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THE PASSING OF A "GOOD LITTLE MAN"

By J. C. GOLDMAN

Sunday, March 27.—The day
is bright and sunny, in spite of
the chilly air, one can see and
feel that spring is in the offing.
Two robins are hopping around
on the lawn near our apartment.
A little girl, with a blue rubber
ball, is walking down the street
beside her mother, who wears a
green spring coat and hat to
match it. Which, reminds one
of the green apparel that Mother
Nature will soon wear.
Yet, I am on the way to wit-
ness the last rites and services
of a "good little man," who lost
his life in a traffic accident while
crossing a thoroughfare on his
way home after a visit to his
daughter and grandchild.

The synagogue is filled with
a large crowd of about 500 peo-
ple who came to pay their last
respects to the departed "little
man." The co-member of their
congregation. Outside, near the
synagogue, several old women
and middle-aged men, with pa-
per containers and copper "push-
kes" in their hands are appealing
to the incoming crowd for alms
or donations. Repeatedly utter-
' ing in a monotone voice "Tzdoke
Tatzel Memoves" (charity pre-
vents death). It sounds so para-
doxical . . . and the crowd is
dropping in coins, willingly, al-
most eagerly.
Inside the synagogue the lights
are on . . . everyone is sitting
in deep silence with a sort of
ashen pallor reflecting on many
faces . . .
A gray-haired rabbi, short of
stature, with a gray trimmed
beard, started his eulogy with
deep emotion and tears in his
voice, giving an eloquent account
of the many virtues which the
departed member possessed, how
kind he was and how he helped
needy people in a secretive way„
In order that these recipients
shall not be humiliated ' '
"others"—said the speaker, "give
in order to receive something in
return . . . either some recom-
pensation or at least honor . . .
but this was not the way of this
man. He was little of stature
but big of heart and we of this

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munity at large, will miss him
for many years to come.
On the opposite bench of where
I was sitting sat Joe, one of his
employes, whom I know well
(Polish-American and Gentile),
his face had an expression of
deep sadness, even he dropped a
coin in the "Pushke" in respect
to his departed employer.
After the old rabbi finished,
the younger one delivered his
eulogy in a more modern style
and in proper English diction--
yet, it was not as sentimental or
as touching as that of the older
rabbi's.
Later someone sang the ever
lamenting "Ail Molei Rachmun."
After that they carried out the
casket . . . and I noted the
heart broken widow with her
daughter, from a former mar-
riage, coming out with tear-
drenched faces and broken in
spirit, and together with all
other relatives and friends they
got into a car which took them
in the procession to the ceme-
tery.

The crowd slowly scattered—
old men and women walked si-
lently and slowly to their re-
spective homes. Dexter Ave. con-
tinued its daily "life as usual"
routine. Women were buying
cakes and baigel, talking about
meat and butter and the lack of
seine, just as if nothing tragic
had happened.
And so a man who came over
to this "new world" about 30
years ago from a small Hungar-
ian town, prospered in the mod-
erate way, yet retained the re-
ligion of his fathers by going
to synagogue, often serving as a
"Bal Tfiloh," gave charity in a
human way .. • had been good to
his family and even to his em-
ployes, yet lost his life suddenly
and violently on a street of a
busy American city, a city that
is too busy with production for
a war that is raging the world
over and in which thousands of
lives are being snuffed out sud-
denly and violently . . . in a
struggle between the forces of
darkest barbarism and the forces
of various kinds of democracies
and free people.
Yes, it happened in our dy-
namic city that is at present too
busy to notice that death his sud-
denly snatched one "good little
man" from its midst.

