Friday, May 2, 1947

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CHARLES TAUB, Business Manager

Vol. 49, No. 18

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

FRIDAY, MAY 2, 1947 (Iyar 5, 5707)

Detroit 26, Mich.

My Pledge To My Brother

How much shall I pledge to the Allied
Jewish Campaign when the volunteer solic-
itor comes to see me in the next two weeks?
Business has not been so good in the last
few months. People are not buying so much.
Perhaps I should not give as much as I
would like to.
It's true that the need has multiplied,
that the Jew of Europe can look only to
us and that Palestine must be made ready
for the' DP's who will finally be able to
enter in large numbers. But still, things
have not been rushing. Perhaps I should
be careful and not pledge too much.
On the other hand, business is not really
so bad. Conditions are just leveling off. In
another few months, with prices a bit lower
and labor relations taking a definite term
for the better, production will be booming
again and buyers will be flooding the shops.
That pent up demand can't just peter out.
It is still there.
The slowdown is temporary and business
will be mounting to new highs in a very
short while. It's foolish of me to withhold
a few dollars at the expense of my brothers
who are pleading to me for a morsel, for
a chance to start life again, when I have
every comfort, every blessing.
Moreover, there is plenty of money in
the bank, many war bonds tucked away.
Both were accumulated when business was
at a peak. It was put aside for an invest-
ment, perhaps, or for a rainy day.
What better investment can I make
than the life of my brother? When can
there ever be a rainy day for me like the
one my brother is wallowing in?
Will I in this great home of mine, my
own beloved, big-hearted America, ever have
to face such a rainy day like that which
wiped out my brothers at Buchenwald,
Oswiecin, Lublin?
Because I shall never have to and be-
cause, by the grace of God, I escaped, I
shall give the most I can, out of my earn-
ings and out of my savings, even more than
I can afford, so that there shall be no new
rainy day for my brother.

Are We 'Integrated'

The woman communal leader at the Com-
munity Council institute who said she was
•"insulted" at the invitation to discuss the
question of the integration of the Jew into
American life was indulging in wishful
thinking, we fear.
She closes her eyes to the environment
about her if she thinks that the segment
of American life which is the Jew is at-
ready part of the whole which is America.
There is danger in such a viewpoint. It
is the result of the same kind of rationaliz-
ing which sees no faults to correct in the
behavior of the Jew in the American scene,
which charges that any criticism leveled
at the Jew, his alleged "clannishness," "bad
manners" and "aggressiveness," are exclu-
sively the aberrations of a hate mentality
and anti-Semitic complex.
Too many Jews in America are only a
generation away from degradation, second-
class citizenship and a peasant-like exist-
ence. They have not yet had the chance to
become integrated into American life. First
came the need to raise one's head high like
any other man and to earn a living in a
land where ability and industry brought re-
wards.
Afterwards, it was too late for many to
become socially assimilated in the environ-
ment of his neighbors. What is more, many
of the neighbors did not want him even if
he was wholly integrated into the American
scene. "Differences" separated him from the
culture and society about him, though his
right to worship as he pleased was general-
ly recognized.
It will take another generation or two
for that integration to come and be ac-
cepted—when old world habits will finally

HELP

ME TO GET HOME

BROTHER

Support the $170,000,000

UNITED JEWISH APPEAL

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be dissipated, when new world customs
and teachings will efface actual and imag-
inary differences and when, in time, our
neighbors will accept us by sheer weight
of the years, if nothing else will prevail.
To say we are already integrated is blind-
ness. It means agreement that the status
of the Jew today in the American scene will
be permanent, We don't want that "integra-
tion" of today. We must teach and fight
for a more wholesome one.

The Visiting Editor

Open Your Heart!

How much did it cost to beat Hitler?
Have you paid something of the cost?
We Jews have unfinished business.
What was done to our people in their
homes and streets, in torture chambers,
crematoriums, concentration camps, nobody
will ever find it easy to believe.
Six million slaughtered.
One and one-half million maimed and
helpless survivors, ridden by disease, hun-
ger, homelessness and tortured memories.
One hundred and fifty thousand children
who never held a pencil or learned to kiss
or sleep.
A whole culture destroyed overnight.
WE JEWS HAVE UNFINISHED BUSI-
NESS. HERE IT IS:
We must find homes and a chance to be-
gin anew for the 250,000 Jews in DP camps.
The 150,000 children—all that is left of
a whole generation—one-half of whom are
complete orphans and one-third tuberclar,
must be nurtured back to health and child-
hood.
The communities of Romania, IIungary
and Poland must be helped to come to life
by rebuilding their schools, synagogues and
cultural institutions, and by finding jobs for
them with which to become self-supporting.
That takes money, which American Jewry
has and must give and give.
Call it what you like—moral or voluntary
taxation or double taxation.
That's our unfinished business—ours only!
In Los Angeles we have pledged to raise
this year $8,500,000.
No one of us can be too old, no one too
poor or tired, to defeat those who sought to
destroy us all: to aid those who would build
again.
Our time runs short. The moment is
now.
Give more than you can—give gladly—
give gratefully.
LOS ANGELES MESSENGER.

