Organizations Mobilize to Aid Bond Drive

Leaders in Local Groups
Form Council for Israel

Bnai Brith leaders mobilized their forces for Israel bond sales
throughout the summer. Conferring on bond sales, above, from
the left, with SAMUEL LEIB, Bnai Brith bond chairman (seated):
VICTOR BLOOMFIELD, JAMES N. LAKER, president, Greater
Detroit Bnai Brith Council; HARRY YUDKOFF, MILTON M.
WEINSTEIN.

In the bottom photo, Mrs. AVIS SHULMAN is shown receiving

a check for Israel bonds from Mrs. SAM CROLL, Detroit Hadassah

Zionist organizations, lands-
Ring
Arbt iter
m anschaf ten,
groups and other organizations.
It is the intention of the new
council to complete the task of
total community solicitation
some time in September, when
a city-wide report rally will take
place to survey results and to
plan further action. A $100 Israel
bond will be awarded at the
rally to the worker who has sold
the greatest number of subscrip-
tions by that date.
Max Osnos, chairman of the
Detroit Bond Committee, in
one of the major addresses of
the evening, outlined the im-
portance of the bond sales
and declared that it repre-
sents one of the soundest ef-
forts in support of the state of
Israel.
Mr. Kay, in his analysis of the
bond drive, stated that techno-
logical studies indicate that a
successful bond drive will speed
the day when Israel will become
completely self-sustaining.
The guest speaker of the
evening, Mrs. Avis Shulman,
described her experiences in
Israel and told of the great
need for economic aid to Is-
rael in order to assist the
state in welcoming hundreds'
of thousands of newcomers.
She told of the development of
new industries, and especially
described the rise of the fish-
ing industry to which ap-
proximately $11,000,000 is be-
ing allocated from the $500,-
000,000 Israel bond issue.
William Hordes and Harry
Schumer reported that the La-
bor Zionist Organization had
sold $430,000 worth of bonds,
with more than $300,000 already
having been submitted in cash.
Irving Schlussel reported that
the religious groups sold a half
million dollars worth of bonds
and that $346,000 had been
turned over in cash.
Robert Golden of the Israel
bond •office described technical
details of bond efforts.
Participants in the discussions
included Messrs. Harry Yudkoff,
Sam Leib, David Berris, Lipov-
sky, Kaminski, Baker, Charles
Wolok, Schmukler, L. Lightstone
and others.

Expect to Sell Million -in Israel
Bonds at Knollwood Dinner Aug. 3

At Knollwood Country Club
Thursday, Aug. 23, at a dinner
and rally for the sale of Israel
Bonds, national celebrities will
speak and provide entertain-
ment. A goal of a million dol-
lars in bond sales has been set.
It will be the first bond rally
for Israel sponsored by any
country club in the nation.
The event will continue a
Knollwood tradition of leader-
ship in community responsibility.
Knollwood was the first country
club to promote a million dollar
U. S. war bond rally during
World -War II. The club received
a citation from the government
for its war services.
Israel Davidson is honorary
chairman and Knollwood presi-

