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PROTEST AGAINST Detroit Jewry Will Plant Fred M. Butzel BLASTS IDEA JEWS Approval of Palestine Partition Plan
RIOTS IN POLAND
AS UNIT FOSTERED
Forest
in
Palestine
in
Honor
of
Eminent
RECEIVED BY HULL
REVOLT OF SOVIET By the Council of League of Nations
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Promises to Make Best Use
of Jewish Congress
Memorandum
DOCUMENT DESCRIBES
OPPRESSION OF JEWS
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Samuel Lieberman of Detroit
One of Group That Pre-
sented Grievances
WASIIINGTON. — The gov-
ernment of the U. S., chief fac-
tor in the re-constitution of Po-
lish independence, was urgently
requested to intercede with the
Polish government to bring about
an end to the oppression of Pol-
ish Jewry and the restoration to
them of their full and equal
rights as citizens, by a- delega-
tion of the American Jewish Con-
gress received Monday morning
at the State Department by Sec-
retary of State Cordell Hull.
The delegation headed by Dr.
Stephen S. Wise, president of the
American Jewish Congress, rep-
resenting 17 communities in 15
states, assembled in Washington
under the auspices of the Ameri-
can Jewish Congress to discuss
the situation of Polish Jewry,
presented to the state depart-
ment a detailed memorandum
charging the present Polish au-
thorities with a policy toward
their Jewish citizens which has
made them "the most oppressed
and perhaps the most desperate
group of human beings in mod-
ern Europe." The Polish gov-
ernment was charged with deny-
ing to Jews "not only the rights
guaranteed to them by treaty and
constitution but all the basic and
elemental human rights."
Secretary Hull's Reply
Secretary Hull expressed his
deep sympathy with the plight of
Polish Jewry and promised to
make the best possible use of the
data supplied in the memorandum.
In the course of his conversation
with the delegation, Secretary
Hull revealed an intimate knowl-
edge of the conditions under
which Polish Jewry lives. He
expressed regret that he was re-
ceiving the delegation under such
unhappy auspices and expressed
the hope that he might again con-
fer with Jewish leaders on. a
more auspicious occasion.
Congressman Ellenbogen of
Pittsburgh, a member of the dele-
gation, informed the Secretary of
State that the overwhelming
opinion in Congress today is in
favor of United States Govern-
ment intercession in behalf of
persecuted Polish Jewry.
Dr. Samuel Margoshes, chair.
man of the committee on Poland
of the American Jewish Congress,
which has been dealing with the
Polish problem for months. ex-
pressed the hope that the United
States would follow its tradition-
al policy as the champion of hu-
man rights wherever oppression
occurs.
Conference Picks Delegation
The lion. M. Maldwin Fertig,
former counsel to Franklin D.
Roosevelt when the latter was
governor of Nev,/ York state,
pointed out that the entire Jew-
ish community of this country is
stricken with anguish as a result
of daily letters received from
Poland describing the disastrous
plight of their fellow-Jews.
The delegation of 19 which con-
ferred with Secretary Hull Mon-
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NAZI EXPORTS TO
U. S. HIT NEW LOW
Gradual Decline Shown by
Non-Sectariari Anti-
Nazi League
NEW YORK — Exports from
Nazi Germany to the United States
during the first four months of
1937 amounted to only 2.7 per cent
of the total exports from the en-
tire world to this country during
the same period, according to a re-
port released by the Non-Sectarian
Anti-Nazi League, of which Sam-
uel Untermyer is president.
Translated into other terms, the
league's statement means that since
Hitler came to power four and a
half years ago, Germany has lost
more than 60 per cent of her im-
portance as an exporting nation
to the United States.
During the first four months of
1933, the first year of Hitler's
reign, Germany's share of our
world trade was 5.6 per cent which
was a slight increase over the pre-
vious year. The boycott which soon
followed Hitler's assumption of
power, however, has been so vigor-
ous as to cause a rapid decrease in
Germany's share of our world
purchases.
