Friday, JO -28, 1944
T -HE JEWISH NEWS
Page:Ten
Gen. Clark Hails
Dr. Goldwater's Views on Need Jews in Message
On Rome Program
For a Jewish Hospital Here
Testimony of 1926 and
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As far back as 1926, testimony in behalf of a hospital for Chief Rabbi, Army Chaplain
Detroit was offered by Dr. S. S. Goldwater, the world-famous
Heard in Broadcast From
hospital planner and administrator, who wrote as follows to Dr.
Synagogue
Emil A mberg of Detroit:
.
You ask me to name the cities
in the United States that have
Jewish hospitals. If you mean
the important cities of the United
States, I can perhaps best answer
your question by saying that De-
troit is at present the only city
of the first class in the United
States that is without one. -
New York, as you know, has
many Jewish hospitals, and the
Jewish hospitals in New Orleans,
Pittsburgh, Chicago, Cincinnati,
Cleveland, Los Angeles, San
Francisco, Milwaukee, Brooklyn.
and Baltimore, are old and well
known. St. Louis has just re-
placed "a comparatively small
hospital by a larger one, which
is undoubtedly one of the finest
hospitals in the United' States.
Similar replacements are going
forward at Newark, New Jersey;
Pittsburgh and Boston. Even
many smaller communities have
established hospitals. Philadel-
phia has two Jewish hospitals
and both are about to be recon-
\ strutted and largely expanded.
In New York, numerous Jewish
hospitals are scattered in the
three important boroughs of the
city—Manhattan, Brooklyn and
the Bronx. Here we have reached
the stage of classification and
special Jewish institutions for
In a message read during the
maternity work, chronic diseases,
orthopedics, neurology and the broadcast to this country from
like, have been created in addi- the Rome synagogue last Sun-
tion to the numerous large gen- day, Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark
stated:
eral hospitals.
"This is a proud day for the
I, personally, have been active
in the planning of Jewish hos- Fifth Army, for the. Jewish peo-
pitals; everywhere I have en- ple and for the free world. For
countered the greatest enthusi- us who are fighting this bitter
asm for these projects, and a struggle, today's services repre-
disposition in each of the corn- sent the fruit of what we are
munities to build up an institu- fighting for, the promise , of what
tion equal to the best in phylical the United Nations will bring
equipment and in medical and to a liberated world.
"Under the Fascist and Nazi
nursing standards. So far as
medical organization is concern- reign of terror, the Jews- in Italy
ed, it does not take a very long - were humbled and beaten, driv-
while to develop an orderly sys- en into hiding, forbidden-to wor-
tem and to attract to or train in ship according to their beliefs
the hospital medical talent equal and traditions. Rome little more
,than a month ago was a city
to the best.
The reasons that you advance under the heel of a ruthless
in your letter' for the establish- foreign master and enemy of
ment of a Jewish hospital in De liberty.
troit are the principal 'ones and
"Today--_--liberated by the Fifth
are perfectly sound. The ad= Army—Rome is a free city, and
vantages to be derived by the herb people are free to worship
community are undeniably many, as they choose. Freedom of re-
and I hope that Detroit will not ligion, perhaps the greatest of
too long delay action which will the freedoms, has been restored
place it in line with the progres- to the Eternal City. The world
sive Jewish communities of the has cause to be thankful."
country generally, for every year - Chief Rabbi Israel Zolli of
of delay will mean just so much Romeand" Capt; Aaron Paper-
deprivation to the local Jewish, man, Jewish Chaplain attached
community.
to the Fifth Army, spoke during
Eleven years later, Dr. Goldwater, having retired from his the broadcast, which was inter-
eminent position as director of Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York, spersed with synagogue music.
one of the greatest institutions of its kind in the world, and called
back to active communal leadership as Commissioner of Hospitals
in New York, again turned to the Detroit situation. He then
wrote:
Unless there has been some
substantial change in local con-
ditions • in. Detroit, I should be
inclnied to repeat almost word
for ward the. views that I ex-
pressed on the subject of the de-
sirability of a Jewish hospital in
your great community, in my let-
ters of 1926.
I am a firm believer in the
dual hospital system for great
municipalities in the United
States, i. e., I believe. that there
are advantages to the community
and to the great classes and
groups of which it is composed in
the existence side by side of
municipal hospitals and of vol-
untary hospitals dedicated to
community welfare and free
from many of the inevitable lim-
itations and handicaps of great
public ins _ titutions in the United
States.
The fundamentals of medicine
have not, in my opinion, been
changed during the last ten years
in ways that 'alter the theoretical
basic forms of hospital planning
and hospital organization."
Birthdays of
Next Month
A number of prominent De
troit Jews will observe thei
birthdays in August.
Dr. B. Benedict Glazer's birth-
day occurs on Aug. 18; Ale
Schreiber's, Aug. 4; Gus D. - New
man's, Aug. 10.
Fred M. Butzel's birthday is o
Aug. 25; Irving I. Dworman's
Aug. 26; Harry M. Raden's, Aug
26; Harry Schumer's, Aug. 20.
Mrs. Henry Wineman will cele
At that time, too, Dr. Bert W. Caldwell, executive secretary brate her birthday on Aug. 3
of the American Hospital Association, added his word: "I am and Mrs. , Julian H. Krolik o
Aug. 24.
of the opinion that Detroit' would ben
efit by having a Jewish
Edmund M. Sloman's. birthday
hospital established there."
is on Aug. 12 and - Louis , Jame
Rosenberg's on Aug. 3.
