A Civilian in an Army Camp

Hadassah Marks
31st Anniversary

Rabbi Adler Tells of Spending Week

Among the Soldiers, Talking to Them

J.D.C.-Aided Refugees Mark
Release From Cuban Detainment

Sends Second $100,000
For Palestine Work

By RABBI MORRIS ADLER

the things they are compelled to
do on the Sabbath and the foods
NEW YORK—To mark its 31st
I was privileged to spend a that they must eat.
anniversary Hadassah, the Worn-
week in one of the great military
More Flexible
camps of America at the invita-
en's Zionist Organization of Am-
I pointed out that tradition erica, on March 17, cabled $100,-
tion of the National Conference
of Christians and Jews. I was a takes into serious account such
member of a trio consisting of a emergencies and extraordinary 000 to Palestine to help continue
Catholic professor of philosophy situations as war and is consid- a program of education and
and Protestant minister. We erably more flexible in such a maintenance for more than 1,000
spoke at five to eight meetings time. It was my desire to free Polish and Hungarian Jewish
daily to thousands of men, them from any oppressive con- refugee children who entered
reaching in the course of 26 sciousness of sin and yet not en- the Holy Land within the last
meetings every man on the post. courage them to accept in a month.
Our subject was "America's sanguine and easy manner the
More than 600 ch.apters of Ha-
World Task." We felt that it was complete breakdown of Jewish dassah haVe been -asked to
law.
important to discuss the place of
launch a ,nationwide war _bond
I urged the boys to deny campaign in 41 states :to.: pur-
America not alone in the war
but in the reconstruction of the themselves some particular type chase a fleet of bomberS, which
of food, and on Sabbath to re- will be known as the "Hadassah
world after the war.
frain from some activity not, re- Air_ Armada," according to Mrs._
Requisite for Victory
The physical health, the mill, quired by their superior officers, Nathan ,D. Per Linan, American.
tary training and fitness of the and thus symbolize their accept- affairs chairman.: of the . group:.
young men in our armed forces ance of the traditional regiment The campaign :opened : -officially
on March 21 as part of a cothitry : . :Refugees formerly: detined in Tiscornia, the Cuban Ellis Island,
are requisite for victory. The and discipline.
d there with= a" dinner at
wide celebration .marking;- 1-Ia-' celebrate the release of the last five persons hel
thoughts, the feelings and the at-
Havana's Hotel Presidente. One of their•number isshown bere-present. • ,-
dasSah's anniversary
titudes of these same soldiers
• ing Dr. Alejandre .Vergara Leonard, the Cuban. Director - of •Immigra--
will determine the nature of the
Lion, with a leather-boynd volume containing the. signatures of all.. the
peace to follow.
former Tiscornia.residents :as a; token of their esteem for his efforts ire.
Jew
ets
Important
their behalf. To the left of •Dr. Vergara is Charles H.' Jordan, 'Director.
We spoke Of the greater ob-
of the..Joint Relief Committee of Havana, - the J. D. C.'S cooperating
jectives beyond the defeat of the
Red Cross Position
. body in Cuba. The immigration. detentiOn camp is now empty. The
enemy which -grow out of the ' National Institution to Train
. •
J. D. C., as part of its extensive progrant of aid to refugees in Central
very essence of the American
WASHINGTON; D, , C.-From and South America, was instrumental in securing the -release of many
High School Students As
spirit and way of life. We spoke,
far-Off ,Nome, AlaSkat Opines the of the 448 detained there for nearly a year. It also supplied the refugees
Farm Helpers
too, of the pattern of national
story of . how "ont of th'in.air7. sa with supplementary food and other comforts as well as the. necessary
unity which we must develop on
resOurcefill Jew serving as .a Red maintenance fees.
A
platoon
of
expertly
trained
every front-a unity uncoerced
CrOSs' field director created • an
and uncompelled—yet the invin- young men rushed to reinforce extensive 'recreational .prograin -
the
ranks
of
the
nation's
hard-
cible unity of a free and indi-
hit agricultural industry when for`AMerican troops in the frozen :
visible people.
they were graduated Sun., March wastesand 'earn a major Promo-
National Destiny
Every time you 6uy a War Bond yOu are— "pass:
21, from the National Farm tion.
America belieVes . that our- , `School; Bucks Colinty, 'Pa; twen-
When, in June, 1942, Morris
ing the ammunition". to some American boy,
.
many • differences can be en- ty-seven members
of the, senior Gross, - 39, of Oak/and, Calif.,
who, shoulder to shoulder with other boys of
girdled , with an unbreakable
class received their diplomas arrived in Nome, he found
good-will, are fighting to make this a- • better'
chain of a common national des-, after 'having .completed intensive "plenty of nothing." With his
world. -
tiny and purpose. . --
three-year courses, at the exer- own hands he built a physical
More eloquent than _the words
plant, and developed a program
,1111uy:31
.
spoken was the symbol created cises .whose theme was "Food which today requires a club di-
will
win
the
war
and
write
the
by the presence on the same peace."
rector, an assistant, two recrea-,
platform of three men represent-
Dr. John - A. Lester, of Doyles- tional workers, a hospital worker
ing the major faiths of the land.
and a secretary. The Red Cross
Their presence testified to the town, Pa., executive secretary of has promoted him to training
underlying community of Amer- the Friends Council on Education, supervisor of the Red Cross field
Plastic Products
ican interest and will,. The tech- was the principal speaker at the staff for the Northwest with
nique. of preSeriting triad of exercises which were held in the headquarters at Fort Lewis,
243 W. Congress
speakers of various faiths is not Louchheim Auditorium and at- Wash. ,.
tended by hundreds of neighbor-
novel.
Speaking in the Army camp, ing townspeople.
Dr. Harold
• Allen, president,
however, my . colleague and I
enjoyed two important advan- emphasized that Farm School
tages. First, we reached the students make their contribution
whole population of the post. To to the - hatiori's food supply even
civilian meetings dedicated to while training. "Last year," he
good will there- come usually said, "students at The National
people who are sympathetic to Farm School produced on our
the purposes of the meeting. 1000 acres, 800,000 pounds of
People . of : deep-seated. prejudices milk, over 600,000 eggs, 8,000
are not. generally to be found in pounds of butter, 10,000 bushels
attendance. In the Army we of potatoes and 4,000 bushels of
reached all.
apples."
The .National Farm and Home
Lived in BarraCks
We lived the whole week in Hour of the Blue Network re-
the barraCks. We mingled with cently awarded a "Certificate of
Founded
the men and met literally hun- Merit" to the Farm School in
dreds of soldiers every everririg recognition of its outsanding pro-
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in seminars and personal confer-, duction. :
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flairSter2f/ifistior2
Dr. Allen announced - that the
ences. We alSo had a number Of
meetings with the 14 chaplains School would be host to 100 high
of the various faiths who are 'school: boys from Philadelphia
during the coming-Easter vaca-
stationed there.
I was interested' in the Jewish iion.:for intensive training as farm
boys and their adjustMent to helpers so they may spend their
Army life. I spoke to great summer Vacations., working on the
numbers- of them: each evening. land: The boys will also be given
Some 'of them are troubled by a short course in .the care of
the conflict betWeen military Victory Gardens.
A new term begins at Farm
exigencies and the 'traditional
observanceS Which they were ac. :- School on March 31 and boys of
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School 'is supported largely by
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WAY.
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from the National- Farm School,
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