Israel Health Projects Fight
Disease with American Ideas

PARIS, (JTA)—Pioneer health
projects sponsored by the Joint
Distribution Committee to fight
trachoma and other diseases
afflicting the half million Jews
of North Africa are making use
of the most modern American
medical techniques and are
working "miracles," JDC direc-
tors from Morocco, Tunisia and
Libya reported to the fourth
annual Country Directors' Con-
ference of JDC.
Speaking before the gathering
which brought together Jewish
leaders from the United States,
and 19 lands throughout Europe
and the Moslem world, JDC
country directors from North
Africa reported that modern
drugs are proving highly suc-
cessful in fighting diseases which
have prevailed for centuries
among Jewish populations in
their territories.

William Bein, director for
Morocco, reported that OSE,
Jewish medical organization
which receives its support
from JDC, served 74,000 pa-
tients in its clinics in Morocco
in the first six months of 1950.
He said that penicillin, chloro-
mycetin, streptomycin, aureo-
mycin and other modern drugs
used by JDC have created a
revolution in the lives of
North Africa's Jews, many of
whom have had only primitive
herb doctors to turn to for
medical help.

In one Moroccan town, with a
Jewish population of 5,000, over
150 child deaths used to be
recorded annually, Bein re-
ported. Since the JDC-spon-
sored clinic opened a year ago,
only 14 have died. Trachoma,
once taken for granted as in-
curable, is now being wiped out
among groups of children in as
little as two months' time.
French authorities and the Pro-
tectorate government in Moroc-
co have extended every assist-
ance to JDC in the expansion
of its health work.
Louis Horwitz, director for
Tunisia, said ''the school house
constitutes a potent JDC weapon
in bettering the condition of
North Africa's Jewish children."
He reported that 30,000 Jewish
children in schools of the Alli-
.ance Israelite University are fed
daily by JDC,- while feeding sta-
tions in key North African com-
munities are providing food to
an additional 20,000 children.
Samuel Haber, director for

Germany, and Harold Trobe,
director for Austria, reported
that liquidation of the dis-
placed persons c a m p,s in
Euiope is bringing new prob-
lems. They said that some
20,000 Jews would probably
remain in Germany and 10,000
in Austria following the clos-
ing down of the DP centers.

They pointed ,out that the
majority of the remaining Jews
include aged and destitute per-
sons. They emphasized that
total liquidation of DP camps in
Germany and Austria has been
delayed as a result of: 1. Over-
crowded conditions in Israel; 2.
Many displaced Jews are still
awaiting settlement of their res-
titution claims; 3. The move-
ment of DP immigrants to the
United States is slower than had
been anticipated as a result of
the "formalities in documenta-
tion and investigation." 4. Hun-
dreds of refugees from Eastern
Europe "continue to filter into
Austria monthly, replacing dis-
placed Jews leaving for Israel
and other overseas points."
Haber said that to date 75,-
000 Jews have been helped by
the JDC to proceed to Israel
from German y. Trobe said
that Vienna today is a "tread-
mill" with an average of 300
refugee Jews entering the city
each month from East European
points. Some 90,000 persons are
now on JDC assistance rolls in
Austria.
Care of Handicapped
Malben, the special organiza-
tion to care for handicapped im-
migrants in Israel now has 2,500
persons under institutional care,
and hopes to have an additional
2,000 by mid 1951, it was reported
by Charles Passman, executive
director of the welfare organiza-

tion and JDC director for the
Middle East.
Passman said that Malben is
giving top priority to providing
suitable car.: for immigrants
with tuberculosis, since inade-
quate help -to such newcomers
might endanger large sections
of the population of Israel.
A three-year plan to com-

plete the rehabilitation and re-
settlement of the needy Jewry
of Europe, North Africa and
the Near East was proposed at
the close of the conference.
The cost of the plan would be
$85,000,000, over and above the
$1,500,000,000 needed by Israel
in the next three years.

6—THE JEWISH NEWS

Friday, October 20, 1950

LJWO to Hear Trio
Talk on Brotherhood

Rabbi Morris Adler, Charles R.
A. Smith, Negro Catholic attor-
ney, and the Rev. Joseph Q.
Mayne, execu-
tive secretary of
Detroit Round
Table of Cath-
olics, Protes-
tants and Jews,
will be featured
in a symposium
on the subject
"Brothe r h o o d
for Peace an&
Freedom," a t Rev. Mayne
the meeting of the League of
Jewish Women's Organizations,
at 12:30 p. m. Tuesday, Oct. 31,
at Temple Beth El.
Mrs. David Kliger, president,
and Mrs. Maier Finsterwald,
chairman of the program, state
that there will be other surprise
features on the program of this
meeting, which will open the
League's activities for this year.
Members of the Siserhood of
Temple Beth El, under the chair-
manship of their president, Mrs.
M. George-Wayburn, will be . hos-
tesses.
At a community relations
committee breakfast meeting
Oct. 19, at Halevy Music Center,
Northwest Child Rescue Women
were admitted to membership:
Mrs. Samuel B. Danto, League
chairman of the `Serv-a-Camp'
project, is planning activities for
the Jewish Welfare Board dur-
ing the present emergency.

