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VOL. 45, NO. 43
DETROIT. MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1943
Will Rogers, Jr. To Be Guest
Speaker At War Chest Opening
Special Meeting for Campaign Workers
To Be Held in Brown Memorial Chapel
Max Simon To Be Guest
Louis Lipsky To
Be Jewish Congr ess npeaker
,
At Council Institute
Guest Speaker
Meeting at Jewish
Center on Oct. 27
Town Hall Discus3ions of Community,
Problems To Be Specially Feature d
munity Council, and held that
office for four years. He is a
With the War Chest campaign min E. Jaffe and Mrs. Carl Seidl-
Louis Lipsky, noted leader of
member of the board of trustees
as completed its work of
scheduled to open officially on ler, has
of the Cleveland Federation, and
tributing prospect slips and the Congress and Zionist move-
an officer of its Welfare Fund.
Nov. 1, 1943, a number of pre- dis
chnipaign events will be taking workers' kits. The workers in the ments, will be the guest speaker
He is a member of the civic pro-
at the meeting of the American
arc
place prior to that time. The special assignments committee
tective committee of the Council
Jewish Welfare Federation has Mesdames Milton M. Alexander,
of Jewish Federations and Wel-
announced that a special meeting Edward Atlas, Herman August,
fare Funds, and has been 'one of
of War Chest campaign workers Jack Berger, Meyer B. Berkman,
the leading exponents of unity
and contributors will be held on Peter M. Bernstein, David Block,
among the national civic-protec-
Sunday, Oct. 31, at 3 P. m. The Louis M. Bloomberg, Perry P.
tive agencies. He is a careful
guest speaker at this meeting Burnstine, Douglas I. Brown,
thinker, a lucid writer, and a
will be Congressman Will Rogers, Martin L. Butzel, Lewis H. Carl-
speaker of note. His subject will
Jr., of California, who recentlyMaurice Cohen, David S.
be "The Community Council in
returned from England, where he Diamond, Louis M. Eaton, Joseph
the American Jewish Scene".
consulted with officials of the Falk, Ellis Fisher, Lewis C.
The Institute will be held in
British Government, as well as Frank, John Frazer, Max Frank,
the auditorium of the Jewish
Community Center. It will open
with officials of other United Na-
See ROGERS—Page 7
with a registration period at 1
tions governments, about plans
p. m. At 1:20 p. m. James I. Ell-
for the rescue of Jews from Nazi-
mann, president of Detroit's Jew-
occupied lands. The meeting will M
ish Community Council, will bring
be held in the Brown Memorial
words of greeting and welcome
Chapel of Temple Beth El.
to the assembly. He will then
Shortly after Pearl Harbor Will Launched by
J. Whlgel-
o
M
Rogers, Jr., enlisted in the Army
ntroduce Ra bbl ax
introduce
and went through the regular irb
ernter, who will deliver the open-
em e
induction center to training camp. "Db nal Brith Lodge
ing keynote address on th e th
After he served as a private for
of the Institute.
LOUIS I. 4IPSKY
• erz
xpos
two months he was sent to of-
Town Hall Discussions
Campaign
To Honor Jewish Congress which will be
C
ficers' school and then was at-
Then will follow three town-
Government
as
Nazi
held
at
the
Jewish
Community
tached to a Tank De4royer Bat-
100th Anniversary
hall
discussions, on three phases
Center, Woodward and Holbrook,
talion at Camp Hood, Tex. While
The following remarks were of the Community Council's pro-
at Camp Hood he was elected to
On Oct. 13, the day that Bnai on Wednesday, Oct. 20.
men- ram and functions. At each of
g
Morris Lieberman is chairman made by John D. Di g nell,
Congress.
Brith became 100 years old, the of the program comm ittee that bar of the House of Representa- these town-hall meetings, three
speakers will outline the Commu-
•
HOUSE TO HOUSE
p r esidents and membership chair- is arranging a series of Congress tives, from Detroit, in connection
CAMPAIGN TO BE MADE
men o f all local Bnai Brith groups lectures.
under
discussion,
and in a the
period
of
It was announced that Mrs. with the recent action of the pity
Council's
work
field
The Metropolitan Unit of the gathered at a birthday dinner un-
questions, suggestions, and self-
War Chest is now completing its der the auspices of the Greater David
Kallman
will
be
the
guest
Mr. Lipsky is one of the out- government of Argentina in
ban-
will
the publication of Yiddish criticism from the audience will
campaign organization and is get- Detroit Bnai Brith Council, to soloist.
