Page Four THE JEWISH NEWS THE JEWISH NEWS Member of Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Independent Jewish Press 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 fciurth 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. Friday, January 7, 1944 Liberty Belles Talmudic Tales By DAVID MORANTZ (Based upon the ancient legends and philosophy found in the Talmud and folklore of the Jewish people.) A Story With Two Morals There was a great scarcity of food in the land, even approach- ing a famine, when Martha, daughter of Beithus, a member of one of th.e most noble and wealthy families of Jerusalem, sent her servant to the market to buy some white flour. BOARD OF DIRECTORS MAURICE ARONSSON PHILIP SLOMOVITZ FRED M. BUTZEL ISIDORE SOBELOFF THEODORE LEVIN ABRAHAM SRERE MAURICE H. SCHWARTZ HENRY WINEMAN Arriving there, he found that all the fine flour, such as she was, accustomed to using, had been sold but there was - some coarse flour available. PHILIP SLOMOVITZ, Editor VOL. 4—NO. 16 JANUARY 7, 1944 As the Editor Views the News - He hurried home to see if she would want him to buy this coarse flour but by the time he had returned to the market place with her permission to buy it, he learned that all the coarse flour had, likewise, in the meanwhile,. been sold. However, there was some coarse barley meal that could be bought but not wishing to buy it without her consent, he went back and asked whether he should buy this for her. Publicity Curbs Anti-Semitism Berkshire County Eagle, published in Pittsfield, Mass., makes interesting comment on recent outrages committed against Jews in the Dorchester area of Boston. This newspaper declares that "publicity has its uses in combating anti-Semitism when it is backed up by a resolute and non-political police administration," and cites as evi- dence for its assertion the fact that "in sections of Boston where youthful anti-Semitism had become an unpublicized malignancy, it has yielded to vigorous police treatment." Most interesting fact in this newspaper's comment is that it differs with the attitude of some Jewish leaders on the most effective ways of fighting bigotry, and it offers the following opinion: "It must be said, however, that opinion among responsible Jews has been divided on how to deal with such a situation as existed in Dorchester. There is a strong group which would pursue a policy of hush-hush believing that publicity only further calls attention to the disease and aids in its spread. What cure is sanctioned, they maintain, should be done with extreme discretion and by oblique means within the educa- tional process. "It is our opinion that such efforts, while admirable in intent. can never be broad enough to be effective and the educational process frequently is completely lost on such individuals whose anti-Semitism manifests itself in the overt act and not merely the passive prejudice." Thus, the hush-hush policy is rejected as lacking effect- iveness. Coupled with similar opinions we have already quoted from the Christian Register, it is to be hoped that Jewish leadership will take cognizance of the fact that pub- licity does help in curbing anti-Semitism. The only way to fight a disease of this sort is by exposing it to the full view of all decent and sensible people. * "Make haste," she cried, "and buy that before it is likewise gone and do not return without it as we must have food." Peace Conference in Progress By the time, tho, that the ser- vant arrived at the market place, It is clear from the reports to the United Nations being the barley meal was likewise all submitted periodically by President Roosevelt, Prime Min- sold and there was no flour or ' ister Churchill, and other leaders, that the conferences food left to be bought at any . occasionally taking place in pivotal spots on the globe are price. So he returned empty- handed. not limited to discussions of the military situation. The future peace of the world is being planned at these sessions, and the fate of many peoples is to be decided by democratic leaders of the greatest powers in the world. When, therefore, Jews and other small peoples speak in terms of their future - now, expressing anxiety over their status after the war while the world conflict is being carried on, they are justified in their action by what appears to be inevitable planning being carried on by the spokesmen for the democracies. There is too much at stake in this war, and in the peace to come, that the smaller nationality groups should be silent over their status. War planning also involves peace planning, and the security of the world demands that justice should be done to all involved. When, therefore, we and others like us —Czechs, Poles, Yugoslays---ask for clear explanations of plans being made for our groups after the war, we should not be chided, but should receive the kind of frank answer which is due to partners in a great struggle against world tyranny. She then started out herself to buy food but nothing could be found regardless of the price she offered to pay because of the scarcity of food in the land. The next day and the next she went.. to the market place hoping to buy food but there was none to be found anywhere. Suffering from intense hunger she saw the skin of a fig in the gutter, picked it up and ate it. This fig being spoiled, it poison- ed her and she returned home seriously ill. Last week's expose of outrages perpetrated against Jew- Her condition became very grave and when she realized she ish children and of the 'desecration of synagogues, in sections was dying, she cast all her gold of New York City, as reported in the New York papers, calls and silver into the street, say- attention to a menace that is not limited to Massachusetts. ing: The lengthy reports of the New York menace, in PM, "Away with you! Of what good New York Times and other New York newspapers, is part of is wealth if it will not buy food the campaign of publicity which should go a long way