10--THE JEWISH NEWS
Fi iday, November 16, 1951

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KATE SELVES TO BO D S LES

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Organizations Resolve
:O• Bond-Selling Push .

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Resolution adopted at Community Planning
Conference for Israel.

Excerpts from Reports

WE URGE UPON EACH OF OUR ORGANIZATIONS:

1. THAT IT organize itself so that State ,of Israel

Bonds may be sold continuously throughout the
year;
'7. 2. THAT IT adopt the Israel Bond' Program as a
major part of its activity;
3. THAT IT organize intensively to achieve the goal
of making every member a participant in the
Bond program.
WE URGE THAT the day of Sunday, November
25th; be designated as ISRAnk BOND DAY.
That this day be devoted to a solicitation of every
member of the Jewish organizations in Detroit and
that each organization pledge itself to enroll its -
maximum resources and manpower so that no one
member of that organization be omitted in this
solicitation.
AND, FINALLY, that we take as a guid-
.,
ing slogan—"EVERY MEMBER OF A. JEWISH OR-
GANIZATION A BOND HOLDER" and convert the
spirit of that slogan into visible assets in support of
the first Jewish State to exist upon this earth in
2,000 years.

ALL OF THE principal women's organizations
have adopted the Bond program as part of their ma-
jor activity and will begin their intensified mem-

bership coverage, Nov. 25. -
Hadassah, which leads women's groups in dollar
value of Bands sold, pledges a minimum goal of 500
new subscribers.
B'nai Brith women who pledge 750 new subscribers
by Dec. 31, will meet in November to augment Bond
committees to insure cocmplete coverage.
Pioneer Women, who lead in membership cov-
erage, will devote one whole meeting of each clapter
to Bond selling.

Mrs. LILLIAN GRAHM, Bond Chairman, ORT, for
Women's Division, Detroit Israel Bond Committee.

NEEDS IN ISRAEL have priority today over all
other needs. We have adopted this as our slogan ;

'Every Ben Brith an, Israel Bond holder." .
"On November 25, we will have an
all out concentrated Bond sales cam-
paign among B'nai Brith members.
Solicitors will go to homes of B'nai
Brith members and leave extra ap-
lications in order that all members
may become solicitors. Every member
on a Bond selling committee will
solicit ten members of his lodge." •

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—SAMUEL W. LEIB,
Bond Chairman,
Bnai Brith

AT THIS CONFERENCE _panel, the Landsman-
schaften have decided to organize themselves on a
permanent Bond selling basis. Each landsmanschaft
will have a permanent Bond committee. Each lands-

manschaft will put Bond sales as a major item at

every meeting. Landsmanschaften will also partici-
pate as an organized group on November 5 together
with the rest of the city in the all out solicitation of
members of Jewish organizations.

—LOUIS LEVINE, Panel Chairman
,for Landsmanschaften

THE ISRAEL BOND Drive is the
major project of our movement today
We have sold a total of 1106 Bonds in

the City of Detroit. We will not rest
in our efforts for the Bond drive until
every member of our organization is
a Bond holder and a worker for the
Bond- Drive. -
On November 25 we, together with
the rest of the city, will mobilize our
entire manpower to solicit among our
members for the sale of Bonds. We will begin the day
with a breakfast meeting assembling at the Labor
Zionist. Center.

—WILLIAM HORDES, No. I Bond
Salesman, for Labor Zionist
Organization

Z.O.D. WILL DOUBLE its Bond
committee. We will join the other •

organizations in soliciting our mem-
bers on Sunday, Nov. 25. We will do
our utmost to add 500 purchases of
Bands from among our memberships
to the present figure of 700 ZOD Bond
holders."

—MORRIS JACOBS, Bond
Chairman, for Zionist
Organization of Detroit

IT IS A PRIVILEGE to report for Mizrachi. and re-
ligious groups which have to date sold $700,600 in

Israel Bonds. By Dec. 31, we intend to have $1,000,000,
and that is double our original goal for 1951, which
some people said was impossible. We knew that if we
wanted to reach our goal, we had to do leg work
People had to be sold on the idea of the 'Bond.. We
had to explain to them its meaning to Israel's se-
curity.

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STOLLMAN, Bond Chairman,
for Mizrachi and religious groups •

Part of the overflow attendance at the Women's Division planning session. Speaking, Mrs. Ralph David-
son, panel chairman. At her right, Mrs. Joseph H. Ehrlich, discussion leader, who also presided at the
concluding general session of the Conferencce. More than 150 women Bond workers attended this panel.

