ference

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All ecords Are Broken for
Initial Giving to Major Fund

By Special Correspondent of don Eastern Europe's 2,500,000
. Jews."
The Jewish News
Be added that "the Hitler
MIAMI BEACH, Fla.—Amerl period taught us that lives can
can Jewry was electrified Sun- be saved even in the face of
day by the response to the catastrophe, provided we fur-
United Jewish Appeal's emer- nish the means for doing so."
gency calk, or help to meet the
"Today, fifteen years .after
crisis stemming from continued the founding of the United
Soviet assaults on the Jews of Jewish Appeal and eight years
Eastern Europe and on the after the end of World War II,"
State of Israel, when top Jewish he declared, "it is tragic to
leaders from 125 cities set a new think that Jews are again the
high for support of the UJA as victims of tyranny."
they launched the Appeal's 1953
He hailed the outpouring of
nationwide campaign with a contributions and lauded the
record outpouring of gifts total- conferees for their "resolve to
make this year's campaign of
ling $14,150,000.
'This unprecedented result was the United Jewish Appeal the
marked by numerous contribu- great life saving campaign it
tions representing increases of must and shall become."
He urged communities "in
25 percent to 100 percent over
gifts made by the same persons every state of the union to
speed both the raising of funds
One year ago.
Edward M. M. Warburg, UJA and the flow of these funds to
general chairman, termed Sun- the UJA," asserting that "every
day's action "a forerunner of dollar raised at this moment
what American Jews will do will help to strengthen our life-
this year in rallying behind mil- lines of aid."
lions of innocent men, women
and children in Eastern Europe Federation Slates
and in Israel who have become
targets of heartless and tyran- In-Service Institute
nical forces."
. The conference, whose ac-
The fourth annual In-Service
tions signalled the opening of Training Institute for staff
United Jewish Appeal Cam- members of the Jewish Welfare
paign activity in more than Federation agencies will be made
5,000 communities throughout up of a series of three sessions
the country, also voted adop- to be held in the main lounge
tion of a main resolution call-
of the Jewish Home for Aged.
ing on "free men everywhere"
The subject of the first session
to support Israel for its "cour- at 8 p.m., Thursday, is "The At-
,geous attitude in the face of titude of the Community to So-
totalitarian pressure."
cial Work in General, and Jew-
The resolution, presented by ish Social Work in Particular."
UJA national chairman Joseph Dr. Norman Polansky of Wayne
Holtzman of Detroit, "reaf- University will be the speaker,
firms the determination of the and Harold Silver, executive di-
United Jewish Appeal to co- rector of the Jewish Social
operate with Israel in provid- Service Bureau, will lead the dis-
ing a haven of refuge to those cussion.
"Current trends in Jewish So-
Jews who succeed in escaping
from the countries of Eastern cial Services" will be presented
Europe" and renews the UJA's by Harry L. Lurie, at the March
5 session. Lurie is executive di-
pledge "to help Israel consoli-
rector, Council of Jewish Feder-
date its democracy and free-
ation and Welfare Funds, New
dom,"
In daring "to offer refuge to York,
Albert Elazar, associate super-
Jews seeking to lea,Ve Eastern intendent of the United Hebrew
Europe" and in thus defying the Schools, will discuss "The De-
Soviet and satellite governments, velopment and Current Trends
the resolution declares, Israel
the Field of Jewish Educa-
has become "the latest victim of in
tion" at the March 12 meeting.
Soviet calumny."
Harold Weiss, assistant direc-
"This National Inaugural Con- tor of the Jewish Community
ference of the United. Jewish Center is chairman of the Insti-
Appeal," the resolution states, tute, and Ben M. Mandelkorn,
"'records with pride the digni- Federation administrative as-
fied stand of the democratic sistant, is secretray. Miss Selma
State of Israel in the face of Lesser, counsellor at the Jew-
Stiviet attacks and vituperation." ish Vocational Service and Mary
The resolution earried with Gerstein, of the Jewish Social
it a proviso that it be for- Service Bureau, are co-chairmen
warded . to President' Eisen- of the planning committee.

hower and to Secretary of
State John Fbster Dulles.

