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Fr iday, October 4, 1946

CLIFTON AVENUE - CINCINNATI 20, OHIO

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

Page 'Three

Strictly Confidential

No Solution in 5707
Is Prediction on Zion

Rift Between WC mul UPA Seen
as Threat to '47 Palestine Appeal

The Voice of the Personal Problems
Man in the Street

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Photos by ERIC) BENNETT
Staff Photographer

TIME: Wednesday afternoon.

By PIIINEAS K. BIRON

PREDICTIONS FOR 5707: The Jewish Palestine question will still
be unanswered . . . A new British commission will be considering
the "problem" . . . Dr. Chaim Weizmann will still be president of
the World Zionist Organization . . . A debate will be raging on whether
the American Jewish Conference should be liquidated . . .
A survey will show that anti-Semitism is on the increase in
America . . . Dr. Stephen S. Wise
will head a Jewish delegation to of establishing "the Council for
the Soviet Union . . . Rabbi Israel Progressive Culture" . . . Avraham
Goldstein's proj- Shlonsky, eminent Hebrew poet, is
ect of a non- the chairman of the council . . .
sectarian Jew.
Applying to a national vet-
ish univer sit y erans' organization for a char-
will still be a ter, a group that fought in the
project because U.S. forces in World War II re-
of lack of funds. ceived a runaround, apparently
The Anti-Defa- because of the color of their
mation League skin, since they are from India...
and the Ameri. So they formed the "Moslem
can Jewish Veterans of American Wars"...
Committee will In their announcement the Mos-
P. K. Biron
run separate lems specify that "there is no
fund-raising campaigns . . . A dis- color line" in their veterans'
pute between the JDC and the organization . . .
United Palestine Appeal will
* * *
threaten the United Jewish Ap- BIGOT EXPOSED
peal campaign for 1947. . . Ru-
mors will be circulated about the NOTE TO THE EDITORS: Re-
member the name Jack Wood-
establishment of a Jewish daily in
English . . . The two major par- ford . . . He is the author of such
ties, the Democratic and Repub- books as "Trial and Error" and
lican, girding their loins for the "How to write for Money" , .. He
presidential elections, will promise poses as a mentor to young writ-
full support to Zionist aspirations ers ... But if you take the trouble
in Palestine . . . No, we are not to read Mr. Woodford's articles in
too pessimistic . . . But we may one of the many magazines he
uses to dispense his wisdom you
be wrong—and hope we are .. .
will find that Mr. Woodford is a
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dangerous rabble-rouser and a no-
TURNS APOSTATE
torious Jew baiter.
POT POURRI: John Rothstein,
His most recent diatribe is
son of the late Sir William published in the "Independent
Rothstein, the famous painter, is Writer" issued by "The Black-
not very proud of his Jewish heri- stone Press" in Sommerville,
tage .. . As a matter of fact, to N. J. Beware of contributions
judge from a letter written to from Jack Woodford . . .
Franz Landsberger of Cincinnati,
Edmund Wilson's "Memoirs of
John Rothstein seems to have Hecate County" was banned in
abandoned the faith of his fathers Boston for allegedly pornographic
and would prefer to conceal his passages . . . We didn't find any
connection with it . . .
pornography in this well-written
On Oct. 11, a convention is to be volume, but discovered a decidedly
held in Palestine for the purpose anti-Semitic reference . . .

