Detroit's 17th Annual talfour Ball, Scheduled Nov. 5, at Hotel Statler Friday, October 7, 1949 4 S. Ehrlich A Gift for 2—THE JEWISH NEWS In tribute to the first wo ► n- an of Detroit Jewish worn- anhood, mem- bers of t h e Women's Di, vision of t h e Jewish W e • Detroit Service Group Strives for MC Collections . Planning the Balfour Ball, left to right: MORRIS M. JA- COBS, president, Michigan Zionist Region; HARRY COHENq chairman, Balfour Ball; LEON KAY, president; Detroit Zionist District. . The 17th annual Balfour Ball Zionist District, deliver a mes- which this year will be staged sage from Israel which gave in- at the Hotel Statler Saturday, spiration and impetus for Bal- Nov. 5, is receiving wide "en- four Ball activity. The ball is „the fund-raising project for the dorsement and support. Meeting at the home of Mr. Detroit Zionist District. Kay asked for the cooperation and Mrs. David, Zellman, the 'committee for the Ball, headed of the Detroit Jewish community _ e- by Harry Cohen, heard Leon to support this effort of the D Kay, president - of the Detroit troit Zionist District. nai Britb Nation-Wide Membership Drive Starts on Eve of 107th Year ii As part of the first nation-• wide membership :campaign in the history of Bnai Brith, the Greater Detroit Council will open the local drive with 150 house parties and a radio pro- gram Thursday evening, Oct. 13. - Council President Dr. Law- rence I. Yaffa, and Council membership chairman Maxwell M. Lowe, chairman of the cam- paign, stated that the 18 lodges in • Detroit hope to gain 2000 additional members within the next 50 days. The opening of the Detroit campaign coincides with the 106th anniversary celebration of Bnai Brith, which is being marked nation-wide with events in leading cities of the nation. The organization, founded by 12 men in New York in 1843, today has more than 330,000 'members in 1,600 lodges and chapters in the United States and Canada. In Detroit, 150 hosts will en- tertain at least five non-member friends at house parties that evening. From 10:30 to 11 pm., a spe- cial radio broadcast over WJBK will reach the assembled guests. The radio progra,m will consist of a 15 minute transcription of a dramatic playlet, entitled "The Need", and a talk by Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., Congressman from New York, who will deal with the contribution of Bnai Brith to American democracy. Samuel W. Leib, district presi- dent; Y a f f a, and Lowe will round out the radio program with brief remarks. . Collection committees in all trade and professional . divisions of the Detroit • Service Group are at work in an effort to keep Cash payments for the Allied Jewish Campaign at the high standard set by record August and September collection months, Irving W. Blumberg, president of the Detroit Service Group, announced. Eddie Cantor's visit in August and the appeal sent by Henry Winernan in September inspired unprecedented community re- sponse, Blumberg said. Louis Robinson is serving as chairman of collections in the Mercantile Division, with the Jewelers' Section, whose mem- lers are conducting a special collection, having Samuel Ger- son and Emil Rose as chairmen. The Division will hold a gen- eral collection commi ttee bruncheon. meeting at 11 a.m. Sunday, Oct 23, at the Jewish Center, while t h e Furniture Section will hold a special meet- ing at 12:30 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 12, at the Furniture Club. Collection committee members in the Mechanical Trades Di- vision have set their meeting for 12 noon Tuesday; Ottober 11, at the Jewish Welfare Federation offices, according to Abe Kasle, Division collection chairman. Chairmen now at work in other divisions include Louis C. Blumberg,. Services; Tom Bor- man a n d Morris Mendelson, Food:, and Lew Wisper, Arts and Crafts. • Northivest Presents Franklin Roosevelt Franklin D. Roosevelt, son of the late President /Franklin De- lano Rooseirelt, and recently el- ected to Congress from New York, will be guest speaker at a meeting at the Northwest Syna- gogue Oct. 20. The event wil be sponsored by the. Men's .Club and the Sister- hood of the Northwest Congre- gation. Tickets may be obtained through the office of the Syna- gogue or from Mrs. Mae Brooks or Zangwell Garber," chairman of the event. Congressman Roosevelt's topic By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ will be "Impressions of Israel as a Nation," He recently returned Our Pilgrimage to Israel from Israel after a number of IDLEWILD AIRFIELD, Queens, N. Y.