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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

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Detroit Jewish Chronicle

9 1942

world has become of secondary import-
and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE
ance because the struggle has become one
Published Weekly by Jewish Chronicle Publishing Co., Inc. of self preservation and the problem of
JACOB H. SCHAKNE
justification to his own people, and the
President
JACOB MARGOLIS
Publisher-Editor
outside world has become relatively un-
important.
General Offices and Publication Bldg., 525 Woodward Ave.
by AL SEGAL
As long as German arms were going
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week.
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idea of a New Order recedes into the
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sibility for an endorsement of views expressed by its writers. problem of self-preservation becomes the
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Angeles, asks to know
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all-absorbing one.
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our town. (I wrote about our Al e
Entered es Second-class matter March 3, 1916, at the Post-
Hitler did not mention Versailles and town
town and the Jewish community ago. s were noble hints even years
office at Detroit, Mich., under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Their businesses,
the indignities, injustices and hardships in it the last time the last con- clothing manufacture and whole-
Sabbath Readings of the Law
the German people had to endure. This tingent of our boys were given
jobbing, were important lo-
Pentateuchal po•tion--Genesis 1.1--6.8
is a departure from the pattern of Hitler that happy send-off just before cal institutions around the time
Prophetical portion—I Samuel 20.18-42
speeches that is significant. Instead of the they went away to the Army.) of the Civil War. Their club life
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"I can't help but wonder if wits in a large handsome building
OCT. 9. 1942
TISHRI 28, 5703 repetition of incidents in the glorious past Avondale is fictitious or really downtown.
.._ of the German people he told his hearers an oasis in the American desert
f
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of the many successes of his armies since of bigotry and prejudice," Mr.
The American Press
the war began, and the pitiful failure of Wortsman writes. (Avondale is Y ES, IT'S and old Jewry that to
this day is consciou s
the suburb of our town in whicn
of its
President Roosevelt on the occasion of the enemy.
most of the Jewish community traditions and jealous to guard
It was a case of cumulative evidence lives.)
them faithfully, to live up to the
National Newspaper Week sent a message which by its very weight would carry con-
high-exemplar of its fathers. There
"Why not make it the subject ar
e
who say that these
to Vernon
T. Sanford
of chairman
the Oklahoma
Press
Association
and
of the viction. He did not convince and, if a guess for another column? I'm sure Jews critics
all right but that they
may be hazarded, he was not convinced your other readers would also aren't are
Newspaper Week Committee,
Jewish enough; that they
himself for he protested too much. The like to know more about it."
In this message the President said :
have no feeling of traditional
Well, yes: To begin with I Jewish life; that it is
evidence the German people want is the
I luite all
The observation of National Newspaper
should remark that it has been right for them to cultivate
the
defeat
of
Russians,
British
and
Americans.
Week after 10 months of war afford s an
said of our town that it contains symphony and the art museum,
They want peace and nothing short of it. the "best Jews" in America. I but what about the things of
opportunit y to rededicate ourselves to the
freedom that is as vital to us as our daily
There was the inevitable paragraph regard this as an insufferable Jewish culture?
piece of snobbery and an insult
bread—the freedom to think and speak and
about the Jew who would be exterminated to
They are eager and effective
all the other communities
write the truth as we see it. Our free press
because
he
is
responsible
for
the
spread-
of public
which, like us, have their saints champions
leaders—but
their education—
critics are
has not only survived—it is an essential part
ing
of
the
war.
and
sinners,
too.
of the steadying ballast which enables our
saddened to observe that they
ship to ride the storm.
The German workers are threatened
Yet it must be confessed that: d o't n care muc abo
hs.
h yeshiva
ut
War imposes grave new responsibilitie s on
we
do
have
a
rare
community
It
with swift and inexorable punishment for
is said that their Judaism is
all of us, but upon no public servant does
sabotage.
that goes far back to the time only a attenuated copy of tradi-
the responsibility for truth and integrity rest
of the German-Jewish immigra- tional Jewish religion as observed
Joseph
Goebbels
appealed
to
the
neu-
more heavily than upon the press. Theirs is
tion in the 1840's and '50's. The in the Orthodox synagogues,
trals to join with the Reich if they want boast of superiority, while quite If they bothered to reply they
the duty of keeping the people fully and
truly informed. Their correspondents are
to enjoy the fruits of a victory over Bol- out of order, has to do with a would say that they regard them-
braving enemy fire to send back the story
shevism and plutocracy. This, too, is a lofty respectability that is an selves as satisfactory Jews; that
of far-off battles. Their editors and pub-
distinction in the Jewish it is being Jewish enough to
straw in the wind. In the heydey of their old
lishers are deeply aware of their responsi-
community of our town. carry the Jewish name
military
successes
the
German
armies
in honor
bility for the faithful presentation of the
Respectability is an ambiguous to the works of the general corn-
news.
marched into neutral lands and "pro- word
that is more often applied munity, that it is the height of
The American people are vigilant of their
tected" them from plutocracy and Bol- to outward
