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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal

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HARVEST

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not otherwise have known. In
March, 1944, his "The World
of Sholom Aleichem" received
the Anisfield Award from the
"Saturday Review of Literature"
for the best book dealing with
racial relations.

Party "Bund" for the decisive
role it played in the battle of
the ghetto, and said that the
"Bund" was the main force in
organizing and leading the re-
volt in the Warsaw ghetto. "Only
one of the fighting Jewish de-
tachments in the ghetto, number-
ing about 70 men, some of whom
are members of the Bund, man-
aged to escape from the burning
ghetto furnace," he asserted. The
others perished in the fighting.

000, the ladies contributed over
$12,000 to the building fund and
another $3,000 for equipment.
The women's organization also
founded and is fully maintaining
the Beth Jacob School and Kin-
dergarten which, during the last
term, had an enrollment of
over 75.
David J. Berris will be the
chairman of the Burning of the
Mortgage meeting.

Friday, August 18, 1944

Michigan Students
Entertain Wounded
Service Men Aug. 13

Thirty-five
women student
tunity ; the errors, blunders, trag-
ic mistakes and failures of early
spent Sunday, Aug. 13, at the
the
Palestine ;
settlement in
W. K. Kellog estate near Battle
genius of Herz]; the emergence
Creek, entertaining w ■ oui divie d hivge.
vet-
of new social forms in colonies
erans from the Percy Jones Hos-
yOL
THE DEAD
and in land-ownership; the ren-
pital. The plans were made by
aissance of the Hebrew lan-
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guage; the importance of the
the Bnai Brith Hillel Foundation
religion of labor and the labor
at the University of N Michigan
their
mandate
by
the
people,
who
BRANDT
movement ; the Arab-Jewish prob-
were
trusted
by
the
people,
and
and the Michigan Lcato le at the
lem; the British Colonial Office ;
STETTINIUS
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University. The trip was under
the White Paper and the ensu- who did the people's will.
There was never a time before
ing black days; the part Pales-
notified members to register for the joint auspices of the Battle
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when,
during
a
struggle,
the
tine is playing in the current
voting, to recognize the import- Creek Lodge, Bnai
future defined itself so clearly
h and the
war effort; the J.V.A. (Jordan and hopefully; a promise that is because of his past praise of ance of the primary, to consider
Valley Authority) of Dr. Low- not for one nation but for all Nazi Germany, urged his follow- the qualifications of candidates
The 35 co-eds left Ann Arbor
ers to deluge their Congressmen on the basis of their voting
dermilk ; and, finally, the Pales-
by bus. The students
11 a.
nations;
a
promise
of
peace
for
with
letters
demanding,
the
imme-
tine of tomorrow as "part of
of
record. Registration cards were sat
who went were members of the
many
generations;
a
prmise
diate end of "all immigration supplied to be sent to service Hillel Foundation and the Mich-
the world's reconstruction pro-
freedom for all the oppressed,
now."
gram."
men for absentee voting. Addi- igan Women's League. The y
freedom
from
fear,
from
hunger,
Throughout this book runs the
The 1,000 refugees who were tional cards are available for Jewish
Welfare
lunched
at the Board.
US() in Battle
freedom
of
speech,
and
freedom
settled in Oswego were from
sustaining strength of spiritual
- Creek and then traveled to the
of
religion.
and ethical energies that support
concentration
camps
on
the
further
distribution.
Any mem. Kellog estate. There the after-
interested
in participating
No, there was never such a fringes of combat in Italy. They ber
and nourish Jewish sacrifice and
time as this before. And if we were admitted to the U.S. under the activities of this committee noon was spent swimming and
activity. "They had not come
is urged to call Mrs. Phillip Stel- motor boating. A dance was held
fail now, there may never be such
to Palestine only to restore fruit- a time as this again—if we lis- a Presidential proclamation which lar, TO. S-1363. Additional com-
neg veen ni
fulness to barren places; they ten to the voices of defeat, to permits them to stay in this mittees serving under Mrs. in Arrangements
i e nngb ty 's in Ann Arbor
were restoring to the Jewish peo- those who would divide us, to country until the war's end.
Dworman include, committee to N were
ma de
Kahn of
t
e
r
y
e
Bt
ple the original moral creativity those who calumniate our allies,
combat anti-Semitism, Mrs. Al
Mich., student director
which made the soil of Palestine
Padover, chairman; inter-organi- of Hillel Foundation; Helen Al-
to those who say, "A little less,
MORTGAGE
so singular in the history of
