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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
February 5, 194
WAR BOND ADMISSION TICKET
HILLEL GOES TO WAR
By DR.ABRAM L. SACHAR
National Director of the Bnai Brith Hillel Foundations
EDITOR'S
Foundations and Counselorships in providing religious and
advisory services, personal counselling and social and recrea-
tional programs for the Jewish men and women assigned to
military and naval training in colleges and universities is re-
vealed in this article by the national director of the Hillel
Foundations.
The eagerly awaited announce-
ment of the college military pro-
gram of the Army and the Navy
has at last been released. The
college campus is to be com-
pletely transformed and, within
a few months, it will be scarcely
recognizable. It will be geared to
play a tremendous part in the
total war effort.
Approximately 250,000 young
people will be assigned to Pie
colleges for technical training so
as to serve later as officer ma-
terial or for special technical
tasks. These young people will
be chosen not because they de-
sire to go to college, nor because
they can afford to go, but be-
cause, after exhaustive tests, they
demonstrate a capacity for tech-
nical skills and for greater use-
fulness in the specialized areas
in the war and the peace that is
to follow. The student-soldiers
will be part of the armed forces;
they will be in uniform; they will
draw basic pay; they will be un-
der military discipline. But their
chief purpose on the college
campus will be to study, so that
they may become specialists who
are so valuable in the new type
of warfare.
The Bnai Brith Hillel Founda-
tions were not caught off-guard
by this development. Those who
are charged with the responsi-
bility for directing the program
laid their plans early so as to
be of continued service on the
militarized campus. It was recog-
nized, however, that it would be
best to cooperate with Catholic
and Protestant foundation lead-
ership in presenting a common
front to the Army and Navy so
that the facilities, the manpower,
and the long experience gained
through decades of patient work
on the campus, could be of serv-
ice in time of war.
Representatives of the Hillel
Foundation, the Newman Clubs,
the Protestant Foundations and
the Y. M. C. A. met in December
and organized the Inter-Religious
Council for American Colleges
and Universities. The Council ne-
gotiated with the Army and Navy
officials, with the Chief of Chap-
lains in Washington, and with
the War Manpower Commission,
to clear with them the use of
existing facilities on the college
campuses. The responses have
been gratifying and they point the
way to a vastly increased area
of usefulness for all of the Foun-
dations.
From the office of the Chief
of Chaplains came the following
communication:
"This will acknowledge receipt
of your letter of Nov. 19, 1942,
which, while addressed to Chap-
lain Virden, is being answered
officially in order that you may
have the assurance that said reply
is more than just one man's
opinion . . . In general, the chief
of chaplains is of the opinion
that the college pastors, and the
various denominational programs
on the college campuses, are not
only qualified but perhaps are
better prepared to meet the reli-
gious needs of the men in train-
ing upon the college campus,
than military chaplains would be
. . . To use your own phrase,
he does regard the responsibility
for ministering to these men while
in training on the college cam-
pus as residing in the various
church groups in the community
and other agencies representing
the continuing forces of religion
there."
From the War Department came
the following communication:
"Many thanks for your letter
of 17 December, with its offer to
make available to the army units
under our program the facilities
and services of the Inter-Reli-
gious Council. The situation, from
our point of view remains where
it was at the time of our tele-
phone conversation. Specifically,
our men will be in the colleges
as uniformed students, with ma-
jor emphasis on 'students.' Mili-
tary control will be held to the
minimum necessary to ensure dis-
cipline, administration and a mo-
dicum of training. We assume,
and our contracts will provide,
that our men will enjoy the cam-
pus privileges open to all other
students. That being the case,
I believe that they will avail
themselves fully of your facili-
ties and services.
Sincerely yours,
Herman Beukma,
Colonel, C. S. C.,
Director, Army Specialized
Training Division."
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Since the start of the
Greater Detroit Bna i
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one month to sponso
two submarine chasers
this sign is doint
double duty. In thi
picture Max Goldhoff
treasurer of Pisgal
Lodge and co-chair
man of the Million
Dollar Bond Drive, is
shown selling bonds to
Milton Weinstein and
R u d o 1ph Meyersohn,
president of Pisgah
Lodge.
NOTE. The role to be played by the Bnai Brith Hillel
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from the Navy Department:
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"Navy desires all possible co- trainees at Texas, civilian train-
operation continuation present ing signal corps at Kentucky and
services resident Catholic, Pro- Army servicemen in many other
testant and Jewish religious agen- Pasts of the country.
cies for men in colleges under-
With this experience the Bnai
taking new college training pro- Brith Hillel Foundations face
gram."
their new military responsibili-
All through the personal sego _ ties with complete confidence. Of
tiations and the correspondence course the young student-soldiers
there was clear recognition by the will not have very much free
Army and the Navy that they time. They are assigned to cam-
had, in the existing 600 Chr is- puses for a grimly serious pur-
tian and Jewish Foundations on pose. The discipline will be fair-
American campuses, a magnificent 1Y rigid and those who do not
fabric which could be of incal- measure up will be quickly
culable assistance in the neces- "washed out" and sent back into
sary religious and rereational the army and navy ranks. But
there is assurance that there
service.
The Bnai Brith Hillel Founda- will be some free time and it
in this free
time
that man-
the
tions have welcomed the oppor- Foundations,
with
trained
tunity to superimpose a new mili-
tary program upon the normal power, with excellent facilities,
s a te n rd vinw gity hou ,a ng lp on eo g ple exp Nv e ir ied n e c m
e on in .
