Way, March 2, 1945

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

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Detroit Jewish Chronicle

Strictly Confidential

and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE
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By PHINEAS J. BIRON

LOWDOWN:
Here is the

lowdown on Is.
teatele Zolli, former "chief rabbi"
JACOB MARGOLIS, Editor
of Rome, who recently became a
JACOB H. SCHAKNE, Pres.-Gen. Mgr.
convert to Catholicism and
CHARLES TAUB, Advertising Mgr.
changed his name to Eugenio
Maria . . This is not the first
Vol.
47,
No.
9
FRIDAY,
MARCH
2,
1945
(ADAR
17,
5705)
Detroit 26, Michigan
time that Zolli has changed his
name . . . Originally, before he
came to Italy, his name was
A Call That Should Be Heeded Zoller
Dr. Leo M. Franklin,
. . At that time he was
a rabbi in Austria, and was
Judge
Joseph
M.
Proskauer,
president
Dr. Leo M. Franklin's 75th birthday
known as a passionate Austrian
anniversary is an occasion for rejoicing of the American Jewish Committee, has patriot . . . As for the title
by the entire Detroit Jewry, in. fact, by invited Rabbi Eliesar Silver, president of "chief rabbi"—he assumed that
the entire community of Detroit. During the Agudas Israel of America ; Louis Lip- himself, without the farmality of
rabbinical election . . Re-
his 46 years of residence in this city, sky, co-chairman of the American Jewish a cently
some members of his con-
Rabbi Franklin established himself as one Conference; Dr. Stephen S. Wise, presi- gregation openly accused him of
dent
of
the
American
Jewish
Congress,
having been too friendly with
of our most valuable citizens. Jews,
Protestants, Catholics, all respect him, and Adolf Held, president of the Jewish the Fascists in Rome . . . These
were, as a matter of fact,
all admire his achievements, his philoso- Labor Committee, to collaborate in the charges
about to be brought to the pub-
formulation
of
a
united
Jewish
postwar
phy, his calmness, his kindliness and un-
lic attention when Zolli re-
program.
nounced Judaism .. His conver-
derstandjng.
The conference is to informally explore sion is said to be part of a deal
For 42 years he served as rabbi of
the Vatican, the idea being
Temple Beth El, one of the leading con- the possibility of united action on Pro- with
to provide evidence of Roman
tection
of
Human
Rights,
Migration
and
gregations in the United States. He
Jewry's gratitude to the Vatican
for its protection during the Fas-
watched the membership grow from 136 Statelessness.
The call for united action on the prob- cist regime . . . This, however.
to 1,200. He watched it move three times
lems affecting European Jewry must be is ridiculous, because the anti-
to ever larger edifices.
heeded
sooner or later. So why not now? Fascist Jewish community of
When Rabbi Franklin came to Detroit
Rome has regarded Zolli as a
Iii fact, the winds of peace are blowing quisling
for quite some time . . .
in 1899, this city was a pleasant, provin-
so
persistently
and
strongly
that
the
na-
And, incidentally, Prof. A. S.
cial community, not as large as Toledo.
the great scholar, who
The Jewish population was small and un- tions that waited on the fence have de- Yahuda,
is now in this country, tells us
cided
that
they
must
act
now
if
they
are
important. He watched Detroit become
that scholarly circles never gave
the fourth largest city in the United to be represented at the Peace Confer- Zolli serious consideration.

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States. He watched the Jewish commun-
ity grow until it became one of the lead-
ing communities in the land.
Dr. Franklin did not sit idly by. He
did not hide in his study. He took part
in communal movements. He was active
in promoting fellowship among creeds
and was one of the founders of the De-
troit Round Table of Catholics, Jews and
Christians and of the Inter-Denomina-
tional Thanksgiving Service. He became
one of the leaders not only in the Jewish
community, but in the state. He was
consulted by, _mayors and governors, by
Congressmen and Senators, for he was
well known. for ,his civic-mindedness. He
has always believed that a spiritual lead-
er should also be a communal leader.
He served on the House of Corrections
Commission; on the Library Board and in
various other capacities. However, his
first thought was for his people. and espe-
cially for the Jewish youth. Back in 1913
he organized the Jewish Student Congre-
gation in Ann Arbor, the first of its kind.
He has received many honors, degrees,
from colleges, appointments from men in
office. However, he cherishes most the
love and respect of his congregation which
he served so long and so well. He has
been like a father to many in his flock.
May he have many happy returns of
the day.

ence. The least American Jewry can do
at this time is to agree upon a program
and a delegation that can present its de-
mands to the United Nations Conference
and later to the Peace Conference, that
will eventually be held.

