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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE

.Detroit Jewish Chronicle

Thursday, February 16, 193

Across the Street

The Reader
Writes

Published by the Jewish Chronicle Publishing Co., Inc.
2827 Cadillac Tower, Detroit 26, Michigan
WOodWard 1-1040!
SUBSCRIPTION:
53.00 Per Year, Single Copies, 10e; Foreign, $5.00 Per Year
Entered as Second-class matter March 3, 1916, at the Post Office at
Detroit, Mich., under the Act of March 3, 1879.

SEYMOUR TILCI1IN
Publisher
EMILY SOMLYO
GERHARDT NEUMANN
Business Manager
Editor
Thursday, February 16, 1950
Shebat 29, 5710

Brotherhood Thoughts

Brotherhood Week is here again. Several editorials we read
in recent weeks made us wonder how uncritical many people
consider this conception which is a typical brainchild of the 18th
century.

We feel it is time to : -
!valuate the idea of brotherhood anew
in order to see how much of it can withstand the stress and strain
of modern society.

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■111res..
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We are deluding ourselves by equating words to actions.
The fine speeches, the high-sounding promises and the beautiful
trimmings usually offered at this time are so enticing that we
like to make ourselves believe that every word is meant.
The truth is that we are taking the easy way out. For it is
easy to proclaim high ideals and urge each and everyone to love
his neighbor. From the outset it is tacitly understood that no one
would really make a try.

Minorities are an easy prey to such promises. As the ones
who look fearfully at the majority, hoping against hope that they
could find some kind of disguise in which they would no longer
be recognized as minorities, they are anxious and willing to ac-
cept ideas which under normal eir•umstances would not enter
their minds,

Minorities have to understand i
ihe basic fact they are not
wanted. When this feeling of the majority does not lash out like
a whip, it is latent and, in any case, dangerous. Brotherhood and
love cannot be produced by persuasion. They are rare qualities
to be found only in exceptional individuals.

•""`ae.

*AVER, Dt

Avsso nookout

Writer Raps Jews' Lack
of Broad-Mindedness

PROTESTS BIRON'S
DEFENSE OF' MENUIIIN
To A theEndut-
olr
emb : er of the religiou s
Zionist movement—Hapoel Harrrr
izrachi—I would like to take this
opportunity in expressing my
personal opinion on the I
tide
written by Phineas Biron Feb.
2
in connection with Yehudi Menu-
hin's playing for the Germans.
I must say that I am very much
in doubt as to whether Biron
had a moral right to protect one
who does not claim—that is, be-
yond his name—to have any con-
nection whatsoever with the Jews
as a nation.
If Menuhin had any feeling
pity and respect for his se
million slaughtered brethren, he
would not have offered the bene-
fits of his great talents to a
German audience which was in
a large measure responsible for
the uprooting of his people.
Above all, the German musical
institutigins should not have bene-
fited from the proceeds of those
concerts.
Again I want to emphasize that
we who are proud of our se.
ligious and cultural heritage
should not offer our services to
a people who have persecuted
and desecrated us.
GERALD LERER,
Director of Public Relations,
Hapoel Hainizrachi of East Side,
New York, N.Y.

