worth attainirs.
Why do these people act so differentl y? An Evasive Denial
s f n a I re e b t e h v o t . n (u i It i t n i s Itt s ,t e r e plt i .c a ik i was
Anyway, this birthda y ad
a s h sio s
To explain this phenomenon in detail,
The denial of the Polish Government ; fallen in a happy hour of
the
would take more space than we can de- Exile, to the charges that Polish refuge ' 11 world. Tobruk had just been lost frail mind. Mr. Segal was grasp-
vote to it, yet we feel constrained to at- stranded in Russia were being discrimi es and what was going to become of
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See SEGAL—Page 9
tempt some explanation,
ated against in the matter of relief, is
Since Hitler came to power, Germany unconvincing.
became a police military state based upon
The Nation's No. 1 Life Insurance Policy
An authorized statement carried by the
the leadership theory. All free and equal
Polish Telegraphi c Agenc y
stated
that
Po-
participation in the government by the
lish relief workers in Russia had
been in-
people or their representatives came to
structed to distribute the relief supplies in
an end.
accordance with the needs
and to treat
all Polish citizens alike.
/
BY INVESTING
The desperate, hopeless peoples of
___
The official statement added that Polish
I EN PERCENT OF YOUR
Germany surrendered their rights to the
Jews were adequately represented in the
INCOME, YOU PROTECT YOUR
Nazis who had promised to solve all their
regional relief offices which have been set
LIFE , TuE LIVES OF youri FAMILY,
perplexing and apparently insoluable
up by the. exiled Polish Government in Si-
ROMZ,AND YOUR FUTURE....
beria. Uzbekistan and other areas i
problems. The story of the arbitrary, ruth-
n which
Polish refugee s are concentrated.
AND, LATER, GET ALL YOUR
less use of the authority by the Nazis is
MONEY BACR.
The explanation said that "it should be
known to everyone. Not since the days of
carried in mind that the gifts coming espe-
INTEREST /
the military police states of the Roman
cially from Jewish organizations represent
Empire have we witnessed such a spec-
only a small percentage of the total gifts.
acle of complete subordination and sub-
The foregoing statement does not spe-
jugation of a people to the will of the cifically and categorically deny the
ruling clique. The miseducated, paranoid charges made. It is evasive and unsatis-
Nazi leaders learned nothing from history. factory.
They were and are supremely confident
This may not seem to be the opportune
that they can permanently wipe out all time to press such matters as this, but we
of the political advances made in thou- are persuaded that if sufficient press
sands of years. They would recreate a is exerted on the Polish Government ure
society of superiors and inferiors where Exile, that it will correct this unpardon- in
only the chosen few shall control and able discrimination.
participate and the masses obey.
Those who have contributed to Polish
To them society is an army in war relief and those whose relatives are the
time. T1 general staff, the Nazi leaders, victims have every right and it is their
are in command, give orders and the peo- duty to complain.
role are the soldiers who take orders and
It will be a sad day when we no longer
obey them implicitly,
react
to atrocities
and barbarities no mat-
It is therefore not surprising that a ter by whom
committed.

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