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At National Refugee Service Luncheon
The
Southern Israelite
Weekly Newspaper
Tot Southern Jewry Established 1925
Vol. XVI., No. 6
ATLANTA, GA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1941
Price, Ten Cents
Shown above at the National Refugee Service luncheon meeting
in Atlanta Monday are, left to right, William Rosenwald, national
president; Solomon Loewenstein, executive vice president. New York
Oberdorfer, Atlanta, president, Georgia Farm School and Resettle-
Federation for the support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies; Eugene
ment Bureau; and Dr. William Haber, NRS executive director.
In his talk Dr. Haber declared “It is up to American Jews to de
cide if the work of the National Refugee Service shall continue."
“The refugee problem facing the American community,” he con
tinued. “is intensifying rather than decreasing and it is up to Amer
ican Jews to know the facts and make the necessary committments
to meet them.”
He gave a comprehensive picture of the siteuation and told of
the NRS’s campaign to raise $4,343,000. Mr. Oberdorfer told of the
NRS program in Georgia. Photo by Frankl
At Hadassah Luncheon-Meeting In Atlanta
3 Regional Hadassah Groups Open
Conference in Savannah on Saturday
Mrs. Pool, Mrs. Bender and Miss Nell Ziff
Are National Figures to Appear on Program
News Briefs
“Youth Aliyah," Hadassah’s plan of immigration of youth to
Palestine, was discussed by Mrs. David de Sola Pool (above center),
national president, at the Hadassah luncheon held Monday in con
junction with the General Assembly in Atlanta. Also shown in the
picture are Mrs. Oscar Bender, national vice president, New York,
who discussed “Hadassah’s Relationship to Welfare Funds”; Mrs.
Arthur Harris, Atlanta Youth Aliyah chairman; Mrs. Pool; Mrs. Sol
Klotz, Atlanta Hadassah president, and Mrs. R. M. Travis, Atlanta,
president, Southeastern Hadassah Region. Photo by Frankl
Open Home For Child
Victims of Air Raids
LONDON (JTA)—A home for
children suffering mentally and
physically from air raids has been
opened here by noted refugee wo
men doctors, welfare workers, nur
sery school teachers and psycho
analysts of pre-Nazi Vienna. The
group is headed by Anna Freud,
daughter of the late Dr. Sigmund
Freud.
The home was opened by the re
fugees as “an offering of thanks
to Britain.” The first group of
patients includes 15 children un
der 10 taken from subways and
Anderson shelters. Some of the
instruments used in the examina
tions originally belonged to Dr.
Freud in Vienna.
Wendell L. Wilkie Monday night
visited air raid shelters in the lar
gely Jewish populated East End.
Britain Plans Palestine
Corps, Halifax Confirms
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The
British Government has been giv
ing “serious consideration” to re
adjustment of its administrative
policy in Palestine and to the ac
ceptance of a Palestine Army
edrps on an equal footing with
those of Australia, Canada and
other British Empire Common-
With three personages prominent in the national field present, the
Southeastern Region of Hadassah and Southern Region of Junior
Hadassah will open one of the most important conferences in the
history of the two organizations at Savannah Saturday.
On the three-day program will
be Mrs. David de Sola Pool, na
tional Hadassah president, Mrs.
Oscar Bender, national Hadassah
vice president and Miss Nell Ziff,
former Junior Hadassah president.
Convention Highlights
Saturday, the delegates will
start their program with an Oneg
Shabat. A buffet supper at the
De Soto Hotel will follow, that
night.
Members of the Business and
Mrs. Robert Travis, Atlanta,; Professional groups will hold a
Southeastern president, will also breakfast from 9 to 10 a. m., Sun-
take a big part in the program.
The assembly will gather dele
gates and visitors from the twelve
units of Senior Hadassah, four
units of Business and Professional
Division of Hadassah and the four
teen Junior Hadassah organiza
tions.
day.
Registration will be held begin
ning at 9 a.m. At a joint luncheon
; of the three groups at noon Sun
day, Mrs. Ben Alper, of Savannah,
i will serve as chairman. The pro
gram will be devoted to Junior
Atlanta General Assembly in Review
BULLETIN
There will be no independent
campaigns in 1941 in welfare
fund cities by the Joint Distri
bution Committee, United Pale
stine Appeal and National Re
fugee Servioe.
This announcement was made
in his closing address to the
General Assembly by Board
President Shroder who said he
had public assurance that the
three agencies which constituted
the U. J. A. would make appli
cation for financial support to
welfare funds.
Member Agencies
To Vote on National
Budget Proposal
Adroitly side-stepping a show
down among delegates to the At- j
lanta General Assembly, the Board
of the Council of Jewish Federa
tions and Welfare Funds delegated
to member agencies the responsi
bility of action on the proposed
national budget system.
The 203 member agencies will j
designate their decision in a refer
endum vote to be concluded by
April 1.
