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THE 'JEWISH NEWS
Friday, March 24, Mr4
The Jewish News Enters 3d Year; Miss Szold Gets Honorary
Reiterates Credo to Serve People Degree From Boston U.
Two years ago, The Jewish News appeared on the community scene with a credo
pledging itself to serve Jewry as a medium for the dissemination of facts and as an organ
for free and fair discussion of all issues affecting our people.
As we enter the third year of our existence, we reiterate the principles we then
enunciated and we again present our credo as the basis for all our dealings with the
community at large and with our own people.
The Jewish community's encouragement in the creation of this newspaper as a com-
munity organ has given us strength and has imbued us with confidence that the Jews
of Detroit and of the entire state of Michigan desire a publication whose motto is service;
whose activities are not motivated by profit-making; whose aim is to help raise the stan-
dards of our community and to train our Jewish youth to be well informed on all matters
affecting our people.
In this spirit we repeat our pledge of service which was incorporated in the follow-
ing credo in the platform announced in our first issue:
A newspaper's responsibilities are im-
.mense in time of peace; they are far
greater in time of war.
We are conscious of these responsibili-
ties as Americans.
We are conscious of these duties as
Jews.
The Jewish News believes in the
American way of life and is here to con-
tribute everything possible toward its
survival.
The Jewish News believes in the
sacred American ideal of Fair Play and
dedicates itself t o w a r d s the complete
realization of this ideal.
The Jewish News is confident that
Americans are prepared to fight for their .
rights and that they will refuse to permit
fear to dominate our land. We are here
to help defeat the spirit of fear.
The Jewish News believes in the Four
Freedoms enunciated by President Roose-
velt and will fight for these freedoms on
every American front, in the American
way.
The Jewish News pledges itself to a
program whose concern it becomes to keep
Jews and non-Jews informed on facts re-
lating to the Jewish position; whose chief
interest it is to advance the morale of our
people and to hold high the banner of
Ilemocracy, religious freedom and good
:will among all faiths; to- fight against
fraud, deceit and misrepresentation, and in
that spirit to set a high example for ethical
conduct in our community.
We are motivated by the community
responsibility of establishing the most
friendly inter-denominational relations, of
advancing the Good Neighbor policy be-
tween Jews and non-Jews, of establishing
the type of relations which serve to build
a wholesome American life based on inter-
faith co-operation.
The Jewish News pledges itself to
serve as the organ for the good of the
Jewish communities of Detroit and Michi-
gan, and for o u r • sister communities
throughout the land.
To that end the Jewish News sub-
scribes to all the American Jewish news-
gathering agencies and pledges to give its
readers the fairest collection of factual
information regarding Jews everywhere—
locally, throughout the state, nationally,
throughout the world.
In order that the Jewish communities
may keep abreast with all that is transpir-
ing in Jewish life and with the various.
shades of opinion among us, we pledge
ourselves to serve as a clearing house for
these opinions, and to approach Jewish is-
sues without partisan coloration. An effec-
tive Jewish public opinion must be an in-
formed Jewish public opinion, and our task
is to achieve that end.
The Jewish News dedicates itself to
the cause of alleviating suffering among
the oppressed Jewish masses in lands of
slavery and bigotry, and to that end we
pledge ourselves to do everything possible
to enlighten our people on the various
needs making claims upon us—be they in
the fields of relief, of Palestine's recon-
struction, or the defense of our rights
everywhere.
The Jewish News pledges itself to
place service to the community above the
profit motive. •
In this spirit the Jewish News makes
its formal appearance as YOUR news-
paper, as the organ dedicated to the service
of the most sacred causes having your
interest and concern.
We are here to serve and to befriend
you. Acting together, we are in a position
to bring the most good to America, to the
ideals for which America stands, and to
the Jewish communities .which form an
important element in the American com-
monwealth.
