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SEYMOUR TILCII1N
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Thursday, Nov. 3, 1949

Detroit 26, Michigan
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How to Recognize Jewish Anti-Semite

In the October issue of its ''Council News," the American
Council for Judaism brags of the fact that the recent editorial
written by Rabbi Elmer Berger on "How to Recognize Jewish
Nationalism" received favorable comment from many Americans..

The trick used by the council is to write an article or letter
and then send it to hundreds of Christians. Usually the council
receives two or three favorable comments and then it reprints those
to show how well its articles are received by Christians.

We would like to print a little article on how to recognize a
member of the American Council for Judaism. However, we won't
submit it to any of our Christian friends; this is only for Jewish

consumption:
I. He either isn't affiliated with any Temple or Synagogue
Ins, if he is he takes little active part.
2. He knows very little about Judaism and the only way he
can define it is: "A good old religion." (See Mr. Lilienthal's article

in the Reader's Digest.)
3. He doesn't have a Jewish library in his home, and if there
are a few books that happen to have gotten in his home by acci-
dent, he never reads them.
4. He couldn't pass a' test on the Bible or on Jewish history to
any intelligible degree.
5. He immediately turns off the radio if the music or the
speech should be in Hebrew or Yiddish because he doesn't like
"that stuff."
6. He shudders when he sees a bearded Jew and will refuse
to sit next to one if he should have to ride in a street car (which
is very seldom).
7. He refuses to give to charity on the grounds that it goes to
"nationalist Jews" but it is only an excuse not to give.

8. He belongs to as many country clubs as he can get into and
takes particular pride if he can get into some Gentile ones.

9. He is ashamed of his own birthright and speaks only in
terms of integration but what he actually means is assimilation.

Why Not a Butzel Avenue?

In recent years two great men of note passed from our midst.
We refer to Dr. Leo M. Franklin lied Fred Butzel. While both were
recognized and honored during their lifetimes and while certain
memorials were set up for them since their passing, it was only
recently that the deeds and accomplishment of one of them was
recognized in a manner befitting his memory. Dr. Franklin will
lie memorialized with a chair on humane relations at Wayne

University.
As to Fred Butzel, nothing on a large scale has been dune in
this community to perpetuate his name. The Chronicle believes
that it is the responsibility of the city of Detroit to give fitting
recognition to Fred Butzel by naming an avenue or a street after

him.

We note that 6 Mile road was changed to McNichols road in
honor of a great Catholic. Perhaps it would be appropriate to
change 7 Mile road to Butzel road. McNichols is particularly noted
or the fact that the U. of D. and Marygrove, large Catholic insti-
qitions, are centered on that thoroughfare. Seven Mile may be
toted for the fact that it is becoming a great center of Jewish
oophlation.
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We will be glad to join with any committee to try to get our
city council to effect such a change. We are sure it will receive
popular support.

Four Walls and a Roof

Four walls and a roof—sounds like a simple goal. even in
these days of limited housing. But that is the single greatest need
of the new American families who are now arriving in Detroit at
the rate of 20 to 30 monthly.

Most of these families are young couples, survivors of their
own families who have met and married in DP camps since the
war. They have had enough courage and faith in the future to
have children—most of them have at least one and many have two
or three—and to trust their luck in a new, strange country.

The principal stumbling block in the way of their permanent,
secure settlement here is the lack of housing—of a room for a
couple, of an apartment or flat for couples with children.

If you know of an existing vacancy or of an anticipated one,
you can help a new American family to feel at home at last by
calling Esthet. Adler at Resettlement Service, TR. 2-4080. These
refugee families can afford only low-cost housing, of course, and
they prefer to be in Jewish neighbor hoods, but, out of the 200
families to come here in the next year, Resettlement Service will
know of one who can make good use of any vacancy referred to
Miss Adler.

GE Executive Honored

The Detroit Round Table of Catholics, Protestants and Jews
will give its Humanitarian Award this year to Charles E. Wilson,
president of General Electric Co. and co-chairman of the National
Conference of Christians and Jews.

Thousands of citizens join in applauding this award, for
Charles E. Wilson is the rare combination of the man who has
reached financial summits and yet has retained his concern for
the common man.
One of Wilson's most notable achievements was his activity as
chairman of President Truman's civil rights committee. The report
that he issued is considered a masterpiece and certainly reflects
his liberal character. We heartily indorse the recognition given

to Charles E. Wilson.

Ben Gurion,
Frisch Define
`Coll' to Youth

(Jewish World News Service)
NEW YORK.—A declaration of
principles by the American Jew-
ish Committee which may mark
a turning point in the history of
that organization and have far-
reaching effects on American
Jewish life in general has been
issued by the executive commit-
tee after a two-day session in
Chicago.
The gathering dealt with re-
cent "statements from Zionist
and anti-Zionist groups which
were giving the American public dlij
the impression that Israel was in-
tervening in the internal affairs
of American Jews and impugning
their patriotism and loyalty."
While the resolution included
also a rebuke of the American
Council for Judaism, it was de-
voted primarily to the statement
by Premier Ben Gurion of Aug.
31, concerning the immigration of
American Jewish youth to Israel
and to similar statements by lead-
ers of the Zionists movement m
America which "have caused
grave concern, as possibly open
to an interpretation inconsistent
with the principles (of the AJC)."

