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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE
American People Face Acid Test in
Treasury's 2nd War Loan To Raise
13 Billion Dollars in Three Weeks
Sincerest Passover Greetings
DR. S. COLE
OPTOMETRIST—OPTICIAN
1107 FARMER ST.
Opp. Crowley Milner Co.
The Nation Dare Not Fail in This Greatest
Financing Task in History--"They Give
Their Lives—You Lend Your Money."
RAndolph 6776
Sincerest Passover Greetings
Washington, D. C.—Coming as it does upon the heels of
income tax payments, the people of America will face an
acid test this month when the Treasury's Second War Loan
drive opens April 12 with an objective of thirteen billion dol-
lars to be raised through sale of Government securities.
A substantial part of this huge financing, the most stu-
pendous ever undertaken by any government in the world's
history, must be loaned by people in ordinary walks of life.
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Government officials have'I
pointed out that the nation must not above what can be bought this year
fail in this duty to our men on the because of restrictions and ration-
battle fronts who are now carrying ing . . . approximately 40 billions
the offensive to the enemy at every of dollars which should go into Gov-
stage. It is obvious to every thinking ernment Bonds.
man and woman that as the United
It should be the objective of every
Nations take this offensive against American to invest these loose dol-
the dictators, the cost of war opera- lars, idle dollars, in Government se-
tions increases in proportion.
curities, not only from a patriotic
The American people must no standpoint, but from the standpoint
longer think of war costs in terms of of their own financial security.
equipping a soldier, building a tank There is available during the Second
or plane or a ship. We must now War Loan a type of Security to fit
think in terms of the cost of bat- every pocketbook.
tles, invasions and new offensives.
Are Wild Dollars
Attacking armies cost more money
Every dollar of these forty billions
than equipping that army arid we of dollars available, which is not in-
must meet that increased cost by vested in Government securities
buying more War Bonds and Second during this War Loan Drive is a
War Loan Securities.
"wild" dollar which, together with
its mates, will tend to increase infla-
They Give Their Lives.
tion. Uncontrolled inflation might
It is not only necessary that the
raise the cost of living to a point
American people left here at home
where the dollar is worthless. It
assume this additional participation
in the war effort—it is an honor to can happen. It happened in Ger-
many after the last war when the
do so . .. for we here at home can
price of a loaf of bread cost more
do no less than attempt to approach
the sacrifices of our brave men out than an annual wage.
Invested in Government securi-
on the fighting fronts to whom the
ties, your dollar will work for you. It
last great measure of sacrifice is
will hold down inflation because it is
but a daily offering. They give their
harnessed in war work; it will help
lives . . . we are asked only to
buy food, transportation, munition.
lend our money.
for our boys on the front lines and
And that is the theme of the Sec- it will be earning interest that, to-
ond War Loan, "They Give Their gether with your original loan, will
Lives—You Lend Your Money."
come back to you later to help you
Financial experts who know mone- buy the things you cannot buy today
tary conditions in the nation point . . . to insure your peace of the
out that at the present time there is future.
In liquid funds, cash and commer-
Remember those boys out there
eial bank deposits over and above . . . in Tunisia . . . in the South
taxes and present investment in Pacific . .. They give their lives—
Government Bonds, and over and You fond your money.
Sincerest Passover Greetings
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By DR. JOSEPH J. SCHWARTZ
European Chairman, Joint Distribution Committee
Several weeks before Passover
last year I received a telephone
call in the European headquar-
ters of the J.D.C. in Lisbon. The
call was from San Sebastian,
Spain. The caller was a refugee
who had just got out from France
with his family. He was quite
excited. At several points in
the conversation I had to tell
him not to shout so loudly into
the mouthpiece. It was prob-
ably the first time that he was
making a long distance call, and
he thought that the louder you
shouted the better , you were
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April 16, 1943
and The Legal Chronicle
France, on the very day that the
Laval Government began to de-
port Jews to the Nazi east. The
days that followed were hectic
and heartbreaking. The J.D.C.
and the relief committees through
which it operated in unoccupied
France were faced with one
emergency after another. I prac-
tically lived in the J.D.C. offices
on Rue de la Republique.
