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THE JEWISH NEWS

Friday, February 5, 1943

What's Happening in Detroit

EN YEARS after Adolf Hitler's rapid rise to
power over a great portion of the world, we are
now witnesses to his rapid decline in power. The fact
that this sad anniversary corresponds with the similar
anniversary of President Roosevelt's assumption of the
office of our Chief Executive is, of course, significent.
The cure to the world's worst evil was granted to man-
kind at the same time that the evil was imposed upon
us.
It has fallen to the lot of the American people to
save the world from the scourge of Hitlerism, and the
Jews of this country rejoice that they are privileged to
have a great share in the destruction of the Nazi
menace.

Quoting a Roosevelt Story

An interesting story, for which we are indebted to
the Milwaukee Journal, is worth quoting at this time.
"The name of Roosevelt has long brought
thoughts to the minds of veteran Wall Streeters.
Trust busting Theodore Roosevelt was no more
popular with members of the exchange than is
FDR today.
"When "Teddy," rifle on shoulder, left for the
African jungles in 1909 to hunt big game the fi-
nancial crowd did not let his departure go unno-
ticed. On every wall of the exchange huge signs
were posted. They read:
"Wall Street expects every lion to do his duty."
Nov, the cry is for every person to put shoulder to
wheel and help win the war. This call is America's
birthday gift to FDR.

Gather War Records of U. S. Jews

At the request of 35 of the leading national Jewish
Am. organizations, the only official and authentic record of
the part now being played by American Jews in the
present global war is being assembled by the National
Jewish Welfare Board.
The compilation of this record is under the guidance
of Dr. Louis I. Dublin, chairman of the Technical and
Advisory Committees of the Board's Bureau of War
Records of which Dr. S. C. Kohs is director.
The Bureau stimulates local communities to main-
tain "Honor Rolls" of their own men who have gone
into the service and helps them to organize local Com-
mittees on War Records, furnishing sample record cards
and report forms for their use. It obtains, checks and
authenticates all reports of heroism, outstanding pro-
motions and casualties.
Contact has already been made with more than 3,000
communities in this country as the groundwork for
complete coverage. Local surveys must be made under
the direction of technically qualified personnel, Dr.
Dublin `cautioned, since "experience has indicated the
dangers of any other procedure.
Before publication can be authorized, the methods
used in every local study should be reviewed by the
Technical Committee. It is of the greatest importance
that no statistics be given out by local groups without
such safeguards."
In all its work, the War Records Bureau conforms
to military regulations and to the requirements of safe-
guarding military information. It does not compile lists
containing military addresses of men in the service and
requests all local committees to adhere to the same
policy.
The Bureau of War Records of the National Jewish
Welfare Board serves the entire Jewish community—
nationally, regionally and locally.
In Detroit, the Army and Navy Committee of the
Jewish Welfare Board, the Jewish Community Center,
the Jewish Welfare Federation of Detroit and The
Jewish News are cooperating in assembling the neces-
sary material for the war record of our Jews in the
service of the U. S. armed forces.

Jewish National Fund Activities

William Hordes, president of the Jewish National
Fund Council of Detroit, this week announced the ap-
pointment of Mrs. Nathan Linden as chairman of the
tree-planting committee.
Mrs. Linden, who resides at 2097 Oakman Blvd., TO.
7-8624, will accept orders for trees in the J. H. Ehrlich
Memorial Forest, the Fred M. Butzel Forest and other
forests being planted in Palestine on soil of the Jewish
National Fund.
Mr. Hordes also announced that Branch 3 of the
Poale Zion presented a Golden Book certificate to Mr.
and Mrs. Benjamin Laikin in honor of the engagement
of their daughter, Pnina, to Stanley Harold Wilkins, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Isadore Wilkins of Mt. Airy, Md. On
the occasion of this event, Mrs. Laiken redeemed four
dunams of land in Palestine.
In honor of the safe return to this country of Presi-
dent Roosevelt, Mrs. David Fauman planted trees in the
Sarah Delano Rosevelt Grove of the Jewish National
Fund in Palestine.

Coming Events

Feb. 7—Opening of Torah Month at Yeshivath
Beth Yehudah, at 3 P. M., at the Yeshivah, Dexter
and Cortland. Address by Rabbi David Lifshitz of
Chicago Theologioal College.
Feb. 8—Meeting of League of Jewish Women's
Organizations in Brown Memorial Chapel of Tem-
ple Beth El. Speaker, Prof. Francis A. Arlinghaus
of University of Detroit.
Feb. 10—Tea of Women's Division of American
Jewish Congress.
Feb. 15—Address by Dr. Edgar de Witt Jones
on "Washington and Lincoln" at meeting of Pisgah
Lodge.
Feb. 16—Inter-Faith Concert of Detroit's Round
Table of Catholics, Jews and Protestants, at De-
troit Institute of Arts.
Feb. 17—Women's League for Sabbath Observance
round table discussion at Shaarey Zedek. Speakers:
Rabbis Morris Adler, J. S. Sperka and Leizer Levin,
Mrs. M. J. Wohlgelernter, Irving Schlussel.
March 7—Torah Month banquet at Jewish Cen-
ter, marking first anniversary of Yeshivath Beth
Yehudah. Speaker, Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein of
New York.

