Friday, October 22, 1943
THE JEWISH NEWS
Organizations Inaugurate
Campaign for War Chest
Soloists Named
For Center's
Opening Concert
Page Five '
Metropolitan Unit Prepares
To Launch War Chest Drive
Higher Standards of Giving Forecast for 1944 as Spokes-
Czech Musk to be Featured
men for Leading Societies Meet to Plan
- in Program Tuesday;
Gifts Soliciations
Tickets Available
Having set a remarkable standard for giving in the 1943
War Chest campaign, Jewish organizations of Detroit last
Julius Chajes, - director of mu-
Sunday provided assurances that new and even higher stand- sic at the Jewish Community
Center, will conduct the Center
ards of giving are planned for the 1944 War Chest.
Meeting at the Jewish Home for Aged, under the chair- Symphony Orchestra in the first
manship of Fred M. Butzel, vice-chairman of the 1944 War of a series of concerts at the
Army of 12,500 Volunteers Set to Undertake. Task
Tuesday eve-
ning.
The orchestra
consists of peo-
ple of all ages
between 10 and
50. Dr. Aaron
Farbman, s u r-
geon, is concert-
master, and Dr
Julius Chajes Sam Lewis, or
thodentist, plays first Oboe.
The entire program will be de-
voted to Czechoslovakian music,
in commemoration of Czechoslo-
vak Independence Day.
Emily Mutter Adams, young
violinist, member of the Detroit
Symphony Orchestra, will open
the program with Dvorak's Sona-
tina in G-major, Slavonic Dance
in E-minor, and Victor Kolar's
Humoresque. Margaret Manne-
bach, distinguished pianist, will
be the accompanist.
Other soloists will be Doris
Bull, contralto, who has sung
leading roles with the Michigan
Opera Co. and with the "Will-0-
Way Playhouse," B 1 o o m f i e ld
Hills. Accompanied at the piano
by Mrs. Sol Q. Kesler, Miss Bull
has chosen the following pro-
gram: "Song my mother taught
me", "Goin' home" from the
"New World Symphony" by
Dvorak and- Consolation from
"Songs of an Exile" by Vaclav
Divina, Czech composer living in
this country.
The Center Symphony Orches-
tra will close- the program with
"Three Dances" from Smetana's
"Bartered Bride."
Rudolph Her ma n, former
Czechoslovakian Consul to the
Philippines and Tokio, and. Mrs.
Samuel R. Glogower, president
of the Jewish Community Cen-
ter, will deliver greetings.
Mrs. Abraham Cooper is chair-
man of the Center's music com-
mittee.
Free tickets may be obtained
at the Center office prior to the
day of the concert.
Mrs. Hyman C. Broder, vice-€,
chairman of the Metropolitan Greenstone, A. Goldman, Sidney
Unit, announced that the organi-
J. Imerman, Benjamin Jackson,
zation of her districts is being
Harry L. Jackson, Ben Jacob,
completed. Mrs. Broder said that
Henry Jassy, William Joelson,
the Women's Special Assignments
Committee, under the co-chair- Harry Jones, Maxwell Jospey,
manship of Mrs. Benjamin E. Reuben R. Kallman, Aaron Kur-
land, Myron A. Keys, Charles
Jaffe and Mrs. Carl Schiller, has
completed its work of distribut- Laoff, Walter Laib, Theodore
ing prospect slips and workers' Levin.
Others Selected
kits.
Mesdames Robert Lewiston,
Workers Named
The workers in the Special As- Milton M. Maddin, Felix J. Mah-
signments Committee are: Mes- ler, Alfred Meyers, Henry Mey-
dames Milton M. Alexander, Ed- ers, Sol F. Meyers, Sidney B.
ward Atlas, Herman August, Morris, Harry Newman., Leo
Jack Berger, Meyer B. Berkman, Orecklin, Edward D. Quint, Her-
Peter M. Bernstein, David Block, man Pekarsky, Oscar Robinson,
Louis M. Bloomberg, Perry P. Louis J. Rosenberg, Samuel Roth-
Burnstine, Douglas I. Brown, stein, Joseph P. Sandler, Ralph
D. Schiller, Lawrence F. Segar,
Martin L. Butzel.
Samuel Silver, Hyman C.
Mesdames Lewis H. Carlson,
Schlafer, Gerald Spero, Emil T.
Maurice Cohen, David S. Dia-
Stern, Jack Tarnoff, Ellis Thal,
mond, Louis M. Eaton, Joseph
Leonard Weiner, Melville S. Welt,
Falk, Ellis Fisher, Lewis C.
Milton A. Winston, Maurice H.
Frank, John Frazer, Max Frank, Zackheim, Julian Zemon and
Harry Galperin, Tobias Garon, S.
Miss Edith S. Heavenrich.
Gerald Girard, David Goldberg,
The special assignments corn-
Harry Goldberg; Meyer Gold-
stein, Alex Gordon, Hyman -B. mittee secretaries are: Mesdames
Gittleman, William Grahm.
Sam Bernstein, S. Gerald Gir-
Mesdames Samuel J. Green- ard, Harry Jones, James L. Stein
berg, Jerry J. Greenblatt, Abe and Grover C. Wolf.
Chest campaign, spokesmen for e
Detroit's leading organizations
last Sunday morning officially
opened the drive for treasury
gifts.
