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1942

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Detroit Jewish Chronicle

and The Legal Chronicle

SLCTION TWO

VOL. 44, NO. 17

DETROIT. MICHIGAN. FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER II. 1942

"This Is Mg
Own . ."

PRESIDENT

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ROOSEVELT'S

NEW YEAR

MESSAGE

to the

JEWISH PEOPLE

OF AMERICA

11

Upon the occasion of the Jewish New
Year, I extend to the Jewish people of
America my heartfelt greetings. The tragic
turn of events which has temporarily left many
peoples of the world suffering under the harsh
domination of foreign dictators has stirred
America to the depths and has strengthened
our resolution that there shall be no com-
promise in the struggle against hate, intoler-
ance and bigotry.
Er% v

The Year In Washington

Highlights of the Year 5702 in the National Capital

By CHARLES BENSON

10 Cents Single Copy: $3.00 per Year

Th
The War on Hate .. .

A Short Story

America Lashes Back

By RUTH J. BRENNER

By RICHARD E. GUTSTADT
Director of the Anti Defamation League of Bnai Brith

Rachel nestled closer within
David's arm. She could hear his EDITOR'S
NOTE: Has Uncle Sam's crack-down on the fifth col-
heart beating against her cheek.
umnists and traitors, whose major stock in trade was hate,
"It can't really be his heart,"
lessened the dangers of
anti-Semitism? Has the arrest of
she thought. "We're not real any
notorious Jew-haters as foes of American freedom ended all
more — David, Gertrude, Trina,
need for vigilance? These are some of the questions answered
Maxi—the 70 of us in this ghost
fully and frankly by Mr. Gutstadt in the year-end round-up of
ship. That's what we are, ghosts
The War on Hate.
—On a ghost ship that doesn't
„
exist.
1 he year 5701, which is just arrests will serve to warn all
losin
has been a period of enemies of democracy that their
She remembered the hope that closing,
had filled their hearts when they world-shaking events. - National self - abusedfreedom of action is
(locked at Marseilles. The French anti international perfidy plumbed
had been kind. Too bad age, th
they had
Significantly,
end.
the professional
paid so much for p
ey new lows, and striking demon- a an
govern-
said; someone had misled them. strations of complete loss
of nu- unti-Semites long active in Amer.
Only 70 refugees with one thought tional integrity shocked the ica
be- are
, the ones who today are
—escape from brown shirts, Ges- caught up ill the government
tapo, ghetto, horror — but the Bevels in decency throughout
me world. Coldly calculated , dragnet of subversive agencies
French could not take them,
ruthless murder or hundreds of and leaders! It is obvious, then,
Liverpool was no better. The tnousands or innocent men, wo-
tout incitement to racial and re-
E n g 1 i the
s h immigration
explained carefully,
patiently,
quotas men and children, tragic host- ligious hatred has gone hand in
were more than filled. How could ages to insane dreams of world hand witn intrigue against our
they take even 70 more? conquest, are eloquent testimony aemocratic form of govern-
to
of evm mem; comparable
So they had started the long th e s comsplet e
and whi
an i-Semitism
tnehr ed of hum
ane concepts and
disregard
voyage to Havana. They all stayed
an
ti-religious
close together. It seemed to les- winch have so long been evelop- agitations as such are not fed-
ing in the relations of men. oral offenses, the "professional
of them together in the one small Much cause for concern was haters" usually were revealed to
lounge of the ship, hearing each given by the political contro- be enemies of American free-
others' fragments of conversation, versy over what should be the (10111. 'lilac is the striking ob-
listening to the children cry, feel- American attitude in this global servation one can
make in study-
ing each others' breathing; some- struggle.
Conjecture, however, ing tne names of those now in-
how, that way, it didn't seem so yielded to the dynamic of real- dieted under the Smith Act,
hopeless. They would reach is rnwhen the Japanese so foully charged with conspiracy to in-
Havana. The Americans would struck at Pearl Harbor. Then nuence the American armed
find a way. They'd be free! was the lie given to the propa- us .ae l s ofd
tow a u r t d y. disloyalty and re-
When was it the whisper went gandists of tyranny who had tfolc
around among them that the quiet long
disseminated their theses Who are they? The detract.
little man and his wife had respecting the impotence of de- ors of democracy and of our
committed suicide? It must have mocrucy. We have learned that %sar effort are the principal anti-
been about four days out of our American democracy, once Semites of America — Gerald
Liverpool. They didn't talk about fighting mad, can lash back at Winrod, the "Jayhawk Nazi;"
it much.
could
easily be its foes within and without its Herman Schwinn, Bund leader;
the
answer It for
them so all.
borders! That is the reassuring William Dudley Pelley, most
"We can't, David," she thought message we receive as a New virulent
the Jew-baiters;
hysterically. "We're just married, Year (lawns for the Jewish pea- Elizabeth of Dilling,
vituperative

