VUIRODIEWISfl (4 RON ICLE
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and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE
JEWISH JUVENILE
DETROIT COUNCIL \
HAS ACTIVE YEAR
DELINQUENCY HAS
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SHOWN DECREASE
committees were especially active
in initiating training classes for
the enforced leisure of "Y" mem- 1-7-3
courts before which the children bers and in sponsoring courses =
were brought.
that opened up new fields of ern- '=
Study in Proportions.
ployment. Special efforts were I =
During the period from 1915 to made to stimulate Jewish employ-
1931 the boys and girls brought ere to employ Jewish girls and =
before the children's courts of boys. Personal Service and Big I
New York were 171,139. Of this I Sister work for Jewish girls were
number 31,462, or 18.38% were carried on by special committees.
Jews. Dr. Mailer first determined
The Council finances the Friday
how this proportion of 18.38% night services and the child study
compared witn the proportion of classes. The Friday evening serv-
Jewish children to tne total child ices at the Y. W. H. A. included
population of New York City.
the services of a director and pi-
fhe percentage of Jewish chil- anist. The amount appropriated
dren enrolled in the schools of for this service was $200.
Manhattan, Bronx and Brooklyn
Open Air Play Center.
is 41.85%. For Jewish children
In July and August 1931, for
the rate of court arraignment was the third consecutive summer, the
only 5 per 1,000, while for non- Detroit Council conducted at the
Jewish children the rate of ar- Breitmeyer School a recreational
raignment was fully 20 per 1,000. program for under-privileged chil-
If the Jewish child population dren.
had had the same rate of arraign-
Differing considerably from the
ment as the non-Jewish child pop- programs of the two preceding
ulation, the number of Jewish ar- Years, the Council decided this =
raignments during 1931 would year to meet the city and comma-
have amounted to more than 4,000,
while it was actually 1,784. This weight
city needs
caring for under-
and by
malnourished
children =
"saving" of a large number of from
from indigent and impoverished =
Jewish children from becoming ifamilies. In the two previous years
court cases has resulted also in a t he aim was psychological as well
Keying to the city of enormous I --- physical; namely, a mental hy-
sums. Considering the figures for I a!
giene program and a physical hy-
.
the last 16 years, Dr. Mailer esti- giene
program—psychological and
mates a saving due to the smaller physical analyses and treatment
proportion of Jewish delinquent carried on by trained teachers and
cases of $3,465,639, or about a graduate nurse. "Behavior prob. =
1216,596 per year.
lern children" made up most of the
Sex Difference*
enrollment In the previous sum- =
Dr. Mailer's findings showed mers, and intensive remedial work EF.
that the proportion of Jewish chil- was done.
dren among the arraigned has
Last summer more children were a.
been declining steadily, having de- reached by the project, though
creased from 30% in 1909 to less intensively. The aim was phys- =
17.41% in 1931. He has also dis- ical rather than psychological. Of
covered that the number of Jewish the four staff members, only the
girls arraigned is much smaller director and one teacher were ex-
than the number of boys. Girls perienced people. The other two
•constitute only 17% of the total I were college graduates who had
Jewish arraignments.
However, had no previous experience.
the Jewish girls brought before The main purpose of the Open
the court, though smaller in num- Air Play Center this summer was
ber, seem to present more serious to provide nourishing food, rest,
difficultie* than the Jewish boys. and out-of-door play and recrea-
Dr. Mailer explains this by stating tion in the sunshine, for children
that apparently some influences, who in their own homes are de-
such as the home and organized prived of practically all of these
welfare work, tend to prevent' the health giving things. By means of
arraignment of Jewish girls for this program the Council aimed
minor offenses. This tendency is to increase the weights and im-
not so marked in the case of Jew- prove the general health conditions
Ish boys. of these underweight and malnour-
Why Are Children Arraigned? (shed children.
