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OciAer 23, 1942

THE JEWISH NEWS

Page Nine

War-Time Emergency Rally
Purely
And Conference for Chest
Campaign Sunday Morning COMMENTARY
By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ

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Officers of all Jewish organi-
zations, delegates to the Jewish
Community Council and other
key people who previously have
been active in communal _work,
have been invited to attend a
war-time emergency conference
and rally Sunday, Oct. 25, at 11
A. M. in the Rose Sittig Cohen
Bldg., Lawton and Waverly. The
meeting will be addressed by
Fred M. Butzel,
In calling the meeting, Percival
Dodge, managing director of the
War Chest of Metropolitan De-
troit, stated, "Because of the
splendid record of Jewish or-
ganizations in the work of the
Allied Jewish Campaign, the
Community Fund, the USO, Rus-
sian War Relief and other great
causes, all of which are now in
eluded in this one over-all cam-
paign, we are eager that the re-
sponsible leaders meet to formu-
late plans for continued effective
co-operation and service."

Special Committee

A special committee has been
set up by the War Chest organi-
zation to handle treasury gifts
from all organizations, Jewish
and non-Jewish alike. The chair-
men of this committee are: Gil-
bert Brucker, James I. Ellmann,
A. J. Lachover . and Mrs. Ray-
mond H. Wertz. Gerson B. Chert-
off is secretary.
Organizations are urgently re-
quested to invite speakers to ad-
dress their next meeting. Ar-
rangements can be made for a
speaker by calling Mrs. Lunger-
hausen of the Speakers' Bureau
at CO. 1600.
The War Chest office has des-
ignated. the Rose Sittig Cohen
Bldg., at which the United He-
brew Schools is located, as a spe-
cial office for treasury gifts,
where information may be ob-
tained and pledges left with A. J.
Lachover, who will be in charge

of the office.
Statement by Sobeloff
In a statement regarding the

War Chest, Isidore Sobeloff, di-
rector of the Jewish Welfare
Federation, said, "We're at war
on every front. Detroit is shoul-
dering its responsibilities in this
most terrible of all wars. We are
sending our sons and brothers
and husbands into the fray, pre-
pared to sacrifice even life for
the principle of American and
World Freedom. We are backing
them with our dollars and with
our labor and skill to make possi-
ble the machines of destruction
they must have to wipe the
powers of dictatorship off the
earth. But, we have a responsibil-
ity on the home front and behind
the fighting fronts of our allies.
It is up to us to keep America
and Detroit a place worth fight-
ing for. It is up to us to aid in
comforting the embattled civilians
of those countries which, up to
the present, have borne the brunt
of our fight. It is up to us to sup-
port the agencies of the Allied
Jewish Campaign. We can do this
by unting in the cause ( f the War
Chest. We can give unitedly and
generously for the all-time serv-
ices which aid the needy of our
own city and at the same time
render invaluable service to the
starving and sick and Russia,
China, Greece, Poland, The Neth-
erlands and Great Britain. We
can in this way help Palestine,
the JDC and the NRS. Together,
through the War Chest, we can
wilt"

List of Captains

The organization of the two
districts in the Metropolitan
Unit of the War Chest which are
being manned primarily with
Detroit Service Group workers
is progressing very rapidly. The
campaign for $5,800,000 for Corn-
munitY Fund,
U.S.O., Allied
Jewish Campaign and War Re-
lief, - begins on Monday, Oct. 26.
The following captains have
been enrolled:
District 2—Headquarters: Jew-
ish Community Center:
Zone A—Mrs. Theodore Kelter,
Mrs. E. H. Lastar, Mrs. Emil
Rose, Mrs. Leon Schembeck,
Mrs. Ira Cohen,

