Mae
A month-long on-the-spot
study of the morale and wel-
fare needs of American mili-
tary personnel on duty in Eng-
land, France, Germany,, Italy,
Greece and Turkey and a paral-
lel appraisal of Jewish Com-
munity Center developments
and trends in Western Europe
and Israel is being made dur-
ing February by S. D. GER-
SHOVITZ, executive vice-presi-
dent of the Jewish Welfare
Board.
* * *
L. W. NEUMARK was elected
president of the Jewish Com-
munity Federation of Cleve-
land. He succeeds Max Simon.
* * *
NATHAN STRAUSS III was
re-elected president of the
American - Israel Chamber of
Commerce and Industry. The
organization reported that the
volume of U. S.-Israel economic
relations surpassed $250,000,000
in 1958, due to a rise in tour-
ism and investments.
* * *
RALPH FRIEDMAN, econo-
mist and industrialist, of New
York, has been named chairman
of the foreign affairs committee
of the American Jewish Com-
mittee.
B-G Sees Great
Modern Exodus
from E. Europe
TEL AVIV, (JTA)—The pres-
ent large-scale and growing emi-
gration of Jews from East Euro-
pean countries to Israel will
open the gates to a still greater
emigration from the greatest
Jewish center in the world, Pre-
mier David Ben-Gurion declared
here.
"I have sound grounds for
hope," Ben-Gurion said, without
naming the country which he
termed "the greatest Jewish
center." He called on all Isra-
elis and world Jewry for an all-
out effort to finance the absorp-
tion of this mass exodus which
he termed "expulsion." He es-
timated that 8,000 emigrants
from Eastern Europe would ar-
rive in Israel this month and
still greater numbers would
come in February.
Ben-Gurion made his remarks
at a meeting of representatives
of Histadrut committees engag-
ed in raising funds for the
20,000,000 pound national volun-
tary loan to help finance the
reception of new immigrants.
In a ceremony after his address,
the Premier was handed a total
of 6,500,000 pounds in pledges,
toward the Histadrut goal of
10,000,000 pounds.
The Premier called on the
people of Israel to "rise to the
occasion" presented by this
unique opportunity for the in-
gathering of the exiles" who will
"constitute an important asset
to Israel's economy." These peo-
ple he said, included profes-
sionals and skilled workers bad-
ly needed by Israel.
Admitting that even he did
not know how these newcomers
would be absorbed, he said that
with redoubled efforts by Isra-
elis and with world Jewry's
help, large numbers would be
integrated into the country's
economy. He hoped that both
Israel and world Jewry would
feel the "blessing of this great
hour" and would understand
that "the future of Israel and of
the Jewish nation was at stake.
Expulsion or extermination can
be changed to redemption."
Dov Joseph, Jewish Agency
treasurer, who also addressed
the meeting, said that 60 per
cent of the 20,000,000 pound
loan had already been raised
and expressed his conviction
that Israelis would respond to
additional calls when more im-
migrants arrive.
News
Dr. ABRAM L. SACHAR,
president of Brandeis Univer-
sity, will be honored on his 60th
birthday, Feb. 15, in New York
City. The board of trustees and
Fellows of the university are
tendering the celebration at the
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in observ-
ance of his birthday and his ten
years as president of the uni-
versity.
*
*
D. H. WHITE, editor of the
Jewish Herald-Voice of Houston
and publisher of the Jewish Di-
gest, has been appointed chair-
man of the Houston 1959 United
Jewish Chairman which will
seek to raise $758,000.
* * *
ARTHUR B. LORBER, Colo-
rado businessman, has been
elected president of the Jewish
National Home for Asthmatic
Children at Denver.
* * *
LEONARD PEARLMAN of
Winnipeg has been appointed
Permanent conductor of the
Civic Symphony of St. Cather-
ines, Ont., where he made his
debut as a conductor last No-
vember.
* * *
MORRIS A. GRAY, Winnipeg,
Jewish communal leader and
Manitoba Legislature member,
has been selected by the Winni-
peg Tribune as Manitoba's Citi-
zen of the Year for 1958. The
newspaper annually chooses a
Manitoban citizen for "an out-
standing contribution to the
community." The panel of edi-
tors said the selection was "in
particular recognition" of Gray's
"untiring efforts in social wel-
fare." He has been a member of
the Legislature for the past 18
years.
* * *
Dilworth, Paxson, K a 1 i s h,
Kohn & Dilks, prominent Phila-
delphia law firm, announces
that JUDGE LOUIS E. LEVIN-
THAL has become associated
with it as Counsel.
Danny Raskin's
LISTENING
OUR MOST RECENT TRAV-
ELING companion, New York
barrister Phil Gray, says he tried
traveling by boat but wound up
on the rails . . . Phil was so
seasick for six days after he was
on land that he was afraid to
yawn . .. But statistics tell us
that there are very few train
wrecks . . . Ninety-nine out of
a hundred were wrecks before
they got on the train! . . . In
our years of traveling on public
conveyances, we have come to
one conclusion ... the American
people will do anything asked of
them except move to the rear
of the bus!
PHIL, WIFE MARION and
20-year-old son Alan made a re-
cent trip to Europe where "we
loved Scotland and the people
there. All that talk about Scots-
men being cheap is "free pub-
licity."
