THE JEWISH NEWS

Incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle commencing with issue of July 20, 1951

Member American Association of English—Jewish Newspapers, Michigan Press Association, National Editorial
Association.
Published every Friday by The Jewish News Publishing Co., 17100 West Seven Mile Road, Detroit, Mich. 46236,
VE 8-9364. Subscription $6 a year. Foreign Si.
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PHILIP SLOMOVITZ

Editor and Publisher

CARMI M. SLOMOVITZ

Business Manager

SIDNEY SHMARAK

Advertising Manager

CHARLOTTE DUBIN

City Editor

Sabbath Scriptural Selections
This Sabbath, the 25th day of Shevat, 5728, the following scriptural selections will
will be read in our synagogues:
Pentateuchal portions, Exodus 21:1-24:18, 30:11-16. Prophetical portion, II Kings
12:1-17.

Candle lighting, Friday, Feb. 23, 5:56 p.m.

Rosh Hodesh Adar Tora readings, Thursday and Friday, Num. 28:1-15.

VOL. LPL No. 23

Page Four

February 23, 1918

Seriousness of Two-Pronged Campaign

An encouraging start marks the current
Allied Jewish Campaign which, because of
the seriousness of the events that preceded
the Six-Day War, now is linked with an added
obligation in the continuing Israel Emergency
Fund. Both appeals are now joined in one
and prospective contributors are being asked
to respond generously to the perennial drive,
thus giving assurance to support for the local
and national as well as overseas causes, while
remaining steadfast in devotion to a great
need — the protection of Israel — by as-
suring continuity for the special fund which
is solicited as an emergency contribution.
High in the ranks of the defenders of Is-
rael on the economic and spiritual-cultural
fronts, Detroit Jewry responds nobly to the
call for vigilance in Israel's behalf. From
1948, when the first record sum was raised
to assure the settlement of hundreds of thou-
sands of dispossessed Jews in the ancient
homeland, this community has been stead-
fast in its devotion to a great cause rep-
resented in the major beneficiary from our
giving, the United Jewish Appeal. It was in
the year of the rebirth of the State of Israel
that 30,734 contributors gave the record 1948
sum of $5,756,133. Through the years that
followed, tens of thousands continued to give
to the great cause, surpassing even the 1948
sum with gifts of $5,918,268 in 1957. The
latter was the year that followed the Sinai
Campaign and there was an increasing realiza-
tion that an embattled Israel, whose resources
were devoted to the upbuilding of the lives
of hundreds of thousands of incoming set-
tlers while providing out of its meaffr in-
come for the defense of the country and its
people, must have support on the economic
and cultural front. But in that year of a new
record in philanthropy, only 25,960 provided
the large fund.
In the meantime, as philanthropic history
was being written here, only 23,593 people
were recorded as giving $5,790,353 in the
regular 1967 Allied Jewish Campaign. Then
came the crisis and an additional sum of
close to $6,000,000 was subscribed by 11,052
people, of whom more than 1,000 were men
and women who had never before contributed
to the major Detroit fund-raising effort.
We are, thus, reaching new heights, and
many more people are being reached by the
volunteer workers, providing hope that while
we are retaining the high standards for giv-
ing we also have a chance to increase the
ranks of participants in our drives.
This is an important aspiration for the

current double-barreled campaign. If we en-
large the ranks of contributors we have an
opportunity to assure income of increased
sums to meet the serious obligations while
continuing our efforts in support of the local
agencies, assuring the income necessary for
the strengthening of our educational institu-
tions which represent the most vital needs
on the home front.
If we can attain the goal of a vastly in-
creased participation in the current drives
by the Greater Detroit communities, we will
have assured additional strength for our
functioning agencies and for Israel.
While soliciting for the supplementary
as well as the major community funds, the
immediate needs, the serious obligations,
demand mounting loyalties on the part of the
entire community. We share confidence that
Detroit Jewry again will emerge nobly in
confronting the present tasks.
While adopting an attitude of confidence
that Israel will be properly defended and
fully protected during the crucial period of-
unending attacks conducted by the El Fatah
Arabs, we must not over-rate the response of
today in relation to the prompt alignment of
world Jewry with the Israelis last May and
June. Conditions probably are as serious
today, with the constant resort to terrorism
by Arabs who are invading Israeli settle-
ments, as in the weeks when Nasser and his
allies threatened Israel's destruction. This
threat has not ended. It is being repeated
time and time again and it must be viewed
as a continuing menace to Israel's security.
Therefore, in the course of a philanthropic
effort, while' pleading for the Jewish com-
munity of Israel against all impending dan-
gers, it becomes necessary that the needs
should be fully evaluated, that the responsi-
bilities should be understood, that there
should be no letdown of our kinsmen in a
time of crisis.
Will our community measure up to the
current needs as fully as it did in May-June
of 1967? We must hope that it will — once
the constituents of this traditionally gen-
erous community become fully aware of
what is impending.
Israel can depend fully on one major
partner in the task of protecting statehood:
world Jewry. American Jewry is the chief
factor in the world setting involving Israel's
position. If we hold fast to the responsibility
inherent in the obligation to assure Israel's
survival, the response in the current drive
will surely match that of the last summer. It
must be matched and if possible exceeded.