Moses W. Beckelman, JDC's
deputy director for overseas op-
erations, said that "the success
of this ambitious and vitally-
necessary program depends al-
most entirely on the funds which
American Jewry will provide.
during the coming.period to the
United Jewish Appeal."
The three-year program would
include four major points: 1.
The movement to Israel within
three years of some 600,000 Jews
from Europe and Moslem areas,
as well as continued support for
emigration to other countries,
chiefly the United States; 2. The
speeding of economic rehabilita-
tion for hundreds of thousands
of family heads in their present
homes; 3. The strengthening of
Jewish communities in areas
where the JDC is at present American Revisionists
providing the bulk of assistance, Conclude Parley.
NEW YORK, (JTA)—A resolu-
to help them assume the respon-
sibility for meeting their own tion urging the Israel govern-
needs; and 4. Intensified efforts ment to orient itself on the
to fight hunger, diSease and United States was adopted at
poverty among Jews in the Mos- the closing session of the na-
lem world. tional conference of the United
Zionist- Revisionist Party of
America.

Browdy Urges U.S.
To Grant Israel
$500,000,000 Aid

NEW YORK (JTA)—Benjamin
G. Browdy, president of the Zi-
onist Organization of America,
called upon the United States
Government to include Israel in
its aid to the democracies pro-
gram by a grant-in-aid of $500,-
000,000 over a period of three to
four years. He made the pro-
posal at a press conference here.
The failure to extend the aid
program to Israel, he warned, is
tantamount to weakening a link
in the democratic chain which . is
-being forged to strengthen the
democratic way of life in the
world.
Reviewing the efforts and sac-
rifices of American Jews for Is-
rael, Mr. Browdy said that by
assuming this burden the Jews
have taken a burden off the
government by doing exactly
what the government has done
for many other countries_in sim-
ilar circumstances. He also point-
ed out that Israel was in its
present predicament because of
its deliberate choice to accept
overwhelming numbers of refu-
gee immigrants.

NEW YORK—(JTA)—The National Planning Conference
for Israel and Jewish Reconstruction, which will be held in
Washington Oct. 27-29, has devised a .formula to "guarantee
adequate local Jewish community representation" on the
steering committee' of the conference, which will convene
Oct. 26 and will comprise some 280 delegates who will "review
major resolutions for presentation to the Conference." The
steering body will also work out rules and procedures for the
parley.
Under the formula for communal representation, - each
welfare fund in communities with a Jewish population of
more than 40,000 was asked to designate three representa-
tives to the steering committee; communities with a Jewish
.population of between 15,000 and 40,000 will designate two
representatives; and communities with a Jewish population
of between 2,000 and 15,000 will name one delegate.
John W. Snyder, U. .S. Secretary of the Treasury, will
address the conference.

4 Israel Artists in Windsor Concert
Sunday, Under Council Atispices

The Windsor Jewish Com-
munity Council announces the
presentation of four outstand-
ing Israeli artists at a recital at
the Capitol Theater in Windsor
on Sunday evening.
The concert, sponsored by the
Council and its affiliated or-
ganizations, include:
Zamira -Gon, interpretive
dancer; Ingrid Rypinski, mezzo
soprano; David Bar-Illian, pian-
ist, and Zvi Zeitlin, violinist.
Bar-Illian and Zeitlin will ap-
pear through the courtesy of
the Israel Symphony Orchestra.
Tickets, at a nominal fee, are
available at the office of the
Windsor ,Community Council, 21
Theater
heater Bldg., Windsor.
They will be filled by mail and
may be ordered by telephone,
Windsor 4-7559. Officers of the

Masquerade Caper
For Frisch Chapter

Daniel Frisch Chapter of the
Zionist Organization will pre-
sent a masquerade dance in the
main hall of the Dexter-Davi-
son Community Center at 9 p.m.,
Saturday, Oct. 28.
The evening will be highlight-
ed with contests for the best
costumes and music by Sam
Barnett's orchestra. Cider and
doughnuts will be served. The
public is invited.

H. LEIVICK

At an Oneg Shabbat of the
Farband—Labor Zionist
Order

Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News

TEL AVIV—The city of Tel
Aviv was plunged into total
darkness Monday night as
sirens shrieked warning of an
air attack. Thereafter, for a
half-hour, the sky was lit by
tracer ammunition and huge
searchlights as the defending
forces drove off the first air
raid of the autumn maneu-
vers of the Israel army, navy
and air force.

Council and affiliated organi-
zations also are selling tickets,
which will be available at the
box office Sunday.

Hear the Foremost
Yiddish Poet

Israel City Mobilized
In Army Maneuvers

-
Friday, Oct. 27, 8:30 p.m.

At Labor Zionist
Institute

And his Lecture on.the Subject

"Israel and the Jews in the Diaspora"

Sunday, Oct. 29, 8:30

p.m.
At the Dexter-Davison Branch of the Jewish Center

Mr. Leivick will recite selections from the new Hebrew
poetry of Israel during his lectures here.

MIZNINOMINIMEMIt.

Candidates Stumping
For Tel Aviv Posts

TEL AVIV (JTA)—The elec-
tion campaigns for the Nov. 15
municipal balloting here opened
with Mayor Israel Rokach and
Dr. Peretz Bernstein addressing a
public?' gathering on behalf of
the General Zionists and Mena-
.hem Beigin attracting a huge
audience at a Herut Party rally.
The various parties have al-
ready listed their candidates.
Levi Eshkol and Eliezer Peri top
the Histadrut lineup, Mayor Ro-
kach and Dr. Frey head the
General Zionists; Moshe Sneh,
Mapam; Dr. Foerder, Progres-
sives; Dr. Moshe Cohen, Herut;
Saadia Shoshani, Landlord's
List; Esther Vilenska, Commun-
ist.
Tel Aviv Chief Rabbi I. L.
Unterman's efforts to form a
united religious front had failed
and each faction in the Ortho-
dox movement will present a
separate slate of candidates.

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