Page Four THE JEWISH NEWS Winston Churchill's Augury: This Terror Will End in 1944 THE JEWISH NEWS Member el Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Independent Jewish tress Service, Seven Arts. Feature Syndicate, Religious News Service, Palcor News Agency, Bressler Cartoon Service, Wide World Photo Service, Acme Newsphoto Service. Published every Friday by Jewish News Publishing Co., 2114 Penobscot Bldg., Detroit, 26, 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 subscribers to Allied Jewish Campaign of the Jewish Welfare Federation of Detroit, at 40 cents a club subscription per year. Entered as second-class matter August 6, 1942, at the Post Office at Detroit, Michigan, under the Act of March 3, 1879. By DAVID MORANTZ A Taste of His Own Medicine PHILIP SLOMOVITZ, Editor NOVEMBER 12, 1943 As the Editor Views the News Talmudic Tales (Based upon the ancient legends and -philosophy found in the Talmud and ; folklore of the Jewish people.) BOARD OF DIRECTORS PHILIP SLOMOVITZ MAURICE ARONSSON ISIDORE SOBELOFF FRED M. BUTZEL ABRAHAM SRERE THEODORE LEVIN HENRY WINEMAN MAURICE H. SCHWARTZ VOL. 4—NO. 8 Friday, November -12, 1943 III III MI Armistice Day Another Armistice Day has just been observed in the midst of war, and a celebration that could be interpreted as an inconsistency is in reality a most fitting event for peoples whose ideals and aspirations are for peace and for freedom: The Jewish people, whose Psalmist urged mankind to "seek peace and pursue it," can appreciate the consistency of such a celebration. A horde of tyrants has set out to destroy us, and we are compelled to fight back with all our might. We are forced to follow the Midrashic admonition (Numbers Rabba 21) that "if one is approaching to slay you, get ahead of him and slay him." Literally, we have never followed this precept to the letter of the law. We have pleaded and rea- soned with our neighbors to understand our position in the fight leveled against us by Nazism. But the democratic peoples of the world, having been forced into battle against those who sought to slay civilized men, are now bent upon slaying those who mrould destroy the world. Thus, the basic principle of this war is self-defense against barbaric forces. In the midst of a war-time Armistice Day, the major philosophic precept in Jewish life remains: "Love peace and hate conflict." Therefore we observe Armistice Day in the hope that the destructive forces will be completely obliterated from civil- ized society as a result of the present war and that peace and security will thereafter reign on earth for all time for all peoples. GUEST EDITORIAL A Laboratory Fighter for Freedom By JUDGE WILLIAM FRIEDMAN Scores of scientists who were driven out of Europe by Hitler and who found a home in Palestine are today con- tributing to Allied victories in the Middle East. In a secret laboratory somewhere in Palestine, a white-haired Jewish refugee from Germany is aiming the bombs which are destroying the Nazi Germany's war machine. For a long time the British High Command was anxiously searching for this world- famous optical expert. When they learned that he was in Palestine, a special plane was placed at his disposal and he was promptly flown to secret military conferences, at which powerful air blows against the Axis were planned. Today the special bombsights which Professor Goldberg has perfected are guiding Allied airmen to strategic targets in Judge Friedman Nazi-dominated Europe. Our contributions to the War Chest will serve to strengthen the Jewish homeland in Palestine for maximum participation in the crucial offensive against Nazi forces in Central Europe. The United Palestine Appeal is supporting Palestine's war effort on the farms and in the factories and recruiting Jewish soldiers for the British army. Through the Allied Jewish Campaign's participation in the War Chest, we can fulfill our obligations to the agencies of the United Jewish Appeal for Refugees, Overseas Needs and Palestine and other overseas, national and local Jewish organizations. The Ill-Trained Hoodlums The Rt. Rev. Msgr. Edward J. Flanagan, founder of the Boys' Town in Nebraska, in an address delivered in Boston, where anti-Semitic outbursts compelled a statewide investi- gation, declared that the occurrences were the result of bad home training. What he said in Boston has great bearing on all racial and religious issues. This eminent Catholic youth leader, who has learned to know the attitudes of young people better than any other person in this country, stated: "A child grows into the type of man his environment has taught him to be. Anything can happen in - homes where there are bad parents. Anti-racial feelings, anti-religious feel- ings, crime and delinquency, follow from such homes. That is truer now than ever, with war hysteria sweeping us. "There is no place in our democracy for anyone trying to develop totalitarianism, which is what anti-Semitism really is trying to do. We are fighting totalitarianism all over the world. Jew and Christian are fighting side by side against the common enemy. Anything like racial or religious bigotry must be dove away with if we are to obtain a united front." These views are not new. But they were never expressed as forcibly. Good News from Palestine From Palestine comes encouraging news. For the first time since Italy entered the war in 1940, the Palestinian citrus fruit growers again may be enabled to ship their products to the United Kingdom. With the announcement that the first shipment of ten to fifteen thousand cases of oranges and