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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

Detroit Jewish Chronicle

Septembe r 1;

19 42

by October 1 and that he would see that
a ceiling was placed on wages. He wants
a tax bill passed that will give no one
an income of more than $25,000 per year.
What the President underscored was
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the fact that any action he may take was
by AL SEGAL
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The Detroit Jewish Chronicle invites correspondence on sub- that the action is Constitutional and legal.
. _Aw e he
umn ask me again to look likes to play.
jects of interest to the Jewish people, but disclaims respon-
How different this is from the method
into
the
crystal
ball
and
discern
sibility for an endorsement of views expressed by its writers.
and procedure in Nazi Germany.
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the shape of things to come,
yEs, IT'S asking too much of
I
According
to
latest
advices
from
that
have
been
doing
annually
at
Entered as Second-class matter March 3, 1916, at the Post-
Post-
of me to look into the cr.. a i
this season for several years past.
office at Detroit, Mich., under the Act of March 3, 1879. country the Fuehrer has appointed a
as and discern the issue of the
.‘ « s i t-..
Yes, I've found great comfort ing year. Ask me rattle
minister of law one Herr Thierek, who
I . t .1. he .
adom
has been instructed that henceforth the m in my crystal. It conforms to all yea 20-12 and I may r tell
Reading of the Torah for the First Day of
you
y wishful thinking most amaz- hin:trhe(iin:: Jewishsii I
N
ict
law will be handed down by Hitler and ingly.
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Rosh Hashonah, Saturday, Sept. 12
f us
That's about all one has relates to the Jewish e, wt
Ncw
that
he
Thierek
will
modify
that
law
if
yr nl a :
left to live by from one day to the ask me a bout the year .
Pentateuchal portion—Gen. 21; Nuns. 29:1-6.
-osol. i_ ' i me
h,'
next—wishful
thinking.
in
his
judgment
it
is
in
the
best
interests
Prophetical portion—Sam. 1:1-2:20.
1 find my wishful thinking ex- t h i is ng o. ne—and I may tel
of the state and party to do so.
•. sOme.
I'D—
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painting its vision. I used wish-
Reading of the Torah for the Second Da y of
Many will object to the President's fully
to think about events next actTiyhe1,010ew3i,seharN
e.;:eci
Rosh Hashonah, Sunday, Sept. 13
itsii;:1(;itirk:
alleged dictatorial attitude. But upon rea- month . . . "Everything will be be 1111 occasion s eswi.nl
for s pal observ-
all
right
next
month,"
I
said.
But
Pentaceuchal portion—Gen. 22; Nuns. 29:1-6. sonable and fair examination it merely
now
now I say, "In a hundred years
Prophetical portion—Jere. 31:2-20.
amounts to this:
everything may be well and in tainncl'ee oafrhithtelielialls()trifatlifealtt
This an urgent, vital matter with which
years we should see the mil thnTehecahlluenddrIek:lotshid alli‘li tsar, ht i 11 ex-
SEPTEMBER 11, 1942
ELUL 29. 5702
'litiv.,,i1,1; 01, of
there can be no temporizing. The Con- lenial dawn."
You have to live on long-range that evil year had been observed
gress is asked to pass the needed legisla-
tion and if the Congress fails to do so ne visions nowadays. Even better
all mankind throughout the
Rosh Hashonah
than I—the expert, high- • u b 'Orld. In all the churches there
will exercise the power and authority he prophets
priced prophets of radio and jour- were services of praise and
Since last Rosh Hashonah the Four possesses under the Constitution and the nalism—have turned out to be a
ll thanksgiving for the way the hu.
Horsemen of the Apocalypse have ridden laws already passed by the Congress.
wrong. Their wishful thinking man race had come triumphantly
can't
see
even
as
far
as
the
next
hard and far. They have spread pesti-
These extraordinary powers he will use hour. They have given up prophecy through its greatest travail, had
to the dawn.
lence, pauperism, desolaton and death.
only during the period of great emer- and stick to the dismal facts of come at last
hadn't
h s elth
i T ifi ler in war r
Perhaps the greatest sufferers among gency and with the end of hostilities, today's 'events.
since that one. The human family
all the peoples of the earth is Israel these extraordinary powers will auto-
I remember a happier time of stoTodhelrienkhelitld
brotherhood
which has felt the impact of the Horse- matically return to the people where they the world when even one who was universal purpose of snaking the
only the tenth son of a prophet earth good for the brief time men
men in 52 countries over five continents. belong.
definitely could see as far ahead lived on it. The riches of the earth
The plight of world Jewry is nothing
We believe the people of the United as tomorrow. He knew that to- had, by freest trade, been opened
short of a cataclysmic tragedy as we usher States will support the President whole- morrow was going to be practically to
all nations, and a root-cause
in the New Year.
as good as today. Tomorrow he of strife removed.
heatedly.
would get up and go to his work
Fabulous riches had been un-
Despite all this, however, hope rises
and nothing would happen to covered in the test tube s of sci.
and the New Year will be observed with
.hange the way of his life.
ence. There was good enough am
the spirit that has always animated our The Fascist Zoo
All tomorrows to come would comfort enough for every roar
beone like the other, except for and every man had his own house
people to whom suffering has become an
the brief shadows that flit across a
hen every man had enough
oft-told tale.
Before Italy became an Axis partner Man 's days—the personal sorrow he no longer pointed with hate
Certainly there are many who are com- we were often made to laugh by the that people always have had to and spite at his neighbor who
pletely overwhelmed. They would have posturing of bellicose conceited, boasting take. There was nothing cosmic might have more.
Under these bright auspices the
all the activity end, for to them anything Mussolini. His actions were human, all in a man's life; his life was sur-
