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Allied Drive Starts With $3,755,000 Gifts
can not be loyal to his own
_people he might also betray his
fellow-citizens.
Comparing the Jews to the
Irish who, he said, have been
loyal to• their own country and
at the same time to their own
faith and to their co-religionists
wherever they are — rendering
their kinsmen assistance when
they need it — Mayor Briscoe
urged the redoubling of all ef-
forts by Jews to ,help their fel-
low-Jews and to "assist in Is-
rael's upbuilding.
He expressed Confidence
that Israel will succeed, and
declared that the JeWish peo-
ple is entitled to its ancient
homeland. He expressed the
hope- that the UJA will bene-
fit from his visit in this coun-
try and told of having influ-
enced a former Dublin resi-
dent to increase his' pledge to
the Allied JeWish Campaign
and to purchase from him a
yarmulka for $1,000—the
come •to go to the campaign.
"Little' -Israel will grow from
strength lie strength," he- de-
clared. "I Rave every confidence
in the country's future and in
its attaining what it has prayed
for since the dispersion.",
Stating that "nobody has ever
attempted to interfere with my
religion," he emphasized that he
and more than 95 per cent of
the Jews in Ireland are Ortho-
dox. Only 40 families have or-
ganized in a Liberal synagogue,
he said. "We are all Orthodox
because the Irish are nearly all
Orthodox," he said. "therefore
they kept us all Orthodox and
kosher." (BUt in this country,
Mayor Briscoe is not _partisan.
Last week he was awarded a
specially inscribed silver Kid-
dush cup by the Reform (Lib-
eral) Union of American He-
brew Congregations, in New
Rochelle, N, Y.)
Max M. Fisher; chairman of
the 1957 Allied Jewish Cam-
paign, outlined the campaign
objectives and named the
leaders in the campaign in an
address that preceded the
guest speeches. Judge Theo-
dore Levin, president of the
Federation, introdueed MaYor
. Briscoe. Mrs. Abraham Coo-
per sang the Irish, Israeli- and
American national anthems,
accompanied at the- piano by
Mrs. Sol Quentin Kesler.
Relating that on Oct. 29,
when. Israel marched into the
Sinai Peninsula, he had re-
ceived a call from the Depart-
ment of 44griculture of Ireland,
asking him what's to be done
with a ship-load bf potataes
that was _ready to _ leave - for
Israel, Mayor Briscoe said he
adVised - it be mark ed. - far
Haifa and/or Alexandria. Ask-
ed for an explanation, he said
that by the time the ship would
arrive the Israelis also will be
Large Gathering Inspired by
Briscoe's Eloquence, Humor
Inspired by the presence here
af_ the colorful Lord Mayor
Robert Briscoe of Dublin, Ire-
land, and of Reuv1en Dafni, Is-
rael Consul and chief of the
Israel DepartMent of Informa-
tion in New York, Detroit's
Jewish, community had a good
start in the 1957 Allied Jewish
Campaign, with the record in-
itial gifts of $3,755,000.
The enthusiastic meeting at
the Shaarey Zedek, whose main
auditoriuni was filled to capa-
city, with a large number com-
pelled to stand in the aisles, on
March 28, heard a- report from
Isidore Sobeloff, executive viee-
president of the Jewish Welfare
Federation, that as of that eve-
ning the community- had raised
that sum towards what is hoped
will be a minimum total of
$6,500;000 in the current drive.
Sobeloff reported that the
sum subscribed thus far in-
cludes $1,300,000 for the Res-
cue Fund — an amount that
already exceeds the $1,000,000
given by Detroiters towards
the 1956 Emergency United
Jewish Appeal Rescue Fund,
in addition to the regular
campaign ,goal.
The Federation's executive di-.
rector admonished the lailge
gathering, however, that "some
have not started as workers,
some have not started as con-
tributors."
"It, the effect of tonight's
meeting has been to. inspire us,
as I believe' it did, let us go
forward," Sobeloff added. "Let's
get to work and finish the job."
