THE JEWISH NEWS

Page Eighteen

Rosenwald Post Installs New Officers

Friday, NovemIiir 5,

Viht 3

Palestine Issue Stirs
Country-Wide Discussions

Zionist Organizations Condemn Commiitee; Reform
Rabbis Endorse Conference; Richards Charges
Marshall's Spirit is Deserted by Committee

Julius Rosenwald Post 218 of
the American Legion installed its
new officers for 1944 at the Bnai
Moshe, on Oct. 27.
Sam Curtis was inaugurated
commander of the post, succeed-
ing Robert Morrison, who was
presented with a watch by the
Legionnaires. Other officers are:
Robert Fenkel, senior vice-com-
mander; Philip Barach, junior
vice-commander; All _Curtis,, ad-
jutant; Albert A. Davis, finance
officer; Dr. R. R. Goldstone, his-
torian; Leonard Sherman, sgt.-
at-arms. Israel Gormer was re-
elected chaplain. Retiring offi-
cers are: Sam Curtis,.senior vice-
commander; Joe Shapior, adju-
tant; Leo Gold, historian; Harry
Tuller, sgt.-at-arms.
A presentation of service flags

Detroit Acclaims
`The Bartered Bride'

was made by Joseph Shapiro, Mrs. B. Dickman, Mrs. M. Lam-
pert, Mrs. A. Cohen, Mrs. Apple-
blatt, Mrs, L. Gottlieb, Mrs. B.
Armed Forces and a . program was Forman.
Second row, left to right: Jo-
started to send each son letters
seph Shapiro, Robert Fenkell,
and cigarettes. .
Carl Goldfarb, Al Rosenbloom,
Speakers inclUded Lawrence
Philip Barach, Max Lampert, Na-
Knox, department commander of
than Agress, Morris Wolf, Al
Michigan, W. B. Wald, member
Weinberg, Pauline Pepper, Mrs.
of the State Executive Commit-
M. Waterstone, Meyer Water-
tee, and Walter Scott, senior vice-
stone, Celia Orley, Charles Smith,
commander of the Detroit dis-
Harry Stein, Abe Cohen, Dr. Ed-
trict.
ward Stern.
In the accompanying photo-
Third row, left to right: Sam-
graph, taken at this celebration, uel Raskin, Isadore Philips, Ben
appear the following:
Snyder, Benjamin Edelstein, Mrs.
Front row, left to right: Mrs. L. Milgrom, Dr. R. R. Goldstone,
B. Goldfarb, Mrs. H. Stein, Mrs. Mark Freedman, M. Appleblatt,
A. Rosenbloom, Mrs. L. Meyer, Max Borkin, Hyman Goldberg,
Mrs. Bessie Vine, Mrs. M. Wolf, Samuel Festenstein, and two
Mrs. G. Black, Mrs. G. Garmel, others.

Americanization chairman, to
I members
having sons in the

Sholem Aleichem
Circles Prepare
For Donor Affair

Under the patronage of the De-
troit Friends of Opera, a satisfy-
Mrs. Louis LaMed is an active
ing and wholly entertaining pre-
sentation of Smetana's comic member of the committee on ar-
opera "The Bartered Bride" was rangements for the 13th annual
greeted Sunday night by an audi- donor luncheon of the Reading
ence that crowded the Scottish Circles of the Sholem Aleichem
Rite Cathedral.

Primarily a local presentation,
but in no way an amateur effort,
the leading roles were carried by .
Donald Dame of Cleveland, who
has recently , joined the Metro-
politan, and Marguerite Kozenn,
Who is well known to Detroit
audiences.

Congress Women
Hold Luncheon

Detroit Women's Division of
the American Jewish Congress
announces that the second an-
nual Armistice Day luncheon
will be held at Hotel Statler,
Wednesday, Nov: 10, at 12:30
p. m. Arrangements are under
the supervision of the Inter-
Faith Committee of which Mrs.
William Grahm is chairman.

Fast moving and colorful
throughout, the entire production
was in charge of Lothar Waller-
stein, stage director of the Metro-
politan, who, rumor . has it, will
soon make Detroit his home.

"Winning the Peace," subject
of the .day, will be handled in
three aspects by the following
speakers: . "Through Economic
Justice" by Rev. Claude Wil-
liams; "Through Racial, Amity"
by Dr. Alfred McClung Lee,"
and "Through Eliminating Anti-
Semitism and Establishing a
Jewish Homeland in Palestine"
by Rabbi Leon Fram.

The orchestra, under the lead-
ership of Carl Bamberger of New
York's New Opera Co., was
drawn from the roster of the De-
troit Symphony orchestra. Ruth
Murray's Wayne University Dance
Group and the Friends of Opera
Chorus, Arthur Gnau, conductor,
both contributed greatly to the
success of the performance.

