Friday, March 30, 1945 Page THE JEWISH NEWS Jerusalem Urged to Rotate Mayors of Different Faiths High Commissioner of Palestine Proposes Municipality - Solve Complicated Problem by Appointing Jew, Christian, .Moslem Annually JERUSALEM, (JTA) — The Palestine High Commis- sioner has submitted to the municipality of Jerusalem a proposal to solve the complicated problem of the appoint- ment of a mayor acceptable to Jews, Moslems and Christians. The proposal suggests that the municipality adopt a system of triple rotation by appointing successively for one year a Moslem, a Christian and a Jew to the mayoralty post. This arrangement would constitute a further step in the development of local self-government in Palestine, the High Commissioner believes. District Commissioner James Pollack, who delivered the proposal to members of the municipal council, appealed to them to display good-will and tolerance . and to accept the plan. The. Palestine government, he added, is ready to ex- tend every assistance in carrying out the project. In official Jewish circles here there is keen disappointment over these proposals. The rotation system, limiting the mayor's term to one year, the Jews say, can only handicap the development of self Government as the terms would be too short and far between to enable any mayor to manifest his initiative and assume respons- ibility for the management of municipal affairs. The actual man- agement of the city's affairs would, under such a system, be under the control of the British Town Clerk, the Jews charge. Detroit Launches Campaign For Clothes for War Victims Weekly Review of the News of the World (Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service) AMERICA American-Jewish soldiers and officers from places all over the world have sent in thousands of dollars for Palestine "because they have come to the conclusion that the Jewish people must have its own home," Rabbi Nathan Witkin, National Jewish Wel- fare Board representative, told Mrs. Rachelle S. Yarden, director of the Latin American Department of the Jewish Agency for. Pal- estine, who stopped in Panama City enroute to the first Latin American Zionist confer- ence in Montevideo. "The Arab countries are worried by the strong backing given the Zionist. cause abroad, particularly by the major American political parties," Sam Pope Brewer reports in a Cairo dispatch to the New York Times. The future status of Palestine is the most important of the immediate problems facing the newly formed Arab League, Mr. Brewer reporta. Seventy-two year old Mordecai Chaim Rumkowski, oldest Jew in the Litzmannstadt (Lodz) ghetto, where at one time 200,000 "se- lected" Jews were employed making uniforms for the German Army, chose to. accompany this seventy year old brother to an extermination camp rather than remain at Litzmannstadt to await his turn to be called, C. L. Sulzberger reports in a Moscow dispatch to the N. Y. Times. PALESTINE "So far as is known to me there is no basis for the report circulated by the United Press, from Cairo, and by the New York Times re- garding an alleged Arab proposal" with re- gard to the Jewish position in Palestine, David ben Gurion, chairman of the Executive Corn- mittee of the Jewish Agency,, declared in a speech to the Central Committee of Mapai, Jewish Palestine's Labor Party, on the eve of his departure to Britain and the United States. Eliezer Kaplan, treasurer of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, told the Central Com- mittee of Mapai that three main tasks con- front him in connection with his mission to. the United States: to assure the budget of the Jewish Agency; to regulate relief for Jews in Europe, and to establish broad economic ties between Palestine and America." He revealed that an agreement has been reached here be- tween the Jewish Agency and the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee concern- ing relief in Eastern Europe, but it was neces- sary to reach closer co-operation. OVERSEAS An anonymous Rome booklet, Confessions of a Convert, which seeks to "explain" the reasons that brought 2,000 Italian Jews to the baptism font last year, is believed to have been authored by former Rabbi Zolli. There are some forty to fifty thousand Jewish slave laborers engaged in agricultural and war work in Danzig. Soviet Ambassador Gousey and First Councillor Koukin received, in London, in be- half of Marshall Joseph Stalin, a Hebrew trans- lation of Stalin's work, "Problems of Lenin- ism," issued by the Workers Book Guild, pub- lishing house of the leftist Hashomer Hatzair organization of Palestine. The book, a copy of which was also gifted to the Ambassador, was presented by Mordecai Orenstein of the Hista- druth • delegation to the World Trade Union Conference in London, and Ben Israel, both representing the Hashomer Hatzair. (See Also Page 51) Mrs. Welt on Committee Directing. Local Phase of Drive