Based on the figures of German-
American trade during the first
four months of each year since
1933, the decrease has been from
5.6 per cent in 1933 to 4.5 per cent
in 1934 to 3.8 per cent in 1935 to
3.1 per cent in 1936 to 2.7 per cent
in 1937.
The league's report declares that
the Indicated decline in German
trade with the United States is
entirely due to the anti-Nazi boy-
cott movement and in support of
this contention points to a rise in
German trade during Hitler's first
few months in power. At that time
the boycott had not yet been
launched; once it was, however.
trade began to wane, till now it
had reached the new low of only
2.7 per cent.
Leader's Approaching Sixtieth Birthday
Movement Sponsored by Jewish National Fund Council of Detroit
Receives Support of Many Jewish Organizations of Detroit;,
Thousands of Individuals Expected to Enroll in Project
A distinct honor, accorded to
only a handful of men throughout
the world, is to be extended to
Fred M. Butzel, on the occasion
of his approaching 60th birthday.
Under the direction of the Jewish
National Fund Council of Detroit,
the most prominent organizations
and congregations of this city, as
well as individual leaders, have
joined in the movement to secure
a fund for the planting of a Fred
M. Butzel Forest in Palestine.
T h e functioning tree-planting
cdinmittee of the Jewish National
Fund Council, consisting of Mrs.
harry M. Shulman as chairman
and Mrs. Philip Slomovitz as sec-
retary, announces that the follow-
ing honorary committee has been
set up for the Fred M. Butzel
Forest in Palestine project:
Clarence H. Enggass, chairman;
Bernard Isaacs and Kurt Peiser,
vice-chairmen; Theodore Levin,
treasurer; Mrs. Henry Wineman,
secretary.
This committee announces that
as soon as the plan to honor Mr.
Butzel in this manner was promul-
gated, dozens of organizations have
indicated their desire to co-operate.
Many of these organizations have
already appropriated funds from
their treasuries for this forest.
It is expected, according to the
functioning committee, that thou-
sands of Detroiters will partici-
pate in this project. The first an-
nouncement regarding the Fred M.
Butzel Forest, made in a letter ad-
dressed to Detroit business and
professional men, brought more
than 200 responses. As a result of
the official announcement now be-
ing made in the press, it is be-
lieved that the list will be swelled
and the most representative group
of Detroiters will be enrolled as
world headquarters of the Jewish
National Fund indicating that a
forest is being planted in his
honor. He will also receive a rep-
lica of a plaque that will be erected
at the entrance of the forest.
In addition, the Jewish National
Fund Council of Detroit will pre-
sent him with a booklet contain-
ing the names of all individuals
and organizations that will partici-
pate in this project. The booklet
will have a cover in Hebrew and
English now being especially de-
signed by Michael Michlin, princi-
pal of one of the branches of the
United Hebrew Schools of Detroit
and financial secretary of the Jew-
ish National Fund Council, and
Irving Isaacs.
Contributions for the planting
of trees in the Fred M. Basel
Forest in Palestine, at $1.50 a tree,
may be mailed to Theodore Levin,
treasurer of the Fred M. Butzel
Forest in Palestine Committee,
1044 Penobscot Bldg., Detroit.
Only a handful of men through.
out the world have been honored
by having forests planted in theft'
names, the most recent similar
honor having been inaugurated
last year by the Hadassah wom-
en's Zionist organization on the
occasion of the '75th birthday of
Mr. Justice Louis D. Brandeis.
Mr. Butzel, in addition to serv-
ing the Detroit Jewish and non-
Jewish communities in many capac-
FRED K BOTTJEL
ities for 40 years, has been a mem-
ber of the Zionist Organiation of
participants in the honor for Mr. Detroit for many years. For five
Butzel.
years ho was honored with the
Mr. Butzel will be presented position of honorary president of
with a certificate issued by the the local organization.