Contrasting Pictures

last November, Palestinian Pottle
Zionist leader Mereminsky, who
has been in this country for
some time, used his influence to
eliminate reference to .the Pales-
tine resolution introduced in
Congress from the resolution
adopted by the AFL convention
in favor of Palestine? . . . The
Poale Zion party was at the
time committed to support the
Congress resolution . . We don't
know the answer, either.

WE GIVE YOU:
A tip to the postal authorities:
R. W. Byerley, Post Office Box
1344, Chattanooga, Tenn., is
mailing out open postcards asking
white Christian American citizens
to join a secret society that
stands for white supremacy in
this country . . . The card lists
an anti-Negro and anti-Jewish
program, and to insure a prompt
reply it has a self-addressed re-
turn postal attached.

WARSAW ECHOES:
We hope that some organiza-
tion will sponsor the great sym-
phonic poem on the Warsaw
Ghetto just completed by Sam
Morgenstern. the composer, and
Harry Granick, the writer . .
We heard it at Meyer Weisgal's
home the other night, and were
terrifically impressed . . Be-
fore long you will be able to get,
in your favorite book store, "No
Traveler Returns," by Henry
PALESTINE QUESTION:
Shoskes . This volume tells
Flash! . . . Be prepared for the inside story of life in the
conflicting reports on the Roose- Warsaw Ghetto during the Nazi
velt-Churchill meeting in the Mid- occupation.
dle East and Roosevelt's inter-
view with King Ibn Saud . . . YOU SHOULD KNOW :
Various Zionist factions will in-
Herbert C. Pell, who was forc-
terpret the news in contradic- ed to quit as U. S. representa-
tory ways, each claiming to have tive on the United Nations War
the inside dope . The truth is Crimes Commission because Con-
that nothing authoritative will be gress refused to provide the $30,-
known on whether Roosevelt took 000 budget which his activities
up the Jewish Palestine problem would have required, may still
until Secretary o'f State Stettin- return to his post if public opin-
ius will receive, some time in ion will insist that he is the man
the near future, a delegation of . . . Senator Harley M. Kilgore
representatives of the Zionist of West Virginia told us the
Emergency Council . . . A num- other evening that Pell had com-
ber of correspondents want an
answer to this question. How See STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL
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come that, at the AFL convention

