Still Stuffed-Up THE JEWISH NEWS Incorporating the Detroit Jewish Chronicle commencing with issue of July 20. Ilternher American Association at ftglish-Jewish (ewspapers, Michigan Press Association. Puhits ► ted every Friday by the Jewish News Publishing Co., 17100 West Seven Mile Road, Detroit 35, Mich., Vir,. 8-9384 fohteriptinn 14. a vear. foreign Sh entered as second Clan matter Aug. 8. 1942, at Past Office, Detroit, Mich., ander Act of March 2, 1879 PHILIP SLOMOVITZ Editor and Publisher SIDNEY SHMARAK Advertising Manager April 9, 1954 Page 4 VOL. XXV. No. 5 FRANK SIMONS City Editor Sabbath Scriptural Selections This Sabbath, the seventh day of Nisan, 5714, the following Scriptural selections will be read our synagogues: Pentateuchal portion, Lev. 14:1-15:33. Prophetical portion. II Kings 7:3-20. Fast of First Born, Thursday Licht denshen, Friday, April !, 6:49 P.m. Allied Campaign Moves Into High Gear Detroit Jewry is asked to take into ac- count the serious challenges of the 1954 Allied Jewish Campaign on the home front as well as overseas. The crisis in Israel calls for earnest efforts to increase our contribu- tions to this life-giving drive whose major beneficiary is the United Jewish Appeal. The need for expanded educational systems and for the enlargement of our social service and recreational programs call for the continua- tion of our traditional generosity to local and national causes. When the budgets for agencies supported by the Allied Jewish Campaign were planned recently, it was established that on the basis of the 1953 income of $4,500,000 the over- seas and Is-rael agencies would receive 58.7 of the amount raised, 25.9% would be allo- cated to local agencies, 10.9% to local capi- tal funds and 4.5% to national movements. But the challenge of the present critical time calls for vastly increased allocations to over- seas and Israel causes, .and the 1954 appeal therefore emphasizes the vital need for a 10% increase in income over last year, in order to assume a campaign total of $5,000,- 000. The additional funds would primarily —to the tune of 74% of the increase—bene-' fit Israel. It is clear, therefore, that the rais- ing of an additional $500,000, as an increase over last year's income, is a vital necessity. The importance of the Current- Allied Jewish Campaign becomes clearly evident upon study of the following list of 1954 bene- ficiaries: OVERSEAS American Committee '- Institute on Overseas Studies for the Weizmann Institute of Science Jewish Telegraphic American Frinds of Agency the Hebrew University • United Jewish Appeal American Fund for Israel Institutions Joint Distribution American. Techaion. Committee United Israel Appeal Society . HIA.S (Hebrew .Shelter- United Service for ing and Immigrant New Americans Aid Society) IN DETROIT American. Jewish Ter- Jewish Welfare Fed- • centenary Committee, eration 1Ll idrasha Detroit Chapter • Community Wo1 - 7,: Shop North End Clinic— Hospitalization Fund Hebrew Free U)011 As- Resettlement Service sociation Sholem Aleichem In- stitute House Shelter Sinai Hospital Jewish- Community United Hebrew Schools Center Jewish Co mm unity United Jewish Folk Council School United Jewish High Jewish Home for Aged School Workmen's Circle Jewish Social Service Schools Bureau Dept. for Aged Jewish Vocational Yeshivath Beth Service Yehudah NATIONAL American Academy for .Jewish Labor Commit- Jewish Research tee American Association for Jewish Education Jewish Occupational Council American Jewish Con- Jewish War Veterans gress Joint Defense Appeal-- American Jewish. Ter- American Jewish centenary Committee Committee Anti-Defamation Bellefaire- League of Bnai Brith Regional Child Care Service National Community Relations Advisory Bnai Brith National Council Youth Service Ap- peal National Conference of Conference on Jewish Jewish Communal Relations Service Council of Jewish Fed- National Jewish Wel- erations and Welfare fare Board Funds liropsie College . Yiddish Scientific Institute Histadruth Ivrith Jewish Braille Institute It is difficult to conceive of a single ele- ment in our community whose concern with Jewish life and the need for the 'perpetuation of Jewish ideals and • the advancement of Jewish goals is not represented in this list. Every member of our community therefore is obligated to assist in assuring the success of the drive. The 1954 Allied Jewish Campaign has moved into high gear. A number of divisions already have begun to solicit their prospects. The pre-campaign dinner next Tuesday eve- ning again traditionally sets the pace for the official opening of the drive on April 27. From this point all of us must proceed to go forward in striving for the attainment of an increased income for Israel, for relief, efforts among impoverished Jews overseas and for the continuation of our support for local and national educational, recreational and social service causes. Our campaign provides the means with which to serve the men and women. in the armed forces of our country, through the Jewish Welfare Board. It helps finance the American Jewish Tercentenary programs, nationally and locally. It is the instrument for aid to the blind, for comfort to the aged, to provide the heartening means of assuring our less fortunate kinsmen that we stand' firmly in their support. It is a one-time, all-inclusive drive that covers all avenues in fulfilling Jewish - needs. This elevates our drive to a high status as a unifying force of all elements in Jewry. As a united force we now combine our. resources to give verity to the Talmudic principle that "He who does charity and justice is as if he had filled the whole Nvorld with kindness." Dr. Hallgarten's 'Why Dictators?' Exposes Nazis' Brutality to Children. In "Why Dictators?: The Causes and Forms of Tyrannical Rule Since 600 B.C.," published by MacMillan (60 5th Ave., N.Y. 11). Dr. George W. F. Hallgarten issues the warning that the greatest danger to freedom "is complacency and the attitude 'Let others care'." Complacency, he asserts, - `might bring us a step closer to Caesarism," adding: "This threat can only be met by redoubling our : efforts to ac- tivate democracy, inside as well as outside Our country." He urges the bolstering of existing democracies in order to ban the specter of dic- tatorship and warns against the dire consequences of a third world war. His analyses of dictator- ships and their evil effects on mankind make his book especially valuable