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THE JEWISH NEWS

Poale Agudas Israel Seek Funds
For Defense of Colonies in Zion

Abraham Goldrat, editor of
Hayesod of Palestine and general
secretary of the world Poale
Agudas Israel movement, arrived
in Detroit this week to organize a
campaign for funds for the organ-
ization's defense, economic and
resettlement activities.

AARON WEISS. Member of
Peale Agudas Israel, who lost
his life as Haganah defender.

At a meeting on Monday eve-
ning. Judah Lachar was chosen
chairman of the Detroit campaign
committee.
Mr. Goldrat, in an outline of
the needs of the orthodox Jewish
colonies in Palestine, stated that
the fund-raising appeal here is
for a three-fold purpose: 1. to
support its members' Haganah
activities ir_ the special kibbutzim
of Poale Agudas Israel; 2. to care
for the 600 monthly newcomers
to these kibbutzim and 3. to fi-
nance the children's homes in
their colonies.
Stating that his movement
cooperates both the Poale Hamiz-
rachi and Histadrut, Mr. Goldrat
said that his movement's colonies
—among them Kibbutz Chofetz
Chaim, Kibbutz Ezra, Moriah,
Nezach Israel and oth'ers—are cut
off from the main settlements
and must be maintanied in order
that they should not be left help-
homes, it is necessary, Mr. Gold-
rat stated, that sufficient sums
should be, sent from the United
States to aid the movement.
He announced that a public
meeting is planned here next
week under Poale Agudas Israel
less on the borders of the Arab
areas.

Members in Haganah
In view of the arrival of 600
settlers in these colonies every
month and the need for maintain-
ing the guilds and children's
auspices to outline the move-
ment's objectives. The, national
president of the movement, R.
Benjamin Mintz, is coming here
to address the rally.
The 10,000 members of Poale
Agudas Israel are aiding all activ-
ities. in Zionism and the move-
ment's members in Palestine are
enrolled in Haganah, • Goldrat
said.
Leading nationat members of
the movement's executive include
Dr. Leo Jung, D. L. Meckler,
Chaim Lieberman, Irving Bunim,
Dr. Isaac Levine, Moshe .Feier-
stone and others.
Pleads for UJA
Mr. Goldrat said that one of
the means for his coming to this
country is to urge strong support
for the United Jewish Appeal and
at the same time to ask for the
supplementary fund for his move-
ment. He said that it is the gen-
eral conviction that the $250.000,-
000 UJA fund is a minimum need-
ed and that it should be raised as
speedily as possible.
He accused the British of try-
ing'to destroy the morale of the
Jews of Palestine by creating a
war of nerves and declared that
two other aims of the British are
to destroy the Yishuv physically
and to break its economic sys-
tems. He said that partisanship
by the British in Jerusalem is
responsible4• for the virtual im-
prisonment of the Jewish popula-
tion in the Old City and the in-
ability of Jews even to bury their
dead.

Bnai Brith Membership
Reaches 300,000 Mark

WASHINGTON, (JTA)—The
executive committee of Bnai
Brith reaffirmed its support of
the Stratton Bill to admit 400,-
000 DP's of all faiths to this
country during a four-year per-
iod and pledged its support of
President Truman's 13 point pro-
gram o ncivil rights at a meeting
here.
Frank Goldman, president, re-
ported that the organization has
grown to a national membership
of 203,000 men and 103,000 wo-
men.

U. S. Group Protests
Arab Attacks on Zion
Mercy Ambulances

A protest against Arab attacks
upon ambulances of the Red Mo-
gen Dovid, Palestine's counter-
part of the Red Cross, was filed
with the United Nations by the
American Red Mogen Dovid for
Palestine, Inc., 220 Fifth Ave.,
New York.
In a letter addressed to Trygve
Lie, United Nations Secretary-
General, by Congressman Eman-
uel Celler (D., N.Y.), national
chairman of the organization,
Arabs were charged with firing
upon Red. Mogen Dovid ambu-
lances, in some instances while
the ambulances were engaged in
administering aid to Moslems, in
keeping with the nonsectarian
policy of the Red Mogen Dovid.
Denouncing such acts as "con-
trary to all modern concepts of
humanity and civilized warfare,"
the letter declared that those re-
sponsible are "the states that
have banded together in the Arab
League under the leadership and
inspiration of Hitler's close friend
and collaborator, the Mufti," and
asked that the United Nations
take the necessary stIps to inter-
vene with tb.e Arab states against
the repetition of these crimes..

