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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

September 3, 1943

Detroit Jewish Chronicle

century. We believe there is a solution
to the European problem. If the solution
is not at hand , we yet believe it can be
Aublishod Weekly by Jewish Chronicle Publishing Co., Inc.
found.
However, we do believe it is at
JACOB H. SCHAKNE
Pres.-Gen. Mgr.
by
hand. We in America have the key that
Segal
JACOB MARGOLIS
Editor
can unlock the door. W9 have proved,
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One Man's Conscience
must reach this office by Tuesday evening of each week. • of a century. We are not wiser, more
When mailing notices, kindly use one side of paper only. intelligent, kindlier or more reasonable
the Detroit Jewish Chronicle invites correspondence on
sub- than the peoples of Europe. We decided
jects of interest to the Jewish people, but disclaims respon-
YOUR MR. SEGAL, who is tem- and shake it and make it ashamed,
sibility for en endorsement of views expressed by its writers to form a union of States. We did so and A porarily sojourning in Wash- They walked all over Segal's
we have achieved peace and equality, ington on official duty for the conscience, their hands took hold
Entered as Second-class matter March 3, 1916, at the Post- freedom and security, among ourselves.
Treasury—could he be called a of it and shook it until it spoke
bbeuerneaucrat
office at Detroit, Mich., under the Act of March 3, 1879.
y chance?—has up, "Yes, Segal, how much these
The peoples of Europe can do lik
li k ewise.
instrUc
by an b by his superiors many men have given and how
instructed
If they do not, it is because of special to write yo u a pi ece a b ou t th e much do you deserve their sacri-
Sabbath Readings of the Law
interests and the desire to perpetuate the corning war loan. (You will be flees? You have been compl
Pentateuchal portion—Dent. 16:18 - 21:9.
t o9re) about that on
e oeus t sl , I i tl e l r lucks you
rule or privilege on"the part of those a h nead rianftear lsoetpm
a ri d f r i e n t c O t cl 1 i
v i negn i I'
Prqphetical portion—Isaiah 51 :12 - 52 :12.
Yesterday
to whom power, place and prestige are
Mr. Max B. Cook of New York because you had to wait for a
of more value than human life and hap- —he's
SEPTEMBER 3, 1943
the one in direct authority table in the restaurant. You felt
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and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE

