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THE JE Ariwz„N,:i NEWS
VOL 1—NO. 27
A Monthly Review
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Detroit, Michigan, September 25, 1942
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Allied Jewish Campaign Joins War Chest
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will be a participant in
the War Chest of Metropolitan Detroit.
Instead of a separate Allied Jewish Campaign in May, as
in past years, the Jewish drive will be among the constituent
groups, along with the Community Fund, U. S. 0., war relief
agencies and other services, which will participate in the War
Chest appeal from October 26th to November 12th, for support
of next year's programs.
Decision to join the War Chest was made by the boards of
governors of the Jewish Welfare Federation and the Detroit Service
Group, following a conference by committees representing Federa-
tion and the War Chest board.
Budgeting of Jewish agencies will continue to rest in the hands
of the Jewish community and budget hearings for 1943-44 alloca-
tions will be held, as usual, in the spring.
The only item formerly in the Allied Jewish Campaign, not
to be included in the War Chest, is the Defense Fund, set aside
annually for local and national civic-protective work and admin-
istered by the American Jewish Committee and the Anti-Defama-
tion League, through the Joint Defense Appeal; the American
Jewish Congress, the Jewish Labor Committee and the Defense
Fund of the Jewish Community Council. The Jewish Welfare
Federation is prepared to retain responsibility, outside of the War
Chest, for meeting the special allocations to the defense agencies
and will confer with these agencies, with a view to determining a
ututually acceptable gaining plan. (The regular, year-round
budget of the local Community Council will continue in the Allied
Jewish Campaign, as a part of the War Chest).
With the exception Of the Defense Fund, all agencies and
services previously in the Allied Jewish Campaign will continue
their Allied Jewish Campaign affiliation, through the new War
Chest—United Jewish Appeal, HIAS, Ort and the others, all of
them, local, regional, national and overseas.
The goal of the War Chest is to be $5,800,000. While agency
allotments have not yet been announced, it can be stated that the
I proposed distribution of funds assures continuing support of the
Allied Jewish Campaign agencies, with full regard for needs and
I the record of past performance.
Terms of payment for pledges to the War Chest will take into
account the special fiscal year of the Allied Jewish Campaign. Out-
standing balances on the 1942 and earlier campaigns continue to
be payable directly to the Allied Jewish Campaign to meet already
incurred obligations. War Chest payments, of course, will be pay-
able to the new organization, and, in view of the fact that there
will be no Allied Jewish Campaign in 1943, it is contemplated
HE DETROIT ALLIED JEWISH CAMPAIGN
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that convenient terms of payment extending into the new year. as
required, may be arranged.
Plans are being completed for the individual participation of
members of the Detroit Service Group, including the Junior Service
Group and the Women's Division, in the campaign organization
of the War Chest. The pattern of organization calls for setting up
three major divisions: Commercial and Industrial, Advance Gifts
and Metropolitan, or neighborhood solicitation. Opportunity will
be afforded for all Jewish campaign workers to take their places
alongside their neighbors in this greatest of all campaigns in the
history of the community.
In adiiition to the Allied Jewish Campaign agencies, the drive
will include the Jewish agencies in the Community Fund and the
Jewish Welfare Board, one of the six participating agencies in the
U. S. 0., the recreational and morale service for our armed forces.
Member agencies of the War Chest are British War Relief
Society, Greek War Relief Association, Maple Leaf Fund, Polish-
American Council, Queen Wilhelmina Fund, Russian War Relief,
Inc., United China Relief, Allied Jewish Campaign (including
United Jewish Appeal), War Prisoners' Aid, United Service Organi-
zations, Inc., Detroit Community Fund.
Contributors will be asked, in deciding on their 1943 pledge, to
take into account the amounts they gave last year to the Allied
Jewish Campaign, Community Fund, U. S. 0., and Russian,
Chinese and other war relief drives, and then to increase that total
by a sum that reflects the increased needs of all these agencies
combined.
The War Chest is the application of the Allied Jewish Cam-
paign and Community Fund principle of organized, concentrated
giving on an even wider and more united front. All of the virtues
of efficiency and solidarity are carried over and intensified. The
problems of welfare, relief and reconstruction in wartime at last
have become of common concern to all of us and, inspired by the
leadership of all faiths, we are in position to wage a unified, total
battle for the major humanitarian responsibilities that confront us.
Our tradition of taking care of our own at no time meant that
we took care only of our own. Human needs ever have brought
forth our sympathy and our generosity. Many of our agencies, both
at home and abroad, although sectarian in name, have maintained
programs as broad and universal as humanity itself.
In the coming War Chest campaign, we are certain that the
Jews of Detroit will shoulder their share willingly and magnani-
mously. To the end that those who need help today, wherever they
are, whatever their creed or color or status, may receive our un-
stinted assistance, we call all of our people to the task of faithful
and holy participation in the War Chest.
JOINT BOARDS OF JEWISH WELFARE FEDERATION AND DETROIT SERVICE GROUP
Federation Officers
ABRAHAM SRERE
FRED M. BUTZEL
ISRAEL HIMELHOCH
HENRY MEYERS
JULIAN H. KROLIK
MAURICE ARONSSON
CLARENCE H. ENGGASS
ISIDORE SOBELOFF
President
Vice-Presidents
Chairman of Board
Chairman, Executive Committee
Treasurer
Secretary
Service Group Officers
,
IRVING W. BLUMBERG
SIDNEY L. AEXANDER
President
HARRY FRANK
GUS D. NEWMAN
BEN
KRAMER
Chairman, Executive Committee
MELVILLE S. WELT
MAURICE A. ENGGASS
Chairman Board
BEN B. FENTON
Vice-Chairman Board
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Vice-Presidents
ESTHER R. PRUSSIAN
Secretary