Suwalker Society Holds
Dinner-Dance to Assist
Expanded Relief Program

Suwalker Aid Society will hold
a dinner-dance Sunday, Feb. 22,
at Bnai Moshe Synagogue, to
further its work of sending relief
checks and Care packages to Su-
walker landsleit throughout the
world.
The Suwalker organization was
founded .14 years ago to aid a
Jewish day nursery and old folks
home in Suwalk. The war, how-
ever, greatly expanded its relief
activities.
At present, the group has a list
of 800 persons whom it helps sup-
port. In addition, the Suwalkers
contribute to a number of rilt'afor
Jewish philantrophic programs.
Following the dinner the Su-
walker cantor, Cantor Boyarski,
will present a concert. Tickets
may be obtained by calling TO.
6-9064 or TO. 8-9053.

Friday, February 13, 1948

38 Women's Organizations

Pledge All-Out Aid to UJA

The UN decision on Palestine
is the first opportunity the Jews
have had to find a permanent sol-
ution to the DP problem, and
what the Jews of America do in
support of that decision, by sup-
porting the United Jewish Appeal
drive for overseas needs, Pales-
tine and new Americans, may de-
termine the course of future Jew-
ish history.
This i the situation that makes
1948 a/year of destiny for world
Jewry, Stefan Heym, author of
"Hostages", told an audience of
more than 600 women at the
meeting of the League of Jewish
Womerf's Organizations on Mon-
day, at Congregation Bnai Moshe.
Signing a resolution presented
by Mrs. Samuel B. Danto, presi-
dent of the League, 38 principal
women's organizations, members
of the League, pledged full parti-
cipation in the 1948 Allied Jew-
ish Campagin, through which De-
troiters may contribute to the
UJA and other local, national
and overseas causes.
In addition to giving money,
everyone can help the Jews of
Palestine by writing to his con-
gressman, to his "senators and to
President Truman, demanding
the removal of the embargo on
shipments of arms to Palestine,
Heym said.
Drawing a parallel to the
Spanish Civil War in 1936, Heym
.added that Congressional failure
to remove the embargo at that
time led to World War II and the
slaughter of six million Jews.
"With the human trap the British
are constructing in Palestine," he
said, "the present embargo could
well lead to the slaughter of the
nearly 700,000 Jews now in that
country—and, with it, the end of
the Jewis;in dream of a home."
Signing the resolution were

presidents of• the following organ-
izations:

Bnai Brith Women's Council, Bnai
David Sisterhood, Council of Pioneer
Women, Detroit Chapter of Hadassah,
Detroit League National Home for
Jewish Children at Denver. Detroit
Section National- Council of Jewish
Women, Equality Club, Eva Prenz-
lauer Maternity Aid, Ezra Sisterhood
Federation of Polish Jews, • Hebrew
Ladies' Aid Society, Home Relief So-
ciety, Infants' Service Group, Jewish
Women's European Welfare North
Woodward Branch, Jewish Women's
European Welfare, Ladies' Auxiliary
Aesculapian Society, Ladies' Auxiliary
Maimonides Medical Society, Ladies'
A u x i 1 i a r y Northwest Congregation,
Ladies' Auxiliary Jewish National
Fund, Ladies' Auxiliary Jewish War
Veterans, . Mount Sinai Hospital As-
sociation of Detroit, Music Study Club
of Detroit, Neugarten Medical Aid
Primrose Benevolent Club, Sherutli
League, Sisterhood of Congregation
Bnai Moshe, Sisterhood of Congrega-
tion Shaarey Zedek, Sisterhood of
Temple Beth El, Sisters of Zion Miz-
rachi, Temple Israel Sisterhood, Wo-
men's. American Ort, Women's Auxil.
iSty House of Shelter Women's Aux-
iliary of the United Hebrew Schools,
Women's Auxiliary Jewish Home for
Aged, Women's League for Sabbath
Observance, Young Women's Bicur
Cholem, Youth 'Education League,
Young Women's Mizrachi and Zeda.
kah Club.

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Pearlstein Named Head
Of Welfare Fund Region