bond chairman. Looking on are Bnai Brith and Pioneer Women
bond chairman, Mesdames MAX FRIED and HARRY KAY.
A Council of Organizations for <>
the Israel Bone Drive was Leon Kay, the Council resolved Stanley Pasikov Wins
formed here on July 19, at a to contact members of all local Ford Scholarship
meeting at the Jewish War Vet- synagogues, Bnai Brith Lodge,
erans Memorial Building.
American Jewish Congress chap-
Stanley Pasikov, 18-year-old
Under the chairmanship of ters, Jewish War veterans' posts, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joel Pasi-
kov, of 2633 Glendale, was re-
cently announced as a winner
of a Ford scholarship given an-
nually to scholastically deserv-
ing children of Ford Motor Co.
employees.
By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
Stanley, a graduate of Cen-
tral High School where he was
Hebrew in High Schools: How Many Will Respond?
president of the Student Coun-
Several thousand New York high school students have been cil and was sports editor of the
enrolled in Hebrew language classes. A movement to introduce year book, Centralite, will enter
this language course in other cities is now being directed by Judah the University of Michigan in
Lapson, who supervises the courses in behalf of the Jewish Educa- the fall.
tion Association. A short time ago Mr. Lapson, on a brief visit iri
The Ford grant will pay for
Detroit, expressed the hope that Hebrew will be introduced in local
all of his tuition fees, and up
high schools by 1952.
What can possibly be the community's reaction to such a to 80 percent of his room and
plan? In Cleveland, in a high school the majority of whose 2,000 board expenses. Stanley also
students are Jewish, only 23 boys and girls expressed a desire to won the Michigan Region Schol-
study Hebrew. It proved a shock to Jewish educators who had arship as an outstanding stu-
dent at Central, but had to give
hoped for keener interest in the subject.
With the establishment of Israel, it was believed, three years it up in preference for the Ford
ago, that there would be a great demand for the establishment scholarship.
Only 22 students from Detroit
of Hebrew classes for young and old. The hope faded rapidly.
Some disappointed leaders ascribed the reason for such a condition won the honor out of 700 in the
to "assimilationist trends." With the rapid decline of Yiddish and United States to take the exam-
only a limited interest in Hebrew, educational circles now are inations. Stanley, who main-
forced to think in terms of offering "the line of least resistance" tained a B plus average through
high school, was the only Jew-
for children who must be enrolled in Jewish schools.
Thus, loyalists who only a few years ago bitterly opposed any- ish winner reported. He plans
thing approaching minimalization of. Jewish studies now yield to to study dentistry.
proposals for three- and even two-day a week Jewish schools.
"If children cannot be gotten to attend classes five or four days
a week, let us yield so that we should not lose them completely," Marshall Shulman in
is the form the concession now assumes.
Dean Acheson's Party
What, we wonder, will be the reaction to an offer for the
introduction of Hebrew courses in Central High School, whose
Marshall Shulman, son of Mr.
student body is overwhelmingly Jewish, and at Mu/Ilford High,
which also has a large proportion of Jewish students? The and Mrs. Harry M. Shulman,
attempt to introduce Hebrew in these schools will be made before was a member of Secretary of
very long, and in order to secure a favorable response it will be State Dean Acheson's party
necessary not only to canvass the students themselves but also to which arrived here on a special
conduct an educational campaign among parents. If it is true plane on Tuesday from Wash-
that "assimilationist" tendencies are responsible for declining ington. The Secretary of State
interest in the language of the Bible and in Jewish values that addressed the dinner Tuesday
accompany the teaching of Hebrew, then we must realize that the night in honor of Detroit's 250th
cure must first be applied to parents. When the home begins to Birthday celebration. Mr. Shul-
show greater interest in Jewish educational efforts, the products man is a member of the State
of the home will respond in accordance with the parents' concern Department staff and is attach-
ed to Mr. Acheson's and Presi-
in Jewish matters.
In any event, there should be no delay in planning the intro- dent Truman's special research
duction of Hebrew studies in our high schools. We are confident department on foreign affairs.
that with a determined effort we shall have a far better response
than was shown in Cleveland. The results of the forthcoming 2 THE JEWISH NEWS
Friday, July 27, 1951
survey will be most interesting.

Purely Commentary

—

Women Mobilize Fall
Rouse-to-Ho use Sale

The Israel Bond Issue is a
practical as well as sentimental
investment which will accelerate
the economic development of
the fast-growing Jewish state
and make it completely self-
supporting within a definite
span of years, Avis Shulman,1
national chairman of the bond
drive's speakers' division, told
Detroit women leaders at a
luncheon at Huyler's last Friday.
She cited some of the job-
making, wealth-producing proj-
ects which the bond issue pro-
vides. The Old dream of a Jewish
homeland and in - gathering
place for refugees will not be
complete, she reminded her au-
dience, until the new state is
self-supporting and no longer
dependent.
Plans for intensive sales effort
by women workers this summer
and fall were outlined at the
meeting. Mrs. Milton Mohler was
named to head a house-to-house
sales campaign this fall.

dent James I. Ellmann is
chairman of the midsummer -
sales event. Joseph Gendel-
man is co-chairman.
John Isaacs and Ben Tolmich
are co-chairmen of the arrange-
ments and reservation commit-
tee. Lou Luckoff heads the pub-
lic relations committee.
The following Knollwood mem-
bers have accepted committee
assignments for the dinner:

