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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

Detroit Jewish Chronicle

Friday, January 11, 1946

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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

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Editor-in-Chief, LOUIS W. ENFIELD

Detroit 26, Michigan

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Managing Editor, NATHAN J.

Friday, January 11, 1946 (SHEVAT 9, 5706)

No Jewish Criminals

In the columns of this paper is an arti-
cle by Samuel Neuschatz, Intermediate
director of the Jewish Center, explaining
the program of his activities and the pos-
sibilities of participation on the part of
Jewish youngsters.
At the same time, we hear a predic-
tion by Drew Pearson, famous radio com-
mentator, that 1946 will see the greatest
crime wave in history.
The two thoughts bear a great inter-
relation. Of late, there have been too
many columns in the papers devoted to
the activities of criminals with Jewish
names who are paying the penalty of their
misdeeds.
Our proportion of crime is far less
than that of the people of other faiths.
But for every misdeed, we are marked
out. Every single Jewish criminal gives
ammunition to the anti-Semites. He re-
flects disgrace not only on the community
he lives in and on his immediate family,
but on the entire people who are of his
religion.
The time to catch and stamp out crime
is in the childhood stage. The way to do
it is to direct the energy of the youngster
into channels that are more socially pro-
ductive. The place for that is the center,
the club, the athletic field and the job
placement bureau.
It has been estimated that the annual
bill for crime in the United States amounts
to about twelve times as much as the bill
for education and recreational facilities
combined.
The program of the Jewish Center is
a fine one. The direction is excellent. But
it is not enough. They should have more
money. They should have expanded facili-
ties. Every Jewish boy and girl in the city
should be taken in under their wing.
When this becomes the goal of every
Jew in Detroit, another goal will be real-
ized that is the direct concomitant. Less
and less will we see Jewish names head-
lined in the papers for crimes committed
which are the disgrace of us all.
More and more will we be able to
point to our folk as an example of a fine
type of citizenship which contributes to
the greatness of this country. This is the
land of opportunity. Let us erase delin-
quency among our youngsters. Let us
make opportunity for our youngsters to
get expert guidance and reach full reali-
zation of their potentialities for good and
for usefulness to the community.
We commend the Center for the good
it has already done. We urge the commun-
ityl to make it possible for them to do
more.

Help Yourself

It• was warming to the heart and re-
freshing to the mind to hear and then
read the message offered by President
Truman to the people as a whole last
week.
The president appealed to the people
for action. He urged them to support his
program for social betterment. This pro-
gram includes the encouragement of la-
bor, and the protection of the public from
poverty, disturbance and fear. He warned
somberly that 1946 is a decisive year.
The Fair Employment Practice law
and the Full Employment law that the
president asks for should meet with the
approval of every thinking citizen as the
kind of procedure which will make the
United States the envy of all other nations
and a decisive factor in keeping world
peace.
To support the president, however, it
is not enough to be sympathetic with his
aims. It is necessary to bombard the mem-
bers of Congress and the Senate with let-
ters, telegrams, and calls. As was pointed
out the members of Congress are very
sympathetic to those who seek their ear.
Above every other consideration in the
minds of most of these Solons is the de-
termination to be reelected.

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KAUFMAN

Vol. 48, No. 2

The patience of the public with being
bamboozled by their leaders is well
known. But it is necessary for that pa-
tience to come to an end. The year 1946
is indeed a fateful year. Now is the time
to make your wishes felt. Sit down and
write to your Congressman today.

Good Work, UNRRA

The prompt and decisive action of
UNRRA in firing Sir Frederic Morgan out
of hand for his idiotic charges of a world
Jewish plot to force Jews out of Poland
and into Palestine is a good answer to
those who charge that UNRRA is not
doing its job.
There is no more need to discuss
either the general, his charges, or the ob-
vious plot behind these charges to preju-
dice the Anglo-American Inquiry Com-
mission.
Instead, the whole matter should serve
to focus world opinion on the evil plight
of Jews throughout Europe and the ab-
solute necessity for the working out of an
immediate solution. It should be obvious
to the world, moreover, that the only solu-
tion is the opening of Palestine to Jewish
immigration.
General Morgan may come out with
more explanations. It is too much to ex-
pect that he will be confounded by the
official rejection of his absurdities. As a
British nobleman and as a high ranking
officer in the British army, it is more than
likely that his words constitute a trial bal-
loon on the part of British officialdom to
bring about their own nefarious aims.
That these aims will continue is ap-
parent. That they will meet with ultimate
failure is to be hoped and prayed for.
The action on the part of UNRRA sheds
the first real light on the position of other
official bodies in the court of world
opinion.
Who knows but that this is the first
real turn in the tide. We can but hope
that the nefarious thoughts expressed by
Morgan will boomerang and help to bring
about that very mass exodus to Palestine
which he seems to dread so much.

Congratulations, Raoul

We received an unusual Bar-Mitzvah
invitation which ought to be brought to
the attention of all people who are cele-
brating a similar festivity. The happy par-
ents are Dr. and Mrs. Moses L. Wiser of
Lawrence Avenue. The boy who is to
enter into the Jewish fold as a Bar-Mitz-
vah is their son Raoul.
The invitation starts off as usual with
the announcement and the request to
friends and relatives to come and share
in the pride and happiness of all con-
cerned. Then follows this engraved an-
nouncement from the boy.
"Dear relatives and friends:
Please do not buy any gifts for me. If
you want to honor me on my Bar-Mitzvah
day, please bring me a contribution for
the Jewish National Fund to make other
children happy who are less fortunate
than I am. Thank you, Raoul."
The significance of the Bar-Mitzvah
ceremony has been lost to many Jews in
this country. It serves only as a festive
occasion and its higher meaning, the ac-
ceptance on the part of the boy of his
duties and responsibilities as a Jew are
too apt to be forced in the background.
The thoughts of this Bar-Mitzvah and
his parents of their duties toward the un-
fortunate are a splendid example of the
fineness of real Jewish festive celebra-
tion.
Our heartiest congratulations and
good wishes to both Raoul and his par-
ents. We wish them joy and success. We
direct their friends and relatives to con-
tribute heavily to the fund and we hope
that this splendid gesture finds many imi-
tators.

