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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

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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
P ublished Weekly by Jewish Chronicle Publishing Co., Inc. only in terms of death. Murder and im-
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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Not since Islam swept the East in the
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'acts 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 portion—Deut. 31.
In truth no animal is so ferocious as
Prophetical portion—Hos. 14:2-10; Joel 2:15-17.
Yom Kippur Morning Readings, Monday Sept. 21 youth indocrinated with such diabolical
Pentateuchal portion—Lev. 16; Num. 29:7-11. and perverted ideas as those of Hitler
youth.
Prophetical portion—Isiah 52:15-53:14.

Yom Kippur Afternoon Readings

On Swallowing Pride

Pentateuchal portion—Lev. 18.
Prophetical portion—Jonah.

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.
Yom Kippur
This is sound advice and should be
Israel will observe Yom Kippur, the acted upon promptly. At such a critical
Day of Atonement, on Monday, Sept. 21. time as this, temporizing can cause irrep-
It is not unseemly to ask why all of hu- arable damage.
manity does not observe a day of atone-
A picture of the situation in the Far
ment at least once a year. The need for a East is painted by one of the ablest and
day of expiation is particularly apt this most objective reporters of the Christian
year when all the hatreds, resentments, Science Monitor, Joseph C. Harsch, in a
greeds, hostilities, distrusts and suspicions series of articles now appearing in that
have ripened to the bursting point.
periodical.
If man had observed a day of stock-
Mr. Harsch has spent recent months in
taking once a year for the last quarter the Far East and speaks with the author-
century many may have stopped in their ity of first hand information. He con-
mad scramble for power, pelf, prestige cludes that the day of colonial status for
and position and perhaps would have the colored races is gone forever.
evaluated men, events and things in a
These peoples have learned how to use
different way. Certainly the day of atone-
ment and of asking for forgiveness would modern weapons and are consequently at
not have done any of the nations and peo- no disadvantage. They resent the overlord-
ples any hurt. Surely, Israel is the better ship of the whites who exploited them but
for this stock-taking; this atonement; this never cooperated with them and at all
asking for forgiveness for his transgres- times treated them as inferiors.
He is certain that the debacles of Singa-
sions and wrong doings.
It is our fervent hope that Israel and pore, Burma, Malay are directly traceable
humanity will have less to atone for next to this colonial policy which created such
resentment and hostility to the white man
Yom Kippur.
that the natives were just waiting for the
opportunity to help any invader.
He points out that the cooperating and
Indoctrination
heroic conduct of the Filipinos was due
When one reads that German soldiers to the treatment they had received from
Heil Hitler when they are about to die the United States. There were no Fifth
on the battlefield it may well be believed, Columnists among them because they had
according to Sigrid Schultz, an Ameri- not felt that the Americans considered
can correspondent for many years in Ber- them only fit for degrading and menial
lin.
tasks and not competent to govern them-
In a repeat broadcast over Mutual net- selves.
Mr. Amery, the secretary for India,
work on Sunday, Sept. 12, on "The Enemy
We Fight", she tells a tale of indocrina- may believe that he settles the problem by
tion of Hitler youth that seems to us well calling Gandhi an arch saboteur and
nigh incredible.
by putting him in jail. The British foreign
The story is that of the Becker family office may have thought that they had
and their two sons Hugo 16, and Fritz 10. scotched,Fifth Column activities in Burma
Fritz goes on a 20-mile hike to be sworn when they arrested the Burmese foreign
into the Hitler Youth. On the eve of his minister who was on his way home from
departure he complains of a pain in his Britain to Burma.
The world now knows that the Bur-
side. His older brother, Hugo, tells him
that he must grit his teeth and bear it, mese had not been frightened or molli-
no matter how painful it may be. Half fied, and we may be equally certain that
way to the castle where the ceremonies the Indians are no more frightened or
are to take place he suffers such excru- mollified by the conduct of the British up
ciating pain that his companions inform till now.
the Youth leader that he is in misery, but
The former colonial people will wel-
Fritz informs the leader that he is all come.the white man if he comes there to
right and continues on until they reach give these technologically and industrial
their destination. Fritz goes through the backward people the benefit of his knowl-
ceremony of pledging to give his life for edge and experience. The white man will
the Fuehrer after which he collapses and be welcomed if he will treat the natives
is taken to the hospital where they dis- not as a menial but as a human being with
cover that his appendix has burst.
the same capacities and potentialities as
In his delirium he Heils Hitler and is he possesses.
happy to die for him. The doctor in charge
To swallow ones pride in a critical situa-
tells the grief-stricken parents that he will tion such as this does not mean appease-
die because he wants to die. His will to ment nor weakness. It means simply that
live has given place to the will to die for the parties to the controversy are willing
Hitler. This is not an isolated case accord- to discuss the matter and if they cannot
ing to the physician.
reach a settlement then to submit the mat-
ter
to those who are known to be fair,
Imagine indocrination of children that
causes them to overcome the first law of unprejudiced and honest. There are such
nature—self preservation and the desire to men among the leaders of the United Na-
tions. These leaders do not want any-
live.
thing
to happen that may jeopardize their
Hitlerism stands convicted of being one
or even that would delay its success-
of the foulest movements in the history of cause
ful achievement.
mankind because it has perverted children
If our government leaders are hesitant
and youth by giving}them values that man-
about
the propriety of treading on the
kind has always considered as essentially
sacred ground of sovereignty then they
depraved and degenerate.
should be invited by Britain to act as ar-
These children are taught to murder bitrators in this very important contro-
and to welcome death if it will further versy.

