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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE

Se ptember 6, 1940

REFUGEES

with us. We fight against this and,
by , and large, we succeed.
But let us follow our refugees.
Probably they are going to a re-
gional committee, since today most
National Refugee Service reset-
tlements are made not to specific
communities but to regions which
m ay be states, parts of states, or
several states combined. The ad-
vantages Of the regional setup are
numerous. Relatively few commu-
nities are large enough to afford
full time workers of their own
on refugee problems. But the com-
munities in a given region usually
find it possible to employ such a
person on a joint basis.
Distributing refugees for re-
settlement from a central point
into the smaller cities and towns
of the region has proved very
advantageous since it is possible
for the regional committee to
keep in much closer touch with
nearby employment and adjust-
ment possibilities than the New
York office possibly can. Moreover,
a stronger and more 'influential
committee for refugee work may
be recruited by calling on the
best leadership that a number of
communities can offer.
Alighting from the bus, our
travel weary refugees are met
by representatives of the local
refugee committee—this, at least,
is the theory. In one instance, the
early days of refugee resettlement,
the newcomers were met by the
Mayor and an official reception
committee. This isn't a desirable
situation. It gives the refugee a
distorted picture of the commun-
ity and community attitudes and
often it may take weeks before
he gets down to the level of a
workaday world again. But far
worse than this overexuberance
is the neglect occasionally dis-
played by towns which have come
to have too much of a matter-of-
course attitude. There is a terri-
fic letdown for the refugee who,
arriving in a strange city in the
}raft of a strange land. must seek
his way about unguided.
There are, of course, wide varia-
tions between the setups of refu-
gee committees in different areas.
In some larger cities the refu-
gees are handled through a de-
partmentalized organization staff-
ed by full time workers. and of-
fering employment, relief serv-
ices, etc. Smaller towns often func-
tion with volunteer workers, as-
sisted by the work of the regional
field men and the field staff of
the National Refugee Service.
Sonic small communities work on
the far-from-perfect system of
having one or two energetic lead-
ers bearing the brunt of all refu-
gee work. I must confess that
even the National Refugee Serv-
ice can only give rough approxima-
tions of the total number of per-
sons engaged in local refugee
work. We have about 750 local
committees at present. Some have
only four or five numbers, others
have scores. In large cities, liter-
ally hundreds of men and women
are cooperating on the refugee
program. I cite these facts not
for the greater glory of the Na-
tional 'Refugee Service but to
underscore the great national co-
operative aspects of resettlement.
This apparatus begins to func-
tion for the refugee family when
it reaches the community. A com-
mittee, usually composed of local
housewives, takes charge of the
housing problem—finding an ade-
quate room or apartment for the
family and supplying minor defic-
iencies in household equipment.
The employment committee be-
gins to work on the problem of a
joh— evaluating the refugee's
skills in relation to employment
possibilities, sending him to inter-
view employers, arranging meet-
inqs with influential citizens. Nor-
mally the refugee committee has
some sort of an adjustment pro-
gram; provision for entertaing the
refugees at local homes, parties
at Jewish centers, social activities
for younger people.
Employment is, of course, the
crux of the problem. Nor is there
any royal road to solving it. By
and large the job of getting jobs
for refugees is pedestrian, day
to day plugging, plus an active
imagination. An employment com-
mittee which can evaluate skills
intelligently and see where, for
example, a skilled watchmaker
may become a useful precision
machinist; a committee which is
ever on the alert for new business
openings, community wants, sig-
nificant contacts—such a commit-
tee will be likely to have a good
e mployment score. But one which
solves every problem by the sim-
ple formula of turning all refu-
gees into a
common pattern of

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and the Legal Chronicle

13

JABOTINSKY MEMORIAL MEETING__ Prayer for Peace
TO BE HELD AT THE BNAI MOSHE
At Seminary Sunday
ON TUESDAY EVENING, SEPT 17 Comply with Call Issued by

Plans have been completed for
a mass memorial meeting for the
late Vladimir Jabotinsky, presi-
dent of the World N. Z. 0. and
founder of the Jewish Legion in
the last World War, who passed
away at Hunter, N. Y., four
weeks ago.
The meeting is sponsored by
the New Zionist Organization of
-Dttroitr the – Zionist• • Organization;
Mizrachi, Hadasah and Junior
Hadassah and will be held at
Bnai Moshe. Dexter and Lawr-
ence, on Tuesday, Sept. 17, at

Walter Winchell, tired of see-
ing the "lowdown" on his per-
sonality, history and doings fea-
tured in magazine after maga-
zine, has started publishing cor-
rections of some of the errors
President Roosevelt
made by his self-appointed biog-
In accordance with the request raphers.
of President Roosevelt, the Jew-
ish Theological Seminary of
America will conduct a prayer
service for world peace on Sun-
day, Sept. 8, at 5 p. in. The serv-
ice will be held in the Seminary
Synagogue at 531 W. 123rd St.,
ANNOUNCE
New York. The public is invited
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8 p. m.
for world peace in their respec-
Speakers at the meeting will tive synagogues.
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chanted by Cantor Katzman of
Bnai Moshe.

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and you're on your way home from the theater or perhaps

500 Delegates From
College Faculties
Assemble in N. Y.

Conferenc e on

Science, Philoso-

phy and Religion to Meet in

First Public

Jewish Calendar

5700-1940

Rosh Chodesh Ellul—Wednes-
day, September 4.
5701-1940

Rosh Hashonah — Thursday
and Friday, Oct. 3 and 4.
Yom Kippur, Saturday, Octo-

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and Religion will meet at the of the preceding secular day.
Jewish Theological Seminary of
America, at Broadway and 122nd
St., in New York City for a three
day meeting on Sept. 9, 10, and
11. The opening session will con-
vene at 10:30 a. m. on Monday,
Sept. 9. The 84 founding mem-
bers of the conference, numbering
such prominent men as Van \Vyck,
Books, Henry Sloane Coffin, Al-
bert Einstein, Robert MacIver,
Harlow Shapley and Harold C.
Frey, have called this meeting to
determine how the leaders in the
fields of science, philosophy and
religion can cooperate to strength-
en the democratic way of life.
The first day of the conference,
Sept. 9, will be devoted to a
plenary meeting of the founding
members. Prof. Louis Finkelstein,
president of the Jewish Theologi-
cal Seminary of America, will open
the conference with a report of
the preparatory work, and the
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The screen's James Cagney, a
simon-pure Aryan, recently en-
tertained some friends by singing
"My Alice Blue Gown" in Yid-

dish.

'You may be sure we grimly realized
e had to accomplish things in our
new cars for 1941 that we could count
on to continue our advance.

_ .

making the most of its opportuni-
ties.
All of this probably sounds
like hard work. It is. But it is
one of the most satisfactory jobs
that an American Jew can per-
form today. In the midst of chaos,
in times when we are forced to
witness, with folded hands, the
disintegration of one ancient cul-
ture after another, constructive
work is a welcome relief, a pallia-
tive for sheer despair. And refu-
gee work is constructive in the
fullest sense. Here is your "unit"
—human raw material, battered,
bruised, kicked from pillar to post
over half a world, but intelligent,
eager, able. The National Refu-
gee Service asks of the local com-
mittees, "Take this man. Help
him to become self-sufficient, self-
respecting. Teach his to be an
American. Smooth out whatever
right spots you can for him. The
job's up to you."
There is a supreme satisfaction
in watching the "unit" change
from a problem, something for
committees to worry about, into
a neighbor. a good friend, a fel-
low citizen. That is the reward
house-to-house canvassers isn't of our work.

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