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independ-
guiding star in our work. Another children of the dependent,
the
Ideal, greater and more transcendent, ent. Our field of work becomes
and not
community,
is needed to give Jewish social service whole Jewish
some special sections within it; and
meaning
and
vitality,
to
make
of
it
GIVE WAYNE COUNTY A CHANCE
a consecrated profession and not education, or at least as much of the
lies within our
mere duplication or sheer accident. educative process as
Searching
Inquiry
Into
Fundamental
Questions.
A
central place
it His Runabout Challenger for Junior
I believe that Jewish social workers own control, assumes a
JOHN A.
in
our
work.
Everything
we do in
Gold Cup.
have been slowly but definitely dis-
By DR. ALEXANDER M. DUSHKIN
covering and formulating such a new- Jewish social service, from this point
aimed
at
creating
condi-
is
of
view,
As we look back over the programs people. They realize, too, and in a er ' ideal for themselves, and it is the tions, physical and spiritual, which
Flying the Detroit Yacht Club col-
ors, Aaron DeRoy's new yacht, Yo- of the National Conference of Jewish constantly increasing measure, that discovery that this ideal is common to will enable the Jews to live on the
if their centers are to be real coin- all members of the Jewish community
redo, sailed in the Sultan races today.
highest level of their possibilities in
Much interest has been aroused since Social Service during the past decade, munity centers, they must set out that has been bringing Jewish social this country.
conscientiously
to
provide
facilities
i
workers
and
Jewish
teachers
together
we
are
struck
by
the
constantly
in-
the
arrival
of
the
yacht
at
the
De.
Republican Candidate for
Beyond this first fact, namely, that
fruit Yacht Club, inasmuch as she is creasing importance of Jewish educe- not only fur young people, but for on a common platform.
To understand this platform, we our work is not temporary work con-
an entirely new departure in yacht lion in our discussions. From time the entire family as well, including
fined
to an immigrant group, but is
building, having been built by the to time when the problem, and some the children of the neighborhood, and should analyze two important facts permanent work, for a group that
h et,,r were first that for these children they must pro- , that have been coming to light and
DeFoe Boat Works, Bay City, and de- aptrteesnesniittcsd aofficiallysolution,
elpiidnegalin tihhe efo
of this may live here for generations, there
the confer- vide some adequate form of Jewish are helping
signed by William E. Ferman of
FIRST SENATORIAL DISTRICT
fit is that our is another fundamental feet that is
, Hacker & Ferman, Detroit naval once, some 12 years ago, I believe by schooling.
our conceptions
r kli; ' work is not confines! to en immigrant causing us to change
f., To m
e case worker
architects. Her hull is built entirely Dr. Magnes, to this day, when Jewish
includes cities of Hamtramck, High-
r . , group, so once we thought, a group of Jewish social service. I believe
felt,
of mahogany and finished in the nat. education is given place on our pro-
land Park and 11th, 13th, 15th, 17th,
many, if not all of us, recognize
tare! wood. The yacht is 65 feet long gram as one of the principal divisions rooted need of the Jewish
J ewish family for temporarily maladjusted, but rapidly that
that the problem of Jewish adjust-
19th and 21st Wards, Detroit. Vil-
and 14 feet 2 inches wide. She is in our work, there has been a con- teaching its children Judaism in sonic ; assimilating, fusing irrecognizably ment in this country Is fundamentally
lages of Crosse Pointe, Grosse
electrically equipped throughout, car- slant increase in the time and alten- form; that this need is as real and with the general population, no that not economic, nor political, nor even
l'ointe Park, Crosse Pointe Farms,
ries two six-cylinder speedway mo- lion given to a consideration of this AS normal as any other, and that she: within one or, at the most, two gener- racial, in character, but rather psy-
tors and has sleeping accommodations field of work. It seems to no that must not only recognize Jewish train- ations, we could hope to see our spe- chological and cultural. To be sure,
Grosse Pointe Shores, Redford,
for 18 persons. The cabins all have this is of considerable significance, ins as a normal need, but must be ' cilically Jewish problems solved, or economic, racial and even political
Northville, Plymouth, Brightmoor.
private baths and showers en suite. indicating changing conceptions in ; i n a position to help and to guide the else merged with those of the rest of factors are at work. Jews may be
Townships of Grosse Pointe, Gras
Members of the yacht club feel Jewish social service, and I think it ' familyin procuring the best possible America.. I believe that It has dawned
out of certain labor unions, ex-
tiot, Hamtramck, Greenfield, North-
confident that the Yoreda will keep behooves us to look more steeply into .Jewish instruction. It seems to me oil all of us, with more or less force kept
cluded from certain public offices, -not
the Sallan trophy in Detroit. Mr. De its causes, the first connected with that a family case worker loses much that the Jews as a group are here to
ville, Plymouth, Livonia, Redford.
admitted into certain hotels. But, in
the
technique
of
our
work,
the
second
in
the
possibility
of
intimate
contact
stay,
for
how
many
generations
we
Roy announced at the last gold cup
the es-
with the family unless she is able to do not know—for, besides the forces my opinion, these are not or
Primaries Sept. 9, 1924.
meeting that he had just completed with its purpose and character.
of the Jewish problem. The
guide it in satisfying this deeply seat- for preservation from within, there sence
s his
\ racing runabout, the Lally Helen,
I.
are
not
an
economic
appeared the old historic forces American Jews
which he announced is going to chal-
Both Jewish social workers and ed need. To be sure, most of the fa-
class, as they were in medieval Eu-
k lige for the junior gold cup. She Jewish teachers have begun to realize cilities for Jewish instruction avail- from without How these forces will rope; nor are they a political party,
able
in
most
communities
are
not
such
operate
in the future we do not know.
was
built
by
John
Ilacker
of
the
I
