Joseph C. Hyman Addresses
Community Forum Monday

Executive Vice-President of Joint Distribution Committee
to Lecture on 'An American Jew Looks at Europe,'
at the Center

Detroit's Forum of Jewish Affairs, sponsored by the
Jewish Community Center and the Jewish Welfare Federation
and its affiliated agencies, will present the second lecture in
the series on "The American Jew Looks at the World of
• Today and Tomorrow," Monday, April 12, at 8:30 P. M., at
the Jewish Community Center.

The address will be delivered
by Joseph C. Hyman, executive
vice-president of the Joint Dis-
tribution Committee, who will
speak on the subject "An Ameri-
can Jew Looks at Europe." The
JDC is a constituent agency of
the United Jewish Appeal for
Refugees, Overseas needs and
Palestine and receives its support
in Detroit from the Allied Jewish
Campaign, through the War
Chest.
Educated at Columbia
Mr. Hyman is a member of the
executive committees of the Unit-
ed Jewish Appeal for Refugees
and Overseas needs and of the
National Refugee Service. He was
educated at Columbia University
where he received his A.B. and
M.A. degree. His law degree was
obtained at the New York Law
School.
In 1918 he became the first re-
presentative of the Jewish Wel-
fare Board at Camp Upton, which
had the largest number of Jewish
troops during the American war
mobilization. He subsequently be-
came supervisor of the JWB and
director of its field service.
In 1922 Mr. Hyman came to the
JDC as assistant to the chairman
of the Reconstruction Committee.
He was associated at that time
with Gov. Herbert H. Lehman,
committee chairman, in the di-
rection of the gigantic social re-
construction projects for the des-
: titute Jewish population in the
war-stricken area in Europe. In
1942 he became acting secretary
of the JDC, and a year later was
appointed secretary and execu-
tive president.
Develop Resources
In 1926 the Palestine Economic
Corp. was organized for the
development of Palestinian re-
sources. Bernard Flexner became
president of the organization, the
late LouiS Marshall, vice-presi-
dent, and Mr. Hyman became
secretary.
In 1928 Mr. Hyman became
secretary of the American So-
ciety for Jewish Farm Settle-
ment in Russia which raised $8,-
000,000 for reconstruction work
among the Jews of Russia begun
by the JDC and its affiliate, the
Agro-Joint. Mr. Hyman was as-
sociated with Dr. Joseph A. Ro-
sen, president of the Argo-Joint,
in concluding the agreement with
Russia whereby 250,000 Jews
have been enabled to settle on
3,000,000 acres of land in the
Ukraine and Crimea.

Aided Warburg
The following year, Mr. Hyman
as assistant to the chairman of
the administrative committee of
the Jewish Agency for Palestine,
became the aide of Felix M. War-
burg who was chairman of the
committee. Mr. Hyman continued
in this post until 1931. He still is
a member of the Council of the
Jewish Agency and a deputy
member of the administrative
committee.
In 1933, Mr. Hyman accom-
panied James G. McDonald to
Europe and advised him in the
organization of the High Com-

JOSEPH C. HYMAN

mission for German Refugees set
up by the League of Nations. He
represented the JDC at the con-
ference of constituents of the
High Commission in Lausanne.
Since the advent of Hitler, Mr.
Hyman has visited Germany and
the refugee countries to study
Jewish conditions.
Holds Other Offices
Other offices held by Mr. Hy-
man include that of secretary to
the trustees of the Agro-Joint;
secretary of the Loan Bank Ltd.
of Palestine, 1925-27; member of
the board of the Palestine Build-
ing and Loan Association; execu-
tive secretary of the United Jew-
ish Campaign, 1925-29; secretary
of the American trustees of the
American Joint Reconstruction
Foundation; secretary of the Pal-
estine Emergency Fund, 1929-33;
honorary secretary of the Allied
Jewish Campaign of 1930; hon-
orary secretary of the United
Jewish Appeal, 1934-35; member
of the board of the Jewish Big
Brothers Association, 1924-30;
former chairman of the Surprise
Lake Camp of the Y.M.T.A. and
the Jewish Educational Alliance,
and a member of a number of fra-
ternal orders.
Third Lecture
The third lecture will be de-
livered on Thursday evening,
April 22, by Dr. James G. Heller,
president of the Central Con-
ference of American Rabbis,
whose topic will be "The Amer-
ican Jew and Palestine."
On May 2, the series will close
with a symposium on "The Amer-
ican Jews and the Post-War
World." The participants will be
Dr. Jacob Robinson, director of
the Institute of Jewish Affairs of
the American Jewish Congress;
Charles B. Sherman, field direct-
or of the Jewish Labor Commit-
tee, and Dr. Max Gottschalk,
director of the Research Institute
of the American Jewish Commit-
tee.
All the programs in the Forum
of Jewish Affairs will take place
at the Jewish Community Center.

