Page 3 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE end The Legal Chronicle Friday, September 15, 1944 A MYSTERIOUS CURE FOR ANTI-SEMITISM By E. Z. GOLDBERG THE EDITOR:—The author of this article is the daily columnist of the "New York Day" and one of America's most distin- guished Jewish journalists. Mr. Goldberg is the son-in-law of the immortal Sholem Aleichem. I read about the conference of experts held underthe aegis of the American Jewish Commit- tee in a New York hotel. These experts numbered psychologists, sociologists and public relations men, and the conclave devoted its labors to an attempt to find w ays and means for combatting a nti-Semitism. The conferees very conscien- tiously psychoanalyzed the causes and motives which make one in- dividual or another turn anti- Semite. They also made an ex- haustive study of the technique and methods employed by the anti-Semites of today. But-- when it came to the gist of the matter, to the question of com- batting the menace—the learned pundits were transformed into so many pre-medical tyros, and their "expert" diagnosis resulted in a prescription compounded of very ineffectual ingredients. The Nazis pour satire and mockery upon the Jews. Well, then, the anti-Semites, too, must be made the butt of ridicule of the anti-anti-Semitic literature. Not so much the mind as the emotions must be appealed to, and books on how to do it crowd the shelves of promoters and pub- licity wizards. Too, don't always picture the Jew as an object of pity, a downtrodden, insulted, helpless victim—this will make people anything but respect him. On the contrary, it may do him harm. Picture him, therefore, as a heroic, fighting, self-respecting soul, advised one of the profes- sors. Sound advice, isn't it? No gainsaying it, to be sure. And yet, should one take the good professor's suggestion seriously I Le Shono Tovo Tikosevu! and keep "depicting" till dooms- day—will this cure-all do away with anti-Semitism? Anti-Semitism has been a well-- going, dividend earning concern for over 2,500 years. Anti-anti- Semitism is almost as old, but has not brought in a red cent in profits to this day. The entire Jewish apologetic literature, from ancient Greece to our own times, can be summed up in the proverbial admonition, say, to a drug addict: "Shame on you!, Mr. Addict!" It is not recorded, however, that this or any other admonition has ever cured the addict from his habit or made him show signs of re- morse. It seems to me, the American Jewish Committee would have ac- complished much more had it brought together not psychia- trists and sociologists, but busi- ness men and lawyers, instead. Had these two groups of experts made up their minds to find out how anti-Semitism in America is being financed and to what ex- tent this financing is legal, if at all, there would 'tie much less need of supporting any anti-anti- Semitic movements in this coun- try. In the inner sanctums of their Wall Street offices, the directors of the American Jewish Commit- tee know only too well that "money talks" and that its lan- guage is quite a bit of psychic realism. Nevertheless, when it collies to anti-Semitism, they pre- fer to seek in it the abstract, the purely "psychological," the exclusively "spiritual." Why split hairs about the methods of a Father Coughlin and try to psychoanalyze his fol- Rosh Hashonah Greetings Cohen FS Eisenstat U. S. Window Cleaning and Painting Co. DETROIT KOSHER MEAT MARKET TY. 4-9261 8833 Linwood Bring Our Boys Home Sooner! — Buy More Bonds — HO. 2663 Jack Horstek, Prop. 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Where and how tures and birth control on the does it harm the Jews, carrying entire population of the United on as it does, in addition to States—a new anti-Catholic move- whatever line it may be hewing ment is bound to arise here. For, to, tin unceasing, vigorous propa- when all is said and done, the ganda by Gentiles among Gentiles Catholics in this country are a against anti-Semitism? small minority — about 18 per Well, the true reason is that cent—and there is an anti-Cath- The Protestant fights the Cath- olic tradition in America. A number of Catholics re- olic Church—anti that's where sponded with letters to the New the sacret lies. To be exact, The Protestant Republic. How could, they wrote, does not fight either the Cath- such a highly cultural, progres- olic Church as a whole or Cathol- sive magazine preach religious icism as such, but only those ele- prejudice? 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In addition, something else would be gained—his anti-Semitic ac- tivities would be utterly discred- ited in the eyes of the people. 1 can think of only one reason why Coughlin has not been made to stand trial—it might reflect on the Catholic Church, and the American Jewish Committee is very circumspect where the good name of the Catholic Church is at stake. There is an American month- ly, The Protestant, with a large circulation among the Protestant clergy. These ministers are flood- ed with anti-Semitic literature. As an antidote, they also receive a magazine which combats anti- Semitism in a most militant man- ner. Every issue of The Protest- ant is full to the brim of anti- anti-Semitic articles. And, sure enough, the Amer- ican Jewish Committee has come out in the open with a denuncia- tion of The Protestant. Why is it a matter of life and death to the American Jewish Committee to combat The Pro- testant? 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