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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-10-03

Your postmaster can Tell you
how 10 invest In y. D. Defense
Bonds.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-10-03
Discuss Problems

The authority. under its new
chairman, Fred Shoemaker, met
privately with the city council IN
Mayor Gains office Wednesday
afternoon 10 discuss some of the
serious problems which construc-
ton of a large mass of homes can
bring.
AS one member expressed the
suthority's worry, it is impossible
10 build 400 housing units IN the
city without disrupting school
plans. water, light and sewage
systems and transportation 10
some extent.
To interfere as little as possible
with existing facilities and tax
the city with little new expense,
sites within the city already served
by utilities are being considered.
There are some large pieces OF
county property within the city
which might be used for the new
defense housing and are being
studied.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-10-03

Here the picture of City Utilities Commissioner Robert
D ONeis hoppy smile he deft ond seotedl holds
81 00o 1872 IS check for examination by Light Sup Verne
Kent who looks almost skeptoo he eyes the huge
The check represented the Gosh poyment the city
Second Nsquoy Power Development bonds purchased by
o syndicate of the notions finance houses.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1941-12-06
Says Negro
Must Fight
Back
Notes Church
Has Failed To
Measure Up

Declaring that trained skilled
Negroes are walking the streets OF
this country. hungry and jobless
because they are victims Of race
prejudice by hypocritical Christian
American whites. was tho charge
made by Miss Mamie Burroughs
head of the National Trainins
school in Washington d. C.. wher
she addressed an overflow congre
cation at Second Baptist church,
SUNDAY morning.
Miss Burroughs said that since
the President had ordered all-oui
effort for British and American de-
Tense the so-called Christians
should launch an "all-oui trial Of
Christianity" She blamed critical
world conditions on the fact that
Christians had failed TO live up 20
the commandments Of Jesus.
How can the American people
hoip up Christian ideals Of free
dom, she said. land on the Other
hand lynch and discriminate against
their brothers"
The famous educator also dill
not fail To hurl challenge Al the
Negroes Of America. when she told
hem that Christianity was never
intended for people who did no.
hsht back and people who were
always compromising. She told
them TO stand up for their rights
and develop leadership that would
inspire tho real teachings of Chris.
tianiiy.
"Thc church has slept and has
left it's work to be done by The
YMCA. the Red Cross and other so
cial aroncies. she said.
Miss Burroughs appearance IN
Detroit was under the auspices o.
Woman's nay Committee OF Second
Baptist church. under the chair
manship OF Mrs. Anna j. Bryant
who conducted tho morning service
Mrs Bryant reported that her
committee raised the sum Of
st.7SS57 for the Womans Day cele-
bration. which IS part OF the
services celebrating the ihirty-one
years pastorate OF Rev. Robert l..
Brady.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1941-12-06
State Plans
Bill Of Rights
Nation Will
Commemorate
15Oth Year

BY a resolution. OF Congress, Dec.
Il has been officially designated
bill OF Rights Day Thc Presi-
dent OF the United states Is the
honorary chairman OF the national
committee which has been eslab-
lished for nationwide celcbra-
ton. In Michigan. Bill OF Rights
Scsqui-Centennial Commemoration
committee has been set up. with
Governor Van Wagner as honorary
chairman.
Tho committee IS asking many
groups OF men and women IN the
state TO sponsor a celebration and
make It one that will be long re-
membered.
Hundreds OF Detroit and Michigan
organizations will observe Bill OF
Rights Day. There also will be
Continued on page 81
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1941-12-06
Mrs. j. Hollingsworth
Youthful North Ender
Has Impressive Rites

Funeral services for the late jim
nieloc Frances iloll.nes~orih were
held FRIDAY morning ifom Alien
Temple ANlE church, the Rev, W
A. Cudr ~ Flint FORMER pastor o.
Allen Temple delivered the eulogy'
+. NJ. Mason Funeral Home was ~
charge az the body lnierment wa
in Memorial Park cemetery.
Mrs Ilollingsworih died Monday
Nov. "a in Herman Keller hospital
AZ the are OF -. she was a gradual
of Northern High school ana f'
many years active IN religious ana
civic circles in the North End com
munty.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1941-12-06

The employers OF Great Lakes
Nutua Insurance company llnye
an organization separate and dis
ilnct from the Insurance CONF
pany known aS the Great Lakes
Mutual Underwriters club, OIL
nclalS announced this week. The
picture shows Mrs. Fannie YAM
ey, clerk oi District No. ,, hand
Ing the bond 10 ALA Frauds,
treasurer, while l.. A. Mlllbcn,
President and William Hanson,
chairman VI the Executive COM
mlitce. look on. This club i for
The benefit 81 the employees and
mas made donations 10 schools In
and ont OF the city, participated In
The campaigns given by the
WA. lWCA and NAACP. II
mas also distributed baskets 20
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1941-12-06
Judson Powell Gets
A Draft Board Post

