Tema • nary Extu its Draw ide Attentio

Prompt Reservations Invited
For Dinner on October 17

Nationwide attention is being shown in the Tercentenary
Ex ::bit in the Detroit Historical Museum, according to the
Musfmm's director, Henry D. Brown, who reports receiving
messages of inquiries from museums in several cities.
The Tercentenary Exhibit, "Jewish Life and Culture in
Detroit," marking the 300th anniversary of the settlement of
the Jews in this country, will continue through Jan. 12. There
will be additions and changes in the material on display and
special programs are planned to mark the Tercentenary dur-
ing the coming months.

Miss Barbara J. Paulson, public relations secretary of
the Historical Museum, reports that a number of organiza-
tions have arranged to hold meetings at the Museum and
to tour the Tercentenary and other exhibits there. In
addition to the groups already announced, the following
have arranged Museum meetings: Torah Group of Hadas-
sah, Sisterhood of Bnai Moshe, Zionist Organization of
Detroit, Beth Aaron Sisterhood, Sigma Alpha Mu Women's
Auxiliary and Meyers Chapter of Hadassah. Groups desir-
ing to arrange Museum meetings are asked to call M'ss
Paulson, TE. 3-5410.

The Library Tercentenary Exhibit will. continue for an-
other two weeks. An invitation has been extended by Li-
brarian Ralph A. Ulveling to the entire community to visit
the Library Exhibit.
Meanwhile plans are proceeding for a score of other
Tercentenary events planned in Detroit.

The major function will be the Tercentenary dinner
to be held. at Hotel Statler Oct. 17. Those who have not as
yet made their reservations are urged to call the Jewish
Community Center, TR. 5-8450, or the chairman of the
dinner committee, Mrs. Hy Burnstein, UN. 3-4363.

The Tercentenary Sabbath, youth events, music festivals
and special women's pageants are now being planned by the
respective committees.

Detroit Tercentenary Calendar

Oct. 17—Tercentenary dinner at Hotel Statler. Speaker, Dr.
Abba Hillel Silver.
Oct. 21—Tour of Historical Museum, arranged by League of
Jewish Women's Organizations.
Nov. 26-27—Tercentenary Sabbath.
Dec. 4-6—Annual Book Fair, at Davison Center. Speaker,
Louis Golding.
Dec. 26-27—Youth assemblies at Mumford High School.
Dec. 26—Young Adult Assembly at Mumford High School.
Feb. 14—Pageant of League of Jewish Women's Organizations,
at Temple Israel.
Feb. 21—Music Festival, at Mumford High School.
June 28-Aug. 28, 1955—Exhibition at Detroit Art Institute.

Wayne Jewish History
Course Starts October 27

Dean Victor Rapport of
Wayne University announced
this week that the course in
American Jewish History, of-
fered in honor of the American
Jewish Tercentenary, will start
on Oct. 27. It will be an eight-
week, two-hour course.
Dr. Bernard Weisberger, as-
sociate professor of history at
Wayne University, will have
charge of the course during the
first semester. In the second
Semester, a follow-up course on
trends in American Jewish life
will be directed by Dr. Weisberg-
er and Dr. Norman Drachler.
Dr. Weisberger, before coming
to Wayne, taught American and
European history at Antioch

College, Yellow Spring, 0. Dur-
ing the Korean war he served
with the historical section of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff at the
Pentagon and helped write an
army history.
He taught at Swarthmore
College, Pennsylvania, after re-
ceiving his Ph. D. from the
University of Chicago in 1950. He
served with the U. S. Army in
India and China in 1946.
Born in Hudson, N. Y., he was
educated in New York City
schools and earned his B. A. at
Columbia. He is the author of
"Reporters for the Union," a
book about correspondents in
the Civil War, published in 1953
by Little, Brown & Co.

