THE JEWISH NEWS

...Page Ten

Friday, January 22, 1943

Private chief Abroad Is Urged
To Supplement Government Aid

A Joint Statement by

HERBERT H. LEHMAN

Director of Foreign
Relief and Rehabilitation

NORMAN H. DAVIS

Chairman,
American Red Cross

The President has declared that to the task of bringing
to bear directly against the enemy the full strength of the
material resources and manpower of the United Nations,
there is added another task. This task, continuously growing,
is to supply medicines, food, clothing and other necessities
of life to the peoples who have been plundered, despoiled
and starved. Every possible aid will be given, therefore, to
help restore each of the liberated countries to soundness and
strength so that each may make its full contribution to the
United Nations' victory and to the peace which will follow.

The united resources and services of government sup-
plemented by those of the American Red Cross and the
International Red Cross organization, and by the voluntary
efforts of all people will be required for the relief of dis-
tressed civilians in the countries associated with America in
this war. While the resources and services of government
will be drawn upon to furnish the primary supplies for mass
emergency relief of civilian populations, voluntary organiza-
tions rendering essential services will also need to be main-
tained.

JOSEPH E. DAVIES

Chairman, President's War
Relief Control Board

Since the outbreak of war in September, 1939, foreign
relief has been effected materially through many voluntary
.relief agencies serving the people of Great Britain, France,
Belgium, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Czecho-Slovakia,
Yugoslavia, Greece, Russia, China and other war - torn
countries.

Relief work of this character is supplemental to supplies
and services already extended by the government and which,
through operations of the office of foreign relief and re-
habilitation operations, will be extended on a steadily increas-
ing scale. It is likewise supplemental to work performed by
the American Red Cross. Continuation of such voluntary
relief work is essential not only as an expression of the
generous sympathies of the American people but also as a
distinctive service that quasi-public and voluntary agencies
can render to complement public resources and services.
There are many essential services which can be provided by
private agencies that can not be provided by the govern-
ment.

YOUR PAYMENTS TO THE 1942 ALLIED JEWISH CAMPAIGN AND 1943 WAR CHEST WILL HELP THE UNITED JEWISH APPEAL ANDOTHER
WAR - RELATED AGENCIES CARRY ON THE "MANY ESSENTIAL SERVICES • . . THAT CANNOT. BE PROVIDED BY THE GOVERNMENT'