Zone B—Mrs, Herber t M. ==-- (Copyright, 1942, Independent

Smith and Mrs. Donald Lip-.
shield, Mrs. Bejamin Schwayder,
Mrs. Gerald Spero and Mrs. Har-
old Ziv, Mrs. William Mazer and
Mrs. Jack Halper, Mrs. Nathan
Schlafer and Mrs. Roger D. Ett-
linger, Mrs. Royal Maas, Mrs.
Morton J. Newlander, Mrs. Harry
Krohn, Miss Sadie Hirschman,
Mrs. Edward Quint.
Zone C-11Irs. Saul Benyas,
Mrs. Jerry J. Greenblatt, Mrs.
Herman E. Rafelson, Mrs. Rich-
ard Rugoff, Mrs. William Frank,
Mrs. Emil Amberg.
Zone D—Mrs. Leo Frank, Mrs.
David I. Hubar, Mrs. Abraham
S. Rogoff, Mrs. Jacob D. Rosen-
man, Mrs. Sidney Solomon, Mrs.
Theodore Birnkrant, Miss Selma
J. Sampliner.
Zone E—Mrs. Melvin Baer,
Mrs. Wilfred B. boner,. Mrs.
Clement Hopp, Mrs. Daniel
Krouse, Mrs. Lawrence I. Levi,
Mrs. Philip Marcuse, Mrs. Lawr-
ence J. Michelson.
Zone F—Mrs. Bernard Bladen,
Mrs. Philip J. Gilbert, Mrs. Her-
man Jacobs, Mrs. Irving Shevin,
Mrs. Max Smitt, Mrs. Harry
Sklar, Mrs. Morton Ashner and
Mrs. Harry Jacobson.
. District 11—Headquarters: Con-
gregation Shaarey Zedek:
Zone B—Mrs. Irving H. Dix,
Mrs. Samuel Glucksman, Mrs.
Samuel B. Keene, Mrs. Benjamin
LaBret, .Miss Ethel Rosenthal.
Zone C--2-Mrs. Ralph Granet
and Mrs. Sidney Tushbant, Mrs.
Max B. Kerner, Mrs. Moe H.
Prince and Mrs. Alek Kaplan,
Mrs. Emanuel Rosenthal and Mrs.
Carl Shalit, Mrs. Monte Weston
and Mrs. Maurice Schwartz, Mrs.
Edward Krause, Mrs. Clare Axel-
rod and Mrs. David H. J. Fein-
berg, Mrs. Roy Foreman, Mrs.
Samuel Sofferin, Mrs. Frank
Denison.
Zone D—Mrs. Harry Boxman,
Mrs. Maurice Garelik, Mrs. Wil-
liam Gordon, Mrs. Louis Gott-
lieb, Mrs. Otto Hyman, Mrs.
Lawrence Titlebaurn, Mrs. S.
Joseph Wallach, Mrs. A. L. Weis-
man.
Zone E—Mrs. Harry Baum,
Mrs. Harry Bookstein, Mrs. Aaron
Friedman, Mrs. Ernest Golumbia,
Mrs. Philip Gorelick, Mrs. Felix
Green, Mrs. Sam Katkin, Mrs.
Moe Perlis and Mrs.. Jacob M.
Lattin, Mrs. Lewis M. Levitt,
Mrs. Samuel A. Singer, Mrs. Ar-
thur Stone.
Zone F—Mrs. Fred Bond, Miss
Virginia Brand, Mrs. Don Rog-
ers, Mrs. Morse Saulson, Mrs.
Harry Buchman and Mrs. Philip
Slomovitz, Mrs. Frank A. Wets-
man.
Zone G—Mrs. Oscar Blumberg,
Mrs. Moe S. Dann, Mrs. Jerome
J. Frank, Mrs. Jerome B. Gross-
man, Mrs. Sidney Imerman, Miss
Sophie Kutlov, Mrst Theodore
Levin, Mrs. Leo Mellen, Mrs.
Julius Ring, Mrs. Sidney Stone,
Mrs. Herbert Warner and Mrs.
Mitchell B. Robinson.
Zone K—Mrs. Aaron Carlstein,
Mrs. Sam Feinberg, Mrs. Benja-
min Gould, Mrs. John Keystone,
Mrs. Ezra Lipkin, Mrs. Norman
Ross, Mrs. H. Schiller, Mrs. Hen-
ry Stark, Mrs. Philip Robinson.
Mrs. Hyman C. Broder, chair-
man of organization, announces
the appointment of a Workers'
Committee, consisting of Mrs.
Douglas I. Brown and Mrs. Mor-
ris Adler, chairman, and Mrs.
Louis James Rosenberg, Miss
Julia Klein, Mrs. Max Dushkin,
Mrs. Aaron Silberblatt, Mrs. Na-
than Spevakow and Mrs. Mau-
rice Klein. The members of this
committee have been contacting
Jewish and non-Jewish groups
for the purpose of enrolling
workers.

