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Januaiy 2I 1944

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TREASURY DEPARTMENT

DEFENSE SAVINGS STAFF

By PHINEAS J. BIRON

(Copyright. 1944, by Seven Arts
Feature Syndicate)

LISTEN HERE
The U. S. consulate in Mexico granted
visas to a delegation of Sinarquists to
come to the U. S. sometime ago .. .
Shortly after this delegation's visit to
Chicago, Mexican and Italian anti-
Semitism became super-active in that
city . . It was the first time that those
.groups had come out into the open with
agitation against the Jews.
The Anti-Defamation League's report
on anti-Semitic violence in N. Y. hasn't
scratched the surface . . . City Investiga-
tion Commissioner Herland's report is
much more complete, but will never be
published in full.
Father George B. Ford, only Catholic
priest scheduled to speak at last week's
Carnegie Hall rally against anti-Semit-
ism (a meeting sponsored by the Council
against Intolerance), withdrew from the
program at the last minute . . . Why? .. .
Incidentally, we didn't like the slogan,
"Keep anti-Semitism out of New York,"
under which the meeting was called .. .
Why only New York? . . . Aren't we in-
terested in the rest of the country?
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THIS AND THAT
Benjamin Epstein of Winsted, Conn.,
left $1,500,000 in his will . . . An immi-
grant from Kiev who came to this coun-
try 50 years ago, he amassed his im-
mense fortune in the junk business . . .
Most of the money is to go to a brother
and sister now in Nazi-occupied Poland
. . . Too bad he didn't leave it for the
rescue of Nazism's victims now . . .
Money in an American bank cannot pro-
tect Epstein relatives from the Gestapo.
When New York's East Side kibitzarne,
the Cafe Royal, was in its heyday, a
Broadway producer presented a play,
called "Cafe Crown," based on life and
characters in that famous landmark . . •
Now the Cafe. Royal is on the decline,
with a new owner trying to revive it .
So he has given the Cafe Royal a new
name—Cafe Crown . . . Both names, we
feel, are a bit out of date in these days of
tottering thrones.
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MAGNUM OPUS
Congratulations to Dr. Isaac Landman,
editor, and Louis Rittenberg, executive
and literary editor, on the publication of
the tenth and final volume of the Uni-
versal Jewish Encyclopedia . . . The corn-
pleted Encyclopedia is a major achieve-
ment of which Landman and Rittenberg
and their Board of Editors may well
be proud . . . Particularly striking in
Volume Ten is the colorful frontispiece
by miniaturist Arthur Szyk, dedicated
"To the Hallowed Memory of Europe's
Martyred Jews" .. . If you've been put-
ting off the acquisition of the Encyclo-
pedia until all the volumes have been
published, now's the time to see about
getting your set . . . Need we add that
every Jewish home should have the Uni-
versal Jewish Encyclopedia?
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ABOUT PEOPLE
Samuel Segal is a veteran Zionist lead-
er of N. Y. . . • His name is known
throughout the country, however, for he
is the inventor of the famous Segal lock
. . As he was coming home late the
other night he saw a policeman strug-
gling valiantly to open a house door for a
drunk who had lost his key . . . Sam
Segal looked at the lock, and, after de-
termining that it was not a Segal lock,
proceeded to pick it open' . . . "Wish I
could pick the lock on the gates of Pales-
tine," he mumbled to the bewildered cop.
We are indebted to Walter Winchell
for this neat if rather old Einstein anec-
dote . . • The late Mrs. Albert Einstein
once visited the astronomical observatory
atop Mount Wilson . . . She asked about
the giant telescope there . . . "We use it,"
she was told, "to discover the shape of
the universe" . . . "My husband," said
the famed scientists wife, "does the same
thing with a pencil, on the back of an
old envelope."

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OF STATE ADMINISTRATOR

TO THE MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN OF MICHIGAN:

,'LET'S ALL BACK THE ATTACKS

That is the national slogan of the Fourth War Loan Drive. It is up to"
us to prove with our dollars that it is not moroly a slogan. We can't
Win this war with brave-words.

Backing the attack to the limit of our abilf

ricer_ an avalanche

of do-liars that would make our Fourth War Lcc.h clu ,:a of 1:440,000,000
look like a mere minor objective on the tough, h,?,rd, and long road to

Purely
Commentary

By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ

THE TRAGEDY OF THE CHILDREN
The saddest tale of all is that of the
children—Jewish and Christian, Russian,
Chinese, Polish, Italian and Yugoslay.
The brutality of the world's worst
gangsters is responsible for the tragic
story related by Otto Zoff in the John
Day Wartime Book "They Shall Inherit
the Earth." Anne Garrison is the able
translator. Dorothy Canfield has written
an introduction which is in itself an
epic cry for justice.
"They Shall Inherit the Earth" is so
dramatic a story that Zoff's book is cer-
tain to be classed among the most im-
portant humanitarian appeals issued dur-
ing this war.

