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Friday, Sept. 13, 1946
CLIFTON AVENUE - CINCINNATI 20, 01110
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
Strictly Confidential
Negro Paper Fights
N.Y. Anti-Semitism
Myth of Jewish Guilt for Crucifixion
Counteracted by the People's Voice
By PIIINEAS K. BIRON
T
HE PEOPLE'S VOICE, New York's foremost Negro newspaper
is carrying on a splendid campaign to counteract anti-Semitic
propaganda among Negroes. We read the other day in a column
One God—One People" a wonderful piece on "Who Crucified Jesus
Christ?" . . . The writer completely demolished the myth that "The
Jews" were guilty and gave an accurate picture of the divided Jewish
community in the days of Pilate, ruler of Rome.
Non-Negro papers should reprint that column every year around
Easter and Christmas time.
"The Jewish Community of Winnipeg," a statistical study by
Louis Rosenberg, director of the
research bureau, Canadian Jewish would expose him. Yes, Rabbi
Congress, is the Landman knew how to fight .. .
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most compre.
hensive booklet GOOD JOB IN POLAND
on a Jewish 13EUBEN SALZMAN, general
community ever
secretary of the Jewish Peo-
to come to our ples' Fraternal Order has just er-
attention.
turned from a 10-week visit to
We recom- Europe. Five of those 10 weeks
mend it to our Salzman spent in Poland.
social workers
Salzman had a two-hour in-
in this country. terview with Ignaci 1Vzosh, head
It will teach of the commissariat for Jewish
P. K. Biron
them how to affairs. Wzosh outlined a broad
analyze, evaluate and dissect the plan strengthening the Jewish
development of Jewish communal position in Poland. Salzman
life.
distributed 22,310,000 zlotys in
Isaac Landman should not be the name of the of the Jewish
remembered as the man who op- People's Fraternal Order to help
posed Zionism at the famous 1921, in the rebuilding of Jewish life
session of the Foreign Affairs in I'oland. That's a constructive
Committee of the House of Rep- job, Mr. Salzman.
Mrs. Cecile Reiss reports that
resentatives . . . He was a ver-
satile, courageous rabbi who in. her son, Robert, nine years old,
sisted on his independence. There was beaten up, thrown into thorn
were times when he not only de- bushes and held prisoner by older
fied his own trustees but stood up boys for several hours . . . The
reason: When asked by this gang
against the most powerful Jewish
whether he was Catholic he an-
organizational leadership.
swered: "No, I am a Jew" . . .
We know of at least one inci- Such incidents are reported to us
dent when he stormed into the from many distficts in Greater
sanctum sanctorum of a well- New York.
The police usually qualify these
known Christian clergyman in
Brooklyn. He told the gentleman cases as belonging to the "Juve-
nile Delinquency" heading . . .
that his good-will pronouncements
Actually these incidents are clear-
were phony and that unless he ly anti-Semitic .. The Reiss case
would call off his associates of the is just another example .. . It is
Christian Front, he, Landlnan, one too many.
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T15IE: 2:30 p.m.
PLACE: Dexter at Glynn court.
QUESTION: Should men who
spread racial hate be allowed
freedom of speech in the Uni-
ted States?
Personal Problems
In Selecting a Mate
Avoid Differences
Pick One Who Is More Like Yourself
in Culture, Education, Age, Religion
By DR, W. A. GOLDBERG
N LOOKING FOR a mate, there are certain types of individuals
to be avoided. They mean you no good. They bring unhappiness
1o considerable
everyone they meet. Marriage between normal people requires
adjustment, without being handicapped by unnecessary
burdens.
DON FREEDLANDER, 3754 Col-
Changing the basic attitudes of people is professional work.
lingwood avenue, Wayne Uni-
Amateurs merely reap heartaches for their efforts.
versity student.