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over Segal—said: "Isn't there outraged because you didn't get
something you could write about a B card the last time. You've
t ehers e abdogs for the Jewish people been complaining about steaks;
Four Years of War
can't get good steaks anymore.
A Feeble Institute Dies
"Max," Segal replied, "get this No more thick, juicy steaks."
Four years ago the Nazis invaded Po-
astsi.a
ke ight.
d
ws areJ ew
Ame ri-
1 I I
The Italian Institute to study anti-Semi-
ac. ca ns the y ne
land—a sadder day for the world than
e d Jeot
n
as
s be SEGAL felt convicted. A slen-
the worst pessimist could have predicted. tism has suspended all its activities,
to bum war bonds. They vder boy trying to walk on his
to a London report.
don't like being appealed to as one leg came clumping by on new
For those specialists in suffering, the Jews, cording
The institute was located in Bologna Jews in a matter of their duty as crutches. He smiled and said good
the war added to their already overflowing and
Americans."
n
• . T
• gb oy in bed was
existence
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ence but six months. It
cup of wretchedness and misery, for they was theoretically patterned after the Ger- Mr. Cook was quick to see his taking his exerci se by raising
error which was one a lot of himself on the wooden trapeze
had already been ravaged, despoiled and man institutes in Frankfort, Stuttgart and other
well meaning people fall that hangs over
"T his is
degraded by the Nazis for more than six Vienna, but in fact the Jewish question into. It is said, though to say grand exercise for a fellow,"
he
years before the world catastrophe was was not studied there, but the institute that there are some Jews who said. "Just to be able to ' raise
started.
think of themselves Jewishly in your back a little" . . . He had
did serve as a center for the dissemina- relation to their large function been in bed since June and now
in the world.
On this anniversary of the war we find tion of anti-Jewish propaganda.
the days were running away to
Yet Segal, being for the mo- autumn and he hoped to be out
the arrogant and brutal Nazis less confi-
The probabilities are that the institute ment
servant of the Treasury on the lawn when the leaves fell.
dent that their ideology will rule the world was a feeble instrument for the spreading in this a war
loan drive, may not From all this Segal came to
for a thousand years or that the New of anti-Semitism. It must have been very let pass this opportunity to sell being contrite and humble: These
his fell for
Order in Europ e will become a reality. In
ow-Athme ericans, soome b oys had th spill ed, their wa
difficult for the few Italian anti-Semites
I
emites war,
blood thto
you, bonds
to persuade
e rsua d e th
third lan. fruc tify
the It
Italian
e ear th tord
wl .
fact, they are everywhere on the defense, i•ews,
e
people
that
the
Here you are at this column— better world that everybody was
fighting to preserve their very lives and Jews' who were but one-tenth of one pet
as
I hope you are every week— hoping for. This boy from the
per
country,
cent of the population were responsible and Segal is not going to let you steel mills in PennsYlvania; that
for the many misfortunes that befell Italy g h as
et away at a moment when he boy from the shoe factory• this
you may
so adv antageously .
On this anniversary of the war, many since the day that Benito Mussolini You
boy who u
d
trive
a truck;
'
marvel at the capacity for suffering, and guessed wrong and attacked prostrate
wonder how Segal that boy who
amo
b sold auto
mo biles.
comes
to
be
in
the
U.
S.
Treas-
Yea,
a
better
world
for
whom?
endurance shown by all the peoples' of France.
ury (his room number is 387',:i For Segal and his kin. For Ellen,
the embattled continent. How can theyAll Italian posturings as conquerors Treasury
Building) and the mat- Jan and Paul, his grandchildren.
keep on going without cracking up?
have been ludicrous, feeble and pathetic. ter deserves to be explained. He For all these people who were
is here by reason of having been staying home and enjoying the
The war proves that the human animal They cannot and should not be classed borrowed from his regular news- fruit of good wages. For these
japer
in
- is a tough and yet resilient creature who with the Nazis in our dealings with th
em• writ jobth b y the Treasury to comfortable folks who sat so
bl• p in s in be- spaciously in the grand lobbies of
is able to adjust himself to conditions to
half
the war bonds of the Washington hotels. For these n eo-
third of
loan.
which he did not believe possible.
Danish Jewry
plc in the cocktail bars.
That is how it ppens that he
"And what are you going to
appears
On this anniversary we marvel that the
this week
in the do about it, Segal?" . . . Segal
The last thin line of defense of the role of bond salesman,
ou
y
migh t can't do a thing about these
surviving Jews of the world can still hold Jews of Denmark was blasted when the say, and what are you
going to other peole.
p
He can do on ly
conferences and plan a future for their Nazis took over the one country in Eu- (bloo nda sb ,out buying some more
war about hims elf and that's sm
all
people. Yet such is the flaming spirit and rope that did not resist the Nazi hordes WE
enough. If he could buy a mil-
f
f f
unquenchable . faith of our people that .when they were overrunning Europe in W
lo
n
LL, now that Segal has come lit of bon ds it e w ould be damn
nothing can destroy their belief that out the spring of 1940.
tl edoing
d
beside the prodigious
TY to the point of trying to sell doing
of these boys who went
of all this travail and horror a better
What
will
the
Nazis
do
to
the
Jews
of
you bonds he is at a loss. He is through hell for him and left
world will arise. .
that unhappy land now that the D anish really no salesman at all, no fel- their limbs there.
low who can grab you by your
The least he can do is to buy
And surely a better world can be ours King Christian and his government no lapel and make you
buy. He can some bonds in the comin g weeks,
tell you only
if we will but use our intelligence and longer function?
nows. He to buy even if the strain hurts a
if we profit from our tragic experiences.
Will they follow the usual pattern of knows, for example, why he him- little. Hurts! The nurse has just
self
-
is
going
to
buy
more
bonds. given a shot to the boy whose
confiscation of Jewish property; imprison-
If there are any people in this whole ment in concentration camps for the lead- His knowledge of this has been legs were shattered by a land
by a recent visit to mine. Let him tell you what
world who want a better and, above all ers of the community; deprivation of pro- improved
Walter Reed Hospital which is pain is.
things, a more secure world, it is the rem_ fessional men and civil servants of their in Washington. To Walter Reed
That's that. This isn't any sal ,, s
nant of European Jewry that still survives employment, and the imposition of all the Hospital they bring the wounded talk;
only a statement of what
from the far-flung battle-
the cataclysm. cruel Nuremberg laws upon the helpless soldiers
fronts. He was there three hours one man's conscience thinks abort
and in that period his knowledge this war loan. But in his function
We emphasize a more secure world, for and inoffensive Danish Jews?
The fact that the Nazis decided upon of war bonds became a matter as a temporary servant of the
without security all else is ephemdal.
the enlightenment of his con- Treasury, Segal is required to
the imposition of their rule in Denmark of
science.
What did it avail the Jews of Germany bodes ill for our Jewish brethren there.
ask you how much you are going
There was ward after ward and to do about it?
that they were prosperous; active in every It was the only show place in Europe to row after row of beds in which
art, science, profession, business and in- which the Nazis could point with any lay boys who had lost legs in In a way, he hopes he has put
dustry? Their tragic fate is the answer pride, as an illustration of their New the African battle. One-legged the matter on your conscience,
to that question. Order in Europe. The worst features of boys, bedfast, yet they walk all too. It helps his conscience to
over a man's conscience. Boys take part of the load off and put
Nazi rule were absent in D enmk.
ar
with one hand off, yet they take it on other people.
How can Europe become a place where attempt was made
by them to live as a powerful hold of a conscience
life and possessions are secure? Can se- reasonable and neighborly
humans and,
How am I doing, Max?

