Friday, June 13, 1947
Aaron Droock Re-Elected
Community Council • Head
THE JEWISH NEWS
ZOD Sets Second Jewish Agency Refutes Charge of
Z-Day for June 22 Refusing to Help Curb Terrorism
JERUSALEM, (JTA)—A sharp such action, nor has the army
rejoider to High Commissioner desired it. He said that no other
Sir Alan G. Cunningham's troops in the world would have
invites Fuller Participation of All Organizations; Annual l
charge that Jewish leaders in exercised the restraint shown by
Reports Submitted by Rabbis Glazer, Fram and Adler;
Palestine have refused to co- British soldiers in Palestine in
operate with the authorities face of- continued provocation.
Oscar Cohen and Nathan Milstein
against terrorism and have thus,
Refuses to Increase Quota
At the annual election meeting of the Jewish Community
implicity, supported the extrem-
LONDON, (JTA)—In a con-
ists, was given by a Jewish
Council on June 5, Aaron Droock was re-elected president for
Agency spokesman, who said ference with Colonial Secre-
a second term by acclamation.
that terrorism was the fault of tary Arthur Creech-Jones, rep-
On Mr. Droock's motion, Fred M.-Butzel was unanimously
Britain's repressive policy of
re-elected honorary president. •
arrests and deportations "and resentatives of the Jewish Agen-
The three vice-presidents, Lawrence Crohn, Rabbi Leon
such speeches as Bevin's." (At cy failed to secure his agree-
Fram and Dr. Shmarya Klein- ,
the British Labor Party conven- ment to an increase in the Pales-
man, were re-elected for a second
tion at Margate, Foreign Minister tine immigration quota. Creech-
term. Louis Levine was elected
Bevin described the basic prob- Jones met with Mrs. Goldie Meir-
secretary and Harry Yudkoff,
lem in Palestine as a reflection of son and Berl Locker for 45
treasurer.
minutes, but the discussions were
a Jewish-Gentile war).
The Agency's view, the spokes- inconclusive.
Twelve members elected to the
man
added,
is
that
the
political
36 member executive committee
lawlessness of the government
are: Sidney Alexander, Seymour
.encourages terrorism. He said Soprano, Pianist Offer
I. Caplan. Isadore Cohn, William
that the bulk of the Jewish com- Selections at Hashofar's
Hordes, Victor Klein, Abraham
munity is opposed to terrorism
Lachover, Julian Krolik, Nathan
and has openly and clearly dis- Yearly Meeting June 18
Milstein, Diana Rosenblatt, Mrs.
avowed it. The extent of Jewish
Rose Silverstein, Charles Rubin-
The annual meeting of "Hasho-
cooperation can be gathered from
er, Mrs. Leonard Weiner.
police records, he continued. The far," Society for Advancement of
In his discussion of the
Yishuv also has attempted to Jewish Music, will take place at
Council's activities during the
cut off the supply of funds to 8:45 p.m. Wednesday, June 18,
last. year, Mr. Droock stressed
to prevent in the Jewish Community Cen-
the expansion of the Council's
with urgent day to day consider- the terrorists and being
used as ter auditorium.
lands from
work. Reiterating the Council's
ations which occupied all of its Jewish
bases for extremist operations.
Shoshana Brooke Friedman,
`desire to be of greater service
ARBON DROOCIL energies.
to the community, he invited munity affairs and promote* the The committee, he said, will He dismissed as "pure propagan- well-known Detroit soprano, will
fuller participation of all con- highest standards of traditional seek to arrange large scale func- da," the High Commissioner's render vocal selections, assisted
charge that the'Jews have not at the piano by Florence Kutzen,
stituent organizations.
Jewish communal living. He re- tions to commemorate events, to cooperated.
and Betty Kowalsky, young and
Oscar Cohen, executive direct- viewed the two major projects promote books, celebrate holi-
While it is true that it is the gifted pianist, will be heard in
or, said in his report tha. as a which the committee has corn- days, etc., in both Yiddish and duty of citizens everywhere to compositions by George Gersh-
newcomer to the city he found pleted this year—the investiga- in English; to present to organ- assist the authorities in curbing
win.
the problem of community rela- tion into kosher meat prices and izations program aids to help crime, the situation changes
There will be a reception at
Lions in Detroit "interesting,, the revival of the East Side Mer- build up their cultural level. It when the breaches are political
the conclusion of the program.
fascinating and difficult". Detroit
lt chants Association. Dr. Glazer will call a conference of presi- crimes, the spokesman stressed. The public is invited with no ad-
excels in certain phases of Jewish pointed out that the strength of dents and cultural chairmen to "Here there are two hatreds;
leadership and in response to the internal relations committee plan this activity and hopes to against British policy, and against mission charge.
appeals, he said. He stressed the lies in the support of organize- organize a panel of speakers and terrorism, but the first is strong-
potentially explosive nature of tions. Its work can be made more to make available to organize- er."