A State Without Territory
An Analysis of Great Britain's Betrayal of Her Sacred Pledges---4
to the Jewish People
By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
Ferdinand Kuhn, Jr., New York Times cor-
respondent in London, cabled an interesting para-
graph to his paper in his analysis of the newly-
created Palestinian situation.
"The loss of Jerusalem and the shrinkage in
the area of the Jewish national home," he wrote,
"would be more than offset, in official British
opinion, by the fact that the Jews will have an
independent state for the first time since the days
of Emperor Titus, almost 2,000 years ago." Kuhn
adds: If the report fulfills the anticipations, it
will mean the new Jewish State will have its own
President and Cabinet, its own defense force and
membership in the League of Nations. Under such
conditions the new state will be able to admit as
many immigrants as it feels able to absorb."
We find it impossible to become enthusiastic over
such prospects of statehood. As we pointed out last
week, what we need is territory. We must save
millions of Jews from humiliation, and to settle
them honorably on Jewishly-cultivated soil it is
necessary that we have a place in the sun, not
the mere shadow of what the British desire to
call a state. We are offered a state without terri-
tory. There is little glory in such an existence.
We have lived the life of an imaginary state too
long to be satisfied with the present scheme.
•
Our "Minority" Life
The British Government's statement accepting
the Royal Commission's report similarly offers us
imaginary glory. The statement declares that under
the new plan Jews "would secure the establishment
of the Jewish Notional Home and be relieved of
the possibility of Arab rule in the future. It would
convert the Jewish National Home into a Jewish
State with full control over immigration. Its na-
tionals would acquire the same status as that of
the nationals of any other countries and cease to
live 'a minority life,' attaining the primary ob-
jective of Zionism."
What a sop this is! We wonder if the wise Brit-
ish statesmen actually believe that they can fool
an entire people with such nonsense? It is a stupid
pacifier, and it reminds us of an interesting saw
which says that "all nature is not cured with a
sop." On a dozen fronts we are compelled to fight
for our rights as human beings. In many countries
we find it difficult to defend even meager minority
rights. But British statesmen now tell us that by
giving us a few miles of ground—ground that is
hallowed in Jewish memories and in Jewish his-
tory—we "cease to live 'a minority life!'" If ever
there was a plan that could be labelled reductia
ad absurdum it is this Palestine partition plan.
•
We Can Take a Walk
About all we will be able to do in the new Jew-
ish state will be to take a walk. If we pack 2,000,-
000 Jews into the territory set aside for the Jews
in Palestine, we will choke for lack of space. A
man taking off a week-end from his arduous labors
will be able to hike the length and breadth of
the new autonomous territory. Detroiters, for in-
stance, can imagine themselves walking from the
Six Mile Road to the City Hall and they will have
covered the widest portion of the Jewish state.
In length, even the remotest lines would not ex-
tend from the Eight Mile Road to Flint. And this
is what England calls a Jewish state! This is
what the mighty British Empire, toying with
Jewish destiny, calls "attaining the primary ob-
jectives of Zionism!"
•
Mediterranean Is Not Detroit River
Palestine is not Belle isle and the Mediter-
ranean is not the Detroit River or Lake St.
Clair. We shall not be able to fill in the Mediter-
ranean Sea and expand our territory. It was
easy for Detroit to enlarge Belle Isle in order
to create new roads and relieve the traffic. You
can't plan • state in such fashion. A Jewish
Palestine that is ■ mere toy Is the creation of
colonial officials whose sincerity we find it im-
possible to trust
Robbed of Chance to Return to Soil
A major Zionist aspiration has been the dream
to see the Jew return to the soil. We proved in
Palestine that the Jew can make a good and de-
voted farmer. If we are to be limited to the mere
shadow of what is Eretz Israel, Jews will not only
be prevented from returning to the soil, but the
necessity of building an industrial center in order
to accorpodate a larger population may create the
demand for the uprooting of the plantations which
are now the pride of Jews in Palestine and
throughout the world. And the Royal Commission
dares to mock us by agreeing with the late Lord
Balfour that Christendom has shown itself "not
oblivious of all the wrong it has done." The com-
missioners must have had their tongues in their
cheeks when they wrote this.
