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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
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Detroit Jewish Chronicle
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It does make a difference who gores
your ox. The sinking of Argentinian ships
and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE
Published Weekly by Jewish Chronicle Publishing Co., Inc. by the Nazis is just a mistake, but the
writing of a letter mildly criticizing the
JACOB H. SCHAKNE
President
JACOB MARGOLIS
government is such a serious offense that
Publisher-Editor
MAURICE M. SAF1R....Advertising Manager
you are practically outlawed.
by AL SEGAL
The chief of police of Buenos Aires
General Offices and Publication Bldg, 525 Woodward Ave.
Telephone: CAdillac 1040
assured
Mr.
Frank
that
he
sincerely
re-
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When it became lcno%
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L Central Conference of Ame
h e
tat
-was
sibility for an endorsement of views expressed by its writers. reliable sources we learn that the people
ican Rabbis has taken steps to d o f ai b b o aii p i n p -1
Ansh
a
t ei 1: ) e n w s . awnate
s
n
n a i n teth e e
something about the prevailing
would join with the United Nations, but way
The
Entered as Second-class matter March 3, 1916, at the Post.
of
selecting
rabbis
for
pu
1- in Applications sorted ,,ut the
office at Detroit, Mich., under the Act of March 3, 1879. the government is pro Axis.
pits of Reform congregations.
likely ones and „ rote the
um
told that to select a rab bi I most
Curiously all pro Axis friends act just
applicants for their pictures.
Sabbath Readings of the Law
like the Axis. Men who were formerly often has been like a shoppin g The Scout Committee• held a
Pentatenchal portion—Deut. 16:18-21:19.
with a lot of compet i
gentlemenly, decent, humane became sa- expedition
Prophetical portion—Isaiah 51:12-52:12.
tion among the rival candidate S. - special meeting to examine the
distic.
Where
formerly
free
and
just
The practice has become to photographs. This rabbi and that
AUGUST 14, 1942
ELUL 1, 5702 criticism was permitted, as soon as Nazi odious for the self-respect of rab o were forthwith eliminated on
bis to endure any longer. The - their photographic look! , . It was
ideology became current,
then all a d verse are
Y felt that some of them had faces
trying to find a way
criticism is prohibited and the critic is which
Some of My Best Friends Are Je WS
filling a pulpit will b Y that seemed too Jewish. When
in danger of being beaten or killed.
more dignified than a contest o e the committee was through with
During the trial of William Du dley
the pictures there were only
If you intend to visit Argentina be sure gamor girls for a position n f all
six faces left.
Pelley convicted of sedition in In dian- to write to the State Department and find Hollywood.
Rabbi Zilch was not one of
apolis, one bit of testimony startled and out what is verboten and what is per-
As an example there is cit ed them.
He hadn't sent his picture.
to
me
the
case
of
who
shall
surprised the attorneys for the gov ern- mitted.
be He had applied f
e po sitio n
called Rabbi Zilch. He was but when they wrote him
ment and will no doubt surprise you •
for
his
briefly a candidate for the pulpit picture he said what was the
Pelley denied he was anti-Semitic.
of
K.
K.
Anshe
Giborim
at
Four
He Cannot Please Everybody
equivalent
of
to
hell
with
it.
This
testified as follows:
Corners, Wis., the time of the
is to say if he weren't a rabbi
vacancy.
"I have never held any anim osity
he '
have said to hell with
When
the
eight
spies
and
sabot
Not that Rabbi Zilch didn't it, unequivocally
against individual Jews. I have rn
eurs
in so many
any
petitioned
the
Supreme
Court
of
Jews as friends. But I condemn t
the well deserve to be the minister words.
United States for a writ of habeas co rpus of K. K. Anshe Giborim. He was Not that Rabbi Zilch was
general practices of the Jewish rac e hose
as
well qualified in all the things
there were many, if not the majorit y of that
they apply to our civilization and
go to make a good rabbi, ashamed of his face which really
way
Americans
who
felt
that
we
were
presents the handsome ascetic
of life.
too including meekness. The quality profile
considerate and fair in our treatmen t o f of meekness is the crowning But of a spiritual-minded man.