campaign
follow. Each of the sessions
language
newspapers
in
Argen-
tang ready for the house-to-house, launch the largest and most ex-
then be briefly summarized.
block-by-block canvass of all the tensive membership drive in the standing Zionist leaders of Amer- tins:
The 1:45 p. m. town-hall dis-
"The government of the
ica and currently the chairman
homes • i the City of Detroit, ac- history of local Bnai Brith.
will be concerned with
Louis H. Schostak, president of the
council
to announcement by Mrs.
For governing
more than 30
years of
he the
has tine, by its own choice exclude cussion
"Our Community Council Among
Hobart A. Hoyt, chairman of the of the Greater Detroit Bnai Brith American Jewish Congress.
It will discuss
the Western Hemisphere, has Our Neighbors".
Metropolitan Unit. Altogether, an Council, announced the appoint-
the Community Council's work
army of 12,500 volunteers, men ment of Aaron Rosenberg, a past prises
been identified
with
the
most
im-
from
the
family
of
nations
in
throughout the world in a finally and definitely exposed it- in combatting anti-Semitism and
lf as pro-Nazi in sentiment and
and women, will undertake this president of Pisgah Lodge, as portant Jewish communal enter- self
building better understanding be-
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membership
chairman
of
the
gigantic task.
Mrs. Hyman C. Broder, vice Council in charge of the city-widc position of leadership, and has P urposes it might be deduced tween Jews and non-Jews. The
practice,
and for Pedro
all intents
and moderator will be Judge William
the present
Ramierz
chairman of the Metropolitan drive which is being conducted I attained a distinguished record as that
soentthalainy Friedman. Aaron Droock will
announced
that
the
organi-
simultaneously
by
all
local
Bnai
a
lecturer,
author
and
publicist.
rsveprrnemdeencet,ssoerv,enis
msoernetim
Unit,
speak on anti - discrimination
zation of her districts is being Brith lodges and auxiliaries. Mr. ...„
Member
cuA Executive
Executve em
work. Michael Gimbel will out-
rapidly completed. Mrs. Bi'oder Rosenberg announced that after
Mr. Lipsky was elected vice and substantially, if not actually,
line the Community Council's fact
stated that the women's special consultation with the chairmen
assignments committee, under the of membership of the lodges a president of the World Zionist an ally
of Nazi Germany. The finding program. Isaac Franck
oul of th e g government of Argen- will sketch the broad program of
co-chairmanship of Mrs. Benja- goal of 1,500 new members in Congress held in Carlsbad, Czech- tin
s a, by its recent pronouncement
Detroit has been set. The auxin-
in banning 'all Jewish naiirspapers public education, community re-
See LIPSKY—Page 8
aries are also getting under way
and magazines,' has been exposed lations, and social research. After
t
de- the self-criticism and discussion
at this time with a drive, and
in all its hideousness as a de-
II. Weiner
they are awaiting a quota from
praved and concerous growth af- period, Mrs. Leonard
will
summarize
briefly.
the Women's District Grand
fecting . the southernmost extrem-
NOTICE
At 3.15 p. m. the town-hall
Lodge.
r Western Hemisphere.
iy, f
the meeting will discuss "Our Com-
Mr. Rosenberg stated that this
What
more
proof
does
Our-
"
All copy must be in not drive is the Greater Detroit Bnai
world need than to accept the munity Council Among
aniza-
Brith Council's birthday gift to
elv ' Cultural a nd or g grams
voluntary
action
of
the
Argen-
later than Wednesday, 3 Bnai Brith, the oldest and largest
ses"coordination, and pr o
mu- tine government as a clear-cut tional
Jewish
service
organization
in
of self-discipline in the Jewish
p.m. It must be written the United States. Every Jew or
e Jewish Community indication of its adhesion to and
community
will be analyzed.
