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ETROIT JEWS, deeply stirred by the appalling re-
Ports of the martyrdom of more than 2,000,000
Jews in Nazi-held Europe, are clamoring for an oppor-
tunity to express their indignation against the atroci-
ties and to express their sympathies to the victims.
Interest is being shown in the special session of the
Jewish National Fund conference, on Sunday, which
will be set aside as a period of mourning for the dead.
The tragedy of European Jewry is believed to have
influenced Jewish organizations not to pursue previous
practices of sponsoring New Year eve celebrations. It
is generally felt that this is no time for hilarity.
Recommendation From Mr. Zwerdling
Osias Zwerdling of Ann Arbor, one of the most re-
vered Jewish leaders in Michigan, writes us his com-
ments on our editorial regarding the new Jewish group
which was formed to fight Zionism. Mr. Zwerdling
suggests to the rabbis and laymen in this group that
they read the new book published by the Zionism Or-
ganization of America, "Brandeis on Zionism."
Mr. Z1,verdling, who will be a delegate to the Jewish
National Fund conference here this week-end, writes:
"If one is too busy to read the entire book, which is not
at all large, but very interesting and educational, he
will benefit by even the one article, pages 12 to 35,
`The Jewish Problem and How to Solve It.' As far as
new organizations are concerned, it seems to me that
we Jews have too many such organizations, which
accounts for oui,, lack of ACHDUS or unity."
nine in Detroit
Protests Against Nazi
Atrocities to Be Voiced at
JNF Memorial on Sunday;
Committee Named for Dinner
Honoring 50th Birthday of
Dr. Schmarya Kleinman;
Dr. Leon A .KatzinRe-elected
President of Hospital Group;
15-year-old Musician Honored
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By HELEN ZIGMOND
Copyright, 1942, Jewish.
Telegraphic Agency, Inc.
HOLLYWOOD.—Disney's car-
toon, "Education for Death,"
adaptation from the book of the
same title, could have been .a
powerful document, revealing
Nazi methods of distorting edu-
cation and crippling the youth-
ful mind. But somehow . , af-
ter an auspicious beginning, the
theme gets tangled in over-cari-
cature . ...and - winds up abruptly
without saying enough.
"Der Fuehrer's Face," another
Disney creation just finished,
Seymour Lipkin, 15-year-old Detroit pianist, has
been selected for this year's honors of the Music Study
Club of Detroit. He is the son of Dr. and Mrs. Ezra
Lipkin of Webb Ave.
This Detroit musical society annually sponsors a
debut for a local young musician, and Seymour Lipkin
will be presented in concert in the auditorium of the
Detroit Institute of Atts, Sunday evening, Jan. 3.
A student of the Curtis Institute of Music in Phila-
delphia and now a pupil of Rudolph Serkin, Seymour
won the first Curtis Alumni Award for excellence in
his studies in 1941. He already has appeared as guest
artist with Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Victor Kolar
conducting, and the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra,
Eugene Ormondy conducting.
Last summer, Seymour was enrolled as a member
of the Berkshire Music Colony, playing in the advanced
orchestra under Serge Koussevitzky.
Proceeds from the Music Study Club concert will be
used for scholarships and philanthropic purposes. One
of the recent scholarship recipients, Max Weiner, just
has been engaged as violinist by the Pittsburgh Sym-
phony Orchestra.
Men in uniform • are invited to attend the concert
Jan. 3 as guests of the Music Study Club. .
A large number of patrons has been enlisted to sup-
port the event.
The Detroit Hebrew Hospital Association, at a board
meeting held on Dec. 17 at the home of its secretary,
William Buchlater, re-elected the following officers:
Dr. Leon A. Katzin, president; H. T. Glickman, vice-
president; Marcus Kates, treasurer; Mr. Buchhalter,
secretary.
