Thursday, August 25, 1940
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE
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Detroit Jewish Chronicle
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Detroit, Mich., under the Act of March 3, 1879.
SEYMOUR TILCIIIN
President
Thursday, Aug. 25, 1949
GEORGE WEISWASSER
Editor-in-Chief
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"There is a simple reason why I entered the race for
Council. I have witnessed a dangerous trend towards Fascism
in America. Lynchings, discrimination, thought control and
now the Detroit 'loyalty' drive. I am no politician, and many
friends felt it unwise for me to take a position against this
da igerous proposal. But my conscience wouldn't rest if I didn't
do all in my power to help preserve democracy in Detroit and in
America."
Thus spoke Isadore Starr, attorney and communal and
civic leader. Starr is the outstanding Jewish candidate running
for Common Council. He is as qualified as anyone running for
Common Council today.
W need him in our city government. He would be a pride
to our Jewish community and to our city. He is a man fighting
fo: democracy and fair play.
EL AVIV — The blue-white
T flags flying over the stadium
look like flags of peace ... and
yet it's Army Day in Israel. The
crowd is quiet ... dignified. This
seems to be no jubilant celebra-
tion .. • no boastful triumph
only a tribute to those who had
fought long and hard to win the
very life and recognition of this
old--new democracy.
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Loyalty Charter Amendment
Homer Ferguson Aids DP's
We have felt free to criticize Senator Ferguson on many
occasions and we are still in disagreement with him on the
Mundt-Ferguson Bill which the senator is sponsoring. How-
eve-, we must also give him credit when credit is due.
Senator Ferguson has undertaken an almost lone battle to
liberalize the present "Displaced Persons Law" which even
President Truman has called anti-Catholic and anti-Jewish.
There are approximately 200,000 Displaced Persons who
are affected by that law. It is this law which is blighting the
lives of scores of thousands of families and individuals whose
families were wiped out by war—those who happened to enter
Europe's big camps for homeless people before the obsolete
deadline of Dec. 22, 1945.
This law has been revised in the House of Representatives
by changing the deadline from Dec. 22, 1945 to Jan. 1, 1949,
thus increasing the number of immigrants to be admitted in
the United States from 200,000 to 400,000. It also eliminated
the discriminatory clauses. But it is having its troubles in the
Senate. Anti-Semitic Senator McCarran, chairman of the
judiciary committee, has refused to let it get out of committee.
Senator Ferguson has fought the discriminatory clauses
from the start. He even moved to discharge the sub-committee
now blocking it. He is now circulating a bi-partisan petition
to discharge the committee.
Good luck, Senator, and more power to you.
The Visa Hoax
Israel's enemies, defeated on many fronts, have now dug
up the story that American consular officials in Israel are
swamped with applications for visas to the U. S. The purpose
of this canard is simple—to show that the Jewish State is a
failure, that early idealism has given way to disillusionment,
that unemployment and lack of housing are draining the early
enthusiasm, and most of all, that the strained economic situation
is leading to restlessness and leftist manifestations.
This line of malicious propaganda is not new. It is an old
device under a new guise, one for which only the naive and
uninformed will fall.
The truth of the matter is, as State Department figures
bear out, that only 3,000 Jews in Israel have requested U. S.
U. S. visas, and that among the applicants are former American
residents wishing to return and others who cannot meet the
rigor demanded of pioneers in a new land. Several hundred
others are refugees from Shanghai who never intended to re-
main permanently in Israel.
When you realize that tens upon tens of thousands of Jews
in Israel are persons whose bodies and minds have been maimed
in concentration camps and torture chambers, the wonder is
not that a few thousand wish to exchange the struggle of the
pioneer for the security of an American home but that the
number is not tenfold.
every Sunday morning at 8:30
a.M.. A graduate of the Brandeis
Camp Institute, Miss Mayer
was in Israel to gather folk
stories and to observe the re-
habilitation and education of
its children. her descriptions
are colorful and exciting.)
