THE JEWISH NEWS

Junior Division Seeks 100% Coverage
Of Pledges in Weekend Campaign

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Friday, May 16, 1952

liodern Design in Furniture

Her 14 Grandchildren

Clip Israel Bonds

With 92% of last year's money in and a total of $42,500 in
pledges, some 50 leaders in the Junior Division met Wednesday
with Abe Kasle, chairman of the 1952 Allied Jewish Campaign
to discuss the week-end drive to cover the remaining 30% of the
slips needed for the complete coverage. Workers on one of the
top teams in Area C of the Junior Division got off to a good
start early in the Allied Jewish Campaign when they met with
Julien Priver, right, director of Sinai Hospital of Detroit. Among
those who are now completing coverage of their slips are (left
to right) LESTER BECHER, BEATRICE FINK, NORMA GOR-
MAN and captain SHERMAN BECHER.

Mrs. Esther Veta has prob-
ably bought more Israel
bonds for more grandchil-
dren than any other woman
in the country. She chalked
up the record at dinner in
Cheyenne, Wyo. Not a well
woman, Mrs.. Vela was wheel-
ed into the dinner by a nurse.
Having 14 grandchildren,
Mrs. Veta has now bought a
$500 bond for each of them,
as well as for each of her
eight children, for a total of
$11,000.

Expulsion of Jews
From Sov iet Positions
1.4 Reported Growing

LONDON, (JTA)--The extent
to which Jews have been purged
from the Soviet hierarchy was
described by the London Jewish
Observer which reported that
there were no Jews in the party
leadership with the exception of
Lazar Kaganovitch .
No Jews remain as members of
the various party control com-
missions. the paper reported. nor
are there any in the praesidium
of the Supreme Soviet. Only two
or three Jews remain among the
130 members of the Supreme
Court of the R.S.F.S.R. There are
no Jews in the Foreign Office or
diplomatic service nor do Jews
hold responsible posts either in
Moscow or abroad. There no
longer are any Jews among the
When these Junior Division workers met with George M.
Marshals and generals of the
Stutz (seated) counselor, for the trades and professions, they
Red Army and there are only
decided they were going to set the pace in Area A. Doing just
about a dozen Jews among the
that are (left to right) BEATRICE BACHRACH. JULES GOT-
thousand-odd technical minis-
LIEB and ROSLYN PERNICK.
ters and deputies.
"Although Soviet Jewry does
Cross-section, U.S. A.
not enjoy the same measure of
freedom as the Russians, its
situation at present is certainly
not intolerable." the newspaper
commented. "If there is any
United Nations that a far-reach-1 question about the position of
By ALLEN LESSER
ing drug ring based in Com- the Jews in the Communist re-
An American Jewish Press Featvre
There were tears in the eyes munist China is pushing the il- gime, it concerns, their future
of the matronly Jewish woman legal traffic.
much more than their present
who was talking to the police
Medical consultant of District ; situations."
officer at the precinct station. Attorney Hogan's office and of
Her hands were clenched but her the Bureau is Dr. Perry Lichten-
Paul Zousmer had this clever
voice was firm as she asked him stein. who personally examines bit of advice for public speakers
to arrest her son because he was every case of narcotics addiction —"A good speech has a good
a dope addict. He was 21. she brought to the Bureau and de- beginning, and a good ending—
said, a musician with a good job cides what has to be done. Es- both of which are kept close to-
in a popular dance band. Then tablished in 1941 with the finan- gether."
he had met a girl, a nice Jewish cial assistance of the Jewish
girl from a good family. Who Board of Guardians. the Cath-
would suspect that the girl used olic Charities of the Archdiocese
drugs and would soon persuade of New York and the Community
Service Society. the Youth Coun-
her boy to use them too?
The sordid details of the sel Bureau is now supported by
young musician's downfall came the city and its scope enlarged
out in a swift rush. He married to include all the counties of the
the girl secretly, and soon his city.
money was gone. He also began
The most rapidly growing cat-
to work less regularly, borrowing egory among adolescent drug
more and more money from his users is in the 16-year-old group,
mother. Finally, she began to the files of the Bureau indicate.
miss things from her home. little and the ratio of boys to girls is
pieces of jewelry, an odd piece about 10 to 1. Out of 100 cases
•f silver. The boy's mother in the Bureau's files. 90 per cent
wanted the police to help before took their first step in the use
he was lost forever.
of drugs through curiosity and
This is a true story. verified the desire for a thrill. . The drug
by this column.
was usually provided at first by
It may be difficult for Jews to a friend or a drug peddler, some-
believe that their children — times in the vicinity of the
along with other teen-agers — school the boy attended. Also
are falling prey to the disease of in recent cases the tendency has
narcotic addiction in ever-in-:. been for youths to go directly
creasing numbers, but the facts into heroin, either through snif-
uncovered by our investigation fing or injection. rather than
tell a story which cannot be de- through smoking marijuana.
viled.
Mr. Heimlich pointed out that
To get the official picture of once the drug user is "hooked,"
the prevalence of dope addiction it is impossible for him to stop
among adolescents in New York or break the habit without prop-
City, we went to see Philip er medical assistance. Very
Heimlich, director of the Youth few hospitals will take the addict
Counsel Bureau, which operates for treatment; the best hospital
in cooperation with the District for such cases is the U.S. Public
Attorney's office. The statistics
Service Hospital in Lex-
he showed us were frightening. Health
ington, Kentucky.
of the 16 to 19 age group who
It is especially important for
were arrested in 1947 — and
therefore came to the attention parents to go to the police or
isf the Youth Counsel Bureau- their doctor at once if they dis-
32 were drug cases; in 1948, the cover that their child uses drugs,
number jumped to 69; in 1949 Mr. Heimlich said.
Because they always need
there were 89; in 1950 the num-
ber shot up to 331; and last year money for drugs, addicts are
drug cases reached the stagger- driven to crime, Mr. Heimlich
observed.
ing total of 531.
It is definitely a new situation,
Irving Jaffee, one-time Olym-
and according to recent press
dispatches, foreign Communists pic Speed Skating champidn, was
may be the prime instigators. voted the best guest on The
CommiSsioner Harry Anslinger, Sheriff Bob Dixon TV Show by
S3E
'of the United States Narcotics the Dumont Survey, covering
Bureau, has charged in the guests for the past six months.

Continuing a tradition they set in past campaigns, workers
in the furniture section have organized themselves enthusi-
astically for the Allied Jewish Campaign. Outstanding workers
in this group include from left, OSCAR KAHAN, LOUIS TAB-
ASHNIK, associate chairman of the mercantile division, ALEX
SKLAR, section chairman; standing, NATE GOLDMAN and
HARVEY VEHON.

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