Synagogue Attendance in U.S. Only 27 Percent

Allied Campaign's 'Call to Action'
Meeting to Be, Held Sunday Morning

Max Lerner Here
For JWF Institute

Gendelman, Maxwell Jospey, Benja-
John E. Lurie and Max M. min
Jones, Leonard Kasle and Phillip
Fisher, chairman and co-chairman Silver.
of the 1956 Allied Jewish Cam- . TEXTILES: Malcolm S. Lowenstein.
WASTE MATERIALS, PAPER and
paign, have issued invitations to BAGS:'
Nathan B. Carroll, Bernard
a "Call to Action" meeting, at Chase and Peter S. Goldstein.
WIPING
CLOTHS: Benjamin M.
Darby's, at 1.0:30 a.m. Sunday, to
mobilize pre-campaign workers
and to map plans for the annual
drive that is now getting into
gear.
Plans will be made at this
ATLANTA, Ga., (JTA)—A dis-
meeting for the role to be played
by Detroiters at the United Jew- play of more than 2,000 scientific
ish Appeal's national testimonial papers by scientists from Israel,
dinner in honor of Senator Her- reporting on researches since the
bert H. Lehman., in New York, on establishment of the Jewish State,
Jan. 21. Spokesmen for this com- is attracting attention here at the
munity will report at the dinner conference of the American Asso-
on the progress made in the UJA ciation for the Advancement of
appeal for the emergency $25,- Science which is attended by sev-
eral thousand scientists from all
000,000 fund. -
Lurie, Fisher and Joseph Holtz- parts of the United States. Affili-
man will head a Detroit delega- ated with the Association are 235
tion at the dinner in Senator scientific societies with a total
membership of more than 2,000,-
Lehman's honor..
000. They include the American
Participants in - assigning roles Medical Association, the Ameri-
in the approaching drive, at Sun- can Chemical Society,•the Ameri-
day morning's meeting, will in- can Physical Society and 42
clude Abe Kasle, Irving W. academies of science.
Blumberg, Harvey G o 1 d in a n,
The exhibit of Israel papers.
Louis C. Blumberg, Hyman Saf- was opened by Ambassador Abba
ran, Louis Berry and Milton K. Eban who declared that rapid
Mahler.
and diverse immigration has cre-
Mechanical Trades Leaders
ated problems and presented an
Jerry J. Bielfield was elected unusual opportunity for research
chairman of the Detroit Service in Israel in various fields. The
Group's mechanical trades di- subjects of the Israel exhibit run
vision, at its biennial meeting, from aerodynamics to zoology.
Dec. 29. The group elected as ad- Age-old problems such as irriga-
visors Abe Kasle, Nathan Kolb, tion and locusts are treated, as
Ben Kramer, Jack 0. Lefton and vrell as the peaceful uses of the
atom and the practical applica-
Emil T. Stern.
Harry B. Aronow, Albert A. tions of solar energy.
Some of the problems dealt
Fruman, Harold B. Kukes, Robert
Trepeck and Samuel Zeldes were with are peculiar to the Middle
East. The papers that have been
elected vice-chairmen.
collected cover agriculture, en-
Chosen to represent the di- gineering, medicine and the
vision on the Jewish Welfare natural sciences. The engineering
Federation's Board of Governors section contains studies devoted
were Nathan R. Epstein, Abra- to the relationship of building
ham- Srere and Stern.
material and design to environ-
Representatives to the board of ment.
Service Group will be Harry B.
.The medical section contains a
Aronow, , Reuben Axelrod, Biel- variety of professional topics. In
field, Philip Dubrinsky, Sol Ei- the section on natural sciences are
senberg, Albert A. Fruman, Jack shown reports on mathematics,
Geller, Sam D. Jacobs, Robert N. physics, including atomic physics,
Janeway, Harry L. Jones, Robert and chemistry, bacteriology, bot-
Trepeck and Samuel Zeldes.
any, zoology and geology. The last
Elected to the Division board published research reports of the
of directors by trade representa- late Dr. Chaim Weizmann, first
tion were:
President of Israel and a world-
AUTO PARTS. WRECKERS and AC- renowned chemist, also are in-
CESSORIES: Harry E. Citrin, Arthur
Granoff, Julius H. Wainer and Herman cluded.
D. Weiss.
Most of the research reported
AUTO SALES: Bud Bielfield, Lester
upon was carried out by the He-
J. Morris and Saul H. Rose.
BAGS, BOTTLES and BARRELS: brew University, the Israel Insti-
Herman, Cohen and Morris Werney.
tute of Technology, the Weiz-
CARTG
E: William C. Sloman.
FACTORY SCRAP DEALERS: Daniel mann Institute of Science and the
13. Haron, Benjamin Maltzman, Lester
Research Council of Israel. The
Miller and Louis Vineb-e...rg.
GAS, OIL and TIRES: Martin E. council organizes and coordinates
Citrin, Jack W. Epstein, Martin Fried,
Irving L. Goldman, Robert D. Gross- research work in natural sciences.
man, Maurice S. Schiller and Gerald It stimulates and carries out
J. Sucher.
INDUSTRIAL ENGINRR-RS and SCI- studies designed to develop in-
ENTISTS: Dr. Henry Brown, Robert dustry and agriculture and the
B. Colten and Jack E. Lawson.
INDUSTRIAL EMPLOYEES: Reuben exploitation of Israel's natural
Levine.
resources.