Isadore Starr a Candidate
This newspaper nor its publisher nor editors espouse Com-
munism. We are willing to accept it neither as a way of life,
a philosophy or political theory. Nor are we in favor of har-
boring individuals who are disloyal to our democratic form of
government and are either attempting or conspiring to over-
throw it by force.
13! . the same token we are opposed to any other anti-demo-
cratic laws or philosophy. Thus we are opposed to the setting
up of a thought control machine, to a police state or to secret
investigation bodies as are contemplated in the charter amend-
ment for the City of Detroit. We are opposed to anyone prying
into the minds of others to inquire as to their political, social
or religious thinking.
The loyalty drive in Detroit is just that. The amendment
is unnecessary. There are sufficient laws on the books today to
weed out disloyal persons, saboteurs, spies and all those who
advocate the overthrow of the government by force and violence.
Further, the loyalty amendment is unconstitutional. It is
not designed to weed out disloyal municipal employes. We have
lawn to do that on an orderly basis. It is more an instrument
to intimidate all Americans who do their own thinking, par-
t•cularly liberal thinking, and who want to speak their minds on
any issue.
While presently it is aimed against so-called Communists
and fellow-travelers, where it would end no one knows. We
urge every American who is concerned about his rights of free
speech and free assembly to io to the polls on Sept. 13 and v&te
against that charter amendment.
By HEIDY MAYER
(Miss Mayer is a feature art-
ist of Station TOR-Mutual,
New York, who conducts her
own program "here's Ileidy"
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Burial of Herzl Proves
Dreams Still Move World
By William Zukerman
(Jewish World News Service)
EW YORK—Of all the prom-
"inent figures produced by the
Zionist movement during the last
two generations of its history and
growth, that of Dr. Theodore
Herzl, the founder of political
Zionism whose remains were last
week reburied in Jerusalem, was
the most lovable, human and
highly sympathetic.
The Zionist movement has pro-
duced leaders more clever, more
learned, morcistatesman-like and
stronger in character than he was,
but none equalled that gentle
dreamer of Vienna in sifiterity,
in the dreamlike quality of his
thoughts and in the dignity and
charm of his personality.
Israel Zangwill called Herzl a
"Dreamer of the Ghetto." A
dreamer he was, one of the most
exquisite of his age and probably
of all ages, but he was not a
dreamer of the ghetto.
• • •
REALISTIC DREAMER
THE CHARM of Herzl's person-
ality was that he was anything but
a product of the ghetto, at least
as we have known it. He was the
most western-European of all
Zionists and Jewish nationalists
of his age.
He was entirely a product of
the so-called 'Assimilationist' west
European Jewry which has al-
ways been hated and despised by
the east-European zealots.
It was lucky for Herzl's repu-
tation that he died 45 years ago.
If he had lived to see his move-
ment grow and develop from a
beautiful dream into a hard real-
ity, he might have died a for-
gotton, if not a hated, figure of
Zionism.
It is one of the paradoxes of
Jewish history that Herzl, the
least nationalistic of all modern
Jewish leaders, should have be-
come the founder of the strong-
est nationalistic movement of
modern limes; that one of the
most fantastic dreamers should
have laid the foundation of a real-
istic political State.
The truest praise that can be
said of Dr. Herzl is that he was
the weaver of a dream of a per-
secuted people and the symbol of
a movement in its most idealistic
phase.
The drama that was enacted on
Mount Gavat in Jerusalem was
not the drama of a Jew and a
leader of a nationalistic movement
which has achieved its goal. It
was a more intense human drama
of all people and ages, that of a
frail and gentle dreamer who had
laid the foundation of a strong
reality, and that of a vague ten-
uous dream that had proved
tougher than the hardest reality.
The ceremony of the interment
of the remains of Theodore Herzl
was more than a military and
patriotic spectacle marking the
victory of a nationalistic idea. It
was proof that dreams still move
our world even in an age of hu-
man crematora and abbatoires,
and that lovable dreamers, not
harsh zealots,are the most potent
factors of humanity.
