Revolutionary Public Health Project
Launched by Hadassah; Convention
Hears Success of Novel Experiment
By BERNARD ZAMICHOW
trained social worker and one
A unique medical experiment health educator assigned to take
In Israel which is expected to
revolutionize public health med-
icine through the world was in-
, troduced here at the annual
convention of Hadassah, which
opened last Sunday night.
Speaking at the public session
at the Masonic Temple Monday
night, Dr. Kalman J. Mann,
fifth-generation Israeli who for-
merly held a key poSt with the
British Health Ministry and who
for the past year directed the
Hadassah Medical Organization
in Israel, brought the new corn-
munity health plan, to be started
in Israel on Dec. 1, before the
delegates.
The plan, Dr. Mann explain-
ed, will provide, free of charge,
eomprehensive, diagnostic and
curative physical and mental
health services for entire com-
munities, with special emphas-
is on the family as a unit.
Included in the program will
be the dissemination of latest
information about health and
sanitation, the breaking down
of cultural or environmental
taboos interfering with sound
physical or emotional health,
adequate recreation facilities
for children and adults, vac-
cinations and immunization,
treatment of existing physical
ailments including dental and
eye care, and the treatment of
emotional tensions within the
family group.
Dr. Mann reported that the
pilot experiment will be conduct-
ed in a village named Bet Maz-
mil, hear Jerusalem, with a pop-
ulation of 5,000 persons, none of
whom has been in Israel more
than two years. This new village
was selected, the chief medical
officers of . the Hadassah ex-
plained, because its population
is "physically settled but psycho-
logically susceptible to change."
The population will be broken
down into units of 250 families;
with a team of one physician,
two nurses, one psychiatrically-
care of the needs of each unit.
In addition, each medical team
ill be supplemented by 12
senior-year medical students
who will receive valuable in-the-
field public health training.
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she reported, "I was dazzled by
its stupendous development as
we journeyed to and from the
schools for the blind a,nd the
deaf. My fingers tingled as I
touched the fertility and beauty
which the hands of the people
are restoring, to the land. The
buoyant faith' of the laborers on
roads and irrigation projects,
the gigantic undertakings' of
Hadassah thrilled me with a
unique greatness of perform-
ance."
Pleading for continuance of
Hadassah's preventive programs,
Miss Keller said: "The only way
to overcome blindness or deaf-
ness is for both groups to be well
educated and well equipped for
a useful life. Blindness bars
every common way to self help
and independence. Almost every
industry, the very machinery of
society is built on the principle
that everyone can zee. That is
why special effort is needed to
supply adequate means of edu-
cation and self-support for the
blind."
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Mrs. Siegfried Kramarsky, of
New York, national treasurer,
reported to the convention
that Hadassah had raised a
total of $9,760,000 last year, an
increase of $100,000 over the
previous year, for its programs
of , health, social welfare, voca-
tional education, Youth Aliyah
(Immigration), Youth Activi-
ties and land redemption in
Israel.
The German-Israel repara-
tions agreement "represents a
milestone in the history of re-
lationships between states,"
Mrs. Moses P. Epstein, of New
York, told . the delegates. She
declared that the reparations
pact was "more important
than the Nuremberg trials
since this is the first time the
guilty party has acknowledged
his, guilt by making voluntary
reparations to the victim."
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Former Congresswoman Helen
Gahagan Douglas and Maurice
Samuel were the principal
speakers at the convention ban-
quet Wedensday night.
Miss Helen Keller, world-
For an Arab Jewish Peace
famous blind educator and
Jonathan B. Bingham, assis-
lecturer, who returned re-
tant director of the Technical
cently from a visit to Israel,
Cooperation Administration
called upon Hadassah to con-
tinue and increase its activi- which charts America's Point 4
program of aid to undeveloped
ties in that country for the
areas, in one of the principal
prevention of blindness and
addresses at the opening con-
deafness. She was accompan-
vention session Sunday night at
ied by her lifelong friend and
the Masonic Temple, declared
secretary, Miss Polly Thomp-
that "enormous benefits" would
son.
accrue from the early establish-
"On my recent visit to Israel," ment of an Arab 7 Jewish peace.
