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WEEKLY SERVING AMERICAN CITIZENS OF JEWISH
THE OLDEST AND M i 'T WIDELY CIRCULATED JEWISH PUBLICATION IN THIS TERRITORY
VOL. 23 NO. 1
$170,000,000 Drive
To Be Launched
On February 22nd
New York, (JTAT —A twelve
point relief and rehabilitation pro
gram of the $170,000,000 drive pro
claimed by the United Jewish Ap
peal is outlined by Henry Morgen
thau, Jr., general chairman of the
U. J. A., who announces that the
national drive will be officially
launched at a two-day “standard
setting conference” which will
open on Feb. 22 in Washington. A
record number of 4,000 commun
ities will participate in the first
phase of the United Jewish Appeal
campaign, he stated, estimating
that an army of more than 15u,
000 volunteers would be mobilized
throughout the country “to bring
the humanitarian challenge of this
campaign of survival and recon
struction to every element in the
American community.”
Declaring that "unless we heip
them now to emerge from the mis
ery and uncertainty of the post
war period, the first victims of
Hitler will have lost their strug
gle for freedom and peace,” Mr.
Morgenthau listed the following
urgent objectives of the U. J. A.
campaign:
1. Relief and rehabilitation of
, large sections of the Jewish sur
vivors in Poland, Rumania and
Hungary.
2. Supplementary food, retrain
ing and preparation for emigra
tion for 250,000 Jewish displaced
persons in Germany, Austria and
Italy.
3. Medical care, education and
rehabilitation of most of the 170,
000 remaining Jewish children in
Europe.
4. Emigration assistance for
homeless Jews who can be admitt
ed to Palestine, the United States
and other countries.
5. Large - scale shipment of
medicines, clothing, food and other
supplies to distress areas in Eur
ope.
6. Medical assistance and main
tenance for newly-arrived refugees
in Palestine. (Under present reg
ulations 1,500 refugees are per
mitted to enter Palestine each
month.)
7. Retraining and rehabilitation
of former inmates of concentra
tion camps who reach Palestine.
8. The acquisition of land in
Palestine for the expansion of
Jewish settlement and agricultural
development.
9. The establishment of new
rural settlements in Palestine and
the development of new opportun
ities for the absorption of large
masses of Jewish immigrants from
Europe.
10. Financial assistance to refu
gees who find a haven in the
United States to help them during
the initial period of adjustment to
American life.
11. Help for Jewish children,
many of them orphans, who are
coming to the United States from
displaced persons camps.
12. Resettlement, retraining and
integration aid for to
this country.
Mr. Morgenthau called upon all
Americans regardless of race,
creed or color to share in “this
life-saving and life-rebuilding en
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Address First Annual Meeting Os
S.E. Region Os J.D.C., February 9th
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JUDGE MAURICE BERNON
Moses A. Leavitt, Executive Vice
Chairman of the Joint Distribu
tion Committee; Judge Maurice
Bernon of Cleveland, Chairman
of the J. D. C. National Council;
and Louis H. Sobel, J. D. C. Secre
tary, will be the featured speak
ers at the first annual meeting
of the J. D. C. Southeast Region
in the Hotel Roosevelt, New Or
leans, on Sunday, Feo. 9.
William P. Engel of Birming
ham, Chairman of the Southeast
Region, announcing the meeting,
disclosed that representatives
from communities in nine south
ern states are expected to attend
the meeting. The meeting will be
open to the public.
There will be no solicitation of
funds. The J. D. C. major Ameri
can agency aiding Jewish surviv
ors abroad, receives funds for its
relief, reconstruction and emigra
tion programs in behalf of dis
tressed Jews overseas from the
$170,000,000 campaign of the
United Jewish Appeal. ,
To Speak In Jax
On February 11
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JOSEPH GOLDBERG
Joseph Goldberg, National chair
man of the membership c< mmitt
ee of the Zionist Organization of
America, will be guest speiker at
a meeting of the Jacksonville
Zionist District on Tuesday, Febru
ary 11th at 8 p. m. at the JACK
SONVILLE JEWISH CENTER.
The general public is cordially
invited to attend.
JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 1947
MOSES A. LEAVITT
J. D. C. plans for an increased
assistance program overseas dur
ing 1947, with emphasis on recon
struction measures, will be dis
cussed at the New Orleans con
ference in the light of decisions
adopted at the Thirty-second An
; nual Meeting of the Committee
l in New York on Jan 12.
Mr.. Leavitt, who directs the far
flung activities of the J. D. C.,
■ which last year expended over SSB,
; 500,000 in its aid programs, is ex
, pected to describe the present sit
uation confronting Europe’s Jew
ish men, women and children in
their efforts to build a new life.
( One of the nation’s leading au
thorities in the field of overseas
• assistance, Mr. Leavitt presents
in illuminating detail the challenge
of 1947 and the constructive role
of the J. D. C. in behalf of the
survivors.
