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The Legal Chronicle

Friday, December 22, 1944

pital under Jewish auspices. (c) wards (four beds to a ward)
for which patients will pay nomi-
There are only seven cities in nal rates below cost of services,
HOSPITAL
radically strengthened and pro-
ry,
including
Detroit.
PALESTINE
vided with the funds essential to
the count
or will occupy beds free of any
w population of over
enable it to carry on its vast
(Continued from Page 1)
with a Jeish
have
no
Jewish
ho
charges.
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task of aiding the resettlement
20,00 Ind
ci-
Greek refugees—is a record of overseas of many hundreds of Detroit had 3.2 general
hospital
itals. 0 that ee d, several other s-
population,
as p ies
WOHL
beds
per
1,000
populat
with 9,000 to 12,000 Jews
record thousands of refugees who can-
compared with the other nine
t
utter inadequacy. It is a
as have
Jewish hospitals.
of hopes frustrated and of prom- not 3.
return
home. including Trans- larger cities in the country,
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There are several reasons why
Palestine,
ises unfilled. It is a record of jordania, should be opened to follows:
Detroit has had no hospital un-
5.2
der Jewish auspices—first, the of the campaign indicate that al-
6.4
community was young; secondly, though the campaign has not
because most government lerkders Jewish immigration limited only
6.6
Detroit was busy doing other officially been proclaimed, some
would not recognize in time the area./ The 1939 White Paper dos-
Philadelphia
3.2
things in the field of welfare of the workers are already pro-
realities of the international sit- ing the door to Jew i s h h i
Detroit
4.9
service thirdly, there was some curing advance pledges with sub-
and would not act with
Los Angeles
5. 1
question as to whether the corn- stantial increases against the pre-
sufficient
a surrender
Arab
Cleveland
sufficient vigor to prevent the grants was sharpened
by to
years
of
7.0
munity could raise the funds for vious year's pledges.
slaughter or exile of these help- Arab terrorism. It was but the
St. Louis
7.1
All organizations which have
less victims of Nazi persecution. latest of Britain's interpretations
Baltimore
the building and maintenance of
8.8
not as yet elected their (1010-
The
total
number
of
persons
Boston
.
a hospital
displaced by the war in Europe of its obligation under the Man-
7 . 4
Examination of the subject to- gates are urged to do so at
Pittsburgh
it is not sacrosanct. Nei-
At least 23 cities in the coot -
shows that Detroit is now once, and inform the office of
is estimated by competent au- then in law nor in equity is Brit-
million (this, of course, does not aim the sole judge of the future try the
have
10 Jewish
largest hospitals.
cities, Detroit
Among
is ready
(lay on every count to proceed the Campaign at 9142 Linwood,
or call Ty. 7-8225.
include other tens of millions in of 4.
Palestine.
Specifically, President goose- the only city that has no hos- with the hospital program,
China). The European total is velt, Prime Minister Churchill,
WEIZMANN
Detroit Is R ea d y y
made up of prisoners, forced la- ;Marshall Stalin and General de
borers, persons displaced by the Gaulle (if he should also be
(Continued from Page 1)
Today there is general agree- being of its people. A modern
Nazis for direct or indirect mill- Present), should be urged to
hospital is an excellent contribu-
tart' purposes and those very Place the future of Palestine on limit that the raising of funds lion to the gentral welfare and clear—we are engaged in it
struggle with outsiders who do
large numbers who were moved the agenda of their projected now for the construction of a to the enrichment of living.
not have good will, and who are
out of their homes as the armies forthcoming meeting. Nothing
What the Hospital Will Do
Above and beyond these gen- using every false step to hinder
advanced.
Of this staggering total of less than an agreement among hospital at the earliest possible
ges, a Jewish hospi- our work. Let us not quarrel
in the Middle East can lay the (late that the changing war situ-
thirty million, perhaps 90 or 95 the four Great Powers interested tion will permit, is no longer a oral advantages,
pi - about petty things, let us not
per cent will be able to return to basis for a real l Palestine settle- matter that needs to be delayed. pointments
tal will offe
more
hospital give press for a speedy end—we have
and
privileges;
as
their own homes. To aid them, ment.
