State. Jewish National Fund Conference Sunday • S Rep. Dingell, Governor-Elect Williams, Commander Goldberg Principal Speakers Delegates From Entire State of Michigan Expected at Annual Sessions Arranged by Detroit JNF Council; Local Leaders to Participate in Sessions - - Representatives of Jewish communities throughout the state of Michigan will gather Sunday at the annual conference of the Jewish National Fund at the Detroit-Leland Hotel. Arthur Shutkin, executive director of the JNF. Council, reported this week that more than 100 organizations already have selected delegates to the conference. Names of selected representatives will be accepted s> at the JNF Council office, 11816 Dexter, TO. 8-7384, all day Fri- day, and additional delegates will be registered prior to the confer- ence on Sunday morning, at the Detroit-Leland Hotel. In addition to local -partici- pants, three distinguished speak- ers are announced for the Sun- day afternoon session: Hon. John Dingell, Member of Congress from the 15th Mich- igan District one of the staunch- est supporterS in Congress of efforts to establish and protect the State of Israel; Hon. G. Mennen Williams, Parely Commentary ,By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ Romantic Story of Henry Wentworth Monk, Great Christian Zionist Zionist history is replete with fascinating stories about great Christian supporters' of the movement-to, restore the Land of Israel to the People of Israel. Many of the great Christian Zionists pie, ceded Theodor Herzl: in efforts to re-establish, the Jewish State as an act of justice to Jewry and in the best interests of the peace of the world. Among the great Christian "Zionists was the Canadian Henry' Wentworth Monk, whose activities are recorded in a fascinating biography, "For.the Time Is At Hand," by Richard S. Lambert, published by Andrew Melrose; Ltd., London. Thanks to our good friend Herbert Mowat, of Toronto, director of the Canadian Christian Palestine Committee, your Commentator has an advance copy of this excellent book which throws light on early Zionist activities among Christians and shows that non-Jews recognized the need for a restored Israel a century ago. Biographer Lambert took the title for his book &dm this quotation from the Book: of Revelations: "And he said unto me, seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand." He describes Mr. Monk as a Prophet, as a man who abandoned worldly goods for Prophecy. There are some errors in the babk.: For instance, the founder of the:Red Cross, the eminent Swiss leader, Jean Henri Dunant, who .was one of the early. Christian Zionists, is referred to • as a - Jew. .Dunant Was a Christian. But in the main, the book - is an excellent interpretation of reality and of prophecy, of a great movement that has caught the irnagination of all mankind. Coined Term 'United Natione — Pleaded With Lincoln for Israel Henry WentWorth Monk was an individualist. He was a vision- ary. He was the first to coin the term United Nations in 1880. Like other visionaries, he paved the way : . for the thinking of other min along lines of world peace and justice. He worked in a Jewish farming colony in Palestine and showed the way to the liberation of Israel not only with words but with deeds. He traveled far and wide to plead the Zionist cause. He worked with Holman Hunt, the great, artist; John Ruskin, the noted critic; Lawrence Oliphant, the. eminent Christian Zionist; Warder - Cresson, American Consul in Jerusalem who abandoned Christianity for Judaism and worked ardently for the Zionist ideal; and found en- couragement in the activities of Maj. Mordecai Manuel Noah, the American Jewish 1:: -.Ler who undertook to establish a_ Jewish colony —Ararat—near Butialo. One of the more interesting episodes in his career occurred during the Civil War, when he went to Washington to plead with Abraham Lincoln in behalf of "the emancipation of the Jew." Presi- dent Lincoln Said to him: "The Jew—why the. Jew? Are they not free already?" The Lambert biography at this point records the following Monk-Lincoln conversation: "Certainly; Mr. President, the American Jew is free, and so is the English Jew—but not the European. In America we live so far off that we are blind to what gees on in Russia and Prussia and Turkey. There can be no permanent peace in the world until the civilized nations, led, I hope, by Great Britain and the United States, atone for what they have done to. the Jews—for their two thousand years of peksecution, by restoring thein to their national home in Palestine, and making Jerusalem the capital city of a reunited Christendom." "That is a noble dream, Mr. Monk," said the President, "and - one shared by many Americans. I myself have a regard for the Jews. My chiropodist is a Jew,'atid he has so many times 'put me upon my feet' that I would haVe no' objection to giving his countrymen 'a leg up.' But the United States is, alas, at this moment a house-divided against itself. We must first bring this dreadful war to .a victorious conclusion, which no compromise can do—and then, Mr. Monk, we may begin again to see visions, and dream dreams. Then you will see what leadership America will show to the world!" Monk's biographer writes that Monk was satisfied, that he left his book, "Simple Interpretation," with President Lincoln, and pro- ceeded with his -task of dreaming dreams and striving to press them into' reality. * * newly,elected..Govetnor --of the State of Michigan; and