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Friday, September 6, 1946

CLIFTON AVENUE - CINCINNATI 20, OHIO

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

Strictly Confidential

Detroiter Abendpost
Takes Crack at Jews

German Paper Here Is One in Group
Discounting Fascism in the Reich

By PIIINEAS K. BIRON

The Voice of the
Man in the Street

The Jewish Chronicle will pay
$1.00 to the person whose question
is used in this column. Mail your
questions to the Jewish Chronicle,
525 Woodward Ave., Detroit 20.
Photos by ERIC BENNETT
Staff Photographer

TIME: Sunday afternoon.
PLACE: Dexter boulevard.
QUESTION: IIow can anti-
Sernitism be prevented from
growing in Detroit?
(Submitted by Melvin 5Ierzon
2615 Taylor avenue.)

HE PRESS did not pay sufficient attention to a study directed
by Arnold Forster, national director of the legal department for
the Anti-Defamation League. This study was based on an analysis
of 150 German language newspapers in this country,
Forster says that the major portion of the German press in
America maintains that fascism has been more
prevalent in the Roosevelt administration and Tru-
man administration than in Hitlerite Germany." MRS. B. SAPERSTEIN, 2921 Ful-
lerton avenue, Wayne University
The Detroiter Abendpost for Instance published
student.
only recently such choice items as "The attorney
Anti-Semitism should be at-
general of New York, Nathaniel L. Goldstein, re- tacked at its roots. I think this
quests that the state privileges of the Ku Klux can best be done in the schools,
Klan be taken away. If we were named 'Nathaniel
especially
L. Goldstein' we would do exactly the same."
among the
Another typical item reads, In a newspaper we
young children.
There is a pro-
saw a picture from Paris 'Secretary Byrnes and
P. K. Biron
gram going on
hiS advisor, Ben Cohen' . . . this explains a lot of
our so-called foreign policy." We agree fully with Arnold Forster
in Springfield,
Mass. in which
that ''Democracy, world peace, and the United States Government
the schools at-
are today once again taking a beating in the pages of the German-
American press" • . •
tempt to teach
youngsters bro-
Herbert A. Kent, president of the P. Lorrillard Tobacco Co. is
therly love
a one man inter-faith organization in action.
through plays,
We happened to run across a trade paper called "Retailer's
art contribu.
Guide," in which we read that Kent is one of the pillars of the
— ions of various
tobacco and allied trade division of the United Appeal . . . that divi-
sion pledged $500,000 toward the 35 million dollar quota for Greater races and within the classrooms.
I also think that veteran's groups
New York.
can do a great deal in this mat-
Kent not only contributed handsomely but pledged his full
ter. This shouldn't be confined to
cooperation. Few people know that Kent has for many years
Jewish War Veterans only but to
been a liberal contributor to and an effective worker on behalf
all such organizations.
of the Federation of Jewish Charities. Men like Kent give hope
Inter-cultural relations between
for a better day in interfaith relations. . . .
* • •
Jews and Gentiles through the
Detroit Round-Table has and can
Postal Permit Spreading Anti-Semitism
continue to do much toward les-
HE AMERICAN Jewish Labor Council is to be congratulated sening friction.
for sponsoring a two hour stoppage of the dry goods industry
in New York to protest against British military terror against the
MISS MILDRED WEDES, 3778 W.
Jewish people in Palestine.
Chicago boulevard, bookkeeper.
The office of the Postmaster General advises us that it cannot
If Christian churches would
interfere with the anti-Semitic mailings by the Protestant War Vet..
erans of the United States Inc., 1211-A Connecticut avenue, Washing- stress the fact that Christ was a
ton, D. C. . . . Post office regulations permit the spreading of Jew and not the victim of Jews.
anti-Semitism, as long as the "outside cover or wrapper of mail a great deal of
anti - Semitism
matter is free of 'scurrilous and defamatory matter'".
The Hebrew Committee of National Liberation will gain great could be elim-
strength from James Roosevelt, the new president of the California inated.
Most people
chapter of the American League for a Free Palestine . .. James,
eldest son of the late President, is taking his new duty very seriously. acquire racial
hatred in their
Dr. Joshua L Liebnian's book "Peace of Mind" is compiling a
childhood days
terrific sales record . . . We achieved a perfect peace of mind—
so it is only
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logical to wipe
out this feeling
in its early
stages. This can
be d one in :ot"ty, o
churches and schools.
I think that if Jews would stay
among themselves and not push
themselves upon Gentiles, there
would be less anti-Semitism in
Detroit and all over.

