Friday, May 25, 1945

Page Nine

THE JEWISH NEWS

Jewish Welfare Funds Breaking All Records

Organize Jewish Groups
For 7th War Loan Drive

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JWF Operating as Double-Barrelled
Organization Here Through War Chest

American Jews are contributing to their 1945
local Jewish welfare funds on a precedent-shat-
tering level. Reports of spring campaigns, as re-•
ceived by the Council of Jewish Federations and
Welfare Funds, show increases in initial _gifts
reaching as high as 600 per cent over 1944, which
are believed to reflect for the first time the true
strength of American Jewish welfare funds.
The liberation of 1,500,000 destitute Jewish
victims of Nazism, resulting in the need for in-
creased expenditures by the Joint Distribution
Committee and the United Palestine Appeal, as
well as the needs of national and local agencies,
are reported responsible for the record breaking
generosity of American Jews this year.
The combination of higher sustained incomes
and favorable tax provisions are pointed to as
additional factors helping to produce outstand-
ing contributions.
. Communities . Increase Giving
The Los Angeles Jewish community, which is
campaigning for $3,000,000, one million dollars
more than in 1944, has reported initial gifts to-
taling $750,000, showing an increase of more than
50 per cent over 1944. Two $50,000 gifts were
among the first contributions to be announced.
Philadelphia's goal is $2,250,000, the highest
in its history, and increases of as high as 300
per cent in gifts already have been announced.
First returns from Newark show $242,000
from 3,400 contributors.

—a 59 per cent increase. Newark's 1945 goal is
$1,300,000, against $700,000 last year.
ComMunities of medium size appear to be
duplicating the performance of the large centers
of population. Hartford, Connecticut, with $418,-
000 pledged on its opening night, was only $86,000.
short of its goal of $504,000. Miami, Florida, *cele-
brated victory with a total of $359,366, an increase
of $157,366 over 1944. St. Paul and Minneapolis,
Minnesota both report increases in upper bracket
gifts of 40 per cent.
Smaller Communities Report Gains
Among smaller communities, Fort Wayne,
Indiana, Birmingham, Alabama, and Worcester,
Massachusetts, are reported as typical examples
of the response of American Jews to 1945 needs.
Ft. Wayne will raise over $100,000 as against
$63,000 in 1944. Birmingham has raised $131,000,
a 57 per cent increase over 1944. Worcester has
achieved a 300 per cent overall increase in in-
itial gifts; typical Worcester increases are from
$250 to $2,500, from $200 to $600, from $150 to
$600.
In Detroit, the Jewish Welfare Federation
operates as a double-barrelled organization, corn-
bining the usual functions of a local Federation
with those of a Welfare Fund. The local Allied
Jewish Campaign is associated with the War
Chest of Metropolitan Detroit and fund-raising
for all major Jewish causes will continue this
fall to be a part of the War Chest drive.

`Detroit's Stake in Race Relations'

Ilingay to Yiew Racial Peril
At Work Shop Conference

A concerted effort is being made by Division A of
the 7th War Loan organization to spur efforts in the
Jewish community so that previous results may be
matched, and exceeded if possible.
Henry Wineman and Irving I. Blumberg, co-chair-
men of Division A, announce that the following , chair-
men have been selected by Detroit synagogues and or-
ganizations to carry on the drive:
Leonard . Simons, Temple Beth El.
Charles H. Aller, Temple Israel.
Dr. Harry Burstein, Shaarey Zedek.
Harry Grossman and Mac Gordon, Knoliwood
Country Club.
Irving Oberfelder, Franklin Hills Country Club.
Buy That Extra Bond!
It is imperative that complete cooperation with the
current effort be given to assure the campaign's success
in order to bring Day nearer and nearer.

November Set Aside
As Jewish Book Month

Dr. Solomon Grayzel, president
of the Jewish Book Council of
America, has announced that
Jewish Book Month would be
observed in 1945 during Novem-
ber. National and local Jewish

Moishe Smith Wins
Michigan Art Prize

organizations are requested to
reserve this month when for-
mulating program plans for the
next season.
For further information write
to the Jewish Book Council,
sponsored by the National Jew-
ish Welfare Board, 145 East 32nd
St., New York 16.

, Distinction ...

