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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and Th. Legal Chronicle

Detroit Jewish Chronicle

A New Kind of Hitler Boast

PLAIN TALK

and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE

Herr Adolf Hitler will not capitulate
and will not run away as did the Kaiser.
He told this to his trusted band of gang-
sters on the 19th anniversary of his un-
General Offices and Publication Bldg., 525 Woodward Ave. successful Munich putsch.
Telephone: CAdillac 1040 Cable Address: Chronicle
He has never kept his word before so
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will
run away if he has the
iects of interest to the Jewish people, but disclaims respor
chance
to
do
so.
sibility for an endorsement of views expressed by its writers.
This is a different tune from those
Entered as Second-class matter March 3, 1916, at the Post- arrogant, boastful, truculent ones he was
office at Detroit, Mich., under the Act of March 1, 1879.
wont to sing when he saw the whole of
Europe within his grasp.
Sabbath Readings of the Law
The Nazis know now that there cannot
Pentateuchal portion—Genesis 25.19-28.9.
be
any negotiations, for the victims of
Prophetical portion—Malachi 1.1-2.7.
his gangsterism are now in the position
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NOVEMBER 13, 1942
KISLEV 4, 5703 of the authorities who have the situation
in hand. The authorities are inexorably, if
slowly, closing in on them and the Nazis
November Electi on
will have to surrender, run away, or be
destroyed.
The irreconcilable anti-Rooseveltians
A nation cannot make war upon the
see in the elections of Nov. 3 a repudia- world any more than can an individual
tion of the New Deal,
and hope to negotiate a settlement, if
To these irreconcilables the New Deal the world is strong enough to overcome
was an invention of Roosevelt and the that nation or that individual when it
amuck.
Democratic party and patented by them. runs amuck
However,
the G
German people should
A sober and objective examination of
Le informed that the world will negotiate
be
tiate
the facts will prove that the New Deal
with them as equals. When they know
was not a Roosevelt-Democratic party in- this and believe this, they may be de-
vention, but was the logical and reason- Pended upon to hasten the capture of
able application of common sense and their gangsters by slowing up production
sound reasoning to a difficult situation on the home front.
that demanded an immediate solution.

Published Weekly by Jewish Chronicle Publishing Co., Inc.
JACOB H. SCHAKNE
Pres.-Gen. Mgr.
JACOB MARGOLIS
Editor

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November r3, 1942

by AL SEGAL

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Vengeance "

HEAR about Kurt Sternberg
I and
how he came to the exquisite

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moment of complete vengeance.
(Kurt Sternberg is not exactly
his name. Vengeance is a private
matter and a civilized man like
Kurt Sternberg doesn't care to
have his name blown all over the
land in a matter of the strictly
private attainment of vengeance.)

a time when he would he i n a
position to order O ppenhei
murderers to star t diggitiLt mar '-
in th e s
earth and nev er allow them
to
quit until they had dug through
to the other side of the ea th.
He
would have
a gra record
phonophic
forever shouting at them an
enormously amplified voice: "Dig!
Dig! Dig !"

