Page Fear Friday, March 12, 1g4$ DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE Music for a Dance Macabre Detroit Jewish Chronicle Published Weekly by Jewish Chronicle Publishing Co., Inc., 548 Woodward, Detroit 26, Mich., CA. 1040 SUBSCRIPTION: $3.00 Per Year, Single Copies, 10c; Foreign, $5.00 Per Year 13ntered as Second-class matte: March 3 1916, at the Post Office at Detroit, Mich., under the Act of March 3, 1879 SEYMOUR TILCHIN, President GEORGE WEISWASSER, Editor in Chief - Friday, March 12, 1948 (Adar II 1, 5708) Vol 50, No. 8 - 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. r. 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 (Continued from Page 3) 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 (Continued from Page 3) 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. • • • 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) - 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.