Bulletin, September 1934

September 1934 issue of the newsletter of the Louisville Section of the National Council of Jewish Women. The President's Report includes references to German emergency relief, boycott of German goods and stores that buy from German merchants, immigrant aid, and citizenship programs.

Mss. BJ N277a, Folder 105, National Council of Jewish Women. Louisville Section Records, 1906-2020, The Filson Historical Society, Louisville, Kentucky

Mss. BJ N277a Folder 105 Item 2

The transcript below is autogenerated and unedited.

No. 1

September 1934

LOUISVILLE SECTION BULLETIN
NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN

BOARD MEETINGS
Second Monday

10:00 A. M.

GENERAL MEETINGS

Third Monday

2:30 P. M.

CLASS ON INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Thursday Mornings

10:30 A. M.

BOOK REVIEW AND STUDY GROUP
Fourth Wednesday

3:00 P. M.

SEMINAR ON CONTEMPORARY JEWISH PROBLEMS

LUNCHEON MEETING
You are cordially invited to attend the open­
ing meeting Monday, October 15, at 1 P.M. in the
Assembly Room of Temple Adath Israel.
Dr. Joseph Rauch will speak on "Miss Henrietta
Szold and her work with the German refugees in
Palestine".
Please send reservations no later than Thurs­
day, October 11th, to Mrs. Harry Rosenbaum, 1416
Cherokee Road.

OFFICERS
President.................................................Mrs. J. M. Fuhrman
1st Vice President ...... Mrs. Allan Shapinsky
2nd Vice President............................... Mrs. Arthur Kling
Treasurer ........................................ .. Mrs. Lester Joseph
Assistant Treasurer ............................... Mrs. Carl Zellner
Recording Secretary ...... Mrs. Herman Handmaker
Corresponding Secretary ...... Mrs. Harry Klein
Assistant Corresponding Secretary . . Mrs. 'Vm. Frentz
Financial Secretary ........................... Miss Jessie Grauman
Assistant Financial Secretary . . . Mrs. Ed. Mickler
Auditor ..................................................... Mrs. Melvin Meyers
CHAIRMEN
Educational Committee ...... Miss Lillie Grauman
Program Committee................................... Mrs. Arthur Kling
Rules and Regulations Committee . . . Mrs. J. Zellner
Student Loan Committee ...... Mrs. Sam Salomon
Social "Welfare Committee . . . Mrs. Sidney Bernheim
Penny Lunch Committee.......................... Mrs. "Walter Appel
Penny Lunch "Workers .................. Mrs. Milton Oppenheimer
Treas. of Penny Lunch ’Workers .... Mrs. Dan Lorch
Press and Publicity...................... Mrs. Mose Oppenheimer
Bulletin Committee .......................... Mrs. Harry F. Cohen
Telephone Committee ...................... Mrs. Sidney Handmaker
Nominating Committee .......................... Mrs. Nat. Hoenig
Friendly Visitor Committee .................. Mrs. David Saag
Hospital Circles ........................... Mrs. Chas. Bensinger
Membership .................................................Mrs. Jos. Snadig

Budget ............................................

Co-Chairmen of Hospitality

International Relations
Civics ............................................
Legislative ........................ .
Motor Corp ..................................
Service to Foreign Born
Ways and Means .........................
Rural............................ . . .
Music ............................................
Drives ...........................................

. Mrs. Carl Zellner
(Mrs. Harry Rosenbaum
(Mrs. Jesse Rosenbaum
. . Miss Sara Landau
. Mrs. Alfred Joseph
Mrs. Estelle Kaufman
. Mrs. Ludwig Frank
. Mrs. Barnet Linker
. Mrs. Sol Turnheim
. . Mrs. Louis Levy
. . Madam Cara Sapin
. Mrs. Ben Solinger

The Council is very anxious to have all its members
actively participate in its work.
Please notify chairman of the committee in whose
work you are interested and she will put you on her com­
mittee.

