Friday, January 3, 1947 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle Page Four Detroit Jewish Chronicle And the LEGAL CHRONICLE 525 Woodward Ave., Detroit 26, Mich., CA 1040 Published Weekly by Jewish Chronicle Publishing Co., Inc., LETTER Box ASSAILS 'TOADIES' Dear Editor: The wisdom of Solomon and the Psalms of David are still quoted SUBSCRIPTION: $3.00 Per Year, Single Copies, 10c; Foreign, $5.00 Per Year as Second-class ',latter March 3, 1916. at the Poet office at Detroit, Mich., under the Act of March 3, 1879 and sung by the more erudite of qntered the Christian clergy and laity. GEORGE WEISWASSER, Editor-in-Chief Where were the various European CY AARON, Publisher NATHAN J. KAUFMAN, Managing Editor supermen in 1000 BCE? What was CHARLES TAUB, Advertising Manager their social and civilized standing? Detroit 26, Mich. Well sonny, ask your Aryan pro- FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 1947 (Teveth 11, 5707) Vol. 49, No. 1 fessor of history and after you get the answer you will feel a new for 1947, the communal leaders are ad- pride at being a Jew. Appeasement at Basle vised to be more diplomatic, more tact- And yet, there are Jews who It may be argued that it is too early ful, more sagacious and more prescient when among their Gentile friends desperately try to hide their Jew- to appraise fully the deliberations and than ever. ishness in the vain belief that by A misstep may be disastrous. Let us decisions of the World Zionist Congress, so doing they will rate ace high but its failure to take positive action with have no feelings hurt, no groups inad- with them. regard to several vital issues is to be vertently overlooked, no arrogance, no Nothing is further from the truth. The self degrading toady favoritism. deplored. might receive a certain contemp- The 1947 campaign will be Detroit MOTHERS MISLED From this vantage point, we can hardly Currently, a number of the De- tuous tolerance — which to a self- say that the Congress was a success. In Jewry's greatest challenge. It must not troit hospitals do not permit a respecting person is an insult — fact, one is forced to conclude that mat- fail because someone blundered. Mohel to operate, and even in but that is all. Nothing is more incongruous those instances where the Mohel ters are no better than if the Congress is permitted, many uninformed than a Jew celebrating Christmas, had not met at all, so little of concrete young Jewish mothers permit which is purely a Christian religi- and permanent value having been ac- Felicitations to Mizrachi themselves to be misled by some ous event. Passover, Chanukah, Rosh Ha- Jewish as well as non- complished. For 35 years, Detroit Mizrachi has acted physicians, Jewish, to the belief that the life sonah and Yom Kippur are all We may be forced to change this view, unobtrusively and devotedly doing its part of the child might be endangered universally recognized as great and we hope we can, after the newly cre- in fosterng Zionism without any surrender unless the physician perform the events in human experience and ated Zionist General Council concludes of traditional religious obligations and Miloh. particularly so to Jews. There its sessions. We are not too sanguine about goals. In a Holy Land were acquisition of Furthermore, the current prac- would be no Christianity but for in most hospitals to send the a Jew or an Old Testament either. its efforts, since early reports indicate the land subordinated aspects of holiness, tice mother and child home from the It would take a full sized ency- council is as hopelessly split as was the Mirachi worked zealously to preserve tra- hospital on the fifth day under clopedia to record Jewish contri- circumstances has persu- butions, in the matters of art, sci- Congress itself. ditions which through the ages preserved normal aded uninformed young mothers ence, literature and statesmanship At Basle, we had a world Zionist body Israel in the diaspora. that it is perfectly proper to have toward western culture. And all meeting for the first time in years deliber- On Jan. 14, Detroit Mizrachi will cele- the circumcision done on the fifth are agreed that the Jews are the ating for over two weeks and bogging brate 35 years of fruitful labors at a ban- day because it is "safer" to have spark plug in any nation's busi- ness. down in a sea of words and resolutions. quet in Shaarey Zedek. We know we it in the hospital. A Europe without Jewish enter- There was the usual bickering, name-cal- speak for the entire community in wish- RITE IS BASIC prise, initiative and acumen can Nothing is further from the ling, pettiness and irreconcilability. Noble ing Mizrachi many more successful years never make a full comeback. This and touching words were spoken