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Detroit Jewish Chronicle

the interest of the state and the Fuehrer.
A whole generation of youth thinks
and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE
only
in terms of death. Murder and im-
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molation
are uppermost in their minds.
JACOB H. SCHAKNE
President
JACOB MARGOLIS
If the slaughter in Russia goes on for
Publisher-Editor
some time not many of the male youth of
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Germany will have to be reindoctrinated
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with the philosophy of living, for perhaps
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millions of them will achieve their highest
lo insure publication, all correspondence and news matter ambition and will give their lives for Hit-
must reach this office by Tuesday evening of each week. ler.
When mailing notices, kindly use one side of paper only.
Not since Islam swept the East in the
The Detroit Jewish Chronicle invites correspondence on sub-
jects of interest to the Jewish people, but disclaims respon- 7th Century has humanity witnessed such
sibility for an endorsement of views expressed by its writers. a fanatical spectacle of death. The prom-
ise of the ultimate ecstasy in the seventh
Entered as Second-class matter March 3, 1916, at the Post-
heaven for those who died in the holy
office at Detroit, Mich., under the Act of March 3, 1879.
wars drove these fanatics into battle in
wave
upon wave until they were finally
Sabbath Shuvah Scriptural Readings
halted by Charles Martel at Tours.
Pentateuchal poi tion—Deut. 31.
In truth no animal is so ferocious as
Prophetical portion—Hos. 14:2-10; Joel 2:15-17.
youth
indocrinated with such diabolical
Yom Kippur Morning Readings, Monday Sept. 21
and
perverted
ideas as those of Hitler
Pentateuchal portion—Lev. 16; Nuns. 29:7-11.
youth.
Prophetical portion—Isiah 52:15-53:14.

Yom Kippur Afternoon Readings
Pentateuchal portion—Lev. 18.
Prophetical portion—Jonah.

SEPTEMBER IR. 1942

TISHRI 7, 5703

Yom Kippur

Israel will observe Yom Kippur, the
Day of Atonement, on Monday, Sept. 21.
It is not unseemly to ask why all of hu-
manity does not observe a day of atone-
ment at least once a year. The need for a
day of expiation is particularly apt this
year when all the hatreds, resentments,
greeds, hostilities, distrusts and suspicions
have ripened to the bursting point.
If man had observed a day of stock-
taking once a year for the last quarter
century many may have stopped in their
mad scramble for power, pelf, prestige
and position and perhaps would have
evaluated men, events and things in a
different way. Certainly the day of atone-
ment and of asking for forgiveness would
not have done any of the nations and peo-
ples any hurt. Surely, Israel is the better
for this stock-taking; this atonement; this
asking for forgiveness for his transgres-
sions and wrong doings.
It is our fervent hope that Israel and
humanity will have less to atone for next
Yom Kippur.

Indoctrination

When one reads that German soldiers
Heil Hitler when they are about to die
on the battlefield it may well be believed,
according to. Sigrid Schultz, an Ameri-
can correspondent for many years in Ber-
lin.
In a repeat broadcast over Mutual net-
work on Sunday, Sept. 12, on "The Enemy
We Fight", she tells a tale of indocrina-
tion of Hitler youth that seems to us well
nigh incredible.
The story is that of the Becker family
and their two sons Hugo 16, and Fritz 10.
Fritz goes on a 20-mile hike to be sworn
into the Hitler Youth. On the eve of his
departure he complains of a pain in his
side. His older brother, Hugo, tells him
that he must grit his teeth and bear it,
no matter how painful it may be. Half
way to the castle where the ceremonies
are to take place he suffers such excru-
ciating pain that his companions inform
the Youth leader that he is in misery, but
Fritz informs the leader that he is all
right and continues on until they reach
their destination. Fritz goes through the
ceremony of pledging to give his life for
the Fuehrer after which he collapses and
is taken to the hospital where they dis-
cover that his appendix has burst.
In his delirium he Heils Hitler and is
happy to die for him. The doctor in charge
tells the grief-stricken parents that he will
die because he wants to die. His will to
live has given place to the will to die for
Hitler. This is not an isolated case accord-
ing to the physician.
Imagine indocrination of children that
causes them to overcome the first law of
nature—self preservation and the desire to
live.
Hitlerism stands convicted of being one
of the foulest movements in the history of
mankind because it has perverted children
and youth by giving them values that man-
kind has always considered as essentially
depraved and degenerate.
These children are taught to murder
and to welcome death if it will further

On Swallowing Pride

Lord Strabolgi, Labor peer, in a recent
speech advised Britain to pocket her pride
and agree to have the matter of India
arbitrated by President Roosevelt.
This is sound advice and should be
acted upon promptly. At such a critical
time as this, temporizing can cause irrep-
arable damage.
A picture of the situation in the Far
East is painted by one of the ablest and
most objective reporters of the Christian
Science Monitor, Joseph C. Harsch, in a
series of articles now appearing in that
periodical.
Mr. Harsch has spent recent months in
the Far East and speaks with the author-
ity of first hand information. He con-
cludes that the day of colonial status for
the colored races is gone forever.
These peoples have learned how to use
modern weapons and are consequently at
no disadvantage. They resent the overlord-
ship of the whites who exploited them but
never cooperated with them and at all
times treated them as inferiors.
He is certain that the debacles of Singa-
pore, Burma, Malay are directly traceable
to this colonial policy which created such
resentment and hostility to the white man
that the natives were just waiting for the
opportunity to help any invader.
He points out that the cooperating and
heroic conduct of the Filipinos was due
to the treatment they had received from
the United States. There were no Fifth
Columnists among them because they had
not felt that the Americans considered
them only fit for degrading and menial
tasks and not competent to govern them-
selves.
Mr. Amery, the secretary for India,
may believe that he settles the problem by
calling Gandhi an arch saboteur and
by putting him in jail. The British foreign
office may have thought that they had
scotched.Fifth Column activities in Burma
when they arrested the Burmese foreign
minister who was on his way home from
Britain to Burma.
The world now knows that the Bur-
mese had not been frightened or molli-
fied, and we may be equally certain that
the Indians are no more frightened or
mollified by the conduct of the British up
till now.
The former colonial people will wel-
come the white man if he comes there to
give these technologically and industrial
backward people the benefit of his knowl-
edge and experience. The white man will
be welcomed if he will treat the natives
not as a menial but as a human being with
the same capacities and potentialities as
he possesses.
To swallow ones pride in a critical situa-
tion such as this does not mean appease-
ment nor weakness. It means simply that
the parties to the controversy are willing
to discuss the matter and if, they cannot
reach a settlement then to submit the mat-
ter to those who are known to be fair,
unprejudiced and honest. There are such
men among the leaders of the United Na-
tions. These leaders do not want any-
thing to happen that may jeopardize their
cause or even that would delay its success-
ful achievement.
If our government leaders are hesitant
about the propriety of treading on the
sacred ground of sovereignty then they
should be invited by Britain to act as ar-
bitrators in this very important contro-
versy.

