The Jewish Welfare Board, which is celebrating its twenty-fifth anniversary this look-end with a three-day national conference at the Hotel Commodore here, today made public a message of greetings received from President Roosevelt. The message reads.
“It gives me great pleasure to extend congratulations and cordial greetings to the National Jewish Welfare Board on the happy occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of its organization. I trust that the Board will continue through long decades ahead of the good work which it has performed without ceasing during the past quarter of a century.”
The J.W.B. conference is the first national gathering of lay leaders interested in the Jewish Center field and in Army and Navy welfare services, since the United States was attacked by Japan. It will open Saturday evening, April 18, and will continue on Sunday and Monday. The conference is expected to prove helpful in determining how the twenty-five years of experience of the Jewish Welfare board in Jewish Community Center work and in Army and Navy welfare work can best contribute to the total war efforts of the United States.
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