Panic Over the Far East Crises

A statement by professors and students
in a number of law schools, including Mich-
igan's, expresses deep concern over the Viet-
nam situation declares its opposition to the
present policy of accelerated bombing, calls
it "wrong and dangerous . . . to continue
to subordinate deperatery needed do-
mestic programs" to increasing war de-
mands. The significance of this action is that
it points to the enrollment of another group
of intellectuals in the ranks of opponents
to the present government policies. There is
nothing new in the new declaration, but if
it draws attention to the mounting tragedies
and encourages anti-war activities it will be
to the good.
Perhaps the accelerated anti-war move-
ments will also encourage an abandonment
of panic in the nation's capital. There is
need for fearlessness in approaching solu-
tions — just as the alternatives, those of pour-
ing in our wealth into efforts to establish
peace on the home front,. to the elimination

of racial strife and the solution of the serious
crime problems, call for courage and deter-
mination.
But there also is a measure of blindness
in some of the demands. If our nation's
enemies refuse to make peace, as the Presi-
dent contends, then we must seek other
means of ending the war. If those who speak
of peace really mean it seriously, the effort
should be a continuous one and not limited
to the current crisis. If we are to have peace
it must be worldwide and not limited to OUR
dropping our weapons. If there is to be
peace there must be an end to armaments.
We can't resort to lip service about peace
in the Middle East, for example, and in the
next breath say "we'll arm both Israel and
Jordan." There is a measure of hypocrisy
in such policies — and that's applicable to
all of the world's powers, not the U.S. alone.
And because all of the world's diplomatic
geniuses are to blame there is need for tak-
ing .many of the attacks on the President
with a grain of salt. ....

Fine Haym Salomon Biography
Reviews Revolutionary History

Haym Salomon, the Polish-Jewish immigrant who came to America
in the early 1770s, has his name indelibly recorded in the history of
this country as the financier of the American Revolution. He was a
devout Jew who labored for the cause of liberty. He enrolled Jewish
support for the revolutionary forces and
he gave his entire fortune to aid the
establishment of the United States.
His story has been told time and
again, and now it is related in splendid
fashion, in a book for youth of 10 and
older by Shirley Gorson Milgrim, in the
"Haym Salomon" illustrated volume pub-
lished by Follett Pubishing Co. (1010 W,
Washington Blvd., Chicago 7).
Mrs. Milgrom's story has many merits.

It is valuable for the multicolored 06d
torial section which precedes her narra-
tive. It includes a full account of Salo-
man's life and his experiences as It
prisoner of the British, having escaped
from a death sentence; his cooperative
efforts with Robert Morris, the minister
of finance of the American Revolution-
ary Forces; his correspondence with
Haym Soloman George Washington and the influence
he exerted, by his dedication and sincerity, upon the Jewish leaders of
the Philadelphia community in the early 1790s.
This biography for children has the additional value as a story
about the Revolution—the data that was incorporated by Mrs. Milgrim
into her research about the history of this country, its heroes, the
difficulties that were encountered in fighting the British, the stubborn
resistance, the assistance that came from Salomon and his fellow-
Jews. And the story is brought up to date by Mrs. Milgrim in her
account of the unsuccessful efforts to secure federal reimbursement
for Salomon's investments and the tribute to the Jewish hero in the
form of the monument erected in his memory in Chicago in 1941.
Salomon was approached for aid to the revolutionary forces by two

libertarians who came to America to aid the anti-British campaign--•
Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben and General Casimir Pulaski.
He provided each of them with the necessary funds to carry on their
mobilization of forces. General Pulaski, in whose forces Salomon fought
for freedom in the Polish army, told him he envisioned "a company
named the Salomon Legion."
Known as the "Jew-broker," Salomon was successful in his memo.
tile enterprises, smartly acquainting himself with the methods of mari-
time trading. But all his funds went to the forces of George Washington
and his associates.

Conditions waxed dangerous for the Revolution and Robert
Morris, himself having sacrificed his fortune in the battle for free-
dom, faced the danger of collapse unless the necessary means waft
secured to carry on the war. Although he at first did not trust
Salomon, he turned to him, sent him an urgent message to the Mikveh
Israel synagogue services on Yom Kippur, and Salomon, irreverently
interrupting the service, started a campaign to secure the urgently
needed sum of $20,000, starting the fund himself with $3,000.
was followed by Isaac Moses, Samuel Lyon, Jonas Phillips, Hyman
Levy and others. That night Robert Morris had the money that was
needed and the war was carried on to eventual triumph over the
British.
Mrs. Milgrim relates how the aid was given in Salom o.fl
efforts by the Gratz brothers and others. She tells about Salomon*
devotion to his wife Rachel and to their children. Salomon's courage
in fleeing from the British prison the night before he was to have been

,

executed for raiding the Revolution, is part of the tale of bravery.
The concluding chapter, bringing the story up to the present, inn,
eating the failure to secure compensation for the Salomon family, tells
about the monument, erected in Chicago on Dec. 15, 1941, as a joint
memorial to George Washington, Robert Morris and Haym Salomon
and of the $2,500 gift towards it by Salomon's great-grandson, William
Salomon. The tributes to Salomon by all Presidents, from Theodore
Roosevelt to Franklin Roosevelt, the inscription on the base of the
Salomon-Washington-Morris monument quoting Washington's "1:0
bigotry no sanction," the account of the activities of the Salomon chit.
dren—these and other facts are part of the wind-up that is a valuable
addendum to an important story about the Jewish hero in the American
'Revolution.

