December 10, 1943

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

•
Detroit Jewish
Chronicle

and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE

Published Weekly by Jewish Chronicle Publishing Co., Inc.

JACOB H. SCHAKNE
MARGOLIS
CHARLES TAUB

JACOB

Pres.-Gen. Mgr.
Editor
Advertising Mgr.

fices and Publication Bldg., 525 Woodward Ave.
General Offices

CAdillac 1040 Cable Address: Chronicle
$3.00 Per Year
Subscription in Advance

To insure publication, all correspondence and news matte!
must reach this office by Tuesday evening of each week.
When mailing notices, kindly use one side of paper only.
The Detroit Jewish Chronicle invites correspondence on sub-
lees of interest to the Jewish people, but disclaims respon-
sibility for an endorsement of views expressed by its writers

and which may be even more serious when
the war is over.
This awareness should lead to compre-
by AI Segal
hensive studies of the prenomenon of
racial and religious discrimination, and
the studies should be implemented by
Springfield and other plans to meet the
special situations that obtain in different
A Truce! A Truce!
communities.
W . e are confident that the problem of
racial discrimination can be solved on
is a certain village of to all the people of the earth.
the level of political, economic and social THERE
The sea rose again with
Dummkopf of which you may
development we have attained in this have hear or, on the other hand, mighty avalanche against the

Plain Talk...

