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THE JEWISH NEWS
Friday,. October • 30, 1942
Jews Intensify Effort in War Chest
All Workers Are Summoned
To Big Report Rally Monday
Allied Jewish Campaign Teams Swell Ranks of Solicitors In <!>, with our enemies," he declared,
Record City-Wide Drive; Jewish Center, Shaarey
"and community and home life
Zedek are District Headquarters
plays an important part in the
•
picture. We must make a super-
With 15,000 workers enrolled in the War Chest cam-
paign, many of them coming from the ranks of the Allied
Jewish Campaign, those in charge of the $5,800,000
humanitarian effort were enthusiastic after the first three
days of solicitation in the assurance that the quota will be
oversubscribed.
Allied Jewish Campaign Day
will be observed by the War
Chest on Monday, and Dr. Abba
Hillel Silver has been secured as
guest speaker for the 12:15 P. M.
luncheon meeting at the Tuller.
All Workers Summoned
All workers and contributors
are called upon to attend Mon-
day's luncheon and to participate
in the events which will mark
Allied Jewish Campaign Day.
Rabbi of the Temple of Cleve-
land, Dr. Silver is recognized as
one of the outstanding Jewish
leaders in the world. Not only
in this country, but in Europe
and in Palestine, he has won the
admiration of Jewish communi-
ties. Early this year he was ac-
claimed by the Jewish commun-
ities of Great Britain, where he
assisted in the driVe for funds
for Palestine's redemption and
conferred with British leaders on
issues affecting the Jewish peo-
ple.
A man of great erudition, Dr.
Silver impresses Jews and non-
Jews alike. He is the national
chairman of the United Palestine
Appeal, one of the national co-
chairmen of the United Jewish
Appeal, and is a brilliant writer
and orator.
Active Jewish Participation
Jewish workers in the War
Chest have been enrolled in the
regular set-up of the drive and
they are participating in the
great relief effort side by side
Dr. B. Benedict Glazer of
Temple Beth El gave the bene-
diction.
At the conclusion of Tuesday's
luncheon, at which the Hon.
Leighton • McCarthy, Canadian
Envoy Plenipotentiary to the
United States, delivered a stir-
ring address, a total of $907,596-
15.6 of the entire goal-was an-
nounced raised.
The speaker at the campaign
meeting on Wednesday was Dr.
Alexander Loudon, Netherlands
Ambassador to the United States.
On Thursday, the speaker was
Jan Ciechanowsky, Polish Am-
bassador to the United States.
This Friday, the speaker will
be Cimon P. Diamantopoulos,
Ambassador from Greece to the
U. S.
Radio Time Promised
Hyman Altman, who conducts
the Jewish Hours on Saturday
nights and Sunday noon on Sta-
tion WJLB, announced that he
has set aside an entire hour on
his program on Saturday, Nov.
7, in behalf of the War Chest.
Speakers for this program will be
announced next week.
According to information re-
ceived this week by Isidore Sobe-
loff, executive director of the
Jewish Welfare Federation of
Detroit, the Greater Kansas City
War Chest, in which the Jewish
Welfare Federation merged its
1942-43 campaign for local, na-
tional and overseas needs, has
gone over the top. The total
goal of $2,068,000 was oversub-
scribed by some $20,000. The
Jewish Federation share of the
proceeds is $225,000 for 1943, in
addition to the amount for local
Jewish institutions. This is the
first large community in which
a Jewish Welfare Fund had in-
corporated its drive in the gen-
eral community war chest.
human effort to assist in all
phases of human activity. The
all-inclusive nature of the War
Chest is the tangible example of
what we have been talking
about."
Labor Unions Report
Spokesmen for the A. F. of L.
with their Christian neighbors.
Two of the district headquarters and the UAW-CIO participated
are located in Jewish buildings- in the opening meeting and re-
the Jewish Center and the ported that their organizations
will contribute monthly per
Shaarey Zedek.
The staffs of the Allied Jewish capita gifts to the drive.
Campaign and the Jewish Wel-
fare F eder a tio n, under the
leadership of Isidore Sobeloff,
executive director of the Federa-
tion, and Miss Esther R. Prussian,
secretary of the Detroit Service
Group, are devoting their entire
time to the drive.
