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The Southern Israelite
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ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1938 PRICE FIVE CENTS
32 NATIONS TO PARTICIPATE
ON REFUGEE AID PARLEYS
Junior Hadassah Convention Adopts
Budget, Expansion, Education Program
Pittsburgh, Pa. At one of the bost attended and most
spirited conventions in its history, Junior Hadassah, the
Young Women’s Zionist Organization of America, adopted
the largest budget in fifteen years, expanded its activities in
Palestine by associating with the Youth Aliyah (immigra
tion) movement, and launched a
nationwide education program in
the United States for safeguard
ing democracy and promoting Zi
onism.
The convention, attended by
1,000 delegates and guests from
forty-one states, featured celebra
tions of tiie eighteenth birthday of
the organization and of the twen
tieth anniversary of the Henrietta
Szold School of Nursing in Jeru
salem.
espoused by democracy.
A revised education program
among Jewish youth, based upon
the study of contemporary social
philosophies as they affect Jewish
life, will be launched by the 222
units of the organization.
Miss Ziff, president; Miss Naomi
Brodie, secretary, and Miss Ernes
tine Kirschner, treaurer, all of
New York, were re-elected to their
respective offices. Vice-presi-
Sinee 1925 the home-school in
Meier Shfeyah has graduated 400
buys and girls, while Junior Ha
dassah spent $500,000 on the in
stitution during that period. In
cluding twenty-five refugee chil
dren and tweny others from Pal
estinian homes to be admitted
soon, the number of residents in
the village will be 160.
The Henrietta Szold School of
Nursing, which supplies nurses
to institutions in Palestine and the
Near East, graduated 253 nurses
since 1921.
Treasurer Miss Ernestine Kir-
schner, of New York, reported that
Junior Hadassah raised $89,000
during the past year. Miss Tama
Gutoff, of Brooklyn, Jewish Na
tional Fund chairman, said Junior
Hadassah raised more than $17,000
for the fund. The delegates voted
$1,500 to inscribe the name of
President Roosevelt in the special
Golden Book being compiled in
his honor by the Jewish National
Fund.
Budgets adopted for Junior Ha-
dassah’s Palestinian projects to
talled $77,285, including $9,000 for
the maintenance in Meier Shfe
yah, the Junior Hadassah child
ren’s village near Haifa, of twen
ty-five refugee children from Ru
mania.
Miss Nell Ziff, national presi
dent, declared Jewish youth has
two problems that it must face
“with forth-rightness and cou-
ra g p " One, is to help in every
Jssible way to alleviate the dis
tress of European Jewry. The
other problem is to guard zeal
ously the civil and human rights
RETURNS TO ITALY
WILLIAM PHILLIPS
U. S. Ambassador to Rome
dents are Miss Sylvia Brody, of
Akron, O., Miss Gotfried, Miss
Tama Gutoff, of Brooklyn, N. Y.
and Miss Sara Turner, of Chicago,
Ill. Seventeen new members
were elected to the national board.
A telegram from Mayor La
Guardia of New York, in which he
flayed the Nazis and called upon
Americans to help rescue the vic
tims of German oppression was
received with ringing applause at
a huge mass meeting that ended
the convention.
Forum On Democracy
To Unite Atlantans
GATE CITY FOLLOWS OTHER COMMUNITIES
WITH NON-SECTARIAN PROTEST MEETING
PREMIER M. DALADIER
Signs Pact With Germany
Children Torn From
Jailed Parents Find
Paris London Refuge
Metz, France—More than 800
children have been removed from
Germany and sent to France and
England where new homes await
them. The children were allowed
to take with them one mark (forty
cents) each and only such personal
belongings as could be carried in a
small handbag. Most of them will
never see their parents since there
is little hope of their following
the children into France and Eng
land, and the children certainly
will not return to Nazi Germany.
A great many are children of Jews
who had been expelled from Ger
many or had died during the riots
or in concentration camps. Most
of them were from Berlin, Munich
and Vienna.
London E n g.—Whittingehame
House, Scottish house of the late
Earl Balfour, father of the decla
ration inspiring hope for the Jew
ish national home in Palestine, has
been offered as a haven for refu
gee children from Germany. The
gesture, made by Lord Balfour’s
nephew, Viscount Traprain, who
inherited the estate, will afford an
opportunity for more than 200
children to be trained for agricul
tural life in Palestine. The Jewish
community in the east of Scotland
will transport and maintain the
children at the Balfour estate.
Mexico City—Ten men, three
women and a 14-year-old child
were returned to Germany in the
Hamburg American liner Iberia
I after permission to land in Mexico
j had been refused them by the gov-
i emment.
- ■ nun-sectarian “Forum of De-
y.” uniting the many voices
lr - Atlanta raised against fascism
f/ -otalitarian ideas, will be held
Fulton High School, 345
“ “ ngton Street, S. W., Wednes-
Q ay. Dec. 14, at 8:30 p. m.
-minded leaders of many
• nt viewpoints have banded
,'\ L . ; ier to sponsor this event,
will represent Atlanta’s
in the united defense of hu-
•id rights which is becoming
g 'p er in this country and the
- growth of organizations and
s ja P>, based upon platforms made
, 'A ideals diametrically opposed
iS ® upon which this nation is
siv' —d' has resulted in meetings
J ' * > this in other communi-
h, ~ “ ore and more are being
to £ P er manent organizations
‘his anti-Democratic move-
Jre being formed.
admission will be charged
r ednesday night’s meeting,
ich three speakers will dis-
arious aspects of the nght
emocracy. Dr. Ralph E.
professor at Emory Uni-
', will be chairman of the
jr
bi Harry H. Epstein, of Aha-
L chim Synagogue, will ; speak
irbarism in Germany,
vill be followed by John L.
i representing Labor, who
iscuss “Labor Fights Fas-
"ge O. Pershing, a relative
n John J. Pershing, will
on “Spain and China, Battle-
of Democracy.”
jpen forum will be held fol-
r the addresses, at which
ill present will be able o
s their views. The public
ited to this all-important
Thomas Mann Still Hopes
New York City—Four thousand
! celebrants at “German Day” here
; yesterday heard Thomas Mann,
world famous writer and self-exile
from Naziland, say that the Ger
man masses “will sooner or later
free themselves.’’ The keynote of
! the gathering was struck by one
j of the organization’s officers, Dr.
