THE JEWISH NEWS
Friday, July 12, 1946
Page Five
Detroit's Check to UJA for First Million
Sets Record for the Entire Country
Jewish Welfare Federation Announces That United Jewish Appeal Will Receive
Minimum of $2,758,000 from Funds Raised by Allied Jewish Campaign
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Weizmann Demands Britain
End Wrongs Done to Jewry
a Reiterates Opposition to 'Political Violence' but Maintains
That Faulf Is Not with the Jews; Declares_ if Britain
Persists in Destroying, Jews Will Continue Building
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The first $1,000,000 check to be received at
national headquarters of the United JewiSh Appeal
for Refugees, Overseas Needs and Palestine from
any community outside New York City arrived
this week from Detroit, as its initial remittance
following conclusion of the motor capital's pre-
cedent-shattering drive under the chairmanship of
Nate. S. Shapero.
Detroit earlier had achieved the distinction
of being one of the first major metropolitan cen-
ters to go over the top in its local campaign. Last
* * *
On the occasion of forwarding
its first cash payment of $1,000,-
000 to the United Jewish Appeal
toward meeting the Detroit Jew-
ish community's obligations to
overseas. Palestine and refugee
needs. the Jewish Welfare Fed-
eration of Detroit announced that
a minimum of $2,758,000 will be
available for UJA and related
needs. The extent of additional
grants from the Allied Jewish
Campaign will be subject to bud-
geting of all services, but it was
felt that cash payments should
be forwarded as rapidly as collec-
tions permit.
The Jewish community of De-
troit was confronted last fall with
a serious situation. On the one
hand. there was available from
the War Chest of Metropolitan
Detroit for all Walfare Fund pur-
poses—local, regional, national
and overseas—for the fiscal year
June 1. 1946, to May 31, 1947, a
total of $912;000.
On the other hand, the more
limited minimum needs as de-
termined a year earlier, for the
fiscal year June 1, 1945, to May
31, 1946. had come to $1,130,000,
of which $750,000 was voted for
the United Jewish Appeal and
$380,000 for other agencies and
services.
Even if the War Chest in its
fall 1945 campaign were to have
reached its goal, the Allied Jew-
ish Campaign would have re-
ceived a renewal grant in the
Same amount of $1,130,000 for all
purposes for 1946, at a time when
the minimum quota for the UJA
alone for Detroit was set at $2,-
000,000 and when post-war needs,
together with increased cost of
operations. also made increased
budgets for many of our non-UJA
agencies imperative.
The fact that the War Chest
fell some 20 per cent short of
its goal made the situation even
more difficult for the Jewish
community, which was faced
with the requirement of sup-
plying: 1) a minimum of $2,-
000,000 for the UJA; 2) some
$600.000 for other than UJA
needs; and 3) a sufficient addi-
tional sum in pledges to cover
the overhead of our first inde-
pendently-conducted campaign
in four years, as well as to off-
set anticipated shrinkage in col-
lections in such a campaign.
It was clear that with some
$2,000,000 to $2,900,000 gross in
new pledges and cash from all
sources required to meet these
minimum cash needs and with
only about $900,000 on hand from
the War Chest, an emergency
campaign, with concentration on
the great additional UJA obli-
gations, was indicated. Only by
year Detroit raised just under one million.
In making this sum available to the United
Jewish Appeal for instant conversion to the sav-
ing of lives in Europe, Palestine and the United
States, Detroit once again set the pace for every
one of the 4,800 communities participating in the
$100,000,000 nationwide campaign.
The $1,000,000 check forwarded by Detroit
to the UJA was signed by Julian H. Krolik, presi-
dent of the Detroit Jewish Welfare Federation, and
Isidore Sobeloff, executive director.
eration has therefore voted that:
1. A minimum allocationof
$2,639.140 to the United Jew-
ish Appeal and $119,000 to re-
lated needs be approved now.
2. Advance payments, based
on current collections, to non-
local beneficiaries, other than
the UJA. be authorized, pending
determination of budgetary
grants.
3. Monthly payments at last
year's rate continues to be
made to local beneficiaries
pending determination of bud-
getary grants.
4. The executive committee
continue to act as a budget
committee. that it study indi-
vidival budgeting requests and
present its recommendations to
the board of governors for
formal action, pending the re-
construction of the Detroit
Service Group, which is to re-
sume its budgetary functions
as soon as it is reorganized.
