Progress in Israel Reported

In United Nations Magazine

The tremendous achievements
and challenge of the new nation
of Israel constitute the main
feature in September's United
Nations World.
Prime Minister David Ben-
Gurion heads the list of well-
qualified statesmen and authors
who contributed special articles
to this fascinating issue. Other
contributors include Ambassador
Abba Eban, Permanent Repre-
sentative of Israel at the United
Nations; Eliezer Kaplan,. Israel's
Finance Minister; Haim H. Cohn,
Attorney General of Israel; Eli
Davis, M.D., Director of Hadas-
sah Medical organization; Ed-
ward A. Norman, President of
the American Fund for Israel
Institutions; Victor Reuther, ed-
ucational director of the UAW-
CIO and other Americans and
Israelis.
The gigantic task that Israel
has assumed and is performing
in providing for new arrivals,
whose numbers already total
430,000 and who continue to
stream in at the rate of 250,000
a year, is dramatically outlined
by Prime Minister Ben-Gurion.
He makes the point that to
make Israel a suitable home-
land for these immigrants is the
very purpose of its existence.
Kaplan's article gives facts and
figures on the production battle,
which he calls "a race with
time." Financing is accomplished
by private Israeli investments,
by government spending and by
foreign public and private loans.

The projects range from build-
ing and equipment of new fac-
tories to road building, land rec-
lamation, city and rural hous-
ing and other vital develop-
ments.
Victor Reuther, educational
director ; of UAW-CIO, went to
Israel a short time ago to see
for himself its progress in union-
ism. His article recounts his as-
tonishment in discovering that
half the members of • Israel's
parliament are also members of
its big trade union, Histadrut.
Israel's overwhelming struggle
to provide adequate health fa-
cilities in the face of the great
influx of immigrants and the
set-backs caused by war is told
by Dr. Davis. The health battle
had been almost won when war
came in 1948. Then for a time
facilities were swamped and
there was a sharp rise in disease.
David Courtney, author and
columnist on the Jerusalem Post,
provides a thrilling picture of
the city which, to the Jews, has
been their greatest and holiest
since a thousand years before
Christ, the object of their ages-
old greeting and prayer, "Next
year in Jerusalem."
Alan Marbe writes of Israel as
the goal of thousands of pilgrims
of three great religious, Christ-
ian, Jewish and Moslem, who
annually visit it. In the first
seven montts of 1950 there were
18,000 visitors; the number for
the year is expected to rise to
35,000.

Junior, Senior Hadassah Groups
Conduct Membership H-Day Sunday

BY HADASSAH NURSE
With Junior Hadassah joining
the Senior Hadassah chapters in
membership solicitations on Ha-
dassah "H - Day" Sunday, the
day's solicitation of all Jewish
homes is expected to be all-em-
bracing.
Junior and Senior Hadassah
"H-Day" workers will commence
their activities by meeting for
breakfast at 10 o'clock Sunday

needed in handling the steady
tide of tourists.
Junior Hadassah has for many
years sponsored the model Chil-
dren's Village of Meier Shfeyah,
besides participating in Jewish
National Fund and other Israeli
projects. Miss Anne Zelonka,.
membership chairman, TO.
8-4593, will accept applications
for membership from girls of 18
or over.
Mrs. Theodore Bargman, pres-
ident of Senior Hadassah, and
Miss Edith Berkowitz, president
of Junior Hadassah, predict
that "H-Day" will bring greatly
increased membership in Hadas-
sah, "The Healing Hand of
Israel."

N. Y. Democrats Back
U.S. Aid to Israel

AN ISRAELI CHILD AIDED

morning at assigned homes.
They will receive their instruc-
tions at these gatherings from
the following Hadassah Chapter
representatives: •
Bagley Group, Mrs. Maurice
Landau; Central East, Mrs. Bert
Smokier; Central West, Mrs. Mil-
ford Pregerson; Russell Woods
East, Mrs. Dora Ehrlich; Rus-
sell Woods East, Miss Hattie
Gittleman; Sherwood, Mrs. Louis
Glasier; University East, Mrs.
Irving Lappin; University West,
Mrs. Nathan Spevakow; Wyom-
ing, Mrs. Albert Elazar and Mrs.
Julian Tobias.
Hadassah is the largest volun-
tary medical organization in the
world, the Detroit Chapter be-
ing among the 10 in this coun-
try with a membership ..Of 5,000
or over. While its chief activi-
ties have been child care. hos-
pital and health centers in
Israel, it also conducts import-
ant social projects, such as the
Louis D. Brandeis Vocational
Center in Jerusalem, which in-
cludes the Alice Seligsberg Vo-
cational School for Girls; day
and evening trade classes for
boys; a Fashion Institute which
is rapidly becoming famous, and
a Hotel Management Institute
which is turning out trained
personnel for hotels. greatly