By ALFRED SEGAL
whom there is no trace of the in•
have been getting word lately fection. Sometimes they say, rath-
about Jews wrapping them- er ineptly, "Some of my best 'CHRONICLE WAS THERE'
selves up in special righteousness friends," etc., but they say it as FILLS LONG-FELT WANT
and refusing to have anything to a sincere expression of their good To the Editor:
do with gestures of ood will to- will.
Your new department "The
What is it that we want? Justice? Tolerance? Shall we be
ward their non-
On account of them I try to be Chronicle Was There" is most
content with an existence that depends on the whims of the
Jewish neigh-
interesting and fills a lon g -felt
majority?
a Jew who doesn't hold himself
bors,
want in Anglo-Jewish journal.
apart
from
non-Jews.
He
walks
There was, as
Obviously, we refuse to be tolerated. We feel that minorities
gladly with other men who are ism, whet e advance publicity
I recall, a recent
do not have to apologize for their existence. They have their
good :
going
his way. He isn't thinking usually fills considerably more
incident in New
and bad traits like any majority, and must be accepted as
of
"buying
good will;" good will space than accounts of events
they are.
Jersey in which
is
of
his
Jewish
teaching and he after they have taken place.
some of the Jews
The only way to a better understanding of the different
DAVID GOLDBERG
gives it.
of the commun-
groups which make up our society is an earnest attempt to
I am no less the Jew beca use NEED FOR CONSTITUTION
ity took public
Achieve full cooperation.
I walk brotherly with the P ro- IN ISRAEL OVEREMPHASIZEI)
steps to have
Cooperation is practical and possible because it is the ex-
testant and the Catholic and sit To the Editor:
t heir children
pression of common interests and mutual advantages. The reason
with them in their pews on oe-
boycott Christ-
Segal
why it is so difficult to get cooperation is that most people or
Simultaneously with the coin.
casions.
I have had them in the ing into being of the state of
mas
observance
in
the
pu
groups have never really tried to define their common interests
blic
and areas of agreement,
schools. It is creditable to of her temple with me on our holida ys Israel, men of great capacity,
feel no religious offense w hen moved by the idea that a new
ews of the same community t
If Brotherhood Week is to serve any useful purpose it must
they publicly protested agai hat they invite me to enjoy th eir country must have a fundamental
seek to awaken understanding of the desirability and profitable-
this.
nst Christmas trees. I receive Chr ist- law, started working on a
ness of cooperation. If we would abandon our passion for flowery .
von-
mas gifts from them and se nd stitution.
Now I read some utteran oes them
speeches and devote our efforts to cementing human relations,
gifts.
something worthwhile might be the result.
made against the broad-mind
Some months ago, the entire
Jews of Claremont, N. H. In o ed I Maybe it will be asked, P ut movement subsided, probably be-
of the Yiddish papers they ne I what of the ill-willed neighb e r! cause they realized that a con-
accused of trying to "buy go are who are s9 many? You can me an stitution can really only consist
we should seek them out?
of one paragraph-1n all times
will" among the Christians. The od.
it
• S •
The South African Jewish Chronicle, Cape Town, quotes
alleged offense is that they se nt
and in every regard, the major-
these words of a British editor who replied to criticism against
ity shall rule."
Christmas presents to the di s- I IGNORE THEM as individu
his paper as follows:
This one provision Is so power-
abled in a Veterans Hospital; the unfit for decent association; ju als
st
r ful that it nullifies any
"It is time we should have had brought home to us the
invited Christian ministers to th 'as I ignore all other kinds of di
additional
great mystery of journalism—that all the people who know
pulpit of Rabbi Michael Sz eves people. But to insulate myse y ; items. For example, a provision
exactly how to conduct a paper are engaged in other occu-
of
their
temple.
IfI
prohibiting
capital
punishment
pations."
from all non-Jews, on their a
If these were isolated inciden , count, is to copy the in of th c- would be incompatible with ma-
This is quite true. Many a reader feels he could tell the
e jority rule if the majority de-
they wouldn't be worth mention- anti-Semites
sired it.
editor what should or should not have been said or omitted,
ing. They belong to a new pattern
I
have
no
idea
of
putting
down
without realizing that making a newspaper is an art which
It is safe to say that a majority
of some Jews who lately have antiaSemitism when I go along
requir.3 years of experience,