The tentative plan for alloca-
tions with view to fixing at the
present moment a minimum total
allocation to the United Jewish
Appeal and to setting aside for
the time being sufficient over-all
sums which non-UJA needs may
later be budgeted, is as follows:
FUNDS AVAILABLE
From War Chest of Metropoli-
tan Detroit, -Cash
$ 912,000
From Allied Jewish Campaign,
cash and pledges
2350.000
Gross Total
$3,662,000
Less: U Estimated Al-
lied Jewish Campaign
shrinkage of 7%
(greatest shrinkage
in recent years was
9%)
$192,000
2) Allied Jewish
Campaign e x p ens e
(2,7% of pledges, one
of the lowest cam-
paign expense ratios
in the country) -
75,300
3) Estimated cost
of billing and collec-
tion services
29,000
4) Reinstallation
and mechanization of
records
15,000 311,800
all needs.
The results of the emergency
Allied Jewish Campaign far ex-
ceeded pre-campaign expectations
and there is now available for dis-
tribution about $750,000
more
than the minimum goal antici-
pated.
The board of governors of Fed-
Abram Meyerowitz, director of
the Farband Schools in Detroit
and one of the most prominent of
the labor Zionist leaders here, has
left the city for Chicago where he
will direct. the activities of the
Jewish National Workers' Alliance
(Farband).
Mr. Meyerowitz was recognized
here as the leading spokesmen for
labbr Zionism. He was active in the
Jewish Community Council and
frequently addressed large Zion-
ist gatherings.
. A farewell gathering was ar-
ranged in honor of Mr. and Mrs.
Meyerowitz by the , Farband
schools and the Poale Zion last
Saturday evening at Korn's Res-
taurant. M. Goldoftas, as toast-
master, outlined the contributions
made by Mr. Meyerowitz to the
Detroit Jewish community and es-
pecially to Zionism. Harry Siegel,
M. Bornstein, Emma Schreier. Da-
vid Sislin, H. Mondry, I. Franck,
A. Bazin and A. Reizman spoke
in honor of Mr. Meyerowitz. --
Announcement was made by M.
Beitner that Mr. Meyerowitz's
name was inscribed in the Jewish
National Fund Golden Book.
Brethren Capture
3rd Straight Game
The Brethren team of the
Northwest Congregation and Cen-
ter Men's Club softball league won
their third straight game by edg-
ing out the Guardians 8-6.
Trailing by one run as they
came up for their ninth inning,
the Brethren won the game when
Net Estimated Total
$3,350,200
Phil Shear exploded a home run
SUGGESTED TENTATIVE OVERALL with two on base. Phil Cameron,
- ALLOCATIONS
who pitched the entire game for
1) United Jewish Appeal and
related agencies
$2,758,140 the winners, did not allow a sin-
a) To United Jew-
gle earned run. Joe Rodman shar-
ish Appeal
$2,639,140
b) To related
ed the batting limelight with
agencies
119,000
Shear, with three hits, including
2) Other Regional and nation-
two doubles.
al agencies
402,060
The Pilots, who led the league
3) New local needs
40,000
4) Contingency and emergen-
last week suffered their third
cy fund
-
150,000
straight defeat, this time at the
Total
$3,350,200 hands of the Messengers, 16-5. The
These estimates do not rep- Messengers' victory ties them for
resent actual recommendations league leadership.
The standings:
for each individual beneficiary
W L Pet.
agency, but rather an attempt to Messengers
5
4
.555
Pilots
5
4
.555
arrive at over-all figures to be Guardians
4
5
.444
used for the time being in decid- Brethren
4
5
.444
Games Sunday. July 15: Pilots vs.
ing upon a minimum allocation Guardians
and Messengers vs. Breth-
to the United Jewish Appeal.
ren, 10 a. m. at U. of D.
JOH Alumni Picnic at
raising approximately $2,000,000 Lola Valley Park Sunday
in such an emergency UJA appeal
would it become possible to meet
Meyerowitz Leaves
For Chicago, Gets
Golden Book Honor
The Detroit chapter of J.O.H.
Alumni, Jewish Orphan Home of
Cleveland, 0., will begin plans for
a vast social program with a pic-
nic at Lola Valley Park this Sun-
day. Members are asked to meet.
Sunday, 10 a.m., at the home of
Jack Lewis, 17560 Woodingham
Drive. Pete Clayton is president
of the local chapter.
