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For the first time in the history of
Entercd as Second-class matter March 3, 1916, at the Post-
civilization
we shall have an industrial
office at Detroit, Mich., under the Act of March 3, 18 7 9.
and agricultural plant manned by skilled
Sabbath Readings of the Law
technicians who will be able to produce
Pentateuchal Portion—Gen. 47:28-50:26.
an abundance of everything. The old
scarcity economy will be a thing of the
Prophetical Portion—I Kings 2:1-12.
past. Will we be able to overcome the
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cultural lag and adjust our ideas and
practices to the new economy of plenty?
Our mental resiliency and adaptability
Realistic Dr. Weizmann
will determine whether we shall enjoy
Dr. Chaim Weizmann, president of the the abundance, or whether we shall limp
Jewish Agency, urges a transition period along, on doles and handouts.
of five to six years preparatory to the
launching of a Jewish State in Palestine
The British People Protest
Dr. Weizmann, speaking before the Pal-
estine wide conference of the labor col-
The British people have made it clear
onization group, expressed the belief that by their protests that they do not ap-
Palestine will not become a Jewish State prove the recent statement of policy by
immediately, though he declared that Prime Minister Winston Churchill on
the younger people in Palestine are cer. Greece, Italy and Poland. In fact, had
taro to see the results of their work.
they reacted differently than they did,
We do not know whether the state- we would have been disappointed. The
ment of Dr. Weizmann had anything to British people have been believers in fair
do with the action of the American Zion- play for a long time. They disapprove
ist Emergency Council that resulted in when they feel that the action is not
the resignation of Rabbi Abba Hillel Sil- "cricket." They know they are in the
ver and Dr. Stephen S. Wise from that midst of the grimmest struggle in their
body. Although the motion to censure existence and they are not at all happy
Rabbi Silver did not pass, yet the con- about giving Goebbels fuel for his propa-
clusion was inescapable that the Emer- ganda furnace, but yet they cannot abide
gency Council was dissatisfied with the gross unfairness, especially to those who
pressure methods employed by Rabbi Sil- have been their allies in this grim
ver in his effort to have the Senate For- struggle.
eign Relations Committee pass the Com-
Anuerin Bevin told the government in
monwealth resolutions, which was tabled. unequivocal language that the govern-
We think that the position of Dr. Weiz- ment would probably have to step down
mann is sound. He is primarily con- if the war was not on. All of the happen-
cerned with the abrogation of the White ings in Britain surely must add up to
Paper so that mass immigration could something.
become a reality. He realizes that the
It seems to us that the British people
land problem is intimately bound up with do not place the unity and continuity of
the matter of mass immigration. When the British Empire above everything. It
both these problems are solved, then the seems to us that the British people are
Jews of Palestine and the Zionist Or- not in favor of acquiring "spheres of in-
ganization and the Jewish Agency can fluence," if it means that civil war is to
tackle the problem of establishing be fomented among those in the partic-
friendly Arab-Jewish relations.
ular "sphere of influence." It seems to
We have believed that the insistence us that the British people are not in
upon a Jewish Commonwealth now was favor of carving up the territory of an
premature. We have believed, and still allied nation without the consent of that
believe, that the problem now is the nation. And above all, it seems to us
opening of Palestine to immigration and that the British people are not partic-
the legalizing of land purchases.
ularly concerned about perpetuating the
We believe it is much more important regimes of King George of Greece or the
to have a sound economic base with ade- House of Savoy of Italy.
quate population and sufficient land,
We have stated upon many occasions
rather than a pronouncement, in the best that the peoples of Europe did not fol-
of faith, by the Senate Foreign Rela- low their war-time leaders after World
War I was over, and we expressed the
tions Committee.
The repercussion of the Emergency belief that the peoples may not follow
Council action will be felt throughout their leaders when World War II is
the Zionist movement, but we do not ended.
believe that any serious rift will be
The British people are obviously not
going to follow their war-time leaders
caused.
It should, however, make Zionist work- unless these war-time leaders live up to
ers realize that more work and less reli- the basic principles for which the war is
ance upon resolutions will get results.
being fought. Despite the fact that the
Atlantic Charter has not been formally
made into a document, signed, sealed and
The New Year
delivered, yet the broad principles in-
in that pronouncement have
America faces a new year in which corporated
been
accepted
by all the peoples of the
the war may be over. But whether the Allied Nations.