Atty. Judson y. Powell, 1908
Broadway, received a notice r
few days ago from Gov. Murray
van WAGNER that he had been
appointed assistant committee
man Tor Board q. Of the Selec-
tive Service, Wayne County,
Atty. Powell lie married and lives
n, $50 Pasadena avenue.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1941-12-06
Police Uncouers Bellhobs In
Fint's Three Sided Vice Racket

HINT
bhop hotel and
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1941-12-06

tituie and giving part Of her earn
ings 10 these men.
Patrolman Carl W. Dellins was
credited with breaking the latest In
the series Of cases in which Roucier
allegedly is involved. He became
suspicious OF the girl and arranged
70 meet her while he was out OF
uniform. In civilian clothes, he
talked 70 the girl and learned that
she was working as prostitute,
I"on call from the hotel where she
ivcd 70 the hotel whore the bell
hops worked.
Girl COnfesses
Early yesterday. Delling was
walking hy the hotel IN uniform
and the girl. learning he WAS po-
iiceman. became frightened enough
TO confess She gave Delling the
names of the men for whom she al
legedly worked. and the arrests
followed Immediately.
In her s,atemen, 10 Winegarden,
she said Boucher forced her TO be-
come n prostitute and 10 give him
and the bellhops patt OF her earn
( ines on TWO instances. she said
BonCier struck her when she did
not produce money. She said she
ha4eh, several meals for Boucher
aud gasoline for his car in addi-
son 10 giving him cash.
Roucier. stewart and Peters de-
nanded hearing in Municipal court
sc' for Dec. 5.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-18

VXIAR has brought to the little people Of
w Europe new suffering. The little people
are the underdogs, those who have low
incomes or no jobs, those who sometimes have
no food in the house or no shoes for the little
boy going to school, those who have no especial
privileges and, often, no protection from be-
ing pushed around
Now, in England, there's a new force to
push them around. It's the luftwaffe.
The little people are the Nazis' particular
target. If they can be panicked, the whole
British war effort might collapse. And it's
easier to bomb them, too. Germans don't bomb
the Huntington Woodses, where one bomb
might wreck one house; they bomb John R.
and Brush streets, where one bomb will
wreck Dozen
These pictures are Of some of those un-
panickable little beobls.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1941-12-05
TheStranse Case Of Curacao


Company was concerned.
Why didn't the Dutch West In
dia Company abandon Curacao?
They didn't because of the COM
Ing of some Jewish settlers but
the full answer is even more in
teresting. Read Max Kohler's ar
ticle in the same American Jewish
Historical series and you will dis
cover that Curacao was the first
of several early American Zionist
experiments. There were talk
and plans of Jews and the Dutch
turning Curacao into a Zionist
colony.
A Jew, Joseph Nunez de Fon-
SEGA, who appears also to have
been known as David Nassi was
granted permission to bring in
colonists. He was given land to
the amount of two leagues for ev-
cry fifty Jewish colonists he
brought in. The land that was
given them is today the site of the
capital city of Curacao, Willem-
stad. They were not only given
full liberty to colonize but
Charter of Liberties" which ac-
cording to Mr.. Kohler was the
first charter of liberties granted
to Jews in America.
But the Zionist dream of Fon-
SEGA did not materialize. He
brought in only about a dozen
settlers, but these apparently did
give some commercial Importance
to the island and few years la
ter, in 1854, there was more Jew
ish immigrants to the island,
which made the colony prosper.
You remember what happened
to the Jews in 1854. If you don't,
you should. That was the year
in which the Jewish Mayflower"
rode into the harbor of New
Amsterdam. Where had these
first New Amsterdam Jews come
from?
They had come from Brazil
which had been taken by the
Portuguese from the Dutch. When
the Dutch lost, the Jews had to
leave. Some of them went to
New Amsterdam, others went to
Curacao.
So Curacao in 1854 became a
thriving Jewish center. If you
lived in New Amsterdam in CO.
lonial days, you would have
heard much of Curacao for there
was a lively trade between New
Amsterdam and Curacao. Men
like George Washington and
John Adams and John Hancock
knew all about Curacao, for the
Jews had put it on the map.
So the Jews saved Curacao
from the Dutch long ago. This
does not lessen our gratitude to-
day to the Dutch for permitting
these hapless fugitives from Hit
ler's inferno to put their feet on
terra firma after ten months of
wandering.
The Dutch and the Jews have
always seemed to be able to get
along with a minimum of fric-
ton. Everybody flees to the
Dutch when they are in trouble.
Not only the Jews. Remember
the Puritan forefathers of Amer
ica
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1941-12-05
JEWISH LITERATURE SINCE
THE BIBLE

