December 24, 1943 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle 4 Plain Talk. causing explosions among the inflammable Arabs. Is it wise at this time to pursue the .. by Al Segal cad THE LEGAL CHRONICLE extremist policy of those who will be Published Weekly by Jewish Chronicle Publishing Co., Inc. satisfied with nothing less than the maxi- Pres.-Gen. Mar. JACOB H. SCHAKNE mal demands. And do those of us, who Editor JACOB MARGOLIS Advertising Mgr. are not faced with the actual problems , CHARLES TAUB help the situation any by passing resolu- General Offices and Publication Bldg., 525 Woodward Ave. tions that antagonize and infuriate? We Telephone: CAdillec 1040 Cable Address: Chronicle $3.00 Per Year think not. We believe that this is not subscription in Advance to a ttem p t to settle funda- the proper i tmeo IT the weeks before Christmas To insure publication, all correspondence and news mattei mental questions. The time to do this is THOUGH I am writing this sew- } weeks in advance of I a ways feel deeply moved as I must reach this office by Tuesday evening of each week. when the storms and fury are passed and e ra When mailing notices, kindly use one side of paper only. men can sit down quietly and discuss Christmas, I know precisely what go on our streets among the shop- The Detroit Jewish Chronicle invites correspondence on sub- my Christian friend, Mr. Thir- pers. I hear them saying: What the entire question. kettle, will send me for Christ- should I give? What should I give 3 ects of interest to the Jewish people, but disclaims re bill for an endorsement of views expressed by its writers mas. (Thirkettle isn't really his Joe and what should I give Mary s It is very doubtful whether the major- and what should I give Jack? name but in disguising him I f Palestinians are in favor of strong o ity This tight-faced lady is won- as Second-class matter March 3, 1916, at the Post- Entered thought I should give him a name at Detroit, Mich., under the Act of March 3, 1879. demands at this time. In fact, a survey lie almost musical, Bering whether she should buy office wit a ripp g, amiable some handkerchiefs or a mer- would perhap s show that the vast ma- sound, for he is a most Th ere fore he chandise order for her neighbor. of moderation. Out- favor melee jority are in Selections gentleman, ind • I hear her say the neighbor was Sabbath Chanukah Scriptural Thirkettle.) ciders, with the best intentions and most is Mr. Yes, Mr. Thirkettles Christmas good to her the time her husband Pentateuchal portion—Gen. 41 :1 - 4 4:17; Numbers honest convictions, are much more insist- an old custom that he was so sick last spring. I notice gift • is 7:24 - 29. ant for an immediate showdown. This is violated in ten years. As that tough-looking man ureti Prophetical portion—'Lech. 2:14 - 4: 7. e has done in every one of these tiously laying a dollar bill on the unfortunate. The outsiders should first has h m Army ' s tambourine • ascertain whether the majority of Pales- years, NIr. This-kettle w ill send me Salvation ather ho peful in I think it is r a quart of old whiskey for KISLEV 26, 5704 tinians want them to make maximal de- Christmas. My long experience our human race to be discovere d DECEMBER 24, 1943 even once a yeas. mands in their behalf, for if a price is to of Mr. Thir kettle has's whiskey sug- being generous be paid it will have to be paid by those gests that he a considerable Our human race has at times of it; for it is always whis- been awfully discouraging—its who are in Palestine and not by us who stock More French Drama key of the same brand, made in malice, its false hates, its spiteful enjoy the emotional satisfaction of pass- the year 1917, old whiskey, in- prejudices. Yes, my dear Mr. at Mr. de r d According to a report from Algiers, the ing uncompromising resolutions. deed. So I c can feel certain that Thirkettle, I have patience of the French National Committee has ordered Riots, demonstrations, convictions for the current shortage will be no the everlasting Most High who keeps on letting the arrest on charges of treason of Pierre- arms possession are not the way to win hindrance to Mr. Thirkettle's gen- the earth swing in its ordained erosity. Etienne Flandin, former French premier; the British to our side. I have always replied with a course. Were He less patient he might Marcel Peyronton, former governor-gen- brief but most appreciative note, something like this: "Dear Mr. have let the whole thing drop eral of Algeria; Pierre Brisson, former Thirkettle: Thanks again for