r •
Page Four'
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE
Friday, July 3♦ , 1941
Detroit Jewish Chronicle
Published Weekly by Jewish Chronicle Publishing Co., Inc., 548 Woodward, Detroit 26, Mich.,
Entered sta
SUBSCRIPTION: $3.00 Per Year, Single Copies', 10c; Foreign,
$3.00 Per Year
Secood-clas. mattes March 3. 1916, at the Post Office at Detroit, Mich., under the
Act of
SEYMOUR TILCHIN, President
Vol. 50, No. U
GEORGE WEISWASSER,
Friday, July 30, (Tamuz 23, 570$)
Peace Prospects
All is quiet on the Israeli fronts, and de-
spite the bluster of the Arab chieftains
there is good evidence to support the predic-
tion that hostilities will not resume.
The UN cannot very well permit fighting to
break out again after it had twice ordered
the war halted. Its prestige is none too solid
and repeated defiance by the tiny states of
the Arab League could deal it a vicious blow.
In addition, it may be safely assumed that
the Arabs will not rush into battle a third
time in view of their decisive beatings be-
fore the second truce was invoked.
If the moderates among the Arabs could
win control as Jewish moderates have in
Israel, the Moslems could- agree to meet the
Jews at the conference table and negotiate
their differences. They should realize that
any peace in which the UN would be the con-
trolling voice would be imposed by considera-
tions of . imperialism and Brittanic oil in-
terests.
A peace negotiated between the two par-
ties concerned alone would be more certain
to be permanent.
As Premier Ben Gurion has pointed out,
only through a treaty with Israel will the
Arab world be able to free itself from its
dependence on its British exploiters. As for
Israel, it is axiomatic that only through co-
operation with the bordering Arab states
can the Jews consolidate peace and commerce
within their own State.
•
•
•
One of the. problems that the two peoples
, should settle is that of an exchange of pop-
ulations. Before the war started, there were
350,000 Arabs in Israel as against 550,000
Jews. All but 50,000 of the Arabs have fled,
and it would be well for both races if they
did not return to Israel. They could settle
permanently where they are or be trans-
ferred to population hungry Arab areas such
as Transjordan.
In return, the Jews would be willing to ad-
mit some of the 80,000 Jews scattered
through Arab domains where they have
been living in misery and subjection.
Arabs who have departed from Israel
should be compensated for their land and
businesses and be assisted in starting a new
life among their co-religionists. In Israel,
their very numbers would remain a threat
to peace and the ideal of a Jewish State.
The war has effected something that Israel
could not morally initiate. The Israeli lead-
ership should take advantage of the Arab
ekodus and press for a formal exchange of
populations.
The 1117 F Allocations
The Chronicle publishes in full elsewhere
in this issue the allocations by the Jewish
Welfare Federation of the funds everyone of
you contributed to the 1948 Allied Jewish
Campaign. The record and, in a large sense,
phenomenal amount of $5,750,000 was dis-
tributed among 57 social agencies and serv-
ices, overseas, national and local, and for
shrinkage and campaign expenses.
While the budget committees listed by
the Federation can hardly be judged as rep-
resenting a democratic cross-section of the
Jewish community, they included civic lead-
ers of unimpeachable integrity and a scrupu-
lous sense of duty and obligation to the com-
munity welfare.
The needs of each agency were carefully
explained by experts and then carefully
weighed and analyzed.
•
•
•
If there is dissatisfaction with any of the
allocations, the result is in part due to the
failure of the persons concerned in backing
their requests with sufficient data and argu-
ments to justify them.
There are certainly several apportion-
ments that are surprising. Despite the des-
perate need of Yeshivath Beth Yehudah for
better facilities for its ever-growing scholas-
tic body, the amount of $22,750 was granted
to the institution. Though an increase, the
A Stitch in Time
CA. 1040
March
/1 6:'
3, 1879
„m g -r+ob WILL
(vicra
"`"'
0 9 ,
Editor-in-Chief
DETROIT 20, MICH.
sum is paltry in view of the great success
the schools t ave had in their educational
program, their representation in the com-
munity and the makeshift quarters in which
they are forced to hold most of their classes
today.
Nor can the $6,000 allocated to the Work-
men's Circle Schools be considered a munifi-
cent grant. In days like this, $6,000 is a pet-
ty sum indeed. Somebody at both schools
slipped up badly when they presented their
requests to the Federation.
•
•
•
To a personal protest, we add these words
of criticism of the allocation of $7,500 to the
Jewish Telegraphic Agency, an organization
which is privately run and which uses selfish
monopoly tactics in its business.
In Detroit, for example, although Chron-
icle readers contributed to that $7,500 gift
to the JTA, they are not considered proper
subjects for JTA features, which are sold on
an exclusive basis to another paper in the
community. Direct protests to the JTA in
New York have been met with surly rejec-
tions.
If there are other allotments which seem
unsatisfacto-,;; to our readers or to the agen-
cies concerned, let them apprise us of this
and also' make their protests known to the
Federation.
The JWF, it has been shown, is •far from
infallible, and surely discriminations and er-
rors in budgeting will be corrected next year
upon fair presentation of the facts by the
parties involved.
The Visiting Editor
Congress Must Act on DP Bill
When President Truman signed the Dis-
placed Persons Act, he lashed out %against
Congress, declaring that he reluctantly
signed the "flagrantly discriminatory" and
"anti-Semitic" bill because he hoped that "its
injustices will be rectified by the Congress at
the first opportunity."
