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THE JEWISH NEWS

Friday, January I, 1943

What's Happening in Detroit

EW YEAR observances which mark the usher-
ing in of 1943 are less hilarious than in the
past, in view of the solemnity that has been projected
into our lives by the tragic conditions throughout the
world, especially for the Jewish. people.
Complying with President Roosevelt's proclamation,
Congregation Shaarey Zedek, Temple Israel, Temple
• Beth El and other congregations will have special
services of worship and affirmation of faith on Friday
evening.

67 Doctors of North End Clinic
Serving in Armed Forces

North End Clinic, a member agency of the Jewish
Welfare Federation and the Detroit Community Fund,
reports that of its medical staff of approximately 100
doctors, 67 are now serving in the armed forces of the
United States, in addition to one board member, one
nurse and two members of the personnel staff.
Here is the best answer to those who belittle the
loyalty of any group in our population. The depletion
of the North End Clinic's staff is symbolic of the
general trend in our population's activities.
At the same time, these figures serve as a warning
to all of us to do our utmost to protect our health,
in view of the lack of medical facilities.

The Clinic's Staff in the Service

The North End Clinic board member in the service
is Capt. Ralph A. Mayer, who is stationed at Wright
Air Field, Dayton, 0.
The nurse is 2nd Lieut. P. Eleanor Stanfield, A.N.C.
The two members of • the personnel who are in
the service are Lieut. Donald Harris, stationed at
Seattle, Wash., and Pvt. Alex Lewis, stationed at Camp
Atterbury, Ind.
The members of the North End Clinical medical
staff who are in the service and their present stations
are:
Lt. (S.G.) M. S. Ascher, M. C., San Diego, Cal.
1st Lt. B. H. Bader, M. C., Fort Benning, Ga.
Capt. Abraham Becker, M. C., Camp McCoy, Pa.
1st Lt. Davis A. Benson, M. C., Lebanon, Pa.
1st Lt. Louis Beresh, M. C., Romulus, Mich.
Capt. John R. Birch, M. C., Hot Springs, Ark.
Capt. Lionel Braun, M. C., El Paso, Tex.
1st Lt. Nathan Brooks, M. C., overseas.
Capt. Harold W. Buchner, M. C., Miama Beach, Fla.
1st Lt. Leslie Caplan, M. C., Pine Bluff, Ark.
Capt. Henry Chapnick, M. C., Camp Custer, Mich.
1st Lt. Joseph Carp, M. C., Lordsburg, N. M.
1st Lt. H. M. Chesluk, M. C., Washington, D. C.
Capt. Daniel Cohn, M. C., Denver, Colo.
1st Lt. Raymond Conn, M. C., Detroit.

Coming Events

Jan. 6—Annual donor luncheon of Pioneer Wo•
men's Organization of Detroit, at Masonic Temple.
Jan. 10—Donor event of Reading Circles of
Sholom Aleichem Schools.
Jan. 10—Detroit Mizrachi's 31st anniversary ban-
quet. at -Jericho Temple.
Jan. 19—Ezra Sisterhood Luncheon.
Jan. 27--Annual donor luncheon of Women's
Auxiliary of United Hebrew Schools, at the Shaarey
Zedek.

Synagogues Usher in the
Year 1943 With Services of
Worship and Affirmation
Of Faith in Democracies;
New High War Record Set
By North End. Clinic With
67 of Its Medical Staff
Serving in Armed Forces