Organizations Commended
In addition to Mr. Butzel, ad-
The War Chest campaign
dresses were delivered by Gor-
office will be opened official-
don Kingsbury, chairman of the
ly on Monday in the English
War Chest Treasury Gifts Divi-
Room of the Book Cadillac
sion; Rabbi Morris Adler, Joseph
Hotel, it was announced this
Bernstein, Abraham Lachover,
week.
Aaron Rosenberg and Gerson
Special provisions will be
Chertoff.
made for Allied Jewish Cam-
Mr. Butzel commended the or-
paign workers to submit their
ganizations for their liberal con-
reports to their captains in
tributions to the War Chest and
one of the War Chest offices
expressed confidence that last
at the Book Cadillac.
year's giving will be exceeded
this year.
emphasized that treasury gifts
Describe Drive's Objective
of
organizations have nothing to
The chief objective of the
drive were described by Mr. do with individual gifts of mem-
bers and h
_ e urged that individ-
Kigsbury.
f Rabbi Adler reviewed the Jew- uals give as much as possible
I ish position in the world today irrespective of the contributions
and spoke of the importance of of their societies.
All organizations should be
the War Chest as the agency that
1 coordinates all overseas relief ef- prepared to announce their gifts
forts. He pointed out that three •by Nov. 5, Mr. Lachover urged.
;fronts are involved in the drive:
Mr. Chertoff described the ma-
The European, Palestine and the chinery of the War Chest cam-
American home front.
paign, to be conducted from Nov.
"Unless our community is 1 to 16, for a quota of $8,250,000.
strong and self-conscious," he de- He called upon organizations to
clared, "to live Jewishly and to take their subscription slips at
create Jewishly, our ability to that meeting.
help our brethren will not in-
To Reconvene Oct. 31
crease but will diminish."
Announcement was made by
Praises Modern Maccabeans
Mr. Butzel that spokesmen for
Declaring that through the organizations will con v ene again
War-, Chest "we are called upon at the Home for Aged on Sunday
to participate in a great war morning, Oct. 31, to announce the
against misery," Mr. Bernstein result of their solicitations on
pointed out that the Chest is a the eve of the opening of the
weapon for relief of the suffer- campaign.
ers of all nations engaged to save
Treasury gifts solicitations for
the democratic form of govern- the War Chest are being con-
rnent.
ducted by the organizational ad-
Pointing out that the Jewish visory committee of the Allied
people had many martyrs, Mr. Jewish Campaign, under the co-
Bernstein said that few were like chairmanship of Rabbi Morris
the Maccabeans who fought back. Adler, Joseph Bernstein, James
"But we just had such Macca- I. Ellmann, and Abraham J. Lach-
beans in the Warsaw Ghetto, and over. Gerson Chertoff and Aaron
we must uphold the hands of Rosenberg are secretaries of the
those who fight Nazism heroic- committee.
ally," he declared.
The 55 causes included in the
Mr. Rosenberg spoke of the
efforts of the Russian War Re- Allied Jewish Campaign will
lief which is included in the War again receive their subsidies from
Chest.
the War Chest, Overseas, Na-
Urges Individual Giving
tional and local agencies are in-
Mr. Lachover urged that or- cluded in. the fund.
ganizations invite the coopera-
tion of the War Chest speakers'
bureau to assist them in securing
the largest possible pledges. He
War Chest Office
To Open Monday
Buy War Bonds
of Soliciting House-to-House Canvass; Women's
Special Assignments Group Named
.
The Metropolitan Unit of the War Chest is now complet-
ing its campaign organization and is getting ready for the
house-to-house, block-by-block canvass of all the homes in
the city, according to announcement by Mrs. Hobart A. Hoyt,
chairman of the Metropolitan Unit. An army of 12,500 vol-
Center next unteers, men and women, will undertake this gigantic task,
GLEN
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IN THE SCOTCH MANNER
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List, Noted Opera Star,
Sings at Center, Dec. 19
Emanuel List, Basso of the N.
Y. Metropolitan Opera Co., will
give a recital at the Jewish
Community Center on Sunday,
Dec. 19, according to an an-
nouncement by Mrs. Abraham
Cooper, chairman of the Center's
music department.
Representatives of Jewish Groups
Who Attended War Chest Conference
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This photograph shows a group of men and women who were among the nearly 200 rep-
resentatives of local organizations who particip ated in the conference on• Sunday morning, to
mark the opening of the Treasury Gifts campaign for the 1944 War Chest.
Front row, seated, left to right: MRS. M. MEERSON, Yakov Shaefer Reading Circle; MRS.
HENRY FREUND, Eva Prenzlauer Maternity Aid; MRS. WILLIAM NEWMAN, M i z r a c h i
Women and Bicur Cholem; MRS. H. LAZAR, Linwood-Dexter Mothers' Club; MRS. E. VINICK,
Hebrew Ladies' Free Loan; MRS. B. SCHURAYTZ, president, Hebrew Ladies' Free Loan.
Standing, left to right: J. SILVERMAN, Chernigover-Loyever Aid Society; MORRIS TOR-
GOW, Kiever Verein; WILLIAM HORDES, president, Jewish National Fund Council of Detroit;
RUDOLPH ZUIEBACK, president, United Hebrew Schools; ALEX BELKIN, Odessa Aid Society;
ISADORE SOSNICK, Turover Aid Society and CongregatiOn Bnai Zion; SAMUEL • LIEBER-
.MAN, Berdichever Verein; ALEX BEGUN, Lachovitcher Aid; A. WINEMAN, Odessa Society.
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