The Sentinel, v.137 no. 03, 1945

              The Sedinel
3RS. IRVING ACKERMAN, President - MRS. LEONARD L. GORDON, Editor-Women's Section - FRED A. MA NN, President - EDWARD H. EULENBERG, Editor-Men's Section.
B'nai B'rith Women's Goal-
3,000 New Members
With a set goal of 3,000 new mem-bers
to be enrolled by April 30, 1945,
Chicago B'nai B'rith women reached
MRS. ESTHER BRODY
the half-way mark of their membership
drive on December 30, 1944. In recog-nition
of this campaign, and to culmi-nate
the first half of the drive, a huge
Membership Rally, sponsored by the
Chicago B'nai B'rith Women's Council,
will be held on Thursday evening, Feb-ruary
8, at 32 W. Randolph Street.
This affair will be for the benefit and
pleasure of all new members enrolled
during this period, and their sponsors,
and will be highlighted by a brilliant
pageant, "THE GUIDING LIGHT,"
directed and enacted by Chicago B'nai
B'rith Women. To climax the evening's
festivities, MR. HENRY MONSKY,
president of the Supreme Lodge, will
come to Chicago from Washington for
the sole purpose of addressing the huge
assembly, and to add further inspira-tion
to the initiates in the oldest and
largest Jewish fraternal organization
in America. The combination of a bril-liant,
colorful pageant, and the thrill
and privilege 'of listening to so out-standing
and talented an orator as
Mr. Monsky, makes it inevitable that
this membership rally will be the most
spectacular event held in Chicago for
many years.
The results of the campaign as of
December 30 and reported by Mrs.
Esther Brody, Chicago Membership
Chairman, are as follows:
Lakeview ........ 57 Adolf Kraus.... 30
Lawndale ........ 12 Albany Park.... 50
Logan Square.. 27 Austin ............ 99
North Shore .... 50 Cardoza .......... 132
Ramah ............ 40 Chicago B. & P. 40
A. L. Sachar.... 32 Chicago Lodge. 69
South Side........ 42 Edgewater ...... 124
West Rogers Garfield Park.. 32
Park ............ 141 Haym Solomon 46
Jackson Park ..104
B'nai Brith is progressive and flex-ible,
and has grown larger each year
because of its splendid record of
achievements. Credit in a large meas-ure
for its growth is due the women
who have given their full cooperation
to every phase of its expansive
program.
The Chicago auxiliaries are sparing
no effort to make this Sponsor-New
Member Night a huge success. The
famous slogan "In Unity There Is
Strength" is their inspiration, for only
through the combined efforts of every
auxiliary will the goal of 3,000 new
members be realized.
"CURRENT HI-LITES"
CHICAGO BUSINESS AND PRO-FESSIONAL
WOMEN will have a so-cial
get-together on Sunday, January
21, at 2:30 p.m., in their club rooms
at the Hamilton Hotel. Mr. Fred
Ptashne will review "Freedom Rcad."
Miss Anne Polster is president . . . On
Wednesday, January 24, DR. A. L.
SACHAR will be guest speaker for
NORTH SHORE AUXILIARY. The
auxiliary meets at 1716 Lunt Avenue.
Mrs. Faye Obeler is president
LAKEVIEW AUXILIARY will sponsor
its first membership tea for LAKE-VIEW
B'NAI B'RITH GIRLS at the
home of Francine and Sally Goode,
636 Patterson Avenue, on Sunday,
January 21, at 3 p.m. Mrs. William
Koelle is B'nai B'rith Girls' Advisor.
Mrs. Chas. Davis is president of the
auxiliary. RAMAH AUXILIARY will
hold a Cultural Sabbath at the home
of Mrs. Herman Mitchell, 6445 N.
Francisco Avenue, on Saturday, Janu-ary
21, at 1 p.m. Mrs. Beatrice Mor-ris
will review "Earth and High Heav-en."
Mrs. L. S. Lippman is cultural
chairman. Mrs. Isaac Wagner is presi-dent
of the auxiliary . . . "JOBS FOR
ALL" or "LABOR - MANAGEMENT
UNITY FOR POST WAR" is the sub-ject
for the next Good Government
Class which will be held on Thursday
evening, January 25, at 8 p.m., at 84
E. Randolph Street, in the Woodrow
Wilson Room. Mr. Edward Ahrens,
AFL Chicago Chairman of Education,
Mr. Morris Yanoff, CIO Midwest Di-rector
of UOPWA, and Mr. Irving
Flamm, attorney and authority on
trade relations, will participate in the
symposium. These classes are spon-sored
by the Chicago B'nai B'rith
Women's Council, and are open to the
membership.
