Evening star., 1928-12-17
DAWES LAUDS .JEWS|
FOR WELFARE WORK
"PhiIanthropic Spirit" of
Race Stressed in Address
i by Vice President.

Vice President charles G.. Dawes
smoke in high praise of the "philan-
III. s,::..1 spirit" of the Jewish race in an
address last night at the fourth biennial
convention of the Jewish Welfare Board
at the Jewish Community Center. The
Vice President was the principal speaker
at a banquet given last evening after
two business sessions earlier in the day:
Representatives of 800 constituent
societies of the Jewish Welfare Board
were present. They heard addresses ana
reports on the progress of the jewish
Center idea and listened to pleas from
Jewish Law leaders calling for the WIDER
development of the movement providing
cultural and recreational activities Tor
the growing Jewish generation.
Vice Presidents EuIOgy.
In the course of his address Vice
President Dawes said:
when men associate themselves III
a collective effort to render Self-Sacrl-
ficing service to their fellow men, trey
are engaging in what is not only one OF
the noblest endeavors of good citizen
shin. but its most effective one. Tnat
the record in this country OF JEWISH
nhiIanthropy-so largely non-Sectarlan
so largely and intelligently covering
the succor and encouragement OF tIle
man who does not have a tar chance
and who is down in the world, ana YET
so mindful of those who struggle Tor an
education to fit them for the higher
tasks cf life-So concerned with a Wlue
dist button among our people OF tne
beneflts of medical science and lnVen-
tion-that this record is so magnlncent,
while partly due to certain lndlVloualS'
great and great-hearted leaders IN the
world whom We all know, Is cnleIly oue
In the fact that behind Jewish philan-
thropy is always a collective pressure" q
Secretary WiIbur's Address.
Tn addressing the session yesterday
afternoon. Curtis D. Wilbur, Secretary
of the Navy. called on the American
oublic for a continuance of the same
type of service rendered during the war
to the men now in the service. He also
urged the adoption of the proposed
naval building program II "for no otner
reason than to make the Navy safe Tor
its men" Mr. Wilbur spoke OF the WORK
of the Jewish Welfare Board as tolloWS:
"An account of the service rendered
bv the Jewish Welfare Board during
the World War at this time would De
inspiring. The efforts put forth ny
that organization for the mental, pnysl-
cal and spiritual well being. not only OF
the Jewish soldiers but OF all others
within reach who sought the minlstra-
tions of the board, would inspire US
again to renewed activity, but VIII
not undertake to recount these activ-
ities. interesting and inspiring as they
NAV be. not only because of your own
greater familiarity with them, but also
because today their significance lies
not so much in the millions OF men
who were assisted whose spirits were
uulifted: whose hope and faith were
kindled. but rather in the fact that
there existed among the Jewish people
the desire to do things, which they
then ACCOMPLISHED, and that that desire,
as well as the fruits already derived
from it, still exists to comfort and oless
mankind. In your effort you showed
the same spirit which was shown oy
other great organizations with similar
purpose. You were not only mspire91
bv the same motive, but YOU joined
hands in effective cooperation In the
raising of funds for such service and
in the actual work upon the Held.
It Is a common experience OF men that
when various denominations and groups
engage in the type of humanitarian
work which was carried on during the
World War, that jealousy, envy and
rivalry spring UP and hamper the WORK.
Aid in World War Praised.
"These consequences of such work
we're greatly minimized or altogether
absent in the great endeavor In wnlcn
the men of this Nation co-operated
and co-ordinated their efforts. feel,
therefore. that today we may not only
congratulate ourselves that men were
helped and sustained during the World
War by your organization and by SINH
lar organizations; we may not only con-
gratulate ourselves that there was that
spirit of unity of effort which won the
war, but also that there was high
type Of high spiritual cooperation be-
tween our people which expressed itself
in the effort by your organization and
other organizations for the welfare of
the men who were giving so much for
the Nation"
In his presidential address Judge
irving Lehman, presiding officer, re-
ported the progress of the Welfare
Board and Jewish Center movements,
advising the delegates that there are
now 800 constituent societies of the
board and that the Jewish Center
movement has been making exceptional
progress in all the principal cities.
Committee Reports Read.
The service rendered Jewish men in
the Army and Navy was dealt with in
a report by DR.. Cyrus Adler, chairman
of the Army and Navy committee Of
the Jewish Welfare Board.
Harry L. Gluckman, executive direc-
tor of the Jewish Welfare Board, de-
clared that the most serious handicap
to the successful operation of any social
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