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December 18, 1953 Temple !3 e tl1,-El 6S8 Bro~d St . R. :L~.--------. Rhode lslond's Only Anglo-Jewish Greotest Newspoper Independent In Weekly The JewisffHl'fiJa Rhode Island VOL. XXXVIIl, No. 42 FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1913 PROVIDENCE, R. I TWELVE PAGES 10 CENTS THE COPY Prevention, Control of Family l'roblems to , Be Study Project Technion Starts Capital NEW YORK-Three. American of St. Paul and the Rosenberg communities. each typical of its Foundation of San Francisco. The $100,000 Fund Campaign type, but widely separated as to three new projects will be under geographic location, population, way by January, 1954, and will history and pe-rsonality, have been help check findings concerning selected by the Community Re­ social problem patterns which Fain, Weisberg search Associates, Inc., to test and were uncovered in the Community demonstrate methods of preven­ Research Associates' original St. tion and control of family prob­ Paul study. To Head Drive lems in a new million dollar, four­ Out of the original study by year project. Community. Research Associates Joseph W. Wunsch, national From East to West. the three are came the startling fact that about president of the American Tech~ Hagerstown, Md., with a popUla­ six per cent of the population were nton Society, announced today tion of 70.000 and a great h istori­ absorbing well over half of all that Irving Jay Fain and Mark cal tradition; Winona, Minn., health and welfare funds, both Weisberg have accepted the co­ typical mid-western town with a public and voluntary. ch airmanship of the Southern New population cf 40,000; and San England Chapter of the American Mateo, Cal., comparatively new Multi-Problem Patterns Technion Society's Capital Fund and fast - growing metropolitan Further, it disclosed that more Campaign. area of 300,000. All three study than half of these people had de­ The goal of the America-n locations will be county-wide in veloped multi-problem patterns Technion Society is to raise $10,- sc-ope to gather both urban and and that to effect rehabilitation 000,000 in the United Sta tes. rural data. and prevent recw-ring cycles of Quo~ for R. I. Three famous foundations are misery they would require family­ underwriting CRA projects with centered treRtment rather than The goal for Rhode Island has funds aggregating $1 ,250,000. They , the scattered attempts by repre­ been set at $100,000, with Provi­ are the Grant Foundation of New sentatives of many agencies treat­ dence bein g allotted a quota of York, thP. Hill Family Foundation ing various facets of the problems. $60,000, and the remainder of this fflVING JAY FAIN MARK WEISBERG State, plus Taunton and Fall River, making up the remaining $40,000. The quotas are based on UJA Pays Tribute Synagogue Offers Ilfadassah to Attempt Control a three year pledge payment plan. In conjunction with this cam­ Baby-Sitting Service paign, the government of Israel Of Rheumatic Fever In Israel has provided a 1,200-dunam t.ract To Mrs. Pilavin ATLANTA, Ga-Parents who o! land to serve as a campus site About 20 members of the Provi­ want to attend Friday evening NEW YORK-The first large-· bicillin tablets, a new antibiotic for the New Technion. In addition, dence J ewish Community were in services at Ahavath Aehim scale attempt to control rheuma- drug of the penicillin family, will $10,000,000 will be raised within New York last week-end to join Synagogue in the future don't tic fever in Israel will be inaugu- be given daily for lo ng periods to Israel. some 1200 delegates to the annual have to stay home because they rated by an American-- trained Is- the young patients. A shipment Fain, long identified with com­ conference of the United J ewish can't arrange for baby-sitters. raeli physician who spent 12 of 15,000 tnblets of bicillin made munal causes, and a promim.mt Appeal held at the Waldorf Astoria The congregation is taking months in the United States pre- available without cost to Hadassah Pawtucket busineS&JI1en, is presi­ Hotel. care of that. It has started a paring for this mission, it was an- by Wyeth International Limited, Ident of the Urban League of The Providence group was head­ story and play hour for young nounced this week. Inc.. a Philadelphia pharmaceu- Greater Providence: a member of" ed by Alvin A. Sopkin, president o! children, to be held in the syna ­ The Israeli physician, now en- tical concern, has been dispatched the executive board of the Union the General Jewish Committee. gogue vestry room while Sab­ route to J ~rusalem following ad- to Jerusalem for the project. of American Hebrew Congrega­ At the fin al session of the three­ bath eve services