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Show ~r. K ~ r. !1 Mr. K Mr. K 3ut then you went to Jim White's house? ·' Yeah, we'd go to Jim \~hit e 's house and they'd bludgeon A over the head for what they'd get. I just gave my ~1,000. I think I got up to ~ 1,200 when things got a little better with me there, but everybody knew I was giving over my head in those days. So, when I announced it, that was it, nobody declined me. Why did you give that much? Well , I don't ~ow why. God, oh mighty, that was 1948, and I was coming along, and the ~· 1, 000 business started in 1947, one year after I was home. Well, I know how I gave the first ~1,000, I remember that. You see, t~ey had the big gifts meetings before the community dinner. The community dinner would bring out the whole dinner for ~Sa head, and you paid your way in with ~3 a head or - ; whatever it was, and it was at the Laffiette Ballroom at the Hotel Utah for I don't know how many years in a row. So, the first one I didn't get to go to Jim White's house. ~Y father and I went to this dinner and I said to my father or my father said to me that we would give $SOO a piece. T~e first year we gave ~500 a piece. The second year I went to the dinner and I pledged $1,000 figuring my father was going to give me half, and my father did not give me half, so I had to pay the whole ~1,000. Well, by that time there was a sense of comm1ttment, and my father made his own pledges for whatever they were, and I was stuck with ~1,000 ••• stuck and yet happy to ~eet it because those were the years when Israel was formed, you see. To me it was a very big thing, a very big thing. Part of the big thing was ~~i that the Jews were doing finally what, by God, they should have done in Germany. 1N'hich was? |
