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February 12, 1943

BULGARIA

HITHER AND YON

(Continued from Page 1)

with MYRA KAY

We were on a bus carrying a
group of war workers on the
graveyard shift. Two dyed-in-th-
hair workers carried on a con-
versation to this effect:
"Them society dames. You
know what they're doing it for.
They want their pictures in the
papers. She has no right to take
a job away from somebody else
who really needs it."
We had an answer for that.
Spoke up the other one:
"Well, don't forget that 25,000
ceiling. The life they lead—
what can you do with $25,000
a year?"
And we had an even better an-
swer for that.
May we make the observation
that in a democracy the rich, as
well as the poor, have the right
to earn their own livelihood.

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making a tour of the house to
see that the guests were enjoy-
ing themselves. Near the buffet
stood Yascha Binder.
"Have a sandwich, Mr. Bin-
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Did you know that:
A Jew, Bonet de Latis, served
as physician to the Catholic
Pope, Alexander the Sixth.
The iceberg detection signal
apparatus was invented by Meyer
Konplaus of Leeds, England.
Ephraim Hart was one of the
founding members of the New
York Stock Exchange.
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By the way, Wall and Easy
streets are not synonymous.
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The labor shortage problem
must be serious. No longer are
there men standing around
watching excavation proceedings.
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around one camp or another.
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were busily engaged in African
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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

merrily and the air was filled with
cries of "baby needs new shoes"
and "little snowflakes gently fall."
A white soldier drifted along and
then turned to a tall ungainly
Negro who leaned disconsolately
against a nearby tree, his face
expressing gloom, as inky black
as his epidermis.
"Boy," said the white soldier,
"how come you ain't in that
game?"
The tall Negro, straightening
up, opened his mouth and closed
it with despairing finality on the
two words: "Ah've been!"
. . . —
Women in the war effort are
proving that all their "pluck" is
not confined to the eyebrows.
• • • —
Random thoughts:
You can fairly well judge what
a man is worth by what he can
do in an emergency . . . the
future of jitterbugging is very
'shaky" . . . not only in bridge,
but also in the game of life,
the dummy lays all his cards on
the table . . . as meaningless as
democracy to Hitler.
. • • —
Paderewski is alleged to have
declared that there are only two
musical nations in the world—
the gypsies and the Jews. With
the others, music is a matter of
cultivation.

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Mr. Isaacs: "I vant to see about
some legacies. My vader died and
made two testaments."
Lawyer: "You mean he made
two wills or testaments, and then
died."
Mr. Isaacs: "Choost so. In von
of dose vills he leaves me $5,000
and dot odder vill he leaves me
$20,000."
Lawyer: "Which testament did
he make first?"
Mr. Isaacs: "In dot old testa-
ment he leaves me $5,000, but
I vant dat odder vill to be pro-
bated."
Lawyer: "I don't blame you,
Isaacs, but this is the first time
in my experience that an ortho-
dox Jew preferred the New
Testament to the Old."
. . . —
Sholom Aleichem.

mons and House of Lords adopt-
ed it resolution proposing that
Britain offer sanctuary to Jew-
ish refugees able to escape from
Nazi-occupied countries.
The resolution pledged to the
British Government "The fullest
support of the House for im-
mediate measures on the largest
and most generous scale com-
patible with the reuirements of
military operations and security
for providing help and temporary
asylum to persons in danger of
massacre who are able to leave
enemy-occupied countries."
Meanwhile, Foreign Secretary
Anthony Eden emphasized in a
statement to the House of Com-
mons that the British Govern-
ment had offered to take from
France thousands of Jewish chil-
dren who were subsequently de-
ported to Germany.
"The Vichy Government at
first refused to permit any Jew-
ish children to leave France,"
Mr. Eden sr'd. "Subsequently, it
permitted 500 children to emi-
grate to the United States, but
did not agree to take advantage
of thousands of other visas which
were offered for the United King-
dom, the Dominions and Pales-
tine. After Germany's entry into
the unoccupied part of France,
the departure of the 500 Jewish
children to the United States was
stopped.
"I wish to emphasize that at
the time when His Majesty's Gov-
ernment had made application for
Jewish children in France to
come to the United Kingdom.
more visas for other countries
were available than children who
were permitted to leave France."