The Jewish
gained
in size community
and strength h and internships to Jewish medical suffered for 2,000 years, let us
there , will be three powerful
5. Enlightened governmental affluence. Current tax rates and school graduates; add to prestige wait another six months, another
agencies. First, the allied armies; cooperation is vital, but Jewish
second.
the UNRRA.
allied governments,
and
third,
It is evident, self-help on a scale not yet legislation sympathetic to Phil- into
and other
aid physicians
hospitals; counteract
in getting than
year. I; All
you of
will
you
see
are
the
younger
results
achieved is also vital. Much anthrop
ic giving
show
how the the difficulty now experienced by of your work. You began the
government
helps
the
contrib-
comprehensive larger sums than previously must
that
therefore,
plans be and
adequate
machinery
will
ready
to assist
these be raised if the minimum neces- utor to give gallantly. The fact Jewish physicians to obtain ma- holy work, you must finish it."
sides of the refugees are to be is that never before has the gov- jar
privileges in denominational
phih hospitals, even if well-qualified Rabbi Fram to Deliver
home-going refugees.
answered.
The
greater
the osier- ernment been a partner in
the
Jewish
people
Those Who Cannot Go Back
in the anthropic giving to the r extent
and
be xe f o e r n provide
dietary Jewish
laws for atmosphere
the mental com-
S
Among the one or two million osity
of of their own, the better that it now is .and never donors
before fort of patients, and win respect New YearSermon
rescue
European
postwar
refugees
who
will have to seek new homes the prospects that governments has it been as easy
h loW for the Detroit Jewish medical On Friday, Dec. 29
suc(
profession as a whole through
overseas there will be certainly can be persuaded to advance the to . make lar,e‘ as iftssy at for
g
hundreds of thousands and per- major funds necessary for large- net cost.
"A Prophecy for 1945" will be
the e advantages offered by a first-
scale migration and settlement. Toward a Better Community
the subject of Rabbi Leon Frames
clear class Jewish hospital.
haps more than a million Jews.
The evidence is amply
The hospital will be a general sermon at the Sabbath Eve serv-
I cannot share the optimism of
_ of Temple Israel, Friday
that the hospital's appeal
for
und
on
hospital
for acute diseases. tadi
SENATE
,. es ices
those who think that repatria-
,
funds at this time is so ve is will include all of the specula'
. night,
Dec. 29, at 8:30, in the
.
tion will care for all save a few
every
point.
The
objeCti
Detroit le -
reasonable
in
relation
to
the
sere-
of
medicine
and
surgery
;
it
will
lecture
hall of t
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from
Page
1)
Jewish refugees. We may expect
From ha s
tool inter-relate and coordinate bed ,.
Rabbi
lute
of
Arts.
he
e
that
most, formerly
perhaps nearly
all, in of States, recently made public by ices proposed to be provided a
the Jews
resident
made it on annual custom to
care
France, Holland, Belgium, Den- the House Foreign Affairs Corn- the financial position of the coin- services with clinic services.
It l h
a New Y ear prophecy on
the furthering
deliver
mark, Norway • and Luxembourg mittee, indicated that 77 Sena- munity warrants the amount will
the
the last Friday night in Decent-
of be
the concerned
patient; with
Representatives sought. America's institutions—
er.
will be permitted, perhaps
even
tors and
318 the re-establish- the solid, enduring assets of of medical education of its own ber.
Perhaps
heartily
endorse
medical staff and of medical stu-
The service will be followed by
encouraged. to retur
community or national life—have
by affiliation with a medical
social hour, sponsored by Tent -
similar conditions will prevail in meat of a Jewish Palestine.
. ,
d
ste
.
engthened
an
red
On Nov. 30,
30, 1944, the , Council been develo
_ school ; education of nurses;
e Israel
Sisterhood, in the e Ro-
Italy and in the Baltic States.
the huh clinic and laboratory research, ale
s b thoughtful-
But I do not think it reasonable pointed out, the House Foreign through the year
Hall of the Detroit
and
m
y
medicine.
to expect that postwar conditions Affairs Committee favorably re- victual initiative
Institute of Arts.
in Germany. Poland, Hungary, ported to the House of Repre- ness of men and women concern- and The
preventive
hospital will include three
The Religious School of Tt in-
, Bulgaria, or even in sentatives a resolution identical ed with the health and welfare
pie Israel will be in recess Sat-
of beds:
(a) private
rooms
Rumania
f or which
6 one which has s now been of this and future generations. types
patients
would
pay , ,relay and Sunday, Dec. 23 and
Czechoslovakia, will be favorable with 0
Our community is constantly f
for the return of more than a deferred in the Seate.
striving to improve conditions the regular fixed rates; sonic- 24, and Saturday and Sunday,
iving Jews
for ourselves and for our fellow what higher than the cost of • Dec. 30 and 31. All classes will
of
sury
whoo formerly the
lived
in those coon- LABOR LEADER WARNS
ns. Our interest is in behalf service; (b) semi-private (two be Sunday,
resume Jan.
