4 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle Detroit Jewish Chronicle ways try to circumvent laws that have taken privileges away from them. Many ?ublished Weekly by Jewish Chronicle Publishing Co., Inc. southerners still feel that the Negro should have the status of inferiority and JACOB H. SCHAKNE Pres.-Gen. Mgr. JACOB MARGOLIS inequality and they may be counted upon Editor to do everything within their power to General Offices and Publication Bldg., 525 Woodward Ave. deprive him of equality and liberty. Telephone: CAdillac 1040 Cable Address: Chronicle The war for equality and freedom must Subscription in Advance $3.00 Per Year go on until the last battle is won. That To insure publication, all correspondence and news matter g oal will be reached when men and woni- to ust reach this office by Tuesday evening of each week en participate as free and equal individ- Athen mailing notices, kindly use one side of paper only, uals in all communal matters, and when fhe Detroit Jewish Chronicle invites correspondence on sub. men and women are ends and not means. ;ects of interest to the Jewish people, but disclaims respon• PLAIN TALK and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE sibility for an endorsement of views expressed by its writers. Entered as Second•class matter March 3, 1916, at the Post. office at Detroit, Mich., under the Act of March 1, 1879. Pisgah's 85th Anniversary November 20, 1942 AL SEGAL • Letter to Hitler by Herr Hltier . . . But first, and their chariots . . , the;, glit- perhaps, I should explain tering, swift swords . . . the that I am writing a letter to fearful shout of their voices ... Hitler. I have just read what he the agony of their slaves . . said about you and me in a and, after everything, the comic. recent speech. lie has said a rubble of their towers, fort! essea great deal about you and me castles and chariots fallen in in the past and concerning these heap. A heap of dust in the a utterances esIheirs:vaw mad dog? I wouldn't bother to ,%IT osfasIt1h' h pi h passerby who said saw ch art a h oe w pas serbv write him. Who barks back at a NO, Pisgah Lodge No. 34, Bnai Brith, is celebrating its 85th anniversary. Pentateuchal Portion—Genesis 28.10-32.3. Has and is Pisgah keeping the cove- Prophetical Portion—Hosea 11.7-12.12. nant it made when it became a member th is lodge of Bnai Brith? o h t h dust o d a ht But what he recently said had t the heap a o i n t t h he NOVEMBER 20. 1942 a t 1( kl , a ( , s: r once KISLEV 11, 5703 a ; c o f The archives of the lodge tell the story to do with laughter and was a who was long ago the slave came. serious reflection on the capacity dust of its many activities and accomplish- of Jews to keep on laughing. He master and I said: "This was Thanksgiving ments but Pisgah is not satisfied to rest said that Jews would forget how my Pharaoh," and I laughed. to laugh. He meant that the few on its laurels of past activities and ac- to I laughed with no pride of We are thankful that in the year 1942 complishments. It knows that it must who were left when he was vain-glory or pride of privilege. through with Jews would never s I taln ae ue ghte h d at al, who we live in the United States of America. meet the challenge of today if it wants thheo cuo,ansiicthecit laugh again. We are thankful because on this day to continue to keep the covenant. . No, Herr Hitler! You may and had no weapon hod in the of Thanksgiving, despite the fact that Pisgah knows it is not enough to de- say that I, the Jew, seek to con- fullness of time come upon the we are at war, our civil authorities are fend and protect the Jewish people of quer the earth and that I, the dust of the arrogance of my g functioning as in times of peace. Detroit against the malice and anti- Jew, am the blood-thirsty man master who had the thousand who started this unspeakable chariots and the thousand horses We are thankful because we enjoy the Semitic discrimination in our social, cul- slaughter called World War II and the thousand swords. freedom of speech, press, assemblage and total, religious and economic life. and that I, the Jew, hold the I l aughed with deep laughter worship, and because we may continue the world. From all which thewind took k y u When Pisgah discovers any discrimi- this I of turn snipe as I y our cultural activities even though these nation or defamation it does not beg for would from with 11):e and mif y the guttee who laughter in the roar of the wind activities are carried on in a foreign lan- redress but demands as a matter of right blew a spitball at me. Shall I when it blows this (lust in the gunge. that these conditions be corrected, and go to quarrel with the gutter- desert. and descend into the gutter I remember laughin We are thankful because there is less because of its dignified and forthright v i Ili hunger, want and nakedness, and we stand many of the wrongs have been snipe him, ? gnsoitgiijilltautgohh: g loating But when you say, that I, the are thankful because it is the concern of righted. Jew, will forget how to laugh H a man on the gallows; I have a men and women of good will that there The educational work of Pisgah is not you deny my philosophy and dictate for the sight of violent be no hunger, want and nakedness, the least of its activities. Through it, misunderstand my history. I must death and compassion for human We are thankful because there are many of its members have become better take issue with you in this mat- error when it comes to its ex- ter as a man to whose abdomen tremity by reason of its own imaginative, alert and dynamic men and Jews, better Americans, better men. laughter is an ancient experience. faults. women who are vigilant and determined Pisgah is a pioneer in Hillel Founda- 1, the Jew, have found laughter / 1 1 to oppose despotism, inequality and dis- tion work. The house at Ann Arbor bears in my abdomen even when there laughed not at Haman dying was no food in it. crimination. witness to its devotion and untiring efforts but at the cosmic humor that I, the Jew, forg et how to We are thankful because we are not in behalf of the Jewish young men and laugh? I have laughed these even in a few days turns the satisfied with our achievements but are young women of the University of Mich- thousands of years. Laughed at transgressors ' plot against him seeking to extend the areas of equality