Astericall ,eivish Periodical Cotter
CLIFTON AVENUE - CINCINNATI 20, 01110
30th Year of Service to Detroit Jewry
,Detroit Jewish Chronicle
and The Legal Chronicle
VOL. 47. NO. 26
DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 1945
10c Single Copy, $3.00 Per Year
A Unique Code of Ethics Is
$115,000 Raised Here
Expounded by Jewish News To Fight Anti-Semitism
Zionist Peace
Plan Approved
Silver Recalled
•NEW YORK. — The National
Executive Committee of the Zion-
ist Organization of America, at a
specially convened meeting this
week, under the chairmanship of
Dr. Jsrael Goldstein, approved by
a preponderant majority the for-
mula recommended by the peace
committee established to end the
controversy in the American Zion-
ist Emergency Council.
The meeting also approved the
recommendation for the appoint
ment by the Z.O.A. president of a
committee of three which shall be
empowered to negotiate with the
other three constituent organiza-
tions of the American Zionist
Emergency Council, as well as
with Dr. Stephen S. Wise and Dr.
Abba Hillel Silver and with all
other interested parties, with the
view of bringing about all around
agreement.
The plan submitted by the
Peace Committee headed by Judge
Louis E. Levinthal includes the
folowing main proposals:
That the Emergency Council
plenum shall be headed by Dr.
Stephen S. Wise and Dr. Abbe
Hiilel Silver as joint chairmen.
The Executive Committee of
the Council shall be headed by
Dr. Abbe Hillel Silver as chair-
man. It shall have Chaim Green-
berg and Herman Shulman as
vice chairmen and may elect
additional officers, having in
mind the representation o f all
stituent organizations.
No present member of the
Emergency Council would be dis-
placed.
The formula also includes a pro-
posal for the establishment of a
small consultative or steering
committee, in the nature of a
sub-committee of the Executive
Committee, which is. to meet in
the intervals between meetings of
the Executive Committee.
Zionist Canvass'
Set This Sunday
The Zionist Organization of De-
troit has issued a proclamation
calling upon Jews of Detroit to
register themselves as Zionists.
This Sunday has been designated
Zionist Registration Day. A
corps of Zionist workers will make
a house-to-house canvass through-
out the city to secure enrollments
in the Zionist Organization.
"There is hardly a Jew in De-
troit," reads the proclamation is-
sued by Rabbi Leon Fram, p•esi-
dent of the local Zionist district,
"who dces not hope and pray
that the United States Govern-
ment may use its good offices at
the Councils of the United Na-
tions to establish a Jewish Com-
monwealth in Palestine.
"But very few Jews have
thought of registering their will
for the realization of this urgent
need of their people. There is only
one way by which an American
Jew may register his desire that
a Jewish homeland shall be estab-
lished in Palestine, and that is by
enrollment in the Zionist Organi-
zaticn. Our government, as well
as the United Nations, will gauge
Jewish interest in Palestine by
the size of the Zionist enrollment.
Therefore, we have set aside Sun-
dra y, July 1. to give every Jew
tne
opportunity to register."
Those who are not reached by
the .canvass:!rs are wked to corn-
!..tri4ate
Zionist - with the office of the
Organization. The regis-
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YOUR Money, Charity Funds, Being
Employed By The Federation To
Build A Private Corporation
Not long ago there was launched here a new Jewish
newspaper, Philip Slomovitz, who had been employed by
the Detroit Jewish Chronicle, was fired, and a few of our
local Jewish leaders had compassion on him.
So Slomovitz "sold" some of the local Jewish leader;
on the singular slogan that it is "HIGH TIME THAT
DETROIT HAVE ITS OWN COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER
FOUNDED UPON ETHICS, DECENT JOURNALISM ..."
and all that sort of hypocritical rot.
Of course, in order to found a new Jewish newspaper,
there had to be reasons why the Detroit Jewish Chronicle
should be shunted aside as repayment for a quarter of a
century of devotion to the community. And so, a la
Coughlin or Goebbels, "reasons" were presented : The
Chronicle solicited greeting advertisements from gentiles;
the Chronicle was "unethical"; the Chronicle was doing
this and the Chronicle was doing that. Those were the
"faults" which were pointed out as "reasons" for found-
ing the Jewish News.
There was not then and there is not now any HONEST
evidences of unethical business policy of the Detroit Jew-
ish Chronicle to which our local leaders could point. And
mind you well, that through most of the periocl when the
Detroit Jewish Chronicle was doing all these allegedly
unethical things, that same Slomovitz was its editor.
Nonetheless, Slomovitz succeeded in getting financial
support for what the Jewish News itself represented
would be a newspaper which would embody the
"HIGHEST IDEALS OF INTEGRITY." And the Jewish
News immediately proceeded to give Detroit EXAMPLES
of "ethics in journalism" that are new to our experience.
In presenting these examples of "ethics in journalism,"
we prefer to quote directly from the Jewish News.
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Approximately $115,000 has been raised by the Detroit
Jewish Welfare Federation in the special defense fund
campaign for civic-protective work. The Federation has
set. a quota of $250,000 for the next two years for the
national and local civic protective programs.
Kasle Elected
I-lead of United
Hebrew Schools
EXAMPLE No. 1 (of Jewish News
"highest ideals of integrity") :
"What Guarantees the Future and Success of the
Jewish News?"
"1st . . . The definite need for a Jewish news-
paper of the highest ideals of integrity in Detroit."
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I1l• IN
4. ) Quentin Reynolds, journalist,
author and radio commentator,
warned the audience of 1,500 that
overflowed the Stigler ballroom at
the civic-protective rally Tuesday
night that there are thousands of
Jews in this country who still do
not realize the peril of anti-Send-
tbm and ostrich-like stick their
heads in the sand.