dike.
The discussion went on: Dumm-
kopf should be content to remain
What is needed, however, is an honest
a village, and why should it stick
Entered as Second-class matter March 3, 1916, at the Post-
and earnest effort on the part of those
its neck out by trying to be an
office at Detroit, Mich., under the Act of March 3, 1879.
who consider racial discrimination a
empire? Dummkopf had a mani-
fest destiny to be a great city
shameful manifestation of bigotry and
whose towers from their illu-
Sabbath Readings of the Law
ignorance.
minated heights would present
Pentateuchal portion—Gen. 32:4-36:43.
light to the whole world. No! Tin
empire of Dummkopf must be the
Prophetical portion—Hos. 12:13-12:10.
goal! The empire of Dummkopf
Agreement at Last
would bless all mankind.
The sea howled with the howl-
President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Mar-
KISLEV 12. 5704
DECEMBER 10. 1543
ing of a million wolves but its
shal Josef Stalin and Prime Minister Win-
ominous sounds were swallowed
ston Churchill have reached complete
up in the tumult of discussion on
agreement as to the scope and timing
the nature of Dummkopf. One
Imitating the Nazis
shouted that whoever wanted
of operations which will be undertaken
Dummkopf to be more than a vil-
Arthur Huston Allen, who arrived on from the east, west and south.
lage was the enemy of everybody
the Gripsholm, reported that 20,000 Aus-
The military decision is clear and forth-
in Dummkopf. Another cried out
trian and German Jews of Shanghai have right, but the same clarity and forth-
that all opponents of the plan to
been placed in a ghetto by the Japanese, rightness are not expressed in the para-
make a great city of Dummkopf
where they are suffering unusual hard- graphs dealing with the peace and the tieTs hese are but a few samples of were traitors, and what was low-
the main characteristic of Dumm- er than a traitor? The advocates
ships and humiliations.
future.
of an empire shrieked anathema
The peace paragraph reads as follows: kopf.
But the incident that is the at all who would destroy the
The yellow Aryans have long been
subject of this piece was climac- Dummkopf empire . . . "Goths
known as imitators, but this is the sort of
"And as to the peace, we are sure
tic in the life of Dummkopf. The and Vandals!"
imitation that they could have dispensed
The unhappy end of it all can
that our concord will make it an en-
citizens of Dummkopf had had
enough troubles already, what be well imagined: In a moment
with. It seems that any people that traf-
during peace. We recognize the su-
Avith everything: They had suf- when the controversy was loud-
fics with the Nazis are bound to become
preme responsibility resting upon us
fered an epidemic of measles. est, the sea with one shattering
indoctrinated with the special Nazi racial
and all the United Nations to make a
They had been busy all winter blow pulverized the dike, swept
dogmas that have poisoned millions of
digging themselves out of an ins- over Dummkopf, carried it all
peace which will command the good
mense snow that had made no end away and of the inhabitants only
otherwise sane and reasonable men.
will of the overwhelming masses of
of falling from December till those strong enough to climb the
the peoples of the world and banish
March. They had been visited by highest trees survived.
How can the Japanese justify anti-
the scourge and terror of war for
I am reminded of this un-
a storm that blew away the
Semitism? The Jews have not corrupted
happy fate of Dummkopf by the
many
generations."
mayor.
and degraded the Japanese with their
Then, on top of everything, the bitter controversy in Israel who,
inferior blood. They did not control and
And as to the future the statement says: sea arose and hammered at the in the moment of his greatest
dike. Though Dummkopf was re- travail, has paused in the pursuit
direct the cultural and intellectual cur-
puted to be a village where peo- of his best interests to argue the
"With our diplomatic advisers we
rents of Japanese life. All they did was
pie never learned anything, there nature of the Jew: Whether he
have
surveyed
the
problems
of
the
fu-
to engage in the manufacture of shoes,
was one thing they remembered is a member of a religious com-
ture. We shall seek the cooperation
well. They remembered the re- munion or a member of a nations
hats, gloves, handbags and similar articles,
and active participation of all nations,
mote tissue when the sea broke Or a citizens of a state not yet in
according to Mr. Allen.
large and small, where peoples in
through the dike and carried prac- being.
tically everything in the village
But the imitating Japanese wish to
heart and mind are dedicated, as are
IONIST and non-Zionist hurl
off.
please their Nazi Axis partners and for
our own peoples, to the elimination
So when the sea began pound- Li invective at each other. Pam-
this reason they seize the businesses,
of tyranny and slavery, oppression
ing at the dike, every man left phleteers shoot their paper wads.
property and belongings of the immigrants
whatever he was doing and went Rabbinical brethren, dedicated
and intolerance. We will welcome
to the dike to do what he could and ordained to the idea of lov-
and place them in a ghetto.
them as they may choose to come into
to strengthen it and hold back ing neighbors, are calling names.
a
world
family
of
democratic
na-
We saw, the ens of Mediterranean Ar-
the waters by might and main. Musty old ghosts have come out
tions."
The sea raged and roared and of medieval tombs to demand
yans when Italy surrendered. Let us hope
again and again threw itself excommunication.
that the end of Aryans, "noble Aryans,"
We interpret the references to the against the dike but the men of Meantime, the storms blow and
yellow Aryans and all such stupidity and "good will of the overwhelming masses Dummkopf were staunch.
the seas rise against the pre-
folly is not far off.
It was in a brief lull of their carious protection of our walls.
of the peoples of the world" and "where labors,
on the fifth day, that The multitudes perish. There is
peoples in heart and mind are dedicated, there began
the melancholy events work of rescue to be done. Ap-
as our own peoples, to the elimination of of which this is a report. History proaching is the hour when Is-
Making a Start
tyranny and slavery, oppression and in- has the details from some of the rael, as with one voice, must
survivors: The men of Dummkopf speak for the rights and equal-
tolerance,"
to include the peoples of Nazi were
The Federal Council of Churches, in
sitting about waiting for ity of Jews in the new world
its annual message, challenged the evils Germany.
the next blow of the sea when that is to be built. The fate of
We further believe that the German some one began a discussion of our work in Palestine and of the
of racial discrimination, hatred and bias.
good life already established
nature of Dummkopf.
The Council realizes that we cannot peoples will be "welcomed as they may the "What
is Dummkopf?" he be- there for many hangs in the bal-
choose
to
come
into
a
world
family
of
achieve a cooperative world unless all
ance.
gan.
But men wrestle in hateful
races join in the enterprise, and urges democratic nations".
I
I
I
This is a call to the peoples of Germany
T ONCE there were many re- strife over the one point of dis-
Christians that there must be a change
Dummkopf was a village agreement. The cries of the dying
on our part not only of policy but of man- to become part of the democratic family and plies:
could not expect ever to be are swallowed up in the tumult of
ner; not only of behavior but of heart. of nations and they will be welcomed anything more. Dummkopf wa; the babel of their voices. Pride
tythat of political opinion divides them
These exhortations are welcome. We when they choose to do so.
egedranyt wofoulad gbreeatthecim
in the critical hour when only
Certainly they cannot be welcomed as some
are persuaded that unless the Christian
leaders of America take a definite stand long as they tolerate the tyrannous and of the seas. No! Dummkopf was by unity can Jewish life come
on racial prejudice, and particularly anti- intolerant Nazi regime. They are urged cornerstone of a future empire to the attainment of justice and
Semitism, that little can be done by those to take action, but are not threatened that would give light and leading
See SEGAL—Page 9

