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April 16, 1943
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
THOMAS JEFFERSON: THEN AND NOW Sergt. Jack Shiraga
Fifty-five outstanding Ameri- chief disciple of America's Apos- Killed in Line of Duty
FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF
JEWISH WELFARE BOARD'S
- WOMEN'S DIVISION
cans of every race and creed and tie of Liberty
with varying political points of
"This foreword and the writ-
view have contributed to "Thomas
Jeferson: Then and Now," a ins of the distinguished men
edited by James Wa- and women which follow are of-
f
terman Wise, to honor the 200th forts
terman
to bring Jefferson home to
anniversary of the birth of the people who owe him so
much. "
Thomas Jefferson on April 13.
Former President Herbert Hoo-
Among the contributors are:
Attorney General Francis Biddle, ver sees Jefferson as "eternally
President Nicholas Murray Butler right when he held that liberty
of Columbia University, Governor comes only and lives only where
Top row left: Mrs. Leo-
Thomas E. Dewey of New York, the hard-won rights of men are
nard H. Bernheim, New
President William Green of the held inalienable, where govern-
York; right: Mrs. Jo-
American Federation of Labor, ments themselves may not in-
seph Ehrman, Jr., San
former President Herbert Hoover, fringe, where governments are
Francisco, vice chairmen.
Secretary of State Cordell Hull, indeed but the mechanisms to
Director Herbert H. Lehman of protest and sustain these prin-
the Office of Foreign Relief and ciPles' It was this concept for
Above:
Rehabilitation Operations, Thomas which America's sons have died
Mrs. Alfred R. Bachrach,
Mann, President Philip Murray, °n" a hundred battlefields.
The purification of liberty
New York, chairman
Congress of Industrial Organiza-
tion ; Eleanor Roosevelt, Dorothy from abuses, the restoration of
ti
Thompson, President Thomas J. confidence in the rights of men,
Watson of the International Bus- from which come the release of
Beloudeft to right, Mrs.
mess Machines and Walter White, the dynamic forces of advancing
Jerome 1. Udell, New
executive secretary of the Na- spirit and enterprise, are alone
York, Mrs. Edward Pop.
tional Association for the Ad- the methods through which the
per, New York, Mrs.
purpose of American life can be
vancement of Colored People.
SERGT•
JACK
SHIRAGA
Samuel R. Glogower,
Herbert Bayard Swope, na- assured. "
Detroit, committee
Dorothy Canfield Fisher, who
tional chairman of the Bill of
Word has just been received
chairmen.
Fights Sesqui-Centennial Corn-sees the charm of Jefferson's by the Bnai Brith Hillel Founda- `r.
personality in Man,"
h
cohtribution
m.aec which has arranged the "Jefferson—the
tion at the University of Michi-
an," say s:
Jefferson celebration, reflects the
" He had his fair share and gan in Ann Arbor that Staff
spirit of the book in his fore-
more, of grief, disappointment, Sergeant Jack Shiraga, who un-
word when he says:
"Mr. Thomas Jefferson — and unfair attacks, struggles against til last May served as a Hillel
the Mister became a part of his embittered adversaries, money Student Council member, has
title because he fought so hard difficulties. But his sweet-tern- been killed in the line of duty.
pered sunny, affectionate,
nature Sergeant Shiraga was chairman
against 'Your Majesty' being used his
insatiable intellectual curi- of the Hillel Council's evalua-
for the president—is one of the osity, his zestful interest in all
elements in America's Trinity, the phenomena of growth, men- tion committee while at the Uni-
versity of Michigan. He lost his
with
George
Washington and tal, spiritual, biological, all pro- life on March 22, in an airplane
Abraham
Lincoln.
tected him
from saddens
the disillusioned accident at Harlingen, Tex., while
"Jefferson profoundly affected revulsion
which
serving as a gunnery instructor. The completion of hs first year of service to the members of the Ameri-
the other two. Lincoln's political fine personalities in their middle
Rabbi Jehudah M. Cohen, di- can armed forces is being celebrated April 18th by the Women's Division
philosophy, in fact, was almost and later years.
of the National Jewish Welfare Board. Among other services, it initiated
It would be rector of the Hillel Foundation Serve-A-Camp
Committees in 22 cities; distributes send-off kits to men
wholly Jeffersonian. He was the literally impossible for any of us has just received a communica-
on outgoing transports, participates in the Victory Book Campaign, sup-
to imagine Thomas Jefferson false tion from Lieut. Col. Lewis H.
to a trust, cruel, cowardly, or Kensinger, commandant of the plied more than 60,000 mezuzahs to Jewish men and women in serv-
dishonest. It is as impossible to Harlingen Army Gunnery School, ice; arranges for special religious holiday gifts. For this Passover the
Division sent several thousand Kosher Passover food packages
imagine him bored, bitter, or re- a portion of which reads as fol- Women's
to service men. The National Jewish Welfare Board, one of six con-
sentful. The thought of Jeffer- lows:
stituent members of the USO, is the recognized agency concerned with
son the patriot, is for all Ameri-
"Sergeant Shiraga was an effi- the religious and welfare needs of Americans Jews in the armed
forces-
cans, a bugle-call to duty. The cient, well-liked young man whose bcgh in this country and on the battlefrontt; of
the world.
thought of Jefferson the man, is death was as much in the line
"Any American who wilfully
sunshine in a shady place."
of duty as if he had been killed
neglects to pay his taxes on
Thomas Mann, who experienced in actual combat with the en-
time or to invest every cent he
the horrors of Nazism and who emy."
will officiate at these services.
services. Interesting and appro-
can in War Bonds is surely giv-
has found refuge in America,
In accordance with its custom the priate discussions will be given
Sergeant Shiraga originally
ing aid and comfort to the
Junior Congregation of Congre- at each service by speakers who
pays
his
tribute
to
his
adopted
lived
in
Boston,
Mass.
He
is
sur-
enemy . . . We have a job to
country's hero by pointing out vived by his bride of six months, gation Shaarek Zedek will hold have been invited to address the
do and we are all called for
the modern implications of the Mrs. Jean Shiraga of Philadel- its own Passover services in the Junior Congregation. The serv-
service to our country. Our
Kate Frank Memorial Building. ices will be led by Myron Rosen-
inalienable right to "the pursuit phia, Pa.
dollars are called to service
The services will begin promptly thal, Philip Caplan, Charles Kra-
of happiness." He says:
too. Let us all ask ourselves,
at 9 o'clock, Young people are mer, Bob Kasle, Sheldon Lutz and
"The Four Freedoms of the
'Shall we be more tender with
invited to participate in these Eugene Malitz.
Atlantic Charter are nothing but
our dollars than with the lives
a new expression of the human
of our sons?' " — Secretary
right to happiness; they are a Passover Services
PASSOVER GREETINGS TO ALL
Morgenthau.
joyous social message which At Shaarey Zedek
America, in the name of the
United Nations, opposes to the
Passover services will be con-
evil and disbelieving sinister plan ducted at Congregation Shaarey
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of world enslavement harbored Zedek beginning with the usher-
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"The good spirit of America ing service of the first day of
which counts the pursuit of hap- Passover, Tuesday, April 20,
ASSOCIATION
piness among the inalienable Rabbi Morris Adler will preach
rights of man may be our guar- on "It Came to Pass at Mid-
antee that this great chance will night." Rabbi Adler will speak
not be passed by."
on "Our Children In War-Time"
Cordell Hull, one of seven on the second day of the festival,
"THEY GIVE THEIR
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