A merica apish Periodical eater October 4, 1940 Season's Greetings and Best Wishes MORRIS TAUB Henn at D.T.R.R. PLaza 7192 Season's Greetings and Best Wishes Wyoming Plumbing t Heating Supplies CLIFTON AMUR - CINCINNATI 20, OHIO DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE RELIEF (Continued from Page 10) 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. HOW ARE REFUGEES RESETTLED IN U. S.? 15 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. Scholnick's JOINS YOU .. . in Greeting the Dawning of the New Year . . . Experience of the past few years has shown that the most • • 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 Season's Greetings and Best Wishes For a Year r of to be overcome is the reluctance of the refugees themselves to set- Health, Happiness SHEWACH BROS. tle. They have been harried from WHOLESALE GROCERS and Prosperity .. . Germany, to Austria, to Czecho- CHerry 8643 slovakia, to Iiolland, to England, Eastern Market and at last to America. The de- sire, therefore, to remain at the 70 1 port of entry is understandable. But settlement in the crowded seaports only aggravates the New Year's Greetings to All problem and actually retards since they tend P. H. DAVIS TAILORING Americanization, to "colonize" and form a city within a city. 420 Michigan Theater Bldg. Even when the refugee is con- Ra. 6366 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 Happy New Year to All retrained, or new skills to be the work of the Red Cross and Washington Blvd. at Grand River 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 Linwood Pipe making a rapid social as well as See RELIEF—Page 16 economic adjustment. Supply Co. The basic purpose of the Na- tional Refugee Service is to en- UN. 1 - 1870 courage, ease, and facilitate this 14 8 60 Linwood process of resettlement and ad- justment. Vocational retraining courses are arranged. Opportuni- ties are made available for lan- guage and other orientation class- Rosh Hashonah Greetings to All 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 Wiring and Installations refugees. This was done on a national scale in cooperation with 1406 FIELD AVE. 750 local resettlement commit- Fitzroy 0193 - 0194 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 3847 West Fort Street will redound to their credit for LAfayette 9514 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 Sincere Season's Greetings years to come. The National Refugee Service is geared to meet the pressure Candidate for Re-Election 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 Passenger Cars and Trucks into new Americans and helping For Hire the new Americans to make good in America. The dawn of the New Year banishes the darkness of yesterday . . . HOGARTH 9470 14600 WYOMING OUR SINCEREST WISHES . 5 I 940 #rtpalttirit's Walter G. GRABMAN Electrical Co. Fort Boulevard Recreation Judge Frank Day Smith Wayne County Circuit Judge HERTZ DRIV-UR-SELF STATIONS, Inc. 235 E. ELIZABETH RAndolph 3290 AMERICAN DOLLARS ARE SPENT OUTSIDE OF GERMANY Among the questions which are asked of the United Jewish An- Sincere Season's Greetings Lawn Equipment Corporation Complete Lawn and Golf Equipment 14544 THIRD AVE. Highland Park 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"