A merica (with Periodical eater CLIFTON AVENUE - CINCINNATI 20, OHIO DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle KOL NIDRE Emma Lazaroff Schaver Recital at Scottish Rite Cathedral on Nov. 6 Dear Lord: my oaths, accepted as my gold, Reach out to many men beyond my ken And act for me as services I sold; I pray no thoughts of mine will be a fen For those who seek for light and gain and health, Or cause someone to others hurt by stealth. Forgive my promises as yet unmade, Which actuate my fellow men to deeds They might not make but for my words unweighed, Or set in motion by my worldly greeds. —MARKUS S. SIMON Amount of Money Dispatched to Foreign Countries by U. S. Church Groups The Department of Commerce has just made public the results of an exhaustive study of this subject. According to the Depart- ment's report Protestant, Catholic and Jewish organizations have remitted $839,000,000 abroad in- the 21-year period from 1919 to 1939. Protestants led all groups with contributions estimated at $6,00,000,000. Jews donated $1.19,- 000,000 and gifts through Catho- lic institutions totalled $90,00011-- lie institutions which totalled to $90,000,000. Bnai Brith Spent $58,000 On War Relief and Refugee Aid During War's First Year the Red Cross war relief appeal and the auxiliaries contributed $10,000 in cash and blankets for Polish war refugees. In addition, the Aleph Zadik Aleph, Bnai Brith's youth organization, gave WASHINGTON, D. C. — Bnai Brith expended $58,000 for war relief and refuge aid during the first year of World War II through appropriations from its Emergency Relief and German Relief Funds to non-sectarian agencies and Bnai Brith refugee committees abroad, it " was an- nounced here by Henry Monsky, president of Bnai Brith, which is the oldest and largest national Jewish service and fraternal or- ganization in the United States. Reporting on expenditures for these purposes from Sept. 1, 1939, to Sept. 1, 1940, Mr. Mon- skv pointed out that of the total, $31,500, or more than half, was contributed to such non-sectarian agencies as the American Red Cross, the Finnish Relief Fund an tithe Quen Wilhelmina Fund. The Red Cross received con- tributions totalling $3,500 from Bnai Brith Supreme Lodge for the emergency war relief drive and the Polish war relief cam- paign while the individual lodges and auxiliaries throughout the country turned over $15,000 to $250 to the Red Cross. The Su- preme Lodge also gave $1,000 to the Finnish Relief Fund and the lodges contributed another $1,000. Among the larger contributions for refugee aid were $3,500 for German-Jewish children being cared for in England; $8,000 for Bnai Brith refugees from Nazi- occupied countries who are now in Palestine and -. ( 0,500 to the Youth Aliyah for the transfer of Jewish children from the European lands of persecution to Palestine. Substantial appro- priations were also made to Bnai Brith refuge aid committees in Shanghai, China; Lithuania and Canada as well as for the relief of European Jewish students and writers. The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it, — Ruskin. He prayeth best who loveth best.—Coleridge. EMMA LAZAROFF SCHAVER Happy New Year! Cordial Greetings and Sincere Good Wishes to the Entire Community for a Happy and Pros- perous New Year. • • 8 DETROIT STORES OPEN EVENINGS Emma Lazaroff Schaver, eminent Detroit soprano who has appeared in concerts in many cities in the United States, Canada, Poland and Palestine, will be presented in a recital of classical music at the Scottish Rite Cathedral on Wednesday evening, Nov. 6. She will be accompanied by a nationally famed pianist. Mrs. Schaver is at present in New York where she is completing her repertoire in preparation for a tour that will take her to many cities. After her Detoit recital, she will appear in a concert in Toronto on Nov. 11. Thereafter, she has engagements in Chicago, Atlantic City, Philadelphia and other cities. WILLKIE GREETS U. S. JEWRY ON ADVENT OF NEW YEAR BUTTE, Montana—The follow- ing message was issued Wednes- day, Sept. 25, to citizens of Jewish birth in the United States of America by Wendell L. Willkie, Republican presidential candi- date: "I am happy to send my greet- ings to the Jewish people of America on the occasion of their celebration of the Hebrew New Year 5701. I am deeply impres- sed by an occasion, Nv hich com- memorates more than 57 cen- turies of recorded experience, reaching back to the roots of civilization. Greetings To our many friends and customers on these "I know what Rosh Hashonah means to the people of your faith. I know that on that day in every land, the Jewish people gather in their synagogues, pray- ing for peace and for the ulti- mate victory of right and jus- tice. I ask the privilege of join- ing in your prayers and of pledg- ing to you today, that insofar as it is within my capacity to keep so sacred a pledge, the United States of America will never harbor racial or religious intolerance and persecution. Up- on this principle our country was founded and upon it depends the perpetuation of democracy. "God grant that the Hebrew New Year 5701 may bring to Israel throughout the world, the same peace and protection that the Jews of our Democracy have always enjoyed and shall con- tinue to enjoy in the United States of America." Under decorating rebuilt the supers ision of out intelik,1 staff our entire store has been . More than I 00 model rooms . gorgeously decorated and furnished. Watch the daily papers for the opening date of Ametica's Furniture Store Beautiful. Fob tel Manufacturers - - Retailers 4 00 EAST JEFFERSON The Golden Rule works like gravitation.—C. F. Dole. B. SIEGEL CO. 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