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DETROIT JEWISH ,CHRONICLE

Fr iday, November 28, 1917

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E RI ION OF 7'11E WEEK

ed to Join Protest at War Hystena

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tr ' and the Soviet Union."
N eople suf-
If some war-mongenng and
TO all that I add my most de- total war
al an interfaith appeal, so vout Amen. I know even bet- fered and no people lost as did Red-baiting blatherskites should
eo le Between 31 and 40 protest that what I am saying is
R . STEPHEN S. WISE ca ueu
I, Jew and Rabbi, and other ter than the signatories what
of every 100 Jews on earth were Communist or pro-Communist, or
ose
on President Truman, Prime ew could
mercilessly and brutally slain by that I am a Communist dupe, I
thical
lister Attlee and Marshal Pro have joined cler
iii lin to announce publicly that Protestant chure.ymen,
Hitler. I would spare my coun reply ,in advance—and there will
3ta iew war shall not divide the and lay, in their crusade of
trymen any part of the fate be no further reply—that I am
peace between the United States
which befell my fellow-Jews, ready to face that idiotic charge,
great
allies
of
World
War
and the Soviet Union.
thr
even though my countrymen if by so doing I can do aught
I am not a Christian, but it 1
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would meet their fate in battle. to prevent war between my
in a sermon at the Free Syna- understand Christianity at all,
country and the Soviet Union.
tle.
go gue, entitled "Must There Be this is a much more deeply
• • •
Are there reasons for war
ar? With Whom? Why?," Christian utterance than the dai-
a
WE, AS JEWS, followers of
which are convincing and unan-
Wise
declared:
ly
summons
to
war
on
the
part
Di
high and precious faith, must swerable? Did not "they and
I urge the heads of the three of certain churchmen against the
resolve to join with all other we" battle together against Fas-
eat
nations
to
convene,
with
godlessness
of
the
Soviet
Union.
gr
groups in American life — and cism? My soul rebels when
without
seconds
and
thirds
The
great
Protestant
churches
or
most especially- with Church or Fascism and Communism are
id
fourths
and
fifths.
Under-
of Christendom have now ex-
a1
Christian groups — to prevent, lumped together, as if they were
ngs
cannot
accept
ultimate
re-
pressed their alarm over the
Ii
while yet it may be prevented, identical or interchangeable
sl ionsibility. Acceptance of ulti- "shocking amount of suspicion,
the unspeakable calamity of terms.
mate responsibility rests solely hatred and hysteria, which has
deliberately turns
war.
Fascism
upon the three heads arisen between the United States
a r 41.14one
:
I would have 15 to 50 Rabbis away from the light of freedom
'
three
nations.
and
the
Soviet
Union;"
and
de-
0
and lay members of the Ameri- and democracy. Communism,
• • •
clared it to be "the duty of every
0 community unite in however falteringly, stumbles
can Je1 81
AS A RABBI I am envious in a Christian to mobilize all re-
uttering t eir protest against the forward toward both freedom
ense of the recent appeal of sources of religion and moral 1011 ■11 "'
"suspicion, hatred and hysteria,
Protestant forces toward the establishment
(Continued on page 5)
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distinguished
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which have arisen between our
church leaders,—envious, for I of better relations with the
DR. STEPHEN S. WISE
wish with all my heart that this Soviet Union.
:hristian group had made their
Plain Talk

\Bigots Couple
Rabbinical Students
Catholics in
Joe BecOmes Partner Hate Tactics Live Up to Their Ideals