Sunday's opening of the Ap-
peal's 15th consecutive nation-
wide drive focused attention on
the UJA's 1953 need for $144,524,-
250 to finance the urgent rescue,
settlement, welfare and rehabil-
itation programs of its three
constituent agencies—the Joint
Distribution Committee, which
provides relief and rehabilitation
assistance to needy Jews over-
seas, including escapees from
Iron Curtain . countries. and
which has been the target of
recent attacks by Communist
governments; the United Israel
Appeal, which uses UJA funds
for settlement and development
programs in the new state; and
the United Service for' New
Americans, which makes possible
the adjustment of refugees who
come to the United States.
Mr. Warburg characteriZed the
Soviet drive against Jews as "an
emergency which in many ter-
rible ways resembles the Hitler
one."
Dr. Joseph 3. Schwartz, ex-
ecutive vice-chairman of the
UJA and director-general on-
leave of the Joint Distribution
Committee, decia.,red in another
major address that "the Jews
61 the free work/, will not .alp ,n-

is Et drify U. S. Je ry

Mrs. Bargain to Head
Social Service Bureau

Mrs. THEODORE BARGMAN,
at a recent meeting of the board
of the Jewish Social Service
Bureau, was elected president of
the organization. Others direct-
ing the work of the Bureau, an
affiliate of the Jewish Welfare
Federation and a recipient of
Torch Drive funds,, will be Dr.
Myer Teitelbaum, vice-presi-
dent; A. Joseph Seltzer, treas-
urer; and M. Samuel J. Green-
berg and Benjamin E. Jaffe,
executive committee members.

Ben-Ami Troupe Here
Under Farband Auspices

Jacob Ben-Ami, world re-
nowned Yiddish actor, will bring

his company to Detroit for a
performance on March 1, at
Central High School.
In the east are Berta Ger-
sten, Nachum. Nardi and Al Har-
ris. The company has been
touring the country, offering a
program of song, comedy and
drama in Yiddish, English and
Hebrew, which critics have ac-
claimed.
Ben-Ami's tour has been ar-
ranged by Farband, Labor Zion-
ist organization in conjunction
with the celebration of Far-
band's 40th anniversary in the
U. S. Tickets are available at
the LZOA Institute, 13722 Lin-
wood.

Zionist Organization
To Hold Shetzer Tribute

The annual Shetzer Evening,
instituted in tribute to the
memory of Simon Shetzer, will
be held at the Zionist House,
Linwood at Lawrence, at 8:30
p.m., March 2.
This year's program will be
highlighted by an address by
Rabbi Morris Adler' on "At-
taining Jewish Maturity."

1953's Professional Campaigners

Leaders of the professional division of the 1953 Allied Jewish
Campaign met recently to discuss their .plans for their part in the
drive. Aiding in outlining a procedure for each of the 13 sections of
the division are members of the lawyers' group (standing, left to
right) : Milton M. Maddin, associate chairman of Trades and
Professions; Dr. Norman Naimark, division oo-chairman; Rabbi
Moses Lehrman, chairman of religious services; (seated)' Sidney
a, Karbel, co-Chairman of the attorneys', section; judge William
Friedman, professional division pre•campaign chairman; and Mark
Birtikrant, co•chairman of the attorneys' section,

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IJetroiters Muster Strong Support
At Miami Beach AJC Prelude

(Continued from Page 1)
While the Detroit workers carried on their solicitation efforts
in Miami Beach, Abe Kasle and Isidore Sobeloff conferred in
Palm Beach with Mr. and Mrs. Henry Wineman and others in
that area, including Mr. and Mrs. Harry Jones. Louis Davidson
helped enlist aid for the drive at Boca Raton.
Joseph Holtzman, a national UJA chairman, joined Edward
M. M. Warburg, national UJA chairman, and six other national
UJA campaign leaders in a statement terming Soviet Russia's
action in breaking diplomatic relations with Israel "another
move by the Kremlin to further isolate the Jews of Eastern
Europe from their fellow-Jews in the outside world."
Setting the pace for the 1953 United Jewish Appeal, 19
members of the national UJA Cabinet—including Abe Kasle,
Joseph Holtzman and Louis Berry—met in advance of the UJA
conference here Sunday and voted unanimously to increase
their personal gifts, "in light of the present serious emergency
that confronts more than 2,500,000 Jews in Soviet-dominated
Eastern Europe."
Mrs. John C. Hopp, national UJA women's division vice-
chairman, president of the Detroit Jewish Welfare Federation
Women's Division, came here to confer with the Miami UJA
committee and to help in the work of the Detroit Women's Divi-
sion by consulting Detroit women leaders—Mesdames Harry
Becker, Abe Kasle, Philip Lipson, Joseph Holtzman, Harvey Gold-
man, Charles Grosberg, Seymour Frank and others. Detroit
Women's Division workers have begun to plan two major cam-
paign events — a meeting in March with Herman Wouk, author
of "The Caine Mutiny," as guest, -and a rally in April with Helen
Hayes as guest.

