Page Eighteen

THE JEWISH NEWS

Fresh Air Society Elects
Barney Smith to Presidency

Barney Smith, member of the boards of the Detroit Service
Group, Hebrew Free Loan Association, Jewish Welfare Federation
and Fresh Air Society, and an Allied.Jewish Campaign leader, was
elected Monday to succeed Charles N. Agree as president of the
Fresh Air Society.
- Also named for a one-year term are Mrs. I. Irving Bittker,
re-elected as vice-president; .;
Emanuel J. Harris, re-elected
treasurer, and Milton M. Maddin,
secretary, ateceeding Mrs. Felix
J. Mahler.
In his annual report, Agree an-
-nounced that 623 different Jewish I
boys and girls received vacations
at Fresh Air Camp in 1947, and
Detroit Young Israel's second
that only nine children who re-
quired reduced rate or free camp- annual concert, on Nov. 19,
erships had not been admitted to 8:15 p. m., in the Music Hall,
the camp, because of their Tate Madison at Brush,.will feature the
registration. The reduced rite and
free camperships were made pos-
sible by "the Community Chest
allocations, plus personal contri-
butions by board members, gifts
from such sources as the Monte-
fibre Lodge, the Silverman War
Veterans Post, the Couzens Fund,
the Mendelson Fund, and indivi-
dual donations."
'he retiring president expressed
particular appreciation for the
work of the board comlnittees.
These include the medical com-
mittee headed by Dr. Irving Pos-
ner, assisted by Dr. Oscar D.
Schwartz; the intake committee.
Harry L. Jackson, chairman, Mrs.
Bittker, Nathan Milstein and Mrs.
SHOLCOM SECUNDA
Jack Rothberg; the plant. com-
mittee. chaired by Saul Rose with talented young cantor Arele Dia-
Louis Daniels, and the purchasing mond, accompanied by a sym-
committee with Herman Osnos,
phony orchestra under the dirce-
chairman, Maddin and Max C.
tion of Sholom Secunda.
Handler.
Secunda is a gradua.je of Juil-
Pointing out that the current
Fresh Air Camp plant is over 20 liard Institute of Musical Art and
years old, Agree continued, "It-I studied instrumentation with
has served the community well, I Ernest Bloch. He ,is the author
but it is no longer meeting its of numerous compositions in-
camping needs because the com- cluding close to 50 operettas and
munity- has continued to grow musical comedies, liturgical' com-
positions, classical and popular
during this ;period."
"A beginning has already been songs, the outstanding of which
made," Agree said. "A compre- Is "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen"; the
hensive plan for major improve- grand opera "Shulamith"; . and
published "Danse Des Odal-
dal-
ments to the present camp al-
isque", "Yemonite Dance" and
ready has been submitted to the isque",
Jewish Welfare Federation and "Song of the East".
the subcommittee on camping of
Musical director of East Mid-
the Federation Social Planning wood Jewish Center since 1938,
Committee is giving serious con-I Secunda is a lecturer at New
sideration to the development of i York University and Hunter Col-
more campsites. In addition, we lege and was guest conductor over
have the whole series of recom- the Columbia Network on the
mendations presented to us last Eddie Cantor program and from
yea ► ,' by our director which we Chicago on the Wrigley program.
have only begun to implement He recently arranged and coached
and which call for the continued two musicals for the USO, "Sa-
attention of the Board in the lute to Gershwin" and "Jerome
months to come."
Kern".
Announcing that the camp
The program will include litur-
operated at capacity during 1947,
Irwin Shaw, bxecutive director, gical and operatic Music of the
reported that 52 per cent of the Jewish stage and Yiddish folk
campers were partial or non-pay- songs.
Mail and phone orders for
ing, while the remainder were
full-pay at $20 per week. .Jewish tickets are accepted at the Young
boys and girls of Detroit were Israel Office, 12244 Dexter, TO.
provided with 2,082 weeks, of a-8064. Tickets also are available
camping by Fresh Air Camp in from Young Israel members and
at Zion Book Store, 9008 12th;
1947.
The Fresh Air Society is a Horwitz Drugs, Linwood at Glad-
member agency of the Jewish stone; Metro Music House, 1.0324
Welfare Federation ' and a Red Dexter; Detroit Hebrew Book
Feather service of the Commun- Store, 12226 Dexter;' Planet Rec-
ity Chest.
ord Shop, Dexter at Tyler_ .

