Presidential Candidates Acclaim -Israel,
Greet. American Jewry on New Year 5713

The 'State of Our Community'

General Eisenhower's Greeting
NEW YORK, (JTA)—General Dwight Eisen-
hower; Republican presidential candidate, issued the
r , following Rosh Hashanah message to the Jews of the
_ a United States:
To Americans of Jewish faith I extend my warm-
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st greetings on the advent of the Jewish New Year
and High Holy Days.
Whatever our racial origins, the people of America
overseas, and, in doing so, we shall keep in are connected by many bridges. We Americans share
focus the needs of our own community and of one another's experiences of joy and celebration, of
the national agencies that perform such in-
distress and anxieties. At this season of the year come
valuable services. It is that focus, that balance,

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By ISIDORE SOBELOFF

Executive Director, Jewish Welfare Federation

It has always seemed especially appropriate
that we at the Jewish Welfare Federation should
issue a "state of the community" report in the
fall of the year. The
season that marks the
High Holiday period is
a beginning, too, for our
communal efforts.
Freshly returned from
vacation, volunteers and
staff workers begin in
the fall to plan and to
get underway the pro-
gra-n of the coming
year.

Annually, when we
review our work to-
gether as a community
group, we "note with
Sobeloff
pride" and "plan with
confidence." These sometimes tired phrases
have substantial meaning for us—at any time
of the year. Think, for example, of just a few
of our notes-with-pride as we look about us in
September, 1952.

Campaign Continues Excellent

The fund-raising backbone of all of our
major community services is, of course, our one
big central drive, the Allied Jewish Campaign.
This year, again, 28,000 good citizens invested
in the Campaign causes—and in the essentials
of Jewish community life—to a total of $4,400,-
000. Four thousand men, women and young
adults joined actively as workers in the many
divisions of the Campaign organization, toward
the single end of supporting the varied and far-
flung services included in the Allied Jewish Cam-
paign.
But I often feel, as I meet during the. Cam-
paign with representatives of every group in our
community, that this united effort finally ac-
complishes something even more important
than the gathering of financial resources. The
Campaign is our one time during the year when
all of us, without regard to the causes that in-
terest us especially and without regard to politi-
cal position or shade of religious belief, can join
with our neighbors in support of all of the
causes that concern us as a group. We together
observe our New Year in the fall; in the spring
we unite in the Allied Jewish Campaign to re-
affirm the social and cultural bonds that join
us to the rest of our people.

`Total' Community Is Key
The generosity of Detroit Jews is the most
obvious way in which we show our understand-
ing of the "totality" of our community. It is our
basic way of supporting every agency and serv-
ice that deserves our support, giving each full
consideration, no matter what the size of the
eventual allocation. Since the end of World War
II, the Jewish people of Detroit and of every
American community have thrown the utmost of
their resources into meeting the emergency
needs of the European Jewish survivors, the new
immigrants to Israel and the victims of Arab re-
prisals against Jews in the Moslem countries.
Even during those years we continued to main-
tain our local services and to meet our obliga-
tions to the national agencies in the Campaign.
Now we have reached a period when, while the
needs of the Jews in Israel continue stringent,
we can see that the task ahead of us is a long-
term one, requiring our cooperation with the
people of Israel to accomplish the arduous work
of housing, educating and adjusting the hun-
dreds of thousands who came to the Jewish State
with no assets but their own. skills and will to
live.
In recent months, still devoting the bulk of
our community funds to the gigantic overseas
work, we have been able to turn our attention
again to expansion, adjustment and strengthening
of the services here in Detroit that make this a
good place to live for ourselves and our families.
We shall always—happily and thankfully--ex-
tend friendly and generous aid to our people

that indivisible responsibility that add up to the
"total" community—the key to all we accom-
plish together.

Establishing An Orderly Approach

With the changes in Jewish circumstances
that permit us to think seriously of capital
needs in our local community, a new subsidiary
of Federation has been formed, the Committee
on Capital Needs. The Committee was ap-
pointed by Federation's president, Samuel H.
Rubiner, to develop an orderly approach to the
question of local capital needs. Very soon we
will be dedicating the fruits of the Committee's
first term of service, in the newly-constructed
camp village at Tamarack, near Ortonville,
Michigan. This is a major expansion of com-
munity camping facilities for children, and is a
fitting anniversary remembrance in the year that
the Fresh Air Society is celebrating fifty years
of camping activities.

We Come 'Home'

The eventful twelve months just past saw
one of the most -moving events in our history—
an outpouring of affection, reminiscence and
tribute—as the central Jewish agency of our
community and some of its member agencies
were settled into Federation's home, the Fred M.
Butzel Memorial Building. Purchased by mem-
bers of the Fred M. Butzel Memorial Associa-
tion, the building serves as the hub of Detroit
Jewish philanthropic, social planning and fund-
raising activities, a symbolic reflection of the
varied interests of the man in whose memory it

stands.

Sinai Hospital Nears Completion

This past winter saw the laying of the cor-
nerstone for Sinai Hospital, and this next winter
will see the admission of the first patient to
Detroit's Jewish hospital. Now that the build-
ing is among us, a beautiful institution both
physically and in potential service, its acquisi-
tion seems natural in the course of our history.
But those who worked conscientiously toward
its construction will recall how many years of
devotion and zeal went into the hospital's cause.
And, yet, with all of the great work of these
years, the Jewish hospital could not have be-
come reality until the whole community,
through the Greater Detroit Hospital Fund, the
special campaigns of the Jewish Hospital Asso-
ciation and the Allied Jewish Campaign, took
the hospital to its heart, as one of the major
concerns of all of the Jewish people of Detroit.