Cohn Did Not Get Part Two:
JWV Endorsement

By MILTON FRIEDMAN
WASHINGTON— Roy M.
Cohn, former chief council of
Sen. Joseph McCarthy's subcom-
mittee, is not now and never
has been endorsed by the Jew-.
ish War Veterans.
Amazed JWV members read a
July 28 Associated Press report
that listed the JWV as one of
the organizations which pre-
sented testimonials to Cohn at
a New York dinner in his honor.
The JWV high command quickly
raised a point of order. Not only
did it fail to honor Cohn but,
after reading erroneous press
reports, JWV sought means of
erasing "the stigma of being
associated with an ideology that
makes a mockery of human dig-
nity and the democratic proces-
ses."
National Commander Harry T.
Madison said "the error has
struck JWV at its very heart, for
as a guardian arm of American
liberty we have always stood
firm in our position against any
demagogue that posed a threat
to America's free way of life."
The error came about, JWV
said, "when Rabbi Benjamin
Schultz, coordinator of the com-
mittee sponsoring the dinner,
introduced Dr. Morris Jacobson
as the Anti-Discrimination and
Americanism Chairman of JWV
Jackson Heights-Elmhurst Post
209." Dr. Jacobson then pro-
ceeded to present Cohn with a
scroll bearing the imprint •of
"the anti-Peress group" of the
Parent-Teachers' Association of
a public school in Queens. But,
said JWV, "Rabbi Schultz' in-
troduction was enough to con-
fuse some reporters present and
indicate to them that the scroll
bore the blessings of the JWV."
A retraction was subsequently
published by the AP. One of the
authentic donors of .a testimo-
nial to Cohn at the dinner was
the American Legion. But the
Legion apparently had mis-
givings after reading the JWV's
views. For the Legion's Depart-
ment of Maryland had previous-
ly agreed to be a co-sponsor of
an October 5 testimonial in Bal-
timore. The testimonial would
pay tribute to Cohn and Rabbi
Schultz. The rabbi heads the
"American Jewish League
Against Communism." But the
Legion, when it heard that Sen.
McCarthy was also coming, de-
cided to withdraw from the af-
fair. This left the other co-
p onsors—th e Minute Women,
Maryland Constitutionalists, and
the Maryland Action Guild to
carry on alone.
Cohn has claimed that he
handled "in preparation, pres-
entation, or both" the Fort Mon-
mouth investigation. This Mc-
Carthy probe caused the Bnai
Brith Anti-Defamation League
months of trouble when it was
learned that 39 of 42 "suspects"
suspended or declassified were
Jewish. Benjamin R. Epstein,
ADL national director, has
written that "the unfortunate
public impression that Commu-
nism was rampant among the
suspected civilian personnel at
Fort Monmouth.

By OSCAR S. STRAUS

An AJP Tercentenary Feature

Settlers Cite Samuel the Prophet

Early in the history of the
American people, Cotton Math-
er, who was an extreme Old
Testamentarian, s a i d: 'New
England being a country whose
interests are remarkably en-
wrapped in ecclesiastical cir-
cumstances,
ministers
to
concern themselves
in ought
politics.„

Verily they followed his advice.
They mustered not only in the
ranks of the Continental army,
with their firelocks in hand,
fighting the battles of the rev-
olution, but on Sunday their elo-
quent voices were heard from
the pulpit and in camp de-
nouncing not only as false in
principle but as against the true
spirit and meaning of the Scrip-
tures, the slavish doctrines of
"unlimited submission and non-
resistance," which they ex-
plained, had been invented by
crown sycophants and court
chaplains to flatter the ears
of tyrannical rulers. They pic-
tured in glowing words the rise
and fall of the Hebrew Com-
monwealth, and read to their
hearers again the warnings and
admonitions of Samuel, and the
references made by the prophets
to the wrongs and injustice of
kings, and the consequential
sufferings of the people because
of their rejecting God's estab-
lished rule, the government of
the people as it 'existed under
Moses, Joshua and the Judges.
"And the Lord said unto Sam-
uel, hearken unto the voice of
the people in all that they say
unto thee; for they have not
rejected thee, that I should not
rule over them." (Samuel VIII,
7.)
This and similar passages
were taken as texts for the
politico-theological sermons that
were heard Sunday after Sun-
day throughout New England.