Secunda, Diptmond
Young Israel Guests
At Concert Nov. 19

Pharmacists , and Wives
Schedule Dinner-Dance

The Aesculapian Pharmaceuti-
cal Association, and its Ladies
Auxiliary, will present their 2tst
annual dinner dance Nov. 3; at
Northwood Inn.
Mrs. Michael Wainer and Mrs.
H. A. Katzman head the Aux-
iliary's entertainment committee.
with Mrs. Martin Share, Mrs.
Asher Smith and Mrs. Hyman
Margolis working on the souvenir
program.
The entertainment committee
of the pharmacists' group is head-
ed by Hyman Margolis, who is
also in charge of reservations.
Active on his committee are Mor-
ris Karbal, H. A. Katzman, Wil-
liam Karbal, Mineta Morger,
Harry Pernick, Harry Berlin,
Sam Bez, Ben . Bavly and Al
B rooks.
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Two Slcivakian Traitors
Sentenced to Prison Terms
PRAGUE, (JTA)—A 'Peoples
ska-Bystrica, . -Slo-
Court in Ban
vakia, sentenced Alexander Licht
rteker and Stepan Toth, to 20
years imprisonment for betraying
41 Jews to the Gestapo, of whom
1i were shot

Rabbi Schultz'
`Smear' Refuted
By N. Y. Rabbis

NEW YORK; (JTA)—The New
York Board of Rabbis unani-
mously adopted a resolution con-
demining Benjamin Schultz for
his recent series of articles in
the New York World-Telegram
in which he charged that certain
individuals, organizations and in-
stitutions of the Protestant, Jew-
ish and Catholic faiths were Com-
munist or Communist-dominated.
The resolution charged Rabbi
Schultz with "using the smear
technique of a scandal monger"
and of violating the command-
ment that "Thou Shalt Not Bear
False Witness Against Thy Neigh-
bor." It called on him to retract
his accusations or face further
action by the rabbinical body.
Rabbi Schultz, who had been in-
vited to attend the meeting, did
not appear.
The trustees of Congregation
Emanu El in Yonkers, of which
Rabbi Schultz is spiritual leader,
asked for his resignation.
Rabbi Schultz charged that the
resolution was "an example of
viciousness and unfairness." He
added that "it is apparent that
the disciples of Rabbi Wise and
those innocents who have been
whip-lashed into this frenzy
against me by a small but voci-
ferous pro-Communist clique are
better organized than the large
majority of Jewry who have a
warm devotion to American prin-
ciples of freedom of thought."

Kaddish and Yarieit for departed
loved ones, said in Palestine or the
United States. Responsible party,
references . furnished. PLaza 1048.

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The I 2th St. branch of the Detroit Edison has on display exam-
p l es of the work of the children of the I 2th St. Council Jewish
Community Center. The Edison branch. has selected the Jewish
Community Center as its Red Feather agency during the current
Community Chest drive.

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Heard in the Lobbies

By ARNOLD LEAN

(Copyright, 1947, Independent Jewish Press Service, Inc.)

Lake Success Dispatch

For Your (And. Everybody's)

Miller to Report on UN
At 'Jewish Life' Jubilee

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Center Children's Work Displayed

