Federal Crime Alts the Editor Views tie News 'The Wild Wheel'—Henry Ford Mechanical Genius and The 'Valor of Ignorance Shevuot Shevuot, the traditional festival which celebrates the Season of the Giving of the Law on Mount Sinai, also observed as the Day of the First Fruits. has taken additional important meaning because it is the season of confirmation and consecrations, of gradu- ations and commencements. An appropriate Hassidic tale merits quo- tation at this time: Rabbi Yitzchak of Gur, the Hassidie sage said: Why is Shevuot referred to as "The time of the Giving of the Torah" and not "the Time of the Receiving of the Torah?" Because the time of the giving of the Torah was only at Mount .Sinai. whereas the time of the re- ceiving of the Torah is every day. This sound bit of advice could well serve as a g tide for Jews everywhere. But it is par- ticularly appropriate for the young people who will receive their diplomas from our schook and who will be consecrated to serv- ice to Israel in our synagogues. The receiving of the Torah is every day." If the rising generation will remember and accept this, if our young people will re- introdoce it in the hearts and homes of their parents. Shevuost will have recaptured its significance. May the spirit of this great festival rule e‘ery%\ here as an assurance that the Deca- lowly im tided down to us, and through us to mankind, on Shevuot will continue to be the guiding ideal for peace and for a humanity elevated to highest principles. Veto for McCarran Only one hope remains for the preven- tion of injustice towards naturalized citizens and prospective immigrants to this country t hrough the McCarran Act which was adopted in spite of the valiant efforts of Senators Lehman, Humphrey, Morse, Moody, Benton, Pastore, Langer, Kefauver, Douglas, McMahon and their associates: a Presiden- tial veto and a subsequent vote upholding it. Pas sa ge of the measure. debate on Which was marked by much bitterness, represents a step backwards in Americanism. It is an unfortunate yielding to panic. To quote the N. Y. Times editorial summary: "Grave issues are involved. As Mr. Lehman has said, the McCarran bill poses the question of our basic national philosophy and of our social philosophy; it poses questions of law, of justice and of civil liberty; it raises problems of .foreign policy and of our internal security. The McCarran bill contains provisions that are harsh to the point of ferocity; it strength- ens the racial bias of our existing law while making a gesture in the direction of non-dis- crimination; it leaves far too great power in the hands of administrative officials; and so far from strengthening our country against its enemies, the net effect in our judgment would be seriously to weaken the 'United States in the cold war against Communist subversion and aggression. The bill should not be passed in anything like its present form: and if passed it deserves the veto which it will probably re- ceive." Welcome, Mr. Moshe Sharett The Detroit Jewish community will be host on Tues- day to Moshe Sharett, the Israel Foreign Minister who will "For seven years he carried on a campaign come here in the interests of the United Jewish Appeal. of defamation against the Jews. For its spirit Mr. Sharett's outstandino- career as statesman and Jew- of enterprise, for marvel of invention and for ish leader are well known. '' He has for many years been among, the world's outstanding Zionists. He has helped valor of ignorance. it had no parallel in all the literature of anti-Semitism. He did not guide Israel towards statehood. He has spoken for Israel write it. Cameron, his editor. did the writing, before the United Nations and has represented the infant as everybody knew. The organ was the Dear- state in her dealings with many governments. born Independent, Ford's private magazines He is an able orator. a brilliant scholar, a linguist of which 7.000 Ford dealers, Jewish and non- note, and his addresses have inspired Jewish communities to Jewish. were obliged to buy and promote. The action in behalf of Israel. first series of the articles in the Independent The important position Mr. Sharett holds in world af- began: 'There is a race a part of humanity fairs is in itself sufficient to arouse wide interest in his visit which has never yet been received as a wel- here and to inspire an overflow gathering to come to hear come part.' The articles were reprinted in jour him. There is special importance in his appearance here in books and widely distributed, not for profit. the fact that he is in this country in the interests of the "The curious fact was that Ford probably United Jewish. Appeal and is coming to Detroit to encourage believed himself when he said he was not . strong support for the Allied Jewish Campaign, this com- anti-Semitic. He was only trying once and for, munity's vehicle for the gathering of funds for the UJA. all to settle the immemorial Jewish question. Our campaign is going well and it is encouraging to How? By obliging Jews to see themselves as he know that the leaders in the current fund-raising effort will saw them; and he,xpected good Jews to stand be able to report to Mr. Sharett that approximately 65 per with him. One ofthis good Jews was a rabbi cent of last year's final amount already has been reached in Detroit to whom he presented each year and that prospects are good for the gathering of the en- a Ford car in token of friendship. He was tire sum of $5,200,000, which is the minimum needed to astonished and hurt when one year the rabbi assure Israel's receiving as much as last year from our refused to accept his gift, and called him on community. the telephone to ask wh9t was wrong. Bad Final triumph for the campaign will mean extra work. something come between them? - It calls for complete coverage of all outstanding prospects. (The rabbi referred to, not mentioned by It means that the volunteers must exert their energies to- name in Garrett's book, was the late Dr. Leo M. wards attainment of the task ahead. of Detroit). In welcoming to Detroit the distinguished Israeli states- Franklin Garrett does not report the Sapiro-Bernstelit man, we urge that the Allied Jewish Campaigners should trials. but he tells about the Ford apology. Be re-dedicate themselves to the serious job of making our 1952 says Ford did not write it, "he only signed it." The Ford dealers breathed a sigh of relief that campaign a total success. We join in greeting Israel's Foreign Minister Moshe the Independent was abandoned. Garrett does quote from Ford's "My Life and Work" (1922)— Sharett and in welcoming him