6 THE JEWISH NEWS Friday, March 10, 1950 — 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. 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