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CLIFTON AVENUE - CINCINNATI 20, OHIO

VOL. 45, NO. 20

Detroit and Jewish
Chronicle
The Legal Chronicle

_ _

Dr. Jones and Rabbi Adler
To Address Joint Meeting

DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, MAY 14, 1943
____

Program Sponsored by Bnai Brith Council and
Round Table of Catholics, Jews, Protestants

10e Single Copy; $3.00 Per Yee,

Pisgah Bowling 'Justice
Joseph M. Proskauer
League Dinner
At Statler May 16 Honored At N. Y. Dinner

Guest of Honor of Joint Defense Appeal

Sam Maza To Be
Principal Speaker

A cultural Program sponsored B'rith members went to the
And Anti-Defamation League of Bnai Brith
jointly by the Greater Detroit American Red Cross Blood BankBob Hall, nationally - known
NE
W YORK (WNS)—Joseph world's aggressors be met both on
B'nai B'rith Council and the De- and gave blood.
Mrs. Lillian vaudeville entertainer, will head- M. Proskauer, former Justice of
•
troit Round Table a Catholics,' Aaron, president of Pisgah Aux- line the sernI4Innual dinner-dance the Appellate Division
the battle fronts abroad and on
J an
Jews and Protestants will be diary and. Max Goldhoff, tre . as-
the Pisgah Lodge bowling mer president of the New York the propaganda front at home."
held in the Social Hall of Con- urer of Pisgah Lodge were joint-
Recently elected president of
Federation of Jewish Charities,
ser e
c dh
gregation Shaarey Zedek Monday 1y
the American
Jewish
Committee,
_ chairmen f this t r e oject soon . -
declared this week that 'only Judge
Proskauer
was
guest of
y th
oe G is rea P r Detroit
through a renewed optimism and
night, May 17, at 8:30 o'clock. B'nai B'rith
Council.
The public is invited.
at
a
dinner
held
under
the
a faith in our democratic institu-
Dr. Edgar DeWitt Jones, lain-
tions can the onslaught of the auspices of the Joint Defense Ap-
biter of Central Christian church D
peal of the American Jewish
----- Comm
and Rabbi Morris Adler of Con- R abbi
Leagu ittee and Anti-Defamation
Alkalay to
r
gregation will be the principal
League of B'nai B'rith. The
speakers at this meeting. These
c h a i r m a n of the dinner was
Address
Jewish
speakers recently concluded a
Judge Edward Lazansky, former
) .
good will tour of army camps
stheeeenAdppjeul:
rar t e e si( gil v g isi o j it- i l stOc f e the Second
in several states in behalf of the
dicial District of New York. More
National Conference of Christians
and Jews. Harry Yudkoff, presi-
than six hundred prominent men
Meeting
To
Be
Held
(lent of the Greater Detroit B'nai
and women of the city gathered
"Wartime Britain and
At Community Center
Brith Council urges all Bnai
to pay tribute to Judge Prosk-
B'rith members, their families
auer who became the sixth presi-
The Jew" His Subject
Rabbi Isaac Alkalay will be the
dent of the American Jewish
and the Jewish community at guest speaker at a public meeting
Bass Henriques, social worker Committee since its founding in
large to attend this meeting, and arranged by the Detroit Division
1906.
hear these speakers tell of their of
and communal leader,
the American Jewish Con-
recent tour.
, will address Outstanding lead
ers of the na-
a public meeting in the Brown tion also joined in
gress at the Jewish Community
hailing Judge
At this meeting the film Center, Tuesday evening, May
Memorial Chapel of Temple Beth Proskauer's election to his new
"The World We Want To Live 18.
El on Thursday evening, May 20, post. Governor Thomas E. Dew-
In" will be shown. This film pro-
Rabbi Alkalay is one of the
ey, these
in a special
duced by the National Conference most colorful personalities in Se-
at 8:15 o'clock. His subject will "In
days it message
is more declared:
import-
t 41 of Christians and Jews has been phardic Jewry. Born in 1881, he
be
"Wartime
Britain
and
the
ant
than
ever
that
this
great
Jew."
