Federations Parley Here
Will Plan Broad Program
General Assembly at Statler Feb. 8- I I to Deal With
Reconversion, Refugees, Budget Financing, Care of
Aged, National Budgeting Issue
With unprecedented needs overseas and major readjust-
ments at home, "Planning for 1946" will be the theme of the
1946 General Assembly of the Council of Jewish Federations
and Welfare Funds. A record attendance from all parts of
the United States and Canada will gather for the assembly
at the Statler Hotel, Feb. 8-11, to consider common problems
Alexander Greets
25th Anniversary
Of Mothers' Clubs
By MILTON M. ALEXANDER
I extend sincere felicitations
to the Jewish Center Mothers'
Clubs on the 25th anniversary of
their founding. I
am proud and
happy to have
had a part in
the inception of
this project. To
Mary Caplan
and those who
with her have
been responsible
for the success
of the Mothers'
•
Clubs, I p a y
M. M. Alexander tribute. And I
sincerely hope that in the years
ahead the Mothers' Clubs will
become an ever greater influence
for good in the communal life
of our city.
and responsibilities and to lay*
the groundwork to meet them ef- "Hats-Off" Series
fectively.
The Assembly will open Friday
morning, Feb. 8, with a discus-
sion of programs for care of the
aged and chronic sick. •
Heavy Budget Increases
This is the first in a "Hats-
Financing of overseas, nation-
al, and local operating and capital Off" series of articles in honor
requirements in 1946 will re- of representatives of Jewish or-
ceive the attention of the dele- ganizations which have rendered
gates Friday afternoon; Feb. 8. great services to the program of
Tremendously increased budgets the USO and the Jewish Welfare
Israel Men's Club Plans
of overseas agencies, together Board.
Party
for the Children
Responding
to
the
USO
slogan
with long deferred capital and
operating needs, pose important — "A Home Away From Home"
questions of fund raising. Cam- — many organizations are doing
The Father's and Children's
paign prospects will be analyzed,
party of the Temple Israel Men's
and financing assets, liabilities,
Club will be held Feb. 10 at the
and relationships will be weighed.
Jewish Community Center. There
On Saturday evening, Feb. 9,
will be refreshments and a
the delegates will receive an
variety program.
analysis of economic and social
An open forum is planned by
changes and of reconversion
the club for the latter part of
problems in America, from a
February.
leading national authority. This
A gin rummy contest will be
will be followed by a discussion
held Jan. 31 at the Jewish Center.
of the implications of these
Charles Aller is chairman.
changes upon Jewish community
organizations.
Will Vote on Issue
National advisory budgeting
will be considered Sunday morn-
ing and afternoon, Feb. 10.
Recommended by the Council
Board, member agencies have had
several months in which to dis-
cuss and crystalize their judg-
ment on the proposal. Delegates
will be asked to vote on the
question, "Do the delegates to
MRS. ELI GROSS
the General Assembly wish to
have a National Advisory
a magnificent job in behalf
Budgeting service as defined
servicemen.
established for the benefit of
Mrs. Eli Gross, chairman of the
those member agencies that
war efforts program of the Youth
desire such a service?"
Education League, of which Mrs.
Sandwiched between the morn-
James V. Browne is president, is
ing and afternoon sessions will be
a leader among those rendering
the annual business meeting of
outstanding services.
the Council at which member
Youth Education League, a
agencies will determine the
Council budget for 1946, and will constitutent of the League of
elect officers and board members. Jewish Women's Organizations,
An examination of overseas organized in 1934 to care for de-
needs and plans for meeting pendent school children, cooper-
them will be the subject of the ates with the Jewish Social Ser-
Sunday night session. Speakers vice Bureau and with the Jewish
will present the situation in Community Center.
During the war, Youth Educa-
Europe and Palestine and will
describe plans for refugees to tion League cooperated with Red
enter America on the basis of Cross and the War Chest and
President Truman's recent ruling. participated in bond drives. The
group covered the cost of trans-
Will Discuss Anti-Semitism
porting six shows to Percy Jones
On Monday morning, Feb. 11, Hospital in Battle Creek, and
the delegates will consider the provided gift kits for hospitalized
.problems of anti-Semitism and soldiers.
inter-group relations in general.
