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By NATHAN ZIPRIN

(Copyright, 1954, Seven Arts Feature Syndicatet
State Chaplain's Committee for Pfc. JOSEPH L. BALE POST
the wonderful assistance they will meet at 8:30 p.m., Sept. 28,
Comment on a Report
have given my wife, Mrs. Caro- at the Memorial Home, Pros-
For reasons of its own the ADL is bent on keeping the veil of
line
Reid,
and
my
six
children.
pective
members
are
invited.
;i'dlitor, The Jewish News:
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secrecy
around the report it submitted to the Army on the ugly
In my regular reading of your At present I am confined to
Lt. ELI LEVIN POST and facts and rumors surrounding the dismissal at Fort Monmouth of
;newspaper, I turned as usual to Michigan State Prison at Jack-
lour Commentator's column son, on a check charge. Due to AUXILIARY will sponsor a hos- Jewish civilian employes. But it seems to this corner at least that
which dealt with Hermann Hage- my confinement, my family was pital party Sunday, at Ann Ar- the need for secrecy has vanished now that a good deal of the
without funds and had no place bor Veteran8 Hospital. Mrs. Ben
rdorn's
new book,
.
, "The Roose- to stay. My wife could not ob- Shiffman, A u x i 1 i a r y hospital report has been permitted to leak out. The recent disclosure that
Telt Family of Sagamore Hill."
There is an interesting history taro state aid, since she was not chairman, announces that en- the Army could find no anti-Semitic motive behind the suspensions
Involved in the citizen's petition a resident of the state for one tertainment and refreshments should either close the incident or compel the ADL to lay its cards
on the table. Evidently the ADL is not overly satisfied with thg
year. My family was evicted are planned for the veterans.
to the Czar which should be
kind of investigation made by the Army. In fact it would have
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from
their
apartment,
and
were
I
better known to American Jews,
the Army make the same kind of thorough-going investigation of
forced
to
stay
one
night
at
a!
CHARLES
and
AARON
KO-
This petition protesting the
will the accusers and the accusations as the Navy did in the Chasanow
Detroit shelter.
GAN Post and Auxiliary will
ICishineff program was written
case since "it is important to determine whether some of the
by Leo Napoleon Levi, Texas- ! The State Chaplain's Commit- have . a combined social affair, accusers of those suspelided at . Fort Monmouth -rere motivated by
born president of Bnai Brith, tee took care of the situation: Thursday at 9 p.m., at the JWV *. bi,
g otry a chased."
rged
. We do not profess to know what facts the
ia.
e. ovie s o pas,
who, together with other Bnai Mr. Max Biber, of the commit- installations
ADL presented in its report, but it is common knowledge that the
t 11 t 1 Home.
will be shown and
arith leaders, were the guiding tee, has rented an apartment for
man who initiated the action against the accused has a pretty
spirits in the effort to mobilize my family, and together with t refreshments served. All mein- consistent record of anti-Semitism. Since he was the gentleman
Mrs. Biber, has gotten foOd and bens and prospective members who
American public opinion M
wno pi ocessed the cases, it is quite conceivable he was not a thor-
are invited.
oughly objective judge of the facts. I understand that an import-
through protest meetings and clothing for the children.
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i I want to thank Rabbi Joshua
ant source of information to the ADL was an informant who was
newspaper editorials.
YETZ
-
COHEN
AUXILIARY
Levi and the Bnai Brith exe- S. Sperka, who is president, and
closely associated with the "key man" and others who are still in
will hold its first meeting of the sensitive positions and whose names therefore cannot be divulged.
cutive committee were the Jew- Mr. and Mrs. Biber for their Fall season Monday in the Me-
Isti. leaders who on June 15, most wonderful help, without morial Home. Hostesses for the Since the informants gave the information to the ADL in confid-
ence, it is felt release of the report would be a betrayal of that
1903. 'presented to President which God only knows what
Theodore Roosevelt the 300-page might have happened. To the evening will be Mollie Bloom confidence. However, it seems to this corner that a way could be
petition, bearing the signatures committee, Rabbi Sperka and and Ida Epstein.
found in this particular instance to eat the cake and have it too.
of thousands of prominent Mr. and Mrs Biber, may the new
Hesse Aims to Dismantle
government officials. clergymen, ' year bring happiness and long
Washington Follies
Denazification Program
lawyers, doctors, scientists, busi- life.