acclaimed by audiences through- received his primary education
organization devoted to the p•o-
MILTON M. WEINSTEIN
out the United States. Dr. Joseph in Belgrade, Serbia, and his high-
Mr. Henriques is at the present teetion of civil and religious lib-
Q. Mayne, executive secretary of er education in Vienna where he
league, Sunday evening, May 16, time in the United States to ad- cities of Jews throughout the
the Detroit Round Table of Cath- also obtained his doctorate and at
dress the regional conventions of world be headed by a man of
the Hotel Statler.
(dies, Jews and Protestants will graduated the Rabbinical College.
Milton M. Weinstein, president the National Conference of So- your standing and ability." Bishop
deliver a short talk. A special Shortly afterward he was sum-
of the league, will serve as toast- vial Work at St. Louis and Cleve- William T. Manning stated. "I
program of Jewish music has been 'none(' to head the Sephardic con- master for the occasion and will land. By special arrangement with know how ably you will lead the
arranged for this occasion.
gregation of Belgrade.
introduce the main speaker for the British Consulate of Dc- American Jewish Committee in
This program has been ar- In 1910 Dr. Alkalay became the evening, Sam Maza, former troit, Mr. Henriques will be in our its work of upholding our coni-
ranged by the Greater Detroit the Chief Rabbi of Serbia. At president and founder of the city for two days. His consent to mon American heritage against
B'nai BB'rith Council to compli- the head of his community, he
league. Maza will speak on "What speak before a Jewish audience ruthless and Godless enemies."
meat the Detroit Round Table of went through the turbulent time the Bowling League has contrib- provides a rare opportunity for Receives Messages
Catholics, Jews and Protestants of the Balkan War in 1912, and
local Jewry to hear an outstand-
uted to B'nai B'rith and what
Other messages were received
on their splendid job of dissem- the four disastrous years of the B'nai B'rith has contributed to ing British personality of the from Mayor Fiorella H.
Jewish faith.
La .
hinting good will andthe true first World War. During these the community."
Guardia, Dr. Everett R. Clinchy,
American spirit, according to Is- difficult times he assumed many
Mr.
Henriques
is
the
founder
of
president
of
the
National
Con-
Max Goldhoff, vice-president,
adore Starr, chairman of the coo- duties, and made himself heard
the famous B e r n h a r d Baron ference of Christians and Jews
Settlement House of London, Eng- and Dr. Louis Finkelstein, presi-
mittee arranging this program and felt in official circles. At the
.See BOWLING—Pag e 16
land. He has also been a pioneer dent of the Jewish Theological
which included Mrs. Harry Sin- conclusion of the war, when Yugo-
in the establishment of the Na- Seminary. Mayor LaGuardia said:
ger of Pisgah Auxiliary, Miss slavia was enlarged, the govern-
tional Association of Boys' Clubs "We cannot fight Hitler and
Mary Silverman of Business and meat acknowledged his services
Professional
in England. For years he has countenance anti-Semitism in our
Auxiliary and Sol to the country, and declared the
Rosenman of Louis NIarshali Chief
Chief Rabbinate a sae-main-
been one of the guiding directors own country at the same time.
e-main-
Lodge. Dr. Joseph Q. Mayne, ex-
of the Jewish Orphanage in Lon- The combating of anti-Semitism
ecutive secretary of the Detroit tallied office.
don. Since 1924 he has been a has today become a part of the
Rabbi
Alkaklay
was
invited
on
Round Table assisted the coo- several occasions to come to
justice of peace, sitting in Juve- defense of American institutions
mittee.
nile Courts and was made chair- against our national enemies. I
—
The following groups comprises America and England as Chief
man
1936. of the East London Court in congratulate you on the signal op-