Plan Ambitious Education Program .

An ambitious educational program is planned by the
adult education committee of the JeWish Community
Center.
This committee, of which Rabbi Leon Fram is chair-
man, is planning a series of lectures to deal with the
European Scene, reconstruction of Palestine, the local
community scene, the work of the civic-protective
agencies, The Jewish Welfare Board's Army and Navy
Committee, and problems of Jewish education.
Arrangements are being made to bring to Detroit
outstanding authorities on these questions to lead in
public discussions and to address large rallies.
National Jewish organizations are cooperating in
making arrangements for these lectures.

Pioneer Women Rush Aid to Palestine

The Pioneer Women's Organization cabled $5,000 to
Palestine in response to a cable received from the
Moatzoth-Hapolaloth (Working Women's Council in
Palestine) for immediate funds to be used for the ad-
justment of its institutions so that they can receive the
Jewish children now in Teheran awaiting transfer to
Palestine.
The cable read, "All our institutions are ready to re-
ceive women, youth and children refugees. Urge all
members and friends to help us save the children and
youth who may still be saved from the clutches of the
Nazis."
The Pioneer Women's Organization in Detroit
pledged full-hearted support in this emergency effort.
The Pioneer Women's Council is calling a general
meeting for next Monday evening at the Rose-Sittig
Cohn Bldg., Lawton and Tyler. Reports of the last
donor event will be presented and future activities of
the clubs will be discussed. A musical program and so-
cial hour will follow. All the clubs are working for the
forthcoming bazaar of the Farband Folk Schools and
each group is arranging to have a shower for this
bazaar.

Dr. Kliger's Work Praised by Dr. Pino

The work of Dr. David Kliger as co-ordinator of the
Wayne County Medical Co-ordinator system since its
inception five years ago, this week was praised in the -
Editor's Page of the Detroit Medical News. The article
was written by Dr. Ralph H. Pino, M.D., editor-in-chief
of the weekly magazine.
The article told how the medical profession of Wayne
County, feeling that the management of the Crippled
and Afflicted Acts were not functioning to the children's
nor the taxpayers' best interests, launched a campaign
to remedy the situation in cooperation Judge D. J.
Healy Jr., Juvenile Court; George T. Gundry, then
Auditor General of the State, and later Auditor General
Vernon J. Brown. Doctor Kliger was appointed co-
ordinator.
Under the efforts of Doctor Kliger and the Wayne
County Medical Society, specialists were called in to
serve without charge to determine the need and urgency
for care of every questionable case. Unnecessary days
in the hospital were eliminated, thousands of dollars
were saved which in turn were used to make it possible
for more children to be treated.
Today the Wayne County Coordinator System is used
throughout the state.

Hadassah Division to See Movies

"Health for Victory," Hadassah's film depicting
Palestinian activities, will be shown at the next meet-
ing of the Business and Professional Division on Tues-
day evening, at Hotel Statler. Other timely movies will
be shown.
Reports from American soldiers in Palestine com-
menting on the excellent treatment accorded them at
the Hadassah Rothschild Hospital in Palestine have
been received by friends here and have been an inspi-
ration to Hadassah members.
The Business and Professional Division is continu-
ing its "Honor Roll" as means of fund-raising for Pales-
tinian projects. The Honor Roll project will end with a
victory luncheon Sunday, Feb. 21, at Hotel Statler. Miss
Rebecca Ehrinpreis, 1507 Burlingame Ave., TO. 5-1188,
vice-chairman of the division and chairman of this
project, will be happy to give further details.
Membership in the division is open to business and
professional women of all ages.

$50,000 Sent to Palestine Histodrut

FEBRUARY

Has Been Designated

4

WAR BOND MONTH

of the

Zionist Organization
of America

Detroit Jews are urged to buy
War Bonds this month Through
the Zionist Organization of De-
troit. Call Abraham Cooper,
president of the Detroit organiza-
tion, to credit your investment
for speedy victory to the Zionists
of America.

