A plea for active support of the Brooklyn Federation of Jewish Charities tenth annual one hundred dollar dinner and ball by Manhattan businessmen and philanthropists was made last night by Harry Zeitz, chairman of the affair.
Proceeds from the dinner will go toward financing the work during the late Fall and early Winter of the Federation’s twenty-five constituent agencies. The affair will be held November 18, at the Hotel St. George.
“Brooklyn contains a Jewish population of about 1,000,000,” Mr. Zeitz declared. “Bearing in mind that about 500,000 residents of Brooklyn are employed in Manhattan, it is patent that Manhattan cannot escape its responsibility for a share in the care of the under-privileged and the dependent of Brooklyn.
“Our 1934 budget for the Federation calls for an expenditure of $426,227, and the demands from our agencies, where the burden is heavy, is urgent. I have therefore appointed Mr. Morris W. Haft as special chairman of a Manhattan division for the dinner and ball. I am certain that Manhattan will respond. Mr. Haft, who is a member of the Federation Board of Directors, and a director of the Jewish Hospital, has been kind enough to promise his full time between now and the date of the dinner and ball for the mobilization of Manhattan support.”
Together with the appointment of Mr. Haft as Manhattan chairman, Mr. Zeitz announced the naming of two associate chairmen for the affair. They are Municipal Court Justice Murray Hearn, a vice-president of the Federation, and Edward J. Sovatkin, a director of the Federation.
Justice Hearn is a director of the Brooklyn Hebrew Orphan Asylum and a member of the Federation’s trade and membership council, principal fund raising division. Mr. Sovatkin, who has been active in Brooklyn philanthropies for twenty-five years, is a member of the NRA. Code Authority for the Wholesale and Manufacturing Surgical Industry, and was a member of the NRA committee which drew up the Code for that industry.
A corps of about twenty vice-chairmen and more than three hundred members of an executive committee to aid with the arrangements for the affair is being organized. Its membership will be announced at a dinner to be held next Wednesday evening at the Unity Club, Bedford avenue and Dean street, Brooklyn.
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