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THE FEDERATION . JEWISH NEWS
Friday, SePtemlier 25, 1942 . - P
What's Happening in Detroit
UCCOTH, the Feast of Tabernacles, observance
of which commences this Friday evening, will be
marked not only by synagogue services and home cele-
brations, but also by special activities in the Hebrew
and Yiddish schools and the Jewish Center.
, Traditional Succah at the Center
A traditional Succah has been erected at the Jewish
Community Center, Woodward at Holbrook, and is
open to the public. Members of the Woodward Mothers'
Club have decorated the festival booth with harvest
branches, leaves and fruits.
Center clubs have been invited to hold club parties
and meetings in the Succah during the holiday week.
The Jewish Community Center will be closed from
Friday, Sept. 25, at 5 P. M., through Sunday, Sept. 27
in observance of the holiday.
• Succoth Event' at the Center Sept. 30
The annual Succoth celebration of the Council of
Mothers' Clubs on Wednesday, Sept. 30, at 8:15 P. M.,
at the Jewish Community Center, will feature Dr. B.
Benedict Glazer as guest speaker.
Two artists will be heard on the musical program:
Maurice Short, tenor, member of the Temple Beth El
Quartette, will sing a group of Hebrew and English
songs; Violinist Jerome Stashefsky, concertmaster of
the Center Symphony Orchestra, will present a program
of Hebrew and classical music. Lucia Wolton, accom-
panist, will be at the piano. A technicolor film will be
shown.
Mrs. Sidney J. Allen, chairman of the Mothers'
Clubs' advisory committee, will preside at the Succoth
celebration.
Dr. Fauman Urges Use of "Enriched or
Fortified White Flour" by Jewish Bakers
A major problem in the present war effort is to
guarantee the health of our population: - Dr. David H.
Fauman, well known Detroit physician who is also
known as one of Detroit's outstanding Zionist leaders,
writes The Jewish News to make a suggestion to Jew-
ish bakers.
"Ls-should like to enlist the aid of your valuable
paper in the promotion of a very desirable health ac-
tivity," Dr. Fauman writes.
"It is well known that the highly purified white
flour used in modern baking contains almost no vita-
min BI or thiamin chloride. I believe this is especially
true of Jewish white bread such as chalah, beigel and
rolls.
"The vitamin B1 deficiency creates a definite health
hazard. The national government has finally persuaded
the large millers and bakers to use a special flour
called 'enriched or fortified white flour' which contains
large amounts of vitamin B1 and iron and calcium.
This flour has been on the market for almost a year
and bread made from this flour not only looks and
tastes like the old style bread but is of great help in
maintaining a sufficient supply of vitamins and minerals
in the body.
"I have enquired of several Jewish bakers and found
none using this enriched flour. This can be due only
to ignorance, indifference or inertia. Since bread made
from thi•-ouriched flour costs no more than ordinary
flour. I know of no reason why the Jewish population
should not obtain the benefit of the much more desir-
able product.
"I should like to hear that soon every Jewish house-
wife will demand proof from her baker that he is using
the enriched flour. I know of no better way of bringing
this health measure to the attention of our people than
through your excellent paper."
We are giving this letter preferred editorial space
rather than using it in the usual Letter Box Column
because of the constructive suggestions it contains.
Here is a real job not only for individuals but also for
organizations. It may well be considered part of our
war effort to protect the health of our people.
Dr. Fauman is to be commended for making his
proposal to the Jews of Detroit.
The Michigan Synagogue Conference
The work of the Michigan Synagogue Conference
Is described in interesting fashion by Rabbi Max J.
Wohlgelernter in an article "A Successful Venture in
Kehillah Organization" in the October issue of the
Orthodox Union.
Rabbi Wohlgelernter retraces the steps that had
been taken to form the state synagogue organization.
He relates the conditions which prompted the calling
of the first meeting in Bay City on Jan. 15, 1939, and
the convention held in Ann Arbor April 23, 1939. The
formation of the conference is considered a vital step
in cementing activities among orthodox Jews in De-
troit.
A state regional rabbi's post is planned for Michigan
by the statewide religious Kehillah movement, and a
fund of $2,500 is sought for this purpose.
Coming Events,
Sept. 28—Address by John Bugas of the FBI, at
meeting of Bnai Brith Pisgah Auxiliary, at Bnai
Moshe.
Sept. 30—Patriotic rally of Arlazaroff branch of
Jewish National Workers' Alliance at Rose Sittig
Cohen Bldg., Lawton and Tyler.
Sept. 30—Succoth celebration of Council of Moth-
ers' Clubs at Jewish Center.
Sept. 30—Junior Hadassah Succoth party at Jew-
ish Center.
Oct. 1—Election meeting of Kvutzah Ivrith at Rose
Sittig Cohen Building.
Oct. 4—Quarterly meeting of Jewish Community
Council.
Oct. 11—Reopening of religious schools of Shaarey
Zedek, Bnai Moshe and Bnai David.
Oct. 11-13—Dance recitals at Jewish Center by
Nathan Vizonsky.
Oct. 15-18—Institute meetings of Junior Hadassah.
