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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

NovemEer

Detroit Jewish Chronicle

and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE

Published Weekly by Jewish Chronicle Publishing Co., Inc.

JACOB H. SCHAKNE
JACOB MARGOLIS

Pres.•Gen. Mgr.
Publisher-Editor

General Offices and Publication Bldg., 525 Woodward Ave.

Telephone: CAdillac 1040 Cable Address: Chronicle
Subscription in Advance
$3.00 Per Yea;

To insure publication, all correspondence and news matte!

oust reach this office by Tuesday evening of each week
Nhen mailing notices, kindly use one side of paper only.

the Detroit Jewish Chronicle invites correspondence on sub.
:ects of interest to the Jewish people, but disclaims respon.
sibility for en endorsement of views expressed by its writers.

Then, too, the streamlined War Chest
drive makes for greater efficiency at a
time when efficiency and prevention of
duplication of effort are of prime im-
portance.
As a contributor you should co-operate
with the worker, who may call upon you,
by giving him or her your pledge the
first time you are called upon. These men
and women are people who are otherwise
engaged in many useful, important and
necessary tasks. The sooner this job is
successfully concluded, the sooner will
they be able to return to their every-
day jobs.

Entered es Second-class matter March 3, 1916, et the Post-
office et Detroit, Mich., under the Act of March 3, 1879.

Sabbath Readings of the Law

Atlantic Charter Covers the World

Pentateuchal portion—Genesis 23.1--25.18.
Prophetical portion—I Kings 1.1-31.

Wendell Willkie no doubt knew that
the Atlantic Charter was descriptive of
the place where it was conceived, pro-
NOVEMBER 6. 1942
HESHVAN 26. 5703
mulgated and signed. But it is well that
he asked about the Pacific, for it is in the
Pacific that the United Nations must
Churchill Makes Amends
show by their works that their professions
Winston Churchill asserted in a recent of belief of freedom and equality are
speech that the barbaric and cruel doc- genuine.
trines and practices of anti-Semitism
President Roosevelt made it clear, as all
would not obtain in the world after the knew he would, that the Atlantic Charter
war.
covers the whole world and not only
Had the leaders of the United Nations Europe and the Americas.
taken this stand in 1933, when Adolf
The first step taken as an earnest that
Hitler came to power, the history of Eu- we mean to implement our assurance was
rope may have been different. They had the renunciation of extraterritoriality in
ample precedent for such a declaration, China by Britain and us. Skeptics and
for the United States protested the Rus- cynics may pooh pooh this action, for they
sian Czarist pogroms upon several occa- will say that we and Britain have re-
sions.
nounced something we do not have, inas-
They chose not to follow these prece- much as the areas where we and Britain
dents for reasons that seemed good and exercised extraterritorialty are now in
adequate to them. Nothing can now be the hands of the Japanese.
gained by indulging in the pastime of
If there were merit to this contention
what might have been. They probably it would be tantamount to saying that
realize that the policy was wrong and the United Nations have reconciled them-
now propose to make amends.
selves to the idea that those parts of
Britain has an opportunity on the 25th China now in Japanese hands are to be-
anniversary of the Balfour Declaration come permanently Japanese. No one is so
to make its position clear on Palestine. fatuous that he could possibly believe
This document has caused no end of mis- this to be the case. The United Nations
understanding. It has been interpreted to are irrevocably committed to the propo-
suit the exigencies of the particular occa- sition that all the territory taken by
sion and consequently has satisfied no- Japan must be returned to the countries
to which these territories belonged.
body.
This renunciation is an action of au-
It may be true that the language of
diplomacy is intended to confuse and mys- thentic good will and indicates that our
tify, but yet a matter such as a legally orientation in the Pacific is but the begin-
assured homeland for the Jews in Pal- ning toward the fulfillment of all the
estine can be stated in such clear, under- humane promises of the Atlantic Charter.
standable and explicit language that even
If the United Nations would work out
the layman should be able to under- a formula to settle the Indian affair, then
stand it.
will the skeptics and cynics be silenced.
Let us hope that this mood of Churchill We are still hopeful that such a formula
continues and that we may have a defi- will be found.
nite pronouncement to settle once and
for all the meaning of the Balfour Dec-
laration.
Is Yiddish Dying?