ANY AND ALL
the Detroit situation because of effective if more organizations tions a list of subjects on which
The Cunningham statement
BOOKS
the many nationality and other voluntarily contribute to corn- they will speak. In these activi- was contained in an 8,000-word
groups which live here, because munal discipline.
ties it expects to cooperate with report to the Colonial Office on
MENTIONED IN THIS
of the housing situation, labor's
existing educational agencies to the Acre Prison break on May 4,
Change in U. S. Scene
ISSUE AVAILABLE AT
internal struggle and a conserve-
Relations r e- I utilize what facilities they have during which more than 200
The
Community
- tive state administration. Hops
prisoners were liberated. The
for solution -in many of Detroit's port was presented by Rabbi and to stimulate educational
High Commissioner said that if
activities. Three sub-commit
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problems, he said, lies in the
Rabbi Fram congratulated Mr. are at present planning the pro- the military forces were allow-
strong desire among the masses Milstein and the Legal Committee gram of the new culture corn- ' ed to use their full strength
The Detroit Zionist District has
set Sunday, June 22, for the day
on which the homes of the Jew-
ish community will be visited for
the purpose of enrolling Zionist
members.
"Please ask every Jew in De-
troit to let me speak in his name
by enrolling in the Zionist Or-
ganization," is Dr. Abba Hillel
Silver's plea. In his appeal for
support, Dr. Silver further de-
clares, "Enlistment of a maxi-
mum number of Jews in the Zi-
onist Organization will greatly
strengthen my. hands and {hose
who are charged with the respon-
sibility for proper championing
our cause before the World's Tri-
bunal."
Every Zionist member who
wishes to support the Zionist po-
sition before the United Nations
Assembly should join the work-
ers on "Z" Diy, Sunday, June
22, and meet at 10 a. m. for
breakfast, in the Rose Sittig
Cohen auditorium, Lawton at
Waverly.
Milstein
against the whole Jewish com-
for real democracy.
on Attorney General Black's de- mittee.
Striving for Democracy
cision which is a great victory A resohation was adopted pay- munity, they could wipe out
Mr. Cohen pointed out that
terrorist activity in a few hours.
for t h e Jewish Community jug thisite to the memory of He added, however, that the gov-
among the principles on which Council
and the Jewish com- Sintoir Shetzer, first Council
ernment has never contemplated
he works is the one that Anti-
president.
Semitism is bad not only because munity. As far as the work of
his
committee
is
concerned,1
it is bad for the Jews but be-
cause it is bad for democracy; Rabbi Fram pointed out that
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that by building democracy and there is a basic change in the
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parts of the community we are Semitism is at a low ebb. There
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also striking a blow at anti- are fewer overt incidents. There
Semitism. He said he was inter- is less necessity to hold emer-
ested in a positive approach to gency meetings.
"It seems," said Rabbi Fram,
the problems and showed less
concern with the fear of what "that the American public is
non-Jews might think. The basic no longer interested in anti-
work of the Council is a striving Semitism". Nonetheless, the pre-
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, for more and more. democracy. sent economic and political re-
In the report of the legal com- action could lead to a new out-
mittee, Nathan Milstein, chair- break of anti-Semitism and the
man, described the ways in committee is alert to this danger.
The Committee is building up
which the committee makes its
services available to the staff, a library of literature, films and
always being on call to render recordings which it is using to
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legal opinions on any problems promote democracy in interested
before the Council. It is current- organizations.
Rabbi Fram praised Mr. Cohen
ly •engaged in the restrictive
covenant case in Pontiac in for stimulating the Community
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which Harry Nayer has written Co-ordinating Council now being
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the brief and pled the case set up by the Mayor's Interracial
which is now under considera- Committee.
Work for FEPC Bill
tion by the judge. In the event
of an unfavorable decision it Rabbi Fram discussed the
may possibly go to the Supreme FEPC bill which was stymied
Court. The committee is study- locally by its Communist origin
This double-duty shirt has a
ing the Chicago Anti-Defamation but which it might be possible to
specially tailori-d collar that closes
Ordinance with a view to deter- revise and put through nonethe-
neatly for dress and business wear
mining whether its features are less. He pointed out that it might
and opens softly for sport and
be easier to get a federal FEPC
applicable to Detroit .
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casual wear. Tailored of luxurious
than a state law and that the 1 Z
Committee's Achievements
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for the recent decision by an active interest in this pos-
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Attorney General Black making sibility.
sod extralarge.
illegal the use of discriminatory Another major piece of legis-
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terms like "restricted clientele" lation in which the committee is
in resort and hotel advertising. interested is HR 2910 which pro-
Another committee member, vides for the admission of 400,000
Harold Helper, is revising the DPs to this country. Rabbi Fram
proposed e'Ek't.: Law for the pointed out that the Jewish
state in preparation for a new Community Council has been
campaign. It is hoped that this "the mainspring and dynamo" in
may be adopted at the next behalf of this bill. to admit DPs
Session of the Legislature. to the United States. He urged
The committee is collecting all delegates present to write to
briefs and other legal material Rep. Frank Fellows and ask him
for a legal library at the Jewish to get the law out of committee.
Community Council. Cultural Activities
Wasbintou Bostlevani at Grand River
Higher Internal Standards , Rabbi Morris Adler, reporting
Dr. B. Benedict Glazer, report- for the Culture Committee, re-
ing for the internal relations collected that the Community
committee, stressed its basic Council is a young organization
philosophy to maintain a high and that 'through much of its
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ethical level in Jewish corn- recent history it has beat faced
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