T

T

Page Three

Personal Problems

Be Natural in Choice
of Clothes, Makeup

Let Your Personality and Occasion
Warn You From Extremes in Either

By DR. W. A. GOLDBERG

A

STREET CAR or bus, loaded with people going to work, is one
good place to study human nature. For that reason I wish some-
one would Invent a watch which shows daytime hours and night-
time hours. Judged by the way they dress, some women can't tell
the difference.
When is it permissible to wear slacks downtown? Almost never!
The only exception is when women work in fac-
tories where long hair and dresses are dangerous.
Yet many women wear slacks and are not too
much concerned about the unflattering appearance
it gives them.
A date calls for rouge, lipstick, makeup, powder,
nail polish and perfume with eye shadow and
mascara if the face and figure can take it. Yet, at
eight in the morning, some women give the im-
pression they are going on a date. They have
fussy clothes, hats and bags suitable for anything
but work.
At the other extreme are those women who
dress as if to obliterate themselves entirely. No
Dr. Goldberg
rouge, lipstick, nail polish, powder, a rag for a
dress and a pattern of food stains and dandruff all over. On the
other side, we have nicknamed two women, who use heavy perfume,
"smell-me-a-mile-away" gals.

•
Personality is Good Basic Guide

•

W

HAT CAN BE the basic guide? The only determinants must
be the personality of the individual plus the occasion. Striking
build and appearance call for striking dress. They can get away
with flamboyant clothes.
On most ordinary people, such styles look the very devil. The
outsider takes one look and laughs. They compare with the sixty-
year old women with their varicose-veined piano legs. The dresses
are above the knees. The hair Is a brilliant red ofi a shoddy
glistening black. The face is layered with powder and rouge. Yet
every wrinkle shrieks their age in their fantastic attempts to
appear 20.
But right behind her is another person who may be young or
old. The face glows with radiance, with inner happiness. You can
see the face without unpeeling the makeup. Clothes are modestly
styled, adorned by one small trinket which adds to the picture in-
stead of cluttering it up.
It is like the very plain gold locket shown to me recently whose
beauty is enhanced by a plain black or neutral dress. The dress is
the setting for the person, rather than a counter-attraction. If the
person were intended to show off the dress, better results could be
had by hanging it on a dummy.

*
Radiance of Older Women is Contagious

w

E SEE, TOO, an older woman walking down the street. Her
smile and face reflect character. There is a clean, scrubbed
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Capital Letter

Plain Talk

Final Truman View
on Palestine Debated

Jewish State Demand
Called Fatal Mistake

Vague Statements Lead the British
to Infer President May Compromise

EDDIE M. LOWRANCE, 3830 Col-
lingwood avenue, plant guard.
I am not a Jew myself but have
always lived in a Jewish neigh-
borhood and get along fine with

them.

When my first
child was born,
all my Jewish
friends came
over to give

By CHARLOTTE WEBER

T

HERE IS confusion in Washington these days over two con-
flicting impressions growing out of President Truman's failure
to make clear how he stands on the Grady-Morrison plan for fed-
eralization of Palestine.
The first impression was created by lack of any public rejection
of the plan by the President. It was supported by his subsequent act
of sending "suggestions" to be incorporated into the original plan.
It has been interpreted by the British and others to mean that
the President will eventually approve the plan provided his four
suggestions are followed.
Truman suggested that the plan be altered in the following
manner:
1. That the Jewish territory be 15 per cent larger than orig-
inally proposed.
2. That the individual Jewish and Arab territories be granted
more autonomy to govern themselves.
3. That the partition of Palestine be completed within two
years.
3. That Individual provinces have the power to control im-
migration.
None of these suggestions negates the basic principle of the plan,
that of dividing Palestine into separate districts.
British sources here have let it be known that they feel the
President will go along with the London government on the par-
tition plan, at least as a basis for continuing consultation.
They also believe that he personally approves the plan but feels
that he cannot make a public statement to that effect because the
American public is not yet ready to accept it.
That is the first impression as created by recent developments.
It is perhaps the impression that would have lasted but fur a series
of events which began shortly after the President put out to sea on
his vacation trip.