by his own four walls. Jews assembled in their s•na-
that may be done to succor, rescue and too human even though many people who rounded
In summer evenings his boun- gogues for the New Year of 5803.
rehabilitate is such a futile thing. They could not accept his grandiose theories daries expanded somewhat; then The rabbis everywhere dedicated
reason that the burden is ever increasing of a dynamic, resurgent Italy, were made his periphery was as far as the their sermons to the 100th anni-
outer reaches of his lawn.
versary. They spoke much on the
and our weak efforts are tantamount to suffer.
He knew that in these boun- continuity of the miracle of Jew-
to a paper darn against a tidal wave.
He was intelligent enough to know daries he would more or less cons- ish life. A hundred years before
Fortunately these counsels of despair that one-tenth of one per cent of the fortably live out all his tomor- the Jews had been marked for
are not accepted by those agencies that population, or 40,000 Jews in a popula- rows. In the fullness of time he extermination and a million of
would be buried among his people them had perished at the hands of
have undertaken to help the victims of tion of 40 millions could not make or in
the graveyard not far away their enemies. The rabbis read
aggression. They redouble their efforts break him and his Fascist scheme.
over the hill. from the account of the 19 12 mas-
But now his boundaries are as nacres written by contemporaneous
and are more insistent in their demands
In those days he ridiculed the racial distant as Chungking and Mel- ()bservers '
that those who are not engulfed do more
theories of the Nazis. All that is now bourne, as far off as Tobruk and "Yet we lived," it was said.
and more.
changed. The human all too human MuF- Stalingrad. He doesn't know to- "Lived even for this day.
Then, too, the victims of cruelty and solini has now become a member of morrow which used to be so clear- by no power of weapons or of poi-
ly charted for him. Tomorrow he itics but only by the I fe-giving
ferocity keep up their struggle to survive. animal
kingdom.
may be in Iceland, or in Libya, 0: of our faith. We who were the
They carry on despite all the seemingly
in New Caledonia—he who used weakest and had only the idealism
When
he
attacked
prostrate
France
the
insuperable obstacles placed in their way.
to be so sure of the way of his that is of our Scripture have sur-
whole world called him a jackal. In his life
as he went about tr'nuning vived the powers, the principal-
The Four Horsemen will run their ferocity
against
the
Greeks
and
Yugoslays
the windows in the departd»ent sties and the pomp of our (mein es.
course. A new day will dawn for Israel
He has lost direction over The power of our enemies is only
and humanity and when that new day he became a hyena, and now he becomes store.
his own life. He has become like
an
ape
and
of
a
rather
low
order.
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dawns it is our fervent hope that the
The acceptance of the absurd racial
Four Horsemen will be buried so deep
that nothing that man may do will ever theories of the Nazis was a foregone con-
again let these riders loose upon the clusion. Lip service could be rendered to
We Can't Equal Their Sacrifices, but We Nlight Try
that unscientific drivel, but when Roberto
earth.
Farinacci, the worst fire-eating Fascist of
them all advocates ghettos for Italian
Our Way
Jews, then the aping really becomes
tragi-comic.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, President
Imagine ghettos in a country where
of the United States spoke to all the only one out of every 1000 of the popu-
people of the country at his fire-side chat lation is a Jew.
on Labor Day.
What will they now do? Will they
Al
He told us that we would have to get build walls around a half dozen
ty
houses
tough if success were to crown our efforts in some communities and in some where
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and he assured his hearers that we would there may be a single family, will a high
get tough.
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stone fence be constructed to keep the
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As one listened to him one felt that Jewish family away from their Italian
he was showing the way. He was tough, neighbors?
not in any offensive sense, but in the
What animal will the Fascist next.
sense of tough-mindedness that is so ne- imitate? They do have a lively imagina-
cessary in such a vital matter as stabil- tion. Maybe they will become lambs after
izing the whole price structure.
a little more suffering and a few more
He told the workers, farmers, enter- reverses. Lets hope so.
prizers that ceilings would have to be
placed on wages, prices, incomes and
profits. All would have to pay. No one
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Under Secretary of State Sumner Wells
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could escape his or her responsibility.
has made most generous representation
lie assured his listeners that he ap- possible to the highest authorities of the
....atat iotatoro
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preciated the grave responsibilities that Vichy government against the deportation
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he had to shoulder, but he would face of Jews.
sr ALL THE REST Cr (.13 SACRI MED EVERYTHING
responsibilities with realism, patience and
••re comp,* EVEN THE •SCORe ----- TO Du'( t.-1 4t-. BONDS
We still maintain diplomatic relations
courage and would see to it that justice with
Laval's government which means that
and practical common sense would be
despite
Nazi pressure the French still hold
his guiding principles in anything that
on
to
the
thin thread of friendly relations
/
was done.
with
us.
This
being the case pressure from
In language that was clear, precise
and simple he told the country that he our State Department may have a restrain-
had asked the Congress to pass price ing influence upon these harried men of
Vichy who do not really know where they
stabilizing legislation on farm products are
az-1
from day to day.

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