JNF Women's Donor Event
Nets Land Fund $80,000
Dr. Israel Goldstein Delivers Principal Address at Annual
Gathering Attended by 3,200; Urges Strong
Activity for United Jewish Appeal
A total of $80,000—$6,000 in excess of last year's goal—
was raised by the Ladies' Auxiliary of the Jewish National
Fund in the donor project which concluded Tuesday evening
with a mass gathering of 3,200 persons at the Masonic Audito-
rium.
-Announcement of the record goal reached at this event
ties have been voted down by
the British people. Similarly Dr.
Weizmann's contributions to the
Zionist movement and to Pales-
tine will never be forgotten.
"Cehtacts with the delegates
from the D. P. canips and other
Jewish communities in Europe
left the strong impression that
the 4Iriving force of necessity will
bring great numbers of Jews to
Palestine even without certi-
ficates and despite all the ob-
stacles."
Additional contributions in
sums of $100 and over wXre re-
ceived from the 'following:
was made by Mrs. Jack Rosen-
thal, chairman of the donor af- of Palestine. These favored the
fair. Mrs. Irving Shevin, presi- acceptance of Great Britain's in-
dent of the- Auxiliary, presided
at the colorful affair at which vitation to the London Confer-
Dr. Israel Goldstein delivered the ence under the present circum-
principal address. Richard Tuck- stances. A larger number, led
er of the Metropolitan Opera was by Dr. Silver, believed that Great
guest soloist. Mrs. Philip Cutler Britain's consistently anti-Zionist
was program chairman.
record since the White Paper
Hordes, Rabbi Adler Speak
Policy of 1939, left no ground for
William Hordes, president of
the JNF Council, greeted the
gathering. Rabbi Morris Adler
introduced Dr. Goldstein. Rebec-
ca Frolarnan accompanied Mr.
Tucker and Bella Goldberg who
sang the National Anthems.
In his address, Dr. Goldstein
reported on the results of the
World Jewish Congress in Basle,
Switzerland, where he was one
of the leaders of the American
Zionist delegation.
He declared that "while there
was - justifiable disappointment
when the Congress closed with-
out electing an Executive, that
situation was remedied by the
Actions Committee entrusted by
the Congress with the responsi-
bility of constituting the Execu-
tive. Under the leadership of
David Ben Gurion and Dr. Abba
Hillel Silver, there is now func-
tioning a coalition Executive in
which the major parties are
represented. The Zionist move-
ment therefore is united, more
united than it was before the
Congress, because the Revision-
ist group has come back to the
fold. Those who continue to
harp on the theme of disunity
are not only rendering a disser-
vice to the movement but are
distorting the facts. The major-
, ity represented a cross-section of
the entire constituency. Thus the
left wing of the Labor Movement
joined the ZOA, Mizrachi and
Revisionists in the vote not to go
to the London Conference under
existing circumstances."
Asks Increased Reconstruction
Calling for increased action in
Page Fifteen
THE JEWISH NEWS
Friday, January 31..1947
Mrs. .Ick E. Schultz, Louis W. Zack,
Perlman Family. Michigan Bag d: Bar-
rel Co., Michigan Free Loan Assoc.,
Michigan Woolen Co., Eli Rosenbaum,
Jack Rosenthal, Max Teitel, David L.
Tyner, Wayne Laundry, Harry Abram-
son, Norman Adilman, I. Bradfield. Sam
Cohen. Sam Devenau, Irving Dworkin,
Nathan Fishman. Irving Hermelin.
Harold H. Gilber.t, David Iwrey, Ben
Kaplan. Saul Katz, Keystone Oil Co.,
Wm. Flafer, Harry Kraft, D. A. Laven.
Louis F. Lavine.
SCHWARTZ IN ROMANIA
BUCHAREST (JTA)—Dr. Jo-
Young Israel Women
Install New Officers
Women's League of Young Is-
rael will install the following of-
ficers at a meeting at 8:30 p. m.
Tuesday, Feb. 4, at the home of
Mrs. M. L. Wiser, 3316 Lawrence:
Mrs. Hyman R. Cohen, president:
Mrs. Abbe Levi, vice president;
Mrs. Jonas Hegal, secretary, and
Mrs. Louis Cohen, treasurer.
The program will include a Fe -
Koestler's
of Arthur
view
"Thieves in the Night," by Mrs.
Harry Oberstein. Piano selections
will be rendered by Rosalyn
Clayman. Women interested in
Young Israel activities are invit-
ed to attend.
Joan Meyers Achieves
Highest Honor at HP
Joan Imerman Meyers, daugh-
ter of 7-ienry Meyers of Lincoln-
shire Dr., was valedictorian of
the January graduating class at
Highland Park High School. She
achieved an all-A record, and was
one of three students to be grad-
uated Summa Cum Laude.
Joan's high school career was
varied. including . participation in
forensic. literary and athletic ac-
tivities. She was elected to mem-
bership in journalistic and foren-
sic high school honor societies.