in eulogy of endeavor on behalf of Israel and in truth. The Jewish community they will eventually find out. A should be informed that the Rite of leaders dead and living. Some speakers tribute to its many loyal mem- of Circumcision performed on the. Jewish nation in Palestine might reached great heights in oratory. There offering day after birth is basic to be the shot in the arm needed for bers who labor to make Palestine a cen- eighth world recovery. Jewish life and tradition, that cir- were tears and cheers. But little was ac- ter of holiness as well as a Homeland. Jack Freeman. cumcision done by a physician is complished by this heterogeneous group highly improper, and that the child of sincere but inept elders. who has been circumcized by a EDITORIAL PRAISED The partition issue was bandied physician has not entered into the Dear Editor: covenant of Abraham, and cannot about between Dr. Weizmann and his Your editorial on the World be considered a member of the faction who espoused it and by Dr. Sil- Jewish fold. Any other policy Zionist Congress deserves special commendation. ver and his adherents who condemned leads to assimilation. Your support of a Provisional it. In the end, it was left up in the air The AbrahamIc Covenant, the characteristic symbol of Judaism, Hebrew Government in Palestine although the London conference boycott Lucky Little Nazis must be performed on the eighth is extremely welcome to those of vote implied a repudiation of the de- of the child's life, in the man- us who have advocated right along - It is one of the universally recognized day teatist proposal. ner perscribed by religious ritual. that we must labor to determine destiny and, with the help of Considering the boycott decision itself, principles of jurisprudence that an ac- It is much more than a surgical own the Almighty, that is the only one can hardly claim Congress decisive- complice to a crime, either before or af- operation for purposes of health road to our salvation. ness in a vote of 171 to 154 with 25 ab- ter its commission, is as guilty as the ac- or I hygiene. The valued publicity which the trust that every bit of pub- sentions. Whether this vote will even tual perpetrator of the crime. It is also licity possible will be given in Chronicle has been giving to this shows your splendid and stand was not certain at the time of this a basic principle of law that the plotters your paper to this dangerous chal- project of a basic principle of Jew- progressive organ is again leading writing. On its face value, however, it was of a conspiracy are all equally guilty ir- lenge respective of the extent to which they ish life. Apparently, the Jewish Jewish public opinion, instead of a reluctant gesture of support for Dr. have actively participated in furthering community itself requires more following it. The New Zionist Organization Silver and the ZOA program of militancy. education on this subject than the of Detroit, hospitals or physicians. The vote was too close, however, to im- the criminal plot. M. MANUEL MERZON, Sec'y But when it comes to Nazi criminals RABBI ELIEZER LEVI pute acceptance of an aggressive policy BRITII MILOII EVADED Dear Editor: I would like to call the atten- tion of the Jewish community to a most serious problem that faces it with regard to the practice of the Rite of Circumcision. (Brith Miloh.) Honest physicians who have no personal axe to grind will admit that an experienced Mohel per- forming the rite in the traditional manner, is in most instances, bet- ter qualified than the average physician. Certainly, our experi- ence during the many centuries prior to modern surgical technique would indicate that no one is bet- ter qualified to perform the cir- cumcision than a qualified Mohel. The Visiting Editor of defiance of Britain. Dr. Weizmann's appeasers, apparently, still held a strong Congress grip. It is to be regretted that the Congress didn't have the courage to proclaim itself the Provisional Government of Palestine and inaugurate a full-scale resistance in- side Palestine and a trade boycott of Brit- ain that would have let perfidious Albion know that Basle was not another Munich. Glancing at the assembly results, one is constrained to guess that it was. New York Shows The Way New York again shows the way for the nation. The Jewish community there has virtually doubled its 1946 goal and has undertaken to raise $65,000,000 of the $170,000,000 national quota set for 1947 by the United Jewish Appeal. There will be the usual million dollar gift and a few in the hundred thousand dollar bracket, but the overwhelming ma- jority of subscriptions will be in the $25 and $100 class. These will be the ones that will put the drive across. It will not be the millionaires but the masses who