Friday, March
-
10, 1944
THE JEWISH NEWS
Page Rye
Gallup Poll Editor Speaks Dr. Robert Gordis Temple Beth El Established
Before Federation March 26 Lectures Monday Record in War Bond Sales
JWF and Affiliated Agencies to Hear William A. Lydgate
at Annual Meeting at the Center; Groups to
Conduct Business and Present Reports
Seminary Professor Gives
Recent Drive Showed Total of $1,582,100 — Five Times
The Third Address in
the Congregation's Original Quota; Ekceeds All
Center _Series
Congregational Efforts in Middle West
William A. Lydgate, editor of the Gallup Poll, will be
the guest
uest speaker at the annual meeting of the Jewish W
'el-
fare Federation and several affiliated agencies, on Sunday,
March 26, at 7:30 p.m., at the Jewish Community Center,
8904 Woodward Ave., it. has been announced by Abraham
Srere, president of the Federation.
"The Future of Jewish Culture
in America" is the subject of an
address- to he delivered by Dr.
Robert Gordis at the Jewish Com-
munity Center, March 14, at 8:30
p.
•
This is the third lecture in the
Center's cultural series.
As editor of what has come
"
"
to be America's best known yard-
k.sV
stick for measuring public opin-
ion, Mr. Lydgate has charge of
formulating t h e questions on
which the Poll's 1,100 interview-
ers collect the views of persons
in all walks of life. He also edits
this vast commentary and inter-
prets its significance in regular
bulletins sent out to the 125
newspapers.
Quoted in Congress
In the five years since t h e
founding of the American Insti-
' tute of Public Opinion, or the
Gallup Poll, as it is popularly
known, Mr. Lydgate has had the
editorial direction of the sound-
ings taken on literally every
question of conseoueve — eco-
nomic and social, as well as po-
litical—confronting the American
people. The reports are not only
quoted mridely in the press, but
WILLIAM A. LYDGATE
are also more frequently quoted
in. Congressional debates than
-
sing14 Ec.,..tr- ce of in -
•g-ny
formation on public sentiment.
Mr. Lydgate was born in Ha-
waii, son of a Congregationalist
minister. He wa s educated at
private schools in the Islands, at
the UniverSity of Hawaii and at
Yale University (A. B., 1931). At
An evening of drama and song
the latter, he edited "The Yale wil be presented jointly by the
Daily News" and was a member Jewish Community Center . and
of Alpha Delta Phi and Skull the Jewish Community Council
and Bones.
on Sunday, March 19. Featured
Joined Gallup in 1935
in the program will be Zvee
His first job was an analyst Scooler and Saul MeiselS.
for a firm of efficiency experts
Zvee Scooler has had an inter-
specializing in reorganizing esting career on the stage, having
• newspapers. He then became as- been associated with Maurice
sociated with Fortune Magazine Schwartz in the Yiddish Art
for a year, and was transferred Theater.
to Time Magazine as a special
Saul Meisels is widely known
writer on national affairs and as a character singer, specializing
finance. His work with Dr. in Yiddish and Hebrew songs.
George Gallup began in 1935
The program will begin at 9
when the Institute was organ- p. m. Admission for Center mem-
ized as a special service to news- bers is 15c, for non-members, 25c.
papers.
T h e Jewish Welfare Federa-
tion, and the following affiliated
'agencies — North E n d Clinic,
Jewish Children's Bureau, Jew-
ish Social Service Bureau, Jew- Film
ish Vocational S e r v i c e, and
Fresh Air Society—will conduct
For any movie-goer who wants
their annual business and pres- to understand the importance of
ent reports at this meeting.
Russia's smashing victories over
the Nazis, there is a film that
is indespensable, "Day A f ter
Day," now showing at the Cin-
ema Theater, Columbia a n d
Woodward.
