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ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1952
NO. 42
Atlanta Heating on Education Yields Contrasts
Atlanta Cash at UJA Parley
A check for $36,200 is being presented (above) by Sam Roth-
berg from the Atlanta Jewish Welfare Fund at the recent National
Leadership Conference of the nation-wide United Jewish Appeal,
held in Washington recently. Looking on are Jack Weiler, right,
chairman of the UJA’s National Cash Campaign; George Jessell,
UJA’s current glamor attraction, second from left, and Edward M.
M. Warburg, general chairman of the U.J.A.
More than $18,000,000 in checks were presented at the con
ference 10 rive the T 7 r.itod Jewish Appeal better that* 50 per cent
of the $35,000,000 it is seeking in the last three month* of 1952, and
brought the U.J.A.’s cash income to $64,200,000 for the first nine and
a half months of the year. Mr. Warburg termed the $18,150,000
cash proceeds “all the more astonishing and unprecedented for com
ing just four weeks following our first announcement that we would
seek $35,000,000 in the last three months of 1952.”
The Atlanta Jewish Welfare Fund right now is in the midst of
an intensive collection effort to enable it to give more cash urgently
needed by the agencies included in the Welfare .Fund. It uiges ail
contributors to “pay their pledges now.”
United Synagogue in NCRA C;
NCRAC to Seek Local Funds
America and the Community Re
lations Committee of the Jewish
Federation of Camden County,
N. J. The announcement indicat
ed that applications for member
ship from additional communi
ties were in prospect. The Unit
ed Synagogue of America is the
national organization of the
Conservative movement in Amer
ican Judaism. The Reform move
ment already is represented in
the NCRAC through membership
of the Union of American He
brew Congregations.
Proskauer
Raps NCRAC
CHICAGO (JTA)— Criticism
of the recent action of the Na
tional Community Relations Ad
visory Council, which would allo
cate “primary responsibility” for
community relations work among
six organizations, was voiced
here Monday by Judge Joseph M.
Proskauer, honorary president of
the American Jewish Committee,
addressing a session of the Joint
Defense Appeal, the joint fund
raising arm of the American
Jewish Committee and the Anti-
Defamation League of B’nai
B’rith.
Judge Proskauer asserted that
this would destroy the NCRAC
as an advisory body and make it
NEW YORK (JTA)—For the
first time in its eight-year his
tory, the National Community
Relations Advisory Council,
which is coordinating the activi
ties of Jewish groups engaged in
combatting anti-Semitism, will
apply to Jewish welfare funds
throughout the country for allo
cations to meet its 1953 budege-
tary needs, it was announced
here early this week. A decision
to this effect was taken at a
meeting of the NCRAC execu
tive committee last week, the an
nouncement said.
NCRAC financing heretofore
has been by dues payments from
its constitutient national and lo
cal organizations. About fifty per
cent of its budget for recent
years was provided by dues from
the American Jewish Committee
and the Anti-Defamation League
of B’nai B’rith. Withdrawal of
these two organizations follow
ing adoption of a plan for organ
ization of Jewish community re
lations work at the last plenary
session in September necessitat
ed revision of NCRAC financing
methods. Jewish welfare funds
will be a c ked to provide that por
tion of the NCRAC’s financial
needs formerly supplied by the
two agents which have with
drawn from the coordinating
group.
The NCRAC also announced a
der'sion to admit into its mem
bership the United Synagogue of
Twenty-one persons appeared
before the recent hearing of the
President’s Commission on Im
migration and Naturalization in
Atlanta.
Winding up a series of hear
ings held in major centers
throughout the nation, the Com
mission members h^ard a series
of witnesses, some of whom
spoke only for themselves, some
expressing the policies of the
groups they represented.
Largest blast at immigration
was leveled in a statement from
Georgia’s Commissioner of Ag
riculture Tom Linder. Linder
would permit no immigration
whatsoever until our “inbalance
of population is corrected.” Iiis
material was read by J. C. Bol
ton, his assistant and secretary
of the Georgia Displaced Persons
Commission. Mr. Bolton read an
other statement crystalized at a
meeting of state department
heads and some labor and busi
ness people who believe that im
migration is a national problem
and not one for Georgia.
Kendall Weisiger, retired tele
phone company executive who
has long been identified as a man
of goodwill in his community and
nation, proved a popular witness
before the hearing—even win
ning applause from the audience
of 75.
Mr. Weisiger, speaking for
himself, said he believed Ameri
ca could absorb more than 154,-
000 imrfifgrants per yeyr. Hs
pointed out that America be
came great because of its immi
grants. He spoke out as a hu
manist against racial prejudice
and felt that teams of interview
ers should be sent to the sources
to select the immigrants.
Citing the “fine adjustment”
made*by refugees and former
DP’s in Georgia, Dr. Robert H.
Ayers, chaplain and professor of
religion at the University of
Georgia at Athens read a pre
pared statement presenting the
view of seven ministers from
Athens. This group included five
Protestant ministers, a Catholic
priest and a rabbi.
Additional information on the
record being made by former
DP’s in Georgia was given by
Dr. Gregor Sebba, professor of
economics at the University of
Georgia, who is in charge of a
DP study in Georgia.
Dr. Herman L. Turner, pastor
of the Covenant Presbyterian
a functioning organization. “You
cannot allocate functions by ma
jority votes or any other way un
less you have an effective staff;-
which would have to be created
by NCRAC,” he said.“This would
cost the Jewish communities of
American infinitely more than is
being fruitfully expended today.”
