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DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, OCTOBER I, 1943
VOL. 45, NO. 40
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SECTION TWO
300D WILL IN ACTION
It Happened in America
By BERNARD POSTAL
National Director of Bnai Brith Publicity
The Hebrew University has der. For example, at the annual
been very much alive this year. meeting of the English Friends
That America was able to mocracy was also evident in the
By great and unexpected good of the Hebrov University which
withstand the locust swarm of frequent examples of Christian
fortune Palestine has escaped the
horrors of this total war. Else was held in London not long ago hate and bigotry that helped chaplains and churches helping
the fine stone buildings on Mount —in the rooms of the Royal So- destroy so many countries in the to organize Jewish religious serv-
Scopus might have been a mass ciety, with some of the most emi- last decade is due in no small ices for Jews in the armed
of charred rubble, the labora- nent Britisn scientists present-- wily to the steady growth of forces. Reports to the Jewish
torie gutted, the groves blasted the praise of the University's inter-faith, good will and under- Welfare Board from its field men
with fire from the skies. Instead, services was so lavish as to be standing. Of the many varieties and chaplains are rich in dra-
of good will, the best and most matic stories of this kind of good
praise God, there is a happy story almost embarrassing.
useful is the species, which for will in action. One of the most
of growth and achievement to
Official recognition that the
tell. In the fourth year of the University's scientists were al- lack of a better name, may be striking of these incidents hap-
war the University established ready doing important war work called good will in action, or the pened last Passover at Lawton,
its first chair of English, opened and could do much more if their kind which converts inter-faith Okla. The Seder was held in the
a pharmacological institute in its services were more fully utilized, speeches, resolutions and mass First Methodist Church. • The ta-
medical school inaugurated its came just a year ago when the meetings into what President bles were provided by the Catho-
School of Agriculture in Relic- president of the University, Dr. Roosevelt has aptly termed "the lic Church. The candelabra came
both, celebrated (in a quiet way) Magnes, was asked by the Pal- practice of brotherhoods," which, from the Masonic Lodge. Y. W.
the 50th anniversary of its li- estine Government to organize he said "in this critical hour in C. A. ladies joined with the Jew-
brary, and became the center of and preside over a scientific ad- our own and the world's history, ish women of Lawton to do the
mobilization of the scientific man- visory• committee to the War we, as Americans, need more cooking and serving. The Jewish
power of Palestine for the war Supply Board. In effect, this was than armaments and armies to Welfare Board furnished the
safe our democracy".
matzoth, haggadahs and necessary
effort.
a request to mobilize the scien- make
Although periods .r.of national funds. In Pendleton, Ore., the
That is not to say that the Uni- tific manpower of the country.
versity has been unaffected by In addition to the University, the emergency often exacerbate ex- ladies' auxiliary of the Methodist
the war. One of the first thing3 Hebrew Technical Institute, the isting prejudices, the mobiliza- Church also catered a Seder for
you notice is that there are fewer Sieff Research Institute, and the tion of the nation for all-out Jewish men at the Air Base
young faces on the campus than Agricultural Research Station of war has contributed substantially there.
In scores of towns near Army
there used to be. Several hundred the Jewish Agency have repre- to the growth of good will in ac-
students have enlisted in the sentatives on the Committee. Its tion. Nowhere has this develop- and Navy installations where
forces (the girls in the A. T. S.) headquarters are installed in the ment been more marked than there are few or no Jewish fami-
and in the auxiliary police that physical chemistry department of among the armed forces who lies and hence no synagogues,
serves as a kind of home guard. the University whose head, Prof. know that one of the things they churches of all denominations
Wartime freshmen classes are L. Farkas, is the scientific sec- are fighting for is "the practice have made their facilities avail-
able to Jewish chaplains and
smaller, too, and for two reasons. retary of the committee. The of brotherhood".