• • •
THE SYRIAN PUTSCH
THE COUP IN SYRIA which
resulted in the execution of Mar-
shall Zayim, exposes the uncer-
lainty and insecurity of the en-
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Israeli . Trade Agreements
Cover $30,000,000 in Goods
NEW YORK—Israel has con-
cluded barter agreements with 13
countries covering goods valued
at more than $30,000,000, accord-
ing to information released
through the Israel Corporation of
America, a company devoted to
aiding the economic upbuilding
of Israel through private invest-
ments.
Under the agreements conclud-
ed, Israel will supply citrus fruit
juices, diamonds, artificial teeth,
chemicals, brushef, fountain pens,
a variety of other industrial
products as well as books and
religious articles.
TO RECEIVE GRAIN
In return, Israel will receive
grain, processed agricultural
products, agricultural machinery,
textiles, timber, bitycles, leather
goods, and other essential raw
material, semi-manufactured and
consumer items.
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The countries with which Is-
rael has signed barter agreements
include Belgium, Finland, France,
Holland, Austria, Hungary, Po-
land, Sweden, Switzerland, Tur-
key and Yugoslavia.
LINK TEL AVIV-HAIFA
Another dispatch released by
The Israel Corporation of Amer-
ica states that the recent resump-
tion of train service between Tel
Aviv and Jerusalem will be fol-
lowed in September by the re-
opening of passenger and freight
train communication between Tel
&viv and Haifa.
This is expected to have an
immediate effect on the present
road congestion between these
two major cities.
There will be only one class
on the Israel railways, it was an-
nounced by the Israeli Ministry
of Communications.
THE POLICE BAND, left over
from British mandate days, plays
new marches composed for the
world's newest army ... reflec-
tive oriental melodies adopted to
the rhythm of marching feet •
"Stars and Stripes Forever,"
"Sylvia" and the "Manhattan
Beach March!"—The yellow sand
of the stadium built especially for
this day, is slowly and methodi-
cally covered with rows upon
rows of khaki . . . the men and
the tools and implements of
modern warfare.
• • •
THE MUSIC STOPS and for
two minutes. there is silence over
the khaki field ... over the whole
city. Only the blue-white flags
flap gently at halfmast . . . and
the brilliant colors of the new
army emblems seem to stand out
more brightly against the blue
sky.
Suddenly. two cannon shots
ring out. A child whimpers for
recent well-remembered night-
mares . . . and a woman cries
softly into her gloves because
she forgot her handkerchief for
this important occasion..
Hatikvah is played slowly and
softly, without drum roll, con-
trasting sharply with the mili-
tant mood of the day. It seems,
this old song of hope was never
meant to be played to a field full
of tanks and soldiers.
• •
THE FLAG IS RESTORED to
its place high above the grand-
stand where the president of the
State of Israel enters. The crowd
rises as he takes his seat. Now
the photographers scurry about
like mad ants, aiming their
cameras, ducking so they won't
get into each other's way . . .
taking pictures as they lie flat
on their stomachs or brave the
tanks in the service of news.
The order of the day is read,
and then the prime minister
speaks. "B. G.," as his fellow
countrymen sometimes refer to
him, stands erect, holding a small
piece of paper in his hand. He
does not come close to the micro-
phones . . . he uses no gestures.
He speaks slowly, with measured
tones, and. with a sense for the
dramatic, spacing his words and
phrases carefuly. His famous
bush white hair waves about
wildly in the wind.
There is no applause when he
ends . . . only quiet acceptance
of his sober statements that
Israel had to fight its way into
existence and is still surrounded
by hostile nations.
• • •
THERE IS APPLAUSE for the
men who receive the first deco-
rations given by the Israel army.
Seven stand in a row . . . some
dressed in khaki . . . some in
white ... all with the open col-
lar and rolled-up sleeves which
the Israeli soldiers wear even on
parade. Twenty is the youngest,
twenty-five the oldest.
One walks with a cane as he
follows his comrades up to the
stand to receive his decoration.
One has no legs left on which to
walk. The chief of staff comes to
him. The crowd watches quietly
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