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Friday, April 16, 1948
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE
Detroit Jewish Chronicle
Warsaw-Palestine: Battle Continues
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A 'Trusteeship' Plan
`Kosher for Passover' Signs
The injustice and duplicity of diplomatic
planning for a trusteeship for Palestine are
implicit in one of the programs reportedly
being framed by American officials.
According to this report emanating from
foreign. diplomatic sources, the Yishuv would
be confined to an area of approximately
1,700 of Palestine's 10,400 square miles.
Jewish immigration would be limited to
3,500 a month for five years and then be
halted to keep the Arabs in Palestine a
permanent majority.
Much scorn and disrespect for Jewish
tradition are evoked by the cheap racket-
eering of wholesalers and merchants who
put an unauthorized "Kosher for Passover"
label on some of their products and then
boost their price.
They attempt to leave the impression
that the articles were specially prepared
for Passover and that the extra supervision
justified the price increase.
Such practices are out -and out frauds
and should be stopped by categorical action
of a communal authority.
In this case, we feel, that the authority
should be the Council. of Orthodox Rabbis.
The Jewish Community Council has warned
merchants not to raise their prices unjusti-
fiably on the assumption that observant
Jews will pay any figUre to fulfill religious
obligations of the festival.
The staff of the Council is not so numer-
ous that it can police every store in Jewish
sections to check on whether prices are ex-
orbitant or not. Housewives can help the
Council by reporting flagrant abuses on
prices to be investigated by the Council.
The Rabbis will be dealing with a some-
what different situation. Fraudulent "No.;
sher for Passover" labels are a threat to
traditions and many a Jew uses them as an
excuse not to observe the Passover require-
ments.
The Rabbis should check stores where
products are being sold with an improper
label and should warn the merchants that
they are liable for prosecution if they per-
sist in defrauding the ,public.
We believe that the Rabbinical Council
would strengthen its own authority and
prestige in the community by taking a firm
stand in this situation and making an ex-
ample of one or two unscrupulous store-
keepers.
The Jewish community is certainly be-
hind the Rabbis.
The reported American plan envisages
a cabinet of 14 members for all Palestine
of whom five 'would be Moslem Arabs, two
Christian Arabs, four Jews and one repre-
sentative each of the United States, Britain
and France. Russia, of course, according to
this proposal, would be excluded from any
participation.
For a legal basis for such an infamous
scheme, the western powers would turn to
the League of Nations mandate system,
according to the report.
This plan is another version of the re-
pudiated Morrison scheme projected by
Kevin. It shows to. what depths'of deprav-
ity diplomatic thinking can go in abandon-
ing partition for the so-called trusteeship
proposal=another name for ghettoizing the
Jew in his own Homeland.
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First Transjordan was ripped away from
the original plan for that Homeland, leav-
ing the Arabs 34,000 square miles of Pal-
estine and the 'Homeland 10,400.
Then came the partition plan dividing
this 10,400 about evenly. And now comes a
suggestion that the Jew's 5,500 square miles
be cut down to 1,700, an area about the
size of Wayne, Macomb and Oakland coun-
ties.
Do you wonder why the conscience of
the world is shocked and why Jews of the
Yishuv have sworn to die before they will
give up one inch of their Homeland?
We pray that the world's conscience will
remain shocked long enough to block plans
for the abandonment of partition.
The Jewish State already exists. Will
the world shed more Jewish blood to de-
stroy it?
The Visiting Editor
A Word With You
By RABBI MORRIS ADLER
At this season of the year the resources
of. the community are mobilized for a gigan-
To the stranger in our midst reading tk enterprise.
such baffling newspaper headlines as "Hu-
The Allied Jewish Campaign seeking to
rocher Banished", "Ottmon on Rampage", raise a quota of $6,200,000 is a manifesta-
and "Tigers Clawed", it might appear that tion and measure of communal responsibil-
the American people are slightly off the ity and alertness. We must not fail.
We will not fail if we guard against
beam. And even if he understood the
meaning of the baseball phraseology, he several unworthy attitudes which alas, some
times creep in, to lower the level on which
might think it a bit queer that a people
this significant project deserves to be main-
should go into ecstasy over a national game tained.
at the very time when its government
There are people who guide themselves
is struggling with global issues threatening by past standards, despite the fact that the
needs of world Jewry are unprecedently
to catapult the world into another war.
large, even as its situation has deteriorated.
But we, who understand the mood of
There are others who put on bifocal
the American people, see no inconsistency glasses with which to view the campaign.
between interest in our national sport and They minimize and criticize the giving of
interest in global affairs. The troubles others while the degree of their own par-
Plaguing the world these days stem from ticipation is seen under a magnifying lens.
ills, from sickness of the spirit.
