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Friday, October 3, 1947

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE

In Memoriam

Detroit Jewish Chronicle

Published Weekly by Jewish Chronicle Publishing Co., Inc., 548 Woodvird, De'troit.26, Mich., CA. 1040

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, 1879

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

Vol 49, No. 40

Ftiday, October 3, 1947 (Tishri 19, 5708)

s DETROIT 26, MICA.

every Detroit Jew belongs to one or more
of them—will be asked to undertake an
Shemini Atzereth and Simchas Torah educational campaign within its ranks to
next Monday and Tuesday are the twin arouse the members to the menace that
indifference to Jewish education holds. In
• holidays of the Jewish calendar.
They are festive occasions, full of fun addition, and this is the crux of the pro-
and pageantry. However, if it were not posal, every parent will be canvassed per-
for the fact that Yizkor is recited on sonally and made to understand That Bob
Shemini Atzereth and little children are or Sharon, in adulthood, will rue the day
brought to finkSynagogue on Simchas the parents listened to their protests and
Torah eve to march with their flags around agreed to keep them from religious classes.
A Jewish child without a Jewish educa-
• and around, the festivals would be honored
more in the breach than in the observance. tion to fortify him in the inevitable con-
Certainly our love for the Torah, which • flicts of days to come may be a frustrated,
. is the foundation stone of Judaism and the unhappy adult.
Jewish parents and the community owe
basis of all morality, should impel us to
• give it visible honor on the day set aside it to their children to avert that contin-
gency.
for its glorification.
We urge the Community Council - to
"Tain Kovod LaTorah," pay honor to
speed
its proposal to fruition. October is
the Torah, is the watchword of the festival.
here; the school year has started long ago.
Let us not be deaf to its bidding.
Let us have more of our children in our
schools soon.
Britain to Withdraw?
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Thin Kovod LaTorah

Its a - tossup on whether Britain is sin-
cere in its proclamation announcing "an
early withdrawal of British forces and of
the British administration from Palestine".
First of all, no one- trusts British state-
ments with reference to Palestine. One
instinctively reads betWeen the lines for
:evidence of double-dealing, and the lines of
Arthur Creech-Jones' speech to the UN are
so full of evasions, ifs and buts, almost any
kind of interpretation can be drawn from
them.
If Britain, in her childish fit of pique,
does evacuate her troops at once, we shall
, join the thundering chorus of "good rid-
dance."
The Yishuv can take care of itself. If
the UN fails to step in at once, here may
be an opportunity for the Jew to proclaim
all Palestine a sovereign Jewish State. and
the UN can be confronted
. with- a fait ac-
, compli.

The Arabs, let it be untierstbod are
not minimizing the strength of the trained
Jewish army of 60,000. These , farces- are
united, whereas the bedraggled' Arab; con-
tingents are divided into hostile. faetions.
The Arabs will think twice before engaging
in a, fight that may draw iii world
fortes
against them.

A\ Plan for Education

Judge Levin has revealed some shocking
figures.
Of over 15,000 Jewish school children
Detroit, fewer than 5,000 are enrolled
in some form of a religious school.
The fault for this criminal failure lies
chiefly with the communal agencies which
are presumed to be on guard against such
indifference.
Blame the parents all you will, they
alone cannot rectify the situation. Too
many parents are putty in the hands of
their children. If they are to understand
that Jewish classes are as vital to the
growth of their child as milk and meat,
the education and the compulsion must
come from communal forces.
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Year after year, we have seen Educa-
tion Months share a few children here and
there but, frankly, fizzle otherwise. The
figures are tragic. Enroll - thents diminish
rather than increase despite the growth
in the number of schools - and improvements
in educational methods.
Pages of dull publicity from social
agencies, brochures and radio talks never
have done much good and are never going
to.

What is lacking is personal and regular
contact, and welfare administrations are
necessarily too busy with drives eight
months a year and their staffs ton small
and untrained to handle the job.
The Jewish Community Council believes
it has an answer and is calling a meeting
shortly of its 240 constitutent organiza-
tions to put it to work.
Individual organizations—and virtually
.

Help Spread the Facts-

The Zionist organization is engaged in
multifarious duties the year round. Among
these are public relations and education,
training of youth for future Zionist leader-
ship and encouragement of Zionist projects
among non-Jews.
All this takes much money, and the few
dollars paid for Zionist dues are hardly
enough to finance these essential activities.
They are made possible through the gen-
erosity of contributors to the Zionist Ex-
pansion Fund. Detroit is in the midst of
a campaign on behalf of the fund and looks
to every loyal Zionist for support.
Surely no friend of the Homeland can
remain unmoved by the - appeal at a time
like this when- the screaming headlines are
alone evidence of the need for healthy prop-
aganda for Jewish aspirations.
Help finance it with your gift to the
Expansion Fund. Mail your check, even a
small one, to the Zionist headquarters, 1044
Penobscot Bldg.

