DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle 4 Detroit Jewish Chronicle an THE LEGAL CHRONICLE published Weekly by Jewish Chronicle Publishing Co., Inc. JACOB H. SCHAKNE JACOB MARGOLIS Pres.-Gen. Mgr. Editor Mineral Offices and Publication Bldg., 515 Woodward Ave. Telephone: CAdillac 1040 Cable Address: Chronicle iuoscription in Advance $3.00 Per Year io insure publication, all correspondence and news matter -oust reach this office by Tuesday evening of each week. When mailing notices, kindly use one side of paper only. (he Dtit'roit Jewish Chronicle invites correspondence on sub- jects of interest to the Jewish people, but disclaims respon- sibility for en endorsement of views expressed by its writers Entered as Second-class matter March 3, 1916, et the Posts office at Detroit, Mich., under the Act of March 3, 18;,. Sabbath Readingi:of the Law Pentateuchal portion—Deut. 21:10 - 25:19. Prophetical portion—Isaiah 54:1 - 10. SEPTEMBER 10, 1943 ELUL 10, 5703 Signs of Dissolution According to reliable estimates, there are now between 7,000,000 and 8,000,000 foreign workers in the Third Reich. This huge number of foreign workers are needed to take the places of German workers who were combed out of indus- try, agriculture, mining and communica- tions to fill the gaps caused by the disas- trous Russian campaign. Ordinarily such a number of foreign workers would be a serious problem for a country at war, but the problem of the Nazis is aggravated by the fact that a larger proportion of the workers are na- tives of occupies countries. In the days when the Wehrmacht was overrunning one country after the other, the German workers were admonished to treat the foreign workers as inferiors and not to show any friendliness to them or associate with them. Now all this is changed, according to reports coming from the Reich. German workers are told to treat the foreign workers with considera- tion and respect. They are told to culti- vate them and win their friendship and cooperation. This change of front is not due to any change in the master race ideology. The Nazis still hold fast to the dogma of Aryan superiority, but the exigencies of the situation call for a change of policy, and nobody is more ready to change policy than the brutally opportunistic Nazis. There are few things they will not do to maintain themselves in power. They have even made noble Aryans of the Jews who were needed for their murderous enter- prises. The change, however, is significant. It is indicative of distress and desperation. It tells more than the reports of neutral observers in the state of the Third Reich. It means that the Nazis fear the sabotage of the foreign workers. They know that the home front is crucial and they will even make the all-foreign workers noble Aryans if by this device they can be as-• sured that they will continue to work hard and for long hours. Signs of dissolution are mounting and this is not the Nast of them. Conference Results The American Jewish Conference held at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, Aug. 30 to Sept. 2, proved that American Jewry is overwhelming in favor of a Jewish Commonwealth in Palestine. This, however, does mean that those who dissented and those who are opposed will not continue to dissent and oppose. It must be borne in mind by the propo- nents of the Jewish Commonwealth that the right to dissent and oppose are im- plicit in the American scheme. And they should remember that there may be hon- est differences of opinion. We are not unmindful of the fact that it is not too difficult for those in authority to procrasti- nate and evade if they can say that there are differences of opinion among those who are seeking immediate action. The Conference interim committee can now place its demands and requests be- fore the United Nations with the knowl- edge that it has the backing of all the Jews of America. Plain Talk... We are hopeful that , the leaders of the Conference and the individual mem- bers of the majority will realize that all dissidents and opponents are not traitors and mendacious men and women just be- cause they do not see eye to eye with them. During heated controversies men often call each other hard names. This is under- standable, and now that the controversy has been settled, the questioning of mo- tives should end. September 10, 1943 by AI Segal • Free Pulpit ABBI Beryl Cohon of Brook- warned him; if they've told him R 'Aline, Mass., sends me a recent once, they've told him a dozen bulletin of his temple (Sinai) times: He simply has got to with a typewritten note attached: change his ideas. "I have been reading your stuff After all, the president says— for some time—and even like he speaks practically for the whole some of it. Only fair that you membership when you hire a read some of mine . . . Beryl D. tmetliin hyhonu, itlxotpeacst h eimplteoasdeos atso yott Cohon. We should never forget that freedom of speech is one of the freedoms for which mankind has struggled and is I took up his challenge and In his own business would he struggling, and if we deny this freedom Rabbi Cohon's bulletin from keep any of the help even for a to those who do not agree with us we read cover to cover and was happy minute if they didn't take orders? have all lost something precious. to find there that he is allowed Why should they tolerate and to have a free mind and to speak keep on paying a rabbi a regular as hleighpti eases, s. in accordance with salary, if he talks in ways the congregation doesn't like? "Temple Sinai," Rabbi Cohon's • 1 bulletin says, "is dedicated to a THE WHOLE thing came to a free pulpit and a free pew. The A head when the rabbi began Rabbi is not only permitted but giving sermons about a good, expected to use this freedom. He new world. They said he had al- speaks his mind as God gives him ways been free with his mouth. to see the right, and the congre- There was the time he dennounced gation proudly approves. corruption in the City Hall. When "At the same time, it is the he was told that was none of his rabbi's wish that he alone be held business he answered that it was responsible for what he preaches. the business of a rabbi or a min- Perhaps now that we can point to the What he does ask of the pew is ister to speak up wherever there practical unanimity of American Jewry that it too be free, consider re- was evil, and if the congregation what is said from tip, didn't like it they could do on all these questions, we may be able to spectfully pulpit, and come to whatever something. He said he was going get more satisfactory action than we have conclusion seems right. We firmly to keep on doing what to him got up till now, remedial action for our believe that in this day and age looked like his duty. this the only truly religious pol- unhappy people everywhere. Five of the best members quit icy to follow in the matter of on account of that . . . "You freedom of speech in the syna- are like a salesman that chases gogue. Temple Sinai is strictly saalai y. customers," the president Italy Surrenders above party." 