Detroit Jewish Chronicle
and The'Legal Chronicle
Rabbi J. Nathan
Speaks at Jewish
Sanatorium Fete
15th Anniversary Cele-
bration at Fort Wayne
Hotel on March 22
Fifteen years of unceasing aid
in behalf of tuberculosis suffer-
ers will be marked by the De-
troit Auxiliary of the National
Jewish Consumptive and Ex-
patients Relief Association when
the group holds its 15th anniver-
sary celebration at the Fort
Wayne Hotel Ballroom, Cass and
Temple Ayes., Sunday, March
22, at5p. m.
Preparations are being com-
pleted for an outstanding pro-
gram Of talent with Cantor Hy-
man Schulsinger, vocalist, of
Temple Beth Tefilah Emanuel,
Dave Diamond, violinist and or-
chestra conducter, and other
noted artists, according to Na-
than R. Epstein, president.
Rabbi Jacob J. Nathan, asso-
ciate leader of Congregation
Bnai Moshe, will deliver the prin-
cipal address of the evening,
followed by dining and dancing
with proceeds of the entire event
to be contributed to the Los An-
geles Sanatorium, 29-year-old tu-
berculosis hospital operated by
JCRA, and for the maintenance
of Detroit patients in the insti-
tution.
Highlight of the Detroit
group's Spring activities, the an-
niversary bencilit • is receiving the
widespread support, of members
and friends, :With reservations
mounting steadily well in ad-
vance of;:the date. All officers
ar6 codp
—erating 100 per cent,
Epstein reports, adding those
participating are: Harry Golden-
berg, vice president; James J.
Simon, Morris Arotzken, Abra-
ham H. Jaffin, secretaries; Mor-
ris Torgow, treasurer; Sam
Mansewitz, sergeant at arms;
David I. Zide, Samuel B. Kemp-
ner, investigators.
Board of directors include:
Meyer Barron, Charles Dishell,
Aaron Eckshtat, Jacob Garelick,
Harris T. Glickman, Rubin
Schayowitz, Morris Shapiro and
John Sodos.
P. Karl of Los Angeles, presi-
dent of the National Consump-
tive Association, commenting on
the forthcoming benefit, stated,
"It is heartening in times such
as these to see the unshaken
support of our 80 nation-wide
supporting auxiliaries. The in-
spiring work of the Detroit Aux-
iliary is a constant reminder to
us all that care and treatment
of the indigent and diseased
must be maintained diligently in
war times."
Fred M. Butzel Chairman
Of 1942 Allied Campaign
Gewerkshaiten
Drive Nears End
George N. Shuster of New York to Be
Principal Speaker of 15th Annual Meet-
ing at Statler Hotel on March 29
Fred M. Butzel has consented
to signalize his 46th year of
communal activity in Detroit by
accepting the chairmanship of
the 1942 Allied Jewish Cam-
paign, preliminary work for
FRED M. BUTZEL
of Ford Republic, board member
of the Legal Aid Bureau of the
Detroit Bar Association, vice
president of the U. S. 0. and
officer and board member of it
score or more charitable and
civic associations.
In the Jewish community he
has served as president of the
United Jewish Charities, is
chairman of the executive com-
mittee of the Jewish Welfare
Federation, president of the
Jewish Children's Bureau, presi-
dent of the Resettlement Service,
honorary president of the Jew-
ish Community Council, vice
president of the United Jewish
Charities, and a member of the
boards of the Hebrew Free Loan
Association, the United Hebrew
Schools and the Jewish Voca-
tional Service. In 1937, on his
60th birthday, a forest was
planted in his honor in Palestine.
Among the national Jewish or-
ganizations in which he holds
office and participated actively
are the American Jewish Com-
mittee, the Council of Jewish
Federations and Welfare Funds,
and the National Conference of
Christians and Jews. He also is
the legal representative and De-
troit representative of at least
a score of additional national
agencies and services.
A lawyer by training, he is a
social worker by inclination and
devotes the major portion of his
time to social service. In addi-
tion to his work on his draft
which already is under way.
