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Membership Drive
Of J. N. F. Auxiliary

DEPRESSION OR
NO DEPRESSION

The last hoard meeting of the
Ladies' Auxiliary of the Jewish
National Fund was held at the
home of Mrs. L. Miller, 2670
Blaine.
An extensive membership cam-
paign is being outlined before
commencing work for the feat-

This Man Helices in Comfort

TIIIS YEAR

Some call him lucky. Ile himself maintains it's
simply a case of sound finance.

Thirty years ago he decided he must make sure of an
income in the years when his earning power would
decline. Speculation, he knew, could guarantee him
nothing. So he sought out the plan which would
guarantee him cash on retirement to provide needed
income. Be purchaser a GREAT-WEST Pension Policy.

Through four depressions with their intervening per-

iods of prosperity he stuck steadfastly to his plan.
Financial panics brought him no worry whatever.
Boom periods left him with no regrets.

MRS. M. WEKSLER

ured work of the season, the
annual donor luncheon. Mrs.
Samuel Heyman was appointed
chairman of the membership cam-
paign. Women who are inter-
ested in working to redeem Pal-
estinian soil for the Jewish peo-
ple are encouraged to get in
touch with Mrs. Heyman at 3224
Sturtevant, Townsend 7-6851.
Mrs. Max Weksler, who pre-
sided at the meeting, announced
the appointment of Mrs. William
Feltner as chairman of the an-
nual donor luncheon, to take place
at the Book-Cadillac Hotel on
May 1. This date was changed
from May 8 so as not to conflict
with the Federation drive, which
is scheduled for that date.
Members of the board are now
engaged in making collections
from the Jewish National Fund
boxes that are placed in homes.
Mrs. Louis Schlien is chairman
of this committee.
The next meeting will be held
on Tuesday, Dec. 18, at the Book-
Cadillac Hotel. The following
program has been arranged:
Aaron Kurland, attorney and
a past president of the J.
N. F'. Council of Detroit,
will speak. Mrs. Anna Warren,
vocalist, will be accompanied by
Miss Celia Plotnick. Miss Plot-
nick and Mrs. Warren are both
members of the Halevy Choral
Society.

This year, at age 65, this men retires in comfort.
Ile has a guaranteed income as long as he lives. We
want you to learn all the advantages of this GREAT-
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obligation.

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open to membership. The pur-
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Jewish education, welfare and
charity. Anyone interested may
attend the open meeting to be
held on Thursday evening, Dee.
s 20, at 8 p. nt., at 539 Kenilworth
Ave. For further information
call Miss Ethel Steinberg, Madi-
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ring and consulting capacity by

acquainting the applicants with the
proper resources in the community
to which they may apply. There are,
however, other disorganizing ele-
ments the treatment of which comes
within the sphere of work of the
bureau. Among these are the prob-
lems of domestic difficulty, inter-
relationships between members of
the family, and behavior problems
of children. Questions of choice of
vocation and the fitness of particu-
lar individuals for given vocations
are also matters which receive the
attention of the bureau. This
agency maintains a Mental Hy-
giene Clinic. under the direction of
Dr. Harry E. August, which makes
diagnoses and carries out treat-
ment for certain types of mental
and nervous disorders. The clinic
also is staffed by a full-time psy-
chologist with the necessary equip-
ment who gives intelligence and
vocational guidance examinations.
In the field of child care, the
bureau acts as the investigating
agency in all applications for the
placement of children away from

Metropolitan Comment

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in a joint recital with Yehudi this
week.
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COMEDIANS
Ilan it ever occurred to you just
how many Jewish comedians there
are on the stage, screen and rad-
io? Without being comprehen-
sive, we might note Ed Wynn,
Eddie Cantor, Georgie Jessel, Phil
Baker, Beet Lahr, Willie Howard,
Jack Benny, George Burns of
Burns and Allen, Lou Holtz, Fan-
nie Brice, Harry Richman, Char-
lie Chaplin, Jack Pearl . . . but
we're not going to strain. These
just came to mind offhand. What
with Jewry, the football of the
world, couldn't one say that our
comedians are the Pagliaccia of
the universe.

