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THE JEWISH NEWS

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THE JEWISH NEWS

Friday, October 23; 1942

Dinner with Hitler

JOE

CAMPAIGNER
... Says

Published every Friday by Jewish News Publishing Co., 2114
Penobscot Bldg., Detroit, Mich. Telephone, RAndolph 7956. Sub-
scription rate, $3 a year; foreign, $4 a year. Club subscription of one
issue a month, published every fourth Friday in the month, to all
It's nice to talk about doing
subscribers to Allied Jewish Campaign of Jewish Welfare Federa-
tion of Detroit, in accordance with 1942 Allied Jewish Campaign big things together. But it's much
nicer to go out and do 'em.
pledges, at 50 cents a club subscription per year.
Application for Second Class matter pending at Detroit, Mich. That's what we're all doing in
the War Chest campaign. You
MAURICE H. SCHWARTZ and PHILIP SLOMOVITZ, Publishers never really get to know the
true meaning of words like unity
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
and brotherhood until you get
into a setup like this. Yop. Unit-
MAURICE ARONSSON
PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
FRED M. BUTZEL
ed Nations may be a nice window-
ISIDORE SOBELOFF
THEODORE LEVIN
ABRAHAM SRERE
trim word—with all the flags
MAURICE H. SCHWARTZ
HENRY WINEMAN
waving in the autumn breeze
and the different colors making
PHILIP SLOMOVITZ, Editor
you think of a grand parade. But
it's just another label, just an-
VOL. 2—NO. 1
OCTOBER 23, 1942
other pretty phrase until you roll
up your sleeves and pitch into
This Week's Scriptural Portions:
the campaign. Then, socko, it
registers with a bang.
On the Sabbath of this week, the thirteenth day of
Heshvan, 5703, the following Scriptural portions will be read
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in our synagogues: Pentateuchal portion, Gen. 12:1-17:27;
Prophetical portion, Is. 40:27-41:16.
And the important thing is that
it's everybody campaigning for
everybody else. Detroit's a melt-
ing pot—what big American city
isn't?—but in this drive it's not
Metropolitan Detroit's War Chest campaign will com- a case of the Poles organizing
mence on Monday.
to raise funds for Polish relief,
This great humanitarian effort, which includes every or the Jews working on all six-
war relief agency, all national and local Jewish movements teen cylinders to raise funds for
which are included in the Allied Jewish Campaign of the Jews—or the Dutch for the
'Jewish Welfare Federation, the social service agencies of Dutch. Sure, we're a melting
the Detroit Community Fund and the United Service Or- pot and sure, we have Poles and
and Greeks and Dutch and
ganizations (USO) , presents a challenge to every thinking Jews
Russians, but they're all together
citizen.
in one fight as Americans—to see
The, War Chest is part of the war effort. The funds that not only their own kin or
to be raised in Detroit and elsewhere will help keep up countrymen get help, but that
the morale of the nations that are temporarily under the everybody—all the little people
heel of the Nazi-Fascist forces. The objectives of this great that are being kicked around by
'drive are to continue the normal activities of relief-pro- Hitler get the help they need.

We MUST Meet the Challenge

yiding movements, to carry on the educational efforts
which were previously supported by Allied Jewish Cam-
► aign funds, and to meet the extraordinary demands
resulting from the war.
The Jews of Detroit have assumed a leading role in
the drive by accepting the invitation of the non-Jewish
leaders in the community to become partners in this great
effort. We owe a responsibility to the Detroit War Chest
as a whole, and our duties are increased because the War
hest now takes the place of the Allied Jewish Campaign
which would otherwise have been conducted in the spring
of 1943.
This is a time to give more liberally than ever before.
Even the marvelous results of last spring's Allied Jewish
,Campaign should be surpassed in work and in monetary
gifts.
We have an opportunity to make our mark in this
drive, and we should make the best use of it by devoting
all our energies, and by giving of our means, to this great
appeal.

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"Liberals" and Zionism

Zionists in America have been handicapped by the
attitudes of the so-called "liberal" writers for the Nation
and New Republic who have been quick to champion any
cause except that of the Jews in Palestine. Jewish writers
were among the worst offenders.
When the Jewish Army question arose and many of
these liberals joined Pierre Van Paasse-n and his commit-
tee in urging the formation of a Jewish fighting force in
Palestine, it was believed for a time that there would be a
Change in their attitude on the political question. However,
freedom for India is still more important to this group and
Palestine as a home for Jews is insignificant to them. They-
are intrigued by the army idea, but fail to see the more im-
portant issue of acquiring land for the settlement of Jews,
Of creating Jewish industries, of straightening the backs
Of Jews and giving them courage as a people.
These "liberals" could have exerted influence upon
;Great Britain to avoid abuse of Jewish rights, since the
Pritish have messed up the situation in Palestine.
In his important study "British Policy in P .alestine,"
published by the American Council on Public Affairs of
Washington, Prof. Paul L. Hanna of the University of
Florida, arrives at an interesting conclusion. He writes
that "if the British government had been able, in the years
immediately following the First World War, to overcome
the pressure impelling it to compromise, two alternatives
Would have presented themselves: firm action in the orig-
inal spirit of the Balfour Declaration, or repudation of
the pledge to the Jews as impracticable." He proceeds to
show that "consistent fulfillment of the Balfour Declara-
tion might have put down Arab opposition." His conclusion
As that the situation is hopeless because it is so muddled.
Jews, of course, believe that a firm stand, in rela-
tion to the Arabs, can solve the problem. The intro-
duction to Prof. Hanna's book by former Secretary of the
Navy Josephus Daniels, which has already beeh syndicat-
ed as a feature article by the Independent Jewish Press
Service, shows clearly that the attitude of the U.S. govern-
pent is for fulfillment of pledges made to the Jews.
The Jewish "liberals" can help make Jewish aspirations
In Palestine real. Unfortunately they are for all causes but
those of their kinsmen. It is the cheapest type of assimila-
tion and they will be the first to pay the price for it, in
spiritual agony, should there be a day of reckoning for
!Rich indifference.

