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Thursday, June 29, 1950

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE

Gutstadt to Receive Bnai Brith Bnai Brides
Award for Humanitarianism
Work on Local
Richard E. Gutstadt, who will
be the main speaker at the Dis- '
Level Stressed
trict Grand Lodge convention of

the Bnai Brith banquet, will re-
ceive the District's Humanitarian
Award for outstanding service to
the Jewish peoples throughout
the country and to humanity at
large for the period of the past
40 years.
Thy award will be presented to
him by Philip M. Klutznick,
Tuesday at the banquet at the
Book Cadillac Hotel.
As executive vice-chairman
of the Anti-Defamation League,
Gutstadt has achieved national
renown as a lecturer, administra-
tor and innovator in the field of
Jewish public relations.
A resident of Chicago, Gutstadt
Is vice-president of Sinai Con-
gregation and served as co-
chairman of Sinai's building fund
drive. Born in San Francisco, he
served as president of District
Grand Lodge 4 of Bnai Brith,
which embraces eight western
states and British Colombia, in
1917 and 1918.
He was elected executive di-
rector of that same District in
1923, in which office he served
for several years, having been
drafted by national headquarters
of the order at Cincinnati to take
charge of the membership bureau
and special activities.
Gutstadt has been interested in
every phase of Jewish and civic
life of his community, having
served for several years as sec-
retary of the Pacific coast branch
of the Hebrew Sheltering and
Immigant Aid Society, as a mem-
ber of the board of governors of
the Federation of Jewish Chari-
ties, a trustee of his temple,
, member of the regional council
of the Zionist Organization, and
for several years in action direc-
tion of the Jewish National Wel-
fare Fund of San Francisco.
He is a close student of the

• District Parley
to Entertain
Women Guests

Mrs. Lawrence I. Yaffa, as
• chairman and Sally Fields as co-
chairman head the committee
for the entertainment and plan-
• ning for t h e
women guests of
the delegates to
. the 82nd annual
convention o f
District Grand
Lodge 6 of Bnai
Brith.
Among the
plans are in-
cluded:
June 30 — A
day at T a m : ally Fields
O'Shanter County Club.
July 1 — The reception and
dance in the Grand Ballroom of
the Book Cadillac Hotel. Bill
Regula, of the Billie Hammond
and Associates office, will fur-
nish the music for dancing.
July 2—To witness the show-
. ing of "Finian in Bnai Brith"
at 8:30 p. m. The presentation of
. "Catskill Rythm" by the Char-
lotte Bregman Players of the
Louis Marshall Dramatic Group
(public invited) at 9 p.m.
July 3—Luncheon and a tour
through the historical Green-
field Village in the morning.
Radio shows and shopping
tours are also on the agenda for
the women.

By HARRY YUDKOFF
Past President, BB District 6

T nual convention of Bnai Brith

HE ADVENT of the 82nd an-

Page 5

It's Time to Make Heard
the Voice of Democracy

By MEIER STEINBRINK
guard against defamation and
character assassination.
Chairman, Anti-Defamation
League of Bnai Brith
Do you seek insurance against
THERE ARE two voices heard the humiliation of public defama-

i T n our land today with which

District Grand Lodge should pro-
vide added impetus to the efforts
of the Greater Detroit Bnai Brith
Council for increased service to
our community.
Meetings of this type generate
interest, not only in the national
aspects of the functions with
which their sponsors are iden-
tified, but serve as well to stim-
ulate activities on the local level.
Bnai Brith men, women and
youth in Detroit have long recog-
nized that in addition to their
support of Bnai Brith activities,
which in themselves are service
to the local community, the re-
RICHARD E. GUTSTADT
• • •
sources of the lodges, chapters
political problems of Jewish life and youth organizations should
be made available as well for
in their various aspects.
projects purely local in their na-
The increasing anti-Semitism ture.
which followed in the wake of
For example, the Jewish Com-
the Hitler success in Germany munity Council of Detroit has
impelled the executive commit-
enjoyed the full cooperation of
tee of Bnai Brith to enlarge the
many men and women who were
organization of the Anti-Defama-
first attracted to communal activ-
tion League and to establish its
ity through Bnai Brith.
headquarters in Chicago.
In recent years, there has de-
Gutstadt was thereupon trans- veloped a more effective liaison
ferred from Cincinnati headquar- between the local Bnai Brith
ters to take charge of this en- lodges and the Jewish Welfare
larged program of the League.
Federation which augurs well for
He became executive vice- the future.
Bnai Brith men and women
chairman in November, 1947.
recognizin,the important part
played by the local community
in the organizational structure
stand ready to serve in the inter-
ests of all men and in the better-
ment of the relations existing
among them.
This meeting will provide the
opportunity to better understand
READER ASKS PROFITEERS'
many of the problems with which
NAMES BE PUBLISHED
our people are presently confront-
To the Editor:
ed. It is our fervent hope that
In your June 22 issue, I read the deliberations of this conven-

we have become all too familiar.
There is the voice that screams
in the headlines: strident, calcu-
lating, deliberately fomenting
crises, panic and hysteria. It is
not the voice of a single senator
nor a governmental committee,
nor even of a group of over-
zealous defenders of democracy.
This voice, that has no regard
for the just treatment of every
individual, guilty or innocent, has
the right to expect, is the voice
of black political reaction.