Leadership in the campaign
was tendered in the name of the
campaign planning . committee,
which at a meeting under the
chairmanship of Abraham Srere,
president of the Jewish Welfare
Federation, unanimously decided
to offer the post to Mr. Butzel.
My. Butzel has been a leader
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in- philanthropic and -civic 'work
since the closing days of the
last century, when as a young-
ster in his teens he did volunteer
work in behalf of the soldiers of
the Spanish-American War. Born
in Detroit, the son of Magnus
and Henrietta Hess Butzel, he
received his bachelor of philoso-
phy degree from the University
Will Protest Struma
of Michigan in 1897 and was
admitted to the Michigan Bar in
Disaster on Sunday
1899. As chairman of a present-
At
Shaarey Zedek
day Draft Board, he is perform-
ing war-time services for the
With Congressman John D.
third time in his life, having Dingell as one of the principal
also been active in defense and speakers, Detroit Jews will meet
war activities in 1917-18.
on Sunday, March 22, at 1 p. m ,
Known best in the Jewish
community as local and national
leader or institutions and causes,
dating back to the organizational
days of the Conference of Jew-
ish Charities, the forerunner of
the National Conference of Jew-
ish Social Welfare, Mr. Butzel is
equally distinguished as national
director of the Common Council
for American Unity, vice presi-
dent of the Detroit Community
Fund, president of Parkside Hos-
pital, board member of the Coun-
cil of Social Agencies, president
Local Jews Hold
Mass Meeting
was being done with "integrity
and courage".
Lord Cranborne's heated de-
fense of his government came
after a withering attack by Lord
Davies and Wedgwood, whose
theme was that the Palestine
government was suffering from
the "obsession of appeasement".
Even after the Colonial Secre-
tary had made his answer and
had emphasized that the British
Cabinet itself was responsible
for decisions on Palestine, Lord
Davies countered that it was
time for "a drastic spring-clean-
ing," necessitated not merely by
the events in Palestine but by
the successive failures in the
management of the war which
might spring from the same fac-
See
STRUMA—Page 12
Intensive activity is still going
on in many folk organizations
and landsmanschaf ten to swell
the funds of this year's Gewerk-
shaf ten campaign. Only eight
days remain now to bring the
campaign to a successful close
and to realize Detroit's quota.
ISRAEL MEREMINSKY
Many organizations are still
to be visited and the campaign
management urges all presidents
and officers of organizations who
have not yet completed their
wo0 to do so within the next
few days, and report their ef-
forts, as soon as possible, • to
the office of the campaign at
Dexter and Cortland, and receive
the number of - invitations to
-which they and their respective
organizations are entitled, to
assure participation in the clos-
ing festivities.
As previously announced, the
closing concert and celebration
of the Histadrut will be held
March 29 at the Wilson Theater,
with many prominent personali-
ties as speakers, and a special
effort has been made that this
year's artistic and musical part
of the evening shall be incom-
parable with anything before.
In the musical program, Sedor
Belarsky of New York, a well
known artist in Jewish, Palestin-
ian and classic songs, and Emma
Schaver, brilliant soprano, will
participate. The two artists will
appear in a program that was
given at Carnegie Hall in New
York several months ago and
which was praised by all the
critics of the Jewish and Eng-
lish papers. Also a well known
'cellist will take part in the
program.
Israel Mereminsky, noted Pal-
estinian orator, will be one of
the speakers.
Wineman Declares in
Statement on Allied
Jewish Campaign
In the fourth of a series of
Allied Jewish Campaign mes-
sages to the contributing public
by communal leaders, Henry
Wineman declared that all of
us must realize that our world
cannot be half slave and half
free, and that we must help
maintain life at home and
abroad on every front.
"The United Jewish Appeal
agencies and related overseas
and Palestinian services," said
Mr. Wineman, "have been the
rallying ground and the battle
cry of our Allied Jewish Cam-
paign. In American life we are
learning that the war cannot be
fought on one single front and
that victory for democracy as it
affects us depends on a victory
won everywhere that the war is
being waged. Today, of all times,
we cannot forget the victims of
oppression, nor can we help our
hard pressed fellow champions
of a better day by philanthropic
isolationism. Our campaign
speeches and slogans must inten-
sify this respect for the task as
an all-inclusive, united effort to
help our friends the world over.