20--THE JEWISH NEWS

Friday, September 15, 1950

Federation Issues
Education Guide

Jewish families in Detroit
will this week receive a spe-
cial mailing—"The ABC's of
Jewish Education"—issued by
the Jewish Welfare Federa-
tion in an effort to describe
the why and where of local
Jewish education.
Prepared jointly by the He-
brew and Yiddish schools in
conjunction with the educa-
tional and cultural division
of the Federation, the pam-
phlet 'shows the location of
the Jewish schools of Detroit,
listing the director, telephone
number and address of each,
so that parents may easily
secure information about the
curricula available in late-
afternoon programs for boys
and girls, as well as congrega-
tional schools.
Registration is now open at
each of the schools. For chil-
dren whose parents are un-
able to afford tuition, schol-
arships can usually be ar-
ranged.

Rosh Hashanah
Greetings from
Eban Confident

WASHINGTON, (JTA)—Con-
fidence that American Jewry
will bear its full share in aiding
Israel's development during the
new Jewish year is expressed in
a Rosh Hashanah message is-
sued here by Abba Eban, Is-
rael's Ambassador to Washing-
ton and head of the Israel dele-
gation to the United Nations.
The message reads:
"The growth of Israel has
maintained its swift momentum
in the outgoing year. Israel has
emerged from it tempered and
strengthened, and with its rec-
ord of achieveinent significantly
enhanced. A life of freedom
and constructive effort was pro-
vided for hundreds of thousands
of new immigrants. The demo-
cratic structure of the State was
developed and reinforced.
"The price of our internal ad-
vance has been intense hard-
ship for the people of Israel.
The impact of our mass immi-
gration, larger proportionately
than any in history, upon a
small people struggling to build
up its state in an impoverished
land has bred grave problems.
Yet without the partnership of
American Jewry, Israel could
not have met this trust as it is
doing.
"Faithful to its inner vision
and drawing strength from the
moral and spiritual sources of
its heritage and from the zeal
and readiness of its people for
sacrifice, Israel will go forward
in the new year with its ap-
pointed' task. In this common
venture, it is confident that
American Jewry will bear its
full share. To all the Jews of
America I send my good wishes
for the coming year."

Counting Absentee Ballots at City Hall
As 10,000 Set Record Mail Vote

DR. SHMARYA
SHMARYA KLEINMAN (left) checks overabsentee
ballots which were returned to the City Clerk THOMAS D.
LEADBETTER (center). They are assisted by MRS. LILLIAN
STEINER, one of the special staff members assigned to handle
the absentee ballots for last Tuesday's primary election.

More than 10,000 absentee bal-
lots were cast in last Tuesday's
primary election, the majority
of them sent in by Jewish vot-
ers, Louis C. Urban, director of
the City Election Commission,
revealed.
This was the greatest number
of absentee votes in a Detroit
election, Urban said, even ex-
ceeding the 1948 presidential
election when absentee ballots
cast by servicemen swelled the
total to 8,000.

Dr. Shmarya Kleinman, pres-
ident of the Jewish Community
council, acknowledged the ef-
ficient handling of applications
and ballots through the City
Clerk's office. Dr. Kleinman
noted that extra personnel was
engaged to speed the process.
The absentee vote privilege
was extended to Jewish voters
for this election by special ac-
tion of the state legislature, since
the primary coincided with the
first day of. Rosh Hashanah.

Around the World . • •

A digest of current news reported by the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency. the Israel Service of Information and the World
Jewish Affairs News Service.