The
annual
tea
of
the
Business
the Greater B'nai B'rith Council, Rabbi of the Sephardic Jews of
portunity which your new office
Pisgah Lodge, Louis Marshall these countries, but he felt that and Professional Division of Ha-
He is a nephew of the famous provides to render a great serv-
Lodge, Theodor Herzl Lodge, East he was more needed in his own dassah will be held on May 16, Jewish scholar, Dr. Claude G. ice to your country."
Side Lodge, Pisgah Auxiliary, country and did not accept the 1:30 p. m. at the Belcrest, coni- Montefiore, and his wife is the
invions.
Urging a f o r t h r i g h t stand
Business and Professional Auxil-
bining with it the open house for sister of the late Herbert Loewe, against the onslaughts of the
When in 1923 all the Jewish prospective
iary, Theodor Herzl Auxiliary,
members
of
the Reader in Rabbinics at Cam- Nazis and their kind in America,
East Side Auxiliary and Louis communities of Yugoslavia united, group. In an appeal sent by Miss bridge. Mr. Henriques was the who spread the virus' of hatred,
Dr.
Alkalay
became
Chief
Rabbi
Sophie
Blanche
Schwartz,
presi-
Marshall Auxiliary,
founder of the first liberal syna- Judge Proskauer declared, "We
gogue in London, which no h.
Durin g the past week May 10 of all of Yugoslavia Jewry.
dent of the l• • •
. must tae
k counse l, not of o ur
.
on
to
women
a
membership of more than thisdignation
in-
to 17, members of all local B'nai
He was also most prominent in employed in all the major profes- teen hundred. He is the author of our fears,
, not but
rather
of our
of our
hurt,
not
B'rith groups participated in the preparations and the found- sions, war industries, and business of many books and has lectured in hopes and our confidence
in the
B'nai B'rith Blood Donor Week. ing of the World Jewish Con- offices "the plight of the Jewish this country at Yale, Harvard, and basic integrity of A m e r i c a n
Every day during this week B'nai
People
of
Europe
and
the
crying
See ALKALAY—Page 16
need to provide them with a per-
See HENRIQUES—Pa ge 16
manent home where they may
See PROSKAUER—Pa ge 13
once and for all cease their wan-
dering and live like normal men
.
and women" was stressed. The
division is at present helping to
By FRANK N. TRAGER
4
raise funds to rescue several
By HENRY TORRES
th
thousand Jewish refugee children EDITOR'S NOTE—An evaluation of the literary works and phil-
Reprinted from the May issue, Free World. by Special permission. from Europe for whom certifi-
osophy of Horace Kallen, writer and philosopher.
cates of Asr thento
y i
Pale stine are
the
available.
ent
(Continued from Last Week.)
controlled by the Reich as was tn .
American Agen-
There is not a Jewish tom- (who left his unfinished work for
th i s country
law promulgated by the Govern- cy for the Yough Aliyah (immi- munit y in thi
.
t r3,
, of
But it is not only that General
any Dr. Kallen to edit), and it can-
movement which has al- size that at one time or another not be denied that he is one
violated the principle of meat of Vichy.
Does
General
Giraud
consider
non-retroactivity in law to strip
ready t t n
transferred
has not had the pleasure and the best interpreters of the pia
non-retroactivity
children
tho.hi nearly 10 ' 000 Profit
ro
_ 1 . of n.i
making
ming K.
the
le i
the heroes of the Marne and the Article 2 of the Civil Code, which hopes 1 cl,, e h Palestine, - Hadassah
'
acquall.ntan.ce
matic ' philosoph y
ena le( through thr4 of I coact. . M.
a en.
of William
Ts (Its- Jellies,
French citizenship. The 44,000
a philosoph y that has s
descendants of the beneficiaries of law of 1927, which is the stand- forr a w o e generation of doomed son of Philosophy and Psychology American. He has carried on the
youth."
the Cremieux decree (I give the . ird of French citizenship, as mere
at the New School for Social Re- Jamesian tradition by his close