Service to Jewry at Home and Overseas

Help for Refugees
Is Being Extended
On Many Fronts

Service on Many Fronts

WAR-TIME VOCATIONAL SERVICES

PALESTINE'S POPULATION

More than 300,000 Jews now in Pales-
The Jewish Vocational Service, through
individual and group counselling, has a tine entered the country after 1933, when
five-point war-time program.
Hitler came to power. After the first
1. It helps students arrange their world war there were 56,000 Jews in
courses to their abilities and prepare Palestine. Now there are some 580,000
themselves for present and future op- in the country.
portunities.
J. D. C. FACTS AND FIGURES
2. Men of Draft Age are directed to
The most outstanding factor which
help themselves and the armed services
by determining their potentialities and emerges from a review of J. D. C. work
referring them to proper training so in 1942 is not only that it continued to
they can find their best place in the operate, despite war conditions, but that
its appropriations were larger than in
"services."
1941 and that, despite the fact that it
3. Employed Men and Women are as- worked in fewer areas, it was still unable
sisted in finding out what war jobs they to meet critical needs in any adequate
are best able to do and where to train measure.
for them at once. Counselling attempts
On the basis of reports received from
to ease and make possible the transfer
o findividuals from non-essential to war the local committees through which the
J. D. C. works in most areas, a total.num-
work. .
4. Housewives are registered for war ber of 795,000 individuals received some
training courses and procure jobs for form of direct help through J. D. C. ex-
penditures.
them in war industry.
5. Workers In War Plants are aided in JEWISH WAR RECORDS
discovering their abilities in order to
The Jewish' Welfare Board Bureau of
train for and procure more highly skilled
War Records is collecting and officially
With the creation by the Jewish agency jobs.
verifying information on the nature and
for Palestine of a permanent immigra-
WAR CHEST NOTES ,
extent of Jewish participation in the war.
tion office in Teheran, capital of Persia,
The experience of War Chest cam- The Detroit Jewish Welfare Federation
facilities are thus made available for the
paigns in Kansas City, St. Louis and De-
care of the large number of Jewish ref- troit indicates that Jewish giving rose to has made a special grant of funds to the
ugees passing through the country from a new high. In St. Louis a group of con- Jewish Welfare Board to help finance
Russia on their way to Palestine. A rep- tributors who last year gave $633,450 to this project.
resentative of the Jewish Agency is also the Jewish Welfare Fund and Community PALESTINE WAR PRODUCTION
stationed in Constantinople, where he se-
Chest gave $724,944 or 114.4 per cent of . In 1939 Palestine produced $8,000,000
cured permission for transit through Tur-
the combined amount to the War Chest,
worth of military goods and in 1942 this
key of 50 children from Yugoslavia, 110
In Kansas City a group whose last year's production increased to $42,000,000.
from Rumania and 110 from Hungary.
combined gifts to the Jewish Welfare Through funds received- from the United
Mr. Moshe Shertok, Chief of the Po-
Fund and Community Chest amounted Palestine Appeal the Jewish Agency has
litical Department of the Jewish Agency
to $193,000, gave to the War Chest $230,- been able to underwrite and finance a
for Palestine, is now in London negotiat-
ing with an on behalf of various Jewish 794 or 119.1% of their combined gifts. great part of the industrial development
In Detroit a sample group of $250 and of Palestine.
and non-Jewish bodies throughout the
world to promote a large migration of over givers to the 1942 Allied Jewish MIDDLE EAST GRANARY
Campaign Whose combined gifts to the
refugees, patricularly children, to Pales-
Allied Jewish Campaign and Community
In three years of war, Keren Hayesod,
tine.
Fund totaled $630,812 gave to the War with U.P.A. funds, spent $4,000,000 on ag-
REFUGEES IN SERVICE
Chest $720,624 or 114.2 per cent of their riculture. Typical results: Jewish farms
Refugee's who once benefitted
the combined last year's' contribution.
produced 22,300,000 litres of milk in 1942
National Refugee Service are now serv- BOOKS FOR SOLDIERS
compared with 16,300,000 in 1939; 19,000
ing in the country's armed forces. Some
The Jewish Welfare Board has dis- tons of vegetables and potatoes as against
already have given their lives in defense tributed more than 200,000 copies of 10,000; and 950 tons of apples against 107.
of their new homel'nd. Others are aid- various publications to servicemen in all
During the three years of war, Jewish
ing in the war effort as essential civilians. parts of the United States and overseas.
Agency stood back of hard-hit citrus in-

In the three and a half years of its
existence the National Refugee Service
provided direct cash relief to a total of
32,000 individuals. One refugee out of
every five, who came to the United States
since 1938, was provided material assist-
ance by the N. R. S. The agency spent
approximately $7,200,000 for relief and
service during its existence . . . At its
high point, in June 1940, the N. R. S.
of December, 1941, the number decreased
relief load represented 8,000 persons. As
to 5,335 and by December, 1942, the relief
load was reduced to 3,700 persons . . .
From June, 1939, through November,
N.R.S. made 19,900 job placements. It
made 5,700 placements of professionals,
rabbis, musicians and physicians. Some
4,400 loans were extended to help ref-
ugees establish themselves in business or
professions. Some 2,000 refugees have
been retrained in new occupations.
Through the resettlement program 14,200
persons have been helped to move from
port cities to inland communities.
PREPARES FOR HOMELESS

'In Joy or Sorrow,
Federation Needs
Your Assistance

In times of joy and in times of sorrow,
remember the agencies of the Federation.
Of all the worthy causes that exist in
this world, none touches our common
humanity as deeply as does the plight of
the poverty-stricken . . . of dependent
and neglected children who have become
destitute . . . of the poor who need mat-
erial aid, service and medical care .
of the aged .. . of the people of despair
and hopelessness.

To console the bereaved and to pay
tribute to the departed memorial contri-
butions to the Jewish Welfare Federation
and its agencies are in keeping with Jew-
ish tradition.

Commemorate the Yahrzeit of a rela-
tive, a dear friend, a loved one, by con-
tributing to the Special Occasion Fund
of the Federation.

Honor the confirniand, mark a happy
anniversary, share the birthday of those
you love livith others less fortunate.

Special occasions may thus be 'signal-
ized by sending your contributions to the
Jewish Welfare Federation, 51 W. Warren
Ave., or any of its agencies.

Notification is issued immediately to the
persons so honored, or to the bereaved
family of the departed so remembered,
and proper acknowledgment is made to
the donor.

Your gift will be applied as you may
suggest—for child care, vacations, schol-
arships, medical aid, relief, refugee work
—or any other of the manifold activities
conducted under Federation auspices.

dustry, vital Jewish economic artery, and
contributed credits of 80,000 pounds to
increase agricultural output and help
growers suffering from lack of shipping
facilities. With Kenn Hayesod funds,
Jewish Agency also organized a new
home industry for pressing essential oils
from the fruit. In 1942, the value of such
oil production amounted to 780,000

pounds.,

