TO MARK U.

MISS DOROTHY THOMPSON

The momentous contribution made by American
Jews to the upbuilding of the Jewish National Home
in Palestine will be celebrated at the Twentieth An-
niversary Conference of the United Palestine Appeal,
to be held at the Hotel Commodore, New York City,
all day October 21st. The occasion will also mark the
twenty-fifth anniversary of the Keren Hayesod (Pales.
tine Foundation Fund), the fiscal instrument of the
Jiivish Agency for Palestine, which introduced a rev.
olution in voluntary giving by Jews to the Jewish Na.
tional Home.
The Conference will hear from outstanding spokes.
men of American life, including Senator Claude D. Pep.

(EDITOR'S NOTE: Jewish Education Month and Week,
sponsored by the American Association for Jewish Education, is
being observed throughout the United States from Sept. 10 to
Oct. 15. Its purpose is to increase popular enrollment in Jewish
schools and to make Jewish education more intensive and wide-
spread. This special article by the noted Rabbi of Shearith Israel
of New York, America's oldest synagogue, summarizes the Jew-
ish needs of the modern American child.)

By RABBI DAVID de SOLA POOL

Georg Brandes, whose original name was Morris Cohen, was one
of the great literary critics of the nineteenth century. In his rem-
iniscences of his childhood he writes:
"When I dragged behind the nursemaid, sometimes I heard a
shout from a grinning boy making faces and shaking a fist at me.
I asked the maid what it meant. 'Oh, nothing,' she replied, 'It's a
bad word.' "
"But one day, when I came home I asked my mother: 'What does
it mean?' It means Jew,' said mother. 'Jews are a people.' Nasty
people?' I asked. 'Sometimes, just as are other people,' said mother
smiling. 'Could I see a Jew?' I asked. 'Yes, very easily,' said mother
lifting me up quickly in front of the large oval mirror above the
sofa. I uttered a shriek, so that mother hurriedly put me down again
and my horror was such that she regretted not having prepared me."

said, in Jerusalem's atmosphere
and all the churches are full of
it. It is sad indeed to think that
because of parental neglect this
knowledge of the worth of Ju-
daism had to come to Georg
Brandes through opposition and
attack rather than naturally, har-
moniously and beautifully, by
way of the expanding horizons
of childhood.
A GRAVE SIN
There are few graver parental
sins against childhood than for
parents to fail to give their chil-
dren a sense of identification with
the people and the religion into
which they have been born. To
withhold from a child the knowl-
edge and the love of his own peo-
ple is to rear him to be an out-
cast among his own, a potential
renegade and Quisling. To with-
hold from a child the knowledge
and love of his ancestral religion
is to leave him without tradition-
al moral and spiritual anchorage.
All recognize that parents be-
sides having to clothe and feed
their young and give them strong
bodies with which to face life,
also have the duty of seeing that
their children get adequate edu-
cation of their mind, habits and
character. But they also have the
obligation of giving their children
soul. Jewish parents fail in this
last obligation if they do not give
their child a knowledge of his
unique Jewish heritage.
Their child's soul will be thrill-
ed as he learns of the heroism
and martyrdom in his epic Jew-
ish story. The child's soul will be
stirred with the pride of spiritual
aristocracy as he learns of the
3,000 years during which his an-
cestors have served as God's wit-
nesses and the parents of Chris-
tianity and Islam, which in their
turn have carried the knowledge
of his God to the four corners of
the earth. The Jewish child's soul
will be strengthened as he learns
that the Bible is in a unique
sense his book.

_digiai lillik

SEN. CLAUDE D. PEPPER

per of Florida, now touring the Middle East, who will
give a first-hand report of his observations on Pales.
tine; Dorothy Thompson, noted American journalist,
who also visited Palestine after V.E Day, and Dr. James
C. Heller, National Chairman of the United Palestine
Appeal, who recently spent two months in Palestine.
Jewish communities throughout the country have
been called upon to conduct anpronriate exercises to
mark the twentieth anniversary of the United Pales-
tine Appeal, which has been the channel through which
every ,Jewish community in America, through local fund.
raising media, has shared in the miraculous growth or
Jewish Palestine.

The Call to Jewish Education

In these poignant words we
have a vivid picture of the un-
thinking cruelty of which parents
can be guilty when they do not
prepare their children from earli-
est years to face the realities of
life with self-knowledge. For Jew-
ish parents to allow their children
to grow up without their know-
ing what is a Jew is to subject
them to the danger of going
through life maladjusted to their
environment and with a danger-
ously split personality.
SENSE OF GUILT
Such Jews by birth who have
not been taught by loving par-
ents what it means to be a Jew,
will learn it distortedly, viciously,
and all too quickly from mock-
ing boys in the street, from big-
ots and from the minor Hitlers
in the adult world. Such dis-
inherited Jewish children all too
often grow up with a sense of
self-deprecation and guilt, trying
to escape from themselves in re-
bellion against the destiny of
Jewishness which birth has set
upon them.
Had the little Georg Brandes
been prepared from his early
childhood to accept as normal the
fact that he was a Jew, he would
not have recoiled from it with a
shriek of terror. He would have
progressively learned that his be-
ing a Jew was not a matter of
shame, but a fact in which he
could take joy and pride.
Later on in life as a man, when
he was taunted with being a Jew
his reply was that the whole of
his native land, Denmark, is im-
pregnated with Judaism, its God
is the God of the Jews, and its
religion, its Christianity, is recon-
structed Judaism. Its Old Testa-
ment is a holy Jewish book, and
the New Testament is written by
Jews. Half of Danish culture, he
declared, originates from Pales-
tine, and half its literature is
thence inspired. Everybody in
Denmark lives and breathes, he

