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6, 1942
AN AIR RAID WARDEN APPEALS TO
THE JEWS OF DETROIT AND AMERICA
By JEAN FEIGELMAN, Second Lieutenant
First Regiment, Women's Air Raid Warden
How I regret to find it neces- this war, and banish Anti-Semit-
:.ary to write this article.
ism from the face of this earth.
HITLER IS KNOCKING AT Of our men we are giving un-
OUR DOOR!
sparingly, we give more than
our
share of money. How about
How many of my Jewish sis-
ters and brothers really believe some Of our time? To make our
lives, our children's, and our
that. How many, in spite of the neighbors lives more secure. You
fact that thousands of Jewish know that modern war is fought
young men are daily leaving to on more than one front. One of
join the armed forces of this these will be an effort by our
wonderful country, realize how enemies to strike terror in our
close the dreaded monster is to hearts by bombing the civil pop-
our front door? How many fully ulation. We must be prepared to
appreciate that the bombings awl repel such an attack. And one
terror experienced in England way to do it is to become an Air
i»ay become a reality in our be- Raid Warden. All one needs to do
loved city of Detroit? How many to become an Air Raid Warden
know that one enemy bomber can is register at the nearest office
set over 3000 fires at one visit? of Civilian Defense usually lo-
Just imagine what would happen cated in a public High School
to our City if 10 of these bomb- building or at the downtown office
ers should visit us! It seems im- in the Barium Hotel, 111 Cadillac
possible that this can happen to Square. It requires only 30 hours
us, but we also thought that of your time. 20 hours of Air
Pearl Harbor couldn't happen. Raid work and 10 hours of first
You might say, "We have an aid work. There are day and
O.C.D. with an organization to night classes, 2 hours each, twice
protect you against the hazards weekly. We also have a Women's
of such an occasion." Yes, we marching team. In this group of
have but such an organization about 90 women we have about
needs thousands of workers. Yes, a dozen Jewish women. We ai.e
we have some, but we need more, taught to take and give o•de•s.
many more, thousands of men We are taught discipline. This
and women who will know what part of the organization is not
to do in an emergency. All of you compulsory. But believe me ,it is
know that Hitler blames this war good for you. Come Join Our
on the Jews. All of you know Organization! Be one of us! we
that should we lose this war there need your help! All we ask of
will be no more Jewish Race. you is your time, and that only
This is our fight for survival. to teach you how to take care of
Therefore we must, more than yourself and your loved ones in
any other nationality give a case of an emergency. Join now!
greater percentage of everything, Don't wait till tomorrow! It may
men, work, and money to win be too late.
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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
TABLE TALK
Notable Quotes of the Week
UNITY
"We must not only seek unity
within our national borders, but
we must safeguard that unity
with the right motives. Through
fear and hatred of a foreign foe
we may secure a temporary amity
between management and labor,
between farm bloc and city con-
sumer, between Negro and white,
between Jew and Gentile, be-
tween Romanist and Protestant.
"But fear is a stimulant which
eventually weakens, and hatred
can easily become a boomerang.
If all that unites us now as Amer-
icans is the threat of foreign
danger, then beware of what will
happen when the war is over.
Our fears and hatreds may turn
in on ourselves and we shall have
a revival of the Ku Klux Klanism
Which disgraced our country after
the last war."
—Rev. Rr. Ralph W. Sockman.
FRENCH CHURCH PROTESTS
VICHY POLICY
"Without ignoring or misunder-
standing the extreme complexity
of the situation wherein the au-
thorities find themselves, the Re-
formed Church of France cannot,
however, further remain silent
before the sufferings of thousands
of human beings who have re-
ceived asylum on our soil.
"The Christian Church would
have lost its soul and reason for
existence if it did not maintain
that divine law is above all hu-
man contngencies. And that di-
vine law does not permit that
families created by God shall be
broken up, children separated
from their mothers, the right of
asylum and its compassion be un-
recognized, the respect of the
human person transgressed and
beings without defense delivered
to tragic fates.
"The church demands of the
faithful to bend with the com-
passion of the good before the
distress of those who suffer and
to intercede without pause be-
fore God, who alone can deliver
us from all ills."
—National Council of the
Reformed Church of France.
RELIGION AND DEMOCRACY
"Religion, whether it be Pro-
testant, Catholic or Jewish, holds
that the individual is fundamen-
tally important because he is the
child of God. It maintains that
this status gives him inherent
rights which no man-made gov-
ernment can deny.