are being held. vancecl studies at Mt. Sinai Hos- The condition of the children tions, and national vice president day conference. Sopkin presented pital and Cornell Medical College involved in the Jerusalem project of the American Technion Society. the National UJA with a check in New York City, is Dr. Ernst will be checked regularly and com- Mark Weisberg, president of the from Providence for $100,000 as an Nahum EhrE"nfeld. He was brought pared with that of rheumatic fever Alrose Chemical Company, is additiorial payment on the 1953 Brandeis Recei\/es to this country by Hadassah under patients in Israel treated by other chairman of the board of directors allocation. a Magnes-Warburg Fellowship. means. At least one year's time of Jetal Finishers. Ltd., Birming- Back in Providence this week. The project will be conducted would be required before conclu- ham, England; director of the Sopkin comm~nted that the pay­ among 250 children of school and sive results can be expected. If Textile R esearch Institution, and ment was made possible through Half Million Gift pre-school ~.ge in Jerusalem found Ithe J erus1dem experiment proves vice-chairman of the R. I . Sec­ loans from local banks on the WALTHAM- Six year old Bran­ by Hadassnh doctors to have suf- successful, this method of treat- tion of the American Chemical strength of pledges made in the deis University this ,.week received fered from rheumatic fever. ment will be adopted in other in- Society. 1953 campaign . "I cannot empha- a gift of a half-million dollars Under Dr. Ehrenfeld's plan, stitutions in Israel. New Technion Foreseen size strongly enough the need for from the Charles Hayden Founda ­ According to Fain, "Success prompt payment of pledges al- tion. This gift is the largest sin­ of the Capital Fund Campaign ready made in the current cam- gle gift in the history of American UJA Votes Goal of 119 Million will mean a new Technion large palgn," he said. Jewish phllanthropy from a nOn- enough to cope with Israel"s urgent Highlight of the Conference J ewish source, and the largest in­ need for technological guidance. from a local point of view was the dividual gift in the University's To Aid Israel's Economy It will mean a school suited to presentation of a Chanukah Meno- history. rah to Mrs. Albert Pilavln of Toe contribution, according to NEW YORK- The 1954 na tion- 100,000 immigrants awaiting final ~~~o~~~e~t.le;!t ;t;ip~e~t~ ~r:~~: Provi dence as she stepped down J . Willard Hayden of Lexington, wide campaign of the United settlement on the land, and hasten cient flow of graduate eng·ineers from the post or National Chair- Mass.. president of th'? Hayden J ew ish Appeal was set in motion the final lntegration into Israel's to furnish the instruction, the ,.1an of the UJA Women's Dlvi- , Foundation. will go towards the here Sunday at the final session economy of 120.000 recent immi- know-how and the leadership to slon- a position she has held for construction of a million-dollar of the U.JA ' ".i three-day Annual grant agricultural colonists. make Israel's agrJculture, indus- the past year. The gift was pre- science building on the university's Conference as more than 1,200 3) Speed the movement to Is- try and t.rarle flour1sh .0 sented by Edward M. M . Warburg, 192-acre campus In Waltham. community leaders representing rnel of 20.000 distressed men, Need Trained Personnel UJA national chairman. who paid The gift is in keeping with the the oVerwhelming body or Amert- women and chlldren. many of high tribute to Mrs. Pil avln's lea- pattern of philanthropy set up by can J ews adopted a goal of $11 9,- them from tension -areas in North Weisberg stated that "The two dershJp, devotion and ha rd work. the Hayden Foundation, in whlch 921.150 and voted "a supreme Africa. and others from cent.rat industries that have advanced The Menorah bears the following one-h alf of the total ts provided effort" for t. h e raising of this sum and western Europe. more rapidly since \Vorld \Var n inscription : by the ro11ndntlon, with the pro- to hasten tsraer s economic free~ 4) PitJvide food clothing shel- are the chemical and electronic "For Mrs. Albert Pilavln. Chair- vision th at the recipient furnish dam and to finance urgent life- ter, educntionnl 'aid, voc~tional mdustries. Israel is well suited to man of the Nation al Women's the remainder. saving a nd refu gee settlement . ti nining nnct medical assistance to I take part in these industries, pro­ Di vision 1953 'who kindled the pwr0o1_g1dra. ms throughout the free 1165,000 sick and impove_ i ished vided it has the necessru y trained li ght a nd hope for our people', with in personnel With such personnel.
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