DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE end The Legal Chronicle

Friday, September 15, 1944

:- GOOD WILL IN ACTION -:-

pastors joined
church. Later the parish priests tance of several thousand Jewssessions. Negro
Catholic and
from
Denmark
who
'ought
sanc-
with
Protestant,
were amazed to learn that a
During
the meet-
and
Jewish
clerics.
tyranny,
tuary
from
Nazi
Jew had taken the trouble to
By BERNARD POSTAL
clergy met
the
aid
of
the
Danish
govern-
ing,
the
Protestant
aid Catholic men to attend Mass.
Director of Bnai Brith Information
syna-
A Catholic chaplain who received ment and people in rescuing these for the first time in a
A clergy institute in
Notwithstanding some disturb- spontaneous gesture on the part a Red Cross card informing him Jews, resulted in the establish- gogue.
ing evidences that wartime ten- of isolated Jewish soldiers and that some one with a Jewish ment by Bnai Brith of interfaith Miami spent an entire day wrest-
sions have exacerbated latent sailors became virtually a world- name had given a pint of blood student fellowships at the Uni-
See GOOD WILL—Page 12
versities of Minnesota and Wis•
prejudices in the . sphere of inter- wide movement this year when in his honor took the trouble to consin in honor of the Kings of
the Red Cross to ask God's
group relations . , it is a fact, as Jewish men in uniform came for- write
. t re- ward by the tens of tlwasands blessing on the donor. In many Sweden and Denmark. Shortly
was ma de plain in a recent
port by Dr. Everett R. Clinchy, to volunteer for special details, camps and at many bases where after the establishment of the
president of the National Con- extra duties, and KP to release there are no Jewish chaplains, War Refugee. Board, a Christian
ference of Christians and Jews, their Christian comrades for Christian chaplains organized ser- farmer by the name of Harry
Season's Greetings and
i the Christmas observances. Thou - vices for Jewish men, using Jew- Rogers, who lives in Colorado,
i n t er faith good will in
volunteered to settle five Jewish
that
Best Wishes
United States has speeded up sands of Christian servicemen ish prayer books.
On the home front, too, the refugee families on his farm
during the war and "is far in enjoyed Christmas furloughs
$100 to
advance of any point reached when their Jewish comrades-in- war produced such examples of and sent a check for
furloughs and good will in action. In Los An- the Refugee Board.
arms
delayed
I,"
in World War
These heart-warming instances
There is no adequate way of passes on Christmas. When Rosh geles, the First Congregational
of good will in action growing
measuring the extent of inter- Hashonah and Yom Kippur came Church established an interfaith out
of the war had their counter-
shrine where families of all
fa ith good will except as it is around, the Christian service- war
denominations and creeds honor parts in the sphere of religious
expressed in deeds. For the past men returned the favor.
Th e intimate relations between their servicemen in thoughts and and racial cooperation among the
decade, this writer has compiled
an annual roster of the outstand- chaplains and the men they prayers. Every serviceman from civilian population. In Kansas
Mrs. Wagner's Pies
City, Mo., the entire clergy of
ing examples of what President serve have been productive of Tippecanoe County in Indiana,
Roosevelt called the practice of many particularly dramatic in- regardless of race or creed, is the city joined in a day-long
brotherhood." These are inci- stances of good will in action. being memorialized by Mr. and study of the Judeo-Christian or-
2002 FOURTH ST.
dents which translate interfaith After the battle of Tarawa, a Mrs.
by the planting
of a Bert
tree Loeb
in Palestine.
Thus far igins of democracy, with the
speeches and resolutions into Protestant chaplain told how he over 35 non-Jewish heroes have Protestant president of the min-
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good will in action. It is a heal- and a Jewish sergeant of the
thy sign that even in a year Marines prayed together. Later, thus been honored. In Philadel- isterial alliance and the Cath-
.c bishop
presiding at various
marked by serious manifestations the chaplain reported this inci- phia, the Erie Methodist Church olic
of racial and religious antagon- (lent to at Jewish friend in Hono- held New Year's eve memorial
ism there can be recorded in- lulu and presented him with a services for a Jewish soldier miss- r
ing in action. Thousands of non-
numerable evidences of good will mazuzah. Hearing of this, a Jew- Jewish servicemen who want to
Best Wishes For A Happy and Prosperous New Year!
in action. ish civilian gave the chaplain
Nowhere was good will in ac- 134 sterling silver St. Christo- make an early Mass have been
called
in
time
by
Bnai
Brith
vol-
tion more strikingly manifest pher medals for distribution
than among the armed forces among Catholic soldiers. When unteers who man the Bnai Brith
Hospitality House in Los Angeles,
who know that one of the things one American battalion entered
the world's largest free hotel
they are fighting for is "the prac- a Sicilian town, the commander for servicemen, one of the fea-
tice of brotherhoods." What asked the Jewish chaplain to t,ures of which is a time clock
started out two years ago as a lead the men in formation to through which servicemen are
awakened at whatever hour they
indicate.
\
To honor Lt. Sidney Brooks,
of Cleveland, the first Negro
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pilot killed in the war, Bnai Brith
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presented an oil painting of the
Negro hero to a Negro com-
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munity center. During the past
year, Bnai Brith provided some
25 recreational facilities for Ne-
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P RIM
of the country. The Harlem De-
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