Contribution
Actual Cost of Contribution
The War Chest drive com- Gross Earned
Income
Low
High
Low
High
menced auspiciously on Monday;
%
$
5.00
$
25.00
$
4.08
$ 20.40
81%
with the opening luncheon meet- $ 40 per week
50
10.00
50.00
8.16
40.80
81%
ing at the Tuller. The announce-
60
25.00
100.00
20.40
81.60
81%
ment made at that meeting by
75
50.00
175.00
39.30
137.55
79%
Clarence W. Avery, president of
100
100.00
250.00
78.60
196.50
79%
the War Chest and campaign $ 6,000 per year
200.00
400.00
149.20
298.40
75%
7,500
chairman, that a total of $595,197
300.00
600.00
223.80
453.60
74%
10,000
450.00
-10.3 per cent of the goal-had
850.00
299.70
582.10
08%
12,000
600.00
1,100.00
been raised on the first day, was
381.60
714.60
64%
800.00
15,000
1,500.00
464.00
greeted with cheers.
875.00
59%
••
1,100.00
17,500
2,000.00
594.00
1,082.00 •
Mayor Opens Campaign
.54%Q
•• 1,500.00
20,000
2,500.00
751.50
1,263.00
50%
Mayor Edward J. Jeffries, who
•• 2,000.00
25,000
3,000.00
856.50
1,306.50
43%
opened the campaign at Monday's
•• 2,500.00
30,000
4,000.00
976.50
1,606.00
40%
meeting, spoke of the War Chest
3,500.00
••
35,000
5,250.00
1,321.50
2,004.00
38%
as the most • effective way . to
5,000.00
50,000
7,500.00
1,561.00
2,386.00
31%
cover every purpose. He warned
••
7,500.00
75,000
11,250.00
1,771.50.
2,709.00
24%
against propaganda campaigns in-
•• 10,000.00
100,000
15,000.00
1,731.00
2,681.00
18%
25,000.00
37,500.00
stigated by the Axis powers
250,000
3,000.00
4,500.00
12%
Savings resulting from reduction of income tax, as shown above, are based on individual con-
who have charged that demo-
cracies are smug and are decay- tributions up to 15 per cent of the net income.
Computations include exemption of $1,200 for head of household and one dependent exemption
ing, and he pleaded for the elim-
ination of internal differences of $350.
Corporations showing earnings may deduct contributions up to 5 per cent of net income in
and the abandonment of divided computing tax and may make donations at a cost ranging from 75 per cent to 10 per cent of the
allegiance.
contributions.
"We are locked at death grip
The above table was prepared by Isenberg, Purdy & Donovan, public accountants.
YOUR Contribution to the War Chest-
How Much Does It Actually Cost You?
First Palestinian
Jews as a Nation Denied Seat Edition
Old World Beauty, Cruel Axis
of Babylon
Talmud Is Planned
On Atrocities Tribunal
Devastation Seen in Exhibit
May Only be Named to United Nations Commission as
Citizens; Winant Calls Jewish Persecutions World's
Concern; Other J. T. A. News
LONDON-Jews as such will
not be given a place in the com-
mission which the United Nations
is setting up for the purpose of
gathering evidence of Nazi atroc-
ities against the civilian popula-
tion in occupied countries, but
various governments which will
be represented on this commis-
sion are free to appoint Jewish
citizens as their representatives,
if they so desire.
This is the essence of a state-
ment made in the House of Com-
mons this week by Richard K.
Law, British Under-Secretary
for Foreign Affairs, in reply to
a written question on the subject.
Queried by David ./...dams as to
whether the Jews, in view of
their being persecuted by the
Nazis and other Axis war crim-
inals, will be given a seat in the
United Nations' Commission on
Nazi Atrocities, the British of-
ficial replied:
"The commission will collect
evidence of atrocities committed
against Jews and non-Jews. It is
therefore contemplated that the
members of the commission
should be nationals of the United
Nations."
PERSECUTION OF JEWS
CONDEMNED BY WINANT
The view that the persecution
of Jews in any country is a mat-
ter of international concern and
cannot be considered a purely
domestic matter, was expressed
this week by John G. Winant,
United States Ambassador to
Great Britain, in the course of a
speerth delivered at Leeds Uni-
Nersity,
GESTAPO MURDERS
RABBIS IN POLAND
The murder by the Gestapo of
two prominent rabbinical fami-
lies in Poland was reported here
this week together with the news
that death and disease among
Jewish children in the ghettos
are increasing "at an appaling
rate."
The two rabbis are Tobias
Horowitz of Sanek and his
brother-in-law the rabbi of Bla-
zewa.
