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CLIFTON AVENUE • CINCINNATI 20, OHIO
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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
Jews Most Law-Abiding;
National Survey Reveals
Esther Tenzer Heads
JWV Auxiliary Post
Conservative Prayer Book Board
The Ladies Auxiliary Jewish
War Veterans No. 135 has elect7
ed the following officers:
President, Esther Tenzer; sen-
ior vice president, Yetta Sterns;
junior vice president, Lillian
Sachs; treasurer, Belle Bercow-
itz; chaplain, Hattie Cohen; judge
advocate, Birdie Rosenberg, and
guard, Rose Kay.
Trustees, Lillian Morris, Bea
Madison and Johanna Goldman.
WASHINGTON — Jews consti-
tate an amazingly small percent-
e of juvenile delinquents and
ag
adult criminals, it is revealed in
a statistical article . by Nathan
Goldberg in the July issue of f t The
National Jewish Monthly, publish-
ed by Bnai Brith.
Official records quoted by the
article show that this is true not
in any exceptional localities, but
throughout all parts of the coun-
non-Jews in the state.
Pittsburgh Record
Pittsburgh had an even better
record. Of adult convicts sent to
Allegheny County Prison in 1940,
only 1.3 percent were Jews, and
the ratio of Jews to others in the
city committed to the Western
Penitentiary during the 1930's
was 10 to 6, or about one-seventh
the number that might have been
expected on a ratio basis.
There were no Jewish juvenile
try.
In Passaic, N. J., for example, delinquents at all in Stamford,
where almost one-sixth of the Conn., during two of the three
population are Jews, only 2 per- years from 1935 to 1938, and only
cent of the juvenile delinquents 1 percent during the third year,
although Jews constituted 5 per-
are Jewish boys and girls.
In St. Louis, where the Jews cent of the general population.
form 6 percent of the population, During the decade 1928-1937, the
only one-half of one percent of ratio of J e w i s h to non-Jewish
the juvenile delinquents were adult convicts in Stamford was 2
Jews, even during the unsettled to 5 or 60 percent below expecta-
war year of 1943. The court there tion, and for five of those ten
reported that "there has always years there were no Jewish con-
been a negligible amount of Jew- victs in the city at all!
A generation ago there were
ish juvenile delinquents in the
only one-third as many Jews' in
St. Louis area."
The probation office in Houston Illinois penitentiaries as might
made an even more remarkable have been expected by their pro-
report: "there have never been portion of the state population.
more than two or three delin- In recent years, when the entire
quent Jewish boys in any given white population of Chicago con-
tributed 283 inmates to the pris-
year."
ons for every 180,000 persons,
Jewish boys in any given year."
Chicago Jews contributed only 21
Few Delinquents
In New York, where almost half convicts per 10,000.
the Jews in the United States live, Few Girls Delinquent
Pointing out that juvenile de-
Jewish juvenile offenders used to
constitute 22 percent of all youth- linquency is less prevalent among
ful criminals there a generation Jewish girls than among Jewish
ago, but 10 years ago they had boys, Mr. Goldberg quoted a study
been reduced to 15 percent, and made in Colorado revealing that
in 1941 not more than 7 percent. "very few Jewish girls come be-
1 For New York state as a whole, fore the juvenile court for delin-
Jewish juvenile delinquents com- quency. In the 12 consecutive
mitted to reformatories were 10.8 years for which the data were
percent of the total back in 1930, tabulated, only 10 cases involving
but this number had decreased to Jewish girls were encountered."
Mr. Goldberg's study shows that
only 3.3 percent by 1941.
the Jewish record in crime is all
Among adult criminals the same
record was pointed out by Mr. the more surprising in view of the
fact that nine-tenths of American
Goldberg. Although Jews consti-
Jews and only three-tenths of the
tute approximately one-third of
general population live in cities of
the total New York City popula-
100,000 or more, where lawless-
tion, t h e percentage of Jews
ness is always more prevalent. He
among those convicted as late as
also declared that relatively few
1941 was less than 9 percent.
Jews, juvenile or adult, commit
Ohio Jewry forms about 2.8
crimes of violence.
percent of the state population,
As suggested reasons for Jew-
but only 'half of one percent of
rys record, Mr. Goldberg lists the
the white inmates of the Ohio
proverbial devotion of Jewish par-
State Reformatory in 1938 were
ents to their children; the high
Jewish youths, although the over-
educational standards of Jews;
whelming majority of Ohio Jews
the occupational pattern in fields
live in Cleveland, Cincinnati, and
less likely to produce criminals;
other large cities where the de-
social and religious organization,
linquency rate is usually higher
than in small towns. In 1940, only etc.
