DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE

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Detroit Jewish Chronicle

Friday, July 4, 1947

Letters to the Editor

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control of anti-Semitic agitation
TILE BUCKLEY BILL
in America.
Dear Editor:
WILLIAM LEVNER,
Permit
me
to
congratulate
you
GEORGE WEISWASSER, Editor•in•Chief
American Jewish Labor Council,
CY AARON, Publisher
J.
KAUFMAN,
Managing
Editor
on
the
very
fine
editorial
en-
NATHAN
CHARLES TAUB, Business Manager
22 E. 17th St., New York, N.Y.
titled "The Hate Mongers in
DETROIT 26,
(Tamils 17, • 5707)
FRIDAY,
JULY
4,
1947
America," in the June 20 issue
Vol. 49, No. 27
PROPERTY CASE
of the Detroit Jewish Chronicle.
Rabbincal Doubletalk
Campaign Inaction
Editor:
Dear
There is little I can add to
The Central Conference of American Rab- your analysis of the Bnai Brith As a member of the legal
Just what are the Jewish Welfare Fed-
of the Detroit Jewish
bis engaged in some deplorable doubletalk Anti-Defamation League report committee
eration executives waiting for?
Community Council who active-
on
anti-Semitism
in
the
U.S.A.
The Detroit Allied Jewish Campaign failed over mixed marriages at its convention in I do, however, wish to call your ly participated in the matter, I
Montreal last week.
by a million and - 11 half dollars.
attention again to the very prac- am writing you regarding the
In one resolution, the Rabbis declared
of. the Pontiac restrictive
Are the Federation leaders going to let unanimously that "mixed marriages are con- tical measure pending in Con- story
covenant case which appeared in
the rest of American Jewry point the finger trary to the tradition of the Jewish religion gress which would, if enacted, your paper on June 27. Several
deprive hate sheets from utiliz-
of scorn at Detroit?
and should therefore be discouraged by the ing the special postal rate priv- inaccuracies revealing misunder-
Let us have another campaign early in the American Rabbinate" but defeated 74 to ilege. I refer to the Buckley standing appeared in that story
and I feel it imperative that
fall to make up the shameful deficit.
72 another resolution which said the con- Bill, H.R. 2848. •
The Buckley Bill, H. R. 2848, any misconception of the effect
But let this one be rim with more realistic ference "does not sanction mixed marriages
of the decisioh be clarified.
planning and wiser guidance!
between Jews and non-Jews without conver- entitled "A Bill to suppress the The court did not, as stated in
evil
of
anti-Semitism
and
the
sion afld it therefore calls upon the members hatred of members of any race the story, invalidate the prop-
of the conference to discourage such mar- because of race, creed or color," erty restrictions there involved.
How Can We Serve You?
riages and to refrain from officiating at has a declaration of policy stating What the court did hold w
The Jewish Chronicle, much more so than them."
that, "Congress hereby finds that that there was no adequa
The reverend gentlemen were blowing hot anti-Semitism and bigotry are proof that the defendant was a
the Jewish Welfare Federation paper, is the
and cold at the same time in their apparent potent weapons in the hands of Semite. It, therefore, in ,the
servant of the Jewish people of Detroit.
the enemies of this country and court's view became unnecessary
If we fail to satisfy our subkcribers, we irresolution.
to pass judgment on the legality
of its institutions."
We
can
see
no
better
way
for
Rabbis
to
must go out of business. Not so; the Fed-
The spread of anti-Semitism, of the restrictive covenant with
discourage
mixed
marriages,
which
are
a
eration paper. If 'the Jewish public is dis-
the bill continues, is "tending to respect to occupancy by persons
satisfied with its policy, its features or its threat to Jewish existence as well as a destroy the unity of this nation, of the Semitic race, and the
playing up to the Federation agencies and dangerous risk, socially, than to refrain from creating discord among our peo- court expressly reserved judg-
their officers, there is very little the public officiating at them. The excuse that the ple, disrupting the normal chan- ment upon this point.
rebuffed couple will then have the marriage nels of trade and commerce, and In the brief we vigorously
can do about it.
performed by a justice of the peace is a
with and dislocating urged the invalidity of the cove-
Every contributor to the Allied Jewish poor rationalization. A mixed marriage will interfering
the economic life of the coun- nant because of its ambiguity
Campaign will still get his free monthly not become holy or Jewish because a Rabbi try."
and uncertainty; because it was
•
copy whether he wants it or not and if performed the ceremony.
against public policy and was
support for the Federation paper declines
The court,
It looks as if the old Talmudists had The proposed act declares it unconstitutional.
in general, all the Jewish Welfare Federa- nothing on the modern Rabbinate for casu- to be its policy "to prevent the however, declined to adjudicate
spread of anti-Semitism, religi- any of these matters.
tion has to do is increase its subsidy for istry.
ous and racial hatred because of
The story also fails to men-
the paper, taken from 'funds contributed
race, creed or color through the tion the part played in the case
for charity.
use of the mails and the chan- by Mr. Samuel A. Barr. Mr.
GOA to Acclaim Silver
Do not forget, if you made a pledge to
nels of interstate and foreign Barr was the attorney to whom
the Allied Jewish Campaign, a small per-
There is little chance that the small group commerce."
the matter originally came. It
centage of that 'pledge for charity is auto- of diehards in the ZOA ranks will prevail
In addition to prohibting the was through his foresight that
matically deducted for a private newspaper at the convention this weekend. The clear- "importation, mailing and ship- the •broader implications of the
whose profits go to a private source. Just cut militant program of Dr. Silver will be ment" of anti-Semitic propagan- case were first recognized and
look at your pledge card. It as all there in vindicated and his choice for the presidency, da, the bill makes unlawful the brought to the attention of the
"receipt and distribution" of Community Council. Mr. Barr
Emanuel Neumann, will be indorsed.
small print.
such
by those knowing actively participated in the trial
The rank and file in Zionism today recog- it to material
The Jewish Chronicle makes no pretense.
have been forwarded in of the case.
nizes
that
the
soft-spoken,
timid
approach
It is a private enterprise for profit, but if
HARRY M. NAYER,
violation of the proposed law.
1250 Penobscot Bldg.
it fails to do its job well or serve the Jewish of the \Veizmann-Lipsky school was a tragic
Punishment for violation of
community in the way the public demands, mistake. They realize now that a hard- the provisions of the bill in-
it might as well close up shop because there fisted program with •unequivocal demands cludes a fine of "not more than
will be no subsidy from charity funds to backed by daring and forcefulness should $5000, or imprisonment (at hard
(Confirmed from page 3)
labor) for not more than five
have been undertaken.
back it up.
years, or both, at the 'discretion after him, trying to get him to
Dr.
Silver,
by
following
such
a
course
of
The Chronicle cannot know if its readers
record himself before the com-
of the Court."
indorse its editorials or enjoy its features or action, supplemented by logical and diplo-
mittee as believing unwarranted
The
American
Jewish
Labor
approve its makeup or style if the readers matic argument, has accomplished more for Council is at present conducting favoritism was being shown
Zionism in the past year than all Lipskys,
do not let us know one way or the other.
drive for one million signa- Jewish refugees.
presidents did in all their administrations. a tures
"I don't want to inject the
in support of the Buckley
Please call the editor personally at Cadil-
Dr. Silver is the prototype of the vigorous,
lac 1040 if you have any suggestions or youthful and defiant Jew who has now Bill. The response to this cam- race issue unduly," said Gossett
"but do you recall the
advice. You will be given a courteous re- taken over on' the international scene. He paign thus far has been grati- quietly,
fying. Non-Jews and Jews are statement by a State Depart-
sponse.
has his extremes in the Ilaganah and in the responding enthusiastically in ment official some time ago that
Our existence, remember, depends only on Irgun, it is true, but let it be recognized this effort to curb the peddlers 75 per cent of the visas granted
how well we serve you.
that the Jew of today will get nothing and of anti-Semitism and race hat- displaced persons were issued
to persons Of the Jewish faith?"
red.
does get nothing unless he fights for it.
There was a tense moment
It
is
our
hope
that
you
will
Dr. Silver has encouraged this new spirit
known this proposed legis- as Rozmarek replied that "rep-
Mercy Is Disdained
that has given world Jewry life and hope. make
lation to your readers. It un- resentatives of certain Jewish
Those American ladies of quality, the Neumann, his associate, will make a worthy derlines the .lemand contained organizations were on the spot
preposterous Daughters of the American -successor.
in your editorial for the effective and have done a good job."

