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. ' .‘..c.".441 JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
September 10, 1943
in Polish cities tremble wit h the reuniting of scattered famili
GHETTO
moans of the tortured and there and the aiding of' deportees es, ganization in the world.
Institute of Religion and a mem-
Besides subscribing to the Basle
are children among them. Every their repatriation or emigrat in
(Continued from Part. 1)
so often we are deluged with these agencies will deal with ion, platform by which "Zionism aims ber of the board of governors
by the Nazi oppressor has su f. telegrams informing us of d eaths
the to create a publicly secured, le- of the Hebrew University and
Jewish populations in a spirit of gaily assured home for the Jew-
fered more inhuman, more ba r - in prison camps. Later we learn equity and urgency.
Institute of Jewish Studies, Jeru-
ish people fn Palestine," Hadas-
barous treatment than the peopl how horribly these people were
We are further confident t hat sah offers its members an oppor- salem. Also he was honorary
e tortured.
provision will be made for s
of Poland. And among them non e
"Hundreds of cities and vil- specific Jewish needs as the uch tunity to participate in the main- president of the American Eco-
has been more brutally humiliate d 'ages
lib- tenance of a complete health nomic Committee for Palest ins
have
been
depopul
ated.
than the Jewish citizens of Po - They call it the 'liquidation
eration of Jews from ghetto
' of reservations and concentrat es, system in Palestine, a War Emer- and honorary chairman of the
land.
ion gency Program, a Jewish Nation- American Representatives of the
The unity and fortitude of m the Jewish element. But we c ry areas, as well as for the obse
al Fund and a Youth Aliyah pro- Jewish Agency for Palestine, the
people amidst their agonizin out: they are murdering hu man ance of their ritual requiremen rv-
ts. gram.
American Palestine Campaign and
adversity is eloquently atteste g beings. Daily they ship ten t hou- Moreover, it is clear that in
There being no Red Cross in the United Palestine Appeal.
in a report I received from ou d I. sand human beings from Wa rsaw connection with those measu res Palestine,
Hadassah's facilities
He was president of the Na-
homeland. Heart-rending thougl 1 and thousands from other c ities. which will be taken with a vi
its content may be, and it can Daily these thousands are ga ssed to the speedy restoration of n ew have been made available to the tional Conference of Jewish
not but outrage civilized semi - to death in sealed cars. Ot hers mal conditions in every liberat or- United Nations and medical sup- Charities, now the National Con-
bilities,
bilities, this communication must - are machine-gunned and bu tied country, the problems of the Je ed plies for Hadassah hospitals me- ference of Jewish Social Work.
inspire compassion, faith and alive or made into chemical s in ish population must be treated w- ceive priority rating in United from 1904 to 1906, and of the
in Nations' shipping.
National Conference of Social
courage in Christian and Jew underground factories. Daily en• a spirit of equity."
Due to the exigiencies of war Work in 1912. In 1917 he
alike. I quote from the report: tire families commit suic ide. Postwar Status of Jews
wit •:
Mothers
with
little
children
j
conditions and difficulty in travel, elected the first president
ump
"Six and a half' million Poles
of the
ad. r The Conference also adopted a Hadassah has decided to reduce National Organization of Y.
have been victims of the Ger- out of windows. Children go moh
M.
esolution defining the civil an d the number of delegates for the and Y. W. H. A.'s.
mans. It means that every fifth On ghetto streets German s
t
_
man, woman or child in Poland diers shoot them down like du as legal status of Jews in the pos national convention to be held in
Judge Mack was a proponent of
has been either murdered, or The toll of Jews is being ex- ' war world. The resolution urge d New York Oct. 25 to one dete- aggressive policies in Zionism
hausted
..
.
"
equal
rights
in
law
and
in
fa
ct
gate
to
every
250
members,
thus
driven from his home, taken to
and, (luring the clash between
The Polish nation will bear up for all the citizens in ever making an increased membership the Weizmann and Brandeis
a concentration camp, tortured
coun
under
the
horrors
of
this
Om
try
irrespective
of
nationa
stly •
1- important to secure adequate
t i ons, he threw his support fac-
or carried off to for d i n
to
Germany. To help you visualize situation, for no power on ea rtii ity, birth, language, race or re resentation.
the late Judge Brandeis.
can
destroy
our
nation's
gre
at- ligion. It demanded-full and un _ Delegates will be elected at Liberal Jurist
what this really means, I ask
you to imagine that the entire ness, which it attests daily. G el- equivocal protection of life an d this meeting.
As Judge of the United Stat
,s
population of metropolitan New man bestiality must be punish ed. c liberty for all inhabitants of al 1 For luncheon reservations please
Foes of Poland and of t h e c ountries and insisted on the righ call Mrs. Samuel Rubiner, 17521 Circuit Court, Judge Mack mad ,
York has been murdered, deport-
oll
d and driven from their homes. United States, furtive fifth c _ of all ethnic, religious4 and cul Mui•land Ave., UN. 1-7521, or a reputation for himself as a
What mass enslavement for umnists, have charged the prese nt tural groups to foster their re the Hadassah office, 9144 Linwood liberal jurist. His progressive
outlook and wide social point of
forced labor means may best be Polish government with Fasci sin spective group identities on the Ave., TY. 7-8216.
view brought him into close
realized by imagining that all the and anti-Semitism. That is an u n- basis of equality.
friendship with the late Judge
, A resolution calling for an in-
inhabitants of Chicago and Wash- truth. Our government, as w ell
as the National Council, whi ch Lernational bill of rights for Jews
Brandeis and President Wilson.
ington have been thus enslaved.
