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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE
Music for a Dance Macabre
Detroit Jewish Chronicle
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SEYMOUR TILCHIN, President
GEORGE WEISWASSER, Editor in Chief
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Friday, March 12, 1948 (Adar II 1, 5708)
Vol 50, No. 8
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DETROIT 26, MICIL
The Story Unfolds
Collier's Blunder
For a few more days, Israel must un-
dergo the agony of waiting for the decision
of the big powers on the fate of the Home-
land which seemed so close only a few short
days ago and is so remote in this solemn
hour.
May God grant that justice and mercy
will move the hearts of the nations to re-
vive hope within Israel again.
The story behind the apparent American
reversal is being unfolded in the meantime.
It is not a pleasant one, for intrigue and
perfidy are its major components and honor
and equity have been left by the wayside.
Israel, it is evident, is the pawn in the
great international conflict between East
and West. America's move is designated
to throw the Palestine problem into the
hands of the Trusteeship Council of the
UN and to bring it under the purview of
the Truman Doctrine.
In this way, Russia wilt be barred from
playing a hand in the Middle East game
because it has no representative on the
Council and is the prime target of the
Truman Doctrine.
The State Department schemers plan to
do this by bringing about a stalemate in
the Security Council. A new session of the
General Assembly will then be called and
be frightened into a reversal on partition
on the claim that it would give Russia a
foothold in the Middle East.
The rest would be simple. The Assem-
bly would hand over the Palestine question
to the Trusteeship Council which would
seek a "compromise': whereby the Jews
would give up the Negev, Haifa and their
half of Galilee to appease the Arabs.
• All this diabolical plotting can still be
defeated if President Truman who, in his
innocence, has become a tool of State De-
partment underlings will issue a categorical
directive to Austin ordering backing of the
original partition plan. Your telegrams
and letters may yet help do the trick.
The publication by Collier's magazine
last week of Lessing Rosenwald's article
"The Fallacies of Palestine" is a gratuitous
insult to American Jewry.
A periodical of Collier's reputation for
integrity and open-mindedness should have
ascertained first that Rosenwald is a repu-
diated nonentity-in Jewish life and is con-
sidered generally a neurotic with an obses-
sion that American Zionists are disloyal to
this republic.
In short, Rosenwald is one of those
anomalies we Jews have to "suffer among
our other woes—the Jewish anti-Semite.
Collier's obviously' knew it was treading ,
on unsafe ground when it printed its apolo-
getic and wobbly editorial on the subject in
the same issue.
When the magazine said it hopes that
Rosenwald's statement "will be given the
fair hearing expected historically of a free
and independent people", it apparently over-
looked the fact that he has been given such
hearings year after year, that he has had
the opportunity all along to win converts
to his viewpoint and that he has been dis-
avowed for his invidious and twisted no-
tions.
Were he not very wealthy and well able
to subsidize his eccentric theories he and
his group would long ago have been dis-
carded on the rubbish heap which is the
final resting place of similar crackpot be-
liefs.
Negro Papers Maack Bigots
The Detroit Jewish community has made
every effort to be good neighbors to the
Negroes of this city.
The Jewish Community Council closely
collaborates with civic inter-racial move-
ments. In recent months it has sponsored
and activated the Midwest Neighborhood
Council in a program' to avert racial tension
in the 12th-Linwood area where the influx
of Negroes has been considerable.
Out in Paradise Valley, where most
small merchants who deal with Negroes
are Jews, the Community Council promoted
the organization of the East Side Merchants
who seek to foster friendly relations with
brotherhood meetings and other activities.
But above all this, Jews have, in gen-
eral, greater sympathy and more respect
for the Negro and his problems than does
the average citizen. In the fight to eradi-
cate discrimination, Jim Crowism and big-
otry and to raise the Negro to an equal
footing socially and economically with his
white neighbor, the Jew has been in the
forefront, not only because he also is a
victim of discrimination but because it is in
his nature to abhor injustice and inequality
wherever they may be.
Was it not Amos, the Jewish herdsman
of old who voiced the first recorded outcry
against racial discrimination with his ad-
monition: "Are ye 'not like the children
of the Ethiopians unto me, 0 children of
Israel? saith the Lord."
And so, it is a shock and a pity to
learn that irresponsible writers and editors
in Detroit, at a time when their race needs
the support of all their friends, are aping
the bigotry and malice of their own de-
tractors by publishing columns and articles
that are patently anti-Semitic.
The Jewish Community Council is pro-
test* to the Negro publishers and the
Negro community. The latter would be
wise, for their own good and for the sake
of justice and decency, to weed out that
minority that fosters the hate and wicked-
ness that has also brought so much misery
to their own people.
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Chronicle Advertising Brings Results
For years now, twice each month with-
out fail, two of our very good friends, the
Detroit Edison Co. and the J. L. Hudson
Co. have been advertising in our columns.
Both firms report that the returns in
actual sales and in goodwill have been
gratifying. It is the consistency of their
advertising that has produced results, they
aver.
We are grateful to Edison and Hudson's
for their confidence in the Chronicle. We
are sure that the community has great faith
in both firms as merchants and as good
neighbors. We ask our readers to• let both
companies know that they read their ads
in the Chronicle and respond to them.
