OKI AGIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
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Detroit Jewish Chronicle
Friday, December 6, 1946.
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CHARLES TAUB, Advertising Manager
Vol. 48, No. 49
GEORGE WEISWASSER, Editor•in-Chief
NATHAN J. KAUFMAN, Managing Editor
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1946 (Kislev 13, 5707)
Sanatorium Merits Support
The Los Angeles Sanatorium is in the
midst of a campaign to raise $100,000 in
Detroit as a contribution to the proposed
$2,100,000 medical center and college
which will supplement the institution's
present facilities for tubercular patients.
The fame of the sanatorium is wide-
spread. It has brought peace of mind to
many a patient and a cure to many others,
among them Detroiters. Its project of
establishing a non-sectarian center to
study and heal other ills of mankind is
one that should evoke a swift and hearty
response from Detroit organizations and
individuals who want to see their con-
tributions bring results in the form of
tranquil minds and mended bodies.
While we must concede that, at this
time, our despoiled and bleeding breth-
ren in Europe and Palestine have first
call on our generosity, we cannot overlook
the fact that local and national institu-
tions must not be allowed to vegetate or
decline because our sympathies are chan-
neled elsewhere.
A medical development like that near
Los Angeles certainly deserves our sup-
port because it too has a humanitarian
objective, and broken bodies are just as
painful in California as in the DP camps.
There is another reason why this
sanatorium undertaking should stir a
response. The proposal envisages the
establishment of a first-class, non-de-
nominational medical school under Jew-
ish auspices. At a time when the na-
tion's universities are tightening their
restrictions on Jews, Negroes, Italians
and others who wish to enter their
medical colleges, it is good to know that
Jews are planning the erection of a
school \i that will discriminate against no
one because of the color of his sk:n,
the origin of his forebears or the in-
dividuality of his religious beliefs.
Such an institution will vitiate the
schemes Of the selfish and prejudiced
schools which would like to keep Jewish
physicians at a minimum in the land, and
at the same time will bring blessings upon
a people who can be tolerant and open-
handed in a sphere where little tolerance
is vouchsafed them.
Certainly such an organization merits
all the moral and financial backing we
can give it.
Look to the Rebels
The unanimous vote of confidence'given
the British Labor government in support
of Bevin's foreign policy was a hollow
victory. The Conservatives simply absent-
ed themselves en masse and several score
Laborites abstained from voting in cogent
protest at Bevin's bungling.
Among the latter were some very ar-
ticulate critics of Britain's Palestine pol-
icy including Richard H. S. Crossman,
disillusioned member of the Anglo-U. S.
inquiry commission, and Michael Foot,
brilliant young parliamentarian mentioned
as a possible future prime minister.
If there is to be any reversal in Brit-
ish policy, it may have to come at the
instigation of the anti-Bevin faction. Just
now, with the exaggerated spectre of Rus-
sian domination frightening most Labor-
ites into submissive approval of the for-
eign secretary's program, much of which
is a negation of socialistic principle and
a betrayal of pre-election promises, Bevin
remains in the ascendent.
But let that spectre fade, and the
young socialists, chafing at their leaders'
arbitrariness, will revive their rebellion
and force a change that may bring a new
British attitude to the issue of the Jewish
State. The Homeland was definitely a so-
cialist pledge, and the young Laborites,
not yet impregnated with colonial office
casuistry and double-dealing, will demand
fulfillment of that pledge.
Perhaps that day is much nearer than
we have hoped.
1, 1879
Detroit 26, Mich.
A Job to Be Done
The adoption of a $170,000,000 quota
for 1947 by the United Jewish Appeal
needs no expatiation. There is a job to
be done for the Jews of Europe and Pal-
estine and only the American-Jewish
community can do it.
The sum is vast, but so is the prob-
lem that the subscriptions will seek to
mitigate. When you stop to consider the
enormity of Israel's woe today—a year
and a half after the war—the sum
seems piddling. If every American Jew
' contributed $35, it could be raised over-
night.
For $35, each one of us can bring life
to a weary brother. We hold power in
our hands usually attributed to the Al-
mighty alone. We can give life. Surely
every one of us will contribute $35 so
that we can perform a godly act.
Detroit will soon know what its quota
is. A united, democratic front made up
of all Detroit Jewry is the next essential.
None must fail its call.
The Visiting Editor
Great American Sucker
When will the Great American Sucker
get wise to himself? Or does the G. A. S.
love a phony, so much he's willing to pay
for it, not only with his own money but
with the security of his country, and the
blood of his countrymen?
The questions are motivated by the
news that, at last, there will be an in-
vestigation by the Senate War Investi-
gating Committee into charges against
Senator Bilbo of Mississippi, to discover
whether there was "any improper con-
duct" between the Senator and certain
war contractors.
"Improper conduct" can in this case
mean but one thing, graft and bribery.
Until the committee brings in a report, we
shall withhold our own judgment con-
cerning Bilbo's financial urges. But of his
phony political-racial philosophy destined,
if it prevail, to divide the nation, there
is no doubt.
The Great American Sucker who fol-
lows political prevaricators like Bilbo, and
Rankin, and G. K. L. Smith (who so far
hasn't had a chance at the public treas-
ury), should be interested in the outcome
of this Senate Investigation Committee.