curity be achieved by huge armies, bal- despite the fact that they were less arro-
ance of power politics, minority rights? gant and contemptuous of the Danish peo-
Ask France, Poland, Czechoslovakia, pie, they did not succeed in winning the
Holland, Belgium and the other conquered respect or support of any number of
countries. They all answer with a re- Danes.
sounding NO.
Apparently the Nazis are desperately
-
afraid of an invasion through Denmark.
Some other formulae than those used to They had not too much faith in the neu-
date must be found if aggression is to trality of the Danes and decided upon
become an outmoded way of life for Eu- the drastic step of complete military con-
rope's teeming populations. trol. In their present desperate frame of
On this anniversary we should reflect mind, when they throw all caution to the
and take stock. We must not forget that winds, can one hope that they will not
although the aggressor in the last two turn over the Jews to the tender mercies
World Wars were the truculent, swagger- of the Gestapo? Hardly.
ing Germans; that a century ago it was
The Nazis have assured the world that,
the French under the Napoleonic spell of when they leave the stage of the greatest
aggression who attempted to conquer tragedy in all history, that they will slam
Europe, and in the next 20 or 30 years the door so that humanity will remember
some other conqueror, not Germanic, may their cruelties and obscenities as long as
feel the call of destiny and plunge the man's memory shall last.
whole world into another world war.
Danish Jewry has lived over the mouth
of an active volcano for more than three
We refuse to subscribe to the pessimis- years. Now that volcano is in eruption and
tic doctrine that Europe must be a battle- only the most fortunate can hope to es-
ground and charnel house every quarter- cape the maniacal fury of desperate Nazis.

PONDS OVER AMERICA

"Eternal vigilance
is the price of Lib-
erty."
Thomas Jeffer-
son, author of
these words, left a
monument to free-
dom, the Univer-
sity of .Virginia at
Charlottesville.

University of Virginia

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Be Vigilant
Buy War Bonds

In Europe one of the
oldest seats of learn-
ing is the University
of Prague in Bohemia
founded in 1348. It
was seized by the
Nazis and now only
Nazi theories of a
super-race arc taught.