Many of our people whose Jew
ish education has been meager
labor under the false impression
that the production of Jewish lit
erature ceased with the Bible =.
Perhaps this idea has been foster
ed in part by the neglect OF our
educators to include sufficient
post Biblican literature in the cur
ricula of the Jewish religious
schools =. JEWISH LITERA-
TURE SINCE THE BIBLE by
Leon I. Feuer and Ariel Eisen-
berg (Union of American Hebrew
Congregations, Cincinnati, $1.5O)
attempts to remedy this short
coming 1t provides for the
needs of students, as well as
young peoples and adult study
groups.
This is a sequel to Book OF the
same title, which consisted of Sc
lections from the Apocrypha up
to the'~ Chassidic period. The
material is well arranged under
the tropical headings of Chassld-
ism and Mysticism, The Ghetto,
Period of Emancipation, Reform
Judaism, Era of Disappointment,
zionism and Modern Palestine.
Incidentally much credit is due
the National Federation of Temple
Sisterhoods, whose special fund
makes possible the publication OF
such Jewish religious school liter
AZURE. Funds ordinarily provided
for Jewish educational projects
are quite meager and subsidies OF
this kind must be most welcome.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1941-12-05
BETWEEN THE
BOOK ENDS
WAR, POLITICS AND EMOTION
by
William /. BOxerman

WAR, POLITICS AND EMO
TON, by Godfrey Bourne CLiv-
eright, New York, $1.25), is an
exceptionally brilliant little book
which demonstrates how democra-
cy may be maintained through
ordinary processes of education
and learning ;. Today, when the
daily cry of most people is, "Save
democracy" Mr.. Bourne's thoughts
have practical meaning.
We long have argued for such
progressive steps as the teaching
of democracy in the public schools
on the thesis that this country can
keep the freedom it has only if
our youth are convinced of it's
merits :. Democracy, like any
other commodity, must be sold !.
WAR, POLITICS AND EMOTION
holds that "a country gets the
government that it deserves"
meaning that the people only get
as good a government as they are
capable of demanding.
The most meaningful passage in
the book, at least to us, is the fol-
lowing:
1.-THE career of Hitler and. the
Nazis should be solemn warning
to all free peoples to be on their
guard. Sinclair Lewis has made
this point in 1T Can't Happen
Here'-a warning to America.
''The technique used by the Nazi
leaders in the early stages of their
campaign for political power was
not invented by them, it was only
more thoroughly exploited by
them than it had ever been be-
fore Emotional appeals and
rhetorical tricks are the stock in
trade of all demagogues The
only defense against them is an
awareness of what they are about
and critical attitude which de-
mands facts and proof instead of
sensation and propaganda, and
sound constructive policy instead
of sweeping promises"
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1941-12-05
BY DAVID SCHWARTZ
Copyright, 1941, Jewish Tele-
graphic Agency, Inc.

Mr.. Edward M. Warburg, Chair
man Of the Joint Distribution
Committee, received a letter this
week sent to him by the Dutch
government in 1862. The letter
follows:
May voice through you to
the Jewish people the thanks of
the Dutch government for what
the Jews did in our colonial pos
sessions of Curacao. If it had not
been for the Jews, the Neither
lands government might have been
forced to abandon the island"
can hear the readers shouting
out that I have my facts all
twisted, that
1. There was no Joint Distrib-
ution Committee in 1862
2. That Curacao saved the
Jews and not vice versa
3. That the Dutch didn't thank
Mr.. Warburg but that just the
contrary Mr.. Warburg thanked
the Dutch government.
The readers are entirely right.
In fact, I have a copy of Mr.. War
burg's statement right in front of
me. In it, the j. D. c. chairman
says: "The action of the Neither
lands Government in permitting
these unfortunate people breath.
ing spell on Curacao until perman-
ent refuge can be arranged for
them is all the more gratifying
since that Government is today so
greatly preoccupied in it's war eff
fort" Mr.. Warburg was of course
expressing his qualification at the
Dutch governments permitting the
sc Jewish refugees who had been
wandering for ten months in
Latin American waters, to obtain
temporary refuge in Curacao.
Every Jew will join in Mr.. War
burg's statement that the act lis
in keeping with Hollands tradi-
tional hospitality"
And yet Mr.. Warburg or some
other Jew, at any rate, conceiv-
ably might have received the
mythical letter cited above, for it
is a fact that back in 1861, the
Dutch West India Company was
considering the possibility OF
abandoning Curacao and it was a
trickle of Jewish settlers into the
island which led the Dutch to
change their minds about this
The whole matter was dealt with
in a brochure written some
twenty-five years ago by Gerald
D. Cone for the American Jewish
Historical Society, in which as Mr.
Cone says, "the Directors of the
Dutch West India Company were
seriously considering the advisa-
bility of abandoning Curacao be-
cause the island was not source
OF revenue TO them" The original
of the letter is to be found in the
New York State archives at AL
bany. It must be remembered that
colonial possessions were held in
a somewhat different light in
those years than today. It was the
big trading companies, such as the
Dutch West India Company and
the French West India Company
which really held those colonial
lands in those days, rather than
the government as such and a
trading company was not disposed
to hold a piece of land that was
not affording them any revenue
And Curacao in 1850 was def
nitely on the red side of the ledger
|
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1941-12-05
o,,p FRTEDMANS: Presi-

