Friday. :June 22, 1945
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THE JEWISH NEWS
Windsor's Non-Jews Attend Annual
Quentin Reynolds to Speak Journalists
Open House at Shaar Hashomayim
Tuesday at Defense Rally Convene Here
Eminent Correspondent and Radio Commentator to 'Ad- Executive of English-Jewish
dress Jewish Welfare Federation's Civic
Newspaper Assn. in Session
Protective Campaign Meeting
This Week-End
Quentin Reynolds, noted journalist, author and radio
commentator, will be speaker at a report rally of the Special
Defense Fund Campaign for civic-protective work now being
conducted by the Jewish Welfare Federation of Detroit.
Members of the Jewish community are invited to the
rally .which will be held in the grand ballroom of Hotel
Statler next Tuesday evening,;:>
at 8:15, with Judge William deserves your generous support."
Friedman, president of the Fed-
Reynolds' Career
eration, serving as chairman, and
Mr. Reynolds was born April
Irving W. Blumberg, president of 11, 1902, in New York City. His
the Detroit Group, also on the father, James J. Reynolds, prin-
cipal of a public school in Brook-
program.
The campaign to raise funds lyn, moved the family to Brook-
for the financing of national and lyn in 1905. Quentin attended
local civic-protective services is public schools, then Manual
intended to cover the two-year Training High School and then
period from June 1, 1945 to May went to Brown University at
Providence, R. I., where he play-
31, 1947
AgeAcies in Drive
ed football, became a heavy-
The major agencies engaged weight boxing champion of the
in civic-protective work are the college and was a crack member
American Jewish Committee, the of the swimming team. One of
American Jewish Congress, the his best friends there was S. J.
Anti-Defamation League of Bnai Perelman with whom he after-
Brith and the Jewish Labor Com- ward wrote a humorous novel
mittee, all of which operate on called "Parlor, Bedroom and
a national scale. On the local Bath".
During his summer vacations
scene, the Jewish Community
Council, which derives support Reynolds worked on newspapers
for its regular operating budget until he was graduated in 1 09 4. He
and administrative costs from went to Brooklyn Law School,
Allied Jewish Campaign funds but soon returned to his news-
of the War Chest, also receives paper work, writing for the
a grant from the special defense Brooklyn Times and later for the
fund, outside of War Chest, for New York Evening World dur-
those parts of its program which, ing the day and studying law at
like the national services, are night. After getting his law de-
peculiarly the responsibility of gree he went with the Evening
World as a reporter, re-write
a Jewish fund.
After preliminary examination man and sports writer. When
of the budgetary requests of the the World died' he joined the
defense agencies, the Jewish staff of the World-Telegram and
Welfare Federation has set $250,- from there went. to the Interna-
000 for the next two years as tional News Service.
In 1933 he went to Germany as
the over-all amount which will
be required for the national and a foreign correspondent. When
local civic-protective programs, in 1934 Collier's offered him an
without, however, attempting at associate editorship, he returned
this time to determine the exact and joined the staff of Collier's
amounts to be allocated to each writing articles and short stories.
When the present war started he
of the agencies.
was sent to France on a roving
Study Allocations
The Council of Jewish Federa- commission and was one of the
tions and Welfare Funds is now last reporters out of Paris and
making a study on these matters. Bordeaux after the French col-
When the material is ready the lapse. Then he went to London
executive committee of Federa- where he did the commentary
tion, and the boards of gover- on two famous pictures, "London
Can Take It" and "Christmas
nors of the Jewish Welfare Fed- Under
Fire".
eration and the Detroit Service
Covered War Fronts
Group, sitting as a budget com-
Reynolds returned home in
mittee, will set fair allocations
January, 1941, made a lecture
from Detroit.
All of the beneficiary agencies tour and appeared at the Strand
are members of the National Theater in New York, telling of
Community Relations Advisory his experiences under fire. In
Council, created in March, 1944, April he went back on a convoy
with a view to joint planning from Halifax and worked in
and clearance by national and London. He was appointed press
officer to the American Com-
local agencies.
"We are dealing with a prob- mission headed by W. Averell
lem that is beset with difficul- Harriman, which flew to Mos-
ties," an appeal to the community cow. He has covered other war
this week states: "In the fight on fronts, such as North Africa, Sic-
anti-Semitism one fact is clear: ily, Italy, Teheran, Palestine, etc.
In September, 1943, he return-
the Jewish community of Detroit
is prepared, through a single- ed here and shortly thereafter
purpose approach, to encourage appeared on the Goodyear "Sa-
lute to Youth" program. At the
the agencies to operate on com-
mon ground, in dealing with a completion of this engagement,
problem that throws us all to- he started on the Electric Util-
gether and affects all of us. The ities Radio Program. "Report to
preservation of our rights, equal- the Nation", over CBS, in addi-
ity and freedom, is the pre-re-
quisite for the continuance of all
other Jewish activities.