Old as a hopeless case long ago. But governor of French West Africa; TixIer The Fruit of Race Superiority? Popeye. He is a congenial old He seemed smiling the other de Vignacourt, former French deputy, and gentleman with whom I expect to morning in the sunlight: The Very few will remember the names of Andre Albert, former French deputy. The have some delightful evenings. street was crowded with Christ- aforementioned gentlemen were all con- Captain Wilhelm Langheld, Lt. Hans Ritz Yseoausrosn w. i .th. best best wishes of the mas shoppers, each absorbed in her generous purpose to complete necte d with the Vichy regime and, as and Police Cpl. Reinhart Betzlan, but (Of course, Old Popeye is not her kindly plans for Christmas. many will recall with horror the stories I far as can be learned, they are charged of brutal murder to which they confessed. the real name of Mr. Thirkettle's In the smiling sunlight patient with treason because of what they did whiskey which, in deference to thought I detected The ill-starred trio were hanged in the advertising department, I do Father beaming: "Yes, My chil- while connected with Vichy. feel free to reveal.) dren are all right, after all. They Kharkov on Sunday morning, Dec. 19, not The French seem to have a flair for the But this year after I have un- can be kind. The way they exert dramatic. It is not so long ago that a with 40,000 people witnessing the grue- wrapped Mr. Thirkettle's gift, themselves to do gentle things rather bizarre and dramatic trial was some spectacle. They were convicted upon after I have sampled Old Pop- at this season. The cup of their held at Riom. The accused at that trial testimony furnished by themselves, in eye's mellow quality and rolled generosity runs over. My good on my tongue and have per- children!" were Leon Blum, Eduard Daladier, Rey- which they admitted that they had slaugh- it mitted I f I its liquid gold to traverse SEEMED brooding hope- naud, Gamelin and others, who tered Russian men, women, children and the length of my aesophogus, I 1_1E fully in the sunlight: Oh, . charged with responsibility for starting wounded Red Army soldiers. . Thirkettle in LA shall \yrs e to ehnedy. -1,10 euyl d wteurren only we w The three hoped to escape punishment anorxin the war against Hitler. This trial exploded who may think I am t in had in Der Fuehrer's face. It just simply would by placing the blame on thethigher-ups-- presuming too much I should say the immensity of time which not stick and the trial just ended nowhere. Himmler and Hitler. According to them, that five years ago Mr. Thirkettle only begun. One must be patient H. sort of vow. He told me with children. It takes a long The trial of Flandin et al may never mile, r Himmler and company not only made as a long as he lives, provided long time for them to learn. take place, but if it should we expect it knew what they were doing, but approved that prohibition doesn't return, he in- Should He, the Father, get angry an encouraged their brutal activities. to be just as absurd a performance as the and tends to present me with a bottle at His children who do have all good in them? We who have lived under normal hu- , of Old Popeye every Christmas this No! Riom trials. He would keep on waiting How can these men be guilty of treason man conditions for the better parts of as a manifestation of his good sill t‘hv kindnesse foonrcee. k n e the w no ail to the French government represented by a lifetime are simply appalled by the will.) l ■ Childrena d Afktetr all these years of IIr. Th the the Committee of Liberation when the whole business. There is a note of unreal- fa year might in time come to gwe nter ossoi t. I fulness of being kind. The kind- ore - alleged treasonable acts were committed it Y about the thing which plagues and shourld ti reep 's ly i h ny ithingf erne than the formality of thank you. ness that knows no single day before the Committee of Liberation came -- s ays. Th e perplexes. mi that a I t s unates Mr. Thirkettle should have some - but 'll makes of How did the Russians get the trio to all he nothing I into being. These accused men were loyal nerosity g thing of my understanding of _ to the government of Vichy, which was confess their crimes? This ability on the Christmas and its ts implications of the color of a brother's skin; it the brotherhood. I have been roll- does not take into account the confessions a government recognized by the United part of the Russians to extract confessio . the matter over in my mind, race from which he stems; it ime me