Friday, December 15, 1944

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

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THE HOME FRONT

By ARCHIE H. GREENBERG

National Commander, Jewish War

Veterans of United States

An International Bill of Rights

Today we celebrate a historic
event that assumes more import-
ance with each passing year, the
anniversary of the ratification of
the American Bill of , Rights.
When, 153 years ago, the 9th
state ratified the first 10 amend-
ments to the United States Con-
stitution and made them a part
of the law of the land, the cause
of liberty took a mighty step
forward. For the first time in
the history of the world the ideal
of democracy was translated into
practical, every-day terms; for
the first time, the rights of the
individual man were set above
sovereign and property rights.
The individual man was guaran-
teed freedom of speech, freedom
of press, freedom of worship and
freedom from the inequities of
harsh or unfair treatment under
the law.
There have been many in Eng-
land, France, Russia—even in
the United States—who viewed
this Bill of Rights with doubting
reservations and cynical scorn.
No country had as yet proven
that there was such a thing as
government by the people, that
the people had inalienable rights
as individuals. But the dreams
of liberty of the men who wrote
the American Constitution and
its Bill of Rights have come to
pass. Today, the Bill of Rights is
an accepted, working part of the
American credo.
In fact, all over the freedom-
loving world there has risen the
call for an International Bill of
Rights. Men and nations may
disagree as to the exact provi-
sions of an International Bill of
Rights, but there is general agree-
ment that out of the wreckage
of World War II there must
emerge the acceptance of the
concept of the dignity of the in-
dividual man regardless of race,

color or creed.
The world, it seems, has learn-
ed the lesson that tyrannical per-
secution of one group is but a
prelude to the denial of rights
to all. We know today that those
who stood passively by as the
Nazis set out to destroy the Jews
were blind to the inevitable re-
sule: The complete repudiation
of the rights of the individual
man. Once the first inroads had
been made, once the basic pre-
mise of individual liberty was
violated, the entire structure of
freedom collapsed. Group after
group—Catholics, Masons, labor,
liberals and foreign born citizens
—were victimized by Nazi tyr-
anny.
Along with the international
organization for peace envisaged
by men of good will in all coun-
tries, there is an undeniable sen-
timent for an International Bill
of Rights something along the
lines of our American Bill of
Rights. There is the hope that
an International Bill of Rights
will protect the individual rights
of people in the several countries
just as the American Bill of
Rights protects the individual
rights of the people of the 48
states of the union.
All people have expressed
themselves in favor of an Inter-
national Bill of Rights,—Catho-
lies, Protestants and Jews. Rec-
ent statements of both the Na-
tional Catholic Welfare Confer-
ence and the Federal Council of
the Churches of Christ in Amer-
ica have endorsed the principal
of guaranteed human rights for
all mankind. Among Jews, the
viewpoint has been expressed by
the American Jewish Committee,
the American Jewish Conference,
the World Jewish Congress, the
Jewish War Veterans and numer-
ous of the synagogue groups.

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Soviet Russia Not to
View Anti-Semitism
As Internal Affair

