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VOLUME 1 I —NO. 23

State and Nation Congratulate

Fred M. Butzel

On his 70th Birthday

August 25, 1947

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Detroit 26, Michigan, August 22, 1947

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Vaad Leumi Plans
$2,000,000 Fund
To Protect Settlers

Special Cable to The Jewish News

JERUSALEM (JTA)—The Vaad Leumi—the National Jewish Council
—is considering raising a $2,000,000 security fund to defend outlying Jewish
villages and settlements, particularly those adjoining the Syrian frontier
where numerous anti-Jewish incidents occurred.
A group of Arabs attacked a Jew near Herzlia, wounding him seriously.
Officials of the Arab village, Salameh, • which adjoins the Yemenite
Hatikvah quarter of Tel Aviv, on Tuesday called on the Jewish officials of
Hatikvah to thank them for protecting Arab liyes and property in Salameh. The
heads of both quarters are negotiating a "peace covenant."
Despite several more clashes between Jews and Arabs this week end,
there is hope here that the inter-communal situation will return to normal soon,

now that the government has joined Jewish and Arab leaders and organizations in an effort
to suppress violence. Eliezer Perison, vice-mayor of Tel Aviv, revealed that he has ap-
proached the Jaffa municipality with a proposal for common action to halt the battles.
The government's call for a cessation of hostilities came in a statement yesterday by
the High Commissioner who pointed out that at this time, when Palestine's case is before
the United Nations, internecine warfare "can be in the interest of nobody."
The Hebrew press expressed regret at the killing of an Arab woman and her four
children when the Haganah blew up a house in Jaffa last week, during an operation to pun-
ish Arabs who had participated in a raid which cost four Jews their lives. The Labor daily
Davar demanded an investigation and a full explanation from the Jewish resistance organi-
zation.
Members of the Jewish Agency are considering holding the forthcoming Zionist Ac-
tions Committee meeting in Jerusalem rather than Zurich, because of the local situation.

His Mitid as Brisk
As Youth He Serves

By H. C. L

JACKSON

One of the Ablest
Jewish Leaders

Nation Welcomes
Butzel's Counsel

Bingay Hails Most
Valuable Citizen

By JOS. M.

By M. W.

By BORIS

PROSKAUER

BINGAY

SMOLAR

President,
American
Jewish
Committee

Editorial
Director,
Detroit

Detroit News
Columnist

Editor, Jewish
Telegraphic
Agency

W E ESTEEM it a distinct honor
to be allowed to join in extending our
best wishes to Fred M. Butzel, who
today is 70 years young.
Through the teeming years of this
newspaperman's professional life, Mr.
Butzel has shone again and again, as
a lawyer, as an humanitarian, as a
controlled dynamo with a mind that
could sense an injustice, and go into
high gear to erase that injustice.
To expand on his qualities is mere-
ly •to repeat what everyone knows
about this splendid man who has
been, still is and will continue to be
of the type that Detroit—or any other
city—so diligently needs.
"Will continue to be," we said, be-
cause Mr. Butzel is only 70 years
young. And we are inclined to believe
that his young-ness is, in part anyway,
because so many of his years have been
spent in the betterment of youth.
This we have noticed: He who
works with youth may come to the
time when his hair grows reticent, and
his body may grow tired but—his
mind still glints, as bright and shining
as new-minted gold.
It may be this is true because there
is something about the constant burn-
ishing of the mental powers by the
strident sandpaper that is Youth, that
keeps the mind as brisk and glinting
-as the youth it serves. Certainly that
is the case with Mr. Butzel.
Yes, we esteem it a distinct honor
so be allowed to join in extending our
best birthday wishes to Fred M. But-
set who, today, is 70 years young.

ETROIT JEWRY is now hon-
oring its dean, Fred M. Butzel . . .
Actually Mr. Butzel is not only a
leader of Detroit Jewry, - but also is
one of the most able leaders in
American Jewish life ... True, he has
been active all his years in developing
Jewish communal life in Detroit, but
he is also one of the leading figures
on the governing boards of the Joint
Distribution Committee, the Ameri-
can Jewish Committee and other
national Jewish organizations.
In Detroit, he is the chairman of
the Allied Jewish Campaign and has
always been considered the person
around whom organized lewish com-
munity life is centered.
Himself a member of a Reform
Temple, he is highly respected by
Conservative and Orthodox Jews .. .
He was one of the few American-born
Jews who actively supported Zionism
in its early years . . . The Detroit
Zionist district has elected him hon.
orary.chairman several times.
Under his leadership Detroit Jewry
can boast of giving to many cities
their best Jewish social workers.
It can be said that there isn't a
single worthwhile Jewish cause in
which Mr. Butzel is not interested .. .
He is also interested in defending the
rights of the Negroes . . . In fact, he
is president of a -Negro hospital in
Detroit and has been an active board
member of the Urban League . . . He
has contributed much to medical in-
stitutions and has an enviable record
for service to humanity.

I

N BEHALF of the American
Jewish Committee it is. a privilege to
congratulate the Detroit Jewish com-
munity on having Fred M. Butzel as

a leader.
We in New York have long had the

benefit of his wise counsel. His is a
wisdom that derives from close touch

with many varieties of human beings,
with all phases in American Jewish

life. He knows Jewish needs and as-
pirations from the education of the
young to the hospitalization of the
sick; from the Jewish passion for
music to the needs of war service. In
law, in business, in philanthropy, on
the widest possible basis yet always
guided by keen sensibility, he has
made himself a creative force, one ad-
mired and respected not merely in the
Jewish field but on the basis of broad,
American patriotism and service.

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Between You and Me
Center News
Classified
Purely Commentary
Editorials
!eard in the Lobbies
Film Folk
Listening Post
Obituaries
Question Box
Society
Strictly Confidential
Women's Clubs
Youth Highlights

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Free Press

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T IS difficult to write about a
keen legal mind that never evinces
any special interest in the law.
It is even harder to write about a
successful business man who never
pays any attention to business.
It is impossible to tell about a
sociologist who does not believe in
sociology and smiles in kindly con-
tempt at those who designate them-
selves as such.
You cannot say, "This man is a
philosopher" when he has never been
known to preach any philosophy; he
simply lives it without saying any-
thing about it. Beside, philosophers
are supposed to be very solemn,
whereas this man is smiling most of
the time.
He waves away all attempts to
catalogue him. The most expert writer
of "case histories" will never be able
to put the personality of the man
down in any social report. He cannot
be labelled.
He will fascinate you with his deep
insight into music, art, literature, sci-
ence, economics, government, but
pretends to no specialization in any of
these fields.
If you seek to penetrate beyond his
walls of self defense into the man him-
self, his almost cynical laughter tosses
you over the moat and the drawbridge
swings shut. Such is the modesty of
the man.
But if you are down and out, if you
are desperately in need of money or
advice, if you are torn in mind and
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