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CLIFTON AVENUE - CINCINNATI 20, 01110

Friday, October 11, 1946.

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

Strictly Confidential

Boos for Hank Linked
to Ball Park Bigots

Lilienthal Slated for Atom Board;
) Danny Kaye to Act in Stage Show

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. Mall your
questions to the Jewish Chronicle,
525 Woodward Ave•, Detroit 26.

Photos by ERIO BENNETT
Staff Photographer

TIME: Sunday afternoon.

Page Three

Personal Problems

A Lox and Baygel Jew
Defends His Brethren

Food Customs are Unifying Force,
He Reminds Son .of Baygel Bender

PARKER, one of America's top sport columnists, wants to PLACE: Dexter at Rochester.
A AN
kno why a s mall clique in the Detroit ball park boos Hank QUESTION: Should Jewish boys AN OPEN LET

I

By DR. W. A. GOLDBERG
m is announced over the loudspeaker .. .
Greenberg whenever his nae
and girls have dates with non-
ER TO THE EDITOR OF THE DETROIT
Jews?
, Dan, is that there are bigots and hate mongers even in
JEWISH CHRONICLE:
grandstands
The answer, of our baseball parks
As a staunch defender of the Institution of "lox and baygel," I
Dr. Tage U. H. Ettinger, head of the department of zool
take sharp issue with a recent editorial of
ogy of
a Negro school, Howard Univer-
3292 baygel Jews."
yours assailing " lox and
site, is under fire ...He is charged Master of ceremonies, will be ac-
Taylor, Central Iligh student.
really surprise me. Afost youngsters spent their childhood
by his students, with unqualifiedly five in the election campaign of IIERBERT
LEFKOFSKY,
You But
I don't think
they should be- in play.
you, as the son of one of the better-known baygel bakers
accepting the Ex-Gov. Lehman for New York cause of the racial discrimination
in this city, must have spent your time twisting
racist theory of Senator ...Henry Morgenthau's re- that exists today. Because of this going fishing, playing cops and
baygel instead of
Adolph Hitler... miniscences of Roosevelt's dealings
condition we robbers or baseball,
no
necktie.
But
he is bu In g
In other words with Churchill and Stalin are
In the next place, where is your baygel.
are better off if
the pro fes sor scheduled for publication in 1947...
spelling?
"Ba.
we keep within
In a few minutes we say hello
believes that
gel" is never an
Sean O'Casey's plays of the
to Mr. Mishkin, the accountant.
the limits of equivalent for
Negroes and 1916 Irish rebellion will be pub-
Mr. Mishkin has another version
our own race as "baygel," that
Jews do not be- fished hi Hebrew as a timely
of the baygef coat; he needs a
far as dating is round, brown,
long to the tribute to the Jewish under-
shave; he wears no tie. Mr. I ■ fish-
concerned.
"superior" race ground fighters in Palestine .. .
highly indigest-
kin is secretary of the Z. B. D. con-
I, personally, ible tooth chat-
of pure Aryans..
Kathy, Barney Ross' first wife,
servative congregation. He too
em notwgraetjsuo:
We hope that has rejoined the great boxer
P. K. Biron
has a loud voice and he makes
diced
ipublisher. sYh ooti I li dr
Howa rd stu- who is trying to win the tough-
himself heard within the congre-
ever against send you a die-
dents will insist on Dr. Ellinger's est bout of his career against
gation and outside.
exit .. .
non - Jews but tionary.
narcotics ...The latest rage are
Then comes along Dr. Shmuel
,• there is a bar-
David Lilienthal is slated for Betty Reilly's Yiddish songs...
The
institu
Rasfinsky, medical man, surgeon,
tier must
between
appointment to the Atomic Ener- Betty, who was raised in Mexico, we
face the
it. two groups and lion of "lox an - d
allergist, syphilologist and a mem-
gy Commission . . . Insiders pre- is as Irish as her name . . .
baygel" is old
Dr. Goldberg
bet of the A.B.C. 'Chasidic congre_
Since I am against intermarriage an d reve

