The immediate necessity of setting up local army and navy committees, representative of all groups and organizations in each Jewish community, to serve the needs of Jewish young men already in the Army and Navy or about to be inducted as a result of the Selective Service Act was urged by Col. Max R. Wainer, of Philadelphia, member of the National Army and Navy Committee of the Jewish Welfare Board, at the Second Annual Conference of the Midwest Section of the Jewish Welfare Board last weekend. Nineteen communities from 14 states sent 130 delegates to the two-day conference.
Louis Kraft, executive director of the Jewish Welfare Board, said the Board had had a continuing program of service to Jewish soldiers and sailors since the last World War and was better prepared to meet the new emergency than it was when the organization was first initiated. He said the chief service required in the present situation is a “friendly hand and guidance.”
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