$5,000 Loan Fund Donated
By Joseph Wetsman Family
Gift to Free Loan Association Is Memorial to Community
Leader Who Helped Direct Organization for
14 Years; Is Third Donation of Its Kind
Tribute Paid
Dr. Kleinman
For Labor Aid
As a tribute to the memory of Joseph Wetsman, who
was prominent in his life-time in numerous community ef-
forts, including the Zionist organization, and in Co ngrega-
e
tion Shaarey Zedek, which he served as presidnt,
his
family this week contributed $5,000 to the Hebrew Free
Loan Association, to be known as the Joseph Wetsman Me- 15 Years in Detroit, He Is
morial Loan Fund.
Feted by Community Lead-
The family consists of Mrs.
Joseph Wetsman, Mrs. Ralph Da-
vidson, Mrs. Morse Saulson, Mrs.
Jack Uhr and Frank A. Wetsman.
The gift will be used as a spe-
cial fund, to be kept intact as a
perpetual memorial to Mr. Wets-
man, who was a director of the
Hebrew Free Loan Association
for 14 years, and was an ardent
advocate of the type of work
which the organization has suc-
cessfully carried on for 47 years.
Mr. Wetsman on all occasions,
endorsed the character of the
work of the Hebrew Free Loan
Association, so that his family
knew of his intense interest in its
efforts and results.
This $5,000 contribution is the
third of its kind received by the
Hebrew Free Loan Association in
recent years. One was a bequest
from the late Abram Katkisky
and the second was a memorial
gift from the family of the late
David W. Simons. All three funds
have a common characteristic:
They are perpetual funds, re-
maining intact through the years,
with no shrinkage from operating
or any other expense; and they
serve as a source for larger loans
than the organization could oth-
erwise afford to make—from $200
to $500.
The bylaws of the Hebrew Free
Loan Association provide for the
establishment of such perpetual
funds as follows:
"Any donation or bequest of
$5,000 or upwards to the loan
fund of the Association shall be
treated as a perpetual loan fund
in the name of the donor or testa-
tor. All loans made -out of such
funds shall be identified with the
name of the donor or testator, by
having the note of the borrower
beer his or her name. IL the
donor or testator shall prescribe
or otherwise designate a prefer-
ence for the maximum or mini-
mum sum of each individual loan
to be made out of the funds bear-
ing his or her name, such designa-
tion or preference shall be hon-
ored and carried out to the ex-
tent that the practical administra-
tion of the Association's affairs
will permit. At the end of each
year a statement of the number
and amount of the loans made
out of such memorial fund shall
be embodied in the president's
annual report."
Thus, a separate banking ac-
count, special checks, and notes
bearing the name Joseph Wets-
man Memorial Loan Fund, distin-
guish this latest contribution as a
lasting tribute to a former direc-
tor and well-wisher of the orga-
nization.
The Hebrew Free Loan Associ-
ation enters its 48th year of con-
structive assistance to the com-
munity. It is a member agency
of the Jewish Welfare Federation
and the Detroit Community Fund.
Grand Rapids Man
Named on Bnai Brith
Scout Committee
WASHINGTON, D. C.—A na-
tionwide effort to stimulate Bnai
Brith lodges to sponsor additional
Boy Scout troops and to encour-
age chapters of Aleph Zadik,
Bnai Brith youth organizations,
to increased cooperation with
Scout troops, was launched this
week by the Bnai Brith-AZA
National Committee on Scouting.
Announcement of the cam-
paign was made by Sam Beber
of Omaha, Neb., national chair-
man of the committee, who also
made public the names of the
members of the national Bnai
Brith-AZA Committee on Scout-
ing. The Bnai Brith member
for District 6 is Manual Brown
of Grand Rapids, Mich.
Page Five
THE JEWISH NEWS
Friday, January 8, 1943
Sholom Aleichem
Women Will Give
Dinner on Sunday
Arrangements have been com-
pleted for the 12th annual donor
event of the
Women of the
Sholom Aleich-
em Reading
Circles to be
held Sunday
evening starting
at 8 p. m., at
the Jewish Cen-
ter.
Universal and
folk dancing will
Cantor Tuhuan be performed by
famous artists.
Cantor Robert S. Tulman will
sing Yiddish and Palestine songs.
Pauline Finkelstein is chair-
man of this project. Sarah Fried-
man is co-chairman. Ida Kamo-
roff is chairman of reservations.
Frances Shayne is financial sec-
retary, and Esther LaMed is
treasurer.
