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As the 'Editor
Views the News .
Friday. January 24„ 1947
T,HE,JEW,SH NEWS
Page Four
Does This Really Shock the World?
Annual Brotherhood Week
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In his announcement of the appointment of
the Civil Rights Committee, President Tru-
man made it clear that "there is a tendency in
this country" for the development of racial
hatred, "unless we do something tangible to
prevent it." He added:
"I don't want to see any race discrimina-
tion. I don't want to seeony religious bigotry
break out in this country."
His reference to personal experiences in
1922, when an organization "met on hills and
burned the crosses' and worked behind
sheets" was a direct reference _141The Ku
Klux Klan. -
President Truman has given strong en-
dorsement to good will projects when, upon
acceptance of the honorary chairmanship of
Drotherilood Week, he declared:
••ept the Honorary Chairman'ship
u. ....kerican Brotherhood Week, 1947,
ivith the firm conviction that brotherhood
is essential to the establishment and
maintenance of peace. Our supreme need
is brotherhood as a pattern for peace,
here and across the globe.
"Our own land can make no greater
contribution to this troubled world than
to establish brotherhood as the rule of
life among all our citizens of every re-
ligion, race or national origin. Brother-
hood—live it, believe it, support it—must
be the resolve that governs our relations
to one another. We cannot hope to com-
mend brotherhood abroad unless we
practice it at home.
"Democracy rests upon brotherhood.
Justice, amity, understanding and co-
operation among Prostestants, Catholics
and Jews throughout our nation are cor-
nerstones of democracy, even as they are
the requirements of brotherhood. With
them we can maintain our national unity
and keep up the teamwork needed in
peace as in war.
"I, therefore, join heartily with the
National Conference of Christians and
Jev‘s and with all forces of good will in
our country in commending nationwide
observance of American 'Brotherhood
Week: February 16-23, 1947. I hope that
our citizens will meet in church and
schoolhouse, in halls and public places to
affirm anew the principles upon which
the realization of brotherhood depends
and to strengthen the bonds that hold us
together as we face the demanding task4
to which destiny summons us."
President Trurnan's declarations are power-
ful assertions that our governMent is de-
termined to wipe out all vestiges of hatred.
Our President's words are heartening and
should serve to make Brotherhood Week a
strong instrument for good in America.
Sweden'sLiberalTraditions
A proposal made by the General Medical
l',,ard in Stockholm to the Swedish go.yern-
trent provides for permission to 200 refugee
physicians to practice medicine in Sweden.
it has been revealed in Washington by the
American-Swedish News Exchange. It is
planned that these doctors should be sent
to hospitals for a year's service and that
government loans should support the phy-
sicians and their families during their appren-
ticeship.
Judging by the record for liberalism estab-
lished by Sweden, we have reason to belieVe
that this plan will be adopted. SWeden thus
will be adhering to a tradition which other
countries, including our own, may well
emulate.
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HERE has been a real revival of interest in
sculpture in America and one of the great
American sculptors has been working among us
for many years here in Detroit. His contribution
in modern sculpture places him among the fore-
most, and in 1942, the Modern Museum of Art in
New York recognized Samuel Cashwan as one of
America's great artists.
Cashwan is a modern sculptor and a semi-
abstractionist, believing that form, depth, line,
light, and mood, must relegate subject matter
or realistic representation to secondary place..
But his subject matter is not hidden from the
inexperienced eye. Semi-abstract art is not a
copy of nature but is a personal response to
natural forms.
I spent a number of hours with Mr. Cashwan in
MC by World t4ewt Servilpi
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A 12 Point Rescue Program
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Having accepted the general chairmanship of the $170,-
000,000 drive of the United Jewish Appeal for 1947, Henry
Morgenthau Jr. has plunged into activity for the great mercy
campaign with an avidity that augurs well for the UJA
objectives.
At his first conference with national UJA leaders since
his selection for the campaign chairmanship, Mr. Morgenthau
called upon Americans of all faiths to share in "this life-
saving and life-rebuilding endeavor which represents a major
factor in the building of a better world Of freedom and peace
for all mankind," and outlined the following 12-point program
for the current drive:
1. Relief arid rehabilitation of large sections of the Jewish
survivors' in Poland, Romania and Hungary.
2. Supplementary food, retraining and preparation for immi-
gration for 250,000 Jewish displaced persons in Germany,
Austria and Italy.
3. Medical care, education and rehabilitation of most of 170,000
remainiarg Jewish children in Europe.
4. Emigration assistance for homeless Jews who can be ad-
mitted to Palestine, the United States and other countries.
5. Large-scale shipment of medicines, clothing, food and other
supplies to distress areas in Europe.
6. Medical assistance and maintenance for newly arrived refu-
gees in Palestine (Under present regulations 1,500 refugees
are permitted to enter Palestine each month).
7. Retraining and rehabilitAtion of fOrmer inmates of concentra-
tions cadips who reach Palestine.