She leaves this Sunday for Ann
Arbor where she will matricu-
late in the Arts and Science
School
of the University of
:Michigan.
NEWEST FLAVOR FAVORITE
any reasonable hope, that any- seph Schwartz, Joint Distribution
thing worthwhile could be ex- Committee director, arrived in
pected as a result of a confer- Romania to organize a large-scale
relief program for Jews.
ence at this time.
"It remains for the British gov-
Series of 3 Lectures by
ernment to give some encourag-
ing sign which would justify the
Zionist Actions Committee, with
whom the decision now rests, in '
holding that the circumstances
have changed sufficiently to war-
rant the attendance of the Zion-
ist representatives at the Con-
ference.
Weizmann's Prestige High
Though Dr. Weizmann's pol-
icy and advice have failed of ap-
proval by the Congress, his per-
sonal prestige is as high as ever
among Zionists the world over.
A parallel suggests itself with
the case of Winston Churchill
whose place in British history is
assured though his postwar poli-
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CHAIM SCHAUSS
Under auspices of City Com-
mittee of Jewish National
Workers Alliance.
Feb. 5 — At Rose Sittig
Cohen Bldg., Subject: "Four
Epochs—Four Problems in Jew-
ish History."
Feb. 7 — At Farband Folk
Shule, 1912 Taylor, subject:
"Galuth in Small Doses."
Feb. 9—At 1912 Taylor, sub-
ject: "The Temple, the Torah
and God's Kingdom."
Admission, $1 for the Series
reconstruction activities through
the United Jewish Appeal and its
affiliated agencies, including the
Jewish National Fund (Keren
Kayemeth), Dr. Goldstein said:
"Through the United Jew-
ish Appeal which provides the
bulk of the resources for the
Keren Kayemeth and t h e
Keren Hayesod, and through
the traditional collections of the
Jewish National Fond, Ameri-
can Jews demonstrate their
faith in the future of Palestine.
The epic of 12 settlements es-
tablished in the Negev over-
night was possible only because
the land had been bought by
the Jewish National Fund.
"Despite the White Paper re-
gime which restricted land pur-
chase by Jews, the Jewish Na-
tional Fund has acquired since
the White Paper in 1939, 400,000
additional dunams of land in all
areas of Palestine including those
where it was politically import-
ant to establish Jewish footholds.
If Western Galilee, the Baisan
district and noW the Negev have
important Jewish landmarks to-
day, it is because the Jewish Na-
tional Fund ' as exercised .vision
and daring in acquiring land.
Reviews Congress Results
Dr. Goldstein made interesting
references to Dr. Chaim Weiz-
mann's leadership in the world
Zionist movement. He declared:
"The 22nd Zionist Congress
just concluded at Baile was one
of the most difficult Congresses
in many years. It registered the
lowest point of Jewish confi-
dence in the British government.
A large number of delegates led
by De. Weizmann were still cling-
ing to the last shreds of faith that
the mandatory government
might meet the -irreducible re-
quirements of the Jewish people
by the establishment of a viable
Jewish State in a suitable area
THE hundreds of ,thousands of
boys and girls who have studied in
Detroit, Thomas Alva Edison is the most
famous. Yet the man who did so much for
humanity never went to school here . . .
never, in fact, had more than a few years
of formal education.
You may have read that Edison, the boy,
was banished froin the Port Huron schools
for dreaminess in class=that his teacher
called him "addled"—and that he learned
the three R's from his mother. Later, when
in his teens, he worked on the Grand
Trunk railroad. Fortunately for every one
of us, his train had a daily lay-over of nearly
five hours in Detroit.
For Thomas A. Edison, high school and
college were an ancient building, the
Young Men's Society Library, on Jefferson
Aveime, just a few doors east of Woodward.
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Between runs, he buried himself in its
books, devouring them, not by subject or
author, but by shelf and section.
Throughout his life, this thoroughness
was characteristic with him. It w as the
quality that carried him through three
thousand unsuccessful theories before he
invented the incandescent lamp—fifty thou-
sand abortive experiments before he created
the storage battery. "Genius," he was fond
of saying, "is one per cent inspiration,
ninety-nine per cent perspiration."
Few of us have Mr. Edison's thorough-
ness, his patience, his capacity for concen-
tration. But we at Detroit Edison realize
that our heritage from him is both an
inspiration and an obligation—an obliga-
tion to continue his efforts to make life
more comfortable. That is why we are
constantly trying to develop new and better
ways for electricity to serve you.
IN HONOR OF MR. IDISON ...
You are cordially invited to these exhibits
Feb. 10 through Feb. 15: the Edison Insti-
tute Museum at Greenfield Village, 9 a.m:
to 4 p.m. daily, admission 25c. and the
TES
J. I- Hudson Co.'s special display. Bring
your friends to see electricity in the ma' ' -
at any Detroit Edison power plant, 1 2
9 PAIL—Saturday. 10 a. m. to 4
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