Frank Bohn, who said, “The Lea-
! gue enlists those for a battle which
has drawn its lines, without ex-
ception, through the world—the
battle against mankind’s great
enemy—fascism.” A recitation
calling for the defense of the Jew
ish victims of Hitler and the gen
eral victims of the Nazis was given
by Alfred Durra. The audience
i adopted a resolution approving
President Roosevelt’s “stand
against Nazi barbarism” and urg-
I ed an embargo on Nazi gods.
Myron Taylor Goes To London—Rublee
To Contact Hitler On Release of Jews
London, England—Representatives of six nations form
ing the steering committee of the InterGovernmental Com
mittee on Political Refugees are planning a systematic re
moval of 600,000 Jews from Nazi Germany to be transferred
to new homes in more hospitable countries. United States,
France, Great Britain, Nether
lands, Brazil and Argentina, the
inner committee, decided to con
voke a conference in January of
the 32 nations which make up the
Inter-Governmental Refugee Com
mittee founded at Evian-Les-
Bains, France, at the instance of
President Roosevelt. Before that
meeting takes place, however, it
is understood that George Rublee,
American director of the commit
tee, will visit Germany and at
tempt to induce Hitler to release
the Jews with at least a portion
of the property.
One after another the countries
of refuge have been coming for
ward with offers of settlement for
the Jews of Germany. It is un-
Courtesy Atlanta Georgian
HUGH R. WILSON
Ambassador to Berlin who was
assigned to State Department in
Washington, D. C.
derstood, however, that only with
German cooperation can the re
settlement propect be financed
since funds available, chiefly from
private sources in the United
States, are not sufficient.
Austrailia has announced her
decision to admit 15,00 refugees
during the next 3 years not ac
cording to any monthly or yearly
quota, but to be aepeted with gov
ernment permits issued at the gov
ernment’s discression. The Jewish
Welfare Society, which is raising
L25.000 in New South Wales and
L25.000 in Victoria, will be assist
ed by the Victorian Refugee
Emergency Council, established by
the government to assist the refu
gees and aid in their absorption.
The Council is under the chair
manship of the Lord Mayor of
Melbourne A resolution moved
by the Anglican Archbishop, voic
ed sympathy “for all those, who
for reason of race, religian or po
litical ideas are forced to become
refugees,” and endorsed the Fed
eral Government’s action in pro
viding them with an opportunity
for "a new life In Australia.”
Myron C. Taylor, U. S. repre
sentative ut the conference, after
his recent visit with President
Roosevelt made it known that the
United States would continue to
study the refugee problem, while
permitting 15,000 Germans now in
the U. S. to remain there through
extension of their temporary visas.
Taylor also mentioned the possi
bility of developing Alaska as a
haven for German Jews.
Great Britain, through Earl Win-
terton, chairman of the committee
meeting, indicated a possibility of
settling refugees in island posses
sions in the South Pacific, as well
as throughout Northern Rhodesia,
Tanganyika, Kenya and British
Guiana. Relief work organized by
the British Committee for the
Care of Children has been extend
ed to include refugee children In
Poland.
The Netherlands, where 1500
children from Germany have al
ready been admitted, declared
hei lelf ready to follow Britain’s
example and re-settle refugees
from Germany in her colonies.
France informed the committee
of her willingness to admit 10,000
refugees to her colonial empire if
the United States and Great Bri
tain made a similar move. Sena
tor Henry Berenger of France re-
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Enlarge Grady Hospital
For B’nai B’rith Clinic
Equipment for the dental clinic
which Gate City Lodge 144 of
B’nai B’rith will present to Henry
Grady Hospital has been ordered
and will soon be ready for in
stallation. Because of over
crowded conditions at the hospital
and the amount of space ne*«ied
for the clinic, Dr. J. Moss Beeler,
superintendent, has requested the
WPA to prepare new quarters on
the ground floor for the clinic.
Plans for the construction have
been approved by local authorities
and sent to Washington for final
acceptance, after which a new
section of the hospital will be pre
pared for the installation of the
B’nai B’rith clinic.
Four dental chairs, an X-ray
machine and the latest accessories
and surgical equipment will make
the clinic one of the best for ser
vice to the indigent in the city of
the nation. Dr. Beeler is quite
enthusiastic in hs prase for the
campaign which will give Atlanta
such a fine unit in the care of pub
lic health.
The presentation by B’nai B’rith
is an expression of civic pride and
which the need was stressed, ac
cording to Dr. Irving H. Goldstein,
president of Gate City Lodga.
There was no general solicita
tion of funds, all contributions and
pledges coming voluntarily from
civic-minded individuals of all
faths. As the equipment will be
delivered soon, Dr. Goldstein asks
that those who have made pledges
bring or mail their checks to him
so that the lodge may make pay
ment promptly.
No Money To Germany
Berlin. Germany—Officials of
foreign consulates here advised
Jews abroad that sending money
to friends or relatives did not
solve the problem of emigration
because the secret police regard
ed such attempts to help as a
means of increasing Germany’s
amount of foreign exchange. It
was further advised that certain
sums be at the disposal of the \
German Jew when he reaches
another country.