in U. S. for 150 Million Pounds of Garments; City's Quota Set at 10 Million A nation-wide used clothing drive with a goal of 150,000,000 pounds will open here April 1 under the chairmanship of former Senator Prentis M. Brown. Henry J. Kaiser, -record-breaking shipbuilder of the west coast, heads the national committee sponsoring the drive for UNRRA. The appeal is for good serviceable used clothing for destitute men, women and children in war-ravaged countries. Detroit is asked for 10,000,000 pounds of clothing. Convenient bins and collection depots, locations to be announced later, will be available all during April for deposit of clothing. Mr. Brown stressed the need of good, substantial used clothing in the drive but was emphatic that Detroiters must not buy new articles (bought especially to contribute). Clothing • is needed - for winter and summer wear and although it need not be in perfect repair it should be useful to the wearer. Underclothing and all types of cotton garments must be washed but need not be ironed. Coming at the propitious time of spring housecleaning Detroit housewives are asked to share with our allies ,clothing in seven different categories: infants' garments, men's and boys' garments, shoes (tied together), .usable remnants and piece goods of one yard or more in length. Mayor Edward J. Jeffries is honorary chairman a n d Mr. Brown is assisted by the following vice-chairmen: George T. Chris- topher, Most Rev. Edward Mooney, Mrs. Dorothy Kemp Roosevelt, Fred Sanders, E. A. Schirmer and Mrs. Joseph M. Welt. 7 Chaplains in Philippines Regret Dissolution of UJA. Rabbis Adler and Gordon of Detroit Among Signatories of Letter to Srere; Thousands of U. S. Jewish Soldiers Saddened by Split, Note Reveals . . Abraham Srere, chairman of the board of governors of the Jewish Welfare Federation of Detroit, has received a copy of a letter addressed to the United Jewish Appeal by seven Jewish Chaplains, all stationed "Somewhere in the Philippines," express- ing disappointment over the dissolution of the UJA and the setting up of separate campaign organizations for the Joint Distribution Committee and the United Palestine Appeal. Two of the signatories to this letter are Detroiters—Chaplains Morris Adler and Albert Gordon. The others are Chaplains Charles Shulman, Abraham Winokur, Lawrence Charney, Samuel M. Silver and Sidney Strumpf. All are serving with the U. S. Army, except Chaplain Shulman,- who is with the Navy. Their letter follows: "It was with pain and disappointment that we learned of the dissolution of the UJA. Being far from home, we are entirely ignor- ant of the imm.pliate issues and personalities which brought about the collapse of- American Jewry's greatest united effort.. However, precisely because we are so far removed from the scene, we see the whole matter in a. new perspective. We regard that which has happened as a serious setback and can testify that it has sad- dened thousands of American Jewish soldiers to whom we minister as Chaplains. "Without exaggerating what the Chaplains have accomplished and without seeking to further augment the myth of a great re- ligious revival that has been fostered in some circles, we do be- lieve that the impact of the war and of the religious program that has been in effect in most military installations, has stirred latent Jewish loyalties in many a heart. There has been a wholesome weakening of partisanship and parochialism as together, Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, Zionist, Non-Zionist, Hebraist and Yiddish- is t, we met in Jewish fellowship. Our men have begun to develop a sense of K'lal Yisroel, a kinship with a collective Israel greater than that represented by any one sect or group. "When 'they return home and find a community pitably frag- mentized, hopelessly segmented and divided, they will not only suffer disillusionment but we fear that they may surrender to a . negative reaction against organized. American Jewish life. "We do not know all the LT-tors in the situation. We are not committed to any one agency within the UJA. We plead for a reunited effort, so that our hard work, conscientiously performed not without sacrifice and hardship, should not be completely vitiated. "With an earnest hope that our voice may be heard and with best wishes for an inspiring Passover, . we remain, etc‘" The moment is at hand for Ameri- can soldiers to give everything they've got in a supreme effort. Depend on them. They will write history . . . write it with their blood. Financially, too, this is the most important, most urgent phase of the war for America. This is the moment our soldiers depend on us to make our supreme effort in this war! We've got to make history too! Passover Greetings from- Don't fail America now. Buy Bonds. Buy Bonds and keep on buy- ing Bonds even though it begins to pinch. ANK & SEDER WOODWARD. BETWEEN GRAND RIVER AND CLIFFORD