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Decline in Hebrew Education Cited

Readers of The Jewish News will recall an editorial
in one of our recent issues in which the editor discussed
charges made by two educators that Jewish educational
institutions in this country are falling under the influ-
ence of assimilationists.
The Hebrew P.E.N. Club, before whom the charges
were made, this week issued a statement amplifying
these charges. The statement was signed by Zalman
Schneour, Dr. Israel Efros, Shlomo Hillels, 1VIenachem
G. Glenn, Prof. Hillel Bavli, Dr. Nisan Touroff, Dr.
Aaron Domnitz, Simon Halkin, 7fraim E. Lisitzky, Dr.
Israel Shapiro and Dr. Isaac Silberschlag. It reads:
"1. The last few years witnessed a marked decline
in Jewish education in America. One of the causes of
this decline, in our opinion, is the weakening of the
Hebrew spirit among many of our educators who mold
the character of our Hebrew schools. Views that be-
little the Zionist ideal and the importance of the He-
brew language as one of the fundamentals of Jewish
education have become popular among some directors
of JewiSh education, identified with the cause of He-
brais nationalism.
"These views, which strike at the very heart of our
Education," a quarterly published by the National
Council for Jewish Education in America. The Hebrew
P.E.N. Club therefore felt duty-bound to make the
Jewish community aware of the danger facing Jewish
education should these destructive views gain wide ad-
herence.
"The Hebrew P.E.N. Club therefore invited two of
its colleagues, Mr. Moses Feinstein and Prof. Zvi
Scharfstein, both Hebrew writers and educators of long
standing, both experts in the problems of Jewish edu-
cation, to address one of the sessions of the conference
on the "State of Jewish Education in America." The
Hebrew P.E.N. Club expresses its utmost confidence in
the sense of responsibility of these two colleagues.
"2. The criticism uttered in the lectures of these two
colleagues was based on ideological differences and was
not directed against all Jewish educators, lay leaders
and contributors who are associated with the various
Bureaus of Jewish Education, many of whom, we
know, are sincere lovers of Hebrew and are devoted
wholeheartedly to our national ideals and aspirations."

Of interest to Jewish organizations of Detroit who
are now engaged in the drive to raise $50,000 for the
Gewerkshaften—the National Labor Committee for
Palestine—is the information that $50,000 was cabled
this week to the Palestine Histadrut by the national
committee to help absorb thousands of refugees in the
labor ranks in Eretz Israel.
The cabling of the $50,000 was in response to a call
from the Histadrut executive in Tel Aviv, stating that
2,100 newcomers have been taken care of in recent
months, many of them from Libya and Poland. The
latter came after long wandering through the Soviet
Union and Iran, while many had pass through Bag-
dad to reach Palestine.
The cable from Palestine, signed by David Remez,
indicated that 300 refugees and those released by the
British from the Atlith detention camp after illegal
entry into Palestine, have enlisted in the Jewish units
of the British army.

A Miscellany of Local Activities

Abraham Srere, president of the Jewish Welfare
Federation of Detroit, received the congratulations of
scores of fellow-workers in community causes on Mon-
day on his 53rd birthday.
Among the organizations that planted trees in Jew-
ish National Fund Forests in Palestine in honor of Mr.
and Mrs. Hyman Altman was the Moishe Leber Family
Club.
Carmel Hebrew School and its Young Judaea group,
which are directed by I. A. Lawton, celebrated ?lanai-
sha Asar b'Shevat by planting 22 trees in Palestine
and redeeming a dunam of land through the Jewish
National Fund. The trees were planted in honor of
American war heroes and in honor and memory of
friends of pupils of the schools.
Detroiters were pleased to learn that the commander
of the Army induction station at 2985 E. Jefferson Ave.,
Joseph L. Bachus, had been promoted to the full rank
of Colonel. As a mark of esteem in which he is held,
Col. Bachus was presented with a pair of silver eagles
by his associates.

Twenty Years Ago This Week

- Compiled From the Records of the
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

MUNICH—Adolf Hitler, the Bavarian Fascist
leader, in addresses before meetings of his followers
threatened that unless "England and America in-
tervene to halt France's occupation of the Ruhr,
the presence of Englishmen and Americans w ill not
be tolerated in Bavaria." He also attacked the Jews,
warning that no Jew will ever be "permitted to
touch the banner of National Socialism." Following
one of the meetings, a band of Hitler terrorists in-
vaded the Regina Hotel here seeking Jews. Liberal
papers charge that the Reichswehr is supporting
Hitler's forces. Chancellor Cuno of Bavaria has also
been accused of favoring the National Socialists,
having ordered the release of 300 Hitlerites taken
into custody for committing violence.

WASHINGTON—Secretary of State Charles
Evan Hughes today reiterated that the. American
consul in Warsaw has been instructed to continue
issuing visas despite the current controversy be-
tween American steamship lines and the Polish
authorities.

LONDON—The fact that Jews have been living
in India for 2,000 years and have never suffered
discrimination or persecution was stressed by Khan
Sahib, president of the All-India Israelite League
addressing its fifth annual conference at Poona,
according to reports reaching here.

LONDON—Dr. Chaim Weizmann, president of
the World Zionist Organization, is leaving for
America on Feb. 28 to participate in the Keren
Hayesod campaign there.