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Say, if I keep this up, they'll
have me writing the editorials
next. I seem to forget that I'm
supposed to be saying things no
one is supposed to care about.
There's one thing, though, I've
got to get off my chest. Every-
body's talking about a second
front this year. Well, that's noth-
ing. The Jews of Detroit have
gone them one better. They've
gone ahead and joined a second
campaign this year. That's a
good sign. Shows we're not cal-
endar or clock watching. Of
course, two drives in one year is
a pretty big order. But you all
know that this one is for 1943
and that ought to make every-
body feel proud. Doesn't it make
you glow all over to know that
you're doing something mighty
important now that would have
to be done a short time from
now. What a grand feeling it is
to be able to say that our help
will come on time and, what's
even better, that it WON'T BE
TOO LATE. Yes sir, ENOUGH,
ON TIME is a pretty good slogan
and IT'S ABOUT TIME all
Americans made it their watch-
word.

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Saving the Children

An offer made by the United States Government to
accept 5,000 refugee children, up to the age of 18, for
the duration of the war, has been accepted by the Vichy
government. These children—many of whom are Jewish
—are suffering today as a result of a policy of slavery
imposed upon France by the Nazis, with whom, to the
disgrace of the French traditions, Pierre Laval and his
pro-Fascist cohorts are collaborating.
Acting Secretary of State Sumner Welles has an-
nounced that 1,000 of the children will be welcomed to
this country immediately. It also has been announced that
1,000 children will go to Canada and 500 to the Dominican
Republic, where a Jewish settlement has been established.
The acts of democracies are indications that our war
objectives are clear and that the United Nations are bent,
upon uprooting the evils of slavery introduced by Nazism.
Vichy, unfortunately, remains a tool of the Hitler regime,
to the extent even of seeking to inject a note designed
to divide public opinion by giving the impression that
all of the children to be taken out of the present French
inferno are Jewish. Mr. Wells, however, has made it
clear' that parents of certain children had been sent into
slavery and that the tragic plight of the youngsters, not
of any particular race or nationality, appealed to Amer--
ica's humane instincts.
The all-important thing to remember at this time is
that without the assistance of the American Jewish Joint
Distribution Committee and other groups which provide
relief for refugees, the saving of these children would
have been impossible. For the coming year, Detroit's
contributions to the J. D. C. will come through the' War
Chest. The saving of the 5,000 children therefore pro-
vides one of the most potent arguments for the War
Chest appeal to which no one dare give a deaf ear.

Seminary Anniversaries

A national conference of lay leaders, for the purpose
of developing a program for the spiritual betterment of
mankind, has been called by Gov. Herbert H. Lehman and
Prof. Louis Finkelstein in behalf of the Jewish Theological
Seminary. It is intended that this conference should correct
the deteriorating tendencies resulting from the influences
of pre-war Nazi- Fascist elements branded as enemies of
civilization.
Two anniversaries give this conference added signi-
ficance. The date—Nov. 8—marks the 55th anniversary of
the founding of the Seminary and the 40th anniversary of
its reorganization under the late Prof. Solomon Schechter
and Dr. Cyrus Adler. As the central body serving the needs
of Conservative Judaism in America, the Seminary has
made its mark not only in this country, but throughout the
entire English-speaking world. It has trained rabbis and
teachers for communities in this country, in England and
in Africa. It has extended influence among Christians by
collaborating with theologians of all faiths in the advance-
ment of the most sacred ideals of all faiths who compose
the American commonwealth.
The conference on Nov: 8 will attract wide attention
because of the constructive program set for it. The anni-
versaries of this day give it the significance necessary to
make Jews conscious of the existence of a great institution
which serves the needs of a community throughly integrat-
ed in American-Jewish life.

There I go again, moralizing
and preaching. Maybe it's be-
cause the weekly sermonette
usually appears in this space. It's
not nice to boast, but those cam-
paign workers we're putting in-
to the field are thoroughbreds
who'll give a good account of
themselves on any front of the
War Chest drive. And I don't
mean only people like Irving
Blumberg, co-chairman of the I
and C Division, Mrs. • H. C.
Broder, or Captain Butzel, Major
Himelhoch or Captain Wine-
man of the A. G. section. I mean
every worker, formerly in our
own junior, women's and men's
contingents. Do you know why
they'll make crackerjack solici-
tors? Because in past Allied Jew-
ish Campaigns they learned how
to bring the tragic needs of the
victims of Hitler home to the
average contributor. With the
story of the whole world and the
community in their kits, they'll a pretty comprehensive war drive
make every prospect pretty much in itself.
If You Give to the U.J.A.
aware of the needs of the con-
You Help the Rescue Way
quered peoples, the USO and the
Community Fund.
I'm not so good at rhymes, but
• • *
here's one that I just can't hold

And don't forget the 55 local, back:
Help Our Boys Through the
regional, national and overseas
U.S.O.
agencies that are part of the war
Destroy That No-Good So-
chest through the A.J.C. There's
and-So!
that three-way package called
the United Jewish Appeal—that's
Get it? Or shall I give you his

initials and the width of his mus-
tache?
• *
Well, here comes Colonel
Sobeloff. Whaddayaknow? I've
been drafted—to stop writing and
begin campaigning. And I hear

that a good campaigner is a guy
who starts off with his own con-
tribution first. So here's my

check for—oh, never mind, here's
a blank check—fill it in yourself,
Colonel.