The Visiting Editor

Unreliable Britain

. . . After the second reading, and the
third and fourth, the full impact of Creech-
Jones' polished and evasive phrases became
clear, and what had seemed an historic
statement of policy was revealed as merely
an elaboration of one already long familiar
to everyone here.
The over-all analysis is this:
1. The League of Nations Mandate, un-
der which Britain has been governing Pal-
estine for the last 25 years, may be con-
sidered dead. But that doesn't mean the
British are getting out. It means only that
Britain asks for a change of the legal and
political status quo governing her relation-
ship with Palestine.
2. Indicating neither support nor op-
position to any solution for the Holy Land,
including partition, the speech makes plain
Britain's insistance on her right to "veto"
any role involving the use of force which
the UN may assign to her for implement-
ing the solution.
3. The present situation in Palestine is
such that Britain will withdraw altogether
—"in the absence of a settlement."
Neither of the first two of these basic
points reflects anything new in British
policy. Britain's willingness to relinquish
the mandate (for something she has not
yet clarified) was implicit in the fact that
she brought the problem to 'UN last spring.
And Britain's "veto" threat—now brought
four-square to the floor of the assembly—
was made amply clear last Spring also when
Sir Alexander Cadogan bluntly told a special
Assembly session that his Government
would refuse to enforce alone any solution
which would cost Britain "blood and treas-
ure."
PM, NEW YORK.

Letters to the Editor

day of atonement. How muc
better off the entire world 'would
be if the Day of Atonement were
to be observed by all peoples.
My heart goes out to those
who are unable to observe Yom
Kippur ,properly because they
are in concentration camps in
the area controlled by the forces
of Hitler. We pray that in
another year all of your people
will have much to be thankful
for through the opening of the
doors of Palestine and America.
The Negro people feel keenly
what you have suffered through
CHRONICLE HAILED
the disregard of your rights
Dear Mr. Tilchin:
because of your religious be-
We, have noticed with satis- liefs. The pattern of hate in its
faction that you have assumed consequences is the same upon
control of the Chronicle.
all of the oppressed peoples
The improvements already ef- throughout the world. We• look
fected by you augur well for a forward to the day when people
brilliant future for your fine will be judged; not on the basis
publication.
of race, creed or color, but on
Our organization is whole- the things for which they stand.
heartedly behind you in your
Freedom of religion and free-
daring crusade for a free Pal- dom from fear will become a
estine. More power to you.
reality in proportion to our im-
WOMEN'S LEAGUE
plementation of the ideal of the
TEL GUIBORIM,
fatherhood of God and the
Bertha Grossman, Pres. brotherhood of men. It is my
everyday practice to use my in-
fluence among my people for
PASTOR'S GREETINGS
the better understanding of the
Dear Editor:
With sincere reverence on the problems of the Jewish people,
occasion of Yom Kippur, I wish and toward recognition of the
to take- this opportunity to ex- human i.lignity of both.
tend greetings on this, your holy
(Rev) CHARLES A. HILL.

BNAI BRITH THANKS
Dear Editor:
On behalf of the Greater De-
troit Bnai Brith Council and
its officers I want tt express our
thanks and appreciation for your
Bnai Brith New Year's Greet-
ing page in your issue of Sept.
12. This was a very fine gesture
on your part and will be re-
membered by us.
SIDNEY J. KARBEL,
President Greater Detroit
Bnai Brith Council.

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Zionist Group- to . F i g h t
Neumann;
JT A to Get $135,000 From Appeal

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Yiddish program to the North
American Continent every day.
ference in Washington, D.C., on LA GUARDIA
Oct. 11 and 12. . . .
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The Jewish Telegraphic Agen- NOW THAT NEW YORK'S
cy a commercial news and fea-
"Little Flower" has faded ot•
ture service, will receive $735,- of our world some reminiscence:
800 from the Greater New York come to mind. . . .
Campaign of the United Jewish
During his first mayoralty
Appeal. Why? . . .
campaign, 14 years ago, La
So terrified was the Jewish Guardia addressed a number of
community of Manchester, Eng- campaign meetings in Yididish.
land, during the recent anti- One dawn we bumped into him,
Semitic manifestations that it after an exhausting series of
imposed a 10 P.M. curfew upon such appearances, in a restau-
itself. . . .
rant on New York's East Side.
The Anti-Defamation League He was surrounded by some
Bulletin justifiedly calls Joe friends who insisted that he take
Kamp a "hate-breeding" pamph- a nightcap before going to bed.
leteer for his activities in labor-
A huge, wild-looking fellow
baiting and "identifying numer- approached him and in a sten-
our Jews as Communists". But torian voice asked him: "Are
the American Jewish Committee you a Yid?" La Guardia, tired
only recently released a confi- and pale, looked at him sternly
dential circular branding the and answered: "I'm an Ameri-
Jewish Labor Council, which can."
fights discrimination among trade
The big fellow insisted: "You
unions, a "Communist front or- can't be both. You're either a
ganization". If the American Yid or an American".
Jewish Committee may indulge
The Little Flower suddenly
in hate-breeding, why not Mr. straightened up and knocked the
Kamp?..
other down with an expertly
Jewish Anti-Fascist Com- administered uppercut, saying:
mittee of Moscow shortwaves a "That's from both of us" .. .

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