MACK
the outlawry of anti-Semi-
He later became one of Presi-
"To realize the extent of the was called into being as a foru in and
t
f or critical public considerati on , ' as part of the peace also
dent Wilson's closest advisers.
monstrous massacre of Jews,
(Continued from Page 1)
III d emanded that adequate machine-
In 1917 Judge Mack was an-
must imagine the whole of M youof our policies, represent
ry be established to safeguard and Berlin as a Parker Fellow, o ointed chairman of the section
hattan closed in by ghetto w an- shades of political poinion,
these objectives.
behind which all the Jews in ails ideological trends that find e
was admitted to the bar in 1890. s n compensation of soldiers and
Western Hemisphere have b the pression in Poland. Represents d The fifth session of the Con- Subsequently he became law pro- th ailors and their dependents of
imprisoned, to be gradually een among them are the Jews, as Terence was highlighted by a de- fessor, first at Northwestern and C e Committee of Labor of the
methodically exterminated, and also all occupations. The alleg o- nunciation of the anti-Zionist then at the University of Chicago. S ouncil of National Defense.
groups of several thousands da in tion that the Polish governmen t statement issued by the Ameri- In 1909 Judge Mack was ap- bi hortly thereafter, he wrote the
by machine-gunfire, lethal ilY, harbors Fascists is wholly un can Council for Judaism as pub- pointed to the Appellate Court, in 11 which was later introduced
or electrocution. Regardless gas founded. It is equally absurd an i _ I - lished in the New York Times. Illinois District, after serving a s Congress as the War Risk In-
this appalling state of thin of unfair to accuse Poland of ant Four speakers representing all term as Judge of Chicago's Ju- u ranee Act. During the First
W orld War, he was a member of
underground Poland fights gs ' Semitism at a time when pro - the rabbinical bodies in the United venile Court. Later, while still th
e board of inquiry on consci-
Newspapers are secretly prin on. Jewish sentiment in Poland is a s States made declarations on be- on the appellate bench, he was
en tious objectors of the War
and circulated four times da ted deep-rooted as is reflected in th e half of their respective organi- appointed by Presiderkt, Taft to D
foregoing report from the worn - zations, condemning the Council the United Circuit Court of Ap-
epartment, and was also umpire
and print the latest British a
American radio bulletins. We nd en of my country. It was th e for committing an act of treach- peals from which he retired in
the National Labor Board.
As chairman of the Committed.
not boast of sabotage becau ,o Polish government that not s ery against the Jewish people. 1941.
•
s e J long ago initiated the idea of a The published statement of the
the glory that such propaganda
Judge Mack was president of of the "Friends of Russia," he
o
int protest by the Allied Nation Council was regarded as an at- the first American Jewish Con- Prevailed upon President Taft to
would bring us is not worth the
victims it would inevitably entail In ainst the anti-Jewish atrocities • tempt to confuse the public mind gress in 1918 and 1919 and was have Congress break commercial
discussing this with Jewish and to undermine the authority head of the Zionist Organization relations with Russia for its per-
in our country."
Equally revealing of popular le aders in New York, I called of the Conference as the demo- of America from 1918 to 1921. secution of the Jews.
sentiment is the text of a protest at tention to the harmful effects craticially constituted spokesman He was the first chairman of the
During the past few years
clandestinely distributed in War- up on public opinion which, if of American Jewry.
Mack lived in retirement
Committee of Jewish Delegati ons Judge
a t the Versailles Peace Confer- H e continued, however, to be ac-
saw, Wilno and Lwow: "The t un challenged, such an impression
is likely to cause. For charging
e nce from March to May, .1919, tive in Jewish affairs and his
tal number of Jews killed h
reached one million and this nut as
HADASSAH
home had been a rendezvous for
n the Polish government with anti-
rging then that the rights of man
herincreasing daily. All pe Semitism is playing into the
y Jewish leaders who came
minority
groups
be
respected
by
(Continued from Parra 1)
hands of Goebbels. Jews every-
to discuss Jewish problems.
ish: the rich and the poor, t hands
he Allied powers,
infirm and old, the women, th where would render their broth-
At the time of his death Judge
Long active in Zionist affairs,
men, the 4ths, and little chi e ren a distinct service by stamp- foster Zionist philosophy by en- h e was president of the Palestine Mack was honorary president of
listing
as
many
women
as
pos-
E
dren. Their crime is that the ' ing out this propaganda.
ndowment Fund, Inc., and of the Zionist Organization, and of
While it is only natural that, Bible in its ranks, and has t he Alexander Kohut Memorial the Jewish Congress. Only last
were born into the Jewish peon e
achieved
the
distinction
of
being
and are condemned to extermin - as in the past, some of our peo-
F oundation; chairman of the week he was elected honorary
tion by Hitler. Therefore w e ple should wish to gravitate to- the largest Jewish women's or- b oard of trustees of the Jewish president of the American Jewish
Conference.