Youth Brotherhood

Rally This Sunday

Two Bnai Brith Spokesmen
to be Among Participants
at Art Institute

Well Describes Functions
Of Jewish Welfare Board

Relates Stirring and Fascinating Story of Work of JWB
Among Men in Service; Praises Cooperation
A youth Brotherhood rally is
Between USO and JWB

sponsored' by the Detroit Round
Table of Catholics, Jews and
Protestants, in the large audi-
torium of the Detroit Institute
of Arts, at 3 p. in. this Sunday.
Dr. Preston H. Slosson of the
University of Michigan will speak
on "Trends of These Times" and
a panel will be led by Claude
Eggerstson of the University of
Michigan on the subject "What
Today's Youth Expects of Tomor-
row's World."
Participants in the panel dis-
cussion will include Samuel
Schwartz of 2911 Tuxedo Ave.,
representative of A. Z. A. Bnai
Brith youth movement, and Doro-
thy Weber of 9737 McQuade, of
the Young Women of Bnai Brith.
It has also been announced that
Frances Koppelman, Dorothy
Cohen and Rosalind Wolson, rep-
resenting the Bnai Brith, will take
part in Sunday's program.
The other paticipants will be
Patricia Butler, Girl Reserves of
YWCA; Elizabeth Edmondson,
Urban League; Glenn Forhann,
Hi-Y; Mary K. Lesperance, Cath-
olic Youth Organization; A. T.
Liu, Chinese engineering student
at U. of M.; Michael O'Neil, U .of
D. student; Barbara Panzner,
Women's Auxiliary of C. I. 0.;
William Patrick, Urban League.
Joseph Q. Mayne, executive
secretary of the Detroit Round
Table, attended the Midwest In-
stitute of Human Relations in
Chicago, April 8.
On April 7; Rabbi Morris Adler
addressed a dinner meeting of
the Emanuel Episcopal Church in
behalf of the National Conference
of Christians and Jews.
The film, "The World We Want
to Live In," will be shown at
Wayne University student meet-
ings this Friday.

CENTER WAR BRIDES
TO HEAR OCD TALK
The Center War Brides group,
which meets Tuesday night, will
hear Miss Viola Josephine Kre-
ner, of the OCD, speak on vol-
unteering for civilian defense,
Tuesday. This group is open to
all young women whose hus-
bands are in the service, or who
are engaged to service Men.

A stirring and fascinating story of the work of the Jewish
Welfare Board among men in the armed forces was told on
Tuesday evening, at the opening lecture in the Forum of
Jewish Affairs, at the Jewish Community Center, by Frank
L. Weil, president of the National Jewish Welfare Board.
Mrs. Samuel R. Glogower, president of the Jewish Com-
munity Center, co-sponsor of the

lecture series with the Jewish
Welfare Federation, presided at
Tuesday's lecture, and the guest
speaker was introduced by Henry
Meyers, president of USO of
Metropolitan Detroit.
Addresses Luncheon
Mr. Weil also addressed a
luncheon meeting of the Detroit
Army and Navy Committee of
the Jewish Welfare Board, at
the Book Cadillac Hotel, on
Tuesday. Samuel Rubiner, chair-
man of the local Army and Navy
Committee, presided. Dr. B.
Benedict Glazer gave the tradi-
tional prayer at the luncheon.
In his description of the activi-
ties of the Jewish Welfare
Board's 389 centers throughout
the world, Mr. Weil told of the
organization's unifying influence
among all elements in American
Jewry.
Co-operation Cited
He pointed to the co-operation
given the JWB by 35 national
organizations, including the
civic-protective groups as well as
all the religious organizations.
He declared that the sympathetic
attitude of all elements has cre-
ated a common meeting ground
for American Jews during the
war through the Welfare Board.
Mr. Weil reported that at pres-
ent 129 Chaplains are serving in
this country and overseas, 10 in
the Navy. Of this number, 30 are
overseas, including one in Guad-
alcanal. He also reported that in
the past few days 28 additional
Jewish Chaplains have qualified
for service and an additional 21
Rabbis have been interviewed
for future enlistment for active
service as Chaplains.
Of particular interest is the re-
port submitted by Mr. Well re-
garding plans completed. to as-
sist servicemen in the observ-
ance of Passover. He stated that

113 tons of Matzos, 103,000 Hag-
gadahs and 10,000 gallons of sac-
ramental wine have been
shipped for use at servicemen's
Sedorim.
Cement Good Will •
Mr. Weil spoke in laudatory
terms of the co-operation be-
tween the USO and the JWB and
declared that it has proven of
greatest value in cementing good
will between Christians and
Jews.
At the luncheon meeting, Mr.
Weil pointed out that he was
speaking on the 26th anniversary
of his country's entrance of
World War I and that three days
hence—April 9—was to mark the
26th anniversary of the Jewish
Welfare Board which was
formed immediately after the
declaration of the war by this
country.
Mr. Weil also described the
work of the 330 Jewish Centers
throughout the country, and
their aggregate membership of
430,000, all forming a pattern for
Welfare Board work.
Praises Detroit Units
The Detroit USO and JWB
committee were praised by Mr.
Weil for their spirit of co-opera-
tion.
The luncheon audience was
taken on a tour of the world by
Mr. Weil who described JWB
activities in Cuba, Bermuda,
Palestine, England, Ireland, Ice-
land, Porto Rico, Virgin Islands,
Trinidad, Canada, North Africa
and many other world centers,
where Jews are serving with
American forces.
Mr. Weil's address served also
as an introduction to the entire
series in the Forum of Jewish
Affairs on the theme "The Amer-
ican Jew Looks at the World of
Today and Tomorrow."

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