October 23, 1942
BNAI BRITH
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called it home. In 1942 Bellefaire
was home to 200 youngsters who
were being prepared for adult
independent lives through an ad-
vanced program of education, vo-
cational guidance and case work.
Having shown the way in Cleve-
land, Bnai Brith soon opened
other institutions, in many sec-
tions of the country. In this lim-
ited space we are unable to rec-
ord all Bnai Brith philanthropic
institutions.
Best known of all the Bnai
Brith-created philanthropies is the
National Jewish Hospital in Den-
ver, whose opening in 1899 point-
ed the way for the first time to
the need for considering tubercu-
losis as a national problem.
America's pioneer institution
for the free care on a nationwide
non-sectarian basis of tubercu-
losis sufferers, the National Jew-
ish Hospital has treated 25,0(10
patients from every state in Hi ,
Union since it opened. Its motto
—"None May Enter Who Can
Pay—None May Pay Who Enter"
—has been a beacon of hope to
victims of the white plague.
Widely known as America's fore-
most inter-faith philantrophy, the
National Jewish Hospital's re-
search department and its pro-
gram for children are interna-
tionally famous, some of the
most far-reaching contributions
to the cure and treatment of tu-
berculosis having been made by
members of its staff.
What Bnai Brith did for tuber-
culosis sufferers through the Na-
tional Jewish Hospital it dupli-
cated for victims of arthritic and
rheumatic diseases when it
founded the Leo N. Levi Memor-
ial Hospital, named for Leo N.
Levi, a president of Supreme
Lodge Bnai Brith, at Hot Springs,
Ark.. in 1914.
Since its opening the Leo N.
Levi Memorial Hospital has treat-
ed more than 120.000 men, wo-
men and children of all races and
creeds in its hospitals and clinics.
Completely non-sectarian, it is
the only free institution in the
world for the care of those af-
flicted with rheumatic ailments.
Maintainance of these national
and regional institutions—as well
as support of others of a local
character founded by or with the
help of Bnai Brith in many parts
of the country—remained a ma-
jor concern of Bnai Brith.
Since 1865, when Bnai Brith
answered the first cry for aid
from Jews abroad by contribut-
ing to Sir Moses Montefioro's
fund for epidemic victims in
Palestine, Bnai Brith has spent
an estimated $5,000,000 for the
relief of pain and suffering in
every corner of the globe without
regard to race, creed or color.
During that period, when Bnai
Brith creedless giving first spread
its name to the ends of the earth
as an angel of mercy, it fur-
nished relief to victims of the
yellow fever epidemic in the
South (1876; Baltimore Flood
(1869) ; Chicago Fire (1871);
Russian May Laws (1881) ;
Charleston earthquake (1886) ;
Dakota famine (1888); Johnstown
Flood (1899); Galician pogroms
(1900); Irish famine (1903);
Kishinev pogrom (1905); Paris
flood (1910); Constantinople fire
(1911); Balkan Wars (1912-13);
Turkish earthquake (1912) ; Ohio
and Nebraska tornados (1913).
Between 1914 and 1942 Bnai
Brith came to the help of war
sufferers in Poland, Galicia and
Austria (1914-16); starving Jews
in Palestine (1915) post war po-
grom victims in Galicia and Po-
land (1919); was prisoner in
Siberia (1919); victims of Texas
tidal wave (1919); European war
orphans (1920-30) impoverished
Jews of Austria, Rumania, Ger-
many and Poland (1920-4) ; vic-
tims of Pueblo flood (1921); vic-
tims of Japanese earthquake
(1923); victims of Ohio tornado
(1925); victims of Damascus
bombardment (1927); and Mis-
sissipi floods (1927) ; Jews of
Constantinople (1928) ; victims of
Palestine riots (1929); victims of
Mexican riots (1931) and Salon-
Ica fire (1931); the victims of
the Tiberias flood (1933); Pol-
ish floods (1934); Southern Cali-
fornia earthquake 11933); Polish
riots (1937) : Chinese floo is
(137); and Chilean earthquake
(1939).
Included maong the beneficiar-
ies of Bnai Brith relief funds
since 1933 were Bnai Brith ref-
ugee aid committees in Poland,
Palestine, England, Canada, Swit-
zerland, Bulgaria, H IIla n d.