An analysis of the growth or
decline of the problems and the
'prospects for the post war period
will be presented. The delegates
also will hear a report on the
work of the National Community
Relations Advisory Council since
it was established by the 1944
General Assembly to coordinate
One hundred carloads of
the efforts of communities and clothes for the people of devas-
the major national agencies in tated Europe and the Orient was
this field.
the quota set for Metropolitan De-
The concluding session Monday troit as the Victory Clothing Col-
afternoon will be a continuation lection campaign got under way
of the Friday afternoon session this week.
on financing.
Part of a nation-wide drive to
supply the needs of the devastat-
ed countries through the UNRRA,
the Detroit committee is under
the chairmanship of Fred M.
Alger, Jr. Vice chairman will be
Walter 0. Briggs.
Contributors are urged to tie
bundles securely to help expedite
Detroit Lodge 55, Knights of collection and shipment.
Percival Dodge, for 25 years
Pythias and Greater Detroit
Temple 152 Pythian Sisters will executive director of the Com-
hold their joint installatoin din- munity Fund, will be chairman
ner-dance Tuesday, Jan. 29 at 8 of the executive committee of
p.m., at the Book-Cadillac Italian the three-week drive.
Mayor Jeffries, the Rt .Rev.
Garden. A fine program has been
arranged with an orchestra and Monseignor Edward J. Hickey,
vocalist by Del Delbridge. All representing the Catholic Arch-
Pythians and their friends are diocese; the Rev. Joseph A. Vance
urged to make reservations by of the Council of Churches; Rabbi
calling Frank Birnbaum or Past ,Leo M. Franklin, of the Jewish
Chancellor B. Bolotnikoff, 2689 organizations; and Postmaster
Tuxedo. Sam Raskin will be Roscoe B. Houston were enlist-
ed as honorary chairmen.
master of ceremonies.
JWB Honors Groups
Aiding Its Program
Clothing Drive
Goal for City Set
At 100 Carloads
K. P. and Pythian
Sisters Hold Joint
Installation Jan. 29
Page Five
THE JEWISH NEWS
Friday, January 25, 1946
Fund Sought to Recondition
Old Beth Olam Cemetery
Morris Blumberg Leads New Association; Kin of 3,500
Persons Buried in 'Smith Street' Cemetery Urged
to Meet Responsibility
Neglect - during the past decade of the old Beth Olam
Cemetery, also known as the Smith Street Cemetery, and
a desire to assure respectability in deference to the mem-
ory of the 3,500 persons buried there, has motivated a group
of public-spirited Detroit Jews to reorganize the Beth Olam
Cemetery Association and to appeal for community-wide
interest in caring for the ceine- ,
tery.
The newly-formed association
is directed by a committee con-
sisting of Moris H. Blumberg,
chairman, Aaron J. Blumenau,
Irwin I. Cohn, David Mendelsohn,
Charles Agree, Charles Hambur-
ger, Seymour Simons and Robert
Loewenberg.
Markers Illegible
Mr. Blumberg has pointed out
that of the 3,500 markers over
the graves at this cemetery a
large number are 'illegible or de-
faced; that the cemetery is in
disordered condition; that lack of
respect to the dead is a mat-
ter for deep concern and regret.
The committee emphasizes that
in order to put the cemetery into
proper condition, a large fund
will be required; that the major
responsibility for raising the re-
quired fund lies with the survi-
vors of those buried in the ceme-
tery, and that many in the com-
munity will recognize the need
for such a fund as a community
responsibility.
Committee to Meet
In order to facilitate the rais-
ing of the fund, members of the
committee will be in session from
11 to 12 on Sunday mornings at
the Shaarey Zedek.
Survivors of those buried in
the cemetery are asked to meet
the committee to discuss the mat-
ter and make their contributions.
U. S. Judge Hollzer Dies:
Headed L. A. Community
LOS ANGELES (JTA)—Fed-
eral Judge Harry A. Hollzer,
president of the Los Angeles
Jewish Community Council since
1934, died here after a 10-day
illness, following a heart attack
suffered shortly after his return
from the United Jewish Appeal
conference at Atlantic City,
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