United States

NEW YORK—Federal Security Administrator Oscar R. Ewing
was principal speaker at a special inter-faith rally here in tribute
to Histadrut . . El Ai, Israeli national airline, will pick up 400
American students stranded in Ireland when planes they were
scheduled to take to U. S. were diverted to the Pacific airlift for
U. S. forces in Korea ... Mizrachi Organization of America's pres-
ident Dr. Pinkhos Churgin announced plans for a new arts and
sciences college in Tel Aviv to be patterned after U. S. institutions
. . . Rabbi Samuel Berliant, president of the Rabbinical. Council
of America issued a call to young rabbis to enlist as chaplains
in
..
the U. S. Armed Forces. . „: ... . ...„ „. :

LAKE SUCCESS — UN heard
an American report on the prog-
ress of human rights in this
country. The report will be in-
cluded in the UN Human Rights
Yearbook. •
BALTIMORE, Maryland — A
street in the northwest section of
this city has been officially
named "Szold Drive," in honor
of Henrietta Szold, founder of
Hadassah and native of this
city.
BOSTON—A collection of val-
ued first editions of the works of
John Galsworthy and Lafcadio
Hearn has been donated to the
library of Brandeis University.

NEW YORK—(JTA)—A reso-
lution endorsing the United
States government's aid to the
Israel Government, which also
noted with pride the "role play-
ed by the U. S. Government in
assisting the young Israeli Re-
public," was adopted by the
Democratic State Convention in
Rochester.
The Democrats' platform also
expressed pride over the action
taken to liberalize the displaced
Israel
persons legislation at this ses-
sion of Congress. The conven-
JERUSALEM—Communist demonstrators at the YMCA here
tion also recommended "earli-
failed to halt the showing of an American film on Korea . . . The
est possible enactment of the
UN Palestine Conciliation Commission has left for Turkey and will
full civil rights program recom-
reconvene at Lake Success Oct. 2.
mended by President Truman."
The N. Y. State Republican
HAIFA—The Haifa airfield, closed since January, has reopened
convention, in Saratoga Springs,
This is a portion of the new to doMestic and international traffic . A new eight-mile road,
adapted a resolution pledging e, 7lynagogue for Cong. Beth Moses, cutting the time for motoring between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem
"vigorous fight to insure equal- which is nearing completion on was opened by Labor Minister Golda Myerson.
ity of opportunity and treat-
TEL AVIV—A second telecommunications network between Is-
ment for all persons, regardless
rael and the U. S., via Manila, was opened. Greetings were ex-
of race, creed, color or national
changed by Philippine President Quirino and Israel's acting Pres-
origin." The Republicans failed
ident, -Joseph Sprinzak.
to adopt any resolutions on
Israel or displaced persons in
their platform.

New Synagogue
Nears Completion

Europe

Michigan Zionists
Convene in Flint

The Michigan Zionist Region
will hold its third annual con-
vention at the Hotel Durant,
Flint, Saturday evening, Sept.
30, and all day Sunday, Oct. 1.
In addition to the regional
agenda pertaining to the 12
Zionist districts in Michigan,
clinics and discussions in edu-
cation, investment, Israel proj-
ects, and Young Zionist Dis-
tricts will be conducted.

Linwood Ave. The design is
modern, with the vertical lines
of the _xterior giving the edi-
fice a dominating appearance
over the surroundings. It was
designed by Arnold A. Weitz-
man, Detroit architect, who has
done much Jewish institutional
work on the West Coast,

LONDON—Israel Minister Eliahu Elath called on Foreign Sec-
retary Ernest Bevin for a . talk on the Middle East . . •Egypt's
Foreign Minister has announced continuance of the ban on Israel-
bound oil tankers passing through the Suez Canal.
ROME—Reports - reaching Rome tell of the Hungarian Govern-
ment taking over the JeWish High School of Budapest under the
official nationalization policy.
MUNICH—The Council of Jewish Communities on the oc-
casion of the "Day of Fight Against Inhumanity," (Sept. 10), is-
sued a statement deploring the release of Nazi war criminals by
U. S. authorities.
FRANKFURT—New tales of Nazi brutality at the Polish con-
centration camp of Sobibor were unfolded here during the trial
of former guard, Hubert Gomerski, which ended in his being sen-
tenced to life imprisbnment and loss of civil rights.

