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Vol. 48, No. 44

GEORGE WEISWASSER, Editor.in.Chief
NATHAN J. KAUFMAN, Managing Editor

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1946 (CHESVAN 7, 5707)

Dr. A. M. Hershman—A Tribute

The personality, career and philosophy
of Dr. A. M. Hershman are indissolubly
linked with the development and expan-
sion of the Detroit Jewish community over
the past 40 years. For, in a literal sense,
Dr. Hershman's influence has never been
limited by the confines of his own congre-
gation. His sermons and his status as a
spiritual leader have been fully and favor-
ably recognized throughout the entire
country for what they represent — the
conscience and the quintessence of Ameri-
can Judaism at its highest and noblest.
Modest and self-effacing by nature in
his personal life, Dr. Hershman invariably
spoke out in behalf of a cause or against
an evil tersely, logically, sincerely. There
was never any question as to how he stood
on any issue, great or small. Though his
was often a voice crying in the wilderness,
time heard its echoes in the clamor of the
rushing crowds.
He never hesitated to denounce sham,
injustice, and short-sightedness in high
places, nor to praise honesty, decency,
and morality in even the humblest of men.

His biography, appearing elsewhere
in this issue, eloquently reveals the
man's tangible accomplishments. But
only the hearts and memories of thous-
ands of men and women representing at
least four generations adequately en-
shrine those beloved intangibles — his
warm humaneness, his astounding mem-
ory for the most intimate details of a
person's family life, his deep and un-
restrained sympathy in the hour of mis-
fortune, his abiding and trenchant hu-
mor on joyous occasions, and, above all,
his keen insight into the mainsprings of
human character.

Dr. Hershman's sermons and eulogies
occupy a unique place in American rab-
binical literature for their elevated style,
soul-stirring import, and thought-provok-
ing philosophy. Indeed, his entire life is
a sermon of service — service rendered
unselfishly, unstintingly, unflinchingly for
American Judaism.
He has combined the faculty of holding
fast to tradition with the faculty of look-
ing forward to broader horizons of spirit-
ual growth—an attitude which lends to
his views both the eternal timeliness of
modernity and the eternal rightness of
historical perspective.
Dr. Hershman's retirement is but a
transition in his career. He intends to con-
tinue his scholastic research and to devote
much time to a redaction of his many ser-
mons with a view to their eventual pub-
lication in book form.
May God grant him many, many years
of ease, comfort, inner satisfaction, and
leisurely labor in the vineyard of learning
whose fruits he has garnered so well. No
better epitome of the estimate placed upon
him by the community can be written than
this paraphrase of a famous quotation ut-
tered by one of his most ardent admirers
on the occasion of the celebration of his
twentieth anniversay at Congregation
Shaarey Zedek: "Age cannot wither, nor
custom stale the infinite variety of his
genius."
Th. B.

Bernard Baruch Speaks Out

Bernard M. Baruch, elder statesman
and patriot, gave immeasurable support
to Jewish aspirations in his noble address
at the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Founda-
tion dinner.
Baruch must have been deeply moved
by his co-religionists' agony; his sense of
justice must have been violently dis-
turbed; his anger at diplomatic vacillation
and double-dealing must have been might-
ily aroused for him to speak so forthright-
ly at a public function in indignant criti-
cism of both British and American
"shilly-shallying and weathervaning" on
the admission of 100,000 Jews into Pal-
estine.

We say that Baruch must have been

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angered and stirrred because he has
known through the years that his broth-
ers were in agony and that they have
been duped and betrayed by a soulless
Britain since the days of the Balfour
Declaration.

He knew that his brothers have been
knocking on Palestine's doors for decades
and that the United States, officially com-
mitted to keep those doors open, procras-
tinated and "shilly-shallied," acting as
the tail to imperial Britain's kite with re-
gard to Palestine.
Why this sudden indignation? Where
was that great sense of justice, that keen
sympathy for the burdened and the op-
pressed last year and five years ago?

