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Friday, December 17, 1948

Detroit Jewish Chronicle

Published Weekly, by Jewish Chronicle Publishing Co., Inc., 548 Woodward, Detroit 26, Mich., CA. 1040

SUBSCRIPTION: $3.00 Per Year, Single Copies, 10c; Foreign, 55.00 Per Year
Bettered as Second-class matter March 3. 1916, at the Post Office at Detroit, Mich., under the Act of March 3. 1879
GEORGE WEISWASSER, Editor-in-Chief
SEYMOUR TILCHIN, President

Vol. 50, No. 48

Friday, December 17, 1948 (Kislev 15, 5709)

Recreation on Dexter
There is a note of optimism and, we fear,
signs of complacency; in the report of the
Jewish Social Service Bureau elsewhere in
this issue showing that delinquency among
Jewish boys and girls in Detroit is negligi-
ble. There is no room for over-confidence
in the realm of juvenile problems and
there is little reason to assume that the
growing delinquency in the city may not
involve the Jewish population.
It is this fear that, in large part, has
prompted the Jewish Community Council
to interest itself in the problem of recrea-
tional facilities in the Dexter area. While
many organizations are making plans for
youth centers and Young Israel has begun
building, there is virtually no public-spon-
sored recreation available to Jewish youth .
in the section.
For reasons difficult to understand, the
residents and merchants of the area have
shown little communal interest in the prob-
lem of recreation for their children—this in
the face of widespread delinquency in the
city and the knowledge that Jewish boys
are frequenting unsavory spots on the street
because there is no other place to turn to.
The Community Council has sought to
help the Jewish Center in obtaining a large
store on Dexter as a teen-age canteen. The
Center is willing to pay a large rental but
has not succeeded in persuading a land-
lord to permit the use of his store for such
purposes.
• • •

We believe that if there were an associ-
ation of merchants in the area, something
could be done among them to promote re-
creational services. It is deplorable that no
such organization exists. Jewish merchants
on 12th street, in the East side and on
Eight Mile have organized with Council
support for their mutual benefit, but the
Dexter storekeepers stand strangely aloof.
The Council invites them to get together
for such an association so that they can
help their community enterprises and inciden-
tally do themselves a lot of good by pro-
moting public relations in the area and by
averting juvenile delinquency by helping
provide facilities for youngsters with time
on their hands.
We urge public spirited merchants and
others in the Dexter region to communi-
cate with the Council with the intention of
fostering a merchants association and a
neighborhood organization to promote the
special problems of the section.
We especially urge a store-owner who-ex-
pects a vacancy to offer the store to the
Center for 11 canteen for the youth of the
neighborhood.
Above all, we remind residents in this
thickly-populated section that the best way
to do themselves good is to organize. The
Community Council, Cherry 1657, stands
ready to offer advice and assistance.

An Excellent Experiment
We have often spoken of the desperate
need for more Judaism in the home. Time
and again we have said that to perpetuate
our Jewish way of life, the Jewish mother
had better get busy in introducing some
Judaism in the home life of her children.
Specialists in the field of child psychol-
ogy keep emphasizing the obligation to
give our children a feeling of security, a
sense of belonging. Jewish education helps
accomplish this but it cannot do it alone
in the schools. To be effective, it must find
support in the home. Only such a co-
ordinated Jewish partnership will have
meaning and effect upon the Jewish char-
acter of the growing child.
An attempt at such partnership is now
going on at Bnai Moshe religious school.
Walter Farber, director of the educational
program, and Rabbi Moses Lehrman have
initiated a parents Chanukah institute con-
sisting of four one and a half hour ses-
sions. Well over 150 parents are being
taught to sing Chanukah songs, to play hol-
iday games, to tell Chanukah stories, pre-
pare festival foods, design table decora-
tions with a holiday motif and review the
historical and spiritual significance of the
holiday.
mean by coordinating the
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DETROIT 26, Mich.

education of the child and parent. All Jew-
ish schools could well benefit by setting up
parents institutes for all of our holidays.
We must learn to make our Yomim Tovim
more meaningful and more beautiful.
A genuine Jewish atmosphere. in the
home will serve as an inspiration to mem-
bers of that home, and will leave that in-
delible stamp of belonging firmly imbedded
in the hearts of our children.
Without coordination of child and parent,
we will become lost through a senile op-
timism about the future of our children.
"We will be like men in a shipWreck, fight-
ing, not for safety, but for the next mo-
ment's bare ekistence—to gain' by yet an-
other frenzied effort some brief respite
from the waters of destruction."
For self preservation, it would be well if
others followed the examOle of Bnai Moshe.