Ile related that in 1932, just a
Abe Kasle was elected president few months before Hitler came
of the United Hebrew Schools at to power, a speaker addressed a
the annual 'meeting held Monday group of German Jewish business-
evening in the Rose Sittig Cohen men in Berlin, pleading with them
to do something about the coming
peril, The people at the meeting
raised just 800 marks to fight
Nazism. Many American Jews, he
stated, are just as blind.
"I hope I am not too late to
urge upon you the importance of
this cause," declared Mr. Rey-
nolds. "All over the country men
and women realize that anti-Semi-
tism can be fought with dollars.
This cause will find friends in the
most unexpected places. We can't
let George do it. Roosevelt never
said let George do it. We can
only fight it if we, the people,
I get together.
"Anti-Semitism has to be fought
intelligently and on a big scale.
We have to face major problems."
Mr. Reynolds declared that edu-
cation is the chief means of era-
dicating prejudice.
"You cannot legislate against
bigotry and intolerance," declared
the speaker. "If you can educate a
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Ikea \•rbatuni fr,an the Jewish New,)
ABE KASLE
Building. Mr. Kasle succeeds Ru-
dolph Zucback who was president
for three years,
Other officers elected are: La — w-
rence Crohn, and Maurice H.
Zackheim, vice presidents; Mau-
rice Landau, treasurer and Joseph
Cotten, secretary. Louis Stoll was
chairman of the nominating com-
mittee.
The following board members
were re-elected for three years:
Rabbi Morris Adler, Louis Berry,
Fred M. Butzel, Joseph B. Cotten,
Lawrence \V. Crohn, Morris Fish-
man, Aaron A. Silberblatt, Louis
Stoll, and Henry Wineman. The
following were elected for three
y&irs: Irwin Cohn, Jacob Kell-
man, Saul R. Levin, Jack Tobin,
and Joseph 'Voiles. The following
were elected for one year: Henry
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Dr. Wise Speaks
Here Monday
Dr. Stephen S, Wise will ad-
dress the Inaugural luncheon of
the Business and Professional
Chapter of the American Jewish
Congress Monday, July 2, in the
Grand Ballroom of the Book-Ca-
dillac Hotel.
Dr. Wise's appearance, pre-
viously scheduled, has been re-
scheduled because of an emer-
gency meeting called by the Jew-
ish Agency. Ile will induct the
300 charter members of the newly
organized Business and Profes-
sional Chapter of Greater Detroit,
headed by Saul R. Levin. Other
officers are Morris W. Stein and
Louis Berry, vice chairman;
Daniel G, Cullen, secretary, and
&Hon S. Cohen, treasurer,
Mind you—not concerning ourselves with the English
--"highest ideals of integrity," we'll pass over the form
and go to the substance. The Jewish News immediately
proceeded to solicit advertising for its 1st Rosh Hashanah
edition FROM THE SAME GENTILES who have been
advertising in the Chronicle for years; and HOW the
Jewish News solicited!
JEWISH FEDERATIONS FAVOR
For example, the Jewish News sent out postal cards
to advertisers who had theretofore advertised in the Rosh NATIONAL BUDGET SUPERVISION
Hashanah editions of the Detroit Jewish Chronicle, where-
NEW YORK.—The board of di- ary proposal is limited to the fol-
in the Jewish News stated, in substance, that since it has
definition:
rectors of the Council of Jewish
National a Advisory Budgeting
been the custom of the advertiser in the past to send tra-
Federations and Welfare Funds i. defined
'ina I
ditional greetings to the Jewish people through the col- nee tirg in li:troit, Sunday, ap- tional
committee selew
ctedy b a
y nthae-
=its of the paper at Rosh Hashanah time, that it (the proved a report favoring national Council or by the welfare fund
advisory budgeting subject to the members of the Council. It is
Jewish News) now solicits the said advertising.
acceptance of such a program by assumed that the Committee ap-
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EXAMPLE No. 2 (of Jewish News
"highest ideals of integrity") :
"WHO WILL RECEIVE the Jewish News?"
"15,000 Jewish families in Detroit, 60,000 indi-
viduals . . . "
ITh, hold
toys ■e■ taken verhatuni from the Jewish Sews)
We'll let you figure out whether the "highly ethical"
Jewish News intended to convey that it would have 1 5.000
subscribers at its founding or whether it intended to give
away 15,000 copies FREE to local Jewish families. It
would seem to us, but we are not schooled in the "highest
ideals of integrity," that such a representation should
have been unmistakably clear.
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its member welfare funds, fed-
orations and community councils.
The program would provide for
the review by a representative na-
tional committee of the budgets of
national and overseas agencies,
and reporting of the findings to
the member agencies as a guide in
distributing the funds raised by
each community.
Likewise considered were the
reconstitution of the United Jew-
ish Appeal, planning for Jewish
social services, development of
local community relations organi-
zations and election of the coun-
cil's executive committee.
Define Proposal
The
national advisory budget-
pointed for tlidi task would be
acceptabl e both to the member
agencies of the Council and to
th e national and overseas or-
ganizations as an impartial and
objective group concerned pri-
marily with reaclimg equitable
decisions which would be help-
ful to fund raising and to local
buegetarT crocedures.
The nalonal a n d overseas
agencies would in the first in-
stance. as heretofore, determine
what the*.r budgets should be.
The national committee to be
established would then review
the budg-ts, and after objec-
tivc and thorough study. would
attempt, together with the na-
tional and overseas agencies, to
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