Jewish Herald-Voice (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 44, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 7, 1943 Page: 1 of 8
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JANUARY 7, IMS
Scrap Dealers
Lauded For Work
In Scrap Drive
REJECT ZIONISM
PRESENT A. SAMPSON
WITH WATCH FOR
EXCELLENT SERVICE
AN ANTI-ZIONIST LEADER STATES
THE POSITION OF HIS GROUP
By Rabbi Hyman J. Schachtel
Nation Acclaims Work Of Jewish
National Fund In The Rebuilding Of
A Jewish Homeland In Palestine
The Scrap Metal Dealers of
Houston were paid singular tri-
bute at the close of the News-
papers Scrap Metal Campaign at
the closing ceremonies of the
Campaign which set the pace for
the entire nation. Local notables
spoke and added their praise to
the fine job done by the citizenry
of Houston and especially of the
Scrap Metal Dealers who pitched
in and did their part to make the
campaign a success.
Judge Roy Hofheinz, in speak-
ing for the County and its citi-
zens, lauded the work of the
newspapers and he declared that
in no place in the country did the
local papers give more space,
more stories or more pictures to
the drive than did those in Hous-
ton.
“And they had the help of the
entire community,” he added.
Youngsters in school went through
attic and cellar and garage with
the one idea—that they were col-
lecting materials to make muni-
tions to defeat the Axis.” The
same zeal was found among work-
ers of all ages and in all sections
of the county, he said.
Scrap dealers were lauded for
their contribution to the success
of the drive. “They contributed
100 per cent of the manpower
necessary to process and segregate
the metal and prepare it for ship-
ment entirely without cost,” Judge
Hofheinz said.
“No other dty has such a rec-
ord," he said, “but the fight is
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American Jewry is being subjected to a blitzkrieg by the political
Zionists. They fill the press and platform. They miss no oppor-
tunity to try to convince us that we are Jews by race and nationality.
Palestine is our hope and salvation, they insist. Not until a Jewish
State in Palestine is a fact, they declare, will we stop anti-Semitism
and end what they call our tragic sense of homelessness.
But the blitzkrieg has failed. Only fifty thousand are members
of the Zionist Organization of America. Even in this compararively
small number there are many who hive given their support to de-
velopments in Palestine without by any means subscribing to the
Zionist political platform. Of course, this does not stop the zealous
political Zionist from making it
RICE PROFESSOR TO
SPEAK AT B’NAI BTUTH
CULTURAL MEETING
Dr. John Willis Slaughter, pro-
fessor of sociology at Rice In-
statute, will be the principal
speaker at the cultural program
of the joint meeting of Hirzl
Lodge B’nai B’rith and the Wom-
en’s Auxiliary which will be held
at the Jewish Community Center
on Tuesday, January 12. The
cultural program will begin prom-
ptly at 9 p. m. Dr. Slaughter’s
topic will be "Blueprints for
Peace.”
Mr. Carroll Ault, director of
music for the First Presbyterian
Church, will give the musical
program. He will be accompan-
ied by Edwin Cady, organist at
the'same church.
The business meetings of the
two organizations will open prom-
ptly at 8:00 and members are
urged to be present at that hour
so that the schedule might be
followed. Herzl Lodge will elect
officers for the coming term and
much business of importance will
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Refugee Committee Head Says
Refugees Must Stay In Europe
seem as if this legitimate philan-
thropic concern embraces a com-
pletely defeatist pessimism for the
Jews in the postwar world; makes
acceptable a concept of mass mi-
gration; approves political ob-
jectives unrelated to the strictly
humanitarian considerations.
I, for one, differ from political
Zionists in their historical ap-
praisal of the Jews in Europe.
True, the last two decades have
been bitter ones in some coun-
tries, but those decades were only
part of a stream of history which
in the last century and a h»if has
shown enormous progress in the
expansion of freedom. The de-
velopment and achievement of the
Jews in Europe in the last 150
years are not to be measured only
by a recapitulation of their dis-
abilities and advantages It is
no more accurate to make that
stress than it is to describe the
history of the Jews in Palestine
only in terms of the tensions of
the last 20 years, the friction be-
tween Arab and Jew, the out-
breaks and pogroms against the
Jews. That is not history. That
is a partisan portrait
There are in particular two
points that seem to me to need
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Detroit, Mich. (Special Dispatch) — The ‘‘dynamic city” of De-
troit made Jewish history this week when the greatest project of land
reclamation in Palestine ever conceived in post-Biblical times was
undertaken. The sessions of the Jewish National Fund, at its
biennial conference held here December 25-27, in the Book-Cadillac
Hotel, decided to undertake the reclamation of 2,000,000 dunam* of
Palestine land. This was the answer given by American Jewry to
the Nazi slaughter of 2,000/XX) Jews. A dunam of land to be re-
claimed for everyone of the 2,000,000 Jews slaughtered by the
in their coldblooded plan to exterminate all Jews in Nazi
countries.
