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Friday, September 7, 1945
The Legal Chronicle
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and
Plain Talk
Detroit Jewish Chronicle
By AL SEGAL
and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE
Published Weekly by Jewish Chronicle Publishing Co., Inc., 525 Woodward Ave., Detroit 26, Mich., Tel. CAdillec 1040
Well, this is the time for con- MUST SEE OURSELVES
Human nature being thus what
fession. In this season, on Yom
Kippur, we repair to the syna- it is, I have thought of pri , ,( nt-
gogue and from our prayer books ing Yom Kippur confession; in
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read confessions of our sins . . . which all can heartily join o. an
President
and
Edi:or
JOSEPH J. CUMMINS,
"The sin which we have sinned admission of sins for whi. li we
Vol. 47, No. 36 against Thee in the evil medita- all need forgiveness:
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1945 (ELLUL 29, 5705)
Detroit 26, Michigan
tions of the heart" . . . "The sin
"Lord God, help us to see our-
There is a grave need for the widest which we have sinned against selves as Thou seest us. Surely,
A New Year
possible relief and rehabilitation measures Thee by word of mouth" . . . Thou dust see us as a lot of
"The sin which we have sinned hypocrites who prate of bra t
The shofar blows again; this time the an the part of the Joint Distribution Com- against Thee by disrespect for hood in the world yet know not
sound is happier. The chaos of the world mittee to place large numbers of Jews on parents and teachers" • . . etc. brotherhood among ourselves.
I myself have recited this list
"We ask that the world em-
has fallen a little backwards, and here the road to recovery. The fact that there
of sins in unison with my breth- brace us and be our friend; we
and there in the foreground of our visions is no road back for great masses of Jews ren yet with some reservations.
regret that men judge all Jews
a little flame seems to gleam and shoot up for the stateless and for the non-repat- Yes, this or that particular sin by the sins of some who are sin-
feverishly as if from nowhere. There is riable deportees — has heightened the may be on the fellow sitting next ners. But among ourselves we de-
to me but not on me. Why, my spise other groups of Jews be-
peace on the earth. The ram horn will de- need for mass settlement and rebuilding heart
never meditated any sin
they are not of our set.
clare it triumphantly. Its expectancy was in the Jewish National Home in. Palestine against anybody, my mouth never cau:e
We look at our neighbor and set
long and how difficult it is to imagine that through the United Palestine Appeal. It is uttered any sin against neighbor. him aside as one who is not of us
nowhere on this globe shells are bursting, this crucial postwar situation which has So, as the congregation goes from because his religious ways are
bombs falling and men being wounded so greatly increased the responsibilities of me sin to the next, I find myself not like ours.
"We call for unity in Israel
Amercan Jewry and so tremendously en- practically sinless.
and killed. So it is. So be it.
Yet I go along with the con- but each of us stands stir-necked
larged
the
needs
of
the
agencies
of
the
Only a few weeks ago a hundred men
fession for the sake of forgive- on his own opinion and will not
yield in the least to his brother.
may have been annihilated at once. It was United Jewish Appeal for Refugees, Over- ness of my neighbor's sins.
I can well guess that my We are divided in many parts and
wartime. Death was accepted. Tomorrow seas Needs and Palestine in the new year. neighbors
feel the same way I do our prog:ess in the world ha4 the
It is our task to determine what kind of
the murder of a single person will receive
tbout it. Probably Mr. Zilch (he sound of a vehicle rattling noisily
equal attention and be given as much a world our fellow-Jews shall live in. It is sits two rows from the altar) is and disturbing the neighbors. We
space in our papers as was given a while our obligation to decide whether they ayin.; to himself: "These aren't make sound without any meaning
shall have speedy reconstruction in Eu- any of my sins. These are sins toward brotherhood.
back to the destruction of a battalion.
rope, whether large masses shall have a of people like Segal, not of mine. "For these sins, 0 God of for-
The moral order has been restored. It
I'll pray for forgiveness for Se- giveness, bear with us! pardon
new life in Palestine, or whether they gal."
us! forgive us!
is for this, possibly above all else, that the
shall be doomed to disillusionment, frus- It must all be awfully confus- "We are the ancient messen-
New Year ought to be celebrated. The
ing up on High, since so many of gers of peace to the world but
tration, homelessness or want.
universal horror, so long distorting us,
the citizens are sure of their own peace is not among us and we de-
fades. Perspective is restored. Men are
virtues and are certain that light in controversy which we do
The Chicago Tribune's Advice these confessions can't mean not try to settle. We snake for
judged as men once again. We are taken
The Chicago Tribune in an editorial last them; though they read them as ourselves innumerable causes of
back by the criminal nature. We no long-
a matter of polite ritual and for dissensions. Our sinning in this
er expect it, or accept its existence as we week took the liberty of chiding the Jew- the sake of their sinful friends would not be so grievous were it
so casually did in viewing the barbarism ish people for battling anti-Semitism, for and relatives.
