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Friday, October 27, 1944
Joe (GI) Campaigner Urges
Response in Chest Drive
JEWISH NEWS
;-'ge Seven
Nov. 19 Is Set for
2nd Cultural Event
Of Council, Center
Prepare for Opening of
Center's 12th Street Unit
You're Helping That Child in the Forest, a Soldier in a
First Event Held Last Sunday
Foxhole, the Family Down the Street,
Addressed by Samuel
He Writes in Annual Appeal
Ind Dom bey
By JOE (GI) CAMPAIGNER
A capacity audience which
This is Joe Campaigner speaking. I'm going over my filled every seat in the Jewish
prospect cards for the War Chest campaign. As I read the Center auditorium heard the lec-
names, the faces of those I know well, the faces of my neigh- ture by Maurice Samuel on "The
bors whom I meet at the ball game, the corner drug store or World of Sholem Aleichem" when
the news stand, appear before me. And I say to m y s e l f: he opened this year's Yiddish cul-
series, sponsored jointly by
They're a mighty lucky bunch of people. Mighty lucky. The ture
the Yiddish Culture Committee
reasons? Do I have to tell you? They're as plain as the wor- of the Center and the Jewish
ried look on Hitler's face .. .
Community Council, last Sunday.
But sometimes that's not so good. Because it's a little
Moishe Dombey delighted the
harder for us to understand how others in our own commun- audience with readings from the
ity or those who have been dodging bombs and the Gestapo works of the great Yiddish hum-
over there can be in dire need of our help. Take me, for orist, selecting some of the let-
instance. I've got a new gray fedora and a faint remnant of ters of Menachem Mendel and a
a summer tan. What do I have in common with the child story of Tevye der Milchiker.
his lecture Mr. Samuel spoke
that has lived in hiding in a forest in Poland for four years - of In the
character of
and hasn't tasted any real food outside of grass or leaves in Jewish distinctive
humor, pointing out how,
all that time?
in its finest expression, it reflect-
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Must Make Neighbor Understand
Well, the idea is that I've got to make a lot of people
I'm going to see about the War Chest forget my fedora. And
you have to do the same thing when you start ringing door-
bells. You've got to make your neighbor understand that
you're talking for that child in the forest, or for that soldier
in the foxhole, or for the family down the street that needs
our help.
There's one more thing that's bothering me. I mean all
that victory talk. While our boys are still dying on the battle-
fields, some of us (a very few of us) are already shining our
shoes, and lubricating our gullets for the cheering and the
shouting when THAT day comes.
We Have a Lot to Be Happy About
Now don't get me wrong. We certainly have a lot to be
happy about. But we mustn't forget the morning after, which
they tell me comes right on the heels of the day before. What
I'm trying to say is: There's a very big job ahead, even bigger
than the one we've been doing up to now, if we want to make
the victory last and the peace stick.
We can do that big job through the War Chest. Because
we'll have to help a lot of people get back on their feet .. .
and don't forget that we will still have the ,Jags to clean up
and that will take time and a lot of sacrifice and work.
There'll certainly be a lot of celebrating when the Hitler
nightmare gives way to the post-Hitler era. We'll all rejoice
that our fellow-Jews over there are free. They'll be free at
last from the terror of the Nazi executioner. The sword of
death will not hang over their heads. They'll be free. But they
will also be without homes, without the means of earning a
livelihood. •
It seems to me just so much horse-sense that their free-
dom will be an empty phrase if we don't help them regain
their happiness and self-reliance. What it amounts to is this:
They'll be free to receive our help and we'll be free to give
it. That's why, for one thing, so much more money must be
raised for the agencies of the United Jewish Appeal. We
helped them when they were living on the brink of death.
Are we going to deny them the help they need now that
they stand`-at the doorway to a new life?
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100 Women Volunteers Participate in All-Day Session for
Discussion of Services to be Rendered; Project's
Functions Outlined
Close to 100 women volunteers participated in an all-
day session at the Jewish Community Center on Oct. 17, in
preparation of the opening of the Twelfth Street Extension
Unit sponsored by the Center and the Detroit Section of the
National Council of Jewish Women.
