Page Four 'Friday, September 26, I47 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE Detroit Jewish Chronicle British Version of Silence Published Weekly by Jewish Chronicle Publishing Co., Inc., 548 Woodward, Detroit 26, Mich., CA. 1040 EtiS ~ QV ~ SUBSCRIPTION: $3.00 Per Year, Single Copies, 10c; Foreign, $5.00 Per Year 'Entered as Second-class matter March 3, 1916, at the Post Office at Detroit, Mich., under the Act of March 3, urn SEYMOUR TILCHIN, President ROBERT KRAUSE, Business Manager GEORGE WEISWASSER, Editor-in-Chief Vol. 49, No. 39 Friday, September- 26, 1947 (Tishri 12, Succoth, a Jewish Festival Rosh Hashonah and Yom Kippur are in great measure holidays of a personal na- ture. The High Holy Days afford each of us an opportunity for subjective examina- tion of our private lives and for dedication to new ideals and obligations as an in- dividual. They are holidays that touch each of us more as a member of the human race or of the community rather than as Jews exclusively. Even if we are not much of a Jew the rest of the year, the Day of Judg-, ment and the Day of Atonement play vital and stirring roles in our inner lives. The High Holy Days are soon over. We have offered our contrite prayers, promised reparation for our misdeeds and pledged ourselves to be more considerate of the rights of others, to share what we have and to make our lives a blessing. This is as it should be for all men— Jew and non-Jew. Penitence prayer and good deeds avert the evil decree in all religions. Rosh Hashonah and Yom Kippur. are, in a sense then, universal holidays, bringing messages of comfort and hope to all men. • * * Judaism does not come fully into its own until five days after Yom Kippur, one ; might say, when the glorious harvest fest- ival of ,Succoth comes with its symbolism, its color, its joyfulness and its nationalistic overtones. Succoth is not only a religious festival where we thank God for the abund- ant harvest. It is more than that; it is all Jewish. part and pal cel of our history, garlanded with our tradition and roman- ticized by our dreams for our Homeland. All religions have Penitence, Prayer and .Charity; but only Israel has the Succah, the Lulav, the Esrog, the processionals of 'Succoth and Simchas Torah, those soul stirring symbols of a religion of yesteryear and of today. Is it not a pity, then, that so many of us do not give even one moment to Suc- coth, the festival which thrills us as Jews, for we have exhausted our religious fervor in Holy Days which arouse us as human beings? If we would live this season as better Jews, let us not feel that we have fulfilled our obligations on Rosh Hashonah and Yom Kippur. We can be more firmly Jewish only in our observance of those things which are wholly Jewish. The :festivals, Succcoth, Passover and Shavuoth, are the chief of these. - Twelfth Street Property 5708) gat Pk\e° DETROIT 26, MICH. brotherhood. We shall not deserve the re- spect of all good Americans if we, too, walk in the way of the bigot and the racist. E. • Fiorello LaGuardia We mourn the death of Fiorello La- Guardia because, above all else, he loved his fellow men. He was one of those rare persons—a politician who was also a statesman, a pub- lic official who labored only for the public good. To LaGuardia, an Episcopalian whose wife was half-Jewish, there were no differ- ences of color, creed or race. Bigotry out- raged him and he inveighed in no uncertain language. against the purveyors of preju- dice and hate. He was the first top Amen can official to proclaim that Hitler was a menace to civilization and refused to apol- ogize when his remarks created an inter- national incident. LaGuardia was the best mayor New York City ever had and no one denied it. In his job as UNRRA chief, he gave all his executive acumen to a thankless task. The nations stood ready to liquidate the mercy organization, but LaGuardia made it contribute its utmost to man's welfare even in its dying gasps. The world will miss this dynamic, big- hearted, little man. The U. S. Equivocates The United States is mealy-mouthed again on the Palestine question. Instead of coming out definitely in support of the recommendations of the United Nations committee for the establishment of a Jew- islr State, Secretary Marshall -releases a statement that is neither -one thing or another. The nations are waiting to see which way the wind blows, and a forthright state ment of policy by Marshall backing the partition plan would almost in 'itself assure tile plan's success. There are rumblings in London. Latest reports say that the British cabinet, stiff- necked and self-absorbed ever, will op- pose Jewish Statehood and advocate a United Nations trusteeship because they say the Jews and Arabs will be at one another's throats if the land is partitioned. NVe are tired of pointing out that once Britain is ousted, there will be no provo- cateurs of Arab-Jewish discord. The neu-, tral UN committee sensed this when it unanimously recommended British evacu- ation of the country in its report. If Marshall minced no words in sup- porting the report of the UN investigators, thel British might be deterred from oppos- ing . it. At least, unconditional American support would offset British and Moslem hostility and assure the proposal the two- thirds vote needed in the Assembly. Why is not the United States fulfilling its pledges and its obligations to justice? • tt'w • --e world t. 44 SOP.Kt1 6 etters to the Editor HADASSAH THANKS Dear Editor: I want you to know how much we appreciate your cooperation and interest in Hadassah. The publicity has been splen- did and it certainly is helping to put our campaign "over the top." MRS. JENNIE JONES, President. NOWAK MESSAGE Dear Editor: I wish to take this oppor- tunity to greet the Jewish peo- ple and extend my hand in friendship on this, your day of prayer and fasting--the Day of A tonement. All the people of the world should join you on this Yom Kippur to expiate and atone for the great crime visited upon your people; that devastating disease called "fascism" which cruelly murdered