that enables a man to stick a mice!
knife into his enemy.
That's
Kurt had been a risin g
messy business, anyway, sticking man in the city of Mainz young
w here
people
so ifl e r had
a knife into an enemy, and Kurt
os( lived
Sternberg never could have man- years. The gravestones of his an-
h st o: .e were
aged it.
castors
l l'edlilin
old
that t d L eir is in-
Kurt's hand hasn't any lethal scriptions were almost obliterated,
skill and his heart hasn't any Kurt's father had been killed
relish for killing and his stomach fighting for Germany in the last
would retch at the sight of an- war. In hours of agony when
Kurt wondered what had become
other man's blood.
He was enjoying a revers =e e ri of the God who looked after the
derived
much more satisfying to the soul from thinking he
that
God has comfort
been
of a man of artistic taste like good to his father. God had taken
Kurt Sternberg.
is doubtful
pleasure
to look at It a dead
enemy. his father early in his life and
What d does the dead enemy know sarem of the degaation of
of vengeance having at last over- bpeingda hi J ew in
Yes, Kurt had plenty for which
taken him? Vengeance by death
to desire vengeance and his fancy
is too one-sided.
made no end of playing with the
Kurt had the living enemy un- idea of perfect revenge. Finally,
der his hand. This time vengeance though, a visa came from Amer-
was the ironic comedian. Kurt ica and Kurt Sternberg was set
who had come from a concentra- free and in time he was privil-
tion camp was looking at his eged to look at the Statue of Lib-
enemy now himself confined in a erty and to thank God who res-
concentration camp. Kurt was his
that existed in 1932 will make this clear.
guard, marching around the wire cues the righteous from his tra-
Armistice Day was celebrated on Nov. fence to keep him in, but that
When Roosevelt was elected in November,
first thing he did was to
1932, the number of unemployed had 11 with appropriate ceremonies. How isn't the whole story of Kurt "Tile
a v pply
o y of a o r se i w
t i zeernes h oi pv eand
r o osr Kurt
Sternberg's
revenge.
reached a staggering total of 17,000,000; many know that the Versailles Treaty was
He
had
been
hoping
a
long
ciitliazr fooufodthse uU,anyitetdo
the banks were closed; industrial produc- signed by the Allied and German pleni- time for the moment when things
b S e t c a ll : 7Te
tion was less than one-half of 1929 • potentiaries on June 28, 1919, and that would be evened up for him. The onfakgiem
a isftariyr oloivdinfe atLoh kisedtr&d,
shanty towns disgraced the large cities; ' the treaty was defeated by the Senate months when he was in the Nazi r
concentration
camp
he
had
been
the bread lines were of interminable on Nov. 10, 1919?
f tt ee on
w
way
turn out v a
prayerfully thinking of the an-
When
length ; hopelessness, despondency and
A war-wear y world of a quarter-century dent promise that the wicked right even after
despair had gripped the whole country. ago was happy to end hostilities.
must in due time get what's sure- drafted
at Ld time
i n he
ge s came
omeentt h for
o usl
went
i jyA
n joy
og Kurt
s l y. to be
y co ming to them. The Scriptures : the
was
When Roosevelt was inaugurated he
f for
They assumed that the cessation of l we re full of that.
that had presented to his eyes the
was faced with a condition not a theory hostilities meant peace. In this they were

