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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

Detroit Jewish Chronicle

and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE

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bilities, and if it discharges these respon-
sibilities in a statesmanlike manner it
will earn the gratitude of world Jewry,

We feel confident that the men and
women who make up the Conference
realize that they must deal wth hard
realities; unpleasant though some of these
realities may be, they are still stubborn
realities and must be faced as such.

July 2, 1943

Plain Talk.

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by Al Segal

Zebulon

We are equally confident that the Con-
ference will not adopt a begging, sup-
Dlintine. - policy, but will adopt a forth-
r
i ght , courageous, dignified policy that
right,
befits a people that has made its contri-
butions and sacrifices on a parity with
all other peoples.

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The Detroit Jewish Chronicle invites correspondence on sub.
'acts of interest to the Jewish people, but disclaims respon.
for an endorsement of views expressed by its writers •

IT WAS the evening of the re-
HE SCENE in the Zilche.'
cent Shevuos and what do
living room was like that a!
you do on the evening of the all the Bar Mitzvah's and eon.
evening of Shevuous? You look firmations. You know how it
Entered as Second-class matter March 3, 1916, at the Post:
A big crowd and Mr. and MrH
office at Detroit, Mich., under the Act of March 3, 1 8 79 .
up, n the Jewish paper the names Zilch practically lost in it . .
of all who had been confirmed "Ah, there you are, Zilch, and
Sabbath Readings of the Law
that morning and pick out those where's your wife?" . . .
Pentateuehol portion—Numbers 16 :1-18 :32 ;
The Conference should not be awed whose parents who know well eaid here I am . . . "Congratula-
tions, Mrs. Zilch, and how are
28:9-15.
and frightened by the Moslem and Ara- enough to call on and congratu- you,
Mrs. Kleinfuss? I haven't
Prophetical portion—Isaiah 66:1-24.
bian demands, for in the last analysis the late.
seen you since the last confirm-
decisions will be made by the representa- So, when the dinner dishes had don party we both attended."
JULY 2, 1943
SIVAN 29, 5703
tives of the United Nations whose chief been put away and I was get- Old Mrs. Kleinfuss was stand-
ready to stretch myself out ing close by Mrs. Zilch . . .
concern, we believe, will be to bring about ting
in comfortable relaxation, my "And how's your rheumatist•„
an enduring and just peace all over the wife said look up the paper and Mrs. Kleinfuss? I remember on
Why the Riots?
world.
see who was confirmed today. last Shevuos . . . " Yes, we talk
I went all the way down the list about Mrs. Kleinfuss' rheumatis m
All is quiet in Detroit. The curfew has
and there were the Zilches. Their (very Shevuos when we meet at
been lifted, but the army is still here to
boy Zebulon had been confirmed confirmation receptions.
Freedom
Matters
suppress any possible rioting. Hastings
that morning.
"It's the same old rheumatism,"
try wife said they are nice peo- Mrs. Kleinfuss replied. She said
Street resembles a Ruhr city after it had
The Nazis and the Nazi army may soon ple and we've been neglecting it
seemed to run from one con-
been visited by the RAF. The merchants, have an opportunity of proving to the them horribly. Did we call on firmation
time to the next. Thank
most of them Jewish, in Paradise Valley world the value of the psychology of no them the time Mrs. Zilch's great- goodness, though, otherwise things
have had their businesses damaged or defeat and no retreat. The test of Tunisia grandfather died? No! It was had gone all right. Mr. Kleinfuss
really about time we showed the
about over his shingles and
destroyed.
may have already convinced many that Zilches that we are aware of their was
did you hear I have another
existence. You never can tell grandchild, Mr. Segal? It has a
It all adds up to what? Who is respon- the Nazi armies are not mentally equipped when
you'll need a friend. We tooth already.
to
stand
up
again
a
strong
force,
but
it
sible for the disgraceful rioting that ter-
should call on them tonight any-
She thought grandchildren were
may
be
urged
in
extenuation
that
they
way.
rorized the city until the Army took over?
a good thing, anyway, even if
were not defending their fatherland. Be
But how will it look if we seem they do make you seem old.
Why were the Police of the city not that as it may, the test will no doubt to be people who care about them They are fine for rheumatism . .
able to control the situation? May it not soon come, and we hazard the guess that only when they are having a "When I go to see my grand-
time? Did we even call up children I forget my rheumatism."
be advisable to investigate the Police the Nazis and the Nazi armies will not good
and say we were sorry the time They have been a great help for
Department and examine the individual stand up to it if the forces thrown against Mrs. Zilch's great grandfather Mr. Kleinfuss' shingles, too.
policemen? Psychiatric and sociological them are powerful.
died? It was as if Mrs. Zilch
Well, so it went all around the
never had had a grandfather, for Zilch living room, as I shook
examinations are being made of the pris-
We must go back to the genesis of the all we seemed to care. Great- this hand and that . . . "How
oners, both white and Negro, for the pur-
no
retreat and no defeat indoctrination. grandfathers don't die every day. are you, Mrs. Greeintinkle? You
pose of discovering the causes of the
that's the way it is. When don't look a day older since last
The
Nazi psychologists, and not the Nazi the Yes,
riots.
sun's shining and there's Shevuos when we met at Ruben-
party, are responsible for this slogan. cake and punch to be had we're stein's or was it Oppenheimer's.
The citizens of Detroit who pay taxes The Nazi psychologists knew that the there, but when it's rain we stay No, it was Schwartz's. "And how
to maintain a Police Department have active, ambitious youth of Germany had home and Mrs. Zilch's great- do you do, Mrs. Schnecken? How
