Friday, November 16, 1945
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
Pap Four
Detroit Jewish Chronicle
ID 4, Ill G rAI- 0K
By AL SEGAL
and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE
Published Weekly by Jewish Chronicle Publishing Co., Inc., 525 Woodward Ave., Detroit 26, Mich., Tel. CAdillac 1040
O'Donnell (he's that N.Y. Daily
News columnist) says he's sorry
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for having given out a slander-
iintered as Second•class matter March 3, 1916, at the Postai - lice at Detroit, Mich., under the Act of March 3, 1879 ous untruth against Jews but
Managing Editor, NATHAN J. KAUFMAN that doesn't absolve either him
Publisher, CY. AARON
Editor-in-Chief, LOUIS W. ENFIELD
or the Daily News and other
Vol. 47, No. 46 newspapers that printed it. They
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Detroit 26, Michigan
will be absolved only when O'-
Donnell's lie will have been
Does the fact that a murderer was born caught up with and scotched in
Boston reflect badly on every Boston- the last surviving of the weak
There is a rumbling of guns in lands in
ian? DoeS the three-century American or- minds that accepted and believed
far away. It makes for somber thoughts igin of a forger cast doubt on the integ- it.
and fearful possibilities. True, the fight- rity of all three-century Americans?
If O'Donnell devoted all the
ing is in far off China and Java. We have
So the difference between the privileges rest of his days to catching up
nothing to gain or lose, it appears on the enjoyed by majority groups and the privi- with it, there would still be a
surface, and we are minding our own leges allowed minority groups resolves it- lot of minds preciously harbor-
business unless our soldiers are attacked self into the right to have scoundrel3 ing his falsehood even after he
in which case our men will give a good among them. The right to have scientists had lived 70 years. Such lies are
chewed and passed around from
account of themselves.
and artists — benefactors of society — is mouth to mouth by people of the
Daily bulletins tell us how the fighting not greatly different.
O'Donnell kind.
is progressing, which side is temporarily
But no repentant O'Donnell is
There is no way of forcing people to
winning, and what towns have been tak- break, in their own minds, the link be- going to run after his falsehood
en. Not a war, they claim. Just a little tween a scoundrel whose name betrays a to catch up with it and stop it.
difficulty over who shall govern China and particular origin and all other people of It seems O'Donnell feels satisfied
who shall be represented in that govern- that origin. Only the intelligence and the with his conscience. He says he's
sorry and that settles it, or does
ment.
good will of the majority groups can it?
Thirteen years ago, there were also
Still it isn't O'Donnell who is
skirmishes in China. It was far away from break this link.
troubling Americans who had be-
us. Some Japanese were taking advantage
lieved that the Nazi press had
of some border incident. Again there were
died with Hitler and Goebbels
bulletins telling what towns were taken
At this writing, Prime Minister Attlee in the rubble of Berlin. After
and describing the fighting that was go- is in Washington to confer with the presi- all, there are a lot of O'Donnells
Starting World War III
Tell Attlee
ing on. It was far away ,too far away to
be of importance except as a matter of
passing interest.
But that skirmishing led to the most
dreadful war that had ever scourged
mankind. It bathed the world in oceans
of blood. It crushed the world with such
pain and anguish as had never been
known before.
And now it is starting all over again.
This skirmishing can grow and swell until
it engulfs us all over again. And looming
over it all is the specter of the devastat-
ing atom bomb. If one side or the other
can get hold of it, if one side or the other
can prevail on the United States to lend
it aid, a kind of destruction undreamed
of can be loosed on the world.
Has the world gone crazy? The war is
over. As a result of the San Francisco
Conference, the U. N. 0. has been set
up to prevent war. Where is it? What is
it doing? Why is not this war in China
stopped and stopped at once? While our
Congress sits and twiddles its thumbs,
while Prime Minister Attlee addresses
Congress and gives advice on what to do
with the A-bomb, war is going on.
We must stop this war. And at once.
Otherwise, we are doomed. There is no
distance any more. There is no advance
notice. The first knowledge a country gets
is when a city has disappeared in smoke
and ashes. Will we be blind? Will we
stay dumb? If we do, then we deserve to
be destroyed.
around — little people spewing
spitballs — and what difference
does one more O'Donnell make?
What's much more troubling
than O'Donnell is the fact that
responsible members of the Am-
erican press — like the N. Y.
Daily News with the biggest cir-
culation — have descended to
print and to circulate a slander
patterned, in the Goebbels style,
to the pet prejudice Of hateful
minds. (It's seven months since
Goebbels was reported to has'
perished in the ruins of Berlin
but he still seems to be around.)
As a member of the American
press I have known it well for
many years. It has had its faults
but it has always been proud of
its tolerance in matters of race
and religion and of its decent
respect for all deserving people,
regardless of their race, color or
religion.
Thus, in many cities news-
papers have a rule that no Negro
in the news is to be designated
by his color. Long ago every
newspaper in the country gave
up the practice of pointing out
Jewish wrong-doers in the news
as Jews. This is in accord with
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dent on world affairs. He is within easy
reach of letters and telegrams. Now is
IA
the time for Jewish organizations and in-
dividuals to let him know how we feel on
By PHINEAS J. BIRON
the subject of Britain's duties under its
mandate.
entire male Jewish poulation of
UNTOLD STORY . . .
