4 March 31, 1944 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 Pres.-Gen. Mgr. JACOB MARGOLIS Editor CHARLES TAUB Mvertising Mgr. General Offices and Publication Bldg., 525 Woodward Ave. Telephone: CAdillac 1040 Subscription in Advance Cable Address: Chronicle $3.00 Per Year To insure publication, all correspondence and news matter 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- jects of interest to the Jewish people, but disclaims respon- sibility for an endorsement of views expressed by its writers. Cntered as Second-class matter March 3, 1916, at the Post- office at Detroit, Mich., under the Act of March 3, 1879. Sabbath Readings of the Law Pentateuchal portion—Lev. 6:1-8; 36. Prophetical portion—Mal. 3:3-24 or II 7:3-20. MARCH 31, 1944 Kinge NISSAN 7, 5704 How Not To Do It resolution, but we do believe that they blundered. There is reason to believe that some- thing could have been done about the abrogation of the White Paper had other tactics and procedures been followed. The fact that President Roosevelt has declared, upon two occasions, that the Government of the United States never approved the White Paper is significant. Had the matter been brought to his at- tention by a unified group, there is good reason to believe that he would have given serious consideration to the matter. The President is probably still receptive and may still be persuaded to use his moral authority and kind offices to con- vince the British that it is for the best interests of all that the White Paper be abrogated. The whole unhappy mess is evidence that violence, pressure, obscuring issues and bickerings have not achieved tha desired results. A Gloomy Picture The refugee picture is as black as it Everybody condemns and deplores the terroristic violence that has done much has been at any time since the Nazi damage to Palestine Jewry. Now we learn hordes began to march, We had confidently hoped that with that certain Arab newspapers are charg- ing all the Jews of Palestine with respon- the establishment of the War Refugee sibility and culpability for the outbreaks. Board that some of the doomed in the These accusations should not surprise satellite states would be rescued. Now anybody. The Arabs will take advantage that hope is indeed very slender, if not of any episode that will strengthen their non-existent. position. Had the War Refugee Board been When the riots first broke out we could created at the time of the Bermuda Con- see them as only something that would ference, many of the now trapped refu- injure the Jews of Palestine and help gees could have been saved. It is futile the Arabs, and that these riots may have to rail against the procrastination that been provoked by agents provocateurs. prevented and delayed the establishment The Jewish Agency now charges that of the board. From present indications the destructive hand which committed we are back to Bermuda. Nothing can be these crimes is unwittingly or maliciously done until the war is over is the gloomy helping the enemies of the Jewish people. prospect that faces those who are now If we take a charitable view, we should exposed to Nazi wrath and brutality. If we do accept the seemingly inevi- say that the perpetrators of these crimes are doing it unwittingly and are either table frustration of all our hopes to save dupes or fanatics, but whether unwit- the victims of Hitler, what are the pros- ,- tingly or maliciously, the fact remains pects of saving those remnants that sur- that there are men who believe that they vive? The attitudes of our exclusionists in the can attain. their ends by violence and murder. The direct actionists have played Congre'ss' are not calculated to raise our right into the hands of the worst Arab hopes very much that any of the survivors reactionaries. The conflict that rages is will find a refuge in this country. For not between Jews and Arabs, but between instance, that great statesman, Represent- Jews and the Birtish police. The Stern ative Jennings Randolph of West Vir- Gang' or whoever they may be believe ginia, introduced a bill in the House to that by this method they can persuade shut off immigration until five years after the British to abrogate the White Paper. the war ; and Senator Tom Stewart of Only an infinitesimal minority agrees Tennessee sponsored a measure to deny with the Stern Gang, but there are many admittance into the United States of all who believed and perhaps still believe immigrants while the unemployment here that pressure inside and outside Palestine is one million or more. It is true that Attorney General Francis can convince Britain of the incorrectness Biddle and Earl G. Harrison, Commis- and injustices of the White Paper. Those outside Palestine who believed sioner of Immigration and Naturalization, in pressure proceeded on the theory that have attempted to mitigate this anti-alien the greater and louder the protests, and feeling, yet we should not delude our- the more sweeping the demands, the selves into believing that the anti-alien more readily would Britain accede to exclusionists will not press for the most their demands and protests. Perhaps they stringent exclusion measures that have wanted only the abrogation of the White been written into our laws. Nobody can tell at this time what will Paper, but if they did they succeeded in making most people forget about the be the national attitude toward immigra- White Paper and succeeded in making tion when the war is over. We do know them concentrate only on commonwealth that the exclusionists are bitter and deter- now. All the conferences that were called mined men who have a fanatical belief passed resolutions demanding common- that aliens should not be permitted to wealth status immediately. All attention enter this country, and even during war was focused on commonwealth, and abro- time are immune to any appeals of mercy gation of the White Paper became of and reason. We know that they would minor importance. All this agitation was erect walls so high and thick that nobody finally crystallized and the Wright-Comp- could penetrate them. They have made it ton Resolution was sent to the House abundantly clear to us that they are not Foreign Affairs Committee, and here concerned with any clamor for justice again the commonwealth issue dominated. for the oppressed nor to