The Hitler message to the National
Socialist Party on the 25th anniversary
of the promulgation of the party program
was the most pessimistic ever made by
him. In his deeptst gloom he does not
forget the international Jew and Bol-
shevism, and the -sinister parts they have
played in the destruction of so much that
was "holy and beautiful" in the Reich.
If the story by George Granberg, special
correspondent of the New York Times,
pictures with any authenticity the atti-
tude of the people of Berlin toward Hit-
By AL SEGAL
ler, then it is understandable why the
anniversary message was for party mem-
ON A BUS
bers only.
HOPE our human race liWs were going.
According to Granberg's story the Ber-
been improved somewhat by
Y FOND heart beat high to
liners are concerned only with saving the inspirations of last month's
this symbol of brotherhood.
Brotherhood
observance.
Some
of
their own skins. They do not discuss Hit- my best friends are human be- Brotherhood
was a matter of
ler as much as do those outside Germany. ings and I hope none of them people taking a ride together,
In fact, he is called the forgotten man. will feel offended by anything I each bound toward his own des-
After describing the scramble among may say here about the human tination, u.t all contributing
something to make it a comfort-
Berliners in their grim attempts to scrape race in general.
The human race is awfully dis- able journey in the world.
together a small store of food and cloth- couraging,
Yet, even amid these medita-
particularly to one
ing as a reserve for the bitter end and who, like me, admires its out- tions, my eyes could not but
make some provision for the future, ward semblance. People really help go straying. The mind may
Labor Opposes Ives-Quinn Bill to
do look human. The nice-looking give itself to lofty contempla-
he says:
apparel of civilization that they tions even while the eyes wander
"A more grotesque turn to this thought wear! The cunning machinery off to matters less spiritual. So,
The opposition to the Ives-Quinn bill,
now before the New York Legislature, for the future is the fact that some Ber- which they use to carry them darting here and there, my eyes
filially to the pretty counte-
that would outlaw discrimination in em- liners are attempting to obtain 'a guar- here and there about our streets! came
nance of a lady who was standing
Their
conversation,
at
times
cul-
ployment for reasons of race, color or dian Jew.'
tivated, which suggests that they in the bus. There they rested.
creed, came from employers, Chambers
"Persons with big bank accounts and are creatures who really belong It was a countenance beauti-
of Commerce, and some labor unions. It good black market ,connections are re- to the genus called homo sapeins. fully adorned by the artifices of
cosmetician. I meditated upon
may surprise some that certain labor ported to be competing with one another There was that handsome-look- the
ing lady on the bus the other the fine art of members of the
unions would oppose such a bill, but it in smothering these Jews with food, wine evening. I had just come from an human race who know how to
must be remembered that a considerable and clothing, so that 'when the moment inte•-faith Brotherhood meeting make themselves look so lovely.
number of International unions of the comes' they will be able to count on and still was feeling bemused by To what pains this lady must
American Federation of Labor will not their good will and friendly solicitude. its inspirational utterances. Yes, have gone to make her face the
I was thinking, there may be pleasing spectacle it was to my
admit Negroes to membership. How could Persons of smaller means are said to have some
hope in the htiman race, eyes. What hours she had stood
these unions favor legislation that would offered head ration coupons to Russian after all It's only abcit a mil- at her mirror to make herself
outlaw discrimination on account of color, workers and prisoners in the hope that lion years old and it needs a the perfect picture she was. How
when they exclude Negroes from mem- they may be able to depend upon them chance to grow up and make aften she must have returned to
something of itself. Perhaps in her mirror, again and again, to
bership in their unions?
as guardian patrons."
give her face one more touch
another million years!
The opposition of some employers and
Even though we discount the Granberg I f he speakers were all sure toward perfection. She was the
Chambers of Commerce was to be ex- story, yet there must be some substance that the brotherhood would come artist who is never wholly satis-
with his work.
pected, but this opposition would be of to it. The Hitlerian magic has lost most around all right in time and no fied
My brotherly sentiments beat
brother would hate another, ex-
little consequence if all labor unions would of its potency, if not all of it. Were it cept when the brother was per- high in my tired old heart. This
espouse the bill.
not for the Gestapo and the S.S. forma- sonally obnoxious. There would lady was the symbol of the hu-
The educational program envisaged by tions, it is really doubtful whether any account of his race or his reli- man race striving toward loveli-
the bill should start with those labor attention would be paid to the exhorta- gion or his complexion. Their ness. The loveliness of brother-
no more hating a brother on hood, loveliness of justice, love-
unions that still do not know that the tions of the demented Fuehrer even by- be
rapt ears alreany could hear the liness of peace and all righteous-
Constitutional provision against discrimin- the party members. Some of these party distant footsteps of brotherhood ness. What loveliness the human
ation because of race, color or creed ap- members must have been amazed when marching.
race was capable of achieving if
On this bus I could myelf dis- it only tried. I was almost
plies to them.
Adolf told them that "without German
Of the 400 people who appeared before Socialist reconstruction, there would be cern intimations of brotherhood. ashamed of having thought so
Brotherhood, I thought, was like churlishly of the human race,
the committee, eight were in favor to one neither a German Empire nor a German riding
on a bus. Here we are all
were I not the shy person
against. This is an overwhelming major- people;" for the evidence is so over- going to separate destinations and
I am, I could have approached
ity, and should insure passage. But with whelming that National Socialism is con- yet traveling cooperatively; each, the lady: "My dear lady, please.
the passage of the law the troubles will tinued for a few years longer would sure- in a cooperative way, had con- in behalf of the human race, ac-
only begin, unless the discriminating labor ly write finis to the German Empire and tributed his dime in order that cept my apology. You are the
we might altogether be carried
unions change their membership policy.
the German people.
to the several places where we

Plain Talk

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