in and what one needs in life? putting a stop to the disgusting demonstrations of intol- Christian friends of a Jewish Palestine are playing an realize now that wealth is not I erance. important role in efforts to assure justice for the cause of a everything." It is sincerely to be hoped that the remedy proposed by national home for Jews in their cradleldsnd. Functioning as the Berkshire County Eagle will prove as effective as it the American Palestine Committee, the best minds in Chris- (Copyright by David Morantz) sounds to us. For a handsome 195 page, auto- tendom are co-operating in the movement to help in the graphed gift volume containing 128 of these tales and 500 Pearls of Wis- abrogation of the White Paper and to assist in guaranteeing dom, send $1.50 to David Morantz, of The Jewish News, or phone adherence to the pledges made to the Jewish people by Great care PLaza 1048. Britain. Palestine's reconstruction' and the defense of the nearly For Michigan residents, it is especially encouraging to 300 settlements established in the Jewish National Home know that Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg has accepted mem- would have been an impossible job without the devotion of bership on the national executive committee of the American the workers, constituted as the Histadrut—the Jewish Fed- Palestine Committee, and that an eminent jurist, Judge eration of Labor. Frank A. Picard of the U. S. District Court, is chairman of Forming the bulk of the population of Eretz Israel, the Michigan chapter of this national committee. members of the Histadrut have been in the vanguard of all A majority of Michigan members of Congress, both of efforts to create garden spots where there previously was our Senators, eminent jurists and educators, labor readers desert land as a result of Moslem neglect of the Near and and clergymen, are members of the committee in Michigan. Rabbi Joshua Trachtenberg's Middle East. There is good reason for hoping that such encourage- 'The Devil and the Jews' The standard of living of the people of Palestine is far ment will be effective in speeding adherence to all guaran- Renders Valuable Service above that of any other country in the Mediterranean area, tees made to the People Israel for the redemption of Zion as thanks to the efforts of the Histadrut. Eretz Israel. Rabbi Joshua Trachtenberg's "The Devil .and the Jews," a Yale Not only have Arabs benefitted from the organizational University Press publication, is work of Histadrut, but they have been organized in labor an exhibit of the manner in unions under the supervision of the Jewish Federation of The feature article on "Patriotism and Zionism," pub- which the Jew was conceived by Labor. Such constructive work has helped increase better Christians in the Middle Ages. relations between Jews and Arabs and has provided prOof lished in this issue of The Jewish News, is an interesting Jews appeared as grotesque that the two kindred peoples can live together in harmony. commentary on contrasts in the reactions of some parents characters to the people in those The work of the Histadrut is financed by the National and their children to Jewish issues. days, and the illustrations and Labor Committee for Palestine, functioning as the Gewerk- This article, written by the late Cyrus L. Sulzberger word stories of their conceptions shaften. Its current drive commences here on Sunday. We nearly 40 years ago, is a direct contrast to the views held of our people will leave the are confident that it will receive liberal support from the now by his son, the publisher of the New York Times, who reader in amazement that such Jews of Detroit. is one of the leaders in the anti-Zionist faction in this views were possible. country. Yet—even today we see repro- Readers of the elder Sulzberger's article will undoubt- ductions of similar stupidities— Sunday's conference of the Gewerkshaften assumes added importance by virtue of the planned political action edly come to the conclusion that if it was patriotic to be a in Streicher's publications in to be proposed to the gathering. Zionist in 1904, it is even more so today, since there is so Germany, in crackpots' brochures Utilizing the gathering the hundreds of spokesmen for much more at stake in the cause which involves the rescuing in this country, in bigots' works everywhere. leading Jewish organizations, it is planned to formulate an of the lives of millions of Jews. expression of opinion against the White Paper and the re- Why is the son antagonistic to the ideals of his father? Rabbi Trachtenberg's book has strictions threatened by it upon free Jewish endeavor in You may just as well ask why a liberal rabbi, the son of great value in that it exposes the Palestine. an orthodox cantor, should suddenly have found it necessary grotesque conceptions as belong- ing to the Middle Ages and not The voice of the Jewish people must be heard as often to start a crusade against kashruth. to civilized times or peoples. The as possible against unfair restrictions, especially when they horrible idea that Jews resorted threaten the existence of an entire community and the This Week's Scriptural Selections: to ritual murder, the views of future of hundreds of thousands of Jews who have only fantastic heresies, the conceptions Palestine to look to as a haven of security and peace after This Sabbath, the twelfth day of Tebet, 5704, the fol. that Jews had been sorcerers and lowing scriptural selections will be read in our synagogues: the war. The proposed political action is therefore consonant magicians—all these ideas are Pentateuchal portion: Gen. 47:28-50:26. with the principles of the Histadrut and its American exhibited for all to see and to de- counterpart—the Gewerkshaften. plore in the scholarly &work of Prophetical portion: Zech..I Kings 2:1-12. The American-Palestine Committee The Palestine Labor Campaign An Expose of Anti-Semites Of Middle Ages The Sulzbergers: A Contrast Rabbi Trachtenberg.