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Friday, March 12, 1948 •

JEWISH NEWS

Page Five

$7,000,000 Goal Seen for Allied Jewish cam paign

Dr. Ruth. Gruber, Holtzman
Stir Federation Members

HaganahWorker
Gives Campaign
Talk for Doctors

MC Assignments ilk process

Review of Jewish Plight Overseas, Due to UN Indecision,
Because an active Haganah
Prompts Detroit Pledge of Financial Aid; Adopt
worker has a daughter in De-
By-Laws After Heated Debate

"Let us determine that Israel will survive."
The most stirring address heard here in years, delivered
on -March 4, . at the annual meeting of the Jewish Welfare
Federation of Detroit, by Dr. Ruth Gruber, eminent journalist,
closed with these words Which immediately were translated
into a motto
. for action by Detroit Jewry in the coming Allied

troit, the physicians section of the
Allied Jewish Campaign will
have an unusual opportunity to
hear a first-hand story about the
situation in Palestine at their
meeting at 8 p.m. Sunday, March
14, in the Arabian Room of the
Hotel Tuner.
Mrs. Lotta Fuld, of Palestine,
is visiting her daughter, Mrs.
Morton J.. Netzorg, in Detroit for
one month, and she will address
the physicians and their guests
of the dentists' section. Paul Sla-
vensky, cantor of the Northwest
Hebrew Congregation, will pre-
sent a group of Hebrew songs.
"Mrs. Fuld's talk should prove
invaluable to all of us as a source
of background material — on to=
day's headlines and on the 1948
campaign," Dr. Hyman Mellen
and Dr. Leo Orecklin, co-chair-
men of the Section said. "The
meeting will also be an oppor-
timity to plan for full participa-
tion for our group in this rightly-
called 'Campaign of Destiny'."
Sponsors of the meeting, along
with Dr. Mellen and Dr. Oreck-
lin, are Doctors Raphael Altman,
Harry August, Morris E. Bach-
man, Sidney Berke; Nathan
Brooks, Daniel E. Cohn, Meryl
Fenton, Paul Fraiberg, Perry
Goldman, Gerald Hauser, Louis
Heideman, Joseph Himmelhoch,
Harry Kirshbaum, Charles Lak-
off, Rudolph Leiser, Samuel Levin,
A. 0. Litsky, Jerome,. Mark,
Maurice Meyers, David P. Miro,
Irving Posner, Jack Rom, Louis
H. Rosenthal, Emil D. Rothman,
Harry Sand, Alexander W. San-
ders, David J. Sandweiss, Oscar
D. Schwartz, Peter Shifrin and
Israel Weiner.