the practical interrelations in their as can be enthusiastically recoils- But this we do know, that the easy Mr. 7.angwill's urgings to the con-
- Hacker Boat Works, Detroit, and has
work. Leaders of child-care work,
But the case worker must solution of our problem through rapid trary notwithstanding.
HONEST — FEARLESS — QUALIFIED I been admired for her appointments. for example, have come to see long mended.
Nor can we even base the Jewish
realize that this is, in a measure, her fusion is not to be expected. Mast
ago that they must face the prob. problem, just as working toward and 0 f our children and our children's problem merely on race difference,
HONOR
REPUBLICANS
TO
Isms
of
Jewish
education
for
the
chit-
finding adequate dispensary and din.' children will be Jews, and will be re. because if it were merely difference •
VOTE FOR
JEWISH WAR HERO dren in their care. If they are to teal facilities is within the scope of garded as such, even after their fa. in race, the rate of intermarriage
stand in loco parentis, they must pro- her problem. She should, therefore,. them or mothers intermarry or accept with non-Jews would be much greater
BERLIN.—(J. T. A.)—A tribute vide for adequate religious cultural not only familiarize herself with ' Christian , Science. From this point t than it is—an high, at least, as among
to the memory of Dr. Ludwig Franck , Jewish training, just as the intelli- whatever is being done in her a ns of view, it does not make much dd. other races and peoples in America.
e: h•ae,t
whether
he u g. e
3 pliis: the Jews a ,ys When we say that the essence of the
a Jewish soldier who was killed dur - gent Jewish parent tries to provide munity for Jewish education, but (Oses
t
problem is religious or national, we
ing the war, will mark the beginning suc training for his childon ren. It ie- should interest herself in the efforts a nation, or as a " p e o p le of priests,"
hi
certainly
a
petty
concepti
a
of
}tare
mean that it is a matter of psychology
of the activities on "Republican Day'
the that are being made to improve the i are, and while many individuals will and culture, of attitudes.
proclaimed for Sept. 26 by the Ger - care work that does not in of child-
available facilities.
succeed in becoming lost in the gen-
man republicans, who have formed shaping of children's characters. At
What are the factors that make for
Those who are shaping the activi-
the "Party for the Protection of the no time was it more important to help ties of the Federation of Jewish Char. eral ehuffle—as a group they are like- Jewish consciousness beyond the
our
children
build
up
for
themselves
ly to remain in this country for untold physical fact of birth? They may be
Republic." The memorial has been
ides
have
also
been
realizing,
with
erected and will be uncovered at a wholesome set of life values than ever increasing force, that theirs is generations. Nor does it matter fo stated as: Family tradition and in-
now, and while Jewish religious cul.
the immediate work ahead whethe
Mannheim.
tural training is not the only means the responsibility for taking the miti. we , Personally, as individuals, wish to struction; the attitudes of our neigh-
bors and friends, both Jewish and
for building up such values, it is an ative in developing an adequate com- enc ■ urage or to discourage social non-Jewish; the appeal of fellow-
Sibley Openly Opposes Klan in important and effective means, and munity program in Jewish education, i fusion. Rapid, immediate fusion as a
for ape-
no child-care worker may neglect it including elementary, secondary and group we know is not posible, and Jews wherever the may be,
Prosecutor Contest in
c lot sympathy and or co-operation in
FIRST DISTRICT
if he is to be just to the children in professional Jewish training. The many of us believe
lieve
very
go
on
undesirable.
Wayne
County.
the
Imposition
of
.,
larg common purposes;
his charge. Evidences of the relation respons i b i l i ty i s s
;such a
fil lsion as
Endorsed by - prominent Detroit Jewish citizens.
among
between delinquency and the lack of cause they must provide for the edu- dividus, while considerable,
and
Frank C. Sibley, candidate for
acts; the sense of special pride
such religious cultural disciplines, cation of the children of the depen. not seem to be on a sufficiently
prosecuting attorney in the Sept. 9
sympathy engendered by the teach.
in the best of families or in dent and semi-dependent, but also be-
I scale to offset the natural increase Jewish
for each
other's
primaries, has throughout the cam- whether in
Inge responsibility
of Jewish history,
through
its
where
communities
,
cause,
in
m
.
IL NM.1■■110 paign stressed his opposition to the the poorest, are too numerous and
WIIM
of the group, so that it will affect record of achievement and suffering.
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federations exist they are the nearest 1
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too
striking
for
the
child-care
worker
neither
the
size
nor
the
problems
of
Ku Klux Klan. Ile said:
All of these are psychological and cub.
n
n,.
ive
co
approach
to
all-inclusive
"The nomination by the voters of not to wish to grapple with the prob.
ever i m unibty, the American Jewish group, as such. tural factors, and it is theme that
of Jewish instruction. The headrep resentat i on .
Our task , therefore, becomes not create the Jewish problem. The es-
Texas of Mrs. Miriam Ferguson is of lem
of the orphan asylum, therefore, our belief as to the most advisable i
significance not only because it means needs to know something about Jew- and fitting manner in which Jewish i morel y that of social adj ustment fo r sential factors in this problem seem
the
present generation of Jews, but to me to be: First, the intense wish '
that a woman is likely to be the next ish schooling, whether it be weekday community representation should de-
governor oft he Lone Star State, but Hebrew schooling or Sabbath school- velop in this country, there seems lit- I also that of creating the best possible on the part of the Jewish masses to
because it means that a candidate has ing; should acquaint himself with the tle doubt that in this period of our 1 conditions for future generations. continue their own family tradition,
And, in vi ewin the future genera- and teachings, and the consequent
cones out fearlessly in opposition to
