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Detroit' Jewish Chronicle

And the LEGAL CHRONICLE

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ilF,ORGE WEISWASSER. Editor-In-Chief A. W. SHAFER, Adv. Mgr. CY AARON, Pub. NATHAN KAUFMAN, Man. Ed.

Vol. 48, No. 42

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1946 (Tishri 23, 5707

A Gift to Your Child

Jewish youth's desperate need for a
Jewish education is so wisely expounded
by the American Association for Jewish
Education that we are quoting from a
statement of theirs in conjunction with
Education Month.
We all look at our children and won-
der what the future has in store for them.

We want them to grow up happy, use-
ful citizens of a great country, devoted
sons and daughters of a great people. We
know deep in our hearts that we .would
make every sacrifice for them.

And yet, without knowing it, we some-
times overlook or postpone the simplest
obligations. And we wake up startled that
these simple oversights have led to seri-
XIS and painful problems.

What about the Jewish aspect of the
lives of our children? Is that going to
be a source of conflict, a burden to
them? Or is it going to be a wellspring
of happiness, an enrichment of their
lives? The answer depends on their up-
bringing.

Another thing: We want to keep our
children close to us. We want them to
share the Jewish life of the family of
which they are a part. We want them to
have a sense of continuity with us, with
the ideas and ways that we acquired from
our parents. We want them to have an
inner sense of 'belonging.'

We want all of those things.

And they are not easy to get, because
to get them means that we must pre-
pare to educate our children to a sense
of appreciation of their life as Jews,
to a sense of satisfaction in Jewish
ideals, in Jewish traditions.

In simple words, we must give our
children a Jewish education—we must
enroll our children in a Jewish school.

What will they learn there?

They will learn the ideas and ideals
of the Bible and of Jewish literature ; the
meaning of the Sabbath, of the Jewish
festivals; the customs and practices of
the synagogue ; the richness of our liter-
ature.

They will learn something of the life
of Jews in other lands, of Jewish history,
of the place of Palestine and its achieve-
ments.

And too, they will learn the history of
our people in the United States of Am-
erica, of the contribution Jews have made
to the development of this great Repub-
lic and of the harmony of the ideals of
this country with the ideals which Jews
have held throughout the centuries.

Given that knowledge, our children
will acquire the sense of security which
only understanding will bring about.

This, the greatest gift of all, is yours
to give to your children by enrolling them
in a Jewish school.

Jewish Agricultural Sabbath

For the first time in the history of
American Jewry Jews last week observed
an Agricultural Sabbath. That Saturday,
Oct. 12 was designed by the Synagogue
Council of America as a day dedicated to
Jewish agriculture was doubly appropri-
ate.

Oct. 12 was the first Sabbath of Succoth,
the traditional Jewish agricultural festi-
val. It was fitting that on that day our
thoughts should have gone back to the
pastoral origin of our forbears at the same

Detroit 26, Michigan

time that we contemplated the importance
that agriculture plays in our Jewish life
at present and will play in the future.

Oct. 12 was Columbus Day, the day we
celebrated the discovery of the New
World. Well might we, on that occasion,
also have remembered that it was this
discovery that enabled our own people,
oppressed in other lands, to find a haven
and a right to engage in farming, an occu-
pation that had for so many centuries been
denied them.

It is unfortunate that so few people
know about the progress the American
Jewish farm movement has made in the
past 50 years. At the turn of the cen-
tury Jewish farmers were few in num-
bers, for the most part inexperienced,
unskilled toilers in a strange occupation.
By dint of hard labor, perseverence and
intelligence thousands of Jews have
grown into stalwart, forthright, self re-
specting farmers. Flourishing, progres-
sive Jewish agricultural communities
have been created.

It is symbolic that the institution of an
agricultural Sabbath should spring from
a recommendation made to the Council
by the Jewish Agricultural Society, a
society that for nearly half a century has
devoted itself to the promotion of the Jew-
ish farmer's welfare.

