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Welfare Fund Divisions Schedule
General Report Meeting Tuesday
Special to The Southern Israelite
The first general report meeting
of all divisions of the 1954 Wel
fare Fund empaign has been
scheduled for Tuesday, April 27,
12:30 p. m. at the Progressive
Club.
Under the chairmanship of A.
L. Feldman and David L. Slann,
the chairmen of the advance gifts,
special gifts and general solicita-
COVERALL GIRLS GEAR UP
FOR MAY 2 EVENT
With Coverall Day set for Sunday, May 2nd, the Coverall
Division of the Atlanta Jewish Welfare Fund’s 1954 campaign
will meet Tuesday, April 27, at the Progressive Club, starting
at 10:30 A. M.
Under the guidance of division chairmen, Mrs. Henry L.
Caplan, Mrs. Clarence Feuer, Mrs. Harvey Jacobson, Mrs.
Edward Krick, Mrs. Harry P. Kuniansky, Mrs. Stanford Makov-
er and Mrs. Jack Maziar, the division will meet to receive
cards and assignments and further carry forward their plans
to make the May 2 event one of the most outstanding in Cov
erall Day history.
GIs Take Part in Seders Around
Globe as JWB Marks Passover
NEW YORK—At "solo seders"
in Greenland, Iceland, Labrador,
Korea, Japan and other remote
overseas places—where Passover
supplies came by parachute in
some instances—and at mass se
ders conducted by 350 full and
part-time Jewish chaplains in
Korea, Europe, Africa, the Carib
bean and the U.S., Jewish per
sonnel in the U. S. Armed Forces
marked the Festival of Liberation,
through arrangements made by the
National Jewish Welfare Board
(JWB). This was JWB’s 37th
"Operation Passover."
The traditional story of the an
cient Israelite liberation was re
cited by a GI at the U.S. post, T-3,
in Greenland, the floating iceberg
island near the North Pole; by
a lone, blind patient (and a visit
ing rabbi) at the US Public
Health Hospital (the Leprosarium)
in Carville, La.; by a small group
at the 7437th Jungle Training Cen
ter at the Ft. Sherman Reserva
tion, in the Canal Zone, and by
hundreds at mass seders in Japan,
agency for serving the religious
and morale needs of Jewish mili
tary personnel and hospitalized
veterans, JWB shipped months in
advance of the holiday large quan
tities of kosher foods and religious
materials, including some 4,000
Passover food boxes, which were
used by GIs at "solo seders" at
remote overseas points.
In New York, 150 patients at the
Brooklyn Veterans Hospital took
part in a service and seder meal,
and a group of 400 veterans, in-
Hawaii, the Philippines, Okinawa,
Germany, Austria, France, Eng
land, Morocco and the Caribbean
area.
Christian chaplains lending a
hand with holiday services on the
USS Missouri and on other ships
of the Atlantic and Mediterranean
Fleets found these ships stocked
with holiday supplies by JWB.
Airlifts carried more than 1,000
servicemen to seders in Tokyo and
Yokohama, while in Korea new
tent-cities that rose before the
holiday were the scene of mass
seders conducted by Jewish chap
lains in all corps areas.
As the government-authorized
eluding a number of wheelchair
guests at services held at the
Bronx Veteran Hospital. At the
U. S. Military Academy at West
and paraplegic patients, were
Point, cadets and their families
participated in seder services held
at the US Hotel Thayer in West
Point. Passover hospitality was
arranged for GIs at all military
(Continued on page II)
tion divisions will render the re
ports of the accomplishments in
the Men’s Division to date.
Under the chairmanships of
Mrs. Harold E. Marcus, Mrs. Bar
ney Medintz and Mrs. S. J. Stein-
bach, the advance, special, and
general solicitation groups of the
Women’s Division will also report.
As a result of the reports that
will be rendered at the Tuesday
meeting, Welfare Fund campaign
leadership will be able to assess
the accomplishments of the pro
gram to date and thus be able to
go forward with vigor and deter
mination to reach the highest pos
sible goal. Mr. Feldman pointed
out that preliminary reports in
dicate that Atlanta Jewry has dis
played an admirable awareness of
the needs to be met during the
coming year both in this country
and overseas. Vplunteer campaign
workers have conveyed to con
tributors the message of what giv
ing means and contributors have
been informed that their gifts to
the Welfare Fund will provide
help desperately needed by im
migrants in Israel and by needy
Jews In Europe and North Africa;
that in this country they will help
combat anti-semitism and discrim
ination; that they will contribute
to work among Jewish youth and
among the men and women in the
armed forces of the U. S.; that they
will assist national Jewish hospit
als and health agencies; help in
the support of religious and cul
tural institutions; meet local needs
and strengthen our own communi
ty.
Workers and leaders alike have
emphasized that gifts to the Wel
fare Fund truly circle the world,
Mr. Slann added.
