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Greetings to JWV
Convention Delegates President at Friday Event
From Jewish Community
The Atlanta Jewish Welfare Federation, in behalf of
the entire Jewish community, « pleased to welcome the
Jewish War Veterans to their National Convention in our
city.
As an organization, Jewish War Veterans has had a
most honorable history in the fine work it has carried on
these many decades in behalf of our Jewish people every
where.
Locally, too, the Atlanta Post, one of the largest in the
country, has played a 'most effective role within and outside
the Jewish community in bringing to fruition the many-
sided programs of JWV. ' \ .
We invite the JWV delegates to visit our Jewish insti
tutions and agencies and trust you will have a fruitful and
enjoyable convention,
ABE GOLDSTEIN, President
Atlanta Jewish Welfare Federation
From Host Post Commander
As spokesman for ti\e Atlanta Post 112, may 1 take this
opportunity to welcome you all to our city. May our hos
pitality bf truly Southern so that your stay here will be
a most memorable ope. At this 7$ti* National Convention,
it is with humble pride that we here in Atlanta have been
selected to host this most memorable convention.
We hape been working an this convention since the
last national convention, and we have tried to surpass all
preceding ones.
Welcome all. — Enjoy all we here in Atlanta have to offer
—and have a Convention that will be both exciting and
eventful —RAYMOND H. YARFITZ, Commander
Meeting in Atlanta this week choir of the Congregation Mercy
in national convention, mem- and Truth Synagogue,
ben of the Ladies Auxiliary, Bin. Alexander has two OhJl-
~ Veterans, will dren, a son, Hillary, who is an
artist associated with the Na-
w Jewish War
honor their national president,
Mrs. Freda Alexander, ait a
luncheon at 12:30 p. m., Friday,
Aug. 21, at the Regency Jlyatt
House.
Mrs. Alexander became a
charter member of Auxiliary,
No. 363 in Pottstown, Pa., in
1048. In 1050 she was elected
president of that group, and re
elected in 1052.
During the 1950s she became
active in JWVA at the state
level, serving as chaplain, con
ductress add senior vice presi
dent before being elected pregi-
•; dent of the Department of Penn
sylvania in 1056.
In Pottstown, Mrs. Alexander
was active in a number of other
organizations, including mem
bership for 25 years in the Me
morial Hospital Auxiliary- Her
husband, the late £fr. David
Alexander, served on the Med-
About Patriotism^Aud Survival
about Israel's survival of late that Americans have pretty
much lost the proper perspective about our own.
The so-called great American public has become «> mm*
involved in the self-interest problems that beset this na
tion and these are legion and surely fleesmro primacy that
attention has been successfully siphoned from many of the
main issues which threaten us as a country.
We are after all a hoopla country, shoot'em-up, win-a-
win-win and glorious hurrahs over haw clever and smart
we really are. Our success has been more due to geography
and economic logistics than sagacity. Our conflicts this
century until the current confrontation in the Far Bast
have very well been up this alley. So successful have
we been that we cannot countenaaut# the Jqng-haul at dep
rivation and self-denial which all too often axe involved in
the finality of survival. ...
The United States won the battles of World War II, but
we lost the war because of our lack at diplomatic savvy.
Bring the boys home earned the mothers and the fathers
and the wives and the uncles and aunts after World War D.
tye did $nd turned the situation over uatyety to Red fatten
which know n0 boundaries
It is the nature of domocracias that we have to do-tt-
ourselves. We appear impotent te gat other nations, as is
ical Center Staff.
Once a professional singer, she
entertained patients at both the
Valley Forge Army Hospital and
the PoatesviUe Hospital during
World War H, and sang in the
Atlanta JWV Met 112
From Convention Co-Chairmen
Atlanta is proud once again to host a national conven
tion of tb£ Jewish War Veterans.
We remember with great joy {
fulfillment which resulted to the
gates to the new epochal conven
1951. ,
t]
equal and perhaps even greater 1
toilZ be had by one and all and \
liberations of the delegates assem]
thrust and inspiration to carry
decade with new dimensions.
It has been a special pleasu«
Voice of patriotic American Jewry,
r its Seventy-Fifth Convention. This
YWf«Afi'yt
led mill provide
the group into ti
to ipork with the
tfpportunity to reassess the matter of
dime dissent leaves elf and disloyalty
tyatters restricted to any one ethnic
ire broad consummate ideals for an
$pt that somehow the delegates can
it problems and begin the grasarodt
•define the measures of American
teer members of our local comm
convention and we thank them
Again, our official and pert
gates. ELLIOTT J. GOLD)
ALFRED SCHWAR*j
Altanta Convention I
their cooperation,
greetings to the dele-
welcomes the delegates to Georgia
r id time in two decades. No mere
start anew the opinions which can
of our people in our administration
domacy should not and cannot be a
jfgst that proper beginnings can be
CREDO
I have been asked to write an arftple about my t\
when I was Commander of the Atlanta Post of the Jewish
War Veterans. This goes back tp |g|2, eighteen years agp,
and would take some research of my thoughts back then.
I think it would be more fitting to explain my ffejjugs
about JWV rather than pin-pointing a single year. They
actually started when I first became a member and still
exist today.
I have always felt, that by the Grace pf God, I am able
to work for an organization, while many qf my follow
veterans are in hospitals, too many to spend the rest of
their lives there. Every veteran hfs a responsibility to these
men.
I went to work for JWV to do whatever I could to make
my buddies in the hospitals know that we lucky ones care.
To make them fuel that there is * place for them in this
world and to bring friendship and understanding to them.
4 then went to work on other committees, such as Autpr-
From Atlanta’s Mayor
Dear Fellow Veterans:
On behalf of the City gf AtifUtd f#4 Per
sonally, I take great pleasure and pride in
> VETERA^ P*
Youth, our Elderly, Civil
ly are not aware that ere have
dy, recog-
programf anywhere in our country. This program has given
life to inariy people in our community.
How can I explain my feelings prhen there are npt
words to help describe them. I cannot put on paper the
warmth of a handshake from a hospitalized veteran. His way
of saying “Thank you." Or from a mother whose child has
been saved through our blood program when she hugs you
and without saying a word, eloquently expresses ‘Thank
youi”
I would have to say, that when one has given of his
time and realizes that people, ail people, benefit from what
our organization has attempted to ao, this is the finest
feeling one can have and most rewarding.
I have been proud to . have been Commander of JWV
and feel good kn° win g that all pommanders after me have
Vfcic*ANs