THE JEWISH NEWS
Friday, October I9, 1945
Page Five .
War Chest $8,490,336 Campaign Off to Good Start
Mayor Jeffries Calls on All
To Meet Responsibilities
Robert St. John
Jewish Center
To Speak Nov. 4
Activities
Select Social Group (the over 40
years of age group) will be held
Saturday evening, Oct. 27 in the
Ginzburg Lounge.
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Will Address Men's Club of
One-Tenth of Goal Raised Early in, Drive - With Large
Frankensteen to Speak
Temple Beth El on "People
Contributors to Be Heard From; Great Array of
At Center Wednesday
Behind the News"
Speakers to Address Daily Report Meetings
Continuing the discussions of
.
The 1945 War Chest campaign for $8,490,336 received a
good start when workers, gathered at the first report meet-
ing at Hotel Statler on Monday, announced that they had
raised $840,592, or 9.9 per cent of the entire goal.
With many solicitors out working and some of the large.
contributors yet to be reported upon, the campaign leaders
felt confident that the entire
goal will be reached.
Making the first public appeal
for the fund, Mayor Edward J.
Jeffries declared that Detroit
- must and will measure up to the
community's responsibilities.
Current Responsibility
Mayor Jeffries viewed the
current responsibility as involv-
ing the duty of making the
world a better place to live in.
"Now that the war is over, it is
up to Americans either to fish
or to cut bait," he declared, and
expressed confidence that in this
drive Detroit will do better than
ever before.
Frank Eaman opened the first
meeting with brief remarks and
introduced Edwin Anderson,
chairman of the drive-
Arthur H. ("Red") Motley,
publisher of the American Maga-
zine, guest speaker at Monday's
meeting, delivered a stirring ad-
dress preliminary to the present-
ation of various reports by cam-
paign leaders. Detroit Edison
Co. was host at Monday's lunch-
eon.
46 Pct. for War Relief
Mr. Motley, pointed out that
46 per cent of the campaign goal
goes for war relief, not duplicat-
ing the Red Cross, declared that
"hunger, cold and disease will
write the peace," that they are
stronger than the Big Three
leaders, that "what you do will
serve the most in eliminating
despair."
"The race," Mr. Motley point-
ed out, "is to win the peace." He
described the various needs to
be fulfilled by War Chest agen-
cies and called attention to the
request of Gen. Eisenhower that
twice as many USO units be es-
tablished overseas to serve the
needs of servicemen.
Archbishop Edward Mooney
was the guest speaker at the
luncheon meeting on Tuesday,
when the Hudson Motor Car Co.
was host.
Knight Guest Speaker
Manufacturers National Bank
of Detroit was host at the lun-
cheon Wednesday, when John S.
Knight, publisher of the Detroit
Free Press, was the guest speak-.
er.
Continental Motors Corp- was
host at Thursday's luncheon.
This Friday, Clarence B. Ran-
dall, vice-president of Inland
Steel Co., was guest speaker, In-
dustrial National Bank being
host.
Rose-Marie Volin, USO-Camp
Shows artiste, will appear at next
Monday's luncheon meeting,
-
Dr. Marcus of HUC
Talks at Dinner of
Temple Israel Men
Dr. Jacob Marcus of the fac-
ulty of Hebrew Union College,
Cincinnati,_. will address the din-
ner of the Men's Club of Temple
Israel at Hotel Statler on Tues-
day evening, Oct. 30.
Arthur Hass is in charge of
arrangements. Reservations are
being accepted at the Temple
Israel office, TR. 1-5110.
The entertainment committee
is under the chairmanship of
Barney Barnett, assisted by its
co-chairman, Charles Bassey, and
members of the committee, Sol
I. Stein, Murray Sutkin, Sam
Burtman, Dr. J. M. Goldsmith,
Claude .Grassgreen, Louis Mill-
man and Harry Pliskow.
The Men's Club's: November
program provides for a meeting
with the Sisterhood, as an "Eve-
ning With the Rabbi."
Michigan Consolidated Gas Co.
to be host.
Powell Speaks Tuesday
John B. Powell, war corres-
pondent who lost both feet as a
result of Japanese prison camp
infections, will speak next Tues-
day, at the report meeting at
which Great Lakes Steel Corp.
will be host.
Mme. Denise H. Davey of
American Relief for France will
speak next Wednesday, Detroit
Trust Co. to be host.
Michigan Bell Telephone Co.
will be host at the luncheon re-
port meeting on Oct. 25-
On Oct. 26, the guest speaker
will be William J. Norton, execu-
tive vice-presi-
dent of the
-Children's Fund
of Michigan.
The Detroit
Bank will be
host at this
gathering of
workers.
On Oct. 2 9 ,
W. J. Norton the guest speak-
er at the luncheon report meet-
ing will be Judge Charles C.
Simons of the U. S. Circuit Court
of Appeals. Sams Inc. will be
host.
George T. Christopher, presi-
dent and general manager of
Packard Motor Car Co•, will
speak on Oct. 30, Fred Sanders,
confectioners, to be host.
The report meetings will con-
clude with the victory dinner on
Oct. 31, Ford Motor Co. and J.
L. Hudson Co. to be hosts.
All report meetings are held
at the Statler Hotel.
It is believed that nearly 2,000
Jewish workers will assist in
making a success of the War
Chest, which includes all the lo-
cal, national and overseas, causes
of the Allied Jewish Campaign
of the Jewish Welfare Federa-
tion. The United Jewish Appeal
agencies—Joint Dis t r i b u t ion
Committee, United Palestine Ap-
peal and National Refugee Ser-
vice—are the major Jewish bene-
ficiaries of the drive.