Arraignments of children come
This work was made possible
'under two major allegations: de- through the co-operation of the
linquent and neglected. The neg- Board of Education, Board of
lected children constitute a small- Ilealth and the Children's Fund of —
er proportion of the total number Michigan. The Council obtained
of arraignments than the delin- from the Children's Fund of Mich-
' quent. The proportion of Jews to igan very generous financial as-
the total among the neglected chil- sistance. Council Funds appropri-
dren was only 13.5% (from 1924- ated for this project were $800.
Industrial Workshop.
'30), while the proportion of Jews
An Industrial Workshop was or-
to the total among the delinquent
children was 19.4%. This rela- ganized in January, 1932, for the
tively lower rate fo neglected as purpose of meeting an emergency
compared with the delinquent Jew- brought about by the unemploy-
ish children Dr. Mailer attributes ment in the city. This project was
to the activities of the Jewish phil- made possible by the bequest of
the late Mrs. Hattie Weil, Her be-
anthropic agencies.
Cause. of Arraignment • of Neg- quest was used as a revolving fund
lected and Delinquent Children. for the purchase of material, for
The mentally defective and chil- the payment of the women m- =
dren held as material witnesses ployed, and for the carrying of ac-
are classified by the court along counts. —
Employment was given to five =
with the neglected. The proportion
of Jews among those arraigned as Jewish women, three days a week, =
mental defectives is 6.29% or less making garments sold to various =
than half of what would be ex- social agencies of the city. The E."7
pected from the proportion of women were recommended by the ,=
Jews among the total arraign- Department of Public Welfare,'
the Jewish Social Service Bureau, —
ments.
The type of delinquent offense and 'the Young Women's Hebrew
with the highest proportion of Association. Temple Beth El do-
Jews is that of "peddling," ac- nated their sewing room, and the
' cording to Dr. Mailer's finding. To Temple Sisterhood, the use of
each of the other causes of ar- their machines. The workshop was
raignment Jews contribute far less open three days a week: Monday,
than the number expected from Tuesday, and Wednesday.
The workshop was assisted byI=
their proportion in the total pop -
ulation of the city. The lowest volunteers who obtained orders, I=
proportion of Jews are among helped supervise the sewing,
those arraigned for robbery, de- packed the garments and delivered
sertion of home, and burglary,
the finished articles, t I
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Education for Deaf.
SETTLEMENT WORK
IS CONCENTRATED
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brought into Biro Bidjan by the
end of the coming year, according
to the program laid down by the
Comzet, and by the end of the
second five-year period the num-
ber of inhabitants in Biro Bidjan
is to be increased to 300,000 souls,
of whom not less than 45 to 50
per cent are to be Jews.
About 100,000 hectares of land
were soin this year in the Crimea;
3 million pood of corn were hand-
ed over to the State this year by
the Jewish colonies in the Crimea;
there are thousands of hectares of
vineyards and tobacco plantations
in the Crimea and much else that
cannot and must not be neglected,
it was pointed out.
But at the game time, the speak-
ers said, there must be no more
chasing after larger areas of land,
without considering whether there
are enough transmigrants avail-
able to control so much land. The
result of the previous policy, they
said, was that out of 40,000 trans-
migrants who had been settled in
the Crimea since the beginning of
the Jewish settlement work in
1924, 20,000 had left.
Recently the Council organized =
a group of 20 Jewish persons, all
deaf or hard of hearing, for the
purpose of providing much-needed =
education and recreation for this
handicapped group.
During this year, the Detroit
Council sponsored five lectures on
"International Relations" and con-
ducted two courses on "Mental
Hygiene."
The six monthly meetings were
featured by the following pro-
grams: Upton Close spoke on
"Gandhi"; a playlet, "The World
Court," featured the meeting
which was addressed by Mrs. Es-
telle M. Sternberger; a playlet,
"Then and Now," featured the tri-
ennial tea; Albert Rappaport was
presented in a musical recital he
Jew in Song"; Prof. Joseph Re-
menyi spoke on "The European
Conception of American Litera-
ture"; a rich musical program fea-
tured the May meeting.
The Lincoln National Life
Insurance Company
Fort Wayne, Ind.
Announces the Appointment of
MORRIS FISHMAN
GENERAL AGENT
WAYNE COUNTY
GEORGE W. GOROWITZ, Associate
FOR
We are proud to present the following financial
statements concerning the condition and opera-
tion of the company:
On farm property, $11,279,461.53.