t
Arbor, Mich., after a major oper- dating,
for special dress. The baygel
The group is then joined by
to the Peace Conference will make ation.
coat is a revered garment in our George Bade, distinguished broth
the headlines . . . Ben Williams,
* * *
household.
and comrade, supporter and af-
1 young Jewish painter is having WHAT'S THE ANSWER.
a * a
MRS. ISABELLE SCIINEIDER,
filiate of the Kindershule and Ar-
his first one-man show at the THE
DAVIS -BYRD 1451 Atkinson avenue, housewife. A SUNDA Y RITUAL
beiter Ring. He wears a band
Galerie Neuf in New York City ...
VERY SUNDAY MORNING I coat;
Religious differences should not
Committee" (Charles Davis for
needs a shave and he
Critics hail him as a great dis- President and Harry Clifton Byrd be used as a criterion for dating. E put on the oldest and most has no tie.
covery ... One of New York City's for Vice-President in 1948) is cir_ The fact that one is a Jew and frayed coat (the other one) and,
a a *
public schools will be named the cularizing the names received a the other a _
without a shave, without a neck'
Sidney Hillman High School in Ish Who's Who ... We in the Jew- Gentile should
tie, I drive to the bakery. I do A COMMON LOVE
honor of the late lab
labor leader
l
. . . circular which glorifies Davis, matter.
n o t enter the
It deliberately and I do it re gu- A S THE
• • •
FIRST in line, I get
larly.
Ho nora
"ry
rand G Sachm of the
g and ye
BERLE TO AID LEHMAN
IA my bayel
r bread and
S ix Nations " and Byrd, e President
If
Jews
don't
In
line
I
see
the
Honorable
Mr.
go
next
door
COMEDIAN
for lox, cream cheese
COMEDIAN DANNY KAYE now of the University of Maryland, as throw the first
Mushkin, respected attorney, coun. and a few "maslines." Soon there
the weekly salary of a "truly national ticket" . . .
seller and push-button of Con- arrive Mr. Mushltn, Mr. Mishkin,
stone then no
$10,000 at the Chicago Theater will
gregation M. N. H. He Is a pillar Dr. Rasfinsky and Mr. Bade.
But why is this committee ap- one else. w i 11
of
the reformed temple.
be seen on the legitimate stage in pealing to us with these in
words: throw the sec-
Where else, Mr. Editor, would
the role of "The Inspector Gen- "We hope that 1000
Ile has a loud voice and he we find all these denominations
eral"...
0 Jews
New ond. In t h i s
makes himself heard. But he of our Jewish folk a
' Milton Berle, the Inimitable York State will become Trustees way we are
too wears a baygel coat; he too assembled, all bent on ll a peacefully
common
sure in our own
(Continued on page 13)
minds that we
needs a shave; he too is more objective and spurred by a coin-
# 1 than
a
little
sleepy;
he
too
has
are not guilty. We will not have
(Continued on Page 4)
this feeling if we are leaders in
discrimination.
If the respective families are
w illing, I cannot se a
w
with intermarriage. There-
II •
fore, I think this dating proposi-
tion between Jewish boys and
tion
girls and non-Jews is perfectly all
s
right.