Farming is a strong foundation stone in
the structure of present day civilization.
The Jew whose very historical and cul-
tural roots spring from the soil must sure-
ly strain every effort to strengthen his
agrarian base.

The idea of a Jewish agricultural Sab-
bath is an excellent one and its initiators,
the Jewish Agricultural Society and the
Synagogue Council of America, deserve
high praise.

A World Law for Minorities

The verdict of the Nuernberg interna-
tional tribunal has established the prin-
ciple that wars of aggression and the per-
secution of conquered minorities are
criminal acts. For that, perhaps, we should
be grateful.

But if there is to be true peace in the
world, the nations must go further. Once
and for all, if the foundations of a lasting
peace are to be made secure, the world's
nations must lay down the law that the
persecution and murder of all minorities.
whether living in conquered lands or in
the lands of the conquerers, is a crime
against decency which the conscience of
mankind, backed by military force, will
not tolerate, will not forgive and will
punish with all the power at its command.

Only then will a repetition of such a
heinous crime as the massacre of six mil-
lion Jews by a government of criminals
become an impossibilty.

Only when the conscience of mankind
will have at its disposal an international
law, backed by an international force,
which will be capable of dealing with and
overpowering criminal tendencies in na-
tions, will national criminality be averted
and war which is the result of this crimi-
nality be blocked.

"Thou shall not kill" is a universal
tenet. To except that principle from ap-
plication in the case of nations is a mock-
ery of all moral concepts of religion and
decency.

IMENIMMOIN

•rulay, October 18 1946

FGrGrEKo Box

PRAISES DR. IIERSCII
Dear Editor:
I wish to take this opportunity
to speak on behalf of all of the
people here at the Jewish Home
For the Aged. I wish to thank
Dr. Hersch for the excellent Kol
Nidre and Ncila services that he
so marvelously conducted.
We at the Home will long re-
member the fine dinner which was
served to us at the end of our fast
on Saturday evening.
Dr. Hersch deserves the grati-
tude of the entire Jewish commu-
nity of Detroit for the excellent
job he is doing at the Home.
SHEFTEL BROWN

ASSAILS AGENCY
Dear Editor:
President Truman is being sold
out by the Jewish Agency. The
Jewish Agency can be accused of
undercutting President Truman's
vigorous support for a solution of
the Palestine problem by attempt-
ing to maneuver the United States
into backing their partition plan
—a plan that surrenders the le-
gal boundaries of a Hebrew nation
in Palestine established by the
League of Nations mandate.
Notwithstanding its official pre-
tensions the Agency does not rep-
resent the wishes of the resistance
in Palestine, and, in proposing
partition, is acting in defiance of
all Palestinians, Hebrew and Arab.
Dr. Nahum Goldman and Rabbi
Wise have been trying to get an
American commitment on parti-
tion for several months. The spec-
tacle of these men, not Palestini-
ans, pretending to speak for the
people of Palestine, on an issue
in which there can be no doubt of
opposition from native Palestinian
resistance forces, would be redic-
ulous were it not so dangerous.
For the United States to go
along with these in an effort to
impose partition upon the Holy
Land would be to do the one thing
most calculated to dissipate Amer-
ican goodwill and desire to help
into unworkable, undesirable and
wasteful projects. On this point,
it is not too pessimistic to pre-
dict that Jewish Agency leader-
ship, if it continues to be predi-
cated on partition schemes, will
lead to civil war in Palestine.
HARRY LOUIS SELDEN,
Co-Chairman, American League
for a Free Palestine

ATTACKS QUESTION
Dear Editor:
•
"Should Jews fast on Yom
Kippur?"
For the depths of ignorance,
stupidity and Nonsense—this dis-
cussion in your columns deserves
the scorn of any Jew.
For your next profound subject
let me suggest:
"Should Jews don Tfiiin and
Talith?"
DAVID J. COHEN
1110 David Stott Bldg.
Editor's note: The subject of
our question was: "Do you be-
lieve fasting should remain as
an essential part of the Yom
Kippur observance?"

