SHOFAR Fill in the Ranks Strengthen your Chapter with 14 year old BUY Members UNITED STATES BONDS AND STAMPS Official Organ A-B'nai B'rith Youth Organization VOL. XVIII MARCH 26, 1943 No. 15 AZA TO HELP RECRUIT FARM WORKERS Chi-AZA Initiates City Joins With Vocational Service Bureau Wide Blood Donor Drive Chicago Youth Mobilized to Enroll Donors In Promoting Victory Farm Volunteers After AZA Drive Nets 1,000 Applications HOME CANVASS JEWISH YOUTH TO BE STARTED TO HELP SOLVE BY OCD YOUTH FOOD SHORTAGE Chicago, Ill.-The Chicago A. Z. A. Council recently initiated a city-wide Blood Donor Campaign 500,000 Non-Farm which pressed into service 17,000 Youth Needed youths of the city as well as the newspapers and radio stations. The drive came on the heels of a Washington, D. C.-An inten- successful campaign concluded by sive campaign to recruit Jewish the Chicago Council which en- youth for summer farm work in rolled 1,000 applicants to donate order to help relieve the national blood to the American Red Cross. food shortage is being inaugur- Starting first as an A. Z. A. ated on April 1 by the B'nai project to enlist all Alephs as B'rith through its youth organi- blood donors. a plan was later zation, the Aleph Zadik Aleph, formulated. by Stuart Hillman, and through its Vocational Service Council War Service Chairman: Bureau, it was announced by Mr. R. A. Baur, Director of the Philip M. Klutznick, President of Chicago Red Cross Blood Donor A. Z. A.'s Supreme Advisory Center; Mr. Fred Mann, B'nai Council, and Alfred A. Benesch, B'rith Council Blood Donor chairman of the B'nai B'rith Na- Chairman, and Bill Kaplan, City tional Vocational Service Com- Director, to include all the youth mittee. groups of the city as solicitors in The B'nai B'rith program will a city-wide drive to enroll blood AID TO OUR FIGHTING RUSSIAN ALLIES The first A. Z. A. Chapter to report be part of the nation-wide drive donors in the city of Chicago. that a Clothing Drive had been or- of the U. S. Office of Education ganized for the relief of our Russian Allies was Max Kaufman Chap. 461 of Clarksdale, Miss. The Mr. William Temple, director of and the Extension Service of the the C. Y. O., was placed in charge entire city of Clarksdale has been mobilized by the Alephs and many youth and adult groups have U. S. Department of Agriculture of the A. Y. R., the O. C.D. Youth joined in to aid in the collection of clothes. The school children have also set aside a week for the to enlist 500,000 non-farm youth Organization of Chicago, which collection of this clothing. Clothing depots have been set up and the citizens were urged to bring in the Victory Farm Volunteers. will undertake a house to house all available clothing to these depots. Already thousands of articles bearing the "Friendship Tag" The program, said Benesch and canvsas to enlist blood donors. of A. Z. A. have been collected and shipped to the collection headquarters. Pictured above are Klutznick, will "serve the three- Bill Kaplan was appointed assist- Alephs and Advisors of the Max Kaufman Chapter standing behind a pile of clothing at one of the fold purpose of providing much- ant to Mr. Temple. collection depots. needed labor for wartime farm In the A. Z. A. blood donor needs, toughening young Jewish drive a total of 1,000 applications men for subsequent military train- were turned in by the Chicago A. z. A. Chapters. Simon Heller Philadelphia AZA Book No Bottleneck In ing and service, and giving Jew- ish youth an unusual opportunity Chap. 506 was awarded the Coun- Clarksdale, for try-out experience in agricul- cil trophy for having acquired tural work." the greatest number of applica- Drive Gains Momentum Everyone Helping To Use Full Machinery tions. The Chapter also received B'nai B'rith will work with all a $25.00 War Bond presented by Jewish youth groups interested in Clarksdale, Miss. Large the Chicago B'nai B'rith Council. the project. The publications and 10,000 Book Goal Set by Council; Letter packing boxes, which had been personnel of its Vocational Serv- one of the handicaps in the Reading AZA Holds From Aleph Shows Spirit of Cooperation Russian Relief Clothing drive ice Bureau and the A. z. A. will sponsored by Max Kaufman be utilized for this purpose. Co- Chap. 461, are now available operative relationships are being Induction At B. B., Philadelphia, Pa. Twenty-one Adelson from Aleph Fred Cantor, through the cooperation of a established with the Jewish Agri- Philadelphia A. Z. A. Chapters are of Har Sinai Chap. 60: cultural Society, Jewish vocation- J. W. V. Meeting friendly lumber company and participating in the Victory Book "Dear Lowell: the High School Vocational De- al service agencies, and the pub- Campaign in an effort to match lic schools. I am writing to tell you how partment. the number of books contributed Reading, Pa.