WORDS AND MUSIC Young People's Temple
Club Meeting Feb. 16
By DANIEL L. SCHORR

TOSCANINI'S BEAU GESTE
Leave it to Toscanini to make
the magnificent gesture!
When the Fascists wanted him
to conduct their hymn, "Giovin-
ezza," he refused to perform in
Italy. When the Salzburg festival
was nazified, he severed his con-
nection with it. When Jewish re-
fugees were being persecuted in
Europe, he made the long voyage
to Palestine to conduct an orches-
tra of refugees.
Now the Maestro has done it
again. He has fired his latest mu-
sical gun against Fascism by
conducting the NBC Symphony
Orchestra in Verdi's "Hymn of
the Nation," an attack on political
oppression. And, with that rare
feeling for the completeness of
such things, he inculded on the
same program the "Chorus of the
Hebrew Slaves" from Verdi's
opera, "Nabucco."
Never a tenant of the ivory
tower, Toscanini was one of the
first to realize that are cannot be
divorced from politics. There are
musicians in Axis territory today
—fortunately few—who have tried
to rationalize their continued work
in tacit collaboration with the
Axis by saying their art had
nothing to do with politics. Many
of them have since learned what
Toscanini instinctively knew—
that Fascism as a totalitarian
thing which one must either sup-
port or oppose, but cannot ignore.
I am leaving aside any discus-
sion of the musical merits of the
"Inno della Nazioni," because the
reason for its performance was
largely political and I am happy
to judge it as such. It was a thrill
—and I'm not going to quibble
with myself about whether it was
a purely musical thrill—to hear
the Westminster Chorus sing
Boito's 81-year-old words:
Oh, Italy, my country, my beloved
fatherland,
May merciful Heaven watch over
you,
Until that day when, free again,
You stand upright in the sun.
When the microfilm copies of
the "Hymn" were flown from
London and enlarged, Toscanini
sat down at a piano in the office
of Samuel Chotzinoff, NBC musi-
cal director, and played through
the entire score, singing the com-
plete set of lyrics. It is reported

Judge Ned h. Smith Seeks Russian War Relief
Re-election to Common Pleas

The Young. Peoples Temple
Club of Temple Beth El will have
an open meeting Tuesday evening,
Feb. 16 at 8:30 in the Men's Club
Room of Temple. This will be an
important business meeting due
to the many war and U. S. 0.
activities the club has under-
taken. Plans will be discussed to
elaborate on the present war serv-
ice activities and to assign new
workers to these duties. A fire-
side party is being planned by
the social committee and arrange-
ments will be announced at this
time. Following the business meet-
ing a social hour will follow
with dancing, ping pang and re-
freshments. An invitation is ex-
tended to those wishing to serve
on the many committees.

Inaugurates Drive for
Clothing for Russia

JUDGE NED II. SMITH

Judge Ned H. Smith was
elected to the office of Judge of the
Common Pleas Court in 1935, re-
elected in the spring of 1937, and
is now seeking re-election to that
office for a third term.
Judge "Ned," as his intimates
know him, who is one of the few
blind jurists in the United States,
is a graduate of Northern High
School in Detroit, and received his
law degree in 1926 at the Univer-
sity of Michigan, the first blind
student to be graduated from the
Law College.
Judge "Ned" served as an As-
sistant Prosecuting Attorney of
Wayne County for eight years
under the Honorable Robert M.
Toms, Jatres E. Chenot and Har-
ry S. Toy.
Actively interested in sports,
particularly bowling and baseball,
Judge "Ned" Smith bowls a fair
game with a high score of 170.
He is married and lives at 4410
Burns Ave., and his daughter,
Barbara Ann, is a student at
Barbour Intermediate School.
A constant booster of the Amer-
ican Red Cross blood bank, Judge
Youth Education League
Ned H. Smith recently was hon-
Victory Luncheon a Success ored
with the gold pin for being
Mrs. H. J. Millman, president a "Fifth Donor" since Pearl Har-
of the Youth Education League, bor.
wishes to thank all the members
and guests who were present at
GIRAUD
the victory luncheon of the pledge
fund drive which was held on
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Feb. 3, .at the Fort Wayne Hotel,
and also Mrs. Jesse Rosen, who which quoted Gen. Giraud as
was director of the revue, and saying: "I have the Moslem prob-
members of the cast, who enter- lem and the Jewish problem and
I am dealing with both progres-
tained so ably.
Through the efforts of Mrs. sively. I am not going to try to
Robert Lewiston, chairman of the solve them by a stroke of the
pledge fund drive, and her com- pen or a stroke of the sword. I
mittee of co-operative workers, know North Africa—I have made
together with the work of the my career here—and I know that
members, the pledge fund drive too swift reversals in this coun-
was able to attain its quota. try mean trouble. I do not want
With these funds the organiza- trouble. The only trouble I want
tion will be able to continue its is for the Boche."
case work, as well as take care
of its war work and war contri-
BUY WAR BONDS
butions.