is buried and we do you manage to keep on look-
a right to know why that Police Depart- to be given something to compensate for grandfather
scarcely notice what's happened. ng so lovely from one confirma-
the
deprivation
of
freedom
and
equality
ment was inadequate under conditions of
What will the Zilches think of tion to the next?"
riot. In other communities the county or that was implicit in the Nazi super-mili- us trotting in on them when She said go away, Mr. Segal,
municipality is liable in damages to those tary state. One of the most effective com- they're having a good time, and you're always saying such nice
having neglected them when thngs at every confirmation re-
. whose property is damaged or destroyed pensatory devices is to make the deprived we
Mrs. Zilch's great-grandfather
but you don't know the
during a riot. This is sound and good individual feel that he is superior to and lay cold in death? They will say ception
half of it. The fact was, she
law, for it is the duty of the police to enjoys greater freedom than someone else here are those fair-weather said, she had been practically
wasting away, doing all her own
protect life and property. They are paid or some other groups. The superior Aryan Segals.
In the end we went, anyway. housework on account of not
for doing just that, and in the event they could prove his superiority over the help- Confirmations
and bar mitzvahs having any help. The way the
fail to do that then the injured party is less Jews and, in fact, against any of are great advents in Israel and, housegirls use all going to the war
the non-conforming dissident groups in after all, Mrs. Zilch's great factories, Mr. Segal, can you
entitled to payment for his loss.
the Reich. This offered some consolation grandfather was only somebody tell me when the war will h.,
If the Army could do the job without and helped to compensate for the loss of going out of Israel while the over? You should know.
firing a shot, why could not our Police? freedom during time of peace, but in Zilch boy is just coming in, you
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might say. That's something.
WAS spared by Mr. Finkelbaum
This question should be answered.
time of war more than anti-Semitism and Yes, I said, it's a great thing— from
having to make an
racial glorification were needed: The idea a Jewish boy taking up all the embarrassing display of my ig-
of our faith, becoming,
Palestine to the Fore
of invincibility had to be deeply implant- burdens
you might say, a man in Israel. norance; for, between you and
ed. The idea of always conquering and We should be there to give a me. I really don't know when the
The delegates to the American Jewish advancing had to be so inculcated that hand. Let's go.
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Conference which is now scheduled to the Nazi armies were not even adequately
meet Aug. 29 to Sept. 2 will have much trained to retreat and certainly not to
to discuss before they arrive at a definite accept defeat.
thesis on the question of Palestine.
Captured Nazi soldiers have been de-
Some time ago the Moslem League, scribed as sullen, arrogant, defiant. This
meeting in India, declared its unalterable is not surprising, for they believe that
opposition to a Jewish State in Palestine, they cannot be defeated, and they are
and more recently, King Ibn Saud of irked by being captured.
Saudi Arabia and Nuri Es Said Pasha,
After the defeats at Stalingrad, Libya
Prime Minister of Iraq have voiced equally
strong objections to the creation of a and Tunisia, most of the Nazi soldiers
Jewish State. In fact, both look upon the and Nazis must know that they are not
Jews of Palestine as intruders and tres- invincible ; that they can be defeated and
passers, and would have Palestine as must retreat. They can no longer seek
Judenrein as Germany, Austria, Bohemia compensation in the stupid belief in racial
superiority and invincibility and must face
and Slovakia.
the naked truth that they have bartered
The position of the Zionist was stated their freedom for the cheap elation and
by Rabbi Stephen S. Wise in a recent intoxication of a false superiority.
number of Life Magazine, and the tri-
We cannot and do not expect all
nationalists' position of a Palestine state
made up of Jews, Arabs and Christians Nazis to realize the futility of seeking
was clearly stated by Lessing Rosenwald solace and compensation in anti-Semitic
orgies after defeats. We may expect the
in the latest issue of Life Magazine.
Goebbels gang to continue to spout Aryan
The Jerusalem correspondent of the superiority and anti-Semitism until the
Christian Science Monitor, Joseph C. Har- Reich collapses. These psychopaths have
rison, finds a gravely menacing condition nothing else to save them from self-
of strain in Palestine.
destruction.
These facts are of such consequence
The Nazi armies do not seem to be
that only a zealot can and will ignore psychologically formidable. They will not
them. The Allied Nations are faced with stand up as would men who had not been
a condition and not a theory, and it will deprived of their freedom and had to
take wisdom, tact and rare diplomatic compensate with victories only.
acumen to formulate a policy that will
Freedom is not an abstraction ; it is a
reasonably satisfy all the contending
parties.
reality. Without it, men and women be-
come twisted and warped. Let us hold
The Conference, as the body represent- fast to ours and extend it to more and
ing American Jewry, has grave responsi- more areas.

Artist Aided by National Refugee Service
Wins Commission to Paint `Tree of Life"

Cantor Henry Ehrenberg, Miss Flora Johlinger, and Rabbi Abron
Opher welcome members and friends of the Hebrew Tabernacle in
New York City at the recent unveiling of a "Tree of Life." More than
200 names have already been inscribed.
This handsome wall panel was painted by Miss Johlinger who re-
ceived the commission in competition with many younger artists
through the National Refugee Service. A painter of established repu-
tation in this country and abroad, she is one of the many refugees who
are enriching America by their impressive talents and skins.
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