official figure), the c hi 1 d r e n, ( scraps of paper? What right has
An ambitious program has been search, has consciously and suc- study and appreciation of
4P grand-children, and great-grand- General Giraud, by abrogating the arranged
for the afternoon. Mrs. cessfully integrated his life in
an I
Cremieux decree of his own ac- Joseph H. Ehrlich, past president his relation to the Jewish co
rn- large agreement with the hilo (
of 1870, who were collet- cord, to repeat one of the most of the Detroit chapter of Hadas- mutiny. Never for a moment has
John Dewey who, in
children
of the native
illegalities perpetrated sat and a former national board he failed to enlist in those bat- ophy of
tively
naturalized
by the Algerian
Govern- shameless
b
ways is America's gr '
ealt1- 1
the Vichy
Government
under
(n.slatneYxamPle
which
would
make
demo-
h•I
ment of National Defense, are to- y (email
pressure,
when in
his member will address the guests des
. . . .
., • '
or dead, of a
and an illustrated talk
(lay French not because .
J .'
p er
who completely
awns era rc iving for everybody, hereties the
inquiring
spirit on typi-
the
of the
March 14 he declared so
effect of this naturalization,
but speech
precis Of
,
iv that he considered all music will be given by Mr. and and abroad, stronger, more resit- one hand, and the noblest tradi-
all that is signified in "n" Vichy legislation utterly void and Mrs. James Rosenthal of Pontiac. lent and hopefully triumphant, dons in American life on the
( by
run Francais en France" (born
Mrs. Rosenthal was a music major and never for an instant has he other. Truly it can be said that
of French parents in France)), consent. because it lacked popular at Hunter College in New York forgotten that his Jewishness Horace Kallen was fortunate in
From
what
legal
author-
as stated in the naturalization law ity does General Giraud derive the and is the holder of a Lewisohn means something. concrete and
scholarship for study of advanced enriching..
of August 10, 1927, with specific
his teachers, is fortunate in his
power to abrogate
and replace a composition, author of a group
reference to Algeria in Article 15. Republican
law
Horace Kallen, born inGer colleagues and is rich through
for
the
nation,
In violating. the sacred rule of which alone has the
of Hebrew songs and is at prey- many in 1882 was brow ht - his students.
non - retroactivity in law and wrest- ter its decisions?
right
to al- ent director of the choir of Tem- this country
General
As a young graduate, Dr. Kal-
at an early ag
ple Jacob. Mr. Rosenthal studied
ing French citizenship from French- Giraud, like Marshal Does
P
e, len taught at Harvard, at Clark
etain, want voice in Detroit, Ann Arbor and studied and finally received his
men of two, three, or four yen-to infect French public law with
PHD in Philosophy at Harvard University in its great days, awl
erations' standing, the abrogation discrimination between Jews and New York and is soloist at the in the great days of William later at Wisconsin. There, dur-
Temple.
of the Cremieux decree is as much non-Jews, in violation of the
an outgrowth of the
Business and professional wom- James, George Santayana, Josiah ing the lastcertain issues
Laws enforced in Nazi Nuremberg
Germany Declaration of the Rights of Mail, en are cordially invited to be Royce, Hugo Munsteberg and of academic freedom arose which
guests of the division at this Barrett Wendell, It has been fie- were a factor in his resignation•
and in the regions occupied or
See DECREE—Page 16
quently said that he was a fav-
meeting..
oritepupil of William James

;F

Congress May 18

.
Basil Henrtques
To Speak at Beth
El Thurs., May 20

-

B & P Division of

H a d assah Tea to

Be Held May 16

The Abrogation of
The Cr e mie u x D e cr e e

Horace Kallen and His Book

See KALLEN—Page 13

