THE JEWISH NEWS

Page Six

Friday,, March 2, 1945

Miss Thompson to Address Cottler, Strub Realities of Palestine Called
Weizmann Luncheon Here Aid Histacirut Miracle by Meyer Weisgal

14/feeting on March 13 Will Launch Detroit's Participation
In National Drive to Raise Funds for Institute of •
Science in Palestine; Local Quota $75,000

Detroit's participation in the nationwide effort to honor
Dr. Chaim Weizmann, president of the Jewish Agency for
Palestine and the World Zionist Organization, on his .70th
birthday, through the establishment of the Weizmann 'Insti-
tute of Science in Palestine, will be planned at an initial
luncheon meeting of the local committee members on- Mon-

day, March 13, at 12 noon, at, ;,
Hotel Statler.
Fred M. Butzel, chairman of
the committee, has announced
that Dorothy Thompson, eminent
columnist who will be here to
address the meeting arranged by
the Temple Israel Sisterhood at
the Masonic Temple, will speak
at the luncheon.
Friend of Dr. Weizmann
. Miss Thompson is a personal Detroit JWF Director Views
friend and admirer Of Dr. Weiz-
Jewish Community Role
mann and is the author of the
essay "The Mark of the Chosen"
En Welfare Funds
in the testimonial volume 'pub-
lished in Dr. Weizmann's honor
In an address delivered last
by Dial Press and edited by Sunday in Trenton, N. J., before
Meyer Weisgal. In this essay, the Central Atlantic Region of
Miss . Thompson said of Dr. ' the Council of. Jewish Federa-
Weizmann: "/
tions and Welfare Funds; on - the
"Weizmann wants to end the role of the .welfare funds in the
Jewish schizophrenia. He wants current situation, Isidore Sobe-
them to erect on earth the state loff, executive director of the
of their religion and of 'their Jewish Welfare Federation of
dreams. He believes that when Detroit, declared that. "Welfare
that is accomplished all Jews will Funds are the great symbol of
be free . . . There will be upon unity in American Jewish life."
no• Jew the burden of his nation
Stating that "the all-inclusive
carried in his own bosom, for the interest of Welfare Funds has
nation will be established around reflected a. recognition that the
the core of those who will be members of an American Jewish
Jews, to live as Jews, to create community can work together for
as Jews, to worship as Jews, and the general good," Mr. Sobeloff
to be represented in the Councils declared:
of the earth as Jews . .
Understood World Over
Won't Disappoint Palestine
"This sound foundation on
"Weizmann never will disap- which local associations for the
point Palestine. I pray and be- enrichment of our lives •is based
lieve Palestine will never dish is understoOd all over the world.
appoint Weizmann, He is less Jews everywhere look. to the
a leader, of his people than a Welfare Funds for material aid
father . . .
—and also for sympathetic un-
"His case is built on fact and •derstanding and moral support in
observation, not 'on revelation. their days of difficulty.
He does not, argue about whether
. "Ours is the task of 'oontinuing
things ought to be so. He. sees to urge that, if at all possible,
that they are so and asks how the national agencies develop on
they can be dealt with. He is a their level some semblance of the
sovereign m i n d, a sovereign order that we have been able to
, evolve locally.
Fred Kahn, field representative
Harmony and' Solidarity
of the Weizmann Institute- of
"Reconstitution of a national
Science, who is in Detroit to working agreement is 'a mech-
arrange for the Dorothy Thomp- anism that we welcome, but
son luncheon, announced this whether it is accomplished or
week that Detroit's quota in the not, ours_ is the responsibility .of
national $3,000,000 drive is maintaining. the • harmony and
$75,000,, payable over a period of solidarity within our own ranks.
two years.
The causes and the people who
Communities throughout t h e are being served are greater than
country are active in behalf of the machinery that has been set
this fund.
up to serve them."
Appeal by Weisgal
Mr. Sobeloff's .appeal for the
The initial appeal for the reconstruction of unity in na-
'Weizmann Institute of Science tional fund-raising r e c e iv e d
was made here _last Monday at hearty approval at-the confer-
a luncheon of representative ence and he was applauded for
Zionists at Hotel Statler.
his plea that "the p•itnacY of the
Meyer W.' Weisgal,' who was American .Jewish community
here to address the Zionist must be maintained."
Council and to repdrt on his re-
cent visit in Palestine, outlined Rabbi .Sperka Speaker
the objectives of the Weizmann
Institute and made an appeal At Mlawer Umgegend
for the highest possible honors Anniversary Banquet
that can be given Dr. Weizmann
on his 70th birthday. He ex-
Rabbi Joshua S. Sperka will
pressed the -hope that when Dr. be gUest speaker at the 11th an-
Weizmann comes to this country niversary dinner of Mlawer Um-
next month he will be informed gegend Verein on- Sunday eve-
that the first million dollars -has ning,..at Larchar's.
already been raised • for the
Julius Newberg, chairman, and
Israel Burnstein o co-chairman, of
Institute\
the banquet committee, have ar-
ranged the entertainment pro-
gram to include selections by
Meyer Eisenberg.
Call TY. 5-4002 for reserva-
tions.
Food packages may now be
sent to civilians in France
through the Hebrew Sheltering
and Immigrant Aid Society
(HIAS), 425 Lafayette St., New
.York 3, N. Y., Abraham Herman_ 5
president of HIAS, announced.
HO. 1478
The weight of any _single
package may not exceed 4
pounds six ounces.
Packages are mailed through
PRESCRIPTION
the U. S. Post Office. Six stan-
dard assortments are available,
SPECIALISTS—
ranging in price from $3.99-' to
$6.34. These prices include pack- ,
Mg, insurance and postal charges
PHARMACY
of $2.12.
All details concerning dispatch
5003 Collingwood
of the packages are. taken. care .
Corner Yosemite
of by HIAS.

