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DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1943

VOL. 45. NO. 52

PEARL HARBOR ANNIVERSARY AND CHANUKAH

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inclined to reserve further judg-
ments. The nature of some of these
foreign privates is unfathomable.
By DAVID ZAGIER
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K. P. in Camp Chaffee is a
Editor's Note: David Zagier was for many years foreign correspond.
vacation with pay. Work begins
ent for British, South African and Australian newspapers.
at six and ends at seven, 13 hours
He's now a member of the U. S. Army. This article is a page
of normal kitchen work, not 19
from a diary which he had kept since his entry into the army.
of hard labor, And they call you
It reflects the life of the various national strains in the armed
in alphabetical order instead of
forces, all of them fighting for a common cause—the defeat
catching you like a stray dog in
of Hitler and global democracy.
company area. The K. P. pusher
Anniversary of Pearl Harbor, its variations in caliber, eleva-
does not repeat "on the double"
but the U. S. Army in wartime tion, range of effectiveness and
every four and a half seconds,
is a deadly serious institution, power of repercussion. The corn-
like a delirious parrot, but pitches
neither taking out thousand-year parison may be flogged a touch
in, so he could get off early and
mortgages on history, nor given to further, in that both in artillery
write memorandums to his bride
observing occasions. A little touch and in snoring, none of the above
in Delancey Street. His name is
of grimness in the faces, perhaps, is necessarily dependent on the
Winterman, bless him. But it is
a suspicion of extra punch in the noise or size of the piece. We
still K. P.
counting of cadence, maybe, and have big fellows who snore so
At four o'clock, I was just sett-
brief reference in the chapel softly, you could hardly hear them
ling
down to my second sack of
a sermon, but no more. Altogether, five beds away, and we have little
spuds, a messenger called me to
the hallmark of the work here, men who keep the noncoms awake
the orderly room. Headquarters—
even in the Fourteenth Armored nights in their private rooms.
I suspect the PRO—wanted to
know whether I'd represent the en-
Division up the hill, is not vicious Some loud snorers have less pene-
hate but a peculiar brand of tration, while some low-pitched
listed men at tonight's bond rally
in Fort Smith and make a radio
American detachedness. They seem whining ones get to the very mar-
to be preparing to kill Germans row. In the case of Private Kurt
speech. I said yes, but I am on
K. P. They said, yest they knew,
not in an intense but in an effi- K., he is the owner of a style
cient sort of way. The mass pro- that has ravaging effects because
but they could get me off. And I
duction trait. of its irregular meter, the ele-
said, all right.
The guy from Albany, New ment of psychological surprise, so
The name of the station to
which I was transferred directly
York, does not like one solitary to say. Number 1945 calls him
from K. P. was K.F.P.
thing about this army. He griped Big Bertha, meaning that he is
, tremendous and sporadic. My luck
* * *
Rabbi Maurice Eisendrath, director of the Union of American
even before the buck-toothed blonde
at the USO party tonight. He was landed me between Diego, a tiny Hebrew Congregations, kindles the Lights of Freedom in the festival
M fears that the fellows would
punishment on me because of
sloppy, shifty, with the profile of fat Mexican who snores like a currently being celebrated in the synagogues. The Menorah Candel-
a saloon anarchist of forty years prehistoric mammoth, and a abrum designed by Reuben Leaf, a distinguished Jewish artist of this spot of apple-polishing was
ago, and his words came in a lazy, Prague refugee who doubles for New York, embodies the Palestinian grapevine motif, surmounted
by "the little cruse of oil that burned for seven days". The Shield unjustified.
They me
fed on
me cokes
on ice
cream and wined
to
turgid stream. The chow, he said the ram's horn in his slumbers
was rotten; the shoes did not fit and whose name is Werther of the Maccabees bears the inscription "Who is like unto thee, Lord, celebrate my return from Fort
among the mighty".
Smith, until I could take no more.
and that's why he did not shine Weiner.-
Defense measures against Wei.-
But while I was gorging myself
them; and he did not want to live
any longer. It took a long while thel• were easy to come by, for seat, fully dressed from fatigue denizen is Tani, the Maltese, but on the fare of P. X., I missed
