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Jewish Ethics
In Modern
Business
Rosh Hashonah Birthday
Of Creation
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By
RABBI LEON SPITZ
A Unique Program
of Action That Works
fly ABEL BERLAND
Director Community Service Depart-
ment Anti-Defamation League
of Bnai Drub
South State Street. A
strip six blocks long. A
street filled with adventure
and a sordid glamour. A
street of cheap hotels and
burlesque houses, play ar-
cades and "eateries," pawn
brokers a n d second-hand
stores, jewelry shops and
taverns. A street flavored
with the blunt tactics of the
early settlers. In the heart
of modern Chicago, a rem-
nant of former days. Chi-
cago's claim to a Barbary
Coast.
But when war came to the
United States, it came also to
South State Street. The char-
acterist'cs that had made the
street world-famous had to be
eliminated. The proximity of
hotels housing 12,000 Army Air
Corps trainees to the "street"
made it imperative that there
be substituted for the 50-year-
old colorful tradition, a program
affording servicemen and other
shoppers the maximum benefits
in quality and merchandise sold
at the highest ethical plane and
at OPA ceiling prices.
Through its Community Ser-
vice Department, the Anti-De-
famation League of Bnai Brith
called together a group of rep-
resentative businessmen and wo-
men from South State Street to
discuss ways and means of
changing the complexion a n d
habits of the "street." Soon
thereafter, a larger meeting was
called of all the businessmen.
Jewelry store owners, pawn bro-
kers, shooting range owners, ho-
tel managers, restaurant men,
druggists, second-hand clothing
dealers, tavern owners, book
dealers and other representative
merchants met in the offices of
the ADL in January 1943.
Self Discipline
A program of self-discipline
was presented and quickly the
deluge of doubters followed. "For
fifty years, we've been doing
business the way we wanted";
"it's impossible to change the
practices of the street"; "pull-
ing window-shoppers into a store
will never be done away with";
"there could never be one or-
ganization for all of us"; "my
place of business has been next
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Friday, September 7, 1945
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
With the aid of the United Palestine
Appeal this man was brought to the
Jewish National Home from Hitler
Germany and,lias bn.onie an active,
healthy member of the thriving Jew-
ish community of Palestine. His son
will never know the horror and misery
endured by tens of thousands of or-
phaned Jewish children now wander.
ing homeless through Europe. United
Palestine Appeal funds have helped to
rescue b01111: 350,000 Jewish 11101,
Rosh Hashonah Greetings!
Aaron Hardware
LINOLEUM
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women and children from Nazi Ell
rope since the beginning of the Ilitle
regime and to integrate them into th.
structure of the Jewish homeland
With the help of American Jews ii
meeting the budgets of its Palestin,
agencies, amounting to $35,300,000 ii
1945, the United Palestine Appeal cal
bring freedom and security to the ma
%ivors of European Jewry by makin.
possible their transfer and resettl
meat in Palestine.
Our world is slowly emerging
out of its war-chaos. War-guilt
will be cleansed and reconstruction
•will soon begin. And with it there
must be concurrently a stirring of
the religious spirit that will both
I raise and seek the answer to the
why of all that indubitable catas-
trophe. Even while we greet with
exulting eyes the rainbow, we still
question ourselves as to the where-
fore of that devastating flood.
• On Rosh-ha-shonoh-day, marked
Maas Olam — the birthday of
'creation — it is fitting that we
venture forth on this soul search-
ing, chesbon hanefeah, expedition.
To our compelling query, the
Midrash gives a bold and chal-
lenging answer:
• The Holy One blessed be He,
kept on, from time immemorial,
creating worlds and destroying
them — until he finally created
our present world, just as a con-
! scientious author keeps on writ-
ing and erasing, and writing and
!tearing up, until he finally sets
down the poem in its perfection.
Just as a painter or a sculptor
kill keep on working and work-
ing, correcting and fixing, until
he will finally succeed in attain-
ing that masterpiece which his
spirit has yearned to create. Just
as a gifted musical composer will
keep on writing his composition,
blot and erase here and there, un-
til finally there will emerge the
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