Capt. Leo J. Croll, M. C., Camp Benj. Harrison, Ind.
Maj. Linden Lee Davis, M. C., overseas.
_ Lt. (S.G.) Windsor Davies, M. C., San Francisco, Cal.
Capt. H. M. Dickman, M. C., overseas.
Capt. M. L. Falick, M. C., Fort Jackson, S. C.
Capt. Meyer J. Feigelman, M. C., Camp Wheeler, Ga.
Maj. Nathaniel L. Feldman, M. C., Detrbit.
Capt. Martin Z. Feldstein, M. C., Camp Shelby, Miss.
Capt. M. M. Fenton, M. C., Camp J. T. Robinson, Ark.
1st Lt. Louis V. Ferrara, M. C., Camp McCoy, Wis.
1st Lt. Howard B. Gaba, M. C., Miami Beach, Fla.
1st Lt. Sigmund Gabe, M. C., Carlisle, Pa.
1st Lt. S. M. Gingold, M. C., Camp Hood, Tex.
1st Lt. H. I. Ginsberg, M. C., Wichita Falls, Tex.
Lt. Perry Goldman, M. C., overseas.
Col. Win. H. Gordon, M. C., Chickasha, Okla.
1st Lt. Julius J. Greenberg; M. C., Camp Young, Cal,
Capt. A. C. Hamburger, M. C., overseas.
1st Lt. Youis E. Heideman, M. C., Baltimore, Md.
Major I. Jerome Hauser, M. C., Springfield, Mo.
Capt. H. Holman, M. C., Camp Benj. Harrison, Ind.
1st Lt. Benjamin Juliar, M. C., overseas.
1st Lt. Louis L. Kazdan, M. C., Lawrence, Ind.
1st Lt.' Hubert S. Knoch, M. C., address unknown.
Capt. Max Kohn, M. C., Camp Horahon, La.
1st Lt. Morton Lazar, M. C., Camp. Gruber, Okla.
Lt. Edward E. Levine, M. C., Alamogordo; N. M.
1st Lt. Jerome Mark, M. C., Camp Atterbury, Ind.
1st Lt. Joseph Markel, M. C., Chicago, Ill.
Lt. Comdr. Thomas B. Marwil, M. C., Cedar Falls.
Maj. Maurice P. Meyers, M. C., Fort Sill, Okla.
Maj. S. G. Meyers, M. C., Camp McCoy, Wis.
Lt. Comdr. Thomas H. Miller, M. C., Seattle, Wash.
1st Lt. J. M. Oppenheim, M. C., Camp Gruber, Okla.
Capt. Harold Robinson, M. C., overseas.
1st Lt. H. Rothstein, M. C., Camp Livingston, La.
Lt. Louis Rosenthal, M. C., Fort Benj. Harrison, Ind.
1st Lt. Samuel H. Ross, M. C., Roanoke, Va.
Lt. Corn. Louis A. Schwartz, M. C., Bethesda, Md.
Capt. 0. D. Schwartz, M. C., Chicago, Ill.
1st Lt. Isadore A. Shapiro, M. C., Fort Sam Houston
Lt. (v. s.) Peter G. Shifrin, M. C. San Diego, Cal.
Capt. hying Shulak, M. C., Brigham City, Utah.
Lt. Edward J. Simons, M. C., Taunton, Mass.
Capt. Milton Sorock. M. C., Charleston, S. C.
Capt. Benjamin B. Stamell, M. C., Detroit.
Capt. Milton J. Steinhardt, M. C., Camp Clairborne.
Capt. M. H. Sugarman, M. C., overseas.
Capt. Meyer Teitelbaum, M. C., Denver, Colo.
Capt. Harry Topcik, M. C., Madison, Wis.
Capt. Israel Wiener, M. C., overseas.

Growth of Council as Agency
For Unity Is Told by Ellmann

President Reports Elimination of Petty Politics, Achieve-
ment of Common Purpose to Assure Single, Secure
Front; Sees Community Awakening to Issues

James I. Ellmann, president of the Jewish Community
Council of Detroit, this week outlined the activities of the
Council during the last year in a specially prepared state-
ment. In the course of his report to the community, Mr.
Ellmann presented the following facts:
"Nearly six years of active association with the Com-

unity, the community can have
a sense of satisfaction at some
modest accomplishments.
"In following a direct route,
not turning too much to the
right or too much to the left, the
Community Council has gained
strength, approval and adher-
ents. As a consequence of its
unifying efforts the Council has
had to become somewhat more
alert to the possibilities and
techniques of harmonizing con-
flicts, of creating and maintain-
ing dignity and discipline, and
of providing prophylactic treat-
ment for many hitherto un-
known ailments. It also has had
to develop the teehn'..-_-.1ues and
machinery for realizing these