types and possibilities of Jew- communal development, at any rate, ilions,
w, n the n
of
a in
o be .. discouragement of intermarriage, tins
the Klan and has been carried to sic. various
ish school programs and curricula; the federations must, and will, take ,
normal
esig
n a la f ndt
abnormal, less intermarriage can be effected
de he
nia"t
tory over an avowed candidate of the should be familiar with Jewish text the initiative for inaugurating Jewish
the adjusted and the maladjusted, the without a breakdown of these train.
Klan.
books, and should give some thought educational programs where the re-,
of DETROIT
0
There is a lesson in the Texas vote to the relative merits of the various quisite communal initiative for this dependent and the independent, be- tiuns; second, the attitude of Jowled,
1$ which might be of some value to a general methods of Jewish teaching. is not otherwise present. Should the come obliterated. The sons of so- anti non-Jewish neighbors in consist.
Republican Candidate for
number of candidates here in Wayne Likewise, the Worker who cares for federations change their names in the . called normal families today may be-
(Concluded ,on page to.)
county. Men are going from meeting children in foster homes should know course of time, so as to take away come abnormal tomorrow, and the
to meeting promising voters to en- the Jewish educational facilities avail- the possible stigma of charity from
force all laws fearlessly and at the able in his community, and help' their work, it would help much. In-
same time keeping their mouths shut grapple with the problem of improv- deed, so rapidly is Jewish education
on the issue of the Klan. They have
facilities. I believe that the coming to be considered within the
been challenged time and time again ing these coming
when child-care work- scope of federations of charities that'
who
to state their position, but they have time
ors who are not competent to guide some federation directors feel that
lacked the courage to do so. By eva- the Jewish schooling of their children the expansion of their activities dur-
sion they apparently hope to sail will be ashamed to adroit it. ing the coming decade will be, in
Formerly Assistant Attorney
to primary day, expecting to
The community center workers large measure, along the lines of edu
0 through
" General of Michigan
poll votes from both the Klan and
have realized, some of them very cational and cultural work.
the anti-Klan forces.
NOW while social workers have
ghly, that their work extends thus been recognizing increasingly
"I have made my position clear and a th lso orohu,
Assistant United States At-
beyond physical and social recreation
I
propose
to
continue
to
do
no
0 throughout the campaign. I would to the re-creation of the spirit, and the intimate practical relation ' of
torney.
their work to Jewish education, Jew-
sooner be defeated by the Klan than that no small part of such re-creating ish teachers, on their part, have also
logo into office reduced to a state of lies in providing proper conditions for been gradually opening their eyes to
PRIMARY SEPTEMBER 9, 1944
miIerable impotency by the endorse- Jewish learning and for Jewish self- the interdependence of their work
expression on the tart of their young with general social service. I esti- I
ment of the Ku Klux Klan."
roughly that there ore in this
country about 1,500 men and women
(exclusive of private ,melamdim) who
give all their time to Jewish teaching,
RS job or as profession, and that from
rmiunsEr
e
4r
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Bei
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1,800 to 2,000 more give part of their ,"
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ill all211121112_111
I time to Jewish teaching. Of course,1
but
a very small number of this large
Ill
mass of teachers realize the inter-
connection between their work and
I that of Jewish social service. But
some of the leaders do, and it it is
John B. Sosnowslel
their business and the business of the
conference to spread the fact among
the others. Many thbusands of Jew.
ish children receive their Jewish in- 1
When John B. Sosnowski was Detroit Water Board .
atruction in orphan asylums and In
Commissioner
(1917-23) he discovered unscruptdOus
community renters. Many thousands
i
l
N
of Jewish families are under the influs ,
contractors
were
attempting to evade their contracts
once of family case workers, child
care workers and other district work-
so
as
to
get
double
prices for materials. He beat them
ers. The budgets of the schools, the
in their appeals to the Mayor and Council, saving the
possibilities for teachers' training,
for r egulating the status, the salaries
city_more than $210,000.00. When they still insisted
and the tenure of position of teach-
ers, are in many communities coming
the contracts were only "scraps of paper" he carried
to be more and more closely connect-
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ed with the activities and attitudes of
his fight into court.
federations 'of charities. It is int.;
possible, therefore, and unwise, for
to
.
That honesty and high sense of public duty served
the Jewish teacher and educator
keep their work aloof and separate
you at home.
tF jl from the rest of the community en-
deavor. Every year the number
grows of those who realize that they
Now help us make it serve you at Washington.
must plead their pause -before, and
bring whatever they can contribute-
Elect Sosnowaki our Republican Congreisman from
to, the entire body of roMmunal work
in the country as repiesented by this
the
First District (all wards east of Woodward).
conference. . •
,
,
It is this gtOwing consciousness,
then, of the practical inter-relation of
Your (X) before Sosnowski's name at the primaries
'Jewish social service and Jewish pito-
,v
Sept. 9 proves you want faithful public service.
catien that is one real. cause of the
ever-increasng
i mportance givento
i
,
Jewish education in the program of
Native born, a veteran of 15 years' military service
I the conference. But there has been
; operating another, and perhaps even
and a life-long Republican.
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more fundamental, though less tang-
' ible, factor. In my opinion, it is this
I.
'cause which strikes at the very root
, or our conceptions of Jewish social
WHAT HE STANDS FOR:
service.