From . the cameras of 160 cam-
- PHILADELPHIA — (Religi-
ous News Service)—Franz Wer- eramen, 19 of whom were killed,
fel, Austrian-born author of comes battle scenes beyond de-
"The Song of Bernadette," was scription. Nothing is omitted, no
awarded a citation here by the part of Russian life is over-
National Conference of Chris- looked, while the whole is col-
tians and Jews for efforts to ored by the ever-present shadow
promote goodwill and under- of o war. Women work and fight
b
standing among cultural grbupseside
men. A pianist plays to
men about to go into battle. A
in this country,
The citation was presented at child weeps at the body of his
a ceremony at Temple Rodeph comrade and old women in
Shalom by Basil O'Connor, mem- shawls tear at the rubble of fire
ber of the executive committee gutted buildings.
In addition, Cinema presents
of the National Conference, in
"Vanka," a featurette which tells
conjunction
with local
observ- of an orphaned school girl who
ances
of Brotherhood
Week.
disguises herself in boy's cloth-
and assumes the name of
E East
ast Side Bnai Brith
"Vanka" to insure her accept-
To Hear Flint Rabbi
ance by a guerilla band. "Vanka"
is played by Yannina Jeimo, well
The East Side Lodge 1465 of known to Russian audiences for
Enai Brith and its Ladies' Aux- her enactment of children's roles.
iliary will hold a joint meeting
at Pillar' Temple, 14529 Ker- Hashornei. Hatzair Holds
cheval, on Monday, at 9 p. m.
The speaker will be Rabbi Convention in Chicago
---
Morton Applebaum of Temple
From all t h e branches of
Beth El, Flint.
Recently, Rabbi Applebaum Hashomer Hatzair in the U. S.
and Canada more .than 300 dele-
was
one of three
speakers
at gates and guests will meet in
the Brotherhood
dinner
at Tem-
pie Beth El given by Detroit Chicago during Passover Week to
Round Table of Catholics, Jews mark the 30th anniversary of
this Zionist pioneering youth
and Protestants.
Refreshments will be served movement to discuss the prob-
by the Ladies' Auxiliary. The lems facing Jewish yout4 in the
world of tomorrow. The 10th
public is invited.
national convention of Hashomer
Hatzair in America will open on
Tuesday, April 11, and will con-
tinue until Saturday, April 15.
S-r-n
Meirso,1-
fn Song, Drama
Recital March 19
Soviet Successes
Against Nazis in
at Cinema
Franz Werfel Given
Goodwill Citation
Buy War Bonds !
Leonard N. Simons, general chairman of the Temple Beth
El War Bond sales committee, announces that final tabula-
tion of totals achieved by his committee shows sales of
$1,582,100—nearly $1,000,000 of which were for purchases of
E, F and G Bonds and the balance for other series.
This established a record among congregations in the
Middle West which have con- 4.;
ducted War Bond drives.
Dr. Gordis, a graduate of Drop-
The remarkable showing —
sie Colege in Philadelphia and of
the Jewish Theological Seminary nearly five times Temple Beth
in New York, is one of America's El's original quota of $330,000—
leading - younger rabbis. He is brought the following letter from
now asociate professor of Bible Chairman Frank N. Isbey of the
at the Jewish Theological Sem- U. S. Treasury Michigan War Fi- Protest Against Restrictions
inary, as well as Rabbi of . the nance Committee:
.. on Palestine Sent to
Rockaway Park Hebrew Congre-
"In the name of the Mich-
gation. He is associated with the
President Roosevelt
igan War Finance Commit-
Reconstructionist Magazine and
tee, let me express my sin-
with the Menorah Journal.
Labor groups continue to sup-
cere appreciation for the
outstanding work performed
port Jewish rights in Palestine,
This concert is the sixth in a
by members of Temple Beth
series of seven cultural affairs
and AFL and CIO chapters
El in selling and purchasing
arranged by the joint cultural
everywhere have asked for the
one million and a half dol-
committee of the Jewish Com-
withdrawal of the White Paper.
lars worth of War Bonds
munity Center, and Community
during the Fourth War Loan
On March 3, John W. Gibson,
-Council, a group formed solely
Drive. •
to promote cultural activities for
president of the Michigan CIO
the Yiddish-speaking ; population
"We believe that this con-
Council, sent the following tele-
of Detroit.
stitutes a record in the his-
gram to President Roosevelt:
tory of the Middle West. It
An admission of 25c will be
"In behalf of 650,000 members
shows the fine and patriotic
charged and organizations re-
in Michigan, I wish to protest
spirit
of
Congregation
Beth
questing 50 tickets or more can
and ask that you use your in-
El, and your own excellent
obtain them for the price of 15c
fluence in the immediate with-
work as War Bond Chair-
- each. L.y taktiv; aclA.t.r4;.4..sse of this -
_ drawal by the British govern-
than.
