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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

Detroit Jewish Chronicle

and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE

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Sabbath Readings of the Law

Pentateuchal portion—Ex. 13:17-17:16.
Prophetical portion—Judges 4:4-5:31.

FEBRUARY 4. 1944

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nation, that we pass a universal service
law, met with little favorable response,
either in Congress or outside.
Our geographical position as well as
our political and economic level reduce
the probabilities of Bolshevisation in the
near future. Hitler's threat should not
disturb us. The timid souls among us can
sleep soundly. The Bolsheviks are not
coming.

February 4, 1944

Plain Talk...

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by Al Segal

LIVING 125 YEARS

Liberalism Vindicated Again

OUR Mr. Segal has just

come to a speakers' table.
The Free French Committee of Na- Y reading (in Time) about been
the
But I doubt whether, in the
tional Liberation
has discovery
announced of
that the Russian event he lived 125 years, the man
medical
1,864 Jewish government employes have Professor Alexander Alexandro- would do anything about catch-
Bogomoletz. It's a serum ing up with lost opportunities.
been restored to the positions from which vitch
"which stimulates or inhibits the
feel sure he would keep on
they were dismissed by the Vichy regime. life processes of living cells" and I sitting
around and reading or
The restored officials received back pay "may enable man to live to be playing rummy when he should
for the time they had been out of office. 125 years old." be snaking himself heard at some
Mr. Segal is a man who is get- meeting, or he would be tossing
It is not very long ago that there were ting
along in his years which in medicine balls at the gymnasium
many who had little faith in the Free his latter life he has come to at the noon hour when he should
French or any other French, particu- count by decades. He is horribly be aggressive at a luncheon
larly when the Cremieux Decree, granting aware that the better part of his meeting. I am sure that at
has been lived. He has come 125 years he would still be sitting
equal political rights to the Jews, was life
to the melancholy time when at a small table at the speakers'
abrogated. Superficially, it did look bad. every once in a while he is called feet. The man seems practically
The impatient fault-finders did not want upon to be an honorary pall- hopeless as an aggressive figure
at funerals of his con- in Israel.
to look behind the reasons for the decree bearer
temporaries.
When Mr. Segal read about
and proceeded to castigate the Giraud On those occasions he falls Professor
Bogomoletz's discovery
regime. After certain difficulties were into a brooding mood: This man his spirit at once picked up. 125
straightened out, the Jews were restored he is helping to bury was a years of living! He made tenta-
to citizenship, their property returned, classmate of his. They went to- tive plans. He would do this and
up through the difficulties that to the happy end of being
and now the dismissed office holders are gether
of life, ascended together to the a big man in Israel at 125. He
restored to their positions.
eminence of being grandfathers would give up medicine balls
We do have faith in the liberal protest- and surely are linked together and snake himself a strong man
ations of the French, as we have in those in the same age-bracket of !nor- by exercising his lungs with
speeches at the noon luncheon
of Britain and the United States in the tality.
At those times it is quite evi- meetings instead.
matter of political equality and freedom. dent that Mr. Segal feels that When the doctors came around
The peoples of these lands have enjoyed life is too short. Too quick! with Professor Bogomoletz's se-
Morning, noon and night. There's runs . . . "Come on, gentlemen,
political equality and freedom for so long so
much he hasn't done. The all of you want to live 125 years!
that they have become part of the fabric many things he has put off doing. Here's your chance! Just a shot
of their very lives, and they will not give He has been a procrastinator. of this serum and youre fixed for
up their enjoyment of political freedom Thou ere vsh•ce, re n(sany things il he 125 years!" . . . he would be
ht
the first to apply.
and equality unless they are compelled to tomj .(: irow,
butt tomorrowNiSe run)- But even when he was in the'
do so by forces, conditions and circum- ning out.
midst of these pleasurable medi-
stances beyond their power to control.
He seems to be a pitiable fel- tations his vacillating nature
but
nnio pity took hold of him ... "Do I really
Once more is the liberal tradition vindi- 'beywasted
onsugenst The time
want to live 125 years?" . . .
cated. We expect to see it vindicated in was
lost, was all of his own ewa:t- The very question frightened Mr.
every land where it has been su merged ing. But for his procrastinations
b
Segal . . . "What, to live 125
and seemingly obliterated by the Nazi there' s no telling what a fellow years in the battles of Jewish
he
might
have
been.
As
it
is,
he
life? In this tumult? This rough-
philosophy of inequality and slavery.

