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8 THE WISCONSIN JEWISH CHRONICLE October 1, 1943 Jewish WACS and WAVES Fighting On the Home Front forthright public relations program which will leave no mystery about the Jews and Judaism in the minds of the city man, the farmer, the soldier, the mechanic, the student. Tyranny is old. Democracy is young. Because we Jews can be normal, self-respecting human beings only in the free air of democracy, and because we want this blessing for all men in the world, it behooves us to be democracy's champions at every turn of the road lest some sly group with more to gain from autocracy than democracy attempt to sell its vicious panaceas to a people weary of war and struggle. That is the challenge provided the vigorous, alert Jewish community of the United States on this significant holiday of our people.

(Copyright, 1943) ceived to meet specific situations. For example, the same complex in-terfaith program offered to Detroit a tinder-box of racial and religious animosities would not be urged upon a small Ohio city predominantly agricultural in make-up. The industrial, economic and racial aspects of a metropolis are considered in the preparation of civic programs by our Community Service specialists. Rosh Hashanah 5704 should serve as both a challenge and a beacon light to us. Admittedly, evil forces are at work to pin responsibility for the world's struggle upon the Jewish people of America a technique which once proved successful in Nazi Germany when aimed at the Jews of that country.

But we can block the subversiv-ists practicing this technique by a it 5fe it it it IDE CITIES on May the New Year 5704 Be a Joyous and Healthful Year For All Jewry! TTdPEJIE'S LI We have but one objective to help win this war as quickly as possible. Our research department and engineers are constantly seeking ways and means to help the war effort on the home front and the battlefield. Our Cities Service Industrial Heat Prover has helped plants produce more and better products. It has enabled industry to measure the combustion efficiency of any type of furnace or internal combustion engine. It has helped lengthen the life of machines and plants.

Cities Service presented the first practical method of determining the mileage remaining in a tire so that the car owner could budget that mileage for his necessary driving. The Cities Service Immersion Oil Heater gets planes into the air 20 minutes sooner than ever before possible, and special heaters are being developed for Army tanks. 532 W. WISCONSIN AVENUE (Continued from Pare 3) the decent world of tomorrow must have its under-pinnings in today's lessons for democratic living and the job is only half-done when radio's education potentialities are not used to the -fullest. To interpret the crashing events of the day in terms of democratic living is the purpose of League speakers utilizing the radio and those who cooperate with us in providing dramatic and helpful war-time radio programs.

Political anti-Semitism is a menace which must be crushed promptly whenever it shows its head. But social discrimination and economic barriers against minorities are evils which can be altered only by patient effort and understanding programs designed to minimize discrimination through a long-range program of education for good will. That is the function of the ADL's Community Service department, inaugurated in war-time by the League to meet the needs of communities having problems aggravated iby war-time conditions. Unfair accusations taxing Jewish merchants with profiteering, scurrilous charges of favoritism allegedly shown Jewish selectees by draft boards, and discrimination against Jewish resorts, newspaper ads, war plants, employment agencies and schools, all fall within the province of Community Service activities. Sound public relations programs are offered to community leaders by the ADL, each program con These are but a few of the ideas developed at Cities Service to aid the war effort.

We are devoted to an all out pledge to help win this war as quickly as possible so that our skill and ingenuity can once more be directed toward making a better America. from Fag 1) since the fall of Corregidor, is over at Fort Des Moines right now. Mrs. Yates used to be a clinical psychologist at a state hospital in Massachusetts. Now that she's in the WACs, she may get an opportunity to make use of her background in psychology by serving as an advisor to WAC applicants.

Because she is the wife of a hero, Mrs. Yates has been pursued by cameramen and reporters ever since her enlistment. Mrs. Yates had been in the Philippines with her husband at the start of the war, and had an opportunity to observe the military in action there. WAC efficiency and equipment, she declares, compare well with what she saw in the Philippines.

Since thousands of WACs are in and around Fort Des Moines, the USO is naturally in the picture with a new program of service to servicewomen. Mrs. Esther Green, representing the Jewish Welfare Board, arrived in Des Moines recently to cooperate with workers of the YWCA and NCCS Women's Division in setting up a USO program for the girls. The WACs are to have two regular USO recreational centers of their own, but while these are being built volunteers, serving in relays, are helping them out. These workers supply city maps and an swer questions about such typical WAC concerns as where to find a hair-dresser, or even where to play handball.

In the new USO centers, which will vary somewh from the clubs now in operation for men, they will find kitchen facilities where they can scare up "a little something" and a place for everything from letter writing to hairpins. WAC members of the Jewish faith- who recently received commissions as Third Officers upon their graduation from the first Officer Candidate Class of the Women's Army Corps are: 1st Company, 1st Regiment: Miss Ruth S. Ginns, Fhiladephia; Miss Jean M. Korn, Philadelphia. 2nd Company, 1st Regiment: Mrs.

