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Rays. of Hope on Sukkot

Our Community Chest

It is appropriate at this time, in the midst
of our observance of the most sacred cycle of
Jewish festivals, that we think not only of
our obligations nationally and overseas but
that we give serious thought also to our local
obligations.
While the annual Allied Jewish Campaigns
provide for the United Hebrew Schools, the
Yiddish schools; the Home for Aged and other
local agencies, such causes as the Jewish
Community Center, Fresh Air Camp, the
Jewish Social Service Bureau and its Re-
settlement Service and other causes depend
upon the Community Chest for their sus-
tenance.
The annual Community Chest drive is
about to commence. It is imperative that we
should mobilize our forces for this drive, that
we should volunteer as workers in the Red
Feather campaign and that we should resolve
to contribute liberally when solicitation
begins.

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Maurice Aronsson
Philip Slontovitz
Fred M. Butzel
Isidore Soheloff
Judge Theodore Levin Abraham Srere
Maurice H. Schwartz
Henry Winernan

PHILIP

VOL. XII—NO. 2

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SLOMOVITZ,

Editor

SEPTEMBER 26, 1947

Sukkot, Sabbath Scriptural Selections
This Sabbath, the thirteenth day of Tishri. 5708,
the following scriptural selections will. be read in
our synagogues:
Pentateuchal portion—Deut. 32.
Prophetical portion—II Sam. 22:1-51,
On the first of Sukkot (Monday), the penta-
teuchal portion consists of Lev. 22:26-23:44 and
Nutn. 29:12-16, and the prophetical portion of
Zech. 14.
On the second day of Sukkot (Tuesday), the
pentateuchal portion is the same as on the first
day, while as Haftarah I Kings a:12-21 is read.

Good Will Ambassador

Wanchope, Last Liberal
Palestine Administrator

Hebrew at Wayne

Expansion of Education Month observance
to embrace the entire Detroit Jewish educa-
tional set-up deservedly is being hailed by all
elements in our community as a step in the
right directicta of encouraging the enroll-
ment of large numbers of children into our
schools.
It is encouraging to know, in connection
with Education Month, that the study of
Hebrew is not being limited to elementary
classes, but that it will again be pursued by
many at Wayne University.
For the past two years, with the coopera-
tion of our Hebrew Schools and with the aid
of several community leaders, Wayne Uni-
versity has sponsored courses in elementary
and advanced Hebrew under the able tutelage
of Mr. Louis Panush. These classes are being
resumed, and we have no doubt that non-
Jews as well as Jews will take advantage of
the opportunity of learning the language of
the Bible at Wayne.
Many graduates of the local Jewish
schools will desire to extend their knowledge
of Hebrew through these classes. In order
that the tradition established by Wayne Uni-
versity should not be broken, it is sincerely
to be hoped that Mr. Panush's classes will be
filled to overflowing.
Meanwhile it is a community obligation to
join in the city-wide effort to assist in the
chief objective of Education Month: the en-
rollment of many boys and girls who remain
outside the fold of students in our educa-
tional system.
The Jewish Welfare Federation's Educa-
tional Planning Committee, through whose
inspiration the community-wide Education
Month has been instituted under the leader-
ship of Judge Theodore Levin and Dr.
Alexander Sanders, with the cooperation
of the Jewish Community Council, and all
the local community and congregational
Jewish schools are rendering a real service
by having joined forces to encourage large
enrollment of Jewish children who must be
provided with a proper Jewish education if
they are to be thoroughly informed Jews.
As well informed Jews they also will be
better Americans.

Friday, Sepfemher 26, 1947

By GERHARDT NEUMANN

The death of Sir Arthur Grenfell Wauchope,
former High Commissioner of Palestine, marks
the end of an era. From Samuels to Wauchope,
Palestine was governed by men who were sincere
in their desire to make the Mandate work, to
bring Jews and Arabs together and to strive for a
just and fair solution of of problem.
When Wauchope stepped clown in 1937, after
futile attempts to quell the Arab rebellion with as
peaceful means as possible, iron-fist rule and an
anti-Jewish administration entered the scene with
Wauchope's successor, Sir Harold MacMichaeL
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In 1931, he was named High Commissioner of
Palestine. He was fortunate that the first five
years of his term were years of relative peace and
quiet. But a few months after his second term had
started, Palestine erupted in revolt and bloodshed.
It is typical for Wauchope that he tried to main-
tain order without complete martial rule. He was
at heart a man of peace. During the 1936 riots,
when tension was at its peak, Wauchope stopped.
long-distance telephone service to prevent the
spread of rumors and disseminated rumors of his
own. He told the people that his police would fire,
not into the air, but into the mob at any future
Arab disturbance. Thus, on that particular Friday,
the Moslem services were attended by only 500,
instead of the expected tens of thousands. When
the Arabs left their mosques, police fell in before
and behind them and led non-residents quietly
out of the city.
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A believer in self-government, Wauchope offered
Jews and Arabs in December 1935 a compromise
in which he proposed to establish a legislative
council of 13 Arabs, eight Jews and five Britons.
The compromise was rejected by both Jews and
Arabs, because neither party felt that it was of-
fered an adequate representation on this counciL
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Wauchope's philosophy on the Palestine prob-
lem is best expressed in the testimony he gave be-
fore the Permanent Mandate Commission of the
old League of Nations. He said, in 1932, that he
based his hopes of peace on the development of
"self-governing institutions" under Article 2 of
the Mandate. He expressed the conviction "that
with the passage of time, the Arabs and Jews
would see that it was to their mutual advantage to
work together," and concluded with these words:
"We would gladly govern Palestine in accord-
ance with the wishes of the two races; and when
these wishes _conflict, I use every means to recon-
cile them. If these efforts prove of no avail, then
government must, regardless of criticism, carry
out whatever policy it considers best in the inter-
ests of the people as a whole and in accordance
with the Mandate."
Wauchope was very popular with the Jews of
Palestine, and even the Arabs respected him high-
ly. When he left the country thousands of Jews and
Arabs lined the streets to bid him farewell. It was
as if British good will had departed with him from
Palestine.