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IN SALLAN RACES

PLACE OF JEWISH EDUCATION IN
JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE

REYNOLDS

STATE SENATOR

Herman A.

Schmier

State Representative in Legislature

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Of late we have heen delving into
to speak, and have been
asking ourselves some fundamental
quesions. One of these has been:
"What is the purpose of Jewish social
v
service in this country?" Ls it mere
' duplication of work done by others,
by the state and by enn-sectarian or-
ganisations, in helping to adjust the
socially maladjusted? If that were
so—that is, if we were merely dupli-
' eating, as Jews, what we would do an
American citizens--some of us feel
that our work would be narrow, pa-
1
rochial and meaningless. In our work
an attempt to relieve the state from
1 •
carrying the burden of its imaladjust-
1
; el Jewish citizens because, forsooth,
of that real or fabulous promise made
270 years ago to bigoted Peter Stay-
veisant? In a pressure, this desire to
keep our troubles to ourselves is °per-
, sting now as it did in the ghettos.
. As a tolerated people the Jews have
for centurieit realized the deed of "ly-
ing low," of keeping their delin-
quents, their poor, their sick, to them-
selves. But, while the ghost of Peter
Stuyvesant may be summoned up ef-
fectively to get money out of tight-
wads during fund-raising canipaigns,
j many of us no longer feel that the
• I promise to be exacted from exiled im-
migrants can be the beacon light and

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Endorsed by the Lawyers of Wayne County it the Bar Association Primary.

Republican Primaries September 9.

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our souls, so

Mere representatives from De-
troit in Congress. Economy in
government, with tax reduction
whenever justified.

St. Lawrence Waterways — to

make Detroit a powerful sea- .
port.

A national road building pro-

Reasonable railroad rates no as
to aid Detroit's industrial pro-

gram.

gre SS.

An efficient merchant marine to

Fewer laws and more sensible
ones, Strict enforcement of all
laws.

Elimination and punishment of
corruption in government serv-
ice.

Removal of any inequalities
and defects in present immigra-
tion laws.

aid in building and retaining
America's foreign markets.

Abolition of blocs and more re-
sponeive representation in Con-
gress.

Encouragement and develop-
ment of commercial aviation.

Unqualified support of Presi-
dent Coolidge's policies.

SOSNOWSKI FOR CONGRESS COMMITTEE