EMILY SOMLYO
Business Manager

(Cheshvan 11, 5710)

Thursday, November 3, 1849

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DENIES JTA REPORT
PRIOR TO THE Chicago meet-
ing Jacob Blaustein, president of
the AJC, addressed a direct in-
quiry on the subject to Ben Guri-
that all Jewish young women are on, who replied with a long cable
REFUTES "MINNESOTA"
extravagant—that smells of ra- in which he repudiated the JTA
Dear Alfred Segal:
I read your column with eager- cial prejudice or some inferiori- version of his speech as "unau-
ness and perception since this ty cropping up due to immaturity. thorized."
According to Ben Gurion he ap-
very question of intermarriage
I might add my personal obser-
lurks as an immensely important vation since I do live in a smaller pealed to American Jews to send
one today. I definitely disagree community, a suburb of Detroit, only financial aid to Israel and
with the woman from "Minneso- where intermarriage Is the usual also for American "know-how,"
ta" in her observation that "In- rather than the unusual, that in by American engineers, chemists,
termarriage is blamed on spoiled almost every instance so far, the builders, work managers and
Jewish girls."
marriage has been an unhappy technicians," not. as was reported,
Of course, I do believe that one and has ended eventually in for a mass immigration of Ameri-
can Jewish youth to Israel.
Jewish men marry first and then d ivorce.
Officers of the AJC have
seek that as an excuse for the
These very same men have re-
step. This is the usual psycholog- married the so-called "extrava- also conferred with the president
ical reaction to be expected.
gant and spoiled Jewish girls" of the ZOA, Daniel Frisch, and
As a young professional woman and have appeared apparently have received from him a clear
in the early thirties, (I lost my content and adjusted in their and unequivocal declaration of
policy on the same subject, which
husband six years ago) I have "own" environment.
read in part:
had the occasion to go out with
IDA G. ENKEL,
"The tasks assumed by the
many young Jewish men and
Mt. Clemens.
American Zionists are mainly
have become disillusioned with
confined to rendering material
the qualities which they seek in
SEEKS RELATIVE
and moral aid to the young re-
a wife.
Dear Editor:
I have concluded that the rea-
We are anxious to find a rela- public in insuring its stability ...
son they marry the Christian five of ours whose n.une is American Jews are an integral
girls is that companionship with Abraham Lipehick and who lives part of the American community.
them is on a lower intellectual in Detroit. To them America is home . . .
plane and therefore less strenuous '
We had information that he American Jews owe their alle-
and less stimulating. In other
glance to the government of the
was a carpenter in the Ford Ma-
words, life is simpler in that re-
of
for Co. That was about 15 years United States just as citizens
spect.
Israel owe theirs to the govern-
ago and we have not heard from
And as for the economic phase,
ment of Israel."
many of our Jewish girls are suf- him since.
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We
are
from
Ostrow,
Poland
ficiently skilled to command a
' and our family name was Rice. POLICY STATEMENT
position which they are willing
AFTER READING these decla-
SAM MARCHICK
and able to continue even after
rations as well as a statement
316 16th street west
marriage, if necessary.
from Ambassador Elath, the ex-
Cheyenne, Wyo.
It is a fallacious notion to state
ern ti ve o f the
e AJC a
d op led a
resolution of 10 points, re-assert-
ing the policy of the AJC as fol-
lows:
"Since the recognition of the
State of Israel by the govern.)
ment of the United States ; th
American Jewish Commitii I. has
recorded as axiomatic that the
By WILLIAM ZUKERMAN
Jews of America, while having
(Jewish World News Service)
YORK—Last week was mat ked by many signs indicating that an abiding friendship for the new
American Jewish social life, which for more than a decade has State and a sincere desire as
followed rigidly a certain emergency pattern, has begun to retreat Americans to aid in its develop-
ment, have no political affiliation
from it and was going back to , '
with the State of Israel, and that
normal.
ing been jolted nut of its own de-
there can be no interference by
The week saw the launching velopment by a great upheaval
the government of Israel in the
of the first big campaign of the abroad.
internal affairs of American Jew-
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local Federation of Jewish Char-
ry or, indeed, of the Jewry of any
ities for $50,000,000 for the im- SECOND CAMPAIGN
provement of the old and the
ANOTI1ER, AND still more other country."
In addition the executive ex•
building of new hospitals, health striking example of the same ten-
and welfare institutions. This dency was the launching of an- pressed its satisfaction that the
campaign has been fought by other campaign independent of State of Israel and ZOA have
a
some on the ground that it would the UJA for $1,875,000 for lead- clarified their objectives on
hurt the United Jewish Appeal ing Jewish religious and educa- basis consistent with the funda-
and the sacred cause of Israel.
tional institutions of the country mental principles "that 'as a mat-
Even after the campaign was —the Hebrew Union College and ter of course. American Jews
started a scurrilous attack was the Jewish Institutes of Religion owe their political loyalty to the
United States and only the U. S.,
launched in the "Tog" on the in Cincinnatti and New York.
"assimilationist" Jews because
The campaign is a culmination and that there should be no in-
they dared to think of the sick, of a revolt that has been going terference by the State of Israel
the old and the needy in the on in the circles of reformed in the life of American Jewry. *
Delegates also expressed their
United States, while Israel has Jews for more than six months.
not yet defeated all its enemies. It was begun by Rabbi Maurice concern over the publicity in the
But the campaign goes on—as Eisendrath who as far back as general press issued by the Amer-
does American Jewish life on its last May protested against the ican Council for Judaism which,
road back to normalcy after hay-
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Letters to the Editor

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Pattern of Jewish Crisis

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