Catholics and Poles, desire t ' ward the Holy Land where so
speak. We do not want to b e much of value has been accom-
Pontius Pilates. We cannot ac plished by Polish Jews, I trust
tively counteract German crime Q that this will not be construed
we cannot help anything, we can ' as a matter of compulsion. It
not save anybody, but we protes will be our policy, explicit in tne
from the bottom of our hearts Charter submitted to and adopt-
filled with compassion, indigna - ' ed by the Polish National Coun-
tion and horror."
cil (Feb. 24, 1942), to refrain
The Warsaw ghetto has sine from compelling any Jews to
then witnessed acts of Jewis h leave Poland against their wishes
heroism unexampled in civiliar as long as they regard themselves
resistance to the Nazi conqueror . as citizens of the Polish common-
PROTECTED BY
On the day of victory the wall s wealth. Our Charter, which en-
of the ghetto in Poland will top visions the future political and
pie. The people of Poland wil economic structure of Poland,
raze them forever. That a lib _ specifically states:
erated Poland looks forward to
"Poland will guarantee the
such an eventuality is reflected rights and liberties of all citi-
in the spirit of a cabled message zens loyal to the republic, regard-
recently addressed to me as less of national, religious or ra-
Prime Minister and Commander- cial differences. Coupled with
in-chief. It was sent on Polish equality of obligations, equality
Soldiers Day in the name of tne of rights will be assured to na-
valiant women of Poland, whose tional minorities fulfilling their
Old Gold's fragrant tobaccos, includ-
sympathy and oneness with their civic duties towards the state.
fellow citizens of the Jewish faith They will be afforded the oppor-
ing delightful Latakia, are treated with
is clearly shown in the follow. tunity for free political, cultural
Apple "Honey" to help keep this famous
ing passages:
blend fresh on the way to you.
and social development. Freedom
"Side by side with you and of religion, conscience and ex-
WHAT APPLE "HONEY"
DOES FOR TOSACCIS
your forces we continue to fight pression, of association and as-
night and day, without pause, sembly will be guaranteed to all."
Sprayed on Old Gold's tobaccos until every
shred is reached, Apple"Iloney"protects
without rest. We want you to
In the face of overwhelming
the
know and remember this, We odds, Poland was first to chal-
natural moisture so important to freshness.
want you, upon your return, to lenge brutal aggression. Poland
It makes no change in the grand flavor of
find homes and not rubble; living is fighting not only for her own
Old Golds!
human beings and not rotting freedom. In keeping with her tra-
WHAT APPLE
"HONEY" DOES FOR YOU...
corpses. That is why we call to ditions, she is battling for the
you while there is yet time. Our fulfillment of her oldest maxim:
This conditioning agent guards your ciga-
rettes from unpleasant dryness—helps keep
only weapon in the fight with "The union of the free with the
BUY
the enemy is silence. We are si- free, on a basis of mutual
them moist and pliable—helps to see that
MORE
lent when at night they rob Jews equality."
you get fullest enjoyment from Old Gold's
WAR
of sons and daughters, when Ger-
blend of imported and domestic tobaccos.
BONDS
man soldiers shoot at children in
Try a pack of Old Golds—Apple
NOW!
"Honey"
the street, when they drown Jew-
protected cigarettes—todayl
CONFERENCE
*
ish children in the sewers and
brain mothers bringing food to
(Continued from Page 1)
their families. We are silent when
they shoot at our husbands, hang Jewry, including relief and re-
P. Lorillard Company
them along railroad tracks, and habilitation.
—Established 1760
use butt-ends of their rifles to Relief Problem
herd us together to witness their
"We urge the United Nations
exect,tion, as happened in Cra-
Relief and Rehabilitation agen-
cow, Silesia and Poznan . .
The results of Impartial
cies
to give earnest attention to
Wives, mothers and sisters will
tests as published by
these special needs. We are con-
Reeder's Nest In July of last year,
when flo-
welcome you, if you find us alive
ured
In
percentages,show
that Old Gold
that in the feeding, cloth-
upon your return. A pain so ter- fident
wag:
ing and sheltering of the strick-
rible has been burned into us, a
14% LOWER in nicotine
t
4
misery and suffering so horrible en population, the checking and
1
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he
„
10% LOWER in throat.
numbs us, that there is not an preventing the further spread of
• This new moistening age tn hte wassf er r s n t
Irritating tors and resins
ounce of mercy or indulgence in epidemics and disease, the car-
developed by scientistsn
WI
the
ing
for
children
orphaned
average
of
the
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brands
hoed,
us . .. Gloomy prison fortresses
or sep
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arated from their parents, theL1STEN
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TO: Sammy Kaye's Band
CIGARETTES
and Guests, Weds.
Apple
8 p.m.— WJR
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