our obligation The spectacle of the pro and con com- to work cooperatively with other nations monwealthers before the committee was so that a just and enduring peace may not too pretty. All this public bickering be achieved. If we are to render more than lip could have been avoided if the real issue, the abrogation of the White Paper, had service to the cause of helping the refu- been presented to the House Foreign gee, by opening wider the doors of Affairs Committee. In fact, it is our opin- America, we must make it clear to those ion that no public hearings would have who seek our vote at the next election been needed if only the question of the that we expect our representatives to White Paper were before the committee. enact laws that will prove that we are It seems to us to follow logically that if no longer isolationists and exclusionists. there had been no public hearings, then To demand less than this of our repre- the resolution could have been passed sentatives is a tacit admission that we without arousing the Arab world, and are still exclusionists and isolationists, without making the War and State De- despite our oft-repeated assurances to the partments parties to the action. contrary. We do not question the honesty and This is a very serious matter, and delay, sincerity of those who were responsible in formulating some program, may be for the hullabaloo raised over the corn- catostrophic for many who could be res- monwealth, and the procedure on the cued from shattered and desolate Europe.' Plain Talk... by Al Segal • One Man's Religion A DETROIT gentleman writes: E E WAS not a regular attend- "Your recent column in ap- I-1. ant at the synagogue, though preciation of Jesus suggests that he faithfully paid his dues. Ile you are quite mixed up. It seems believed in supporting a union on the day you wrote it you of men dedicated to the ideals of wandered by mistake into the Judaism. Had he been a rich num wrong church. .How about it? he, with a good conscience, might No! I am still a member in have given his financial support good standing of Bnai Jeshurun also to other religious groups and hope to be able to keep on that were faithful to the idea of paying my dues for a long time. I a righteous order in the world. feel sure that when the melan- He thought that among the choly time comes my standing in Jews, in recent years, too much Bnai Jeshurun will still be such emphasis had been placed on the as entitle me to burial services. politics of being a Jew, on irri- If the rabbis consider it appro- dentist aspirations, on nationalis- priate to make a few remarks on tic programs. that occasion I wish they would To his mind, being a Jew still say something like this: was primarily related to living Segal was a Jew who didn't a good life, to the fulfillment of believe that his being a Jew what the prophet said about deal- wrapped him up in exclusive vir- ing righteously and walking hum- tue. He respected and revered bly, to the Erthics of the Fa- the ethical prophets of other then. faiths. He knew that all religions He thought the teachings of came out of the same stream of our rabbis has gone far from human experience. these fundamentals of being He did not stand in stiff-necked Jewish. Their sermons went to pride of his own religion. He far-off shores where the Medi- knew it as one of the several terranean washes an ancient land, good ways of life that man had to 10 Downing Street to preach hewn out for himself. He fol- to a Prime Minister. lowed the way to which he was Not that Segal wishes to have born but he could feel at home it believed that he himself ideally in the religious houses of other fulfilled the ethical function of mess since their ethical teaching being Jewish. He fell far short was like his own. but it should be said for him It hurt him that out of the that he did try to attain what he non-essential differences betwee:s believed to be a Jewish life its religious men had derived vile its ethical meaning. He regarded and lasting hates. The ethical that meaning the prime element likenesses in all religions could of the Jewish identity. have united them from brother- hood. They preferred their un- E DID not believe, though, important differences and on them i i that the righteousness of Ju- they sharpened swords of hate daism could be lived in a vacuum. and malice. At times he felt A good Jew could not wrap the quite discouraged with the hu- robes of his virtue about him and man race, in his righteousness hold himself He was resolved that in his separate from the world. He must own self he would preserve no go into the world and give to the feeling of hateful difference. He guidance of mankind the social could not regard the fact of his light that is in the Jewish teach- being a Jew as a point of separa- ing. Segal knew that his own sal- tion between him and other men vation as a Jew was not separate who were of other communions. from that of the rest of mankind He could go along with them if oppressed by special privilege and they were going in his direction persecuted by injustice and dev- toward a world more just and astated by war. A Jew could not lovely. withdraw in solitude to cry out If, nevertheless, he had to his own pain; his pain was only walk alone he could be content. a piece of the agony of mankind. Segal liked to read Leviticus 19 He had been faithful to his own where he found good social teach- way of thinking. ing: "The stranger that dwelleth Segal's idea of being a Jew with you shall be as one born was not geographical nor was it among you, and thou shalt love essentially synagogal. It had noth- him as thyself" . . . "You shall ing to do with a distant spot on not do unrighteousness in judg- . . "When you reap the the earth's surface; it was not ment" the bounded by the lines of a na- harvest of your land, thou shalt H u tional state. See SEGAL—Page 9 aYk a * Oa y A. M. CROSS K NOWING. THAT PLASMA AND PROMPTNESS SAVES LIVES, U.S.ARMY MEDICAL CORPSMEN GIVE TO WOUNDED MEN ON MOVING LITTERS PLASMA TRANSFUSIONS FROM BLOOD DONATED THROUGH THE RED CROSS IN AMERICA MOMS BEFORE MORE THAN 17,000 SERVICEMEN DROP IN AT THE RED CROSS RAINBOW CLUB IN LONDON EVERY DAY 4 1/ v 'S YOUR RED CROSS IN 175 DISASTERS IN 12 MONTHS AIDED A NUMBER OF MEN, WOMEN, AND CHILDREN SUFFICIENT TO PEOPLE 24 TOWNS OF-5,000 POPULATION 4\ <7.