France, Greece, Egypt, China and
Czechoslovakia. This help was
5
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
MURRAY D. VAN WAGONER—
MICHIGAN'S WAR GOVERNOR
A consolidated revenue depart-
ment, saving $5,000,000 in its
first year;
Increased unemployment com-
pensation, better administration
of child labor laws, workmen's
injury compensation, factory safe-
ty laws, and laws protecting wom-
en in war factories.
With State tax revenues ex-
pected to drop sharply next year,
Governor Van agoner has out-
lined a drastic consolidation pro-
gram to preserve essential war
bervices by ending government
operating waste long entrenched
by law.
He has plans under way for
evacuation of cities in the event
of bombing, for day care of chil-
then whose mothers may be
called to war work, for continu-
ing close State cooperation with
President Roosevelt's war pro-
duction program.
Tuesday, Nov. 3, will answer
the question of whether the
voters intend to continue their
present Democratic State war ad-
ministration, and to strengthen it
by removing the Republican Au-
ditor and Attorney Generals and
replace them with Democrats who
will cooperate with the Governor.
If Michigan's 107-year history
is any indication, War Governor
Van Wagoner's program will be
approved by Democrats, Repub-
licans and independent voterA
alike.
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If Michigan follows unbroken
tradition on Nov. 3, War Gov-
ernor Murray D. Van Wagoner
will be re-elected to a second
term.
The present war is the fourth
for Michigan since becoming a
State in 1835. In all past wars,
the governor who held office be-
fore war started was re-elected,
voters evidently believing with
Civil War President Lincoln that
a national emergency is no time
to remove an experienced chief
executive who already is on the
jeb.
Austin Blair was Michigan's
great Civil War Governor, taking
office in 1861 and serving two
terms. Hazen S. Pingree was
Spanish-American War Governor,
his two terms starting in 1898.
Albert E. Sleeper's two terms
started in 1917, covering the
World War period.
The record of the State's pre—
ent War Governor, written in
front-page stories by Michigan
newspapers these last two years.
shows that this first total war in
history, and Michigan's vast war
production importance, has put
heavier burdens on Governor Van
Wagoner than any former War
Governor carried.
In January, 1941, his first
month in office, Governor Van
Wagoner called the State's indus-
trial, labor and business leaders
into conference and launched the
nation's first State inventory of
military production facilities.
The State government then
sent Lhis inventory and State en-
gineers, to Washington, to lay
the basis for converting Michi-
gan's 6,000 factories from peace
to war work.
Governor Van Wegoner him-
self carried his plea for increased
supplementary to the continuing
assistance provided to its own
members abroad as well as funds
made available to responsible
agencies operating in the refugee
aid field. A hospital in China, a
loan fund in Palestine, a chil-
dren's school in Cuba, a kosher
meat fund in Europe and Youth
Aliyah were some of the refugee
aid projects that enlisted Bnai
Brith support.
Since the beginning of World
War II Bnai Brith has again
been open-handed in extending
aid to war victims and in cooper-
ating with relief agencies. A
separate article will relate the
activities of the newly created
Enai Brith War Service Depart-
ment. Subsequent articles will
also describe the defense program
Bnai Brith Anti - Defamation
League, student nrogram, Hillel
Foundations, youth program .1.
Z. A. and Vocational Guidance
Service and other manifold activ•
ities.
war orders directly to President
Roosevelt and top military pro-
curement officials.
Newspapers have quoted Michi-
gan industrialists and labor lead-
ers as crediting Van Wagoner's
work for the fact that Michigan
today has 96 per cent of its fac-
tories in war work.
The governor's labor mediation
policies won the confidence of
both management and labor. As a
result, work interruptions declined
steadily, and Michigan today is
on or ahead of schedule in pro-
ducing one-sixth of the nation's
war orders.
Governor Van Wagoner's civ-
ilian .defense program was put
under a Michigan World War
hero, Lieut.-Col. Harold Furlong.
The Army officially lists it as the
best in the Midwest. It has more
trained volunteers than the com-
bined total of Illinois and Wis-
consin, the other two States in
the Sixth Defense Region.
Newspaper stories also record
other steps Governor Van Wag-
oner took to put the State's house
in order, to better meet war time
strains;
A long-standing $27,000,000
State deficit wiped out and re-
placed by a $7,00,000 surplus—
the first in 20 years;
Record aid for schools and col-
leges, crippled children, dependent
mothers, and the aged;
Idle state hospitals open and
in full use;
The first reduction in number
of State employes seen in 12
years—a reduction which allowed
the State to raise salaries of
grossly under-paid employes
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