THE JEWISH CHRONICLE
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NATIONAL CONFERENCE
OF JEWISH CHARITIES
HELD SESSION.
Many Detroiters Among Dele-
gates—Prominent Speakers
Address Convention.
The National Conference of
Jewish Charities held in Indianap-
olis, Ind., was well attended, and
was especially notable for the large
number of directors and officers of
charitable organizations present.
The opening meeting was de-
voted especially to the presidential
address of Miss Minnie Low of
Chicago. Miss Low pointed out
that while the federation movement
in charity had accomplished mar-
velous results in the matter of rais-
ing money and in the economy of
overhead expense, it had not yet
begun to approach its possibilities
in the matter of developing the co-
ordination of the necessary Jewish
work of the community. "More ef-
fort," she said, "would have to be
devoted to studying communal
needs and providing for them and
for dovetailing the various Jewish
charitable, educational and social
activities to prevent an overlapping
of work."
The second session was devoted
to three minute reports from the
various cities. In all cities the war
collections seem to have stimulated
local charitable efforts and in many
cases the local charitable machinery
was used for the collections.
From Detroit Miss Hart report-
ed the growth of co-operation be-
tween the United Jewish Charities
and the local administration, not-
ably the Recreation , Conimission
and the Juvenile Court. The third
session was devoted to a discussion
of the new social service work of
the B'Nai B'Rith by Dr, Rudolph
I. Coffee of Chicago. "The B'Nai
B'Rith," said Dr. Coffee, "is
working out into personal service
work and the day of its intense in-
stitutionalism is probably passed."
Rabbi Coffee pleaded for co-opera-
tion and showed the tremendous
possibilities of the B'Nai B'Rith in
all communities when once its
members were enlisted as volun-
teers. At the fourth session a
paper on community surveys as ap-
plied to Jewish activities was read,
and the remaining subjects are "So-
cial Service" by Dr. Sidney Gold-
stein, and "Co-operation Between
Groups in a Community,1 by Dr.
Waldson.
The last day will he devoted to
reports of the Transportation Com-
mittee, the Committee on Schools
for Social Workers and to a busi-
ness meeting.
The Indianapolis community has
been most lavish in its hospitality,
Auto rides, banquets, daily lunch-
eons, and most excellent musical
programs have characterized the
conference.
From Detroit Bernard Ginsburg,
Judith Ginsburg, Fred M. Butzel,
Blanche J. Hart and Jacob G.
Brown were in attendance.
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Jews Laying Plans to Leave Rus-
sia After Great War.
Petrograd, April 8.—Jewish lead-
ers declare that an enormous emi-
gration of Jews from Russia will
begin when the war ends. • Accord-
ing to reports published here more
than 500,000 Jewish families and
hundreds of thousands of single
men and women are preparing to
leave the empire as soon as they
are able to do so. In many districts
committees have been .formed to
make arrangements for the planned
wholesale emigration.
The Jewish people fear that in
case of a defeat of Russia they
will be blamed by the government
and the "Black Hundred." They
tremble at the thought of their fate
in this case and are also afraid that
the bureaucracy will place the big-
gest share of the inevitable new
taxes upon their shoulders.
A large majority of the Jewish
emigrants will undoubtedly go to
the United States, where many of
them have relatives or friends, but
thousands will try to find new
homes and freedom in the South
American countries, in Canada and
in England. Some may go to Ger-
many and Italy if they are per-
mitted to settle there.
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