at this time. Dr. Hallgarten exposes the extermination policies of the Nazis and reveals the horrors that were imposed upon German Jewry by Oswald Dr. Hallgarten Pohl, who directed the SS Wirtschafts and Ver- waltungs Hauptamt, the central agency for economic exploita- tion of slaves. He shows how the slave hunts were highly profit- able, such as: "A chemical factory called Stresa acquired the bones rights at the camps, for the purpose of producing superphosphate. The gold extracted from the victims' teeth was sent to the Reichsbank, which paid the SS a total' of 60,000,000 marks for 76 such ship- ments. In 1942, when Hitler believed he had Russia in his he, Himmier, and Kaltenbrunner held a - conference in Berlin and decided to use gas for the mass killings. Later Himnaler inspected the Auschwitz camp and ordered it to be extended to gigantic size, and technically streamlined. •It-finally included 620 build- ings and harbored a floating population of between 180,000. and 250,000 people, 10,000 of which were ;exterminated each . day.- In the summer of 1944 the camp was overcrowded owing to the mass hunting of Jews in Hungary. As there- was .a temporary stoPpage at the crematoria, people, according to testimony produced in the trial against Pohl, were burned on grills in'open fields. Since the population in the city of Auschwitz, several kilometers from the camp, became restless because of the continual screaming, the camp orchestra was reinforced greatly and was ordered to play as loudly as possible. To the accompaniment of music of Johann Straus and Schubert, several thousand Jewish children were burn- ed there alive. SS guards who showed 'pity' for these children knocked them unconscious before throwing them into the flames." This is only a portion of the evidence submitted to show the extent of the Hitierian mania. "Why Dictators.?" indicates how the Fuehrer created racial taboos in order to impose the magic superiority of his followers. . There will be some questions as to historic authenticity of some of the facts in this book, such as Dr. Hallgarten's reference bo Lavrenti Beria as being "a Georgian of Jewish extraction." We doubt that Beria. had Jewish ancestors, 'but perhaps Dr. Hall- garten has facts to substantiate his belief. "Why Dictators?" has much to commend it as a book aimed at striking a blow at totalitarianism. It renders a real service in this regard. Passover Workshops Congregations .sponsoring workshops. •to enlighten the community on Passover needs and on the manner of conducting Sedorim are to be commended for the services they render through such projects. In the past, children learned from their parents, and the home was, in itself, the workshop that passed on knowledge about holiday observances from generation to gen- eration. But conditions have changed, and it has become necessary for the rabbis to introduce classroom techniques to teach the processes of traditional celebrations. The Passover Workshop sponsored by four orthodox congregations for the purpose of explaining the Haggadah, the Passover laws and the Seder routines; similar courses included in the programs of Conservative and Reform congregations, and in the cur- ricula of our community schools, serve worthy purposes._ Their continuation, and the application of these methods to other festivals, deserve encouragement. Our Schools' Expansions - P alestine Problem' Commend Dr. joss' As 'Most Concise .Work on Israel' The laying of the cornerstones for two additions to our school systems here, on One of the most effective and most concise works on the Is- Sunday, will contribute towards our com- rael problem. is Dr. Carl Hermann Voss' "The Palestine Problem Today" (Beacon 'Press, Boston). munity's progress. Yeshivath Beth Yehudah is enlarging its • Governor Theodore R.. McKeldin - of Maryland, commending it present facilities, on Dexter and Cortland, to a wide reading audience, evaluated -Thisbook as follows: "It embodies more complete and accurate information than with an annex to provide facilities for many one is likely to find anywhere without wider search in the history niore students. the region, the story of Israel in ancient and modern times, The Esther Berman Branch of the o.: the relation of the new State to its Arab neighbors, the interplay United Hebrew Schools, on Schaefer and of complex religious, economic and geographical factors, and the 7-Mile Road, will fill the need for serving respective roles of Israel, the United States and the United Na- the growing Jewish population in northwest tions in the great struggle of the Western World for survival and Detroit. peace. It is an authoritative treatise, succinct and clear, intel- Both events attest to this community's lectually satisfying and spiritually stimulating. I commend- it understanding of the priority that must be unreservedly to anyone seeking light on the subject, and I pre- given our schools in our communal plan- dict that it will have permanent value as a source-book on the with which it deals." ning, thus aiming towards the training of problems Reviewing the basic political and economic problems in the a well-informed constituency. • Middle East, Dr. Voss, who has visited Israel and the Arab coun- The. Yeshivah and the United Hebrew tries, shows how discontent has harmed the Arab lands, how mis- Schools are to be congratulated on their: understandings have led to conflicts, :how the Arabs fail to recog- vision in seeking ample quarters for an en- . nize Israel's earnest pleas for peace and cooperation. Dr. Voss'asserts that peace in the Middle East holds the key larged school population, thus continually aiming at enrolling in the schools children to world-wide peace. He proves how the troubles fomented in the Middle East prove advantageous to Soviet Russia. In his plea for who are now receiving a Jewish education. peace he points to Israel as a striver for peace and describes how The construction of new school buildings. Israel has "shown, and will continue to show, how life can become points the - Niay to rapid increases in school richer and fuller for the tens of millions who now live miserably enrollments and to the attainment of the ob- in a vast feudal area and are desperately in need of man's inge- jective of providing a Jewish education for nuity, man's devotion, and man's goodwill to make that part of : the wurld truly blessed. as in long tinnes pas•." every Jewish boy and girl in Detroit.