Histadrut Spurs Tempo in Final Drive
With Closing Demonstration. March 19

With Detroit's 1950 Histadrut
Campaign scheduled for formal
closing Sunday evening, March
19, at a city - wide Histadrut
demonstration at Nor th w est
synagogue, workers of all divi-
sions are redoubling their ef-
forts to clean up uncovered
cards.
An uncovered card represents
money withheld from Israel and
Histadrut, declared Norman Cot-
tier, campaign treasurer, who
added that a n o t h e r $50,000
check is being sent to the Na-
tional Committee. for Labor Is-
rael for transmittal to Israel.
Holzman to Speak
Plans for the formal closing
are being completed by the corn-
mitee, Morris L. Schaver, Morris
Lieberman, Louis Levine, Philip
Goldstein and Sam Rabinovitz.
Arthur Holtzman, young
American r a di o commentator,
who served as special English
language commentator over the
Voice of Israel, will be the prin-
cipal English speaker at the
closing meeting. A prominent
Histadrut representative from
Israel is also expected to greet
the gathering._
The musical program will be
highlighted by the Israel flutist,
Hillel Rabinadov and "Aviva;"
interpreter of Yemenite a n d
Arabian folk melodies.
Bereznitzer Tops $8,000 Mark
• Admission cards for the gath-
ering are available to • all cam-
paign workers, organizational
representatives and contributors.

Call the Histadrut office, TO.
9-8660, for further information.
Fifteen organizational groups
reported last week, reflecting
the increased tempo of work in
the organizational d i v is i o n.
Spearheaded by the efforts of
Sol Kanat, - the Bereznitzer Aid
Society, raised its total to more
than $8,000, again making it the
leading landsmanschaften group
of the campaign.
Groups Complete Work
Detroit R.uzhiner Progressive
Verein, in memory of Joseph
Robinson, turned over a sub-
stantial sum to outfit a nursery
in the Anglo-American colony,
Kafar Blum.
Other organizations reporting
completion of their work in-
clusle: Sokolivker Aid, Sosnovit-
zer Bendiner, Cong. Beth Ye-
huda, (Ladies Auxiliary), Gom-
biner Aid, Pogrebister (Ladies
Auxiliary), Women's - Golden
Rule, Judea Social Club, Lutzker
Volliner, and Mlaver Verein.
William Seilman, for the Min-
kowitz Pedolier, reported that
the group will exceed its last
year's total by more than twen-
ty per cent. B. Wrotslawsky, de-
legate for -the Chenstochover
Rajonner, reported that his or-
ganization will exceed last year.

About 30,000 p e rs o n s are
served by Kupat Cholim clinics
daily. Haifa district has 10
clinics; Shomron district, 109;
Judean district, 96; and the
Galilee, 71.

Purely Commentary

By PHIL I P _SLOMOYITZ

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THE JEWISH NEWS

Friday, March 10, 1950

Rabbis Watching
Retail Practices
During Passover

The Women's' Action Commit-
tee on Consumer Problems of
the Jewish Community Council
of Detroit, met at the home of
Mrs. Samuel Aaaron.
Rabbi David Bakst, executive
secretary of the Council of Or-
thodox Rabbis, explained the ac-
tivities engaged in by the rab-
bis to make certain that all
products sold for the Passover
holiday be in accordance with
rabbinical law. Rabbi Bakst
stated that complaints concern-
ing "labeling" on the part of
retail grocers should be re-
ported to the Council of Ortho-
dox Rabbis and that immediate
action will be taken.
, Julius Weinberg, council direc-
tor, of internal relations, re-
ported on recent investigations
of Passover prices. "With the
exception of a few products, he
stated, "there is, at the whole-
sale and manufacturers' level,
little price difference between
products sold for Passover and
those products used throughout
the year.
Mrs. William Cohen is chair-
man of this committee, Mrs.
Samuel Aaaron, co-chairman.

Weinbaum Appointed
House of Correction
Commission Member

Harry H. Weinbaum, Detroit
publisher, was appointed a mem-
ber of the House of Correction
Commission by Mayor •Cobo.
Weinbaum previously had
served as a member of this coin-

The Fels Family and the Spirituality of . Research
Samuel S. Fels' 90th birthday served to attract renewed in-
terest in the activities of his interesting family.
The famous, Philadelphia nonagenarian, who is widely known
as president of the Fels Naptha Soap Co., has made his mark in
the field of philanthropy by making generous gifts to Jewish and
civic causes. He • gave his city the Fels Planetarium at a cost of
$300,000. It is the second of its kind in the United States and is
attached to the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia. He has es-
tablished the Fels fund for research in medicine and government
and the Fels Research Institute for the study of human develop-
ment at Antioch College, Yellow Springs, 0. On his 90th birthday.
he stated:
"I regard research as almost a spiritual thing. Anything

He had the backing of his famous wife, Mary Fels, whose
name is inerasable from Zionist history. Together, they spent
10 years in England studying land reform movements. Mary,
his distant cousin, was married to Joseph in 1881. She shared
his interest in prison reform, single-tax and land-reform ideas.
After his death she visited Palestine and became deeply inter-
ested in the Zionist movement.

right.