Beatrice B. Berg, Philadelphia; Miss Carolyne B. Casper, Philadelphia. 3rd Company, 1st Regiment: Miss Rita A. Fink, Buffalo; Miss Kathryne B.

Goldfluss, New York City; Miss Bee G. Rosenberg, Chicago; Miss Rose F. Ross, New York, N. Miss Ruth Spivak, Chicago; Miss Joan R. Strongin, Far Rockaway, N.

Y. 4th Company, 1st Regiment: Mrs. Isabelle Baley, Buffalo; Miss Elizabeth Morganstern, Seattle, Wash. Esther Green reports from Des Moines that Miss Rita Fink, of the above group, has left for Fort Riley, Kansas, to attend the army school for cooks and bakers which opened there September 6. On completing her training at Fort Riley, Miss Fink will be full-fledged Mess Officer for the WACs.

Miss Green also has discovered two Jewish women in the WAC band, who arrived in Des Moines just a few minutes ago. They are Miriam Stiflitz and Ruth Steiner, both New Yorkers, neither of whom will reveal which instrument she plays. (Coypright, 1943). A Very Happy New Year! OTT PHARMACY E. W.

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DEVON AVE. EDgewood 8040 LANGE ANIMAL CLINIC 7500 W. CAPITOL DR. Hilltop 2990 CITIES OIL COMPAQY- (CaatiMe National Council of Jewish Women. In the course of her work there, she prepared many study outlines and study courses, authored several playlets, pamphlets, and reference books.

The Council has granted her a leave of absence for the duration. Now that Laura is in the Navy, her father's house carries a service flag with three stars, one for Ensign Rapaport, one for her brother in. the Army and a third for her other brother in the Marines. The WAVES have acquired quite a few Jewish girl3 during the last few weeks. Sea-fever recently seized Ruth Marie Abram-son of Des Moines, Iowa, for one, and she enlisted as an apprentice seaman (or is it sea-woman) the other day.

Ruth Marie had quite a struggle with herself before taking this step. It was difficult to leave her twin sister, Dorothy Jane Abramson. However, Ruth says that, "We knew we'd have to separate sometime, se we decided not to carry the twin idea too far. We have been close, but not to the exclusion of others." Ruth has left for Stillwater, where she is attending the Navy Yeoman School at Okla homa A. and M.

College. She spent the time between her enlistment and departure by knitting for the United Nations. Dorothy works as a secretary in the Aircraft company in Des Moines. Their brother, Pvt. John Abramson, the only boy in the family, volunteered for service some time ago.

The Abramsons, incidentally, have a military tradition to uphold. Pere Sam Abramson was a lieutenant in the infantry during the first World War. From Omaha, there's Miss Fannie Schwartz, of that city who also has enlisted in the WAVES. And this column knows of at least one New Yorker, Miss Ethel Mitzman, who has signed up for a training course with the WAVES in Indiana. Miss Mitzman, first girl employee of Gimbels Department Store to join the armed forces, was head of their Epicure Shop.

She's angling for an appointment as store-keeper. With military records such as that of Deborah, the Biblical heroine who led the Jewish army to victory over the Philistines, to inspire them, Jewish women have flocked to recruiting centers and offered their services to the Women's Army Corps during the last few months. Statistics on the number of American Jewish women who now wear WAC khaki are still in preparation, but this column had its ear to the ground and can report authoritatively that several dozen damsels of Jewish faith are training at Des Moines, Iowa, right now. Others are on their way. Alongside of the Watsons and Merriweathers are Rosenbergs, Bayleys, Blumenthals and Korns in reassuring numbers.

There is Mrs. Reva Blumenthal, for example, number 19 among officers chosen from the Detroit area. Her husband Edward is a lieutenant in the "Men's Army," serving on foreign duty. Reva was a lieutenant in the Army Nursing Corps at Fort Custer, when she married Edward seven months ago as he was about to sail. Marriage meant retirement from the nursing corps, but Reva moved to Detroit and found work in Herman Kiefer Hospital.

The WACs, however, appeal more strongly to Mrs. Blumenthal's military spirit, although to look at her you'd never suspect it Reva appears more ingenue than soldier on the surface. After being sworn in at Detroit last month, Mrs. Blumenthal sent a brief telegram to her husband. "I'm in the Army, too," it said.

She reports for training at Des Moines in October. Natalie Yates, whose husband, Capt. Jules David Yates, has been reported missing in action of this famous MILWAUKEE, WIS. A Happy it I 1 Mi Fired! njsfinngenr Inc. FINE SAUSAGE SEfflJ New Year! MILWAUKEE HE creators ICE 1030 N.

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