HE JEWISH NEWS

Guest Editorial:

Expansion of
Center
Movement

A Weekly Review

of Jewish Events

Philip Slomovitz
Tells of
Hadassah Work
In Israel

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VOLUME 16—No. 8 708-10 David Stott Bldg.—Phone WO. 5-1155 Detroit 26, Michigan, Nov. 4, 1949

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Israel's Problems Grow
As Flow of Refugees Puts
Population Near Million

fission'
'Crisis
Returns, to Tell
Of Israel's Needs

By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ

Exclusive Cables from Israel, Combined With Special Teletype Service and Jewish
Telegraphic Agency Dispatches
TEL AVIV, ISRAEL — With the population of the new Jewish State

nearing the million mark, an accomplishment expected to be celebrated by
Hanukah, the government of Israel, the Jewish Agency and the United Jewish
Appeal are desperately seeking to empty the refugee camps here and to place
the newcomers into gainful accupations.
Major barrier toward this end is housing—o etting the 100,000 'campers'
b
into what will be to the vast majority their first homes
since the outbreak of
the war in Europe.
And yet they pour onto the shores of Israel, the only nation ready and
willing to accept refugees without restrictions. "Let them come, we'll give
them a home," appears to be the real democratic spirit of Israel.
Last week approximately 5,000 arrived in the Jewish homeland. That ap-
pears to be the average weekly figure on new arrivals. Few have anyone to go
to immediately, and those who don't must then go to one of the refugee camps
here. There are more than 90,000, with the prospect that the camp population
will reach 110,000 by the first of the year.
Israel will receive $2,500,000 from the International Refugee Organization
to finance the permanent care of aged, sick and handicapped Jewishrefugees,

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DR. Chaim Weizmann, (in light coat) Israel's President, welcomes
the Mission on its visit to Israel (left to right) HENRY MONTOR, direct-
or of the UJA; MELVIN DUBINSKY, St. Louis; JOSEPH MAZER, New
York; SOL LUCKMAN, Cincinnati; CHARLES BENDER; HENRY
BERNSTEIN, Executive Vice-President of UJA of Greater New York;
JULIAN B. VENESKY, Peoria, III.; DR. WEIZMANN, SAMUEL ROTH-
BERG, also of Peoria, MRS. JOSEPH MEYERHOFF, Baltimore; HARRY
GREENSTEIN of Baltimore, Adviser on Jewish Affairs to the U. S. High
Commissioner in Germany; MR, AND MRS. JACK D. WEILER, New
York, and JOSEPH MEYERH'OFF, Baltimore. Isidore Sobeloff, director of
the - Jewish Welfare Federation of Detroit, was a member of the Mission.

NEW YORK, (JTA)—The "Crisis Mission" of the United Jewish
Appeal, which has been in Israel conferring with leaders of the gov-
ernment on the immigration crisis in that country and the extent of
aid that will be required in 1950 from American Jews, arrived at
Idlewild Airport Oct. 25.
The group will report their survey at the UJA national conference
in Atlantic City, Nov. 25-27, which will blueprint plans for the 1950
community campaigns on behalf of the UJA.
, While in -Israel, the Jewish communal leaders from major cities
in the East and Middle West conferred with President Chaim Weiz-
mann; Premier David Ben Gurion and other top officials. They were
informed that unless large-scale assistance from the United States,
through the United Jewish Appeat is forthcoming in 1950, the entire
immigration program in the Jewish state faces collapse.

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EDITOR'S NOTE—Mr. Slomovitz' semi-weekly air express package of copy from
Israel, which includes background for his last minute cables to The Jewish News,
is believed to have been destroyed- in the tragic crash of Air France's Constella-
tion in the Azores last Friday morning, taking the lives of 48 persons, two bound
for Detroit.

it was announced. The funds will be used to further an extensive buildino - pro-
b
gram in Israel to care for the so-called "hard core" cases among displaced
persons.
In a recent poll by the Public Opinion Research Institute it was found
that three-quarters of all Israelis are opposed to any sort of restrictions on
the continued immigration of Jewish r efugees to this country.
Perhaps the economic situation at the present time has thrown a scare
into the anti-immigration supporters.
The present standard of living of the Israel worker is in great danger,
Premier David Ben Gurion told a special meeting of members of Mapai labor
councils. The parley was called to answer attacks on the Histadrut executive
for agreeing to government requests for a secotad cut in the cost of living
bonus.
Ben Gurion pointed out that during the last year the national income was
- only 200,000,000 pounds, the equivalent of $45 per month per person. The pur-
chasing power of the Israel pound is only half that of the pound sterling, he
said. (Both are pegged at the same value in relation to the dollar—$2.80).
Unless the productivity of the individual worker increases and production
and export increases, the value of Israel's currency will drop, the Premier
warned the delegates from the various Mapai groups.
At
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Wayne Accepts Temple Beth El Gift
To Honor Dr. Franklin's Memory

A .program for the ad-
vancement of human rela-
tions, named in honor of a
Detroit citizen known widely
for his humanitarianism and
understanding, has been es-
tablished through action of
the board of trustees of Tem-
pleBeth El and of the De-
troit Board of Education in
providing for a "Leo .M.
Franklin Chair in Human
Relations" at Wayne Univer-
sity.
Dr. David D. Henry, Wayne
president, who has been au-
thorized by the Board of Ed-
ucation to complete plans for
the project, pointed out that
this is the first memorial
chair provided. for Wayne
University.
"We are grateful to the
sponsors for selecting Wayne
as the medium through
which to honor the memory
of one of Detroit's outstand-
ing citizens," he said.
Rabbi Franklin died in Au-
gust, 1948, after 42 years at
Temple Beth El. He had been.
twice president of the Public
Library Commission, a mem-
ber of the boards of the
Detroit Symphony Society,
the Civic Theater Association,
the Ford Republic, and the

LATE DR. FRANKLIN
League of Nations Associa-
lion. He had received the
honorary degree, Doctor of
Laws, from Wayne in 1940
and a Citation "for distin-
guished living" from the De-
troit Round Table of Catho-
lics, Jews, and Protestants.
Establishment - of a fund
for the Memorial Chair was
approved by the Temple's
Board of Trustees and re-
ported by Beth El's president,

Nate S. Shapero. Creation of
a Memorial Gifts Committee,
to be in charge of the funds
and to be headed by Martin
Butzel, Detroit attorney, also
was reported by Mr. Shapero.
A tentative plan calls for a
Wayne University professor
to be named the Leo M.
Franklin Memorial Professor
in Human Relations each
April and for . the occupancy
of the chair to begin the fol-
lowing Septembek..
The honor would carry an
annual stipend of $1,000 over
and above the professor's sal-
ary, and the recipient would
be given a lighter academic
load so he could carry for-
ward research or lecturing
activities. A five - member
board designated by the pres-
ident of Wayne would select
the professor, basing the
choice upon teaching, re-
search, or community activity
in the field of human rela-
tions:
Under the. plan, Wayne
would present annually a lec-
ture series known as the "Leo
M. Franklin Memorial Lec-
tures in Human Relations."
The series would include ad-
dresses by the memorial pro-
fessor, and by four other lec-
turers selected by him.

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AMBASSADOR ELIAHU ELATH
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presents to PRESIDENT TRUMAN a silver ark to hold the
Torah which Israel President Chaim Weizmann presented
to the Chief Executive early this year. The envoy made the
presentation in Washington in behalf of Dr. Weizmann.