GRATEFUL FOR PUBLICITY

IIASIIOMER REPLIES

Dear Editor:
The Women's Auxiliary of the
Jewish Home for Aged wishes to
express its appreciation for the
publicity given its meetings and
special events throughout the
years.
Your consideration has un-
doubtedly contributed to the suc-
cess of the Ladies Auxiliary as
evidenced by the popularity in the
meetings and events that it has
sponsored.
ROSE L. MARCUS,
Secretary.
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Dear Editor:
Mr. Panush reveals a good deal
of Zionist political illiteracy in his
attacks upon our group. He should
know that Hashomer Hatzair is
in America the only all-chalutz
movement whose members are not
only talking Zionism, but going to
Eretz Israel to live in it. There-
fore when we speak about a Re-
visionist-terrorist front, •we do it
not because it is easy for a
"young man living in free Amer-
ica" to condemn terrorism, but
because of our deep' identification
with the Yishuv—because we pre-
111011 PRICES IIIT
pare ourselves to work and build
Dear Editor:
As a reader and supporter of in Palestine and don't want to
your fine newspaper, I took a live in a land ruled by a handful
great deal of interest in the ar- of Fascist "heroes."
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ticles relative to the investigation
of the high prices for kosher
Mr. Panush was very careful
meats as compared to prices
not to dwell upon internal terror.
charged for non-kosher meat.
It
is easy to hide inconvenient
To say that the average re-
turned veteran or wage earner facts from American Jewry, as for
cannot afford to pay and does instance: the cold-blooded murder
without or has the alternative of of the 16-year-old boy Schnell in
getting his meat where prices are Haifa; the murder of the Jewish
lower, is not the issue. The real policeman Berger in Tel Aviv;
issue is why do Jewish butchers throwing of bombs into the youth
get so much more than non-Jew- clubhouse of Hashomer in Haifa,
ish butchers and drive the trade Tel Aviv, Kfar Ata, and Recho-
voth—injuring seriously several
from their doors.
Along this very same line. I young men and women and many
would like to call your attention children; blowing up of the water
to the Jewish bakers, who have well at Kiryath Chayim (anybody
raised their prices in the past few who knows Palestine can realize
weeks; that it is almost impos- the severity of this). What hero-
sible to get a day's supply of ism!
Who gave to these groups the
bread for less than one dollar.
This also in spite of the fact that right to judge and execute Jews?
the non-Jewish bakers have re- Who tomorrow will they call
"traitor?" I remember a few years
tained their old prices.
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ago they called Ben Gurlon "trai-
As commander of my post, I tor." Who will stop them when
would like to call upon the same they want to kill him? Why do
group investigating the meat deal- we elect the Jewish Agency and
ers to „investigate the bakers. I the Vaad Leumi if we give the
know that many veterans and right to dictate our policy into
others would like to see some- the hands of a few irresponsible
thing done about these matters. youngsters seeking martyrdom?
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These two groups of retailers
have strong organizations and
While they plot heroic destruc-
operate almost as a monopoly. If tion, Hashomer Hatzair continues
satisfaction and a price reduction to help create the real political
is not forthcoming, I would like facts by "illegal" immigration, by
to see an economic boycott against the more than 50 colonies of our
these merchants.
movement flung out into the wil-
For myself I buy only what I derness along every border of
barely need at the prices they Eretz Israel. This is the real fight,
ask, and refrain from purchasing not assasination that gives the
any of the fancy products. I urge British the much-needed excuse to
the comrades of my post to do strangle our Homeland,
likewise.
In America as in Palestine, we
We would like to invite any do not lower our voice in demand-
other Jewish group to join with ing a bi-national state which alone
us to the end that prices will be can solve the difficult but also
brought down to a reasonable most willfully ignored problem in
level and to enable us to purchase Palestine: Arab-Jewish relations.
the food necessary to sustain body
Mr. Panush's confusion reaches
and soul together.
Again I want to congratulate its peak when he mixes our pro-
gram with that of Dr. Magnes.
your paper on the publicity that Hashomer Hatzair strives for an
has appeared in its columns and equal Jewish-Arab representation
for the cooperation it has given
in the future government of Pal-
us in the past.
PHILIP CANTOR, Commander estine regardless of numerical pro-
portion—guaranteeing free Jewish
Lt. Eli Levin Post No. 230
Jewish War Veterans of U. S.
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