••

Crum's Sidetalks Have Double Significance

D ARTLEY C. CRUM, former member of the Anglo-American

1..) Committee of inuiry, was speaker at a luncheon sponsored by
the American Christian Palestine Committee. The luncheon was well at-
tended by administration leaders—Secretary of the Treasury John W.
Snyder, Joe Berger, an aid of Robert Hannagan, chairman, Demo-
cratic Committee, and others—and was chaired by Oscar Chapman,
Under Secretary of the Interior.
Although Snyder left before Crum began his speech he spent
several minutes talking earnestly with Crum before the meeting.
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Angered Arabs Bolster Opposition
to New Immigration, Writer Declares

their eongratu.

tenons and ma-
ny brought

gifts.
I don't think

there is any.
p• r-, thing that Jews,
"1•- themselves, can
do about wiping out anti-Semitism.
So many people are ignorant that
they haven't learned any better.
Jews are okay as they are but
we'll always have this problem
until people in the United States
learn to live as one big happy
family.

DAVE YUCIIT,

9919 McQuade
avenue, owner of Kelly Clean-
ers, Dexter boulevard.
The Jews have themselves to
blame for anti-Semitism.
A great many of them are so
greedy and use
such cut-throat
methods in busi-
ness that there
is bound to be
this ill - feeling.
They are much
worse than
Gentiles in that
respect.
Colored peo-
ple, especially,
hate Jews. They
don't like to
work for them and arc jealous
because Jews have a lot of money.
There will always be anti-Sem.
Itism as long as Jews are so
greedy.

By ALFRED SEGAL

WAS WALKING down Fifth street in our town when the incident
befell me in which I was taken into brotherly association with
e Zionists. I had been regarded as a kind of Ishmael in Zion.
You can read about Ishmael in Genesis 16-12: "And he (Ishmael)
will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every
man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in
the presence of all his brothers."
It appears from this that he was considered to
be a brother but not in very good standing. He
is reputed to have been the father of the Arabs.
Yet the Zionist I met on Fifth street proved to
be a rare one who can look with compassion upon
the erring brother who doesn't agree with him.
In our own town recently, Zionists refused to meet
around the same table with anti-Zionists (Council
for American Judaism) who desired to join with
them in a protest against British action in the
matter of keeping homeless Jews out of Palestine.
Alfred Segal
Such is the divisive intransingence of many a Zionist who in
his personal relations may be an agreeable character.
So when this Zionist approached me with open arms and
smiling countenance, my sins no longer felt so heavy upon me
and, anyway, at this moment, in this block on Fifth street, I
wasn't outcast among my brethren.
His talk was immediately of Palestine and what did I think of
the latest events? I am a man who returns kindness for kindness and,
grateful to this brother who w as willing to give Ishmael a break,
I replied with gentle reproof.
"If it hadn't been for you Zionists things in Palestine might not
be as bad as they are," I said softly. "You made a terrible mistake."
"How so?" he asked.

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Antagonism Is Usually a Fatal Mistake

A
A

FATAL MISTAKE—the way you emphasized your demand for
a Jewish state in Palestine in the recent years. You antagonized
the Arabs, and Arab dature is human nature when it comes to the
threat of being governed by newcomers.
"By demanding a Jewish state you made it hard even for only
100,000 Jews to make a home in Palestine. The homeless Jews have
no reason to be thankful to the Zionist leaders."
A light of brotherly recognition illuminated the Zionist's face
"I agree with you!" he exclaimed. He extended his hand for a warm .
clasp .
"I welcome you among us as a good Zionist" . . . He was
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