Jewish Agencies to Direct
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Friday, February 28, 1947
THE jEW I S*1-1 NEWS
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Appeal Workers Aid Detroiters
InPIanning Drive or$5,335 000
Our Letter Box
mployment in DP Camps Aid DP Location Project
Editor, The Jewish News:
You are so helpful and coop-
erative in the urgent work of the
National Council of Jewish Wo-
men to locate relatives for the
many, many forelorn and dis-
placed persons of this war torn
undernourished,
yet with God's endowment of a
Theprogram will attempt to ; basis of the discussion and de- remaining
ng spark of
-
hope, they
find employment for 15,000 DPs ! cisions thus far reached.
rightfully look to us for mercy.
rior unemployed and to train
The World ORT Union has sub- We know it is not necessary for
6,000 others in an expanded ORT mitted a memorandum to the us to tell you of their tragic
program. Two thousand Jews also commission describing its work plight Suffice it to say that
will be placed on training farms. among Jewish refugees and human beings have had to suffer
The announcement pointed out stressing the importance of sta- so much.
that 40,000 employable Jews, ap- bilizing the Jews by integrating
proximately 25,000 areemployed, them into the economy of the In this great calamity, the
power of the press plays an im-
United Jewish Appeal field workers are assisting in plans for
i various countries where they
chiefly in camp administration.
ey now
the approaching Detroit Allied Jewish Campaign for $5,335,000.
It also stated that henceforth v portant role. Through your fine
extra food rations and luxuries find
through a pro- spirit in giving so generously of
Left to right: GERALD T. APPELBAUM, DAVID LANG, HARRY
gram themselves
of retraining.
your space and time, many let-
such as cigarets and chocolates ,
A. FELDMAN (Michigan UJA representative) and ROBERT H.
Clash
Over
Rations
ters
have
taken
on
new
meaning.
will not be given to the DPs au-1
MILLER, United Jewish Appeal representatives who are assisting
tomatically on a relief basis, but ; British and American delegates We can release the message to the
in
the local campaign.
rather as an award for work ac- . clashed on the question of anxious person who comes in or
Larnport Auditorium of the Uni-
• complished. DPs will be able to whether displaced persons and calls by telephone saying "I read
exchange point currency for items refugees should receive higher ra- in The Jewish News that Amelia Yeshiva U. to Ordain
versity, Dr. Samuel Belkin, pres-
is
looking
for
me."
Now,
the
; tions than the indigenous popu- S.
85 Rabbis March 16
ident of Yeshiva University, An-
which they desire.
using
the
literally
lives.
By
the
ref-
letter
Ultimately, it is planned to es- lation of the area where
nounced.
final
medium
of
tablish a bank -outside of Ger- ugees are located. press as our
NEW YORK—Eighty-five rab- The exercises, the 12th in the
many where American and Brit- ' The U.S. representative, Alvin "search" we are indeed fulfilling bis, graduates of Rabbi Isaac history of the Seminary, will
Humanity."
Elchanan Theological Seminary mark the 50th anniversary of
ish currency will be deposited for Rosenman, backed by the French our motto, "Faith and
We thank you and the staff of of Yeshiva University during the the founding of the Seminary,
the DPs against the- tirrib when delegate, M. de Rosen, challenged
;British delegate Sir George Ren- the Jewish News for your whole- war years, will be ordained Sun- which was incorporated on March
they emigrate.
del's suggestion that the refugees hearted interest and support.
day, March 16, in the Nathan 20, 1897.
and the native population should
Agencies Must Increase Aid
MRS. HERBERT M. SMITH,
receive
the
same
food
ration.
To Refugees in IRO Framework
President, Detroit Sec-
GENEVA (JTA) — Voluntary Rosenman insisted the I R 0
tion, National Council
relief agencies will have to in- should not set lower standards
of Jewish Women.
crease their aid to refugees and than those now being maintained
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DPs within the framework of the in the Amerizan zone of Ger-
projected International Refugee many. De Rosen declared the Agrees With Weizmann Stand
Organization- observers at the refugees had suffered "long Editor, The Jewish News:
I noted with interest upon my
IRO's Preparatory Commission enough at the hands of the
meeting here predicted on the Nazis."
recent return from Washington,
your article on "Weizmann-ism"
application blanks were those re- in a current issue.
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color, to
re the applicant's race,
lating
About two weeks ago, I was
religion, church, descent,
or ancestry, nationality, birth- privileged to hear Dr. Goldstein
' place, mother tongue, language at the Community Center in
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spoken at home, mother's maiden Washington and could not unaer-
name, and date of parent's ar- stand the consistency of detach-
.,
rival in the U. S.
ing oneself morally from deeds
of futile physical violence on one
hand, and being opposed to sane-
Columbian Convicted
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tion cooperation with the pro-
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ATLANTA
(JPS)—Emory
'We're Restricted'
leader of the anti- tern authorities in stamping out
,
(JNS)—Of
Miami
Burke,
such activities.