Marked divergences and oddities. We all get along best
There should be restrictions of people most like us. We get along worst with those different with
from
some sort on men like Gerald L. us. Such differences may be in religion, culture,
race, money, post-
K. Smith and others, but it's hard tion, education, manners, age.
to say just where one should draw
Few people can successfully fight and cleanliness before marriage.
the line.
so el al pres- A new leaf will not be turned af-
People with
sures. We are ter marriage. Disorder will con-
common sense
most comfort- tinue.
able when we
should be able
The dependent person who
remain within must ask mother or aunt Min-
to d I s tinguish
our own back- nie first before making any de-
between what
grounds. While cision will not suddenly mature.
is good and
it can be done That person can be expected to
what is bad but
sucessfully, the remain tied to apron strings
u n f ortunately
ordinary person all his life.
they don't al-
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should not be.
ways do that.
gin marriage SEEKS OUTSIDE THRILLS
Since that is
with the uncer-
HE ROAMING EYE feels in-
the case and
tainty of mark-
secure and cannot give or take
since many of the' hate-mongers
Dr. Goldberg
ed differences.
mature love with a wife or hus-
persist in going over the border
Youth will say that these things band. For his own ego satlsfac.
with their bias, I think restric-
tions should be placed on their make no difference to them; they tion, that person keeps looking
may really believe it. But they for new thrills among outsiders.
access to radio and press.
This is really a ticklish prob- speak of immediate things. They With love before him or her, he
lem since freedom of speech is do not think of the many years cannot use it but must prove to
written in our Constitution. Yet when they wish they had corn- himself or herself that love can
mon interests to sustain them.
be had elsewhere.
something should be done.
Age. Also to be avoided are peo-
It's not my fault is the ready
ple who are as much as five or answer of the shirker. Ile does
more years older or younger than not face life before him. lle is
MRS. BELLE BAKER, 0916 Ilol- each other.
perfect; everybody else is to
mur avenue, housewife.
The reformer wishes to change blame for his difficulties. This
you to his or her way of life. That person will be no help in mar-
I think it's perfectly all right person is usually an unhappy per- riage.
to express our views on our Pres- son, who has not made the life
The cripple with a disabling
ident and other political leaders adjustment for himself. His un-
mental or physical defect often
but when it
happiness will not be solved by brings an unnatural life for both
comes to the
changing you.
partners. A male mate must earn
spreading of
The jumper or the irritable or the living for his family since in-
racial hate —
nervous person, the unstable who come security is basic to all mar-
has basic dissatisfactions with riage. This burden should not be
that's some-
life, who is supercritical, means assumed out of pity.
thing else. In
no good to a mate.
The drug user, the drunk, the
restricting free-
The slob has not learned order
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dom of speech
we should just
confine it t o
this one group.
We should even
go as far as to
have on-the-street arrests of in-
dividuals for racial slander.
Freedom of speech is the best
thing in the world, but as in the
case of most good things, people
usually abuse it.
Plain Talk
English Paper Scoffs
at U.S. Intolerance
Says 'America Has Nerve' Attacking
British Acts in Palestine and India
A
The Voice of the
Man in the Street
Pao Three
By CHARLOTTE WEBER
A
N ENGLISH paper, the London Sunday Pictorial, recently car-
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ried an illustrated double-page spread on the lynchings that had
taken place at Monroe, Ga., and observed editorially that "America
has nerve" to attack British action in Palestine and India.
During the war, when members of the Office of War Information
lectured in England trying to bring the two English speaking peo-
ples closer by better understanding of American customs, they were
asked to explain the American paradox of permitting racial discrimi-
nation to exist in a country that professes democracy.
British criticism of our failures on the domestic scene would be
unfortunate at any time, cape
daily an attack with such a large ing racial animosity and anti-
element of truth in it.
Semitism when applying for a
The article in the London paper license to operate an FM radio
included quotations from the station.
United States Constitution and the
A synagogue in Massachussetts
Declaration of Independence re- was twice desecrated. A, Jewish
garding freedom and the rights cemetery in New Jersey was par-
of the individual.
tially destroyed, the tombstones
The Georgian incident, the overturned and broken.
story read, "may well make ar-
The Jewish community of
guable the competence of the
Sommers, N. Y., possible future
United States to offer tuition in
home of the United Nations,
delnocracy to other nations."
We can hardly call the criticism proposed to build a new syna-
4 ,\ \ unjust
when we take a look in gogue in their town but were
t our own back yard. Polls and warned by rumors spread by
surveys taken early this year some of the townspeople that it
would be destroyed as soon as
,., showed that discrimination in em-
ployment Was sharply on the in- it was built.
