500 at JWB Cincinnati Convention. Hear Report on 1949; Truman Lauds Weil CINCINNATI (JTA ) — Jewish community planning for leisure time and informal education projects reached a new level of activity and achievement chaplains"served eight branches of the. federal government, pre- senting programs of a religious, welfare, and morale nature at military installations and hos- pitals. Overseas, Rabbi Freehof stated, the division continued to provide chaplaincy coverage with special emphasis on Pass- over and the High Holy Days. Edison Elected IRVING EDISON throughout the country in 1949, with 325 Jewish Community Centers in more than 200 corn- munities serving that enter- prise. The year also witnessed an unprecedented measure of expansion in Center-conducted Jewish cultural projects and recreational services and pro- grams for all age groups. These developments were re- ported at the biennial conven- tion of the National Jewish Wel- fare Board at the Hotel Nether- land Plaza here. The opening session, presided over by Frank L. Weil, retiring president of the organization, was devoted to a presentation of the annual re- port. A panel, composed of the chairmen of five JWB divisions, participated with Weil in the re- port presentation. President Truman in a mes- sage to the thiee 7.day conven- tion lauded the role which president Weil has played in Jewish communal life during the last ten • years. "You have richly earned the thanks not only of your co-re- ligionists but of your country generally for a decade of con- structive leadership and accom- plishment," Truman's message read. The 500 delegates attending the convention discussed plans for expanding and intensifying relationships among Jewish community centers, synagogues and Jewish schools. The conven- tion also formulated a public affairs program to guide Jewish centers in their work. 483,000 Members Membership in the 325 Cen- ters affiliated with JWB reached a- record of 483,000 in 1949, ac- cording to Mrs. Walter E. Heller, of Chicago, chairman of JWB's Center Division. More than 11,- 500,000 persons attended Center activities in the course of the year, the mass attendance figure a 27 percent increase since 1947. The Centers employ close to 1,000 professionally trained workers and, in 1949, had an ag- gregate budget of almost $11,- 500,000. Signs . of progress in "the de- velopment of a living, every-day kind of Judaism for American Jews" were noted by S. D. Ger- shovitz, JWB executive director. He noted "the enlarging inter- est in Jewish culture and adult education, in no small measure a reflection of the expanding Jew- ish substance of Jewish Commu•- nity Center programs and of the work of JWB-sponsored cultural co_uncils." The armed forces program in 1949 operated in the United States through. 146 local com- mittees made up of thousands of volunteers r e p or t e d Milton Weill, of New York, division chairman. Activities for GIs and hospitalized veterans, provided by those committees,. attracted 271,494. This program, he said, was in addition to "a world network of JWB service to armed forces personnel that reached into 225 installations—Army, Navy and Air Force—here and abroad, and was extended to 110 VA hos- pitals." • Rabbi Solomon B. Freehof, of Pittsburgh, chairman of JWB's Division of Religious Activities, `-1 reported than in 1949 twenty- eight full-time Jewish chap - lains "and a good-sized auxili- ary corps-163 part-time Jewish Irving Edison of St. Louis was elected president of the JWB at the closing session of the convention. He becomes the fifth preSident of the Jewish Welfare Board, the first mid- westerner to hold that office. Mrs. Samuel R. Glogower, of Detroit was named an honorary vice president. At a tribute dinner to retiring president Weil, noting his de- cade of service to JWB, an- nouncement was made of a sys- tem of annual awards to be given in his name in three ma- jor fields of JWB's spheres of service. The convention adopted a resolution strongly recommend- ing to constituent Jewish Com- munity Centers that they do everything possible "to foster a workable partnership with syn- agogues and Jewish schools in the respective communities." Another resolution set forth the objectives of cooperative activity between the synagogues and the Jewish Centers as "enriching the quality of individual and Jewish group life in America." It observed that this recognition of common goals "is materializ- ing in concrete expressions of agreement in ever-growing areas of relationships." Kesner to Produce Festival Records Moe Kesner, already popular both as soloist and choir di- rector, has entered a new field— the recording of Jewish music. Having shown marked ability as a radio announcer, Mr. Kes, ner has applied the radio nar- rative idea to his -recordings. In his first venture, for instance