—Tuesday,'Oct. 4—This is months there. an historic day for your Commentator and his wife. Before many more hours will have passed, we will take off for Paris on an Air France Constellation plane. We are now taking the final glance, until some time in November, at Lady Liberty on Bedloe Island. By the time this issue goes into the mails, we will be viewing the Eiffel Tower in A public testimonial and re- Paris. When you receive this ception in -- honor of Aaron issue, we hope to be through Droock, who recently completed with customs inspection at four years as president of the the Lydda Airport in Israel. Jewish Community Council, is Thus, we are beginning the planned by a committee ap- race against time and space pointed by Dr. Shmarya Klein- —traveling in the opposite man, president of the Council. direction of the sun, pre- The affair, to which the pub- pared to lose seven hours on lic will be invited, will be held the calendar on the way to in the social hall of Temple the East, but with the knowl- Beth El, Oct. 27. Dr. B. Bene- 1.1110 edge that we shall regain it dict Glazer will be chairman. Liberty Statue on our return flight. Eiffel Tower The .following committee is in. We are not unaware of the miracle that is about to be enacted charge: Harry Yudkoff, chair- man, Mrs. Samuel Green, Dr. B. for . us. Think of it: Yom Kippur in the Shaarey Zedek in Benedict Glazer, Rabbi Leon Detroit, Mich., in the glorious U. S. A., and Sukkot hi the' State Fram, Julian Krolik, Irving of. Israel, on Holy Soil where our faith developed, where the Katz,, Dr, Lawrence I. Yaffa, prophets taught highest principles of justice that were handed Ralph Mayer, James'I. Ellmann, down to all mankind for all time to come, where a new civiliza- Sidney Shevitz .„.and Samuel J. tion is rising to teach • basic humanitarian ideals to the entire Rhodes. Middle East.', Our readerS will surely forgive us these personal comments will Head Richards and the luxury of bidding farewell to thoUsands of loyal friends whom we could reach in no other way. How else could we pos- Awaits. FCC Hearing sibly say good-by to so many with whom we had worked for WASHINGTON (JTA) — The many years in Jewish' causes? Many years of labor are finding Federal Communications Com- fulfillment for, us, too, in this pilgrimage to Israel. Our departure would have been More difficult without the help mission moved to schedule a of a very loyal and able staff. Dena Goldsmith not only manages hearing, at a date to be set the office well: she possesses a strong love. for • her newspaper later,. for the renewal of .radio whose major aim is to serve Israel. Roma Blitzstein is her station licenses for G. A. Rich- able assistant. Amiable Sid Shmarak carries on well as adver- ards, who has been accused of tising Manager. And the editorial department—Ruth Cassel, Vic promoting anti-Semitic broad- Packman, Julia Klein, Avrum Schulzinger and Danny Raskin— casts. The stations involved include is second to none in ability and judgment. WJR, Detroit; KMPC, Los An- This pilgrimage becomes more thrilling in the thought of so geles; and WGAR, Cleveland. many friendly wishes and in the hope of being able to bring Riehards is operating on a back reports of good tidings in Zion. temporary basis • pending the ,hearing. Lebitraot—until we meet again—and Shalom:. Purely Commentary Community to Fete Ex-Council President - fa re Federation presented this portrait of the late Henrietta Sz o I d, first Woman of the ZioniSt move- ment,. Mrs. Josep H. Ehr-. lich, at the Di- vision's annual meeting Sept. 28. Sidney Shevitz Heads. Labor Zionist Federated Drive, Now in Progress Sidney Shevitz, chairman of the Detroit Zionist Council, was appointed chairman of the De- troit Labor Zionist Federated Campaign. Now in its third year, the Federated Campaign is the only yearly campaign