•
Toying With Memories
Great Britain is toying not only with Jewish
destiny, but also with our memories. Even when
we were removed from Palestine and when we had
only a handful of aged, praying Jews in Jerusalem,
millions of Jews throughout the world in spirit
lived in Palestine. When the religious Jews re-
viewed their ancient history through the reading
of the Bible in the synagogues and in their
homes, they were making imaginary tours of
Palestine. A butcher's knife in the hands of a
Royal Commission can never deprive us of the
historic memories and associations which so
closely link the Jewish people with Palestine.
The world knovis only too well what happened
to the Holy Land during 2,000 years of neglect.
The world also knows what happened to the
Jewishly-revived Palestine during the past two
decades, since the issuance of the Balfour Dec-
laration which now lies torn to shreds in a
Downing Street waste basket. There were Rus-
sian and German settlers in Palestine before the
Jews began to settle in the homeland. All their
efforts at reconstruction failed, and the only
prosperous groups were those who lived the
cloistered lives of monks in the churches of
Jerusalem and Bethlehem. Jews brought life to
Palestine. Everything that pulsates with life will,
in the future, under any plan, be the making
of Jewish genius. Hellenism and Romanism of
old found worthy enemies in the Judaism that
has survived them. Britain may rule the seas,
but it cannot conquer the Jewish spirit. Posterity
has its lessons—and our guess, which is as good
as the British wish because we are fortified by
historic lessons—is that Arab-Jewish amity will
some day hurl the lie at the British and will prove
the injustice of the present partition plan to the
everlasting shame of the mighty British Empire.
•
Must Jews Finance an Arab State?
There is much that can be said with regard
to the financial plans for the creation of the
Jewish and Arab states. Provisions are being
made to finance the Arabs, but Jews are asked
to continue to carry the burden of contributing
financially towards the welfare of the Arabs.
It is suggested by the oval Commission "that the
Jewish State should pay a subvention to the
Arab State when partition comes into effect."
It is not enough that the Palestine treasury.
made rich by taxes gathered primarily from
Jews, is to be turned over to the Arabs. The
Jews mast fatten this treasury in payment for
en insulting sham which the British call a Jewish
State
•
By Way of Comparison
By way of comparison it is important to note
that if the ill-begotten Jewish "state" is to be-
come a reality, it will compare as follows with
states in our Union and with other countries:
The Jewish Palestine proposed by the Royal
Commission already has a population of about
600,000. This territory is to be approximately
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Noted Correspondent Says
Charge Will Not Stand
Investigation
May Be Blocked by Poland, Rumania
SAYS RISE OF STALIN
EXCLUDED MANY JEWS
Predict Rejection of Proposal by World Zionist Congress; All
Factions Reported to Be Uncompromising in Their
Opposition to Country's Division
Accusation of 'Jewish Plot'
Is Labelled as Nonsense
By Chamberlain
U. S. AMBASSADOR BINGHAM IS IN CLOSE TOUCH
WITH SITUATION ON WASHINGTON INSTRUCTIONS
NEW YORK (NCJC) — "The
idea that the Jews, acting as a
solid unit, made the Russian
Revolution is nonsense," declares
William Henry Chamberlain,
noted foreign correspondent, in
the Christian Science Monitor.
Mr. Chamberlain's article, supply-
ing a factual analysis of the par-
ticipation of Jews in the revolu-
tion, is written in answer to nu-
merous inquiries he has received,
expressing the conviction of many
that the Russian Revolution was
engineered by the Jews.
"The idea that the Russian
Bolshevik Revolution was a Jew-
ish conspiracy, designed to pro-
mote.Jewish racial interests, may
appeal to those Russians of the
dispossessed classes who are too
embittered to analyze soberly the
causes of the catastrophe which
overtook them. It may commend
itself to those persons in other
countries who prefer the spec-
tacular fictions to the prosaic
facts of history. But it will not
stand critical investigation," says
Mr. Chamberlain.