Last Christmas thousands of JWB fiield workers for Jewish
One of the reasons is that no functions of the committee are
student can come from Europe not only to advise with regard to non-Jewish soldiers and sailors religious services and holiday pro-
now, as they used to do in num- supplies and scientific apparatus slated for routine duties, includ- grams. Church auditoriums, class-
bers, and the other that Palestine for the military, but for the needs ing K. P., during the holiday, rooms, vestry halls and similar
students are enrolled only if ex- of the civilian population as well. were given an unexpected respite places where Jews had never be-
empted by the Jewish recruiting Someday—when it can be told— when Jewish enlisted men volun- fore been were thrown open by
committees (there being no draft the story of the committee's wide- teered for duty so that those of Christians to their Jewish f ellow-
here) from military or police ranging activities will make very Christian faith could get time Amricans in the armed forces.
off. During Passover the non- At a Yom Kippur eve service held
service.
good reading, but for the present
Here and there a teacher is natural curiosity is balked by the Jewish men returned the favor, at a Christian chapel at Mineral
missing from a classroom or a censorship, and no comeback! thus sypmbolizing the complete Wells, Tex., members of the
understanding that exists between Christian choir joined with Jew-
laboratory. He's joined up, you Still, the University is doing
are told. Four of them, by the good deal for the war effort that religious groups in the armed ish boys in unfiorm in chanting
Kol Nidre.
way, are medical scientists now anyone may be told for the ask- forces.
Prac.ical operation of real de-
raralleling these incidents is
serving in the malaria control ing. All the science departments
units of the forces somewhere in and practically the whole Hadas-
the Middle East. Reports drift in sah-University Medical Center are
of enlisted graduates and former enlisted in the war effort in one
students whose knowledge of lan- way or another.
guages (European and Oriental),
A service cordially appreciated
chemistry, physics, mathematics, by the military is the giving of
bacteriology, parasitology and so special courses and demonstra-
on enables them to do their bit tions on malaria, typhus, typhoid,
in the scientific services attached dysentery and other diseases en-
to the forces.
demic in the Middle East for the
What of the University's own medical officers of the forces of
contribution to the war effort? Great Britain, the U. S. A., the
Official and scientific circles have Fighting French, Czechoslovakia,
described it as very significant Poland, and other countries. The
indeed, wondering all the while lectures are given by University
that Palestine should have scien-
See UNIVERSITY—Page 12
tific facilities of such a high or-
the story of the young Jewish
corporal who volunteered to sing
at regular Sunday morning serv-
ices held by the Protestant chap-
lain at Fort Adams, R. I. There
is also the case of a young Prot-
estant chaplain at Camp Croft,
S. C., who came to a JWB work-
er to ask permission to observe
Yahrzeit for his closest friend, a
Jewish lad. These are develop-
ments which chaplains have hailed
as being "far better than all the
books and lectures written on
religious tolerance" in the results
they obtain.
One of the most impressive
manifestations of good will in
action is the strong feeling of
brotherhood exhibited by Chris-
tian chaplains in camps and posts
without Jewish chaplains. With
the aid of material furnished by
the Jewish Welfare Board, these
Christian chaplains have done
an amazing job. At one post two
Jewish soldiers read the Friday
evening 'service, the Catholic
chaplain plays the organ and the
Protestant chaplain gives the ser-
mon. On board an Army trans-
port, a Christian chaplain pinch
hits as "rabbi" for the Jewish
men, using Jewish prayer books.
In many camps Jewish soldiers re-
port that it is the Christian chap-
lain who reminds them of the
Jewish holidays and helps ar-
range for services, in the ab-
sence of a Jewish chaplain. Only
recently, Corp. Norman Berg-
man, of Cleveland, stationed
somewhere in the Southwest Pa-
cific, wrote home to tell how the
men of his compan y, Catholic,
Protestant and Jew alike, vener-
ate Father Hallinan, the Catholic
chaplain. Men of all three faiths
built him a chapel and men of
all faiths go to that chapel for
prayer daily. It was Chaplain
Hallinan who organized Passover
See GOOD WILL—Page 4
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