Sgt. Buddy Golbus Killed
In Action In Germany
Word has been received by Mr. and
Mrs. Alexander Golbus, 5525 Wash-ington
Boulevard, that their son, Staff
Sgt. Robert Bernard "Buddy" Golbus,
19, was killed in action while fighting
with the infantry in Germany. Only
recently Buddy's parents were notified
that he had been decorated with the
bronze star for heroic conduct. While
on patrol duty, for which he volunteer-ed,
Buddy exposed himself to draw
enemy fire away from his comrades.
Buddy's father is past president of
Austin Lodge and for three years has
been chairman of the blood plasma
committee. Mrs. Golbus is a member
of Austin auxiliary. Buddy was their
only son.
Presenting
FRED A. MANN
Although a member of B'nai B'rith
in Chicago only four years (his previ-ous
membership was in Marshall Lodge,
East Chicago, Ind.), Fred A. Mann,
president of the Chicago B'nai B'rith
Council, has done a tremendous job.
With the shock of Pearl Harbor still
stirring the nation, Brother Mann, a
member of Chicago Lodge, was made
war service chairman of the Council.
Immediately he began to do things.
One of his committee's first acts was
to organize the first mass blood dona-tion
to the Red Cross, on Washington's
birthday, January 22, 1942. Thereafter
the Council's war service program
moved steadily on, with more blood
donations and salvage drives; Red
Cross and War fund campaigns; War
bond sales and gifts to service men's
hospitals.
Elected to the Council vice-pres-idency
in 1942 and again in 1943,
Brother Mann continued as war serv-ice
chairman until he was elected pres-ident
in May, .1944. Since then, he has
helped concentrate the Council's at-tention
on the activities of the war
service committee.
Brother Mann has been vice-presi-dent
of Chicago Lodge, and is treas-urer
of the Chicago Russian War
Relief Committee. He is a member of
K. A. M. Temple.
Although a family man (he and his
wife and two sons live at 4906 Drexel
Boulevard), Brother Mann likes to get
away occasionally from home and
business (distributing of musical in-struments
and mechanical phono-graphs),
for a little golf and fishing.
His secret ambition is to catch a 50
pound muskie.
VICTORY CAVALCADE
A "Victory Cavalcade of 1945," of
cabaret entertainment by stage, screen
and radio performers, will be presented
Sunday evening, January 28, by Haym
Salomon Lodge, for its war service
fund, in the Terrace Casino, Morrison
VOCATIONAL SERVICE HELPS
B'NAI B'RITH YOUTH
What can a Jewish young man or
woman do about finding a job to fit
his talents? Where are these jobs in a
world of war-where in the postwar
world?
These are among the questions which
the B'nai B'rith Vocational Guidance
program, operating in offices at 100 N.
LaSalle Street, is answering success-fully.
They are the problems, which
according to Director Irving M. Co-burn,
will be given increased atten-tion
as the program grows.
The main purpose of the program,
initiated jointly by the men's lodges
and women's auxiliaries of District No.
6, with headquarters in Chicago, is to
stimulate an awareness in Jewish youth
of the need for vocational p'anning.
The service operates in conjunction
with the cultural programs of A.ZA.
and B'nai B'rith Junior Girls and
Young Women's groups,.and as a part
of such programs.
Work Has Two Phases
The work has two phases - group
and individual. In groups, the young
folks are shown movies on vocational
subjects; hear lectures and panel dis-cussions
by qua'ified men and women
versed in business, trade and profes-sional
fields; and take part in discus-sion
panels before their groups. Book
reports on career subjects also are
given to groups by counselors and ad-visors,
or by group members.
Individually, the young men and
women are given advice on the oppor-tunities,
qualifications and rewards of
the fields in which they ae interested,
to help them make a choice and prepare
themselves for the work.
e'VTose, who in the oninion of the
counselor, may be benefited by psy-chological
testing and extensive coun-seling,
referred for such service to
the Jewish Vocational service," Mr. Co-burn
explained.
"The full and complete cooperation
of the service in this part of the pro-gram
makes it possible for our youth
to receive and benefit from the long-term
and varied experience of this
agency."
Maintains Modern Library
A valuable and growing phase of
the Vocational Service is its modern
free lending library, which already has
more than 100 books and pamphlets on
vocational subjects. The library is in
the office of the Vocational Service.
Besides its other functions, the Serv-ice
offers a personalized consultation
and referral service to war veterans
who are B'nai B'rith members, or are
the sons or daughters of members. This
service is also given to veterans who
are mmebers of the B'nai B'rith youth
groups, or were before entering service.
Hotel. Allen Abrams, chairman of the
fund raising committee, is in charge.
William Samuels is Lodge president.