Letters to the Editor

One Group Speaks Up
The Hebrew Hospital Association, in
threatening to sue the Jewish Welfare Fed
HAIL RED MOGEN DOVID FRIENDS OF MOGEN DOVID
eration for failing to turn over to them the
IN AMERICA CAN RFNDER
interest on its bonds held under an agree- Dear Editor:
ment with the Federation, did so, you may Have just returned from Is- INVALUABLE HELP TO OUR
AND PEACE EFFORTS
be sure, after much deliberation and with rael. Wish you could have been WAR
BY AIDING THIS GREAT HU-
see
how
the
there
with
me
to
was
great reluctance. They felt that this
Mogen Dovid performs its MANITARIAN CAUSE."
the only way to bring to the attention of Red
PRIME MINISTER DAVID
missions of mercy—with the aid
the public the shabby, cavalier treatment provided by you and the thou- BEN-GURION.
that they have received from the Federa- sands of other contributing mem-
ZEDAKAH CLUB THA "oKS
tion directors through the years..
bers.
Editor:
In a certain sense, the hospital associa- All Israel has spoken in one Dear
In behalf of Zedakah Club and
voice
in
support
of
the
Red
Mo-
tion by their act of defiance of the Federa- gen Dovid's indispensable life- myself, may I express , incere
tion spoke for the many groups and indi- saving services, as expressed in thanks and gratitude for the
viduals who have received only contempt the cabled statements below by most generous and excellent
and derision from the Federation instead of the government officials and spir- publicity that you have given
us in your paper for the recent
honor for contributions to communal wel- itual leaders of Israel.
fare that came from the heart and from The biggest tasks in•peace and 17th annual luncheon.
Your splendid cooperation was
war still lie ahead—the heroic
sacrifices of time and of health.
• • •
soldiers and civilians of Israel a material factor in mak ∎ ng our
affair both a social and financial
The hospital association is a 34 year old are counting on you.
success.
CONGRESSMAN
EMANUEL
organization. At a time when the commu-
MRS. MAX H. ET T AS.
nity was ybung, they grouped together to CELLER.
President.
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help furnish hospital facilities for Jews who "FACING EVERY RISK MO-
wanted a Kosher place to go to. They had GEN DOVID SUPPLIED FIRST
NEUGARTEN GRATEFUL
no grandiose plans, but they had faith and" AID AND AMBULANCE SERV- Dear Editor:
knew that service meant doing something ICE TO ISOLATED QUARTERS Neugarten Medical Aid wishes
more than contributing your $5 or your STOP UNTHINKABLE WHAT to take this opportunity to thank
POSITION WOULD HAVE BEEN you and your staff for the fine
$5,000.
publicity you gave us to help
They collected about $50,000, a big sum WITHOUT MOGEN DOVID'S make our Fifteenth Annual
DEVOTED WORKERS."
for those days, and they waited for a time PRESIDENT CHAIM WEIZ- Donor Luncheon a huge snccess.
when they could start building. In the MANN.
Through the medium of your
meantime, second generation sons came in
• • •
paper we also extend our thanks
to take over the positions on the board of "MOGEN DOVID DISPENSED to Jay Jayson, a truly grt at co-
their fathers and introduced modern ideas MEDICAL AID TO OUTLYING median, for a grand perform-
SETTLEMENTS AND AREAS ance, Walter's Inc. for their
in their planning. • •
UNDER ATTACK STOP ITS well planned style show. and
•
When the Federation was in a spot dur- BLOOD AND AMBULANCE our patrons, who so generously
so that those less fortunate
ing the tight days of the depression and SERVICES SAVED MEN WO- gave
our great city may be aided
needed immediate cash, the hospital associ- MEN AND CHILDREN MANY in
in specialized medical and den-
ation loaned it $10,000 to help finish the OF WHOM OWE THEIR VERY tal care.
LIVES TO THE WELL ORGAN-
Jewish Center and another $10,000 to help IZED RESOURCEFUL SERVICE MRS. NORMAN K. NWILE,
the old folks home in a crisis. In addition, OF MOGEN DOVID STOP
President.
the hospital group gave $17,000 outright to
keep up the.orth End Clinic.
The association joined with the women of
Mt. Sinai Hospital group to finance a com-
prehensive report on Jewish hospital needs
in Detroit which the Federation appropri-
ated.
Then along came the Federation hospital
NEW YORK (WNS)—Barring phoid and rickets rage on an
body and their impressive plans, brushed unforeseen circumstances, the epidemic scale. Some 20,000
those they considered "Schnorrers" aside essential recovery of Europe's homeless Jewish' children, hun-
and went on with their plans, never once 1,300,000 Jews can be completed dreds of them blind with tra-
offering a word of acknowledgment, of within three years, Edward M. choma, roam the streets, he
thanks, of recognition to the small agencies M. Warburg, chairman of the stated.
which stood by for so many years with their Joint Distribution Committee, 3 MAJOR PROBLEMS
Warburg asserted that the
declared here this week.
earnest programs.
JDC
will face three major re-
Warburg
recently
returned
Would it have cost the hospital poten-
Europe where he delivered sponsibilities during the year.
tates anything to have invited some of the from
the keynote address at the first One is the deteriorating situa-
old-timers to positions on the board or given international conference on Jew- tion in North Africa and the
them a little recognition for their labors on ish relief and rehabilitation in Arab lands of the Middle East.
behalf of a Jewish hospital in Detroit?
Another will be the emptying
Paris.
All they got was contempt and discourte- MISERY IN AFRICA
of DP camps through a speed-
sies. The upshot was that when the Federa-
At the same time Warburg up immigration program. which
tion arrogantly ignored their requests for warned that while the end of will require an expenditure of
their customary interest on the bonds the the emergency in Europe is in $18,000,000.
A third major problem, War-
Federation held, the officers felt it was sight, "a • new emergency has
will be the eco-
about time the community knew the whole arisen in North Africa and other burg reported,
Moslem countries," where, he nomic rehabilitation of European
story.
said, hundreds of thousands of Jews.
The Chronicle.is proud to tell the side of Jews are living under conditions Intensive, short-term training
the "Schnorrers." We hope that the kindly "as miserable and wretched as courses will be offered to at
and considerate people in the Federation any on the face of the earth." least 75,000 Jews in eastern Eur-
and its hospital association will do some- One out of every four Jewish ope who have become economi -
thing to make amends and restore the re- children in the ghetto of Casa- cally displaced because of the
spect of the Jewish community for the blanca die before the age of nationalization of industry and
one year, while tuberculosis, ty- commerce there, he revealed
leadership that has failed.

Europe's Jews Can Recovor
in 3 Years, Warburg Stirs

