Page Four DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Friday, November 23, 1945. Chronicle AIN TA Detroit Jewish Chronicle By AL SEGAL and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE I have a letter from .Daniel. By the light of this flame he may become a social worker who Kenneth Greene who is with the thinks that if people could be Marines and is a Los Angeles boy SUBSCRIPTION: $3.00 PER YEAR, SINGLE COPIES, 10c; FOREIGN, $5.00 PER YEAR made more comfortable they might who used to be president of the intered as Second-class matter March 3, 1916, at the Postoffice at Detroit, Mich., under the Act of March 3, 1879 become more just in their judg- Managing Editor, NATHAN J. KAUFMAN Hillel Council in Los Angeles City ments of their neiighbors. Or he Publisher, CY AARON Editor-in-Chief, LOUIS W. ENFIELD College. It seems he has been thinking becomes a Reform rabbi who takes Vol. 47, No. 47 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1945 (KISLEV 18, 5706) a great deal about the matter of upon himself a mission for brother- Detroit 26, Michigan being a Jew in a world that's so hood. Or he is a citizen who, in the unfair in its judgments. Attlee and Weizmann Something Phoney off-hours from his business, i s an "As a service man I can see eager man in liberal groups that Two men are in America to plead for what 'Jew' means from my con- There is something about the Arab are out to do something for justice American help — Prime Minister Clem- tacts with other service men all Jewish conflict that smells bad. Judging ent Attlee of Great Britain and Dr. Chaim over the country. What I have be- to the Negro who is another guy by the reports in the press of this coun- Weizmann representing the Jews of the lieved all along is true: It is what who has a hard time of it in an unfriendly world. a man is and does that counts." try, the Arabs are determined that no world. Or, if he is a rich man, he de- Yes, that's the way it is except votes some of his wealth to causes more Jews should be permitted in Pales- Mr. Attlee, it was announced, has come when a man happens to be a Jew, that have to do with making a bet- tine and those who are there should be to America to discuss the atomic bomb as Pharmacist's Mate Daniel Ken- ter world out of this; or, if his neth Greene, has found. relegated to a definite minority group with President Truman, but the address "If a man is no good and he is wealth is nothing more tangible of Mr. Attlee before Congress shows that Jewish, we really hear about it," than ideals, he belongs to friendly status. the real reason for his coming was to he says. "Because a man's name relations committees. But why? Since the Jews came, the obtain the grant of a loan of five billion If he is a columnist he is al- is Goldstein instead of O'Brien standard of living of the average Arab dollars from the United States for the and they both do something wrong, ways writing about brotherhood the Jew always hears about it . . which is his favorite word. has been raised tremendously. Infant English government. And if he is Daniel Kenneth As far as I can see it is a matter mortality has decreased. Wages have Mr. Attlee comes, as it were, as the of ignorance and jealousy on the Greene he looks up to the stars gone up. Arab unions are strong. There head of the United English Appeal while part of some Gentiles. Other Gen- hopefully toward a dawning new are hospitals, well equipped and excel- Dr. Weizmann comes representing the tiles hear the rot and believe it day. (In my own town there are any and pass it on." lently staffed. There are libraries. There United Palestine Appeal. Being so young, Dan Greene is number of Jews who carry the Mr. Attlee has come to beg this favor just are modern cities with beautiful build- finding out something that messianic mission in the hours ings and smooth running transportation. of the United States after having turned we old-timers in the world have when they aren't busy with their work of making a living. They Since the coming of the Jews, Palestine down Dr. Weizmann's appeal and after known and suffered over so long. take time out to attend meetings having turned down President Truman's It's what every Jew learns if he has been changed from a hell hole of request for the admission of 100,000 lives long enough. After that he of people who are striving toward desert and swamp to a Garden of Eden. continuously burns against the in- the mountain-top.) What I am trying to say rather There are new industries. There is ade- Jewish refugees into Palestine. justice of the human race and gets proudly is that the injustice of Mr. Attlee declares it Would be dan- quate housing. The very air is clean and to feel messianic as he ponders anti-Semitism has made decent hu- gerous to admit these 100,000 Jewish upon ways by which the human healthful. (Continued on Page 13) race might be improved. refugees into Palestine. Published Weekly by Jewish Chronicle Publishing Co., Inc., 525 Woodward Ave., Detroit 26, Mich., Tel. CAdillac 1040 And does the Arab object to this? There are those in Congress, and out, Does he object to his wife and children living where before they died? Will he who say it will be dangerous to grant the refuse the comforts of good living where five billion loan to England. England, it By PHINEAS J. BIRON before he had only misery? And having is pointed out, will use the money to buy goods in America and, since America is seen what the Jews can do for him, does Elmer Berger of Philadelphia (ex- he object to having more? It just doesn't not yet fully reconverted for civilian pro- ANTI-SEMITIC FRONT .. • duction, the buying of five billion dollars Attention Defense organizations ecutive director of the American make sense. for Judaism) is experienc- worth of goods in the United States will . . It is relatively unimportant Council ing considerable persecution from The truth of the matter is that the lead to