Entered as Second-clam matter March 3, 1916,

Stratton Bill Quiz

Revolution and the hoity-toity National
Federation of Women's Clubs have turned
their backs on the quality of mercy.
They applauded defamations of the DP's
, and closed their ears to appeals for relaxa-
tion of. the immigration laws to admit a
Art and Anti-Semitism
handful of these tragic outcast of a rapa-
The Anti-Semitic front is never quiet.
cious continent.
The ancestor-worshiping Daughters heard But that it would erupt in the field of art,
that paragon of isolationism and reaction, which knows no color, race or creed, was
Paul II. Griffith, national commander of hardly expected even among the most pessi-
the American Legion, brand all measures to mistic in our midst.
The latest to join the so-called, but actual-
facilitate the entry of refugees as "a racket
of specific racial, religious or economic ly misnamed, lunatic fringe is William Hunt
Diedrich, an internationally known sculptor
groups".
To this "unpitying barbarian" as Opinion and a member of the exclusive National In-
magazine aptly labels him, an attempt to stitute of Arts and Letters.
Mr. Diedrich, it seems, was so bent on
save about 400,000 souls from a life of
tragedy and despair is a "racket." The adding his voice to the American madmen
day of the American Legion is ebbing and preachers of race and hate that, as the Na-
no wonder, when men like Griffith are at the tional Institute of Arts and Letters charged
he even resorted to forgery in circulating
helm.
A foreigner to Griffith and his kind is his scurrilous literature. Mr. Diedrich is
ipso facto an enemy of this country. It is considered a great sculptor, but evidently he
well that this philosphy has become Ameri- felt his renown as an artist had not reached
can dogma only in recent years or this na- the American masses and so he sought to
tion would still be the third-rate power it gain their ear by the pen, an equally great
weapon of art and warfare.
was before Lincoln's day.
What he said about Jews isn't i.nportant.
chance
that
the
Federa-
a
There is yet
tion of Wornerg.s Clubs will reverse its stand. But the fact that a judge in a Federal
Women with humanity and pity in their Court ordered Diedrich held for psychiatric
hearts are still trying to nullify the decision examination points best to the source of
of the heartless majority. We hope they anti-Semitism everywhere.
SEVEN ARTS FEATURE.
will be successful.

The Visiting Editor

Brave New World Must Bar Racists