zation, Jewish, Mrs. Milton Prag; pert of the Women's War Coun-
more slowly."
humanity" (p. 193). Again, On a little
This is a time for more, not
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non-Jewish, Mrs. Jules Solomon. cil at the University of Michigan;
Friday evenings, when the week's for less. This is a time for the
Please call Mrs. I. B. Dworman, and Miss Ethel McCormick, social
labor was done, they put on last terrible effort, for the blow appropriate Jewish vocal selec- UN. 3-3741 for further informa- director of the Michigan Worn-
fresh clothes and rejoiced in the that will strike down the fascist tions.
en's League. Arrangements in
Sabbath. The world was quiet beast forever. This is a time for
The accomplishments of the tion.
Battle Creek were made by Mor-
about them. They forgot the one more pint of blood, one more Ladies of Yeshivath Beth Yehu-
ton Davis, president, Battle Creek
Picnic
of
Lithunian
Jews
material worries of the week- bond, one more hour of work. dah during the past 18 years
Bnai Brith; and Samuel Kurzon,
Set
for
Aug.
20
Called
Off
days and gave themselves up to This is the moment for which constitute a proud record of De-
Jewish Welfare Board Club di-
the spirit of the tradition . . . A mankind has waited since first he troit Jewish womanhood. They
The Federation of Lithuanian rector.
strange exaltation would often turned his face toward God.
paid for the ground on which
Mill McCormick, Miss Alice
Jews has found it necessary to
take hold of them—and not only
Yeshivath
Beth
Yehudah
was
If we fail now, the dead will
Lloyd, Dean of Women, Miss
on he Sabbath eve." And, "What- not sleep, and the ground they erected two and a half years call off the picnic on Aug. 20, Pauline Gollub, and Rabbi J. M.
ever the actual historical facts wet with their blood will never ago, and they have also pur- on account of the shortage of Cohen, director of the Hillel
of the beginnings of the Jewish be ours. If we fail now, the f u- chased adjacent lots for the ice in the city and the terrific
inBt
people, the earliest formulated ture will never f orgive us. There eventual enlargement of the in- heat wave, as it is impossible to Foundation.
Battle Creek the University
purpose of the exodus from is only one thing the dead ask— stitution and the construction of have a picnic without ice.
group
was received by represen-
However,
the
drawing
for
tho
Egypt and the ascent to Pales- that they shall not have died in a wing to house the Beth Jacob
tatives of the USO, Jewish Wel-
$25.00
War
Bond
will
be
held
tine, as accepted by the people,
Religious School for Girls, after
fare Board and the Battle Creek
told of a destiny couched in vain.
wartime restrictions will be re- at a later date, which will be Lodge, Bnai Brith, who have ar-
spiritual terms. As they put it
laxed. In addition to the pur- announced after Labor Day.
ranged a number of previous
TERRORISTS
then, they had come to Palestine
chase of the ground towards
Parties for the veterans at Percy
no
evil
desire
whatever
Let
to be a holy people. The outlook
which the children of the late
Jones Hospital.
within
you.—Cullavagga.
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arise
is echoed strongly in the present
Mrs. Lena Holtzman donated $2,-
Return" (p. 314).
After
the
shooting
several
men
The poignant beauty of the
author's stile, his flashing wit were seen running toward the
and humor, the telling parable, Jewish settlement of Givat Shaul.
the nostalgic ,incident retold from "When the police cordoned off
personal experience, the ordered the settlement," the statement
march of fact and idea, above said, "no one volunteered any
all, his consuming love of the clue." It contained the blunt
Jewish people and its way of charge that "all available infor-
life—all make this a notable mation points to the fact that
book and its reading a memor- the perpetrators of this and oth-
er recent outrages, and their ac-
able experience.
"IIarvest in the Desert" is an tive supporters who have openly
inspiring example of how the boasted of their responsibility
democratic spirit can transform for terror are more than a small
the dried up bones of a despair- body of terrorists, they form a
ing generation into a vital and widespread organization.
Sis Harold MacMichael has re-
creative people ; how democracy
can make the desert to blossom cently resigned his post as High
as the rose, and out of the desert Commissioner for Palestine. He
to produce an abundant harvest will soon be replaced by Field
for the body and mind and spirit Marshal Viscount Gort, who is
reported to be in Rome where
of man.
he was received by the Pope.
Viscount Gort is expected to pro-
Maurice Samuel, the author of ceed to London before going
"Harvest in the Desert," was to Jerusalem to assume office.
born in Romania in 1895. As a
child, he was taken to England,
SOVIETS
where he was educated at the
University of Manchester. In