Neugarten Membership
Tea To Be Held April 28

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will hold its first paid-up mem-
bership tea at the Detroit Fed-
eration of Women's Clubs on
April 28.
Mrs. Irvine Levy, membership
chairman, announces that plans
are well under way to insure all
members a most enjoyable after-
noon.
The executive board was en-
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Leo Alexander, with Mrs. Martin
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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

British Press, Critical of THE FUNDAMENTAL LESSONS OF THE
U. S., Demands Britain LAWS OF PASSOVER FOR OUR TIMES
Take Lead To Save Jews
By RABBI MOSES FISCHER

LONDON (WNS).—The Brit-
ish press, criticial of America's
attitude toward the plight of the
millions of Jews still in Nazi-
occupied territories, demanded
this week that Britain take the
initiative in rescuing as many
Jews as possible from the Hitler
inferno.
Urging the British government
not to wait for the results of
the forthcoming Anglo-American
refugee conference in Bermuda,
the liberal New Statesman and
Nation declared:
"It is not clear why we, in
England, must wait for Ameri-
can cooperation, desirable though
it is. The massacre goes on and
where so little can be done, it
could have been expected that
the British and American gov-
ernments would snatch eagerly
the few opportunities that pre-
sent themselves. Instead, the
Foreign Office keeps on insisting
that this is a matter in which
the United Nations must act to-
gether, while America has hith-
erto been uncooperative."
The London News Chronicle,
reporting that anti-Semites in
England have recently intensified
their anti-Jewish propaganda in
order to obstruct British efforts
to rescue the Jews under Nazi
control, said: "Speed and energy
must be displayed in all measures
which can lead to the saving of
Hitler's victims." The News
Chronicle asked the government
to announce its plans for admit-
tine refugees from Nazi-Europe.
(An example of the intensified
anti-Jewish campaign in England
was the deliberately concocted
lie, spread by pro-Nazi anti-
Semites. that the Jews were re-
sponsible for the recent air-raid
shelter disaster in which more
than 170 persons were killed. Af-
ter an official investioation, Home
Secretary Herbert Morrison an-
nounced in the House of Com-
mons that the anti-Semitic rumor
was completely without founda-
tion.—Ed. Note.)

Congress Women to
Hear Max Kopstein

Max Kopstein, of Chicago,
president of the Midwest Region
of the American Jewish Congress,
will be the guest speaker at a
meeting for men and women
sponsored jointly by the Detroit
Women's Division and the Amer-
ican Jewish Congress Council, to
be held at the Rose Sittig Cohen
Auditorium Wednesday evening,
April 28.
Philip Slomovitz will give high-
lights of world news. Miss Leah
Crohn will present a group of
songs.
This meeting is the first of a
series of gatherings between the
council and the members of the
women's division and their hus-
bands, who are invited to this
meeting. The council is seeking
to stimulate individual member-
ship in the men's division, which
until the present time has been
limited mainly to organizational
membership. Representatives of
organizations are urged to in-
vite the members of the organ-
izations which they represent,
both men and women, to this
meeting.
Mr. Kopstein will discuss the
importance of individual mem-
bership in the congress move-
ment, which is assuming an im-
portant role in world events at
the present time. The American
Jewish Congress has negotiated
with world leaders on behalf of
war stricken masses of European
Jewry and is actively supporting
the General Jewish Assembly so
that a unified approach to Jew-
ish problems may be presented
for consideration.

