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THE JEWISH NEWS
Friday, March 10, 1950
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Our Letter Box
U. S., Israel Highest
Let's All Push Together
I4dore Berger's Nisit
In Israel Recalled in
`Diary' by Bloomfield
Council Chief Reports
Bernard M. Bloomfield of
Chicago Riot Inquiries
Montreal, Canada, has shown a
Editor, The Jewish News
remarkable ability to keep notes
In the last week's issue of the
GENEVA, (JTA)—Israel occu- of his trip to Israel. As a re-
Jewish News (March 3, 1950) pies second place—following the sult, he has written a fairly good
there was an editorial entitled United States—in admitting ref- story of his experiences.
"Belated Expose" in which the" ugees, a report released here by
His "Israel Diary," while it is,
Peoria Street, Chicago, anti- the International Refugee Or- in the main, an ordinary de-
Semitic riot was discussed.
gani- -"-ion established.
scription of comings and goings
The theme of the editorial,
:eport says that leading in the Jewish state, nevertheless
which made a point that the count,iies of resettlement were reveals a keen sense of observa-
riot had all the earmarks of a the United States, Israel, Aus- tion and helps the reader under-
"pogrom," is most appropriate. tralia, United Kingdom, Canada, stand the details of a tour as
The rhetorical question, how- France, Argentina and Brazil, in complicated as that of visiting
ever, as to the possibility that that order.
every portion of Israel—from
the Jewish national agencies
The United States has admit- *Dan to Beersheba.
engaged in civic protective work ted 150,843 refugees Israel, 116,-
His book, just published by
failed to do their duty is some- 368, and Australia, 105,485. The Crown Publishers (419 4th Ave.,
other countries each admitted New York 16) , actually is a re-
thing else again..
As far back as last November, less than 100,000. All told, the print of the author's letters to
almost immediately on the heels IRO settled 690,145 DP's in new,- his wife: In published form, it
of the news about the Peoria countries in the two-and-a-half represents a diary in which every
move is recorded—every meal,
Street incident ,the Jewish Com- year period.
every walk, every tour, all con-
munity Council of Detroit . di-
versations with the great and
rected me to inquire of the na- Flow of Capital moods
near great. And Mr. Bloomfield
tional agencies as to the details
certainly 1-12s met with a great
of the riot. All the national Seen as Major Feature
many of the great in Isreal.
agencies furnished us with ex- Of Israel's Economy
Of interest to Detroiters is
haustive information which
one of his tours in which he
. made it clear that (1) the Chi-
NEW YORK, (JTA) — David
cago representatives of national Horowitz, director-general of the and his biother, who was with
agencies were very much on the Israel Ministry of Finance, told him, were accompanied by De-
scene, (2) they did an immense a group of leading American troitei Isidore Berger, a lawyer
amount of work with the Chi- bankers that the "essential fea- who makes photography his
cago city authorities, up to and ture of Israel's dynamic economy hobby and who did free lance
including the mayor, and (3) is the continued flow of capital work in Israel in 1949.
Under date of April 5 1949
the weak link in the whole af- goods which makes possible a
Bloomfield writes about Ber-
fair was the police work.
steadily
increasing
production."
ger: "He is a Detroit lawyer.
41110,,
The foregoing informatiOn was
"The total of investments in
furnished by the community Israel reached the very high He is here doing a labor of
love and is totally immersed
relations committee of the Jew-
of $241,000,000 in 1949,". in his photography.
ish Community Council of De- level
Horowitz declared. "During the
He told me that people who
troit, which operates under the year, 250 new industrial enter-
chairmanship of Harry Yudkoff. prises were established and 204 are interested in photography
A special sub-committee was additional enterprises are today look at the world as though
through a view - finder—see-
appointed, under the chairman-
ship of Harry Nathan. The sub- in the process of establishment. ing things as pictures and
At
the
same
time,
it
is
evident
scenes rather than looking
committee, after analyzing the
data and implications thereof, that in the development of a aimlessly as most people do.
prepared a set of recommenda- pioneer country, a considerable Traveling along I understood
tions, which were endorsed by portion of the financial burden what he meant and when a
the community relations c•m- must be borne by public and particularly nice shop ap-
peared I would nudge him and
mittee and reported to the ex- semi-public funds.