SEMINAR ON CONTEMPORARY JEWISH PROBLEMS

The Jewish attitude toward life is that, by deter­
mined action based on reasonable conclusions, we can make
our world a better place in which to live.
With this
idea in mind, Rabbi Solomon N. Bazell has graciously ac­
cepted our invitation to lead a Council class weekly,
over a period of time. The class is intended primarily
to deal with the present situation, with current Jewish
problems, with those problems which today are actually
confronting us.
Because of his training, experience, personality and
keen understanding of Jewish history, Rabbi Bazell is em­
inently qualified to lead this class in Adult Jewish Edu­
cation.
The first class will be held Tuesday, October 30th,
2:30 P. M. at the Y. M. H. A. The majority vote of those
assembled will determine the day and hour of future class­
es which will be free and open to all Council members on
presentation of membership cards.

YOU are cordially invited to avail yourself of this
unusual opportunity to develop within yourself a sense of
stability that can come only from a basic understanding
of the problems which are actually challenging you today.

Blanch B. Ottenheimer (ltrs. Herbert E.)
Chairman.

The Penny Lunch at the George Morris School, of which
Mrs. Walter Appel is Chairman and Mrs. Dan Lorch is Vice
Chairman and Treasurer, reports that 600 children are fed
daily. The Council is handling the Penny Lunch without aid
from the Federal Government or the Family Service. Workers
are urgently needed. If interested, please call Mrs. Dan
Lorch, Highland 6584.

PRESIDENT’S REPORT FOR YEAR ENDING APRIL 16, 1954
In looking over the Minutes of the year that has
passed, one is amazed to see all the work that has been
accomplished. The Louisville Section actively cooperates
with all Civic and Philanthropic organizations of the City.
When the Whitehouse Conference asked for reports of
all work done with children under eighteen years of age,
this was the only organization doing volunteer work in
institutions. In November, in answer to a plea from the
Neighborhood House, old toys were collected and sent to
that institution, providing work for unemployed boys and
girls. The toys were then divided among Community Chest
agencies of which the Jewish Welfare Federation is one.
Several Council members sent many lovely toys to the Home
for Incurables while others remembered the children in the
Jewish Children’s Home for Kanukkah. Eight children at
the Home for Incurables were given candy for Christmas.
In addition, the Council sends one member each day to
the Jewish Children’s Home to read or tell stories to the
convalescents and other children.
Covers for fourteen
baby beds were donated by some, made and embroidered by
other Council members.
They were given at a most oppor­
tune time, as the Jewish Vfelfare Board has just decided to

have the entire interior of the Home redecorated.

During the year, three children have been coached, a
fifth grade girl in arithmetic and reading, a high school
girl in English and algebra, and an eighteen year old girl
at the Home for Incurables in science, English literature,
geography, and arithmetic. Three girls at the latter in­
stitution have been given piano lessons.
Through the efforts of the Committee, a motion picture
show is given every Tuesday night at the Home for Incura­
bles .
Several other members read to a group of older inmates
at the Home for Incurables.
Others do clerical work and
make out family budgets for the southern division of the
Family Service four days each week.
The Friendly Visitors (sub-committee) made many visits
for the Y. M. H. A.
Through the Memorial Fund, $306.75 has been assigned
this year to the Student Loan, Penny Lunch, and Jewish
Hospital. Although the sum of money so collected is con­
siderably smaller than in previous years, Council activi­
ties have thus been directly helped in their invaluable
aid to the Community of Louisville.
The Memorial Fund
Committee urges all its members and any interested friends
to remember it during all times of bereavement and grief,
and so keep it functioning for the benefit of Council phi­
lanthropies and relief of Louisville needs.
Our Hospital Circles, which are small social groups
formed to aid the Jewish Hospital, gave to it many gifts
of money, and has a special fund to aid nurses.
They
furnish a seamstress at the Hospital for mending and re­
pairing, and gave $100.00 to the Hospital Drive and spent
$75.00 for a Chase Doll.
Following the suggestions of Mrs. Krakaur, the Chair­
man of the Committee on Service to the Foreign Born, called
on all families who are interested in becoming American
citizens.
Several families are being helped secure their
citizenship papers, and one wanan received her final papers
this year.
The loans made by the Student Loan Fund far exceeded
our receipts, and we had to draw $600.00 from our Savings
account. We help Jewish Boys and Girls to obtain a higher
education, and the loans this year amounted to $1123.00.

