10--THE JEWISH NEWS Fi iday, November 16, 1951 C NFE fS KATE SELVES TO BO D S LES /4 Organizations Resolve :O• Bond-Selling Push . 1:10•44 4 :1f:, '• 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." • 6 —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. • 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. iii 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. %.