Attending the Institute were members of various com-
mittees who have volunteered
their services in connection with
Plan Training Courses
the programs and operations of
A graphic description of the
the Extension Unit which is fi-
nanced by the War Chest and quarters and an introduction ra--
furnished by the Council.
the program was furnished by
The Institute was presided over Harold Weiss, director of the ex-
by Mrs. Jack Rothberg. Greetings tension activities. The experience
were presented by Mrs. Herschel
V. Kreger, president of the De- of other agencies in neighbor-
troit Section of the National hood work was offered by Lewis
Council of Jewish Women; Mrs. Larkin, area worker in the Davi-
Leonard H. Weiner,. chairman of son District.
the extension committee, in ab-
A spirited discussion from the
sentia by Mrs. Rothberg, and A. audience revealed the keen de-
Sudran, administrative assistant sire on the part of all present to
of the Jewish Welfare Federa- learn how to be most helpful.
tion.
Further training courses will
H. C. Broder, president of the be given at regular intervals as
Center, spoke at the luncheon refreshers and as orientation for
new volunteer workers. The
gathering.
project will be located at 8687
History of Project
Twelfth St., corner of Blaine, in
The background of the history a large store and a large base-.
of the Extension Program was ment. Facilities will provide for
reviewed by Herman Jacobs, gatherings, reading, games, danc-
executive director of the Jewish ing for young people, crafts, dis-
Community Center who traced cussions and lectures, scouting,
the program of the Center and family problems, household arts
the Council and emphasized the and consthners' interest.
unique character of this kind of
collaboration of volunteer society
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and professional c o m m 0 n i t y
agency.
A birdseye view of the com-
position of the community to be
served by the program was pre-
sented by Harold Silver, execu-
tive director of the Jewish Social
Service Bureau, who described
the nature of the population and
the many interests they reflect in
Jewish and civic life. He showed
TONIGHT —7 P.M.—WXYZ
from that there is only slight de-
linquency in the area.
ed the pathos of Jewish life, and
the struggles of the Jewish peo-
ple to survive in the face of great
odds.
This was the first event in the
series of "eight programs planned
by the joint Yiddish Culture
Committee for this season. The
next event will be a concert of
Jewish music on Sunday evening,
Nov. 19. The artists will be
Edgar Mills, cantor-baritone, - of
Newark, N. J., formerly of the
Vienna Folk Opera, and an in-
strumental trio composed of
Julius Chajes, music director of
the Community Center, Bernard
Argiewicz _and Arthur Grossman
of the Detroit Symphony. Mr.
Mills will present a program of
Jewish folk and art songs. The
trio has selected compositions for
piano, violin and cello by Mr.
Chajes and other Jewish compos-
ers.
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Broadcast Reunites
Father and Daughter
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from the U. S. over the OWI's
"Voice of America" program has
re-united a daughter in New
York with her father in this city.
The father, Paul Nathan, came
to Red Cross headquarters here
to ask that, if possible, his daugh-
ter, Mrs. Jean Paul Simon,- who
resides at 10 E. 67th Street, New
York City, be informed that he
had heard her broadcast last
ThurSday and that he was alive
and well. In her broadcast, di-
rected to France at large, Mrs.
Simon had expressed the hope
that it would be heard by her
father.
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War Chest Is Democracy in Action
The Jews of Detroit have shown that the War Chest is
unity and democracy in action. They are working together
with Catholics and Protestants in one great common cause.
We worked together to help speed victory. Now we must
work just as hard together to speed a just and durable peace.
(Looka, here, Joe, you almost sound like a white-haired, long-
bearded editorial writer! Well, this campaign really means a
lot to me, personally.)
That's why I say that we ought to have a new logistics
- system for the new campaign. Let's take a leaf from our
gallant fighting men who have outblitzed Hitler's greatest
blitzes. If you ask me I would suggest this slogan for the
campaign volunteers: BE WISE—PATTON-IZE. Yes, Pat-
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