before I realized that that was his he is a good friend of mine and cap to leggings, and snoring freely. he keeps himself enthroned for chapel and the gift packages,
peculiar way of courting, like generally meek. Whenever it gets The boys say that he had been the purpose of reading: him hym- which Chaplain Seligson distribut-
some animal whose name I for- really bad, I wake him. While he doing it for three nights now, nal and telling his beads. I used eel the same evening on behalf of
get, by smell. When she finally is awake, I fall asleep. With just to give us a chance to get to condemn his misplaced pious- the Chanukah committee of the
gave him the cold shoulder, the Diego it was more problematic. some sleep. ness, but in view of the lesson I Kansas City Jewish women of
Another semi-permanent latrine learned in the case of Diego, I am the USO.
Sehopenhauerian trooper turned Diego is showing Latin temper, al-
My Jewish buddies flaunted.
his attack against the USO vie- though he has a rotund, angelic
their "Chanukah money" before
tuals. I saw him stuff his pockets face and smiles most of the day,
me. Men like Louis Holz, who wins
full of chocolate layer cake and •ind I don't care to cross him.
or loses ten dollars in blackjack
was convinced that he was not Trusting to the angel that must be
with equal amusement, or like
going to commit suicide, after all. somewhere in him, I reverted to
Farbman, the Galacian oil man,
We have them of this kind, too, stratagem. I made is a point
who still carries on a big busi-
every morning to report to Diego
but not many.
that the snorers are causing the
ness through his lawyers in Hous-
* * *
ton, showed off the gifts of tooth-
Snoring may have caused more tortures of the soul—not he, Diego,
paste and candy like excited chil-
cases of AWOL than the prospect mind you, but the snorers, in plu-
dren. Even our athiest went to
By SOLOMON KERSTEIN
of an eight-day problem or the ral. My cunning bore fruit, but
chapel on this occasion. Few of
irresistable charms of girl friends. instead of being sweet, it was em-
On the threshold of the New E. Bloch, son of the founder, us, foreigners, get anything from
Had I been assured of a solitary harrassing.
Year, 570-1, with our hearts and transferred the business to New
Early today, I had occasion to souls filled with hope and prayer York City in 1901. He was known home, because few of us have
cell in the guardhouse, I might
homes, but we like to receive pack-
have gone over the hill myself, rise for a four o'clock detail and for victory and peace through the as "the dean of Jewish publish- ages no less than the boy from
for barracks number 1945 has far found Diego's bunk empty. Down- United Nations, it is notable to
Kalamazoo or Willow Springs.
See CULTURE—Page 4
more than its fair share of snores. stairs, in the latrine, poor Jaime record for American Israel a sig-
Diego was sound asleep on the
nificant chapter relative to Jewish
like field artillery, snoring has
cultural life in America. This
Rosh Hashonah brought to a close
ninety years of the oldest Jew-
ish publishing firm in this coun-
try, known the world over as the
Bloch Publishing Company. The
mere mention of its name reminds
one of the days of pioneering in
the dissemination of Jewish books.
Its name stands for the cham-
pionship of Jewish culture in
America. In the realm of Anglo-
Jewish literature "Bloch" tells the
story of a sacred mission under-
taken nine decades ago by two
men to make Jewish books in all
languages available to the "Peo-
ple of the Book" as well as to
Upon This Occasion We Take This
others.
In 1854, in the city of Cincin-
nati, Edward Bloch and Rabbi
Opportunity to Extend Our Best
Isaac M. Wise, brothers-in-law,
founded the printing and publish-
Wishes to the Entire Jewish I
ing firm called Bloch & Co. It
began by publishing the early
Jewish periodicals in this coun-
Community for a Joyous
try, among them the "American
Israelite," "Die Deborah," the
Holiday !
"Chicago Israelite," and the "Re-
form Advocate."
In the early 60's the Bloch firm
undertook the publication of
prayer books, Bibles, and Hebrew-
English textbooks for religious
schools. Notable was the "Min-
hag America" prepared by Isaac
M. Wise for Reform congrega-
tions and in later years Rut-
igical works as the "Sabbath, Fes-
tival and Holyday Book" for con-
servative use and the "Standard
Prayer Book" and "Standard
Machzor" for Orthodox use, first
American editions based on the
FURS • CLOTH COATS • DRESSES
translations of Adler and Singer
of London. Then came publication
SUITS • MILLINERY • ACCESSORIES
of the famous Leeser Bible, first
English version in this country.
WOODWARD AT GRATIOT
• CORSETS
These were the early stages of
the Bloch Publishing Co. The firm
expanded when the late Charles

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