to Detroit. We urge President Truman to return the measure to Congress with his disapproval. We hope that the liberal forces will be in position to rally enough votes to uphold From the moment that Israel interrupted negotiations a veto. In the meantime, we wish to commend with the West German government, it became evident that the courageous Senators. including Michigan a new crisis had arisen, challenging not only the Jewish com- Junior Senator, Mr. Blair Moody, for their munities throughout the world. whose sorrow over the death firm stand against an unjust move in the of the 6,000,000 at the hands of the Nazis makes it impossible Senate. As long as there are a few power- either to forgive or to forget the horrors that were per- ful voices left in defense of the highest petrated by Germans, but the entire civilized world whose American ideals, there is hope for a return leaders must be held responsible for moral acts involving to the basic ideals upon which this country restitution and indemnification. The resignation of the heads of the German delegation was founded. at the sessions held at The Hague, in the Netherlands, of- fered proof that the hard-hearted still are in control of af- fairs in West Germany. True, an important faction insists Incorporating - the Detroit Jewish Chronicle upon full indemnification for wrongs committed against commencing with issue of July 20, 1951 Jewry. But the mere fact that there is a difference of opinion mernhcr: American Association of English-Jewish News- as to the amount to be paid—yea, even over payment itself papers. Michigan Press Association. Published every Friday by The Je,ish News Publishing —may point to a new struggle which could easily flare up Co. 708-10 David Stott Bldg.. Detroit 26. Mich., WO. 5-1155. Subseription $4 a sear: foreign 55. into a revived boycott of Germany and complete repudia- Entered as second class matter Aug 6. 1942 at Post Office, tion of the West German government whose faith now is Detroit. Mich., under Act of March 3. 1879. being questioned. PHILIP SLOMOV1TZ, Editor SIDNEY SHMARAK, Advertising Manager Withdrawal of the Boehm resignation and the renewed FRANK SIMONS, City Editor Adenauer assurance offers some hope of an honorable ap- May 30, 1952 proach to the issue. But the burden of proof is upon the Page 4 Vol. XXI—No. 12 Cause for Serious Alarm THE JEWISH NEWS Shevuot Scriptural Selections On Shcruot. Friday and Saturday, the fol- lowing Scriptural selections will be read in our Garet Garrett was sent to Detroit by the New York Times to cover the story of Henry Ford's revolutionary step of doubling wages. The world thought the man was crazy. Oferrett be gan his study of this manand his work. New* 38 years later, he records his accumulated facts - in. - The Wild Wheel' (published by Pantheo* Books. 333 6th Ave., NY 14). It is more than bigotry; it is a record et- mechanical development, a history of our time, an evaluation of a struggle between contending industrial forces. Ford emerges as the mechanical genius, the master mind who knew the machine he develop- ed and had a better idea of business than he was given credit for. The reader will learn a lot in this book about Cameron and Sorensen, about Jim Couzens and Harry Bennett. Couzens, pushed out of the or- ganization, was wiser than other minority stock- holders. He dealt directly with Ford in selling his stock and got a better price. When the battle over dividends was taken to court, Ford was ordered to pay $686 for each dollar originally invested--68,800 per cent. Garrett disposes of Bennett's book "We Never Called Him Henry" by calling it "very stupid"...., "except as it unconsciously reveals three things . . that Ford forged Bennett as a mindless tool and used it with amazing deftness ... that Bennett had no power except as Ford provided it . . . that Bennett never knew what Ford was about." Garrett records the debit side. noting the "valor of ignorance. - Ford "believed there was a Jewish conspiracy to corrupt and destroy the Christian world. He believed the Protocols of Zion." Garrett 's brief analysis of the Ford mind on the Jewish question is interesting: Germans. "the style is Cameron's"—which emphasized that "the genius of the United States is Christian." It is evident that the blame for "the valor of ignorance" in relation to Jews is Cameron's. As a recapitulation of an important episode in American history. Garrett's "The Wild Wheel," the story of Henry Ford's world, will be read with keen interest. Facts You Should Know: Why are marriages generally prohibited be. tween Passover and Shevuot? A tragic event occurred in this period whe* the famous Rabbi Akiba and his 24,000 disciples were killed. This took place during the days be- tween the two festivals and thus the period has become one of mourning, and merry events are prohibited except on certain select days. Some sources have also attached a feeling of misfortune to this period. It is well known that among Jews there have always existed opinions about certain times being more fortunate than others for the holding of marriage ceremonies. The fundamental reason for the prohibition of marriages at this season, however, is the matter of mourning, as described earlier. In ancient Israel these were busy days WI harvest and of traveling to and from the Temple for the festival . periods. Thus the marriage would not have received its proper attention. Why do women refrain from doing any work from sunset to the time of the count during Naturally, we hope that the honor-pursuing elements period? will triumph and that a moral debt will not be denied. Pay- this The dead students who fell during the slaugh. of the ter weren't ment of the debt will not wipe out even a scintilla able to receive the proper burial use. synagogues: to til sunset. since the battle raged all day. It was Pentateuchal portions: Fridoy. Ex. 19:1-20:23, guilt from which Germans will suffer for generations of the women who visited the battlefields and Num. 28:26-31; Saturday, Deut. 14:22-16:17, come. But the Germans who are seeking the good will Num, 28:26-31. Prophetical portion': Friday, Ezek. 1:1-28; 3:12;` Saturday, Hah. 3 1 - 19. Licht Benshen, Friday, May 30, 7:39 p.m.. mankind must, at least, pay the sufferers. The "good Ger- mans" as the present rulers wish to be referred to—are on trial. It remains to be seen whether they choose to be aligned with the civilized peoples or to revert back to Nazi ideology. bravely removed the corpses and attended to the last rites. For this they were rewarded with time off from work so that all would remember their heroic deeds.