1 1 1 But when he began talking The junior Axis partner, Italy, is out LL THAT reminds me of af- about the good new world—that of the war with the unconditional sur- X fairs in Congregation Anshe was just about the limit. Of Giborim. Anshe Giborim is a con- course, everybody is for a good render to General Dwight Eisenhower. gregational name that I have world . . . "You're for a good For days before the surrender the Rome made up, but any resemblance to world and I'm for a good world, a real congregation is more than but you shouldn't go crazy about radio had pleaded for some statement just coincidental. So if any citi- it," the president said. that would assure the Italian people that zen recognizes in Anshe Giboritn If the rabbi had said merely they would not be deprived of Libya, some resemblance to his own con- he was for a good world and let it go at that, nobody could have Eritrea and Somaliland and that they gregation, let his face get red. Anshe Giborim has been ter- found any fault. He could have would at least have the borders of 19,19. ribly upset lately and if it were- even given a picture, you might n't that rabbis are rather scarce say. Nobody could kick about Their appeal was not so much one for —so many of them have gone as a pretty picture. Everybody likes justice and generosity, but rather an chaplains in the Army and Navy to look at a pretty picture. appeal to the sound judgment and prac- —the congregation wouldnt' stand But what did the rabbi do? for its rabbi another thiy. You He told them how to build the tical common sense of the liberating just have to take what you can good, new world. The president powers. get during the war; you have sifys lie wouldn't have minded do without new cars, without that either, since he doesn't lis- We are c rtain that the United States to new refrigerators and Anshe ten to sermons anyway, except on does not covet any part of Italy or her Giborim has had to resign to Rosh Hashonah and Yom Kippur colonial possessions, but we are not so keeping its old rabbi for the and then he doesn't really listen certain at nations of Europe that have duration, either. But what happened? Wh::. What's the matter with the an interest in the Mediterranean are as rabbi? The president of the con- the rabbi got his sermon in th:• disinterested in territorial gains as we are. gregation says it's gotten so they newspaper and the whole town just can't tell the rabbi anything read about his idea of a good. There will be those who will insist anymore. The way he says what new world. There was a headline: that Italy pay for the pusillanimous ac- he pleases in his sermons! Just "Rabbi Favors More Equal Dis- tion of Fascist jackals, but there should shoots his mouth off! They've We all knew that there would be no difference of opinion on the question of rehabilitation and resettlement of refu- gees and the question of equal rights for the Jews of Europe, but the problem that confronted us and still confronts us is how to get the United Nations to act, now, especially in the matter of saving the remnants of European Jewry that still survive. A be many more who realize that nothing is gained by humiliating a cultured people and that a nation steeped in poverty does not make for the prosperity of her neighbors. See SEGAL—Page 9 JWII WOMEN'S DIVISION DISTRIBUTES 1 VICTORY KITS TO SERVICE MEN With the fall of Italy we must give more thought to the post-war world. We must begin to think seriously about the kind of a world we want, and we must do all in our power to prevent another world war. Can we lay the foundations for a ,just and enduring peace by increas- ing Italian poverty? We say emphatically no. Can we lay the foundation for a just and enduring peace by making the Ital- ians bitter and resentful, and by making them feel that they have been dealt with unjustly? We can answer this by pointing to the resentment and bitterness of Ital- ians as a result of the treatment they received at the end of the last war. The fall of Italy should be followed by the surrender of the satellite states. With than 16,000 gift kits have been their surrender the problem of territorial More distributed through the Women's Di. row—Mrs. Mark Heyman, Mrs. Le,, adjustment will be infinitely more difficult vision of the Jewish Welfare Board Guiterman, Mrs. Ernestine Stamm, because of Yugoslav, Czecho-Slav and at ports of embarkation to American Mrs. Benjamin Loewenthal, Mr•. Greek demands. service men on outgoing transports Charles II. Bernheini. Far right—Mrs. and in hospitals. Made by workers at the Victory Kit Workroom in the The territorial adjustments at the end Hotel Savoy Plaza in New York City, of World War I were fruitful sources of the kits contain shaving cream, voap discord and dissension and gave rise to end soap container, toothpaste, chew. ing gum, a trench mirror, comb, sew. the Lebensraum fallacies of the Nazis. ing kit, pencil, razor blades, and ciga. Blanche Freeman. Left—Mrs. Oscar Herzog. Right—Mrs. Leo Levy, Mr•. Phineas Sondheint, Mr-. Fannie Mug den. .- The distribution .)t . thousands . ,1 sendoff and utility kits is one of the service activities for the armed forces or cards. Under the chairman. of the Women's Division of the Na- The solution to these vexing problems reties ship of Mrs. Charles II. liernheim, tional Jewish Welfare Board, which is a federal union of the liberated coun- more than 125 women spend the days celebrated its first anniversary April each week at this workroom as. 18 tries with the liberator countries. Any- th—fittingly in the very week of the sembling and packing gifts. These arc Passover festival which has always thing short of this means that the endless the women who on 24 hours notice disputes over territory will begin all over supplied 200 Christmas kits to Lt. symbolized freedom. Headed by Mrs. Alfred R. Bachrach, the Women's Di- Robert Kelly of "The y again. Anything short of this means en- Commander vision is the sponsor of the Serve-:1• Were Expendabl e Fame." The project tentes, alliances, balances, provocations, is supported entirely by voluntary Camp project which will be expanded and in the end probably another war. contributions. Above, they are—back to include every military camp in need of such aid.