"The Jewish people are behind C om- these
he resented made to par-
men.
glory of a man whether he be
munism but that is not saying that e very
rabbi or plumber. But it was ticipate in a beauty contest. He
However
we
learn
that
those
ma
Jew is a Communist."
stem precisely his meekness that dis- had for a long time thought that
distorters and peddlers of mendacity the qualified
r selectin
el c %ta i 1st g
Has there ever been an anti-Sem
Rabbi Zilch in the con- A
t he
w ay of
merican
scandalous;
some of whose best friends were ite, Nazis and Fascists have a different p oint test for the Ansh Giborim pulpit. Anshe
Anshe Giborim was about the
He just wouldn't meet the com-
Jews? If there are some, we have not of view. We learn from a Rome bro on petition.
limit. Meek Rabbi Zilch wasn't
going to display
e
nial
met them, and William Dudley Pell le not cast heard in New York th
ay himself to An-
It was the glamorous, aggres-
the man who received direct divine com- of the writ of habeas corpus to these e men sive Rabbi Perkins who won the she Giborim like a candidate for
who were subject to trial by a milit ary pulpit of Anshe Giborim. I am "Miss America." He counted him-
munication is no exception.
self out.
Pelley objects to those practices by the court now abolishes the right of hab eas not saying anything against Among the six favored faces
Rabbi Perkins who is a nice boy
Jewish race as they apply to our civiliza- corpus to all individuals in the Uni tad —an
was Rabbi Perkins'. Rabbi Per-
excellent tennis player, good kins'
States.
The
broadcaster
told
us:
f
tion and way of life. This is rather a bit
at once appealed
at golf, too, and a wizard with
" By suppressin g the habeas corpus for
to
the
entire Scout Committee
of impertinence coming from a man who
words in the pulpit. In glamor •
these eight individuals. they have legally
. . This one looks like the
has been convicted of common crimes
he is to Rabbi Zilch as a flood
abolished the habeas corpus for all Ameri-
of light is to an incandescent boy for us," the head scout said
can citizens of
upon several occasions. Aside from the
at first glance. Rabbi Perkins'
the United States for the
house lamp.
impertinence, Pelley like all his breed,
entire duration of the war. But the habeas
face seemed to have everything.
When the pulpit of Anshe
corpus is the only civil guarantee which can
f
do not, specify what practices of the Jew-
f
Giborim became vacant there was THE
prevent the arrest and the arbitrar y killing
NATION-WIDE tour of
ish race do not apply to our civilization
a special meeting of the temple
of the people in countries under Anglo-
the Scout Committee resulted
and our way of life.
board on the matter. The presi-
Saxon law.
in the. elimination of three of
dent,
who
is
a
big
advertising
Then he trots out that ancient bogey
"From now on all Americans who love
executive, came at once to the the six. Rabbi Perkins was among
their countr y will
Communism. Not all Jews are Commun-
be persecuted without pity.
subject. In his business he is the three survivors. The scouts
Roosevelt i n his folly for bloodshed, has al-
ists, but the Jews are behind Commun-
always making campaigns . . . had gone incognito into the tem-
ready contrived to have found by his
ism. When all other reasons for anti-
campaigns for cheese, "Use Your ples, viewed the rabbis in action
G-men,
a police force entirely made up of
Own Tooth Brush" campaigns, t and when they were all through
gangsters,
Semitism fail them they always have the
a plot which would have as an aim to
drives for narrower girdles . . . heir early judgment had not
turn
red herring of Communism at hand.
altered. The head scout
over the entire Pacific coast to the Japanese.
and now he said : "Gentlemen„ s been
poke the mind of all of them
In many respects the Pelleys are a
He has his press state that the guilty num-
I believe that our effort • to get
pathetic lot. These fire-eating anti-Semites
ber 100,000. One can thus already foresee
a good rabbi for Anshe Giborim 1 when he said, "Perkins still looks
ike the boy for us."
that each defeat he suffers at the hands of
-suddenly discover that many of their best
should be made bang-up drive.
