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The Strictly Confidential column in TheeJv
News of June 30 revealed that when the Czecho-
slovakian statesman came to this country on a
visit he was asked, in the form requiring personal
information, what "race" he belonged to he
answered: "Human." The immigration official
protested: "That isn't what the question means.
come from Czechoslovakia. Why don't you
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write 'Czechoslovakian?'" Mr. Masaryk replied:
"The Czechoslovakians aren't a race. They are
just a nationality, made up of Czechs, Slovaks
and other peoples. I am a Czechoslovakian by
nationality but I belong to the human race." The
entry was permitted to stand in the records and 1
remains as a most unique affirmation of true
brotherhood.
ONCE!
Degenerates' Self-Expose
A Tip From the Bible
an incipient
Serv-
A UP report states that Second
strike of war prisoners in the
ice Command, at Letchworth Park, N. Y.,
was ended by Col. John M. M cDowell, who
used a Biblical reference as a weapon.
CoI. McDowell simply issued the order:
"Book of Genesis, chapter II, verse 19."
Military police, scanning their Bibles,
learned that this verse reads: "In the sweat
of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thou
return unto the ground."
The 200 - prisoners- caught on and re-
turned to- work.
The Bible has quite a number of stern
orders which should. apply to Germans here
and on their own soil. For the latter, the
sternest rule is a simple formula of four
words: "Thou shalt not kill." For trans-
gressing this rule, and -for murdering mil-
lions of innocent people, no punishment can
possibly be too severe.
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— 'VOL. 6—NO. 4
OCTOBER 13, 1.944
The Week's Scriptural Selections
This Sabbath, the twenty-seventh day of
'Tishri; the following Scriptural selections will
be read in the Synagogues:
Pentateuchal portion—Gen. 1:1-6:8.
Prophetical portion—Is. 42:5-43:10.
On Tuesday and Wednesday, Rosh Hodesh
Heshvan, Num. 28:1-15 will be read during the
morning synagogue services.
Should Know
Is it true that the Bible disapproves of
corporeal punishment for children?
—N. M.
The following quotation from Proverbs 29.15
indicates, - on the contrary, that punishment for
children is recommended: "The rod of correction
gives wisdom; but a child that is left to himself
brings disgrace to his mother."
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Please quote Jan Masaryk's statement on the
question addressed to him by immigration of-
ficials on the "race" he belong to.
Clay on which qualified voters who are not
now registered will be able to register in
order to vote on Nov. 7.
The coming elections are crucial for the
entire country and their results may affect
the course of events for the entire world.
It is of the utmost importance, therefore,
that every qualified voter should cast his bal-
lot on Nov. 7.
Citizens who do not make use of their
franchise do not deserve to have the privi-
lege of citizenship.
Those- who have not registered until now
have a few days left in which to qualify as
voters.
- If you have not registered, register AT
From Stockholm comes the report that
Norwegian quislings were accused by Nazi-
appointed Bishop C. J. B. Kvasnes, who has
been banned by the clergy in Norway, of
posing as Jews. in order to enter Sweden
and to evade the punishment due them at
the hands of their liberated country in Nor-
way.
The quisling-Bishop, speaking in Oslo,
said: "These deserters deserve torture worse
than death for betraying the National Social-
ist idea. The Mogen Dovid should be burned
on their foreheads so that all may recognize
them for what they are—degenerates."
What does this prove? Surely, two things:
That the doom of the Nazis and their hire-
lings is approaching; and that Sweden
emerges as a great haven of refuge.
But the aunty ones will surely be caught.
There will be no escape for them under the-
guise of being Jews and we shall soon see
the - exacting of retribution from the Nazi
bandits who, including quisling-Bishop
Kvasnes, are indeed—degenerates.
1944
Answers to Readers
Questions About Jews
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r Next Wednesday, Oct. 18, will be the last
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Talmudic Tales
GUEST EDITORIAL
A Victory Campaign
By FRED M. BUTZEL
Vice-President, War Chest of Metropolitan Detroit
The momentous developments on the European war
fronts during the past few weeks have given new signifi-
cance to the forthcoming campaign of the War Chest of
Metropolitan Detroit. In view of the fact that the Allied
Chiefs of Staff have designated Tuesday, October 31, as the
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"outside" date for the end of organized Ger
man resistance in Europe, we must approach
the 1945 'War Chest drive in terms of the
needs and obligations to be met in the post-
Hitler era.
Already we have witnessed the liberation
of the Jew$ . of North Africa, the greater part
of Italy, France, Belgium, Romania, and cer-
tain areas in Poland. On the eastern front,
the advance of the Russian, armies has un-
F. M. Butzel
covered the horrors of mass slaughter at
Lublin and other Nazi execution centers where millions of
our people were brutally put to death. Victory will bring
deliverance to those who have survived more than eleven
years of indescribable suffering and sorrow. But it will
also lay bare the extent of the -devastation of Jewish life
and the ruthlessness with .which large numbers of Jews
were uprooted.
