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October 4, 1940
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RELIEF
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stacks. The National Refugee
Service does help refugees to be-
come self-supporting, to utilize
their special trade and profes-
sional skills, to make a positive
contribution to American social
and economic life, and to become
an integral part of the American
people.
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RESETTLED IN U. S.?
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and the Legal Chronicle
abled the German Jews with
emigrant visas to get their trans-
nortation paid on the outside by
the J. D. C., makes possible a
local currency equivalent, in fact
a larger amound when one in-
cludes the premium for the serv-
ice in German marks, some of
which are converted into Polish
zlotys at the rate of 2 zlotys to
1 mark. These zlotys enable the
relief committees in Poland to
carry on their work.
Ever since 1933 the J. D. C.
has had this arrangement where-
by the German-Jews and Ger-
man-Jewish communities put up
in marks certain sums to be used
for soup kitchens, feeding, and
other services which we wished
to render in Germany. The J.
D. C. in turn paid out in dollars
the amounts needed for the trans-
portation of emigrants from Ger-
many to steamship companies'''.
away from Germany. Thus this
agency paid the transportation
charges to various lines. When
Italy clamped down recently on
transportation from her ports,
the German Jews arranged that
their prospective emigrants who
had American and other visas
should travel through Russia,
across Siberia, down to Japan,
cross the Pacific to San Fran-
cisco or to South American ports.
The J. D. C. has been paying the
Japanese lines in dollars once
these people reached Japan.
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JOINS YOU .. .
in Greeting the
Dawning of the
New Year . . .
Experience of the past few
years has shown that the most
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successful adjustment of refugees
to American life is through a
planned program of resettlement.
Here, too, there is no short-cut
To Detroit Jewry
to success. The first resistance
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For a Year r of
to be overcome is the reluctance
of
the
refugees
themselves
to
set-
Health, Happiness
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tle. They have been harried from
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and Prosperity .. .
Germany, to Austria, to Czecho-
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Eastern Market
and at last to America. The de-
sire, therefore, to remain at the
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port of entry is understandable.
But settlement in the crowded
seaports only aggravates the
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problem and actually retards
since they tend
P. H. DAVIS TAILORING Americanization,
to "colonize" and form a city
within a city.
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Even when the refugee is con-
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vinced that his best chance for
assimilation and self-support lies
in the smaller community, other THE RELATIONSHIP OF
barriers must be removed. There
IMPORTERS — CLOTHIERS
are language difficulties to over- THE RED CROSS TO
U. J. A.
come, half-forgotten skills to be THE
Is there any overlapping between
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retrained, or new skills to be the work of the Red Cross and
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learned; communities must be that of the United Jewish Ap-
willing and prepared to receive peal? With $70,000,000 of pri-
the refugee and to assist him in
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making a rapid social as well as
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economic adjustment.
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The basic purpose of the Na-
tional Refugee Service is to en-
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process of resettlement and ad-
justment. Vocational retraining
courses are arranged. Opportuni-
ties are made available for lan-
guage and other orientation class-
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es. Separate divisions of the or-
ganization are equipped to cope
with the special problem of emi-
gre physicians, rabbis, farmers,
musicians, children, scholars, and
business men. Each functions in
order to broaden the resettle-
ment possibilities of the particu-
lar category of refugees it serves.
During 1939, the National
Industrial and Commercial
Refugee Service resettled 3,500
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refugees. This was done on a
national scale in cooperation with
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750 local resettlement commit-
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tees who accept the new immi-
grants on the basis of a previ-
ously pledged quota. During 1940
the aim of the organization has
been local resettlement at an in-
Season's Greetings and Best Wishes creased rate. The 3,500 who were
resettled in 1939 represent only
one refugee for every 40,000
inhabitants. Even a doubling of
the annual rate would not over-
tax the absorptive capacity of
the country, and a doubling of
the rate is the 1940 goal.
Communities have responded to
the problem financially and or-
ganizationally in a manner which
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will redound to their credit for
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vears to come. For the first time
in history an immigrant group is
being absorbed into American
life through a planned program.
But it must multiply its efforts
still further, for the problem it-
self will be with us for some
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years to come.
The National Refugee Service
is geared to meet the pressure
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of first contacts and to prepare
the refugee for resettlement. But
it can be successful in effecting
an untimate solution to the prob-
lem only to the extent that lo-
cal communities continue and in-
crease the end-point of the pro-
cess—making new immigrants
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into new Americans and helping
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the new Americans to make good
in America.
The dawn of the New Year banishes the darkness of yesterday . . .
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AMERICAN DOLLARS ARE
SPENT OUTSIDE OF
GERMANY
Among the questions which are
asked of the United Jewish An-
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neal all the time is one concern-
ing the clearance arrangement
whereby American dollars are not
remitted to Germany or Poland
or any other territory controlled
by the Nazi regime.
This transfer
arrangement,
whereby the J. D. C. defrays the
cost of transportation against the
German marks paid in by the
Jewish emigrants and the Jew-
ish communities, enables the J.
D. C. to continue feeding and
other emergency help in Ger-
many, Austria, etc., without put-
ting up money in American dol-
lc1s in Germany. This money is
spent on the outside. This has
also been true in connection with
the work in Poland. The same
clearance agreement which en-
bringing cheer to a gloomy world.
The lingering shadows of business anaemia accompanied by travail and
chaos . . . retreat before the golden glow of a bright future. In this season
of renewal of faith, the high road of Jewish history leads to wide outlooks
. . . the irrevocable past with its sorrows and despair fade before the
increased vividness of tomorrow's rays of hopes.
May the year 570 1 brighten your homes with the warming shafts of
good cheer, good health and good times.
"LE SHONO TOVO TIKOSEVU"