Jewish Campaign.
- Julian H. Krolik, who presided
Krolik made the import-
at ' the meeting, 'gave assurance ant announcement that the
that the Jews of- Detroit will not
national UJA has asked
rest until the pledge for a Jewish
State in Palestine is made a real- Detroit for a minimum of
$5,600,000 towards this
ity.
Warning that the picture,, as year's goal, as against the
$3,000,000 which was allo-
she has studied it at Lake Suc-
cess, looks black, Dr. Gruber, who cated last year from the
covered the UNSCOP sessions in $4,000,000 Allied Jewish
Palestine and the travels of the
Campaign fund. Allowing
unfortunate 4,500 passengers on an additional $1,350,000 for
the "Exodus 1947," Charged that
local and other needs, the
"while lawyers are fiddling, the
Jews in Palestine are burning." possibility is that this year's
She added, however, that the campaign will be for a sum
spirit of the Jews of Palestine is of approximately $7,000,000,
high. She told of the devotion of Krolik said. This will mean
all Jews, how every nine-year- an increase of 75 per cent
old is joining in the fight for over the amount raised last
freedom, and called attention to year.
the presence in the audience of
Krolik reported that $1,200,000
the mother of Brachah Fuld, the already was raised towards De-
young medical student who was troit's $2,000,000 share in the na-
killed by the British in Palestine tionwide $50,000;000 emergency
in 1946 while helping bring visa advance fund. He announced a
less Jews into the country.
number of large countrywide In-
Jewish-Arab Friendship
creases to UJA—among them the
"Ordinarily. Jews and Arabs in increase made by Joseph Holtz-
Palestine get along, and without man of Detroit, who was a mem-
the British to keep them apart ber of the UJA overseas delega-
there would be no bloodshed," tion, from $10,000 to $20,000.
she declared. "The Jews have
Debate Over By-Laws
gotten along and will get along
Heated debate over the adop-
well with the Arabs, if the Arabs tion of the new Federation by-
outside of Palestine will realize
laws, presented by the chairman
that the UN means business."
of the by-laws committee, Mor-
- Dr. Gruber told how Jews earn- ris Garvett, lasted an hour at the
ed the hard way every inch of
beginning of the meeting. The
land in Palestine which they
chief objection was to the rule
transformed into livable territory
-which requires that 25 signatures
_ with their own hands. "UNSCOP be appended to a request for ad-
saw what Jewish sweat created ditional nominations to the board,
and that's why they acted in fa- 10 days in advance of the elec-
vor of partition," she said.
tion. The proposal from the
Describing her experiences on floor was that it should be pos-
Cyprus, Dr. Gruber told how sible to nominate additional can-
32,000 Jews now live behind barb- didates from the floor. Krolik
ed wires, on that desert island, ruled at the outset that amend-
under disgraceful conditions. She ments would have to be presented
told of the 500 children who were in writing, publicized, as in the
--born there last year, of the 800
case of the by-laws, and then
couples who were married and
voted upon at an announced
declared that "the answer to Hit- meeting.
ler is that every woman who car'
to table action on
have a child' shall.have one."
the new by-laws was defeated,
`Song of Survival'
57 to 47, and the by-laws were
Referring to Hatikvah as "the adopted. Krolik asked those who
song of survival," Dr. Gruber desire to propose amendments to
told how children sang it with present them in writing.
joy when they were told they
Holtzman's Report
would be taken from Cyprus to
Holtzman, reporting on his trip
Palestine, only to be kept on
board ship for more than a day to Europe and Palestine, stated
and later returned to the island that the story of his experience
behind barbed wires. Neverthe- has many facets; that it is im-
less, she said, these people con- possible to speak of the DPs with-
tinue their battle for -existence out thinking of Palestine and it
because of the knowledge that is impossible to refer to Palestine
when famine spreads Jews make without taking into eonsidera-
tion the demands of DPs to settle
good scapegoats.
She charged that the 4,500 Jews only in Palestine.
"It will be a shame if we do
of the Exodus 1947 were pushed
not
raise the $250,000,000 national
around like pigs in a Chicago
slaughterhouse. She spoke of UJA goal," Holtzman said, assert-
ing that there is little hope for
their spirit as one of defiance.
Asserting that she is grateful DPs in Europe. He quoted a
for what Jews have done so far statement made by the delega-
tion just before they left for
to help these people, Dr. Gruber
made a plea for the United Jew- Palestine, and he emphasized that
DPs have a right to go , to Pales-
ish Appeal. "You haven't begun
to scratch the surface," she warn- tine and to declare the Jewish
as their preference for
ed, pointing out that funds from Homeland
settlement.
America are essential for sur-
"In Palestine," lie said, "people
vival," she warned, pointing out
that funds from America are es- are under arms. They need means
sential for defense in Palestine for defense We can't leave them
and for uninterrupted relief ac- helpess. We -can't let them down."
tivities in Europe.
Georgia Teachers Act Against
Campaign Dates
Krolik called attention to the Official's Racial Propaganda
NEW YORK, (JTA) — A group
following important' drive dates
in connection with the inaugura- of Georgia teachers is instituting
tion of the Allied Jewish Cam- court action to stop Tom Linder,
state commissioner of agriculture,
paign:
from using the Georgia Market
- March 14—Opening of Jun-
Bulletin — a state publication —
ior Division drive, with Max
to air his religious, racial and
Lerner as speaker.
political prejudices, it was report-
March 10—Opening of Wo-
ed here today. Linder was elect-
men's Division drive.
ed' to his present post with the
March 30—Opening of soli-
support of the Ku Klux Klan, the
citation of city-wide general

division.

xeport said.

Preparing for the Wednesday, March 24, meeting of the Worn-
en's Division of the Allied Jewish Campaign at the Jewish Commu-
nity Center, assignment committee members (I. to r.) . MRS. HAROLD
B. DESENBERG, MRS. GERALD SPERO and MRS. WILLIAM A.
STIRN work over slips_ and kits for the workers in their divisions. Mrs.
Nathan B. Schermer is chairman of the committee.

Nora Mizrachi Conducts
Costumed Fund Canvass

Nora Mizrachi, a co-ed youth
group, will conduct a house-to-
house canvass March 24 and- 25,
to collect money for Mizrachi
defense.
The canvassers, wearing Purim
masquerade costumes, are aiming
t a goal of $300 in their two-day
drive.
Rabbi Irwin Grodon, of Wayne
University Hillel, is adviser to
the Nora Mizrachi.

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Closing Detroit's $250,000 Hisfaiirut Campaign

Sunday Evening, March 2 I st, 8 p. m.

at Cass Tech. Auditorium

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BARTLEY C. CRUM, Chairman National Council Americans for Haganah

LEIB GLANTZ, Eminent Cantor and Concert Singer

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