U. S. Leaders Present Plan to
Ike For Peace in Middle East
tration on arms and military alii- j pate in this program, Israel
ances, the signatories urge a firm through a fair contribution to the
Center Schedules Drama, Music
Groups at Annual Meeting
NEW YORK, April 19. (JTA)
—Warning of imminent chaos in
the Middle Fast, from which only
Russia stands to gain, 19 distin
guished American leaders made
public this week-end a series of
proposals submitted to President
Eisenhower as the basis of a new
United States policy, to be carried
out with United Nations assis
tance, and designed to pacify the
explosive situation.
A copy of the 171-page memor
andum entitled "Security and the
Middle East” was sent to Secretary
General Dag Hammarskjold, with
a request that it be brought to the
consideration of the appropriate
organs of the United Nations, as
well as to United Nations dele
gates. ?
The signatories oppose arms of
fers or grants now either by the
United States or our Allies to the
Arab governments on the score
that such arms would be used
either “against their own people,
should rebellion against starvation
lead to violence,” or “against Is
rael to divert the Arab people
from the real source of their an
guish—their incredible poverty.”
Instead of the present concen-
offer to the Arab world of large-
scale assistance, beginning with a
$350,000,000 United States pledge
to a $500,000,000 United Nations
fund to develop the resources of
the Middle East. This offer should
be made conditional on the ac
ceptance of two prior agreements:
1. Settlement of the Palestine war.
1. Permanent resettlement of Arab
refugees in Arab countries.
“In advance of the 1954 session
of the General Assembly, the
j United States should make known
to the United Nations and to the
Arab states its view that "the only
feasible and fruitful solution of the
Arab refugee problem is through
resettlement in Arab countries,"
the memorandum urged. Further,
that the United States, which has
thus far supplied more than one-
half the funds for the welfare of
Arab refugees, shall state its read
iness to continue such support,
stipulating that funds so given be
ear-mark for a permanent re.-
settlement program under the U.
N. at a cost of $300,000,000.
Both the Arab countries and Is
rael should be asked to partici-
$300,000,000 resettlement fund by
way of compensation for abandon
ed Arab land in Israel. The Arab
countries through the assignment
of tracts of land in their territories
now unpopulated or under-popu
lated but capable of being deve
loped to support a substantial pop
ulation.
The resettlement program, as
envisaged, would be conducted by
a United Nations resettlement a-
gency, whose function would be
both to arrange for the orderly
transfer of the refugees and their
retraining as necessary.
The signatories include; Dr.
Henry A. Atginson, general secre
tary, The Church Inquiry; Dr.
Donald B. Cloward, executive sec
retary, Council on Christian Social
privention; Dr. Frederick May Elli
ot, president, American Unitarian
Association; the Rt. Rev. Charles
K. Gilbert, Retired Episcopal Bish
op of New York; he Rt. Rev. Hen
ry W. Hobson, Episcopal Bishop of
Southern Ohio; the Very Rev. Ivan
Lee Holt, Methodist Bishop of Mis
souri, who is president of the
World Methodist Concil.
Feature of the annual meeting
Center will be a special tribute
of the Atlanta Jewish Community
to the one hundredth anniversary
of the founding of Jewish Com
munity Centers via the Center’s
Drama Workshop and Chamber
Orchestra.
The meeting which will be held
Thursday, May 6, at 8:15 p.m. at
the Temple Hall, will also see the
presentation of a slate of officers
and board of directors by a nomi
nating committee, headed by
chairman Jos Cuba.
The Chamber Orchestra, under
the baton of Harry Kruger, will
feature "The Overture on Hebrew
Themes” by Prokofieff. In this
work the soloist will be Gray Gel-
ber, an outstanding young clari
netist. The group will also play
selections by Bach and Vivaldi.
Soloist will include pianist Rudol
ph Elias; flutist Stanley Lewis;
violinist David Lashner. Other
members of the group are: Sol
Fott, Virginia Rouse, Jerome Ra-
din, George Pindar, Jack Chilnick,
William Hanley, Dr. Harry Parks,
Edward Buchanan, and Mrs. Kate
Saks.
The Center’s Adult Drama Work
shop will present a one-act dram
atization “A Gift for David" by
Marc Siegel,, one of Broadway’s
outstanding young playwrights. “A
Gift for David”, the play, is the
story of the founding of the Jew
ish Center movement in 1854.
It traces 100 years in the life of
David Hirsch and family in «
moving drama. This production Is
under the direction of Henry Igar
a member of the group. Others
in the cast include: Barry Igar,
Arthur Sanders, Abe Franklin,
Esther Goldman, Gulden, Jerry
Goldsmith, Jack Friedman, Perry
Morris, and Sidney Goldberg.
There will be a social hour
and refreshments following the
meeting.
Mrs. Meyer Balser and Mrs.
Philip Schwartz are co-chairman.
The entire membership of the
Community Center and their
friends can look forward to a
most unusual evening.
LONDON, (JTA)—Sir Stephen
Pierssene, director general of the
central office of the Conservative
Party of Britain, last week-end
spoke out against the exclusion of
Jews from membership in the
Conservative Club of St. Anne’s,
a British resort town. The club
has admitted that it refuses to
accept Jews as members.