Moishe Smith, Jewish Com-
munity Center Art School Stu-
dent, received an award and
Malcolm W. Bingay's expose of Nazi brutalities has horrified prize for best work in Michigan,
the entire Detroit community, and Christians as well as Jews have
expressed indignation over the mass murders committed by in competition with all other
Germans. <;
schools.
Mr. Bingay, editorial director
J. Lehmkuhl, president of the
of the Detroit Free Press, who
United States Time Corporation,
was a member of the editors'
commission that was sent to Ger-
sponsors of the award, wrote to
many to investigate • conditions,
Smith:
relates the horrors perpetrated
"It is a pleasure to inform you
upon entire communities,' the
that in the recent Scholastic Art
mass extermination of Jews, and
the effect that all this had upon All Types Needed Immedi- AWard Contest held at the
Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh,
the world at large.
ately to Replace Those
you were awarded honorable
His warning is especially di-
mention in the Ingersoll Art
Destroyed by Nazis
rected against the spread of Nazi
Awards, sponsored by the United
ideas in this country.
Activity is in full swing for States Time Corporation. After
Pointing to the doctrines of
the award of one National Prize
crack-pots who have run loose in the Book Collection sponsored by
in Michigan by the seven dis-
the land, Mr. Bingay states that the American Jewish Congress.
The Detroit Section is cooperat- tinguished judges, your • work 7651 West McNichols Road
he is worried about America.
ing in a drive to send books in was selected as the best in your
"I am not so much worried
Yiddish and Hebrew as well as state."
about Germany as I am about
books in all other languages to
America," he said. "We've got
replace those destroyed in the
to have a moral renascence
ruined Jewish communities in
before we point the finger of
Europe.
scorn at the other fellow."
All types _of books are needed
Mr. Bingay will be the prin-
cipal speaker at the evening immediately — religious books,
meeting of a Work Shop Confer- text books, literary books, and
ence on Race Relations spon- holy scrolls.
sored by the City of Detroit In-
Books may be left at the fol-
terracial Committee in the Rack- lowing stations: The American
ham Memorial Building Friday, Jewish Congress, 727 David Stott
June 1.
Bldg., and 9124 Linwood; Jew,
Sessions will be held from 9:30 ish. Community Center, Wood-
a. m., to 5 p. m. and will close ward at Holbrook and 12th St. at
with the meeting at 8 p. m. dur- Blaine; Zion Book Store, 9608
ing which Bingay will talk on 12th St.; Chesluk Book Store,
"Detroit's Stake in Race Rela- 8663 12th St.; Jewish War Vet-
'
tions."
erans, 8212 12th St.; Metro Music
Admittance at the daytime ses- House, 10324 Dexter.
sions of the Conference is by in-
Call TOwnsend 8-2484 o r
vitation. The evening session is
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Christian and Jew
To Receive Awards

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Members of the Book Com-
mittee are: Mr. Harry M. Kam-
iner, chairman; Mrs. David B.
Penfil, secretary; Mr. Eugene
Franzblau, Mrs. Ben Z. Freeman,
and Alex. Schreier. The follow-
ing have pledged their support:
Dr. Clarissa Fineman, Rabbi
Leon Fram, Mr. William Hordes,
Mr. Bernard Isaacs, Mr. Morris
Lieberman, Mrs. Esther Mendel-
son, Mr. Morris Mohr, Mr. Irving
Schlussel, Mr. Morris Schaver,
Mr. Isadore Sosnick, Rabbi
Joshua Sperka, and Rabbi Isaac
Stoll man.

NEW YORK—A Christian and
a Jew will receive the Louis D.
Brandeis Award of The Jewish
Forum, 27 year old Anglo-Jewish
literary monthly. The last reci-
pient (before the war) was
Harold L. Ickes, to whom it was
presented with the approval of
the late Supreme Court Justice
Brandeis. Among other non-Jew-
ish recipients were Mrs. Sara
Delano Roosevelt and James G. BEINECONMENEffigasszagEngegm
McDonald.
The State Department of
The Louis D. Brandeis gold
The Jewish War Veterans
medals will be presented at the
Town Hall on Sunday, June 3,
of the United States
to Dr. Henry A. Atkinson and
Announces the .
Maurice W. Caplan.
Availability of a
Dr. Atkinson is chairman of
HALL
the Christian Council on Pales-
For your parties, dances,
tine and co-chairman of the
affairs, banquets. Facili-
Council Against Intolerance in
ties for every purpose.
Spacious quarters newly
America.
renovated and furnished.
Mr: Caplan, with the Bethle-
8212 TWELFTH
hem Steel Co., of Baltimore, was
Abington Theater Bldg.
instrumental in having Liberty
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HOW MUCH TO MOVE A WAR ?

What will it cost, this Moving Day
of War?
Estimate it in these terms: The
job of moving millions of men from
one front to another. Thousands of
ships to carry the supplies of battle.
Swarms of new-type aircraft to
blast the path into enemy territory.
You can get an idea of the cost from the
fact that Uncle sam needs 7 billions from us

in the mighty Seventh War Loan-

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The Seventh War Loan will call for
the greatest bond-buying we have
ever done. if you have an income—
whether from work, land, or capital
—you have a quota in the 7th War
Loan. Be sure to make it!
As soon as we can, we'll bring to bear
on the laps all the additional might we've
been using against Germany.

ALL OUT F R THE MIGHTY P-4 WAR LOAN

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