Amerkait jcwi,k Pcriodkal eater CLIPTON AVENUE - CINCINNATI 20, OHIO October I, 1943 PEACE ti IF 7 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle (Continued from page 2) disturbance — as nothing more than bugaboos. For the first time in the history of the United States the absorption of a large Happy New Year To All! U. S. Housewrecking Co. 19966 DEQUINDRE TOwnsend 8-7761 group of newcomers has been in- telligently planned and directed. We now know that it can be done. The implications for the future are as obvious as they are far- reaching. I need not dwell on the point that this was only possible be- cause the Jews of the United States had the foresight to orga- nize a central agency, the Na- tional Refugee Service, to deal with the problem and to support it through the years by their contributions to the United Jew- ish Appeal. It is hard to say how much headway has been made by those who have been muttering that this country should or will shut off immigration after the war. The idea appears to have gained some currency even among Amer- ican Jews that this is likely or inevitable, yet the facts prove that it need not be so. During the past ten years more than 500,000 visas were Issued for admission to the United States. The over- whelming majority were for pros- Season's Greeting and Best Wishes lou va GRISWOLD RA LIL;rw car. STATE RAndolph 4300 Sporting Goods - Housewares - Gas Ranges - Refrigerators Electric Kitchens - Hardware - Tools t Paints BEST WISHES FOR A HAPPY NEW YEAR Industrial Equipment Corp. 628 E. FOREST AVE. TE. 1-4950 -J, BEST WISHES FOR A HAPPY NEW YEAR SAMMY SOFFERIN'S WONDER BAR • 2 VOCALISTS • 2 BANDS Continuous Entertainment 1221 WASHINGTON BLVD. CL. 1221 pective permanent immigrants. Many of the recipients found it impossible to use their visas. Yet despite all difficulties some 250,000 refugees actually reached the United States. The willingness of our govern- ments to admit a half a million people during these stressful ten years and the actual admission of 208,000 bonafide Jewish refu- gees is sufficient evidence that the United States is still the great haven that it always has been, that there is still meaning and validity in the words of Emma Lazarus inscribed on the base of the Statue of Liberty: Here at our sea-washed, sun- set gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand Glows world-wide welcome. These are the considerations that entitle us to feel that our work on behalf of the refugees has been fruitful. In bringing about these results the role of the NRS has been that of a na- tional instrumentality for focusing on the problem the will of 5,000,- 000 American Jews and all the liberal and humanitarian forces which are working to maintain the American tradition of asylum for the persecuted. To perform this national function the NRS has acted in a dual capacity. It is the servant of the community in providing for the reception and integration of refugees. It guides the community by virtue of its position as the central national ,rganization, and its continual contacts with official circles and with all phases of the problem. During the year 1942 the agency, through its officers and field rep- resentatives, its resources of tech- nical data and its professional services, brought its experience to bear on problems in more than 900 cities and towns throughout the country. All the other many-sided func tions of the NRS in providing direct services to refugees, essen- tial as they have been in speed- ing the adjustment of the new- comers and keeping the gates open, are adjuncts to this main national task. The NRS is flex- ible both in its organization and its policy. When circumstances require that it extend direct relief or vocational training or capital loans or any other service on major scale it does this, and does it in accordance with the best r social service standards. But the specific accomplishments of NRS are best understood against the background of American Jewish • news dispatches or moving pic- tures, it has brought home to Jews and non-Jews alike the reality of the Hitlerism we are fighting against, and the significance of the freedom we are fighting to preserve. Similarly, the other achieve- ments of the NRS which can be measured in terms of statistics— its 22,000 lob placements, largely in fields allied to the war effort, its placement of 1,500 physicians and 4,500 specialists, rabbis, and other professionals, its extension of 5,000 small loans to help estab- See PEACE—Page 11 BEST WISHES FOR A HAPPY NEW YEAR James F. Coen District Manager The Wadsworth Electric Mfg. Co., Inc. 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