"In this connection the United point it out."
ecutive committee and the dele-
During the Bloomfields' visit
gates' assembly by David Rosin. Jewish Appeal, the central
. As a, result, the community agency for fund-raising for - Is- in Israel, they planted the first
rael
in
the
U.S.,
shoulders
the
saplings in the Bloomfield Forest
relations committee met with
George Schermer, executive di- great responsibility for provid- in tribute to the memory of
rector of the Mayor's Interracial ing the pioneer capital necessary their father who was a pioneer
Committee, and a delegation of to pave the way for normal com- Zionist, and who with his broth-
the Community Council, consist- mercial and financial invest- ers visited Palestine in 1902.
ing of OUT president, Dr. Shmar- ments."
"Today," he stated, "the or-
ya Kleinman, member of our
Mapai Leader Lauds
executive committee, Alfred A. dinary budget of the state is
balanced
by
normal
revenue.
But
ORT Work in Israel
May and the assistant executive
director, Walter E. Klein, met the fact that the country admit-
NEW YORK, (JTA)—The peo-
with the new commissioner of ted 360,000 immigrants—increas-
ing its population by 50 percent ple of Israel welcome the work
police, George Boos.
In all of these meetings, the —in a short period of time" has of the ORT in their country and
apprehension of the Community created special problems, he said. the ORT's contributions in
Council was expressed, partly He added that process of expan- training DP's for immigration
because the elements which pre- sion and increased production to the Jewish state, Eleizer Lieb-
cipitated the anti-Semitic out- will, in the long run, rectify the enstein, • member of the Israel
break in the Peoria Street, Chi- country's balance of payments Parliament and leader of the
cago incident are overwhelming- by enabling it to increase its ex- Mapai Party, told the annual
conference of the ORT Council
ly present in our own, Detroit ports.
In Washington Horowitz par- of Organizations held here.
environments. Specifically,
change in character of our mid- ticipated in financial and econ- About 400 representatives from
town neighborhood centering omic talks with high ranking national Jewish organizations
and local groups attended the
around 12th Street, which is American officials.
gathering. M. - Maldwin Fertig
undergoing the transformation
was reelected president of the
of a Jewish neighborhood to a UN Mission Plans
Council which adopted a new
Amb. mixed Negro-Jewish neighbor-
hood, and the tensions that de- Negev Irrigation Project constitution.
velop generally in the Northwest
TEL AVIV, (JTA)—A project
section of Detroit seem to in-
WHY WAIT
dicate that we too are sitting, to .irrigate 300,000 dunams of
For Special Pickup Days
relatively speaking, on a powder land in the Negev at an estimat-
ed cost of $53,000,000, using two
keg.
We Pick Up
The main characteristics of main pipes from a huge water
ANYTIME
reservoir
to
be
built
near
the
both the Peekskill and the Chi-
and give 3 day Service!
cago incidents were the rapid Yarkon river, was made known
transformation of an anti- Ne- in official circles. The plan,
Shirts Beautifully
gro manifestation into an out- said to have been worked out by
Finished
the
UN
Economic
Survey
Mis-
right anti-Semitic action. In
sion,
headed
by
Gordon
R.
both incidents, police work left
plenty to be desired. Hence, it Clapp, envisages a reservoir for
Was the Detroit" Councils desire the Yarkon and its subsidiaries,
to persuade the appropriate city from which two principal pipe-
WOodward 5-5100
officials to do as much of pre- lines would extend to the south-
ventive work, including proper ern desert.
police measures, as possible.
MRS. LEAH W. LEONARD'S
Please note that all national
Civic agencies which have their
Chapter or branches in Detroit
09ettiiih
are members of the Jewish Corn-
Munity Council. and of its com-
CAN BE
munity relations committee.
They all took a direct part in
the measures undertaken by the
Jewish Community Council to
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