"There is great danger that a
nation which fails to maintain an
active religion will have equally
little interest in protecting that
individuality of its citizens which
is so vital an attribute of de-
mocracy.
"Without religious idealism to
give it character in times of
stress, a nation will tend almost
inevitably to fall under the sway
of totalitarianism as the easiest
method of meeting emergencies."
—Governor Lehman.
Youthful Composers
Appear at Library
Children's Festival
Music written by children un-
der the age of 16 and performed
by the composers was heard
Friday, Nov. 4, at the first of two
children's festival concerts, given
at the Detroit Public Library
Main Branch.
Children's festival concerts are
presented by the Detroit Public
Library, and will be directed by
Mary Carrick. The festival ex-
hibit of children's art, showing
examples of original work by
children in music, painting and
the crafts, will continue through
November, and includes music
published by three young Detroit
musicians. "A Spanish Dance" by
Sara Di Gaetano; Harriet Latt's
book, "A Child's Music Hour,"
and "A Patchwork of Pieces" by
Helga Martin, are displayed.
Youthful composers and musi-
cians who will be heard on
the program include Gerald-
ine Posen, Ralph Butler, Joseph
Silverstein, Leanore Grisail, Re-
vah LaMed, Helga Martin, Har-
riet Latt, Stanleigh Goldberg,
Eada Rubenstein, Eli Kuhl, Har-
riet Lewis, Sara Di Gaetano,
Betty Kowalski, Kurt Saffir, and
Yehudi Weiner, son of the Jew-
ish composer, Lazar Weiner of
New York City.
The second children's festival
concert, to be given next Friday
evening, Nov. 13, will present
the youthful works of Mozart,
Beethoven, Chopin and Shostako-
vich, as well as of the Michi-
gan composers, Julius Chajes and
Clark Eastham. Mozart's first
symphony will be performed by
the Michigan Concert Orchestra
under the direction of Valter
Poole. Three Fantastic Dances,
opus 1, of Shostakovich, will be
played by Mary Carrick, pianist.
Musicians and teachers whose
students appear at the children's
festival include Julius Chajes,
Rebecca Frohman, Edith Ella
Davis, Florence Kutzen, Karl W.
Haas, Mrs. Rose Rubenstein,
Bernard Silverstein and Mary
Carrick.
—BUY WAR BONDS—
Sholom Aleichem All-Day
Indoor Picnic on Nov. 8
Robert St. John, NBC
War Commentator, To
Speak
Here Nov. 10
The Sholom Aleichem Reading
J. Q. Mayne to Address
Bnai Brith Convention
Circles that support the cause
The People of England are de-
of Yiddish Education through the manding that their government
make life tougher for them and
demanding the privilege of suffer-
ing and dying on a second front,"
says Robert St. John, N. B. C.
commentator and author of From
IDA KOMOROFF
Chairman of Committee
Sholom Aleichem Folk Schools,
will hold an all-day Indoor Pic-
nic, from 12 noon to 12 mid-
night on Sunday, Nov. 8 at the
Workman's Educational Circle,
11535 Linwood Ave.
A varied assortment of home-
cooked food will be served,
that will please the palate of
everyone Prices reasonable. Bring
family and friends. A fine pro-
gram will be presented in the
evening.
N. Woodward J.W.E.W.O.
The North Woodward Branch
of the Jewish Women European
Welfare organization will meet
at the home of Mrs. Phil Gurwith,
2481 Calvert, on Tuesday, Nov. 10,
at 12:30 to make final arrange-
ments for the 10th annual donor
luncheon to be held at the Shaa•ey
Zedek an Tuesday, Dec. 1. Mrs.
S. M. Show, general chairman
asked for cooperation from mem-
bers and friends to call and make
reservations early. Mrs. Anna
Goldberg, president, TY. 7-6410,
or Mrs. A. Glecher, co-chairman,
TO. 5-5165 will accept recerva-
tions.
Mrs. Ida Schultz, treasurer of
the donor luncheon and chairman
of the Ida Schultz Mezzuza Fund
will gratefully accept names for
Mezzuzas to be sent to boys in
service and their names to be
put on honor page in booklet. For
information, call Mrs. Schultz,
TO. 8-0394. Members as well as
non-members are privileged to
call.