Ca

Letter

British Dictate Policy,
Crum, Wallace Agree

Plain Talk

•
ronide f s C h iding
o f egal Answered

KING I. GENNIS, 9633 Petoskey
avenue, photographer.
That is a ticklish question to
answer.
Jews should stick with-
.... Actually
._
- in their own
race when it
By CHARLOTTE WEBER
comes to dating
unless they are
WASHINGTON—The pebble that Henry Wallace threw into the
By ALFRED SEGAL
in a large group
" pool of American public opinion seems to have started a series
of mixed na- A
NUMBER OF CITIZENS have advised me what to answer Paul,
of ripples that get wider and more numerous every day. Washington
tionalities and
xi my grandson, who In his very young innocence recently asked:
observers are finding more and more ramifications to the series of
there
is
a
great
"What's
a Jew?" (I had invited the readers to help me out.)
statements made and episodes that occurred.
deal of inter-
Of space and time I have only enough to take up the answer of
One thing they are noting carefully is that Wallace's attack on
mingling.
any existing or projected align
the editor of the Detroit Jewish Chronicle who in his editorial column
There are gently chides me for the way I tried to answer Paul.
merit of American and British ly from the policy pursued by the
other exceptions
I had decided that when Paul
foreign policy f ollows closely British Foreign Office:"
such as when is old enough to understand I give
charges of a similar nature made
Wallace assailed the "reaction- two parties have known each would tell him: "A Jew Is a per- Tor him the sum
ey Crum some w ag
by Bartl
en tire
ary leadership of the Republican other for a number of years and son who is just
Torah while he, the heathen,
of the stood
While th e Administrationeeks
took n
, .
party" for favoring a close when their families are intimate. and kind and
on one foot, he would embrace
action to disprove the Cru
Judaism.
of American and Brit- Since there are enough boys and goes along with ,..
charges, some of the ideas as -• x- alignment
WI foreign policy. 110 sa id it girls within the Jewish race to
be other people
pressed by Henry Wallace . were would be
Hillel was even quicker than
"the height of folly" matched, it is usually not neces- who want to
certainly repudiated by the Presi-
that to give him a summary of the
to make Britain the key to our sary to go elsewhere when looking make this a bet-
'
dent's summary dismissal of the foreign policy and allow British for dates.
whole Torah. He said "Do unto
Secretary.
ter world. In
l
your neighbor what you would
balance-of-power manipulations
being' a good
have him do unto you; this is the
to determine whether and when 31RS. SHAY FOREMAN, 3200 man you will
Speaking at a luncheon given
whole Law; the rest is com-
we should get involved In wars.
by the American Christian Pal-
have made good
4 mentary."
Chicago boulevard, housewife.
"To prevent war and insure our
estine Committee, Crum pointed
as ii, Jew and
a • •
I don't see any harm in dates that's enough."
out that American policy favor- survival in a stable world," 'Val-
, A
lace
warned,
"it
is
essential
that
of
this
sort.
I
think
It
gives
Jews
ing the creation of a Jewish
The Chronicle Alfred Segal
NEEDS CHARACTER
National Home in Palestine was we look abroad through our own a broader outlook on life and editor replies: "But it is hardly I
COULD FEEL that Paul was
being "blocked and frustrated" American eyes and not through makes them
enough, Mr. Segal. Being just • doing all right as a Jew it he
the eyes of either the British more tolerant.
by the State Department.
good and kind and a good brother lived by the precept of Hillel.
Foreign Office or a pro-British or Although I hav-
to others is not exclusively a Jew- Paul would be fulfilling the Law
Ile blamed chiefly the "middle pro-Russian press."
en't
given
the
level" officials of the department
ish obligation. A Christian should and the Prophets. All the rest of
•
question
much
be just and good and kind and Judaism that he might have would
I for defeating policies which had BLAME STATE DEPARTMENT thought, I can
been set by the President and
that will make him a better Chris- he ornamental culture for Paul
HE IMPRESSION created by think of cir-
tian. A Hottentot should be just as a man. I should like to
Congress and said that some
both men was that the re- c u m s t a n c e a
see
7career gentlemen in the State
and good and kind and that will Paul have all that, just as I should
sponsibility
for
the
unsuccessful
where
dating
Department arc captives of the
make
him
a
better
Hottentot
.
..
like
to
see
him
cultivating
music,
social lobby in Wash- execution of our foreign policy non-Jews would
"Being a Jew, Mr. Segal, is a literature and the sciences; it all
i British
ngton."
rested with the State Department be highly per-
distinct
way of life. has to do with making Paul a
"Being a Jew
rather than with the Presider.',. missible. An ex-
is a matter of the full man.
• • •
Crum was speaking as a pri- ample would be .#
spirit and the heart.
vote citizen and emphasized this at office parties
TEARS DESTRUCTION
"Being a Jew means following
But I shall always tell Paul
at the outset of his speech. The where perhaps only one or two certain practices and principles.
that the main thing of being
CRL'Il SAID THAT while 'the ideas expressed by Henry Wal- Jews are working and associating
"Being a Jew means faith in Jewish is character; a Jew's un-
British Colonial Office favors lace, however, speaking as the with a large group of Gentiles.
derstanding of his social duty;
Partition, the British Foreign Of. Secretary of Commerce, were na- However, I would not encourage hallowed tradition."
his obli
Well, Mr. Edltbr, I remember come allg ation as a man ha s
lice wants continuation of the turally interpreted as an official this type of dating.
the way from Sina i
White Paper of 1939 and predicted statement, and especially since the
Jewish boys and girls should another Jew much older and much to walk in the loftiest ways of
that "the Jewish National Home White House had affirmed his not date non-Jews if their parents wiser than I. His name was Hil- character; his duty toward the
Will be destroyed unless the United right to speak as he did.
do not want it, but parents should lel. The story goes that one day brotherhood of man, as a Jew
States Government takes a strong
Thus, while the White House let children prove themselves in a certain heathen came to him who never forgets what the
Petition divorcing itself complet•i-
(Continued on page 18)
with a desire to embrace Judaism prophet Malachl said: "Have we'
using their own good judgment.
on one condition: If Hillel would (Continued on Page 11)

State Department Aide's Truckling
to London Cited by Both Leaders

•

Writer Wants Grandson to Be United
With All Men by His Way of Life