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The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1943-01-22

most a full decade, for the civil
lied world to recognize that the
persecution of the Jewish people
is crime against all free men :.
"The United States, Great Brit
ain, Russia, China and the others
of the United Nations have joined
in a declaration officially con-
demning the Nazi outrages a.
gainst the Jewish people so I'M
speakably cruel -.
Protest and retribution are not
enough to revive the hope of mil
lions of Jews whose faith in de-
mocracy and justice we dare not
betray if we are not to betray the
hopes of all men. The historic
declaration of the United Nations
must be supplemented with imme-
date measures of reconstruction,
with definite intergovernmental
plans for the rehabilitation of
those who can be saved from the
Nazi slaughterhouse.
1T is in the interest of the
building of better world that we
incorporate now into any progrom
for the postwar era declaration
of intention to assure the recon-
struction of the Jewish people and
all other oppressed people
Palestine is not merely a
Jewish question any more than
anti-Semitism or any intolerance
is a Jewish question. The entire
free world must regard itself as
the trustee for the re-establish-
ment of the Jewish National
Home, without which no construc-
tive solution of the tragic problem
of Jewish homelessness is pos
"As a Christian T should like to
give American Jews this one word
of advice: Intolerance is raising
its ugly head again in our own
country. We must all fight these
forces. Now is the time for us all
to be great-do right-defend
those who have been oppressed
and together build a world worthy
of those who now die, and shall
die for humanity"
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1943-01-22
POLETTI STRESSES
GROWING IMPORTANCE
OF JEWISH ARMY

New York-On the eve of his
departure for Washington to as
sumo an important post as Special
Assistant to Secretary of War
Stlmson, exit. Governor Charles
Poletti of New York issued an i'm
portant statement on the Jewish
Army cause. This statement came
in the form of a letter to Mr..
Alfred A. Strelsin, Chairman of
the Executive Board of the Com
mittee For A Jewish Army, of
which Mr.. Poletti is a member.
1T is the Jews of Europe"
wrote Mr.. Poletti, who were the
first victims of Nazi and Fascist
brutality. 1t is they who felt the
first fury of the totalitarian as
sault. It is they who have been
singled out as the prime and
wholesale victims of the new bar
barism. The Jews now stand in
the front lines. The right of Pal
estinian and stateless Jews to en-
gage in their self-defense remains
to me unimpeachable. It is as
Jews that under international
guarantees they are living in Pal
estine. They are not Palestinians
except in a geographic sense.
They are not Arabs; they are not
British. If every people in the
world is free to fight under it's
own historic designation, the Jews
must fight as Jews.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1943-01-22

Edward E. Grusd, Managing
Editor of the National Jewish
Monthly, will be the guest speaker
at the regular meeting of the To-
cal B'nai Birth Lodge and it's
Auxiliary to be held Wednesday
evening at 8:15 P. M. at the Hotel
Seminole.
Prior to his appointment in 1928
to the position of managing editor
of B'nai Births official organ,
Grusd was on the staff of the
Omaha World Herald. Before this
he visited in Europe and wrote
special features for American
papers.
A Cincinnatian by birth, Grusd
graduated in 1926 from Ohio
State University College of Journ-
alism, where he was active in
campus journalism.
LII O1IlC11IIldI1 1C was ~ O0lOClII
of the youth branch of the Isaac
M. Wise Temple, and attended two
summer sessions of the religious
teachers institute at Hebrew
Union College. For a year he was
American correspondent of rUni-
vers Israelite, of Paris. He is past
president of B'nai Births Cardoza
Lodge in Northern Virginia, and
has addressed groups throughout
the country.
The election of officers for the
local lodge also will take place at
this meeting. Reports of the sew
eral standing committees and Of
the activities for the past year
will be made.
The Ladies Auxiliary will also
meet at the same time but will
Join the mems meeting to hear
Edward Grusd. Plans for the
furnishing Of the second Company
Day Room at Camp Blanding will
also be taken up.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1943-01-22

II recognize that Great Britain
has it's own problems of policy.
But it is part of our international
cooperation that we shall criticize
one another for policies which fail
to conform to the democratic
principles for which we stand to-
gether. And America would be
derelict in it's duty if it did not
make it's opinion heard in British
circles on this issue.
Great Britain is naturally re-
luctant to awaken the hostilities
of the Arabs. But the answer to
that is that Arabs may volunteer
and form their own units.
Zone reason for insisting upon
a Jewish Army lies in the fact
that it furnishes to the Jews a
moral case for continued system
attic and mass entrance into Pal
estine when the war is over.
This right was won for world
Jewry during the last war. 1t IS
stated in the Balfour Declaratlon'
Continued on page FOur)
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1943-01-22
ZIONISTS TO MEET HERE
MONDAY NIGHT

