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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
Detroit Jewish Chronicle
and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE
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members of Jehovah's Witnesses, who re-
fused to salute the American Flag, be-
cause according to the tenets of their
faith it was tantamount to the worship of
a graven image, which their religion
forbade.
The court gave the broadest possible
construction to the constitutional provision
fo insure publication, all correspondence and news matter
must reach this office by Tuesday evening of each week. that prohibits limitations on free worship.
When mailing notices, kindly use one side of paper only.
We believe that those who wrote the Bill
the Detroit Jewish Chronicle invites correspondence on sub-
of
Rights intended that there be no inter.
jects of interest to the Jewish people, but disclaims respon-
sibility for an endorsement of views expressed by its writers ference with the right to worship accord-
Entered as Second-class matter March 3, 1916, at the Post. ing to one's beliefs and conscience. The
office at Detroit, Mich., under the Act of March 3, 1879. bitter religious struggles in the colonies
had convinced the then leaders of Amer-
Sabbath Readings of the Law
ice that freedom to worship was of pre-
Pentateuchal portion—Numbers 13:1-15:41.
eminent importance and insisted that it
Prophetical portion—Joshua 2:1-24
be written into the organic law of the
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JUNE 25. 1943
SWAN 22, 5703 Republic.
June 25, 1943
Plain Falk...
by AI Segal
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Picking a Name
I
LIKE the brave new name of world was the wrecked clutter
a new synagogue we have in of all that. They had tried to put
our town. This is no stately edi- it out of their minds; to erase
fice of marble and ornamental not only the evil they had suf-
windows, and there's no mortgage, fered but also the many good
either. It has the brightest name, years that came before. To keep
though, among all the synagogues on remembering one's good years
in our town, of which there are in the hours of his adversity gives
so many. In a circle of one mile only pain. They had set their
there are 12 synagogues in our eyes to look far forward.
town, no less.
They thought the name of
This new congregation meets their synagogtie must be some-')
sta irs t g the
to in
l po
rooms of p the thing that had to do with Amer-
rosotu
The
The court in this decision repudiated A tip me ric a n Legion
ica. They believed in the America
as
a
Disgraceful!
1 for a soldier of our whose promise they
they saw in the
the doctrine that one must have but a w c ommunity:
Eli Wittstein, who statute when they
into the
single
loyalty
and
that
loyalty
must
be
to
fell
in
the
last
war.
What was the immediate cause of the
harbor. The America of Lincoln
the
state.
This
is
the
Nazi
dogma,
and
The rabbi, S. S. Auerbach, whom they knew as the liberator
disgraceful race riots in our city? Was many of our own citizens believe that in preaches
in German; for his peo- of the slaves and the friend of
it due to strain and heat or was it an time of war this is sound doctrine. The pie are all exiles from Germany. common men. The American of
In a day they were uprooted from the Bill of Rights which they
organized affair?
Supreme Court, however, holds that one their native soil where the graves had found in their reading and
not disloyal because he has more than of their ancestors were already of Tom Paine who even in Ger-
If it was due to strain and heat, then is
ancient mounds. They became many was not a stronger.
one loyalty.
wanderers in the world and settled
it is most unfortunate that relief had to
This was the America they be- 74
finally in our town.
lieved
in. This America which had
be sought in such a fashion, but if the
They hadn't lost everything; taken men from lowliest station
An American Reactionary
race-haters had organized it, then it is
though they had lost their and raised them to high places.
houses their business and other in accordance with their merits;
a much more serious matter.
Congressman John Rankin of - Missis- possessions — their money, their which was no respecter of condi-
household goods, their decent tions of birth and allowed all men
The authorities surely should be able sippi can always be depended upon to comfort,
but not everything. to walk courageously toward their
to discover whether .the Ku Klux Klaners obstruct every progressive measure and They had kept their ancient fulfillment; which knew no dis-
faith, even though in the dark- tinctions between men because
and Black Legionaires and similar organi- to advocate every reactionary one.
ness of the long night they had of the way they bowed their
zations have had anything to do with
looked to God and had seen no heads and bent their knees to
Last week Representative Dickstein sign.
Everything hadn't been lost. G od .
these shameful riots. We know that such asked for unanimous consent of the
From the long Jewish experi-
They knew this America from
ence they know the way of God the good lives of their own kins-
organizations, masking under different House to pass a special bill that would after
years that were as a day men who had come here
long.'
names, are operating in our city. have permitted Moses Tenenbaum, the in His sight. By the way of God before. They had come as poor
the arrogant evil-doers always strangers to these shores and v
We know, too, that these spreaders of father of two boys who are in the United had in good time been devoured without any begrudging they had
discord and sowers of hatred find no States Army, to enter the country. The by their own evil. The persecuted been allowed to share in the full-
come at last to be requited ness of the country. Their shar-
time inopportune to do their contemptible bill had been approved unanimously by had
for their afflictions by the full- ing was measured by the dill-
work. It therefore becomes a matter of the House Immigration Committee after ness of God's justice. gence of their toil. They had tic-
Their faith in a just God had quitted themselves with honor,
utmost importance, not only to the Detroit the committee had heard testimony, show- carried
them through the night. and by righteous citizenship and
Their
backs were strengthened to by honorable serving they had
community, but to the whole country, to ing that Mr. Tenenbaum was excluded
the burden of their sorrows. Yes, paid back for the opportunity of
make certain that such outbreaks are because of a technicality.