REFLECTIONS
Why do so many of our rab-
bis go in for that local trans-
formation, which if chemically
analyzed, might be called "Ox-
fordization?" . . . . And, still
harping on rabbis, why do con-
gregation's insist that their rab-
bi become a popular lecturer and
then asume the parlor pose that
calls for an attitude bemoaning
a lack of religion in the syna-
gogue', have you any idea
of the hatred against Germans
and German things engendered in
most of us by events of the last
few years.
•This last reflection requires a
little elucidation. To illustrate:
Recently I was asked to escort a
girl to one of those midnight rail-
ings from New York harbor. The
boat was the Bremen, speedy Ger
man greyhound. Though I would
never have sailed on this Nazi
liner, it didn't occur to me that
I should boycott its Hailing. After
all, the person I was seeing off
wash% even a friend of mine. I
was, you may remember, just an
escort.
But on later reflection, I
thought: Isn't it terrible that I.
as must many other Jews, feel
this way towards Germans. Per-
haps that man I inwardly cursed
the most was far from a Nazi.
And certainly if Jews felt that
way about all Germans, it was a
sure thing that the majority of
Germans had grown to hate Jews.
That, certainly, is the saddest
aspect of the hatred engendered
by Ilitlerism. It will take 60 years,
maybe a century, to undo what
has happened in the past few
years.

their own homes, regardless of
where the application originates.
This plan permits this agency to
make every effort to preserve fam-
ily unity and frequently avoids the
necessity of placing the child else-
where.
One of the effective methods for
avoiding placement of children has
been the Home Service, a depart.
ment of the bureau which places
housekeepers in homes while the
mother is absent temporarily or
permanently. Great care is exer-
cised in the selection, appointment
and supervision of • the house-
keepers.
In line with its work of bringing
wholesale influences in the lives of
families under its care, the bur-
eau is co-operating with a big sin-
ter committee of the Council of
Jewish Women of which Mrs. Fred
B. Dreifus is chairman. This com-
mittee operates under the close su-
pervision of the bureau and meets
periodically with the supervisor of
the agency for guidance and case
discussions. The members of the
committee are assigned families by
the bureau in which there are
young girls who need the interest,
self-expression and recreational
opportunities which would be af-
forded by the presence of a big
sister in the situation.
Cases are not accepted for re-
lief which are eligible for aid from
the Department of Public Welfare.
There is a class of cases which call
for preventive relief measures,
which the agency serves. Some-
times a loan judiciously made for
business or other purposes may
keep a family off the welfare roll
temporarily or even indefinitely.
By an arrangement with the Ile-
brew Free Loan Association, the
bureau acts as an endorser in such
cases and guarantees the repay-
ment of the loan. The advantage
of this method is that the family
is helped to utilize a credit resource
and is given the opportunity of
maintaining itself without charit-
able aid. The bureau also acts as
the agency for the admission and
discharge of transients to the Jew-
ish house of Shelter.
Other aspects of the relief work
of the bureau are described in the
statement of the Jewish Unemploy-
ment Emergency Council.
The bureau has a staff of 16
people, 11 of whom are social
workers and five clerical workers.
By insistence upon high standards
of education and professional prep-
aration for its staff members, the
bureau hopes to make available to
the community a competent service
in accordance with the best pro-
cedures in social work thinking and
practice. During the year 1933, the
bureau handled over 2,700 differ-
ent cases.

