DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
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Detroit Jewish Chronicle
Letters to the Editor
And thhe LEGAL CHRONICLE
Published Weekly by Jewish Chronicle Publishing Co., Inc., 525 Woodward Ave., Detroit 26, Mich., CA 1040
Friday, May 16, 1947
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REPLY TO POSItIER
Dear Editor:
Entered as Second-class matter March 3, 1916, at the Post Office at Detroit, Mich., under the Act of March 3;1879
Your editorial in this week's
GEORGE WEISWASSER, Editor-in.Chid
Chronicle about "Kosher Meat
CY AARON, Publisher
NATHAN J. KAUFMAN, Managing Editor
Prices" is a pip and I want to
CHARLES TAUB, Business Manager
urge every housewife to take ad-
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(Iyar
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Detroit
26,
Mich.
FRIDAY,
MAY
16,
vantage of the opportunity to call
Vol. 49, No. 20
to the attention of the Jewish
Jewry when they can muster only a hand- Community Council's committee
Have You Made Your Pledge?
for prompt action.
ful of wealthy, smug "alte Deutchen" here the In need
your "Letters to the Editor"
The Allied Jewish Campaign is not over and there as members.
column I also find an answer to
until YOU have made your pledge.
Nor is the claim of the Bergsonites at my letter of the previous week by
If the worker did not find you in when this time to represent world Jewry at the Milton Posner. It seems that Mr.
he came to call or if you were not solicited, UN commendable. Their demand implies a Posner has missed the point of my
somehow, let that not bar you from doing split within Jewish ranks which, of course, letter entirely.
If I may, I would like to answer
your duty to your despairing brother can hardly be attested to by the tiny group Mr.
Posner point for point. He
abroad and to the agencies at home which which espouses the Bergsonite philosophy states that "high prices" are al-
leged.
I can remember when rolls
look to you for support.
of a provisional Jewish government, sensible and bagels were 15 and 20 cents
Mail in your check with a pledge to the as that may seem at another time.
per dozen. If 35 cents per dozen
Allied Jewish Campaign, 51 W. Warren
The world must be shown a united Jewry. are not high prices then there
avenue.
The Jewish Agency for Palestine speaks for must be some other word for it.
If you are a solicitor and have not con- such a body on Palestine matters. That I'm still not mentioning the
prices they charge for their fancy
cluded your calls, do not wait to the last cannot be disproved.
baked goods. If their prices are
minute. The success of the campaign de-
fair why not label each item on
pends upon full and immediate solicitation.
the counter as is done in other
markets
so that the consumer can
A Prince Is Gone
As long as many hundreds of potential con-
see just what is charged?
A great triumvirate—Wise, Silver and readily
tributors remain unaccounted for, there will
Mention is made of the size of
Monsky—led American Israel through its the articles sold by the dozen,
be no way of gauging the totals.
You have assumed an obligation. Do your most trying, its most bitter years, the late well, I'll leave it to anyone if all
'30's and the '40's. Now Henry Monsky is the Jewish bakers have not re-
job!
the size and weight of what
gone, struck down in the midst of labor for duced
they sell. Further mention is
his people.
made of a "so-called monopoly."
The Free Press Errs
Mr. Monsky and 'Bnai Brith were virtu- Seems funny that all the bakers
raised
their prices for the identi-
The repetition by the Detroit Free Press ally synonymous, but actually he belonged
on the same (lay.
of the repudiated legend that Palestine was to all Israel. No undertaking, no campaign cal commodity
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promised to the Arabs in World War I is
amazing. But what is more astounding is
the apparent confusion of the papei on the
extent and area of Palestine.
In an editorial of May 5, the sadly mis-
informed Free Press calls Palestine "the
same territory" as Arabia. Let us quote
the American Christian Palestine Commit-
tee to clear up the Free Press illusion:
"Little Palestine with its 10,500 square
miles west of the Jordan represents only
one per cent of the Arab lands many of
which are strikingly underpopulated."
Pledges were made to the Arabs in World
War I that if they supported Allied aims,
the territories wrested from the Turks
would be set up as Arab states. Time and
time again, Palestine was excepted. Says
the American Christian Palestine Commit-
tee: "When during the first world war
British spokesmen promised the Arabs na-
tional self-determination, Palestine was spe-
cifically excluded from the pledges. This
has been confirmed by the chief British
negotiator, Sir Henry McMahon, and was
agreed to by the Arab leaders at the time.
"The promise to the Arabs has been ful-
filled. They have independence in six lands,
totaling more than a million square miles."
In an agreement on Jan. 3, 1919, signed
between Emir Feisal acting on behalf of the
Arab kingdom of Hedjaz and Chaim. Weiz-
mann, the "Arab State" and Palestine were
specifically differentiated.
Let us name some of the independent
Arab states for the record: Syria, Lebanon,
Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Transjordan.
There are others.
We cite these facts to the Free Press as
a matter of information. Its editorial writer
erred on the facts and we can understand
how such errors can be made. We hope that
the Free Press will correct them.
What we cannot understand, however, is
how an editorial summarizing the Palestine
issue can list its arguments with no refer-
ence at all to considerations of humanity, to
a feeling of shame that six million Jews
have been slaughtered in Christian lands
or to a desire to make some amends to the
survivors by urging that their homeland be
given to them at last.
Is there no pity, no shame leftanywhere?
Agency Speaks for Jewry
The action of the un-American Council
for Judaism in opposing a voice in the spe-
cial UN session on Palestine for the Jewish
Agency is another example of how far the
depraved thinking of the heartless crew
that compose the council will carry them.
"America is our \'aterland," they screech
and then they violate every principle of
democracy and humanity that goes into
making America. Do they know what it
means to kick a man when he is down:
They must, for that is what they practice.
