April 2, 1943

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

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Detroit Jewish Chronicle

are appreciative of the blessings and
benefits of America, but for the further
and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE
purpose of showing that all peoples can
Published Weekly by Jewish Chronicle Publishing Co„ Inc.
by Al Segal
be conditioned and indoctrinated for good
Pres.-Gen. Mgr.
JACOB H. SCHAKNE
Editor
as well as for ill.
JACOB MARGOLIS
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Y FRIEND, Cantor Emil might say. Ile placed the ten
The Detroit Jewish Chronicle invites correspondence on sub- persistent and total conditioning and in-
Rosen, tells me a story about dollar bill in Exodus in the part
jects of interest to the Jewish people, but disclaims respon- doctrination that any appreciable num-
Samuel
and David who were bro- where it says, 'Thou shalt not
sibility for an endorsement of views expressed by its writers
thers
and
very poor and very de- steal."
ber of Germans accepted the Nazi credo. cent gentlemen.
The same day his brother David
I am glad to get
Entered as Second-class matter March 3, 1916, at the Post-
fell into deepest trouble. It had
a
story
of
decent
gentlemen
in
We
did
not
have
to
carry
on
a
cam-
office at Detroit, Mich., under the Act of March 3, 1879.
a time when the deeds of scound- been one trouble after another
paign
of
indoctrination.
All
that
was
nec-
rels
make the headlines in the for him, troubles running in a
Sabbath Readings of the Law
daily press. (Though I am hap- chain, as is the way of poor
essary
was
to
expose
the
nationals
of
Pentateuchal portion—Leviticus 9.1-11.47;
py to believe it won't be long now man's troubles. Because David
other countries to our way of life and, before the scoundrels get what's was so poor there never was
Exodus 12.1-20.
Prophetical portion—Ezekiel 45.16-46.18.
to them in accordance with enough to eat in his house and
with the exception of paranoiacs and coming
because there wasn't enough tie
the ordinations of moral law.)
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sadists, they have accepted it with even Yes, Samuel had found a ten eat there was a deficiency of vita-
greater enthusiasm and appreciation than dollar bill on the street and if mins and because of vitamins be-
scarce, an ordinary cold could
many natives. This was due to the fact you know how poor Samuel was ing
The Ehrlich-Alter Case
grow into a great calamity like
you
would
understand
what
it
that they contrasted what they enjoyed meant to him to find ten dollars pneumonia. So it goes.
The repercussions caused by the exe- here with what they had endured in their The winter was not far off and David's wife had become that
Samuel's children were without sick and David was without any
cution by the Soviet government of Hein- native lands.
money and didn't know which way
any shoes.
rich Erlich and Victor Alter have not
Italians will show their sincere appre- So when he found the ten-dol- to turn to get any, and he hur-
ciation of Mr. Biddle's faith in their loy- lar bill he raised his eyes to ried to his brother Samuel's house
died down.
heaven and thanked God from to consult with him. Samuel hadn't
It does seem unthinkable that two Jew- alty by conferring on him the Four Free- whom all blessings flow. He had any talent for financial advice
ish labor leaders should be guilty of sub- doms Medal on the appropriate occasion been walking along with his head but then he might know some-
of the 200th anniversary of the birth of bowed, thinking about his chil- body who out of his goodness
versive activity and espionage in favor that great libertarian and democrat dren's bare feet, and right under could give a few dollars.
his nose the ten dollar bill ap-
Samuel wasn't home and David
of Hitler, and yet this charge is made by Thomas Jefferson, on April 13.
peared. Certainly, it looked like sat down to wait and while he
Maxim Litvinov, Soviet Ambassador in
something of God's own doing.
waited his eyes fell on the Holy
Yet he felt troubled, too. These ten Book in the reading of which he
Washington, in a letter to William Green.
dollars
surely
must
have
belonged
had found comfort. He
president of the American Federatior_ of Jewish Postwar Blueprint Needed to somebody, perhaps another poor always
opened it at the page of the Ten
Thoughtful people know that in time man who must be deeply hurt to Commandments where the ten dol-
Labor.
have losi so much money. He fear-
bill lay and where it was
Americans have a definite idea as to of war one should prepare for peace. This ed that if with this money he lar
specifically said, "Thou shalt not
the meaning of the phrase subversive ac is particularly true in the United State.4 bought shoes for his children their steal."
the treaty-making power is in the feet would ache with the pain of This looked at first like a revela-
tivity and espionage, but does the phrase where
Senate. Recognizing all the implication the one who had lost it and was tion of God, presented him, in his
great extremity, with ten dollars
have the same meaning for the rulers of of this condition, four United States Sen- grieving for it.
Samuel consulted the page in
of His own book. But then David
Soviet Russia? We think not, and for ators, two Democrats and two Republi- the newspaper where people re- out
was realist enough to understand
the excellent reason that we in America cans, Joseph H. Ball of Minnesota and port things they have lost. When, that a ten dollar bill is a matter
after several days, he found no
earthly.business and he couldn't
can dissent and differ upon many sub- Harold H. Burton of Ohio the two Re- one reporting the loss of ten dol- of
doubt that it was placed in the
publicans,
and
Carl
A.
Hatch
of
New
lars, his conscience became con- book by his brother Samuel.
jects, because we live in a world where
Mexico and Lister Hill of Alabama the tent. It was plain that the loser
Even as he pondered upon the
civil authority is still dominant, while in two Democrats, offered a resolution call- wasn't feeling hurt enough by his matter,
David's eyes took in the
the police military states no dissent or ing for the establishment now of a United loss to give out an alarm over Commandment: "Thou shalt not
it. He was probably a million- steal." His hand withdrew from
Nations organization to combine definitelly aire to whom a ten-dollar bill was the money as if it had been slap-
difference of opinion is permissible.
We are allowed to criticize our gov- charted postwar action with the fighting no more than a scrap of paper ped. He loafed through the Holy
that blows way. How exquisitely Book and came to Leviticus 16
ernment and leaders and unless such criti- of the war.
just was the doing of God who where something is said about the
cism adversely affects the war effort no
The time is most opportune for the causes, not a poor man's ten way to deal with strangers . . .
but a millionaire's to fall "The stranger that sojourneth
attention is paid to it by the authorities, Jewish organizations of America to agree dollars,
where he, Samuel, could find it with you shall be unto you as the
but any adverse criticism of governments upon a program to be presented to the that he might buy shoes for his home-born among you, and thou
and leaders in police states may be con- Senate of the United States that would children.
shalt love him as thyself."
sidered subversive and calculated to aid commit the Senate to definite action in The days still were warm
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enough for his children to run D AVID thought that if a mere
behalf of the Jews of Europe, Asia and barefoot and so there was no
•the enemy.
stranger is to be loved as
It is difficult for us to imagine that "We Africa.
need for him to buy their shoes one's self, his own brother Sam-
at once. If he waited a week the
could be put to death for listening to a
surely should love him that
The important thing to be achieved shoes might liSt that much longer uel
foreign broadcast and telling our neigh-
much. And if he loved him that
much Samuel would forgive him
bors what we heard. Yet that is exactly among American Jews is unity, and unity into the winter.
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for taking the ten dollars in this
what has happened to Germans. There can be achieved only if a properly func- Q AMUEL looked about for a terrible
hour of his wife's sickness.
is a radically different concept of the tioning organization is brought into being V safe place to keep the money. God and Samuel would understand.
that
will
be
able
to
concentrate
all
its
And
what
could
be
a
safer
place
God had written, "thou shalt not
limits of legality in our civil state and
the Holy Book of the Torah
in the police military states of Europe. attention and efforts on the main objec- than
which was God's own book, you
See SEGAL—Page 9
• We have not read the evidence ad- tive: a committment by the Senate on a
forthright
and
just
plan
for
the
settlement
, duced at the trial of Ehrlich and Alter,
but we feel reasonably certain that the of the manifold problems of European
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evidence never would have convicted them Jewry.
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, of espionage in an American court.
Whether the newly organized Joint
We may talk endlessly about freedom Committee for European Affairs is the
of speech, but it will not be attained as answer remains to be seen. It is a repre-
long as police military states continue to sentative body and includes the Ameri-
function. If this type of state should come can Jewish Committee and the Jewish
to an end at the end of this war, then Labor Committee, as well as all the other
indeed will we have achieved something organizations that were represented in
worthwhile.
the Jewish Assembly.