The enthusiastic gathering of
March 28 was a tribute to the
colorful personality of the Lord
Mayor of Dublin who had an
exciting day in Detroit. He was
welcomed by a large reception
committee of Jewish and Irish
4aders at the Windsor airport,
upon his arrival from Toronto.
He was given enthusiastic re-
ceptions by the mayor, gover-
nor and m a n y, distinguished
leaders here. He was honored
at a luncheon by the United
Irish Societies and at _the din-
ner of the Allied Jewish Cam-
paign that preceded the public
meeting. In every instance,
Jews and Irish shared honors
and responsibilities during the
Briscoe visit here.
Mgyor Briscoe made strong
appeals for the United Jewish
Appeal and emphasized that
it is human for people to be
loyal to the countries of their
citizenship while retaining
strong ties .with their reli- •
gioun communities.
He especially • placed em-
phasis on his conviction that
he had the respect of his fel-
low citizens in Ireland'
cause he was compassionate
also with his fellow-Jews.
"As a Jew of the Irish citi-
zenship," Mayor Briscoe said, "I
can not understand any Jew
anywhere who thinks that he is
infringing upon his loyalties as
a citizen by being loyal to •his
Jewish kinsmen. Were I to deny
to my co-religionist mY inter-
est, friendship and loyalty, I be-
lieve that I would lose the Can-
.fidence of my fellow-citizens.
They would say that if a Jew
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Many- Allied Campaign Divisions
Ahead of Their Last Year's Goals
In the first of four April re- J. Richard Cooper, Alfred L.
port meetings, Max M. Fisher Deutsch, Edgar M. Fenton;
announced, 'there are campaign Nathan I. Goldin, Samuel
: sections near, or at, the level Hechtman, Harry Nachman,
of last year's giving and they Samuel Seyburn, Joseph B.
regard that as only a start.
Slatkin, Craig. Smith and Ben-
Fisher called luncheon report ton B. Wolfe, and the - elec-
meetings for noon, • Tuesday, tricians and. suppliers headed
April 9, noon, Friday,' April 12, by Lawrence J.. Block, Donn
at campaign headquarters in Resnick and Jerome B. Sonenk-
the Fred M. Butzel Memorial lar, are leading- their division.
. Building; and 8 Thursday,
In the services division, head-
April 18, at the Davison Jewish ed . by co-chairmen Sidney _J.
Center.
Bertin and Maurice Sandler,
In Paul 13roder's arts and- both the linen and laundry
crafts division, Fisher had spe- drivers under the leadership of
cial praise for .the advertisers' Isaac Litwak and associates and
and commercial artists' section, the insurance section headed by
where division vice-chairman Adolph Baron and Murray. J.
Leon S. Wayburn helped chair- Sutkin, have . obtained 84 per
men Jack K. Lewis and Charles cent of last_ year's total.
Rosen collect 102 per cent of
In mechanical trades, under
last year's total. The musicians' chairman Robert Trepeck, the
section under the leadership of parking lots section headed by
Milton . J. Woolf, has 95 per Mitchell Feldman is coming up
cent of last year's goal.
fast with 74 per cent of last
In the professional division, year's total. The engineers and
under the chairmanship of scientists section under co-
Paul M. Handleman and Abra- chairmen Dr. Henry Brown,
ham Satovsky, • the osteopathic Robert. Colten. and Robert Jane-
physicians' section, whose chair- -- way, report that - they have
man is Dr. Sydney- F. Ellias, reached 82 per cent of last
has collected 105per cent of year's total. The cartage sec-
last year's total.
tion, under chairman William
In the food division,- headed C. Sloman, is at 100 per cent.
by Mervin K. Grosberg and The machinery and manufac-
associate chairmen Hugo Slot- turing' section under chairman
kin and Alfred Weiss, the Irwin Green is at 112 per cent.