Axis
hajes,
director
of
lius C
communion with the barbaric
will outline
on one side of paper only Jewess, 21 years or older, of sic Ju Per
at th
partners. Only distance and other Abraham Meyerowitz
good moral character, is eligible Center, will conduct the Center handicaps stand in the way of the Community Council's func-
and where possible should for membership in Bnai Brith. Symphony Orchestra in the first physical union and the application bons in cultural and organiza-
Harry Yudkoff, second vice
of brute force which would p ac t.
be typewritten.
on a parity the government of tional work. Louis Rosenzweig
president of District Grand Lodge
See SIMON—Page 8
See BNAI BRITH—Page 8
See DINGELL--Page 8
With "The Jewish Community
Council and the Evolving Jewish
Community" as its central theme,
the Community Council Institute
this Sunday will present to toe
community a full day's program
of rich and interesting discussions
on vital problems of community
work. The Institute is open to the
public. Authorized delegates and
officers of the Community Coun-
cil's 195 constituent organizations
will be in attendance, represent-
ing their respective bodies.
The principal speaker at the
evening program will be Max
Simon, who was the first presi-
dent of Cleveland's Jewish Com-
John D. Dingel
Blasts Rulers
Of Argentine
embership Drive
Chafes To Conduct
Center Orchestra
Tuesday, Oct. 26
Karl Krueger Makes First Appearance
As Conductor of Detroit Symphony
A Page From a Diary of a
Jewish Soldier
way back in the 1920's, and more
recently auditor of a famous Park
EDITOR'S NOTE: David Zagier, Avenue hotel. Bernie has, how-
for many years foreign corre- ever, the unenviable reputation of
spondent for British, South Afri- a "chow-hound" in Headquarter
can, and Australian newspapers, Company. Last night, he button-
and POW (I member of the U. S. holed me at the Service Club
Army, it( telling the story of the buffet and set out on a monologue,
day-by-day life in our Army at which developed within a short
first hand. lie quit the editorial hour into the most tragic story,
desk of a great newspaper orga- without departing from the style
nization to don khaki and see the of gallows-humor in which it had
Army and war for himself. "And started. He retained the sly twin-
I'm seeing more and finer things kle in his protruding grey eyes,
than I had ever dared hope," lie which are set behind thick, horn-
stated in a recent interview. "Per- rimmed glasses and in the midst
haps you might do me more jus- of a maze of little wrinkles.
"Ya! So they call me chow-
tice if you were to call my colunin
"Jewish Soldier to His Mother," Hein? Maybe I should tell you
for I am trying to write not alone hound! 1 do eat much, do I not?
for myself and of myself, but for right here that I do not mind. I
half a million Jews in the coun- like this camp. I like it much bet-
ter than the other camp, where I
try's service today.
had learned to so excessively like
The Viennese refugee, Private food," he began.
"What other camp?" I asked
Bernard Weslich, works in the
Post Finance office. He's the real him. "I never called you a chow-
square peg in the real square hole hound, anyway, Bernie?" I pro-
on that job, for he is a Master tested.
"Never mind that. Let me talk
of Commerce of the University of
Vienna, a former research fellow
See DACIIAU—Page 7
of the University of Florence,
By DAVID ZAGIER
prestige.
Karl Kruger is the new con-
Krueger's early studies in com-
ductor of the Detroit Symphony position were made under Charles
Orchestra which opened the sea-
son of 1943-44 on Thursday, Oct.
21, at Masonic Auditorium.
Detroiters should know their
new conductor, and the following
autobiographic sketch will ac-
quaint them with the life and
background of the man who will
add much to the renown of the
Detroit Symphony Orchestra.
Karl Krueger was born in
Atchison, Kan., of pioneer Ameri-
can stock of Swedish-German
roots. His maternal grandfather
was one of the original Nebraska
JULIUS CHAJES
settlers and a presidential elector
of a series of concerts at the
James G. Blaine.
Center on Tuesday evening, Oct. for "Krueger,"
wrote Rudolf Reti
26, at 8:45 p. m.
(a leading Vienna critic), "is the
It is interesting to know that first native American conductor
the orchestra consists of people
rank." Isabel
of all ages between 10 and 50. of international
of the Los
Dr. Aaron Farbman, well known Morse James, critic
remarked: "Krue-
Angeles
Times,
KARL KRUEGER
Detroit surgeon, is concertmas-
ter, and Dr. Sam Lewis, out- ger is the first American-born Later he became a pupil of the
standing Detroit orthodentist, symphony conductor
to attain
the Skelton and George Chadwick.
eminence. He is not only
plays first oboe.
See CIIAJES—Page 8
dean of American conductors, but
the first one to achieve European
See KRUEGER—Page 7