4 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.