Thousands Hear Mrs. Roosevelt
Plead for Solution to DP Problem

Women's Division
To Plan Workers'
Training March 12

Plans for training of workers
in the special gifts and pre-cam-

paign sections of the Women's
Division of the Allied Jewish
Campaign will be discussed at a
luncheon meeting at 12:80 p.m.I

Wednesday, March 12, in the
Women's City Club. Featured

Leaders of Temple lleth El greet MRS. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT,
who was guest preacher at Sabbath services there last Saturday
min-fling. Standing, left to right, LEON S. WAYBURN, president of
Temple Beth El Men's Club; DR. LEO M. FRANKLIN, rabbi emeritus;
DR. B. BENEDICT GLAZER, rabbi; LEONARD T. LEWIS, president
of Temple Beth El, and JULIAN KROLIK, president of the "Jewish
Welfare Federation which sponsored her visit. Seated, MRS. MAU-
RICE KLEIN, president of Beth El Sisterhood, and Mrs. Roosevelt.

By RUTH MIRIAM LEVINE

Jewish News Staff Writer
One of the largest crowds ever assembled in the history
of the Detroit Jewish community gathered at Temple Beth El
last Saturday morning to hear Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt deliver
an eloquent plea for the recognition of human rights and
needs through success of the United Jewish Appeal, accept-
ance of the International Refugee Organization, and modifi-
cation of United States immi-1,
welt said, declaring that "if we
gration laws.
Twenty-six hundred per- don't solve their problem within
the next year, every one of iis
sons jammed the main audito- should
bow our head in shame."

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THE JEWISH NEWS

Friday, March 7, 1947

speaker will be Leo Lania. jour-
nalist .and radio commentator.
Also invited to attend the meet-
ing are the chairmen of general
solicitation divisions, who will
have an opportunity to study the
relationship of their role in the
campaign to the special gifts and
Ore-campaign activities.
Chairmen of sections partici-
pating in the luncheon meeting
include Mrs. John C. Hopp. special
gifts; Mrs. Sidney L. Allen and
Mrs. Robert J. Newman, pre-
campaign; and Mrs. Maurice A.

Landau. general solicitation. Mrs.
Hopp is in charge of arrange-
ments for the luncheon.

Daniel Levin Reelected
Head of Central Council

Daniel Levin, son of Judge and
Mrs. Thedore Levin. has been re-
elected president of the Student

Council at Central High School.

Other Council officers include
Calvin Klyman, vice president:
rium and Brown Memorial Chap-
Bluma Mae Zilber, secretary and
Insist on Immigration
el to hear the guest preacher.
Eliot Charlip, treasurer.
Support of the IRO was just
white close to a thousand, for
Bert London is editor of the
whom there were neither seats the first part of Mrs. Roosevelt's Central Student.
nor standing room, thronged the plea for a solution to the DP
sidewalks and street in the hope problyrn. She was emphatic in
of catching a glimpse of Mrs. her recommendation that the
Roosevelt. Even some of the con- CongreSs "not change—but modi-
ductors on the Woodward street- fy the immigration laws to allow
cars seemed impressed by the unused wartime quotas to be
auspiciousness of her visit, an- used for the DPs." Repeatedly
nouncing to passengers as they she urged that every person not
passed thy Temple, "That's where merely advocate, but "stand up
Eleanor Roosevelt is speaking to- and be counted" in insisting upon
this modification.
day."
Tribute to Womanhood
Referring to the possibility of
Mrs. Roosevelt's appearance at the return of DPs to their original
Temple Beth El was spon- homes. she said that there can
sored by the United Jewish Ap- be no forced repatriation when
peal. In her honor, Dr. Glazer the people say "This country is
included in the Sabbath scrip- no longer mine." Where people
tural readings the 31st chapter will go home, they are needed.
of Proverbs, the most famous but it is a basic human right to
be allowed to find a new home
literary tribute to womanhood.
The chairman of the United and be happy there, she stated.
"It's sometimes-easier to give
Nations, Human Rights Commis-
sion expressed little doubt that our inoney than to do our job as
the $170,000,000 United Jewish citizens," Mrs. Roosevelt ac-
Appeal would be difficult, but knowledged, reiterating her de-
successful. (Detroit's share in the mand that people inform their
drive is included in the $5,335,100 representatives of their wishes.
Allied Jewish Campaign sched- Other countries are waiting to
see what the United States will
uled for this spring.)
She emphasized, however, that do before taking action on immi-
the main problem today goes be- gration, she reminded the thou-
yond financial needs, and has sands of listeners. "And we are
become not just a Jewish prob- the people in the world who will
lem but an international one. - be responsible if another winter
''We in the United States have comes and people are still in the
the strength and, therefore, - he DP camps."
No Human Rights Unless
obligation to help others over-
"There will be,no human rights
come their difficulties," Mrs.
Roosevelt declared, describing in the world unless we keep the
the desperate situation of Like peace—and we cannot build for
displaced persons of Europe. "The peace until we settle the question
continuation of their plight this of the displaced persons and let
far beyond victory in Europe is them build constructive lives of
their own as citizens," she con-
a blot on history," she stated.
cluded.
Greater Contribution
Inspired by Mrs. Roosevelt's
As United States representative
to. and chairman of, the Human sincerity, the augmented congre-
Rights Commission, Mrs. Roose- gation broke the custom of the
velt led in the fight for the estab- synagogue by responding to the
lishment of the International sermon with spontaneous, and
Refugee Organization which will prolonged, applause.
At the conclusion of the serv-
take over UNRI}A's relief of per-
sons in DP camps at the end of ice, Mrs. Roosevelt went to the
June. The United. States must Brown Memorial Chapel to greet
make a greater contribution than personally the hundreds who had
any other country, she told the heard her address through the
huge congregation, "because we public address system. In a brief
are the only country that can talk she recalled her reactions
to the cemetery at Guadalcanal,
do it!"
Congress will only approve U. where men of all faiths were
S. participation in the IRO if the buried side by side. She ex-
people insist on it, she said, de- pressed the hope that this eternal
manding that each individual brotherhood might become an
contact his Congressman to urge actuality among the living.
acceptance of the measure. "Our
Palestine Jewish labor settle-
share in the IRO will help peo-
ple to exist—not really live," she ments marketed through Tnuva
emphasized. For every day the 4500 tons of bananas. This was