The Jacksonville Zionist District
will hold it's regular meeting Mon
day night in the Jewish Center at
8 o'clock. Harry Katz, president
will preside, and announce the
Bond Drive which will be held at
the same time at the national or
oanization in February. All men,
bers are urged to attend this
meeting to participate in the plans
which will be laid for the drive.
An interesting program has
been arranged to take place at tne
conclusion of the meeting.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1943-01-22

ceived "mOre fanatical, obscene,
anti-Jewish letters" than ever be-
fore. 1t calls upon the authorities
to take stricter measures against
anti-Semitic groups, charging
them with conducting fifth-cOlumn
activities by disseminating prOpa-
ganda against Jews which is help-
full to the enemy.
Yes. "es list schwer to seln a
Yid."
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1943-01-22
epperUrgesA||ies implement
Protest of Nazi Outrages
UNITED PALESTINE APPEAL REQUESTS UNITED
NATIONS TO ADMIT 100000 IN PALESTINE

Buffalo, N. Astounding warning that the Jews of
the United States must be prepared to meet of ris
ing intolerance in this country against which all Americans
must take strong u S. Senator Claude Pepper of
Florida addressing statewide conference of 600 delegates
of the United Palestine Appeal at Buffas Hotel Satler
called the United Nations to implement their decara-
ton of protest against the Nazi slaughter of Jews
in Europe through guarantees that they would foster the
establishment of free Paestnian state for Jewish
people, (which will take its place in the framework of free
nations striving in to protect their security and
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1943-01-22

The conference of the United Pal
estine Appeal, the central agency
of American Jews for the rebuild
ing and defense of the Jewish
homeland in Palestine, adopted
resolution urging President Roose-
welt to invite the United Nations
to provide for the resettlement
and emigration of 100000 Jews
from European lands as part of
the program for postwar recon-
struction. The resolution urged
that the United Nations open
their doors to 100000 refugees
and take joint action to facilitate
the immigration and settlement of
at least an additional 100000 in
Palestine. The President was
asked to "enlarge the scope of
the program of the Office of
Foreign Relief and Rehabilitation
headed by Governor Lehman to
provide for the emigration and re-
settlement Of Jews uprooted by
hatred in European lands, who
will find little opportunity to re-
establish themselves in those
European countries following the
end of the war;"
In proposing the colonization of
100000 Jews in Palestine, the
resolution pointed out that this
was well within the realms Of re-
atty as during the decade since
Hitler came to power, more than
100000 Jewish refugees found a
home in Palestine without the
support of international planning
and resources" The resolution
further emphasized that Palestine
had the capacity to absorb 100000
immigrants year.
Discussing the declaration which
the United States issued together
with the governments of Great
Britain, Russia, China and other
United Nations, Senator Pepper
declared that protest and retri-
button are not enough to revive
the hope of millions of Jews whose
faith in democracy and justice we
dare not betray if we are not to
betray the hope of all men.
"The historic Declaration of the
United Nations must be imple-
mented with immediate measures
of reconstruction, with definite
intergovernmental plans for the
rehabilitation of those who can be
saved from the Nazi slaughter
house." he said.
TN Palestine, the Jews, who
were the first to feel the testing
ferocity of Hitler long before the
world realized that its turn to feel
this ferocity was merely matter
of time-the Jews must be en-
abled to build their own home, I'M
der their own goverance on their
ancestral soil. We must build
world in which little nations and
all peoples can be safe in their
own national homes" Senator
Pepper asserted.
ut has taken long time, al
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1943-01-22
IT HAPPENED
THIS WEEK
BY MILTON BROWN, JTA
$4,000 FRENCH JEWS TO
BE "DEPORTED"

