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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

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Friday, December I, 1944

Alleged Derogatory Remarks of Teacher of Central High School
Discussed by Community Council and School Authorities

by Phineas J. Biron

As part of its program of im- your action on these recommen- with Miss
by the
•
proving relations between Jews (lotions."
principal and the assistant su ps
YOU SHOULD KNOW
• " s all
ose initial
4
reply
from
Dr.
Bow,
dated
intendent
in
charge.
Although
'
We are reliably informed that —we shall send, three
as a of
gift,
•f them
t, an and non-Jews in the community, Nov.
24, has been received at she denies having made the
the Moyne murder is being used autographed copy of Pierre van representatives of the Jewish the Community Council office ad- statement as quoted by certain
by the British Colonial Office, Paassen's "The ForgottenAll " Community Council have recent- dressed to Mr. Franck. Dr. Bow's students, yet she has been made
with Winston Churchill's sane: . . . Congratulations to The
Jew-
he y ly engaged in a series of confer- reply was as follows.
fully aware that the administra-
tion, as a justification for freez- ish Spectator on entering its
tion does not look with favor on
ing Zionist demands for a corn- 10th year of publication . . . Its ences with leading school suer- "Dear
Mr.
Franck
:
I have your letter of Nov. 13, remarks by teachers in any
monwealth . . . A number of editor, Trude Weiss-Rosmarin, has orities in a effort to establish
Christian friends of Zionism are managed to issue an intelligent an effective policy and working including three recommendations school that are derogatory to any
preparing a blast against the magazine month after month for arrangement on the handling of that you are making on behalf of religion, race, or national group.
Prime Minister, taking him to nine years . . . That's no mean incidents involving pupil-teacher the Jewish Community Council.
I want to assure you of our
With regard to the first one, desire to have the relationship
task for exaggerating the politi- achievement . . . In the Aug. 25 relationships in the schools, ac-
cal significance of the Moyne as- issue of Yank, Pvt. Saul Israel cording to a statement issued this that a directive be addressed to between the employees of our or-
sassination . . . One of America's of our fighting force lists 14 week by Rabbi Leon Frani and all teachers, I want to say that ganization, the students and par-
most brillians jurists—a non-Jew p oints as guide-posts as to what Harry Yudkoff, chairman and co- the spirit of this recommenda- ents one of mutual respect and
-has been asked to study the to do
with Germany . . • We're chairman respectively of the com- don has already been met by a courtesy. It is our desire that
Moyne case with a view to help here to tell you that Pvt. Israel's munity relations committee of the number
of things
that
have
been no derogatory references to the
done. The
point of
view
suggest-
religion, race, or nationality of
the defense .. . The press didn't 14 points make Mr. Morgenthau's Community
Council.
A series
of recent incidents, ed for inclusion in such a di- individuals be made. We believe
give much space to the news, but plan look like a blueprint for a
we think it's quite important to picnic . . . If you know Hebrew, which were alleged to have oc- rective has been presented orally that the constructive approach is
know that Marshal Tito abolished don't miss the 1944 issue of "The tuned at Central High School, both by me and by speakers preferable in the long run, and
. all the anti-Jewish laws in Bel- Hebrew Physician" . . . It is involving Jewish students and whom I have invited to several propose to continue to emphasize
grade exactly six hours after he dedicated to the memory of Saul non-Jewish teachers, have been different general principals meet- such an approach. I am confident
had entered the city . . . Thanks Tchernichovsky, the late Hebrew thoroughly investigated by the ings held in the last year or so. that we have your support for
to a Reuter's correspondent nam- poet, who. as you may not have Community Council. On the basis Special school programs empha- the activities in intercultural edu-
ed John Evans, a violin concerto known, was a physician on the of these investigations, confer- sizing the same idea have been cation which are under way in the
written by a victim of the Lub- side . . . If as a conscientious ences have been held with the presented to the entire group of Detroit schools.
lin concentration camp Maida- Hanukah-observer (and we hope principal of Central High School, principals and also to various
Please feel free to have furth-
neck has been saved for posterity, you are), you tend to grow a Superintendent Warren E. Bow, school and community groups er conferences with us because
we hear . . . Evans found the little worried when the young- Assistant Superintendents Paul T. where many teachers were pres- we do appreciate suggestions."
