$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.