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Friday, September 27, 1946
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
GOOD WILL IN ACTION-IT HAPPENED HERE
BY BERNARD POSTAL
Director of Public Information
National Jewish Welfare Board
Shortly after World War 1, a
handful of far-sighted men and
women, searching for a cure for
the prejudices born of the war
sowed the seed for what is now
the interfaith good will movement
Fertilized by the traditional Amer-
ican attachment to fair play, wa-
tered by the memory of those who
died to make America what it is
and tilled by the millions deter-
mined to keep it that way, the seed
sunk such deep roots that by World
War II it had sprouted throughout
the land.
Weathering two decades of un-
precedented changes in the nation's
economic, political and social cli-
mate and successfully resisting the
drought of neglect, storms of igno-
rance and pestilence propaganda,
good will grew into the rich harvest
that enabled America to withstand
the locust swarm of hate and big-
otry that overran Europe and led to
World War II.
I Stevens Company gave $50,000.
Time & Life, Inc., contributed $20,-
000. This was matched by John Hay
Whitney, Marshall Field and the
Rockefeller Brothers Fund each
subscribed $25,000.
Substantial gifts were also re-
ceived from Christian church lead-
ers and organizations. From the
Committee for Overseas Relief of
the Methodist Church came $10,000.
Cardinal Spellman of New York
contributed $1,000. A similar sum
came from the Rt. Rev. William L.
Essex, Bishop of the Quincy, Ill.,
Diocese of the Episcopal Church.
Bishop Edwin V. O'Hare of the
Roman Catholic Diocese of Kansas
City contributed $500, while Bishop
James P. De Wolfe of the Long
Island Diocese of the Episcopal
Church gave $5,000.
Just as the beginning of the in-
terfaith good will movement in the
early 1920s did much to stem post-
war intolerance, so it is evident to-
day, at the end of the first year
after World War II, that the far-
reaching gains in interfaith unity
resulting from the mobilization of
the nation for all-out war are help-
ing to ease postwar racial and re-
ligious tensions.
There is no scientific measure for
assaying the extent of interfaith
understanding but a good barometer
is the rising curve of specific inter-
religious and inter-racial actions
and deeds that add up to what the
late President Roosevelt called "the
practice of brotherhood." For the
past decade this writer has com-
piled an annual record of such inci-
dents which give meaning to inter-
faith speeches, resolutions and
manifestos and in sum constitute a
chronicle of good will in action.
The dramatic character and fre-
quency of such incidents in the
year since V-J Day emphasizes the
basic soundness of the nation's so-
cial health despite the sporadic
rashes of racial and religious anti-
pathies that have broken out since
the end of the war.
CHRISTIANS CONTRIBUTE
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GIFT TO CATHOLICS
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TENSION EASED
The Aged Help the Downtred_4‘n
The heirs of the late Herbert
Perhaps the most remarkable ex-
pression of good will in action last N. Straus, New York merchant,
year was the frequency with which I
Christians voluntarily contributed
to Jewish causes and the succession
of Jewish benefactions to Christian ROSH HASHONAH
GREETINGS TO ALL
agencies. The unprecedented $100,-
000,000 campaign of the United
Jewish Appeal evoked a record-
breaking response among Chris-
tians throughout the country. In
New York City Nelson A. Rocke-
feller headed a non-sectarian com-
munity committee which raised
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large sums among non-Jews. John
D. Rockefeller, Jr., showed the way
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with a gift of $100,000. The J. P.
The Home of the Daughters of 'Jacob, New York City, raises
$300.50 amongst its members for Vaad Ilatzala, major Jewish or-
ganization, concerned with religious rehabilitation among European
Jewry. Shown are Isaac Menken, Samuel Neugeboren, Mrs. An-
nette Levine, Mrs. Ella Alpert, presenting the check to Dr. Herbert
Seltzer, director of the organization.
gave his former seven story man-
sion to the Catholic Church which
converted it into a convalescent
hospital. The Bnai Brith in Hous-
ton, Tex., raised $500 to help rebuild
a Baptist Church in Waco burned
by vandals. In Elmira, N. Y., the
Bnai Brith contributed $1,200 to
repair a flood-damaged Catholic
hospital. Twenty-seven Protestant
churches in the Athol-Orange area
of Massachusetts raised a fund to
help the Jews of Athol build their
first synagogue. Bishop Henry J.
O'Brien of the Catholic Diocese of
Hartford, Conn., closed the Mt.
Sinai Hospital building fund with
a donation of $500. The Hebrew
Home for Orphans and Aged of
Jersey City received a bequest of
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Greetings
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Jewelers and
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GREETINGS TO ALL
A VERY JOYOUS NEW YEAR TO ALL
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Greetings
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A VERY HAPPY AND
PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR
New Year's Greetings
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and Good Fellowship
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Wish All the Members
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$3,978 from Dr. William J. Sweeney,
a non-Jewish physician.
Equally striking incidents of
good will in action occurred as by-
products of the war. On Guam,
Bottoms up—
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The President, Vice-President
and Other Officers
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Jewish High Holiday services
were broadcast over bedside radio
facilities at Fletcher General Hos-
pital, Cambridge, Ohio, when the
Catholic chapel relinquished his
own Sunday morning service. At
Carlsbad, N. M., a Baptist GI set
up the chapel for Jewish services
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GENTILES AID UJA
In Wilkes-Barre, Pa., the clergy-
men of every church in the city
set aside one Sunday for a com-
munity wide drive among their
parishioners for the UJA. The same
thing was done by the Ministerial
Association of Buncombe County,
North Carolina. Christians In Pen-
sacola, Florida, organized a civic
committee to solicit non-Jewish
support for the UJA. The non-
Jewish mayor of Corpus Christi,
Texas, contributed $5,000. The
Schlitz Foundation of Milwaukee
gave $10,000.
Children of the religious school
of a Springfield, Mass., synagogue,
raised a special fund to help re-
build Mount Calvary Bap tist
Church, a Negro congregation. The
Youth Council of the Newark YM
& YWHA, one of the 288 members
of the National Jewish Welfare
Board, contributed $248 to the cam-
paign for a new YMCA. The Na-
tional Council of Jewish Women,
which a year ago presented its
Council House, a $250,000 commun-
ity center building in the East
Bronx, to Negro residents of that
neighborhood, provided $10,000 to-
ward the center's 1946 budget. Sam-
uel Eig, a Jewish business man of
Washington, D. C., presented the
Jews, Catholics and Protestants of
Silver Springs, Md., with tracts of
land valued at $75,000. The tract
given to the Jews will become the
site of a Jewish community center
while the other two tracts will have
churches built on them.
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Jewish soldiers were presented
with an Ark of the Torah con-
structed by personnel who, with one
exception were non-Jews. Last
Rosh Hashonah Jewish services at
Fitzsimons General Hospital, Den-
ver, were graced by an Ark-Altar
fashioned by hands belonging to
men of eight different faiths. Non-
Jewish soldiers on Ie Shima in the
Pacific raised $55 from their lim-
ited resources as a contribution to
the Joint Distribution Committee.
PATRONS and FRIENDS
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