Personal Problems

of the Phone Company

Put What They Learn Into Practice
by Supporting a Liberal Candidate

NEW YORK—Hate sheets are
combining their attacks on Jews
with vicious un-American, prop-
aganda aimed at the Roman
Catholic Church, it was revealed
by Arnold Forster, national di-
By ALFRED SEGAL
rector of the legal and fact-
N OUR TOWN a considerable section of the Jewish population
finding division of the Anti-De-
Ph. D.
-
I has gone warlike on account of certain incidents in the recent
By W. A. GOLDBERG,
A NUMBER OF years, my official work was with lawbreak famation League of Bnai Brith.
municipal election, and on its' high hill, the Hebrew Union College
OR
ers, adolescent, pimply kids who stole cars and stuck up people
These findings were disclosed is under fire. However, I can't imagine that the assault will make
ti
for five and ten bucks, bank presidents who salted away thousands in the preliminary preparations the least breach in its widely known principles.
of the ADL's annual survey of
of dollars, kidnapers, murderrs,
e extortionists, safe crackers.
That Rabbinical seminary has they are troubled about things
he really was a likeable fellow, was anti-Semitic trends.
But my very best friend,
had its seat in our town for they can see from their hill.
Tactics used against Jews may more than 70 years, the citadel
an expert key man, a fine ar- see any reason to share with
From that height they can
readily
be
adopted
to
smear
any
tisan who, had he so wished,
of Jewish lib-
look down into a distant valley
group, Forster declared, point-
could have made a modest living just "Joe". • • •
toward the west where tene-
ing out that many "lunatic eralism in
— •••••••11 in his trade. REFLECTIVE JUSTICE
ment houses and factories are
But he also
fringe" publications, all of them America. I re-
all cluttered together. This is
had a failing, MOST POLICE departments virulently anti-Semitic, consist- member long
easy for eyes lighted up by
a disease. He MOST law-abiding. Every once ently attack the Catholic Church ago when its
Torah to see under the rooftops,
tried to get in a while, it becomes necessary with lies similar to calumnies students were
ery of
people crowded
more like Ye-
the mis
something for for them to be not law-abid- they employ against Jews.
together in stinking tenements.
shivah boys
nothing. He ing. So they picked up Joe every
While some of the.publications fenced in by
• • •
gambled every time they saw him.
investigated by the ADL resort the scrolls of
day and every
If he had more small change to subtle innuendo in spreading
...I LIKE THE PROPHETS
on his person than the usual their divisive ideology, most of the Torah, you
night.
might say, and
THE HEBREW UNION COL-
I know be- person normally has, he was
Al Segal
them are blatant, falsely accus- out of this
LEGE boys early become
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cause I once jailed. More than being jailed,
ing the Catholic hierarchy of world and always conserva- painfully aware that the func-
w a s, specially he was "looped," held at one
Dr. Goldberg
plotting to seize the government tively behaved.
tion of a Jewish ministry is to
deputized to serve him with di station for one day, then at of the United States, and even
do something against the evils
r another, then a third, then a
It
seems
that
in
our
own
times
vorce papers. I found him afte
comparing the Church with the
of the world and especially the
the Torah serves more as a
making the rounds of all the fourth. You might call this the Communist Party, he said.
their
the social consciences immediate evils tinder all
coffee houses, the dice joints, "reflective" type cf. justice, giv-
by
prod
on
noses on the hill. That's'
Unthinking people have been
he
boys.
It
shoves
them
ing
an
offender
time
to
consider
the bookie parlors. But he re-
way of being like the prophets
made receptive to this insidious
and reconsider.
propaganda by the widespread down the hill toward the
mained my friend.
on whose teachings the ideals
This game of "looping the activities of the Ku Klux Klan and all mankind. They f feel
the of the Hebrew Union College
So, when he lost his job, he loop" they played with Joe for
c
and nationalist organizations acute pain on acount
oticular
in par,
stand.
thought up a partnership with four months. Joe finally took
If, in former times, the Ile-
like it, Forster warned. whole world and,
the telephone company. Now the hint and left town.
students
brew Union College
the telephone company does a
felt
that
a
city
election
was
nice business. You, too, Mr. ani
Strictly Confidential
none of their affairs, the new
Mrs. Joe Dokes should do as
ones take a city election deep-
well as they do.
ly to their consciences. By a
city election something may
But my friend didn't ask
be accomplished against - the
the company's permission to
continued existence of foul
become a partner. lie figured
tenements far off in the valley
that this was a trifle and, any-
at the foot of the hill.
way, he bad no money to in-
Well, that's what all the cur-
vest. Ile just went into busi-
This
means
that
they
are
not
mittees and that the intrusion d \ permitted to try on any wear- rent fuss is about in our town.
ness with them.
By PHINEAS L BIRON
of the New York committee an ing apparel, Why? Because the Maybe you have heard some-
• • •
thing about the Jewish position
ii
UR GOOD FRIEND, J. A. ma- the subsequent publication
white customers would object.
in our town.. There is one city
PRACTICES HIS CRAFT
ler, editor of the Baltimore these steps in our column was un-
number
of
a
Then there are
ward that is largely Jewish and
10E MADE HIMSELF a bean- Jewish Times, grew very indig- called for.
Jewish-owned motion picture is inhabited by people of all
And so he wired the editor of houses where Negroes are not
tiful set of keys, to fit any nant the other day. This because
o,
ranks.
the orchestra. social
one of the many pay stations in the American Committee of Jew- our syndicate. He felt triumphant.
rmitted to sit in in the
As voters they have always
ish Writers, Artists and Scientists The local leaders had stated
Negro dis- been on the clean side of local
4 city.
he desecration had nothing to 1 And there aie,
(Albert Ein-
Jewish - owned
t
politics and the Jewish council-
Tor a while these boxes were stein and Sha-
do with anti-Semitism and that \ tricmberhave
which less a reputatio n for men they havehelped to elect
not protected in any way except lom Ascii are
the culprits, two Negro young-
had ben apprehended. The 1 sharp practices. And of course through many years have al
by a lock. So Joe just opened honorary presi-
sters,
case was closed and the writers' Negro resentment is at the seeth- ways been men of the highest
the boxes and cleaned them dents)
had,
ing point.
integrity.
out. After all, he was a master from its New
committee was out on a limb.
• • •
You will admit that there is
key maker and presumably he York office,
But was it? We decided to in-
a BACK LIBERAL
vestigate in Baltimore, and wei justification. The more so since
took 'Unusual pride in his crafts- wired the May-
non-Jewish store follows the
learned some interesting things 1
manship.
or of Baltimore
N ELECTION DAY a lot of
pr actice of treating white and
which our good friend
the Jewish citizens felt ag-
Eventually, he was caught in to go at ter
colored customers alike.
should have known.
grieved when in every precinct
the act and taken to jail. His those guilty of
Petitions
were
circulated
by
the
• • •
of the ward there appeared, as
"mouthpiece" got him out and the desecration
P. J. Biron
National Association for the Ad-
Ohr
Knes-
STORES
ARE
JEWISH
of
Joe went back to work.
vancement of Colored People de- an election worker, a Ilebrew
seth Israel Synagogue and to
BALTIMORE'S best-known de- manding that these discrimina- Union College student. Each of
Joe's take got to be heavy. bring them before the bar of jus-
partment stores are Jewish. All tory practices be stopped. . • • them wore on his coat a long,
Besides, it was a serious threat
those Jewish-owned stores have Nothing happened . . . Negroes white ribbon that bore the name
tice.
to the pride of the company.
(Continued on page 15)
Miller was very much annoy- one strict rule: Negroes may buy
(Continued on page 13)
They had to share with the city,
Miller felt
that
the
case
in those stores, but only on sight.
d because he
the county, the state and the
government. But they couldn'tbelonged to the local Jewish coin-

Nobody Invites Him to Join Firm
but He Sees Chance for Business

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Baltimore Is Called Worst Hotbed
for Anti-Sem itism in No. America

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