igan. the wind blew, dust of I laughed at the swift lightning and freedom and because we will not be Only a carping critic could say that that pomp, circumstance and power of justice that in the hour takes satisfied until we enjoy economic equality Pisgah has not and is not keeping the blowing in the wind. I have seen the arrogant and reduces his and freedom as well as the other free- covenant. this dust and laughed as a man pride to self-pity and his cruelty doms we now enjoy. mercy. whimpering May it continue to be a beneficent and laughs who looks at divine corn- to I a the Jew, old old man that We are thankful because our people helpful force in the Jewish community edy and understands it . I am, have seen this in all my I wh was weak and recognize and appreciate all the blessings of Detroit for many years to come. swo rd oo r chariot raised m had no times and have laughed. Not that they enjoy. Y head that in laughing I have felt bet- out of the darkness and in the ter than other men; for I have We are thankful on this Thanksgiving light of another dawn always my sins. I have wondered as I Day that the horrors of war have not Churchill's Position have beheld the dust of my op- laughed : By what have I lived reached our shores. pressor blowing in the wind. It even unto this time, though the was no more than the dust that pomp Wendell L. Willkie took Winston and are thankful because there is a ower f the housewife brushes with a rag cutors is onply Churchill to task at the Tribune Forum from this o dust? m What What genuine desire to achieve a just and Churchill her window sill. is my virtue that I merit this I have seen this comedy over life? meeting in New York on Nov. 16. He enduring peace for the entire world. Why have I lived to laugh severely criticized Churchill's imperialism and over and I have laughed but at the ancient dust heap in the and called particular attention to the not with the laughter of the desert? Why have I not perished I, the Jew, have under the swords which all my , Poll Tax Law statement made by Churchill at the vengeful. laughed with the deep laughter enemies have thrust at nay heart? mayor's dinner when Churchill said, "Let of one who has been the ever- I, who ad h no weapons but Senator Bilbo of Mississippi threatens me, however, make this clear, in case lasting witness to the comic art only a shie ld which I call the to filibuster until Christmas to prevent there should be any mistake about it in of God's ironic justice. Law of God, written on parch- , f scrolls, and which, at times the passage of the Federal poll tax law. any quarter, we mean to hold our own. YES, Herr Hittler, I have an The existing poll tax laws in many of I did not become the King's first minister ethical ideals, my awareness of h- I have had in my heart—my the Southern States practically disenfran- in order to preside over the liquidation L old, old experience of laugh- frith ing. The most exquisite pleasure : in chise millions of Negro voters and the of the British Empire." (it the 'll Y ultrmyt e o fjustice ultimate iif that of laughing is only for those who present bill before the Senate, if passed, i msed. Does the Prime Minister mean that by have lived a long time like me be en no t pretend to be sure would correct this deplorable condition. "holding our own" that the status of aml have seen and h eard the I dpo ro secret of my lon veg life comedy. I have seen and The Senator from Mississippi and many India is to be unchanged? If such is the whole nor am I lf-rig seht heard it all in the thousands of of the eve that I h eous enoug of his Southern colleagues are racists. case then the Mahatma can hardly be years . . . The pomp and terror o beli av e lid b v but they are not the only ones in our blamed for insisting upon India's inde- of the mighty . ..their their horses t See SEGAL—Page 13 land. Many in the North and, for that pendence NOW. matter, many of our own people, have If Mr. Churchill means by "holding our distorted unreasoning and unscientific own" that the balance of power politics views on race. that has been employed by Britain for Racism is an ancient prejudice to which 300 years is to continue, then we may we have paid but scant attention in the reasonably expect that the conditions past. It was the Nazis who brought it that obtained in Europe before the war sharply to our attention with their Aryan will again become the order of the day, superiority dogmas, which have caused and Europe will again begin to prepare is untold suffering and dislocation to a feverishly for another total war. ./;. e,- / whole people. Despite Churchill's statement, we are ye, ___,...--- Racism is the very negation of democ- persuaded that the old order of "number 4' racy. Democracy means free and equal one boy,” of colonial tutelage in Asia, has r participation by every member of the passed. The Asiatic peoples cannot be - community in all communal matters. treated as inferiors when they learn the Racism means that only those of the mysteries of modern technologies and ap- superior race have a right to free and ply them. This they are doing under the equal participation. Germany and the impact of the war. conquered countries show to what limits Mr. Churchill's forthrightness and can- racism can be carried. We are in no dan- dor should be appreciated. If it does ger at present from our native racists, nothing else it tells us that the rulers of but that is cold consolation. We are corn- Britain want only a return to the status mitted to democracy as a way of life, and quo ante, despite all the brave pro- millions are fighting, sacrificing and work- nouncements of Eden, Cripps, the Arch- ing to perpetuate that way of life. bishop of Canterbury and others. How- The bill to repeal the discriminating ever, his views may not prevail. He may Poll tax requirement is just another of be speaking for the die-hards only. those crusades that have been carried on However, the final decisions will he in the south to make the Thirteenth and made at the peace conference. But it is Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitu- well to be forewarned, and Churchill has tion realities. We have learned that em- done that in unequivocal and unambig- bittered, resentful, defeated men will al- uous language. Sabbath Readings of the Law I ,, The Up-to-the-Minute Man \ I / ., 2 , „ , .- /., ' ; Ito