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Savannah, Georgia Southern Welfare Drives Are First To Hit Wartime Stride Dixie Campaigners Show Country How to Win Big Increases Even in Face of Economic Stress Every year southern communities are in the vanguard of the l . J. A., with drives in l ull swing while other parts of the country are still in the preliminary and planning stages. This year the early campaigns down South opened in a goldfish howl, with the whole country watching. They took the first tests of how American Jews would meet their l .J. \. responsibilities in wartime. They fame through nobly, though it was not accom- pl i sh c (I with- out a struggle. Take Florida, for example. Despite the Armand Max nipping off of the tourist trade h\ war. mam eities there raised more than la>t year. Jaek- >om ill**, led l»\ Alexander Brest, did a splendid job to bring in a Hi per cent increase. I ampu overcame not only business troubles hut the fact that Chairman Fred IVrlman and five team captains fell ill at the start of the cam paign and heat its 1 *> V1 results b\ a large amount. Hardest hit by the tour ist blight. Miami nevertheless showed courage and determination in carr\ ing on with its drive, headed b\ Dav J. Apte. In neighbor ing Alabama, earnest cam- Harold S. Mover paign workers shook out even cotton boll in search of stra\ pledges. Birmingham's drive, headed h\ Fee B. Weil, came up w ith a 10 per cent increase. Montgomery, w ith Simon \\ ampold in charge, made it 13 jht cent. These eities had noth ing on Gadsden, where Chairman Merlin Hagedorn and his co-workers wore out their fountain pens writing up increased pledges, which finally totaled a believe-it-or-not 173 cent over 1941. Skirting the Gulf like a tornado the l . J. A. spirit swept New Orleans, which, under the chairmanship of Harold Mayer, m ore t li a n held its own. Other parts of the South refused to \ ield honors to the Gulf Coast. In Ten- Mortimer May nessee. Mem phis. with A1 Goldfarh and Abe W al- dauer in command, and Nashville. un der the leadership of Mortimer May. piled up laurels, and dollars, in rec ord-breaking campaigns in which women plaved outstanding parts. In Knoxville a group of young, ener getic leaders, under David M. Blum- herg. inoculated the community with a new -pirit that expressed itself in a 27 jht cent rise in contributions. Georgia campaigners were out l>e- fo re the | icarh blossoms. Armand Ma> and Joseph B. Jacobs teamed up as co-chairmen to lead Atlanta's drive. Savannah, led l>\ Bahhis William Drazin and George Solomon, made a fine start with u large Big Gifts in crease. The well-organized Colum bus campaign, under Joe Julius, did 36 |H*r cent better than in 1941. Rich- morid. \ a., campaigned under the leadership of Samuel K. Binswanger. (.arolinas ami Texas Forge Ahead I he Carolines product'll some of the most stirring incidents of the spring campaign. W ilmington, V C M led by Ben kingotT, arranged big gifts meetings that brought double and triple contributions over last year, and in a dashing campaign obtained a 56 per rent increase in giving. Co lumbia, S. C.. boasts of perhaps the youngest chairman in the country, Samuel Huhin. whose ability and en thusiasm are not to he measured by his years, for under his direction the community, in a sizzling two-day drive, raised 17 jier cent more than in 1941. And Kaleigh. led b) Ben Gold berg. came through with a resound ing 63 jht cent increase. In the Lone Star State they staged some tremendous round-ups of dol lars for the l . J. A. Houston's brisk outfit, with AA illiam Salman at its head, roped in more and bigger pledges than ever before. Dallas cam paigners, headed by Julius Sehepps. ditl their usual effective job. Galves ton. under Chairman I. H. kempner. registered an increase of 17 per cent in Jewish community giving. The Fort AA orth drive, led by I. E. Hor- w it/ and Sol Brachman. also showed a notable increase, while the San An tonio campaign went forward with Frank B. Falkstein as chairman. Over in the far end of the Panhandle, at El Paso, they proved that good cam paigning is no monopoly of any city * Please turn to opposite \tage I [18] The Southern Israelite