they had this faith; only it was being of America.
left of all their possessions. Not
not the work of subversive race-hating
1
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Congressman Rankin, running true to that all of them had preciously THIS
was the
the ex-
elements, for if such groups can cause form, objected to the biii, arguing: "I esteemed it in the years before. 1 files thought of America
as they con- TO
such serious riots in one place, they may am not in favor of breaking down our To own houses and to own stores sidered what name to give their
was thought much better; but synagogue. It must be a name
attempt to do the same thing in many immigration laws piecemeal. I am not in the houses were all gone and the that must be a token of what
stores were gone, like yesterday's
meant to them. Their
other places. favor of breaking them down by col- dust blown from a window sill. America
faith looked far and saw an
1
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The prevention of such disgraceful out- lateral attack; I am not in favor of using
that in the time to come
NOW
they
took steps to en- never would depart from the way
breaks are very important, but we should Chinese as a smoke screen to break them
shrine
their
faith in a syna- of justice and honorable deali nfr
remember that the solution of the prob- down ; I am not in favor of using the war gogue. They were scarcely settled and respectful tolerance and
in their meager apartments when equal opportunity.
lem of race prejudice and discrimination as an excuse to destroy the immigration they said they must have a
It was impossible that this na-
is one that will require the concerted laws that it took us so long to build up, house for their faith, too. And tion ever could abandon a great,
what was to be the name of their rave dream of political
ano-
so-
effort, understanding and good will of all and that the American people expect us synagogue? The names of most b
cial righteousness and embrace
synagogues
synagogues
have
to
do
with
the
the
nightmare
evils
from
the
Americans who sincerely subscribe to the to sustain and not destroy."
hiistory and tradition of Israel dark times of the history of man.
credo of freedom and equality for all.
All the above heat and passion because . . . Bnai Jeshurun, Beth Jacob, No! Already they thought they
Bnai Israel . . . names like these. could detect the distant footsteps
Up till now, unfortunately, many have the House wanted to admit one man who
The new synagogue must have of mankind marching to go along
rendered lip service to the credo, but if had been excluded because of a techni- a name that looked forward to a with America on the high road
bright, new world. The old world toward this dream.
we are not to appear as ridiculous hypo- cality. One would imagine that the House was already dead, like all the
This was the America that wa:
they had lost—their stores
crites to the rest of the world we must wanted to set aside the Constitution of things
and shops and houses. The old
See SEGAL—Page 9
,
do something about it. We have repeat- the United States, or at least nullify the
edly informed the European and the Asi- immigration law.
Hillel Gets Fund to Create Interfaith Student
atic world that we we want freedom and
But hardly anything else could have Fellowships As Memorial to Jewish War Hero
equality for all peoples, no matter what been expected of John Rankin of Missis-
their color or race. These pretentions do sippi. His record is consistent. He has a
not square with race riots and civic in- Bourbon, reactionary mentality that would
difference to the crying needs of minority have made him comfortably at home in
groups that suffer from discrimination. the court of Louis XVI of France, Cath-
Let every one of us bear in mind that erine of Russia or George III of England.
our treatment of the Negro is the yard-
Perhaps John Rankin knows that the
stick by which our community culture and immigration law is not part of the Con-
civilization is measured.
stitution and was passed only because an
Is Detroit to be known as a city of economic crisis had gripped the country.
hoodlums, gangsters, Kluxers, or is it to Perhaps he knows, too, that at one time
be known as a decent, fair and cultural this country permitted men and women
community? That is the question which to enter freely, and that these immigrant
peoples had built the country so that it
we must all answer.
is today the most highly industrialized
and the greatest wealth-producing coun-
A Notable Decision
try in the world. But, there is the possi-
bility that with all this knowledge he
The current Supreme Court of the has such a mind set and such emotional
United States is as liberal as any that reactions that no .facts can alter his
has functioned since the founding of the prejudices.
Rabbi Louis I. Newman, of Temple Rodeph Sholom, New York
Republic. It is a forthright and reasonable
Congressman Rankin prevented imme- City, presenting check for $1,500 from family of Morris Furrow .
court and does not hesitate to reverse diate consideration of the bill to admit to Dr. A. L. Sachar, national director of B'nai B'rith Hillel Foun-
itself when it finds that its former deci- Moses Tenenbaum, who had not seen his dations, for creation of Burton J. Furman Memorial Fund, in
memory of Burton J. Furman, who died a hero when the aircraft
sion was not just or fair.
two sons for five, years, but the House carrier
U. S S. Lexington was sunk. An initial gift to be used
will in due course consider the bill and to further interfaith relations among students in the New York
The court reversed itself in the matter pass it so that the father may be able City
colleges and universities, the fund will be administered by
of compelling children, whose parents are to see his sons.
the Metropolitan Hillel Council, representing four Bnai Brith
Hillel units in New York, and a member of the Furman family
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