De OE1 UNI ELI
The news of the week makes
clear that not only is victory Of
the United Nations necessary but
speedy victory is necessary if the
Jews of Europe are to be saved.
The Anti-Semitic COmmissar of
Jewish Affairs in France an
nOunced this week that $4,000
Jews have been "depOrted".
From Rumania came the predic-
ton that all Jews may shortly be
depOrted.
POLAND
Something of the method with
which determination Of the Jews
is being carried on in Poland was
revealed this week, all tending to
make clear that the tempo of the
slaughter is increasing.
OPTIMISM?
There was a movie not so long
ago in which one Of the scenes
pictures a man who has been told
the very moment of his death and
we may imagine the mounting
anxiety as he watches the clock to
see that moment coming nearer.
The Jews in the occupied countries
are in a similar position. Jews
may be forgiven, therefore, if they
catch at the more hopeful crumbs
Of prophecy as to a speedier end
ing of the war. Admiral HalSey
of our Pacific fleet went on record
the other day asapredicting the
end of the war tyear. Walter
Duranty thinks Germany will be
defeated this year, but thinks it
will take moro time to beat the
Japanese. Duranty, of course, is
not military man. LitvinOff,
the Russian ambassador, ha S
warned against reading too OPP
timistically the headlines and Of
fetal American government circles
also warn against too much OPP
timiSm.
Yet for the Jews, unless he has
this optimism, he must succomb
to the blacklist pessimism. Cato,
the old Roman orator, was in the
habit of ending every one of his
speeches with Carthage delenda
est" Carthage must be de-
stroyed). But we Jews must say
Carthage delenda est now-this
year." Jewish survival in most
OF Europe depends on it.
The Polish GOvernment-in-Exile
this week revealed the texts of
TWO Nazi DEGREES showing how the
Germans are proceeding with the
determination of the Jews. The
decrees show that the first step
mas been to concentrate the Jews
nVlng in the hundreds of Polish
cities into limited number of isO-
lated centers. A total Of AZ small
townships, in fact, were designat-
"a as Jewish residential local.
ues'" Dire penalties are ordered
1Or Jews found outside these
specified centers. Polish Jewish
leaders in England believe that
'nls segregation is to prevent the
nOn-Jewish population witnessing
'ne mass murder of the Jews.
Allied government circles this
week also received reports which
,nulcate that thousands of Jews
nave taken to the woods and are
wandering all over Western Eu-
.Upe' finding refuge here and
''iere among the local non-Jewish
equation, but gradually being
discovered by the Gestapo.
PESSHMISM?
mere comes word from Eng
-''u that liberals there echo
S H.OUlny sentiments. The London
a'.V Express this week reported
'-'"' IN recent months it has re-
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1943-01-22

The son of an italian stone
cutter, Charles Poletti was born
in Vermont. He has made fire.
quent trips to Italy and the coun-
tries on the Adriatic Sea. It is
believed that his extentive knowl-
edge of that area will be put to
use in his new Washington role.
The Apache sentinel., 1943-10-29
Around the Clock With
Headquarters Detachment

without an accident, troubleShooter
and full of initiative, and trainer for
the Boy Scouts. he was highly COM
mended by Maj. Claude Owens, the
popular Post Exchange officer Cpl
Harold Tarrant for the splendid ap-
pearance of the Detachment lawn,
grass, flowers and trees. SISgt. Con-
ME Aston. assistant to the TJA, for
his wide knowledge, efficiency and
intelligent handling of the work and
cases in that office.
M/Sgt. Issiah Valentine has re-
turned to duty from Torney General
Hospital at Palm Springs, Calf. He
says that the hospital is a honey"
Returned from furlough: S/Sgt.
Frank Reed from visiting his wife in
Lake Charles, La. and his mother in
Pittsburgh, Pa. Cpl. Harold Tarrant
from visiting his sister in Chicago,
I'LL; Pvt. Anadee Eagle from visit
ing his mother in Austin, Tex. Pfc.
Harry Stevenson from visiting his
wife in Denevr, Colo Pvt. Felix w.
Brown from visiting his wife in
Nashville, Tenn. And Pvt. Matthew
Jordan from H attisburg Miss,
where he visited his father,
SfSgt Ernest R. Thomas, SOU
baseball umpire, returned to duty
from the Hospital
'To be a goold soldier, follow in
my footsteps advises Pvt. Woodrow
Johnson, who has been in the Army
two years and ten months.
Salute to the retired: 1st Sgt. Ho-
bart E. Powers after 26 years. OF
honorable service. He is on his pre-
retirement leave from Torney Cen
J eral Hospital, Palm Springs, Calf.
The Apache sentinel., 1943-10-29
JoTTINGs BY A POST SCRIBE