How Aged Are Cared

For at Old Folks Home

Twenty-two men and 27 women
among them four couples, ranging
in age from 65 to 99, no longer
able to carry on the tasks and re-
sponsibilities of their individual
homes and to continue their activi-
ties which for so ninny years have
been the soul of their existence,
live, relieved of the cares of a
household, at the shelter established
for them many years ago by the
Detroit Jewish Old Folks Home.
The oldest man, Meyer Merin,
By DAVID SCHWARTZ
who entered the home in November,
1929, is now 59 years of age. The
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oldest woman, Mrs. Leah Kings-
what it professes to be. To those
man, admitted to the home 20 years
who tell me that the Bible was
ago, in July, 1914, is now 90 years
not revealed in any divine way, I
of age..
may listen and may agree pos-
The following is a list of ages
sibly that scientific argument may
of the home residents at the pres-
lean more to their side than to
ent
time:
the view that it divinely revealed.
One resident, 65 year of age;
But even to agree to that is
two
residents, 68; one resident, 70;
far from admitting that religion
sin residents, 71; five residents,
does not serve as a potent and
72;
two residents, 73; five resi-
very solitary influence in society.
dents, 74; one resident, 75; two
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another case not without simi-
THE CONVERTED • ANARCHIST larities to the one just mention- residents, 76; three residents, 77;
I came across a very good illus- ed which came into my purview four residents, 79; three residents,
80; one resident, RI; three resi-
tration of what I am talking about this week.
dents, 82; two residents, 83; one
the other day.
I was talking to a Jew, who,
X is a farmer in New Jersey. too, was one of the old school of resident, 84; one resident, 86; two
residents, 87; one resident, 89; one
I remember X ten years back. radicals—a man connected with
resident, 90; one resident 96; and
Ile was an anarchist. Not one of one of the leading general news one resident, 99.
those bomb throwing anarchists, agencies in the world. He is in
The average age of the resi-
but one of the philosophical var- charge of the French division of dents now living at the home thus
iety—the man who had sucked in this agency. He is a man who is 77.
Kropotkin and the other anar- has been all over the world—has
The yearly intake of the home
chist philosophers to the full. X worked in such places, for in- varies greatly, because, due to
was and is a man of keen percep- stance, as the International In- limited facilities, the number is
tions and as far as his doctrine stitute founded by Lubin in Rome. depended upon the number of resi-
was concerned, he could argue it
After we had discussed the mat- dents leaving each year.
from A. to Izzard.
ter which brought me to see him
The home owns two buildings
But within the last year, some- which had no relation to things with 13 rooms in the main build-
thing happened to X. Not any- Jewish, he says to pie:
ing and 14 in the annex. The ca-
Just an inner
thing tangible.
"You know, I anS an old time pacity is 63 beds.
revolution of a sort. All of a radical—and frankly, I don't be-
During 1934, six residents passed
sudden X decided that his boy lieve in Zionism, nationalism or away andsight applicants we re ad-
who had been raised atheistically anything of that sort, but I want mittted to the home.
and anarchistically should be- to ask a strange favor of you."
The home, which was just com-
come Bar Mitzvah in the ortho-
"Go ahead," I said.
pletely redecorated, is provided
dox Jewish sense. Now what I
"Well," he resumed, "I have with a synagogue and a library
ant going to tell you may sound a nephew who is attending col- on the first floor of the main build-
incredulous, but I ask you to be- lege. He has just entered his ing. At the synagogue services
lieve me, that I am telling the lit- sophomore year. Ile knows al- are held regularly three times a
eral truth.
most nothing about Jewish things. day. The entire institution is con-
X decided his son should be Bar He does not look very Jewish. ducted under strictly orthodox
Mitzvah.
Well, he came back at the end of rules, all customs adherered to,
But you can't be Bar Mitzvah his last college term, a perplexed making life within its wall har-
if you haven't been circumcised. boy. Something happened to him. monious with the desires of the
and the boy had not been. So I investigated and found that he residents, a factor which for var-
that rite had to be performed. was very greatly troubled by the ious reasons would, in many case?,
But wait, there was a hitch. How fact that he was a Jew. He had be impossible to carry out in the
can you religiously perform that suddenly discovered that he was individual homes of the residents or
rite, if the parents had not been ■ Jew. Or rather to be more their relatives.
The main problems of the home
married, and the atheistic and an- correct, it had been discovered
archistic X had not believed in for him. The great publicity are the sleeping quarters, as the
marriage. So what happened?
given to Ilitlerism has put some- residents are crowded three and
So this happened. Within sev- thing in the general run of col- four in each room.
The staff of the home consists
eral weeks, the parents who had lege students, and many of them
lived together but not married, had been asking him if he was a of: secretary, matron, nurse, house-
keeper, cook, janitor, night watch-
married; further, the Abrahamic Jew, and their attitude had so man and four helpers. Upon the
rite was performed on the son— changed to him that this boy has matron fall many of the responsi-
and the boy made Bar Mitzvah all begun to believe that being a bilities of the home. It is her duty
within the space of a short in- Jew is something terrible—some- to attempt to make the home a
thing inferior. Now, as I say, I pleasant one for its residents; to
terval.
X is deeply religious now. am against Zionism, and against see that all orders for cleanliness
There are Sabbath candles. the nationalism, but I am willing to are properly carried out and to
"ravers—the celebration of holi- forget my theories now for I provide for or assist the residents
days—everything.. And X seems have come to believe that if I with the mending of their clothes,
to have gotten something very could inculcate some Jewish na- etc.
fundamental out of it. Some- tionalism in him, this nu ph. iv of
The atmosphere in the home is
thing that integrated and saved mine would be cured of the one of companionship and friendli-
strange obsession that ha. now ness and the impression created is
him from despair.
I can't explain just how a man come over him."
that the residents of the home are
So you want anything strang- guests rather than inmates in an
PO deeply conversant with athe-
istic doctrine could have sudden- er than this plea of this anti- institution. Everything possible Is
done to make the home a pleasant
ly thrown all this overboard and Zionist to me?
And it goes to prove my orig- place for the aged to live in. Flow-
become almost a fanatic Jew. It
is a cage that belone to the este- inal point, which was this — that ers are placed upon the tables dur-
ems described by William James we have been talking too much ing meals, tea is served each after-
in his Varieties of Religious Ex- whether this or that thine was noon, etc.
Applications for admission to the
true or not, and we have for-
seetence.
Pot all that I do know is this gotten all the %bile, thst jt ie institution are at made to the
board
of directors, which investi-
—.het life ha• s content for X very hard indeed to know what
is true. but whether an idea is gates the GSse and determines
•hst it never bed before.
whether
or not the individual shall
true or is not true, is not half
HE Pt FADS FOR HIS
as important as whether we can be accepted.
NEPHEW
Though
at present only six rest-
Strangely, enough, there was afford to be without it.

