Detroit. Jewish Chronicle

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Entered as Second-dau matter March 3, 1916, at the Post Office at Detroit, Mich., under the Act of March 3, 1879

ROBERT KRAUSE, Business Manager
SEYMOUR TILCHIN, President
GEORGE WEISWASSER, Editor-in-Chief

Vol. 49, No. 37

Friday, September 12, 1947

DETR OIT JEWISH CHRONICLE

• Page Four

Friday, September 12, 1947 (ELUL 27, 5707)

Hope In 5708

The outlook for the New
ear 5708 has suddenly and
inextricably become depend-
ent on the outcome of the
United Nations' committee's
recommendations for Pales-
tine.
With confidence that jus-
tice and reason will finally
prevail, we believe in all hu-
mility and gratitude to the
Almighty that for the first
time in two dolorous decades,
Rosh Hashonah dawns with
hope for Israel.
It is hard to believe. The
world Jew, after 2,000 years
of pain and of exile, may in
a very short while .be re-
stored to his home by the
authority of the nations of
the world, backed by the
force of world opinion.
• From a gypsy, the world
Jew will become a nation
again. And his brothers in
America will rejoice with him
that finally our blessings will
be vouchsafed him so that
he too can hold up his head
as a man among men.
* I *

DETROIT 26, MICH.

1 Letters to the Editor

SIGLER GREETINGS

Dear Editor:
As governor of Michigan,
please accept my warmest good
wishes as the members of the
Jewish communities of our state

Rosh Hashonah Comes

KIM SIGLER,
Governor.

APPLAUDS 'SCOOP'

Dear Editor:
I was delighted to find a map
of the proposed partition of
Palestine and of the full text of
the majority report of the
United Nations Commission in
your Sept. 5 issue.
Congratulations on your scoop
and your journalistic enterprise
which brings us weekly a com-
plete and up to the minute re-
port of news of Jewish interest.
M. MANUEL MERZON,
2615 ,Taylor Ave.

ON LOUIS LIPSKY

we shall be able to point to
a Homeland from whence we
:ame as can any other Ameri-
can whose forebears sailed
from another land.
* * *
Yes, there is hope, there
is promise in 5708. Hope for
peace, hope for security, hope
for joy in the New Year.
May God grant wisdom to
the counsels of the nations
and soften the hearts of their
leaders that this great bqon
be finally accorded a sorely-
stricken Israel so that heal-

ing and peace may come to
us again.
God grant, too, that we be
worthy of the trust placed in
our generation.
May we help build a strong
and happy Eretz Israel.
May we speed comfort and
hope to our brethren in
Europe.
May we in 5708 and for
the ages be exemplars of
what the prophets visioned
for all men—by loving mercy,
living justly and walking
humbly with our God.

Dear Editor:
I was unable to reconcile a re-
cent editorial in another Detroit
newspaper praising Louis Lip-
sky with a statement in the
Bible, "Cursed be those who
mislead the blind."
Mason's recent biography of
Brandeis contains references to
the Weizmann-Lipsky evil forces
that everyone should know
about lest they be misled.
(Quoting from Mason's biogra-
phy of Brandeis, page 463 in
which the author discusses the
differences between Justice
Brandeis and the Weizmann-
'Lipsky forces):
"The cleavage was between
propaganda and practical work;
between vested organization and
newcomers. Brandeis insisted on
high efficiency, strict financial
accountability, and keeping faith
with promises made. Weizmann
was, in fact, a man of expedi-
ency and compromise, qualities
which brought down on his
head Brandeis' most violent epi-
thets. Brandeis' followers saw
his rival as 'utterly incapable of
straight-forward and honorable
conduct,' and the Justice himself
characterized his British confrere
as 'untrustworthy.'
"A 'minor villain' in Zionism
for Brandeis was Louis Lipsky,
who in the main endorsed the
Weizmann large-scale policies.
"On June 22, 1928, Brandeis
wrote DeHaas 'The Romans of
the Great Days occasionally lost
a campaign. They never lost a
war because they never per-
mitted a war to end until they
won. Our war is against Lipsky
and his ilk .. The terrible de-
moralization wrought by the
Lipsky administration cannot be
overcome without teaching Zion-
ists the wages of sin. There
must be no suppression in the
supposed interest of Palestine—
or "to save the movement." The
cause cannot be served without
saving the souls of American
Jewry.' "
A READER.