The entire afternoon session
of the 10th annual Institute of
the Women's Division, Jewish
Welfare Federation, on Jan. 18, at
Adas Shalom Synagogue will be
devoted to Israel in her "Hour
of Greatest Need" with Max
Lerner, guest speaker.
Dr. Lerner, educator, author
and journalist, is dean of gradu-
ate studies at Brandeis Univer-

roe

Recognized in U. S.

MACHINERY and MANUFACTUR-
ING: Philip Ash. Theodore M. Curtis,
David S. Diamond. Sol B. Edelman,
David Fanerman, Joseph H. Kukes.
David J. Shiffman, Victor Shiffman,
Benjamin Weiss and Charles Wolok.
METALS: Louis W. Zack.
PARKING LOTS and GARAGES:
Mitchell Feldman and William P.
Greenberg.
SCRAP IRON: Harry L. Jones, Harry
T. Madison and Joseph Newman.
STEEL: Harry Baniett, Leonard
Friedman, Samuel Friedman, Joseph

adult population.
The highest attendance was
found in smaller cities—those be-
tween 2,500 and 50,000 population.
Women outnumber men in at-
tendance at services. Persons who
have had a college education go
more often to services than those
who have had only a high school
education.

NEW YORK, (JTA)—Only 27
percent of adult Jews in the
United States attend• synagogues,
a Gallup poll on church attend-
ance in 1955 established. The pro-
portion of Catholic adults attend-
ing church is given as 74. Among
Protestants, only 42 percent of
the adults attend church services.
The average number of adults
attending religious services in the
United States was 49,600,000 in
1955, - or 49 percent of the total

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site. He will discuss tensions in
North Africa and Israel's "ship
to settlement" plan for bringing
45,000 North African immigrants
into Israel.
Beginning at 9:45 a.m. the
morning portion of the Institute
wrill feature a musical review of
the growth of Jewish communal
life in Detroit. Four concurrent
workshops an present-day 'social
services provided by Federation
member agencies will follow at
10:15 a.m.
Lerner first won attention as
an editor when he helped pro-
duce the Encyclopedia of the
Social Sciences. Two of the many
books he has_ written are "Ac-
tions and Passions" and "It is
Later Than You Think." The lat-
ter was published in 1938, and
gave warning of the rising men-
ace of fascism.
Educated at Yale University
and the Robert Brookings Gradu-
ate School, Lerner has taught at
Sarah Lawrence College, Wil-
liams College and Harvard Uni-
versity. He presently writes a
column for the New York Post.
Reservations for the Institute
may be made by calling Mrs.
Searles at the Women's Division
office, WO 5-3939.

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Safety Appointee

INDIANAPOLIS, (JTA) — Dr..
David M. Silver, professor or
history and government at But-
ler University, has been ap-
pointed president of the Safety
Board by Mayor-elect Philip L.
Bayt.

Food Committee Prepares for Action

OUR CLOTHES ARE GROWING OUT OF US!

Block's IS DOUBLING ITS SIZE

EXPANSION SALE!

Block's has never compromised with the quality of
its clothes; our policy of offering nothing but the
finest has paid off. Our customers have doubled
during the past year . . . and, therefore, we must
double the size of our store. We're grateful to you
. . . and we've chosen to do it with an outstanding
EXPANSION SALE.

Special Group

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Mrs. SAUL RUBIN, (right) food committee chairman of
the Jewish Welfare Federation Women's 10th annual Institute
does some menus sampling with Mrs. ARTHUR H. RICE (center).
vice-chairman of the program committee, who fed 500 women
as chairman at last year's Institute, and Mrs. PHILIP R..
MARCUSE, Wotnen's Division vice-president in charge of the
program cAommittee, Thirty women will assist in preparing and
serving luncheon at the Institute on Jan. 18, at Adas Shalom
Synagogue.

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