Friday, October 19, 1945

Chronicle
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal

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PLAIN fA K

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

Dr. Jacob Billikopf of Phila-
delphia sends me a couple of pa-
ragraphs about hornblowers in
SUBSCRIPTION: $3.00 PER YEAR SINGLE COPIES, 10c; FOREIGN, $5.00 PER YEAR
Entered as Second-class matter March 3, 1916, at the Postoffice at Detroit, Mich., under the Act of March 3, 1879 Israel. (They cause such a con-
Managing Editor, NATHAN J. KAUFMAN fusion, each blowing his own
Publisher, CY AARON
Editor-in-Chief, LOUIS W. ENFIELD
horn and all at one time, and
with no harmony at all.)
Vol.
47,
No.
42
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1945 (CHESHVAN 12, 5706)
Dr. Billikopf's paragraphs are
Detroit 26, Michigan
from a letter he received from
a noted refugee scholar. The
scholar wrote:
enough
to
pat
returning
veter-
"On Rosh Hashonah the rabbi
It
is
not
Blabbering Bilbo, benighted U. S. Sen-
of my congregation expressed this
back
and
tell
them
they
did
a
ans
on
the
ator from Mississippi, still continues to
is vitally necessary to see to it view: Jewish law provides that
befoul the Congressional Record with his fine job. It are
enabled to earn a living the shofar which is heard on
hate-fomenting outpourings. Like a carrion that they
so that they may take Rosh Hashonah should be with-
bird of ill omen, he still swills at the po-
out blemish and without orna-
their rightful places in ment:
that the person who blows
litical garbage of Goebbels and his doc-
the community. Only in the shofar
is to blow it clearly
trines of racial superiority. He calls Jews
this way can they feel and smoothly and with no ap-
"Kikes." He calls Italians "Dagoes." Pro-
that the community is parent effort on his part; finally,
testors against his race doctrines are dub-
grateful to them for their that only one shofar is to be
bed "Nigger Lovers." All this is written
blown and not many either in
services and sacrifices.
on the stationery of the U. S. Senate, the
or cacaphorfy.
A man without a job is symphony
highest legislative body in all the world.
"In Jewish public life, said the
no man. He must earn a rabbi, it is exactly the opposite.
The man himself, if one can call him
living for himself and his There are a lot of Jews who be-
that, is not worthy of the nationwide at-
dependents before he can deck themselves with lots of
tention his protestors have given him. His
raise his head proudly titles—president of this and that.
loathsome abuse should be disregarded.
BEN RUBENS
and look his fellow-man They blow their own horns hard
Nevertheless, the fact that he uses the in the eye. The Chronicle proposes to to make themselves noticed and
high dignity of the Senate as a sounding lead the way. In our columns, we will all blow at the same time, and
board for his reeking filth cannot be long- print free of charge the advertisement of not in harmony."
er ignored.
any and every returning serviceman who To this Dr. Billikopf appends
Bilbo was elected from Mississippi by wishes to state his qualifications for work his own comment. It has to do
a certain practice in Jewry.
a minority vote. The number of his votes and outline the kind of employment for with
Dr. Billikopf asks: "When will we
was less than that polled by Norman which he is looking.
Jews, as a matter of self-respect,
Thomas when he ran for office in New
Introduced in this issue is Ben Rubens. cease to bombard every politi-
York on the Socialist ticket. Mississippi is He enlisted in the infantry in June of cian (high or low) to send us
a poll tax state and the great majority of 1941 and was overseas for twenty months. New Year messages (ghost-writ-
the people there are not permitted to vote He was with General Hodges' staff in the ten.) ?"

Reward the Veterans

Delousing the Senate

because they cannot pay the tax.
Nasty as this wretch is, he may never-
theless serve one useful purpose. Many
minority groups are politically organized.
They speak at the polls with a uniform
voice which swells in strength with their
increasing numbers. The Jewish group
has never voted as a unit. On every issue,
Jews join both sides. But a Jew by his
very heritage is on the side of progressive
liberal legislation. By his bleating, Bilbo
may serve as a rallying point for organi-
zation along this line.
Citizens of Michigan cannot tell citizens
of Mississippi whom to elect and whom to
reject. But the stench of Bilboism is so
rotten that organizations throughout the
country are rising in protest.
Affiliated with such organizations is the
American Jewish Congress and all the or-
ganizations in Detroit who work with it.
These groups are urging citizens of De-
troit to write to Senators Arthur Vanden-
burg, Homer Ferguson, Alben Barkley,
and Wallace White, U. S. Senate Office
Building, Washington, D. C., to voice pro-
test against Senator Bilbo in the Senate.
Petitions for his ouster are being circulat-
ed everywhere. The Jewish Chronicle, 525
Woodward Avenue, has copies of such
petitions and invites those who wish to
obtain them at this office to do so.
It is nauseating to feel that the leader-
ship of this country has fallen to such a
low level. Lend your support to the move-
ment to oust this odious monstrosity. Like
the lepers of old, let him cry of himself,
"Unclean! Unclean!"