The Detroit War Chest

The Metropolitan War Chest of Detroit
is the United Nations in action. This is a
world community fund drive.
It should make for better understand-
ing, for when people with diverse back-
grounds and traditions are united in a
common effort with a common goal, they
get to know each other better, with the
result that many misconceptions and
prejudices are dispelled.
Aside from the immediate task of re-
lieving the needy, the injured, the weary
and depressed, the wanderers, we are
all faced with the future task of trying
to prevent a recurrence of another global
cataclysm such as has overtaken our
world.
The peoples of the United Nations as
well as those men and women of good
will who by accident of birth are of the
enemy nations have an opportunity to
prove that they are in earnest about this
business of making this world of ours a
place where freedom and equality are
facts and not just fancies which they
hope will materialize at some future date.
We who live in America and Detroit
are to date the fortunate ones. The hor-
rors of war have not touched our shores
and we hope that we shall be spared the
tragedy that has been visited upon the
less fortunate of Europe, Asia and Africa
and the Pacific Islands. If we properly ap-
preciate our blessings and good fortune
we can prove it to our Allies by giving as
much as we can to relieve their distress;
to rehabilitate and succor them in their
hour of need.

According to latest census figures,
1,750,000 Jews among the 4,700,000 in the
United States stated that Yiddish was
their primary and secondary language.
This fact is viewed with dismay by
those who believe that all peoples should
speak only English, and with equal dis-
may by those who believe that all Jews
should read, write and speak Yiddish.
It really should not cause dismay in either
camp. It should be accepted as evidence
of the vitality of a language and a culture
that is struggling for existence.
Fortunately this struggle for existence
can be carried on in a milieu where the
scales are not weighted for or against.
In the United States one may carry on
cultural activities without official hin-
drance or opposition. One is not considered
a hyphenated American because he speaks
French, Italian, Yiddish, Danish or any
other language. Any group may wear the
costumes, put on spectacles and stage
plays, publish periodicals, write books,
enjoy the cooking, of the land of their
nativity or that of their parents, without
arousing any suspicion as to the sound-
ness of their Americanism.
Yiddish is not dying. Yiddish literature,
drama, poetry, of high quality, all attest
to its vitality and pervasiveness.
And what is more: A language that en-
ables millions of people all over the world
to communicate with each other has good
cause for continuing to exist. Any organ-
ism that functions satisfactorily will live
despite the fact that some are displeased
and dissatisfied.
We have heard reports of the imminent
demise of Yiddish for 30 years, but the
report seems premature.

' +42

PLAIN TALK

by AL SEGAL

I

"Parade''

rrlIE OTHER SUNDAY MR. the Catholics in an asseid.
of
L Segal marched with the Catho- faith in the eternal God
lies of his town in their Holy Jew's sons;
scs
m eg gai i nsp N va
i ris ng gi th :i. r.
of
Name parade. He happened to be
l o in bata is tsig th ne mep n t t ira asderep ao ar(t i era tocw
atth i a te .
be
marching
along. Since, as