Saturday,
Jan. 6, and
citizens.
7.
AGAINST OPTIMISM
tries.
of a better city and a better in a room), for which the pa-
Lessons of 25 Years
NEW YORK (WNS). — A nation.
Man is caught by his tongue,
tients will pay regular fixed
• Twenty-five years of govern-
We are deeply concerned for
mental
activities
on
behalf
of
warning
to
American
Jews
not
to
refugees drive home these truths: be too optimistic regarding the America's future and the well- rates at about the cost of service; and an ox by its horns.

The shortsightedness of the outcome of the Zionist fight for
1. powers and their unwilling- a Jewish Palestine was voiced
great
ness to act in time to check the here by Mordecai Bentov, leader
Hitler program of destruction of oof the Hashomer Hazair party
racial and religious minorities in Palestine and editor of the
(when this could have been with- Hebrew daily newspaper Mish-
out the least risk of war) helped mar, who is on a visit to this
to make the war inevitable and country.
Addressing a conference of
was, therefore, a direct cause of representatives of the Jewish
the more than ten million cas-
ualties to date among the fighting press,Bentov said that Jews in
men and of the death of millions Palestine are rather perturbed
over the possibility that the Brit-
of European civilians including
three or four million Jews and ish and American governments
of the displacement of other tens may reach an understanding with
of millions of civilians of which the Arabs through a partitioning
one to two million are Jews. of Palestine. "This would spell
The League of Nations tra_ a serious defeat for our inter-
2.
ditional approach was inadequate ests," he stated.
Primarily because the States
SHAAREY
Members of the League never
made the solution of refugee
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problem a major objective.
For precisely the same rea-
3.
son the Intergovernmental Corn- of Europe to (lie nobly. The des-
mittee for Refugees and its plans tiny of American Jews is to
(so far as we know) are of nec- live nobly, to give their lives
essity inadequate; the leading to God." He divided Jews into
governments represented on the
Intergovernmental C o in m i t tee three types: Those who want
have yet to demonstrate that less of Judaism ; those satisfied
they are seriously determined to with Judaism as it is; those who
use the Committee to carry out want more of Judaism.
Only by following the last can
a comprehensive program.
On the record Palestine of- Judaism survive, he stated.
4.
Abraham Srere was chairman
fers incontestably the Primary
hope for the solution of the prob- of the ceremonies. The mortgage
rem of Jewish refugees. The con- was burned by Isaac Shetzer, as-
elusion which emerges inescapab- sisted by the past presidents of
ly from a realistic resume of 25 the congregation. Cantor Jacob
years of intergovernmental deal- 11. Sonenklar and a five-piece
ings with refugees and from a string orchestra presented Chanu-
realistic appraisal of the world kah musical selections. Refresh-
situation is that in Palestine and ments were served by the Sis-
. only thi•e can the mass of Jew- terhood after the ceremony.
Congregation Shaarey Zedek
ish refugees hope to b a welcome
and to be assisted to integrate was founded in 1862. Its first
themselves in the life of the com- house of worship was a modest
munity. Only in Palestine will frame house on St. Antoine and
congrega-
most of them feel that they have Con ress. DI 190 3 gue
ti ongbuilt a synago the on Winder
returned home.
between St. Antoine and Beau-
Storge.ted
Program
The Great
Powers, particu- hien on land donated by the late
1.
larly the United States. Great Samuel N. Ginsburg. In 1915 it
Britain and Soviet Russia, must moved into its third home, one
the most beautiful synagogues
be made to understand that the of
tragedy of refugees constitutes in the Midwest, located on Brush
major problem, the solution of and Willis. With the moving of
a
which is urgent in the interests the Jewish community to the
of common humanity and vital in northwest side. Shaarey Zedek in
making of a durable peace. 1930 began the construction of
the
Corn- its present home, which was corn-
2. The Intergovernmental
be pleted in 1932.
mince for Refugees must

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