Plain

Talk...

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Story of the Ten Dollars

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Well Placed Confidence

Some months ago Francis Biddle, the
Attorney General of the Unted States,
removed the alien enemy badge from
Italians who had not been naturalized.
In those circles that believed that our
Italian residents were appreciative of
American freedom, this was hailed as a
just and reasonable act. The conduct of
Italians in the country since the removal
•of the ban has been exemplary. If there
have been any subversive activities on
their part they have been of such incon-
sequential character that they have not
caused any disturbance. In fact, nobody
is now aware of the fact that they were
every considered. anything but loyal citi-
zens of the country of their adoption.
We are of the opinion that the vast
majority of the nationals of the other
countries with which we are at war could
be granted the same privileges and in-
dulgences and they would not abuse these
privileges and indulgences any more than
have the Italian nationals in our midst.
All that has been said is not merely for
the purpose of pointing out that Italians

Undoubtedly there are many non-Jews
who are deeply concerned about the fate
of the Jews in the postwar world, but
with all their interest and good intentions
they cannot be expected to espouse the
cause of the Jews if the Jews are not
agreed among themselves as to what they
want from the United Nations when the
peace treaties are finally drawn up.

It is well to bear in mind that the win-
ning of the war as well as the peace by
the Christian world does not necessarily
mean that the Jews will win the peace.
They can only hope to do so if they show
that they are united and determined, and Many thousands of books are sent out by the National Jewish
are not hesitant about making their de- Welfare Board as part of its program to provide religious and
mands.
personal services to our armed forces. This picture of a five•foot

These demands must not be predicated
upon the sufferings they have endured,
but rather upon the contributions that
they have made to destroy this evil thing
called Nazism-Fascism.

The Jews are good Europeans and
Americans and as such are entitled to the
same political, economic, social and reli-
gious status as are all other good Euro-
peans and Americans.

s helf of books illustrates the range of Thoughts" have been distributed. For

material covered. Among the hooks Passover a newly-edited Haggadah is
made available to chaplains, Christian to go out to all Jews in the armed
as well as Jew, J W B • USO workers forces.
and directly to those in the armed
Distributed under the supervision
forces are Universal Jewish Encyclo- of the National Army and Navy Com-
pedia,Religions of Democracy, Golden mittee of the J W If, of which Walter
Treasury of Jewish Literature, Code Rothschild is Chairman, thin is one of
0 / Jewish Law, Jewish Songs for Mem. the many services made possible by
berg of the Armed Service; etc. the National Jewish Welfare Board.
Tens of thousands of copies of a which is now conducting a campaign
special edition of the Bible and thou. for funds in communities all over the
sands of copies of a new edition of Dr. country. Frank L Weil is president of
Joseph Hertz's "A Book of Jewish the J _ _ . _ -