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,Victory.,

THEIR BATTLE FOR LIFE
1. : , f; the dollargL
Backing the attackmeans putting into War Bonds
This is a story of the battle for life
toward
thLI:f:s
we
can
and dimes and pennies that would otherwise go
well
that is now going on on - all fronts in
do without.
Europe. In a sense, the story of the chil-
dren mirrors the . struggle ti'aat is being
Backing the attack means wanting to win the war so much that we are all
carried on by men and women of all
:willing to do something about it
nations against the tyranny imposed up-
on mankind by Nazism.
Children in caves, youngsters who are
Backing the attack by buying ?far .Bonds means that we are:--
compelled to steal their food, boys and
girls who have formed gangs to fight
Backing the attack with dollars which mean Victory.
the Gestapo—this is the variety of hu-
man beings who are fighting for their
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existence in Europe. They have found a
Sincerely yours,
man who has been deeply moved by
their tragedy to write the story of their
fight for life and to register his protest
FRANK N. ISBEY, CH.C.P144N
against the indifference in the ranks of
United States Treasury
statesmen who failed to recognize the
War Finance Committee
impending tragedy before the advent of
tr or Michigan
Hitlerism.
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ARE THEY BLUSHING?
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We wonder: are the statesmen who
may be reading this book blushing for
shame over their past inactivity?
If they are not, they should.
They were warned, but they failed to
heed the call for justice and decency.
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TO THE CREDIT OF "OSE"
The story of the Jewish children and
By BORIS SMOLAR
•By ARNOLD LEVIN
their plight forms one of the most touch-
(Copyright,
1944,
Jewish
Telegraphic
Agency,
Inc.)
(Copyright, 1944, Independent Jewish
ing portions of the book.
Press Service, Inc.)
It is not the complete story. The author
WASHINGTON TALKS
ST. LOUIS REPORTING
could have told about the interesting
American Zionist leaders who have record of the Jewish Joint Distribution
Congratulations to Benjamin Loeb of
St. Louis, Missouri. The War Chest been rather concerned at the cool atti- Committee's activities. He limits himself
Campaign of St. Louis, under his chair- tude taken recently by high circles in to a description of the work of the OSE,
manship, has gone over the top, raising Washington towards Jewish aspirations the worldwide Jewish health society.
over five million dollars. The Jewish in Palestine, are now more optimistic This record is, in itself, a tribute to
Jewish efforts.
Federation and the Jewish Welfare Fund
. . . Political activities by Dr. Abba Hillel
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were included in the Chest . . . Dr. Major
Silver
in
Washington
are
beginning
to
DOROTHY
CANFIELD'S
LINES
Seelig, prominent physician of the same
The introduction by Dorothy Canfield
city and former Chief of Surgery at the show results . • . There is no longer any
Jewish Hospital there, has been named doubt in Washington as to whether the is worth reading and re-reading. It is a
by Governor Forrest Donnell to serve on U. S. Government can intervene with touching description of "the irresistible
power of the basic instinct of our race
the State Cancer Commission.
Britain. to have the doors of Palestine to protect our young from danger."
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There is excellent reason for stating
kept open to Jewish immigration . . . It
BOSTON NOTE
that Miss Canfield's introduction to
is
pointed
out
that
the
United
States
We hear that Joseph F. Timilty of
"They Shall Inherit the Earth" may
Boston, ousted as Police Commissioner Government has precedents going back rank among the very best lines she has
after the expose of anti-Semitic terror 100 years in making representations to ever written.
and charges that the police failed to do European governments on behalf of per-
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anything about it, is rumored to be tak-
secuted Jews . . . In 1840, our Secretary "GOLDEN BOOK OF HEROES"
ing over the management of Hialeah
It is extremely interesting to note that
Park in Florida for former Ambassador of State urged the U. S. Consul at Alex- Miss Canfield's introduction ends with
Joseph P. Kennedy. Kennedy, you'll re- andria, Egypt, to aid the Jews who were the sentence: "This heart-wringing Book
member, was an isolationist.
falsely accused of ritual murder . . In of martyrs is also a Golden Book of He-
Samuel D. Saxe of Brookline, Mass., 1850, President Fillmore made such roes."
has been sending out by the thousands
The author could have justified this
an address delivered by Rev. John strong representations to Switzerland line by adding a chapter on the genius
Haynes Holmes at the Community that a ban against Jews in that country of Jewish reconstruction efforts in Pal-
Church of Boston, Massachusetts. The was partially lifted . . . in 1863 Secre- estine which have made the children
address titled "Christianity's Debt to Ju- tary of State Steward instructed the masters in their own domain in Zion.
daism — Why Not Acknowledge It" American Consul at Tangier to use his That chapter is being written daily by
should be must-reading for the haters influence to check the persecution of Jewish pioneers. Surely, history will not
• . It was first printed in the Boston Jews in Morocco . . In 1872 President fail to record it.
Jewish Advocate . . . A group of Boston Grant urged Rumania to stop her pog-
Jews under Mr. Saxe's leadership has roms against Jews . . . In 1902 President
subscribed over $100,000 toward a new Theodore Roosevelt sent a vigorous pro- ,
building for Boston . University.
test to the Russian Czar against the My thoughts impelled me to the resting-
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Kishinev pogrom . . In 1911, the United
place
THANKS
States abrogated our commercial treaty Where sleep my parents, many a friend
We 'have received a terribly mutilated with Czarist Russia when no satisfaCtory
and brother.
letter from Palestine with references to reply was received from Russia with re- I asked them (no one heard and none
the Hulda arrests situation almost total- gard to the anti-Jewish policy of the
replied):
ly deleted by the censor. The letter had Czarist regime . . As regards Palestine, "Do ye forsake me, too, oh father,
this accompanying note: "The United it is needless to recall that in 1922 the
mother?"
States censor is not responsible for the Congress of the United States passed a Then from the grave, without a tongue,
mutilation of this letter." It's good to resolution endorsing the establishment of
these cried,
know that it wasn't our censor's handi- a Jewish National Home there, using al :- And showed my own place waiting by
work, but that of one of the White most the identical language of the Bal-
their side.
Paper boys.
four Declaration.
—Moses Ibn Ezra.

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