or Victory Buy U. S. War Savings Stamps And Bonds THE JE Ariwz„N,:i NEWS VOL 1—NO. 27 A Monthly Review RA. 7956 2114 Penobscot Bldg. lEI of Jewish Events Detroit, Michigan, September 25, 1942 34 4gERE. 22 Single Copy 10c Allied Jewish Campaign Joins War Chest T 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 I 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 • Vice-Presidents ESTHER R. PRUSSIAN Secretary