Aaron Rosenberg, chairman of
the Folks Committee for Russian
War Relief, announces that a
conference was held on Sunday,
Feb. 7 at Jericho Temple for the
purpose of inaugurating a drive
for sending Clothing to Russia.
Rabbi Joshua Sperka, as guest
speaker, delivered an impressive
and inspiring message, emphasiz-
ing the significance of this under-
taking of sending clothing to our
friends and allies in Soviet Rus-
sia at this time. Eight author-
ized stations have already been
opened, which are easy accessible
and advantageously situated to
facilitate our work, and we ask
the fullest cooperation by our fel-
low Jews in this noble venture.
Mr. Rosenberg summed up the
purposes of the campaign in the
following words:
"Warm clothing will express
our warm sentiments that we feel
towards those valiant heroes who
fight our battles, so we can re-
tain our way of life, liberty and
the pursuit of happiness."
Clothing headquarters for Rus-
sia are the following:
Station 1—Star Tent, 8840 Lin-
wood Ave.
Station 2—Victory Center, Dex-
ter Blvd.
Station 3—Koltanoff's Shoe Re-
pair Shop, 12508 Dexter Blvd.
Station 4—Garelick's Shoe Re-
pair Shop, 3247 Fenkell Ave.
Station 5--Kattzes Shoe Repair
Shop, 13102 Linwood Ave.
Station 6—Shefkin's Shoe Re-
pair Shop, 8708 Twelfth St.
Station 7—Cohen's Shoe Re-
pair Shop, 8431 Twelfth St.
Station 8—Stein's Barber Shop,
Hastings St. near Gratiot.

Ladies' Auxiliary, JWV,
To Hold Washington
Birthday Party Feb. 22

On Feb. 8 the Detroit Ladles'
Auxiliary 135, Jewish War Vet-
erans of the U. S., celebrated
Lincoln's Birthday at Bnai Moshe
Center. A program was arranged
by Americanism chairman Ruth
Bolhower.
On Feb. 22 the Auxiliary will
celebrate Washington's Birthday
at the Veterans' Bldg., 704 E.
Jefferson Ave., with a birthday
dinner to be served at :30 p. m.
An interesting program is planned.
All planning to attend should
make reservations early by call-
ing the chairman, Hattie Cohen,
Ty. 5-6829, or Sayde McGin-
nity, Ty. 6-1153, who are in
charge of arrangements.

War Films Furnished
To Organizations Free
Of Charge by M. C. Fink

Any organization wishing to
show films of the latest war pic-
tures, including such films as
"Roosevelt In Africa"; "Russia
Stops Hitler"; "Commandos In
Action"; "Pearl Harbor"; "War
N w s h i g h-lights for 191e;
"Yanks In Africa," etc., may do
so by getting in touch with M. C.
Fink, CAdillac 5220.

that he sang "Italia, Italia" with
"a fervor that spoke eloquently of
his longing for Italy of old and
his contempt for Mussolini" and
that when he came to the "Star-
Spangled Banner"—which he him-
self had included in the score—
he played it with "excited pride in
the U. S. A." He even changed
the text of the "Italia" portion
to include a reference to "Italy
betrayed."
Paradoxically, it is because Tos-
canini is an artist that he is also
a politician. The instinct of the
artist is towards freedom; when
the forces of his time oppose such
freedom, he is impelled to take
arms against these for ces—and, in
Toscanini's case, he has taken up
the only kind of arms he knows.
As Dorothy Thompson puts it
in a new book about Toscanini,
"The political act was entirely at
one with the artistic personality.
The man is all of a piece, and the
essence of him is that he recog-
nizes the nature of authority."

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