"ToodleS," the turtle of the Station
Hospital No. 1 Laboratory staff ;.
Chauncey Lee, in that drily humor-
Gus way of his, dedicating Don't
Get Around Much Anymore" to
Capt A. L. Kimball, whom he in
sisted on referring to as Capt. Mich
olas." Sgt. Clyde Green, COM
misSary clerk, tearing out our pre-
cious 'red stamps" with such
pleasant smile on his face. -.
An all-'rOund athlete and a pow
erful little man is Pvt. Thomas
Turner, who supplements football
andbaseball-playing for Sou with
teaching physical education at the
Col. Young school. -.
Officers and their ladies of the
Lakeside Club recently voted the
Post Swing Band the best band
that has hit the Post. To earn this
reputation, all the Swing Band, di-
rected by Pvt. Austin Mccoy, did
was to play all the old favorite
waltzes that it's members could rec
ollect.
S/Sgt. Richard D. Massey reports
that Pvts. Wash Brooks and Sunnie
Johnson of the 406th Ordnance MN
Company are brushing up on their
dance steps preparing to swing out
at the Harvest Ball given by the
406th Ord. MN Co. at the USO Club
Friday, November 5, 1943, at pm.
A case of what we call having the
right answer at the right time.
Col. Hardy, presenting driv-
er to 1t. Waggoner at the Golf
Course: Have you got driv-
er?"
1t. Waggoner: "Yessir.'
Col. Hardy: well, what are
you going to do with. this one?"
1t. Waggoner: "I hope to do
better, sir"
News came in this week from the
recently activated Post Stockade de-
tachment, Pfc. Clyde L. Pempleton,
reporter, .Cr -, And the Gas House
Gang also took us up on our, chal-
lenge and sent in some jottings, a
cornmepda reporting job. Those
Chemical Warfare soldiers must
have a grand time-if they like to
watch people cry.-The Post Scribe,
TRTG.
The Apache sentinel., 1943-10-29

When evening wraps a weary
world in peace and tucks it down in
hues of gray and rose and gold, Fort
Huachuca IS lovely place. Now,
isn't it?
Giving credit where credit is Due.
that glamorous photograph of lovely,
little Vivian Ward that adorned the
"Sentinel's" front page wasn't a Sig
nal Corps Photo. 1t was the work of
one of the most proficient shutter
bugs at Fort Huachuca, S/Sgt. Ver-
dun Cook. "Cooky" has done other
pix for us, super excellent work for
which the Signal Corps has some
how gotten the credit in the rush
of things. You might as we'll know,
too, that many of our better pix
have been (and will be- done by ace
@free-lance cameramen who'd be
mighty valuable in the picture tax
ing section of the Signal office. Two
Station Hospital men, Cpl. Paul D.
Johnston and Cpl. Earl Morris be-
long in this category-but definitely
Orchids this week: To T/4th Will
beforce Mcneil, Post Headquarters
Detachment, woh received the COM
pliments of officers heading the
Personnel Section of Post Headquar-
ters for having the pest payroll (for
October) that has been turned in
there in the past three years. Get
ting out a better payroll belongs in
the same classification as making a
better mousetrap." Even though the
world may not beat a path to Sgt.
= McNeil's door, the job he's doing will
go into the records to help speak for
all the thousands of Negro soldiers
whose "deeds not words" will entitle
them to the place they're seeking in
American military life.
"reminiscences: The mingled cha
4 grin and satisfaction of Pianist Eu-
bic Blake, who recently appeared
here with a USO Tabloid Troupe,
when he told us that he had only
''been in the show business AZ years
too long.R -. Samuel McIver's Sug-
gestions for the improvement of the
. Post newspaper and his offer torbe
on9J&he alert constantly for new
ideas, =. The interest that members
of the Sentinel" staff evince in
their weekly meetings and their sin
cere enthusiasm and cooperation
it's heart-Warning. +. The charm
and . graciousness of Mrs. Anne
Evarts Waggoner, Red Cross Motor
Corps worker, at lending her time
and boundless energy to do so many
activities-from helping out" in the
children's dancing classes to picking
posies to brighten office mantle
pieces. -. The darling, little daugh-
ter of the Col. Hogans, with her
mothers pretty brown eyes and the
colonel's energy, keeping her daddy
as busy as the gridiron linesman at
SCU-370th game. Johnny Croz-
ier, butcher, who went a-hunting,
bagged deer but has been sick in
bed almost every day since his expe-
dition to the White Bear mountains.
S/Sgt. Ebert Wallace, gritting
his teeth, as he takes the jump on
the superb, thoroughbred jumper,
"Once Again" -. One of the most
novel post pets we've seen yet -
The Apache sentinel., 1943-10-29
BY 1T. CASTINE A. DAVIS
and PFC. EDWARD HINTON

