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DETROIT JEWIS- H CHRONICLE
Friday, October 3, 1947
SUCCOTH SERMON:
Security Is Based on Unity and Friendship
Its four walls are of wood.
Its covering is merely foliage;
and even that, according to tra-
dition, must not be too heavy
or solid. It must be so thinly
I seattered that at the very least
1.he stars might be seen through
it and the whole structure must
not be permanently attached to.
the ground. Indeed, its fraility
must be such as to allow an un-
usually strong wind to uproot
it.
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our roofed dwellings of mortar
and brick, and enter our little
Succah with its walls of wood
and ceiling of perforated green.
If we could plumb the es-
sential , reason for this com-
mandment, we might also un-
derstand what our Sages
meant when they said that
"The Messiah will come only
to teach the world the Mitz-
vah of the Succah".
Much of our life's energy is
spent in seeking personal secur-
ity. Next to the desire to be
loved by someone, the hunger
for security is one of the deep-
est drives in human nature.
In their quest for it, men amass
money, possessions and power.
These are of little value in
themselves, except in so far as
they make the individual secure,
or at least make him think he
is secure.
AS A MATTER of divine Bib-
lical command, we are to leave
THIS HUNGER for security,
THE FOLLOWING is a sum-
mary of a Succoth sermon,
"Our Ultimate Security", given
by Rabbi Jacob E. Segal of the
Northwest Hebrew Congregation:
What is the Succan? It it a
frail hut, a temporary abode.
The Succah is not built of stone
and steel, or such things as our
houses are made of.
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like all other human instincts,
is basically a sound one. But we
haven't yet learned to handle it
well. We often abuse and per-
vert it—over-reaching ourselves,
Physical and Mental
Incentives to Study
Avoid Distractions, Do Your Work
in Fairly Cool, Well Lighted Room
By W. A. GOLDBERG, Ph. D.
(this is the third and last of a series on proper working conditions
for study)
AVOIDING DISTRACTIONS. Working conditions influence study
results. The best atmosphere has a minimum of noise and
• disturbance. No spot is ever found which is absolutely free from
noise, however, and one cannot permit himself to become so fussy
that he works only under ideal conditions.
Mental processes are helped when the time and place become
associated with the objective.
Studying in the same place and conversation or other distractions
.
at the. same Jim as well as during study.
The danger signals in health
keeping the place reserved for
study is a help. are lingering pains and aches.
In other words, Your family physician can pro-
study In one vide remedial treatment neces-
place and loaf sary.
Eyestrain helps bring about
elsewhere.
Free study irritability, headaches, restless-
periods in ness, dizziness, etc., as reported
school can be by medical authorities. These
used for prep- are clues to poor physical con-
aration of dition and call for immediate
ho me work. medical attention. Neglect often
T w o periods means chfonic illness.
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Dr. Goldberg are better than
GET
REST
AND
-SLEEP
one, for long assignments. But
in long or short periods, it is WHEN READING; close the
for a few seconds or
essential to get down to busi-
ness fast. By timing yourself,
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you can reduce the wasted
effort.
Strictly Confidential,
I
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BE COMFORTABLE
VOU FAVOR study efficiency
-a. by providing the best pos-
sible conditions. A work place
of your own, a study room of
your own is indicated, if pos-
sible, or at least a corner of the
dining room, away from family
activities.
Parents should understand that
study is important and should
not ,disturb you with errands,
RABBI JACOB SEGAL
In his great. poem "Mending
Wall", Robert Frost seized hold
of a marvelous truth about hu-
man happiness. He tells us of
the stone wall separating his
field from his neighbor's, that
mysteriously kept falling apart,
yeac after year.
thekm5ng13..—.bal'
"There where the gap is we
do not need the wall:
He is all pine, •and I ant
apple-orchard.
My apple-trees will never get
across
And eat the cones under his
pines, I tell him.
He only says, "Good fences
make good neighbors!"
. . . And I wonder
If I could put a notion into
his head:
"Why do they make
good
neighbors?
Before I built a wall,
rd ask
to know
What I was walling in or
- walling out,
And to whom I was like to
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plain Talk
By W. A. GOLDBERG, Ph. D.
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build roofs shutting out the
stars that shine on all hu-
manity, and walls that cut us
off from the rest of mankind.
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Personal Problems
PROPER CONDITIONS
THE STUDY ROOM should be
on the cool side, for good
work. h.ir circulation and prop-
er humidity help. Warm, d9(
air make for dullness.
A sharply focused, single
study light causes glare. The
entire study table should have
)the same amount of light to
--I avoid fatigue and eyestrain. A
study table with a non-reflect-
ing surface (linoleum) cuts
glare.
Remove everything from the
desk which distracts you from
your work. Have on the desk
only those things needed for the
immediate subject.
Before sitting down to study,
secure all the tools of dictionary,
special reference books, paper,
pencils required for that sub-
ject.
until we destroy the very secur-
ity we seek.
The home, for example, is
supposed to be one of our surest
citadels of security. The home
is the supreme symbol of shel-
ter, of safety against the wind
and the rain, against the indif-
ference of strangers and the
coldness of the outside world.