Industrial and .Commercial Unit

Members of the Detroit Service
Group are serving in important
positions. The organization is not
complete and the workers who
have signed pledge' of service
cards will be assigned to their
jobs this week.
The following additional ap-
pointments have been made:
Insurance—Fred A, Ginsberg.

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United, We March to Victory

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Finis to a Debate

Write Finis to the debate on
the War Chest.
With several of the most im-
portant Jewish communities in
the country included in the War
Chests, we have a commitment
which puts an end to arguments
on the question.
But that it not enough. There
must be an end to fear regarding
the advisability of our participa-
tion in the Chests.
Those who had an opportunity
to hear discussions on the sub-
ject pro and con will not be
worried. On the contrary, they
enter the partnership with non-
Jews with a sense of confidence
that it must be for the good of all
concerned.

Great Good-Will Mission

In our instance, non-Jewish
leaders invited the Jewish com-
munity to participate in. the War
Chest with the assurance that no
united effort is possible with-
out the Jews. Furthermore,
they said, they ewere conscious of
a debt due the Jewish people in
the present world conflict and
they were anxious that the
wrongs commtited against the
first victims of Hitlerism should
be atoned for.
Could any one possibly say no
to such an invitation for partici-
pation in the War Chest?
Here you have a gesture which
is the finest step to good will ac-
tion. Jews and non-Jews will
work side by side for humanit-
arian causes and will have an op-
portunity to know one another
better than at any time before. It
is an opportunity that must not
be sacrificed.

OUR War Chest

Detroit, Cincinnati, Kansas
City, St. Louis Jewish communi-
ties can state with pride: It is
OUR War Chest. Treated proper-
ly, it will bring us an immense
amount of good.
To the questions: What will
happen to our normal fund-rais-
ing machinery? HOw will we
propagate for Jewish causes if
the distinct Jewish appeal is re-
moved? There are answers which
are accompanied by a challenge.
The most dynamic campaigner
in the country today is Detroit
Jewish Welfare Federation's Isi-
dore Sobeloff. Under his guid-
ance, this community- made the
best showing in the spring United
Jewish Appeals. He has led De-
troit to great achievements dur-
ing the past five years. He is
close to the masses, knows their
feelings, understands Jewish
movements and causes as well as
anyone in the land. He therefore
knows objections that might be
raised and is highly qualified to
give the answer.
Sobeloff is unafraid about pos-
sible damage to Jewish campaign
machinery. He is confident that
proper assignment of responsi-
bility, fair participation in the
War Chests, realistic approach to
the issues, will keep an informed
community intact.
More important, however, is
Sobeloff's view regarding the ed-
ucation of the community. He
believes that the abandonment
of the Jewish drive in the spring
will realese the community's en-
ergies for self study, for more
frequent and more intelligent re-
view of our position, for fair ap-.
praisal of our position as Jews
and as Americans.
All of which leads us back to
the first premises, that we must
not be afraid and that we must
have confidence that only the
best results are to be expected
from our merger with the War
Chests.

Attorneys: Abraham Satovsky,
Harry H. Platt, Adrian D. Rosen,
Sidney L. Alexander, Irwin I.
Cohn, Sidney DeYoung and Na-
than D. Rosin.

Advance Gifts Unit

Additional workers are: Na-
than • Borin, Fred A. Ginsburg
and Nathaniel H. Goldstick and
lArs. Fred A. Ginsburg.