on 12th Street." but will also serve to inspire us
While the editorial points out to greater achievement in behalf
certain aspects which are caus- of Jewry and humanity.
ing Jews to, in effect, abdicate
from the 12th street area, it fails
to specifically point out the in-
dividual real estate brokers re-
sponsible for disintegrat-
ing wholesome neighborhoods and
causing panic where none need
exist.
There is no doubt that the Ne-
gro population has improved in
many regards the area affected,
and, have proven to be good `k
neighbors and customers. Your
editorial, however, is lacking in
an additional regard, in that it
fails to specifically point out that
these pressure real estate inter-
ests go into neighborhoods delib-
Drook
Cohen
• • •
erately with only the only one
thought in mind, of bringing a
Aaron Drook of Detroit and
Negro into that neighborhood, Archie Cohen of Chicago will be
and never at any time bringing a presented the District 6 honor
person of the Caucasian race to awards by Samuel W. Leib, dis-
purchase homes. In that manner trict president, at a luncheon to
they, in effect, cause panic among be held at 12 noon, Tuesday in
the neighbors, which has resulted the Crystal Ballroom of the Book
in a large migration from the Cadillac.
12th street area to the North-
Drook is a past president of
west area.
the District and Cohen, also 'a
If your newspaper is aware of past president, is now chairman
the identity of the real estate in- of the committee on American-
terests, then I urge you to pub- ism.
lish their names so that the peo-
ple of Detroit can learn the iden-
The Jewish Chronicle is the
tity of these unscrupulous profi- only newspaper that gives com-
teers.
plete coverage of Jewish events
in Detroit.
MEYER W. LEIB.

liberal, forward looking proposal
every, desirable social advance is
in danger of being smeared as a
Communist plot cooked up in the
Kremlin.
Guilt by association is the
touchstone of this campaign. We
can no longer tolerate this per-
nicious doctrine with its plague
of public defamation and assass-
ination of character. The traitor
in our midst must be apprehend-
ed and immobilized. The subvers-
ive must be checked and punish-
ed.
But it must be done in the
framework of justice, with due
process of law, with a firm belief
in the basic democratic principle
that a man is innocent until he
is proved guilty—not on the basis
of rumor or hearsay, but only
on the basis of facts and proper
circumstances.
• • •

The Reader
Writes

victims of Nazi concentration
camps, on the homeless, on the
Then, there is the second voice. persecuted, for in their eyes, all
It is an insidious voice .It speaks DP's, except former Nazis, are

out wherever there is injustice,
large or small. It speaks against
evil—not to correct it—only to
use it to compound hysteria, to
multiply confusion, to stir up
strife, so that it may create that
ultimate injustice, that antithesis
of democracy —the totalitarian
state. This is'Nthe voice of Com-
munism.
Like the voice of reaction, the
voice of communism speaks in
the name of "real" Americanism
and "true" democracy. But amid
all the cliches, all the flag waving,
all the phony concern for human
rights, one hears the snarling of
political jackals tearing at the
vitals of our liberties.
ADL has always made very
clear its attitude toward Fascism
and Communism. We are op-
posed to their basic philosophy,
to their methods and activities.
As important today as is dis-
avowal and repudiation of Com-
munism, is the repudiation of
those responsible for using the
threat of Communism to paralyze
democratic progress which almost
alone can be the strongest bul-

your editorial, "Misconceptions tion wilt not only be resultful, wark against this threat. Every

District to Honor
Drook and Cohen

tion, of public assassination of
character, with no recourse, no
defense? Then the proponents of
these doctrines will warn you not
to,speak up for equality of op-
portunity in employment, in edu-
cation, in public accommodation,
for in their eyes, this is Commun-
ism.
Do you wish to be absolutely
undisturbed in the pursuit of your
daily activities? Then they wilt
tell you to turn your back on the

THE OTHER SIDE of the coin
of guilt by association is the even
more dangerous doctrine of inno-
cence by repudiation — repudia-
tion of anything however good,
however worthy, that anyone
without the slightest justification
can label Communist. If these
two doctrines become the stand-
ards of judgment, millions of
Americans will have no safe-

Communists.
Does a man seek immunity
from the charge of disloyalty?
Then they will urge you to join
the Ku Klux Klan, support Ger-
ald L. K. Smith, finance Merwin

K. Hart. For in their eyes, these
and these alone are above sus-
picion, are the only "real" Amer-
icans, the 150 per cent Americans.
• • •
IS THIS THE kind of America
we want? Is this what we have
fought to create through the 175
years of arduous struggle to as-
sure those freedoms we enjoyed
and which are so threatened to-
day? No, I think that would be
disloyalty to America. I think
that would be treason. I think
that would be betrayal of every-
thing this nation means to us, to
people throughout the world.
Is it not time that we reaffirm,
as we did in 1932, that this nation
has nothing to fear but fear it-
self? Is it not time that we
brushed aside the sowers of de-
spair and the breeders of con-
fusion? Is it not time that we
drown out these voices with the
third voice the • voice of the
democratic majority of' the Amer-
ican people?
Those truly dedicated to the
principles of freedom, those who
are aware of the danger which
democracy in America faces, must
arouse all Americans to an under-
standing of the urgency of the
situation.
The answer to assaults upon
democracy is more democracy.
The beet weapon against both
Communism and reaction at home
is democracy. The best all-out
weapon against Communism and
Fascism abroad is more and more
democracy.

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