m r i from men and women charged with c States and Britain. and should I write something like scorns the falsehood that is ut- Perhaps the whole thing is a hoax, for . has i ntrigued us for many years. tered against him; it hates only this to Mr. Thirkettle: malice that would hurt him. His The procedure of conviction upon one's we are informed that the accused are to I I I DEAR Mr. Thirkettle: children would come around to be housed in a luxurious villa. In any own confession without the testimony of lop( again for perennial that in time. event, these troublesome French politi- the accuser is rather alien to us, and we al- Thanks e thanks wtehei k i -_ h e were e su r they wii 1 ing Ho o . the (i exam- tui k o .is l for , ore always find it difficult to believe pt ea n y e j ld y Popeye; O C thei r tha t w make cians will be out of turbulent French poli- „ good therefore to erei of ness would forget no one this — without reservation that are confessions I hat Old Popeye imp. t tics for some time. bri ht with kindn es= How aces The whole affair is good drama with are as free as they are made to appear. Though Christmas is not a Jew- season am t e g l e — . f - g , lik e h of Til il s e ir ish holiday I share with you its . v‘ But this is of much less consequence than gentle idealism. In a mood of a touch of the comic. sunlight, so that he could this the alleged fact that men can commit su ch fantasy I find myself wishing for know them as His kinsmen. Yes, heinous crimes against innocent men, wom- an everlasting Christmas—Christ- Hulda Settlers Sentenced en and children, just because they had mas in June and Christmas in they were His children. There hope in them. The Hulda settlers who were convicted been indoctrinated with the dogma of October and Christmas in March was Well, my dear Mr. Thirkettle, in fact, all the year —Chrktina9 of illegal possession of arms were given race superiority. See SEGAL—Page 9 - Is it possible to so indoctrinate a peo- 'round. severe sentences ranging from two to six years. Such severity may be indicative of pie with their superiority that they can * * nervousness on the part of the British murder those not of their group without t , PONDS OVER AMERICA authorities, or it may have been imposed compunction. Or, has the theory of total war warped ' I because they believe that severity will put an end to illegal arms possession. a people to the point that the ruthless Whatever the reason may have been, extermination of civilians is considered Paying tribute to its Hoosier Monument fighting men who fell the fact remains that a condition of strain necessary in order• to win the war? on foreign fields dur- and stress obtains in Palestine that will Whether the reason be racial superiority ing World War I, In- not be eased until some modus vivendi is or total war, we still cannot bring our- diana has erected at its capital of Indianapolis found that will reasonably satisfy all the selves to believe that there` are many this striking War parties concerned. Germans who are so sa disti, depraved Memorial. be per- It is a simple enough matter to damn and degenerate that they could and verbally castigate the British au- suaded to kill innocent women and chil- thorities. We are persuaded that such a dren because it was approved by the policy will accomplish very little. It may vicious psychopath Hitler. The Nazi race doctrine has thrown man give the protestants some emotional satis- faction, but that will not satisfy even our back to the period antedating the rudest civilization known to man. Our dead have left minimal demands. Let us hope that the darkness that their own memorials; Once and for all there must be a recog- the starved and hound- nition of the hard facts; that we are faced has descended upon mankind will soon in ed people of captive with a condition and not a theory. The dispelled. We all have responsibilities Europe can do little fact is that Britain is engaged in a total this matter and all the blame should riot more than hope and pray, but to free Amer- war and the Arab world is highly intran- and really cannot be placed on one peo- Your War Memorial; scans is left the choice sigeant. Even if Britain wanted to carry ple. We are all to blame and are all of their own future. , U. S. War Bonds out its commitments of the Balfour Dec- responsible. Let ii act more wiAely arid laration, there is a grave question whether humanely in the future so that this night she could do so at this time without mare may riot be repeated. Detroit Jewish Chronicle FOR CHRISTMAS