September 18. 1 9 42

PLAIN TALK

by AL SEGAL

“Who's Zilch?"

MR. SEGAL: Please tell
D EAR
us more about this Mr. Zilch

It's almost insulting. What'; th(.
boy doing in Australia? What's
who is frequently mentioned in the one in England doing? WM
your column. Where does he live? cares what Brooklyn did tod ay ?
What does he look like? What
Zilch shuts his eyes. Thank
sort of a family life has he? He goodness,
he thinks, there',: the
confuses ine. Sometimes he seems comfort of
this couch l•:!. It
a silly sort, at other times there keeps standing in its old
appears to be considerable merit the window. Almost evervi b y
in the Islam Let's have the real else in the
world has SliPPCd out
low-down on him—A. T. A. Phila• of place, as after a great earth-
delphia.
quake. The comfortable, sale old
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things of human existence lio
I am surprised to heti'. that A. heaped up in a horrible jumble,
T. T. doesn't know 'Mr. Zilch who and life itself has become onl y a
is a neighbor of his on Fantasist dime a dozen. It's like the old
Lane which runs west and gets books his wife swept out and
swallowed up in the sunset. If handed over to the second hand
A. T. T. will walk 23 steps (Iowa book man when she was cleaning
Fantasia Lane and then across house last spring. Ile paid her a
straight over he will come to Mr. dime a dozen for them. They
Zilch's modest house. It is the were laughter and love and labor
One with the box hedge and the and dreams being swept away at
petunias that grow along the bor- a dime a dozen.
der of the lawn. There is a mez-
But God's still in his old place,
uza on the doorpost.
too, Mr. Zilch thinks with a sud-
If the times is toward evening den pang of his conscience. He
Mr. Zilch will be on the lawn has kept on believing in God,
with the hose. He applies himself despite that from time to time
to the ritual of the hose as soon he discovers himself asking,
as dinner is over. He is punctil- "Where is God in all this?" and
ions about this he must be "Why isn't lie doing something
through with the hose in time for about it?"
the news broadcast that at 7:15
In these moments Zilch feels
takes him around the world.
convicted of blasphemy. Ile drives
The time he stretches himself the impious questions from his
on the couch in the living room mind. Yes, he says, it's a sin to
and tunes in, Mr. Zilch considers ask these questions. He tries to
the best moment of his day. The think of evidences of God he has
couch takes his bones and com- witnessed. Well, there is the law
poses them softly. The cushion of God in the perfection of his
under his head caresses his mind petunias this summer. He remem-
which is troubled enough: The bers that he started them from
way things are going in the world ugly, little brown seeds in the
. . . the way life has fallen into springtime and they have grown
fluttering tatters for people like up to be these lovely flowers on
bins so Into in their years; it had his lawn. He can't deny God in
been like a comfortable old suit this miracle.
God, he thinks, will come
. . . the dreadful things that have
fallen on Jews; there was a long through in time, as he (lid with
time in Mr. Zilch's life when be- the flowers. He remembers things
ing a Jew was nothing to worry he learned in the religious school;
the wrong-doers do get what's
about.
The soft couch takes hold of coming to them in the lohg run.
him gently and lulls his aching That's the experience of human
senses. Zilch lies there like one life. It's not just something
print in the school books.
suspended in an immense ham- printed
Fr om thinking on God Zilch
mock that swings between Aus-
tralia and England, as he listens co
being somehow
a •.mew? The
two matter
ideas art
to the world-wide broadcast. His cones
to the
of
life has been between these places pretty well mixed up together in
most of the time since we got into Isis mind, He is always conscious
the war. Australia is where his of a religious accent when he
older boy has been sent; -the thinks of the quality of being
Jewish.
younger one is in England.
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His wife has said that maybe
ESPITE what he is told, des-
they should give u p the house
they're in, now that the boys have
gone and the two girls are mar-
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along
with
us, that
tied. It's so full of poignant vac- 1.." pile the
many
hands
ancy, so loud with the echoes of "Mr.
pluck Zilch,
at his you
coat can
sleeves
be a "Mr.
real
Jew only
the children's laughter; the echoes Zilch'
come if you take up our
way," he is well satisfied with his
seem to be in all the corners,
own concept of being Jewish. His
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WHEN the world broadcast is ideas that to be a Jew is to be
over the announcers come in one who is obligated by principles
impudently with the baseball of his ancient faith to walk on
scores. Mr. Zilch tunes them out the highest way of personal and
resentfully. The hell with that.
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HE SHALL BE AVENGED

