Friday, December 14, 1945

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

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Detroit Jewish Chronicle

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RICCI-199i 0)11E1
By PHINEAS K. BIRON

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and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE

Published Weekly by Jewish Chronicle Publishing Co., Inc., 525 Woodward Ave., Detroit 26, Mich., Tel. CAdillac 1040 A TRUE STORY .

A couple of columns ago we told you about a Rabbi in Long Island
who's being terrorized by anti-Semitic hoodlums. . . . In answer to the
many inquiries: The Rabbi is Nathan Leiter of Maspath, Long Island.
Managing Editor, NATHAN J. KAUFMAN . . . Quoting from his own affidavit, the Rabbi tells of a campaign of
Publisher, CY AARON
Editor-in-Chief, LOUIS W. ENFIELD
persecution that began on Succoth 1941. . . . On last Kol Nidre, the eve
Vol. 47, No. 50 of the Day of Atonement, the Rabbi's house was surrounded by hooli-
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1945 (TEVETH 10, 5706)
Detroit 26, Michigan
gans who shouted threats and thus terrified his wife and child wns
be a thing of beauty instead of an eyesore. were alone in the house. . . . On Halloween night, anti-Semitic insults
People who are thinking in terms of were chalked on the sidewalk in front of the Rabbi's home. . . . Inci-
an ideal community would do well to keep dentally, the Rabbi is the only Jew living on that street. . . . The police
now taken energetic measures and a patrolman has been sta-
You're a murderer, Mr. Attlee! A foul, this in mind. The time when Detroit will have
tioned in front of the house day and night. . . . We are giving these
have
such
an
ideal
community
is
perhaps
bloody murderer! Your government is a
details because some of the letters we received expressed skepticism
traitorous one. You are false to the people not too far in the distance.
and implied that the 'story of the nameless Rabbi was concocted.

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There's Blood on Your Hands,
Mr. Atlee!

who elected you. You are showing a hor-
rible example to the whole civilized
world, an example of deceit and treach-
ery.
You campaigned on a note of socialism.
Your socialism is a lie. Your platform was
idealistic. It has degenerated into can-
nibalistic savagery. You replaced Church-
ill because your people were sick of his
imperialism. Minus his oratory and per-
sonality, you have only made worse the
evil he stood for.
Last week your soldiers shot down
eight Jews in Palestine. Their blood is on
your head. You murdered them. You also
murdered a faith the whole world had in
you, a faith that you were a leader who
might lead a great nation away from sav-
agery and brutality.
Your communiques allege that Jews
fired first. You know that is a lie, Mr. Att-
lee, a base, contemptible lie. Your whole
despicable program is based on lies.
But do not rest easy, Mr. Attlee. Your
crimes against mankind will find you out.
Cast your eye on the trial going on at
Nuremberg. The civilized world is deter-
mining that a plot to kill Jews is a crime
against humanity. You are charged with
that crime. History will try you in its own
court. And you will be found guilty.
Stop, Mr. Attlee! Turn back while there
is still time! Else you may class yourself
with the villains of history, the Hamans,
the Torquemadas, the Chmielnitzkis.
Look at your hands, Mr. Attlee. There's
blood on them.

Have You A Jewish Heart?

ON THE CHICAGO FRONT .. •
Handbills against Jewish Ritual Slaughtering are being distributed
on the streets of the Windy City.... They are being circulated by the
Pioneer News Service, P.O. Box 435, Chicago 90, Ill. . . . The same
outfit is also publishing an anti-Semitic sheet called the Dispatch. . . .
The Gentile News, published every month at 30 No. LaSalle St., claims
a tremendous increase in circulation.. . . The Gentile News is also the
American agent of the Britain Publishing Society of London, England,
which puts out the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.. . . In other words
all that boasting of having stopped the Gentile Cooperative Assn. is a
lot of bunk.. . . They are stronger than ever and the Chicago District
Attorney who supposedly withdrew their charter hasn't achieved any-