Sisterhood of Shaarey
Zedek to Hear Review
Of Edgar Snow's Book

WASHINGTON (WNS) — A
warning that Soviet Russia will
no longer consider anti-Semitism
a purely internal affair of the
country where it is practiced, is
published in the information bul-
letin of the Soviet embassy here,
in an article by Vladimir Koma-
rov, president of the Academy
of Sciences of the USSR.
Citing the text of a statement
made by Joseph Stalin in 1931
with regard to his views on anti-
Semitism, Prof. Komarov points
out that Stalin declared: "Anti-
Semitism, as an extreme form of
racial chauvinism, is the most
dangerous survival of cannibal-
ism. In the USSR anti-Semitism
is prosecuted most severely as a
phenomenon profoundly inimical
to the Soviet system. According
to the laws of the USSR, active
anti-Semites are punished by
death."
Taking issue with those who
are inclined "to forget and for-
give" the Germans for their an-
nihilation ,pf Jews and other in-
nocent civilians, the head of the
Academy of Sciences, warns that
any leniency that will be shown
to the Germans for Maidanek will
only "pave the way for new fas-
cist pogroms."
"When any country give shel-
ter to the Hitlerites or their ideas
in the form of discriminatory leg-
islation, in the form of racist or-
ganizations or a racist press, it
is no longer an internal affair
of that country," Komarov writes.
"If your neighbor uncovers in
his backyard a container of poi-
son gases that threaten to spread
over the entire town, you do not
waste time by asking permission
to enter his backyard and thus
avert the death of thousands of
people. Racist ideas are more
dangerous than any poison gas.
It is our generation's great duty
to the future, to the cause of
progress, civilization and human-
ity, not only to put out the
smoking bonfire of fascism but
to uncover and extinguish every
one of its smoldering coals," the
article concludes.

Edgar Snow's widely discussed
book, "People on Our Side." will
be Mrs. Joseph Fenton's subject
at the Shaarey Zedek Sisterhood's
second brunch book review, next
Tuesday, Dec. 21, at 12:30. Ar-
rangements for the brunch are
in charge of Mrs. Carl Schiller,
assisted by the following com-
mittee: Mesdames Sam S. Aaron.
A. O. Barsky, Jack Behrmann,
Aaron Carlstein, Louis Davidson,
Fred Faber, Walter Field. Arthur
Gilbert, W. B. Greenwald, Lena
Kantor, Maxfield Mathis, Harry
Robinson, Harry Schiller, Ben
Schwartz, M au r i c e Schwartz,
Aaron Silberblatt and Leon Zech-
man.
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reservations will be filled in the
order they are received.
Mrs. Fanny Frank, chairman
of the Red Cross Division, has
received word from headquarters
that all Red Cross workrooms are
to be closed for a three-week
period starting Dec. 19. This
work will be resumed on Jan. 9.
Red Cross workers are requested
to take note of these dates.

Parochial School
Celebrates Chanukah

The Chanukah program of the
Hebrew Parochial School took
place Sunday, Dec. 10, under the
chairmanship of Rabbi G. Fran-
kel Hebrew principal.
Rabbi Rothenberg talked of
the miracle of Chanukah. A play
entitled "Chanukah Candles," su-
pervised by Mrs. S. Lehrman,
teacher of the Kindergarten, was
presented by all the pupils of
the Kindergarten. Another play
entitled "Chanukah in a Modern
Home" was given by the pupils
of the 1st and 2nd grades. It
was conducted by Mrs. Frankel
and Mrs. Gerber. Hebrew and
English teachers of the 1st and
2nd grades, respectively. The
children sang and spoke in Eng-
lish, Hebrew, and Yiddish.

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On Sunday, Dec. 17, the Bnai
Moshe Sunday School will inaug-
urate the first dedication cere-
monies to Jewish learning in the
history of the religious school.
"Dedication to Jewish Learning,"
which will be held at 11 a, m,
on Sunday morning, will accept
within the Jewish fold a group
of 37 first graders who have
started their formal Jewish train-
ing in the month of September,
1944. The dedication ceremonies
will accept them as indicative of
a pledge on the part of the par-
ents and children to continue
through the 12th grade of the
religious school.
Walter Farber, director of the
Bnai Moshe Sunday School, has
arranged an elaborate program
which will include Rabbi Moses
Fischer, Rabbi Jacob J. Nathan,
Cantor Katzman, a group of vio-
linists and a unique program ar-
ranged by Miss Smith, teacher
of the first grade in which the
37 dedicants will participate.
Sam Freedman, chairman of
the school board, said, "An over-
whelming crowd is expected for
this occasion. We have made ev-
ery preparation and shared no
expense to make these ceremonies
the most impressive."
Sarray Finkelstein will give a
A crab is not a fish among short talk to the dedicants. The
fishes, a bat is not a bird among 1st grade will sing the blessings
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