The film "'T'h'e World We
Want To Live In" published by
the National Conference of Chris-
tians and Jews, parent organiza-
tion of the Detroit Round Table
of Catholics, Jews and Protes-
tants will be shown at the Mich-
the Land of the Silent People, igan State Convention of Bnai
who will discuss "The World at Brith on Sunday, Nov. 8 at 3:00
War" on Tuesday evening, Nov. p. m. in Bay City, Mich. Joseph
10 at 8:30 at the Art Institute Q. Mayne, executive secretary of
the Detroit Round Table will
auditorium.
"I spent the past year trying speak, following the showing of
to get to know the little people the film on "The American Dream
of England," St. John continues. World Wide."
Edgar Guest, noted author
"From my contacts with them I
believe they feel very deeply whose poems are published in
about the fact that their govern- many American newspapers has
ment has not yet considered it accepted the Protestant co-chair-
possible to open the second front. manship of the Detroit Round
and
I watched the spirit of England Table of Catholics, Jews
He will succeed
change from we can take it' to Protestants.
a very offensive spirit. I've seen Howard C. Baldwin. Mr. Hubert
tens of thousands of people gath- O'Brien and Henry Wineman will
ered in the public squares dem- continue as Catholic and Jewish
onstrating and demanding more Co-Chairmen.
Mr. Guest will be presented
offensive spirit on the part of
at a goodwill luncheon to be held
the government."'
St. John expects to return to in the Jade Room of the Detroit
Leland Hotel, Nov. 23, at 12:00
the British Front before long.
noon by Howard C. Baldwin whom
he succeeds in office. Mr. Guest
Aesculapian Auxiliary
will preside at the luncheon and
present as speakers an outstand-
Dinner-Dance Nov. 11
ing trio of clergymen who have
The gala event of the season come to Detroit within the past
will be the Aesculapean Ladies' year. The speakers will be:
Auxiliary annual dinner dance, Msgr. Allen Babcock of Blessed
to be held next Wednesday, Nov. Sacrament Cathedral, Dr. B. Bene-
11, 1942, at Northwood Inn. diet Glazer of Temple Beth El
The chairman, Mrs. Harry Per- and Dr. Herbert Beecher of
nick, and her co-chairmen, Mes- Woodward Avenue Presbyterian
dames David Bez, A. W. Klein, Church. The luncheon will be
and Al Rozzin are completing the open to the public. For reserva-
final arrangements for a very so- tions call CA. 6449 or write, 907
ciable evening for all our guests. Washington Blvd. Bldg.
A copy of our souvenir booklet
will be left with each couple at
Neugarten Sunshine Club
the dinner.
For any further .reservations, To Hold Victory Rally
please phone Mrs. David Bez, HO.
The ways and means committee
2661, or Mrs. R. W.Klein, UN.
was entertained at a tea given at
2-8846, the ticket chairmen, •
the home of Mrs. Morton L. Sny-
der, president. Final plans for
the forthcoming donor luncheon
Dr. John Dorsey To
to be held at the Book-Cadillac
hotel on Nov. 18 were discussed.
Address Big Sisters of
An added impetus will be given
Council of Women
to insure an all-out record at-
tendance for the donor luncheon,
The members of the Big Sis- when the Neugarten Sunshine
ter committee of the National Club holds its Variety Rally on
Council of Jewish Women are Friday, Nov. 13.
looking forward to a luncheon •Mrs. Lester Smith, luncheon
meeting on Nov. 11, at the chairman, announces that enter-
Jewish Community Center. At tainment will be furnished, and
this time, Dr. John Dorsey, prom- an afternoon of games to follow.
inent Detroit psychiatrist, will All paid up pledges are invited
speak to them on the subject of to attend.
"Adolescence". Because of his
For those interested in earning
extensive association with the their pledges by rummaging, Mrs.
Juvenile Court and the Children's Charles Hyman, chairman, an-
Center, Dr. Dorsey offers to this nounces there are still available
group not only valuable informa- dates. Please call TO. 8-9787 for
tion, but a stimulating topic. reservations.
SAM'S
presents
Sunday Night, 6 to 7 o'Clock
The Detroit Orchestra
VICTOR KOLAR, Conducting
The fourth in a series of 21 broadcasts,
by the Symphony Orchestra, held in the
interests of the United States Treasury
for the promotion of U. S. War Bonds
and Stamps.
GUEST SPEAKER
On Behalf of the War Effort
Joseph C. Grew
Former Ambassador to Japan
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