Philadelphia Federation to Launch $1,650,000 Drive

(Jewish Daily Bulletin)

The drive for $1,650,000, the largest sum ever sought by the Federation of Jewish Charities in this city will be launched on Jan. 15.

Louis Wolf, for twelve years president of the Federation and now honorary president, is chairman of the campaign, Mrs. Frank A. Pfaelzer will head the women’s division. Fifty three institutions are affiliated with the Federation.

COMMUNICATION TO THE EDITOR

Sir:

The release which has appeared in the press, stating that I am undertaking work in connection with the National Community Foundation in the field of adult education may be missociates in various parts of the country with whom I have been working in the goodwill movement. Someone may raise the question of my continuance in the work. I therefore write to say that no such separation is taking place. I am not to serve as Executive Secretary of the Committee on Goodwill between Jews and Christians, but am assuming instead the responsibility or Chairman of the Committee on Direction.

The goodwill program is going ahead with an enlarged program and enlarged staff. Several reenforcements are to be added to its leadership in the near future.

The work that I am undertaking with the National Community Foundation is in the nature of concentration on the kind of educational work carried on by the Conference for some time past, and is a necessary specialization of effort which is in harmony with the enlarged goodwill educational program in which the individual leaders will be assigned special fields of work.

I think that our friends and supportters ought to know that the goodwill program has moved beyond its early stage, and calls for trained, concentrated endeavor in a half dozen branches of effort that have become increasingly clarified in the past three years.

Faithfully yours, John W. Herring

New York, Dec. 7, 1927