FOUR
poOsevelt's Four Friedman's
Oo av he found in the third platoon
l u Company d, 4th Medical Bat
Oa,,ou at Fort Lee, Virginia. Aid
70 Ian and abetted by the -Four Gold
~ stsins. they have entered into a
conspiracy to confuse and exas-
Uorate Sergeant Oscar Stelzer
nonever he calls the roll. Serg-
S"nt Longin Marzecki reports hav-
a :~~ similar trouble with the Six
ITT in the first platoon of the
same company.
The Friedmans are Irving, 1sa-
dore, Martin and Bernard, who
snolls it freedman" a sort of
1ast straw, the sarge thinks. The
co1dsteins are Aaron, Alfred, Nor
ton and William.
As for the six COhens, two of
.bem are named Jack-but one is
letting it go as Jacob, which eases
4ba situation a little. The other
Cohens are Henry, Bernard, Abra-
ham and Leonard.
There is no relationship between
anv of the fourteen medical train
ees in this mix-up. It's just one
Of those grim jokes which fate
sometimes plays on short temper
ed army sergeants who, certainly,
have enough on their minds with
out having to remember who's
Who In Military Jewry."
PETER LEHMAN OF THE r..
c. A. F.: Governor Herbert HI.
Lehman's 2O5 pound son Peter,
who Joined the Canadian Air
Force not long ago, is reported to
be spending quite a bit of his
spare time these days all dressed
up in a neat pair of boxing gloves,
having applied the term keeping
'em flying" to his fists as well as
to his air exploits.
Peter is the boy who, with 100
hours in the air to his credit, tried
to-. get. into. the United States
Army Air Corps, but whose mar
rage kept him out of Uncle Sans
uniform.
Latest news is that he got HIM
self into the semi-finals of the
heavyweight boxing elimination
fights up in OttOwa, but sprained
his wrist and lost a crack at the
Manning depot title.
Peter graduated from Deerfield
Academy five years ago. Taking
his football experience with him,
he went into the banking business
Of Lehman Brothers. He married
Peggy Rosenbaum and became the
father of little girl who is now
entering her Goth month. He kept
in trim by making frequent visits
to the Downtown Athletic Club in
New York. Twenty-four years
old, the hefty Peter is fast turn
ing into a formidable aircrafts-
man.
Of his future, which now liter
ally seems to be up in the air,
Peter says, "Fm afraid they'll find
me a little too heavy for an at
tack plane. But 1 don't care so
much whether 1 get bombing or
combat duty...Pm still an Amer
lean citizen, of course, but Pm in
the r. G. A. F.-and Hitler
threatens both Canada and the
United States, and everything else
that's decent"
Peters father and wife are du-
blous about this air corps venture,
out ne says they are getting used
10 it. He says, too, that there
seems to be a military streak run
Mmg through the Lehman family.
MY brother and I both wanted
10 get into uniform. John was in
tne infantry but he was trans
lefred to the cavalry at Fort Knox
as a second lieutenant, because he
wanted to get into a combat unit.
The Governors son also said
mat ne found food conditions
very good here. The food, while
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1941-12-05
Jews I'm UNIFORM
~ BY BEN SAMUEL
BY BEN SAMUEL