of which you may not have heard.
You may know some of the na-
tives of Dummkopf, or, at least,
you may know the descendants
of Dummkopf natives.
A native or a descendant of a
Dummkopf native is a person
given a stupid behavior that is
altogether in conflict with human
experience. I recall a time in
Dummkopf when the new town
hall was torn down because of a
flaw some of the inhabitants had
found in one of the windows.
There was another occasion
when Dummkopf had a visitation
of rats but the village council de-
cided to do nothing about it for
the sake of the honor and glory
of Dummkopf. For, if the matter
were agitated, Dummkopf might
become known as a ratty town
among the neighboring communi-

Country.

Z

A

who suffer from discrimination and preju- with dire consequences if they do not
dice. do so.
The German people know all too well
A definite practical step to fight intol-
erance was taken recently by the Pitts- what is in store for them if they should
burgh, Pa., school board when it adopted continue to support the Nazi war lords.
the Springfield plan to teach tolerance in The German people know that uncondi-
the schools. tional surrender are the only terms upon
The plan proposes to thread together which this war can end. They now can
all school activities, curricular and extra- believe that they will be accepted in the
curricular, in unobtrusive fashion but with democratic family of nations, when they
one studied objective—the idea of toler- choose to become a member. The decision
ante from playing together in kindergar- is up to them.
Hitler, Himmler, and Goebbels will do
ten to planning together in high school.
Mrs. F. B. Chalfant, who proposed the everything in their power to prevent the
plan to the Pittsburgh board of education, German people from making a "demo-
says that the proponents of the Spring- cratic choice" for this unholy trinity
field Plan found it made a real contribu- would have the world believe that they
tion to education by weaving democratic and the people are identical. The Nazi
living through the school and commu- gang will no doubt try to keep the Tehe-
nity, and that after four years it has ran pronouncement from reaching the
surely worked into the school program masses of Germans because they had
until today leaders of the city of Spring- been assuring them that the United Na-
field acclaim it as a bulwark against reli- tions would issue an ultimatum of com-
gious and racial difficulties. plete destruction, enslavement and humili-
American educators and Christian lead- ation, and instead the statement offers
ers are becoming acutely aware of the them a place in the world of democracy
serious racial problems that face us today if they want to become part of it.

•

PONDS OVER AMERICA *

On the shores of the
Delaware stands the
oldest residence in
Pennsylvania, the
Caleb Pusey House,
built at Upland in 1683
of field stone and mor-
tar like so many resi-
dences of early Colo-
nial days.

Keystone Home

-5.

•

Keep Our
Heritage; Buy
More War Bonds

The countries of occu-
pied Europe hold an-
cient landmarks point-
ing to the dim past, but
in the mad attempt to
Nazify the entire conti-
nent Germany has wan-
tonly destroyed thou-
sands of historic links
to obliterate all but the
Teuton trademark.

1

1