The Sentinel, v.125 no. 11, 1942

              March 12, 1942 THE SENTINEL
Rabbi David de Sola Pool and
Frank Weil of the Jewish Welfare
Board spoke at a meeting of the Jude-ans
in New York on March 1, describ-ing
respectively
the work done by
the Je wish
Chaplains and the
U. S. O. Both
addresses were
admirable. The
gathering present
was profoundly
stirred by the
description of
events, personal-ities
and programs
of helpfulness in
the cantonments
and the communities. Rabbi Pool's
address was filled with stories of hu-man
interest, and it is clear that the
boys in uniform are taking seriously
the opportunities for religious self-expression
which are being afforded
them. He told, also, of the cooperation
of friendly non-Jews with boys of
piety. For example, one lad who lays
Tefillin, despite the objections of less
observant Jews, was protected against
them by an Irish soldier-friend; when
the Sabbath came, on which no Tefillin
need be laid, the Irish boy exclaimed:
"Now you go ahead and put on them
things; don't let those other fellows
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bully you." Another boy, named
Kelley, when he heard that Rabbi Pool
was from New York rushed up to him,
crying out: "Let me shake the hand
of someone from New York; I've been
down south here for weeks and haven't
laid eyes on a single person from
home !"
Rabbi Pool says that there is
competition among the pious
young Jewish soldier boys to conduct
religious services. I am happy to say
that one of the former confirmants of
Congregation Rodeph Sholom, Stanley
Kaufman, an air cadet in the Middle
West, has officiated at such services in
the absence of a Jewish chaplain. It
has come to my attention that M. Her-bert
Wiesenberg has done the same
at another camp. Rabbi Pool told of
the occasion when a Catholic con-ducted
mass with wine furnished by a
Protestant and the wafer in the form
of a Jewish Matzoh, Kosher salami
has become a popular food with Jew-ish
boys away from home and eager
for home cooking. Frank Weil, speak-ing
of the work done by the United
Service Organizations, says that one
boy remarked: "Formerly on leave I
used to get drunk; now I come to your
affairs at the Temple." Mr. Weil in
his address also made an interesting
comment upon "good' Jewish news,"
such as cooperation between the vari-ous
denominational service groups,
including the Jewish Welfare Board;
and "bad Jewish news," dealing with
boycott, persecution, pogrom and the
like. Surely this raises the question
whether we Jews in America can sur-vive
if nourished only on "good Jewish
news." My conviction is that we do
not depend upon dolorous tidings to
perpetuate our solidarity or our faith;
we can flourish only in a healthy and
friendly atmosphere.
From a small Eastern community
comes the story of a distressing
occurrence recently. The well-to-do
wife of a German Gentile brewer,
whose son had been drafted by the
army, went after midnight to one of
the apartments owned by her husband
and herself, and drove out into the
night a young Jewish husband and
wife with their six-week-old baby. She
shouted: "You Jews are responsible
for the war. What America needs is
another Hitler." Is this not disturbing
in the extreme? I understand that the
local American Legion and the church-men
have endeavored to create an
antidote ftr this unfortunate occur-rence,
but the harm has been done.
I have been informed that before
Pearl Harbor Jewish soldier boys
were blamed by non-Jews in camp for
having "gotten us into this." The Jap-anese
attack has curtailed but not
ended this propaganda, and Hitler
may be more adroit than we think in
emphasizing the alleged responsibility
of the Jews for the war in all his re-cent
utterances. Let it be remembered
by Americans that if this War is lost,
America will be so profoundly changed
that those institutions which we all
prize and require will be demolished
beyond recovery. The Anti-Jewish
preachment is a weapon useful to Hit-ler
in this country. Gentile friends,
fellow-Americans, for your own sake,
beware of susceptibility to this dread-ful
agitation!
TELLING IT IN GATH
By RABBI LOUIS L NEWMAN
In the Bulletin of Temple Beth
El, Detroit, of which Rabbi B.
Benedict Glazer is the minister, the
following item appears in the issue of
Thursday, March 5:
CHOOSE!
THIS?
One hour of:
1. Mah-jongg (excitement, relaxa-tion,
gossip), or
2. Bridge (same-with more ten-sion),
or
3. Dinner party (some talk, more
food, a pinch of soda), or
4. Business (worry, fatigue and a
headache), or
5. Movie (Dumb o, Garbo and
Harpo), or
6. J itters about anti-Semitism
("What shall we do? Rabbi, did
you hear . .. ?")
Any of the above can be had
any evening (seven!) in the
week.
Brother, can you spare an hour?
OR
THIS?
One hour of:
1. Fellowship (with God, man and
community), and
2. Meditation (the inner fortress of
the soul), and
3. Thought (about the critical
problems that face us), and
4. Prayer (to release the heart
from fear), and
5. Faith (giving strength for the
entire week), and
6. Proof against anti-Semitism
(Jews are loyal, reverent and
religious!) Here is the best
"goodwill" in the world - and
you can create it!
All the above can be had on Friday
evening.
Sister, can you take an hour?
In the Outpost, published by
Americans in Britain, the follow-ing
excerpt from the Thanksgiving
Day speech by John Gauntlett, presi-dent
of the American Society in Lon-don,
appeared:
"You will recall, when the enemy
blitzed Belfast last year and the city
was in flames, fire brigades from
Dublin hastened to the assistance of
their fellow Irishmen. It was from the
debris of a half-demolished house in
Belfast that an old Irishwoman was
being extricated. When she looked up
and saw the strange uniform of her
rescuer, she inquired anxiously: 'And
who might you be?' 'It's all right,
Mother-don't worry. I'm a Dublin
fireman,' replied the visitor. 'Glory be
to God,' retorted the old woman, 'I
didn't know I'd been blown so far.' "
Stefan Zweig
"If Hitler's butcher boys are the
legal rulers of Austria, then Stefan
Zweig, who, with his wife, committed
suicide in Brazil recently, was a man
without a country. More accurately, it
can be said that the Nazis are the
ones who have exiled themselves, not
only from the graciousness, the art,
the learning, that were the best of
the old Austria, but from civilization
itself. They are the wanderers,
branded with the mark of Cain. Men
like Stefah Zweig, creatively gifted,
have a homeland everywhere . . .
"Such men are the salt of our earth.
They fought and suffered while many
of us were still indifferent, and had
no dear spot of ground to which they
could return. We take off our hats to
them dead. Let us be more thought-fully
kind to the living."
-Editorial, New York Times
Five times elected
County Judge by the
people of Cook County.
Democratic candidate
for renomination for re-election
for the fifth
time this April.
His efficient and non-partisan
administration
of this office has won the
approval of all high
minded citizens and
merits his renomination
and re-election.
Primaries
Tuesday. April 14, 1942
Judge
Edmund K.
Jarecki
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