Yiddish culture committee . offer-
ment of the Chamberlain Whif6
ing, Jewish groups wil have an-
"Please extend our con-
Paper in 1939 restricting Jewish
other • opportunity to expand
gratulations to all the Gal-
immigrants. Nazi dominated Eu-
lants—men, women and chil-
their cultural activities of . the
rope with its oppressions place
season.
dren—who so unselfishly
the Jewish people at the mercy
gave of their own time to
of Hitler unless this is done."
For reservations, of tickets call
bring success to our Michi-
the Jewish Community, Council,
gan Fourth War Loan
Cherry 1657, or the Jewish Cen-
Drive."
ter.
Hy Schlafer, chairman of the
Men's Temple Club, and Mrs.
Theodore • Kelter, who headed
the drive for the Temple Sister-
hood, as well as several hundred
Gallants who gave of their time
and efforts in the drive, are re-
Charge Egyptian Officials ceiving congratulations.
A New War-Time Convenience!
Among totals shown in the re-
Ignored United Nations'
port is the interesting item of
$25,000 in Bonds sold by the
War Efforts
members of the Temple Sunday
WASHINGTON — The Ameri- School which won special men-
can -Zionist Emergency Council tion and commendation.
rebuked Premier Nahas Pasha
in the Casserole Carton
of Egypt for his protest' against
speeches made in the Congress Justice?
Sanders offer two or more Ready
of the United States favoring
Cooked Foods daily — Chopped
the recognition of Palestine as
Beef Pie and Biscuits, Steak and
a Jewish Commonwealth and
Kidney Pie, and many others.
the unrestricted settlement of
Jews there.
These foods are packaged in the
new Casserole Carton which can
In a formal statement, the
Council declared:
be placed right in the oven for
heating — and then on the table
"At the time that the German
General Rommel was knocking • JERUSALEM, (Palcor) — Uzi
for serving. Each carton contains
at the gates of Cairo and Alex- Glass, 19, a member of the co-
four generous servings. Ready
andria and threatening to bottle operative settlement Yagur, was
Cooked Foods are carried in stock
up Suez, the life-line • of the sentenced to seven years' im-
at seven Sanders stores. Orders
British Empire, the Jews in Pal- prisonment by a military court
may be placed at any store for
estine were giving their lives as for possessing a pistol and three
next day's specials.
combat troops. Men, women and bullets without a permit. The
children, and the aged, were same court, at the same time,
working in factories, manufac- sentenced Abdul Latif, to 30
turing everything from marma- months' imprisonment for the
lade to munitions, to supply the possession of a pistol and 20 bul-
British Eighth Army.
lets. Uzi Glass was riding in a
CONFECTIONERS
"At that time we heard of no truck near Haifa, when police
protest either from Cairo or searched him and placed him
CANDIES • BAKED GOODS • ICE CREAMS
from any Egyptian - government under arrest.
official • over the invasion of
Egyptian soil by Rommel. The
Egyptian Prime Minister would
do better to concern himself
with the contribution which
Egypt might make even now to
LET'S GIVE
the war effort of the United
Nations."
CIO Conde ,s
White Paper •
Zionists Rebuke
Egypt's Premier
Ready Cooked
Foods
7 Years for Jew,
30 Mos. for Arab
Possessing Guns
.
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Important Decisions
Expected from London
L O N D ON (JPS) — The re-
assumption by David ben Gurion
of his duties as chairman of the
Jewish Agency Executive, re-
ported from Jerusalem, was re-
ceived with elation in Zionist
circles as an indication of a thor-
ough agreement reached by
Zionist conferees here as to fu-
ture Zionist policy. It is believed
that- , important decisions have
been evolved during the discus-
sions between Dr. Weizmann,
the delegation sent .here by the
Agency Executive in Jerusalem,
and by leading Zionists from
other free countries.
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are nominees for an Academy
award . one is "Black Magic."
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