The Congress has secured the
talents of Henri Goldberg for the
musical portion of this program.
Mr. Goldberg comes from Berlin
where he was• both cantor and
concert singer. He has an exten-
sive repertoire and is at present
the director of the Liberty
Choral Society. Mrs. Rosa Bassin
Stein will accompany him.

Other singers in the cast were
Margit Kormandy, contralto; Dor-
othea Oehinke and Rosina Bet-
man, sopranos; Cyril Wezemael,
George McLeod and Williath.
Tennant, baritones; Alfonse Pe-
droza, basso; James E. Richards
and Avery Crew, tenors. Crew
deserves special praise for his
capable interpretation.

Due to wartime restrictions, all
those desiring reservations must
Folk -School, to be held this Wed- call before Nov. 8, at UNiversity
nesday noon, Jan. 5; at the Book- 1-4184.
Cadillac.
Members are requested to in-
In preparation for this event, vite their non-Jewish friends to
an evening of games will be held this meeting which is open to the
this Sunday evening at the Work- public.
men's Circle Educational Center,
11529 Linwood Ave.
Mrs. Ethel Shorr is chairman of
the donor luncheon. Many hosts
and hostesses are being enrolled
for this event.
A pep rally will be held Satur-
day evening at the home, of Mrs.
At the last meeting of the
Shorr, 18111 Muirland. Members
and friends are invited. There membership enrollment project
of the United Hebrew Schools,
will be an interesting program.
at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ru-
dolph Zuieback, Herman Pekar-
LOIS CRAFT, HARPIST
sky, acting director of the Jew-
SOLOIST WITH SYMPHONY
ish Welfare Federation of De-
Lois Adele Craft, harpist, solo- troit, stressed the importance of
ist with the Detroit. Symphony Jewish education as a communal
Orchestra in the Masonic Temple, endeavor.
Nov. 11, was born in Chicago
The meeting was conducted by
and began her study of the harp
with Salvi. This study was aug- Morris Fishman, associate chair-
mented by voice lessons and bal- man of • the enrollment project.
let, with the result that Miss Dr: A. E. Bernstein is the chair-
Craft is a most versatile artist, man, and the other associate
chairman is Julius Berman.
and a well-rounded musician.
For the past 10 years, Miss
Brief talks were delivered by
Craft has been solo harpist with Rudolph Zuieback, president of
the Kansas City Philharmonic, the schools, Harry Cohen and B.
reserving time to fill a busy con- Isaacs.
cert schedule in the middle and
. The next meeting will be held
far western parts of America.
on Thursday, Nov. 18, at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Meyer
Milton Berle says the reason Shugarman.
his nephew can't get out of the
third grade is that his teacher is
a Republican and 'doesn't believe
in a fourth term!

It is to be hoped that this suc-
cessful first performance will lead
to the presentation of other operas
under the same sponsorship that
will include many of the other
singers in our midst who are
capable of carrying operatic roles.

—A.R.B.

ORT Representative
On Tour of South
American Countries

The American ORT (Organiza-
tion for Rehabilitation through
Training) Federation announces,
in - a statement issued by Louis B.
Boudin, chairman of the board
of directors, that Dr. Boris A.
Surowich, representative of the
World ORT Union, and an out-
standing leader in the field • of
constructive relief, . has left for
an extended tour of the Central
and South American countries,
where he will supervise ORT
work.

The ORT is one of the bene-
ficiary agencies of the War Chest
of Metropolitan Detroit, through
the Allied Jewish- Campaign.

MRS. LOUIS LaMED

UHS Membership
Committee Hears
Herman Pekarsky

Buy War. Bonds!