inflation. Mr. Bernard Baruch . whether Father Coughlin is whole thing has been trumped up. There argues that this danger of inflation is by through or merely biding his time Zionist Jews. Rabbi Berger seems be an American Firster . . . is no Arab-Jewish conflict. At least there no means an imaginary one. It is already . . . The Christian Front is very to Jews would do well to accept sonic is none between the ordinary Arab and difficult to buy in America many articles much alive . . . It is no longer practical advice from the Rabbi." his Jewish neighbor. There is something of merchandise. Five billion dollars a strictly Catholic led organiza- ABOUT PERSONS .. . else, something the whole .world ought worth of merchandise taken out of the tion .. Among its leaders as well Pierre van Paassen whose 50th as its rank and file are many to be aware of. American market now may lead to such Protestants . . . The Christian anniversary was celebrated as a Before the coming of the Jew, the an inflation as will necessarily bring on Front is preparing to enter the major event in Melbourne, Aus- status of the Arab was virtually that of another depression and such a depres- political arena ... It feels that it tralia will present the Reuben Brainin People's Library of Mon- a slave. The rulers of the Arabs were the sion, argues Mr. Baruch, will drag the no longer needs to hide behind treal with the orginal manuscript "respectable" political fronts . . lords and masters. Their wealth and whole world down. That is why Christian Front meet- of his The Forgotten Ally" at a power was dependent entirely on the We submit that it must be apparent to ings are being prepared in every special function on November 25th slave status of their subjects. With the any Congressman that it is the United major city of the Union . . . The Is it true that Senator David I. presence of the Jew, there came a sug- British Appeal, represented by Mr. Attlee "new" organizational genius who Walsh, Chairman of the Senate gestion of democracy, a threat that the and Mr. Sevin, which should be turned is promoting Christian Front po- Affairs Committee, is holding con- Arabs might take a hand in their own down — not that of the United Palestine litical gatherings on a national ferences to re-open the air waves Father Coughlin? . . Rabbi government, might even depose their des- Appeal represented by Dr. Weizmann. scale is none other than Ainslee E. for Herschel Lymon travelled all the Horney, veteran anti-Semite whose potic rulers. This was the underlying from Oklahoma to Okinawa Britain needs the five billion dollars record is well known to our De- way cause of the fear of the Jew. to officiate at the wedding of Capt. partment of Justice . . . Gerald L. to help her get food. If she will allow It was for this reason that the rulers the Jewish refugees to enter Palestine, K. Smith in his publication "The Gretchen Ruth Boody to Capt. Ed- of the Arabs have been fighting Jewish she will help in the production of more Cross and the Flag" dispenses ad- ward Siegel last month .....,e11- Stillwell gave the bride immigration. They have obscured the real food. She will stave off to some degree vice to the Jews of America in the eral (Continued on Page 13) following paragraph . . . "Rabbi issue and raised phoney issues to bam- the dreaded inflation. boozle their own people and the rest of Certainly, now is the time when Pres- THE $64 QUESTION the world. They introduce the religious -~x4r9r7.0477 conflict where none exists. They rely on ident Truman need not continue to ask world promises which were never made. favors of England. If England denies his They threaten economic wars they could request for the admission of 100,000 Jew- ish refugees, the President can well say, never wage. we'll keep that five billion here. The The ugly specter of Fascism rears its President has the trump card. CAN'T YOU THE ATOMIC BOMB head in many places and in many forms. TRUST ME ? • • e IS A SACRED TRUST It was beaten down in Germany, at least / ° in a military fashion. But wherever one • Samuel Mogill Passes / group depends for its power, prestige, wealth or position on the slavery or op- Detroit Jewry mourns the passing of pression of another group, there you have Samuel Mogill who died last Sunday. Fascism. It is a world problem and, as Many thousands knew Mr. Mogill and such, must be fought by the whole world, enjoyed the freshness of his personality whether it appears in this country, in as well as the excellence of his singing. South America, in Europe, Asia or Af- Mr. Mogill was president of the Jew- rica. ish Ministers Cantors Association and It is a curious fact that wherever you served for 26 years in many congrega- find Fascism, you almost invariably find tions in Detroit. anti-Semitism. The picture was clear in But to the many hundreds of boys Germany where anti-Semitism brought whom he taught Hebrew in his early in its wake the smashing of labor unions, manhood twenty-five years ago, his death ainon of re ligious groups, the brings a touch of nostalgia. Many of the the dissoluti attack against other minorities. staff of the Chronicle sat at his feet in Let the world recognize Arab-Jewish those days and they recall well his salty conflict for what it really is, not the deep wit and humor as well as his essential seated hatred between two races who kindliness and his human understanding. cannot cooperate with each other, but a Time goes on and the older generation trumped up phoney difficulty which when has to depart. There is left only the need seen clearly is one phase of the world- to pause for a moment to regret the pass- wide battle between the forces of dem- ing of a fine man and the memories and ocracy and fascism, between the power love that he left behind him in the minds (1 ■ 101. lord Sore of special interests and the rights of the and hearts of his family and friends. common man. S telIDGIC eIDNFIDENTIAL 4.14411 , • I.