The gentlemen of the State Department who are advocating
nessmen and other noted Amer- I also want to thank your
wider American military assistance to the Arab states still haven't
leans. A little more than a paper for expressing my thanks. WIESBADEN, (JTA ► —A bill
month later, the petition , was I receive it weekly from the dismantle what little remains of answered this simple question: How can a group of countries be
the denazification apparatus in considered incapable of sustaining an aggressive move against
cabled to St. Petersburg by U. S. Chaplain's office, and enjoy the State of Hesse was approved Israel and yet be strong enough to act as a bulwark against possi-
reading
it,
Secretary John Hay on instruc-
here by the Hesse Cabinet for ble communist aggression? The answer will never be forthcoming
Irving Reid
tdons from President Theodore
since a forthright reply would demolish the theory behind the in-
submission to the legislature.
4000
Cooper
St.
Roosevelt.
The
measure
cancels
almost
comprehensible
policy. The need of making that region of the
Jackson, Mich.
The story is told that when
all professional restrictions and4bworld a bastion against communist penetration is obvious. But it
President Roosevelt received the
other penalties imposed by de- would appear our policymakers are picking the wrong friends.
Bnai Brith delegation he spoke Solovich Takes Over
nazification courts to date,pro- The Arab record is a woeful one for democracy. They toyed With
warmly of Jewish heroism and
Michigan
vides that no further denazifica- our enemies openly and were ready to receive Hitler and his troops
Furniture
Co.
expressed his sense of outrage
tion trials be held, and that such but for the turn of fortune. Their stubborn refusal to openly and
ab "this question of persecution'
Charles D. Solovich, in an- trials as have already been securely commit themselves to a policy of non-aggression against
:for race or religious reasons."
nouncing this week that he has started should be squashed. There Israel as a. condition precedent to the receipt of Western arm:).
He then proceeded to describe
shows where the wind will be blowing when the fires are raging.
denazification cases
how he had handled an anti- taken over the proprietorship of are eight
in this state of 4,500,000
Semite in 1895 when he was the Michigan Furniture Store, population.
Friday, September 17, 1954
26—DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
police commissioner of New 6405 Michigan, stated that a new
York City. Roosevelt said:
feature will be a phone service.
"During the time was
Carrying a complete line of
police commissioner, a man
came from abroad—a Rector nationally known and adver-
tised products, Mr. Solovich said
Hermann Ahlwardt—to start
that most people know price
an anti-Jewish agitation in
and merchan-
New York, and announced his
dise on such
intention of holding meetings
items as carpet-
to assail Jews. The matter
ing and appli-
was brought to my attention.
ances and that
Of course, I had no power to
all they will
prevent those meetings. After
have to do is to
a good deal of thought, I de-
call and get the
tailed a Jewish sergeant and
Michigan Fur-
40 Jewish policemen to protect
niture price and
the agitator while he held his
it will be ship-
meetings. So he made his
ped out.
speeches denouncing the Jews
With four floors
protected exclusively by Jews,
Solovich of f p r n i t u re,
which I always thought was
carpeting, appliances and mat-
probably the most effective
tresses to choose from, Michigan
answer that could possibly be Furniture offers one of the fin-
made to him, and probably ; est selections of merchandise
the best object lesson we from which to choOse, Solovich
conild give of the spirit in I said. The prices. on all goods,
which we Americans manage he added, are the lowest in
town.
such matters."
Neither the Bnai Brith peti-
The slogan of the company,
Lion nor the displeasure of the which is located one block west
U.S. goyernment, however, of Livernois, on Michigan, will
checked the Czar's government be "See us first before you buy
for long. Two years later, a for the best deal in town," Solo-
second massacre took place in vich concluded. To place an
Kishineff, in which 29 were kill- order by phone, call TA. 5-4560.
ed and 56 injured.
This law of shielding the alien
Cordially yours,
from an wrong is of vital sig-
ALLEN LESSER
nificance in the history of re-
' Director of Public
Relations of Bnai Brith ligion, With it alone, true re-
ligion begins. The alien was to
Washington, D.C.
be protected, not because he was
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a member of one's family, clan,
Writer Offers Thanks
religion, community or people,
but because he was a human be-
To Prison Committee
ing. In the alien, therefore, man
Ec'itor, The Jewish News:
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I want to express my grati- discovered the idea of humanity.
tude through your paper to the —Hermann Cohen (1842 - 1918).

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