P4 • 4 Friday, December 29, 1944 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The La al Chronic!: prodigous output of our factories, mills and mines, and the amazing transporta- and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE tion feats accomplished by our railroads, Published Weekly by Jewish Chriricle Publishing Co., Inc. truck-lines and ships. Pres.-Gen. Mgr. JACOB H. SCHAKNE We start with the accepted premise Editor JACOB MARGOLIS that we have the men, technologies and Advertising Mgr. CHARLES TAUB materials to satisfy all needs and wants of the people of this country. Our major problem will be one of con- General Offices and Publication Bldg., 525 Woodward Ave. Cable Address: Chronicle sumption, and it will be no simple task Telephone: CAdillac 1040 $3.00 Per Year to reorient our people to think in terms Subscription in Advance of consumption rather than in terms of To insure publication, all correspondence and news matter production. must reach this office by Tuesday evening of each week. It is difficult to say how much our When mailing notices, kindly use one side of paper only. The Detroit Jewish Chronicle invites correspondence on sub- whole economy will have to be modified jects of interest to the Jewish people, but disclaims respon- in order to meet the challenge that peace sibility for an endorsement of views expressed by its writers. will bring. 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 TEBET 13, 5705 DECEMBER 29. 1944 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 (Continued on Page 5) Plain Talk... Detro5.t. Jewish. Chronicle . by Al Segal • tl? 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. N I I 1 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. f I 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 See SEGAL—Page 9 "Our Postwar Plans, Gentlemen Divide and Conquer for World War Ill" t