munity Council during every
stage of its beginnings and de-
down with us to find ways and
velopment, and more than a means to resolve civic-defense I possibilities.
year's work as its titular head, and other problems of national
Responsiveness Gratifying
do furnish something of a van or even local implication. In-
"But what is even more signi-
tage point for this frank discus- stead of indulging in character- ficant, the pressing demand by
sion.
istic jealousies and bickerings many individuals upon our
Praises Cooperation
they were ready to give and Council staff for assignment of
The representatives of all the take any counsel needed in treat- responsibilities in community
organizations have felt the .dep- ing any particular ailment. If service is one of the most hope-
ly urgent need for a single med- we have thus pre-enipted
locally ful portents. So great is this de-
ium to represent and to express some of their own work we
also inand that it has b:::orne one of
the common thought and inter- have been able to demonstrate our major problems. What is not
est of the whole community; to to them and to ourselves again so well known is that $ie proper
formulate its general policies of and again that any agency well distribution of such responsibili-
internal and external discipline; equipped to perform and willing ties to lay individuals needs
to create some certainty that to perform, should have the much preparatory work on a
policies so conceived are truly means of performing.
professional level by the staff,
representative of our needs and
and intensive follow-up—a tax
Build, Unite, Defend
of our aims; and to make emerg-
for which our office is not yet
ing plans the fruit of the best
"With the rank and file there fully manned.
thought and endeavors of our was never any serious doubt• cf
"At our last Council Institute
lay and professional guides the imperious need for a common • on Nov. 15, many of the new
throughout the country.
agency to build, unite, defend, •• regions ,o f action and coopera-
"In this one - year in the per- and represent a single and se- tion with constituent agencies
formance of our many tasks we cure front. They felt, no doubt.. were fully indicated.
have found far greater Coopera- that no people could endure liv- Needs Time to Grow
tion than frustration. Contrary ing in a disorganized state of "In theory, at least, few will
to general belief, the national perpetual emergency. And the Mill dispute the es..3ential need
Jewish agencies, such as the Jewish community of Detroit, for an agency which can anaroxi-
American Jewish omm
C itt ee, the even more than most others in mate a democratically conceived
American Jewish Congress, the the land, was eager to get be- institution to sneak for all of us
Bnai Brith and its Anti-Defama- yond this feeling of constant as a common body whenever such
tion League, the Jewish Labor emergency and disorganization. need arises. Certainly we are
Committee, all of them were in- And now, after a few brief years , blessed with first rate spokesmen
variably most willing to sit of effort towards a common everywhere. But we have a right

Vaad Hayeshivoth Statement

Rabbi Meir Levi, executive director of the Vaad
Hayeshivoth, the Committee for the Support of Yesh-
ivoth and Charitable Institutions, has issued a state-
ment this week pointing to the progress of this com-
mittee since its organization in September, 1939. This
committee was formed by the Michigan Synagogue
Conference. Its present office is at 10205. Dexter Blvd.,
TYler 4-9363. Rabbi Leizer Levin is the chairman and
Rabbi J. S. Sperka is secretary.
Rabbi Levi explains that the Vaad Hayeshivoth
made a careful survey of the conditions affecting col-
lections for religious institutions. He states:
"For more than two years and a half, the committee
has had complete charge of funds raised by the author-
ized representatives (Meshulochim) of such institutions
as well as through special campaigns totaling $125,000,
or $50,000 annually. The activities of the Vaad Hayeshi-
voth have been carried out by an executive committee
and a board of directors including rabbis and laymen,
representing virtually all congregations in the state in-
terested in this field, and a member of the Jewish Com-
munity Council as a special delegate to the Vaad."

A "Yellow Badge" Movement

Emulating the examples set by the Dutch and other
free peoples, who are wearing the "Yellow Badge" as
a symbol of respect for and sympathy with their Jewish
friends, a movement has been started by a group of
Detroit youth to 'distribute arm bands with the yellow
Magen David on a black background as an expression
of protest against Nazi atrocities and as a mark of loy-
alty to the Jews who are persecuted in Europe. Sora
Levine, 15029 Wilde.mere Ave., UN. 3-0713, is dis-
tributing these arm bands.