Other members of the board are: Michael R. Bagdade,
Joseph - Camiener, Maurice Floch, David Oppenheim,
Isaac Rosenthal, Manuel Rosenthal and Philip Slomovitz. -
Compiled From the Records of the
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
MOSCOW—Upder an agreement concluded be-
tween the Joint Distribution Committee and the
Soviet Government the JDC will receive 1,600 tons
of coal to heat institutions maintained by the JDC in
the Ukraine, in return for which it will establish a
credit of $200,000 for the RusSian Government in
New York, which will be used to purchase American
mining machinery. At the same time it was an-
nounced that the .JDC has been given the right to
carry its relief program into any part of Russia.
BUENOS AIRES—The new president of the Ar-
gentine Republic, Dr. Alvear, received a Jewish
delegation led by the Chief Rabbi of the Jewish
community here. The president expressed his in-
terest in the progress of the Jewish community
which. he stated, he was confident would prove an
important factor in the development of the country.
JERUSALEM—A report covering the eighteen-
month period, ending December, 1921, during which
Sir Herbert Samuel was High Commissioner for
Palestine, has been issued showing that there were
marked advances in the development of public
works, utilities, education, industry and commerce
in the country during that time.
.WASHINGTON—David - Brown of Detroit, chair-
man of the recent American Jewish Relief Drive,
who was received by President Harding in connec-
tion with the possibility of a United States loan to
Russia, disclosed that the President was greatly in-
terested in the treatment of Jews in Russia. Mr.
Brown assured him that Jevrs enjoyed the same
political eauality as all other nations.
Music Study Club Honors Young Musician
Hospital Committee Re-Electi Dr. Katzin
Twenty Years Ago This Week
Our .vv
Friday, December 25, 1942
THE JEWISH NEWS
Senator-Elect Ferguson Honored
DR. SHMARYA KLEINMAN
The Kleinman Testimonial Committee
Joseph Bernstein is honorary chairman of .the com-
mittee which is planning the dinner in honor of the
50th birthday of Dr. Schmarya Kleinman. The dinner
will be held Jan. 3 at the Workmen's Circle Hall. James
I. Ellmann is chairman of the committee. Mrs. Julius
Feigelman, 3293 Clements, is secretary.
Members of the committee include Rabbi Morris
Adler, Schloime Bercovich, Fred M. Butzel, Aaron.
Droock, Rabbi Leon Fram, Isaac Franck, Herman Ja-
cobs, Max Holtzman, Alex Levitt, David Lipnitz, Harry
Lipsitz, Dr. Edward Robbins, Aaron Rosenberg, Dr. I.
W. Ruskin, Meyer Schneider, Isidore Sobeloff, Jacob H.
Sonenklar, Ben Shifrin, Saul Waxman, S. D. Weinberg.
Women Gather Funds for Yeshivoth
Through the efforts of Mrs. Ida Baker, Mrs. Sarah
Goldman and Mrs. Miriam Shelovsky, the sum of $1,710
was collected for European and Palestinian Yeshivoth.
The sum of $1,290 was sent to 19 Palestinian schools
and $525 to Yeshivoth now functioning in Siberia.
Jacob Baker advanced the balance to complete the sum.
treats of Donald Duck in NIzi-
dumb. It is filled with clever
digs and subtle comedy every-
foot of the reel. Yet • . as
thoughts of the millions of Jews,
Russians, Greeks, tortured, mu-
tila.ted, starved, go through one's
mind . . . it isn't comical. The
laugh sticks in one's throat.
Brilliant animating cannot make
the Nazis funny!
* * *
It was no surprise to • his close
associates when Melvyn Douglas
this week enlisted in the Army.
He has been working in the Of-
fice of Civilian Defense in Wash-
ington, but on hearing the pro-
posal to close the ranks to vol-
untary enlistments, he rushed
out to enroll as : a buck private.
Actor is 41 .. . will be inducted
at Fort Meade, . .. will undergo
the same basic training as other
Privates.
An interesting party was arranged at noon on,Tues-
day by the Jewish and non-Jewish friends of U. S.
Senator-Elect Homer Ferguson at luncheon at the
Club Madrid.
Irving Small, one of the members of the commit-
tee which arranged the party, presided at the gather-,
ing. Corporation Counsel Nathaniel H. Goldstick de-
livered an address and presented Judge Ferguson with
a desk set as the gift of his friends. .
