THE JEWISH CHRONICLE A Constructive Program By Dr. Rudolph I. Coffee National Director Social Service Department, Independent Order B'nai B'rith 9 Dime Savings Bank Resources over r4 Seventy-three years ago the' city officials to prOvide the same Independent Order of Irnai li'rith advantages as obtain in other was called into being. Its orig- sections of the city. inal purpose was to Americanize The industrial situation will the Jew. Those immigrants who concern this department. Israel were then coming to America ar- ever h onored l a b or an d th e ar ti_ ri ved largely from ( ;ermany. san, brit i n A mer i ca J ews h ave This order was created with the fallen short of our historical intention of imbuing the new- id ea l s. All t oo many s t r ik es -h ave colliers with the tine ideals of occurred in which the Majority American citizenship. These pion- of. employerS and strikers have eers of our beloved order - erect- been Jews. Why should not this cd asylums for the orphans, or- order, in which are enrolled both ganized homes for the aged and employers and w orking Wien, do built hospitals for the sick. Their sot etiiing to prevent strife, record IS one of tchievement and bloodshed and even loss, of life? merits our warm approval. Is Israel, which. produced Karl The second chapter in ll'nai Marx and FerdinamP La Salle in li'rith history dates largely from the nineteenth century, bankrupt the days of the Russian immigra- of Prudent, conservative and lion, it-Iniost two score years ago. wise economists in the twentieth? If the first idea was to American- Our critics say the Jew only ize the Jew, in the second era the knows how to make money. Let chief thought was to judaize the us prove that in whatever indus- American, Tlie American boys trial field the Jew enters he sets were fast growing away from a higher ideal, pays better wages, their religion. They were being - and creates a cleaner standard of weaned from the consciousness ethics,. . of Israel, and determined em- Then, this department will con-. phasis was placed on bringing- cern itself with the 'Very serious Jewish thought into the lives of problem of unemployment. In "lair young- men. Chicago this order has conducted The third epoch in the history all employment agency for five of our order commenced last Years. Now. we shall 'spread out ■ .ear, when,. in San Francisco, at and try to place the Jewish peo- the constitutional convention, the 'plc in all manufacturing towns Social Service Department of this within a radius of 100 miles. order was created. Last summer When that is working- properly, President Adolf Kraus did me the the field will be enlarged so as to honor of extending an invitation Provide employment for the to become national director of the greatest possible number of Jews.- Social Service Department of this Then we shall have agents in order. In October I moved t o every city prepared to provide for Chicago and since that time the the influx at the close of this hor- work of creating a national ma- rible European war.' - chinery to take up social service In other .words, this depart- work has been carried on with Illela aims at constructive and vigor and energy. preventative philanthropy. There I f you as k t h e average A mer _ are fine and splendidly equipped i can, he will te ll von t h at t hi s charity organizations throughout wonderful spirit of social service the land. Our department, how- is barely one-quarter of a century ever, will continue where they old. From his standpoint the leave ° tY. We are not concern- statement is correct. We Jews. ed with charity in the sense of however, w-ho read understand- alms-giving: our aim is to pre- i ngi v t h e word s o f t h e anc i ent vent the need for such a condi- prophets, know that social service tion of affairs. They take care . enters 4 le very heart and soul of of the orphans ; we shall endeav - j u d a i si .- __.,\V e rea li ze th at w i t h_ or to prevent those conditions „ ti t social service th ere can h e no which make this child an orphan. correct interpretation of Israel's They equip a magnificent hos- mission. The 11'nai B'rith was pita .]: we shall seek those Incas- merely enlarging its - platform ores which will diminish sickness when it determined to emphasize through wiping- out improper en- social service as a cardinal dec- vironment. Charity is a Chris- trine of its future labors. Some tiun concept which has come in - of the concrete features of the to 'the world by way of Greece. work as it is beginning to shape The Mosaic legislation made no itself follow : .., ,.., provision for charity. The word In every city of the land there "charity" is not even found should be a , social service- corn- among - its pages. True, we read mittee of the I. 0. B. B. :Too in Deuteronomy \V-ii: "For often the recent Jewish !arrivalS the needy shall not cease out of inhabit a most unsanitary part of the land." This merely meant - the city. No play-grounds are (Continued on page /1) available for children, and the public school equipment is much inferior to that in other sections of the city. Why should the 634 HASTINGS STREET child suffer these extra handi- (Near Rowena Street) capS in addition to the poverty of High Grade Furnishings the household? This social ser- For Ladles and Gentlemen vice committee should work with - H. RUDA $25 000,000 00 A MAN OF SUBSTANCE. You (1(111 ' 1 \\ . itut to be a miser, you don't expect to be a millionaire; but you ought to be a man of substance. lien Franklin said it is hard to make an empty sack stand up. To have no money is to have .weak knees and a limp backbone. You are afraid of other people and you don't think much-of yourself. Get a little money ahead and so keep your chin tip. 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