"Whatever we can do for Pal-
estine and for the Jews in other
countries all goes to keep alive
ideals and people and program.
In the past, we had to answer
only to ourselves for the assist-
ance we sent 'outside America;
today we must answer as well to
our neighbors who are partners
in a war that calls for better
understanding and common ac-
tion.
"In the case of the United
Jewish Appeal, it is important
that formal certification and gov-
ernment endorsement of over-
seas and Palestinian programs
continue to be publicized. Such
pronouncements represent one of
our strongest campaign argu-
ments, giving continuing evi-
dence that our cause and the
American United Nations' cause
is one.
"Last year contributors asked
whether there was a need m
these directions for more money.
This year many of them are ask-
ing whether there is need for as
much money, whether the money
can really reach the intended
beneficiaries, whether other non-
denominational organizations and
campaigns might not be more ac-
ceptable channels for giving.
Those who have followed the de-
See
WINEMAN—Page 12
Three hundred new members class of 1942 is to he named in
will be officially inducted into honor of the late Justice Louis
Lord Davies Protests Struma Sinking;
Wedgwood Charges Palestine Officials
Are Anti-Semitic
LONDON. (JPS-Palcor) — In tration in their execution, which
Concluding Event to
Be Concert at Wilson
Theater on March 29
World Can Not
Be Half Slave
And Half Free
Bnai Brith Aux. to Install
300 New Members Mar. 23
Cranborne Gives Backing
To Zion Administration
the most furious interchange of
opinion on Palestine that the
House of Lords has heard in sev-
eral years, Viscount Cranborne,
Colonial Secretary, denied a
charge by Lord Wedgwood that
the officials of the Palestine gov-
ernment are anti-Semitic, and
another charge by Lord Davies
that the government is appeas-
ing "Arab recalcitrants." An-
swering the most vigorous criti-
cism directed at the Palestine
government since the war began,
because of the Struma incident
and other policies affecting the
Jews, Lord Cranborne empha-
sized that it was the British gov-
ernment in London which had
made those policies and which
stood directly behind and was
guiding the Palestine Adminis-
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DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY. MARCH 20. 1942
VOL. 44, NO. 12
the Pisgah Auxiliary No. 122, D. Brandeis.
Rabbi B. Benedict Glazer of
Bnai Brith, on Monday, March
23. at 8:30 p. m., in the social Congregation Beth El will be
hall of Temple Beth El. The the guest speaker that evening,
JOHN I). DINGELL
to memorialize the death of 750
men, women and children on the
ill-fated steamer Struma which
struck a mine near Istanbul,
Turkey, and will protest the neg-
ligence of the Palestine govern-
ment in refusing to admit them
into the land in spite of pleas by
Jew'sh leaders in England, the
United States and Palestine. The
meeting will be held at the Shaa-
rey Zedek, Chicago and Lawton.
In addition to Congressman
Dingell, speakers at this rally
will include Rabbi Morris Adler,
president of the Zionist Organ'za-
tion of Detroit; Lawrence W.
Crohn, president of the Zionist
Council of Detroit, the united
body of all local Zionist organiza-
tions under whose auspices the
meeting is being arranged; Ben-
See MEMORIAL—Page 12
RABBI GLAZER
and has chosen as his subject
"What Makes Life Significant
Today".
The initiation ritual will be
conducted by Miss Charlotte
Gant, past president of the
Pisgah Auxiliary, and second
vice president of the Women's
District Grand Lodge No. 6.
Those participating in the ritual
are Mrs. Nathan Wolf. Mrs.
Charles Solovich, Mrs. Saul Ros-
enman, Mrs. Jess Railer, Mrs.
Leonard Sims and Mrs. Samuel
Aaron.
The installation of the Judge
Louis D. Brandeis class repre-
sents the largest class of new
members to be initiated in re-
cent years, and also marks the
close of Pisgah Auxiliary's mem-
bership drive conducted under
the chairmanship of Mrs. Samuel
Aaron and her co-chairman, Mrs.
Benjamin Fishman.