Off the Record

The appointment of Maurice
Pearlstein as director of the East
Central States Region, Council of
By NATHAN ZIPRIN
Jewish Federa-
A Jewish Follower of Ghandi
tions and Wel-
The story how a Jewish architect in South Africa became one
fare Funds, was
of Ghandi's most devout followers was recently told this writer by a
announced , b y
friend of his . . . While visiting South Africa some years ago my --
Bernard Pepin=
friend formed a friendship with the architect, Herman Kallenbach.
sky of Cincinna-
. . . One day he visited Kallenbach...and, to his surprise, he learned
ti, regional pres-
that the architect had been fasting . for five days .. . "Whenever
ident. Pearlstein
Ghandi fasts I fast," Kallenbach explained . . . There had been a
riot at that time in which a Hindu was killed and Ghandi was on an
former director
eight-day fast . . . Kallenbach, too, fasted eight days . . . Kallenbach
of the Resettle-
was the son of rich parents . . . In his youth he was a social lion,
ment Depart-
leading a life of ease, comfort and pleasaure . • . And then he met
ment of the
Ghandi, who at that time was an unknown lawyer . . . He was im-
United Service
pressed by Ghandi and implored him for permission to join him .. .
for New Amer-
Pearlstein
Ghandi hesitated . . . He tried to dissuade the young man, picturing
the hardships he would have to face . . . Kallenbach was persistent sociate regional director.
and was finally accepted . . . Kallenbach's friends and relatives
The Regional office is at 435
laughed at him, shunned his company and called him looney . . ." Chester, Twelfth Bldg., Cleve-
Shortly afterward the South African government ordered all Hindus
in the country to register . . . Ghandi told the Hindus not to register. land, and services the area in-
. . .Jan Smuts, whom Ghandi sarcastically called "slim" Jan, threat- eluding Indiana, Kentuck, Mich-
ened to jail all Hindus refusing to register ... Ghandi's report was igan, Ohio, Western Pennsylvania,
"we will go to jail" . . . This was Ghandi's first taste tpf jail and West Virginia and Eastern Can-
Kallenbach's too. . . Soon afterward World War I broke out .. . ada. Pearlstein replaces William
Ghandi returned to India . . . He acquired world fame and by reflec- Avrunin, who is now associate di-
tion of glory Kallenbach too became a celebrity . . . Now his family rector of the Detroit Jewish Wel-
and friends were proud of him ... Ghandi, he would say, "is ugly, fare Federation.
he is no orator and nevertheless he is the leader of 300 million people,
and when he speaks or fasts the British Empire trembles" . . . When
my friend left Kallenbach he told him he wished "we Jews had a Advertising Industry
50 per cent Ghandi, a leader whom all of us would trust and follow"
„ . . His parting remark was "we Jews have many brilliant and To Combat Race Bias
clever leaders but not a Ghandi" . . • Kallenbach died several years
NEW YORK, (JPS)—An ag-
ago . . . In his will he left a huge sum for the Jewish National Fund.
.. . He was never influenced by Ghandi's position on Zionism.
gressive national advertising cam-
* * *
paign utilizing virtually every
Reuters Versus the New York Times
type of public medium to combat
Reuters, the British news agency, reports that the British com- racial and religious prejudice
missioner in Cyprus denied the New York Times story about the was outlined here by the Ameri-
1,000 Communists on the Pan York and Pan Crescent . . . But that can advertising industry.
newspaper continues publicizing the story with baffling stubbornness.
The program will have the sup-
. . . Rarely has a report aroused such worldwide indignation . . . For
a Jewish-owned newspaper to indulge in such a vicious campaign is, port of the entire advertising pro-
indeed, beyond comprehension, reason and decency • . . The Times fession with the Association of
even carried another Arab-manufactured slander that 1,500,000 Jew- National Advertisers, the Amer-
ish Communist agents are about to be let loose on the world . . . This ican Association of Advertising
would mean the total Jewish population of Poland, Romania, Bul- Agencies, and various individuals
garia plus hundreds of thousands of Russian Jews . . . Sulzberger in the field contributing material
forgets that such reports hurt not only the Zionists but intensifies on a voluntary basis. The pro
anti-Semitism . . . Moshe and Ullestein in Berlin, Simon in Frank-
fort on the Main, Benedikt in Vienna, Vesci in Budapest—all of them gram will be carried out by the
publishers of the greatest newspapers in Europe—thought they would Advertising Council, Inc., which
never fall victim to anti-Semitism . . . They at least had no prece- has already inserted sample anti-
bias ads in major publications.
dent . . . Sulzberger should know better.

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New Arrivals in Children's Home in One of
Palestine Kibbutzim Supported By
Poale Agudas Israel

Help the three-fold program of Palestine's
Poole Agudas Israel:

.

I. Suport the defense efforts in Poale Agudas Israel colonies.

2. Help these Kibbutzim in their program of welcoming 600
newcomers every month.

3. Aid the children's homes of Poale Agudas Israel and Bate
Halutzot Guilds.

Poale Agudas Israel stands in the forefront of Palestine's defense
program.

Respond liberally to brief campaign of Poale Agudas Israel in
Detroit.

Detroit Headquarters at Home of Rabbi Leizer Levine,
3265 Burlingame

Detroit Chairman: JUDAH LACHAR

(Names of Detroit committee members
to be announced)

Watch columns of Jewish News about forthcoming meeting
of Poale Agudas Israel in Detroit

