Friday, September 27, 1946 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle Page Ten by us At MAIN STREET--THE JEWISH THOROUGHFARE By PHILIP RUBIN Main Street — an outgrowth of the old market-place—is still pri- marily a place fo'r the sale and exchange of goods. But it is some- thing more than that. It is also the place where the bright lights, the glamor of a town are con- centrated and where entertain. ment and culture, of some sort, is distributed for a price. It is not the place where the most important work of the world is done. On Main Street are not located• the world's farms and factories and mines, nor are books written or music created on that thoroughfare. Main Street does not produce. It only exchanges and distributes, whether the things it handles be material products or human services or the products of culture. This is not to say that Main Street is an altogether useless place, only that its usefulness is not primary and fundamental, but secondary. Main Street facilitates our economic life, It makes things easier for all of us but in a pinch we could live without it, so we could hardly live without the farm or the factory or the mine. On Main Street are most of the Jewish business establishments. We Jews are attracted to Main Street, and quite naturally so. Since we are a people with a commercial tradition, Main Street winks to us as the place to do business in. Our whole history in the Diaspora has been the history of our attempt to get out of the Ghetto and get on Main Street where the chances for advance- ment were bright. At times the results were very tragic — the "goyim" got jealous and kicked us right back into the Ghetto, if they didn't do anything worse to us as they recently did in Ger- many and Poland. But in most countries the so-called Jewish Emancipation of a century and a half ago succeeded in establishing and maintaining us pretty tightly on Main Street. And so we are there still. Perhaps what has also attract us Jews to Main Street, besides its commercial possibilities, are the aforementioned bright lights, glamor, bustle and, as in the case with the bigger Main Streets, the very noise of it. Most Jews seem to dislike and fear the very quiet places; they might take out their cars for a drive in the country and whisk by the farms and fields on the side roads, but they would not like to live there. As between the highways and byways of the world, Jews much prefer the high- ways. It must be our specific Jew- ish nourosis, our restlessness, that is attracted by tumult and re- pelled by quiet. Perhaps it has something to do with our passion for being in the limelight or to bask in the reflected glory of others, this passion for the bright lights of Main Street which we cial animals, and Main Street, where everybody meets everybody else, finally became our Jewish gathering place, once the walls of the Ghetto had crumbled and once the synagogue lost a great deal of its importance as the Jew- ish House of Assembly (Both Ha- Keneseth) and became only a House of Prayer (Beth Hatefila). I've said that we Jews are so- cial animals. But that doesn't im- ply that we are very sociable. Outside of Palestine, and perhaps Russia, we cling to each other, not always because we want to NEW YEAR'S MESSAGE from FRANK X. MARTEL Permit me to take this occasion to felicitate the Jewish peo- ple upon this, the 5707th New Year of the Jbwish calendar. The Jewish people of America, many of whom are members of our Federation of Labor, and the Jewish people generally throughout the world, arc receiving more interest this year as a result of world conditions which have witnessed untold suffer- ing of the Jewish people and outrages beyond the comprehension of the human mind. That these devilish depredations were carried on openly by the fiendish leaders of anti-social movements is, beyond question, one of the darkest pages in the history of the human family. But that the leaders of so-called democratic nations continue concentration camps for Jews and a denial of their national as- piration for the re-establishment of a home for Jews in Pales. tine is a contradiction of the high-sounding principles that the leaders of the democratic nations have so often enunciated.. Let us all unite in hope that these evil days that have vis. ited such hardship on the Jewish people will soon pass and that humanity and justice will recognize the rights of the Jewish peo- ple to be treated on an equal basis with God's children every- where. May your people continue to have the courage and fortitude to bear with their problems and to continue to struggle for Rosh Hashonah Greetings to all Rosh Hashonah Greetings to all LA BELLE Furs 3142 FENKELL UNiversity 1.0220 And Best Wishes to The Entire Jewish Community LORENZEN'S Flower Shop "Detroit's Theatrical Florist" Flowers For All Occasions We Deliver Member Florists' PLUMBING Telegraph Everywhere Association 2869 E. GRAND BLVD. 4710 CASS AVE, MA. 3412 TE. 1.2320 Rosh Hashonah L To Serve You All Ways — Call TOwnsend 8-6232 N Goldfarb Bonding Mr. and Mrs. Samuel G. 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Our Jewish restlessness, the re- had to huddle together for our sults of centuries of abnormal life survival, we became extremely so among people who didn't want us, has made us ever-ambitious and this in turn has given rise to a superficial vanity, to a lack of New Year's modesty and poise, which is only Greetings to all the outward expression of uncer- tainty and an inferiority complex. First it was others who did not DR. S. S. RAIZIN allow us to till the soil and to strike deep roots in the lands of Chiropodist our habitation. Gradually we be- came accustomed to this and un- 36 W. ADAMS certain and finally, as human iner- tia will always exhibit itself, we CH. 0925 came to love it. Because of our history of per- New Year's Greetings from elj is] ma • justice. Frank X. Martel, President DETROIT AND WAYNE COUNTY FEDERATION OF LABOR. Rosh Hashonah Greetings to all th We Devoted Forget Jew LIEUT. ROY F. 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