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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

April 14, 1944

Detroit Jewish Chronicle

United States, where we have believed
that
all men are created free and equal
and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE
litical
equality is a fact even in these
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shall
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by reason of race, color or creed.
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ne t at once guarantee the right of Texas
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Negroes to vote in Texas Democratic pri-
All About a Letter
Tmous itnsrueraechpuibhliiscation,e all correspondence and news matter
=ries. We were assured by those who
Tuesday eve nin
ning g of each week. pretend
to know that Texas Democrats %
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sid e
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The Detroit Jewish Chronicle y inuvsiete son ce orres onodfenPcaper only will try to find ways to circumvent and A RECENT
b • nullify the decision. In this they ma
jeers of interest to the Jewish people, but disclaims
issue of The account of the vice of hug ,
o re nspo
Churchman .
lib- numbers of the human race who
sibility for an endorsement of views expressed by its wrns.
k u n d e r s t a n (Episcopal,
iter succeed for a time, but we know from y eh' ral,
d i n g ) contained a wrap ot. i f I l sli it tfI c i ..l it i lrb t , t i y r edloe g li r ti o ilni t n l y pgt s h io o
n‘ f g, t, i i . i ittlef puk I ti .i. •
letter:
experience that the time will soon come
in one bundle of their contempt.
Entered es Second-class matter March 3, 1916, et the Post
"To the Ed i tor o f the C h u ts rclii i i ‘b S vi i a rsi rt c de
office at Detroit, Mich., under the Act of March 3, 1879. when all attempts at circumvention and
pSaopnet
t im e i) aIth wrote it, I think I should make O
)w
nullification will be abandoned. There are your
re suggesting
Readings of the Law for Seventh Day of
still many unreconstructed rebels in the would be well or themselvae
can.
Passover, Friday, April 14
South, but there is an ever-increasing the Jews walked softly. I then hurt me anyway
as and ma y (1‘(%).on't
n;,.
a
s
aipic
ad
Pentateuchal portion—Ex. 13:17-15; 26; Nuni. number in the South who realize that the
s I say now, that I am sonic good.
all
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n
preo
sf
s
ia
tl
a
ie
JIewg
sa t t ind ria tgain ost
28:19-2 5.
I have in mind the policy of
Negro must enjoy political equality and
e o ln li iti i ll ih yA be
i ia.ty
I fbrei teli t tu h i s a tt ,t\ia.i ; :0 1 1 t i .
havior
Prophetical portion—II Samuels 22.
greater economic opportunity of the South sat on for my letter.
is I.
Readings of the Law for the Eighth Day of
"This morning I had promptly
is to be prosperous and happy. This un-
iiii1PlusY- served
Passover, Saturday, April 15
tration
of
what
I
meant.
There
being
so
straight,
seems
to
rep_
reconstructionist attitude does not help
a k a_ resent Mr. I's rectitude.
Pentateuchal portion—Deut. 15:19-16:17; Num. the South, and many intelligent, forward- was a bond rally in Pawtucket
and all the stores y stay closed c
says,
loftier
28:19-25.
looking men and women below the Mason til 10:30, that is all but one big standard d oyfa,coAniii'l I, i fs t ex
t . , x p ected
market run by Jews. Now, I sup- of me, the Jew, I'll show the m .
and Dixon Line welcome decisions
APRIL 14, 1944
pose manyp alta yces 16 ruen tr bzd
NISSAN 21, 5704
w Jews for i all the Je s are to be blamed
Supreme
Court
which
give
Negroes
the
.,
skullduggery, 1
right to serve on juries, vote in primaries at once remarked -Yon the faocyt mou*st tli l i t tt:Ifi 11)111Y
step
Gerald L. K. Smith Rebuked
and at elections. These same intelligent, that a Jewish market stayed fully than other s. epeoim)laere watc l- h
open and did business that the theirs, since they are not mad,
forward-looking men and women are
ores lost.