Do they know what it is to accept the
decision of the majority? Hardly, for they
keep on claiming they speak for American
failed to enlist his support and counsel. His
interim chairmanship of the American Jew-
ish conference was only one of many trib-
utes to his wisdom and his leadership.
We mourn him all the more because he
was still young and his passing deprives us
of his stewardship in critical years yet to
come.
Israel has truly lost a prince.
The Visiting Editor
Immigration and Nazi Leprosy
When 12 rabbis in Munich, gathered for
a religious conference with some 50 others
in a kosher restaurant, are gravely injured
at the instance of an American soldier lus-
tily fraternizing with a German girl, and
with the aid of the military police, as hap-
pened on April 23—and many other such
incidents occur—we fear that too many
Americans have lost the spiriit and ideals
of Americanism.
The Nazi leprosy, it appears, has infected
too many American soldiers sent to hold
Germany safe from further outbreaks
against civilization until its future is de-
termined.
While in the past we have been con-
sistently opposed to the un-American quota
system in the admission of immigrants as
contrary to the principles of democracy and
the equality of all men before the Creator
of man, we find, to our regret, that we must
now be in favor of it.
It is estimated that, between 1940 and
1946, •about one million immigration cer-
tificates were unused and, of the 25,000
certificates annually granted Germany,
rarely was the number made use of—an
evidence that the authors of the quota law
had been overly in love with the Germans.
According to Senator Brien McMahon's
intentions in introducing a bill for the al-
location of 100,000 of the unused quotas for
a period of ten years, the' chief benefit is
to go to the DP's in Europe. But the point
we wish to stress is that we must now, for
the protection of all who would maintain
the principles of equality and democracy,
discriminate against those who would de-
stroy such principles ...
We would therefore be in favor of an
amendment to the Bill that would com-
pletely annihilate the entire quota system
except as it applies to the Germans and
others guilty of encroachment on the prin-
ciples of humanity, for whom the quota
should be made so low that the admission
of no German should be possible until, the
burden of proof being on him, he can con-
vince us that he is cleansed of the disease
above-mentioned.
The burden of proof of thorough cleans-
ing is on the leper, since it is known that
the danger of contagion from him is too
great to take chances .. .
—TIIE JEWISH FORUM
The main point In my original
letter was to call to the attention
of the retailers the veteran's view-
point. Here we have a section of
people who have had to leave
everything to serve the country,
were promised the world with a
fence around it, (don't have to let
me remind you) have had to re-
turn home to find that they can
have no homes, no jobs, no busi-
nesses, no opportunities and still
have to pay the high dollar for
the necessities of life.
If that is fair then I don't blame
the ex-serviceman for feeling that
he got the worst part of the deal.
I'll admit that prices on some ar-
ticles have been raised since the
lifting of OPA regulations (which
the veteran fought) but not as
much as the retailers of meat and
bread have raised their prices.
I think it would be a grand
idea if the baking industry in
Detroit as represented by Mr.
Posner would do the community
a great service by lowering their
prices in accordance with Mr.
Truman's request. It will take
some of the sting out of the
wound and make the lot of the
underpaid ex-service man a little
easier.
I want to tell Mr. Posner that
I did not single out the bakers
for their high prices as this let-
ter is just as applicable to the
butcher and the candlestick mak-
er. I hope that I may hear froM
some of the consumers, or aren't
they interested?
PHILIP CANTOR, Commdr.
Lt. Eli Levin Post No. 230,
Jewish War Veterans of the U.S.
GRATEFUL TO CHRONICLE 110
Dear Editor:
On behalf of myself and the
Committee for the Inter-Fraternal
Dinner of the Masons, Knights of
Columbus, and Bnai Brith groups,
sponsored by the Detroit Round
Table of Catholics, Jews, and Pro-
testants, I wish to thank you for
the publicity that • you gave this
affair.
ABRAHAM SATOVSKY
General Chairman
SEEK MORRIS CRAMER
Information is being sought of
the whereabouts of Morris Cra-
mer on behalf of his wife, Yetta,
and minor child, of New York
City. He was born on Dec. 25,
1914 in Cincinnati, 0., is a ladies'
ready-to-wear apparel buyer, is
some 5 ft. 11 in. tall, weighs about
200 pounds, has black hair, brown
eyes, wears glasses occasionally, is
alleged to be living in Detroit.
Anyone knowing of this man's lo-
cation is requested to communi-
cate with the National Desertion
Bureau, 67 W. 47th street, New
York City.
SAMUEL EDELSTEIN,
Assistant secretary
Jewish Parochial School Fosters
Ghetto Spirit in U. S., Segal Charaes
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of outward social pressures that
have to do with her being Jewish.
Sororities and all that! The little
children who now love her as
their friend may, when they grow
up, acquire 'the baser prejudices
of their elders. But we're not
running away from that prospect,
sir.
"In our family we are standing
by our faith in democratic educa-
tion. What becomes of education
for democracy if American educa-
tion is divided up in many small
sectarian or racial parts?"
The director of the Jewish par-
ochial school replies: "Nearly all
the Catholic children are in paro-
chial schools and their education
doesn't make them any less
American."
"What the Catholics do is not
our matter, even though many
Protestants are bitterly resentful
of the Catholics being in schools
separate from the American edu-
cation system. Anyway, the Cath-
olics, being numerous and strong,
can afford to ignore the resent-
ment of the large body of Protes-
tants.
"But what's only sauce for the
Catholic may• he poison for the
Jews who have troubles enough
without having heaped upon their
heads the aspersion that they are
hostile to the public schools.
"But that's the least. The main
thing is that Jews, by reason of
being essentially democrats, must
stand by the American system of
education."
Are We Reviving the Devil?