Write him. Wire him. Let him be flood-
The story of a rabbi in a small Rome?
ed by correspondence. Let him be en- town in Long Island would, if THERE AND HERE . . .
gulfed by a wave of communication that told in full, make you wonder
The British concentration
will demand in no unmistakable terms whether we live in a democracy. camps for Jews in the Sudan and
that he live up to the promises his coun- . . . The rabbi has been so thor- Eritrea are a disgrace to human-
try and his very own party in that coun- oughly terrorized by anti-Semitic ity.... Prisoners are lashed with
try made before he attained his high hoodlums that he is afraid to cats-o'-nine-tails and then dip-
take a walk on the street after ped in salt water, so that the
office.
sunset.
. He prefers the secur- victims are left smarting for
Let him understand that his predeces-
of the cemetery, because, as many days. . . . Did you know,
sor was replaced because the people in ity
he puts it, "dead people can't by the way, that British censor-
England were dissatisfied. They made a throw stones."
ship forbids any quotation from
demand by that action that he turn away
the Hebrew Bible in the Hebrew
PUZZLE
.
.
.
from the false policy of imperialism that
press of Palestine? . . . Martin
Drew Pearson, the know-it-all
Churchill stood for.
Niemoeller hasn't given up the
Washington columnist, reports
Now is the time for action. Let every that the Pope "sheltered more idea of an American good will
individual write as an individual. Let ev- than 6500 Jews disguised as cler- tour. . . . The former German
ery organization pass resolutions by un- ics in the Vatican during the submarine commander still is
animous vote and forward them to Attlee. war." . . . The story is fantastic considered the most influential
clergyman in Germany
Let those communications number into the for these reasons: The total area Protestant
— but those who know him don't
tens and hundreds of thousands, perhaps of the Vatican is about a sixth quite trust his verbal liberalism.
of a square mile, or 109 acres,
into the millions.
. . . Did you realize that Sen.
and
the total population of Vati-
Jews must do this. They must get their
Theodore F. Bilbo is virtually the
can City in normal times is 1025.
friends who are not Jewish to do this. • . . So how could one hide six mayor of Washington, by reason
Every liberal organization, every fair- times that total population in an of his chairmanship of the Sen-
minded citizen, every individual with a area built up to house the orig- ate District Committee, which
of the
desire to right a great and lasting wrong inal population? . . . No, Mr. controls the government
e , NVIliCh Con-
District
Committe
must do this. Let the whole Jewish voice Pearson, something in your re-
the government of the Dis-
in this country swell into a thunderous port doesn't tally. . . . Besides, trols
trict of Columbia? . . . And we
roar that must be heard, and let Attlee the total Jewish population of want to point out that the Wash-
Rome was approximately 11,000
hear it.
ington Times-Herald, which pub-
men, women and children. . . . lished John O'Donnell's famous
Even now, a delegation of rabbis is —
do you, Mr. Pearson, mean to
waiting on him to present their case to So
The Right to Have Scoundrels
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say that the Vatican took in the
Whenever someone with prejudices him personally. Back that attack. Write
speaks up against a group, attacking now.
DOIN' THE BEST HE CAN
Jews, Negroes or Italians, there is usually
someone else who comes up with a classic
Scientists in Congress
line of defense. "Look at Einstein !" "Look
A suggestion is being made that a sci-
at Carver!" "Of course Jews, or Negroes, entist be elected to Congress so he can
or Italians must be all right."
give Congress the benefit of his scientific
They mean well, these defenders. But experience in passing laws regarding the
their approach is wrong. Their approach atom bomb. It sounds like a good idea.
is even bad. What a minority group wants We elect our representatives for various
is not the right to have geniuses among reasons. "Pappy" O'Daniel was elected
them but the right to have fools and because he was a good crooner. Other
scoundrels — without being condemned Congressmen are elected because they
as a group. Every group has about the please some segment of the population
same proportion of wrongdoers. But when with crackpot theories.
wrongdoers belong tp a minority their
It might be a very good idea to have
number is magnified in the minds of other scientists as legislators. It is our opinion
people. Each individual wrongdoer is mul- that such scientists would not be very
tiplied by the number of his whole group. good politicians and would be stymied on
Minorities would gladly give up the re- all sides by the professional politicians
flected glory of their great men, if the with years of experience at political trick-
world didn't burden them with the ig- ery. However, it should certainly be worth
nominy of their scoundrels. Both types be- a trial. Scientists in Congress. Not bad
long to mankind as a whole, and mankind at all.
as a whole may share the sorrow as well
as the honor.
Victory Loan
What minorities need, therefore, is the
Children
of
the Roosevelt School have
right to have a natural number of low-
almost
reached
their quota in the current
down rotters among them. The law of Victory Bond drive.
the drive
averages allows any group a certain per- is far from over, the Although
speed
with
centage of anti-social characters. How the quota is being approached is which
in-
many readers are there who do not at dication that children can serve as a an
mod-
once identify the origin of a culprit by his
for their elders in this kind of work.
name or mention of his color, and men- el We
congratulate them more especially
tally connect him and his group?
since
the
enrollment of the school is pre-
member
of
the
majority
group
Where a
dominantly
Jewish.
is concerned that connection is not drawn.
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