Following the plans of last year, the Education Com­
mittee arranged for book reviews each month in the homes
of our members.
Books on current fiction, biography,
drama, poetry, philosophy and music were discussed.
Besides having a program on "Education through Recre­
ation" a member of this Community represented the Council
at the organization of the Better Films Council, and they
have cooperated with the Social Welfare and Immigrant Aid
Committee and conferred with the Superintendent of Public
Schools and with the neighborhood House to provide educa­
tion for iirmigrants under the Federal grant.
During the past year of continued depression and un­
employment, the Penny Lunch has been able to function,
thus carrying on its usefulness in the Community.
Since December 12th, through the Federal EmergencyRelief, six cents per lunch has been repaid the Penny
Lunch for each child financially unable to buy his own
food. With this relief, we are now able to give a greater
variety and a much larger portion for one cent to every
child, than could possibly have been managed without such
help. Just how long Federal aid will be given, we do not
know, but that relief has allowed the Penny Lunch to main­
tain a cash balance which can now be placed in its Reserve
Fund as a nucleus for next year, should such government
assistance not be available.
We are always thankful to receive any contributions
to the Penny Lunch, so that our finances may remain in
condition to meet increasing demands for food for desti­
tute children.
The Board of Education visited the Penny Lunch Room
this year and held ours as a model for school lunches in
the City.
In the month of November, we gave ten free lunches a
day, and during the month of January, we gave 834 lunches.
In February, 994 lunches were given and in March 1506
lunches were given.
Our Programs during this past year of difficult times
were designed to give us help and information.
We had on our platform this year, speakers from the
Community Chest, the Louisville Women's Crusade, the Negro
Health Council and the Bureau of Adult Education.

We cooperated with the State Board of Health to help
pass the Pure Food and Drug Bill.
As President of this Organization, I am on Dr. Vinsel’s Advisory Board of Public Recreation.
We cooperated with the Board of Trade on the National
Recovery Act and through our Chairman of Drives, we par­
ticipated in a house to house campaign. Also, through our
Chairman of Drives, we collected $457.69 for the Red Cross
and sold many tickets for the Y. M. H. A. Revue.
The Council, feeling the dire need and the importance
of the German Relief Emergency Campaign, donated $300.00
and a check was sent to the Neighborhood House for the
citizenship class. He also sent jellies and preserves to
the Jewish Children's Home.
Letters and telegrams were sent to Senators and Con­
gressmen whenever necessary.
We had representation at the Kentucky Federation of
Women’s Clubs in Lexington and to the Fifth District meet­
ing of the same organization.
Among many important resolutions, are the following:
I
- THAT THE LOUISVILLE SECTION, COUNCIL OF JEWISH
WOMEN, ENDORSE THE ACTION OF THE NATIONAL BOARD IN DECLAR­
ING AN OFFICIAL BOYCOTT ON ALL GERMAN MADE GOODS.
II - THAT THEY EXAMINE CAREFULLY ALL LABELS ON GOODS
AND REFUSE TO BUY ARTICLES MADE IN ANY OF THE GERMAN STATES.
Ill - THAT THEY BE URGED TO REFRAIN FROM PURCHASING
ARTICLES IN STORES THAT CONTINUE TO BUY FROM GERMAN MER­
CHANTS .
Tie also passed a motion to give official sanction to
the National to undertake work as part of the Committee on
aid to German children.
One of the objects of this Com­
mittee is to place German children in this Community.
We voted at our Annual Meeting to keep the money left
at the end of this year to further this work.
It is not necessary for me to tell you how important
the work is that the Council is doing. After hearing all
our reports, I am sure you must realize that all of this
work could not have been done without membership.
Those
of you who have not participated in any of the work done,
are still a great part of the whole.
We need every one
of you and we need your friends.

Take the work of our Council to heart and not onlygive us a stronger support than you have this past year,
but help us enroll new members.
It is only by such support, can we continue to do
good in the Community.
Respectfully submitted,
Leontine M. Fuhrman
President.

THE ABOVE RESOLUTIONS ON BOYCOTT WERE CARRIED AT THE
REGULAR MEETING HELD MONDAY, DECEMBER 18TH.
THE ENTIRE
MEMBERSHIP WAS NOTIFIED BY POSTAL THAT THE SUBJECT WOULD
BE DISCUSSED AND VOTED ON.

PLEASE REMEMBER THE STUDENT LOAN AND MEMORIAL FUNDS.

ARE YOUR DUES PAID?
PLEASE - If not, pay them. Please
send your checks to Miss Jessie
Grauman, 24 Yiralden Place.

Financial Secretary.