svvoe'lecasiylyo.u"ng, we can t give up ple—important players, though hater of Jews and writer of
unwittingly, in the world's great-
With an effort she forced her est drama, the conflict between scurrility under asumed names;
mind away from the decency
quiet and
little
Charles B. Hudson, writer of
barbarism.
couple. "Those two little babiesWe have much to be thankful vicious "newsletters" assailing
who were' born on shipboard,"
for today, as fast-moving events the Jews and the government;
she thought, "they're su sweet, soof recent weeks, with
Ehner Garner, editor of the no-
innocent, so harmless. Mustn't meat crackdowns on the petty torious hate sheet, "Publicity;"
think about how they were born, Hitlers who too long have preyed Leon (le Aryan, long-time sym-
the mothers screamed so. We upon America, indicate that the pathizer with Fascism and foe
See WASHINGTON—Page 24 could hear them even from the current mass of indictments and
deck. We all stood about helpless
See HATE—Page 18
white Mrs. Levenson and Mrs.
Sheerer and that doctor helped
them. Mustn't think about that
either. Oh, David, our children
can't be born that way!" i
They had been anchored in
Havana harbor nine days when
5703
1912
the news came. They couldn't
enter. The Americans had tried
—oh surely they had tried?—but
they could do nothing. So tanta-
lizingly close to freedom, so near
they could almost stretch out their
hands and grasp it, but it was
gone.
Rachel thought: "So we're sail-
ing to Palestine. What for? We
Again we take pleasure in wishing the friends
will never reach it. How can we?
and patrons of Frank & Seder
Our bodies aren't strong enough
to hold out much longer. What
have we done that we should be
punished this much? Such little
The greatest measure of joy and happiness
things we ask; just a small home
for the two of us; somewhere a
throughout the NEW YEAR
safe place for the 70 of us to
live nad work and die in peace."
"David" She could feel him
It has been a pleasant year in which
looking down at her in the deep-
AND
we have
ening gloom.
"Yes, Rachel?"
continued contact with out old friends and
"What is Palestine like? How
made many new ones; in which we have tried
long will it take us to get there?"
"I don't know, darling. It's
sincerely to be worthy of being known as your
hard to think straight any more.
I've heard so many stories. I
favorite store. Here's to the New Year . . .
never thought I'd bring you to
this, Rachel. There must have
may it be a happy and prosperous one for all!
been something I could have done.
The plans we made, our hopes,
our beautiful ideas for life to-
gether! But we'll get there,
Rachel—we've got to get there.
Rest your head against my arm,
628 Woodward Give.
darling; try to sleep."
Rachel straightened, threw her
hoe on the ground, wiped the
FURS • CLOTH COATS • DRESSES
perspiration from her face. How
blue the sky was! If she stretched
SUITS • MILLINERY • ACCESSORIES
her arms wide enough, could she
hold a piece of it for a moment?
• CORSETS

The first notable event in a
year filled with meaning for the
Jews of the United States came
with the death of Louis D. Bran-
deis.
Brandeis was mourned
throughout the world not only
as the first Jew ever to reach
this country's supreme bench, but
as an outstanding advocate of

enmity to Jews a cardinal point
human rights—the junior partner
in that famous phrase: "Holmes
and Brandeis dissenting."
Overwhelming in its importance,
of course, was the nation's declar-
ation of war against Germany,
Italy and Japan, which had made

Greetings

THE NEW YEAR . .

To our many friends

and customers on the

occasion of

Rosh Hashonah

Yom Kippur

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