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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
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Strictly Confidential
Detroit Jewish Chronicle
and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE
Published Weekly by Jewish Chronicle Publishing Co., Inc., 525 Woodward
Ave., Detroit 26, Mich., Tel. CAdillac 1040
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Entered as Second-c'ass matter March 3, 1916, at the Postoffice at Detroit, Mich., under the Act
JOSEPH J. CUMMINS, President and Editor
Detroit 26, Michigan
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Zionism At Crossroads
The governors of 37 states meeting at
Mackinac Island last week signed a peti-
tion to President Truman urging him to
use his influence at the Big 3 Conference
in Berlin on behalf of Jewish Palestine.
The governors stress that the White Paper
is cruel and unjust and should be abro-
gated. Creation of a Jewish Common-
wealth in Palestine is urged as a matter
of right and justice to a people who have
suffered more than 5 million deaths in this
war.
The governors' badiing should streng-
then the hands of PreSdent Truman. Both
political parties here ace backing a Jew-
ish Palestine. The people as a whole are
practically united behini a Jewish Com-
monwealth. The Presilent himself is
known as a friend of Zionism. At the last
Democratic convention te told Dr. Ste-
phen S. Wise that he world use his nflu-
ence on behalf of Zionist aims.
The Near East will be one of the topics
discussed at the Berlin conference. There
is no excuse now for Britain to ask for
delay in settling the problem of Pales-
tine. Churchill should be held to his prom-
ises, to the pledges he made several times.
In 1939 Churchill attacked the White Pa-
per in stinging words.
Russia, as shown by the attitude of her
representatives in San Francisco, is bene-
volently neutral.
, The fact that the Zionist world parley
will be held in London the end of this
month should aid in forcing matters to a
head. In this connection, the warning of
David Ben Grrion, Palestine Agency exec-
utive, that the 600,000 Jews in Palestine
would resist with every means at hand
the application of the White Paper, should
have some effect.
Zionism is at the crossroads and the
next few weeks will decided whether we
are to get a Jewish Palestine or are to be
put off again by fair words. Unity has
been achieved in American Zionist circles
and we are ready to join the battle.
Primary — August 5
August 5 is the date of the city primary.
It is an important election. Candidates for
mayor, for city councilmen and other city
offices will be nominated at this election.
It is important that everyone vote. The
primary is often more important than the
final election. All those who intend to be
away from the city on August 5 should
obtain absentee ballots. This is especially
true to vacationists. Remember that the
right to vote is one of the fundamentals
of democracy. The exercise of this fran-
chise by the great mass of people is vital
to the workings of democracy.
A Modern Tisha'b'Ov
We are in the Nine Days of Sorrow
which culminate in Tisha'b'Ov on Thurs-
day the Fast Day which commemorates
the destruction of the Temple at Jerusa-
lem. It was a tragic day in the history of
Israel when its Holy of Holies was dese-
crated, when its corporate existence was
ended. So does Israel forever remember
a tragic experience of our ancestors.
We of the present generation must con-
secrate a Tisha'b'Ov of our own. The five
million who died in Maidanek, Treblinka,
Oswiecin, Dachau, Lwow, Minsk, Buchen-
wald and countless other places of horror
should have a Fast Day consecrated to
their memory. Our tragedy may have sur-
passed that of our ancestors. The barbari-
an invaders of ancient Palestine were not
as cruel as the diabolical Nazis. In those
days they did not have the technique of
mass murder.
We have no Jeremiah to pen Lamenta-
tions for the 5,000,000 martyrs. But in our
hearts we must resolve that our brothers
and sisters should not have died in vain.
We must campaign with whatever means
we have, so that such mass tragedies
should never occur again.
of March 3, 1879
CHARLES TAUB, Advertising Mgr.
FRIDAY, JULY 13, 1945 (Ab 3, 5705)
Vol. 47, No. 28
The Witch Hunt Is On
Hollywood is to be "investigated" again!
John E. Rankin, Mississippi's gift to the
crack-pots of the nation and acting-chair-
man of the Un-American Activities Com-
mittee, is about to re-enact the witch hunt
former Representative Dies and his group
of super-snoopers failed so miserably at in
prewar days.
"According to reports," says this poll-
tax politician, "one of the most dangerous
plots ever instigated for the overthrow of
this government had its headquarters in
Hollywood, Cal. . . . The information we
get is that this is the greatest hotbed of
subversive activities in the United States."
With that statement made, of course,
without prior investigation, without legal
proof, or even circumstantial evidence;
without giving the motion picture industry
a chance to defend itself, all that is left is
to put every motion picture mogul behind
the Federal bars. But that's not Rankin's
technique. He doesn't want to put Darryl
Zannuck, or the Warner Brothers in the
clink, at least not before he can stage a
public "investigation" which will put his
own name in the headlines every day for a
couple of months.
The investigation, will again be a sound-
ing board for the hatelers in this country.
We can say this without fear of contradic-
tion, that the fascists in the motion picture
industry will not be "investigated." But
there will be a continual howl of "com-
mittee's loud-speakers. We may also pre-
dict that if a public investigation does take
place that the names of "foreigners and
aliens" in the industry will be bandied
about for the edification of the morons of
the nation, and possessors of particularly
Jewish names will be the first fines to be
harassed.
