Friday, November 12, 1943
THE JEWISH NEWS
GUEST EDITORIAL
Jewry's Stake in the War. Chest
By RABBI MAX 1: WOHLGELERNTER
The inclusion of the Allied Jewish Campaign in the War
Chest presents an opportunity and a challenge." to Detroit
Jewry. -
Through this merger with the Community Fund,: the
USO and the various war relief funds, an enormous amount
of energy and expense has been saved. One•
shudders to think of the possible failure of
an independent campaign in • these days • of
manpower shortage and war strain. It is to
be regretted, however;- that some of the en-
thusiasm which -acconipanied our annual
spring effort, galvanizing the community into
action, is absent. There is danger, too, in the
general belief that the work, somehow "will
be done." Potential workers and contribu-
tors may mistakenly think themselves free
of the obligation which, . in previous years, Rabbi Max L. .
Wohlgelernter
-they gladly assumed.
We must re-emphasize the responsibility of every Jew
for the maintenance of our own agencies for rescue, relief
and "rehabilitation, as well as the local communal, educa-
tional and Philanthropic institutions. The active War Chest
period should serve as the occasion for all Jewish groups and
individuals to express their identification, through adequate
support with the larger social service program and the
special war needs.
It is, above all, important to bring home this lesson of
solidarity with our --neighbors in the great humanitarian
cau,.se. The interchange of ideas and methods in charitable
.endeaVor is of tremendous significance in building for peace
and brotherhood.
Page Seven
Detroit Group
War Dept. Order Temporarily Halts
To Go to Parley
Of Educators
Shipment of Cigarettes to Servicemen
Teachers, Laymen Attend
Education Association's
Regional Convention
A delegation of Detroit edu-
cators and laymen will attend
the convention of the East Central
States Region of the American
Association for Jewish Education,
at Hotel Seneca, Columbus, 0.,
Nov. 27 and 28.
The principal speaker will be
Prof. Horace M. Kallen of the
Graduate Faculty of Political and
Social Science of the New School
for Social Research, one of the
outstanding philosophers of mod-
em times.
The sessions will begin Satur-
day night and will continue
through Sunday. Otliers who will
addresS the meeting are: Adolph'
Rosenberg' of Cincinnati, presi-
dent of the Union of Arrierican
Hebrew Congregationi; Dr.
Emanuel Gamoran, educational
director of the Commission o-f
Jewish Education; Dr. Israel
Chipkin. of New York and several
prominent laymen and Jewish:
educators of the Region.
The East Central States Region.:
comprises Ohio, - Michigan, In-
diana, New York, Kentucky,
West Virginia and western Penn-
sylvania.
Bernard Isaacs, superintendent
of Detroit's United Hebrew
Schools, . announces this week
that the Detroit delegation will
be named next week.
A ruling by the War Department temporarily discontinuing in-
bulk shipments of cigarettes to servicemen. overseas compels The
Jewish News to discontinue collections for the fund- which has
attracted city-wide attention during the past seven months.
The ruling goes into effect on Nov. 13, and all contributions
received as of today will be applied to in-bulk shipments that can
.still be made.
The Jewish News is informed that packages of cigarettes may
still be sent to individuals by relatives and friends, at special rates.
The last gifts to arrive for the overseas cigarette fund include
one for $10, received through Mr. and Mrs. Hyman Altman, dir-
ectors of the Jewish Radio Hours on Station WJLB, from Suwalker
Independent Progressive Association.
The Jewish News and the A.Z.A. are grateful to those who
contributed to our overseas cigarette fund and made possible the
shipment of more than 600,000 cigarettes to be distributed free
among servicemen overseas:
POrt 'n'141/. -0/1:, OfigliS
campaign /or VJA
United Hebrew Schools
Enrollment Progressing
Congregation, -School and
—.8nai:arith Activities
Commence There'
. The annual enrollment pro-
ject of the United Hebrew
Schools, headed by Dr. A. E.
Bernstein, Julius Berman and
Morris Fishman, is progressing
The- annual drive ' for the satisfactorily.
United Jewish 'Appeal, for a goal
Meetings are held in various
of $1,000, commenced in Port
1-tuion• "Under . the ., chairinanship homes for the purpose of hear-
ing reports and to discuss some
of Jule Levy.
of the aspects of Jewish edu-
The Vaad kahatzala campaign cation and developing ways of
raised -$132 in Port lidron:
bringing the community closer
. .
A jqint_ nieeting of the I3nai to the work of the schools.
BEith and its Ladies' Al.xiliary
The next meeting will be held
:was addreSSed by_ Mrs. Samuel Thursday, Nov. 18, at the home
Aaron of Detroit.- -
of Meyer Shugarman,
The Port Huron Sunday and
Hebrew, School has opened - un-
Open
Men's Wear
Evenings
der the supervision of Rabbi
Selig S. Auerbach. Louis , Gold
man is superintendent and the
faculty includes Eugene Bergs-
DEXTER
man, Miss Shirley Arin Cohen,
Methodist. Bishop Views Attack on Jews in Boston Area
Miss Friedell Hunter, Miss Helen
at
WEBB
As Being Much in Fashion of Fascist Ruffianism
Hyde and Eugene Winkelman.