MEDICINE
tions of the kidney, of deaminat-
ing the amino acids of protein, is
3
disturbed by loWered oxygen
supply resulting in high blood
pressure. The rice in the diet
reduces the amount of protein
Victory Mothers' Club, a group
the kidneys have to handle, low=
of women in the Linwood-Dexter
CHICAGO (JPS)—Mice have
ering
the
amount
of
harmful
sections, was formed for the pur
been given "a high degree of
protection" against the Lansing substances which he believes pose of assisting in war efforts,
strain of infantile paralySis virus causes high, blood pressure. Blood aiding activities to provide en
by injections of a vaccine de- pressures were reduced in 60 tertainment for servicemen an
to prepare to help men in the
veloped by Drs. Albert Milzer, percent of patients on the diet.
service after the war.
Franz Oppenheimer and Sidney
0. Levinson, it was announced Histadruth _Conference
Prospective members are in-
in the American Medical Asso- Elections on August '7
vited to contact officers at the
ciation Journal. The application
TEL AVIV (Parcor)—Elections next meeting, to be held on Mon-
of a similar vaccine to humans for the conference of the Hista- day evening at the home of Mrs.
is at present impossible due druth, General Jewish Federa- Ida Borkin, 2665 Richton.
chiefly to the .lack of a supply tion of Labor, will be held Aug.
Those desiring to join may
of infantile paralysis virus to ir 7. The balloting in Tel Aviv and contact the president, Mrs. Max
radiate and make into a vaccine Haifa will last two days. Of 139,- Tannenhaus, 2986 Richton, TO.
for humans.
500 members of the Histadruth, 8-8880, or the secretary, Mrs. A.
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108,000 have paid up their dues I. Klein, 2648 Rochester, TY.
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cases, in only 10 of which did
the teeth have to be pulled.
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Largest Manufacturers of Calendars in the World
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.
Doctors Develop
New Anti-Infantile
Paralysis Vaccine
.
Sephardim in Portugal
Arrival of 187 from France
Reveals Phase of JDC Work
Slow Procedure
A most interesting phase of
the Joint Distribution Commit- - This procedure, obviously, is
tee's far-flung rescue, relief and a slow one. It must be remem-
rehabilitation activity comes in bered, moreover, that it is diffi-
a report from the JDC's • repre- cult today to obtain employment
sentative in Lisbon, Portugal, to or to find capital necessary to
which country recently. came 187 engage in business. The little
Sephardic Jews, emigrees from money brought from France is
Trance. In Spain today there generally exhausted before the
are about' 634 Sephardim who refugees gain Portuguese rights,
are segregated while they await and many of them have had to
trans-shipment.
apply for assistance to the local
The story of the" Sephardim in committee, which receives JDC
Portugal - is the unique tale of funds.
men, women and children, who,
"It is hoped that eventually
although they have never been these people may become firmly
in the country, speak Portuguese, established in Portugal and will
fluently and have maintained the be able to maintain themselves
customs and traditions of Portu- Without the aid of the commit-
guese Jews. -
tee," JDC's representative writes
Few Escape Inquisition
in conclusion.
The ancestors of these Sep-
hardic refugees began to emi-
grate from Portugal, in 1497
when 20,000 Jews were ordered
to assemble in Lisbon prepara-
tory to embarkation for North
Africa and the Near East. The -
The next outdoor concert of
government unexpectedly re- the Jewish Community Center
versed its decision, and but few will be held Monday at 8:30 p.m.,
of the 20,000 escaped the Inquisi-
Max Weiner, violinist with the
tion which began in - Lisbon. Detroit Symphony. Orchestra,
Some of them finally reached will be a featured soloist.
George McLeod, baritone, will
cities in Greece and Turkey,
others escaped to Salonika. Des- also appear on the program, _ac-
cendants of these people immi- companied by William Rose.
These concerts are held in the
grated to France about 1900; and
some have now returned to Por- outdoor court of the Jewish Com-
munity Center, and are open to
tugal. •
the public free of charge.
JDC's representative in Portu-
gal reports that since Sept. 2,
1943, when 32 Sephardim reached Learns of Wife's, Son's -
Portugal, a total of 187 have Murder; Ends His Life
been admitted from France. Por-
TEL AVIV (Palcor)Kalman
tugal exerts no pressure to com-
pel emigration from the country; Leibel, of the Polish Army,
neither does it tell them they jumped to his , death from the
must obtain overseas visas. On roof of the Polish Officers Hostel
the basis of 'birth certificates, in Tel Aviv, shortly after re-
marriage certificates and - the ceiving -a letter informing him
like, the Portuguese Consulate in that his wife and son were-
Paris issued PortugueSe pass- killed by the Nazis in Cracow.
ports. These documents .a r e He was buried in the military
carefully scrutinized and those cemetery.
refugees with-bona fide national-
itY claims are permitted to leave
their places. of residence a n d
move freely about the country,
—with thousands of families, asitrelievea
to seek and obtain employment, itching
irritation of minor skin rsehes7-•
to take part in commercial ac- baby's diaper rash. Sprinkle on MOZaalla;
tivity, and to enjoy most of the the soothing, medicated powder contain-,
rights granted native Portu- ing ingredients many specialism often rec-
ommend. Costa little. Demand !dolmans.
guese. -
Feature Max Weiner
In Center. Concert
.
MEDICATED POWDER
40 = YEAR FAVORITE
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Aids Servicemen
Max N. Ilaitly
Brown & Bigelow
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