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happened to be a member agency European Jews Seeks Rela-
tives in Detroit
would be given the right to regis-
te• its opinion on the matter of
budgeting of funds, for which the . Jacob Shaydrak of Trinidad is
Welfare Funds were assumed to eager to locate his uncle Samuel
Bauer who is supposed to be re-
Lipsky Calls Pro- be responsible.
That is what is now being siding in Detroit. Anyone know-
posal "Height of
done. It is open and above board. ing of his whereabouts is asked
No deception is being practiced. to please contact Mr. Stattmann
Absurdity"
The printed material is being dis- it Columbia 1600, or at 51 W.
tributed all over the United States Warren Ave., Room 100.
By LOUIS LIPSKY
Meta Rosenberg of Berlin, Ger-
by the national office of the Coun-
many, is trying to locate a Mr.
cil. It is as clear as crystal.
In these days of revolutionary
members of the Council Cappel who formerly was con-
change, even our language re- are The
Federations
of Jewish Chari- nected with the Ford Motor Com-
flects the masks the revolution ties, Welfare Funds
it seems, pany in Aschen, Germany. He is
operates with. All of Hitler's wars also in some cities, and,
said to be now employed at Ford's
Community
are incidents of his "peace" pro- Councils. Included in the material in Detroit. Any information re-
gram. He invades Bulgaria to sent out is a published list of the garding Mr. Cappel should be
protect its freedom. The Japanese
agencies and the number communicated to Mr. Stattmann
bombard Chinese cities, occupy member
votes assigned to each member at Columbia 1600, 51 W. Warren
Chinese territory with armed of
Who made these assign- Ave., Room 100.
force, but they carry the white agency.
ments is not indicated. However
flag of peace and good-will. We
may be, and disregarding the cifically in the local charitable
Jews are affected by these lan- that
probability that all member agen- work that will do the voting for
guage camouflages. We are no cies
are given equal consideration,
l o n g e r "defending" ourselves the following interesting facts are the fund-raising agency.
against anti-Semitic attacks. We revealed by the "list of member
It is probably his own personal
are no longer protecting our "civil agencies and the number of as- opinion, but if, as H. L. Lurie,
status." It is undignified to de-
executive director of the Council,
votes."
fend ourselves. "Coordination," signed
The city of Greater New York ways that in matters of philan-
"reorganization" and "unity" are contains almost half the Jewish thropy it is in order to act as
forms of political offensive in population of the United States. corporations act, and every stock-
which aggression is reduced to a
holder should be entitled to as
whisper, but peace is shouted from It raises from one-third to one- many votes as he owns shares, or
the housetops. It is a Babel of half of the amount of money col- according to the amount of money
word. s, with many of the old words lected for overseas purposes. Ac- he has invested in the corporation,
It is poli- cording to the records of the then the referendum should have
se . rving new purposes.
not to call a spade a United Jewish Appeal, in 1940 taken account of the great dis-
tic
nowadays Greater
spade.
New York produced $5,-
073,866.14 in pledges, and there parity between one corporate mem-
The referendum on national was received at the end of the ber or member agency responsible
budgeting, which is being sub-
for, say, $10,000, and another cor-
mitred by the Council of Welfare year $3,657,725, in cash. In the porate member or member agency
Funds to its constituents, is not voting on the referendum, how- responsible for $500,000. Nothing
Funds
referendum in the plain, ordi- ever, Greater New York is as- of the sort appears in the list of
nary sense of the word. It is not signed
for Next
New in York
Brooklyn.
size assigned votes. The amount of
and 6 12
for. votes-6
a . broad inquiry as to popular
money contributed is unrelated to
opinion on the subject of national usually
is the produces
city of Chicago,
which the number of votes that have
about one-quar-
budgeting. It is an inquiry nar-
been given to the various Wel-
rowed down to a limited circle. ter
of what
New
produces
for Greater
overseas
and York
refu- fare Funds or member agencies.
And even that narrow inquriy is
1940, Chicago
The Council could have adopted
being unfairly influenced by its gee
purposes.
gave
to the United Jewish A pp eal another rule that sometimes pre-
official sponsors. This is shown
is vails in corporate bodies. It could
in the official literature sent out, $999,850.
The votes.
city of The
Chicago
given eight
city o have used the rule which pre-
as well as in the form set up for Rochester gave in 1940 $50,000 vails in trade unions. At their
the voting. Properly speaking, it to the United Jewish Appeal, but conventions, a delegate is given
is not a referendum at all.
is given five votes. The city of as many votes as there are mem-
It goes so far as to influence Philadelphia gave $50,000 in cash bers in his union. The council
even the limited circle of voters. to the United Jewish Appeal (col- could have agreed to assign votes
Whether the national budgeting lecting, however, a much larger on the basis of the number of con-
system will become mandatory or sum for other purposes in the tributors. It is the contributors
will be, as proposed, merely advis- same campaign) and is given sev- who have an interest. It could
ory, time will tell. Formally, it is en votes. The city of Scranton, be assumed that they have assign-
advisory. Time and again the em- Pa., contributing $35,000 in 1940 ed the right to budget to their
phasis is placed upon the word to the United Jewish Appeal, is boards of directors. And having
"advisory." How it will work out given four votes. The city of assigned the right to budget to
in practice, however, remains to Flint, Michigan, contributing $3,- these boards, the boards could be
be seen. It is inherent in the situa- 750 in 1940 to the United Jewish given the right to cast as many
tion for a national budgeting com- Appeal, is given two votes. And votes as there may be contribu-
mittee's decision to become coer- the city of Hartford, Conn., which tors. But neither of these alter-
cive without being technically produced $79,821 for the United natives have been taken up in
mandatory. The National Budget- Jewish Appeal in 1940, is given the assignment of votes. It is to
ing Committee, as well as the three votes.
