May $, 1942
THE JEWISH NEWS
Pug• Four
Charities Still to Be Deductible
From Income Tax, Treasury Rules
THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY
WASHINGTON
May 2, 1942
Dear Mr. Sobeloff:
Your telegram of April 29, 1942, addressed
to President Roosevelt, has been referred to me
for reply. You are interested in the effect of
new tax legislation on the present allowance of
a deduction for income tax purposes of contribu-
tions to charity.
I am pleased to inform you that this Depart-
ment has not recomzended and does not contemplate
recommending any legislation which would reduce
or deny the allowance of a deduction for charitable
-
contributions that is provided for income tax
purposes.
Our
CHILDREN'S
CORNER
Dear Boys and Girls:
The warm weather is set-
ting in, and before long you
will be having your vaca-
tions. Many of you will go
to camps. Some of you will
be either confirmed or con-
secrated.
Summer fun sho uld not in-
terfere with your continuing
to take an interest i n the his-
tory of your peop le and in
the teachings of Judaism.
Knowledge will make you
strong and will le ad you to
position of
understand the p
the Jewish people.
Two weeks ago, I spoke to
you about the Bible and the
need for every ho me posess-
ing a Bible. Today I am
printing for you the opinion
of one of our gr eat Presi-
dents, the late Woodrow
Wilson, on the Bible.
A happy Sabbath to you
all.
UNCLE bANIEL.
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do. not read the Bible every day.
I wonder why they deprive them-
selves of the strength and of
the pleasure. It is one of - the
most singular works in the
world, for every time you open
it some old text that you have
read a score of times, suddenly
beams with new meaning. Evi-
dently the mold and the thought
of that day, bred by the circum-
stances that you cannot analyze,
has suddenly thrown its light
upon that page and upon that
passage, and there springs out
upon the page to you something
that you never saw lie upon it
before. There is no other book
that I know, of whicirthis is true.
There is no book that yields its
meaning so personally, that
seems to fit itself so intimately
to the very spirit that is seeking
its guidance.
"The Bible has stood at the
back of progress. Not a little of
the history of liberty lies in the
circumstance that the moving
sentences of this book were
made familiar to the ears and
understanding of those people
who have led mankind in ex-
hibiting the form of government
and the impulses of reform
which have made for freedom
and self-government among
mankind."
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LATE PRESIDENT WOODROW
WILSON ON THE BIBLE
The Bible has been the guid-
Woodrow Wilson on the Bible:
"I am sorry for the men who
ing text for the greatest men in
the world, Jews and Christians.
In the book "Religious Ideals of
a President," S. A. Hunter
quotes the following statement
by the late President Thomas
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I wish you all success in your coming campaign.
Sincerely yours,
-Actin cr
Secretary of the Treasury
Mr. Isidore Sobeloff,
Executive. Director,
Jewish Welfare Vederation,
1401.1lotel'Statler,
Detroit,
Michigan.
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and tentative terms would stim-
ulate continued generous giving
if such contributions could be
made in the knowledge that rais-
ing of additional taxes need not
affect giving to philantrophies as
indeed you so kindly have de-
any legislation whith would deny clared previously before new tax
deduction of charitable contribu- law for current year was pro-
posed. Any expression now after
tions from income tax returns.
Mr. Bell's letter to Mr. Sobe- your reference to new taxation
that would restate your belief
loff is reproduced above.
Mr. Sobeloff's inquiry was ad- that continuance of worthy relief
dressed to President Roosevelt
after the president's fireside chat
to the nation on April 28 and was
referred to the Treasury Depart-
ment for action. Mr. Sobeloff's
communication to the president
follows:
By PHINEAS J. BIRON
"Contributors in higher brack-
ets to Allied Jewish Campaign of
Detroit which includes American BIBLICAL DEPARTMENT
Jewish Joint Distribution Com-
Last Sunday, at the banquet
mittee, National Refugee Service given in his honor, Pierre van
and United Palestine Appeal, Paassen was presented with a
constituting United Jewish Ap- seventeenth-century Hebrew Bi-
peal as well as fifty-two other ble by the Committee for a Jew-
local and national continuing es- ish Army . . . Van Paassen col-
sential social services would be lects old Bibles, and has a very
encouraged in their fund-raising impressive array of them in his
effort to be launched formally home.
May tenth at dinner to be ad-
dressed by Sir Norman Angell, THE ZIONIST FRONT
Negotiations between the Zion-
if following your Tuesday ad-
dress on new taxation statement ists and non-Zionists for the cre-
ation
of an extended and more
might be forthcoming indicating
that deductible exemption for powerful Jewish Agency have
charitable contributions will be now reached the official stage,
continued in reckoning net in- with the arrival of Dr. Chaim
come on which taxes against 1942 Weizmann in this country . . .
incomes are due. It also might be The outlook is good . . . Dr.
helpful not only to our particular Weizmann's program is so heavy,
campaign but to all other chari- what with his Zionist 'work and
table appeals this year if state- his scientific contribution to the
ment from governmental source Allied war effort, that he will
announced that proposed legisla- probably have to stay here for
tion did not contemplate deduc- several months.
tion of customary charity con- ABOUT PEOPLE
Sidney Hillman will probably
tribution credit income before
taxes. Any statement, however, be offered a job as the adminis-
issued even in .themost general tration's liaison officer for labor
Isidore Sobeloff, executive di-
rector of the Jewish Welfare Fed-
eration of Detroit, has received
word from the Hon. D. W. Bell,
Acting Secretary of the Treasury,
to the effect that the Treasury
Department does not contemplate
Strictly
Confidential
and other social services was
highly compatible • with major
war effort and plans to finance
them and maintain stabilized
economy would be most welcome
and very helpful. We would be
highly honored and aided by any
message from your executive of-
fice or appropriate department to
which this communication .may
be referred. Most respectfully
submitted."
TheToast of the
Tavern ...
The Host in the
Home
affairs, but whether he'll accept
it is a matter on which his phys-
ician will have the final word .. .
Hillman, who has been working
much too hard in Washington, is
not at all a well man.
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