IF YOU'RE TRAVELING
through Europe with your eyes,
ears and wallet open, you can
make a lot of friends . . . and
collect a lot of stories, beams
Phil.
WHILE TALKING ABOUT
the building boom in Israel, Phil
relates that pedestrians have a
new worry in Tel Aviv . . . Now,
they have to get out of the way
of buildings."
Benjamin D. Burdick, Detroit
attorney, announced that he will
seek nomination as a .candidate
for the board of governors of
Wayne State University at the
Republican state convention,
Feb. 14, in De-
troit.
Burdick,
a life-long Re-
publican, will
be bidding for
one of the six
posts on the
newly - c r e-
ated board of
the state Uni-
Burdick
versity.
Active in GOP circles in Mich-
igan for more than two decades,
Burdick served from 1936-56 as
district chairman of the 15th
Republican district.
When he stepped down from
the post three years ago, he was
voted honorary lifetime chair-
man of the district.
He was a delegate to the 1948
and 1956 National Republic
conventions and served three
terms on the Republican state
central committee.
Burdick said he was seeking
election to the WSU board of
governors because of his close
affiliation to the school for the
past 30 years.
In 1928, he was graduated
with the first law class at
Wayne State. He is a past pres-
ident of the law alumni asso-
ciation of the university and
presently serves as a board
member of that association.
He also is a member of a
"Wayne family." His two broth-
ers, Irwin H. and Herbert, also
attorneys, are Wayne State law
school graduates. His sister,
Rosalind, also is a Wayne grad-
uate.
Burdick served on the old
state rent control advisory
board and as Wayne County
public administrator from 1941-
1949. He was chief public ad-
ministrator in the county from
1951-55 and is a former special
counsel to the FHA in Detroit.
He also is active in numerous
professional, civic and religious
organizations, including Bnai
Brith, the Torch Fund, the
Allied Jewish Campaign, Mos-
lem Shrine, Anti-Defamation
League, is vice president of
Business and Professional Lodge
of American Jewish Congress,
and a member of Detroit, Mich-
igan, Federal and American
Bar Associations. He also is on
the board of trustees of Brigh-
ton Hospital.
Burdick, with offices at 1917
Dime Building, lives at 19515
Roslyn with his wife, Mary, and
their two children.
Israel Drops Rationing
on All Consumer Goods
JERUSALEM (JTA)—Ration-
ing was abolished on all edibles
and consumer goods. The move
was made possible by an im-
proved supply situation, chiefly
as a result of increased sup-
plies of local produce.
Many items which have never
before been off the ration list
will now be available at com-
petitive prices on the open
market.
The end of rationing quickly
brought a drop in the price of
such commodities as butter,
rice, meat and cheese. Price
drops varied from 10 to 50
per cent.
political Zionism from Czarist
ious trees of renewed state-
RuSsia to the creation of the
hood."
Jewish State which he served
Representatives of the Arab
as Speaker of its Parliament, population and leaders of the
was laid to rest with full state Moslem and Christian commu-
honors in the national cemetery nities passed by the grave, each
on Mt. Herzl last Friday.
throwing a handful of earth on
The four-hour
11 was at- the t o m b, in tribute to Mr.
tended by President Yitzhak Sprinzak.
Ben Zvi, Prime. Minister David
Jewish organizations in the
Ben-Gurion the e n t i r e diplo- United States, including the
matic corps, the Israel Chief American Section of the Jew-
Justices, Cabinet Ministers, Par- ish Agency and the United
liament members and thousands Jewish Appeal, issued state-
of people who came from places ments mourning the death of
as far away as Elath and the Mr. Sprinzak.
Lebanese border.
Statements in tribute to Mr.
More than 50,000 people Sprinzak and mourning his
passed the bier which lay in death were issued by Mrs. Rose
state in the Knesset the day be- Halprin, acting chairman of the
Jewish Agency; Morris W. Ber-
fore the funeral.
The coffin was carried from instein, general chairman of
the Knesset. Deputy Speaker the United Jewish Appeal; the
Israel Rokach said farewell in American Zionist Council and
the name of the Knesset. Chief Jewish leaders in communities
Chaplain Shlomo Goren read a throughout the world.
The Knesset of Israel held no
Psalm. Then the procession
moved to the Jewish Agency business sessions all week in
building where Agency Execu- memory of Sprinzak.
At the grave, Premier Ben-
tive chairman S. Shazar eulo-
gized the deceased in the name Gurion spoke of Sprinzak's dedi-
cation to an "ideal, a mission
of the Zionist movement.
The coffin was placed on a and a vision" for half a century.
black-draped Army command
car which led a procession of
several hundred automobiles to
Mount Herzl. All shops in Jeru-
salem were closed during the
funeral. Schools held memorial
meetings while the cortege
made its way to the Speaker's
final resting place.
The final address was made
by Ben-Gurion, who said of Mr.
Sprinzak:
"His life was dedicated to
the ideal mission and vision,
and for 50 years he tilled,
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25 — T H E DETROIT JEWISH NEWS—Friday, February 6, 1959
People
Ben D. Burdick Israeli Leaders, U.S. Jewry Join
in Race for WSU in Tributes to Joseph Sprinzak
JERUSALEM (JTA)—Joseph
with devotion and skill, the
Governors' Board Sprinzak,
whose life spanned
soil from which grew the glor-