Rabbi Fram and Mr. Yudkoff
manuscript among the miscel- sters come home from school re- Rankin and Ivan E. Chapman, ent. An 'intercultural policy for
laneous relics the Nazis preserv- citing the traditional poem Miss Laurentine Collins, secre- the Detroit public schools' has emphasized the importance of the
ed of their victims . . . He for- " 'Twas the Night Before Christ- tary of the committee on inter- been drafted and is under review entire Jewish community being
warded the concerto, composed mas," be consoled by the knowl- cultural education, and some of at the present time looking to- on the alert to report all verified
by a young man named Ernst J. edge that the author of those the teachers at Central High. In ward presentation to all schools incidents to the Community
Weil, to the OWI, and Joseph verses, Clement Clarke Moore, the course of these conferences, in the system. We are much in- Council office. They stressed the
Szigeti may give in its first pub- published the first Hebrew lexi- in addition to discussing the facts terested in the purpose of your need of having a disciplined and
con ever issued in these United and implications of the specific recommendation, and I do be- centralized approach to the hand-
lic performance.
States . . . That was back in incidents reported, consideration lieve that by continued reference ling of these problems, as well
LISTEN HERE.
has been given to the board gen- we will make progress beyond as to the entire program of de-
Few men keep their ears as 1809.
eral problems in the field of in- that possible through a single di- veloping proper relationships be-
,
close to the ground as Walter ABOUT PEOPLE :
For instance, we will tween Jews and non-Jews in the
nit
tercultural
education.
Winchell.
Walter senses the
, D ep
Dr. Ruth Gruber
a r tin C
Following one of these con- stress this matter from time to community.
slightest rumble emanating from of the Interior e1
field
d representa- ferences on Nov. 10, Isaac time in our official publication,
subterranean subversive head-
Franck, executive director of the 'Detroit Schools,' which goes
quarters
here
..
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The
other
day
tive
who
was
in
charge
he told us that anti-Semitism had ing those 982 refugees of to bring-
Os- Jewish Community Council, for- monthly to every employee.
Louis Marshall Girls to
N. Y., has the distinction warded to Dr. Bow the recorn-
With regard to recommenda-
received a shot in the arm from wego,
he
sh e ai 11 . s - mendations which had been con- tion two, the principal will co- Hold Hayride "Dec. 2
., Ph.D. at . the
having
taiying on h err
the political hooligan groups that
record
She wa sidered in the discussion. The fer with the teacher involved to
age
The Louis Marshall Bnai B•ith
fought
fought Roosevelt in the recent only 20 when she earned her text
of Mr. Franck's letter to Dr. check the facts and to take such Girls will celebrate their first
campaign . . . Now more than degree . . . Have you heard
heard the Bow was as follows:
steps
as
may
seem
appropriate.
on Dec. 2 with a hay-
ever vigilance and counterattack new _ Army
,,
Sack "Dear Dr. Bow :
song,
Since the principal is the repre- anniversary
f", '
ride at Magnolia Stables.
are
needed,
warns
. temp? . . . It was
Keep
that in Walter
mind, too,
that . . the
written by This is to confirm our confer- sentative of the administration in
All paid up members are cor-
KKK is not disbanding in the Lt. er
Robert
Leibowitz,
whose fath- ence with • you, Mr. Chapman, the building, it would not be dially invited. The cost is $2.50
JudgeSamuel
's
is
South . . . Several of its most Leibowitz . . . Co-author of "The Mr. Rankin, and Mr. Gunn on necessary to have a representa- per couple. For further informa-
a new book Friday, Nov. 10, with reference tive of the central office at each tion about time and place see
potent political groups are mobil- Desert Battalion,"
on,"
to teachers who are accused of one of such conferences. In my Betty Btrcuson.