NEW YORK,
NEW
Beach's 325 hotels at least 13 Negro. anti-Semitic Columbians,
He stressed the point that the
Inc., has been convicted in the
openly practice religious discrim- Superior Court here on three Jewish community in Palestine
ination with the effective consent counts and was sentenced to
a does not consist of traitors and
of the local Chamber of Com-
mercy, Nate.1eskovsky stated in year in prison for each. The jury spies. If the outrages of the lun-
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found him guilty on three out of atic fringe do not inflame the
an article in PM here. Confront- i five charges of usurpation of po- world with righteous indignation
ed with such signs as "Gulf Hotel, lice power. Burke, who faces against the foul deeds of the
Gentiles," and business cards trial on charges of rioting and British Foreign Office, then
which advertise a hotel with the the Illegal possession of dyna- wherein lies the treachery of the
slogan "the hotel with a view, mite, has been released on $3,000 Haganah or other moderate
without a Jew," the spokesman
groups in helping stamp out such
of the Chamber of Commerce ad- bail.
Homer Loomis, • Jr., play-boy useless waste of human life?
mated "there must be a nicer founder of the Columbians who
I agree with your position that
refined places
.
way . . . More
- • ' We're restricted , we was convicted earlier on a charge the repudiation of Dr. Weizmann's
say:
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of rioting and sentenced to a leadership was. a short-sighted
take no Hebrews.' "
year in the work cwp, has been measure. I also think that the
returned to jail, from which he analogy drawn by the aforemen-
'May Ruin Britain'
was released on bail pending an tioned speaker and others to the
LONDON, (JTA)—Recent at- appeal of his sentence, charged Sinn Fein Rebellion is a fallacious
tacks on synagogues in England with larceny. The warrant was one, and is not borne out by the
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if allowed to continue will en- , sworn out by J. R. Childers, ex- -I-cs.
a
danger not only British Jews, but • Columbian, who charged Loomis
HENRY M. GOTTLEIB
all Britons, Prof. Selig Brodetsky, ' with having taken his fur-col-
president of the Board of Depu- tared jacket and failing to returti
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ties of British Jews, told a meet-1
ing of the Trades Advisory Coun-
' Model for Nation'
C I I composed of 8,000 Jewish !
merchants.
I NEW YORK, (JTA)—The New
"There is in this country today York State Ives-Quinn law, which
a small group of people outside prohibits discrimination in em-
the general run of British polit- ployment, is being violated by
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ical life, trying to reestablish that commercial employment agencies
fascism which led to the war— and private employers, the Amer-
the greatest of all tragedies," ican Jewish Congress charged on
Brodetsky said. "Fascism is being I the basis of a survey made by • its
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definitely preached in this coun- , Commission on Law and Social
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try today. We Jews who live in Action.
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this country, the center of polit- !
The New York City Committee
ical and human freedom and lib-1
# 'F'''.1 A
, of the State Commission on Dis-
erty, warn the country against it,' crimination was told by Charles
,ff 1::: .: ‘, urp e t s
he continued. "It may mean life Tuttle, one of the framers of the
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and death to the Jewish people, ' anti-discrimination law, that the
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and it may mean ruin to this m
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measure has become a model for
country."
the nation and was no longer g :
feared toy employers.
'Colleges Ask Questions' I Will Maslow, -director of the ' E
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NEW YORK, (JTA)—A survey commission, said Congress in-
of the application blanks of 171 . vestigators had phoned- 121 agen-
re- ' aan. and
leading non - sectarian colleges cies and, without identifying
with a student enrollment of themselves, asked that. a "white - •
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more than 500 persons revealed Protestant" stenographer be re- ii
135 colleges or 79 percent ask ferred. Only 14 of the agencies
questions referring to the ap- refused to take the order. -
plicant's race, religion or national
ancestry, Dr. David Petegorsky, I Forty-seven Jewish refugees
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executive director of the Amer- from Italy, possessing Brazilian
ican Jewish Congress announced. visas, who were refused entry,
"This survey shows the necessity have been admitted as perman-
a
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for the immediate passage of , ent residents of Argentina, 9s
the
state laws outlawing discrimina- I, result of intervention by
1World Jewish Congress - affiliate .,. CARPET
tion in education," he said.
Among the questions found on . in Buenos •Aires. -
MUNICH (JTA) In the first real implementation of the
U. S. Army's avowed program of encouraging the displaced
Jews to become self-sufficient, the Joint Distribution Corn-
mittee, the Jewish Agency and the Central Jewish Committee
announced the establishment of a joint board to administer
the large-scale
employment
training
program
for
Jewish
DPs. and
'' vocational
world.
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What The ,
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