Abraham Cahan at 85
The dean of Yiddish journalists in
America, Abraham Cahan, editor and
founder of The Forward, observed his
85th birthday last Sunday. May he be
spared to celebrate many more.
Abe Cahan founded the Jewish Daily
Forward about half a century ago. He
was a greater educational force for the
new Jewish immigrants than any other
single person. He taught his readers ev-
erything from Socialism to table etiquette.
Above all, he preached Americanization.
Cahan is a distinguished author, too.
His novel, "The Rise of David Levinsky,"
a story of the cloak and suit industry in
its early days, has been widely read. A
labor leader, editor, writer and lecturer,
Ab Cahan has lived a full life. Four years
ago on his 81st birthday he expressed the
wish to live long enough to see "the end
of Hitler and to witness the beginning of
a new and happier era for mankind." He
has at least attained one of his wishes.
He is still hale and hearty and still able
to write a trenchant article.
An Appeal to Our President
President Harry S. Truman
White House
Washington, D. C.
We consider it of the utmost importance,
Mr. President to draw your attention to
the tragic suffering of our brethren in Eu-
rope, so that in your forthcoming meet-
ing you, along with the other leaders of
the United Nations, may find the solution
and the means to reconstruct the ruined
life of the Jewish people in Europe ; to
help shape national and international laws
to outlaw anti-Semitism, to help secure
the rights of the Jewish people for the
development of a free democratic national
Jewish home in Palestine.
Along with the majority of the Ameri-
can people, we express our sincerest and
most heartfelt wish that the forthcoming
conference of the representatives of our
country, together with the representatives
of the Soviet Union and Great Britain,
shall succeed in achieving lasting peace,
full freedom and prosperity for all
nations. . . .
Friday, July 13, 1945
The Second of the Articles by
PIERRE VAN PAASSEN
(in the absence abroad of Phineas J. Biron)
Eretz Israel Is In Danger
The situation in Palestine is
rapidly nearing the point of ex-
plosion. If the White Paper is not
abrogated, or, at least, if the
government of Great Britain does
not in the very near future make
the gesture of sensibly attenu-
ating the harsher implications of
that infamous instrument of poli-
cy, the Land of Israel will be
plunged into a seething cauldron
of unrest, riots, destruction of
property and bloodshed before the
year is over. The Yishuv is near
the end of its patience, The for.
eign Arab princes are encouraged
to become more presumptuous and
arrogant every day on the subject
of Palestine.
The British government, with
the passive connivance and the
pusillanimity of the Zionist lead.
ership, is allowing things to come
to a pass where a settlement of
the Palestine question will Occur
automatically—that is to say, by
the force of artificially created
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LETTER BOX -- -
Praises Stand of Chronicle Against
Subsidies From Charity Funds
Mr. Joseph J. Cummins
Jewish Chronicle Publishing Co.
525 Woodward Avenue
Detroit 26, Michigan
My dear Mr. Cummins;
First of all, I want to congratu-
late you for the stand you took
in your Chronicle dated June 22,
1945, as to how our funds which
have been given for charity have
been used — for the personal
elements — for profits of private
enterprises.
I have always believed, and
have fought for it — that people
give money for charity and it
should be used for charity only
and not for private profits. I
know that this practice is all over
the United States; that money is
wasted.
I am not narrow minded enough
to think that every dollar col-
lected should go for that purpose
as there are always a certain
amount if expenses which must
be incurred, but when I learn the
money that is wasted in every
campaign I feel it is time for
somebody to come out and let the
people actually know what is go-
ing on. That will force the leaders
in every community to he more
careful of their spendings and this
money will be used for the pur-
pose for which it was given.
Your article was sent to me by
some of my friends in your com-
munity who know the way I an
fighting for justice and have been
for a good many years.
Again I want to thank you for
the stand vou have taken in this
matter and wish you great suc-
cess in your undertakings as you
are doing a real service, not only
to your community but to the
whole Jewry of the United States
and our suffering brethren over-
seas.
Sincerely yours,
I. Goldstein
365 pavenport Street
Om a, Neb.
Writers Praise
Stand Against
Charity Subsidies
"To the Editor:
"Your editorial revealing that
$20,000 has been spent by the
Federation on the Jewish News
was a shock to me and to the
friends with whom I discussed the
matter. Charity money should be
used for relief. Expenses should
be cut to the bone. I hope your
editorials cause the Federation to
change its mind.
Louis C. Paul."
We are publishing below ex-
cerpts from letters received by
the Detroit Jewish Chronicle on
its stand against using charity
money to subsidize a private busi-
ness. We haven't the space to
use all the letters. Those who
have written agree that the use
of charity money to subsidize the
Jewish News, was a "high-handed
act" on the part of the Jewish
Welfare Federation. Following
are some of the opinions:
"To the Editor:
"Good boy—a good fight. How
long will the "News" spend pub-
lic money for private business?
"Best wishes,
Dr. Max Rosenfeld,
60 Collingwood."
"To the Editor,
"There is too much overhead in
the handling of welfare. funds.
Paying a newspaper to carry news
about communal affairs, I think,
is not the function of a federa-
tion. We have enough calls on us
for bona fide relief. It is time
somebody put a stop to extraneous
expenditures.
Marcus Kates"
NEARING THE GOAL