All of us will undoubtedly rejoice in the fact that the
era of destruction is at an end and that the era of reconstruc-
tion has already had its beginning. While we shall no longer
be faced with the emergency of snatching Jews from the
jaws of violent death, we will be. confronted with large-
scale rehabilitation tasks which will require far greater
funds than American Jews have contributed up to this time
for the purposes of rescue and relief.
Mere survival achieved through the success of Allied ar-
mies will have to be supplemented with systematic pro-
grams of restoration and resettlement if the Jewish people
are to share in the fruits of peace. In Europe, Jewish e Dm-
munities reduced to ashes by Nazi oppression will have to be
rebuilt. In many instances displaced Jews will not be able
or desire to return to the lands from which they were driven
by hatred.
Opportunities for giving these men, women and children
a new start in life in the Jewish homeland in Palestine will
have to be immediately developed.
In days of war and oppression our help was limited by
the barriers set up by the enemy to separate us from our
fellow-Jews in distress. Today those barriers have been al-
most completely removed. Those in need are free to receive
our help. We who can help them are free to give them all
the help they need. We dare not abandon those who have
survived the nightmare of Nazism to the dangers of home-
lessness and hunger.
Through the campaign of the War Chest of Metropolitan
Detroit with which the Allied Jewish Campaign, including
the United Jewish Appeal for Refugees, Overseas Needs and
Palestine and other agencies, is affiliated, we can make an
historic contribution to lifting the Jews . out of the dungeon
of darkness and placing them on the road to recovery—on
the road where they will regain their status of dignity, hon-
or, and self-reliance as free men working hand in hand with
other free men to build a new world of peace and brother-
hood.
(Based upon the . ancient legends and philosophy found in
the Talmud and folklore of the Jewish people dating baek
as far as 3,000 years.)
By DAVID MORANTZ
If is Noble to Pardon
A kindly surgeon was Abbe Umna. Never
would he accept with his own hands payment
for his services but had a box placed in the •
corner of his consultation room wherein patients,
who felt inclined to pay and who could afford
it, would put their money.
He did this in order not to embarrass those
who could not afford to pay. Furthermore, many
a time he gave the very poor patients, who came
to him for treatment, money for food in addition
to his services and medicine.
A good friend of the doctor was Abayah, who
wanted to prove to two of his acquaintances the
sterling character of Abbe Umna. He sent them
to the doctor with a note of introduction and
Abbe Umna was most kind and hospitable to
them. Since they had come from a distance, he
insisted that they stay over night and gave
them his finest bedding upon which to sleep.
The next morning on leaving, they took with.
them some of this bedding to test his disposition
and see what he would do. - .
As they went through the street carrying his
property in their hands he met them and pleas-
antly asked: "Do you have this fine bedding for
sale and if so, may I ask your price?"
They were very much impressed with his
kindly manner and confessed, asking him what
interpretation he placed upon their actions.
"I entertain no hard feelings against you,"
he replied.
"I thought that you had perchance run short
of money and rather than ask me for what you
needed to take you home, you took the bed-
ding to pledge it for a loan to meet your tem-
porary needs, intending to redeem it later and
return it to me."
(Copyright by David Morantz)
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taining 128 of these tales and 500 Pearls of Wisdom, send
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Children's Corner
Dear Boys and Girls:
You and I, who are so fortunate to be citizens
of this great land, must not become too self-sat-
isfied. 'Smug" is the wore. often used to de-
scribe those who are so pleased with themselves
that they forget their friends and ' - `1eir neighbors.
Just because we are so for-
tunate, we must never forget
those who are suffering persecu-
tion and are hungry and naked.
There are millions of peo-
ple throughout the world who
need food and clothing. There
are tens of thousands of children
like yourselves who have no
homes, no food, no clothes.
communit y
• These must be helped. They
must be given sustenance. They WAR CHEST
must be provided with a new
sense of self-respect and must be given a chance to
become human beings again, just like you and I.
The War Chest of Metropolitan Detroit will
start its campaign soon to help these men, women
and children. ALL relief funds are included in
this great drive—including our own United Jew-
ish Appeal.-
We must all help to make this drive a suc-
cess. We must work for it and must contribute
to it.
You should, encourage your parents to work
for the War Chest: If YOUR help is needed, you
should give it. You and your parents should con-
tribute to the drive.
Let us ALL join in making a success of the
campaign.
The death of Wendell L. Willkie and' Afired M. Smith War I Chest
wish you all a pleasant Sabbath.
removes from the American scene two great fighters for
UNCLE DANIEL.
Two Great Ameriicans
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justice.
It would have been a great misfortune to the
Mr. Wilikie's untimely death, at a time when the demo-
if the Jew had been built like other peo-
cratic powers throughout the world looked to him as one of world
ple.' Thanks to his difference he has given a
forces
for
good
in
the
present
terrible
crisis
for
the great
contribution to civilization that is great beyond
mankind, is the most shocking news for Americans and -for words. To the HouSe of Israel we owe the moral
conception of God, as the creator of- the Uni-
all civilized peoples.
verse, and the conception of how we shall wor-
The voices of these two men were heard whenever there ship that God. We will never be able to pay oie
was need to battle for d.ecerrcy and against injustice.
debt we owe to this little nation.
—Rev. Dr. Cadman,
Their names will live in American history.