It is in our days a long recog-
nized and generally accepted
truth which was first voiced and
sounded in the American Con-
gress by the pioneers of human
rights and freedom, that "the
price of liberty is eternal vigi-
lance". The world today pays
with oceans of "tears and blood,
of sweat and toil, of sorrow and
agony", with billions in treasure,
accumulated by the painful labor
of many generations, with the
menacing and threatening de-
struction of our painfully built-
up civilization and its imperish-
able monuments and values, for
the sin of omission that the
free, powerful, democratic na-
tions have failed in their sacred
duty to watch with religious con-
sciousness and vigilance over
their freedom which came down
and was entrusted to them at the
price of so many sacred wars
and the self-sacrifice of so many
heroic souls! In this connection
and fully appreciating the results
of this sin of omission and ne-
glect—it is for me of uttermost
importance and moral weight the
fact that the Tora designates the
first Pesach eve, the anniversary
of our national freedom as "Lel
Shmurim," "the Eve of Vigi-
lance," and declares most em-
phatically that this eve must be
celebrated as the Eve of Vigi-
lance by all generations to come.
In its deep and symbolic lan-
guage, the Tora implies and sug-
gests by this designation that the
price of freedom is eternal vigi-
lance, that each generation must
re-conquer and re-possess it anew
by watching vigilantly over it.
It is, therefore, that everything
in connection with this holiday
of freedom must be performed
and prepared with vigilance,
"Ushmartem Esz HamatZohn"
"Observe with vigilance the Mat-
zos Feast," and our sages com-
ment upon it that the matzos and
all the Mitzwoth connected with
it must be observed with vigi-
lance.
Another fundamental law of
Passover which is of fundamental
significance to us is that the Pass-
over offering, the sacrificial meal
of freedom, was not allowed to be
consumed and eaten up by in-
dividuals singly. It was to be
eaten in company, in a family
group or neighbor group. "Uss-
cheno Hakorob Alov." He was
to partake and consume it with
them together. Does this law not
foreshadow and implement the
great truth that the blessings of
freedom cannot be enjoyed in
an isolated state, by an individ-
ual unit while around him slavery
rules supreme and his fellow-men
are shackled. The freedom of
the strongest individual is only
then secure when it is founded
and grounded upon the granite
basis of the recognition of man's
inalienable right life, liberty
and pursuit of happiness.
Once we allow that our weak-
est and lowest fellow-man or
once nations allow that the weak-
est member of the family of na-
tions shall be deprived under
whatever pretext of their free-
dom then their own liberty is
shaken in its very foundations
and will endure only until an-
other powerful conqueror arises
and endangers their freedom.
Peoples and nations have in our
times learned this lesson, un-
fortunately by witnessing and ex-
periencing the massacre and holo-
caust of the flower and youth
of mankind. It is for this reason
that the Tora has forbidden the
consummation of the freedom-
festival in isolation and detach-
ment. It is therefore that the
Tora comments. "Bajisz Echod
Jeoehal," that the Passover lamb

Kvutzah Irvith To Hold
Passover Gathering

The Kvutzah Ivrith, the H( -
brew cultural group of Detroit,
has completed plans for a Pass-
over gathering on Saturday eve-
ning, April 24, in the Rose Sittig
Cohen building of the United He-
brew Schools.
The program will include brief
talks, group singing and some
Passover features. 14r. M. Sel-
ling from Palestine kill be the
guest speaker.
Refreshments wil7be served by
the
he women of the
L Auxil-
iary of the Kvutzah headed by
Mrs. A. D. Markson.
The chairman of the evening is
M. Michlin.

must be eaten in an integrated,
united, undivided home. Because
freedom in a house divided can-
not endure. It is for this reason -
that we open the doors of our
homes on this night of vigilance .
and freedom, we symbolize by it
that freedom must not be the
possession of single families and
groups, that it must go forth
from the narrow confines of sin-
gle nations and peoples and pen-
etrate the distant wastes and
spaces, uniting all humanity in
the blessings of freedom. We
welcome at the same time Elia-
hu, the forerunner of Messiah,
because Eliahu and Messiah are
to bring the blessings of free-
(1001, security, peace and faith
to all mankind.
It is with four cups that we
celebrate the Pesach evening.
The reason for it is because free-
dom is expressed in the Bible
with four designations..
It seems that old Israel also
visualized freedom in four-fold
aspects!

Temple Israel's
Passover Services

Temple Israel will hold its first
day of Passover services next
Tuesday morning, April 20, at
10:30, in the lecture hall of
the Detroit Institute of Arts.
"Passover and Easter" will be
the subject of Rabbi Fram's ser-
mon.
The great choir of Temple Is-
rael, conducted by Dan Frohman,
will sing at the Passover family
Sabbath Eve service next Fri-
day night, April 23, at 8:30, in
the lecture hall of the Detroit
Institute of Arts.
Members and friends of the
congregation are especially asked
to bring their children for this
service. The youth choir will lead
the congregation in the singing
of Passover hymns. Passover re-
freshments will be served by the
Sisterhood of Temple Israel. Can-
tor Robert S. Tulman, accom-
panied by Karl W. Haas on the
Frankenstein memorial organ, will
render special Passover melo-
dies. Rabbi Fram will preach on
the subject "Let My People Go."
Yizkor memorial services will
be held at Temple Israel on the
seventh day of Passover, Mon-
day morning, April 26, at 10:30,
in the lecture hall of the Institute
of Arts. Cantor Robert S. Tul-
man will chant the Ravel Kad-
dish.

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