Now that Congress is in special session, its
misled members who voted for the bill in the
belief that a bad measure is better than none
are offered the opportunity to correct their
mistake.
To permit the discriminatory and exclu-
sionist act to remain as it is would be a
monument of shame to our American tradi-
tion of fair play and equality. For, let there
be no mistake, the major provisions of the
present act are so framed that even a child
can see that they are primarily aimed at ex-
cluding the major victims of ifitlerism—the
Jews.
•
•
•
1116•• ■■ Av•
Letters to the Editor
AIM OF REVISIONISM
Dear Editor:
I mos: commend you on the
splendid editorial advocating a
meiger of Zionist bodies. It is a
laudable objective, though there
are formidable difficulties in its
path, as you recognize.
May I take exception to your
characterizing Revisionists as
representing "the rightists' eco-
nomic viewpoint." If there be
protagorosts of things as they are
among Jews, you will find few
of them among 'Revisionists, just
as not all those affiliated with
Labor ZionisU are necessarily
proletarinns.
I. would be more correct to re-
fer to Revisionists as promoting,
not the "rightist," but the
"righteous" viewpoint of Jewish
liberation, and the reorganization
of Jewish life Our program for
Israel is based on an unflinching
fidelity to the Word that the
Land, and all of it, shall be re-
sto"ed to all our people.
On the eve of the eighth anni-
versar, of the passing away of
the founder of Revisionism, Zeev
Jabotinsky, of blessed memory,
may I express the hope that his
legacy to the Galuth of regain-
We are on the eve of a national election
that is being closely watched throughout the
world. If our position in global leadership is
not to be shaken we must show to the people
of the world that we practice what we preach.
• •
•
Congress can show the way by re-writing
the present exclusionist measure into "a
genuine Displaced Persons bill, worthy of our
great democratic nation and its traditions as
a haven for the oppressed—a bill that will
make it possible for us to welcome to our
land the energies and skills and drives of
people whose only faults were that they
could not live under totalitarianism."
Seven Arts Feature.
BNAI BRITH YOUTH
Dear Editor:
On behalf of the staff and
members of the Bnai Brith Youth
Organization we would like to
extend our profound thanks and
appreciation to you for all the
assistance which you have given
to the Bnai Brith Young Women
and Men in their recent conven-
ti o n.
It was extremely considerate
and gracious of you to give us
so much attention and publicity,
and we are indeed grateful.
You have always been ready
to assist us in our program of
youth development, and we hope
the knowledge that you and the
Jewish Chronicle have given
such worthwhile service to youth
will give you a sense of personal
accomplishment and satisfaction.
TESS WISE SCHWARCZ,
Girls Director.
CHARLES LEVY,
Boys Director.
Anishoommimmommatiemottomumnoun000m
Random Thoughts
WIIIIIMOnnamtmomarmann BY SeYmou r Tile hi n mmummiumniemila
ISRAEL SEIZED the Haifa re-
fineries last week. Britain
immediately protested to the Is-
rael government. Said Israel:
How can you protest to us
when you haven't recognized us
as a State?" Paradoxical to say
It is not our intention to inject the Jewish the least.
motive into the issue, though we could hard-
ly be blamed if, as Jews, we warned the sup-
porters of the patently anti-Semitic act that
their stand on the so-called DP bill would in-
fluence our vote in the Congressional elec-
tions. No Congressman or Senator can insult
his Jewish constituency—which they woo so
fervently before elections—and expect a
self-respecting Jewish citizen to cast his bal-
lot for them. .
lug "the habit of acting in uni-
son as a people," may move us
to a common meeting ground for
411 Zionists.
M. M. MERZON, Pres.,
Zionists-Revisionists of Detroit.
"
• • •
REYNOLDS ARTICLE
READ THE ARTICLE
in the
August "Woman's Home Com-
anion" called: Its '76 In Israel"
by Quentin Reynolds, The au-
thor of the article pays
visit
to the homes of two typical pio-
neers of the newest nation on
earth.
• • •
JEWISH NATIONAL FUND
"Dear Mr. Tilchin,
"In the issue of the Detroit
Jewish Chronicle of July 9, you
have an editorial under the ti-
tle of 'Malice in JNF Here.' It
grieved me very much when I
read the paragraph as follows:
"'We ask you to refrain from
supporting the Jewish National
Fund activities until It learns to
act without rancor or injustice.'
"Words like the should
never be platted by any Jew
today--especially by as good a
Zionist as you are. .
"It is true that in the para-
graph that follows, you say that
the people should send tha
money to JNF direct to
the New
York office but you know Mr
man nature. . . .
"I would urge you very
strongly to write another editor-
ial recalling the above-mention-
ed paragraph.
"As to your grievances with
some of the officers of the local
JNF Council, I would suggest
that you bring it to the Council
as a whole and not to the offi-
cers , . . and if you have a
just cause against the treatment
allotted to you by the officers,
I am positive that the Council
will uphold your case.
"I will appreciate it if you will
publish my letter in the Detroit
Jewish Chronicle and an answer
by yourself to my leper.
My dear Mr. B L ' aikin
M iAIKIN"
:
I regret that I am unable to
print your entire letter but I
think I have printed the
thoughts you wish to express.
We have no grievances to
bring to the attention of the
Council that yoti or anyone else
active in the Council is unaware
of. It has been brought to the
attention of the active members
of the JNF and the Council
many y otn imes but nothing has
been done.
It is up to the Council now
to do a little housecleaning and
throw out those who place their
(Continued on Page 10)