Friday, Aug. 2, 1946
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TOO MUCH
Dear Editor:
One of the
THANES CHRONICLE
most important
charges against the Jew can be
set forth in meaningful words,
Managing Editor, NATHAN J. KAUFMAN "Too Much." Jews have too much
Publisher, CY AARON
Editor-in-Chief, LOUIS W. ENFIELD
trouble, that nobody can deny.
But there are other things. Jews
Detroit 26, Michigan
FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 1946 (Av 5, 5706)
Vol. 48, No. 31
have too much money. They are
too smart. They • are too radical.
There was even enough dessert to top off They are too desirous of ruling
the world. These are the views of
a full meal.
enemies, of whom there are
There is now a Jewish Federal Judge
The people who sat down stopped the our
many.
in the city of Detroit. When the Senate waiter and examined the wasted food. ton.
We are too excitable. We are
confirmed the nomination of Theodore They commented jokingly on the fact either too patriotic or too revolu-
Levin last week, that body put on the that they did not need to order anything tionary. The world either Ignores
bench a man from whom • the Jewish themselves. There was enough to satisfy us or pays us too much atthntlon.
Ve are not fair to an opponent
community has much to expect.
them.
or we applaud too much. We have
Theodore Levin has been a man of
It would have been no joke to hungry too little of what we need and too
stature in the Jewish community. His con- people in the devastated areas of the much of what we don't need.
tributions to the welfare of community globe. Sta*vation is going on in many All nations have average men,
There is such a thing as an aver-
organization have been many and impor- lands. Human beings are dropping dead age
American. There is an average
tant. As a judge, his stature will be im- of hunger.
Frenchman or an average Rus-
But not Jews. Every Jew In
measurably increased as will his capacity
It is not too much to ask that Ameri- sian.
somebody or something. If he Is
for doing good.
cans, particularly Jews, should be saving
a big shot, he hangs around
The Chronicle adds its congratulations of their food. If they do not cut down not
one. If he is not orthodox, he is
to the many, many that Levin has al- on their own consumption of food, at an atheist. If he is not a Zion-
ist, he is an anti-Zionist. If he
ready received. We wish him the best of least people should not waste it.
has no special talent, he has a
luck and the greatest of success.
We are inclined to have our senses talented daughter. If he is snot
That he will be a credit to his people dulled with the many appeals that are gifted by nature, he becomes gift-
and his community is a foregone con- made to our hearts and our pockets. We ed by his own means. If he can-
be exceptional, ho becomes
clusion. That he will show himself to be grow unconsciously callous. But the need not
rich. If he is not rich, he engages
a real American is a matter of certainty. is still there and out of the fullness of in social activity. If he does not
We wish him long life and health and what we have, we ought at least to be fight anti-Semitism, he fights
happiness. With our wishes go those of aware of what others do not have and fascism. If he is altogether a good
for nothing, he votes the Repub-
the entire community, Jew and non-Jew avoid waste.
lican ticket or claims the distinc-
alike. He is richly deserving of high
tion of having once heard Trotzky
speak in New York.
honor. He is extremely capable of carry-
Happy is the nation of average
ing out his duties. In the fullness of time,
men. It is a healthy nation. The
the strength that he adds to the Federal
The day was hot and sticky. A motor- Jews had a writer who signed
bench will redound to the benefit and >ist, hurrying home, cut sharply in front himself "Ahad Haam," "One of
credit of the whole community.
of a bus. There was a screeching of the People." So what? So he was
writer.
brakes. Everyone in the bus was hurled an exceptionally A good
WRITER.
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Congratulations
A Little Child Wept
The End of the World
When Adam and Eve *ere expelled
from the Garden of Eden, it was because
of the fear that they might eat of the
Tree of Life and discover the secret of
life and death.
Man has not yet discovered the secret
of life but he knows a great deal about
how to bring death and destruction into
being.
The explosions of the atom bomb were
described as awesome and magnificent in
appearance. When mankind enters into
the secrets of nature, it discovers that
nature is built on a grand scale which
makes its own creations seem puny by
comparison.
The forces of destruction of nature are
enormous beyond human understanding.
Almost the only comparable force that
can guide mankind is the force of reli-
gion.
A human being may not be able to dis-
cover or understand the pattern or plan.
He is guided by emotions he does not
understand and can hardly control. Those
emotions are the same as they were thou-
sands of years ago. There are still the
same loves, fears, hates and desires as
there were in the dawn of humanity.
If ever there was a time when the
forces of religion and its control over
mankind should be brought into being,
now is that time. Not organized religion
with beautiful buildings, high sounding
sermons or oft repeated prayers.