It is a fundamental of
war ends this year or the next, the major; the democratic creed, that the people
problems will be very much the same.
have something to say about their
It seems to us that neither the Dum- should
form of government, and it is equally
barton Oaks agreement nor the Atlantic basic that among allies there should be
Charter will solve the problem of war
in Europe and Asia. Only a brand new no carving of the territory of the least ally
it having something to say about
Federation of European states can solve without
it.
the war problems of that tortured and
We do not believe that the British,
desolated continent.
American,
French, Dutch, Polish, Belgian
Our home problem of utilizing our in-
or
Greek
people
needed a restatement
dustrial, plant, and techniques will be of these democratic
principles in the At-
the most formidable problems with which lantic Charter.
we will have to deal.
We in America should be, and prob-
If there were any doubters as to our ably are, gravely concerned about the
ability and capacity to produce, those
doubters have been convinced by the
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Plain Talk...
Detro5.t. Jewish. Chronicle
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by Al Segal
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Christmas Carol
mindful that I forgot to
I do AM something
about Christmas
in this column but it's not yet
too late. The happy season wax-
es toward the New Year and the
bright trees are still in the win-
dows and people remain be-
mused by the gentle implications
of the season.
Yes, I should give a Christina::
present for all my Christian
friends all around. They already
have received all the neckties
they need, to say nothing of all
the bottles of perfume and I hope
there were enough cigarettes.
I shall give them .a Christmas
Carol about the Wise Men and
the Bethlehem Star. I needn't
get Biblical to tell the story of
the Wise Men all over again; for
everybody should know by now
that the Wise Men were sent to
find the miraculous infant that
was reputed to have been born;
the Star of Bethlehem led them
directly to the crib in the manger.
There is a story about the
Wise Men and their journey that
is not in the Testament, though.
Bible fundamentalists may tell
me its presumptuous in me to
add anything to the holy words
already written. Anyway, the
story is all to the good of the
finer meaning of Christmas, and I
give it to my Christian friends
for their refreshment at this sea-
son.
Well, the Wise Men had trav-
eled a long way toward Bethle-
hem in the heat of the day and
night had come and, sure enough,
the Star had risen to guide them
through the night toward the
place were the child was born.
Then, toward midnight, they
stopped to rest themselves and
their camels. They stretched
themselves on the ground and
contemplated the miraculous Star
that had been leading them
through the night. Being Wise
Men they could guess that it
wasn't just an ordinary star like
the others that studded the night.
It was a mystical thing that might
have something to do with the
peace and good will that was
proclaimed at the birth of the
child.
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stood high in the hea-
vens waiting for them to
resume their journey toward the
crib of the child on account of
whom peace on earth and good
will to men had been proclaimed.
They closed their eyes and slept.
One of them had a great
dream. It had to do with a bright
world in which peace and good
will at last really were estab-
lished among men; for even then,
far back in the childhood of the
world, there was a lot of vic-
iousness among people, and most
OW it
of the rulers were either wicked
or stupid or both,
In his dream the Wise Man
saw the Star illuminating the
whole world; this is to say its
light was bright in the hearts of
all the people. It dissipated the
black darkness of their hates and
they no longer stumbled around
and stepped on other people in
the dark.
The \Vise Man awoke in rap-
ture and looked up to feast his
eyes on the guiding Star but, lo,
it was gone from the heavens. He
aroused the others: "Our Star
has gone and in the immense ex-
panse of the heavens it is no
longer to be seen!"
They searched the skies east
and west, north and south; the
Star was swallowed up in the
black night. One ran to the top
of a hill to look for it, another
thought lie might find it at the
edge of the horizon where the
sky touched the valley; the one
who had had the dream thought
of their camels.
Yes, the camels had traveled
far through the day and night
and they must be thirsting by
now, even though they were cam-
cis that do not have to drink as
often as men. He must go and
fetch water for them and he took
a pail and walked far over the
hills and through valleys to find
a brook.
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THEN, carrying the weight of
the large pail full of water,
he came back over the hills and
through the valleys in haste, since
the camels could not be made to
wait too long to be quenched.
He spoke to the camels when.
at last, he returned to them . . .
"My friends," he said, "I am so
late and you have been thirsting
the while. Forgive me, since I
am an old man whose feet arc
slow."
Then to the mouth of one an-
other of the camels he brought
his pail of water and they drank.
As he watered the last of them
he chanced to look into the pail
and there in the water he found
the reflection of the Star that
had been lost. He looked up to the
sky and, sure enough, there
stood the Star again, waiting for
them to lead them to the child in
the manger at Bethlehem.
He called to the others: "I
have found the Star. I have
found it. I found it in the pail
of water which I gave the cam-
els to drink!"
Since the others were not as
wise as he, they made nothing
particular of the fact that the
lost Star had been found in the
pail of water from which the
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