Last Friday, Polk was presented with a gold trophy as
"Detroiter of the Week," an award sponsored jointly by the
Detroit Free Press and WXYZ-TV, given to the city's most
outstanding resident for achievement and service. Presentation
was made on Ross Mulholland's TV show by Brewster P. Camp-
bell of the Free Press.

Enroll Workers For '50 Campaign

With the approach of the 1950
Allied Jewish Campaign, Harvey
H. - Goldman, president of the
Detroit Service Group of the
Jewish Welfare Federation, has
sent a letter to all members of
the trade and professional divi-
sions who worked in 1949, ask-
ing them to re-enroll for the
1950 drive.
Goldman stressed the impor-

tance of an early start to a
successful campaign. The Ser-
vice Group is comprised of seven
trade and professional divisions .
—Mercantile, Services, Mechan-
ical Trades, Real Estate and
Building, Food, Professional, and
Arts and Crafts.
Anyone interested in working
for the 1950 campaign is urged
to call Helen Green, WO. 5-3939. •

By BORIS SMOLAR

(Copyright, 1950, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)

Washington Moods

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HARRY H. WEINBAUM

mission for eight years, by ap-
pointment of former Mayor Jef-
fries, and twice was president of
the commission.
Publisher of the West Side
Courier, Warrendale Courier and
Parkland Courier, Weinbaum is
well known in numerous civic
and cultural movements here.
For a time he taught journalism
to classes at the Jewish Center.
He is married and resides at
17320 Northlawn. The Wein-
baums have a son, Robert, 15,
and a daughter, Barbara, 11.

Mary Fels, who was closely associated with the late Mr.
Justice Louis D. Brandeis, established the Joseph Fels Foundation
for "enlightenment of Jews and Gentiles on Israel's history and
mission, and for the non-political settlement of Palestine." She
contributed to the work of Hadassah, during World War I.
_ In her biography of her husband, "Joseph Fels, His Lifework,"
Cantors Send $1,000 for
Mary Fels wrote:

"He was angered at the waste of things, particularly the
waste of nature's resources, acutely conscious that this more
than anything else lies at the bottom of human misery."

LEO POLK (left) the "one-man blood factory," is chair-
man of the blood donor rally which the Bnai Brith Council will
conduct at the Workmen's Circle on May 2. Polk was honored
last week at the Red Cross campaign kickoff luncheon
when he was presented with a Red Cross certificate award of
merit by HENRY T. EWALD (center) , Detroit Red Cross
chairman, for donating 63 pints of blood. DR. LAWRENCE L.
YAFFA, president of the Detroit Bnai Brith Council, is at the

Between You and Me

you do to help the other fellow has the feeling about it and it
means digging for the truth."

The Fels family abounded inn interesting personalities. Non-
agenarian Samuel's brother Joseph (1853-1914), who shared busi-
ness glory in the establishment of the Fels Naptha. Soap Co., was
famous as a single tax advocate. Like his brother he was active
in communal' affairs and was a noted philanthropist. He was
haunted by the blight of idle land near his home in Philadelphia
and introduced the experiment of vacant-lot gardening. He soon
realize that an entire neighborhood's, land values can rise when
landowners improve their grounds. He soon was converted to the
Henry George Single Tax idea.