What is necessary now is the funda-
mental, basic religion by which man feels
himself in tune with the infinite. If there
is enough of this in human beings, then
there is hope for the future. If not, then
the end of the world, so often prophe-
sied, is in view.
Out of Our Fullness
Despite all the reams of print in the
newspapers, with all the exhortation of
powerful speakers, with all the vivid
pictures of starving people all over the
world, the waste of food in this country
is still colossal.
A party of four walked into a Jewish
restaurant in this city and sat down at a
table. The waiter approached to clear
away what had been left by the people
who had sat there before.
There had been left on that table
enough food to feed three starving hu-
man beings. There was bread on the ta-
ble and butter. There was meat and po-
tatoes. There were vegetables and fruit.
There was enough tea to satisfy three.
to the ground.
The passengers picked themselves up.
One woman lay still on the ground. Her
back was broken. Near her stood her lit:
tie three-year-old child, weeping bitterly.
There were kindly hands to lift the
woman to the ambulance. There were
sympathetic souls to soothe the weeping
child. Probably a jury will subsequently
hear the case and will award damages.
But life cannot be brought back to a
woman who is dead. A three-year-old
child is motherless because a motorist
was in a hurry.
Remember that traffic accidents take
a larger toll of human lives annually
than the war. The next life may be your
own.
If the thought of a little child weeping
bitterly is distressing to you, let that
thought come before you start driving
recklessly, not after.
The Defeat of Senator Wheeler
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Book Review
LEON SAUNDERS
Confessions of a European Intellectual
Some time ago we on these
pages delved Into the subject of
intelligentsia. These intellectuals
were and are the constant tar-
gets of ridicule by the "doers"
and the low-brows and are called
long hairs and spineless talkers,
incapable of achieving anything.
Someone even defined an infelec-
tual as one "Who eats herring
and looks at Picasso"; just the
same, it is from them that ideas
and thoughts generate and turn
into action things which move
the world ahead Into progress.
The book before us bearing the
above title is by Franz Schoen-
berner, the former editor of the
famous "Simpicissimus", the Ber-
lin satirical magazine, which oc-
cupied just as an important place
in the history of culture as the
London "Punch", except that the
cartoons and drawings were of a
vastly more superior artistic
quality than the latter.
Even the Russian ''Satiricon",
edited by the late Averchenko,
was not apt to the internationally.
known publication.
The "Confessions" is an auto-
biography of an honest man, who
was caught by the tayfun of
Hitlerism in Germany and who
escaped at tho last moment from
of the man-eating
top
octopus.
He
He was born during the days
of Bismarck and went through
all the vicissitudes of the Intel-
lectuals, meeting famous people,
and leading a life full of zest
and interest. When he was edi-
tor, he helped young artists nd
writers, and in connection w
that, he tells a story about Freud.
A young psychiatrist came to
Freud and told him about hl!.
passisa_ for helping everybody.
Freud nodded and replied: "I
thought as much, you are a
sadist."
Franz Schoenberner is not an
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The defeat of U.S. Senator Burton K.
Wheeler of Montana, leading isolationist
in the Senate, for renomination, will be
welcomed by people of good will all over
this country. During the campaign, Sena-
tor Wheeler, posing as a martyr, kept
telling the people of Montana that "the CREDIT WHERE CREDIT IS DUE
Communists, Jews and Wall Street" had
conspired to assure his defeat. But ac-
tually his own sinister, rabble-rousing
tactics disgusted the more intelligent vot-
ers of Montana, who are luckily enough
in the majority and who "conspired" to
lick Wheeler.
While celebrating the defeat of dema-
goguery and ill will in Montana, we
should nevertheless not become over-op-
timistic about the chances in the near
future of overcoming the ignorance, fear
and hatred upon which the rabble-rous-
ers feed in various parts of the country,
particularly the poorer sections of the
South. The victory of Senator Bilbo in
(I;IE COUNTRY IS
the recent Democratic primaries in Mis-
SURE PROUD OF IT:
FARMERS. YOU'VE MADE
sissippi is surely no cause for rejoicing
US THE BEST4E0
on our part, while the big vote cast by
NATION ON EARTH!
"Gene" Talmadge for Governor of Geor-
gia should also give pause for sober re-
flection.
Poverty and ignorance breed fear, and
fear in turn breeds hatred toward mino-
rity racial and religious groups on the
part of the majority. While condemning
the rabble-rousers who utilize this fear
and hatred for their own personal advan-
tage, let us, nevertheless, not be blind to
the root causes of the situation. Proper
diagnosis can be a first step in the di-
rection of a cure.
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