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1914 he came to the United
States and, during the years 1917
to 1919, he was in the United pecting to return to Lublin was
in the past now as was the
States Army. At the concluson all
of the First World War, he vis- misery, hunger and humiliation
ited Palestine on several occa- suffered by the Polish population
sions and watched the land's there."
development at close range.
These visits and his sensitiveness ESTIMATE 200,000
to Jewish hopes and human val- JEWS IN POLAND
LONDON ( WNS) —Of the es-
ues have enabled Samuel to cap-
ture the mood of the modern timated surviving 200,000 Jews
builders of Palestine and to in Poland, 40,000 are in concen-
transmit it to his readers. He is tration camps and 160,000 are
one of the foremost literary fig- in hiding, it was disclosed here
ures of the day and has put his this week by Tomasz Arciszewski,
great gifts at the service of the chairman of the Polish Socialist
Jewish people and has attempted, Party, who arrived here from
in a series of novels, essays, Poland after being designated by
ti
translations and historical works, the Polish Government-in-exile as
ti
assembly
line
was
born
to interpret Jewish life and the lawful successor to the Pol-
fi
There and then • . • the
thought to both Jew and Chris- ish Presidency.
Mr.
Arciszewski
made
this
tian. Mr. Samuel has also suc-
f workers.
to increase the life span o
system, the 14 hours formerly re-
ceeded beyond almost anyone statement at a one-hour confer-
MY in 1913, Henry Ford had
At
Ford,
it
soon
made
possible
the
ence
with
leaders
of
the
Jewish
quired for a single chassis assembly
else in rendering into English
V his technicians try a new pro-
8-hour day. And with unskilled
much of the poetry of Chaim "Bund" party in London. He said
were
cut
to
1
hour
and
33
minutes.
as
duction idea which had come to
labor in many places earning
Nachman Bailik, the foremost "the mass-murder of the Jews
Before 1913 was over, more than
pay
him
as
he
observed
a
watch
factory
a
day,
Ford
basic
little as $1
Hebrew poet of the 20th cen- by the Germans is still procee -
100,000 Ford cars had been built.
in operation. Instead of having a
was raised to $5.
tury. He is the author of "The ing," and that "Nazi hangmen
All records for the mass production
single
group
of
men
make
the
entire
The assembly line al›o brought
Outsider," "W h a to v e r Gods," are still searching for hidden
of automobiles had been broken.
assembly
on
each
flywheel
magneto,
price reductions on Ford cars, Pig' ce.
"Beyond Woman," "You Gen- Jews who, when caught, are exe-
Remarkable
as
this
achievement
onvenien
the unit was moved from one worker
tiles," "I the Jew," "What Hap- cuted on the spot together with
ing their pleasure and c
was, it meant more than just a
to another. The result was a 50e,0
within
reach
of
more
people.
Tlv
pened in Palestine," "On the those who hid them."
saving in production time, more
Speaking of the Jewish revolt
saving in time!
p ro ducti on sal- d
Rim of the Wilderness," "Jews
policy
of
sharing
than creating new methods for
"Why not test this idea on the
"King Mob" in the Warsaw ghetto and the
ings with the public has remaine
on Approval,"
industry everywhere. To Mr.
whole chassis?" Mr. Ford next sug-
(pseudonym, Frank K. Notch), indelible impression it made on
fundamental with Ford.
.
Ford
and
his
associates,
this
was
"The Great Hatred," and "The the Polish population, Arciszew-
gested. So now, along elevated
Today, in the creation of equir -
another
step
in
their
endeavor
to
World of Sholom Aleichem." ski disclosed that surviving Jews
greased rails, each chassis was being
ment vital to victory, Ford men con
make life easier for millions.
Some of his outstanding transla- in Warsaw are participating in
pushed by hand as workers added
tinue to search for bettcr ways of do-
From the first, the assembly line
tions are the "Biography of the battles which Polish patriots
the various parts in sequence. There
ing things. What they are learning,
technique of production eased
e'
Theodore Herzl" by Alex Bein ; are now waging against the
and then, the assembly line was born!
will be reflected in the improv w.
working
conditions.
Along
with
"The Apostle," by Sholem Asch ; Germans in the streets of the
A chain-driven line was soon after
Ford
transportation
of
tomorro
other modern advances, it helped
"The Nazarene," by Sholem former Polish capital. He said
put into operation. Under the new
Asch ; "The Jewish Anthology," when the Jews in the Warsaw
by Edmond Fleg; and Ludwig ghetto rose in arms many Poles
Lewisohn's "R oose v el t." His wanted to join them and launch
translations have opened the a general uprising, but that they
FORD MOTOR COMPANY
eyes of American Jews to a had lacked adequate weapons.
Jewish world which they could He lauded the Jewish Socialist

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