March 28, 1941
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle
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BNAI BRITH
(Continued from Page 1)
A. M. Cohen of Cincinnati, past
president and honorary president
of Bnai Brith, will preside. Mr.
Wallace's subject is "Democracy
and the Dignity of Man."
Universally regarded as one of
the most distinguished and crea-
tive Jewish personalities of mod-
ern times, Dr. Weizmann is ex-
pected to bring a message of
profound importance to Ameri-
can Jewry in his address to the
Bnai Brith convention. The fam-
ous Jewish leader will be pre-
sented by Dr. Solomon Goldman,
rabbi of Chicago's Anshe Emet
Synagogue, former president of
the Zionist Organization of Amer-
ica and now a member of the
Bnai Brith Hillel Commission.
The major addresses by Mr. District 6; Benjamin Samuels,
Wallace and Dr. Weizmann will resident Chicago member of the
be followed by three days of de- Bnai Brith executive committee
liberation and action on problems and national convention chair-
dealing with national defense, man; Jerome J. Friedman of
Americanism, adult education, Chicago, District 6 and Chicago
youth welfare, war relief, refu- convention chairman; Judge I. M.
gee aid and matters of special Golden of San Francisco, a na-
concern to the American Jewish tional vice-president of Bnai
community. Convention decisions Brith.
on these questions will be guided
At this session, special awards
by the recommendations to be for 40 years of service as dele-
made in the presidential report gates to national Bnai Brith con-
of Mr. Monsky, who will appraise ventions will be presented to
the record of Bnai Brith activi- Vice-President Archibald A. Marx
ties since 1938, when he was first of New Orleans and Joseph Ull-
called to the leadership of the man of New Haven, both of
whom have been delegates to
organization.
The opening session on Satur- every convention since 1900, the
clay night is to be addressed by last to be held in Chicago. The
Governor Dwight Green of IIIi- presentation will be made by Sid-
nois; Mayor Edward Kelly of ney G. Kusworm of Dayton, na-
Chicago ; Philip M. Klutznick of tional treasurer.
Omaha, president of Bnai Brith's Mr. Wallace's Sunday night ad-
b
A Few
Straightforward
Questions . . . .
To the Voters of Detroit
Are you going to put your gas company in the
hands of the Common Council? Even if the people
should vote to take over the gas company April
7th, City Council has right to refuse to put municipal
ownership into effect. That's the real joker in the
gas proposals.
your experience with the D.S.R., the Water
2. Has
Board, and the Department of Public Works given
you any reason to expect lower rates or better
service if you do put the gas business in the hands
of the politicians?
Why the great and mysterious rush to put the gas
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proposals on the ballot April 7th without giving
the voters sufficient chance to study the proposals?
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Detroit's gas rate is now one of the lowest in the
country in cities of comparable size and conditions.
Do you want your gas rates raised by the politicians?
C Detroit gas users get many free services which
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gas users in other cities pay for. Do you want
the politicians to interfere with your gas service?
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Would you invest your own money before most
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thorough and careful investigation?
PROTECT YOUR OWN INTERESTS
VOTE NO
ON THESE VITAL QUES-
TIONS. ELECTION APRIL 7th.
DETROIT GAS USERS' COMMITTEE
RICHARD JONES,
Chairman
GORDON K. MacEDWARD,
Ilicreftvy and Treasurer
dress will be preceded by a sym-
bolic initiation of the 7,500 new
members enrolled in District 6 m
a special drive held as a tribute
to Mr. Monsky and the conven-
tion. District President Klutz-
nick and Benjamin I. Morris of
Chicago, first vice-president, will
officiate.
Women delegates will be seated
at the convention for the first
time in Bnai Brith history, the
six Women's Grand Lodges hav-
ing won the right to be repre-
sented by one delegate each in
recognition of the contributions
of the distaff side of Bnai Brith.
They will represent 45,000
women organized in 444 senior
and junior units, which during
the last three years raised and
spent over $200,000 for educa-
tional, youth, welfare, refugee
aid and Red Cross Dr oj ects.
The original manuscript of the
famous patriotic hymn, "MY
Country 'Tis of Thee," will high-
light a special exhibit to be held
in connection with the conven-
tion. Owned by Barney Balaban,
president of Paramount Pictures
and a member of Bnai Brith, the
noted manuscript will be the fea-
ture of a display of pictorial,
statistical and other graphic ex-
hibits portraying the work and
services of Bnai Brith and its
branch agencies.
