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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE

Friday, March 19, 1918

Strictly Confidential

Quiz of Ugly Rumors on Relief Work Urged

By PHINEAS J. BIRON
UGLY RUMORS are circulating
about the European offices of
our relief agencies, the Joint, the
ORT and IIIAS. And not every-
thing reaching our desk is just
rumor.
For instance, it is a fact that
!HAS closed its Paris office because
of too much private profiteering on
the part of the personnel. And
there are other European offices of
our relief agencies that have ac-
quired a very bad smell.
I'. J. Biron
An investigation is in order, just because relief
work, honest relief work is now more essential than
ever. • • •
ERALD L. K. SMITH Is sick , Nothing trivial.
tope.

And don't quote from the "Ohio Pioneer," which
Bigotry must pay big dividends. It seems that
Gerald Winrod, the notorious hatemonger, received poses as a patriotic sheet, but actually is financed
a Federal income tax refund of over $8,000. Tax by anti-democratic organizations co=operating with
experts eStimate that Winrod must have paid income Gerald L. K. Smith.
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tax in excess of $30,000 to receive so big, a refund.
F. B. IRA, our personal sleuth, reports to us:
Egon Erwin Kisch, the gifted German writer, has
"Don't be surprised if Fritz Kuhn, the Nazi from the
finally left Mexico and is back in Prague . . .
On March 14, Albert Einstein entered his 70th U.S.A., turns up in Palestine with the tacit approval
of the Bevin boys . . . It seems that Fritz has been
year—he is 69 now . . .
Recordings from sermons by Monsignor Fulton J. recaptured by the British and is being trained by
Sheen were presented to the National Conference of them for a sensatihnal escape to Syria."
Christians and Jews on the occasion of Brotherhood
Why?
Week ..
THE BROOKLYN Jewish Examiner and the Chi-
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cago Sentinel deserve accolades for their issues of
DIMITRO DONTZOV, who recently came to the two weeks ago. The Examiner did a beautiful jour-
United States from London, is a well-known Ukrain- nalistic job on the Bnai Brith leadership for its sab-
ian anti-Semite . Dontzov is violently anti-Soviet ; and otaging of the Jewish Conference-Assembly.
attacks the Stalin regime as a "Judeo-Bolshevik" set-
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Plain Talk

Rabbi Fischer Jews of Cincinnati
BM. Group Reaffirms
Faith in Jewish Youth Hails Volume Beam Over Glueek
Display Joy a n d Zest.in Observance by Stollman

Personal Problems

of Purim; Learn to Evaluate Problems

By W. A. GOLDBERG, Ph. D.
ST NIGHT 20 boys and girls reaffirmed my faith in Jewish
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They said to me: Goldberg, don't worry about Jewish youth.
They are doing all right. They have a deep sense of their Jew-
ishness. They are carrying on Jewish tradition. They know what
it means to be Jews.
Last night, these young people the zest these Bnai Brith young
put on a "show" for their elders men put into their songs.
In Bnai Brith. We merely pro-
I liked being able to feel that
vided the space and the occasion. in an American heritage and en-
vironment, Jewishness is not
I served as
Chairman. They
forgotten. And foremost because
the words came from Jewish
chose the sub-
jects, the top-
young men.
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ics; they work-
ed, sang and
FORTIFIED BY TRAINING
played.
ND THE SKIT, written by
The young
the local BBY director, the
men sang Yid-
story of the first application for
dish and Ile-
a job by a Jewish boy. The in-
brew songs.
evitable question of: Are you a
Their rendition
Dr. Goldberg Jew? and the answer given .. .
of "Sholem
Aleichem" brought back mem- The flashback to this young man's
ories. Unfortunately, our own early training and how it forti-
home had none of the Zmires fied him to have the proper
well-known to other Jewish answer.
homes, even those of relatives.
I liked that evening no less
Somewhere in the process, because these youths dwelt on
Jewish music was squeezed out Jewish topics, no less because
of our backgrounds. But we they volunteered their time, no
made up for it, in a small less because of their enthusiasm.
measure, in Chicago,where or their leadership in present-
inform- ing their cause to older people.
sang these songs nform-
ally.
ally.
In that demonstration I saw
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a firm foundation for Judaism, a
saving quality to American life
JOY IN OUR OWN
ND THE BOYS sang of Pur- so often termed materialistic.
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" im, repeating an earlier per-
formance. Again came memories WARM FEELING
Of the dignity and joy which I DIDN'T MIND getting out a
sick bed, I didn't mind fore-
we had in the home, in the
Synagogue, every-day prepara- going staying home with my
tions at the Purim season. . . . shoes off, I didn't mind going
No "Purim trees," no alien cul- out into the cold night.
And when their program was
tures, no out-Gentiling the Gen-
tile—just beauty and pleasure over, these 20 young people dug
In our own customs and observ- into the refreshments with the
enthusiasm of hungry young
ances.
Canyou picture the joy of people . . . again, an enjoyable
ing Avram when his father sight.
„ ye him his Gragar to batter
Even though I came there
Haman at the noisy Megillah rather late that night, these
reading? Can you see his ecstatic youngsters gave me a warmth
look as he smelled the special which has remained with me
foods and sensed the gaiety?
• . . I want more of this con-
Much more than the words of firmation of the soundness of
any song was the lilting 'Melody Jewish youth in America.