Commander Joshua L. Gold- berg, nationally prominent speaker and highest ranking OW. Williams Rep. Dingell . Jewish naval chaplain who has been honoted with high awards by the United States Govern- ment. Sessions of the conference will commence at. 11 a.m. There will be an intermission for lunch and for committee meetings from 1 to 2 p.m. and the afternoon session will take place from 2 to 5 pail. The 'conference will hear re= ports on the accomplishments of the Jewish National . Fund during the past year and will outline the existing needs for land redeniption in Israel in years to come, in order to pro- vide for the, settlement of hun- dreds of thousands of neWconi- ers to Israel. William Hordes, chairman of the_board of the Jewish National .Fund . Council, of Detroit, will open; . the Conferences morning SeSsiOn..With a brief address after :the kinging' of the national an- thems; The morning program will be -addressed by the following: - , Osear Cohn, executive di- rector, Jewish Community: Council; Sidney Shevitz, presi- dent, Zionist Council of De- troit; Mrs. Jack Rosenthal, pres- ident, Ladies!' Anxiliary of the JNF; a report on:the JNF ac- complishments" durirYg the past ' year by Mr. Shittkiii; Rabbi Joshua: S. Sperka and Yechiel; Hetbert HOrdes, student dining the past year at the Haifa Tech- nical Institute; . who two weeks • ago returned from Israel. Committees for . the conference will , be selected- during the morn- ing session, which will close with the showing of the latest Pales- tine movie. Irving W. Schlussel, president of the Detroit JNF Council, will preside at the afterncion session at which, in addition to the ad- dresses by Congressman Dingell, and Governor-Elect Williams Commander Goldberg, there will be a brief address by Rabbi Jacob Segal and reports of committees. The entire community is invit- ed to partiCipate in the confer- ence and to hear the addresses of the guest s7- 7- Federation Consolidates Budgeting, Planning for Beneficiary Agencies Appointmept of chairmen of the budget and•planning diVisions of the'Jewish Welfare Federation was announced Monday by Julian H. Krolik, president. United Hebrew Schools, .United Jewish High School, Workmen's Circle SchooTh, Yeshivath Beth Yehudah, Jewish Community. The division leadership is as follows: Educational and cultural, Henry Meyers, chairman, Louis Robinson, co-,chairman; health and welfore, Maurice A. nggass, chairman, Milton K. Mahler, . co- chairman; community relations, Mattis Garvett, chairman. Each of the three divisions will be responsible to the executive committee and the board of gov- ernors of the Federation for ,plan- fling and budgeting recommenda- tions regarding the national and local agencies in their particular ' fields of service. In approving the new structure, which replaces the social plan- -nirig, educational planning and budget committees of the Federa- tion, the board of governors stressed particularly the import- LOUIS ROBINSON ance of bringing the planning and financing functions of. the Federa- Council and Jewish Comm:unity tion into closer harmony. - The Center. board .recognized, too; that the Thd health and welfare divisiOn new structure will make possible intrudes Fresh Air Camp; JeWish continuous year-round contact Social Service Bureau, JeWish with the beneficiary agencies of Community Center„JewiSh 1 - tOme the Federation by, the same com- for the Aged, Jewish Vocational mittees which will review and Service, North; End Clinic, House recommend their budgetary of Shelter, Hebrew Free Loan allocations. Association, Resettlement SetViee The personnel of each of the and Jewish Hospital Association. budget and planning divisions The community relations divi- will include the 'executive direc- . sion.- includes the Jewish Com- tor of each member agency of the munity Council as well as repre- Federation as an ex-officio meni- sentation from each of the fol- _ber, a lay representative from lowing membership organizations each of the agencies and repre- active in the community relations sentatives at - large. field: Bnai Brith, American Jey- American - Jewish The educational and cultural ish division includes the Jewish Folk Congress, Jewish Labor Com -, School, Jewish People's School, ..mittee and Jewish War Veterans. • Between You and Me By BORIS SMOLAR (Copyright. 1948, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.) born esfic Issues Interest of numerous Jewish leaders in this country is now centered on the behind-the-scenes activities in Jerusalem . . . He was man of the Jewish Agency executive in Jerusalem . . . He, was sent here from Israel to look into the conflict in the United Pales- tine Appeal and to see that under no- circumstances shoUld a separate drive be launched for Israel• outside of the UPA . *. He is also supposed to settle other. grievances which members of the American branch of the Jewish. Agency executive 'have recently developed against the Jerusalem branch of the- executive . . . These grievances have reached a point where some leading members of the American branch indicated that there is no _.se in, their serving on the executive if matters will not be properly adjusted ... Know- ing Locker as one of the best mediators which the Zionist movement haS, I have no doubt' that he will succeed in straightening things out . . Otherwise, the Council. of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds, which is scheduled to :hold its General Assembly in the middle of