The conference had many dramatic movements, but none
in colorfulness that of the
me-
morial service staged for the
2,000,000 Jewish victims of Naz-
ism. The service was marked by
the chanting of the traditional
Hebrew prayers for the dead. A
scene which set the whole con-
ference in tears was the re-enact-
ment of the Scriptural chapter de-
scribing the vision of Ezekiel in
the Valley of the Dead, culminat-
ing in the rising of the dead bones,
taking on new flesh and new life.
To those present, the resurrec-
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S. W. ZIONIST REGION
EXECUTIVE PLANS
EXTENSIVE PROGRAM
Houston—The first
the South
executive committee was
the Jewish Community
Sunday, January
number of the districts
ed. Matters of utmost
to the Zionists at the A1
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nost importance
Jewish Welfare Bureau Sees No
For The Proposed Home For Aged
New York (JPS) — Asserting that “there is grave danger of a
as soon as the opportunity occurs,” Sir Herbert
new rush outward
Emerson, High Commissioner for Refugees of the League of Nations,
writing in the January issue of Foreign Affairs on “the postwar
problems of refugees,” declares that “it must be the business of the
United Nations to see that this does not happen.”
Sir Herbert, who is also Director of the Intergovernmental Com-
mittee on Refugees in London, suggests four methods whereby new
homes will be found for the refugees; return to their own countries;
absorption in the countries of temporary asylum; normal emigration,
and large-scale settlements. Re-
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE
JEWISH COMMUNITY COUNCIL GIVEN AT THE
SIXTH ANNUAL MEETING SUNDAY, DEC. 20, 1942
At the last board meeting of the Jewish Welfare Bureau, held
Wednesday, December 30, 1942, at the Abe M. Levy Memorial
a motion was made, seconded and unanimously carried that
Jewish Welfare Bureau make a public statement of its care of
aged. This was felt to be important because the suggestion* for a
proposed Home for the Aged in Houston seems to imply that
are a number of Jewish indigent aged who are not receiving
attention.
The statement follows:
Ever since its inception the Jewish Welfare Bureau has
or arranged for the care of, all the aged Jewish people in
requiring assistance. The number of aged people serviced by
agency has varied from yeai
viewing these various prospects,
he writes:
“After the war some time is
likely to pass before the ebb and
fl<Av of migration reverts even
to pre-war conditions (in which,
it will be recalled, many restric-
tions were in operation). In or-
dinary circumstances, emigration
provides outlets for the overflow
of populations by spreading it
over countries where it can be
put to use economically, with
benefit to alL This presupposes
a reasonable degree of stability in
the countries of reception, a fact-
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DR. AXELROD REELECTED
PRESIDENT OF BETH
JACOB CONGREGATION
Dr. A. Axelrod was reelected
for the third consecutive term as
president of the Beth Jacob Con-
gregation at. the annual meeting.
Elected to serve with Dr. Axelrod
for the ensuing year are Abe
Silverman, reelected first vice
president; Abram L. Geller, re-
elected second vice president; W.
B. Samuelson, third vice presi-
dent Harry Shapiro, reelected for
the 6th consecutive term as re-
cording secretary; D. I. Lovitz,
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Once again I come to you with a report on the stewardship of the
Jewish Community Council as entrusted to this administration during
the current calendar year. A review of national events reveals that
we were not beset with quite the same problems that threatened
the Jewish community of America last year, such as the question of a
national referendum, the problem of national budgeting, the threat
of a disjoinder in the United Jewish Appeal, the apparent terrific
inner conflicts between national civic-protective agencies, and the
like. It is unfortunate that it takes a war to unite a people, but that
is precisely what has happened, at least on the national scene in this
country, during the current calendar year.
As brought home to us at the sessions of the General Assembly of
the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds, held in
Chicago last February, a continuing united fund-raising effort on the
part of the three major agencies, the JDC, the UFA, and the NRS, is
an assured fact. Likewise were we advised that a more concerted
effort than ever before would be bent, looking toward bringing about
a more harmonious inter-working relationship on the part of the
four major civic-protective agencies, namely, the American Jewish
Committee, the American Jewish Congress, the Anti-Defamation
League of B’nai B’rith, and the Jewish Labor Committee. Since that
time, these promises seem to show some semblance of bearing fruit,
with a possible joinder in their efforts on the part of even other
agencies of a kindred nature.
The effect on the local communities of a united stand in the
country at large, is for the greater part that of bringing mbre harmony
into the local community on national issues. Likewise, it aids in
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year. At the present
Jewish Welfare Bureeu is i
6 aged men, 8 aged won
4 aged couples, melting a
22 aged individuala
The type of care varies with 1
individual. Some live in
valescent homes, others, by
own choice, live in
hotels, still others live in
homes; and the remainder,
ticularly some of the womet
couples, maintain their own
The amount of financial
ance also* varies A few of
old people derive so;
from their own work or
taking in roomers or ^HjJ|
We feel that it contributes to the
independence and self-raspeet of
our clients if they are able to
earn something toward their own
maintenance. Four aged widows
received their financial
from the Pauline Sterne Wolff
Memorial Home, and of these two
receive supplementary aid from
the Houston-Harris County Board
of Public Welfare Most of the
people whom we serve are Or-
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