One hot afternoon, when the
deportations were at their height,
an aged rabbi—he was past 80
—came panting into the office,
which was four flights up. I
knew him from Paris, where he
had been living for many years.
He got right to the point: A
yeshiva in which he was inter-
ested needed funds to continue to
function. The J.D.C. had always
supported it, he said, so for how
much could they count on now.
I \explained that the deporta-
tions and the attendant emer-
gencies were taxing the J.D.C.'s
resources to the full and that
an allotment to the yeshiva might
well have to wait until events
took a more favorable turn.
"What have the denortations
got to do with an allotment?"
he said. His eyes, with their
conspicuously thin blue veins,
looked at me with inquiring nai-
vete.
But he was far from being
naive. He was being stubborn.
His question was a fighting one.
What it really said was:
"Do you think that because
Jews are being hounded we
should stop all our traditional
work of bringing up our young
the way they should be brought
up? As a matter of fact, now
is the time to increase and in-
tensify any activity that in-
sures our survival. If Jews are
romanticists and idealists, they
are also realists. Remember
that."
I didn't have to remember—I
knew.
I knew it when I watched men,
women and children. far from
their lost homes, sit down to the
seder in Caldas da Rainha, that
little resort town 60 miles from
Lisbon, where refugees who have
no immediate emigration pros-
nects live in "assigned residence."
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You would know it, too, if you
saw it, and recognize it as that
indefinable something we call mo-
rale, or spirit. or undying hope.
The British hid it during the
great aerial blitz. The Russians
have it today.
But you can get lost along
this road of hope if you don't
meet markers ever so often to
remind you that you're on the
correct path. Passover is one of
those markers for Jews all over
the world today. It reminds the
weary and the oppressed that
their day of deliverance will come
heard.
"Dr. Schwartz, please, get me too, and that the modern version
of Pharosh's cruel, unrelenting
a visa for Portugal. My family regime will some day come to an
and I have just come over from end.
France, and it is very, very ur-
gent that we get to Lisbon im-
mediately. How soon can we
have the visa?"
In Europe Jews believe that
the Joint Distribution Commit-
tee, or the "Joint," as they call
it, is a veritable deus ex ma-
china, that no matter what the
emergency or the problem, the
J.D.C. can solve it immediately
and satisfactorily. So I explain-
ed to the refugee that the J.D.C.
does not issue visas, but uses its
experience and contacts to help
secure the issuance of necessary
documents. And, I asked, what
urgency was impelling him to
come to Lisbon immediately.
"Oh, it's terribly important,"
he said. "If I don't get to Lis-
bon, how can I attend the Pass-
over services and how can I go to
a seder? I don't have to tell you
that there are no synagogues in
Spain."
He was right—there are no
synagogues in Spain. I promised
him to do what I could, and af-
ter I had hung up I wondered at
my hesitation in telling him what
had been on the tip of my tongue:
That with so many lives to be
rescued and so much relief to be
extended for the alleviation of
human suffering, his own par-
ticular problem 1`,vould have to
wait. Analyzing my hesitation in
not telling him this. I realized
that all along I did not really
believe it. In my heart I knew
that attending holiday services
was probably just as important to
him and his family as personal
safety. So I did not delay meet-
ing his request—and several
hours before the seder of the
refugee community of Lisbon be-
gan he and his family arrived.
I was to be reminded of this
refugee mdnths later. In August
of the following summer—that
is. the summer of 1942—I ar-
rived in Marseille, unoccupied
to 6 P. M.
The J.D.C. has always recog-
nized this. Truth to tell, it really
sensed it—and made the most of
it. The J!D.C. goes to enormous
trouble to get matzoth and other
Passover foods to refugee com-
munities all over the world. These
people would hardly protest if
the J.D.C. did not send them
matzoth. They know what a
huge obligation of mercy the
J.D.C. has — in Portugal. in
Spain, in Switzerland. in North
Africa, in Asiatic Russia, in
Latin America, in Iran, and on
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