Jewish Groups Start Fund
To Circulate 'Black Book'
Polish Consul Urges United Effort in Fight 'Against Nazi
Terror at Dinner Held to Plan Distribution of "The
Black Book of Polish Jewry"
Detroit Jewish organizations and individuals have estab-
lished a fund to assure wide circulation for "The Black Book
of Polish Jewry," published by the American Federation for
Polish Jews as a record of the barbarities perpetrated against
Jews in Poland by the Nazis.
Inauguration of this fund was made possible by contri-
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butions received at a dinner held
March 16 at the Wilshire Hotel.
Speakers at this dinner includ-
ed Morris Mohr, president of the
Detroit Polish Federation, who
presided; Stanislaw Angerman,
Polish Consul in Detroit; Isadore
Starr, president of Pisgah Lodge
of Bnai Brith; Isaac Finkelstein,
former president of the Detroit
Polish Federation, and Philip
Slomovitz. Dr. B. Benedict Gla-
zer, who was to deliver the prin-
cipal address of the evening, was
prevented by illness from attend-
ing the dinner.
Urges United Front
Mr. Angerman, speaking in Po-
lish, called for united effort on
behalf of Jews and Poles, togeth-
er with the other democratic peo-
ples, in the fight against the Nazi
terror.
Mr. Starr, speaking for the Bnai
Brith groups, expressed the hope
that the fight against bigotry will
not be limited to the battle on
Hitlerism and that an exerted ef-
fort will be made to help defeat
bigotry and anti-Semitism in this
country and wherever prejudice
shows its ugly head.
Reviewing the book "The Black
Book of Polish Jewry," Mr. Slom-
ovitz declared that the volume
serves as a compilation of evi-
dence against the tyranny which
has caused this war. He also
called it a compilation of evi-
dence for Jewish self-information.
Reject "Toleration"
Pointing to the historical sec-
tions which describe Polish Jew-
ry's cultural achievements, he
declared that the great contribu-
tions which were made by the
Jews, of --Poland have--been
Founder of Hadassah, 83, Had Doctor of Humanities
Degree Conferred Upon Her in Two-Way Radio
Ceremony Between U. S. and Palestine
BOSTON — Miss Henrietta Szold, at 83, was the re-
cipient of a unique honor when Boston University as part
of its Founder's Day Institute on Post-War Problems con-
ferred the degree of Doctor of Humanities on her at its closing
session on March 13, at the Copley Plaza Hotel, via a two-
way broadcast between this city and Jerusalem, Palestine,
where Miss Szold now resides.
As founder of Hadassah, the
Women's Zionist Organization of
America, and as head of the
Youth Aliy a h (immigration)
movement, Dr. Daniel L. Marsh,
president of Boston University
who conferred the degree in his
part of the broadcast beamed
toward Jerusalem said, Miss
Szold was to be honored as "a
mother in Israel who through
organizing and directing the
Youth Aliyah had become a joy-
ful mother of ten thousand
motherless children."
Sister Receives Degree
This is the first time that
Boston University, which has
never conferred a degree in ab-
sentia, agreed to a radio broad-
cast attendance instead of the
actual presence of the person
being honored. Mrs. Louis Levin,
70-year-old sister of Miss Szold,
came from Baltimore to receive
the degree in her sister's name.
Mrs. Moses P. Epstein, national
president of Hadassah, and Mrs.
David de Sola Pool, former presi-
dent, now the organization's rep-
resentative on the youth immi-
gration management/ committee
of the Jewish Agency for Pales-
tine, attended as representatives
of Hadassah.
A native of Baltimore, where
she was born Dec. 21, 1860, Miss
Szold went to Palestine for the
first time in 1909. Seeing the
squalor and disease in which the
remnant of the Jewish popula-
tion lived, Miss Szold, on her
return to America -in 1912, found-
ed Hadassah which began its
work 4n a small child welfare
station set up in the Old City of
Jerusalem that year, with two
American nurses in attendance.