Oct. 19—Annual membership tea of Women's Aux-
iliary of Home for Aged.
Nov. 6-15--Young Israel's 20th anniversary cele-
bration.
Nov. 14—Annual Balfour Ball of Zionist Organi-
zation of Detroit, at Hotel Stotler.
Nov. 29—Bronislaw Huberman concert, sponsored
by Jewish National Workers' Alliance, at Masonic
Temple.
Detroit Observes Succoth;
War Chest Occupies Major
Attention While War Bond
Sales Are Pushed; Detroiter
Exposes "Sabotage"; Salute
to Roosevelt on Altman Hour;
Arlazaroff Patriotic Party
Wednesday; Center Activities
"Sabotage"—Exposed by a Detroiter
A Detroiter—Albert E. Kahn—is co-author with
the well known writer Michael Sayers of the great book
"Sabotage," just published by Harper & Bros. The book
exposes the machinations of the fifth columnists in
this country. It is a sensational story, fully documented,
replete with proof of activities of Germans and Japs,
pro-Nazis and anti-Semites.
Son of the late Moritz Kahn and nephew of Albert
Kahn, the Detroit co-author of this significant book is
the editor of the anti-Nazi newsletter "The Hour."
"Sabotage" is dedicated to the late Moritz Kahn and
to Phillip Sayers.
"Sabotage" is a must book on the current reading,
list. The volume is so significant that its sale is being
pushed by the Council for Democracy, Anti-Defama-
tion League, and other organizations as well as out-
standing individuals. Reader's Digest will publish an
18-page excerpt from the book in its October issue.
The exposes of Coughlin, the Detroit anti-Semite
Parker Sage, all the leading Jew-baiters as well as the
Nazi propagandists in this country make "Sabotage"
a record of historic value.
Jewish Publication Society Releases
"The Jews in Spain"
Within a short time, the Jewish Publication Society
of America will release its American Jewish Year
Book for 5703. In advance of that, members of the
society who selected Dr. Abraham A. Neuman's two-
volume work "The Jews in Spain" this week received
their copies of this highly scholarly history. Many
Detroiters have selected these volumes as their mem-
bership books for this year.
The two-volume work on the Jews in Spain by Prof.
Neuman is not the usual chronological history. It is
the life of the Jews in Spain reproduced on an historic
canvas by a master craftsman. Every phase of the life
of the people is portrayed in the picture, which is vivid
and colorful throughout. The inner life of the people
in their homes, the subjects and manner of study from
the elementary grades to the Yeshivah, the foibles and
frivolities of young people, their escapades and court-
ships are portrayed on a carefully designed background
in which are delineated the political character of the
communal organization, the municipal administration,
the judicial system and all the complicated relation-
ships between the miniature Jewish governments and
the outer state. There pass in review men of all classes,
War Chest, USO and JWB
The major community responsibility from now until
the middle of November is to help- make a success of
the War Chest in which we, as a Jewish community,
are playing an important role.
The USO is one of the important agencies in the
War Chest, and the Jewish Welfare Board is one of the
constituent service organizations of the USO. -
In this connection it is interesting to note that one
of the members of the staff of Jewish Welfare Board
workers is Elconan H. Saulson of Detroit. We are in-
formed by the Sentinel, organ of the JWB, that "one
of Elconan Saulson's first chores upon arriving from
Abilene, Tex., to take up his new post in Sweetwater,
was to help arrange a dance for soldiers arriving at
the new British air school nearby."
Henry Meyers was elected president of Metropolitan
Detroit USO on Tuesday. Fred M. Butzel and Mrs.
Henry Wineman were named vice-presidents, and Isi-
dore Sobeloff, member of the board.
War Bond Sales Pushed
This was a busy week for Jewish War Bond salesmen
in Detroit.
Hundreds of thousands of additional War Bonds!
were sold through Yom Kippur Day appeals in Con-1
gregations Shaarey Zedek, Bnai David and other syn-
agogues in the city.
Knollwood Country Club proceeded with its plans
to sell a million dollars worth of Bonds between now
and Oct. 12, when the -Million Dollar Bond Banquet
will be held.
Pinsker Ferein sold $22,000 worth of Bonds. Of this
sum, $9,000 was invested from the club treasury. The
Pinsker also have an active USO committee.
Among the remarkable demonstrations for War
Bond sales was the response to the appeal made on
Station WJLB by Hyman Altman on Saturday night
and Sunday noon. More than $26,000 of Bonds were
pledged by listeners who called in their subscriptions
to Mr. and Mrs. Hyman Altman.
At Congregation Bnai Zion, the sum of $100,000 was
subscribed in the appeal for the purchase of Bonds on
Yom Kippur Day.
Congregation Petach Tikyah sold $25,000 worth of
Bonds on Yom Kippur.
At Congregation Bnai David, an appeal by Rabbi
J. S. Sperka resulted in the sale of $198,975 in Bonds 1
and it is expected that the sum will be boosted to
$210,000.
Congregation Shaar Shomayim sold $40,000 worth
of Bonds.
