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. - 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." - 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." NAPE AND BOTTLED B1 ""GAN ,,rt P t* " BONDED WINERT IM' • 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. 111 "N %VINERIES. DETROIT. 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. YOUR SAVINGS 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." at AMERICAN 0 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.' 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