their energies and their leader.
ship during this period to as-
sure the complete success of the
United Jewish Appeal, the Jews
of America will, in effect, de-
termine who shall live and who
shall die among Europe's Jew-
ish survivors.
To the Jews of America who
hold the fate of our people in
their hands, I send this message
of greetings on the New Year
with the full confidence that
they will continue to serve the
FROM MORGENTHAU
cause of Jewish survival and
Dear Editor:
The observance by the Ameri- reconstruction with courage, vi-
can Jewish community of the sion and generosity.
"Ten Days of Remembrance" HENRY MORGENTHAU, JR.
from Sept. 15 to the 24 will add
PROSKAUER GREETINGS
a special significance to the tra-
ditional spiritual atmosphere of Dear Editor:
the High Holy Day period.
To every member of the
By mobilizing their resources, American Jewish Committee and

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to all my other fellow Jews I
extend my fervent wish for a
Happy New Year,
This Rosh Hashonah finds us
still in the throes of sorrow, of
bitterness and of discord in the
world. It is for us as Jews to
weather this storm with the
characteristic fortitude and the
indomitable persistence of our
people.
To do that we must maintain
the strength which comes only
from a sense of inward security
and we must gain that sense al-
ways from a realization of the
true meaning of our Jewishness
and a comprehension of the
justifiable pride in our historic
contributions to the religion and
culture of the world.
JOSEPH PROSKAUER,
Presidqt, AJC.

Dear Editor:
As the year 5707 comes to a
close, it is my privilege to ex-
tend to you and to the Jewish
press the Jewish Publication
Society's heartiest thanks for
the splendid cooperation you
extended to us.
For fifty-nine years, our So-
ciety has enjoyed the best of
public relations with the Jew-
ish press and it is their co-
operation which has been re-
sponsible in part for our healthy
growth.
Now that the Society is firm-
ly established in its own build-
ing, we hope, with your co-
operation, to serve the cause of
Jewish literature more efficiently
than we have in the past.
MAURICE JACOBS,
Executive Vice-President.

The etching in the adjoin-
ing columns expresses the
spirit of the newborn 5708
with succinctness. The figure
comes forth into new vistas
with confidence, even with a
challenge in his look, and on
his lips the Psalmist's ex-
ultant cry of defiance: "I
shall not die, but rather I
must live".
The Yishuv must live; the
DP in his sinkhole must live,
for now they have a promise
of something to live for.
* * *

When the Jewish slaves of
the German fiend were driven
to the crematoria, they wept
not but sang their "Ani
Maamin". They believed that
they would live as a symbol
of the Eternal Jew. They
believed that a new _race of
free men would arise in a
free land of their own to
sanctify their names.
The Chalutz and the town
dweller of Palestine knew
that he too 'would live be-
cause he poured his sweat,
his blood and his hopes into
the soil of the Homeland
and made it bloom.
And now may come the
culmination of all those
dreams and all that toil. A

SENATOR'S GOOD WISHES

Dear Editor:
To all Americans of the Jew-
ish faith, I extend most cordial
New Year greetings at this time
when their thoughts turn rev-
erently to the High Holidays of
their ancient religion.
In gratitude for the rich bless-
ings which every American—of
every faith and creed—is priv-
ileged to enjoy, it is my prayer
that this New Year may usher
in a day of new hope to brighten
all the world with righteousness
and brotherhood, and to eradi-
ate the cruelties of prejudice
nd intolerance.,
i World events in recent years
point with tragic emphasis to
the world's greatest need—for
men to folloW God's rule in their
dealings with one another so

celebrate their New Year.
Reaching far back into an-
tiquity, this New Year has sym-
bolized a rededication to God,
whom we all worship, and a
hope for better days ahead.
It is my earnest hope that the
year 5708 may bring you, and
the suffering members of your
people abroad, greater peace,
understanding and good will.

ctiotarm
`I Shall Not Die, But Rather I Must Live'

Jewish State. Home, at last.
Is this not, then, a glorious
New Year to greet?
The Jewish State will
change our prayerbooks; we
will have had our land re-
stored.
It will change our psycho-
logical outlook, giving us con-
fidence and pride.
It will change our mode of
living and way of thinking,
for hatred and bias will be
sorely smitten and we shall
not consider ourselves so-
journers by sufferance, for

that human fellowship may be
strengthened through good will
and justice.
As the sacred rites are ob-
served in the Synagogues and
Temples and the homes of our
Jewish people, I offer my best
wishes that all may have a
greater share of happiness in the
New Year.
EDWARD MARTIN,
U. S. Senator, Pennsylvania.

SOCIETY'S THANKS