Plans In Other Fields

If you name a field of service, whether care
of the aged, child welfare, aid to new Ameri-
cans, Jewish education, recreation or any of the-
myriad other phases of Jewish life, we can
name a corresponding achievement or plan mak-
ing for vitality and progress. At the Jewish
Home for Aged, there is need for additional
bed space for the chronically ill-aged. The for-
mer Jewish Children's Home, now an annex of
the. Home for Aged, has been converted into an
excellent center for medical care for old people
unable to participate in the communal life of
the well residents. Additional facilities for the
ill-aged are planned, with medical services to be
worked out in cooperation with Sinai Hospital.
The Jewish Community Center, responding to
shifts in Jewish population, is now in the pro-
cess of extending its program northwest. With
the help of the United Jewish Charities, a site
has been acquired in the vicinity of Seven Mile
Road and Greenfield ...
The details of planning and building add up
to a picture far greater than the sum of its parts,
a community picture which includes the interest
and generosity of nearly every adult Jewish resi-
dent of Detroit, the faith and devotion of thou-
sands of volunteer workers, the skill and loyalty
of trained professional staffs—in short, a pic-
ture of a good community. Whatever the imme-
diate area of concern, at home or abroad, where-
ever our services go, we can have confidence in
the unity and strength of our efforts because we
have all those elements of the good community.

the solemn and meaningful days of the Jew-
ish calendar which bear a message of rez.
pentance and atonement for all mankind.
May that spiritual renewal and resolution
for the achievement of good permeate the
hearts of all people.
With my greetings, I wish to express
the good will which I hold—and have always
held—for the spiritual descendants of Ab-
Ike
raham. Whatever there be of miracle in
human history is manifested in the majestic story of Jewigh
survival through the unhappy ages of the ancient and medi-
eval and recent past. That miraculous story is a source of
strength and inspiration to all mankind.
Here in America we have watched the establishment
and the development of the modern State of Israel. This. too,
is part of the miraculous history of the Jewish people. I
look forward confidently to the progress of democracy in
Israel, to the stabilization of her economy, and her growing
contributions to the free world. I devoutly hope that there
will develop a sound and lasting friendship, particularly be-
tween her and the nations of that region—to the end that
all may profit out of close trade, cultural and displomatic re-
lations. I have looked, and shall continue to look, with a sym-
pathy to the efforts of the State of Israel to achieve ob-
jectives vital to world peace and important to the future
and destiny of the oppressed of the Jewish people.
There is growing an ever firmer friendship between
America and Israel. It will be an enduring friendship based
upon a common role and a mutual concern in the troubled
world of our day. Basic to this friendship are the aspirations
we share in common with all freedom-loving people, a devo-
tion to freedom, not as a negative or static thing, but as a
dynamic force for the betterment of mankind.
There is no easy road to universal security. Along with
our enormous material effort, we shall need the hopes and
Prayers of all, as we seek to meet the challenges of these
days. I share your prayer that, when the new year 5713 of
the Jewish calendar will have completed its days, mankind
will be well along the- road to world understanding and se-
cure peace; that the forces of bigotry and intolerance both
here and at home and elsewhere in the world will be re-
pelled; that men of all creeds and races will join forces and
move forward in a spirit of brotherhood. I send to all my
fellow citizens of the Jewish faith my sincere good wishes
for the new year.

Governor Stevenson's Greeting

SPRINGFIELD, Ill., (JTA)—Governor Adlai Steven-
son, Democratic Presidential candidate, issued the following
Rosh Hashanah message to the Jews of the United States:
"I am grateful for the opportunity to join with peoples
of the Jewish faith throughout the world in observing the
start of a New Year, the 5713th in the reckoning of the
proud history of a great people.
In the recorded histories of western
peoples, none is longer than that of the Jew-
ish people. In none is there more deeply
rooted the fundamental tenets of western
civilization.
In many ways, this history has found its
greatest fruition in the ancient homeland of
Jewish history. For on this beginning of a
New Year, -the eyes of many Americans of
Jewish faith are turned toward the Nation
of Israel. They may be justly proud, both as
citizens of a Democracy and as members of a Great Faith,
to see in that homeland an infant nation, struggling through
its first breaths of independence, and growing stronger daily.
Democracy and freedom are enshrined there. Faith in jus-
tice, in human dignity and in government under law are
warmly held there. Above all, a haven for the oppressed
and persecuted from many lands is afforded there. Nowhere
in the world are more generous arms extended to those seek-
ing refuge from tribulation. Free peoples the world over
should heed and follow the example of selflessness which the
Nation of Israel holds up to them. They should aid and
strengthen this Nation just as it is aiding those who come to

it for help.
Here in America we should pay tribute to the spirit
which Israel represents not merely by words but by deeds
by strengthening our Democracy; by waging an unceasing
battle against discrimination and bigotry; by preserving
freedom of thought, freedom of association and freedom to
worship as each man pleases.
On this Jewish holiday, a traditional occasion for evalu-
ation of the past and dedication to the future, I am proud
to join with all peoples of the Jewish Faith in rejoicing
with them in the common brotherhood of free peoples.
10 — THE JEWISH NEWS
Friday, September 19, 1952

