usiness Men's Group City of Hope Set 100,000 Goal Its Your City of Hope This free non-sectarian Medical Center, at Duarte, California, under Jewish auspices is your City of Hope. It's your City of Hope whether you are one mile or three thousand miles away from this Haven of Humanitarian research. There are many reasons why this medical center is important jut to YOU. You support the City of Hope as a pilot hospital—its stand- ards of medical care have already influenced the level of public and private hospitals in your own community. You make possible the constant search for new methods, new techniques, new cures for the diseases which afflict mankind, through a continuing program of research. Your support may mean discoveries which may save thousands of lives in your own com- munity. You aid the medical training program of the City of Hope which will train doctOrs, research specialists and technicians for communities throughout the entire Unted States. Your dollars support a tremendous program. of research and cure but more important, you can join the City of Hope family and help determine its future program and policy through member- ship in. its supporting organizations in your own communty. You join in this never ending struggle against catastrophic diseases which can strike any human being without warning. Cures can and must be found for the suffering, from which no one is safe—your neighbor, your kin and you! How is the City of Hope supported? Georgie Jessel To Spearhead Appeal Detroit Firms To Support Campaign All monies contributed during the Detroit Business Men's group annual fund-raising drive are sent intact to the National gen- eral fund for the maintenance and furtherance of the free, non-sectarian Medical Center at Duarte, California. In order to make this possible the ind{vidual members of the group act as hogts and sponsors of guests invited to the yearly affair. It is due to the generosity of these guests that the drive reaches its culmination. Mem- bers heading business firms support and subsidize the Cam- paign. The following firms made this year's unusually extensive pub- licity and advertising program possible: • Irwin C. Thickhalter, Empire Industries, George Gray, Key- stone Refining Co., Joseph Lee Realty, Maurice Mackey, Mau- rice Marrich, Max Rosenfeld, William Rossen, Allan Salt, Ru- bin Shay, Meyer Silverman, State Plumbing and Supply and the Victor Oil Co. This National Medical Center operates on day to day contribu- tions. Without reserves or trust funds, it has performed its human- itarian work for more than forty years . . . a monument to man's humanity to man. Every donation has helped to move mountains of obstacles. Sparking its activities has been a people's movement, embracing a representative cross-section of all AMERICA. Auxili- Rabbi Jacob I. Siegal, spiritual aries, clubs, management and labor groups, 'fraternal and civic or- ganizations have enlisted countless thousands of men, women and leader of Adas Shalom Syna- gogue will be on the speaker's children of good will for the City of Hope. program for the evening at the Detroit Business Men's Group What can you as an individual do? Annual Champagne Dinner The broad program and service of the City of Hope requires Dance at the Statler Hotel Sun- money, time and effort. The fight to save lives is an endless one day, November 7. which demands and deserves the widest possible support. The philosophy and work of the City of Hope makes a poWer- ful appeal to the hearts, minds and loyalties of, the people of America. It provides every person an unique opportunity to realize one's finest potentialities to the end that all humanity may have a fufler and richer life. .four support is needed. Give your best now to save lives. Your dollars are needed. In an age when the atom is split for good as well as evil, producing the health-giving isotope as well as the death-dealing bomb, the future of civilization rests with men_ and women dedicated to hope and faith. What more gratifying feelirig than that of building up the health of the people and thus developing and bettering the world. For a healthy world is a good world. ' Georgie Jessel, world famed toastmaster and noted actor of long standing will spearhead the appeal for the $100,000 fund-rais- ing drive set by the Detroit Business Men's Group of the City of Hope for the 1954-55 Campaign: • Rabbi Siegal To Speak . • The entire proceeds.of the Campaign are used for the mainte- nance and development of this free, non sectarian Medical Center at Duarte, California — development of its departments, improving its medical knowledge and equipment and expanding the building program. The monies derived from such Campaigns, as that of the Business Men's Group, makes possible the continued waging of war against catastrophic diseases—cancer, leukemia, tuberculosis, Hodgkins disease and heart disease amendable to surgery. It pro- vides the possibilities in combining treatment, research and -medi- cal education into one great crusade for America's health. The Campaign will open officially with the Champagne Din- ner Dance at the Statler Hotel, Sunday, November 7th . . . starting with cocktails at 5:30 p.m., it will . carry on through the evening with entertainment and dancing to the melodious strains of Mickey Woolf and his orchestra until midnight. A noted Hollywood star is the surprise package of the eve- ning's entertainment. This affair has become a "looked-forward-to" event both socially and philanthropically. The committee, which is headed by Eugene Epstein, vice-president of the group, spares no money nor effort to make it the most talked of affair of the year. Mr. Nathan R. Epstein is founder and president of the group. Rabbi Siegal, beloved by his congregation and one of the out- standing clergy in this area, is well known to all Detroiters and has gained an enviable national reputation for hiS initiative in- ter-faith activities. Rabbi Siegel Ben Horowitz dynamic orator and executive director of the will also give the benediction.sw City of Hope will be the speaker of the evening at the Annual Champagne Dinner Dance which sets off the 1954-55 fund-raising drive of the Business Men's Group, Sunday, November 7th. Executive Director City of Hope Guest Speaker Guests Urged To Respond Early What The World Thinks Of City of Hope "By keeping open your doors to serve all patients without charge and regardless of race or creed, you have given a moving lesson . . . in the great public service your organization has per- formed in the battles against cancer, leukemia and tuberculosis." —DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, President of the U. S. "No disease is incurable,. though some, like cancer, are still un- conquered. In time, however, medical science will overcome these maladies and the City of Hope will be entitled to a large measure of credit for these victories." —BERNARD M. BARUCH "4 _ . Good Samaritans have made this hospital the great hu- manitarian institution it is ... It is a democratic institution in the real sense of the word." —HERBERT H. LEHMAN, Senator "Expanding . with its physical facilities is the hospital's fasci- nating idea: Man's highest goal is to help his fellows." THE NEW YORK TIMES (From an Associated Press article serviced to over 3,500 newspapers, magazines and the Congressional Record). Guests planning to attend the Detroit Business Men's Group Annual Champagne Dinner Dance, Sunday, November 7 at the Statler Hotel are urged to send in their. acceptance cards early. This will ascertain proper and proinpt seating the night of the affair. As usual, because of lirn- ited capacity, attendance is by invitation only. Members of the Business Men's Group are the sponsors. Your attendance at this af- fair is not merely an evening of entertainment for you but serves a greater and most im- portant purpose—the helping in rebuilding a body wracked with a dreadful disease. The City of Hope has risen out of suffering . . a manifes- tation of courage in the face of centuries of defeat under the onslaught of disease. This great medical metropolis has grown from the efforts of the multitudes, a spontaneous movement of the people throughout the entire country— people like yourselves—striving in unity to build what a few men of vision have seen in their minds eye over 40 years ago. "The Good That Men 'Do Lives After Them," cherished forever in the hearts ,of those whose bodies have been healed through generosity and human kindness.. "Our • country stands in need of many more great hospitals like the City of Hope." 6----DETROIT JEWISH NEWS •—MRS. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Friday, October 22, 1954 Mr. Horowitz holds his audiences spell-bound as he very deftly and very thoroughly takes them on a mental tour of this great National Medical Center, telling them of its workings . what makes it run ... what spurs on its activities. He has been associated With the institution for the past nine years having previously served as executive secretary. He replaced the loved and note-worthy Samuel Goiter as director, December 1, 1953. Mr. Colter is now executive vice-president of the City of Hope. (Adv-)