The venerable Jewish leader
declared that the American Jew
ish Committee and the Anti-De
famation League are doing 95
per cent of the effective work
being done in America today to
combat Anti-Semitism. “They
have developed a technique, a
sureness of touch and an inform
ed approach through years of
study and experience which no
Other organization in America
can faintly approach,” he said.
Church of Atlanta, reported on a
recent resolution passed by the
164th General Assembly of the
Presbyterian Church of the U.
S. A. This resolution urged a
more flexible quota system and
that “there should be no discrim
ination in the selection of immi
grants.”
The Rev. F. McDonough, as
sistant pastor of the Cathedral
Christ the King (Catholic) in
Atlanta, speaking for himself
said the “McOarran law is selfish
and narrow.” He went on record
as opposing discrimination
against certain groups, favoring
changes in the McCarran Act.
Mrs. I. F. Sterne, president
of the A'lanta Federation for
Jewish Social Service, related the
experiences of its Family Service
Bureau regarding the adjustment
of Jewish newcomers settled in
Atlanta. She pointed out that the
Federat’on had been familiar
with in migration and newcomer
problems since the beginnings of
the agency back in 1890.
'Immigrants from different
countries in Europe—East Eu
rope as well as those from Cen
tral and Western Europe had
come to Atlanta, Mrs. Stern
pointed out. She related how each
in turn adjusted in the commun
ity, becoming good citizens and
made contributions to the gen
eral welfare. She pointed out the
unfairness of the national origins
quota system and urged its revi
sion.
The, rapid industrialization of
the South requires immigration,
Alex Miller, director of the
Southern ADL office in Atlanta,
told the Commission members.
He recommended the establish
ment of a National Advisory Im
migration Commission to set a
yearly quota. He added a recom
mendation for establishing a Vi
sa Review Board.
The Rev. H. E. Klockley, of
Macon, director of the Lutheran
Resettlement Service for the
States of Georgia and Alabama,
believes that the United States
can absorb a great deal more
than 154,000 immigrants per
year. He thinks Americans need
to be educated to the need for
immigration,
The Rev. Walter J. Donovan
of Athens, who .said he was in
charge of resettlement in the
State of Georgia for a Protes
tant denomination, feels that
there is a great lack of manpow
er in Georgia. He thinks the
quota system should be revised
to allow people from countries
wishing to come here to do so.
With the U. S. committed to such
a large standing army—with or
without wax—There will always
be the need for additional, man
power to man our labor front,
• the Rev. Donovan continued.
Monosignor William J. Castell
testified on behalf of the New
Orleans DP Settlement Commit
tee. lie related how the commit
tee, a non-sectarian, civic group
including membership from all
faiths had worked together in
the reception of between 18;000
and 20,000 D.P.s who had ar
rived at the Port of New Orleans
destined for many communities.
He urged the revision of the na
tional origins quota system and
the use of unused quotaB. He in
serted a statement for the record
from the New Orleans Section,
National Council of Jewish Wo
men. ,
Among the speakers in behalf
of revision and a liberalization
of immigration were:
Mrs. Spann Milner, president
of the Council of Church Women
of Atlanta.
Earnest S. Stanton, of Chica
go, a. former refugee himself-
Mrs. Morris Cohen o< Atlanta,
a member of Hadassah, hut
speaking for herself.
Prof. Robert McKay, associate
professor of law, Emory Univer
sity.
David Burgess, secretary of
the Georgia CIO Council.
Among the group favoring the
present limitation*):
T. R. Breedlove, Monroe, Ga.,
chairman of the State Produc
tion-Marketing Administration.
Mrs. Hinton Biaeksheer, reg
ent of the Cherokee Chapter of
the D.A.R., speaking for herself-
O. Lee White, Atlanta attor
ney and president of the Georgia
Fraternal Congress, testifying
for himself.
Jessel in Birmingham (or
United Jewish Fund Start
Special to Southern Israelite
BIRMINGHAM — Birming
ham’s United Jewish Fund for
1953 springs into full-swing ac
tion this weekend, with the first
of a series of four stellar events.
The campaign will be paced
Sunday evening, Nov. 2, at 7 p.m.
with a Men’s Special Gifts Din
ner at the Fairmount Club. Con
tributors of a minimum gift of
$500 are invited.
Principal speaker will be Rab
bi Herbert A. Friedman of Mil
waukee.
The opening events continue
on Monday, Nov. 3, when a com
munity dinner is scheduled at
6:30 p.m. at the Thomas Jeffer
son Hotel. There is no minimum
gift required for attendance at
this dinner, which marks the of
ficial campaign opener.
Guest speaker will be George
E. Jessel, famous star of stage,
screen and radio who recently re
turned from a trip to Israel.
This dinner replaces the mass
meeting held previously, officials
have announced, adding that "ev
ery adult individual contributor
to the United Jewish Fund is in
vited. Since seating eaparity is
limited, so reservations must be
made immediately.”
The women of Birmingham
begin to do their part at noon
Tue^d^y w'th a Women’s Special
Gifts Luncheon at the Fairirount
Cb’b. A min : mum gift of 0105
will entitle ladies to admission.
The program will present Miss
Ruth Chatterton and Mrs. Jacob
Kessehnan. ’
A "Women’s Kick Off Break
fast” is being arranged for 9 a.
m. Wednesday. Nov. 5, for every
woman solicitor in the campaign.