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By RABBI MOSES FISCIIER

W

E EXTEND our most sincere
congratulations to Rabbi Isaac
Stollman of Congregation Mish-
kan Israel on the occasion of
the publication of the third vol-
ume of his notable book "Min-
chas Itzchok."
The fact that Rabbi Stollman
succeeded within a short span of
time to publish three volumes of
his collected essays bears by it-
self eloquent testimony as well
to the rare productivity and fer-
tility of Rabbi Stollman as an
author as to the general approval
and enthusiasm with which the
book was received by the learned
circle to which the book was
first addressed.

STYLE IS LUCID
There is hardly a single fea-
ture in the traditional homiletic
literature in the standard histor-
ic "Darshonoth": Great versatil-
ity, transparent crystal style, a
resourceful, at times brilliant in-
terpretation of Biblical and Tal-
mudical passages which would
not find the classic expression in
the opus of Rabbi Stollman.
Each sermon arranged in the
order of the weekly Sidrahs of
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Actors' Company -
Plans 2 Shows

The Actors' Company of De-
troit will present a special two
weekends' run of Sophocles' "Oed-
ipus Rex" and Oscar Wilde's
"The Importance of Being Ear-
nest" in repertory starting Fri-
day, March 19, at the Michigan
Showmen's Association.
The schedule calls for perform-
ances of "Oedipus" March 19, 20
and 26 and "Earnest" March 21,
27 and 28.
Prominent Detroit radio actors,
including Harry Goldstein, Clem
Fowler, Mary Dell Roberts, Jo-
seph Augello and Erwin Immer-
man, will appear in the shows.
Lloyd Richards and Rubin Weiss
are the directors.
Reservations are being taken
at the theater office, 3153 Cass
avenue, TE. 2-0957. Tickets are
also on sale at Grinnell's.