of the Labor Zionist movement. It covers the manifold activities of the movement such as the Labor Zionist school, Habonim youth movement, overseas relief, pith- New York Court Bans JCRS Drive lications and other local and • national activities. Shevitz will be assisted by vice chairmen, Wm. Hordes, L Pokempner, B. M. Laikin, A. Kaminker, Mrs. M. Michlin, and H. Mondry; treasurer, B. MUM- sky, financial secretary, M. Schub in er; and committee . NEW YORK,. (JTA) — Ruling that the 'Jewish Consumptives Relief Society, located in Denver, was not legally authorized to solicit funds in New York State, Supreme Court Justice Bernard Botein granted a motion by At- torney General Nathaniel L. Goldstein to restrain the Society Iron raising- funds in, New York. The court noted, that almost half of the total annual income of the Society has been collected in New York State. The injunc- tion' was sought on the grounds that patients were not getting proper care, but Justice Botein said it was granted solely on legal grounds and that "the Court will neither discuss nor consider the oither charge con- tained in the moving papers." Mitchell -S. Fisher, counsel for. the Society, declared that he. is satisfied with the fact that Jus- tice Botein granted the injunc- ion solely on the ground that the Society was riot properly au- thorized to solicit funds in New York State. "We have already had an amended cerAficate re- moving this technical violation, approved by another justice of the court," he said. SIDNEY SHEVITZ chairmen, H. Schumer, Harry Mondry and M. Liebetrna.n. Mor- ris L. &haver will be the honor- ary chairman. On Sept. 15, the Federated Campaign was officially opened. Ben Zion Elan, well known Is- raeli official, addressed the rally, emphasizing the need for a strong Labor Zionist Movement in the United States. Morris Lieberman, chairman of the De- troit Central Committee, pointed to th'e two-year experience of the Federated Campaign, the only campaign of its kind in the country. Between You and Me By BORIS SMOLAR (Copyright, 1949, Jewish. Telegraphic Agency, Vt.) Washington Moods Government circles in Washington still strongly favor the internationalization of Jerusalem despite the opposition of Israel to severing the city from the Jewish state . . . The American Zionist Council was making arrangements for a rabbinical dele- gation to appear before President Truman and seek his support for Jewish claims on Jerusalem . . HoweVer, the arrangements were dropped after it was indicated from Washington that Tru-. man is not inclined to receive any such delegation . . Persons close to the White House advise , Zionist leaders to abstain from • raising the Jerusalem issue with :Truman until after the November election of a New York State member to the U. S. Senate . Herbert H. Lehman and john Foster Dillies are seeking the Senate seat, and President Truman is in favor of LehMan .. . In the meantime, members of the U. S. Embassy in Tel Aviv are "ad- vising" the.Israel Government "not to be stubborn" on the Jeru- . salem issue. • if • s. • CoMmunal Affairs Ttle ties between AMerican Jewish communities and Israel have now become closer than 'ever • before . • . The Council of - Jewish "Federations and Welfare Funds 'sent a staff member, Harold Glasser, for a full year's. stay in the Jewish state to act as liaison between the American Jewish communities and Israel . Street collections conducted in New York and other cities on . be- half of the "Veterans of Hebrew Resistance" and other little- known groups are now being checked . . . The Jewish Agency has - denounced the use of street collections, as a means of raising funds for Israel • . . The United. Synagogue of America states that family membership in Conservative congregations is closer to 150,000 than the estimated 75,000 reported, in the study pu4- lished by the Zionist Youth Commission ... The American Asso- ciation for Jewish Education estimates that the total enrollment in all Jewish schools in the United States in 1949 was .255,865 . Of this number, Sunday schools had • about 129,000, week-day afternoon schools . about 122 i 006 while the remainder attended Yiddish and all-day schools.