On city property, $37,751,353.26.
Total appraised at $137,499,000,
14,888,607.16
1,515,234.33
open meeting. Sunday afternoon, M•y A,
in the •uditorturn of
with • toe d•nee and alto an =
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ei•en by MI. Sylvia Voight who •ang. =
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of them. Besides this important
%),:avrril.sno:
of collection
(For unexpected fluctuations in investments,
mortality and for general contingencies.)
1,178,324.86
Net Admitted Assets
$83,189,325.65
2,500,000.00
3,500.000.00
Capital Stock
Unassigned Surplus
Surplus to Protect Policyholders
3,370,380.46
Cash in Bank and Office
613,467.30
Special Reserve
(On investments, bank deposits, etc.)
MORRIS FISHMAN
6,000,000.00
$83,189,325.65
To Balance Assets
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SOME POINTS OF INTEREST
$176,979,000.00
83,189,000.00
New Insurance Paid For
Total Admitted Assets
$924,289,000.00
A gain of $33,396,700, or 4%.
13,980,000.00
Paid Policyholders in 1931
An increase of $3,134,000, or 29%
A gain of $6,951,000, or 9%.
PROGRESS SHOWN IN FIVE-YEAR PERIODS
Income
Year
1906
1911
1916
1921
1926
1931
67,100.00
274,700.00
1,166,700.00
6,291,100.00
13,646,200.00
26,472,200.00
$
Assets
$
162,600.00
630,900.00
2,988,600.00
12,804,100.00
37,180,200.00
83,189,000.00
Insurance in Force
$
1,810,000.00
6,509,700.00
31,066,600.00
197,975,400.00
460,499,900.00
924,289,000.00
No life insurance company hat ever equaled the progress made by the Lincoln National Life in its first twenty-five years.
EXTRACTS FROM BEST'S LIFE INSURANCE REPORTS
"M anagement and Reputation"
"The company has had a rapid but conservative growth—It has very substantial and reputable backing and is
ably managed. Policyholders' surplus is ample for all contingencies and the reserve basis is very strong. Expenses
are remarkably low. The Wfortality rate is favorable. Its investments are of excellent quality . . . The rates on the
company's non-participating policies are low . . .
Yu• Marl M. Koffman •pent a week I=
In Detroit and Lensing. While In Detroit .—.
MI. Koffman attended the Temple Bet
Cl Young People. Spring Formal In the
Italian Gardens of th• Book Cadiilar
Hotel.
M•ry M. Koffman. preeident. wel•
UNITED SYNAGOGUE Mi. meal
th• mothers and prrnident •t the
Mi•s Airn• La Rove, who grad- =
20TH ANNIVERSARY meeting.
notes this •pring from the d•neing studio, ,=
(Agents' commissions, medical fee., bills not
yet presented, etc.)
605,117.63
Interest due and accrued
233,704.32
Reserve for other known Liabilities
(Including Home Office Building, $2,284,037 )
Loans to Policyholders
1,339,483.71
496,473.07
Reserve for Policy Claims
Reserve for Taxes payable in 1932
7,038,040.37
Real Estate owned
course
706,407.15
Premiums and Interest
Railroad, Public Utility and Industrials.
Net Premiums in
348,206.87
Set aside in addition to reserves.
3,203,815.78
Bonds (average yield 5.25%)
. Preferred and Common Stocks (average
2,358,990.37
yield 5.51%)
Loans Secured by Collateral (at 6%)
$73,451,583.23
Policy Reserves
Additional Policyholders' Funds
First Mortgage Loans (average yield
$49,030,814.79
5,91%)
Nag Tag Notes
The Junior Had•••ah Girls entertained
their mother. with an informal tea and
LIABILITIES
ASSETS
"Our general policyholders' rating of this company is excellent."
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which have instituted such courses
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The work of the local branches
Mr. J. C. Iiirsaideld is spending • tee
which blanket the country will
again be described and an esti- days In Detroit.
mate provided of their function In
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