January 7, 1946.

Dear Fellow Editor:

I was astounded how you could get such coverage of the Gen.
Morgan story in your January 4 issue with such little time to work
on it.

Sincerely,
ROBERT S. GAMZEY,
Managing Editor.

Author's Comments On Book Review

EDITOR'S NOTE—One month ago, our Mr. Leon Saunders reviewed
a book called "Mother Goose Rhymes For Jewish Children" in his
regular column. The author here writes her views on the review. Mr.
Saunders replies to this letter in his column.

Dear Editor:

I must ask your indulgence in reading this long letter

The review of my book in your issue of Dec. 14, will make a spicy
addition to my scrap book, as until now, all of the reviews have beer,
filled with unanimous praise. After reading two very complimentary
descriptions in another Detroit paper, the Jewish reader is probably
asking himself, "Whom shall my soul believe?" However, the scholar,
the child psychologist and the Jewish educator will have no difficulty
in recognizing that Mr. Leon Saunders is none of these, and the book
will soon enjoy a second edition, nevertheless.

I have no quarrel with Mr. Saunders for not being in accord with
the bi-lingual idea. That is his privilege, and he has every right to
express his opinion. However, I do not believe that rude and crude
wise-cracking has any place in a book review, the prerequisite of
which is honesty, frankness and DIGNITY.

I should like to explain that the book Is not a hit or miss fancy.
It is the outgrowth of twenty years of teaching experience in both
the secular and religious schools and much experimenting by myself
and other teachers. This is how it came into being. I believe that the
young Jewish child in the average home has an awareness of Hebrew.
This has come about perhaps through a visit to the synagogue; seeing
a Hebrew book about the house; hearing a blessing recited, or seeing
a brother or sister trot off to Hebrew school. For the most part, he
looks on and listens in. I think too, that he subconsciously knows that
all of this has something to do with being Jewish. It is something that
belongs to him, and not to his Christian friends. By means of the
little verses in my book, he too comes in contact with Hebrew. In a
playful manner, he associates the unfamiliar word with the familiar
idea and learns it easily. As I say in my preface, the book aims to give

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A DL Objects

Dear Editor:

In a recent column of Phineas J. Biron, there appeared certain
statements under the heading of "Miscellany." One, "The Anti-Defama-
tion League advises Anglo-Jewish papers to publish Ford advertising."
Two, "Doesn't the League know. that Ford has refused to interfere
with the distribution of the Protocols of Zion that goes on in Latin
America under his imprint?"

In deference to the facts, we believe it important to advise you
that the Anti-Defamation League has not advised Anglo-Jewish papers
to publish Ford advertising. The Anti-Defamaton League receives
many inquiries with respect to anti-Semitism and it answers such
inquiries in accordance with its best knowledge. Where such inquiries
come from the Anglo-Jewish press, that press is then at liberty to
make its own decisions.

Respecting the query as to whether or not the Anti-Defamation
League knows that Mr. Ford has refused to interfere with the distri-
bution of the Protocols of Zion that goes on in Latin America under
his imprint, we should like to advise you that the Anti-Defamation
League does know that the Ford Company has made very strenuous
and effective efforts to interfere with the distribution of the "Proto-
cols" and other literature over his name in Latin America. It knows
this fact because the Anti-Defamation League made direct requests
of the Ford Company that every effort be made in this direction, and
the League knows from many sources that this has been done. Inde-
pendent inquiry has developed the fact that in Panama, Chile, Mexico,
Peru, Columbia, Honduras, Guatemala, Costa Rica, El Salvador,
Nicaragua, no copies of any anti-Semitic literature allegedly sponsored
by Mr. Ford could be found on display or purchaseable in any of the
book stores, nor were they found available in the libraries.

The Anti-Defamation League also knows that this improved situ-
ation develops from the. direct efforts of the Ford Company, upon rep-
resentations by the Anti-Defamation League, to the Department of
State of the United States government and through its own contacts
in Latin America.

The Anti-Defamation League is less concerned with the unfactual
character of Mr. Biron's criticism against it than it is with the charge
of the Fords' indifference to this problem.

REG:MZ

Very sincerely yours,
(Signed) RICHARD E. GUTSTADT
National Director

Employers Need It

Dear Editor:

I want to congratulate you on the editorial appearing in last
week's CHRONICLE, relative to the employment of unemployed Jew-
ish persons by Jewish employers.

It is about time that someone had the courage to call to attention
the fact that persons of Jewish faith were not given their fair share
of employment in the city on account of their religion, and that some
of the discriminators were Jewish.

I have been the victim of such discrimination. I have lived in the
City of Detroit for 30 years, am at present unemployed, and have
answered "blind" ads for the past seven weeks, and naturally have
to sign my name which has a "Jewish" sound. I have as yet to receive
an answer.

There are 2000 industrial firms in the city, and I wish that it
were possible to send a copy of your editorial to each of them. This
would be a fine job for the Detroit Jewish Community Council if
they are sincere in their efforts for the average Jewish person who
seeks employmnt. I suppose however the fact that your paper printed
the article will disqualify any consideration of this request.

Again thanking you for this fine idea, and with every wish for
your continued success, I am

(Signed) PHILIP ROTNAC