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Secretary Marshall and Palestine

Since it may take many weeks before we will be able to
acquire even an inkling of what is in the minds of the big
powers with regards to Palestine, the issue as it faces the
United Nations today can only be judged on the basis of the
reactions of our own government to the report of the Special
Committee on Palestine.
The statement made by Secretary of State George C.
Marshall on the second day of the present session of the
General UN Assembly may have great bearing and it de-
serves quotation in full. Mr. Marshall stated:
"The General Assembly is faced with the problem of
Palestine. The government of the United States intends to do

everything within its power at this session of the General
Assembly to assist in finding a solution for this difficult prob-
lem which has stirred up such violent passions, and which is
now resulting in the shedding of blood and in great mental
and moral anguish. The solution will require of each of us
courage and resolution. It will also require restraint.
"The Special Committee on Palestine is to be highly com-
mended for its contribution to the solution of this problem.
Although the members of this committee were not able to
agree unanimously upon a number of important issues, includ-
ing that of partition, they have been able to find the basis
for agreement on 11 recommendations to this Assembly. Their
achievement in reaching unanimity on so many points repre-
sents definite progress."
While this statement in no sense implies wholehearted

support for either the majority or the minority report, or for
a possible compromise decision, it indicates a deep interest
in the Palestine situation on the part of the U. S. government
and should be viewed on the basis of previous experiences
and commitments.
It is a well known fact that Michigan's senior U. S.
senator, Mr. Arthur H. Vandenberg, for some time has
favored a partition plan for Palestine, and we have reason to
believe that Sen. Vandenberg, who is in one of the key
positions as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Com-
mittee, is wholeheartedly in favor of the majority report.
There is no reason for doubting the possibility that Mrs.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, another important U. S. delegate to
the UN, is friendly to Jewish aspirations, and we have no
right to suspect that our other delegates—Warren R. Austin,
Herschel V. Johnson and John Foster Dulles—are antag-
onistic to our cause.
It is possible that we are overly optimistic about the
future. It is because we prefer to be guided in our judgment
by the traditions of our government in favor of the eventual
establishment of the Jewish National Home and of its speedy
transformation into a genuine Eretz Israel.
Naturally, we are not so unrealistic as to recognize the
danger of compromises which may cost us dearly either in
territorial considerations or in curtailment of our economic
rights. In order to protect our position, it will be necessary for
us to be vigilant and to remain fully on guard against the
enforcement of unjust concessions. At the moment, however,
with Palestine one of the major issues for consideration by
the 55 member states of the United Nations, we have better
reason than ever before to be optimistic about the future of a
thoroughly Jewish Palestine.

La Guardia — Great Libertarian

Splendid Recordings

Kusevitsky and Peerce
Offer Moving Selections

RCA Victor Records offer two real treats in the
recordings of Jan Peerce and Moshe Kusevitsky.
Jan Peerce's "Kos Nidre" and "A Plea to God"
promises to revolutionize the industry and to
create a veritable run on music stores.
The Metropolitan Opera tenor has timed the
production of his latest recording very well. It
was issued to RCA on the eve of Yom Kippur.
His "Kol Nidre," arranged by Henry A. Russotto,
is a most thrilling experience. Presented in tra-
ditional fashion, it is a truly great production.
Similarly thrilling is the reverse of "Kol Nidre"
—"A Din Toire Mit Gott" (A Plea to God")—
arranged by Low-Baron-Bass.
Both selections are with chorus and orchestra,
Warner Bass, conducting.
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Moshe Kusevitsky, the Warsaw Cantor, sings
four selections—in two parts each—in the "Can-
torial Chants" produced by RCA Victor.
The four selections — brilliantly done — are:
"Hatei" (Turn, Oh God, Your Ears to Us), "Leolont
Jehej Odom" (The Man Belongs to the World),
"Unsane Toker(We Will Declare the Mightiness
of the Day) and "Ribojnoj Szel Ojlom" (The Lord
Almighty).
Highly honored by cantors throughout the world
for his outstanding ability as a synagogue singer,
Kusevitsky gained fame as the man who conducted
services in the underground Warsaw shelter on the
eve of the Nazi occupation. He escaped to Russia,
gave concerts in the Soviet Union before Marshals
Konev, Voroshilov and Zhukov and toured com-
munities in England last year. He is now making
apearances in the Western hemisphere.
His recordings are excellent recommendations of
his great ability, his splendid voice and his superior
mastery of musical art. His "Cantorial Chants" will
surely receive top ranking in the sale of records.

Answers To Readers
Questions...

Fiorello LaGuardia was one of the very great men of our
time.
How are the four species of vegetation used on
Sukkot tied together and held?
Always in the forefront of the fighters for justice, the
The
four species are held in. both hands
arids (pa a lin
nd
former Mayor of New_ York and UNRRA chief never hesi-
separated in two groups, To the lulab
tated to call a spade a spade.
branch) are attached three twigs of haddasim
He was among the first to enter the battle against Nazism. (myrtle) on its right side and two branches of
arovos (willows). These three items are tied to-
He hated race and religious hatred and could not tolerate gether with rings made of palm strips and held in
intolerance.
the right hand. The esrog (citron) is held in the
left hand.
He possessed a great passion for justice.
He was a true and great libertarian.
Ia what language was the Bible first printed?
Blessed be his memory- ,
The Bible was first printed in Latin.

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