Gerald L. K. Smith was rebuked, g oin g posed to the disgraceful poll tax re e
to carry the burden of an en
are the things Jews tire )
o p- ' T hese stores
on their backs. rye -
and coming, when he tried to ingratiate ments and educational tests. They quiarree- shou l Id
d lean over backward to been 1 given the responsibility and
himself with Governor Thomas Dewey working to have these discriminatory laws avoid. It would be of so much I'll take it. Perhaps I am more
help to all their friends.
fortunate than other people who
after the defeat of Wendell Willkie in repealed, but without the hel p of their
"NV. T. Townsend,
don't have to carry a social re-
co-worker
Pawtucket, R. I."
sponsibility like mine, and so
the Wisconsin Republican primary elec- to Northern
accomplish
much. they will not be able
f
n' I
can behave as they please. I've
tion.
T
QUITE
agree
with
Mr.
Town-
simply got to behave.
To really help, those of us in the North ' 1
Of cours,
e I coul d in-
1 I I
Mr. Smith congratulated Governor must not be quite so superior, condescend- sist send.
on our ri ht tohaiN t re Ts'
Dewey u pon his victory, but the Governor ing and self-righteous. In fact, we
I TWINKLES as he says
heels, crooks gand blackguards
aa yt e lie -
would have none of Smith's congratula- should be somewhat humble • e . mit just as the Gentiles have g theirs,
thl ea irrs'
a Tgentleman
he fae t i i n th
tons
and in a forthright
and peremptory the disgraceful race riots and
and I could ask why are Jews eumstances. Yet because of the
ic
ie
anti-Semit
1C expected to be better than the obligation he feels on lccount
manner informed Mr. Smith that he did outbreaks in our Northern cities,
average of the human race?
Jewish, he always gives
not want his support, or that of any of
The problem of the Negro is. not a takes all kinds of people. to njake It of hi i a being
s conscience
t
"his ilk", This rebuke did not dismay the exclusively Southern problem, any more any group and why should g all
all
). snmatter
ie lie
t s
the re
redoubtable
beh
toa
be s ints
is the finest and almost indis-
Gerald Smith, for he re- than the problem of anti-Semitism is an Jes
1 wrequred
g s t zilp rt wit t o o itha.sat j acshishee
t leL, tinguishable line between right
joined with the assertion that Henry exclusively Jewish problem. Both prob-
A rtemmul
and wrong.
.
Ford, , enator Vandenberg of Michigan, lems are national problems and can and caught
red-hded
ean
in the black 1
n an market buying
have I sold his
gasoline without house e. "lie could
Senator Nye, Colonel McCormick were all will be solved only if and when all men
I
coupons.
zio ch fo I r might
ig a a h , t say,
A t,?r t e e s , z lh ea t e ' s s oral hundred dollarrilnoi ldfoar ei it-
of his "ilk".
and women of understanding and good
h
for the sharp dealing of the
When Henry Ford learned that he was will exert themselves
e
'f full
11 y and sincerely are that kind. Zilches should but
f
pui • chase. His wife said he was
claimed as one of Gerald Smith's "ilk," to the solution of those
be
chased
out
of
the
country.
bl
always letting people put things
.
But I refrain from such a ov e At i .r.onI h i t i t i ( . 1
he immediately disclaimed the doubtful
We should never lose sight of the fact
I know that ev-
ways,noicis.egt;:etts tet: . 1.01.
distinction and honor of being one of that the economic factors play no incon- generalization.
cry Zilch is of his own individ-
Gerald Smith's "ilk".
siderable part in these problems. The ual kind, and why should I Well,
all of any
us that the other fellow
This rebuke by Henry Ford did not solution of the problem of Negro political blame all the Zilches for the put it over on me than that I
chisel
of
Artemus
Zilch
?