Dear Editor:
Some weeks ago in the "Letters
to the Editor" there appeared a
letter criticizing Sally Fields, edi-
tor of "Hittin' the Hi Spots."
I am writing you to tell you of
my admiration for Sally Fields.
No doubt countless others feel as
I do, but are not given to writing
to editors. I admire her forth-
rightness. In my mind she is fear-

less and a crusader. If she takes
the smugness out of some people,
no doubt they deserve it.
There are so many people who
are colorless, never taking sides
on an issue, straddling the fence,
so to speak, I suppose there will
always be a group of neutrals, but
there are always those who do
not fear to speak their minds.
Many people do not like forth-
rightness, but that does not keep
the W. K. Kelseys from their posts
on newspapers which might not
approve of ther philosophies but
print their columns. That is why
I admire Sally Fields. She is forth.
right and sincere.
PAULINE SIPKINS,
5776 Berkshire road

VERDICT EXCORIATED
Dear Editor:
The Nuernberg verdicts are a
ghastly joke on the millions of
murdered men, women and chil-
dren in Europe!
In absolving both the Gestapo
and their triggermen, the Storm
Troopers, from any crime guilt,
the justices as much as declared
that the actual butchers of inno.
cent human beings are not to
blame for their fiendish crimes
because they were only obeying
orders.
In describing the Invasion of the
Baltic states in 1941, Justice Jack-
son in his charge told how the
Storm Troopers with the aid of
so-called partisans, ferreted out
every Jew and anybody they elm.
sified as Communist, loaded them
into old trucks and wagons, took
them to the outskirts of the town
and shot them down like dogs, let.
ting the bleeding bodies lie where
they fell . .
In all, about 71,000 Jews were
murdered in Lithuania alone, al-
most the entire population. And
those are the men the British-
American justices absolved of all
blame.
In freeing Schacht, Von Papen
and Fritsche, the justices showed
a calm disregard for the realities.
Schacht helped finance, Von Papen
was the guiding evil genius and
Fritsche very skillfully propagan-
dized Hitler's murder machine.
All knew of the projected mass
slaughtering of whole populations.
All were in on the ruthless devas-
tation of once proud Europe.
All who belonged to the Nazi
party were willing zealots of Hit-
ler's hell conceived plans and
therefore all are equally guilty and
all deserve nothing less than the
noose.
Sending to prison Rudolf Hess
is perhaps the greatest of the
justices' stupid blunders, for he
was Hitler's closest confidant, and
can be relied on to carry on the
Fuehrer's ignoble aims as soon as
freed by some German denazifica.
tion court . .
JACK FREEMAN

Dear Editor:
Just thought I'd drop a line to
let you know that we down here
at the University of Miami read
the Chronicle every week. Wouldn't
miss it for the world. All the gos-
sip and information contained in
Phil Rothschild's column makes
us feel a little closer to home.
As for good old Miami U. we
love it, despite the heat and the
rainy season.
Signing off are Detroiters-
LENORE STRAEMER
ARDIS FRANZBLAU
MARY ANN RUBINER
LILLIAN FULLER

I Am the Lord

I am the Lord of all that is,
Whatever name you give to Me
It is My wish that you shall know My will.
The smallest and the biggest things are in My Power
I am the Lord of rich and poor,
Of old and young and any nation.
No ,master race is governing My realm,
I am the Master and none beside Me.
You have deceived and killed with guilt
My peoples with great and cruel sin.
Therefore I have armed them with My power
In smallest parts with greatest force.
My warning is now told to you again,
Else other power stronger still
Will tear asunder all your plans.
No man is given rights above all others,
No man can speak for Me in any place.
The lowest man, the smallest child,
Are My design and with My soul.
If anyone assumes My. will and might
He will be smitten with eternal blight.
I am the Lord.

—E. A.

