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Zionism Reviews 50 Years of History Send 555 Tons Camp Launched
as Convention Celebrates It's Jubilee of SOS Supplies By Rube Young

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By DAVID SCHWARTZ

TWO SCORE AND 10 years i
ago, to paraphrase Abraham
Lincoln, the Zionists conceived;
and brought brought the idea
that the Jewish nation "shouldC
have a new birth of freedom." I
Accordingly the ZOA. convention
at New York this week cele-
brates the golden jubilee of the
movement.
Roll back the years a half r
century: It is 1897. The times
in some respects-well, it seems
as It we are in an entirely dif-
ferent world, but in one respect
it seems eternally - familiar.
There are no automobiles, no
airships, no radios—in 1897. The
one thing that links it with
modern' times is anti-Semitsm.
The world 50 years ago wa
rocked by the anti-Semitism dis-
closed in the Dreyfus ease.

HER2L MOCKED

One man, Theodore Herz!, was
so stirred that he turned from
writing light and amusing
feuilietons to the penning of the

challenging Judenstaat. T h e
upper class Jews had lifted their
hats to the scintillating Ilerzl,
but now they turned to mocking
him.
"The king of the Jews is com-
ing," they nudged and winked
at each either as Herz' entered
a cafe in Vienna. Even in
America, Dr. Kaufman Kohler
dubbed Herz? a "madman." Yet
this madman perceived to the
full how devastating was the
Jewish tragedy.
There was another in Vienna
—this man, not a Jew, who also
recognized it. Another man who
wrote lightly. None other than
our American Mark Twain who
visiting Vienna in 1897 and not-
ing the -anti-Semitism, wrote a
long essay in which he called
upon the Jews to unite against
their toes.

JEWS HEARKEN

That same year, the Jews of

America began to unite. Only a
handful at first. The end seemed
remote. How could one get Pal-
estine? Phantasists dreamed of
gathering together a fund to buy
it from Turkey.
Even if Turkey were to offer
to sell, it seemed fantastic that
it could be bought. The whole
Zionist organization was com-
prised then in two rooms in an
East Side tenement house.
Naphtali Herz Imber, author
of the Hatikvah, an impecunious
genius who was supported by
one or two Jewish "angels"
would at elections arise and so!:
emnly nominate himself for the
post as treasurer of the Zionist
Organization. It was humorous
even then, but not so humorous
as it looked, considering the
financial assets of the Zionist Or-
ganization at the time.

100,808 JOIN UP

There has been much lfatikvah
singing in the past 50 years.
Have there been any results?
Well, Dr. Sidney Marks, execu-
tive director of the ZOA, will
report to the convention that
during the incumbency of Abba
Hillel Silver as ZOA president.
some 100,000 members have been
added to the ZOA lists. The
present membership is approx-
imately 213,000. In other words.
(hiring the Silver regime alone
the membership has climbed
phenomenally.
This is one criterion of achieve-
ment. More outstanding o f
course is the position of Zionism
in the world today, and Jewish
Palestine itself. Whatever may
come of the UN commission now
in Palestine, it is an achieve-
ment in itself that this world
body has been forced to tackle
Zionism as a major problem.
When Dr. Silver on last Lag
B'Omer appeared before the UN
Assembly and presented the
Zionist case, history was made.
An event took place about which

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present, the true leader must
always be self-critical and never
allow himself to be satisfied.

Father of Zionism

'VERY WELL DONE'