The way he slid with words!
That's
the
way
to
get
results.
the
tri-partite
powers
will
cost
the
lives
of
friends are Jews, and that they have no
further innocents.
I suggest a slogan : The best is f How deep he sounded! the scouts
feelings against individual Jews.
not too good for Anshe Giborim. elt there must be great meaning
"Here thus is the value of the famous
Let's go"
d n what he said, since he sounded
Fortunately for us these Messianic-in-
civil guarantees. In England the habeas cor-
eep beyond their understanding.
spired leaders of hatred; the crack pot
I f f
pus was recently suppressed by means
of a
The three finalists were in-
gang; the lunatic fringe and the down-
HE
E APPOINTED a Scout Com- V ited, one by one, to come to
decree of Parliament which gives the govern-
ment
the
permissio
mittee to travel about the Four Corners and give trial ser-
n to arrest any one with-
right racial racketeers can still be tried
country to hunt down a proper m ous before the Congregation of
out trial and without giving any accounts
and if found guilty are prevented from
rabbi. He said he got the idea A nshe Giborim. After this suc-
of their actions.
doing any serious hurt or damage to any-
from the baseball teams which c ess only two were left and Rabbi
"The habeas corpus suppressed, Churchill
body. It is a most unhappy state of af-
send out scouts to look over play- P erkins was one of the two our-
and Roosevelt no longer even are obliged to
ers they might be able to buy ivors.
fairs when the lunatics are at large and
produce the bodies of their victims, so that
from other teams.
Practically all the wonien of
in control of the affairs and destiny of a
their families may bury them. This is the
"You scouts will have the job , 1 1 e congregation were for Per-
actual
state
of
the
law
in
the
"free
de-
nation as is the case in Germany.
of quietly going into a temple
PLAIN TAL I;
•
“Pieking a Rabbi'
mocracies."
Do the Nazi and Fascist propaganda
Persona Non Grata
departments hope to impress American
Argentina is a delightful country an listeners? If they have such hopes there
the Argentinian people are charming. Th d should be at least some shred of truth
city of Buenos Aires is cultured, hospi e in the charges. This vicious, mendacious
attack does not contain a single truth-
able, gay, picturesque and colorful. A t-
Il
statement and every literate American
the amenities of civilized life are ob
served. Such is the tourist advertisin g - knows that the writ of habeas corpus is
description of that South American coun still his constitutional right in every court
try and is no doubt true, if you are per- - in h United ates of America.
Should our legal treatment of and atti-
sona grata.
tude
toward subversive elements, spies
Before visiting the .country of Presi-
dent Castillo one should really inquire as and saboteurs be changed because of
to what makes one persona grata. This is this kind of Nazi-Fascist propaganda?
not an idle or irrelevant question as Many will argue that all our reasonable-
ness and consideration are wasted upon
Waldo Frank can assure you.
Mr. Frank was a visitor for some weeks these people. We may well agree that
and had the temerity to write a farewell such is the case, but that is not the ques-
letter to one of the Argentine newspapers, tion involved here. The question is: Are
in which he criticized the Argentinian all persons entitled to their constitutional
government. Upon the publication of his guarantees even in war time? Our Su-
letter he was immediately notified that he preme Court has answered that, and in
Was persona non grata. This was the sig- every trial to date of individuals, charged
nal for a brutal attack upon him by six with subversive activities, the answer was
gangsters. It is not yet known whether clearly and definitely in the affirmative.
Our hasty and excitable countrymen
they were government agents or just Nazi
thugs. In any event it meant that an Ameri- who became little vexed and impa-
can citizen, who was declared to be per- tient with our Department of Justice
sona non grata, was practically without should realize that punishment will be
police protection and at the mercy of meted out to all the subverters, spies
and saboteurs in our midst, but it will
hoodlums and gangsters.
be according to law.
and looking the prospect over
while he is in action."
f I ns, particularly women in the
a mines of the temple's officers.
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