Foundation routine. The National
ll
Bnai Brith Hillel Commission, s rate .
their value. The activities
meeting in Chicago late in No- will
include religious services,
e.,
vember, 1942, gave the author-
ization to accept whatever re- personal counseling and recre-
sponsibility would be necessary ational and social activities.
Many of the Foundation direc-
to serve the thousands of young
soldier-students. Henry Monsky, tors have already made their ar-
president of Bnai Brith, pledged rangements with the command-
the resources of Bnai Brith to ments on their own campuses so
help implement the new military that there can be the most effec-
program. It may be necessary to rive form of co-operation be-
bring Hillel service to many cam- tween the Foundations and the
puses where there are, at pres- men in the service. Typical is a
ent, no Hillel units. If there are recent communication from the
campuses which become large Virginia Hillel director after a
military training reservoirs, and conference with the command-
there are enough Jewish men sta- ment of the Pre-Flight Naval
ttioned there, Hillel, like the School:
"The men will not only be per-
Christian agencies, will not hesi-
tate to assume new responSibili_ mated to attend religious serv-
ices on Friday evenings and holi-
ties.
A military program is not an days but will be encouraged to
innovation for the Hillel Foun- do so. If any special occasions
dation. Ever since the vast pre- arise and a cadet request it, Hil-
paredness effort of the United lel will be declared as `on
States which increased the stand- grounds' so the men can leave
ing army from a few hundred the base to attend."
thousand to millions, a process
It should be added that despite
vastly accelerated by the war, all of this new responsibility, the
the Foundations have placed their normal program of the Bnai
facilities at the disposal of the Brith Hillel Foundations will con-
servicemen. Many of the great tinue for those young people who
camps of the country are station- are on the campus as civilians.
ed close to college towns where For the universities of the coun-
there are Hillel units. And the try will continue to draw wo-
Foundations have been freely men as students. There will be
utilized by thousands of these the usual registration of young
men. people under 18; indeed, in some
A typical example is the serv- parts of the country, the colleges
ice of the Hillel unit at the Uni- are making plans to draw in se-
versity of Illinois in Champaign- lected high school students in
Urbana, which is 14 miles from their senior year. And there will
Chanute Field where approxi- be many young people who will
mately 25,000 air corps mechan- be unable to serve in the armed
ics and engineering cadets have forces because of physical disa-
been in training. At all times bilities.
there have been between 400
For all of these the Billet Foun-
and a 1000 Jewish men stationed dations will continue their normal
at Chanute Field. In their off- affirmative program. These young
periods they have come to the people must be brought close to
University community. There have the survival values of Jewish
been excellent social and recre- life for if they cannot serve
ational facilities for them in the their country in a military way
U. S. O. headquarters, and they they can prepare for the lay
have cijoyed the service rendered leadership that will be all the
by the Jewish Welfare Board rep- more necessary in the communi-
resentatives. ties to which they return. Those
But more than everything else who do not wear the uniform of
they have wanted wholesome Jew- their country must also feel that
ish companionship, a companion- they have a dignified place, a
ship which has been easily sup- useful place, in the world that
plied through the Hillel student is to be remade. Their morale will
committees, with the splendid co- be lifted when they realize that
operation of the Jewish sorori- they also serve who study and
ties and the organized Jewish who prepare for leadership.
houses. In addition, the Founda-
At present there are 77 Hillel
tion supplied cost suppers, so- Foundations and counselorships
dais, personal counseling, and, which serve 45,000 young people.
for the more serious minded, At the November meeting of the
splendid cultural programs which Bnai Brith Hillel Commission,
have helped immensely to build authorization was granted for
and to keep up morale.
the opening of 20 more units. It
This service was duplicated in may well be that the acceptance
every part of the country where of the new military responsibility
camps were close to the campus. will add two-score more. There
The• service was diversified in- are few agencies in American-
deed—Air Corps and Engineer- Jewish life which carry a heavier
ing cadets at Illinois, Waves and responsibility. For the Jewish
Yeomen at Indiana, Naval youth of this generation, those
trainees at Iowa, naval cadets at destined for military service, and
Cornell, Pre-Flight School Ca- those destined to serve in other
dets and meteorology technicians ways, must be reached so that
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WAR BONDS
It is imperative that the ship lanes
be kept free of ice. With American
troops occupying Iceland and the
Navy using the northern route for
transportation of supplies to Russia,
ice breakers are essential to Naval
operations. The ice breaker is a
specially constructed ship with
heavily armored bows and power
ful engines that crush the ice floes
rather than ram through them.
-
Ice breakers of the Kickapoo class
operating in the North Atlantic cost
approximately ;10,000,000. You can
help our Navy build these ships by
investing at least ten percent of your
income in War Bonds every pay
day. Enroll in the payroll savings
plan or apply at the nearest bank
or postoffice. IL.). 7 r.
Dera-miens
EQUALITY CLUB
The Equality Club elected of
for 1943 as follows: Mrs.
Emma Peck, president; Mrs.
Clara Breitman, vice president;
Mrs. Ida Glassman, treasurer;
Mrs. Karnow, financial secretary;
Mrs. Zelda Levitt, recording sec-
retary; Mrs. Jennie Jaffe and
Mrs. Rose Barak, visiting corn•
mittee.
through all the turmoil and
through all the dislocations of the
present, they may find courage
and stamina in the values of the
Jewish faith and the Jewish tra-
dition.
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