There are those who condone their own
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inadequate giving with such salves to their
.A healthy people never broods over ills conscience as, "the cost of living has risen,"
too long. A healthy people never lets it- "we have problems nearer home," "I have
self become diverted from its normal course a standard of living to maintain," and yet
out of fear of what the future holds.
do not permit the ax of economy to fall on
The fact that millions of Americans their comforts, pleasures or vacations.
can pause on the opening day of the base-
This is a year of destiny. Our contri-
ball season in tribute to its sportsmen, butions must be dictated both by an under-
while the people in Europe are living in standing of the gravity of the Jewish con-
daily fright of what the morrow.will bring, dition and by a high responsibility towards
is, in our estimation, a sign of national our brethren in the Yishuv and Europe.
vitality which augurs well for our future.
Let no one seek easy exemptions. Let
A people that loves to play hates to fight. no one desert in the midst of our struggle
The world is again in the throes of a for Jewish survival and Jewish rights.
Our giving must become a resounding
depressing war psychosis. It is good to
know that on April 19, when our national message of cooperation and solidarity with
game begins officially, millions of Ameri- our people everywhere and an eloquent ex-
cans will be thinking only of killing the pression of our faith in our people's future.
umpire .and no one else.
SIIAAREY ZEDEK RECORDER. _
Our National Game
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Letters to the Editor
RAPS SEGAL COLUMNS
Dear Editor:
For some time now I •
have
been reading a column in your
paper entitled "Plain Talk." And
for some time I have been in-
tending to write and tell you
what I think of it.
If I too may talk plainly, I
would like to say that I think
you would do better to remove
it from the paper completely
and put something else in its
place. Anything else!
• Al Segal's "tolerance" is just
too much for a Jew to swallow.
Christians will read it and say,
"Now that's an intelligent Jew."
But, as I understand it, the
Chronicle is a Jewish paper and
most of the readers are Jewish.
Several months ago he wrote
an article stating that we should
forgive the Nazis but not for-
get! That article infuriated me
no end. Why should they be for-
given? He received the public's
opinion to that in the Man in
the Street column the next week.
A few weeks later he wrote an
article that fairly reeked with
tolerance . .. to the effect that
intermarriage was just fine . . .
couldn't think of anything bet-
ter!
He even wrote a letter to the
prospective bride's parents
(Christian) apologizing for the
Jewish boy and asking them to
accept him. That one fairly en-
raged me.
Today I pick up the paper and
having read everything else and
having a few minutes to waste
I read another of his articles, this
time telling everyone that it was
a mistake for us to have a Jew-
ish State.
Using some plain talk .
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might say that he makes me sick!
I have complete confidence in
the Jewish people that are
handling our affairs in Palestine
and certainly would trust their
judgment in any situation rather
than Al Segal's.
He is entitled to his opinion,
of course, but it would be more
appropriate if it were published
in the Christian Gazette, if there
is such a paper.
Or better still, kept to him-
self.
RUTH STEIN,
1927 Pingree avenue.
YESHIVAH THANKS
Dear Editor:
In behalf of the Ladies Aux-
iliary of Yeshivah Chachmey
Lublin, I want to express my
hearty appreciation for giving us
such fine publicity during our
sixth Annual Donor Luncheon
campaign.
MRS. I. LEVIN,
Chairman.
How Union Practices
Ideals of Brotherhood
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who felt free in the power of
being well organized.
Mr. Dubinsky knew that the
prosperity of the workman hung
on the ability of the manufac-
turers to make a profit. Merely
for the workman to take wages
was not enough. Besides giving
a day of honest work he must
try to contribute something to
the efficiency of the industry.
- In Mr. Dubinsky's union there
is an engineering department,
under Dr. William Gomberg, to
be helpful to employers. Mr.
Dubinsky's engineering depart-
ment had served the manufac-
turers, had made detailed studies
of national dress markets, had
caused countless improvements
in cost accounting and inspec-
tion, in the handling of materials
and the elimination of waste,
had increased the efficiency of
workers, had assisted in the
training of new workers.
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CARE FOR OWN
MR. DUBINSKY'S union had
troubled itself about the
lives of its members. In New
York it maintained a health
center for them where about
50,000 workers are treated in a
year.
It provides sick benefits from
$7 to $15 a week, maternity
benefits, convalescent homes.
There's education in the union.
In cities all around the country
the union offers a wide assort-
ment of academic opportunities
The goodness of the Dubins
union had covered the count./
in the recent years. From some -
40,000 members in 1932 it now
had more than 400,000.
From having been an industry
notorious for starvation wages,
the ladies' garment business now
was paying $4000 to $5000 a
year to the more skilled, and
top craftsmen were earning even
double this amount.
Certain Rabbis arise from time
to time to argue with me about
my ideas of what it takes to be
a Jew.
Anyway, I like David Dubin-
sky's way of being Jewish and
the way of the other Jewish
gentlemen who go along with
him toward social and economic
righteousness and the ultimate
brotherhood.