SEPTEMBER IA.

1942

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TISHRI 7, 5703

Septemba IS,

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PLAIN TALK

by AL SEGAL

"

Who's Zilch?"

DEAR MR. SEGAL: Please tell It's almost insulting. Wh a c s

the
1.-/ us more about this Mr. Zilch boy doing in Australia? kVhat's
who is frequently mentioneill ivein ? (t.haeresonNevh:liti 113.;nrgoolaktil;i n d(:i ii :r, I ' ,,i‘ l s. a,y h (?)
your t column.
(ioshlieVhleoroek does he what
Zilch shuts his eyes. Thank
sort of a family life has he? He goodness, he thinks, ther,• . ,
thi;
l
confuses me. Sometimes he seems comfort of this couch
I,,rt.
a silly sort, at other tunes there keeps standing in its old place In
l i tappt e la w rs at ta o a.beLtc,t o ,s nsiii i lte w ri t . iblt(h eins t:trltti the window. Almost evervthini
else in the world has slipp:,1 out
low-down on hint—A. T. A. Phila. of place, as after a great earth-
delphia•
quake. The comfortable, safe old
I
f I
things of human existence lie
I am surprised to hear that A. heaped up in a horrible e iiiiii.nbolit:.
T. T. doesn't know . Mr. Zilch who and life itself has become only a 1
is a neighbor of his on Fantasia dime a dozen. It's like
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 down book man when she was cleaning
Fantasia Lane and then across house last spring. He paid her a
straight over he will come to Mr, dune 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 Ile 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. He 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. Ile 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
him so lato in their years; it had his lawn. Ile 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 did 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 long 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
suspended in an immense ham- printed in the school books.
From thinking on God Zilch
mock that swings between Aus-
tralia and England, as he listens comes somehow to the matter of
to the world-wide broadcast. His being a Jew? The two ideas ar,.
life has been between these places pretty well mixed up together in
most of the time since we got into his mind. He is always conscious
the war. Australia is where his of is religious accent when he
older boy has been sent; t h e thinks of the quality of being
gift
Jewish.
younger one is in England.
f f f
His wife has said that maybe
they should give up the house DESPITE what he is told, des
pite the ni any hands that
they're in, now that the boys hav e
gone and the two girls are mar- pluck at his coat sleeves "Mr.
or
tied. It's so full of poignant vac-Ztich,
ancy, so loud with the echoes of "Mr. Zilch, you can be a real
the children's laughter; the echoes Jew
Zilch,
come
with up
us," our
only
if along
you take
" he is well satisfied with his
, w , „ ay,
seem to be in all the corners.
: Jewish. His
.
_n i ipt of being
1 I
f
o ,:uc,oe
over the
the world
announcers
come
be
WHEN
broadcast
is in ideas that to be a Jew is to cipl
e s
h is s obligpr
by in
lk o
of his ancient faith to wa lk
impudently with the baseball uw
scores. Mr. Zilch tunes them out the highest way of personal ai
resentfully. The hell with that.
See SEGAL—Page 13

HE SHALL BE AVENGED