Palestine Growth
Mirrored in
Business Report

A. TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY

DR. JAMES G. HELLER

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Friday, September 21, 1945

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

Page Eight

Atonement Rites
Held in Dachau

DACHAU — One hundred six-
ty survivors of Dachau, including
a single child participated in the
traditional ritual commemorating
their dead at the Yom Kippur
services held in the Dachau camp.
Almost all were men and women
of middle age or older, all ele-
ments of European Jewry. Each
face was graven with sucering
and starvation, each figure was
gaunt with privation and toil. The
nondescript clothing hung loosely
from their shoulders and the few
onlookers stirred restlessly and
self-consciously in their well-
pressed uniforms.
A small table over which had
been tossed a red and white
checkered tablecloth served as an
altar on which stood two borrow-
ed candleabra. The cantor, in a
robe fashioned from a nightgown
by a Dachau tailor — for which
a Lutheran minister had lent his
own garb to serve as a model —
stood facing the altar, which had
been placed in a double doorway
connecting the two rooms utiliz-
ed for the occasion. The men
gathered in one and the women
in the other.
Throughout the hours of pray-
ers for the departed, a list of
15,000 names of Dachau inmates
that had been compiled in the
camp was circulated from hand
to hand while eager eyes scanned
the columns for information a
bout fathers, sons and sisters
whose fate and whereabouts are
still a mystery. In the entire con-
gregation, only one family group
could be identified — a youthful
couple whose only child, a 4-year-
old boy, had been hidden for two
years in his father's bed in the
barracks.

NEW YORK—A steady growth
of Palestine's economic structure,
both industrially and agricultural-
ly, is reflected in the nineteenth
anual report of the Palestine
Economic Corporation, made by
Robert Szold, chairman of the
board of directors.
The corporation, the largest
American business enterprise in
Palestine, shows a net profit for
the year of $78,392.71, or $7.56
a share of common stock.
Mr. Szold said the peak of Pal-
estine's war production was
reached early in 1944 and that
the industrial and banking cor-
porations financed wholly or in
part by the PEC are now devot-
ing themselves to peacetime ac-
tivities including low-cost hous-
ing, expanded chemical produc-
tion and the granting of special
loans for dairy and citrus fruit
purposes.
"Generally, industrial capacity
was fully employed despite or-
ganizational, raw material, labor
and transportation difficulties,"
the report says.
During the year the board of
directors, seeking increased capi-
tal "to expand and implement"
the PEC program, issued a pros-
pectus for the sale of $1,500,000
common stock, consisting of 15,-
000 shares at $100 a share. Sub-
scriptions totaling $676,693.98
par value were received up to
June 30, 1945.
The reports outlined long-range
projects of its subsidiary com-
panies with particular emphasis
on plans for the construction and
financing of low-cost homes to
meet the housing shortage. Bay-
side Land Corporation, Ltd., one
of the principal subsidiaries, is
developing the Bayside area in
line with Haifa's growth "as a
main port and business city of
the Middle East," the report said.

Palestine to Become
Major British Base

LONDON (Palcor)—The Sun-
day Observer reported that an
announcement by the British gov-
ernment is expected shortly re-
garding future Jewish immigra-
tion and British policy in general
in Palestine. A crisis either with
the Jews or Arabs in the near fu-
ture appears inevitable.
Meanwhile, a large redisposi-
tion of British forces in the Mid-
dle East is under way, and any
decision made regarding Pales-
tine will be based on a reevalua-
tion of Egypt and Iraq as essen-
tial military bases; with Palestine
probably to become the pivotal
British military and air base in
the Middle East.

Ensign Alkon Named
Cadillac Sales Agent

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ENSIGN LEONARD ALKON

Ensign Leonard Alkon has been
selected by the Cadillac Motor
Car Co. to operate a sales and
service agency in Wyandotte. Be-
cause he is still serving in the
armed forces the motor car
manufacturers have authorized
Ensign Alkon's father, Jack Al-
kon, to handle temporarily the
Cadillac agency till Leonard re-
turns to civilian life. Operation;
will be conducted at 2400 Biddle
avenue.

Bulgaria to Aid
Jewish Schools

SOFIA (WNS)—Subsidies to-
ward maintaining Jewish com-
munal schools are to be granted
by the Bulgarian government, it
was disclosed at a conference of
Jewish school teachers.
The meeting voted to appeal
to the Joint Distribution Com-
mittee for a special contribution
to the school fund. This action
was taken because of the pre-
carious financial condition of
Bulgarian Jewry.

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neville, Algiers, have been re-
moved to North Italy by the
Untied Nations Relief and Rehab-
ilitation Administration, except
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