Memorable Phrases
From the Israel,
Planning Conference

"The floating of these Bonds has created a revo-
lutionary situation in Zionism. It is a revolution as
profound as the emergence of the Jewish State in
our time. For the Bonds are the expression, the prac-
tical ,expression of the Jewish State. The new State
is in business and it is borrowing money to enlarge
the shop.
"Some of us are still ambivaletn about the
Bond. We are . the victims of our habits, even our
good habits. For years, we have been giving Zeda-
kah, charity, to build up the Yishuv, the struggling
settlement, and then to help the new State. We find
it hard to accept the fact that the state is appealing
for money on a businets basis, on its strength, not
its weakness.

Clearing up a point is Morris Jacobs, Z.O.D.
panel chairman. Also in the front row, Philip
Slomovitz, discussion leader; Eli Lightstone, Jules
Doneson, Z.O.D. executive director. Z.O.D.
pledged to double its Bond committee.

"These Bonds of Israel, are the safest invest-
ment in the world today. They are safer than A. T.
& T. Bonds, safer even than U. S. Bonds.'There -are
the buildings, the equipment, the production that
guarantee the investment. But on top of all that there
is the utter impossibility of the Jewish people default-
ing on its first Bond issue in modern history!
"Yet there are people who ask are these Bonds
safe? There are two kinds of naive people in the
world. There are some people who believe anything.
And there are some who don't trust anything. These
are the kind of people who ask are the Bonds safe.
The new State which was built with blood will not
welch on its obligations, it will not go into bank-
ruptcy for the sake of a miserable half billion dollars!

"We are confused, many of us, because there still
must be a UJA. Israel still needs, and will need for
many years to come, Zedakah, charity, to save
and feed the homeless. So we are giving money with
one hand and we are buying Bonds with the other,
and that is a, little confusing. We forget that in our
own rich, strong country, where billions of dollars are
invested in industrial bonds, billions are also raised
for charity. The proportion that goes for charity is
greater in Israel and that is what confuses us. But
the time will come in Israel when the proportions
between charity dollars and investment dollars will
be the same as in our own country.

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Mrs. Gertrude Levine, secretary of the Labor
Zionist Committee for Israel Bonds, takes notes
as Harry Schumer and Morris L. Schaver, com-
mittee co-chairmen, •and William Hordes, chair-
man of the Farband Division, • work out a sched-
ule for Bond solicitations. The Bond drive was
described as the number one project of the Labor
Zionist movement today.

"Think for a minute of the generation who
were better than we and more loyal than we but who
did not have the Zechuth, the privilege to see the
State of Israel in their time. Do you think we have
paid yet for the privilege?"
—MAURICE SAMUEL

"The Jewish problem will lie solved, as I see it,
when we can create the State of Israel on such a
sound and firm • foundation that it can open its arms
and take in the Jews from any state of the world in
any time of crisis. Israel can do it, the economists
have figured out, when she has 2,000,000 people, all
equipped with the latest technical devices.
"The Bonds .are not jest an investment in capital
equipment, but in lives, hopes, in the peace of hu-
manity for centuries to come."
' "This—Israel's future—is a problem for all free-
dom for all freedom-loving Americans, but it is a
problem of Jews particularly."

Leading the Bnai Brith Panel discussion ar
Samuel W. Leib, chairman, and Milton M. Wein
stein, discussion leader. • Every Ben Brith on
Bond selling committee will solicit ten membe
of his lodge.

—FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, JR.

"I had an unforgettable impression in Israel of
the golden rule in practice. Of the absolute rule of
selflessness, of compassion, of concern for ones fel-
low being, as I have seen it nowhere else.
"If Israel falls, God forbid, you fall, I fall. Israbl
is a show window in that crossroads of explosion, of
what democracy can mean."
—JOHN ROY CARLSON

"Investment is - the only radical cure for the
problems of Israel. Gifts are a palliative that can only
stop the pain but cannot cure."

—SHMUEL BENDOR, , Israel Consul-General

"Most of us have had this experience at some time
of having a good thing in hand, and looking for a
banker with enough confidence to back it. Israel
today is in this same position of sitting on a good
thing and Mocking for someone with enough faith to
help her develop it. That is why she is turning to the
friend who knows the character of the. borrower, to
the American Jewish community."
--(LARRY SLEEVE; National Campaign Director,
Israel Bonds

Zvi Tomkevich, executive director of Detro .
Mizrachi, drives home a point as Daniel Tem
chin, Religious Groups panel discussion lead
and David J. Cohen, chairman, show approva
Religious groups who have sold $700,000 in Agra
Bonds to date, count on $1,000,000 by Dec. 3
That is double their original goal for 1951.

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