bakers, with chairmen, Abe J. Gas", oil and tire dealerS, head-
Gurwin,, Samuel Markowitz ed by Martin Fried, lead the
and Philip Olender, have . division with 116 per cent.
achieved 95 per cent of last
In the :mercantile division,
year's total. Both the wholesale under chairmen Arthur Lee-
grocers' section, under the bove and Stanley J. Winkel-
leadership of Meyer Berman man, the men's apparel store
and Arthur Schultz, and the executives headed by Daniel
food brokers and processors, Winograd are coming up fast
under the chairmanship of Peter with 72• per cent of last year's
J. Copeland and Maurice ElkiS, total. The furriers' section un-
have reached 85 per cent. der. the chairmanship of Irving
The wholesale Meats section Pokempner • and Wallace H.
achieved 103 per cent and is Roberts report 70 per cent. The
still going strong. Joe Klein women's apparel section head-
and Robert Rosenthal are sec- ed by Stanley White is beyond
tion chairmen. Supermarkets last - year's total with 114 per
section under James Marks and cent.
Morris Tulupman and food
The Women's Division, head-
brokers and processors lead ed by Mrs. Harry L. Jones, has
the division with 118 per cent achieved 107 per cent in pre-
Real estate and building divi campaign gifts.
sion chairmen, Abe Green and
The Junior Division, under
Irving Rose, report that the the chairmanship of William
'builders and building finance M. Wetsman, reports 97 per
section, under Jack M. Colem-an, cent of last year's total.
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in Alexandria. "I was wrong and as an Irishman, showed
only because the UN stepped in a keen interest in American
to prevent such a victory," May- affairs 'and told of the strug--
or Briscoe declared. "If they gle his own people are having
had waited a couple of days, I in Ireland.
would have been right."
At the City Hall, where he
At the dinner, at which received the Key to the City;
Fisher presided, reports were at the Catholic Archdiocese,
submitted by Hyman Safran, where he was welcomed by
Leonard N.- Simons and Mrs. Cardinal Mooney, at the press
Hairy Jane's. Rabbi Morris Ad- conference, wherever he went,
ler gave the prayerat the din- his Jewish interests were as
ner and welcomed the gathering evident as his Irish. The Irish
at the public meeting, conclud- showed their admiration for
ing his address with a special- him, and there was evident
prayer for the campaign as the pride that a Jew should be
Mayor in a predominantly
audience stood in reverence.
• in one of the Major addresses Catholic country. (There aye
at the public meeting, Israel 5,400 JeWs in_ Ireland, in a
Consul Dafni reviewed the total population of 2,940,000)
Martin Fleming was the
events that led to Israel's re-
birth and explained how Israel, guiding spirit at the luncheon
denied all human rights, her of the United Irish Societies,
needs and appeals ignored by at the Veterans _ Memorial
the nations of the world, was Building. The speakers who
compelled to take matters hi greeted the Jewish - Lord
Mayor included, in addition
her own hands last October.
to Fleming, Mayor Cobo, Gov,
He questioned: "What kind
ernor Williams,' Councilman
of people are the newly liber-
Edward Connor.
ated nations who now -would
Mayor Briscoe was accompa-
deny Israel the right to live
nied to Detroit by his son, Dr.
in peace and security?"
Joseph Briscoe, a Dublin den-
He pointed to France as the tist.. The Mayor's Irish secre-
only nation that stood by Is- tary, Peter Delaney, also was
rael, just as the French stood with him.
by the American people when
Priests and Catholic laymen
they fought- for independence
participated in all the events
from Britain.
at which Mayor Briscoe was ex-
"Should the UN fail us tended the honors of this com-
again," he said, "we'll have to munity. Deputy Chief of Detec-
take matters in our own hands tives Albert Shapiro was -in
again."
charge of security for the Mayor
"If we accomplished aS much and was assisted and accompa-
as we did under adverse condi- nied by Inspector James Don ,-
tions," he added, "how much leavy, the Irish counterpart of
more could we attain under un- the security squad.