lung
for
total
war
on
labor—
or, to be exact, on the AFL centering about General Patto
Patton, making derogatory references to judgment, it would be distinctly
is Mrs. Edward G. Robinson, wife
unions in their territory . . . A of the screen star . . . Watch out, the religious, racial, or national- disadvantageous to have a repro-
A judge should not try to walk
ity affiliations of their pupils. A sentative of the group that makes over the heads of the people.—
hopeful noted reaches us from
years
from
now,
number
of
incidents
involving
the
complaint
present
at
that
Detroit, however .. . Out of the about
a dozen
( He should not consider himself
for a new
radio singed named
850,000 votes cast in that city Patricia Lou Mizzy . . . She's the such references have been report- conference, as a matter of gen- above them.)
ed to this office, and we have eral policy., It may be that in
on Nov. 7,' Gerald L. K. Smith's
. s taken occasion to discuss them sonic instances after the initial
America First party polled exact- new-born daughter of songstress
Mary Small and song writer Vie with Mr. Rankin, in view of his conference between the (principal
ly 625 . . . The voters of De- Mizzy, and if f she follows in her
troit, it seems, preferred not to mama's footsteps it won't take chairmanship of your Administra- and the teachers, it may then be
clear it with Gerald . . . But as her much more than a decade to tive Committee on Intercultural desirable to have a representative
of the grou p that makes the coin-
Education.
for the printer who puts out
her musical debut.
I take this opportunity to re- plaint present.
Smith's "The Cross and the Flag" make
In this connection, I believe it
state in writing the three recom-
—he must feel like a rat . . . ANECDOTE.
From the new magazine Pag- mendations which emerged out of would be preferable for the Jew-
For he is one of the people whom
ish group and other groups that
the Reverend Smith wants to cant we cull this little story our discussions:
concerning the Czechoslovakian 1. That a Directive or Statement may be concerned in such cases
sterilize.
be addressed by the Superin- of derogatory remarks by teach-
statesman Eduard Benes . .
INTERIM REPORT:
tendent to all teachers, remind- ers to take up the matter first
Frederick Heath, who attacked When his country still was free
ing them of the democratic with the principal of the school
Rabbi S. Steinberg on a railroad some Nazi representatives called
foundations of America in gen- concerned, and then to bring it
train en route to Stamford, on him with the demand that he
eral and of Detroit's public to our attention if a reasonable
Conn. has been sentenced to six place restrictions on Jews . . .
school system in particular, adjustment is not made in the
months s in jail and a $100.00 fine. To which Benes replied : "Why,
To us the sentence seems rather the Jews are the only Czechoslo- ' and advising them that derog- individuffl school.
With regard to your third rec-
atory references to the relig-
mild. That case of the Jew who yaks we have . . . All the others
ion, the race,' or the national- ommendation, the incident as re-
two policemen beat up in Phil- are either Czechs or Slovaks."
ity group to which their stu- ported has already been discussed
adephia, of which we told you
, dents belong are contrary to
last week is the case of Mr. An- Sisterhood of Northwest
the policy of Detroit's public
ninth, and the Jewish judge who Hebrew Congregation
schools.
fined the victim of the attack Chanukah Party Dec. 12
2. That in the case of all authen-
is Magistrate Forestein.
NOW PLAYING
ticated reports of such refer-
READER'S GUIDE:
The Sisterhood of the North-
ences
having
been
made
by
any
Doors
Open 11:45 A.M.
Readers' Scope magazine is west Hebrew Congregation and
teacher, a conference with the
preparing a monthly feature that Center has completed arrange-
teacher be arranged, in which
will rocket it into the position ments for the Chanukah card
the following participate : The
of the land's most-quoted maga- party which is to be held on
TWO GREAT RUSSIAN HITS!
