Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1942-09-04

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Vol. 21, No. ,16
COblMBrS, OHIO, FRIOAV, SEPTEMBER 4, 1942
DATotrd    to    Americjin >nd   Javlili   Ideal!
Strictly Confidential
Tidbits Prom Everywhere By Phlneas J, Blron
Jews Join Christians In "Basic Religious Beliefs"
YOU SHOULD KNOW
(a Washington whispers that af¬ ter Bernard M, Baruch completes his survey of the rubber situa¬ tion he wlli turn  his attention to the steel question . - . And that New York's Governor Herbert H. Lehman will resign ere long to assume an Important post in the nation's capital  .  -  -  Songstress Dinah  Shore, who  has  been  In Hollywood all summer. Is at this writing on her Way toWashing- ton for a "command broadcast" to our armed forces abroad - - . She'll   be   sharing   honors   wilh five   ot   the   films'   best-known stars -  -  -  What  Europe needs, cracks   Harry  Hershfield,   is   a good dose ot some tonic to coun¬ teract Its Teutonics . . . MILITARY  INTBLIilOBNCE lis The   Frumklns   ot   Chattan¬ ooga are proud Indeed ot their Gabriel . - - A lieulenanl In the' Air  Corps,   he  has  been  decor¬ ated   for  extraordinary   bravery in action in the Southwest Paci¬ fic area - - - Just to make sure nobody gains any false impres¬ sions, the    screen    credits    for "Talk of the Town" will list the author of the scenario as "Pri¬ vate Irwln Shaw, U- S- Army" . -  -  Harry    Rlchman    always $;. thought    he was famous as a night;club figure—until some vls- Bife   Itlng "Dutch  army  aviators dis- Ulusibned him , -, They had long |lli?,fafnown of Hany, but only be-, ¦^ftijiSiuseibe had beeit-qn the plane ¦'¦'.f'that made the first round-trip trans-Atlantic flight, - . Not only hadn't they known of his long career as a singer, but they had thought he was one of our most noted aviators . . - Harry's broth er, Lou, by the way, is a corpor al in the Army now . , . He had to undergo three operations be¬ fore the Army would accept him. BBALM OF LETTERS lift "The Psychology of Fascism", a new book that will shortly be published   In   England,   Is   the work of Captain  Peter Nathan of   the   Royal   Army   Medical Corps, a young physician who i« one of    England's   outstanding military psychologists . , - Case histories   of   espionage  are   re¬ lated in a fascinating new book by    Joseph    Gollomb,    entitled "Spies",   and   paying   particular
Educators Asked To Teach Tolerance To American Youth
WASHINGTON (JPS) — A group ot leading Boston Jews, in¬ cluding Louis E. Kirstein, chair¬ man of the American Jewish Commiltee, Rabbl Joshua L. Leibman, Rabbi Herman H- Ru- benovllz, Rabbl S. J- Abrams and others, have joined with a group of Catholics and Protest ants In the adoption ot a series of "basic religious beliefs " cording lo a version of the state¬ ment nserled in the Congress¬ ional Record by Senator Henry Cabol l,0(lge, Jr- of Massachus¬ etts.
The credo was adopted by the Ma.ssachu-setts Committee of the Conference of Christians and Jews- It read, in part, as fol¬ lows:
"Facing the fact thai our coun try Is at war, and viewing the present catastrophic results ofi godlessnesK In the world, (we) affirm the following common and fundamental religious be¬ liefs. The following slatemenl is - . - not a profession of faith lo be considered sufficient or com¬ plete by any of us, but an ex¬ pression of certain basic con¬ victions which we share.
"We believe In one God, Crea¬ tor, Suslalner, and Goal of the universe,
"We believe that the mind of man reflects, though imperfect¬ ly, the mind of God, and we re¬ ject, as a betrayal of human dignity, all attempts to explain man in merely material terms,
"We believe that God's all holy will Is the ultimate sanction ot human mortality and that man's true freedom and happiness de¬ pend on his adherence to divine will as known to him. We re¬ ject all deterministic interpreta¬ tions of man and all reduction of his moral duties to mere cus¬ tom or social adjustment-
"We believe that recognition of man's dependence on God is Ihe only path to the progress ot true civilization; that nations, as well as individuals, have the duty ot recognizing this; and that education or sochil theories which would slate man's duties, standards and happiness without reference to God are doomed lo !,failure-
"We believe democracy lo be.