* * *
JEWS IN TRANSNISTRIA SEND
S.O.S. THROUGH RED CROSS
TEL AVIV-A number of Ru-
manian Jews here this week re-
ceived cables, through the Inter-
national Red Cross, from their
relatives deported from various
sections of Rumania to the Axis-
occupied part of the Ukraine
known as Transnistria, asking
them for immediate aid.
The messages, apparently ap-
proved by the Rumanian censor,
all had the same text which
read: "Starving. Appealing with
last strength for help."
* * *
PATRIARCH THREATENS TO
RESIGN IN PROTEST
AGAINST MASSACRES
ZURICH-Patriarch Nikodem,
head • of the Greek-Orthodox
Church in Rumania, which is the
leading church in the country,
has notified Premier Gen.. An-
tonescu that he intends to resign
from his post in protest against
the continued massacre of Jews,
it was reported here this week.
JERUSALEM (JPS-Palcor) -
A decision of far-reaching im-
portance to the scholarly world
was made here by the board of
directors of the Rabbi Kook
Foundation when it completed
plans for the publication in Jer-
usalem of an edition of the Baby-
lonian Talmud. Up to this time
there has never been a Palestin-
ian edition.
The new version will also in-
clude printed and mahuscript
commentaries of the Gaonim as
well as the Dikukei and Sofrim.
A committee of scholars will di-
rect the compilation of the ma-
terial under the supervision of
a small committee of leading
rabbis of Palestine.
Russ Pre-War Policy
Defended by Einstein
NEW YORK (JPS)-Addres-
sing a dinner of the Jewish Coun-
cil for. Russian War Relief by
record because of his inability to
be present in person, Prof. Albert
Einstein told the 3,000 diners that
Soviet Russia was justified in the
policy she adopted before she
was attacked by Germany in
June, 1941.
Russia, the noted scientist de-
clared, "labored in the most hon-
est and unequivocal way for in-
ternational security" before the
war. "Russia cannot be accused
of faithlessness in the field of
foreign politics. We may look
forward to her powerful and
loyal co-operation upon some
workable scheme of international
security, provided she finds the
same seriousness and good will
in other powers."..
Authenticated Display by International Division of War
Chest Tells Grim Story of Nazi Persecution; Continues
Through November -12; Admission Free
War in all its barbaric horror, the beauty and dignity
of life in Europe before the treacherous spoilation by the
Axis hordes, the bestial attempt of Hitler's butchers to an-
nihilate all who stand in their way of conquest, the strug-
gle of peoples from the beginning of civilization to assure
peace, freedom and equal rights for all menthese are the
contrasts presented by the ex- •
hibit being shown by the In- photographs show how the starv-
ternational Division of the De- ing are fed, great warships seek- ,
troit War Chest in the former ing out enemy raiders, intrepid
Weil's building on the southwest air fighters avenging the victims
corner of Michigan Ave. and of aggression, calloused but
Wayne.
beaten Luftwaffe pilots behind -.
To many Jews in Detroit the barbed wire prisons where they
exhibit will bring a poignant can wreak their spleen only on ,
nostalgia, for the extensive col- the desert sand.
lection' of photographs from the
Ghetto Newspaper
various Nazi-invaded countries of
Among the specimens on ex-
Europe recalls many scenes that
will live in memory only, be- hibited is a reproduction of a mi-
cause of the wanton rape and niature Yiddish newspaper, Yug-
ent Shtime, produced in the War-
destruction by the Nazis.
saw ghetto, expressing thanks to
Truth About the Nazis
Everything on display is auth- the Polish people outside who
enticated-pictures of the mas- risked their lives by throwing
sacres of innocents, the bodies small packages of food and other
of patriots hanging by the neck necessities over the wall to the
as a ghastly example to their suffering inhabitants inside. On
fellows, the seven-foot wall top- the front page is a drawing of a
ped with broken glass which con- wall, broken through a hand
fines the Warsaw ghetto, and from the inside clasping a hand
numerous other examples of in- from the outside.
human atrocities inflicted on
Colorful window displays have
helpless victims.
been contributed by the Friends
On the brighter side, the plc- of Polish Art, including articles
tures show how the armed forces from the New York World's Fair;
of the United Nations are fight- the Greek War Relief Commit-
ing on all fronts to stop the tee; the Russian War Relief and
carnage and restore freedom and the Queen Wilhelmina Fund, rep-
decency to all peoples. "Destruc- resented by Mrs. J. N. M. De- '
tion, but not despair", through Kuyper. Also one entire window
the aid of our record War Chest shows a representative collection ,
campaign, is the over-all key- of articles which are being sent
note of the exhibit, QfficW
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