However, to the outsider view-
ing the picture, the verdict must
' something different. It would
read perhaps something like this.
"Well, it is not so good as we
should like if people were all
perfect, but viewed practically,
I knowing human nature for what
it is, the verdict is—very well
done."
Such an organization as the
ZOA must largely find its voice
in its public relations work.
With regard to this aspect of its
activities, Dr. Marks will ex-
press deep satisfaction.
The New Palestine News Re-
porter, edited by Ernest Bar-
barash, now has a circulation
DR. THEODORE II E R Z L, which all but matches .the largest
founder of political Zionism, metropolitan dailies. It is not
whose Yahrzeit will fall next only circulated, it is read and
Tuesday. Synagogues are asked has become a great activating
to recite an Ilazkarah this force in American Zionism.
Sabbath in the memory of
The large page advertisements
Benyamin Zev b'reb Yaacov. published by the ZOA in metro-
Speakers will be furnished by politan papers during periods of
the United Zionists-Revisionist special stress have also been
or by Miarachi, M. Manuel enormously effective. The tasks
Mema, announces.
of public relations department
are manifold. The "Flash" Bul-
people may speak 1,000 and letin prepared by Barbarash
during the meeting of the Basle
2,000 years hence.
Congress, were widely followed.
TURN TO AMERICA
Approximately 6,000 columns of
FIFTY YEARS AGO, when the ZOA items appeared in the gen-
Zionists first organized, Ameri- eral Ariglo-Jewish and Yiddish
ca was not regarded as of great press.
moment in the movement. If
The book department, a
the thought was then that Pal- "baby" of the present adminis-
estine might be acquired bypur- tration under the direction of
chase from Turkey, it was also Carl Alpert is a very lively
thought that...the forces which youngster. The newspaper and
would facilitate its acquisition magazine come and go, but the
were, the Jews of Russia, of Zionist book is a permanent
Germany, of the countries of source of material. Hundreds of
Europe. Not much was expected Zionist regions throughout the
from American Jewry.
country are now equipped with
Well, we know what has hap- comprehensive Zionist libraries.
pened. Today, the country to
which Palestine looks for assist- I
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France was to the American
cause in 1776. llowever brave
the Americans might have been
then, they could not have won
without French aid.
The Zionist Organization of
Serving Greater Detroit
America is the means of imple-
menting this aid. If we fully
grasp the implications of this,
we may then be in position to
understand the point of view of
Recommended by world famous
Dr. Marks.
Beth Israel Hospital, of N.Y.C.
NOT SO CHEERFUL
and leading Medical and
He will report the gain of
Religious authorities.
100,00 Members during the Silver
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administration. You might think
that he is very cheerful about
this, but the fact is he is not
so cheerful. lie will tell the con-
Rev. Cantor
vention that American Jewry
should have done much better
DAVID GOLDEN
than this.
Detroit's Favorite MODEL
"There is lethargy, apathy in
the country; there is a singular
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failure on the part of most of
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the country to rise to the needs
Performed at Home and by
of the hour. Every other project
Appointment
usurps their energies—g o o d
causes, good purposes, but the
Zionist Organization of America
remains the starved parent
body." These are the words cf
Dr. Marks.
Dr. Marks without intending
so, here offers a testimonial to
his own fitness to serve. In times
of such an emergency as the

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Camp Hiawatha, a new North-,

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for Jewish boys, will open its
7 season July 14,
under the ni-
1 section of Rube
• Young, well -
known Detroit
athlete.
Situated close
' the Au Sable
liver, this site
has been camp-
ing ground for
25 years, and is
Rube Young
practically pol-
len free. Reservations for two to
six week periods can be made by
calling To. 8-1067. • '
Young has been with the board
of education for 12 years as direc-
tor of athletics, and was formerly
director of jiMior activities of the
Jewish Community Center. He
has also won several golfing tour-
naments around the city.

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NEW YORK—Needy Jews in
Europe received from March 1
through June 15 a total of
1.110,000 pounds of canned foods,
clothing. medical supplies, and
other relief items from the SOS
(Supplies for Overseas Survi-
vors) collection of the Joint Dis-
tribution Committee.
Approximately 70 percent of
SOS supplies shipped during
the spring, went to Jewish ref-
ugees in DP camps in Germany
and Austria. and to Jewish com-
munities in Hungary and Poland.
Other countries which received
SOS relief supplies are Belgium,
Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, France,
Greece. Italy, Romania and Yu-
goslavia,
The DP camps of Germany
and Austria, where approximate-
ly 225,000 Jews await reset-
tlement, received 397,000 pounds
of needed supplies. Hungary,
where. 120,000 Jews out of 180,-
000 survivors are cared for by
the JDC, received 289,000 lbs.
To Poland. went 85,000 pounds.
These SOS shipments, supple-
mented supplies purchased by
the JDC for its regular relief,
reconstruction and resettlement
programs, and were contributed
by 750 American communities
over and above their financial
gifts to the United Jewish Ap-
peal.

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