v intericau Awish Periodical Cotter Ff kley, July 13, 1145 CLIFTON AVENUE • CINCINNATI 20, OHIO Page Three 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 IE. 1•4128 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 00.11 d 6—Mondays 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 WINDOW SHADES It is now an American disease, America for the movemeno re- MADE TO ORDER establish the Jewish gional too, and we must help the rest of Cleaned and Repaired the world solve this problem, also, Home in Palestine." if we wish to avoid in this coun- LINOLEUM try the same kind of trouble which bedeviled Europe during the last Inlaid and Battleship 80 or 90 years. Rugs and Furniture "It is therefore for our own sakes as Americans that we must VENETIAN BLINDS 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 8625 LINWOOD non-Jews the stigma of anti-Semi- CALL TYLER 5.1230 tism." Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr, one of 0-0-1XHX1O1-CHX1-1:H:HX1-0-CHXFC1-0-0000 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 1•1 1..„, "that if the British government really intends now to maintain and enforce the White Paper, it will have to use constant and On Beautiful Lake Huron. brutal force to do so." Dr. Walter Clay Lowdermilk, Sloping White Sand U. S. Department of Agriculture Beach, Golf Course, Ten- MANY authority, who spent eight months ing nis Courts, Saddle Horses, CHOICE in a study of Palestine's soil, said of Shuffle Board, Dancing that modern Palestine has but ROOMS and Pavilion. Finest Kosher 1,500,000 population, though it is STILL capable of supporting many more rtain- Style Meals. Large, Beau- AVAIL- millions. ent tiful Rooms with Bath and 5432 SECOND LA SALLE Window Shade Co. 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