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Page Fifteen

THE JEWISH NEWS

April I7, 1942

Women's Clubs

ZEDAKAH'S BIRTHDAY
DINNER ON APRIL 26

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Zedakah Club will celebrate its
21st anniversary with a dinner
dance at the Detroit Leland Hotel
Sunday, April 26. Dinner will be
_followed_ by dancing and entertain-
ment. For reservations call Mrs.
Nathan Shogan, chairman, UN.
2-'7075, or Mrs. Sam Sugarman, co-
chairman, TO. 5-6757.
The next meeting of. Xedakah
Club will be held at the home of
Mrs. Paul Hoffman, 2997 Fullerton
ave., Monday, April 20, at 1:30 p. m.
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ALPHA GAMMA TAU

A candle-light initiation cere-
mony for the pledge of Alpha Gam-
ma Tau Sorority, - Delta Chapter,
was held April 4. Bernice Fenster
was chairman in charge of arrange-
ments. Sunday the girLs went on
a hiking and bicycling party. New
members are Frances Snyder and
Shirley Pearlman.
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HEBREW LADIES AID

Anti - Semitism Charge

Is Upheld As Libelous
In U. S. Court Decision

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Copyright, 1942, Jewish
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WASHINGTON (JPS)—It is libelous to charge a public of-
fisial with anti-Semitism, the Supreme Court here ruled, up-
holding a New. York circuit court decision that the Schenectaes
Union Star was guilty of libel when it accused Representative
Martin L. Sweeney of Ohio opposing the appointment of a man
toi a judgeship because he was a Jcw.

•■■•■•■■ • vow vasa,Nroh, vow Now

bond
lotment plan for defense
purchases. Jack Benny pays all

HOLLYWOOD—Harry Warner's

plea to his employees on the sub-
jest of waste is worthy of a bigger
audience. "One hundred feet of
The decision, rendered last July by the Federal Circuit Court
film wasted," he said, "may cost
of Appeals in New York, in a libel suit brought by Representative
the- life of an American soldier
Sweeney against the Schenectady newspaper that an accusation of
who may be your son or brother.
racial intolerance against a public official per se. or without any
The dollar value of a hundred
necessity of proving specific damages, was upheld by a 4-4
feet of film is trivial, but the ma-
Supreme Court vote. Associate Justice Robert H. Jackson did not
terial value is great. One sheet of
vote on the issue. The opinions of the other Justices were not
made public and there was no written opinion issued.
paper wasted may appear insignifi-
cant. but multiplied by 130 million
The suit was based on a Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen
"Washington Merry-Go-Round" column in which the syndicated
a day, it magnifies to enor-
columnists said that Representative Sweeney and Charles E.
mous costs in labor and machin-
Coughlin had opposed the appointment of Emerich Burt Freed
ery. Waste in war time is worse
as a Federal district judge in Cleveland because Mr. Freed was a
than sabotage by enemy agents.
Jew. The Ohio Representative sought $250,000 damages.
Saboteurs can destroy only so
much. but if 130 million people
- I know how to distinguish between daily waste materials, the aggre-
iiii numuntinutum utin #### M NIMMORMMU
gate cost is staggering, and con-
what's precious and what's phony.
versely, the saving can be enor-
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rs • "
Yes, one can feel impatient with mous."
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Of
Human Betngsi

The annual dinner of the He-
brew Ladies Aid Society will be
held Sunday evening. April 26, in
Jews when he considers what they
the banquet hall of the Bnai Moshe
•
- m i ht be if they learned the les-
Synagogue. There will be cards
sons of their great experience of
= so
and mah icing following the din- 1.
life. What majestic people! Their
ner. Reservations should be made
s heads as high as the stars! Walk-
By AL SEGAL
by calling Mrs. Louis Kepes, TO.
ing with God! But then, in a morel
7-5971, or Mrs. E.• Ehrenwald, TY. =
• • ••••"""0"0""""'""`""'"'"'"H "'""'"'""""'"'"'"'''''' charitable mood. one sighs, Ah. well,
6-0282.
Another evening meeting for There has been a lot written late- they're only human and it takes so
members, their husbands and . y in the Saturday Evening Post llong for human beings to learn and
even millions of Gentiles aren't
friends will be held Tuesday eve-
d elsewhere, on what's the mat- Christians after , 2000 years in the
and
ning, April 21, at the ,Dexter-Law-
rence Hall. Through !tie courtesy ter with Jews. It seems to be taken !churches, and in such places as
of Pfeiffer Brewing Co., Bob Hall for granted by all the writers that i Germany there are Gentiles who
there is something special the mat- , are still savages. though it's a mill-
will be a guest at this meeting.
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ter with us because so many people enium since they came out of the
woods. Human beings are funny.
MUSIC STUDY CLUB
,don't like us.
people.
The Music Study Club will pre-
The fact is: though,_ that vihat's t , For the Saturday Evening Post to
sent an- evening program in ob-
the matter with us is the same as is specialize. on Jews and their faults
servance of National Music Week, the matter with all the rest of the
is like running a series of articles
Saturday, April 25, at 8:30 p. at. at
the YWCA. Mrs. J. S. Sauls, presi- human-kind. We are no worse and ion "Why Jews Have. Colds." Some
dent. will open the program and no better. of the more discriminating readers
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of the Saturday Evening Post might
carious branches of the club will
There is a flattering theory that say this doesn't seem to make sense.
participate.
we all have colds?
we
The choral, under the direction anti-Semites don't like us because
(Copyright 1942 by Seven Arts
of Charles Frederic Morse, and the in us they see the protagonists of
Drama Group will present a one- the Ten Commandments and in us
Feature Syndicate)
di- they see also the kinsmen of Jesus
act play, "Thursdays at Home, -
who gave the Sermon on the Mount.
rected by Donald Armand.
They are afraid of and hate such m
• • a.