But often the home trans-
cends its proper function. It
sets up a barrier between us
and our fellowmen. It in-
duces self-sufficiency to the
point where it walls us in
from the needs and sufferings
of other human beings. We
Nazi Butcher Mr. Denkmal Escapes
Blames Ford Being a Jew, at Last
Avoided Jewish Label All His Life
in Slaughter
NUREMBERG (JTA) —Former
S.S. Lieut. Gen. Oswald Pohl,
who is one of 18 Nazi concentra-
tion camp chiefs being tried by
a United States war crimes court,
told the tribunal that his views
on the Jewish question had been
influenced by writings on the
subject by the late Henry Ford,
who published a considerable
amount of anti-Semitic literature
aftei World War I, (Fprd subse-
quebtly disavowed his 'anti-Jew-
ish writings.)
Despite Shut Doors Confronting Him
O UR
By ALFRED SEGAL
MR. HILLEL reports solemnly on the death and burial of
his friend. Mr. Denkmal.
Mr. Hillel cherishes his memory on account of a number of
positive virtues the man possessed.
The regular reader of this column should know Mr. Hillel well
by this time. He is the head of the Hillel Widget Corp. who,
when he gets tired of the suc-
cesses of the widget business, ing person to know socially, an
Maly
takes several hours off to en- ambitious man, withal.
a delightful evening he and I
joy himself by
had together, discussing all the
contributing
topics of the day, but my ex-
something t o t
perience of him had taught me
this column.
meticulously to avoid any sub-
He had titled
ject having to do with JeWish
Pohl, who is charged with com- his most re-
life.
plicity in the imprisonment of cent effort
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10,000,000 persons by the Nazis, "M r. De n k -
JUST
BORN
A JEW
and the murder of several mil- mal's Victory"
HE WOULD SAY: "I happen
and it read as
lion of them, denied that he had follows:
to be Jewish," he said, "be-
committed any crimes, and chal-
cause I was born that way and
Yes, I call
Al Segal
lenged the legality of the laws Horace Denk-
can't avoid it, though I try hard
mal my friend even though enough to avoid it."
under which he is being tried.
At least he was being honest
there were in him certain weak-
He said that he was solely re- nesses of character which were about it. I knew some Jews
who felt the same way about
sponsible for all the crimes deeply distressing to me.
being Jewish but weren't as
charged against the 18 defend-
Denkmal was a fine fellow in
forthright. Denkmal didn't want
ants, since the other 17 carried many respects, an able man of
to be a Jew and made no bones
distinguished bearing, a charm- of it.
out his orders.
I tolerated him for the sake
of his better qualities. To avoid
the Jewish label he abstained
from belonging to a Synagogue.
When he gave to Jewish wel-
fare drives he made a point of
saying now, mind you, I'm giv- .
ing this not as a Jew. He was
just a friend of all humanity,
he said, and he gave to the Jews
of the world, we have good and to the editors of the papers sub- in the same spirit that he gave
By rHINEAS J. BIRON
scribing to the syndicate service to the community chest.
evil in men and causes.
EWISH LIFE IS complex .. .
That was about as far as he
Why these reflections? . . . Be- to decide whether they wish to
No less so than the goyish cause these commonplace con- run an item or blue-pencil it. got, in his lifetime, in his effort
pattern. There is a school of siderations are often forgotten Our column is not supp6sed to to get away from his Jewish
thought that insists that we in the superficial outcry that this represent the political views of identity.
Jews have a special knack for or that statement is either pro- a syndicate or any group. It is
I recall his deep distress the
doing things the hard way. On Jewish or anti-Jewish.
a personal column, responsible time he was kept out of a
both the do-
delectable neighborhood where
for what it says.
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mestic and the
We shall write it as long as he desired to build a spacious,
foreign scenes FREEDOM OF THE PRESS
we enjoy the freedom of the rambling house. He had his
our communal VOR THE LAST few years we press in the true American tra- eyes on a beautiful wooded
life abounds 'a " have been suffering from dition. And so, now that our lot of two acres and though the
with parties, censorship. . . . "We" means contract with our previous dis- deal for it was practically closed.
committees, or- this column . . . A gentleman tributor is ended, we hasten to
His wife was particularly hap-
ganizations, as- who is himself a columnist, and resume our column strictly un- py about it because, as she
sociations . . . apparently served as censor for censored.
said, they would be the only
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the syndicate which was distrib-
Jews allowed to live in that
Frequehtly uting our column, presumed to
community.
A CENSORED ITEM
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groups edit our column.
these
IN
OUR
LAST
COLUMN
.dis-
Whatever he did not agree
P. J. Biron don't merely
GENTLEMEN'S
PACT
tributed by our censorious
overlap—often they collide, com- with he blue-penciled. Criti-
Y ET ON THE DAY the papers
VET
syndicate
the
following
item
was
pete, conflict and even hamper cisms and exposes of powerful
to be signed (Denk-
one another's work. In Jewish persons and groups whom he eliminated: "Before 1948 rolls
along, a Zionist conference will mal had called with his lawyer
affairs we have our liberals and feared were eliminated. . . .
Now we don't claim that take place in New York and will at the office of the real estate
reactionaries, progressives and
dealer) he came to humiliating
pro-fasdists—yes, fascist collab- everything we write is above edi- nominate a candidate to oppose
frustration.
torial judgment. What we ob- Emanuel Neumann for the pres-
orators too.
The real estate dealer's throat
idency of the ZOA at the next
We have selfless and selfish ject to is censorship by a syn- convention".
gave out sounds of embarrass-
leiders, harmful and beneficial dicate.
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We believe it is entirely up
movements. Just like the rest
Zionist Group to Fight Neumann;
JTA to Get $735,000 From Appeal
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