Drive in City

Dr. Weizmann's U. S. Representative Describes Jewish
Homeland at Zionist Emergency. Council -Rally Here;
Ellstein Honored for Sponsoring Resolution

Gewerkshaften Drive Near
The realities of modern Palestine are a miracle, declared
Half-way Mark; New Film
Meyer Weisgal in an address before a meeting arranged by
Is Shown at Rally
the Zionist Emergenby Council at the Rose Sittig Cohen

Bldg., on Monday evening.
The evening also featured the paying of tribute to Rep.
Jack Ellstein for the service which he rendered to the Zion-
ist cause in introducing and en -4

Fund Raising
Unity Urged
By Sobeloff

HARRY STRUB

With marked progress' report-
ed for the $125,000 Histadrut-
•Gewerkshaften campaign now
being conducted here, leaders re-
ported this week that they ex-
pected the half-way. mark to be
reached during the coming week.
The latest Zionist labor film,
"Histadrut—Builder of a Na-
tion," was shown here for the
first time on Thursday and dur-
ing the balance of the drive it

Cpl. It. Cottler Norman Cottler

will be presented . at cultural
meetings of local orkanizations.
Societies desiring to- make use
of this film are asked to com-
municate with the Gewerkshaft-
en . office, 9142 Linwood, TY.
7-8225, "and to reserve a date for
the showing of the film.
Harry Strub, an active mem-_
ber of Arlazaroff Branch of
Jewish National . .Workers' Al-
liance, is among the leading so-
licitors for the Gewerkshaften
drive.
Another active leader in the
drive is Norman Cottler; who
was a corporal in the Jewish
Legion which fought in Palestine
in the last war. His son, Reuben
Cottler, is now a corporal in the
U. S. Army.
Mr. Cottler is an active mem-
ber of the Pinsker Verein and
Arlazaroff Branch.

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gineering the passage of the Pal- quickly "oozing out of them."
estine Resolution by the State
"This was accomplished as -a
Legislature..
In presenting printed copies of result of the love and affection
the resolution which will be with which they are greeted and
transmitted to the President and the readiness to help them be-
other federal 'officials, Mr. Ell- come integrated into the land,"
he said.
stein said that he deemed it an
honor to have been able toupon- Mr. Weisgal stated that every-.
sor the resolution and that he is where in Eretz Yisroel one hears
ready to do all in his power for the cry, "Open the gates so that
the benefit Of his people. the . remnant can come in and
Inscribed In JNF Golden Book share, with us'." He pointed out
that Palestine is still largely an
Mr. Ellstein's name will be empty country waiting for its
inscribed in the Golden Book of people to return to redeem it.
the JNF.
Points Out One Flaw
Mr. Weisgal, who has juSt re-
turned to this -country after a According to Mr. Weisgal, we
six-week tour of Palestine, as have planted our roots so deeply
the guest of Dr. Chaim Weiz- in the soil of Eretz Yisrdel that
mann, reviewed his impressions we can afford to discuss a few
and pointed that all of our of the negative -aspects of our
dreams of yesterday have come development there. "One of the
true: flaws which• we must overcome -
"Our; educational institutions, is the desire of each group to
our health centers compare well place its own stamp on the com-
w the best in the world. Our munity and to create its own lit-
agricultural settlements, partic- tee homeland. We must not per-
ularly the collectives are rich in mit this tendency lest we create
human material and in the un- a 'tribal civilization'."
derstanding of the magnitude of Mr. Weisgal emphasized the
the task they have undertaken; necessity for .the influx of Amer-
therefore, they are powerfUl," he ican youth into Palestine. Young
American blood will serve as a
said.
Yishuv's Responsibility
stabilizing influence. He indi-
He indicated that - the whole cated the General Zionists, too,
Yishuv feels its responsibility to- must think in terms of personal
ward the. nation and is well dis participation.
ciplined in that respect. Mr
Weisgal touchingly contrasted
the despair of the Galut with the
atmosphere of -'hopefulness which
permeates the very air of Eretz-
Yisroel.
He told of the refugees whom
he met at Athlit and of their
tales of woe and of their help-.
lessness. Several weeks later he
met these same refugees in•vari-
ous colonies and was amazed at
their having so rapidly recap-
tured- the life- which had been

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