taken up a stiff-neckedness un- with my neighbors. After 2,000 rule provision can never be re-
Our South African colleagues, however, are annoyed by
pealed because such a vote would
becoming to the Jewish ideal,
years of it, can see no end o
criticism that they are "keeping the public ignorant of matters
tantamount to the majority re-
•• • •
that are important."
anti-Semitism in our time, Bu t, f ; be
pealing its own powers.
e l ,anyway, 1 can respect myself
AMONG MEMBERS of th
Contrary to the opinion of our Cape Town friends who
as l It seems that legislators dis-
• toward the purpose fulfill-
equally unbending American
fulfill- tr ust their successors and so they
seem to be inclined to believe that their paper carries a
Council for Judaism (anti-Zion ing, within myself, the teaching try to force their_opinions
sufficiently large selection of international, national and local
on
ist) I have heard it said that i = brotherhood that is our pro- them in the form of a constitu.
news items, we think the matter is quite serious.
t
phetic
inheritance.
all derives from the idea that the
We admit quite freely that the news services which serve
tion. This is a violation of it
Jews are now a nation of their j I shall not be fulfilling it if I other's righ
the Jewish press in America are rather whimsical in their
rights. The majority
own; that nationalistic arrogance join the stiff necks among us. By today cannot bind the majority )
selection of news, unpredictable and often contradictory in
their intransigence they are ali- of tomorrow,
is bound to spring from this.
their reporting. This makes it rather difficult for even the
most discerning editor to give his readers a true picture of
I don't like to believe this. My enating the good will of neigh-
e distrust is unfounded, the
the goings-on in the Jewish world.
s who want to be friends, You , succ essors of the legislators
own experience of Jews is that t
have
don't
keep
them
by
telling
them
ben(
most of them aren't feeling na-
The only power that could change the picture is the reader
ed by the mistakes of the
'
you
are
against
thei
hi
past
iat niadnsare aware of new world
tionalistically Jewish because of
himself, If 'enough readers insisted on complete and reliable
r cldren
cond
the state of Israel or are behaving having Christmas inschool
the s
information, our news services might shake off their special
because your children happen to
that way.
interest shackles and start on the road to honest, dependable
EMANUEL ROSMAN
reporting, following the general pattern of the American
The fault for the isolationism be going there, too, or that you
tradition.
of Jews is not in Jews themselves want no truck with their minis-
Until such time however, the reader of any Jewish paper
but in anti-Semitism. . the ters in your synagogue.
will have to put up with the hunt and peck type of news service
way of people to withdraw with
which is 'the despair of any serious newspaperman.
in themeslves when the neighbor Even on the Gallows
is hostile.
Thirty-two thousand licenses
I confess that I myself have felt ; Nazis Won't Repent
that way about non-Jews. With.; PARIS— (JWNS) — "My last now in the hands of Polish Jews,
permitting them to sell tobacco,
out protest I have listened to Jews wish is to kill 100 Jews at once,"
A word of wisdom came to us from India. Asked about his
salt and alcohols, will be revoked
shouted
Hans
Biner,
former
Na

saying,
well,
there
is
a
bit
of
anti-
opinion on the hydrogen bomb, Pandit Nehru, India's prime
minister, had this to say:
Semitism in all of them. Only commissioner of the Mauthausen and turned over to war invalids
afterward
have I asked myself concentration camp. after he was and former soldiers, if a law now
"If mankind is bad, let the bomb destroy mankind. lf man-
are all of them really anti-Semi- sentenced to death for the mass before the Polish Sejm is passed.
kind is good, let mankind destroy the bomb."
This act will literally take the
tic, and I have conscientiously murder of Jews.
Admittedly, this is an oversimplification of the problem.
bread out of the mouths of ap-
I answered No.
But we admire the moral courage that is the foundation
of
• • •
The Jewish Chronicle is the proximately 150.000 Jews, since
Nehru's convictions: the courage to introduce morals into
their only sustenance can be de-
THERE ARE THOSE—I can only newspaper that gives com- rived from this form of retailing.
plete coverage of Jewish events
count them by the .dozen —
i n Detroit.
(From the Jewish Chronicle,
Feb. 13, 1925)

The great ideals of mankind are at best the guiding stars in
whose direction we move, but they cannot easily be translated
into dynamic action.

Having realized this, we should reorient our thoughts
accordingly,

I

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