8 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. JEWELL PHOTO CO. 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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 EVERY JEW HAS HIS AFIKOMEN REX PLATING WORKS 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 Expert Workmanship on All Kinds of Plating No Job Too Small—Individ- ual Pieces to Production Work Call for Estimates 2543 GRAND RIVER RA. 3906 — SINCERE PASSOVER GREETINGS GEORGE M. LINKLATER 8 SONS 8626 LYNDON AVE. HOgarth 1834 SINCERE PASSOVER GREETINGS MAJESTIC FLOWER SHOP Est. 1912 HOLIDAY PLANTS OF ALL VARIETIES CAdillac 2964 Majestic Bldg. Lobby A JOYOUS PASSOVER TO ALL CLOTHING for the SPRING AND SUMMER SEASON Now Ready [K gentlemen' s 1259 WASHINGTON BLVD. Aill1;3D outfitter' s CH. 5615 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." LET A PHILIP STYLIST GIVE YOU A PERMANENT AND RESTYLE YOUR HAIR Appointments For Chopped Hands EMILIE PHILIP HAND CREAM Large Jar $1.10 118 Clifford ' CA. 6645 I A Joyous Pesach to All WRUBEL KOZIN Manufacturing Furriers 13326 DEXTER BLVD. TO. 8-1048 I Sincerest Passover Greetings Mr. and Mrs. A. Begun and Family American Receptacle ti Vault Co. 579 Kenilworth 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. 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