25,000 JEWS ARE ARRESTED IN OCCUPIED FRANCE DESPITE APPEALS FROM POPE PIUS
attention to the psychological as-| potentially,   the   only   desirable
pects of the subject - - - Now that columnist Boake Carter has made a detailed statement con¬ cerning bis religious outlook It is clear that he does not con¬ sider himself a Jew, but an "Is¬ raelite" in the sense that the term is used by the Anglo-Israel movement , , . Did you notice, by the way, his assertion that back In 1927 his mentor, Moses Guibbory, "foretold every single major event in the world that has happened since that year?" . - - These predictions were, as we understand it, based on the Guibbory Interpretation of the Bible - - - THIS AND THAT taAll these years we were under the impression that those famous murals the Mexican Jewish art. ist Diego Rivera made for Man¬ hattan's Rockefeller Center were destroyed (because the powers that be didn't care for the prom¬ inent position given to some revolutionary figures) - - - Now Leonard Lyons reveals that the Jnurala are Intact, and decorate the lobby of Unity House, the vacation spot operated by the In¬ ternational Ladles' Garment Workers' Union - . . For those of (Continued on Page Eight)
form of government for our na tlon and for countries ot similar self-governing tradltons, but that no political forms can In the long run bring liberty and hap¬ piness lo a society in which moral and religious duties are denied or negiecled,
•We believe that God's father¬ ly providence extends equally to every human being- We re¬ ject theories of race which at¬ tribute essential superiority to one racial strain over another VVe acknowledge every man as our brother."
Governor Leverelt Saltonstall, Mayor Maurice J. Tobln of Bos¬ ton, Rev. William R. Leslie, pres¬ ident of the Greater Boston Council of Churches, Rev. Mich¬ ael J. Ahem, S. J., Daniel L- Marsh, president of Boston Uni¬ versity, Judge Francis Ford of the United States District Court, Robert Cutler, president of Com¬ munity Chests and Councils, and Dr. Serge Koussevltsky of the Boston Symphony were among the signatories-
WA8HINGT0N (JPS) — The function of American education must be "lo educate the youlh of today to live peaceably with those who are different," educa¬ tors a->;-sembled here for the In¬ stitute on Education and War wore told by Dr- Everett R, Cltnc'hy. president of the Na¬ tional Conference of Christians anil -lew^.
Assembled here from all parts of the nation to hear leaders in government and military fields exiioiind the new role of the schools in helping strengthen .America for the war. the teach ers heard Dr. Clinchy say that the organized forces of educa¬ tion and religion have "common stakes in this war and many parallel objectives for the post¬ war era. Wherever lotalltarian sialism have overrun society, the schools and the churches have been the first victims.
"From the beginning of Amer¬ ican history our educational, as well as political structure, was fostered hy religious people." In discussing war aims that face American educators, the speak¬ er asserted that "one aim in par¬ ticular desperately neetls the at¬ tention of educators- ll will be, perhaps, the greatest demand of the post-war world. The Iradl tional relationships of the cul ture groups to which most of us belong, Protestant, Catholic and Jewish, add up to a messy .his¬ tory in every country under the sun. But none of this Is in the American tradition- No total dis¬ respect of the collective person¬ ality of other groups is In the inie character of any modern nation, not excepting our ene¬ mies- The fault lies with those who have permitted the indoc trinalion of hale- Equally, the failure Is to be charged to those educators who have neglected their positive duly lo relate the teaching of their subject matter lo the brotherhood of the one human family,"
The schools were called upon to have courses in human rela¬ tions lo further belter relations between Protestants, Catholics and Jews in American commun¬ ity life. "The war is being fought to make the world safe for differences," Dr. Clinchy pointed out.
New Year Greetings!
No more Now Year grerl- ings ran be Inserted in the hlg ni a K n 7,1 11 r edition of Ihe Chronicle. However, our regular Issue which will reach all borne* Ihe same day, Hal- nnlny, Repl. 12, will continue lo accept greetings to friends and reliillvPH tbroaghout the eomlng week.      Call AI>. 2n.'>4
Journal Wonders About Coughlin's Non-Indictment
.VKW VORK (.IPS)—The Com¬ monweal, leading American Calh¬ olic weekly. In examining and disapproving of the Indictment hy a Washington Grand Jury of 28 citizens on charges of con¬ spiracy, wonders why Father Coughlln and "the proprietors of certain large and rich new-s- papers" are nol on the list since they "look on the surface to have heen just as much involved as the Griffins and Dilllngs and Pelleys."
The Commonweal declares edi¬ torially that legal procedure and tradition have not been observ¬ ed In: the indlctmept •MA't28,''itten| arid Vbftferi; mbst'bi Bienf'c*aeita' pots, all of them enemies of democracy- The Commonweal has no liking for fa-sclsts, Amer¬ ican or olherwse- Yet 11 finds in the methods of the Deparl¬ ment of Justice something as much lo be condemned, consider¬ ing its high source, as the preach¬ ments and writings of the crack¬ pots presently indicted, however dangerous  they may he."
LISBON (WNS)—Despite ap¬ peals from Pope Plus XII and high Calholic officials In France, Chief of State Pierre Laval has ordered the arrest of all .lewish refugees in unoccupied France for deportation to Nazi slave la¬ bor camps in Silesia and Poland.