Louis Alper, Merril Arden, Louis
Berry, Irving Blumberg, Harry Clark, /r-
win Cohn, Harry Davidson, Sol Eisen-
berg, Edward Feldman, Ben Fenton, Na-
than Fishman, Harry Freedland, Joseph
Frenkel, Samuel Hamburger, Joseph
Holtzman, John Isaacs, Morris L. Jacobs,
Harry Jaffa, Saul Kalt, Sidney Kalt,
Samuel Kane, Harold Kaplan, Lawrence
Kaplan, Sam Katkin, Max Kogan, Louis
Koppy, Joseph Kukes, Jack Lapides, D.
A. Laven, Ben Levinson, Milton Iv/abler,
Charles Matler, David M. Miro, Louis
Modell, David Newman, Arthur Robinson,
James Rossin, Sam Rouff, Nathan Rubin,
Louis Schostak, Leonard Schwartzman,
George Seyburn, Sol Shaye, Elrick C.
Shurner, Sid Sidney, Bernard Siegel,
Joseph Slatkin, Barnay Smith, Samuel B.
Solomon, Irving Steinman, David Tann,
Ben Tolmich, Samuel Zack and Paul
Zu eke rrnan

Additional appointments will
be announced later by chairman
Ellin an n.

LZOA Sponsors
Outing at Chelsea

A day of fun and games has
been planned for members of
the Labor Zionist Organization
and their friends. On Aug. 5
members will pack picnic bas-
kets and meet at Farband
Camp, at Chelsea, Mich.
Races and projects for the
children, along with boating and
swimming, have been planned
by the committee, which is
headed by Dena Goldsmith,
chairman of Branch 7, LZOA.
A special program will be of-
fered by Habonim members in
celebration of their youth day
at Hebrew speaking Camp Kin-
neret. All members are urged to
bring their friends.

Between You and Me

By BORIS SMOLAR

(Copyright, 1951,

Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)

Zionist Affairs

As the American delegates to the World Zionist Congress are
beginning to leave for Israel, details of demands they will present
in Jerusalem—in connection with the request for a charter for
the Jewish Agency—are becoming clearer . . . All delegates, no
matter to which wing of the Zionist movement they belong, agree
that while the Israel government cannot be expected to transfer
to the Agency any governmental functions, it is essential, never-
theless, that it should endow the Agency with wide functional
powers and give it a special status , This, they say, should be
done by act of the Israel Parliament which must provide that:
1. The Jewish Agency is authorized to operate in other parts of
the world without being controlled or supervised by the Israel
government . . . 2. It is free of government control in its financial
affairs, although subject to such matters as exchange control < . .
3. It has the right to operate in any part of Israel through its
own agencieS- and subsidiaries or in cooperation with other groups
as well as the Israel government < . . 4. It is tax exempt, and is
authorized to receive tax-free gifts and bequests. . . . 5. Materials
imported by it for its own purposes should be free of customs and
other levies .. . 6. It is recognized by the Israel government as
the sole colonizing agency, entitled to organize immigration into
Israel and to help the immigrants settle there and become estab-
lished in agriculture, • industry and the trades . . 7. It is also
recognized by • the government as the sole agency entitled to pro-
vide for the 'welfare of the newcomers and their maintenance
chiring the period of their absorption and adjustment • . . 8. All
the functions authorized in behalf of, and recognition given to,
the Jewish National Fund and the Keren Hayesod shall be vested
in' the JewiSh Agency, as the parent body of both . . . Which of
theSe demands will be acceptable to the Israel government remains
to be:seen, but there is no doubt that they will be the center of
discussion at. the Zionist Congress..

Domestic Affairs

Twelve secular cultural agencies, which appeal to the Jewish
welfare funds fOr suPport, spent abbut $1,828,000 last year . . . This
is 13 per cent less than in the previous year when they spent more
than two million dollars . They include The American Academy
for Jewish Research, the Yiddish Scientific Institute (YIVO), the
Conference on Jewish Relations, the American Jewish Historical
Society .. CoMbined expenditures of these four research organ-
izations were about. $200,000 last year . . Suggestions have been
made that Jewish research might be made more effective through
the establishment of a central facility ... The objection to such
an approach on the part of some of the agencies involved is that
research is intimately related to and cannot be divorced from
their specific programs . . . YIVO is on record as favoring unifica-
tion of Jewish research efforts ... Preliminary talks among some
of the agencies involved have been undertaken recently . . • Inci-
dentally, of the four research organizations which spent $200,000,
YIVO is the largest . . . Its expenditures in 1950 were about
$170,000 . . . The Histadruth Ivrith, which promotes the knowledge
of Hebrew language and Hebrew culture in the United States,
spent during the same year about $180,000, which is seven per cent
less than the previous year . < The sharpest decrease occurred
for the Jewish Chautauqua Society, which provides lectures on
Jewish history, literature and philosophy to audiences in univer-
sities, colleges and summer camps . Its expenses last year were
$85,000 compared with $103,000 1949.