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OUR SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCIES: HOW
THEY FUNCTION IN PRESENT EMERGENCY

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Welfare Federation

And Community Fund

The Jewish Welfare Feder•-•
lion, under whose direction the
Jewish Social Service Agencies
are functioning in Detroit, Is a
constituent organization of the
Detroit Community Fund.
The inter-relationship of the
Detroit Community Fund with
the Jewish Welfare Federation
will be explained in a future
article in The Chronicle.

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in previous years the home has had
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many who, either by forfeiting to 9
the home all their possessions upon
entering, or by contributing sums
periodically, at least in part help
take care of their expense at the
home.
There have been several residents
who were financially able to take
care of themselves for a number
of years, but preferred to turn
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The residents of the home are
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most part, are donated by individ-
uals as well as organizations.
The resident's comfort is provid-
ed for especially by the Northwest-
ern branch and Ladies Auxiliary of
the home, by supplying them with
all necessities and arranging for
parties on occasions of holiday out-
ings, shows, etc. This auxiliary is
now headed by its president, Mrs.
Rose Ferar. The president of the
oldest ladies auxiliary of the home
is Mrs. J. H. Levitt, who is still
continuing her untiring activities
for the institution,
All residents of the home are
under the care of a visiting medical
staff consisting of Dr. Edw. J. Ags
nelly of the Receiving Hospital;
Dr. Daniel E. Cohen, Dr. Victor
Droock, Dr. D. Kliger and J. J.
Jacobs, chiropodist,
The home is affiliated with the
Jewish Welfare Federation of De-
That is the reason our
troit, and is a beneficiary agency
Colonial Room is becoming
in the Allied Jewish Campaign.
Members of the home hoard are
increasingly popular — that
participating in the Federation's
and prices which will be
campaigns.
sure to please your sense of
The officers of the home and its
economy.
board of directors are: Jacob Lev-
in, president; Louis Dann, first
vice-president; David Oppenheim,
We serve a seven-course
second vice-president; Max Lieber-
dinner for $1.25.
man, treasurer ; Moses Weiswasser,
superintendent; E. Korman, finan- 1
cial and recording secretary; board
members, Sidney J. Allen, M. L. I
Black, N. Brenner, Louis Dann,
Sol A. Dann, Ben Cohen, David J.
Cohen. Joseph II. Ehrlich, Marvin
Gingold, N. Goldman, Rabbi A. M.
Hershman, Abe Keidan, Judge
Harry B. Keidan, Myron M. Keys,
Dr. D. Kliger, H. M. Hoffman, Ja-
cob Levin, Mrs. J. H. Levitt, Henry
Levitt, Moses Levitt, Max Lieber-
man, Robert Loewenberg, Gus
Newman, David Oppenheim, Her-
man Radner, Louis Robinson, 1.
Rosenthal, J. P. Rosenthal, Eli
Sachse, William Sandler, Nate S.
Shapero, Max Schneider, Morris
Schneider, Morris Steinberg,
George M. Stutz and Moses Weis-
wasser. Representatives of the
Northwestern branch, Ladies Aux-
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iliary, to the board, are: Mrs. Rose
Ferar, Mrs. B. L. Sarasohn and
Mrs. II. Lewis.
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