lie friend, Mr. Horback, said come b they
od- ithilsrchseall-,sel. brotherhodd '
march along with us.
na rv;t-
come out of these dreadful times
" 1 %1 ' W r.illiita hiehyaelk et
r e tw e d into tih f i s h ? e "
in
s h)ter t;p now.
sanoj
It was all right to
hIItg . absr:as
r
start
thought the question were insult- 1
ing, H e is a gentleman who day of mankind's big parade. M
split theological hairs. He Segal's heart likes to go questing r.
knows God is everybody's Father on brave dreams. His feet were
and why shouldn't a Jew march stepping high.
along with Catholics who were
What does a Jew think
• k adou,.
1 i
honoring His Holy Name.
when he marches in a Catholic
(The brotherhood might come parade? Mr. Segal himself is a
much more quickly if proud and fellow whose connection with the
jealous theologians of all varities Jewish press has directed
mind
would let us all alone and not toward a talent for making his
a Jew-
confuse our simple hearts.)
ish problem almost out of every
Mr. Hogback seemed to be feel- situation. He was, in fact, giving
ing more brotherly than usual on his mind earnestly and Jewishly
t his occasion, since he was about to this matter of his marching
to go marching for the sake of the with the Catholics.
Fatherhood of God. He took Se- First of all, he was wondering
n
gal's arm . . . "Come"
how ma ny Jews could be go tten
"All right!"
out for a parade or for any other
Mr. Segal thought it , was a religious concept. (Being . a man
.. who doesn't like to specialize in
grand idea, a Jew marching with
the faults of f Jews he was
' ' also
the Catholics for the sake of the
.
wondering.
Holy Name! True, the Catholics
, . , ., how many Protestants
%%num
rise
up
to
march
for
God
included Jews in the Goodhood
but Mr. Segal couldn't quarrel on a Sunday, or , for that matter,
with that. What difference did it any other day.
These were 50.000 Catholics
make anyway that some men said
God was this and other men said marching for God. Mr. Segal could
God was that, if they all agreed well guess that it would be an
on the point that God was the exceptional victory for God if
Father in whom was the light of 1,000 of the 20,000 Jews of his
all good and whose loving kind- town came out in the bright sun-
ness was for all the children light of an October day, to make
whether they were white or black a public showing for God.
A A A
or whether they believed this or
that of Him.
Mr. Ho•back pinned on Segal HE GUESSED THAT IF IT
were proposed to have a Jew-
the badge of the Church of Our
Mothers of Sorrows of which he ish parade for God controversy
is a parishioner. Mr. Segal fell would arise: Should Jews let down
into line. What particularly their dignity so far as to make
pleased him that none of the a public demonstration of their
Catholics with whom he marched faith? Jews, it would be said
saw anything incongruous in the shouldn't make themselves conspic-
fact of a Jew going along with uous in the dazzling glory of God.
".Jews shouldn't be publicly seen
them. He could have expected
some good natured quipping, for as Jews."
"Jews should be careful and
a number of these people were
friends and acquaintances who stick to the shady side of the
knew he was not of their reli- streef where they won't be no-
ticed."
gion.
"Jews shouldn't stick their necks
It was just "Hello, there. Se-
gal," and no questions at all as out."
Mr. Segal, who was for the
to what he was doing there, as if
no man who marched with them hour one of the Catholics, couldn't
for God's sake could be alien to but help feel envious of the full
their faith. They took him in and freedom they allowed their von-
sciences. There was Mr. llor-
they marched away.
A
.
A
back, who was marching beside
him. Mr. hogback hadn't any
HE GUESSED HE WAS THE problems to restrain him from a
only Jew who ever had march- frank, free and whole-hearted
ed in a churchly pageant of the public assertion of the reality of
Catholics. The band struck up God. His people didn't have to
"God Bless America." The thou- hold meetings to decide whether
sand feet of the sons of the it would he all right to go march-
Mother of Sorrows tramped in ing for their faith.
Yes, 'Mr. Segal was for the
joyous time to the heart-beat of
the grateful Jew by whom "God hour one of an accepted people
who don't have to mind what
Bless America" was written.
Mr. Segal, whose tired old eyes others may think of them. True,
are always searching for gleams Catholics aren't liked by every-
of brotherhood, practically gloated. body either but they are numerous
He thought this certainly looked and strong and they could public-
like an intimation of brotherhood. ly march in a gallant assertion of
He, the Jew, marching along with
See SEGAL—Page 9



HEBREW CALENDAR

5703-1942

Rosh Chodesh Kislev
Nov. 10
Hanukkah
Dec. 4
Rosh Chodesh Tebeth
Dec. 9
Fast of Tebeth
...................................................... Dec. 18

5703 - 1943

Rosh Chodesh Shevat
Chamisho Osor B'Shevat
*Rosh Chodesh Adar I
*Rosh Chodesh Adar II
**Fast of Esther
Purim
Shushan Purim
Rosh Chodesh Nisan
Passover
*Rosh Chodesh Iyar
Lag . B'Omer
Rosh Chodesh Sivan

Ja h. 7
Jan. 21
Feb.

S

Ma:. 20
Mar 21
Mar. 22
Apr. 6
Apr. 20

May 6

Ma•. 23
Juno 4
Shevuoth .................
....................................................................... JUT e 9
*Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
July 4
Fast of Tammuz
July 20
Rosh Chodesh Ab
Aug. 2
Fast of Ab
Aug. 10
*Rosh Chodesh Ellul
Sept. 1

• Also observed previous day.
as Fast observed previous Thursday.

Holidays begin on the evening preceding the dates designated.

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