Friday, October 5, 1945

THE JEWISH NEWS

Page Five

2,000 AJC Workers Open War Chest Campaign

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Dr. Heller Souids Keynote
At Opening Rally Monday

- Allied Jewish Campaign to. Launch Vigorous Drive Here
for $8,490,336 Goal at Luncheon at Hotel Statler;
All Jewish. Causes to Share in. Contributions

The Community War Chest Campaign officially opens
Monday, Oct. 8. On that day 20,000 volunteer solicitors will
go into every neighborhood in Wayne County and ask resi-
. dents of the metropolitan area to raise $8,490,336. The money
will help provide social serviees for everyone at home, em-
ergency relief for millions of destitute people overseas, and

recreational, morale-building ac- s,
tivities for servicemen.
are free and are in -desperate
It is expected that more than need.
2,000 Jewish volunteer workers
Millions of American men
will participate_ in the campaign.
spilled their blood on foreign soil.
The go-sign to the Jewish
workers, who were mobilized by They gave their lives and their
the Detroit Service Group, will _limbs, not just to win a war of
be given at a luncheon of the battles, but to establigh peace—
Allied Jewish Campaign at 12:15 to establish a peace that would
noon on Monday at Hotel Statler.
mean justice and charity for all,
Dr. James G. Heller of Cin- freedom from want and the op-
cinnati, national chairman of the portunity to live happy, decent
United Palestine Appeal, will be lives. The fighting war is over.
guest speaker at this luncheon.
But the peace is not established.
Included in War Chest
Suffering More Now
All the major overseas, national
The people of Europe and the
and local Jewish causes, financed Far East still do not know the
by the Allied Jewish Campaign of joys of peace. They fought to
the Jewish Welfare Federation, better their conditions, but they
are included in the War Chest. are suffering more now than they
Although this Oct. 8-31 drive were before the war. These peo-
will be the last Community War ple are homeless, possessionless,
Chest campaign, it also will be and starving.
the biggest and the most import-
Conditions in Czechoslovakia
ant one. In the three former are typical of thoSe in most Euro-
drives a large amount of money pean lands, China and the Phil-
was needed to send relief sup- ippines. Food is so scarce that
plies to those Europeans who had rations for both adults and chil-
fled - their occupied homelands dren are limited to 1,800 calories a
and to the comparatively few day. And even that meagre al-
who were liberated. Now all the lowance is not balanced. There
peoples of Europe and the East is no milk available for the 250,-

000 new-born babies arriving while many cities are without
each year.
electricity, sewerage or water.

N'West Hebrew Cong.
Installs New Officers
Conditions in orphanages are

Legend Gives Reason
For Supporting Drive

particularly critical. Fifteen
thousand to 18,000 orphans in
Prague need food and clothing.
The following folk legend
Others are desperately ill and re-
gives a good reason for sup-
quire medical treatment and care,
porting wholeheartedly the
with only 60 per cent of the
Community War Chest cam.
paign which opens October 8 country's normal number of doc-
and continues through the
tors available to render profes-
month of October.
sional
services. Epidemics of in-
"As I walked one day in the
fantile paralysis. and . diphtheria
mountain
I _saw in the distance what I
are prevalent, and tuberculosis
and malnutrition are Common.
took to be a beast:
As I drew nearer I saw that it
A fighting war can be over, but
was a man—
peace cannot exist in lands where
As I came nearer still I dis-
such conditions are so prevalent.
covered it was my broth-
You help in the fight for peace
er."
when you contribute to the Com-
munity War Chest Campaign.
Because of the complete disrup- Give generously.
tion of transportation facilities in
Czechoslovakia, thousands of Shaarey Zedek Men
people in certain parts of the To Hold Movie Night
country would be entirely with-
Maurice Seligman, president of
out food, if that sent over by the
the Men's Club of Congregation
Community War Chest agency, Shaarey Zedek, announces that a
American Relief for Czechoslo- special treat, additional to the
vakia, were not dropped to the regularly. arranged prOgrams, has
been planned for next Wednes-
people by plane.
day vening in the social hall.
30,000 Lost Homes
Norman Snider, chairman of
In the Brotislav area, 30,000 the program committee, has ar-
families lost their homes and all ranged for a movie night. The
their belongings. In another area function will be for paid-up
the wells were poisoned and it is members and their wives. Re-
almost impossible to obtain water, freshments will be served.