Mr. Chamberlain begins his in-
vestigation by citing the names
of Jews who did take part.in the
revolution, and describing their
roles. Lenin, for one, was not a
Jew, but two of his closest politi-
cal disciples, Zinoviev and Ka-
menev, were Jews. Of the seven
members of the political bureau
of the central committee, who
voted for armed revolt in Octo-
ber, 1917, four—Trotzky, 'Lino-
viev, Kamenev and Sokolnikov,
were Jews.
Prominent British Commentator Calls Royal Commission's Report
a Confession of Failure; Arab Delegation Going to Geneva
to Fight Plan; Threaten Anti-British Boycott
LONDON. — (WNS) — The possibility that Poland and Ru-
mania, two countries vitally interested in increased possibilities for
Jewish immigration, may be the two factors that will block League
of Nations approval for Great Britain's scheme to partition Pales-
tine. Both countries are represented in the Council of the League of
Nations and it is understood that they will oppose the partition
scheme as well as England's demand for a new mandate over Palestine when those
matters come before the council. Unless the opposition of Poland and Rumania can
be overcome the scheme is doomed to failure because unanimity is required on all
matters that come before the council. •
Meanwhile friends and foes of the partition plan are organizing for the forthcoM-
ing parliamentary debate on the question. Zionist leaders here indicate that the Zion-
Jewish State in Palestine
The News Editor of the Seven Arts Feature Syndicate
Presents a Comprehensive Interpretative Resume of
the Royal Commiision's Report on Palestine
By JOSEPH SALMARK
(Copyright, 1517, Seven Art. restore Syntleate)
A Jewish State in Palestine!
This is what Great Britain pro-
poses to the Zionists of the world
in lieu of the Balfour Declaration
and the present Palestine Mandate.
Full-fledged national status with
Stalin Eliminated Jews
an autonomous government and a
"If one adds to these the Jewish navy and army is the solu-
names of Karl Radek, the brill- tion to the present Arab-Jewish
iant pamphleteer of Bolshevism,"
writes Mr. Chamberlain, "of
Sverdlov, the president of the
Soviet, executive committee;_ of
Uritzky and Volodarsky, two
leaders of the Petrograd party
organization; of Joffe, who was
selected to head the first peace
delegation at Brest-Litovsky, it
would seem safe to say that, of One of Greatest Composers
of the Day'Succumbs
25 or 30 key men in the Bolshe-
vik organization at that time,
at Age of 38
about a third were Jews.
"Stalin's rise to undisputed
IIOLLYWOOD, Calif. (WNS)-
Dower between 1923 and 1928 The boy who once regarded play-
was accompanied by the domin- ing, the piano as "sissy stuff" but
ation of many Jews from the who grew up into one of the great-
higher places of the party and est composers of his day was cut
Soviet administratimt One by off at the acme of his brilliant
one, he 'broke' some of the most
conspicuous figures of the early
period of the revolution," Mr.
Chamberlain points out.
At present at least four of
about 20 members of the Soviet
cabinet are Jews, and many new
Soviet captains of industry, like
Gugel, in charge of the gigantic
operations at Nlagnitogorsky, are
Jews.
GEORGE GERSHWIN
CALLED BY DEATH
The Expatriated
From these figures, Mr. Cham-
berlain concludes, "two facts are
indisputable: Jewish thought con-
NAZIS DISSOLVE
ALL BNAI BRITHS
singers will be conspicuous by
their absence at this year's Salz-
burg festival because Arturo Tos.
canini has again refused to permit
any performances given under his
baton to be broadcast to Germany.
In retaliation for Toscanini's snub
to Germany, the Nazi authorities
have declined to permit German
artists to go to Salzburg.