After the response by Judge Ferguson, brief ad-
dresses were delivered by William Friedman and
Joseph Kamil.
Among those who arranged the affair, which was
attended by about 60 men, were Sidney Alexander,
Douglas Mode, Julius Pliskow, Ben Burdick, Charles
Lasky, David Miro and others who are prominent in
the community.
Coming Events
Dec. 26-27—National conference of Jewish Na-
tional Fund of America, at Book Cadillac Hotel.
Jan. 6—Annual donor luncheon of Pioneer Wo
men's Organization of Detroit, at Masonic Temple.
Jan. 10—Donor event of Reading Circles of
Sholom Aleichem Schools.
Jan. 10—Detroit Mizrachi's 31st anniversary ban-
quet, at Jericho Temple.
Jan. 19—Ezra Sisterhood Luncheon.
Jan. 27—Annual donor luncheon of Women's
Auxiliary of United Hebrew Schools, at the Shaarey
Zedek.
Retraining of Jews for Constructive
Efforts One of Vital War-Time Tasks
Preparation of Refugees and Other Jewish Groups for
Industrial and Agricultural Work Is Aim of
ORT, Supported by War Chest
Before a lathe in a factory in Manchester, England,
fashioning equipment for bombers, fighters and other war
aircraft, stands Saul Grossman, 18, late of Vienna, Austria.
Eager and intense, Saul watches his machine move,
anxious to avoid mistakes that will retard the production
of war weapons. Behind, his gaze • burns a rage that will
not abate until the scourge of 4)
Nazism is wiped out.
They escaped on a transport.
The rage is fed by memories which took nine months for a
—memories of a lost home, wan- week-long journey. Since per-
dering, pre-maturely aged par- mission had been granted them
ents and sister, a ruined career.
as through passengers only, they
But bitter though he is, Saul is were placed in an internment
also happy because every day of camp at the Slovakian border.
his life is devoted to a task—a
Things Needed to Beat Nazis
task greater than the career he
It was not until a year later
once dreamed of; with. his own
hands he is making the tools that they were able to leave the
necessary for the destruction of internment camp on the way to
the madmen who are responsible Palestine, by way of the Danube,
the Black Sea and along the
for the world's plight today.
shore of Asia Minor. Again, a
Finds Haven in England
Saul is one of the many refu- three-week trip - turned into a
gees who fled before Hitler's three-month agony. It was here
armies and found a haven in that the family was separated
England. It might be added that and miraculously enough, a year
this haven was found in a some- later he was in England. In-
formation that came to him in-
what roundabout way.
Born in Kozawa, Poland, his dicated that his father is some-
family established itself in Vi- where in Madagascar and the
enna where his father became a mother and sister in Poland.
prosperous merchant and a lead- Today, Saul is one of the hull-
er in the Jewish community. dreds of German, Austrian and
Hitler's occupation of Austria put Polish refugees who, since their
an end to all that. The family arrival in England, have learned
was deprived of its possessions to do the immediate, practical
and with nothing but their bare things needed to defeat the Nazis
lives they escaped from Vienna. and at the same time making tt
possible for them to support
themselves.
ORT is in War Chest
They learned it in the ORT
school at Leeds—a commodious
brick building full of machines
and tools, supervised by expert
teachers—some of them refugees
—who teach Hitler's - first victims
the skills with which -to make
War material to wipe out Hitler-
ism.
The ORT is one of the 55 Jew-
ish causes included in the War
Chest of Metropolitan Detroit.
Origin of ORT
The war work of ORT is a far
cry from the peaceful program
envisioned 62 years ago by a
group of Jewish leaders in St.
Petersburg, Russia. The winds of
Western European liberalism
were blowing East and these men
took advantage. of the relaxation
of anti-Jewish restrictions under
Alexander II to launch a long-
dreamed-of movement designed
to alleviate economic distress
among Eastern . European Jews.
This was ORT — Organization
for Rehabilitation through Train-
ing—dedicated to training Jews.
for industry arid agriculture, for
productive work that would both
provide them with a livelihood
and make them a useful integral
part of - their country's economic
system.