I
know
do
it
to
him."
silence the persistent :Gerald Smith for equality will be advanced if and when
there are other Zilches who are
Not
that
mean to present
he still claimed that inasmuch as Henry larger and freer economic opportunities patriotic gentlemen, Zilches who Mr. I in the I angelic
posture of
Ford, Senators Vandenberg and Nye were are accorded him.
live saintly lives, Zilches who one losing money for the sake
nationalists that they still had much in
never beat their wives or buy of his people. He himself would
Our Supreme Court is the guardian of gasoline
coupons.
common.
be embarrassed to be exhibited
our liberties even in times of war. May y So I might
ight ask—as has been with wings on. He would say he
Our own Senator Vandenberg should it ever be so.
asked by others often before-- was just being obliging people
repudiate Gerald Smith as forthrightly
why should all the Jews be who expect the norm of over;
as did Governor Dewey and Henry Ford,
blamed for the dereliction of Jew's conduct to be higher than
A Bewildering Busines s s
one Jew or even several?
their own. He might say that
for we are certain that Senator Vanden-
But I don't ask it. I accept ,Jews paiticularly should walk
berg has as little use for the Gerald
The British Parliament is debating the Mr. Townsend's suggestion t'llit straight in the world, if for in,
Smith brand of nationalism as have all question of transfer of Jewish soldiers in Jews should lean over backward other reason than to improve
decent Americans.
the Polish army to the British. The reason to avoid any conduct that might the looks of the human race
There are millions of Americans who for the debate, and this seems incredible, be employed to reflect in a de- which has so ninny crooked pen
arenationalists in the sense that they is the brutal, unfair and discriminatory rogatory way against all Jews. pie in it.
on
want no entangling alliances with Eu- treatment of Jewish soldiers by their I feel horribly saddened
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rope, and on election day they may even Polish officers.
be in the majority, but these Americans' Even should one accept the statement
GINEGAR REJOICES IN ITS FIRST WELL
do not endorse anti-Semitism, anti-for- of Dziennek Polski, official organ of the
eignism, anti-laborism and anti-liberalism. Polish government, that the complaints of
,
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They do not approve the doctrine of anti-Semitism were justified in only a few
racial superiority and master race foolish- cases, it is still one of those things that
ness. These doctrines are part and parcel continue to baffle reasonable men and
of the Nazi creed and no part of the compel them to ask, "What kind of men
American national credo. are these Polish officers?"
Governor Thomas Dewey knows that the
We are of the opinion that these of-
spreaders of hate and sowers of discord ficers are of the old Polish regime, and
will try to attach themselves to him, or were so steeped in anti-Semitism that it
to anybody that does not see eye to eye had been often asked whether the Nazis
with the Administration in its foreign and had not really learned their lessons in
domestic policies. The Governor knows, anti-Semitism from them. This type of
too, that these elements are not con- person, and we assume that this is the
cerned about the welfare of the nations, type we have in mind, has the Bourbon,
but are seeking only to enrich themselves Czarist mentality that never learns any-
at the expense of the disgruntled, the ig- thing and never forgets anything. The
norant, the frustrated, the duped and fact that the 600 Jewish soldiers are
the vicious. He does not want their sup- performing their duties in a soldierly
port and consequently he told Mr. Smith manner despite all provocations means
in a fashion that left no doubt in his nothing to these officers. The further fact
mind that he wanted no part of him or that they are all fighting a common enemy
"his ilk". All Americans, whether na- and are seeking to reestablish a stronger,
tionalist or internationalists, must repu- better Poland means nothing to them.
diate the Gerald Smiths, if we are to have They remember only that in the "good old
a happier, better America after the war. days" they despised Jews and, despite
all that has happened, they still despise
them.
More Political Equality
The Polish government promises that
The Supreme Court, by an eight-to-one action will be taken and the guilty per-
decision, decided that Negroes had the sons punished. In view of the fact that
right to vote in Texas Democratic pri- the matter is being debated in the British
maries. This is another advance in the Parliament leads us to believe that action Collec tive Settlement in Valley of Jezreel, waterless for twee:;
battle for political equality. Many more will be taken and the guilty will be years, finds ample supplies for irrigation on site designated li •
battles will have to be waged before po- punished.
Prof. Leo Picard, head of Geology Department Hebrew University.

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