be a referendum addressed to the
Council of Welfare Funds, will
There is no need to go further members of the boards of direc-
use their influence, quite naturally, into this matter. There seems to tors of Welfare Funds and Fed-
to have their report accepted. They be no rhyme or reason in these erations of Jewish Charities and
will use all sorts of coercive argu- assignments, except on the theory Community Councils in all cases
ments. They will plead for unity that the votes have been assigned where such corporate bodies have
in American Israel, for order not on the basis of money con-
members of the Council
and system in our philanthropies, tributed, not on the basis of the become
of
Welfare
Funds. It is a simple
for the maintenance of . authority number of contributors, but ex- form. It is a simple procedure.
in Jewish life. The setting up of a elusively on the idea of member- No idea is even suggested that at
National Budgeting Commission ship in the Council of Welfare the meetings of the boards of di-
will mean the setting up of a Funds. In some cities the Council rectors it should be recorded how
standard which will serve as ef- has a membership which consists many members were present, and
i
fective restraint upon the nde-
of a Welfare Fund, a Federation how many voted "for” or
pendent action of every Welfare of Jewish Charities and a Com- "against" the referendum; the
Fund in the country. Therefore, munity Council. In other cities corporation, as corporation, is call-
when the Council includes on its it has a Federation of Jewish ed upon to cast its vote. In some
official ballot the following sen- Charities and a Welfare Fund. cases
it will have the right to
tence: "Approval . . . does not In other cities it has only a Wel- cast eight votes, seven votes, five
in any sense imply any commit- fare Fund which is affiliated with votes, three votes and two votes.
ment on the part of this member the Council. What the designers No member, no matter how small,
„ or of the referendum had in mind
agency to utilize the services
findings of these committees . , it was to give voting right to all of is given less than two votes.
This is the height of absurdity.
is, in effect, attempting to tnflu- its members substantially on an
eme the voting and to give as- equal basis, whether they were It is a travesty performed with
stf•ances to the voters that noth- Federations or Welfare Funds or a solemn face. A technical exer-
ing will happen in the future to Community Councils, regardless of cise is being set in motion, and
bind them in their local budget- the fact that it was thus givirm the result will be merely a tech-
ing.
votes to corporate bodies not di- nical acceptance or rejection of
The peculiarity of the situation rectly concerned in gathering the the referendum. The Council must
lies in the fact that the Council funds for the purposes included he aware of what is involved in
of Welfare Funds is not concerned within the program of the Council. this issue. It knows that, as a
with people. It is a loose federa- In other words, votes were given matter of fact, behind the direc-
tion of corporate bodies—Fede•- in the referendum to corporate tors of the Welfare Funds there
ations and Welfare Funds. These bodies that are not concerned with is an army of contributors, of
are its members. It has been the collection of funds. On the various classes and interests. It
dealing only with its own mem- contrary, the community has as- knows that it is their contribu-
bers. It does not see beyond the signed to a special corporate body tions to the causes they desire to
meeting-room of the board of di- the task of collecting these speci- support, which is involved in this
hocus-pocus of a referendum. All
rectors. All its members are more fic funds.
or less equal. It professes to be
Thus, in the City of New York these men and women scattered
blind to the fact that some of its votes would be cast by the execu- throughout the United States in
members are millionaire corpora- tive committee of the Federation about two hundred Welfare Fund
tions, and others of its members of Jewish Philanthropies; also in cities, are voluntary contributors
are poor, struggling, self-sacrific- the city of Brooklyn. Now the to causes and institutions. Any
ing communities. When it was de- committee in charge of raising betrayal of their interests is bound
cided in Atlanta to refer the the $5,073,866.14 (which was what to be reflected disastrously in the
question of national budgeting to was raised by the United Jewish results of the campaign. They
the Welfare Funds, the general Appeal in 1940) will express their make or break campaigns. They
impression was that in some way opinions is not revealed. In Brook- can make or break the Welfare
the Welfare Funds would make lyn, the "member agency" is the Funds. They make or break the
an effort to ascertain the views Federation of Jewish Charities, Council, which has assumed cc-
of their own members—the con- which by no stretch of the imagi- sponsibility for the introduction of
tributors. It was not imagined at nation is related in the slightest this dictatorial form of control.
the time that the referendum degree to the effort which is made They are free to refuse coopera-
would be an inquiry limited to the annually to collect for overseas tion with any Welfare Fund that
Welfare Funds as corporate bod- purposes. In New York, the Fed- will give their consent to the im-
ies; that the Boards of Directors eration of Jewish Philanthropies is position of an outside control upon
of these corporate bodies would not only responsible for the rais- their generosity and goodwill.
assume the responsibility for act- ing of any of the overseas funds, The referendum will be mean-
ing on behalf of their contributors. but it has, from time to time, re- ingless; it will serve no good
It was not imagined that the vot- garded itself, to some extent, as purpose; it will not reflect what
ing would be registered as so a competitor of the overseas funds. American Jews want in the mat-
many Welfare Funds voting "for" In a similar way in other cities, ter of national budgeting; unless
and so many Welfare Funds vot- (like Camden, N. J., and Dayton, at least the contributors to the
ing "against" the proposals. It 0.), it is a Federation of Jewish Welfare Funds are given. a right
was not imagined that whoever Charities interested more spe- to vote.

A TRAVESTY OF
A REFERENDUM

WED., MAR., 26, 8:30 P. M.

March 21, 1941

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