EDITORIAL

A mighty mobilizatZn for humanity has taken place
in the City of Detroit. The ideals of freedom, brotherhood
and human fellowship for which the United Nations are
striving today have been given living representation in the
inspiring spirit of unity and comradeship with which every
segment of the community of Metropolitan Detroit has
joined the War Chest. The campaign which opens on
Monday (October 26th) will seek to raise a quota of
$5,800,000. By virtue of this fact alone, this will be the
greatest campaign ever held in the history of our city.
Yet, while quotas are generally the measure of importance
of causes, the War Chest of Metropolitan Detroit derives
its greatest significance from the fact that in a crucial
war period all elements in the population, all creeds and
races have joined hands in a common endeavor to bring
aid to the oppressed and conquered peoples of Europe
and to the civilian populations of our allies, to sustain our
local institutions supported through the Community Fund,
and to help our sons, brothers and husbands in the armed.
forces.
The inclusion of the Allied Jewfsh Campaign in this
all-embracing community effort is a matter of profound
significance. Not only does it reflect a true basis of under-
standing and cooperation between Jews and citizens of
other faiths, it also indicates the recognition on the part
of the non-Jews that our people stand alongside of other
peoples throughout the world in the fight for freedom,
that our people, as victims of Hitlerism, must receive not
only the support of their fellow-Jews, but of all Americans
in the same measure that help is sent to other men and
women struck down by the forces of oppression. We have
always contended that the problem of helping the Jewish
victims of the Nazis was not a Jewish problem but a world
problem—that it was not merely the responsibility of the
Jews but of the Christians to help the innocent men, women
and children ground down by ruthless attack. Our War
Chest campaign is a concrete example of the readiness of
our Christian neighbors to assume their share of the re-
sponsibility in helping solve the Jewish problem.
From the point of view of the Jewish community, it
demonstrates our sincere concern for all causes linked to
the fate of democracy and to the future and well-being of
our community. Our keen awareness of the enormity of the
tragedy confronting our own people in many lands has
imbued us with a deep understanding of the plight of the
British, Greek, Polish, Dutch and Russian victims of war
and destruction. Because the Jews were among the first
victims of Hitlerism, we in the United States, who have
responded to their distress calls, have been fully conscious
of what President Roosevelt has described as the need for
"reinforcing the humanitarian front as a vital sector in our
war effort." In participating in the War Chest of Metro-
politan Detroit, we are therefore determined to give gener-
ously so that all causes may receive the measure of support
which they require.
Through, the War Chest of Metropolitan Detroit the
Allied Jewish Campaign will raise the funds to meet the
1943 needs of its local, regional, national and overseas
beneficiary agencies. Chief among these is the United
Jewish Appeal, which provides the resources for the rescue
programs carried on by the' Joint Distribution Commitee,
the United Palestine Appeal and the National Refugee
Service. The outstanding record of war relief, rehabilita-
tion and Palestine settlement established by these agencies
during the first three years of the present conflict should
be a source of pride to all contributors. In the critical
months that lie ahead, these agencies will be confronted
with even greater tasks than before and in our participa-
tion in the "one campaign by all, for all," we must not lose
sight of the pivotal significance of their work in assuring
the survival of large numbers of our people.
At the present time all Americans are deeply concern-.
ed in devoting all their energies and resources toward
winning the war. All of us are determined to give priority
to war needs and war responsibilities, and we recognize
the importance of rationing our time and our energies ac-
cordingly. The War Chest provides us, therefore, with the
opportunity of conserving these valuable commodities and
at the same time, discharging our responsibility in full, not
only to the causes affiliated with the Allied Jewish Cam-
paign but to the Community Fund, the U.S.O. and foreign
war relief.
It is one of the fundamental aims of the United Na-
tions that all men collaborate now in the establishment of
an era in which the problems of one people will become
the problems of all peoples, in which the sufferings of
one people will become the concern of all peoples. Our
War Chest campaign has translated that aspiration into
reality. Moreover, it has become evident in recent days
that the efforts of all Americans must be directed to win-
ning the peace internally as well as externally. If we suc-
ceed in bringing about freedom and security for other
peoples and other countries and we neglect the well-being
of our own communities and our own people, we shall
have lost one of the primary objectives of this great strug-
gle for freedom. The War Chest is important as the in-
strument whereby, within our own community, we can
now build for the future, create the basis for a bro-al
understanding between Jews and Christians and establish
a better appreciation of each other's needs. The War Chest
is the medium through which we can carry to fruition the
hopes and the strivings of all Americans for the establish-
ment of a true fellowship and true brotherhood, and for
the better development and realization of our highest
democratic ideals. As we go forward with our campaign,
let all of us, Catholics, Protestants and Jews, march side
by side, and arm in arm, toward victory and peace and
understanding.