1.4 percent of the juvenile delin-
quents of Cincinnati were Jews,
although Cincinnati Jewry is 4
percent of the total population.
The Jewish Women's European
Adult Jewish criminals in Ohio
formed only 1.6 percent of the Welfare Organization will have a
inmates of penal institutions 25 Tag-Day at Mt. Clemens this Sun-
years ago, and only 1.4 percent day, July 15.
The proceeds will go for aid to
in 1938. This was approximately
one half of the ratio of Jews to orphans at home and in Palestine.
JWEWO Tag Day
Sunday in Mt. Clemens
Banquet Monday
To Honor Judge Ide
The friends and former asso-
ciates of Judge 0. Z. Ide of the
Common Pleas Court are welcom-
ing his return to that bench at
Seated from left to right are Rabbis Max Arzt; Elias Solomon; a banquet to be held Monday,
Robert Gordis, Chairman; Morris Silverman, Editor; and Israel II. July 16, at 7 p.m. at the Har-
Leventhal. Members of the Prayer Book Commission not shown are monic Chili, 267 E. Grand River.
Rabbis Herman Abramowitz, Simon Greenberg, Jacob Kuhn, Louis
Judge Ide returned to service
M. Levitsky, and Abraham A. Neuman.
in the U. S. Army in May, 1942,
with the rank of major and after
three rears of overseas duty is
being placed on the inactive list
with the rank of colonel.
Tht committee in charge is
headed by Judge Ned Smith of
the ommon Pleas Court.
Christian Leaders Map
Program To Aid Palestine
PRINCETON (WNS) — Dis- and power will in time make pos-
sible the absorption of millions
cussing problems of the Near East
of additional Jewish refugees."
and their impact on the lives of
every American, the National Se-
The Rev. Wendell Phillips, pas-
minar on Palestine, conducted by tor of Christ Church, Rye, N. Y.,
the American Christian Palestine asserted that the Arabs have in-
Committee, July 2 and 3, set up creased and become wealthier and
an educational program of Chris- healthier since migration to the
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tian action in behalf of Jewish Holy Land became greater."
aims in Palestine to be put in
Other distinguished guests who
force during the coming year. participated in the Seminar were
NEAR KIRBY
Participants heard many distin- Edgar Ansel Mowrer, Professoi4
guished authorities in the field Francis E. McMahon of Chicag
Featuring \Voiding Portrait % and
from both the secular and relig- Unversity; Prof. S. Ralph Harlo n
Pioure% 01 I hildren. In soor
ious world.
home or in our luxurious
of Smith College; Dr. Carl
D r . Henry A. Atkinson, co- Friedrich of Harvard; Miss Daph
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chairman of the Council Aganist Robert, prominent attorney a
Silmlays 12 to
Intolerance, and national chair- world traveler, and many of
man of the Church Peace Union, noted civic and religious lead
in the keynote address, declared representing almost every stet n CHX1-0-0004:Irem:FOGOCH:mX1-01X114-0#
"this mandate was designed to
the union.
facilitate the establishment of It
In a statement of aims
national homeland for the Jews
principles of the Committee de
in Palestine."
it
Dr. Eduard C. Lindeman of the by Dr. Howard M. LeSour an
was noted that "The Am
New York School of Social Work
is
pointed out that "the minority Christian Palestine Commit
the vehicle for expressing th Ym -
question is no longer purely Euro-
pean as it was after the last war. pathy and good will of C tian
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It is now an American disease, America for the movemeno re-
MADE TO ORDER
establish
the
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too, and we must help the rest of
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if we wish to avoid in this coun-
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try the same kind of trouble which
bedeviled Europe during the last
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"It is therefore for our own
sakes as Americans that we must
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help to solve the Jewish problem.
Drapery Harchs are
This solution, which lies in found-
Gel Our PrIcre and 'toe
ing a Jewish National Home in
Free Eallinnien Furab.bed
Palestine, will not only bring dig-
nity to Jews but remove from
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Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr, one of
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America's outstanding religious
philosophers, in talking on the
subject of "The Christian Con-
science and the Jewish Problem,"
stated, "that we will be doing the
British a good turn if America
insists that we, too, have respon-
sibilities in the Mediterranean, in
Palestine specifically. If the elab-
orate problem could be viewed in
broad enough terms, the solution
might be reached by pooling the
HARRY DERMER, OWNER AND MANAGER
political resources of the British
•
with the vast economic resources
of America."
On the second day of the Semi-
nar, three speakers of inter-
national stature led the discus-
sion. David Ben-Gurion, chairman
of the Executive of the Jewish
Agency for Palestine, just ar-
rived from Palestine and London
Air
on a visit to this country, stated
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"that if the British government
really intends now to maintain
and enforce the White Paper, it
will have to use constant and
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