Chairman Evatt of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Palestinian
Question is a subject of considerable speculation among delegates and
newshawks at Lake Success. They wonder where he stands. His
Keep' Immigration Bars
rulings giving the Arab proposals equal status with the UNSCOP
propoals through the appointment of two subcommittees of equal
But Pass Stratton Bill,
status to consider both proposals, have caused the following specu-
AFL Council Advises
lation: Didn't Chairman Evatt realize that by doing so, he "demoted"
the UNSCOP prOPosals and placed these carefully prepared recom-
SAN FRANCISCO,' (JTA) -- mendations, drawn up by a committee representative of world public
Although opposed to "any lower- opinion on the same footing with improvised proposals placed on the
agenda by filibustering Arabs? Didn't this astute parliamentarian
ing of the immigration bars," the
comprehend the significance of his rulings which he has defended
American Federation of Labor as fair and democratic? Was he simply trying to give the Arab
favors adoption by the Congress filibusterers enough rope, or is he once again. eyeing the General
of the Stratton Bill, which would Assembly Presidency hoping' that he'll win next year the honors
provide for the admittance of he has sought this year, and, therefore, does not wish to antagonize
400.000 displaced persons over a the Arabs by rulings they might charge wereVnfair?
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period of four years, it is stated The Case of Rabbi Schultz
Rabbi Benjamin . Schultz's articles in the World-Telegram about
in the report of the executive
communist
infiltration
in
the
rabbinate
and-Christian
clergy have
council of the AFL, distributed
set off a chain of 'immediate repercusSions, a demand by his
to the delegates attending the gation that he resign from the pulpit he has occupied for 13 congre-
years,
organization's 6.6th convention and probes by rabbinical bodies regarding the ethical aspects of
here.
Rabbit Schultz's behaviour.
The repoyt says that the AFL - Although in the opinion of some, Rabbi Schultz's own articles '
favors "the quota act because we were seasoned with vindictiveness, we disapprove of his congrega-
are opposed to opening our gates tion's demand for his resignation, because we disapprove of vindic-
to unrestricted or umlegulated tiveness per se and do not think that two wrongs make .a right. .
On the other hand, we think that Rabbi Schultz committed a grave
immigration."
injustice against American Jewry by glibly describing as "communist
William' Green, president of dupes" some names of distinction in American Jewry. We are cer-
the AFL, was awarded a bronze tain that Rabbi Schultz will be none too happy to see his "red list"
plaque for "endless crusade for quoted in the vermin press, but as likely as not Court Asher's X-Ray
freedom of conscience, the dignity and GLK Smith's Flag and the Cross will quote him extensively..
of man and the human rights of Really, it would be wiser for a Rabbi to confine himself to the great
of the pulpit rather than branch out into becoming
all peoples everywhere," by the responsibilities
a one-rabbi Committee on Un-American Activities.
Catholic Inter-Racial Council, the
Jewish Labor Committee, the
Negro Labor Committee and the
Presbyterian Institute of Indus-
trial Relations..

On Sunday, Niov. 9 at 7 p.m.,
at' the Jewish Cultural Center,
2705 Joy Road, Moses Miller,
editor of Jewish Life, will re-
port on UN sessions where recom-
mendations,. of the majority .
UNSCOP report are being de
bated. ,
The occasion for Miller's report
is the celebration of the annual
jubilee of. the , Anglo-Jewish
Monthly "Jewish Life."
A fine program will be pre-
The United Hebrew
sented by the Jewish Folks
Schools of Detroit
Chorus and a group of players
Gratefully Acknowledge
from the Contemporary Thearer.
Jewish .Life is in full agree-
the Receipt of
ment with the UNSCOP recom-
a contribution to the Scholarship mendation, says Gabriel Alman,
Fund of the schools from Mr: its. Detroit representative.
and Mrs. Oshie I. Baker of Chi-
cago Boulevard in 'memory of
Next Congress to Get
Mrs. Gertrude Warner.

one scholarship from Mr.. and
Mrs. Herman Milgrom of. Monica
Ave., in honor of the Bar Mitz-
vah of ' their son, Mark William,
which will be observed on Sat-
urday, June 26, 1948. '
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a contribution to the Scholarship
Fund from Mr. and Mrs. Harold
Goodman. of Fairfield Ave., in
memory of Simon Shetzer.

Friday, October 31, 1947

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New DP Legislation

And, why not have a set of 50 or 100 made up for

WASHINGTON (JTA)—Legis-
lation for the admission' of from
75,000 to 150,000 DPs to -the
United States will probably be
introduced in the next , session
of Congress, Rep. Frank Chelf
of Kentucky told reporters after
a call at the White House.
Chelf said he believed Truman
would make a statement on the
DP question when Rep. James
G. Fulton, who was chairman of
a special House Foreigrr Affoirs
Sub-Committee that studied the
problems this summer, returns
to make his resort.

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