Hadassah Sending Seventy Tons of Food, Drugs, Clothing to Palestine

Seventy tons of food, drugs and clothing will be sent to Palestine shortly by Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America, it was announced here today at the closing session of the two-day meeting of the board of the organization. Since October, 1941, Hadassah has sent a total of 100 tons of food, and 200 tons of drugs, hospital equipment and clothing. The food included cereals, dried eggs and milk, canned goods and vitamins needed to help prevent nutritional epidemics and maintain an adequate diet for 25,000 school children in Palestine.

Mrs. Alexander M. Dushkin, of this city, child welfare chairman of Hadassah, paid tribute to “the humanitarian cooperation of our government which knows that hungry children are not only a hazard to the morale of their fighting parents, but potential disease carriers and therefore also hazards to Allied troops which may be in the area.” Making public a nutritional survey just received from Palestine, Mrs. Dushkin revealed that as a result of the scarcity of many food commodities and the late introduction of price controls and a rationing system in Palestine, the cost of food there has risen 300% since war began.

Those present voted approval of Hadassah’s affiliation with the American Jewish Assembly. A resolution passed at the meeting scored the American Council of Judaism, which recently decried the “political” aspects of Zionism, for its failure “to think in realistic humanitarian terms of the creative solution of the Jewish problem that is offered in the Jewish National Home today.”