hampered Conditions. We have
welcomed the hoineless and Says Nasser's Anti-Jewishness
converted them into Productive `.Cheap Imitation of . Hitler'
People. We redeem human be- . -WASHINGTON, (JTA)—Lord
ings. We share with our breth- Mayor Robert Briscoe of Dub-
ren. As long as there is a single lin told the National PreSs Club
Jew alive who needs help, our that : Egypt's treatment of its
doors will remain open to him." Jewish - inhabitants was "a
Another guest speaker was cheap imitation" of Hitler's
Morris Berinstein, of Syracuse, tactics. He urged support of
national UJA president, who de- the- United Jewish. Appeal to
clared that "we must give more enable Israel to fulfill its func-
than ever before because there tion as a haven for refugees.
President Eisenhower re-
are Jews on the run—from
Egypt, Hungary, Poland. The ceived the Lord Mayor at the
WA is not a political organi- White House and accepted
zation, yet we voice our ad- some Irish gifts. from him.
Briscoe addressed the open-
miration for the heroism of Is- ing
campaign dinner of the
rael. We are a humanitarian _Greater
Washington UJA. He
movement. There will be not stressed the necessity of each
100,000 but 150,000 who will be donor contributing "even be-
admitted to Israel this year
yond his means" if UJA was
and we must pravide -the means to
raise its ,$100,000,000 emer-
for this superhuman task. I gency rescue fund as well as its
plead with you: let's handle the regular campaign fund.
present situation the same way • In oannection with the Bris-
we handled crises in' the past: coe appearance here, the : Coin-
let's share." •
inissioners of the District of
At both the Irish and Jew- Columbia proclaimed •the day
ish events, Mayor Briscoe "United Jewish Appeal • Day"
captivated his audience with and - called on "citizens of all
his eloquence and huinor. He faiths to join in contributing
told stories, made frank dec- generously to this worthy cam-
larations of loyalty as a Jew paign,"
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2,000 Volunteers to COntact - 12;000,Women
Contributors on Annual G-Dizay Next Sunday
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the day.'s- efforts from the chairi
man of each of -her 24 diVisionk.
.Mr-s. Herbert -Frank, advisor
to general solicitations, and
`Mrs. Harry Frahk will head the
clerical volunteers at the syna-
gogue.
Refreshments will be served
by. Mrs. Harry Spoon and her
food committee. Each woman
will have a quick snack before
changing from.communal work-
er back to housewife.
Mrs. Max L. Lichter"and Mrs.
Arthur . I. Gauld, executive-vice
chairmen of general 'Solicitaa
tions, will see to it that the
2,000 workers' kits turned in
are processed smoothly and ef-
ficiently. ,
Program coordinators are, Mrs.
Arthur H. Rice and Mrs. S. S.
Willis. •
Mrs. Harry L. Jones, Wom-
en's Division campaign chair-
man, complimented Mrs. Hau-
ser and all the women working
in general solicitations on their
fine job of organization, which,
she said; "can not fail to. be
Mrs. George Reinitz, Mrs. Samuel Silver and Mrs. Samuel
Babcock (left to right) worked hard directing assignments
and recruitment in preparation for the Women's Division
G-Day "Grekt Day •for Giving."
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Women 'from all parts of De- workers will solicit more than
trait and suburbs will converge 12,000 women in behalf of the
at Congregation Beth Abraham, United Jewish Appeal and more
GreenlaWn and Seven Mile than 50 local, national and
Road, 11 a.m. -'3 p.m., Sunday, overseas agencies the campaign
with G-Day collections totalling serves.
more than $100,000 for the 1957 Mrs. I. Jerome Hauser, gen-
Allied Jewish Campaign. eral solicitation . chairman, will
The 2,000 enrolled volunteer receive reports on results of result-producing on G-Day."
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