grapefruits may be made in the coming few weeks, it is also stated that if suffi- cient wooden boxes are available 2,000,000 more cases are to be shipped during the remainder of the season. The fact that consignments are to be bought by the Ministry of Food in London is further proof that normal business relations are to be restored between England and Palestine. Msgr. Flanagan's warnings should be taken to heart by educators and community leaders everywhere, if we are to avoid serious trouble in our . democracy. Hoodlumism has no place in civilized communities, and anti-Semitism, a form of hoodlumism, will disgrace America if it is permitted to spread. This news is important for two reasons. In the first place, there is to be relief for the Palestinian citrus growers— • Jewish and Arab—who have suffered as a result of the war, many of them being compelled to uproot their groves be- lloshe Shertok, political chief of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, predicted last - week in an address before the cause inability to export their fruits cut off the available Central Jewish Recruiting Committee in Haifa, Palestine, sizable markets. that the crisis. in the Agency, caused by. :David Ben . Gurion's More important, however, is the fact revealed by this proferred resignation, will be resolved "without sacrificing , news that the Mediterranean has been freed from the Axis a single outstanding individuality." , and 'is now Open again for commercial shipping. It is proof The differences of opinion that have arisen between Mr. that the war. is nearing its end and that the terrorist nations Ben Gurion and Dr. Chaim Weizmann, the distances between Palestine and England, the conflict between the leaders in :soon Will be crushed by the democracies. London and Jerusalem, have not contributed towards unity in Israel and have not given strength to our ranks in the present struggle to assure justice for the Jewish cause. This Week's Scriptural Selections: It is to be hoped, therefore, that Mr. Shertok's 'augury is This Sabbath, the thirteenth day of Heshvan, 5704, the fol- not mere wish thinking. Unless we can resolve our inner lowing Scriptural selections will be read in our synagogues: differences, our cause will suffer. This is no time for internal Pentateuchal portion: Gen. 18:1-22:24. strife, whether it be in this country, between the American Jew'sh Committee and the American Jewish Conference, or Prophetical portion: II Kings 4:1-37. on a worldwide scale, between the leaders in the Zionist movement. Resolving -Our Differences - An Athenian on a visit to Je- rusalem met a child playing on the street and thinking to have a little fun with him, handed him a small coin, saying: "Take this and buy something for me to eat so that I may eat now and have enough left over to last me the balance of my journey." The child took the small coin and went on his errand. He was gone so long that the Athenian began to suspect that he would not return and the joke would indeed be upon him instead of upon the child, as had been his original plan. Finally, however, the child re- turned and handed him a large package. Opening it, the Athe- nian found it full of salt. "What is this?" he exclaimed, "I did not send you to buy salt for me." "Did you not say for me to buy something for you to eat so you might have enough for now and also for the balance of your journey?" returned the child. "You will find enough salt in the package so that you may eat as much of it now as you wish and still have plenty left for the rest of your journey." (Copyright by David Morantz) For a handsome 195 page, auto- graphed gift volume containing 128 of these tales and 500 Pearls of Wis- dom, send $1.50 to David 11forantz, care of The Jewish News, or phone PLaza 1048. Our CHILDREN'S CORNER Dear Boys and Girls: I am sure that you have.' all read about the great act of hero- ism and kindness on the part of the peoples of Sweden and Den- mark. The Jews who escaped from Nazi oppression in Denmark were welcomed by Sweden and were given asylum in several of their castles. This should give us all courage to have faith in human nature and in the kindness of the- free Christian peoples. To help those who are suffer- ing and who can be saved from Nazism, we must all help the re- lief causes included in the War Chest. The Allied Jewish Cam.... paign, which supports all Jewish. causes, locally, nationally and throughout the world, is in- cluded in the War Chest. I wish you all a joyous Sab- bath. UNCLE DANIEL. * * * Rabbi Isaac and the Jewel Once upon a time there lived a famous Rabbi known as Rabbi Isaac. ..He- was very poor but never let anyone know how poor, for he and his wife did not want charity. One day he found a huge jewel almost as large as a pear. He took it to a jeweler who immediately offered him one thousand shekels of gold for it, saying: "The king wishes a large idol made and this is needed for - the eye. Some Lime ago I bought one like it but we could not find another." Although this money would have made them rich;' the 'Rabbi and his wife decided that they could not sell the jewel for such a use. The jeweler was very angry and he told - the' '11/1ay:Oi-,.'3 who asked Rabbi rsaac to go to a neighboring city with him to buy grain; on the boat he asked to • see the jewel and when he saw it he said: "Name your own price and I shall pay it.". Just then a gale of Wind sud- denly blew the stone out of Isaac's hand into the sea, and Isaac instead of being sorry that his wealth was gone, was glad, for now, the stone could not help to beautify the idol.