Capital Letter

Rights Statute
Fails to Do Full Job

Civil

Affords Only Weak Safeguards
in. Case of Race Riots, Bigotry

By CHARLOTTE WEBER

IT

IS INCOMPREHENSIBLE to Negro victims of mob violence and
assault that their civil rights have not been violated according to
the law. It is hard to understand rejection from an educational insti-
tution because of race or religion quotas and realize that, technically,
no law has been violated.
It is difficult to buck discriminatory employment practices and
know that there is no law that
can be invoked against the em- enabling the department to in-
ployer who indulges his prejudice crease the influence of the statutes
during business hours. somewhat.
The Assistant Attorney General
Tho most widely applied of
of the United States, Theron La- these two statutes deals with
mar Caudle, speaking before the abuses arising when persons are
North Carolina bar association re- deprived of their civil rights tin-
cently, described the mounting so- der color of law. It is the statute
cial tension that has developed as under which are prosecuted vio-
a by-product of reconversion.
lations of the Bill of Rights and
He bitterly denounced those
the fourteenth and fifteenth
"misguided individuals" w h o
amendments.
seek to perpetuate "the alien
Under these articles are secured
concepts which we fought to
the individual's right to freedom
\ stamp out abroad—the turning
of speech, religion and the press;
of one man's hand against an- freedom to assemble peaceably;
other because of differences in to petition the government and to
race, creed or color . • • "
pursue a lawful calling.

NEED BETTLK*PAOTECTION
INDICATING AN increasing
awareness of the need for bet-
ter protection of individual rights
and liberties, President Roosevelt
in 1939 asked Attorney General
Murphy to create a civil rights
section in the criminal division
of the Justice Department.
This section, by seven years of
rigorous prosecution" under two
neglected and almost forgotten
s tatutes, has placed a substantial
bodY of cage law on the books

This statute is the Department
of Justice's only authority for
prosecuting anyone who, clothed
with state or federal office or
power, willfully misuses it to de-
prive an individual of these rights.
The weakness of this statute
lies in the fact that mob violence,
lynchings and race riots—do not
come within its scope unless the
Justice Department can prove that
a state or federal officer In some
way plays a part In the mob ac-
tion.

Disunity Among Jews
Over Rites Deplored

Differences of Opinion on Customs
Should Not Bring Split in Ranks

PLACE: Dexter at Boston.

QUESTION: Do you believe
By DR. W. A. GOLDBERG
fasting should remain as an A
S YOU SIT in the sanctuary on the High Holy Days in your usual
essential part of the Yom
1-1
Kippur observance?
seat, you absorb the reverence of the occasion. Yet you also sense
the difference between this Holy Day and those of the past five years.
"You" are those who served in the armed forces and those who
stayed home; those who participated and those whose efforts were
MRS. KENNETH BOARD, 9765 indirect. This is the first peacetime Holy Day celebration in two or
N. Martindale avenue, housewife. more years.
The shooting war Is over. But boundary, the question is still un-
It is essential to retain the tradi-
the war itself is not over in in- answered, "When will the war be
tions of the Jewish religion and
in that sense it is essential to re- ternational af-
over?" Agents are among us,
fairs, in individ-
tain fasting in
spreading racial, national and in-
ual families or
our observance
ternational hate.
of Yom Kippur.
for the Jews of
When we entered this war
the
world.
Much
I think that
with our usual idealism, we
unfinished busi-
by fasting one
thought to end all distrust, all
perhaps under-
ness remains.
suspicion, all questioning of the
stands the sig_
On the home
motives of world citizens. But
nificance of Yom
front, there is
apparently we seem unready to
Kippur more
the rising spec-
than by merely
wish to live peaceably with our
tre
of
anti-Sem-
spending a day
neighbors.
itism. I, too,
in the syna-
We must seek, unfortunately,
have been the
gogue.
the advantage of our neighbors.
Dr. Goldberg
butt
of
either
a
Another thing that makes fast-
Yes, there are some who now
ing important is that it can be crackpot or an organized group. speak assuredly of the "next war"
perpetuated year after year. As One of my columns—without re-
long as this tradition involVing gard to subject matter — was for which they would have us
the physical element of man is mailed back to me with scurrilous prepare.
My friends include a number
preserved then it should be easier Jew-hating comment.
of rabbis in several parts of the
to retain the identity of Judaism
In the ranks of many families, country. I would doff my hat to
over generations.
there is the physical void of the them collectively for their work in
men who are buried in foreign spreading goodwill among the
BENJAMIN BASMAN, 2037 Ken- soils, the men who died defend- world at large. It may seem
ing then, as always, the tradi- strange but often they were the
tucky avenue, baker.
tions of their country, their faith first Jews seen by non-Jews.
Whether one should fast or not and their own existence.
For many the war has been a
should be decided entirely by the
Nothing can replace this void.
Individual. I do not think it is Some families have with them broadening experience for they
have been away from their form-
important, my-
broken bodies and disturbed minds. er limitations of working with
self, and there-
Many more have restlessness of Jews alone. Theft' congregations
fore do not cons_
their veterans, suddenly precipita- have been enriched by their new
ply with this
ted into the so-called "civilian experiences as chaplains.
part of the Yom
world."
Kippur observ-
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ance.
BETTER PROSPECTS
However, I be-
SPEAK OF NEW %'AR
THE NEXT years appear dark
FOR ALL OF US Americans on
lieve that if a
for the Jews throughout the
person feels it
both sides of the international
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is necessary to
fast, then it is
fitting and prop-
er that he do so.
One should not press this point
upon an individual who does not
believe in It.