-At a joint meet- sorry I am to not have been able Lumber for the boxes is be- Although some Jewish youth by the entire city. Thus far in the ing of the B'nai B'rith Lodge and to collect more books for our re- ing donated to the campaign will be placed individually in extensive campaign which began Jewish War Veterans, Reading cent victory book campaign. The by the Bornman Lumber Co. farm homes, an effort will be early in March, more than 2.000 Chap. 203 held a formal induc- reason being, I work in the Signal and the students of the Voca- made wherever possible to recruit books have been collected by A. tion of eight new pledges. Speak- Depot from four in the afternoon tion department are building and place groups of young peo- z. A. boys and deposited in offi- ing for the three groups at this until twelve-thirty at night. This the containers under the di- ple at farm work. Thus, a dozen cial collection agencies. enables me but a few leisure hours rection of Paul Hunter. or so boys from the same A. Z. A. meeting was the Rev. Dr. Evans. Joshua Chap. 49 has reported in the morning. Besides working chapter may be working together Dr. Evans praised the work of that 1.000 books were collected by on the same farm. the B'nai B'rith in its efforts to nights I happen to be social chair- their Alephs in one day. Ernest man and captain of the bowling For many years A. Z. A. has guide the Jewish youth of Amer- Milou, Council Aleph Godol, has team in my chapter, and also an Montreal AZA To Send been promoting the interest of ica through the medium of the collected 200 books, while Ed air-raid warden in my neighbor- Jewish youth in farming through A. Z. A. A report was given by Brown, Har Sinai Chap. 60, has hood. This shows you how much reported the collection of 180 time I have to myself. If I had Comforts To Ten the scholarships which it main- Aleph Godol, Bert Brown on the tains at the National Farm "state" of the A. Z. A. Chapter books from his friends and neigh- more time my eighty-seven books School. He reported that a_new Pledge bors. would have amounted to one hun- "Adopted" Buddies At present the Executives of Class was now being schooled and that fifteen new Alephs were Each Aleph in the city was dred and eight-seven books. the A. Z. A. and the Vocational awaiting entrance into the Order. provided with 10 printed slips 'Give the Books You Want to Service Bureau are working at Montreal, Can. It was an- Keep' is a good slogan. I found plans for the program in consul- with instructions to place same nounced that the Alephs of Mon- under the front doors of his im- out it helped a lot in collecting tation with officials of the U. S. treal had adopted ten service men Office of Education and the De- Alephs Raise Funds mediate neighbors. The slip indi- my few books. You see I just overseas in a partment of Agriculture. Further cates that A. Z. A. is cooperating went to some neighbors, told them For J. N. drive by the in the Victory Book Campaign and about the drive and mentioned details of the program will ap- youth organiza- pear in the next issue of THE that an A. Z. A. boy will return our slogan, and in a few days tions of that SHOFAR. Jacksonville, F1a. - The to collect and deposit books that found it to bring results. city to procure Alephs of Jacksonville Chap. the family wishes to contribute. I want you to know that just comforts for 272 collected $60.00 during the The slogan "Give books you wish because our drive is over it soldiers abroad. Donate to the life-blood of your recent Jewish National Fund to keep" has been adopted. All doesn't mean that I'll stop col- The Alephs chapter bring in new 4-year- drive. Alephs have been supplied with lecting books. I expect to double ill endeavor old members. The money collected during post card report forms on which my amount in the next few weeks. to contribute J. N. F. Flag Day was sent to they may individually indicate the Yours sincerely, or raise funds "adopted" soldiers will consist of number of books collected and the National Headquarters by Aleph Fred Cantor. to send the soldiers luxuries a standard assortment of jam, the Alephs as their contribution deposited. 10,000 books is the goal set by which are at times so difficult to razor blades, chocolate, cigarettes, to this worthy cause. The following letter was re- the Philadelphia A. Z. A. Council obtain in the fields of operation. socks, etc., along with letters of ceived by City Director Lowell to be collected by end of March. Comfort boxes sent to these cheer.