Twenty Years Ago This Week

Compiled From the Records of the
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

LONDON—In the eleven months ending No-
vember 30, 7,230 Jews, mostly Zionist immigrants,
entered Palestine, the Colonial Office reported this
week.
BUCHAREST—Bessarabia has become the seat
of violent anti-Jewish agitation and agression..
Students of the Kishinev gymnasium are reported
to be rioting against the Jews. In the Rumanian
parliament the Jewish deputies Zirelsohn of Kish-
inev and Stern of Bucharest, have demanded that
the Minister of Justice act to suppress the anti-
Semitic excesses.
ROME—Dr. Chaim Weizmann had a four-hour
talk with Premier Mussolini on the question of
the Italian government's attitude towards Zionist
aspirations in Palestine.
BERLIN—When renting apartments in Munich,
Jewish tenants are reported to be forced to sign
a lease agreeing to make good all damage that
the property may suffer during a pogrom.
JERUSALEM—Day and night shifts are rushing
to complete the electric power station for the Jaffa-
Tel Aviv district ,being constructed by Pinchas
Ruttenberg.
CHICAGO—Dr. Emil Hirsch, Jewish scholar,
educator and rabbi, died here this week.

to feel that the considered judg- Weizmann Asks Patent
ment of democratically elected
and carefully selected experts out On Chemical Processes
of the whole community is more
JERUSALEM, (JTA)—The de-
likely to speak for it at the right
time, in the right place, and in velopment by Dr. Chaim Weiz-
the proper authoritative manner. mann of several improvements in
Even if in no other area, at least connection with the enzymatic
in the development of this dis- processes was revealed this week
ciplined approach alone the when an application for a patent
Community Council can make on these discoveries was pub-
substantial claims. And by this lished here in the Palestine Gov-
approach it already has elimin- ernment's Official Gazette.
ated petty politics and prevented
self-appointed, self-starting indi-
which should stand us in good
viduals from embarrassing and
stead in the days ahead when our
humiliating us periodically.
better organized community will
"But we have a long way to
be able to speak for us with even
go. Even 25 years would be but
higher discipline, dignity and
a brief historic moment in the
clarity. For the time to learn all
life of an institution of this sort.
the lessons of unity is not when
The Council, even more than the
unity must be sought in a storm.
old Kehilla, must once again
The lessons and values of unity
bring to life the skill, the ex-
must be gathered slowly and
perience and the background of a
painstakingly during all times,
couple of thousand years of train-
even those of greatest calm.
ing in social management. We
"We are also learning, slowly
can do this. The times demand it.
New exigencies make it manda- perhaps, that we can be mutually
tory. This last year has been cooperative even when we are
something of a reeducational ex- not in full accord on many prob-
perience to all those who were lems of policy; that we can give
close to the Council. We have and take; that . we can yield to
a long way to travel in buiuding each other in the interest of a
up the whole contour of such a common purpose . even where ex-
body—its points of excellence and i s t i n g ideological differences
those of lesser importance.
might have caused greatest out-
"Indeed we are engaged in re- bursts at another time. This does
building, if not transplanting, our not mean that we shall have dis-
traditional way of life (or at least putes of the most serious char-
its essence) upon a new scene, acter in the days to come. It
out of the welter of experiences would be most unnatural. But
resulting from contacts with we are approaching the time
friends and foes, past and present. when we shall have evolve( in-
And we are also learning to re- strumentalities and techniques
mold many of our attitudes of through which to evaluate differ-
the past which have been found ences and agree upon formulae
inapplicable to the present.
of action or deferment of action.
Regaining Certainty, Strength
"It is perhaps still too early to
"And even in this period of grasp fully or evaluate its 1.4ti-
greatest trial as a people we are mate results, but its unifying
regaining some sense of certain- principle is airetAd2, - at work for
ty, of balance and o' strength the common good of all."

