• Page Four Friday, April 16, 1948 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE Detroit Jewish Chronicle Warsaw-Palestine: Battle Continues Published Weekly by Jewish Chronicle Publishing Co., Inc., 548 Woodward, Detroit 26, Mich., CA. 1040 /1— F " —4 SEYMOUR TILCIIIN, President • GEORGE WEISWASSER, Editor-in-Chief Friday, April 16, 1948 (Nissan 7, 5708) Vol. 50, No. 13 - • fi_ r 7 - SUBSCRIPTION: $3.00 Per Year, Single Copies, 10c; Foreign, $5.00 Per Year Bntered as Second-class matte' March 3. 1916, at the Post Office at Detroit, Mich., under the Act of March 3. 1879 .1 DETROIT 26, MICIL • 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. • • 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 • • • 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 • - _ _ '.4/ — 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 . . I 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 (Continued from Page 3) 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. • • • 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.