Prepare to Issue 3937
Federation Year Book
Preparations are under way
for the publication of the 1937
Jewish Welfare Federation Year
Book, according to announce-
ment this week by Clarence
Enggass, president of the Fed-
eration.
The book will follow in con-
tent the information contained
in the 1936 and 1935 books, but
will also contain several new
items of information. Publica-
tion of the Year Book was ail.
thorized at the recent joint
meeting of the board of directors
of the Federation and the De-
troit Service Group.
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B n a i Brith District
German Singers Shun Salz-
burg After Toacanini
Bars Reich Broadcast
Germans Shun Salzburg
VIENNA (WNS) — German
"Scrutator's" Criticism
In preparation for the parlia-
mentary debate the Liberal and
Labor parties are calling special
caucuses to determine what posi-
tion they should take on parti-
tion. It is understood that both
parties will approve partition if
the above-mentioned six demands
are granted.. Similar sentiment
is prevalent among many of the
most out-spoken pro-Zionists. On
the other hand many Conserva-
tive members of the House of
Commons are reported to be dis-
turbed over partition because
they fear it will impair British
influence in the Near East. There
s a move on foot to prevail
upon the Colonial Office to amend
the partition scheme so as to make
the proposed Jewish and Arab
states part of the British Empire.
COMFORT,' KEYNOTE
Aaron Droock Named1OF J. N. F. APPEAL
vice- President o f Collections for Palestine Re-
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BERLIN (WNS) — Climaxing
the Nazi regime's drive against the
Bnai Brith, which began in April
with the confiscation of the order's
property and funds and the tem-
porary arrest of many of its lead-
era, the Nazi secret police ordered
the complete dissolution of Bnai
Brith lodges throughout the coun-
try. The order was extended to
many other Jewish philanthropic
agencies also. The secret police
acted on the basis of the law for
the protection of the people and
the state.
impage, states Great Britain in
proposing the partition of Pales-
tine Into Arab and Jewish States,
Provided the Royal Commission
report, which has already received
the approval of the British govern-
ment, will also win the endorse-
ment of the League of Nations and
other parties to the Palestine Man-
date, the partition plan recom-
mended by the commission will con-
stitute the new policy of Great
Britain in Palestine,
The partition plan, as is already
known, proposes to divide Pales-
tine into Jewish and Arab States
and a special area to be adminis-
tered under a permanent British
mandate. The published report of
404 pages Is the result of the work
of the six-man commission that
went to Palestine last November
to investigate the causes of the
1936 riots as well as the modus
operandi of the Palestine Mandate.
Lord Peel was the chairman, Sir
Horace Rumbold was vice-chair-
man, and the other members were
Sir Laurie Hammond, Sir Morris
Carter, Sir Harold Morris and
Prof. Reginald Coupland. The re-
port Is a diplomatic masterpiece,
skillfully praising the reconstruc-
tion activities of the Zionists, find-
ing extenuating circumstances for
the Arab fight against.the Zionists.
It places part of the blame for the
riots of 1936 on the shoulders of
the Grand Mufti and severely
criticizes the I'alestine administra-
tion for its failure to safeguard
the Jewish community.
BALFOUR DECLARATION
CALLED A MISTAKE
After giving a comprehensive
ist Congress will reject partition,
there being on Zionist faction
that approves It A large num-
ber of the delegates already
elected are known to be uncom-
promisingly against partition but
it is also learned that a substan-
tial bloc ef delegates is pre-
pared to urge acceptance of Par-
tition if certain major changes
are made In the plan. Zionists
who lean toward acceptance would
vote that way at the congress
if they were assured that the new
British mandate proposed for
Haifa, Sated. Tiberias and Acre,
cities ultimately to be Included
in the Jewish state, would be for
a definite limited period, if the
Rutenberg concession and the
new section of Jerusalem were
incorporated in the Jewish state,
if Jews were given colonization
rights in the Negev, If the Jewish
state's Mediterranean borders
were broadened, if the . transi-
tion period leading to-.the estab-
lishment of the Jewish state were
definitely fixed and if the pro-
posed subvention of the Jewish
state to the Arab state were aban-
doned.