Judge Bernon, prominent civic
leader and public servant, brings
a vital and significant message
on the partnership between the
Brotherhood Week To Be
Observed By B’nai B’rith
In connection with Brotherhood
Week, which President Truman
has asked the nation to observe
February 16-23, the Anti-Defama
tion League of B’nai B’rith is mak
ing available to interested groups
two one-reel films: “The House I
Live In” starring Frank Sinatra
and “Brotherhood of Man”, an ani
mated cartoon based on “Races of
Mankind.”
The two short films illustrate
dramatically and entertainingly
the need for better relations a
mong Americans of every faith,
color and creed.
The foreign language division
of the Anti-Defamation League
will distribute six brief radio mes
sages stressing the need for demo
cratic human relations to hun
dreds of radio stations which carry
foreign language programs. Rang
ing from sixty to ninety seconds
in length, the releases will be
broadcast every day except Sun
day, during Brotherhood Week.
In addition, the division will
hold mass Brotherhood Celebra
tion evenings and will send per
tinent feature articles to the num
erous foreign language press.
LOUIS H. SOBEL
American Jewish community and
its overseas arm, the Joint Distri
bution Committee. Judge Bernon
is also Chairman of the J. D. C.
East Central Region.
Mr. Sobel returned recently from
France, where he helped direct
European headquarters of the J. D.
C. in Paris. His report on the op
erations of the Committee on the
continent and on the needs of the
survivors is of paramount inter
est to American Jews.
Vice-Chairman of the Southeast
Region who issued a call for wide
spread attendance at the meeting,
are:
Atlanta, Ga. Armand May
Goldsboro, N. C., Lionel Weil
Miami, Fla., Stanley C. Myers
Nashville, Tenn., Lee W. Kuhn
New Orleans, La., Edgar B. Stern
Tampa, Fla., Day J. Apte
Included in the region are North
and South Carolina, Southern Ken
tucky, Tennessee, Georgia, Ala
bama, Mississippi, Florida and
Louisana outside the Shreveport
area.
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HARRY HYMANSON
New Orleans —Harry Hymanson,
former USO-JWB field supervisor
for the Southeastern Region has
been appointed to the field secre
tary staff of the Southern Section,
National Jewish Welfare Board,
it was announced by Jules J. Pag
lin, president of the Southern Sec
tion.
The section serves North and
South Carolina, Louisana, Georgia,
Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Ar
kansas, Texas, and Tennessee,
whose Jewish community centers
and YMHAs are affiliated with
the National Jewish Welfare
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80% HATE
SOMEBODY
At least four-fifths of the Amer
ican population have feelings of
hostility toward some minority
group, it is revealed in a scientific
study released by Dr. SJuart W.
Cook, Director of the Commission
on Community Interrelations of
the American Jewish Congress.
This conclusion is based on a
study of the life-experiences of
437 college students made by
Gordon W. Alpert, Professor of
Psychology at Harvard University
and Bernard M. Kramer, a Har
vard graduate student. The sub
jects of the study were enrolled
in elementary courses in Psychol
ogy in Dartmouth, Harvard and
Radcliffe.
Eighty per cent of these stud
ents admitted some form of pre
judice against a minority group.
Dr. Cook declared. “While there
is reason to suppose,” he added,
that college students (perhaps
especially those studying psychol
ogy) are disposed to give less pre
judiced responses than a more un
selected group, still there is no
ground for believing their life
experiences with which this study
deals to be in any way typical.
These students came from all over
the country and they are a fair
cross-section of the nation’s college
youth.”
On the basis of the students’ re
plies, the study divided them into
two approximately equal groups,
one more prejudiced and the other
less prejudiced. The women stud
ents proved to be less prejudiced
than the men with 67% less preju
diced students at Radcliffe, exclu
sively female students, as com
pared with 61% less prejudiced
students at Harvard, exclusively
male students, and 34% ot Dart
mouth, also exclusively male.
The study showed that children
were born without any prejudice
but gradually acquired those of
their parents. Each of the stud
ents was asked to report the ex
tent to which he thought his atti
tudes toward minority groups had
been influenced by his parents.
The table below shows the re
sults:
STUDENTS REPORTING VAR
IOUS DEGREES OF PARENTAL
j INFLUENCES
Taken over parents’ attitudes 18%
Taken them over in a modified
way 51%
Reacted against them 6%
Not been influenced by them 25%
TOTAL 100%
Jewish Radio Program
Scheduled For Sunday
The Thief and the Hangman,
a radio play by Morton Wishen
grad based on an ancient fable of
the Yemenite Jews, will be pre
sented on Sunday, February 2nd,
1947, (NBC network, 12:30 P.M.,
EST).
The Eternal Light, a coast-to
coast radio program presented
under the auspices of the Jewish
Theological Seminary of America,
is a public service presentation
of the National Broadcasting
Company. Dr. Moshe Davis is
program editor.
$3.00 A YEAR