First Medical Unit
In 1918, answering a cry of dis-
tress for medical assistance from
the Jews of Palestine, Hadassah
sent the first - Zionist Medical
Unit to Palestine and set up a
war relief program there. From
the hospitals put up by the Unit
has grown the present country-
wide Hadassah Medical Organiz-
ation, with headquarters in the
Rothschild-Hadassah - University
Hospital and Medical School
Building, built at a cost of
$1,000,000 and opened in May,
1939.
The group now runs a network
of 50 child welfare stations; a
school hygiene project for 75,000
children; feeds 25,000 boys and
girls daily through its school
luncheons system; and has re-
claimed thousands of acres of
land and planted several hun-
dreds of thousands of trees as
its contribution tb the efforts of
the Jewish National Fund, of-
land-buying agency for
Palestine.
ficial
Head of outh Aliyah
Miss Szold became head of
Youth Aliyah in 1934, directing
the total organizing and adminis.
trative machinery of an inter-
national movement which has to
date rescued more Jewish chil-
dren from the Nazis than any
other organization in the field.
The young people she has help-
ed settle in Palestine, with the fi-
nancial aid given her by
women of Hadassah who became
the official American agency for
Youth Aliyah in 1934, have come
from almost every country in
Europe, including Germany, Aus-
tria, Czechoslovakia, France, Bel-
gium, Norway, Sweden, Holland,
Bulgaria, Turkey, Rumania and
Hungary. Othi‘iPoiteariefe.irern
Poland, the most recent group
from this country travelling for
three years through Russia
proper. and Siberia, Iraq and
India to reach the Holy Land.
Hadassah has sent its founder
$4,000,000 for the work of the
movement in the last 10 years.
During the tenth anniversary
celebration of the movement in
the early part of March, Presi-
dent Roosevelt, Mrs. Roosevelt
and Herbert H. Lehman, director
general of UNRRA, all cabled
Miss Szold their congratulations
for her work.
4 New Pamphlets
Published for Men
In Armed Forces
CINCINNATI. — "We are con-
tinuing to meet the demands for
morale-building literature for our
men in the armed services," Rabbi
Louis I. Egelson, secretary of the
Commission on Information about
graved in our history and form Judaism, pointed out in announc-
a valuable chapter in Jewish cul-
ing that the Commission has just
tural creations.
issued four new pamphlets in
The reviewer of the "Black
the "Voice of Religion" series.
Book" declared that Jews will
The four new pamphlets and
reject offers of "toleration"
their authors are: "Food, Free-
and' that self-respecting peo-
dom and Fellowship" by Rabbi
ples must demand full equal-
Jacob K. Shankman, Chaplain,
ity, else the objectives of this
war will not have been U. S. Navy, on leave from Tem-
ple Israel, New Rochelle, N. Y.;
achieved. He urged that the
Poles exert their efforts to
"Bombs and Books". by Rabbi
Maurice N. Eisendrath, director
eradicate existing anti-Semit-
ism in the Polish army as well
of the Union of American He-
brew Congregations; "You and
as in the Polish Government-
in-Exile.
Your Fellow Man," by Rabbi Ja-
Resolution Adopted
cob P. Rudin, chaplain, U. S.
The meeting adopted a reso- Navy, on leave from Beth-El
lution, presented by William Temple, Great Neck, N. Y.;
Hordes and Mr. Finkelstein, com- "Equipment Not Issued" by Rab-
mending President Roosevelt for bi Daniel L. Davis, Shaarai Sha-
his favorable statement on Pales- mayim Congregation, Lancaster,
tine and urging him to continue Pa.
to assist in securing justice for the
Publication was made possible
Jewish National Home.
by a contribution from the Al-
Mr. Mohr announced at the fred Freudenthal Memorial Foun-
dinner that April 19, the anniver-
dation of Trinidad, Colo.
sary of the battle waged in the
The Commission on Informa-
Warsaw Ghetto against the Nazis
in Poland, has been set as the tion About Judaism, responsible
date of nationwide memorial for the creation and distribution
meetings for the Jewish victims of the pamphlets, is an arm of
of Hitlerism and that such a the UAHC and the Central Con-
mpe.ting will be held in petroit. ference of to /can Rabbis,
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