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October 18, 1946 - Image 16

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The Detroit Jewish News, 1946-10-18

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Friday, October 111, (946

Race Hatred Where It Belongs

By DR. NOAH E. ARONSTAM
Vain cavil, disjointed arguments,
vapid casuistry,
Adolph S. Ochs, who trans-
formed the New York Times from That benumbs the brain with
thoughts inane
a small, financially-impoverished
newspaper, into the world's great- And make the neurons tingle in
est daily, is referred to by his
a nebulous refrain
(C.)pyrLght
biographer, Gerald W. Johnson, Of the vital essence of the spoken
Ish
11R;
as "An Honor ble Titan." This
T ("1: it ph le
word.
Agency )
is the title of the 'book which
Hair-splitting subleties that har-
presents the. dramatic life story
By LEON GUTTERMAN
bor naught
of the great publisher.
But sounds, which with arrogant
The Harper-published biogra-
disdain
Believe it or nut: The Marx phy is an interesting one from
not only the Befog and insult the intelligence.
Brothers have an office in Bev- many angles. It
Your speeches are a jargon
ly Hills, one flight up. They life story of an eminent Je , vrisii
medieval,
A witches' cauldron of bubbling
never go into the office to trans-
chatter
act their business. They stand be-
That only the spirit of negation
low on the street and whistle up.
comprehends.
The secretary lowers a paper bag
And thus with him you are coeval
containing their mail and checks
In foisting on the world a host
of fallacies
to be signed. They sign their
names against the wall of the
That becloud the mind of man-
IKiilding, yell up any instructions,
kind
and the girl hoists up the bag!
For thousand years to come. Vain