We are grateful for Baruch's belated
condemnation of British American fail-
ure to live up to their pledged word to
Jewry. His powerful voice carries into
every corner of American life and it is
decisive because to every American
Baruch is the sole statesman who is
above party and self.

There might not be the need for anger
and tongue-lashings today if he had raised
that authoritative voice in 1945 or in 1940.
Of course, we are glad he has spoken
out at last. We would be much happier
if his words were not needed today be-
cause of his labor for justice and mercy
on behalf of his own people in years
gone by.

Help Foil the Bigots

The rats are at work again. It is elec-
tion time and the despicable hate-breeders
are up to their usual mischief.
They have no Jewish candidate to un-
dermine this time in Wayne County but
they have a Gentile with a foreign-sound-
ing name to malign in their invidious
whispering campaigns. He is Judge Veno
E. Sacre, presiding judge of Probate
Court, a most estimate gentleman and a
credit to to bench.
The Jewish Chronicle normally makes
no recommendations at election time. But
common decency has been outraged and
we urge you to help frustrate the plans
of the bigots and to vote for a fine jurist
and a splendid American—Judge Veno
E. Sacre.

The Visiting Editor I

5 Rabbis in Regular Army

The announcement that the Regular U.
S. Army will have Jewish chaplains sug-
gests the broad, inclusive nature of the
Regular Army for a long time to come.
It means that it's to be a citizens' Army
in the wide sense that everybody's •boy
will have a chance to be called.
The five Regular Army's Jewish chap-
lains come into it with a noble tradition
of finest service performed by more than
300 Jewish chaplains in the war. The
story of their work should be made a
part of the American Jewish scripture.
We surmise that their Army and Navy
service provided them with important
education that their theological seminaries
didn't have. From chaplains we have
heard that getting down to serve the corn-
mon man in his problems was a post-
graduate course of higher learning for the
ministry.
In this function they graduated from
the Army and Navy with highest honors;
their honors come to them from the
mouths of the soldiers and sailors they
were privileged to serve. There's none
but speaks highly of gentle young rabbis
they met in time of trial and need.
In the Army and Navy many a Chris-
tian chaplain met a rabbi for the first
time fraternally and the experience was
all to the good of the brotherhood.
National Jewish Monthly of Bnai Brith

Friday, November 1, 1946

HITS AIRPORT PLAN
Dear Editor:
On Nov. 5, property owners will
be asked to vote on County Propo-
sition No. 4 and County Referen-
dum No. 5. Both represent the
opening wedge toward increasing
local property taxes and are rela-
tive to the proposed Detroit-Wayne
County major airport and its
development.
I desire to point out that Wayne
County already has one of the
outstanding airports in the coun-
try and the taxpayers have already
invested millions of dollars for the
purchase of land and the develop-
ment of this major airport. How_
ever, airline authorities are agi-
tating for further development of
this facility and they are endeavor-
ing through Proposition No. 4 and
Referendum No. 5 to further sad-
dle the taxpayers of Wayne Coun-
ty with the cost of developing these
facilities which will be used by

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and for the profit of the large air-
plane companies.
I urge every taxpayer to vote
"NO" on Propostion No. 4 and
Referendum No. 5. Let the airlines
underwrite the development of the
facilities which they use. Certain.
ly the local taxpayer should not be
forced to bear the costs which
properly belong to corporations
using the airport as a profit-mak-
ing enterprise.
JACOB P. SUMERACKI,
Wayne County Auditor

PRAISE FOR CHRONICLE
I have subscribed to the Chroni-
cle for many years and honestly
feel that it has improved consid-
erably in the last few weeks
since the change in editorship.
Let me congratulate you and wish
you much success.
DAVID GOLDBERG
2726 Sturtevant avenun