Principal, one or more repre-
zinc . . . We can't tell you more Tuesday evening, Dec. 12, at the
Inspiring
Romance! Delightful Romance!
sentatives of the executive
today except that the initials of home of Mrs. Joseph Gordon,
staff, and a representative of
the authors of this feature are 17331 Woodingham. This party
the Jewish Community Council
J.R.C., A.E.K., and H.H. To is for paid-up members only and
(where the unfavorable- refer-
those who send in to us before is under the direction of Mrs.
—Plus—
ence concerns the Jewish peo-
Dec. 7 the correct names fitting Id a Miller.
Alexander
Dovzhenko's
— Masterpiece
ple).
It
should
be
the
purpose
The next meeting of the Sis-
of this conference to 'exhibit
"8110118"
HERE'S A TIP FOR terhood will be held at the home to
the teacher the un-American ,`•
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of •Mrs. Norman Cohen, 18490
COLD CLOGGED NOSE Ohio, on Wednesday, Dec. 6, at character of such remarks, and
to indicate that they are con-
Open up stuffy, cold-clogged nose with 8 p. ni.
trary to the policy of the De-
F o r information regarding
2 drops Penetro Nose Drops in each
troit public schools. Obviously,
nostril. Breathe freer, almost instant- membership please call Mrs. Betty
such a conference would carry
ly. Caution: Use only as directed. Get Garber, membership chairman,
with it the implication of dis-
Karl Krueger
UN. 4-4174, or Mrs. Joseph Gor-
Music Director
ciplinary action in the event
PENETRO NOSE DROPS don, UN. 1-2879.
THURS., DEC. 14
of the recurrence of. such re-
SAT. MATINEE
Presents
marks.
Swan Lake
December 16
Si
HUROK'S
3. Since the incident involving
DETROIT SYMPHONY, Karl Krueger, Music Director
Fancy Free
Peter
and the Wolf
Miss
has caused a
Graduation Ball
Fancy Free
great deal of agitation among
Graduation Ball
CARROLL
pupils and parents at Central
DOROTHY
FRI., DEC. 15
High, disciplinary action, per-
SAT. EVENING
Waltz Acade m y
GLENN
MAYNOR
haps in the form of a transfer
December 16
by
,he
Pillar of Fire
to another school, ought to be
Tally-Ho
taken. Such disciplinary ac-
Princess Aurora
Violinist
Soprano
Petrouchka
tion will also indicate to other
Pea de Deax
teachers that the school ad-
PROGRAMS:
Cala Performance
ministration looks with disfav-
Thur-tla), IMr. 7111, S:30 P.M.
Sol unla3 , 1):-r. 51 11, 8:30 P.M.
• .rhalkow.1, : Home, and Juliet
or upon remarks such as Miss
Company of 125
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Prokolleff : ClawJeal
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is reported to have
"}:rolra"
%mid two song: Shlo-nid
Princess
Aurora
made.
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',word' -di -tf.
Lilac Garde.
slhellus, Concert Op. I; fo r 11111-
Sellillbrrt :
Needless to say, we appreciate
.% % e Maria
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1
lin and Orehmitra
( 'deg :
Bluth card
!eh 1.1ebo Melt
your interest in this all-impor-
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strait.:
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PRICES
(tax
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VENING PERFORMANCES (8:30 P. 14.1—Main
tant
problem
and
we
know
of
:Immo*: Waltz from
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Death and Tran ■flicur-
Floor-51,20, $1,fiu, $2 40, 5100. Balcony-51.20, 11.80, 12.40. hoze0-53 00.
"Itommkavaller"
your determination to banish un-
ation
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Balcony—$1.20, $1.80, $2.40. Boxes-52.40.
Hoc Iittler•i:
tax lael.1 (Nit - $3.60.
American attitudes from the De-
1,rinnel•e Bro... at 1515
Woodward .%.e. and Good IlmmekeopIng Shop in General Motor,, Bldg.
troit public schools. I look for- i
BOK OFFICES: Grinnell Bros, 1515 Woodward Avenue ((Terri MOO) and
Good Housekeeping Shop In General Motors Building ITRInily 12231 I.
ward to your early reply as to a

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