U.
S.
Military
Cemetery
In Europe Before Nazis Took Over
Janice Borok is treasurer of
•
Consecrated in Palestine Keren Ami fund. Classes meet
MICHIGAN'S LARGEST
BOSTON (JPS)--Deelaring that the recent anti-Semitic
three times a Week. A Rinior
FLORSHEN. DEALER
ROASI1EIM
outbreaks in Boston are not merely "the work of hoodlums,"
JERUSALEM, (JTA)—A U. S.. Congregation has also been or-
military
cemetery
was
conse-
ganized.
Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, of the Boston area of the Metho-
dist Church, in a prepared statement, labeled the beatings crated somewhere in Palestine
On Oct. 29, Rabbi Auerbach
this week in the presence of Maj. devoted his sermon to the 26th
of
Jewish boys "an expression of -incipient fascism." - -
Gen. Ralph Royce, who com- anniversary of the Balfour
2231-35 Woodward Next to Fox Theatre
Bishop Oxnam was one of the signers of a petition, as a mands
American troops in the Declaration.
Open Evenings
result of which Gov. SaltonstallA
Middle East. The cemetery will
of Massachusetts formed the in-
to Hartford, Connecticut, was re- : be the resting place for U. S.
vestigating committee of five cit-
ported by Victor Riesel, column- soldiers killed in the Levant.
izens of different faiths to in-.. ist .
of the New York Post. This
quire into the ruffianism rain
most recent manifestation of past few days. As a matter of
pant in the Dorchester section of
anti-Jewish activity in New fact, this vandalism started two
Boston.
England was marked by the years ago, but according to the
Viewing the attacks on Jews in painting of swastikas and ob-
Boston as more than spontaneouS scene_remarks on the window best available evidence and in-
vestigation, they stopped about
outbreaks by individual hood :- fronts:Of 100 stores in the heart
six months ago: This latter fact
lums, the Bishop described thern of Hakford's business district:
is confirmed by the care-takers
as being much in the fashion of
Mayor McLevy of Hartford
Fascist ruffianism in Europe be- promised a complete investiga- of the cemeteries."
fore the seizure of power by the tion. The Jewish Community
Seek Inter-Party Pact
Nazis.
Council has begun its own in- Banning Racial Issues
quiry.
Beatings Must Stop
WASHINGTON (JPS) — An
Bishop Oxnam's statement de-
agreement between the two ma-
clared:
Anti-Defamation League
jor parties to bar the injection of
"The beating of Jewish boys InvestigatCs Vandalism
racial and religious issues into
must stop . . -. The beating: of
NEW YORK, (JTA)—The of- the 1944 campaign is being
boys of a particular race is fice Of the Anti - DefamatiOn pressed by Senators Guy M. Gil-
worse. The real' menace lies in League this week issued a state- lette (Dem. of Ia.), and W. War-
the apparent fact "that these ment to - the Jewish Telegraphic ren Barbour (R, of N. J.), in an
beatings are an expression of in- Agency declaring that the re- effort to insure the elimination
cipient fascism.
ports in , Chicago cemeteries are of the use of racial prejudice in
"Who is flooding the nation based On - acts of vandalism which political contests. A large num-
with anti-Semitic literature, and started about .,two years ago but ber of prominent Washington 'of-
why? Who finances these move- which ceased six months back. ficials are reported to favor' the
ments? . . .
The statementreads:
suggestion.
"The beating of Jewish boys is
"The Chkago office of the
Senator Gillette has introduced
not the work of hoodlums. It is Anti-Defalnation League has in- on the floor of the Senate legis-
not a prank that can be passed Vestigated. the stories published lation which would make man-
by."
with respect to' -vandalism 'in datory the publication of names
'In an interview in the Boston Jewish cemeteries there, which
of individuals or organizations
Traveler, the Bishop said:
all6gedly occurred during the who issue political handbills.
"I was in Germany when these
things began there. It is the same
pattern in which organiZed
gangs beat up a scapegoat race,
whether they be Jews or anyone
else. . . ."
350
OF ALL SILK FOULARD
Trouble Centers
Warning that fascism was
WHAT :LOVELIER GIFT THAN A MATCHING TIE
rearing its head in Detroit and
on the Pacific coast, the church-
'AND
HANDKERCHIEF IN FINE ALL-SILK FOULARD?
man added:
"I think Brooklyn, New York
HANDKERCHIEFS - HAVE HAND ROLLED EDGES.
and Boston are currently the
TIES
ARE- FULLY SILK LINED, GOOD VARIETY, BUT
most difficult centers, however."
He warned that fascism does
LIMITED QUANTITY:
not - threaten Jewish liberty
alone, pointing out "it IS Prot-:
estant liberty and Catholic lib-
erty, too," which would' suffer:.
Bishop Oxnam's public state-
ment closed with the *appeal i • to
Jews, Catholics and •Protestants
to unite "in demanding that-
WE SUGGEST
these beatings stop and that steps
EARLIER
'GIFT
be taken to discover and destroy
the dangerous . forces that lie
SHOPPING FOR
back of them."
CHRISTMAS
Anti-Semitic Riots in East
Called 'Incipient Fascism'
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Anti-Semitic Outbreak
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