the recording of the Passover story—he has compiled an in- teresting narrative in song and in explanatory notes, both of which echo very well on his re- cords. Bella Goldberg, mezzo- soprano, is his assistant. The major Passover songs are included in the four-sided re- cordings which were produced by the Sheera Recording Co., 2900 Taylor, Detroit. The com- plete story. of the exodus, the Seder, the traditional hymns are a part of the entire album. Mr. Kesner's next move is to prepare recordings of Purim and Hanukah songs and stories, to- gether with Jason Tickton who will assist him on the organ. His efforts are receiving deserved acclaim from an appreciative audience which follows him from public meetings, at which he provides popular music, to the recording box through which he can be heard in his able com- pilation of holiday song stories. His first set of recordings ap- peared under . the title "A Con- cert of Passover Music With Nar- ration: Zman Cheyruseynu, the Holiday of Freedom." AJC Aired on WJLB Saturday and Sunday Allied Jewish Campaign will brought home to Detroit's radio listeners on station WJLB this week by Mrs. Jack Sauls, speaker on Mrs. Hyman Alt- man's Hour, 9:30 p.m., Satur- day, May 13; Mrs. Sidney J. Allen, on Harry and Betty Wein- berg's hour, 1:30 p.m., Sunday, May 14. WJLB has also made time available to the campaign at 1:45 p.m. Tuesdays, Wednes- d a y s and Thursdays. -Mrs. Charles M. Lakoff, Rabbi M. J. Wohlgelernter, Law r e n c e W. Crohn, and Roger Nathan will be the speakers. be Honor Mother's Day At Mayfair Caterers "Take mother out for a strict- ly Kosher dinner on Mother's Day, Sunday, May 14," is the slo- gan of the Mayfair Caterers, Dexter at Waverly, this week. Opening their dining room to the public for this occasion only, the Mayfair owners plan to serve dinners by reservation only. The ,Mayfair Room is under the supervision of the Council of Orthodox Rabbis of Detroit. • To reserve a table, call TE. 4- 5875. D&C Announces Six Summer Cruises D 8i C Navigation Co. has an- nounced this summer's itiner- ary for its yearly series of Great Lakes "inland ocean" cruises. The schedule includes six varied vacation cruises at the lowest rates in years. Heading the list is the 2,000 mile, 7-day cruise including visits to Mack- inac Island, Soo Locks, Buffalo and Chicago. Where living is Omena Inn Offers New Attractions This Year A good example of resorts that are making Michigan a national playground is Omena Inn, the hay fever and sinus sufferers haven on Grand Tra- verse Bay, Omena, Michigan, run by Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Lan- dis. This season, Omena is adding several new attractions, includ- ing a playground for children; and new and better equipment in its noted dining room. Highly publicized is addition of the Broadway star Arnold Spector to its staff as social director. With Spector is a large enter- tainment staff, assembled in preparation for this summer's succession of musical comedies to be featured at the Omena Inn Playhouse. THE JEWISH NEWS-15 Friday, May 12, 1950 Electric cooking is faster cleaner . . . cooler. Your appliance dealer has models for any size family,any size budget. Laikin Urges Tree-Planting in Israel To Honor This Mother's Day Benjamin M. Laikin, newly- elected chairman of the Jewish National Fund Council of De- troit, has issued an appeal to the entire community to join in the .tree-plantaig campaign in Israel on the occasion of Moth- er's Day which will be obserVed this coming Sunday. "Israel has launched a gigan- tic tree-plan ding program, and it is . . urgent that every Jew should feel his responsibility and should assist in fulfilling the 1950 goal of at least 400,- 000 new trees to be planted in the Jewish state," Mr. Laikin Belcrest Has Apartments, Suites, Rooms Available Attractive suites, apartments and rooms are now available at The Belcrest, Detroit's only re- sidential hotel with a garden. Located at Cass and Kirby, in the cultural center of the city, the Belcrest offers com- plete hotel service, dining room and catering facilities, said. This is one of the ways in which we can assist - in the upbuilding of the state, in the establishment Of n e w settle- ments, in the expansion of the forests." Arthur Shutkin, executive di- rector of the JNF Council, stat- ed that the JNF office, 11816 Dexter, TO. 8-7384, will. be open all day Sunday to take orders for trees. Beautiful certificates will be issu,d, Mr. Shutkin said. ' Want a New STUDEI3AKER 7 For the Best Deal Call Mr. Repper TW. 2-9290 GEORGE MOTOR SALES 12200 Jos. Campau MRS. LEAH W. LEONARD'S C ootery 9 CAN BE YOURS WITHOUT CHARGE Simply Secure Two NEW Subscribers TO THE JEWISH NEWS $3 PER YEAR Send: Your Name, Address, Subscribers' Name, Address Check or Money Order To THE JEWISH NEWS 708 David Stott Bldg.