A Vital Program
"The work of these agencies
is not a philanthropy; they oper-
ate for your own security. De-
fense work serves not only the
interests of the Jewish commun-
ity, but of all America. These
agencies are playing an import-
ant role in exposing the motives
of our enemies. The American
people must be enlightened to
the truth that anti-semitism, like
all other hate propaganda, is de-
signed to divide and conquer the
American people.
"The most vicious campaign
ever undertaken against any
group in the history of the world
will not die out automatically,
nor even with the coming of mili-
tary victory. Anti-Semitism is
being ,combatted through care-
fully developed techniques and
special skills. It is a profession-
al human relations job that can
be carried on effectively only by
people and organizations with a
unique backlog of experience and
knowledge.' This vital program
.
The executive committee of
the American Association of
English-Jewish Newspaper s,
which includes the 23 leading
English-Jewish weeklies in Am-
erica, will be in session in De-
troit on Saturday evening, June
23, and all day Sunday, June
24, at the Detroit-Leland Hotel.
The sessions will commence
with a dinner on Saturday night
at the Detroit-Leland, according
to Philip Slomovitz, editor of
The Jewish News of Detroit,
president of the association.
Other officers and members of
the executive are:
Robert S. Gamsey, Inter-
Mountain News, Denver, Colo.,
and Irving G. Rhodes, Wisconsin
Jewish Chronicle, Milwaukee,
Wis., vice-presidents; J. I. Fish-
bein, the Sentinel. Chicago, Ill.,
secretary; Leo H. Frisch, Ameri-
can Jewish World, Minneapolis,
Minn., treasurer; Prof. Joseph
G. Brin, The Jewish Advocate,
Boston, Mass., Albert W. Gol-
omb, American Jewish Outlook,
Pittsburgh, Pa., Lewis Solomon,
Southwestern Jewish Press, San
Diego, Calif., and Samuel M.
Schmidt, Every Friday, Cincin-
nati, 0., members of the execu-
tive committee.
Mr. Schmidt is expected to be
the only absentee, having left
this week for Europe on a -mis-
sion for the Union of Orthodox
Rabbis.
Guest Night, sponsored by
Congregation Shaar Hashomay-
im of Windsor, to which all mem-
bers of the Jewish community
were invited, was held on Fri-
day evening, June 15, and fea-
tured a program explaining and
dramatizing the educational, spi-
ritual and social aspects of Jew-
ish life.
Guest speaker was D. Lou
Harris of Toronto, chairman of
the Veteran's Service Bureau of
the Canadian Jewish Congress,
who visited Windsor in the in-
terest of organizing a Jewish
branch of the Canadian Legion.
His address followed the tradi-
tional explanation of the sym-
bolism of the Synagogue and
conducted a question and answer
period relative to all phases of
Jewish life.
The evening was concluded by
a social hour, the refreshments
for which were served by the
Sisterhood under the presidency
of Mrs. Bertha Meretsky.
The program was repeated on
Sunday afternoon at the second
annual Open House of the Con-
gregation. Because of the inter-
est aroused by last year's Open
House which was attended by
4,000 non-Jews, it was decided
to repeat the event which gives
the Windsor community an op-
portunity to familiarize them-
selves with the religious customs,
practices and symbols of their
Jewish neighbors.
Greeted by a staff of 15 ushers,
3,000 non-Jewish visitors were
shown to their pews and heard
Rabbi Benjamin Groner reveal.
the significance of the syna-
gogue's 2 stained ,glass windows
—each depicting a scene from
Jewish life.
A period was then set aside
for questions and answers.
The audience inspected ex-
hibits produced by the children
in their daily Hebrew school and
a photographic display of Jewish
progress in rebuilding Palestine
and Jewish participation in the
war effort.
Visitors came in three lecture
periods, and among others were
at least a dozen members of the
clergy.
TEL AVIV, (JTA) — Eliahu
Golomb, a leader of the Hista-
druth, who played an active
role in the development of Pal-
estine, died here of heart failure.
He was 53.
YOU AND YOUR IMAGINATION
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American Jewish. GIs Give
75,000 Francs in Rheims
NEW YORK, (JTA) --Amer-
ican Jewish servicemen station-
ed at or near Rheims, France,
raised 75,000 francs for a fund
to put the reviewed Jewish corn-
munity of Rheims back on its
feet, the Jewish Welfare Board
reports.
Rheims, with about 140 Jew-
ish families before the German
occupation, had three left when
the U. S. armed forces got to the
city. In the succeeding five
months, that nucleus increased
to 75 families, both French Jews
and those who had migrated to
France from central and Eastern
Europe.
tion. to making recordings for
General Motors.
In the fall of 1944 he made a
tour of the Southwest Pacific bat-
tle area, and returned to New
York to start a series for Camp-
bell Soup, on the Radio Read.
er's Digest Program.
He is the holder of honorary
degrees from the University of
Western Ontario, Brown Univer-
sity and Brooklyn Law School.
During his war reporting for
Collier's he wrote the following
books: "The Wounded Don't
Cry", "London Diary", "Convoy",
"Dress Rehearsal", "Only The
Stars Are Neutral", "The Curtain
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