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. • • • 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." 1 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 it Lill I 0 RE TM' 1Ft 5 GUARANThldu SERVICE Make your radio last longer and use mini- mum current. We do the job at your borne satisfaction quickly, guaranteed. Largest Selection of Jewish Records in Michigan DEXTER RADIO CO. 110garth 4717 11525 Dexter 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. • • • 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. ! ► NES THE BEER WITH AGED-IN..SEALED-IN FLAVOR ISM Th.ii ',fowl.. Co., Dot:Wt. likb. BEAUTIFUL CAMP WALLOON in CHARLEVOIX. MICH. Exclusively for Boys A camp with Grade A rating from the Mich. Dept. of Health. 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