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crease.
ACHESON HASN'T REPLIED
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ONGRESSM AN ADOLPH
MICHIGAN A CENTER
Sabath is back in his office
I N AUGUST the Justice Depart-
' ment announced that it had after a week under observation
begun investigation of the Ku at the Naval Hospital. He has
Klux Klan in seven states—New not yet received a reply from
York, Michigan, Tennesee, Florida, Acting Secretary of State Dean
California, Mississippi and Geor- Acheson to his letter in support
gia—and two other states were of the charges made by Bartley
making their own investigations, Crum that "middle level" officials
indicating the growth of the Klan of the State Department were
and its activities since the end of frustrating American policy re-
the war.
garding Palestine.
In the letter Sabath said that
A large newspaper In New York
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was recently charged with foster-
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CA
Nazi Victim Returns
as Hometown Mayor
MADELINE UDO1V, 3788 Tyler
avenue, stenographer.
Once you restrict one group's
freedom of speech, you imme-
diately jeopardize the Bill of
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Rights of o u r
Constitution.
I per sonally
• would like to
see these m e n
put In their
proper place
but I can't see
how this would
be possible un-
der our demo-
cratic form of
government. To
say what we think has been a
wonderful liberty which has help-
ed us grow into a great nation.
Besides, who's going to decide
who should and who should not
have freedom of speech?
ALBERT GORDON, 3359 Cortland
avenue, owner of A S J Market,
Dexter boulevard.
People should be able to say
what they want to. That is one
of the big things we fought for
and that makes the United States
the greatest
country in the
world.
Once you
start restricting
one group, you
find you are
soon curbing
others. That's
what happened
in Germany
and that should
teach us not to
favor the curtail ment of liberties.
The problem, it seems to me,
isn't so much in stopping hate-
spreaders from speaking as it is
in educating the listener.
Concentration Camp Inmate Raised
to Office in Poetic Justice Gesture
By ALFRED SEGAL
LIKE TO OBSERVE the way justice does come around with
I exquisite poetry from time to time, even though it may be a
thousand years from one time to the next. Particularly the Jews,
since they have seen much and been hurt much, may feel their
hearts warmed up from looking at poetic justice in its rare appear-
ances.
You see, for example, 2000 years ago the Emperor Titus built
an arch to celebrate the sacking of Jerusalem by the soldiers of the
Roman empire. After 2000 years, the Roman empire is dust in his-
tory and there are no people left to call Roman. But the Jews still
are getting around in the world
and are back in Jerusalem where, the quick cycle of every few
on top of the
y
years. I found it in Sig and Sol
holy city, they -
Bettigheimer's hat store in our
have built a
town.
great university
When I had fitted my new
that stancls
fall hat to my countenance and
m u c h higher
it had been wrapped, the Messrs.
than the arch
Bettigheimer gave me the story
of Titus In
of their cousin Bettigheimer of
Rome — a mere
Klein Eichsholzheim in Ger.
antique.
many. He came out of a con-
That's poetic
centration camp to be elevated
justice in its
to mayor of his town.
rarest form, but Alfred Segal
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none of the Jews who suffered at A CONFUSING FATE
the sacking of Jerusalem are here
ACK IN THE THIRTIES the
to enjoy it. The pleasure belongs
fate that fell upon Klein
to their remote descendants two
thousand years later, and, even E chsholzheim was horribly con-
they, because of their current fusing to its Jewish citizens. It
pains, aren't enjoying it much. might have been more understand-
Now and then a history-minded able if the Jews had been tran-
Jew may derive some comfort sient strangers there, though in
civilized communities it is the
from it.
practice to be especially hospit-
"Well," he may say, "there was able to transients.
the Roman empire and here we
(Indeed in the record of civil!.
are. Looking at the matter along ration called Leviticus It is spe-
the broad view of history we may cifically commanded that the
confidently say that after another stranger should be treated as
2000 years it will yet turn out to one's own kin.)
be all right with the Jews."
The Jews had been in Klein
All this leads me to the story Eichsholzheim more than 200
of poetic justice in our time, of years. The old Jewish oemetery
poetic justice coming around in
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