Arlazaroff Bond Party Wednesday
The patriotic party arranged for Wednesday eve-'
ning by the Arlazaroff Branch of the Jewish National
Workers' Alliance, at the Rose Sittig Cohen Bldg.,
Tyler and Lawton, promises to be a really important
event.
Morris Schaver. president, Harry Schumer, chair-
man of the executive committee, Mrs. Adele Mondry,
secretary, William Hordes and others are active making
arrangements for this event which will be utilized to
honor members or sons of members who are in the
U. S. Service, as well as to boost the sale of War Bonds.
A prominent speaker will address this gathering
and there will be a musical program.
A Salute to President Roosevelt
scholars and merchants, rabbis and financiers, physic-
ians, astrologers, scientists and a resplendent array of
Hispanic - Jewish grandees, whose outer splendor and
inner weakness arc described with unusual sympathy
and understanding. Religious conflicts within the Jew-
Hyman Altman, director of the Yiddish Radio Hours
on Station WJLB, utilized his pre-Yom Kippur talk
on Sunday noon to pay tribute to President Roosevelt.
Mr. Altman uttered a blessing for the health of the
President in the present crisis. He took occasion to
state that this is a time to retain in office men like
Senator Brown and Congressman Dingell who support
the President's program.
Altman's Jewish Hour on Sunday featured an ad-
dress by Governor Murray D. VanWagoner who pleaded
for faith and courage in a message on the New Year
to the Jewish people; a plea for the sale of War Bo
nds
by Mr. Altman; an address by Philip Slomovitz, editor
of The Jewish News; a talk in behalf of annual Educa-
tion Month of the United Hebrew Schools by Aaron
Silberblatt; an appeal for the Yeshivah by Rabbi J. J.
Nathan, and Aaron Lebedeff, eminent Yiddish actor.
Rudolph Zuieback, president of the United Hebrew
Schools, spoke over the Altman Hour on Saturday
night in behalf of Education Month.
Twenty Years Ago This Week
A Jewish dance seminar, led by Nathan Vizonsky,
concert artist and author of the book "Jewish Folk
Dances," is scheduled at the Jewish Community Center,
Woodward at Holbrook, Oct. 11, 12 and 13.
The seminar will deal with the aesthetics and psy-
chology of Jewish dances, as well as instruction in
Biblical, festival and folk dances and modern Pales-
tinian dancing.
ish camp, the extent of religious defection and de-
sertion, the surprising phenomenon of Jewish prosely-
tism, under the very shadow of the Inquisition, these
are among the many human themes which Professor
Neuman treats in this classic work.
Dr. Neuman. the author. is president of the Dropsie
College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning in Phila-
delphia.
"The Jews in Spain" is the third title printed in-
the Loeb Series of the Jewish Publication Society.
Compiled From the Records
of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
NEW YORK—Reporting to Herbert Hoover,
chairman of the Ameriean Relief Administration, on
the progress of famine relief in the Ukraine, Col.
William R. Grove, ARA district supervisor in that
area, stresses the fact that much of the credit for
checking the famine in this region belongs to the
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee,
which financed the operations on a Van-sectarian
basis.
WARSAW—The Jewish population of Upper Sil-
esia are up in arms at the announcement that the
Polish Government has set the elections for Sejm
deputies for the second day of Rosh Hashanah.
WASHINGTON—President Harding has signed
the joint resolution adopted by the Senate and
House expressing American approval of the restor-
ation of Palestine as a Jewish National Homeland.
JERUSALEM — Lifting of the present rigid limi-
tations on Jewish immigration into Palestine is ex-
pected as a result of a conference between leaders
of the National Council of Palestine Jews and High
Commissioner Herbert Samuel.
PORTLAND, Ore. — The House of Deputies and
the House of Bishops of the Episcopal Church in
session here voted to change the prayer which reads
"Have mercy on all Jews, Turks, infidels and her-
etics." A new prayer has been substituted, reading:
"Have mercy on all who know Thee not." The
present usage was termed an "insult" to the Jews.
Nathan Vizonsky Dance Seminar
Dominican Plan Called Great
Experiment; Scope Limited
The Brooklings Institute of Washington last week
issued its report on a survey on the proposed colony
for refugees in the Dominican Republic. The report
showed that lack of available land and of industrial
opportunities precludes the settlement in the Domini-
can haven of "anything like" the 100,000 refugees
from Europe which the republic offered to receive.
It added that a "substantial number" might become
established there and might demonstrate the feasibil-
ity and mutual advantage of other and larger Carri-
bean colonization projects.
Financed by the Falk Foundation of Pittsburgh
and conducted by a staff of seven specialists under
the direction of Dr. Dana G. Munro, director of the
School of Public and International Affairs of Prince-
ton University, this survey study discusses in detail
the problems involved. Nearly 500 persons thus far
have been settled in the Sosua Colony in the Do-
minican Republic.
According to the survey, lack of funds is one of
the major obstacles in the creation of this settlement.
The republic has virtually no mineral resources and
must import coal and oil.
Nevertheless, the survey hails the proposal for a
Dominican colony as "of great experimental
significance."