cavil!
Speaking of the Mad Marxes,
Grouch() Marx, weari• g his oldest
—World News Services. Photo by Gordon Jarrett4
clothes, was mowing his lawn the
This poster was part of an anti-race hatred display at the con-
other day when a woman in a
ventions of Canadian labor in Windsor and Toronto last month.
ritzy car stopped and asked him:
Some of the literature that was displayed and distributed is seen in
••What do you get for mowing
the foreground.
I wos?''
FRANKFURT (JTA) — Army
- The lady who lives here lets
LATE ADOLPH S. OCHS
me live with her," replied
authorities announced this week
A Stirring Message to the Voters of Michigan by
Grouch°, and the lady in the car,
that the latest count showed 139,-
Former Secretary of Commerce HENRY A.
leader:
it
is
the
tale
of
half
a
without comment, drove away!
026 displaced Jews in the Amer-
century of political and economic
• • •
ican occupation zone of_Germany.
thillywood is happy to hear that life in America.
Abraham Cohen. JDC area di-
While Mr. Johnson's sketch
this k Ben Hecht week on Broad-
rector, reported that some of
THE MOST TALKED-OF MAN IN AMERICA
way. Revival of his "Front Page" suffers from the evident desire to these Jewish DPs have been con-
SUNDAY ... OCT. 20 . 3 P. M.
has opened at one theater, and excuse all whims and idiosyncra- tributing food and clothing from
his new Palestine play, "A Flag
STATE FAIR COLISEUM (Seats 25,000 people)
cies of its hero, its completeness their own meager supplies to
Is Born," is at ancdier house.
refugee Jews in two tent city
"Swan Song," another play, has absolves it of severe criticism.
Take Woodward
camps at Landshut and Cham.
Cars Direct to
Era of Creativeness
just closed after a long run. In
Cohen said both camps were ad-
Welcome!
Fair Grounds
FREE !
addition, he has two films screen-
For all who are interested in ministered mostly by DPs. plus
ing. - Spectre of the Rose" and the rise of the journalistic pro- a few JDC workers, Army clerks
••Notorious." Only Ben Hecht
fession, and the era of creative- and medical officers.
could do it!
• • •
ness in the newspaper field in
This week's startling fact from New York, this book is a must.
Hollywood: Peter Lorre inter- It is a must also for those who
rupts rehearsal of a dramatic desire to study shrewd methods
scene for his new picture to an- of newspaper financing.
nounce to me that he is "a na-
"An Honorable Titan" also has
tural born comedian." Br-r-r! a special appeal for Jewish read-
Ho claims that during his early ers—not only because Mr. Ochs
essays at drama in Vienna and married the daughter of Rabbi
Zurich he not only made a spec- Isaac M. Wise, but also because
Lilo. of comedy roles, but that he was a Jewish leader in his
when given more serious parts he own rights.
Mr. Ochs was a humanitarian,
wia,; always fired for trying to
and New York owes him a great
make them funny!
debt of gratitude as the creator
Paul Lukas is now the latest of the traditional Christian ap-
Hollywood star to own and oper- peal carried on under the title
ate his own airplane. He bought "The Hundred Neediest Cases."•
a Vultee Basic Trainer from the He was active in the relief nlove-
Arta y and uses it t - commute be- meats during and after World
tween Hollywood and his home War I. He was a leader in the
Palm Springs on week ends fund-raising drives for the He-
when he's free from picture work. brew Union College.
• • •
Attitude on Zionism
Producer Dore ("Spiral Stair-
His attitude on Zionism dis-
case - ) Schary received a note turbed many of his contempor-
one of the tenants of his aries. His biographer quotes from
Beverly Hills apartment build- an address he delivered at Temple
ing: As a tenant I have no com- Beth El, Glen Falls, N. Y., in
plaint. I pay my rent promptly 1925, in which he said: "I have
and you always accede to my nothing of Judaism in me that
Then he enclosci a does not spell religion. Religion
requests."
Western screenplay which he is all that I stand for as a Jew."
wanted Dore to produce. Schary Then, describing his trip to the
replied: "As a landlord I agree Orient. he informs his readers:
that you are a very desirable "At Jerusalem he was seized 1 ,-)on
tenant. As a -motion picture pro- by the Unionists and . shown their
ducer, I am returning your
work in great detail; he had to
admit that their accomplishment
• • •
was admirable, but was unshaken
Oscar Levant, soon to be' seen
in his belief that it was aimed in
on the screen again in "Humor-
the wrong direction."
esque," tells me that he gets more
These facts help to explain the
— the worlds beet worry-killer. Backed up to'
What will ay bank balance look like in 956?
abusive mail than any other ac-
to• in Hollywood. "It's because stubbornness with which Mr.
the
hilt by Uncle Sam himself, these bonds
we be able to seal John asil Mary te angel
of my long association with In- Ochs adhered to his ideals and
give
you $4 for every $3 you put in after tea
ore
wonders
kow
he
would
re-
formation Please," laments Os-
II I we sick, cult I meet hospital mamas?
years. So the money you save makes 'wore
cat. "People keep writing in act today and whether the tradi-
asking foolish questions and dar- tional N. Y. Times anti-Zionist
money for you.
ing me to prove I'm as smart attitude is strictly an inheritance
IND
any
post
office
...
bank
...
or
the
or
whether
it
also
mirrors
the
A short time ago your War Bonds secured
as they think I am." Levant says
cashier's window at your firm—and you
he's now got himself a case of views of the present publisher,
the
future of this country. Today, they— and
his
son-in-law,
Arthur
Hays
Sulz-
writer's cramp, denying his so-
can
put
a
stop
to
those
worries that cut into
the
U.
S. Savings Bonds you buy —can guar-
berger.
called wisdom, but the letters
every mim's sleeping hours.
Mr. Johnson sums up his -I—lb-
keep coming in just the same!
antee
the
future for you and your family,
Sign in one of our topranking ute to Ochs as follows: "He
Bag one today!
All
three
sell
United
States
Savings
Bonds
served
the
truth.
Being
human,
producer's office: "Happiness has
this advantage over great wealth he could not serve it perfectly.
—people don't try to borrow it" At times he was misinformed, at

F

Brooklyn Methodists Put
Church at Disposal of Jews

times he was deceived, at times
his judgment failed and he de-
ceived himself; but he never lied,

NEW YORK—A graphic dem- which is the final test of a serv-
onstration of interfaith good will ant of the truth."
in action took place here, when
officials of the Simpson Metho-
dist Church and the Brooklyn
and Long Island Church Society
turned over the church building
rent free to the newly organized
Fort Greene Jewish Center,
Brooklyn.

FINSTERWALD

21 Michigan Act.

OPPOSITE 'BOOK-CADILLAC HOTEL)

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