Adolf Hitler addressed the Germans on
the 11th anniversary of his appointment
as Reichschancellor by President Paul
von Hindenburg.
We say "addressed" advisedly, for this
address was entirely free from bluster,
harangue and boast which characterized
all his prewar and wartime speeches.
There was a complete absence of the
personal pronoun "I" and no mention
was made of his struggle. Instead of all
this we read an objective, scientific and
philosophic discourse upon the Jews, Bol-
shevism, Britain, the United States and
Nazism.
While reading the address we often
wondered whether this was Hitler talking,
for it was so different in tone, temper and
language from those we had heard and
read before that we could scarcely be-
lieve it was his address. Perhaps it was
not. Perhaps it was written by somebody
else and read by him. In any event, it
was sober, pedestrian and restrained.
is only a lesser light in Israel, house? To keep on fighting?"
The same unsound and illogical argu-
and whereas he might be sitting I 1 I
ments against Jewry and Bolshevism were
in a tuxedo at speakers' tables HIS poor, weak quality shunned
International Bill of Rights
he is invariably only, one of the
repeated.
even in the privilege of living
George Z. Medalie, chairman of the multitude that sits at the feet 125 years if there was'any fight-
Britain and America were told that the
of the great at the smaller tables ing it. He was frightened by the
way back is already blocked to them by Overseas Committee of the American Jew- in
the banquet halls of Jewish thought of getting up in the
their Jewish wire pullers and instigators ish Committee, was among the speakers life. morning and finding yesterday'.
at
the
meeting
of
that
organization
held
in respect to their internal policy, too.
It's all of his own doing or battle starting all over again—
lack of doing. His miserably up to the age of 125! Of going
For Britan as well as the United States, at the Waldorf-Astoria.
In amplifying and explaining the second wasted life is of value only as to his mail box and discovering
the question no longer exists as to whether
an example to youth who may it filled, as every morning, with
after this war they want to fight Bolshe- point of the four-point program calling learn something from it. Yet we pamphlets urging him to enlist
vism. But the' question is only whether for the establishment of a new interna- should be charitable with him: for this Jewish counter-attack or
fellow deserves some credit that, or to join up in some new
after this war they will be able to resist tional bill of rights for the individual, The
for being contrite and for fully Jewish war that had just been
Bolshevism at home. Britain and America among other things he said:
realizing the derelections of his thought of. Of walking along the
were told that only Nazism saved Europe
lifetime. streets and being accosted by
"At the conclusion of the first
I f
from the Bolshevik colossus and interna-
someone who says, Segal, are you
World War it was widely thought
nCCASIONALLY, in a repent- a mouse or a fighting man in
tional Jewry, whose avowed aim and pur-
that the system of minorties guaran-
ant mood, he has looked our Jewish life You look more
pose was to destroy European civilization
hopefully at the strides of medi- like a mouse. Of picking up his
tees would insure Jewish equality.
and culture. By indirection, at least, we
cal science: Suppose the doctors afternoon paper and finding there
The fact that the status of the Jews
discover some elixir by which a full-page broadside by one
were urged to join with the Nazis to pre-
has deteriorated so drastically since
the span of life may be greatly group of Jews against another.
vent the destruction of Europe.
then is not perfect proof of the fail-
lengthened; Then he could make Of being disturbed in the quiet
This attempt to split the Allies will be
up for all the time he lost in
ure of minorities rights, since that
vacillation, all the opportunities of his home in the evening by a
as futile as were his former efforts, but
deterioration can perhaps with even
he missed in Jewish life by not telephone call which challenges
this does not mean that there are not
greater justice be attributed to the
being aggressive enough. At the him to say whether he is a quis-
many who do not fear that the question
general breakdown of international
age of 100 he might at last
will be whether we shall be able to re-
See SEGAL—Page 9
morality and social stability during
sist Bolshevism at home when the war
the long armistice. Nevertheless, our
HOME FRONT ATTACK
is over. In fact, many of our timid folk
faith
in
the
system
of
minorities
has
have been afraid that we would not be
been shaken ; some students reject it
able to resist Bolshevism, since the day
entirely.
Lenin dissolved the Constituent Assembly
"It is thus that we look to a solu-
and proclaimed Bolshevism as the new
tion
in an international bill of rights
ruling power in Russia.
of
man
precisely because our faith is
These fears arise and still arise because
strong
in
emancipation and equality
of ignorance of the nature of the Bolshe-
of
rights.
It is our hope that the
vik State and even greater ignorance of
twentieth
century
will achieve the
the nature of our own State and institu-
attainment
of
liberty
and equality by
tions.
Jews
which
started
with the great
The Bolshevik State has been and is a
American
and
French
revolutions."
military police state, created for the pur-
pose of defending and preserving the This is the correct and, as we see it,
Russian social and economic experiment the only approach to the problem of
against all who wanted to destroy it. European Jewry that will give them the
The briefest survey of American condi- same feeling of security and self-respect
tions reveals the fact that we have no that we enjoy here.
need for a military police state, even in
Whether Europe remains split up into
wartime. We have no enemies contiguous separate sovereign states, or a Federation
to us that want to destroy our institu- of States emerges, the Jew must become
tions and conquer our land. We have no a citizen without disabilities or restric-
designs upon other lands and do not seek tions. To demand less than this is an
to destroy their institutions. admission of inferiority.
Even during the depth of the depres-
The problem of survival has been
sion when many thought that we might uppermost in the minds of all those who
become Bolshevized, our state remained are concerned about European Jewry, but
civil in character and no effort was made the day of peace will come and it is well
to regiment and control the population. to have a program that clearly envisages
And now during the war the recom- the political and economic problems that
mendation by President Roosevelt in his will inevitably arise when the conflict
speech to Congress, on the state of the ceases.
U. S. Treasury Dept.