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gates
The system of private enterprise and indi- unhappily mistaken, for peace is some- ry THE
tration
camp, in
when
they had Statue
taken him
in and at
embraced
DAYS,
the concen-
of Liberty
its
vidual initiative was not functioning. This thing that does not follow as a matter of %-x
him with its citizenship, as if he
system had worked well up to that time, course, but something that must be made him stand still for hours were one of its own sons.
He was sent to a camp in the
In fact, it had enabled the American peo- achieved.
under the broiling sun or in bit-
the sergeant call-
ter
winter
blasts,
he
had
thoughtd
pie to attain the highest standard of
The frame of mind of the peoples en- much on vengeance. He had had South.
e h: im
"Yo
One
dayu sp eak German ,
living ever attained by any people at any gaged in the present global conflict is fantastic ideas: Yes, he would don't you?"
time in the history of the world. It had essentially different from that of those gather all the Nazis together and
transport them beyond the Arctic • "Sure, I speak German."
roduced a larger quantity of goods and who fought .the last war that ended in circle
and make them stand stock- It was this way, the sergeant
services than had any other economic an armistice.
still on the North Pole. Or, on said: Some Nazi submarine sail-
system. But it was not function ing. This
be imprisoned
in
the hotter days of torture, he ors were
had going
been to
captured
and they
The idea that we must win th
the peace as thought
of shipping them all emo
he question well as the war was entirely absent
t this camp. They would be kept in
was admitted by everybody. The
from
barracks with a fence around
the equator and making
ng
of how to make it function again was the the minds of the peoples as well as lead- stand
motionlessly while the i lun- them. " You, Sternberg, are go-
be-
of vengeance
when he
is ing to be one of the gualds be-
question upon which opinions differed. ers of World War I. Everyone believed ideas
gle insects
buzzed around
their
you speak their language."
The muddling-through—all will be that the world was made safe for democ- heads. A man gets such barbaric cause
" Me!"
well—this will pass away—philosophy racy and civilization, and was not the made to stand under a torrid
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had been tried. It did not help solve the war fought to end all wars? These were sun without being allowed to
pressing problems. The people wanted cozy and comfortable ideas, but they were brush the fly off , his nose.
he saw Oppenheimer A berg, a refugee from a Nazi
action—wanted something done. The New far from reality, as we learned very soon die The in time
camp,
became
a
the concentration camp concentration
was how
Kurt
Stern-
cam
Deal was the experiment conceived, pro- after the Treaty of Versailles was signed Kurt gave his imagination to a THAT
uard at the concentrati
fe
thought
on
awhilp
Nazis. He
posed and put into practice.
on June 28, 1919. And when the Senate grandiose scheme of revenge. Op- for
whether to introduce himself to
penheimer c oul a frail, weak man
on Nov.
There have been many economic crises failed to ratify it was
only 10, 1919, then we who just wasdn' t go on
dec id e d h e
themd as a ew.
J
e H , y
digging
ou k n ow "
in the history of mankind. In the past realized that
ew,
.
.
.
"
I
m
a
J
an armistice and a certain ditch in the camp
and
sat-
the government had stepped in when not an enduring peace that had been won. had sat down when his heart and . . . He said it with gloating vens
-
isfacton
i at e arti str y of
his
breath
failed
him.
For
that
eance
those who had the direction and control
In the 24 years since the signing of the reas
which in
in goo d ti m es makeg
diedon
he
was
beaten
until
he
woul
of the economic system no longer fungi- Armistice at Compeign we have learned
tioned satisfactorily.
much. Our technologies have created a
Kurt's imagination hoped for a captor
a captive.
See
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In this crisis men had to be put to new world in which distances have been
work ; the banks had to be reopened; annihilated, with the consequences that
factories, shops and mines had to resume now continents are closer to each other
HEBREW CALENDAR '
production.
than were the capitals of Europe before
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War I These p h ysical changes have
In order to do this, new legislation had World
Hanukkah
altered
our political, economic and social
Dec. 4
to be passed. It was enacted and today
Dec. 9
we have the Reconstruction Finance Cor- concepts. We now think in terms of the Rosh Chodesh Tebeth ........................................................... .
world or at least in terms of continents. Fast of Tebeth .. . ........................................ .
Dec. 18
poration ; Home Owners Loan Corpora- We know now that all peoples must have
5703 - 1943
tion ; Unemployment Insurance ; Old Age access to needed raw materials if a highly
Security
;
the
Securities
Commission.
We
developed
industrial
system
is
to
be
main-
Rosh Chodesh Shevat ........................................................ ili.11.
do not need the P.W.A. and W.P.A. for
tained and a high standard of living is to Ch amisho Osor B'Shevat
the
it must
be remembered
ij::11) 1 e . 21 6
that duration.
these ag But
ncies
did give
employment obtain. This can only be brought about in *Rosh Chodesh Adar I
world of peace, understanding and co- * Rosh Chodesh Adar II
to millions and the economic system again a operation.
It cannot and will not h e "Fast of Esther ...................................................................... . :)1:::.
functioned.
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achieved by imperialist power politics, Purim ................................................................................ Mit.
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The New Deal has been followed by balance of power alliances, cordon sans- Shushan Purim ........................
States that have had Republican legisla- taires or steel rings.
Rosh Chodesh Nisan ............
3 A 1 :1 , 1 ;:. 2 6
tures and governors because these States
we want to remember when Passover
Apl. 20
. The date
could not do otherwise .
• ended is the date of the treaty Rosh Chodesh Iyar
t is war is
May 6
Had a Republican National Adminis- of peace; not the date of the armistice. Lag B'Omer
May 23
tration been elected at any time since It shall be so if the wishes of the peoples Rosh Chodesh Sivan
June 4
1932 it would have been compelled to of the world, and particularly that of the. RRheovuotchho .e. ... . h ....T..a..m...m...u..z....................................................................iune
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continue the New Deal.
greatest of all sufferers, the Jews, are Rosh
sh
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The election of November, 1942, was translated into concrete agreements by Fast of Tammuz
Rosh Chodesh A b
Aug. 2
an expression of dissatisfaction with the the treaty makers.
Fast of Ab ............................... .................................................. An. lo
tax laws; the price ceilings on farm prod-
Nothing short of a United States of •Rosh Chodesh Ellul
Sept. 1
ucts and the general apathy of the indus- Europe, however, will be a guarantee that —
trial workers. It was not a repudiation we have won the peace as well as the* Also observed previous day.
of the New Deal.
•• Fast observed previous Thursday.
war.
illhim
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Holidays begin on the evening preceding the

flaws designated.