Wertheim Addresses
Labor Zionist Group
A new Detroit labor Zionist
group is being formed in Detroit.
During his stay in Detroit for
the J.N.F. conference, David
Wertheim, national secretary of
Poale Zion, addressed the new
group. All the members are
graduates of the Uni -WI Hebrew
Schools and were formerly af-
filiated with Zionist youth groups.
The new organization's program
will include support of Zionist
funds, especially the Histadruth,
and the furthering of Halutziuth.
Announcements regarding the
group and the name it will adopt
will be made next week.
ers on His 50th Birthday
Approximately 200 per-
sons gathered at a dinner at
the Workmen's Circle Bldg.,
on Linwood Ave., Sunday
night, to honor Dr. Shmarya
Kleinman on his 50th birth-
day.
The occasion was utilized to
pay tribute to Dr. Kleinman for
his •services to the labor move-
ment and for the devotion with
which he has participated in com-
munity affairs since coming to
Detroit 15 years ago.
Bernstein Is Toastmaster
Joseph Bernstein, manager of
the Detroit edition of the Jewish
Daily Forward, as toastmaster,
outlined Dr. Kleinman's activities
in Russia, during the Revolution-
ary period of 1918-1920, and in
this country. Mr. Bernstein was
introduced by James I. Ellman,
chairman of the committee on
arrangements for the banquet.
Speakers included Fred M.
Butzel, Isaac Franck, Richard
Naismith, Aaron Rosenberg, Jack
Reisman, Louis Aronson, Alex
Levitt, Rabbi Leon Fram, Isidore
Sobeloff, Mrs. Julius Feigelman,
Dr. Edward Robbins, Dr. Irving
Warren, son-in-law of Dr. and
Mrs. Kleinman, and Philip Slom-
ovitz.
Given Bust Done By Cashwan
Dr. Kleinman responded in a
brief address in which he re-
ferred to his early youth and his
activities in the labor movement.
He especially reaffirmed his de-
votion to the Arbeiter Ring—the
Workmen's Circle.
In behalf of the committee on
arrangements, Mrs. Feigelman
presented Dr. Kleinman with a
bust of himself, sculptured by the
eminent Detroit artist, Samuel
Cashwan.
Numerous messages of greet-
ings were received from leaders
in Detroit and many cities
throughout the country. Among
them was a warm messsage from
Norman Thomas, Presidential
candidate on the Socialist ticket,
with whom Dr. Kleinman has
collaborated in Socialist activities
for a number of years .
Samuel D. Weinberg brought
to the gathering greetings from
national labor leaders in New
York.
Will Share Pisgah
W omen's Program
With OPA Speaker.
Junior Hadassah Players, un-__
der the direction of Miss Alyse
Geer, will make their formal de-
but at the meeting of the Detroit
Unit of Junior Hadassah, Sunday
afternoon, at 2:30, at the Statler
Hotel. The players—Eve Gold-
berg, Adlynn McKnight, Flor-
ence Cooperman and Sybil Ros-
engarten, have chosen as their
first vehicle an original, one-act
play, "Rivka Gets Her Man."
Detroit Unit of Junior Hadas-
sah is completing plans for the
fund-raising event, to take place
Sunday afternoon, Feb. 14, at Ho-
tel Statler, in the form of a $7.50
donor luncheon. Part of the pro-
gram for the donor luncheon will
be the crowning of the Junior
Hadasah Queen, the honor which
will be bestowed on the girl earn-
ing the most towards the lunch-
eon. Miss Edith Weiner, chair-
man of fund-raising, will give
further information at Sunday's
MRS. CHARLES SOLOVICH
meeting.
Girls, 18 years and older, in-
On Monday evening, at the
Bnai Moshe, Dexter and Law- terested in the work of Junior
Hadassah, the young women's
rence, Bnai Brith Pisgah Aux-
Zionist organization of America,
iliary will be addressed by Sam- are invited to this meeting.
uel Jacobs of the Detroit OPA
office on the subject, "Price Con-
gan Hillel Foundation, will fea-
trol."
ture the musical program.
Mrs. Charles Solovich, first
Mrs. William J. Phillips is
vice-president of District Grand chairman of the membership
Lodge No. 6 and president of committee, assisted by Mrs.
Michigan Women's Council of Frank Dickman and Miss ESther
Bnai Brith, will also address the Silverstein. They announce that
meeting.
the 1943 group of new Bnai
Marylinn Katz, lyric soprano, Brith members will be initiated
accompanied by Cecile Replin, as the Sara Delano Roosevelt
both of the University of Michi- Class.
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