We think that other utilities, public
service organizations and merchants, both
Jewish and non-Jewish, can benefit by long
range programs of advertising in the Chron-
icle.
This paper's readership is select and
comes from an income group that makes
good customers. Our subscribers are cover-
to-cover readers, we know from investiga-
tion, and are loyal to the Chronicle which
has served, in many cases, their parents
and even their grandparents.
We assure our advertisers good returns
from an attractive and consistent adver-
tising program as Detroit Edison and J. L.
Hudson can testify.
Speed FEPC Legislation!
We have commended Gov. Sigler for
placing proposed fair employment practice
legislation on the agenda for the special
'session of the legislature.
The governor's action does not neces-
sarily mean he indorses the measure. But
he can be persuaded to come out strongly
in its favor if enough Michigan citizens
demand that he do so.
It is accordingly up to us to flood both
the governor and our state representatives
and senators with letters and telegrams
urging their active support of the bill.
Similar legislation has dealt a heavy
blow to bigots in other states and the bill
here can prove equally effective.
Do your share in fighting discrimination
and hate. Write to the governor and your
legislators in Lansing. For names of the
latter, call the Jewish Community Council,
a sponsor of the bill, at CII. 1657.
Top Zionist Leader
Plans to Join Wallace
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20 years in preparation. Great
credit is due to Louis Bitten.
berg, executive editor of the
UJE, for his absolute, scholarly
objectivity.
• •
GERALD L. K. SMITH, whom
our defense .agencies insist on
regarding as a harmless mounte-
bank, is rallying supporters
against the FEPC.
Smith is flooding the country
with literature against the Fair
Employment Practices Commis-
sion, under the following slo-
gans: "The FEPC is a Com-
munist, Jew-inspired trick to
force industry coercively into
the hands of a set of bureau-
crats, with the authority to fill
their industry with Jews and
Negroes . . . Kill this un-Ameri-
can legislation known as the
FEPC."
• • •
"T H E CONTINUANCE of
murder and condoned terrorism
can only lead to the forfeiture
by the Jewish community of
Palestine of all rights in the
eyes of the world to lw num-
bered among civilized people."
So reads an official com-
munique by the Palestine gov-
ernment. Which reminds us of
the story of the Jewish father
who, -traveling with five small
children in a railroad carriage,
was admonished by a fellow
passenger to keep his progeny
quiet,.-pr else.
To which the Jewish Either
replied: "Last night my house
burned down and my wife com-
mitted suicide. We haven't
eaten for 24 hours, the baby's
diapers haven't been changed
for days, one of the youngsters
has swallowed all our railway
tickets, haven't got a nickel
to my name, and this train that
we're on is headed in the op-
posite direction from. our desti-
nation. And you're threatening
to make trouble for me!"
So we're going to forfeit con-
sideration by the British! . . •
Well, well.
DP Children Hope
Again For Gift of Toys
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IRO the supply looked exciting
and they all ate with relish."
Well, that was Chanukah at
Tikvah and, if after this, you
feel in a mood to send dolls and
other things to Tikvah, the ad-
dress is Miss Pessa Polasky, IRO,
Area 7, APO 407, care of Post-
master, New York.
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A PERSONAL GIFT
THERE CAN'T BE too many
toys for Tikvah, as I well
know from my own grandchil-
dren who seem to have their fill
of toys but never have enough.
For 'the moment I am a man
of distinction among them when
I bring another doll, a toy dog,
or a tablet of paper for them to
draw on.
I recall how well the readers
of this column, all around the
country, did similarly last year
for Miss Gertrude Richman, a
Windsor Drive
Passes $100,000
WINDSOR—More than $100,000
has been raised in Windsor's Jew-
ish Welfare Fund campaign. Goal
is $125,000.
The 10th annual ball of the
Pinsker Progressive Aid Society
will be held at 6:30 p.m., Sun-
day, in Shaar Hashomayim.
A budget of $2,980,000 has been
set by the Canadian Jewish Con-
gress for 1998.
worker for UNRRA among the
displaced Jews in Germany. To
the credit of the human race I
keep some letters I received
from people who were thankful
for having been told about the
children in Miss Richman's
camp.
One of them said: "A personal
gift is the most satisfying of alL
Of necessity our charities are
organized and business-like
that impersonalizes the act IP)
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giving.
"To our Jewish welfare (unil
my husband and I gave $750 but
in giving the $750 my heart did-
n't quite feel the same warmth
it did the time I packed the $5
worth of crayons, hair-ribbons
and dolls for the children in
ply Richman's camp. I am
deeply grateful."
And,- by the way, no package
for Tikvah should weigh more
than 11 pounds, the post office
limit.
Junior Service Group
Guests of Young Israel
Members of the Junior Service
Group will be the guests at a
symposium to be given by Young
Israel at Yeshivah Beth Yehudah
at 8:45 p.m. Friday March 19.
The subject will be 'Young
Adults Look at Orthodox Juda-
ism." Those participating will be
Rabbi Alvin Poplack, Rabbi Ir-
win Gordon and Jerome W. Kel-
man.