Enthusiasm Spreading Nationally for Allied Jewish Campaign As Texas and Oklahoma Are First States to

Texas, with a quota of $200,000, and Oklahoma, with a goal of $75,000, are in the van of American Jewish communities already organized for immediate state and city drives for the $6,000,000 Allied Jewish Campaign for the purposes of the Joint Distribution Committee and the Agency for Palestine, and a large number of cities in other parts of the United States are actively preparing to put on fundraising drives, according to an announcement from national headquarters.

The Texas campaign, which will be headed by J. K. Hexter of Dallas, will be launched at a state-wide conference in that city, on Sunday, April 6. Mr. Hexter is a veteran of many local drives in the “Lone Star” State. He was the state treasurer of the famous drive in Texas in 1926 for the United Jewish Campaign, when, having been assigned a quota of $250,000, the Jewish communities of that state voluntarily increased their goal to $300,000 and passed that figure by $10,000. The Texas conference will be addressed by Morris Rothenberg, one of the national chairmen of the Allied Jewish Campaign.

Oklahoma, the second state ready “to go,” will be led by Henry P. Wolff of Oklahoma City. Like its southern neighbor, Oklahoma was one of the banner states of the United Jewish Campaign, exceeding its quota of $125,000 in one of the first state drives to be completed, by $28,000. The fund-raising drive in Oklahoma will take place during the last two weeks of this month.

In addition to the organization of these two states, the national officers of the Allied Jewish Campaign announce that a large number of cities have already organized, or are in process of organization, and that in many communities, drives will be held with in the next ten weeks.

New Haven’s drive, scheduled for May 4 with a goal of $50,000, will be led by Alexander Cahn as chairman; Samuel Weil, treasurer, and Louis Sachs, secretary. Mr. Weil and Mr. Cahn were state chairman and treasurer respectively of the U. J. C. campaign in Connecticut. Western Massachusetts, comprising Springfield, Holyoke, Pittsfield, Northampton, Greenfield and a number of smaller communities, is planning to launch a combined drive to begin with a public dinner in Springfield on May 14.

Youngstown, Ohio, is another city where a drive will begin on May 4th. The leaders there are Clarence Strouss, chairman; Harry Levinson, chairman of the special gifts division; Harry Meyer, treasurer; and Julius Kahn, honorary chairman.

Duluth is organized for a drive to begin June 10th with H. Y. Josephs as chairman; I. Freimuth and Mrs. A. B. Horwitz, vice-chairmen; F. Labovitz, treasurer; Robert Karon, secretary; and Harry Davis, chairman of teams.

Another combined drive by communities sufficiently adjacent to each other is cheduled to begin on May 4th, on the Hudson River line of New Jersey. The communities that will participate in this drive are Jersey City, Hoboken, Union City, West New York, and possibly Bayonne. New Brunswick, Passaic and Paterson are in process of organization and efforts are being made by national headquarters that the drives in those cities take place simultaneously with the drives already scheduled for New Jersey. Bangor, Me., will have its drive on May 4th.

Albany, N. Y., is another city contemplating a Spring campaign, with every prospect that its drive will be scheduled for the middle of May.

Superior, Wis., has set June 11th as its drive date, and is now in the midst of preparations to go over the top.

St. Paul, Minn., is also preparing for an early drive, possibly in May. A meeting of the following community leaders will be held shortly to decide on a drive date and to select the campaign officers: Ralph N. Cardozo, Milton P. Firestone, Gustavus Loevinger, Maurice W. Stoffer, Rabbi H. S. Margolis, Rabbi Herman Cohen, Jesse B. Calmenson, and A. M. Calmenson.