Text by DANIEL ELAZAR.

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The 28th annual Education
Month, observed by the United
Hebrew Schools, was launched
Sept. 23.
Morris Jacobs, chairman of
this year's Education Month, in
his opening remarks, stressed
the importance of eliminating
the gap between Israel and the
Diaspora through the study of
the Hebrew language and liter-
ature. The Hebrew language,
Mr. Jacobs stated, constitutes
the bridge which connects the
Jews of America with those of
Israel.
It was decided that, in as-
much as this is a Tercenten-
ary Year, that the 'theme of
Education Month should in-
clude the cultural progress of
Jewry during the 300 years'
history in the United States.
It was reported that the WWJ
Broadcasting Company will give

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The First Democracy

The Hebrew Commonwealth,
unlike other republics, both an-
cient and modern, was an orig-
inal government. It was not
constructed from the remnants
of a shattered monarchy, nor
did it belong to that class of
governments which were " orig-
inally formed from the seeds of
their own dissolution.” The gov-
erning power was exercised by
the people, and not arrogated
by the few, or retained by aris-
tocratic families who might
thereby have the means of con-
stituting themselves an heredi-
tary senate. The children of
Israel, when they escaped from
the thraldom of Pharaoh, like
the people of America when they
severed their allegiance from
their king, were peculiarly for-
tunate in having no titled
classes with exclusive privileges
to contend against, no institu-
tions among them which had
outlived their usefulness, no old
ruins to rebuild. They were pe-
culiarly fortunate in having the
power of organizing for them-
selves such form of government
as they in their most deliberate
judgment, guided by the exper-
iences of all nations, might
elect. It may be an accidental
coincidence that in the history
of these two peoples, there
should exist so many circum-
stances that bear a striking
similarity to one another, that
in respect to government they
should have arrived at the same
result, the establishment of a
federal democratic republic. Yet
it is doubtless more in accord
with the logic of history, which
is "philosophy teaching by ex-
ample," to conclude that the
former was a material element
in the genesis of the latter, and
a positive influence in its na-
tional formation aside from any
direct connection we may suc-
ceed in. tracing in these pages.

Annual Education Month Launched;
Will Be Dedicated to Tercentenary

4. The Inquisition in America

THE TERCENTENARY STORY

Bopyright, 1954, by American Jewish Press

The Hebrew Commonwealth and the
Government of the United States

free time for a 15-minute
broadcast over its station. The
Yiddish Hours will be made
available for Education Month
messages. Jacob Kellman, Ruben
Isaacs, A. J. Lachover and Irv-
. ing Panush were appointed to
act as a radio committee.
Bernard Isaacs reported that
I newspaper publicity is planned
in advance of Education Month,
and that the United Hebrew
Schools Quarterly Bulletin will
convey messages of Jewish edu-
cation.

Mrs. Herman Wetsman,
president of Women's Auxil-
iary, reported that her organ-
ization will devote one of its
fall meetings to a special edu-
cation program.

Joseph Katz, president of
Kvutzah Ivrith, and Morris No-
bel, president of its cultural
committee, stated that the an-
nual election meeting of the
Kvutzah will be dedicated to
the cause of JewiSh education.
The Hebrew Teachers Associ-
ation and the Parent-Teachers
Organizations of the United He-
brew Schools will arrange a
luncheon meeting.
It was decided to make con-
tact with organizations, parti-
cularly young people, and ar•
range for messages on Jewish
education, to be read at their
meetings.
Dr. Ephriam Shmueli. educa-
tor and literateUr, who is now
associated with the lVfidrasha of
the United Hebrew Schools, ad-
dressed the meeting.

24—DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday. October 1, 1954