well over six million of your people. The world looked on and but feebly protested this slaughter, saying—''It's too bad—but thank God it's not me and mine." But we learned much to our great sorrow that the Jewish people were the first line of defense against this plague—once this' defense was smashed the disease spread rapidly and World War ' II reached into the far corners of the world. • • • I want to be specific and sound a warning. All --decent Americans must carry on a con- stant fight against anti-Semitism. This can be done on both an ndividual and organized basis. Reaction and anti-Semitism go hand in hand. and we must recognize that what hurts the Jewish people is harmful to all the people. We must fight for free emi- gration into our country of the Jewish DP's. and at the same time press our State Department for a dissolution cf these post- war concentration camps "hous- ing" those who suffered the greatest injury under Nazism. The Palestine issue must be settled finally in the UN; the British mandate abrogated in Palestine and the Jewish people freed of British terror which at this moment replaced the Hitler terror. On this date of Atonement, I pledge that I will use my every influence and energy to see that some measure of justice is meted out to the Jewish people. Senator STANLEY NOWAK. Home owners in the Twelfth street area who are precipitously selling their prop- erty are doing a great disservice to them- selves and the community. The coming of a few dozen Negro 'families is- no indication that the racial character of the neighboorhood will change !overnight. Jewish institutions such as ,synagogues, the Jewish Community Center and the United_ Hebrew Schools feel that it will be years before the section changes appreciably and that, accordingly, there is no need for hasty departure. Letter About a Small Boy Home owners who sell their property in Concerning little boys we have a letter fear of a big population shift are taking from a Ben Brith who is a grandfather and losses by selling below market value be- who is troubled on account of his grandson ' . 'cause of their unwarranted panic. More- Paul who is 5 years old. He thinks that in over, by their ill-considered sales, they are the Rosh Hashonah service there should be hastening the change for others which they a special prayer for boys like Paul. fear for themselves. "I delight in Paul," he says. "My heart ; When a flat or apartment is sold and is all with Paul. in the happy hours when 'Jewish tenants are forced out to fend for I visit at my son's house. themselves, much bitterness is provoked "My heart gets prophetic: Surely, Paul and the seller is accused, of promoting a will turn out to be a good man, tall and change in the character of the neighbor- strong and kind—an effective man because hood in his gluttony for profits. As a of his bright mind. But suppose ... No, it VEGETARIAN CLUB result Jew accuses Jew, as was the case in can't happen that little boys like Paul will Dear Editor: our Letter to the Editor column last week, have to die in another war when they've I wish to advise vegetarians or those interested in learning and there is ill-feeling in the community. , scarcely grown up." vegetarianism that we The residence of Negroes in a block Yes. says this Ben Brith, a prayer for about should by no means be the signal for swift the little children should be included in the have a vegetarian club in De- Pc: further information evacuation. If we are to live on good Rosh Hashonah service if for no other rea- ; p trcit. le-sse phone — Y. 6-63S6. terms with our neighbors, certainly we ; son than to keep people mindful. ELLA LA VINE, 'should be the first to practice tolerance and BNAI BRITH MONTHLY. Secretar y. The Visiting Editor itcr BACKS 'TERRORISTS' Dear Editor: Terrorists, I claim should go on fighting in Palestine! I urge these fighters to ghettoize Brit- ish behind barbed wire like British ghettoized Jews in con- centration camps, and wage a war of nerves on London, not unlike the war British wage in the Jewish city of Tel Aviv! Such sentiments, I recognize, are condemned by countless— Jews and Christians alike—but. if those who condemn Jewish terrorism will but turn to our own history, they will find the United States was born—indi- rectly at least—of violence. They will read about early American Colonists who on their way to church, "shot In- dians"; of early Americans who shot British at Saratoga and Yorktown; of another generation who shot British in 1812; of Americans—Christian _Americans —who, shot Indians .-between 1830 and 1885, to clear the West; of Rough Riders who shot Spaniards at San Juan and El Caney. These critics will shortly rea- lize these terrorists in Palestine do only what Americans did and found necessary to do in order to build our own coun- try! • • • You may ask what Jewish ter- rorism - has accomplished? Since a Jewish patriot shot Lord Moyne, and others blasted the David Hotel, and still others bombed the jail at Jerusalem, hasn't the movement to oust British from the Holy Land and create a Jewish homeland moved forward with miraculous speed —in marked contrast to the lumbering progress made before these terrorists sprung into ac- tion? "Everybody likes a Santa Claus", and as long as Jews.' played such a role they were welcomed. But once they asked for something more than the right to dispense charity and demanded something like a Jewish State, they were at first laughed at and then slugged. Evtm the Jewish Guiding Star —the Balfour Declaration—was specifically repudiated. • • • But now things are different!' British and Arabs have discov- ered some Jews are ready to swing from the gallows for their cause; and with this discoery how quickly the cause for a Jewish homeland gains political momentum? I claim these ter- rorists are at least indirectly responsible for this sudden change of pace. Recall what Benjamin Frank- lin told his brother revolu- tionists when he signed the Dec- laration of Independence, "If we don't succeed, we'll all hang to- gether". Or was it John Han- (Continued on Page 16)