DPs stay in the camps, they de- in addition to 1000 tons raised
by private Jewish farmers.
teriorate as citizens, Mrs.

Trades and Professions
Select Campaign Leaders

Continuing mobilization of With Dr. Lawrence H. Seltzer

Trade and Professions for the 1947 as chairman, the educational em-
Allied Jewish Campaign, several pioyes
,
will hold a -general or-
divisions have chosen leadership ganizational meeting at 8 p.m.

who will take responsibility

Thursday, March 13, at the Jewish
the drive.
Committee
At a luncheon meeting of the Community Center.
Arts and Crafts division Feb. 27. members who are arranging the
under the chairmanship of Leon meeting include: Miss Hulda Fine.
Wayburn, the following section Norman Drachler, Helen Kass anri
chairmen were elected: Adver-
tisers. Wilfred B. Doner and Max Esther Charnas, Elementary
- ,-
Haidy: artists' supplies. Jack K. Schools: Bernard Jaffe and Dot
Lewis; printers and publishers, thea Richmond. Intermediate
Herman Lewis, Jr., fly Safran Schools: Joseph Steinberger and
and Ben Wigder; paper products, Samuel Milan. High Schools: Dr.
Nathan Balaban and Dave Schil- Lawrence H. Seltzer. Wayne Uni-
versity: and Mrs. George Blumtn-
ler; artists and musicians, Sey-
photographers, stock, Board of Education. The
mour Simons;
Burnett G. Krauss: florists. Na- meeting will be addressed by Leo
than Abrams: amusement, Arvid Lania.
The Mechanical Trades Division
Kantor, Arthur Robinson, Alex
of Milbn
Schreiber and Lew Wisper; bowl- under the chairmanship
, n,
ing alleys, Rudolph Glick and K. Mahler, William Gershens
Samuel W Block. This division Ben Kramer, and Ben L. Silber-
Lania,
will hear Leo Lania, distinguished stein. will also hear Mr.
foreign correspondent. at a meet- who has gained an enviable repu-
American journalism be-
ing on Thursday, March 13, at tation in
the Rose Sittig Cohen Building cause of his ingenuity in securing
personal interviews with Hitler.
at 8 . m.
Benes of
Mussolini, Premier
Special Gifts Chairman
President
Max Schayo- Czechoslovakia. and
Harry Becker and
witz were elected chairmen of the Bierut of Poland.
special gifts section of the Food
Service Council at a meeting of
the Council's Campaign Execu-1
tive Committee. held under the
chairmanship of Nathan Lurie on
Sunday. The Council will hold a,
Purim parties and assemblies
general membership meeting at )
were arranged in all the branches
8 p.m. Tuesday. March 11. at the
Lee Plaza Hotel, at which Mr. of the United Hebrew Schools
last week. Assemblies were fea-•
Lania will be the speaker.
songs by the
In their first organization meet- tured by pageants.
brief talks on
ing Sunday, March 2, the phy- school chorus,
merrymaking.
sicians elected Dr. Charles Lakoff Purim and
Parties and exchange of gifts
chairman while the attorneys will
hold a second organizational meet- know as "shalach monoth - among
ing Thursday, March 6, in the the pupils were arranged in alt
office of Fred M. Butzel. the classrooms.

Purim Parties Held
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