Archbishop Introduced
By Henry Wineman
Heny Wineman, vice-president
of the Detroit War Chest, in-
troduced Archbishop Mooney
who was the speaker at Tues-
day's campaign luncheon meet-
ing.
The total reported raised on
that day was $404,842, boosting
the entire total as of Tuesday.
to $1,245,434 or 14.7 per cent of
the goal.
Mr. Wineman declared that
"if we wish to build the kind. of
a world we desire to live in, we
must take care of those who,
because of conditions beyond
their control, are unable to help
themselVes. The War Chest is
the medium for such service.
The fact that men of all faiths
have joined in this drive testi-
fies to the spirit of good will
and brotherhood that prevails in
our community."
In his interesting address,
Archbishop Mooney declared
that the War Chest is "a sum-
mons to duty." He warned
against over-confidence in his
appeal to workers to do their
best to make the drive a suc-
cess.
"This year's War Chest is de-
signed to meet a greater need
than ever before," he stated.
"When the need is greatest, the
perception is likely to be less
keen, and we must avoid over-
confidence."
Referring to the needs for
overseas relief, he pointed out
Robert St. John, NBC radio
commentator and war corres-
pondent, will speak at Temple
Beth El on Sunday, Nov. 4, at
8:30 p. m., under the auspices of
the Men's Club of Temple Beth
El.
Mr. St. John's reputation for re-
porting history-making events has
a solid newspaper and radio back-
..,ground. His fate,
*"%:• h a t things al-
"ways happen
where he is, has
enabled the Am -
erican people to
Dbtain first-rate,
first - hand r e -
porting of the
London "blitz,"
the Polish cam-
paign, the bomb-
R. St. John ing of Belgrade,
the fall of Greece, the abdication
of Carol of Romania. His book,
"From the Land of Silent People,"
has been called "the best book
that has yet come out of World
War II."
His famous news commentaries
throughout the war, from Station
WWJ, have won him the admira-
tion and respect of thousands of
Detroiters.
His subject, "The People Be-
hind the News," is a "now it can
be told" account of the political
and military activities in the capi-
tals of the United Nations and on
the battlefields of the world.
This lecture is open to the pub-
lic. Tickets, at $1 each, are on
sale at Grinnell's and at Temple
Beth El.
Rep. Douglas Calls
On British Gov't.
To Keep Promise
American Christian Palestine
Committee Youth Meet-
ing Hears Appeals
NEW YORK—Speaking on Sun-
day evening in Christ Church, at
a youth meeting- called by the
American Christian Palestine
Committe as part of a three-day
Christian Conference on Pales-
tine, Rep. Helen Gahagan Douglas
(D.) of California demanded that
the British Labor Government
fulfill its pledge of a Jewish
Palestine now, "when a hopeless
future stares in the face of
European Jewry, when every con-
sideration of mercy, justice and
political logic calls for a Jewish
Palestine."
Dr. Carl Hermann Voss, ex-
tension secretary of the Church
Peace Union and co-director of
the American Christian Palestine
Committee, told the youth meet-
ing that "after appealing to the
conscience of mankind for six
horrible years, during which their
brethern in Europe were annihi-
lated by the millions, the Jews
of Palestine have now reached
the end of their patience.
"They can no longer suffer in
silence while Britain's cruel policy
on Palestine makes a mockery
of the ideals for which we fought
the Second World War and for
which six million Jews lost their
lives. The responsibility for mak-
ing a battlefield of the Holy Land
is Britain's and Britain's alone."
Dean Howard M. LeSourd of
Boston University, director of the
American Christian Palestine
Committee, and Rabbi Ali ron
Opher, of the Hebrew Tabernacle,
condemned t h e White Paper
and demanded justice for the
Jewish cause in Palestine..
that every one who has been in
Europe warns that the needs
will be the greatest this year
since 1939.
"We can't prevent all suffer-
ing," he said, "but we can not
sleep peacefully if we do not
prevent as much as we can."
the issues in the mayoralty cam-
paign, Richard T. Frankensteen,
candidate for mayor, will address
the Business and Professional
Group of the Jewish Community
Center on Wednesday, Oct. 24.
The previous speaker was Mayor
Edward J. Jeffries. The meeting
will be held in the main auditor-
ium at 9 p. m. All are welcome.
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Select Social Group
Second of a series of discus-
sions on "War Problems", by the
Mother's Clubs
The Council of Mother's Clubs
calls the attention of members
and friends to the importance of
voting on Tuesday, Nov. 6, for
Mayor and City Council.
The Mothers' Clubs calendar
follows:
Center Mothers' Club, Monday,
8:30 p. m., at Jewish Center.
Young Women's Study Club,
Tuesday, 1:30 p. m., at Rose Sit-
tig Cohen Building.
Woodward Study Club, Wed-
nesday, 1:30 p. m., at Jewish Cen-
ter.
Davison Mothers' Club, Thurs-
day, 8:30 p. m., at Workmen's
Circle Educational Center.
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• Not for our Thousands of fighting
heroes who need medical aid and
hospitalization before They can re-
turn to civilian life.
• Not for the millions of our loyal
allies who were left homeless, in rags,
bone-gaunt from starvation and sick
in mind and body.
• Not for the young mothers-to-be
whose husbands will not return for
many, many months, or never who
need spiritual comfort and financial
aid.
—
• Not for the children
who have no
parents, or unthinking ones
—
children
who take to waywardness because
mother love and guidance is absent.
Buy a share in a better future for
everybody. Your dollars will help to
end the war for all. This year make
your contribution bigger than ever—
make it as big as your heart,
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