Polk Heads May 2 Blood Bank Rally

Numerous Israel Causes

Cantor Henry Blank, secretary
This is one of the many lessons the wealthy Fels family had of the Detroit Cantors' Associa-
tion, announced
for all peoples. Samuel, Joseph and Mary represent a remarkable
this week that
trio whose gifts to their country, to humanity and to their Jew-
?the sum of $1,-
ish kinsmen are recorded gloriously in history.
1000 was distrib-
luted last week
A Note to Religious Critics
by his associa-
The critics who harbor peeves aver alleged religious discrim-
tion to Israel
ination in Israel would do well to put the Ben-Gurion government
causes.
to the test. Let them try to ship ham to Israel. They'll get it back
"All the pro-
with the notation : NO PIG ADMITTED IN ISRAEL. If they wish
ceeds of the re-
to save themselves the trouble of learning this fact themselves—
cent successful
at the same time avoiding the indignity of putting themselves to
oncert as well
the test with ham and Israel with rejection of a shipment of for-
as an additional
bidden food—let them inquire at the U. S. Post Office. They will
Cantor -A.- sum were used
learn that pig, indeed, is banned in Israel.
to make these gifts," Cantor
*
*
Blank stated.
The Late Aimee Palliere
He announced that the fund
It is difficult to understand why the recent death of M. Aimee was distributed as follows: $400
Palliere of Paris failed to attract the worldwide interest his name for the building of homes for
had earned. He abandoned Catholic priesthood to become a convert immigrants; $200 for aid to Ye-
to Judaism. He was an ardent Zionist and traveled widely in the in- menites; $150 for individual food
terests of the cause. As vice-president of the Keren Kayemeth packages for cantors and others
Lelsrael (Jewish National Fund) he visited many cities in France in Israel, the balance for or-
and toured Algeria and Tunis.
phan homes in Israel.
He was a remarkable man and a most loveable personality.
When he visited here for a Sunday morning sermon at Temple
Of the 50,000 housing units be-
Beth El, more than 20 years ago, he enchanted those of us who ing built by government-spon-
had the privilege of meeting with him. One of the blessings of sored agencies in Israel during
our time is that Aimee Palliere was one of this generation's con- the current year, 10,000 units
temporaries.
will be erected in Jerusalem.

A line of gentle pressure is now being applied by the United
States with regard to Israel . . The State Department is aware
of Israel's policy of neutrality between the East and the West
and is trying to secure a modification of this policy . . . It is very
important for the U. S. to have the Jewish state fit herself into
American policy in the Middle East . . . Especially since some
kind of a Mediterranean pact under U. S. auspices seems to be
under consideration . . . The first -move in Washington's pres-
sure on Israel is the open approval by the State Department of
the British shipping of arms to the Arab countries . . • The sec-
ond move is the bait held out to Israel in the form of a possibility
that the U. S. may also provide the Jewish state with arms .
Naturally, these arms will be provided only if Israel agrees to
join an American-sponsored pact whenever it is concluded .
A region defense ring in the Middle East cannot permit Israel
to be a gaping aperture in the center .. . Other means of gentle
pressure on Israel are loans . . . The $100,000,000 loan which Is-
rael received from the U. S. Export-Import Bank is nearly ex-
hausted, while the financial needs of the Jewish state remain im-
mense . . . Washington is aware of the fact that there are today
only two possibilities for Israel .. . The first is: floating a pro-
jected $250,000,000 loan issue among American Jews . .. The
second is: getting a new development loan from a U. S. Gov-
ernment agency ... Floating a public loan, even among Jews
only, is a colossal enterprise and the results are far from cer..
taro .. . An official loan has obvious political strings which, if
agreed upon, guarantee the certainty of obtaining the money.

Communal Affairs
The question of pre-campaign budgeting for 1950 is now get-
ting a good deal of attention in all the larger Jewish Welfare
Funds throughout the country . Many of them are in various
stages of negotiations with the United Jewish Appeal on its par,
ticipation in their 1950 campaigns . . It is estimated that the
UJA received about 30 percent less from welfare funds in 1949
than in the previous year, while the general decline in totals
raised was about 20 percent . . . The policy pursued by UJA now
is to seek pre-campaign agreements on its share of the total
to be raised by the local welfare funds .. . This is the UJA con-
dition for participation in the local welfare fund campaign .
The communities are accepting the principle that the UJA should_
be given an opportunity to discuss and negotiate the terms of its
inclusion . . . Los Angeles, Pittsburgh and Philadelphia have de-.
cided on percentage agreements for UJA, after computing the
shrinkage and administrative costs . . Miami has established a
fixed ratio in its pre-campaign budget of 2 to 1 between UJA and
other beneficiaries, local and non-local—exclusive of administra-
tive costs, shrinkage and refugee needs . . . Newark set as its
minimum budgeting base a figure about 20 percent below last
year's campaign achievement, and the UJA percentage within that
figure was based on the minimum needs of other beneficiaries
. In Detroit, the UJA proportion of the total will rise with
the level of campaign achievements . St. Paul is planning to
guarantee its local agencies the same total amount as last year*
if the 1950 campaign results fall below those of last year .
Except for Miami, Philadelphia and Los Angeles, the decisions
are not final since they are still subject to discussion with the
United Jewish Appeal.