First Army and was with the first group
to go to Germany. He served as a pur-
chasing and contracting officer with the
First Army and was awarded the Bronze
Star for his splendid work as a supply
officer.
Ben is looking for some going business
which he could purchase. It must be the
sort of business which does not require
expert experience but can be firmly estab-
lished by hard work and good manage-
ment.
The Chronicle knows that businessmen
throughout the city will cooperate with
this project. If you have anything to offer
for Mr. Rubens, contact him at his home,
2561 Cortland, TOwnsend 7-1473 or by
means of the Detroit Jewish Chronicle.

eoNrID1n9iAL

By PHINEAS J. BIRON

THE REASON WHY .. .
We received several letters ask-
ing us on what we base our state-
ment that the Youth for Christ
organization is a Hearst-spon-
sored movement . . . Carey Mc-
Williams, reliable member of the
P. M. editorial staff published an
expose on the Youth for Christ
set-up, as far back as July of
this year . . . In it he shows how
the Hearst papers all over the
country are promoting the Y.F.C.
movement in glaring sensational
headlines, full page feature sto-
ries and specially drawn illustra-
tions . . . No other newspaper
The Jewish Chronicle wishes to call is paying anything but perfunc-
attention to the "Religious
your attention to the article CAPITAL tory
Revival Cavalcade" headed by ra-
LETTER appearing on another page of dio preachers and insurance sales-
this paper, and again we wish to reiterate men. . . . If anyone tries to tell
almost the last words of the late Presi- you that the Y. F. C. Movement
dent Roosevelt which he wrote just prior is a healthy religious movement
we advise you to ask this $64
to his untimely end.
"Today we are faced with the pre- question. . . How come that
eminent fact that, if civilization is to Rev. Earl Opie of Long Beach,
profit, we must cultivate the Science of California, a conspicuous figure
Human Relations — the ability of all peo- at all Youth for Christ rallies in
California was also con-
ples of all kinds to live together, to work Southern
spicuous along with Gerald L. K.

Science of Human Relations

together in the same world, at peace."

One Meaning of the Atomic Bomb

Opportunity Beckons

Complaints are being made by parents
all over the city that there are no movies
which show pictures satisfactory for the
youngsters.
These parents are continually confront-
ed with the problem. Boys and girls all
want to go to the movies on a weekend
afternoon and the fathers and mothers
are perfectly willing that they should do
so. But where?
Movies generally portray either a
mushy love story or a horrendous murder
story. Both of these are grossly unsatis-
factory. Thinking parents want their chil-
dren to avoid the baneful influence of
both. But what substitute Is there to
offer?
It seems reasonable to assume that a
splendid opportunity exists for some civic-
minded theater owner in Detroit to earn
prestige by featuring for weekend after-
noons the type of pictures that thinking
parents would approve for their children.
Patrons would come in droves from all
parts of the city. A good example would
be set for all other theaters.
There's cash in this idea. Movie people
ought to think it over.

STRIel

Yes: It's about time to speaL
frankly of all this—of the pHr.
sonal horn-blowing and of tn.
political Rosh Hashonah gre,t.
ings to obtain which gives numn
comfort to the vanity of some
our gentlemen . . • "Pm a hi.;_
shot in Israel. I got Congre. -
man Zilch to give us a Rosh II
shonah message." . . . It's
in the same tune of the privy,,
horn.
Lest some of the citizens a!,•
too deeply impressed when the
read of Congressman
great joy at the approach of 110,1
Hashonah it should be explained
how he got that way.
Indeed, Congressman Zilch had
no idea that Rosh Hashonah Nv,
at hand. Ile scarcely knew there
was such a holy day in the Jc\v-
ish ritual until he received the
letter from Mr. Ginsburg or may-
be it was Mr. Goldberg.
Who is Ginsburg? Who Gold-
berg? He rates himself as an
influential man in his commu-
nity. He is the chairman of this
and that, He is always at the
speakers' table. He takes it upon
himself to speak for all Israel
whenever he thinks there is any
speaking to be done. Maybe his
name isn't Ginsburg or Goldberg.
He may be Oppenheimer or Se-
gal or Greenberg or Levy.
He is Little Boy Blue 11110
blows his horn and feels very big
when he makes a loud sound. Ile
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,

In accepting a certificate from Ha-
dassah naming her as "Woman of the
Year," Representative Helen Gahagan
Douglas of California said: "With the ar-
rival of the atomic era, at long last, peo-
ple are faced with the necessity of learn-
ing to live together."
Mrs. Douglas is thinking undoubtedly
of people living together within their own
country as much as of those living in dif-
ferent countries. The fact is clear that the
atomic bomb makes it as much necessary
for us to have domestic peace as inter-
national peace.
It is clear to the simplest that it is no
longer a case of war being deplored.
Wars now have become impossible — un-
less we are to have international suicide.
The atomic bomb places the Gerald
Smiths and the Christian Fronters in an
entirely different light. In years back, we
could afford to look on such groups with
some degree of tolerance. They were a
menace — but they menaced generally
only a minority. But today we know that
they connote force, violence and ultimate-
ly, perhaps, the release of such destruc-
tive and universally annihilating force —
as the atomic bomb.
The atomic bomb forces the most cal-
lous, the most apathetic, to revamp his
attitude to these preachers of hate.

Smith at the convention of the
Anglo-Israelite Fellows in Los
Angeles last June 9 and in
case you have forgotten at that
convention the most violent anti-
Semitic speeches ever made were
heard at every session . . . There
are other connecting human links
between the Y. F. C. and Gerald
L. K. Smith's activities which
are now under close scrutiny by
a well-known anti-Fascist group.
LEARNED OBSERVATIONS ...
The recent announcement that
Dr. Julian Morgenstern, president
of the Hebrew Union College fa-
vors the Zionist aspirations in
Palestine gives Zionism the unani-
mous approval of the heads of all
the Jewish Theological schools ...
President Louis Finkelstein of the
Jewish Theological Seminary
ranks among the leaders in Amer-
ican Zionism having served for
years as head of the Intercolle-
giate Zionist Association . . •
President Samuel Belkin of the
Yeshivah College is active in the
Mizrachi. . . . So is also Rabbi
Saul Silber of the Hebrew Theo-
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