Zionists Protest Action
Richards Says Marshall
of Jewish Committee
I Deserted by Committee
NEW YORK, (JTA) — The In a special 'article syndicated
Zionist Organization of America, by the. Independent Jewish Press
the Mizrachi Organization of Service, under the heading
America, the Zionist Laborite t "American Jewish Committee De-
Party and other Zionist groups I serts Marshall," Bernard G. Rich-
this week issued statements criti- I ards, one of the organizers of
cizing the American Jewish Corn- the_ American Jewish Congress
mittee for its withdrawal from who was secretary of the Amer-
the American Jewish Conference. ican Jewish delegation to the
A meeting of the executive of Versailles Peace Conference,
the American Zionist Emergency draws an analogy of the Commit-
Council decided on action to be tee's leaders and actions in 1918
taken by Zionist groups in the and at present. He writes in part:
U. S. with regard to the situation "The American Jewish Corn-
which has developed as a result mittee stood by the Jewish people
of the withdrawal of the Amer- in the crisis of World War I.
ican Jewish Committee from the Under the leadership of the late
Conference. Louis Marshall, a man of under-
Dr. Israel Goldstein, president standing, vision and moral force,
of the Z.O.A., issued a. statement the Committee made the people's
to the press declaring that "the cause its own and thus not only
American Jewish Committee, by fulfilled a great historic obliga-
the decision of its executive corn- organization f r o m the onus,
mittee to withdraw from the tion but in part redeemed the
American Jewish Conference on borne for many years, of being
account of its Palestine resolu- a self-constituted body.
tion, is taking a step which wil-
Charges Retreat in 1943
fully would retard the most "In the unparalleled tragic time
promising effort in a generation of World War II the American
to achieve unity in the ranks of Jewish Committee hesitated and
American Jewry." halted, hemmed and hawed. Fin-
ally, it joined in a union of all
Reform Rabbis Endorse
American Jewry and then—made
Conference Actions
its retreat. This rout was planned
CINCINNATI (JPS) — Within and executed under the leader-
48 hours after the American Jew- ship of Judge Joseph M. Pros-
ish Committee executive board kauer, a die-hard reactionary and
voted to withdraw from the isolationist—who in 1933 sought
American Jewish Conference, the to stifle the wrath of the Jewish
executive board of the Central masses against Adolf Hitler.
Conference of American Rabbis, "Mr. Marshall had favored a
speaking for the Reform rabbin- Conference of limited scope as
ate in America adopted a resolu- against an all-inclusive Congress.
tion endorsing all actions of the After long discussion, he and his
American Jewish Conference. associates agreed to the plan of
a democratically elected Con-
gress. Furthermore, he said • he
would not sit in that Congress if
he were not chosen in the popular
elections. He was chosen. Mar-
shall was opposed to special min-
ority rights for the Jews in East-
ern Europe and especially to the
Other Speakers Listed for conception of national or group
rights.
Report Luncheon Meetings
Stood by Majority
of the War Chest
" There was a memorable night
in December, 1918, when the
Fannie Hurst, one of America's President of the American Jewish
outstanding novelists and short- Committee, as delegate to the.
story writers, will be the guest American Jewish Congress,
speaker at. the luncheon report wrestled until morning with a
meeting of the War Chest of committee of 52 persons — a
Metropolitan Detroit, at the merger of all convention com-
mittees—over the question of na-
tional rights. He held his own
against Pref. Isaac A. Hourwich,
Dr. Chaim Zhitlowsky, Dr. Na-
hum. Syrkin, Dr. Herman Zolo-
taroff and many others.
But there came an hour when
he realized that if the Jews did"
not receive special rights such as
prevailed for other nationalities,
they would not have the rights of
free citizens which he demanded.
He joined in a unanimous vote.
Did he lose his battle? No! He
had the courage and the intellect
to recognize a new idea and •won
a high place in the leadership and
esteem of his people.
"All the way through this great
enterprise, at the Congress ses-
sions, at the Peace Conference of
Versailles (where he served as a
FANNIE HURST.
vice-chairman and then as chair-
man of the Committee of Jewish
Book Cadillac Hotel, next Friday, Delegations), and through the
Nov. 12. It will be Branches and task of establishing the Jewish
Schools Day of the campaign.
Agency for Palestine, Louis Mar-
This Friday, Nov. 5, Commerce shall stood by his guns and ful-
Day, the luncheon report meeting filled every obligation he assumed
will be addressed by Cecil Rob- in behalf of his people.
erts.
. "The American Jewish Con-
Monday will be Armed Forces gress of 1918 adopted a resolu-
Day, and the address will be tion for 'the development of Pale-
delivered by a prominent mili- stine into - a Jewish Common-
tary man.
wealth.' In accordance with pre-
Raymond C. Massey, eminent vious -agreements and under-
actor, will be the speaker on standings, the AJC concurred in
Tuesday, Industry Day.
the decision with only one • of
Wednesday, the speakers at seven delegates dissenting. He
the Labor Day program will be was A. Leo Weil, of Pittsburgh,
John Green and Abraham Blue- who, with one other man, Sydney
stein.
L. Herald, of New Orleans,. (now
Thursday, Nov. 11, has been set an ardent Zionist) voted against
aside as United Nations Day, and the resolution.
the speaker will be Dr. C. J.
"The American Jewish. Coin-
Hambro.
mittee was represented- at the
Monday, Nov. 15, will be Met- Congress by Mayer Sulzberger,
ropolitan Day, and the speaker Oscar S. Straus, Abram I. Elkus,
will be Dr. B. A. Liu.
Jacob H. Schiff, Ephraim Leder-
The closing victory dinner has er, Julius Rosenwald and A. Leo
been set for Tuesday, Oct. 16. Weil."

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annie Hurst
SpeaksNov.12

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