8. The acquisition of land in -Palestide for the expansion of
Jewish settlement and agricultural development.
9. The establishment of new rural settlements in Palestine and
the development of new opportunities for the absorption of
large masses of Jewish immigrants from Europe.
le. Financial assistance to refugees who find a haven in the
United States to help them during the innitial period of ad-
justment, to American life.
11. Help for Jewish children, many of them orphans, who are
coming to the United States from displaced persons camps.
12. Resettlement, retraining and integration aid for newcomers
to this country.
"GIRL WITH A MANDOLIN"
The sculpture reproduced here is earned
"Girl With a Mandolin," and is highly imagin-
ative. The shape of the mandolin is easily
recognized, but the contour of the girl is more
abstract, still it is possible to understand the
graceful form bending overt hei mandolin.
To appreciate the design, the texture and the
mood of Samuel CashWan's sculpture, you must
take time to study it in order to enjoy his very
personal manner of expression. Mr. Cashwan's
work can not be caught with a glance, it is a
thrilling experience, like getting to know a very
marvelous person who was a total stranger to you
only a moment ago.
Mr. Morgenthau's visit in. Detroit this week-end, in the
interests of local planning for the approaching Allied Jewish
Campaign whose major objectiye will be the three UJA
causes—Joint Distribution Committee, United Palestine
Appeal and United Service for New Americans—should stir
interest in campaign- planning for our community.
It is interesting to note that Mr. Morgenthau has estim-
ated that an army of _more than 150,000 volunteers will be
mobilized for the drive throughout the country to "bring the
humanitarian challenge of survival and reconstruction to
every element in America." In Detroit alone, last year, during
the Emergency Allied Jewish Campaign, more than 3,000
volunteer workers succeeded in raising. $2,800,000 for the
UJA. This year, the number of volunteers will have to grow,
in order that a goal that may have to be twice as large as last
year's may be raised for all our obligations overseas, nation-
ally and locally.
Mr. ,Morgenthau's visit in Detroit is a signal that our
CASHWAN AT WORK IN HIS STUDIO
Mr. Cashwan's sculpture must be seen as a com-
unit, and like a sphere, has no back, front
great campaign is about to be launched. All other efforts plete
side, but with every view contributing to the
should be concluded as speedily as possible, so that nothing or
complete statement. The empty spaces, or holes
should be permitted to stand in the way of the success of the within the sculpture are used as .a method. of
lighting the modelling. Cashwan's sculpture is
Allied Jewish Campaign.
symphonic; the many movements complete the
whole and there is rhythm in every line.
At the Jacob H. Schiff Centennial Celebration, held at the
Jewish Theological Seminary, in New York, Judge Joseph
Proskauer, president of the American Jewish Cominittee,
quoted the late Mr. Schiff's credo for men of wealth, thus:
"The surplus wealth we have gaitied to some extent
at least belongs to our fellow beings; we are only the
1.1111.111' SLOMOVITZ, Editor
temporary custodians of our fortunes; let us_ be careful
JANUARY 24, 1947'
VOL. 10—NO. 19
that no just complaint can be made against our steward-
ship."
Sabbath Scriptural Selections
This Sabbath, they fourth day of Shevat, 5707,
If we can all make this credo the guide for our actions
the following Scriptural selections will be read when the call comes for unprecedented help for the unfor-
in our synagogues:
tunates in Europe and for the builders of Zion, we will have
Pentateuchal portion—Ex. 10:1-13:18.
made peke with our consciences. .
Prophetical portion—Jer. 46:13-28.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Philip Slomovitz
Maurice Aronsson
Isidore Sobeloff
Fred M. Butzel
Judge Theodore Levin Abraham Srere
Henry Wineman
Maurice H. Schwartz
his studio and I want to give you my impressions
of this wonderful man and his wonderful work.
To make a general statement about Mr. Cashwan's
sculpture is to say that it is vital, rythmic, simple,
and direct, and full of light and movement
One delightful piece was a- seated figure of an
adolescent girl deep in thought. The semi-abstract-
ed forms were solid and firm and the whole was
delightfully humorous, creating Warmth and color.
Right now Cashwan has switched from
marble and bronze, to ,wood as he feels that
this new medium will offer him even. greater
freedom. Many of his pieces are true collect-
ors' items and the smaller pieces are reason-
-
ably priced.
Samuel Cashwan was born in 1900 in Cherkassi,
near Kiev. Russia. He came to New York as a boy,
later moving to Detroit. He has studiectextensively
in New York and abroad and has taught in the
architectural department at the University of Mich-
igan, as well as at the Detroit Society of Arts and
Crafts. At present many of his outstanding pieces
can be seen at his studio at 3334 Woodward and
Mr. Cashwan will show you his .work by appoint-
ment on Saturdays and evenings.
- (Photos lig Paul Kirsch. Jewish itiews-PhotograPher)