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Entered as Second-class
of a "nation of criminals." Judgment
comes into relief now, and something of a
mist is taken from our eyes. Madness, uni-
versal madness, is no longer something
possible to imagine. We are again human
beings, individuals, and as such we judge
others — for other than this way, there
is no way. The Nip and the Nazi, despite
our training, shall as words, lose their
flavor soon. The rage shall be subdued,
and our directions made clear.
The Jew can only live in such a world.
Too much has he suffered because the
term "Jew" has meant to mean every-
thing from a cannibal banker to a conniv-
ing peddler. Only in a world of "man to
man" can the Jew hope to find peace.
The ethics of the bible, while they do not
always insist on individual judgment, al-
ways make clear that man as he stands
before God is exempt from race or creed,
but stands upright as himself. War makes
such individual justice an impossibility.
Rosh Hashonah, if it means anything,
means that men accept themselves for
what they are, and be ready to face their
destiny in proportion to their own singu-
lar merits.
There is peace ; and the celebration can
be long. But there shall be wisdom re-
stored; and for this the songs to God must
be sung endlessly.
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making anti-Semitism an issue. The Trib-
une declared that, if left alone, anti-Sem-
itism would vanish, pointing to the riots
against the Irish immigrants which took
place in this country nearly a century ago.
The anti-Irish sentiment, said the Tribune,
vanished with time.
The Chicago Tribune, one of the most
reactionary papers in the land, and lead-
ing spokesman for the isolationists and
the Roosevelt haters, has up to now failed
to say a word against anti-Semitism or the
anti-Semites. It has been blind to the re-
sults of anti-Semitism in Europe where
6,000,000 innocent men, women and chil-
dren were the victims of the final climax
of anti-Semitic hatred.
Not only the Jewish people, but all lib-
eral-minded people, all thoughtful per-
sons, have come to realize that anti-Sem-
itism is a cancer which could not only
destroy Jewry but entire nations. Those
who let anti-Semitism run its course in
Germany were later faced with the Nazis.
Strictly Confidential
By PHINEAS J. BIRON
FLASH
Foreign correspondents in Ger-
many apparently lack the neces-
sary background to properly eval-
uate political trends in occupied
zones . . . Not one of them com-
mented on the Bavarian Govern-
ment appointed by Col. Charles
Keegan of New York .. We are
reliably informed by Albert Nor-
den the editor of "Germany To-
day" (a newsletter) that this re-
cently appointed administration in
the region that was formerly Hit-
ler's preferred stamping ground
is composed largely of anti-Sem-
ites . . . The Bavarian People's
Party's Political p latform fea-
tures anti-Semitism . . . It was
therefore inexcusable for Col. Kee-
Kan to select leaders of that party
as keymen of Bavaria's post-war
government . . . That kind of
'democracy" for Germany is sure-
ly not in the spirit of the Potsdam
agreement . . . and the very same
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LOUD AND CLEAR, FOR ALL TO HEAR!
Our Frank Murphy
IL S. Supreme Court Justice Frank Mur-
phy has become the apostle of tolerance.
During the last year 'he has gone up and
down the land warning against the results
of intolerance and speaking for racial and
religious equality. In his speech in Detroit
on V-J Day, he reiterated, "Unless we
Not only the Jewish people, but all cleanse our hearts of racial and religious
mankind is opening a new chapter as we hatreds—this war will be only half won.
enter the year 5706. We must undertake "We still have to mount guard against
the building of the new world for which those in our midst who have been nur-
so many millions of our people died dur- tured on the myths of the superior and
ing twelve years of mass oppression. What inferior races,' Justice Murphy declared,
kind of a world will that be? What shall "and who practice discrimination against
be the place assigned to the surviving their fellow-Amercans because of the col-
remnants of the Jewish people? Neither or of their skins or some other arbitrary
liberation nor victory has solved the prob- racial sign."
Murphy declared economic insecurity
lem of the 1,250,000 Jewish survivors.
Although four months have passed may be the basis of a great deal of intol-
since the defeat of Germany, the Jews of erance against minorities. We must recog-
Europe find themselves in a desperate con- nize, he said, "that man at heart is good
dition. They are without homes, without and that he more readily resorts to acts
or
food, without clothing, without the means of intolerance agains tminorities
mi
sustaining themselves. And many thou- goat groups when his ability to provide a
of sustaining
sands remain in the concentration camps decent livelihood for his family is jeopar-
where they suffered indescribable misery. dized. Perhaps this the intolerance prob-
less and parentless.
criticism can be made of the ap-
pointment of Hans Ritter Von
Seisser as Mtrhich's Commisioner
of Police by the Allied Military
Government of that city .. .
ABOUT PERSONS . .
The feud between various Zion-
ist leaders patched up before the
London Conference will be re-
newed in the very near future ...
The Jewish Theological Seminary
will confer an honorary degree
on Mr. A. S. Rosenbach, Amer-
ica's most famous book collector
. . . Franz Werfel, who just died
never left the Jewish fold al-
though the Vatican considered him
one of its most effective press
agents ... Pierre van Paasen was
just advised that the Mayor of
Gorcum, Holland, his home tov,m,
has placed a plaque on the house
he was born in . . . The plaque
pays tribute to van Paa , sen as
lam."