Page Six 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 * * * GIFT TO CATHOLICS * * • 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 13800 LIVERNOIS large sums among non-Jews. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., showed the way NO, 9659 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 • Rosh Hashonah Greetings LIPPITT Jewelers and Optometrists Dr. Albert J. ',Witt, 0.D, 13969 Woodward, H. P. TO. 8-1530 a a a • •/ • S. J. MOORIN Bar Specialties 1348 Napoleon 1350 ADELAIDE RA. 1689 RA. 1438 • ROSH HASHONAH GREETINGS TO ALL GREETINGS TO ALL • 1 HOLLYWOOD CURTAIN Simmons Boiler 8 Machine Co. Beauty Shop Complete Beauty Service Plenty of Operators 12228 Linwood SOLOMON FISH CO. Exclusive Distributor ROSH HASHONAH 1 8923 - 12TH STREET 1.2-3 MIXER Lime - Lemon - Orange For a Wealthy, Healthy And Generally Good Year BEATRICE CLEANERS 9011 CENTRAL TO. 7.9856 3918 JOY ROAD TY. 5.3001 HOgarth 8647 • r. ROSH HASHONAH GREETINGS TO ALL A VERY JOYOUS NEW YEAR TO ALL • JARSON Mr. and Mrs. Irving J. Auslander • • ZERILLI CO. , Detroit Union Produce Terminal VINEWOOD 1-1535 18620 PINEHURST Greetings from W. RITTER • To All His BUDWEISER BEER ANHEUSER - BUSCH CORPORATION 1 Jewish Social Club ROSH HASHONAH GREETINGS TO ALL I • 1 A VERY HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR New Year's Greetings TE. 1-9090 • I • To Years of Tolerance and Good Fellowship 3711 WOODWARD a b Wish All the Members And Their Families $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— • LOU COHEN 8 SONS t The President, Vice-President and Other Officers ROSH HASHONAH GREETINGS TO ALL d ! KAY MOTOR SALES • It C C RITES BROADCAST 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 • • • 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. 0 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. 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