He should be interested to know whether
Bilbo actually used the influence of his
office to profit illegally from war con-
tracts or not.
He should look back a few months at
the records of the Nurenberg trials and
see for himself that there was not one of
the Nazi criminals indicted and convicted
who did not clean up huge ill-gotten,
bloodstained fortune-money and jewels
stained with the blood of even their own
dupes, the Great German Sucker.
He should look back to the history of
the Ku Klux Klan right after World War
I, at which time the Klansmen's dues and
contributions were turned to the personal
enrichment of a few of their leaders.
And every time he listens to some blab-
ber-mouth mountebank camouflaged in
alleged religious or patriotic robes, who
tells him, he is the "salt of the earth,"
superior to any dark skinned or Jewish,
or Catholic neighbor, he should ask him-
self: "What am I letting myself in for?
What am I letting my country in for?"
Then in the quiet of his room let him
read and re-read the history of the past
decade and more in Germany.
THE MESSENGER,
Los Angeles, Calif.
Dear Editor:
The struggle over statehood and
the plethora of publicity that the
Zionist organizations have put out
to achieve it have buried the fig-
ures embraced in the practical
problem of refuge.
The political aims have ob-
scured the human problem. By
putting statehood first and refuge
last the Zionists, in my judgment,
have jeopardized both. It is time
to reverse that process. It is un-
fair to carry on this political con-
troversy at the expense of the
miserable tenants of the DP camps.
Nor will the philosophical and
political ideal of Jewish statehood
die by reason of delay if it de-
serves to live; but refugees will
die if humanity too long delays
their rescue.
The refugee problem is upper-
most in the minds of all of us
these days, but I would not wish
to have the impression go forth
that it is solely because of the
fate of Jewish refugees that I
sm opposed to political Zionism.
CITES 'COERCION'
I dislike the coercive methods of
zionists who, in this country, have
not hesitated to use economic
neans to silence persons who have
different views. I object to their
attempts at character assa:ssina-
`on of those who do not agree
with them. I take issue with the
manner in which they have fo-
cused the attention of the world
ipon the question of the Jewish
-efugee instead of using their
;mat moral strength to plead the
cause of all displaced persons.
Plans to move Jews to Pales-
tine should be but part of larg-
er plans to empty these camps
which, no matter how well con-
ducted, are an offense to the
dignity of man.
We in the United States shoul
open our doors to persons of a
faiths and creeds. France seek
new citizens and they are at he
door clamoring for entry. Englan(
historic refuge for oppressed ns
tionals, can take its share.
Admitting that the Jews of Et
rope have suffered beyond expres
sion, why in God's name shout
the fate of all these unhappy peo
plc be subordinated to the sing'
cry of statehood?
BROTHERS ALL
To the really enlightened ma(
there is no claim of kinship close
than the claim of all human so
ciety, in which all men are broth
ers. It was in the service of thi
larger community that they spen
their time rind talents, and wha
they achieved in improving th,
lot of all their countrymen inevl
tably improved the lot of thosi
who shared with them the same
religious faith.
These men were citizens of m
single geographical area — the
were, in the most enlightenec
sense, citizens of the world. Then
was in their world eitizenshil
nothing incompatible with thei
Jewish faith or their America:
nationality.
There need be no such incom
patibility of interest or devotim
today on the part of those whi
aspire to the best kind of work
citizenship.
ARTHUR HAYS SULZBERGER
New York Times,
New York, N.Y.
Make Chanukah Dramatic to Child
(Continued from Page 3)
use of customs and practices in
his own home.
The child is essentially gullible...
he can be taught any religion. But
the gullible child will have deeper
memories and lasting experience
when education and home observ-
ance are combined. He will be con-
fused when education runs coun-
ter to home practice.
You may ask why I would con-
cern myself, in these columns,
with religion. I am concerned
because I know theoretically and
in demonstration over the years,
that religion is essential to sound
living.
It places the individual in a
arm perspective with his universe.
[t helps him evaluate his daily
living with the world around him.
And I am firm in my belief that
-very home must insist upon a
religious education for its chil-
dren, the religion of the home.
Else it has failed in its task.
• •
MAKE HOLIDAY VIVID
THE MEANING OF RELIGION
is taught by customs, practices,
festivities, observances in which
children are active participants.
•
Color, beauty, music, joy .. ,
many other sects have found • •
make the hbliday vivid. Long at
ter the words are forgotten, till
"seeable" impressions remain.
Who has been responsible for
eliminating joy and pleasure,
enthusiasm from Jewish religious
practice today? Find that per-
son or persons and you will find
a perverted group.
Give me more holiday celebra
tions where tradition is sur
rounded with beauty, enthusiasm
color and reality and I will gilt,
you children with a firm knowl
edge of their religion.
Books for Parents
Burning Lights, by Bella Cho
gall; The Jewish Festivals by Ha
yim Schauss; The Chanukah Bool
by Emily Solls-Cohen; The Core
monies of Judaism by Idelsohn.
For Children
Jewish Holidays and Festivals b
Eidden; Hallibl and You by A. C
Silverman; Adventures of K'Toi
Ton by Wellerstein; Far Over th
Sea by Hayim N. Bialik; Joe,
Meets His People by Kruchman
Happy Chanukah by Jane Bear
man.
Let's Get Together for the Real Fight