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THE :JEWISH NEWS

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Frictai, Felirtiaiy

1944

HEATER
Vets Denounce
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Loins 1E1°11)in- son Has Leadind tT) Anti-Semitic
"The Eternal Mother" Given 1000th
Hole in Educational System Doggerel in U. S.

Personality Sketch

Former President of United Hebrew Schools fo Assist in

Plans for 25th Anniversary of the Detroit
Community Schools

Feb. 20—the date of his 55th birthday—will be just another
day in the busy- life of Louis Robinson, prominent Detroit com-
munity leader and furniture merchant.
Active in many communal affairs, Mr. Robinson especially
devotes himself to the welfare of the United Hebrew Schools of
Detroit. It is a family tradition which he cherishes because of
t h •e important
role that was
N., played in t h e
schools activi-
ties by his fa-
ther, the late
David Robinson,
„A who was one of
the, founders of
the Talmud
Torahs.

When th e
United Hebrew
Schools will cel-
ebrate the 25th
a nniversary
within two
months, Mr.
Robinson, • a for-
mer president of
the local He-
brew education-
al system, will
have an impor-
tant share in
the planning, as
co-chairman of
t h e committee
on arrangements
for the anniver-
sary banquet.

During the-
sessions of t h e
General Assem-
bly'. of the Coun-
cil of Jewish
Federations and
Welfare Fund in
LOUIS ROBINSON Pittsburgh last
week, Mr. Robinson was elected a member of the board of gova
ernors of the laymen's national educational body, American Asso-
ciation for Jewish Education, to represent Detroit.
Born in Lachawitch, Russia, Feb. 20, 1889, Mr. Robinson came
to Detroit with his parents at the age of 2, in 1891. He acquired
his education in the elementary schools of Detroit, the Detroit
College of Law and Detroit Commercial College.
, In June, 1942,_.he completed three years of service as president
of the United Hebrew Schools. He was treasurer for two terms
of the Zionist Organization of Detroit, and at present serves on
the board of governors of the Jewish Welfare Federation and the
executive board of the Jewish Home for Aged. He is the oldest
of seven sons of Mr. and Mrs. David Robinson.
His mother had also been a leader in community activities.
His father was one of Detroit's pioneer Zionists.

`Race Riot': Weapon
Against Barbarians

Profs.• Lee, Humphrey Write
Important Account, of June
Events in Detroit

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Walter . Winchell said -4 h a t
"Race Riot" is "a book for civi-
lized people, not only to read—
but to use as a weapon against
the barbarians indicted in it." .
It is the least that can be said
about the factual review of the
events that took place in Detroit
last June as compiled by Profs.
Alfred McClung Lee and Norman
Daymond Humphrey of Wayne
University, under the title "Race
Riot," and published by the Dry.7 .
den Press, 103 Park Ave., New
York. • •• •
"Race Riot" -is a factual expose
of the Detroit events. It . is, based
on testimony of eyewitnesses and
was written as a weapon against
the recurrence of these events.
Prevention of race riots. is one
of the aims of the authors, who
quote a Negro woman as saying,
"There ain't no North any more.
Everything now is South." And
because of the effective appeal
they make that there should be
no North nor South in a better
and secure future but "just the
L nited States," their, book• is a
great contribution to the fight
for decency.
"Race Riot" alms to have the
average man " understand - the
symptoms and causes of race
riots so that they should be pre-
pared to take action against them.
They urge constant fact-finding,
they encourage- the functions of
good-will inter-faith committees,
they warn against complacency.
Among actions they recommend
in the event riots break out are:
Immediate invitation to state
militia or U. S. Army to act to
prevent bloodshed, quarantineing
of race riot area, :keeping chit
dren in school Since youngsters
have taken a leading part in the
riots here, disseminate accurate
repo rts.
Philip A. Adler of the Detroit

Deputies Favor
Alliance With
Jewish . Congress

LONDON (JPS) — Co-opera-
tion with the World Jewish Con-
gress "iri principle" was decid-
ed upon by the. Board of JeW-
ish Deputies, voting 88-57 _ -in
favor of the proposal. The Cittei-
tion of cd-operation with- the
World Jewish Congress prevent-
ed, an understanding between,
the Board and the ,Anglo-Jewish
Association which ,is: opposed to
the Congress. '
The case for the opponent Was
presented by Neville LaSk4
fdrmer president of the. Board
of Jewish, -,DeputiRs.,,The surprise
element ,Vas the, endor
sement of
the resOlutibri Lord Nathan,.
a ineMber of the •AngloTjewish
Association. His stand IWO41.d in-
dicate a split within the AsSdeiaL
tion's ranks.