January, maybe compelled to have a strong say in the UPA issue . . • The policy of leaders of the Council is to promote and cement unity- in American Jewish communal life . . • If the pro-Montor group should really carry out its threat to launch a separatist drive for Israel in competition with the UPA, then the General. Assembly of CJ-FWF may become the most stormy Jewish gathering of the- year . . Already, there is a proposal to revolu- tionize the entire system of allocations by the Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds to -the various national organizations and agen- cies . . This proposal recommends the establishment Of a National Jewish Welfare Fund to became the 'central allocation body on behalf of all the federations and welfare funds in the country .. . At present, UPA leaders are conferring with the Council of JeWish Fedetations regarding the 33 per ' cent representation which UPtA. is ready to give on its governi: :bodies to Jewish communities. . . . However, the same leaders' refuse to negotiate directly on the same subject With the group of community leaders which is sup- porting Montor . The argument advanced is: "We do not see our way Clear to negotiate with a group which threatens to establish a separate drive to compete witli the 'United Palestine Appeal." . , Detroit Women Aid Windsor Campaign The Women's Division of the Detroit Jewish Welfare Federa- tion sent a group of its seasoned campaigners across the border last week to help their Windsor neighbor's launch their 1948 Wel- fare Fund Drive. Wednesday, Nov. 10, a "De- troit Caravan," members of the speakers' bureau of the Women's Division of the Detroit Federation journeyed to Windsor to lend Mrs. Norman Ramm and her Windsor Women's Division a hand. Headed by Mrs. Alexander W. Sanders, chairman; and Pearl Devenow, co-chairman of the Speakers Committee, the caravan included: Mesdames Julius Chajes, Leonard H. Weiner, and Harry , L. Jackson, director of the Detroit Women's Division. The. meetings were held at the -homes of Mesdames Harry Vex- ler, Ben Matthews, Wolf Goldt stein, Rose Wunder, Harry Chet- niak. " Windsor women continued their campaign with a. series of 10 simultaneous luncheons Nov. 17. Sought a 'Palestine Restoration Fund' and a 'Jewish National Fund' Monk called meetings ; conferred with Christians and Jews, sought support from governments. He met with, the John Meshul- lams in Jerusalem, with Chief ;Rabbi Hahn David HaSsan, with Rabbi Haim Zwi Sneersohn. His articles were published at great length in the now defunct London Jewish World. He collaborated with the industrialist, then the outstanding Zionist, Edward Cazalet. In 1776 he received encouragement from the appearance of George. Eliot's "Daniel Deronda." He began a campaign for the Palestine Restora- tion Fund and advertised his appeals widely. It was a crusade for Israel' that ' attracted wide attention, but had little support—less assistance from Jews than from Christians. For a time he was given courage by the Jewish philanthropist and bullion broker, Frederick David Mocatta, but even that ended in discouratement. He spoke of a Jewish National Fund, but the Palestine Restoration Fund and the Jewish National Fund were destined to materialize many years later. His last manifesto was entitled: "Stand Up, 0 Jerusalem, that the Land of Israel may soon become like the Garden of Eden, 'The Joy of the Whole Earth,' now that the 'Federation of the World' and `Parliament of Man' has at last become an Imperative Necessity." These dreams date back eighty years ago. Today, they are reality. There is no doubt that such groundwork helped assure the realization of Prophecy in our day. Blessed be the memory and the name of Henry Wentworth Monk. Thanks to Richard S. Lambert; we are privileged to have a full-length biography of this great precursor 2—THE JEWISH NEWS Friday, 'November 19, 1948 of Herzl and Wolffsohn and Weizmann. * I sraeli Trends t: * • • Israeli negotiations with the Export-Import Bank in Washing- ton for a loan have now reached a technical level . . . Oscar Gass, well-known economist, is handling these negotiations on behalf of the Israeli Government ... James G. McDonald, U. S. Special Rep- resentative in Israel, is quietly carrying out a policy designed to bring about direct peace talks between the Jews and the Arabs. . . There is no doubt in •Washington that Truman will take early steps to implement the pledge3: of the Democratic Party -With re- gard to Israel . . . But some feel that this move may be delayed pending important changes in the State Department . . Mean- while, all kinds of driVes will be started soon in this country for priVate loans for various projects in Israel . .. The Israel Corpora- tion of America will seek $3,000,090 in the United States- which will be matched with another $3,000,000 by the Israeli Government for the purpose of housing construction in Israel . . Eliahil Ep- stein, Israeli Representative in 'Washington, is now summoning a conference of prominent Zewish: builders' in this country to discuss housing - onstruction plans for Israel . . . These plans may involve $100,000,300 in investments expected to come from privaie Ameri- can investors . . . Other commercial projects for Americans Who may be :nterested in investing money, in Israeli enterprises are now in the 'making, -since the Israeli Government is preparing to attract as much foreign capital as possible. to strengthen the economy of the Jewish state.