The phrase, a Jewish heart, is well
known in Jewish circles. It means a heart
that is full of kindness and understanding,
a heart that can take on the burdens of
the weary and the downtrodden, a heart
than can share unselfishly its wordly
goods. Such a Jewish heart was brought
to our attention by the commander of the
Jewish War Veterans.
thing.
The heroine of this little tale is a wom-
an who owns a flat. When word leaked CANADIAN BILBOISM .
Ottowa has its Senator Bilbo in the person of Norman Jaques,
out that the flat would shortly be for rent, member
of Parliament. . . . In a recent letter to Leslie Roberts, Chair-
applications began to pour in from people man of the Montreal Interracial Committee for Democratic Action,
who wanted to live there. Each applicant Mr. Jaques writes about "smear-bund agencies of Shylock and Marx.'
offered some sort of bonus, higher than . . . We are told that Jaques is one of the most articulate race hate-
mongers of Canada and that his letters of insults to members of the
all offers made before. Soon, she had of- Jewish
race equal in quantity and "quality" those of the Senator from
fers to redecorate the entire flat at the
Mississippi.
renter's expense. Members of her own
family were begging for consideration. MISCELLANY ...
The Anti-Defamation League advises Anglo-Jewish papers to pub-
Everybody knows what the housing situa-
lish Ford advertising. . . Doesn't the League know that Ford has
tion is today.
refused to interfere with the distribution of the Protocols of Zion that
That is where the Jewish heart comes goes on in Latin America under his imprint? . . . Major Melvyn Doug-
in. This woman put an ad in the papers. las, now Mr. Douglas, has given up acting. . .. He will devote his
to producing musical comedies ... the first one will be a politi-
She advertised for a returned veteran talents
cal musical composed by ex-Corporal Harold Rome. . . . Dr. Alexander
who
had
no
place
to
live.
with children
Sachs, who convinced President Roosevelt that the U. S. Government
Out of all the applicants, she picked one should invest billions of dollars in the atomic research work, is an
who had a wife and two children. She did economic adviser to a Wall Street firm. . . . John O'Donnell, the news
not ask for any bonus. She decorated the columnist who has taken up the defense of the American Quisling,
Pound, reveals in a recent column that Pound is reading, day
flat for him at her own expense. All this Ezra
and night, the Jewish Holy Scriptures. . Edward G. Robinson is the
she did because she has a Jewish heart. main financial sponsor of Roosevelt College, now in process of organi-
There must be other Jewish landlords zation. . . . The Roosevelt College will not have any quota for Jews.
who recognize the tremendous debt of FROM LYONS' COLUMN . .
gratitude they owe to returned service-
At the Naval Hospital in Pearl Harbor, Chaplain Morton J. Cohen
men. These veterans are, in many cases, in makes semi-weekly visits bringing kosher salami to the Bronx and
patients for whom this is a touch of home. . . . The Chap-
desperate need of housing. And they are Brooklyn
lain's assistant, who claims that his unofficial rating is "Chazen's
deserving that landlords should consider mate, third class," is entrusted with the salami between visits. .. . He
decided that the best place for its preservation is in the pharmacy
their needs.
refrigerator. .. . There, among other precious therapeutic
Who Will Build Our Synagogues?
Have you a flat or an apartment that is laboratory
medications, he has it stored under the label of "penicillami."
for rent or will soon be? And do you rec-
Some years ago, when Jews were first ognize that you owe a debt to the boys BEWARE .. .
moving into the northwest community, a and girls in service, a debt you can never
A number of German-American Societies have launched drives for
property owners association was formed hope to repay in full? Write to the Chron- "German Relief." . . . Mass meetings have been held in Chicago and
for the home owners in the section from icle or to the Jewish War Veterans at Cleveland and other towns within the last few weeks calling for con-
for that relief. . . . At the Chicago "Relief" meeting the
Livernois to Wyoming and from Six to 8212 Twelfth Street. A serviceman in dire tributions
audience booed the mention of Eisenhower's name and applauded ref-
Seven Mile Roads. At the first meeting of need of a place to live will be sent to you. erence to O'Donnell's anti-Semitic column. . . . Reverend Walter Klein,
this association, a woman arose and said,
a key figure in the Coughlinite movement, was elected chairman of
You will lose nothing. They make just the Cleveland Relief Committe for Central Europe. . . . All these relief
"Everybody knows why this meeting is be-
are being supported by the pro-Nazi Steuben Society. . . .
ing called. A Jewish synagogue is going as good tenants as anyone else, perhaps drives
Protestant clergymen should be very careful in accepting invitations
to be built here and it will send property better. You will gain the heartfelt grati- to serve on these relief committees. . . . The fact is that all the money
tude of one who is deserving of your ef- collected goes to fascist sources in Germany. . . . Jews are officially
values down. It's up to us to stop it."
The years have passed and now three forts in his behalf. And you will show excluded from receiving "German" relief by these organizations.
synagogues are going up in that same that you have a Jewish heart.
MODERN MANNA
northwest section. All of these propose to
erect the kind of edifices which will do
A Shameful Story
credit to the community of which they are
a part. These will be synagogues which,
The resignation of Dr. Lee Srole, sociolo-
by their beauty, will attract worshippers gist of Hobart College, as UNRRA wel-
to their doors and which will serve as in- fare director in Germany, should serve to
spiration for meditation and prayer.
call attention to a condition of things
From a community viewpoint, there which should make Americans blush with
ought to be a better way of doing things. shame.
Every synagogue that is ever erected L.;
Dr. Srole resigned as a protest against
representative of the entire Jewish com- the horrible way in which the displaced
munity because it is Jewish. As such, every persons, mostly Jews, are kept in the Ger-
synagogue should be a thing of beauty, man concentration camps.
the kind of building every single Jew can
"Disastrous epidemics," writes Dr.
be proud of whether he worships there or
not. Both Jew and non-Jew alike should Srole, "may be expected at any time." It
look at the synagogue with pleasure. This is common, he adds, for twelve or fifteen
persons at the Landsberg camp to be
ought to be a community responsibility.
crowded into space no larger than the av-
In an ideal Jewish community which is erage foyer of an American house.
,
run by a single central representativc
The charges made by Dr. Srole have
agency on a democratic basis, this will be
been,
in one form or another, confirmed
done. There will be a sinking fund for just
this purpose. When money is given to by other sources. The American military
some organization and the money is be- officers appear to treat the recent order of
yond its budgetary needs, this residue will General Eisenhower as a scrap of paper.
be channeled back into this sinking fund.
It is to be hoped that we shall not be
People who leave money to memorialize treated again to another one of those at-
their dead will contribute. Gifts will be tempts to promise much and do nothing.
encouraged.
The condition cries to heaven and is a
The particular congregation will raise foul blot on the American Government.
money in keeping with the size of the Army officers who are too "disinterested"
membership. The remainder of the money to heed the orders of General Eisenhower
they need will come from this fund and should face court martial.
will be repaid like money borrowed from
Are they Americans or are they Nazis?
a bank. In this way, every synagogue will