The District Grand Lodge No.
6 of the Order Bnai Brith held its
annual convention from July 5
through July 9 on the Steamer
Seen ndbee.
The following were the Detroit
delegates to the convention: Aaron
LATE GEORGE GERSHWIN
career when George Gershwin, Tin
Pan Alley's most distinguished
alumnus, died here at the age of
38. Gershwin's brief life was
packed with amazing successes that
took him out of the ranks of run-
of-the-mine song-writers and made
him the first man to employ sun.
cessfully jazz forms in the clas-
sical manner. Author of songs that
will live forever, Gershwin was
no mere tune-smith but a master
of composition whose works were
played by all the leading orches-
tras of two continents. A talented
pianist, the Brooklyn-born corn.
poser got his first important job in
1917 as • rehearsal pianist for
Victor Herbert's "Miss 1917." His
ability won immediate recognition
and soon his first songs, "You-Just-
You" and "There's More to a Kiss"
were big hits, Then he went into
vaudeville as an accompanist for
Louise Dresser. Gershwin was on-1
ly 20 when Alex Aaron, gave him I
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FRANKLIN WILL SPEAK
ON NATIONAL HOOK-UP
Under the auspices of the broad-
cast known as "The Call to Youth",
Dr. Leo M. Franklin will speak
over the mast-to-coast hook-up of
the Blue Network of the National
Broadcasting Company on Satur-
day morning, July 24, at 11 o'clock.
His subject will be, "What Does
Youth Want" The local outlet will
be over Station WXYZ,
demption on Tighe b'Ab
In Synagogues
NEW YORK. N. Y. — Tisha
b'Ab, occurring on Sunday, July
18, and marking the 1868th anni-
versary of the destruction of the
Temple and Jerusalem, will be
observed in synagogues through-
out the United States by the re-
cital of Jeremiah's Lamentations
and a special effort to raise funds
for the Palestine land redemption
program of the Jewish National
Fund.
Koren Kayemeth Councils and
volunteer workers in more than
1,200 communities have been re-
quested to make extensive pre-
parations for the conduct of the
Tisha b'Ab appeal. Volunteers
have been supplied with Tisha
b'Ab receipt booklets containing
temporary receipts in the amount
of $5. Rabbis and congregation
presidents have been urged to ad-
dress the worshippers on the sub-
ject of Geulath Ha'aretz.
An appeal, under the caption
"Comfort, comfort ye. my Peo-
ple," issued by the Jewish Na-
tional Fund and posted in hun-
dreds of synagogues, describes
the present moment in the fol-
lowing terms:
AARON DROOCK
"Our forefathers sat on the
Droock, Dr. Victor Droock, Morris banks of the rivers of Babylon.
Shatzen, Henry Abramovits, Ben- Tearfully they vowed: 'If I forget
jamin F. Goldman, Samuel W. thee, oh, Jerusalem, may my right
Leib, Dr. Harry Tanner, Abe Ot- hand forget its cunning.' At the
tenberg.
rivers of Eastern and Central
Aaron Droock was elected Bet- Europe our brethren sit today in
e n d vice-president of District swamps of hatred, persecution
Grand Lodge No. 6. This is the and blood. From the east, where
first time in 31 years that a Detroit the Jewish National Horne is be-
man was in line for the presidency ing rebuilt sad where a new Jew-
of the district., which Is comprised ish future is being created despite
of eight states and three Canadian all obstacles, there beckons to
provinces.
them their only ray of hope. We
The Detroit lodges are still work- must remain true to our ancient
ing to make a success of the an- oath. We must strengthen the
nual moonlight, which is to take spirit of hope. It is our duty to
plate on Sunday, July 25. A great accomplish the sawed and urgent
number of tickets have been eold teak of Eretz, Israel's redemp-
and a capacity crowd is expected. Lion."
el