Message at Jewish News
For Bernhard Ronisch
M. Greenberg of 2322 Leslie
has forwarded to The Jewish
News a letter addressed to
HERRN BERNARD RONISCH at
2322 Leslie , Detroit, from Briese
in Berlin, Germany.
The Jewish News has the letter
in its possession and would be
pleased to hear either from Mr.
Ronisch or from any one who
knows his whereabouts.
By Special Cable to The Jewish News
JERUSALEM, (JTA)—Dr. Chaim Weizmann, at a meeting of
the Small Zionist Actions Committee and a press conference, ap-
pealed to the British government to take "speedy action to help us
counteract the counsels of despair spreading among our people not
only here but everywhere." "I appear to the British' people and
government to stay your hand." he declared, urging - the British to
"undo the wrong you have done us. Do not keep behind bars those
who in the hour of your greatest need helped you struggle for
survival. Ours is no less a struggle. Let my people go."
"The primary cause of the dreadful happenings here lies not with
the Jews but with those who allowed the situation to drift into
present acalamitous state," Dr. Weizmann said. "This is not to be
interpreted as meaning that I condone political violence. I abhor
and repudiate it."
Pointing out that the Yishuv for which he toiled for three gener-
ations is now in a state of siege and that "our best sons and daugh-
ters are imprisoned." he declared: "In Europe the remnant of our
people to whom Palestine is the last hope are languishing behind
barbed wires waiting for the slumbering conscience of 'the world to
awaken and to set them free.
Dr. Wiezmann stated, that, contrary to Atlee's assertions, he is
convinced that if Britain had immediately implemented the Inquiry
Committee's positive recommendations, in spite of its objectionable
features, peace and - quiet would have reigned in Palestine. He said
that a marked slackening in tension was noticeable in the Yishuv
from the day the report was issued until Attlee made his statement
attaching "impossible conditions to its implementation." He added:
"Did Attlee ask himself why the Hagahah, whose service until the
end of the war he commended, should have changed in his eyes?"
After the Attlee statement, Dr. Weizmann said, the mood
changed to bitter disappointment verging upon despair. With every
passing day it became more difficult for Jewish Agency leadership to
hold the movement together in strict pursuance of its agreed policy.
He said that the fire burning within them is a "fire which might
consume others" and has transformed Jews into mighty force for the
creation of spiritual and material values in the land of their- fathers.
"This fire will not be extinguished," he said. "The spirit which
guided Britain through the darkest hours in her history also is
guiding the Jews. Just as Britain triumphed, so will we."
Dr. Weizmann said that he desired to use a restraining influence
but that as one who all his life regarded cooperation with Britain
as "an indispensable conerstone of Zionist policy" he cannot help
saying that the fault is not with the Jews. He declared: "Britain's
might can, as we have been reminded, destroy Tel Aviv within one
hour, but I can not believe that the British government will do it.
If it should come to pass we will re-create what has been destroyed
and will once again build up the land of Israel to the limit of our
strength and resources."
JWV Commander
Given Army Awards
State of Michigan and formerly
director of radio programs. He
is also former national radio of-
ficer and national surgeon of the
Dr. Perry P. Burnstine, newly- Jewish War Veterans of the
elected commander of the Mich- United States and is a past com-
igan Department of Jewish War mander of American Legion
Veterans, a Major in the Medi- Post 218.
cal Corps, World War 11, and
The other state JWV officers
veteran of World War I, is en- are: Vice-commanders, Morris
titled to wear the Victory Medal- Bordelove and Irving Berger;
of American Theatre of opera- quartermaster, Bernard Hirsch;
tion and European Theatre of judge advocate. Oscar Schwartz;
operation of World War II. He chief of staff, Harry Sherman; _
recently was awarded the Army chief aid, Seymour Caplan: chap-
Commendation Ribbon by direc- lain, Rabbi Morris Adler.
tion of the Secretary of War for
Dr. Burnstine announced this
his outstanding public service.
week that the Michigan Depart-
Dr. Burnstine developed a port-
ment of Jewish War Veterans
able inside and outdoor field op-
will be prepared to offer its ser-
erating table as well as numerous vices to local synagogues. schools
scientific and medical aids that
and organizations which desire
have been put to practical use.
to arrange programs on the oc-
He is one of the founders of
casion of observance of V-J Day
the Jewish War Veterans of the
on Aug. 14.
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