seeming than to in- being Jewish to serve unselfishly
precious heritage of a free press. They will
shevism. That is too dangerous a method ward reality. It has often to do for the common good of the
permit neither its corruption nor its perver-
today so they are importunated for their with high hats and box seats at whole town; that being Jewish
sion for selfish ends. They will contin ue to
the opera. Respectability in this is not a self-service that con-
own
good to jump on the band wagon of Jewish
regard it as their strong right hand in war
community of our town cerns itself with Israel alone but
the New Order.
as in peace. I believe that their confidence
has been a sort of inner grace; no chiefly a mission at the common
will be justified.
Goering was more blunt and direct pretense masked by stone facades altar.
than the other two. He told the German and high hedges.
They could say they have done
The American press can be counted people that the armies would spend an-
It is a respectability that is
troubled
about
a
man's
decent
well
for the honor of the Jewish
upon to continue to assume responsibility other winter in Russia but it would be
in society; this is to say, name in our town : The way they
for truth and integrity in the reporting better than last year. The German people place
that large and broad social group have served honorably in the
of the news and in its comment on it as were promised fractional increases in called
mankind. It is concerned cleaner element of our local poll-
long as it is permitted to do so.
the way they have been in
food rations at the expense of the people with sound duties with the obli- tics;
We have learned after ten months of of the occupied countries, and they were gation of every Jew to honor the leadership of municipal ro-
form; the way they have been
war that the number of subversive peri- further promised that when the Russians the Jewish name by high-minded indefatigable
to set our town
personal and social conduct, with
odicals was negligible and even these were fully liquidated that the Lutwaffe taking a large, effective and un- high among the more righteoos
were subsidized by the Nazi-Fascists, for- would take up its task of destroying selfish part in the affairs of the American communities; the way
they have given generously of
eign and domestic. Britain. This last promise was made in general community.
These people have carried their wealth and zeal to public
The American press believes that the the belief that the masses of German
and social services;
cause of the Allies is just, but it wants people feel as do the Gestapo and Black gracefully the outward symbols 7 philanthropies
that are supposed to go with the way they have been foremost
to maintain its right to freely criticize, Guards who applauded a similar remark being highly respectable. Far in all things for the social good.
condemn, approve and applaud those who of Hitler's most vociferously.
back they lived in austere stone
See SEGAL—Page 9
are in responsible positions, for the press
The German people are not sadistic
believes implicitly that its first responsi- monsters as are the picked Gestapo and
bility is to the readers, and that respon- Black Guards, so it is doubted that they
sibility means honesty, reportorially • and applauded as did the picked gangsters at
editorially.
the Sportspalast.
Will the German people continue to
fight for self-preservation under Nazi
Hitler et al Speak!
rule? If the evidence of American cor-
Since Dec. 7, 1941, we have had to respondents is credible and has any
depend upon correspondents of neutral weight, we say they will not, if they be
countries or upon the Nazis themselves to assured that the United Nations have no
learn the state of the Third Reich. With intentions of imposing a vindictive and
the best intentions in the world the neutral unjust peace upon them.
correspondents can but give the news
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that the censors allow them to report.
When one reads a Stockholm, Ankara, The Zionist Convention
Berne or Vichy report one does not know
The Zionist Organization of America
how much is news, consequently we are will hold its convention in New York
becoming more dependent upon Nazi pro- City Oct. 14-18.
nouncements which we are compelled to
This gathering will be faced with im-
analyze, explain and interpret if we are portant problems and their proper solu-
to understand
ler's
paradise. what is happening in Hit- tion will require statesmanship of a high
order as well as patience and tolerance
Hitler opened the speech-making with for minority and dissident views.
the inauguration of the winter fund col-
American Zionists are today the largest
lection and was followed by Goebbels and, and most influential group in the World
to make sure nothing was omitted, Goer- Zionist movement and, consequently, de-
ing delivered one of his masterpieces.
cisions made here will have an enormous
All three speeches are very significant bearing on Agency and World Zionist
and careful examination reveals funda- orientation.
mental changes in Germany.
Above all, the need for cooperation
To say that Hitler in his last speech among all organizations is of immense
was on the defensive and did not brag importance in the matter of personnel
and boast may mean that he has changed and demands to be made to the Peace Con-
his style. The speech, however, reveals ference if and when held.
that a profound change has taken place
Jewish-British and Jewish-Arab reta-
s o 0".11111°.
in his attitude, and this change has been tions will require realistic and careful
MAU yCV DO/It 7Ni:0
brought about by the rapid worsening handling. They should, and we are cer-
—Detroit sir raid wardens are urging 'serf
and deterioration of the battle front as tain they will be, fully and freely dis-
hemeeholder to clean out his attic and besement this seek
well as the home front.
Fir. Privietien mak, lertgUlan..-this le TOTAL EAR. and incendiary
so that the and
decisions
will be
His talk was confined to the home front cussed
the deliberate
sound made
judgment
of
boobs fall oe homes and ear
ciente alit.. Protect your family
and to that front exclusively. The outside the majority of the delegates.
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