During the year, she said,
Hadassah had received a total
of $168,421 in wills and bequests.
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Israel was approved by the
convention as the goal for
1953.
She said, however, that Ger-
man payments to Israel would be
spread over many years, and
warned the American Jewish
community not to be lulled "into
thinking that Israel's present
difficult financial situation
would be eased by the Bonn-
Jerusalem 'agreement." American
Jews, she added, would have to
continue their financial aid until
Israel achieves economic self-
sufficiency.
Mrs. .Benjamin Meiselman, of
New York, chairman of the or-
ganization's Tourism Depart-
ment, reported intensified plans
to promote tourism to Israel
and announced that Hadassah
sponsored tours to the Jewish
state would leave this country
on April 10 and July 1, 1953.
She said that each of Hadas-
sah's 1,185 chapters had ap-
pointed Tourist chairmen to en-
courage Americans to visit the
Jewish state.
More than $100,000 in valuable
supplies were contributed and
sent to Israel by Hadassah mem-
bers last year, Mrs. Robert Szold
reported.
Mrs. Samuel J. Rosensohn was
re-elected president of Hadassah
at Wedensday's concluding ses-
sion.
A minimal need of $9,000,-
000 for all Hadassah needs in
which I saw in Israel six months
before. The abundant harvests,
the uninterrupted expansion of
the cultivated area, the consoli-
dation of industrial enterprises,
the commencement of serious
mining operations, the beneficial
facts of technical assistance
programs, anci. more recently, the
successf ul negotiations of the
Israel-German reparations
agreement are all s,en as por-
tents of victory in the struggle
for economic stability:"
Detroiters who participated
in the opening session included
Mrs. Joseph H. Ehrlich, who
gave the invocation; Mrs. Har-
ry Jones, local convention -ar-
rangements committee chair-
man, who greeted the gather-
ing; Mrs. Morris Schaver, who,
accompanied by Mrs. Morris
Stein, led in the singing of
the National Anthems.
More than 1,500.000 Americar(s
will vote and vote intelligently"
on Election Day because of the
intensive pre-election education-
al campaign conducted by the
American Affairs 'Department of
Hadassah, the Women's Zionist
Organization of America, it was
reported by Mrs. Bertha Hamer-
man, of New York, American
Affairs Chairman of the nation-
al organization.
The establishment of 39
new- chapters, bringing to 1,-
185 the number of existing Ha-
dassah chapters and groups
with a total membership ex-
ceeding 300,000, was reported
by Mrs. Elliot F. Glassberg,
membership chairman.
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Describing his recent tour of Isa-
rael, Mr. Bingham asserted that
the establishment of normal
trade relations between Israel
and her neighbors would bene-
fit the Arab peoples and would
considerably shorten the time
necessary for Israel to achieve
economic independence.
The State Department aide
said, "the major role must be
played by the Israelis them-
selves through a realistic apprai-
sal of the nature of those prob-
lems and • of what Israel's re-
sources are for their solution."
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He added that 7i ,:,rael has
made "considerabl - progress
along these lines thivugh the
adoption of busineSs- like pro-
cedures in the budgeting of in-
come and expenditures" but
warned that "the road ahead
will be a long and hard one"
without an Arab-Jewish peace.
Abba S.' Eban, Israel Ambas-
sador to the United States and
his country's chief delegate to
the United • Nations, declared
that "an Arab nationalism which
broods over an impossible dream
of strangling Israel will justly
fail to make progress in Africa
or Asia,"
Contrasting his visit to Israel
earlier this month with a simi-
lar . trip six months ago, Mr.
Eban reported: "There is a sharp'
rise of public confidence today
in comparison' with the situation
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