Segal Studies Prospect of 5 Day Week
Leading Jews Back to the Synagogue

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facts and in this new world and
in these times it has become al-
most impossible for Jews to be
Sabbath observers.
On account of that, Cohen was
exulting in the five-day week as
observed in the help wanted ads.
He could hope that Jews released
from the bondage of economic
facts would return to the syna-
gogue on the Sabbath.
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ELDERLY PEOPLE ATTEND
IN THE TEMPLE, the Sabbath
-I congregations consist mainly of
elderly ladies who have come to
say Kaddish for their dead. In the
orthodox synagogues the Sabbath
congregations are mostly elderly
men who no longer have any urg-
ent business to summon them from
their Sabbath devotions.
Well, I muso, maybe the five-day
week will bring us around to the
synagogue on the Sabbath. There
will be no excuse for staying away
and then Israel may pack the

synagogue on the Sabbath even as
he does on Yom Kippur.
But only the other day I was
speaking to a Methodist minister
In our town. He was awfully
discouraged with Sunday attend-
ance in his church. There was
always the same handful, though
he had been trying his best to
bring people to church.
I had been telling him how hard
it is to get Jews to the synagogue
on Saturday.
"But Saturday is a work day
and Jews have to stick to their
jobs on that day," he said. "There's
some excuse. But what excuse is
there for a Christian not being
in church on Sunday, his day of
rest?"
The minister sighed ... "I guess
it's human nature."
This causes me to ask: Will hu-
man nature in Jews summon them
to stay away from the synagogue
when Saturday becomes a day of
rest for all?

Biron Links American Action Inc.
to Notorious Midwest Jew-Haters

(Continued rom page 3)
sue announcing their new editor
Henry Wallace, confirms our in-
sistence that there is a con.
fleeting link between The Chica-
go Tribune, the Hearst Press
and Youth for Christ . . . Now
will you believe us?
a a
BEAUTY ON HONEY3100N
AZEL TOV, Bess Myerson and
ILL Allan Wayne, honeymooning
at Grossinger's . .. Paul Muni is
next on the list of Hollywood stars
slated for the "Red" smear . . .
After Muni they'll go to work on
Margaret O'Brien . . .
Dinah Shore will brighten MGM's
technicolor screen . . . At Ilk
highest figure ever paid to a tine.
ma chanteuse . .
Temple Israel's choir during the
recent high holy days featured
socialite Mrs. Cornelius Vander-
bilt Whitney . . . .
Aside to Rhode Island voters:

M

Gurnie Dyer, Republican candi-
date for governor of your state,
says that the Democratic party
Is a party "of half foreigners"—
Is that the Horst Wessel song
we hear in the background? ...

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BIGOT RETURNS

TOE McWILLIAMS, America's lit-
J tie Fuehrer, is back in New

York looking very successful .. .
Those who attacked The Pro-
testant" recently will be interested
to know that the September issue
of "The Cross and The Flag,"
Gerald L. K. Smith's hate sheet,
is attacking "The Protestant" in
even more violent lingo . which
reminds us that Solomon A. Fein-
berg, former national chaplain of
the Jewish War Veterans advo-
cates a policy to ignore people like
G. L. K. Smith in the current is-
sue of the "Commentary" .

Palestine Lost

When Jews to Palestine take flight
And claim the Mandate as their right
Great Britain halts the stricken horde,
An angel with a flaming sword,
And sovereign rights with force affirms,
If challenged on the Mandate's terms,
The Jew protests, the Arab warns—
The Mandate is a crown of thorns.

Though Britain is a League trustee,
And Palestine no colony,
She counts it in the British zone
And treats its interests as her own,
While not unmindful of her case
For building a strategic base,
Nor will this sacred trust lay down,
Mandated to the British crown.

Despite Great Britain's toil,
The Holy Land is barren soil,
The awkward fact she cannot gloss
That Palestine is Britain's cross,
A heavy cross, a grievous care,
A load almost too great to bear;
Yet Britain must her path pursue,
(The cross is carried by the Jew.)

Sagittarius
in the London "New Statesman

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