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THE JEWISH NEWS

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Vice-President's
New Year Message

Disabled Soldier Gets
Things off His Chest
Editor, The Jewish News:
"It is good to be home." That
perhaps better than anything else
sums up the feelings of those
- servicemen who are fortunate
enough to be back home. But if
I were to forget for one moment
the mi:Fevies and sufferings that I
have observed from one end 'of
the globe to another, I wou.k1 be-
tray the trust of my buddies and
classmates who have been shot
down in battle. They bore their
burdens nobly. They died cour-
ageously, satisfied that they were
fighting for.a great cause. It lies
with us who are home now to
make sure that they are not suf-
fering and dying in vain.

Parochial School as . a necessity
for our survival. American Jew-
ry has not yet recognized that
only the parochial school is able
to transmit our great religious
and cultural heritage to our chil-
dren.
This statement is not made to
belittle in any way the fine work
done by Sunday Schools and.He-
brew Schools. They have achieved
much. But everybody will have
to admit that only a very con-
densed Judaism can be given the
children in one day or two days
a week .instruction. And as to
the Hebrew Schools, they all suf-
fer from the fact that, with the
exception of Sunday, the chil-
dren come after a full day's. work
in public school, tired and worn
out. Naturally the results cannot
How are we to best accomplish be too big, no matter how hard
this purpose? It may appear pre- we try, and how willing the chil-
sumptuous for one who. has been dren are, and how much cooper-
away two years to suggest Meth- ation the parents give.
ods for carrying out our war
HENRY A. WALLACE
Therefore, if we want our –chil-
goals. However, I approach this dren to understand and to appre-
WASHINGTON,
(JTA) — The
subject with deep humility feel- ciate Judaism in its full aspect-
following Rosh Hashanah mes-
ing that this is my "message to and beauty, we need
something sage to the Jews of America was
Garcia."
more comprehensive than Sun- issued here by Vice-President
To crush Naziln and the Prus- day Schools and Hebrew - Schools.
Wallace through the Jewish Tele-
sian militarism for all time; .to
In -Sunday School as well as in graphic Agency:
destroy, the Japanese war lords Hebrew School religion is the
"Rosh Hashanah in 1944 should
and their imperialistic ambitions only subject taught. This fre- be more joyous for the Jewish
are the goals of our mighty quently makes the child think people than any which have been
armies. To collect tin cans, not that religion is something in ad- celebrated for the past 10 years.
complain, about food shortages dition to life, something away
and standing in -queue, to lend from , life's focus, something not No people has borne such a
heavy burden of war; no people
our money to the governinent at absolutely necessary, something has loSt such a high percentage
very reasonable rates of interest, which might be dispensed with. by death and starvation. But now
to manufacture the implements of The parochial school avoids this again there is a "saving rem-
war are also fine achievements danger, since there the child is nant" and this remnant will
but not enough to compensate for taught both religious and secu- carry forward into the new . day
the sacrifices of our fighting men. lar subjects, often duringlithe the democratic hope and high 're-
They are fighting for democ- same session. -
ligious spirit which has alWays
racy, not the hollow shell of a
This all sounds so simple that been implicit in the Jewish way
word, but a democracy • that lives one wonders how people with of life.
. and breathes, that provides all sense, and interested in the sur-
"May Rosh Hashanah in 1944
men with the rights of life, lib-' vival of Judaism, can object to be as a door closing upon mis-
erty, and the pursuit of happi- the Jewish Parochial School. eries of the past and opening to
ness.
Their argumentation of Ghetto- the realization of aspirations and
We on the home front must be ism, or danger to our civic status, to unexpected opportunities for
constantly alert for evidences of or the fear of being taken for peace and fruitful labor in the
anti-Semitism and must strike at less American does not sound too days ahead."
its source immediately. If not convincing. To me it often seems
now, when shall we fight.. We to betray a sense of inferiority,
must support those individuals of not feeling secure enough. n
who we know will give us a just the American community • at
and Msting peace; who are quali- large. Confronted with a problem
fied to cope with the tremendous as the opponents . of the Jewish
post-war problems.
Parochial School see it, they
Today the lot of a returning would prefer to pretend to be
veteran is very pleasant. There less Jewish lest people mi g h t
are not too many and the com- consider them less American.
munity welcomes him with open Yet, they could have learned
arms. Please do not forget that from the already existing Jew-
soon, and may it be sooner than ish;Parochial Schools which not
even the most optimistic expect, only produced better Jews, but
Mr. and Mrs.
there will be hundreds of thou- staunch Americans, - too.
Sands in our own city. Do
not
SELIG S. - AUERBACH,
forget them. If we set out to
Rabbi
of Cong. Mt. Sinai,
and Family
accomplish these purposes then
Port Huron, and Circuit
our- job -on. the home ' front will
3337 Calvert
for • - Northern Michigan.
equal the valiant efforts of our
men in arms.
Louis J. Gordon
4(- 00(-9(* * *- 4- ir- 1(* * * * * ** * * -4( ir -4(
2659 Webb Ave.
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Dr. Auerbachi-Advocates
Jewish Parochial Schools
Editor, The Jewish News:
Woodworking Specialisfs
It is a nice American custom to
Automatic,
Lath Woodturnings
make some kind of resolutions
on New Year.
Industrial Wood & Cabinet
I would advocate that Ameri-
Work
, can Jewry adopt this custom for
Rosh Hashanah.

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Conference Greets
Jews in New Year

On the eve of the . New Year,
the American Jewish . Confer-
ence sent its fraternal' greetings
to the Jews of America and to all
Jews in every land in a state-
ment which declares:

Chemist Honored

BUFFALO (JPS)—Dr.
Blum, chief of the section of
electro-chemistry of the National
Bureau of Standards, will be
awarded the eighth Edward
Goodrich Acheson Medal and a.
$1000 prize by the Electro-chen-
ical Society when it meets here
for its convention in mid-October.
The award will be made in re-
cognition of Dr. Blum's contribu-
tions to the standardization of
electroplating methods and of
plating formulas.

"The long night of Jewish 'hu-
miliation and suffering nears its
end. The lights of Freedom,
Equality and Fraternity are be-
ing rekindled in the darkened
areas of Europe, and once more
Jews are returning as free men
Fete 25th Anniversary
to the Capitals of Civilization,
that are being cleansed with fire
JERUSALEM (JTA)—The 25th
of the pollution of barbarism.
anniversary of the founding of
Today our hearts rejoice at the Jewish Medical Association
the sight of Jewish liberation in was celebrated here last week.
lands where only yesterday op- The association, which w a s
pression was the order of the founded by Dr. Jarcho, a New
York physician, now possesses
day.
the largest medical library in
"In this greeting, we . record the Near East.
ow gratitude to the. armies of
the United Nations who have
shattered and destroyed the arro- from day to day, we anticipate
the fulfillment of our hope for
gant might • of the ruthless ag- the full restoration of the rights
gressor.
of Jews as equals in all lands and
"In the new world which is the establishment of Palestine as
being revealed in all its outlines the Jewish Commonwealth."

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