In the game with the 775th MP's
in Tucson, the Sou football team
promised to bring home the bacon. "
promised to bring home the bacon"
and they did.
Pvt. McCray and his camera are
Shaving tough time taking the pic
lures Of the Apache Sentinel staff
The camera broke the first time and,
on Friday, the camera couldn't get
going for a while. Gosh, there must
be something destructive in that col
lection of facesl
Because of the varied details Of
the Headquarters D ct a h m ent,
there's been little opportunity for
the men to train together or even to
know each other A basic training
program has been inaugurated for
cohesion, teamwork, company pride
and morale.
Acting Mess Sgt. General Jackson
is doing a fine job in the Mess. He
has built a fine and enthusiastic
Seam.
In order to have a load. on their
chests when breezing into Camp
Lockett, Calf, and probably Los An
geles. the members of the Band and
Special Service Units borrowed
their craftsmanship medals. The
medals will be awarded officially
shortly after their return.
Weeks honor men for their supe-
rior performance of duties; Pet.
Matthew E. Simpkins, Post Ex-
change. jack of all trades and good
at all truck driver for over one year
The Apache sentinel., 1943-10-29

games at the Service Clubs with the
soldiers, most of whom I've never
seen before, and have not as yet
been ''insulted." On more than one
occasion I have gone unescorted to
the dining room in the Service Club
and sat at table where one or more
soldiers (male) were sitting. Al
most invariably one would ask me
to allow him to buy a soda or some
thing My civilian training forbade
this for a long time, but, after see
ing the same look Of disappointment
on different faces, I decided to ac-
cept the offers. And I have not been
sorry. It seems that buying soda
for woman is a pretty good sub
stitute for a date. After a while he
goes his way, go mine. He has just
met someone he knows in the drug
store back home, and he bought her
a soda. That is all.
Tt is well known that men like to
talk about themselves. Encourage
them to do so. Oh, yes, they will
tell you some very unlikely tales.
But, before they have completed one
lie, ask a leading question that calls
for bigger one. Keep 'em talking.
-. Time to 60 now. see you later.
No romance involved. BUT, there
IS romance to be had.
My best friend here Cmale) is con-
sidered by some (including me) as
highly intelligent He does not dis
approve of the way 1 meet these men
on their own ground, nor can any
one think me cheap. They are our
buddies, and until this war is fin
ished we will have to live and fight
togEther. Only friends should be so
privileged Why not act as friends
do?
Honestly, girls, if you can spare
just little time away from the boy
friend to cultivate the friendship of
the rest of the fellows you will find
their manners will improve. 1t pays
to have friends. A FRIEND WILL
NEVER BE DISCOURTEOUS.
BY Pvt. Cecilia Goldsby, WAC.
Two. DAVIS re GIVE. Nov. r. s-~~~
The Apache sentinel., 1943-10-29
599th F. A. Service Bn.
Gives Halloween Party

Some of the best-dressed witches
of 1943 rode their brooms at the
USO Club last night, bringing with
them a choice assortment of hob
goblins, spooks, and other denizens
of the witches world who customar-
lily prance into public view on All
Hallows Eve. The occasion was a
colorful party given by the 599th
Field Artillery Service Battery
One of the Division Bands took
over the musical chores with spe-
cial arrangements of spooky music
Prizes were offered for the best cos
tunes. Refreshments stressed the
Halloween note-pumpkin pie, ap-
Piles, doughnuts, and coffee.
The Apache sentinel., 1943-10-29

an Army is to select the men
who are most physically fit and
are able to carry out orders
not gentlemen necessarily.
| have heard from different
sources how disgusting and
vulgar" the language of the men is.
Well. it happens that for a long,
long time I had to live in a great
city My work there often necessi-
tated passing through or visiting
slum sections. In such districts one
is likely to hear language that will
make the soul recoil if one listens.
Long ago I found it possible NOT
to hear this street talk and am now
an expert at not hearing. If any Of
the language has been directed to-
ward me, I've never heard,
Oh, yes, the fellows used to whistle
when We passed group. Not any
more. I'm wise. When I meet a
group speak to them, FIRST; greet
them as Sergeant, or something. If
there is one whose name 1 have
IlCd4O, L Wy ~ 1Cl11CIilDCI IL dliO Nc41
him by name. Sometimes wave at
them when they are going out on
details or into the field. You may
criticize me, but, remember. one
cannot carry Emily Post into an
Army camp.
1t seems that most Of my sisters
think the boys are seeking romance.
I doubt that that is true. They have
been, perhaps, the very center of
feminine attraction somewhere, and
they miss it. But, you will find that
most of them want to talk about
their mothers, wives and sisters or
the wonderful things, they did in
civilian life. Ha, know what you're
thinking perhaps I'm not at
tractive enough to make the boys
think of romance -. l will say,
only, that in civilian life I did all
right, and the competition there was
keener. Though it is not possible
that I really resemble all the moth
ers and sisters I've been told re-
semble, I feel connplimented to know
that 1 remind these boys OF some
one back home.
= Whenever it is possible Il play