Hometown Proud of Ability to Rear
Leaders Like HUC's New President

By ALFRED SEGAL

IN OUR TOWN this week there were big festal Jewish doings.
A home-born-and-bred scholar and Rabbi is being inaugurated
as president of the Hebrew Union Collage.
A lot of the citizens know President Nelson Glueck from the
time he was a schoolboy here. He came out of our public schools,
our university and our Hebrew
Union College and during the prophets around here, toiling to-
last decade has been a romantic ward the abundance of Jewish
figure who, as
life. We are all kinds and, in-
a r c h acologist,
deed, you could find sonic play-
was consorting
ing gin rummy in homes and
with Bible
clubs next Saturday night when
times in the
as a community we are celebrat-
soil of Pales-
ing Nelson Glueck and the lo-
tine. lie had
cal Jewish life in the Hall of
dug up Bible
Mirrors.
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towns.
So the Jew-
WISE AN ISOLATIONIST
ish people of
IF WE ARE ABUNDANT, it's
our town,
due to the fact that, early in
Al Segal
which, as you
have already guessed, is Cincin- our life, we had among us a
nati, can feel that their com- prophet to show us the way. He
munity has come of age, in that was Rabbi Isaac M. Wise, who
from its own Jewish being it came here in the 50's to preach
could produce this spiritual and a way of Jewish life that was
intellectual leader of interna- not altogether within the walls
tional renown. Its Jewish life ap- of the Synagogue.
He has been called the foun-
pears to have become self-sup-
porting. The home-town boy had der of Reform Judaism in the
made greatly good from the fa- U. S. His way of Jewish life
cilities of our own Jewish life. had to do with America and the
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Jew's obligation in it as a citi-
zen. The Jew must apply his
ABUNDANT LIFE
idealism to the matters of the
WE JEWS AREN'T so many general community—his city, his
in our town, compared with nation. Ile must be no ghetto
big-town Jewish communities man.
Nationally Dr. Wise was
elsewhere. We count our Jewish
population as between 18,000 and American and could tolerate no
20,000. Jews began to settle here other national identity for a Jew
about 100 years ago, not an old in America.
Dr. Wise looked beyond the
age at all for a segment of Jew-
time when he would no longer
ish life.
The few tombstones that still be around; there must be young
stand in our first Jewish ceme- American men to be Rabbis who
tery—no bigger than a city lot would carry his torch all over
on Chestnut street— bear dates the country. In the 1870's he
founded the Ilebrew Union Col-
of the 1840's.
In these festivities we are, in lege to train young men for
a way of speaking, celebrating such a Rabbinate.
Thus, early in its life, the
the abundance of our own Jew-
ish life, amassed in the 100 years Jewish community of our town .
as well as the achievement of began to take its character as
a spiritual and scholarly center.
the Hebrew Union College.
Maybe you will get the im- From all around the country
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pression that we are all Jewish

Yishuv to Proclaim State April 1, Even by Revolt

By NATHAN ZIPRIN
THE NEXT FEW WEEKS will
be a time of grave tension.
Will the UN Palestine Commis-
sion proclaim the Jewish State
by April 1, as provided for in
the General Assembly's resolu-
tion?
Will the commission yield to
suggestions of the Security Coun-
cil and decide on a postpone-
ment? In this case the Jews of
Palestine will take "revolution-
ary" action and themselves pro-
claim the government.
It would be a most unusual
kind of "revolution." The Jews
would merely try to implement a

decision taken by more than two-
thirds of all United Nations
members. They would merely be
doing what the Palestine Com-
mission has been authorized to
do.

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OF COURSE, there would be
many and obvious advantages if
the UN Commission fulfilled its
task. Howeyer, there is some
doubt—and I am afraid, justifi-
able doubt—whether they will.
The main source of all the new
difficulties is Truman's reversal
policy.
From the very outset British
policy was based on two con-

proceedings of the Security
Council when it meets to con-
sider the UN Commission's re-
port.
We predicted the Arabs would
confuse the UN with an an-
nouncement of willingness to stop
the fighting temporarily. We said
the domestic and foreign anti-
partition plotters would seek to
upset the time schedule by
claiming "a new development."
We charged the plotters would
seek to postpone international ac-
tion until after the elections in
FIVE COLUMNS ago we pre- the hope that they could then
a "conciliation" muster enough votes at the next
dicted that
bomb would be thrown into the General Assembly meeting to re-

siderations: (1) The Arabs have
greater nuisance value than the
Jews in Palestine; (2) The Jews
in the U.S. are powerless and
will never be able to affect Brit-
ish relations with the United
States in any essential direction.
As soon as the British suc-
ceeded in finally winning Wash-
ington over to point 1, point 2
sprang automatically into force.
Because of the British victory we
can expect nothing but trouble
from the Security Council . . .

verse the partition decision.
Whose disheartening predic-
tions were as painful to us as to
the many readers who wrote say-
ing they doubted the U.S. would
lend itself to such scandalous
maneuvers. Unfortunately sub-
sequent events showed the source
of our information was correct
on every point.
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THE "CONCILIATION" bomb
has been dropped, and by none
other than the U.S. government
which championed partition be-
fore the Assembly. A "new de-
velopment" has been brought to
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