Plain Talk

MRS. MARION AUSLANDER, 3375
Collingwood avenue, housewife.

Fasting to me has not seemed
necessary although I do observe
the rest of the Yom Kippur rites.
Observing the
High Holy Days
by going to the
synagogue and
feeling the sig-
nificance of the tl
occasion is suf-
ficient in itself
without going
through the pro-
cess of fasting.
Going without
food does not
seem to make the feeling for God
and Judaism any more fervent.
This comes through attendance at
services and by trying to extend
the good learned there. One per-
ceives the real meaning of Yom
Kippur in the synagogue.

IIARRY JACOBSON, 3240 Roches-
ter avenue, owner of Forest
theater, 1Voodward avenue.

Fasting is an integral part of
the Jewish religion and it should
be maintained as an essential fac-
tor in the Yom
Kippur observ-
ance.
Jews will find
that they re-
ceive a broader
and more ma-
ture outlook of
their religion if
they abide by
its basic prin-
ciples and ad-
here to its rites.
No one was ever hurt by fast-
ing. On the contrary, what it
takes away physically It more than
makes up tor rpiritually. Our un-
derstanding of Yom Kippur is
helped greatly by fasting.

Groups Which Seek
qattery Condemned

Demands on Time of the President
for Indorsements Labeled as Unfair

=CC

By ALFRED SEGAl.,,

D 1 1 . JACOB BILLIKOPF o Philadelphia calls my attention to a

painful matter of a kind that also hurts me acutely whenever I
come across it in our Jewish life.
Dr. Billikopf had received a pamphlet of an organization for Jew-
ish education. The pamphlet seemed fairly to beam with the pride
of the organization. Look what they had! They had obtained from
none other than the President of
the United States a letter indors- ferlor status that required bolster-
ing Jewish education. ing by political big-shots.)
*
Who could
now doubt the
AMIABILITY ABUSED
value of Jewish
OTTING THE AMIABLE and
education?
most decently obliging Presi-
Here's the
dent of the United States to in-
President of the
dorse Jewish causes has become
United S't at es
a practice, that it's timely to strip
himself saying
of its pretensions. If for no other
Jewish cduca.
reason than the protection of the
tion is all right.
President himself who currently
It was like sign-
has the whole world on his shoul-
ing a law of
Al •
ders. He really shouldn't be both-
Congress.
Alfred Segal
ered by the Anshe Geborim Jewish
There's a long
line of our prophets, sages and religious and philanthropic school.
Well, yes, let's take the case
plain rabbis behind Jewish educa-
tion but the signature of the Presi- of the Anshe Geborim institu-
dent should once and for all estab- tion. Its trustees have decided
lish the precious value of Jewish they need a million dollars to
keep going and a campaign Is
education.
started. The Anshe Geborim
This letter of the President is school has served Jewish life
not unique in Jewish propaganda. creditably enough during its
Its pattern is used by whatever many years, but the manager of
national Jewish cause or institu- the drive says something more
tion needs money or prestige. A than that is needed to get that
campaign for this or that starts million dollars!
and the first thing the promoters
His troubled countenance sud-
think of is to get the President of denly brightens. He has an idea!
the United States to approve of it. "We'll get the President of the
(As if Jewish moral, spiritual United States to indorse us!"
and religious authority were so
The trustees feel they're in the
lacking that It needs the signature presence of a master mind. It
of political officialdom to make seems to crackle electrically with
it valid! As if we were in an in-
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