Showing; at Littman's This Week

Legion, Other Organizations
Say It Follows Nazi
Propaganda Lines

Lucy Gehrman Sfars in Kalmanowitz's Production Which
Had the Distinction of 998 Performances in
New York Before Presentation in Detroit

BOSTON. — Condemnation of
Detroit has been accorded the
the distribution of "anti-Semitic distinction of witnessing • the
doggerel" was voiced recently 1000th performance of one of the
by the State Commanders of the outstanding plays of the season
American Legion, the Veterans on the Yiddish stage -- Harry
of Foreign Wars, the Jewish War Kalmanowitz's "The Eternal
Veterans of the U. S. and the Mother" (Die Eibige Mame).
Music for this play was written
Disabled American Veterans.,
Pointing out that the distribu- by Harry Lubin. -
Lucy Gehrman, popular
tion of such doggerel is a "vici-
ous threat to our unity which actress, appears in the star role
stems directly from Nazi short- in this play. Her part is consid-
wave radio programs, and from ered her outstanding perfor-
Nazi propagandists in this coun- mance of the year.
This play ran for an entire
try' the heads of the veterans
organizations called upon all citi- year in New York where it was
zens of the Commonwealth to co-
operate with the FBI, the State
Commissioner of Public Safety
and the Boston Police Commis-
By HAROLD N.- JACOBSON
sioner in putting .a stop to this
(The following• poem by Harold N.
Jacobson of 8710 Dumbarton Roa4,
"nefarious practice."
Detroit, • was published in the -volume
"Michigan Poets—An Anthology of
Distribution of this "unwhole- 36
Contemporaries").
some and un-American propa-
Barren,
alone, deserted here :I „wait
ganda" was called "damaging to
While the unfolding years decide my
the war effort in that by casting
fate,
vineyards growing now
aspersions on one group, it plays i My ancient
-but *Stone.
into the Nazi technique of seek- Forgotten, kneeling in my ashes, I
atone
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ing to disrupt American unity by
For sins of those that left my with-
dividing the American people."
ered breast.
My rotti ng bones beneath Saladin's
The statement declared that
crest
"aspersions on the patriotism of. Remember now the ancient day when
American Jewry are without Received the Torch from the very sky.
foundation, completely vicious in
but for a godless rabble, who
purpose and thoroughly un- !_lone,
Ever heedless of my widowhood. slew
American."
Children I loved the nest, " and fed

Mother Palestine

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my soil
-With their dear blood, and made the
rivers roil
With anguished struggle as with
weary breath,
Sons • breathed their last, and for me
welcomed death.
For them the battle over, but for me
The ancient rape continued endlessly.

A featurette depicting the re-
cent meetings of the Big Four—
Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin and
Chiang Kai-Shek—is in prepara-
tion. It is to be titled "World
Without Borders." (Ali! Utopia). I do not blame the remnant that re-

shown 998 times, and Detroit
will therefore see it for the
1000th time—the production be-
ing staged here this Sunday
matinee and evening and on-
Tuesday evening (Washington's
Birthday), at Littman's Theater.

Mischa Gehrman is the pro-
ducer of the play.

Abraham Littman, manager of
the Detroit Yiddish playhouse,
stated this week that he consid
ers presentation of The Eternal
Mother" a real treat for Detroit
audiences.

mained
For fleeing me, and weary. yea, and
maimed,
For searching all the world for hap-
pier clime.
But this I say, these sons for all
were mine;
Why did they then their motherland
forget,
Unfaithful, unremembering and yet
Forget them not could I, • but quite
forlorn,
Awaited long their far off prayer horn.

At last I saw the promise of the day.
My ancient ears now heard a rounde-
la y .
But not of joy; the tones more like :
a dirge
The sufferers murmur underneath the
scourge.
And then I heard the shuffling- of feet.
Whose dragging, blood-filled tracks
marked the defeat
Of human happiness, and as before
The suffering of my sons again I bore.

Took them again unto my withered
breast,
Where no milk flowed, behold again
as blest
The milk and honey plentiful became,
And multitudes arose to bless a Name,
And rivers sprang from out the desert
sand,
"
And crystal *waters rose from rock
strewn land:
My ancient worn out body born anew,
The motherland of the returning Jew.

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Triplets in Zion

way that we have always served the many thous-

JERUSALEM (Palcor) — The
circumcision of triplets, three
sons born to a J.ewish sergeant,
a Palestine volunteer, in the
British Army and his British-
born wife, took place at the
Hadassah - Rothschild - Univer-
sity Hospital in January in the
presence of Chief Rabbi Herzog
-and a Jewish army chaplain.
and a number of distinguished
guests. -The •lather, Sgt. David
Dezent, serves with a Palestinian
Jewish unit of the Royal Engi-
neers.
The three infants were given
the names of the three arch-
angels — Michael, Gabriel and
Raphael. They are to be cared
for at the W.I.Z.O. Baby Home
in Jerusalem fo: the time being.

Inc. It will be our purpose to give all our custom-

News staff and Isaac Franck of
the Jewish Community Council
are among those. who were asked
for suggestions by the authors in
the preparation of material. for
their book.

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