Local Engineer Clarifies Record
In Israel's Dead Sea Development

In response. to an Historiette
which appeared in The Jewish
News on Jan. 30—"Dr. Lowder-
milk's Antec.edents"—Dr. Eng.
Naftula Fajner, a civil and hy-
draulic engineer, with offices at
17710 Brush, writes that there
were several antecedents in the
matter of Dead Sea development
besides M. Imbeaux, to whom
the historiette was devoted.
His interesting observations
are contained in the following
discourse, which is printed with
only minor deletions because of
this project's immense signifi-
cance to Israel today:
"In a rather extensive study
which I made in the 1930's in
Italy, I wrote an article under
the title "Early Projects for the
Development of the Dead Sea
Depression," but was prevented
by political conditions then pre-
vailing in that country from
publishing it.
"While this study discussed,
of necessity, the various po-
tentialities of Palestinian
economy in relation to the
physical characteristics and
natural resources of the land,
its importance for us here is
that it points out that M. Im-
beaux, like Dr. Lowdermilk,
had several predetessors.
"The very first technician to hit
upon the idea of pouring Medi-
terranean waters into the Dead
Sea by utilizing the great dif-
ference in level of nearly 1,300
feet was the French engineer
Paul Simon of Lyon whose ideas
were printed in French periodi-
cals in 1903.
"Later M. Simon revised his
project in cooperation with
Francois Mange of Paris who re-
ported it at a meeting of the
Societe des Ingenieurs Civils de
France on Oct. 7, 1927.
"It proposes direct diversion of
waters froth the Mediterranean
into the Dead Sea by means of a
fairly straight canal 46.6 miles
long, which after 9.32 miles in
the open, would tunnel through
the mountains of Judea to the
valleys of the western shore of
the Dead Sea. Here a forebay
would be built from which pen-
stocks -would carry the waters
down to feed' turbines of a Pow-
erhouse directly below.

"The electrical power 'thus
produced would raise the wa-
ters of • the Jordan and the
Lake of Tiberias for irrigation
purposes in the Jordan Valley
itself and ; in other areas by

who got his inspiration from.
reading in the Bible the pro-
phetic visions of Ezekiel 47:1-12
and Zechariah 14:4-8. Proposed
in 1920, it requires a tunnel 37.3
miles long, passing under Jeru-
salem, and a powerhouse for
100,000 horsepower. Part of the
power output, transported bY
high voltage to the Lake of Ti-
berias, would distribute water in
this depressed lake to the sur-
rounding country and eventually
be used for irrigation purposes
to the Plain of Sharon in the
coastal region by means • of
canals.
"The plan forsees the installa-
tion of saltpits for the evapora-
tion of Mediterranean waters,
the exploitation of the vast
chemical resources of the Dead
Sea and the asphalt deposits of
Sodom and Gomorrah. Because
the waters would be less salty, the
Dead Sea would become suitable
for the breeding tif certain
kinds of fishes, as prophesied by
Ezekiel. Also, as in the project
advanced by Messrs. Simon and
Mange, the increased evapora-
tion would serve as a brake
against a rise of the level of the
Dead Sea.
"Next to follow was the proj-
ect of French engineer Edouard
Imbeaux, presented at the June
16, 1925 session of the Academy
of Sciences. Though it centers
about the basic idea of the other
projects, it differs widely in con-
ception and is more comprehen-
sive.
"With Haifa as a starting
point instead of Jaffa, it elim-

inates extensive tunneling,.
utilizes natural valleys and
ridges, provides for a navi-
gable inland canal and seeks
to transform the Lake of Ti-
berias into a flood-controlling.
reservoir by • damming the Jor-
dan and its tributaries . .
. • . Most curiously, a lay-

man, Dr. Theodor Herzl—him-
self a jurist, author and-journal-
ist—pointed out that very same
idea (utilizing the difference in
levels) , even though presenting
it in a far from technical view-
point, in his elassiCal apotheosis
Of Jewish longing "Altneuland,'
completed on April 30, 1902.
"This idea, - then,- was wel'
known in European engineerina
circles in the prewar years
Hence, this idea of Dr. Lowder
milk's created more of a 'sensa
tion with the laymen in Ameri
ca and elsewhere than with ti
well-informed • engineer.. Timi) .
was perhaps the greatest_ virt
of his idea, coming closer to tit.„
time of the Israeli State with
much greater chances of fruition
or British
than under
rule.
. .
"All this is to set the record,

operating groups of pumps,
while the remaining power
would serve for illuminating
current and for motive power
in induatrial and mining en-
terprises, and could be export-
ed to the, Suez Canal area in
Lower Egypt, with an average
distance close to 300 miles.
".Another project was that of so to speak, historically and

the • Norwegia.o. • engineer- Hiortb. crkixonologically.• straight"