will make a success of the 1947 appeal to America's comfortable Jews on behalf of their forlorn brothers in Europe. New York will do it and so will Detroit when the task is presented to it. There is a word of warning, how- ever, that should be spoken. Detroit's community leaders must not let them- selves get smug about the forthcoming drive. There is a spirit of defeatism prevailing about civic charitable under- takings in Detroit. The Community Chest failed to attain its goal and the Goodfellow fund, for the first time in memory, failed to raise its quota. Lest that gloomy spirit do any damage to Detroit Jewry's record-breaking drive it seems that all sound principles of law are abandoned for disgusting sentiment- ality. How else can one explain the Christ- mas amnesty recently granted to 800,000 "little" Nazis in the American zone in Germany? The Nuremberg trial was sup- posed to have established a new prin- ciple of international law—that persons engaged in a conspiracy to incite war are war criminals and subject to punishment befitting their crime .. . The Nazi party was the arch conspir- ator, and its members were accomplices, either as direct participants in crimes or as conscious recipients of the bene- fits resulting from the crimes. When the Germans plundered Europe, it was com- mon knowledge that the loot went to enrich the Nazi members. In fact, it was the prospect of such personal gains that prompted many to join the party. When the Nazis slew millions of Jews and non-Jews it made no difference to the victims whether their murderers were "little" or "big" Nazis. Why, then, should a distinction be made between Nazis when it comes to retribu- tion? The 800,000 were Nazis in fact and in deed, understood the nature of the conspiracy of the Nazi party and stood ready to receive the benefits of victory. Nov, by a mysterious twist of logic, they are rid of the stigma of criminality. We do not say that the 800,000 should be made to pay the supreme penalty— though if the situation were reversed they would not hesitate to kill, murder and plunder. But it is certainly a miscarriage of justice to exonerate them, particularly in the light of the recent assertion by Gen. Clay that the Germans were bog- ging down in their denazification efforts... NATHAN ZIPRIN, Seven Arts Feature Ill Health Causes Personality Faults (Continued from page 3) cal program . . . all under the direction of the family doctor. More people are finding the ben- efits of improving the physical ap- pearance of their children. Much can be done in this regard by or- thodontia. The child with the un. derslung jaw, protruding teeth or ill-looking teeth is at a disadvan- tage from a personality stand- point. * CONFIDENCE WEAKENS ACH PERSON REACTS to an- other according to the first person's idea of the reaction of the other person. Therefore, If a child feels that other people are reacting unfavorably to him (and the child visualizes this on the basis of physical appearance), the first child thinks less well of him- self. It is an undermining of self-confidence. Even as in plastic surgery, more is involved than the surgery. The shot-in-the-arm to the personality and self-confidence are primary In importance. Many personality difficulties can be ameliorated by ruling out or by treating physical conditions. The well child or adult is less likely to have or to develop personality problems. Dr. Goldberg Is pleased with the many favorable comments he has received following his recent column on the Christmas tree. Please feel free to comment on material in this column. (Copyrighted 1946. All rights reserved.) Looking Back Through the Years Events as complied from the files of the Detroit Jewish Chronicle 25 Years Ago Dr. Stephen S. Wise attacks fashion follies of high society. Julian Zemon, son of Mr. and Mrs. David Zemon of Virginia Park, gave several specialty dances at the opera, "Make It for Two," staged by students of the University of Michigan at Orchestra Hall. 20 Years Ago Asher Ginsburg (Ached Ha'am), Hebrew essayist, philosopher and spiritual father of Zionism, dies in Tel Aviv at age of 70. David A. Kleinman will leave Jan. 8 for a short stay in Philadel- phia prior to his departure for Florida and Havana, Cuba. Ho will be accompanied on his trip south by his father.' 10 Years Ago Dr. W. NL Howlett in New York, suggests placing Jews of Ger- many In United States and England. Rabbi Leon Fram will be guest speaker Jan. 8 In Grand Rapids at the installation of Rabbi Jerome Folkman at Temple Emanuel. 5 Years Ago Meyer Levin, 25-year-old Brooklyn boy and bombardier on Capt. Colin Kelly's plane, recommended for Distinguished Flying Cross by esident Roosevelt. Emma Scharer scores huge success in concert at Carnegie Hall, New York.