VO OVOEAuS1 IS uafn good
army food"
BLOOD TRANSMISSION: A &C.
year old man of Wabbaseke. Ark
ansas, lay dying of severe hem
orrhages at the Arkansas Univer-
sity Hospital in Little Rock. DR..
Faircloth, staff surgeon, had ex-
hausted all lists of blood donors
but more were needed. He called
the U. S. o. Center at Camp Rob-
inson. Matthew Handler, the Jew
ish Welfare Board representative
in charge Of the center. found
himself faced with the lob of
rounding up not one but ten do
norS.
Every minute counted. The
doctors stood waiting.
Handler sent out an emergency
call-and seven soldiers from the
medical detachment volunteered.
They were rushed in U. S. o. cars
to the dying man, and the trans
fusions were made.
In commenting on his patients
condition two days later, DIR. Fair
cloth said, "But for the help of
the U. S. o. and these fine young
men, the patient would have died;
Little Rock is grateful to them
ALL"
A CORPORAL BY ACCIDENT:
For aiding and directing the res
cue of ten soldiers when their
truck rolled over a -150-foot en-
bankment on the Skyline Drive
during a recent convoy, Private
Samuel Kalmus of Fort Eustis,
Virginia, has been officially COM
mended and, moreover, promoted
to the rank of corporal. Private
Kalmus, who was driving the
truck behind the one which
crashed, came on the scene a few
seconds after the accident. Through
his alert and intelligent handling
of the situation, the occupants of
the first truck were given prompt
first aid treatment which prevent
ed possible fatalities among the
injured men.
JEWISH HEROES OF THE r.
A. F.: For "gallantry when fly
ing in active operations against
the enemy" Lieutenant ID. F. ia
cObS of the South African Air
Force has received the Distin-
glished Flying Cross from the
British Government; and in "rec-
OgnitiOn of gallantry and devotion
to duty in the execution of air OPP
eratiOns," Louis Zalsberg, a serg-
cant i'm the r. A. F., has been
awarded the Distinguished Service
Medal.
England awards the Distinguish
cd Flying Cross for deeds of hero
ism to Commissioned and Warrant
Officers of the Royal Air Force.
The Distinguished Service Medal
is awarded for "gallantry and dis
tlnguished conduct" to Petty Off
GERS and lower ranks of the Brit
ish Navy, and to non-commission-
ed officers and men in the Mar
ines.
SINGING IN CHURCH: In the
service club at Fort Adams, Rhode
Island, a young Jewish corporal
recently approached Protestant
Chaplain Earl Slider. During their
conversation the corporal told the
chaplain that he was receiving his
discharge in a few weeks. Was
there any way in which he could
be of service to the chaplain be-
fc-e he left camp? The chaplain,
who knew of the boys fine tenor
voice. asked how would he like to
sing at his services some Sunday
morning? The corporal readily
agreed, and two weeks later ne
sang a solo at Sunday morning
services in the chapel.
Chaplain Slider writes, in a let.
ter to Lazy Becker, Chairman OF
the Jewish Welfare Boards New
England section, "A gesture like
this is far better than all the
lont,,res written on re-
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1941-04-17
GOVT WORKERS URGED
TO JOIN A.F.L. UNION

Washington, d. C.-An appeal
to the thousands of men and
women who are now taking new
positions in the Government
Service to become union mem
bers for their own protection
was issued by James B. Burns,
president of the American Fed
Grafton of Government EN-
ployes.
At the same time Mr.. Burns
urged the presidents of all ma
tional and international unions
to call to the attention of their
members the following facts:
81. Unionism is not merely
permitted in the Government
Service, it is becoming every
year a greater factor in gov
ernment functions.
"2. Our union, the American
Federation of Government En-
ployes, is affiliated with the
American Federation of Labor,
has jurisdiction over clerical en-
ployes in the Government Serv-
ice, and wants to enlist the rela-
tives of your members in it's
work to improve employment
conditions in the government"
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1941-04-17
OHIO STATE HONORS
VETERAN OFFICER

Known to every Licking coun-
tian who has attended Ohio State
university in the past 80 years is
''Bill" North, the jovial campus
cop"
For more than three decades
Officer North has been walking
the campus beat, and last week
on his sixty-eighth birthday
more than 400 attended a dinner
to do him honor.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1941-04-17

ural Resources to fishing license
dealers throughout the state.
The digests lists the open seas
ons, legal lengths and bag linn
it's of all species of fish. Other
general and special provisions
are also listed.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1941-04-17

man is the most loyal and pa
triotic in the world. He knows
full we'll that democracy is the
only hope for free labor. And
he will defend it with his toll
and his life if necessary.
McNutt's speech, it was said,
may help check a drive in the
state legislature to enact bills
that would staitjacket labor.