The system, offered by Council
President Sidney Hollander of Bal- ; De fenSe, Religion,
timore after dissolution of the at*
United Jewish Appeal, had been Nazi Threats Topics
advanced to eliminate separate for General Sessions
campaign demands by the three
recipient agencies, U. P. A., Na- National defense, cooperation of
tional Refugee Service and the religious faiths for democracy and
j d q the Nazi challenge to democracy’s
Particulars of the plan call for economy featured the three Gen-
careful study of agency needs by a era * sessions of the General As-
budget committee and recommen- sembly.
dation by them of the essential Opening Night Addresses
need and ratios of fund distri- Robert E. Bondy, director of
button. Public Welfare in the District of
The budget question, which held Columbia and chairman of the
serious threats at times of splitting National Social Work Council, as-
the General Assembly into two serted that the social problems of
major factions, was considered in ! health, physical fitness, individual
board sessions and approval of the welfare, family security, military
majority of the members secured morale and recreation required
before this recommendation was nation-wide organization of lead-
set before delegates in business ers and resources if they are to be
sessions.
Jacob Blaustein, Baltimore,
chairman Committee on National
Budget Proposals of the Council,
solved in line with the needs of
national defense.
He urged a large measure of
federal government initiative, lead-
presented the committee opinion ership and financing to meet the
(See Budget, Page 8) See General Sessions, Page 8
Agency Meetings
Stress Emergency
Challenge From War
The challenge to American Jew
ry by European developments was
told in vivid pictures during the
agency meetings held in conjunc
tion with the General Assembly of
the Council of Jewish Federations
and Welfare Funds in Atlanta.
Joint Distribution Committee
A story of a far-flung struggle
to preserve the lives and spirit of
millions of war-stricken and per
secuted Jews was related by Mor
ris C. Troper, European chairman
of the American Jewish Joint Dis
tribution Committee, at a meeting
of that group.
He explained in detail how the
Joint Distribution Committee goes
about its work of feeding, clothing,
housing and otherwise aiding 600,-
000 Jews in Poland, and hundreds
of thousands additional in Ger
many, France, the Balkans, the
Low Countries, Portugal, the Near
East, Shanghai, Japan, Latin
America—altogether in 50 coun
tries around the world.
“In the final analysis, the Joint
Distribution Committee problem
can be reduced to simple arithme
tical terms,” Mr. Troper asserted.
“With more money we can save
more people; with less money we
must leave large numbers to die
and thereby weaken the European
social structure by the removal of
the very democratic and positive
elements which Great Britain is
struggling to defend.”
(See Agency Meetings, Page 8)
wealths, British Ambassador Lord
Halifax revealed at his first Em
bassy press conference.
Lord Halifax would not venture
beyond the admission that the sub
ject has been under consideration,
stating: “I know the matter has
been discussed but I don’t know
what stage the discussions have
reached in recent weeks."
Polish Book Renews
Talk of Emigration
LONDON (JTA)—Polish quar
ters are still talking of Jewish em
igration from Poland, it appears
from the newly-published book,
“All About Poland,” by Whitinger,
private secretary of Premier Wlad-
islas Sikorski of the exiled Polish
Government. Devoting a special
chapter to the Jewish problem, the
author concludes that "the only so
lution of this burning question is
that offered by emigration.”
MI8S NELL ZIFF
Among Savannah Speakers
Anti-Semitism In South
Africa Seen Increasing
LONDON (JTA) — Anti-Semit
ism is rising in South Africa, espe
cially in the smaller towns, and it
Is not confined to Nationalist cir
cles, says Professor E. A. Walker
of Cambridge in “South Africa,”
one of the pamphlets on World Af
fairs issued by the Oxford Univer
sity Press. He adds that the wide
powers taken by the Government
to control immigration are "avow
edly aimed at Jews in the first in
stance.”
Illinois Governor Lauds
Our Charities
CHICAGO (JTA) — Governor
Dwight Green, in the first public
address after his inauguration,
praised Jewish philanthropic work.
“The great State of Illinois has
to learn,” he told the 41st annual
conference of the Chicago Jewish
Charities. “The Jews have kept up
the principles of charity to the
highest degree... Jewish charity
activities are a beacon light to hu
manity.”
TEL AVIV (JTA)—A Catholice
church is arising in this all-Jewish
city. It is being built on the Le
vant Fair grounds to serve Polish
refugees who have found haven
here.
Hadassah and Nell Ziff will be the
main speaker.
Hadassah’s educational and
membership program is the topic
for Sunday afternoon’s session.
Formal Banquet
At the formal banquet Sunday
night, Mrs. Pool will make the
main talk.
With Mrs. J. W. Wilensky, Sa
vannah, as chairman, the conven
tion is to hear Mrs. Bender at a
luncheon Monday when Rabbi Wil
liam Drazin of Savannah will also
take part on the program.
Adjourning to a Joint session,
the delegates are to devote their
energies to the inter-relation of
the Hadassah family for the re
mainder of the day.
Nazis ‘Aryanize’ Handel’s
“Judas Maccabaeus”
LONDON (JTA)—Handel’s fa
mous oratorio, “Judas Macca-
baeus” has been “Aryanized” by
substituting a new text with a Ger
man hero, according to the Prague
Nazi newspaper Der Neue Tag.
The work has received the new
title “The General.”
The Nazi paper said the original
text was “an oriental extravagan
za” characterized by “overheated
voluptuousness,” while Handel's
music “is a musical speech which
rises into the pure air of Nordic-
German spirituality.” “Handel's
music,” the paper said, is now
freed of a contradiction which the
18th century lack of racial insight
could not grasp.”