American "(wish Periodical Center 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 .. . • • • 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. n Capital Letter 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 26. Photos by ERIC BENNETT Staff Photographer 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- • • • 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 (Continued on Page 13) 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- N 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. • crease. ACHESON HASN'T REPLIED • • • 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 (Continued on Page 10) was recently charged with foster- • • 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 4 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 • • • 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 (Continued on page 5) . t I .