At the installation of new of-
ficers of Northwest Hebrew Con-
gregation and Center, on Simhat
Torah, Ira G. Kaufman, presi-
dent, announced the appointment
of the following board members:
David B. Aaron, Benjamin
Brodman, Irwin I. Cohn, A. J.
Cutler, N. R. Epstein, Max Fine-
man, Max N. Haidy, Alfred A.
Helfgott, Philip Hellman, J.
Vine, Benjamin B. Levy, Adolph
H. Lichter, David J. Miller•, David
Safran, David Tchor and Alex
Moss, ex-officio.

Young Israel Group
Hears Sgt. Plotnisky

Recently returned from 22
months in Africa and Italy, Sgt.
Burton Plotnisky addressed the
general membership meeting of
Young Israel of Detroit on Oct. 3.
Sgt. - Plotnisky is one of four
brothers associated with Young
Israel, all having seen service in
the-armed forces. He is a brother
of Samuel W. Platt, chairman of
the board of Young Israel, who
assumed that office upon his re-
turn to civilian life in October,
1944. Another brother, Harold
Platt, heads Young Israel's Vet-
erans' committee. A third brother,
Cpl. Elliot Platt, is stationed in
Texas.

AJ C. Workers to Hear Talk
By Dr. Heller Here Oct. 8

Allied Jewish Campaign Rally, Sponsored -by Detroit
Service Group, Mobilized for War Chest Drive;
UPA Leader to Give Report on Palestine

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DR. JAMES G. HELLER VISITING JEWISH NATIONAL HOME

Speaking in the interest of a million homeless Jews in
Europe and the speedy upbuilding of Palestine, Dr. James
G. Heller, national chairman of the United Palestine Appeal
and co-chairman of the United Jewish Appeal, will address
a rally of the Allied Jewish Campaign workers, Monday,
Oct. 8, a the Statler Hotel. 0

The Oct. 8 meeting, the opening for the National United Jewish
day of the War Chest Drive, with Appeal. The AJC, which during
which the Allied Jewish Cam- the war has mobilized its man-
paign of the Detroit Welfare power and other resources in be-
Federation is affiliated, has been half of the War Chest of Metro-
arranged by the Detroit Service palitan Detroit, expects a record
Group to mobilize workers for the turnout of 'workers to hear Dr.
War Chest land to hear the report Heller.
by Dr. Heller of Cincinnati on his
Active in Cincinnati
experiences in Palestine during a
Dr. Heller has played a leading
two-months tour. He returned to
the States on the eve of Rosh role in many of the most import-
ant organizations in America.
Hashanah.
Spiritual leader of Isaac M. Wise
Supports Palestine
The United Palestine Appeal, Temple, Cincinnati, Dr. Heller is
which with the Joint Distribution active in every phase of Cincin-
Committee a n d the National nati's communal life. He has been
Refugee Service constitute the a member of the board of direct-
United Jewish Appeal, is the ors in the YMCA as well as of
major fund-raising agency for every important Jewish organiza-
Palestine, a n d supports such tion. He is a graduate of Tulane
causes as the Palestine Founda- University and Hebrew Union
tion Fund, the Jewish National College and was a Chaplain in
Fund and the Mizrachi Palestine World War I.
Fund. For reservations, call the
In Detroit, the Allied Jewish Jewish Welfare Federation, 51 W.
Campaign is the local instrument Warren, CO. 1600,

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