Palestine 'Wines
On Sale in Mich.
Bnai Brith Establishes Fellow-
ship in Memory of Grover
Cleveland Hall, Crusader
Against Bigotry
WASHINGTON, D. C.—A
Grover Cleveland Hall Memorial
Fellowship, to be given annually
in recognition of student leader-
ship in the promotion of inter-
faith relationships, has been es-
tablished at the University of
Alabama by the National Hillel
Commission, governing body of
the Bnai Brith Hillel Founda-
tions, in memory of the late
Grover Cleveland Hall, editor of
the Montgomery, Ala., Advertiser,
who earned national acclaim as
a crusader against bigotry when
he was awarded the 1927 Pulitzer
Prize for his editorials against
the Ku Klux Klan and racial
and religious intolerance, it is
announced by Henry Monsky,
president of Bnai Brith, and
chairman of the commission.
The first $300 award to 1-1.
student who best typifies
ideals of Mr. Hall will be n
at the May commencement e.
cises by Dr. Abram L. Sacl
national director of the B
Brith Hillel Foundations. No
nations for the award will
made by the directors of
Christian student foundations
the University of Alabama.
The Grover Cleveland I
Memorial Fellowship is similai
the award recently establis
by Bnai Brith at the Univer:
of Illinois in memory of the 1
Prof. Edward Chauncey Be
win, eminent Christian schc
whose vision helped bring ip
being the first of what is nov
nationwide network of 55 Bi
Brith-sponsored Hillel Fowl(
tions on as many campuses whe
30,000 Jewish students a
served with a program of re
gious, cultural, social welfa
and recreational activities.
Dr. Weizmann Arrives; Express
Confidence in British Victors
NEW YORK.—Dr. Chai
Weizmann, president of the Wor
Zionist Organization and tl
Jewish Agency for Palestine, r
garded as world Jewry's for,
most personality, arrived in Ne
York Saturday morning, togeth.
with Mrs. Weizmann, on tl
Dixie Clipper, ending a four-de:
journey by air from Londe):
where Dr. Weizmann saw Prim
Minister Winston Churchill by
fore leaving for America.
An official reception was ter
tiered to Dr. Weizmann
Wednesday evening, at the Astc
Hotel, New York, by leaders c
American Jewry, under the au:
pices of the United Palestin
Appeal.
Here on a brief visit, M
Weizmann will confer on mean
of mobilizing greater support fo
the 550,000 Jews in Palestin
who form an important bulwar
in one of the most vital wa
zones for Great Britain. Di:
coverer of T. N. T., the famou
chemist and scientist will als
confer with various America
scientists in connection with h
war work for Great Britain. D
Weizmann, who headed the chen
ical laboratories in the last Wa
is once again engaged in chew
cal research for the British Go
eminent. Mrs. Weizmann,
scientist in her own right,
president of the Women's lap
With the aid of Governor Van
Wagoner, Carmel Palestine wines
were placed on sale again in
Michigan stores.
All brands of Carmel wines as
well as Carmel brandy "Three
Star" are now available.
Jewish leaders here, in order
to encourage trade between the
U. S. and Palestine, strongly urge
Detroiters to buy Carmel wines
and to make a good showing in
sales of these products this year.
Bnai Moshe Juniors
The Bnai Moshe Juniors, a
group of boys and girls, ages 7
to 12, recently organized, held
election of officers last Saturday.
Morris Neuvirth was elected
president; Harold Glass, vice-
president; Shirley Berkowitz, sec-
retary, and Ernest Neuvirth,
treasurer. Board members are
Esther Neuvirth, Ben Lasky and
Ralph Simkovitz.
This group takes part in Sab-
bath morning services and holds
cultural and social meetings every
Saturday evening.
national Zionist Organization.
In his brief statement, Dr.
Weizmann said:
"Now, more than ever before,
Palestine is the only center for
the salvation of great masses of
Jews for the resurrection of the
Jewish nation. American Jewry,
the only great free Jewish com-
munity in the world, must now,
more than ever, bear the burden
of the major responsibility.
Though we are fully confident
of the ultimate victory of Great
Britain and her allies, supported
by the growing help of your
great democracy, we must real-
ize that the post-war Jewish
problem will not solve itself. In
the future, as in the past, the
fate of our people will lie first
of all in our own hands, and
the trgic necessities of the mo-
ment must not distract our atten-
tion from our ultimate goal,
which is the full liberation of
our people through the establish-
ment of a Jewish National Home
on a sound and enduring bilgz: