$25,000,000 Needed at Once!
Detroiters Urged to Finish
Payment on 1947 Pledges
An urgent plea to Detroit Jews to pay the balances out-
standing on their pledges to the 1947 Allied Jewish Campaign
was sent out this week by the Jewish Welfare Federation,
in response to the unanimous decision of community leaders
at the Dec. 15 session of the United Jewish Appeal that
twenty-five million dollars are needed urgently and imme-
diately by the UJA to accelerate immigration into Palestine,
to protect the lives of Palestinian Jewry and to provide food,
clothing and fuel for the Jews of Europe in the face of the
bitter winter ahead.
In a telegram from Atlantic City, Detroit representatives
at the UJA conference, Julian H. Krolik, Federation president;
Louis Berry, Joseph Holtzman, Abe Kasle and Abraham
Srere joined with UJA leaders in emphasizing that "the grav-
ity of the situation compels us to join in this plea to mobilize
cash resources on account of 1947 pledges for the United
Jewish Appeal in the next two weeks."
"No single person and no single community can supply
the total $25,000,000 immediately needed," the Federation
message said, "but if each of us promptly forwards his own
balance, the amount will be realized."
THE JEWISH NEWS
A Weekly Review
VOLUME 12—NO. 15
of Jewish Events
34 sio. 22Friday, December 26, 1947
Page .24
11 Detroiters Helped UJA Set National
$250,000,000 Quota for Relief in 1948
(In order to receive credit for 1947 income tax, checks
in payment of pledges should be sent in time to clear the
banks by Dec. 31, Isenberg, Purdy and Donovan, account-
ants for the Allied Jewish Campaign, reminded all con-
tributors, in a special statement to the Federation.)
The full text of the telegram, which was also signed by
UJA General Chairman Henry Morgenthau, Jr., and by Dr.
Israel Goldstein, Hon. Herbert H. Lehman, Edwin Rosenberg,
William Rosenwald, Edward -M. M. Warburg and Dr. Jonah
B. Wise, reads as follows:
"As a consequence of the United Nations decision on
Palestine steps are rapidly taking place to accelerate immi-
gration into Palestine. American Jews will wish to ensure
that every proper step has been taken to protect the lives of
Palestine Jewry. In order to provide food, clothing and fuel
for the bitter winter ahead for Jews in and out of camps in
. Europe, cash is desperately needed for immediate purchases.
By unanimous decision of community delegates at Dec. 15
session of United Jewish Appeal National Conference at At-
lantic City, this wire is being sent to all communities. The
gravity of the situation compels us to join in this plea to
mobilize cash resources on account of 1947 pledges for the
United Jewish Appeal in the next two weeks.
"Twenty-five million dollars are urgently needed and
immediately. We therefore ask that a committee composed
of most dynamic leaders in community be organized at once
to secure payment of all substantial 'contributions. We sug-
gest further that a photostatic copy of this urgent message
be sent to every contributor with an outsanding balance.
May we have your immediate cooperation and advice."
inter-Faith Panel, Games
Feature AZA's Tournament
Aleph Zadik Aleph Council of
Bnai Brith Youth Organization
announces that the Michigan re-
gional tournament will be cli-
maxed by an all-star basketball
game between the AZA All-Star
Team and the Boys Club Inter-
mediate All-Star Team on Tues-
day, Dec. 30, at 3 p.m., in the
gymnasium of the Jewish Com-
munity Center.
Other features of the three-day
event which will begin on Sat-
urday, Dec. 27, include:
Saturday, 9 to 12 p.m.—Regis-
tration, refreshments at Bnai
Brith Youth headquarters, 11718
Dexter.
Sunday, 9 a.m.-12 p.m.—Ora-
tory and debate at BBYO head-
quarters; 1-3 p.m., pool and bowl-,
ing at Jewish Center; 3:30-6 p.m.,
seminar supper with guest speak-
ers from all faiths at Jewish
Center; 7:30 p.m., barn dance in
Windsor.
Monday, 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.—
Basketball at Central High; 12 to
2 p.m., intermission for lunch
at BBYO headquarters; 7 p.m.,
Night Club at Jewish Center.
Tuesday, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.—
Michigan Region Council meeting
at BBYO headquarters; 2-3 p.m.,
basketball finals at Jewish Cen-
ter; 3-4 p.m., AZA-Boys' Club All-
Star Basketball Game at Jewish
Center; 7 p.m., banquet at Ros-
enberg's, Dexter at Boston..
The subject of the seminar on
Sunday at 3:30 p.m. at the Jew-
ish Center will be: "The Role of
the Youth Group in World Af-
fairs," and will be conducted by
a panel of representative youth
leaders: Jackie Vaughn of Hart-
ford Baptist Church, John Booty
of Detroit Round Table of Chris-
tians and Jews, Pete Senn of
Newman Club and David Rappo-
port of Bnai Brith Young Men.
The Boy's Club Basketball
Team will be guests of the Mich-
igan Council at the banquet at
Rosenberg's.
Participants in the tournament
will include representatives from
Detroit, Grand Rapids, Flint,
Benton Harbor and Mt. Clemens.
Re-Hear FCC Arguments
Against N. Y. Daily News
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The
Federal Communications Com-
mission rescinded its order of last
October denying a FM license to
the New York Daily News. The
News had appealed the ruling on
the ground that two of the com-
missioners who participated in
the decision had not heard the
oral arguments. New hearings
have been set for Jan. 8.
Nine prominent leaders of the Detroit Jewish
community are shown here at the extraordinary
National Conference of the United Jewish Ap-
peal, held Dec. 11 to 15 in Atlantic City to
help formulate the 1948 program for the estab-
lishment and security of the Jewish State in
Palestine, for overseas relief, and for refugee
assistance in the United States. Included in the
Detroit delegation are, left to right, standing,
JOSEPH HOLTZMAN, ABE KASLE, ABRAHAM
SRERE and ISIDORE SOBELOFF, Federation ex-
ecutive director, and sitting, JULIAN H. KRO-
LIK, ESTHER R. PRUSSIAN, LOUIS BERRY,
MRS. MAX R. FRANK and MRS. ABE KASLE,
Mrs. John C. Hopp and Mrs. H. L. Jackson, other
Detroit delegates, are not in the photograph.
An Over-All and All-Out Effort
To Meet a Historic Opportunity
By ISIDORE SOBELOFF
The months ahead must be set aside by all
Jews of Detroit for over-all, all-out effort
to translate the opportunity given by the
United Nations into fulfillment.
It is our task to recognize that a big mo-
ment in Jewish history has arrived, and to
be guided accordingly. There is a grand
drama in the new world setting and a new
kind of inter-relationship among the Jews
of America, Europe and Palestine. The re-
sponsibility for understanding the total need
belongs to all of us.
`Unified Endeavor'
The organized community must go for-
ward in unified endeavor in behalf of the
common bond that ties us, and of placing in
proper perspective both the big things and
the small. Organizationally, every group
must relate itself to the total job before us.
Individually, as well, everyone of us must
fall into line as part of the great army of
assistance, both as a contributor and as a
worker.
For a long time now, we have been urging
the abrogation of the White Paper, the open-
ing of the gates of Palestine, the recognition
of the Jewish State. Similarly, we have been
pleading for more humanitarian considera-
tion in behalf of our fellow Jews in Europe.
We have been clamoring for the passage
of the Stratton Bill. We have done many
things at home and abroad to indicate by
oratory, advertising, resolutions, telegrams,
and other media, that we demanded fair
play and justice for our people. We have
shown that in principle we are in favor of
normalizing the life of the Jews the world
over.
From Attitudes to Action
Now, the United Nations has spoken for
the civilized world and we are wed with
the challenge of demonstrating that we are
prepared to make good on the opportunity
that has been presented to us. The $250,000,-
000 goal of the United Jewish Appeal, as
determined in Atlantic City, gives us the
chance to translate our expressed attitudes
into action.
The Jews of America, in supporting the
$250,000,000 quota, will again channel their
drives through the local welfare funds. Our
own Allied Jewish Campaign, along with
similar drives the country . over, will offer
a four-point program:
• To promote the creation and develop-
ment of a Jewish State in Palestine.
• To maintain and rehabilitate the 1,250,-
000 Jews of Europe until governmental
aid, economic improvement, or emigra-
tion relieves their situation.
• To receive, assist and integrate into
American life the displaced persons and
other refugees fortunate enough to be
admitted to the United States.
• To support domestic and local agencies
in the fields of health, welfare recrea-
tion, care of the aged, youth work, edu-
cation and community relations.
Home, Overseas Program
In effect, the campaigns, by using psychol-
ogical parity to embrace all these four
points, will serve as a basis for a rounded
out program at home and abroad. They will
provide the financial underpinning to activi-
ties on which American Jews have agreed
as a common platform.
General McNarney has well said "there
are no free rides in history." If the Jewish
people at last are to realize their age-old
dream of a homeland they are, by the same
token, obligated to assume new responsi
bilities. May it be given to us as individuals
and as a community to meet the great test.