More than 2.5,0011 non-French .lews have been rounded-up in unoccupied France and are be¬ ing held in special concentra¬ tion centers, most of them In Lyons, for depnrl,-)tion lo East¬ ern Europe. All reports indicate that the arrests are continuing on a mass scale.
Since Angii.st 7th large num¬ bers of .fewish refugees have been loade<i on cattle cars every three days and shipped lo Po- i land as ¦¦slave laborers" lo work on German farms and mines. The wives and children of tha men arc sent to special camps
The I'oiie appealed to Laval ¦md .Marshal Petain after he was informed that the Nazis had de- mandwl the immediate round-up in hoth occupied and unoccupied France of all refugees who en¬ tered France after l!i:):i when Hitler seized [lower in Germany. The Pope's plea was brought lo Laval hy Mgr. Valerio Valeri, I'apal Nuncio.
Al the same lime protests againsi the anil-Jewish deporta-
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DID YOI' RECEIVE YOUR JBWISH ART CALENDAR-?
Realizing thai he may have missed some Jewish families due to an incomplete mailing list, Mr. Donald Snider is taking this means lo inform those who are desirous of an attractive Jew¬ ish Art Calendar for the New Year, may procure one by stop¬ ping at the Snider Funeral Home, 17fiO E. Main St., or phon¬ ing FA. 0611.
KAIHOI'H CANTOB TO BE HERE SEPT. 28-27TH
The Agudath Achim C o n- gregation Is huppy to an¬ nounce that It has succeeded In engaging P. I'lnchlk, world famous cantor, to conduct Succoth Services at their place ot worship on Friday evening, Saturday and Sun¬ day mornings. Sept, 20-27.
Further details will be an¬ nounced In forthcoming Is¬ sues of the Cbronlcle.
Temple Brotherhood Stag Dinner Set For Thursday Evening
AU plans have been completed for tbe first big .stag dinner af¬ fair of the season by the Bryden Road Temple Brotherhood, ac¬ cording lo William Kahn, chair¬ man of the program committee. It is to he held next Thur.sday evening, Sept. 10th, fi:;iO o'clock, at the Winding Hollow Country Club, and is lo be free to all paid Ui) members with a nominal charge for guests. The affair was originally scheduled for Tuesday evening, but on account of stores slaying open thai night, it was moved lo Thursday.
The speaker on that occasion will be Dr. Harlan Wilson who has just returned from an official assignment lo England. His per¬ sonal experiences in that war- torn country should be of time¬ ly interest to all in atlendance- Besides the speaker an eve¬ ning of real entertainment has been scheduled with a variety ofi games for all- in order lo know the number of dinners lo be prepared for Ihls event, the return reserva¬ tion card must be filled out and mailed at once or call Miss Dorothy Roth, at the Tem pie, FA- 7838-
Aiian Tarshish will officiate for the High Holydays this year at Marion, Ohio- From 1926 to 1940, Mr, Tarshish bad officiated for Holyday services at Fre¬ mont, Ohio,
bishop of Lyons. Both Catholic leaders delivered a "spirited" protest against the racial and re¬ ligious perseculions-
Fernand de Brinon, 'Vichy's emissary lo Paris, was reported to have advised the protesting clergymen that the anti-Semitic progi-am was a definite part of the Laval Government's policy- Despile the fact that Laval chose to ignore his plea, the Pope was reported lo be continuing his pressure on the Vichy officials 10 discontinue the anll-Jewlsh arrests and modify their anti- Jewish program.
Mgr- Carmelo Rosso, a mem¬ lier of Ihe Papal Nuncio's staff, conferred with Laval over the increased anti-Jewish measures and indicated) the Pope's altitude toward the deportations- At the same lime Leon Berard, French Ambassador lo the Vati¬ can, returned to Vichy from Rome 10 discuss the situation with Marshall Petaln.
In addition to the 25,000 Jews rounded up in unoccupied France, Nazi authorities in the occupied zone have arrested more than 30,000 Jews in Paris. Many Jewish women were re¬ ported to have killed Ihelr chil¬ dren and themselves when Nazi soldiers broke Into, their apart¬ ments to arrest them. The latest anll-Jewlsh arrests have result¬ ed in a new wave of suicides among Jewish refugees.
Meanwhile, Jewish welfare groups as well as non-Jewish or¬ ganizations in Vichy this week addressed an appeal lo the Uni¬ ted Stales and other democratic nations to provide a haven for 3,500 Jewish children, ranging in age from a few days to 10 years, whose parents were a- mong the 25,000 Jews recently deported to Eastern Europe- According to the London radio, Nazi authorities in France are planning to send the children to Germany where they will be held in special camps.   The re-
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