rson Kanin was t hedirector
of "Ring of Steel." one of the gov-
ernment defense shorts now being
distributed to theaters gratis. An-
other of this group is "Any Bonds
Today?" produce d
over to the Government free of

charge by Leon Schlesinger.
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Service Stripes: John Garfield
has -been appointed minute man by

the Treasury Department. He'll
address workers in war production
plants to put over the payroll al-

the bills on those bi-mcnthly trips
to the camps, expenses running
from one to three thousand dol-
lars ea- h. Producer Bernie Fine-
man. major in the State Guard. is
effectively organizing the protec-
tion of public property in case of
an air raid. Martha Raye is a
member of the State Guard Medi-
cal Corps. Francis Lederer gave
an improvised performance of
"Pursuit of Happiness" for the Air
Corps—in a hangar. The Beverly
HilLs Bhai B'rith is providing the
' shelves and the books for the Hol-
lywood U. S. 0. . . but their poi-
' • . "Take a book with you to
camp: pass it around to other !.ol-
diers. - Thereby giving each book a
greater circulation than if it stayed
in the library. Sponsoring a Red
Cross Benefit under the United
Hungarian-American Defense Fed-
eration auspices were S. Z. Sakall.
Gitta Alpar. Bela Lugosi. Victor
Varconi. Michael Curtin and Joe
Pasternik. Winchell's next Navy
Relief Show will take place in Chi-
cago.
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4-year-old
Levine.
Tagalong
moppet, can't sing. can't dance,
can't register a line, but she's a

little comedienne—her face
registers a perfect "dead pan."

great

So Good

IT'S DETROIT'S
TOP SELLER !

asseyonRadio

Athena Girls Club will meet at ments and the Sermon on the
the home of Mrs. Anne Bernstein, Mount and so they fear and hate
these
ments sprang.
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I have another theory which may
NEW YORK ,WNS)—Raymond
VETERANS' AUXILIARY
No. 135. be tenable: They dislike us not so Massey. noted stage and screen
Detroit Ladies Auxiliary
much for the virtues which they star, will appear in a series of
Jewish War Veterans of the United discover in us but rather because of dramatic scenes depicting the brav-
States, is sponsoring a party to their own faults which they see re- ery and courage of the victims of
:
raise funds for the purchase of six pealed in us as human beings.
I Axis tyranny and persecution, in
pursuit planes pledged to the Gov-
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a broadcast which will be present-
ernment by the national comman-
suggests that the faults ed over the nationwide network of
der, Benjamin Kaufman. The affair All this
held at Bruit Moshe, Wed- and frailties of Jews are just the the Columbia Broadcasting System.
will be
Sunday, April 19, at 7:15 P. M.
nesday at 8 p. m. Henrietta Niman same as of other people. The only
EWT ► , under the auspices of the
special fault one can find in Jews
is chairman.
is that they aren't better people United Jewish Appeal for Refu-
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than we are, considering their his- gees, Overseas Needs and Palestine.
H1LLEL CONTESTS APRIL 26
tory and their spiritual inheritance.
Harold Laski says that Britain is
The Women's Auxiliary Enid Many of them behave as if they
Brith No. 122 and the Louis Mar- were people who were born only having a great deal of difficulty with
shall Business and Professional yesterday, rather than as men and the Indian princes because they
Auxiliary are sponsoring jointly the women who have lived a very long have been brought up with one foot
National Hillel Panel Discussion time and have suffered a great ex- in the Ritz Hotel and the other in
Tournament which wil be held perience of life and should by now the 14th century.
Sunday, April 26, at 8:30 p. m., in
Temple Beth El. The discussion
will be in the form of oratorical •
contests.

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PURITY CHAPTER

Purity Chapter No. 359. ()M.S.,
throughaits games party, has con-
tributed funds to the following:
Mo'os Chit'm Fund, $25; Allied
Jewish Campaign, $25; Russian
War Relief, $25; American Red
Cross, $10; Michigan Crippled Chil-,
dren's Home; Children's home at
Denver; Round Table of Catholic,
Protestants and Jews; Guild for
the Blind, and other organizations.

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JUNIQR HOME RELIEF

The Junior Rome Relief Society
will hold its annual "Night of

Wednesday, April 22, at
the Workmen's Circle, 11529 Lin-
wood Ave., opposite Central High
school. This year the proceeds will
serve a double purpose, being di-
vided between the USO fund and
the summer camp for handicapped
children.
Further information may be ob-
tained from the chairman, Nora
Ingber, Un. 1 - 7647, the ticket chair-
man, Lorraine VeliCk, Ty. 5-8849,
or the senior advisor, Mrs. H. M.

Games"

Shulman, To. ' 8-2784.

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