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THE JEWISH NEWS
JSSB Urged to Continue
Psychological Services
Dr. Walter Lurie, Head of Jewish Vocational Service in
Chicago, Lists Recommendations, Findings After
Survey of Social Service Bureau
Friday, July 30, - 1943
Monsky Elected
to Dropsie Board
Allies Asked to Recognize
Jews As Full-Fledged Ally
PHILADELPHIA (JPS)—Henry
Monsky, president of the Bnai
Brith, has been elected to the David Remez, Secretary of the Histadruth, Makes Demand
board of governors of .Dropsie
At Conference; Thanks. British- Labor Party for
Supporting Plea for Homeland
Continuation of the psychological services rendered by
the Jewish Social Service Bureau and various suggestions
for improving the service are recommended in a study just
released, according to an announcement by Benjamin E.
Jaffe, president of the bureau.
The study was made by Dr. Walter A. Lurie, executive
director of the Jewish Vocational Service and Employment
Center of Chicago, at the request
of a study committee appointed
by Mr. Jaffe.
Dr. Lurie • made two visits to
Detroit, interviewed a number of
people connected with the JSSB
and other agencies utilizing the
psychological services of the
bureau, examined the equipment
and procedures, and held meet-
ings with the study committee
and the advisory committee.
,
Findings Summarized
The findings and recommenda-
tions are summarized as follow:,
by Dr. Lurie:
FINDINGS
1—The Clinic, organized in
1923 as a guidance or mental hy-
giene service, has since about
1931 been functioning as a psy-
chological testing service.
2—It serves some 16 or 20 agen-
cies, the major ones being the
Jewish Vocational Service, Ford
Republic, Baptist Children's
Home, Erin School, Jewish So-
cial Service Bureau, and Jewish
Children's Bureau. Some 500
persons are tested annually.
Of these approximately 85 per
cent are referred by agencies
supported by The War Chest, and
the rest apply directly or are re-
ferred by non-chest agencies.
Annual Averages
Annual averages for the past
six years show more than 1,000
visits, 2,200 tests administered
and 1,000 reports.
3—The Clinic . is equipped with
83 tests in the following areas:
intelligence, school achievement,
educational problems, clerical ap-
titudes, mechanical aptitudes,
personality and adjustment status.
4—All work is on appointment
basis. No summaries are required
from referring agencies. All cases
are registered with the Registra-
tion Bureau. Written reports are
sent to agencies, and frequently,
though not regularly, followed by
consultations.
5—It is staffed by a psycholog-
ist who has occupied this posi-
tion since 1926. He has no regular
paid clerical assistance.
RECOMMENDATIONS
1—The service is needed and
should be continued, with the
name changed to one correspond-
ing more closely to the actual
Zionists Helped
Detroit Get Ten
Conference Seats
In the announcement of the
certification of Fred M. Butzel
as a delegate to the American
Jewish Conference, in last
week's issue of The Jewish
News, the name of the Zionist
Organization of Detroit was in-
advertently omitted as one of
the organization that asked the
national executive committee to
recognize that Detroit is entitled
to 10 instead of nine delegates.
Abraham Cooper, president of
the Zionist Organization of De-
troit, was one of the leaders in
the effort to give Detroit this
recognition.
Jewish Book Month
Set Nov. 20 to Dec. 19
nature of the work being per-
formed.
2—Intake should be restricted
to cases referred by a selected
number of member agencies of
the Community Fund, to relieve
the psychologist- of an unduly
heavy program.
3—The service should be re-
garded as an auxiliary diagnostic
service to the referring agency.
Clearance and registration should
be discontinued, since all cases
will be in the load of some func-
tional agency.
4--A summary of the case and
a focused statement of the prob-
lem should be required from
each referring agency. Confer-
ences with agency workers should
be held on all cases after com-
pletion of tests.
Full Responsibility
5—The psychologist should
have full responsibility for se-
lecting testing instruments ap-
propriate to the situation. Tests
should be selected with a view
of economizing time and clarify-
ing the problem. Most batteries
should be completed at one sit-
ting.
6—Reports should analyze the
test results for the referring
worker and point up sharply their
significance in the life situation
which was originally focused in
the statement of the problem.
7—Half-time clerical assistance
should be provided for the psy-
chologist.
8—The psychologist should par-
ticipate in the general program
of referring agencies by attending
staff meetings and in Orienting'
new workers.
9—Research should be encour-
aged and closely integrated with
the service functions of the clinic.
HENRY MONSKY,
College-for Hebrew and Cognate
Leaining; it was announced heie
by Dr; Abraham A..- Neuman;
president of the college. -
cent meeting of the board it was
decided to give greater repre-
sentation on it "to the friends
of higher
Jewish learning
Another Bomb Explodes in Printing Plant in Tel Aviv
TEL AVIV, (JTA)—Anothei bomb was thrown into the printing
throughout the country." Last
year the college had conferred plant of the Yiddish weekly "Naje Welt" in Ramath Gan, near Tel
this week, demolishing a linotype machine and causing other
the honorary degree of • Doctor Aviv,
damage; This is the second time within two weeks that the printing
of Hebrew Literature on Mr. plant has been bombed by :extremists who are determined to halt
Monsky.
the publication of any Yiddish 'newspaper in Palestine.
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Advisory Committee
10—A psychology advisory
committee of three or five promi-
nent psychologists should be
formed for consultation on pro-
gram and major problems.
11—If possible, arrange for the
psychologist to visit other com-
munities to observe procedure in
effect elsewhere.
12—The psychologist should be
permitted to use the clinic facil-
ities for private cases on his own
time.
The study committee • consisted
of the following members of the
JSSB board: Dr. B. Benedict
Glazer, chairman, Mrs. Isaac Gil-
bert, Jacob Keidan, Dr. David J.
Sandweiss, Mrs. Melville S. Welt
and Harold Silver, secretary.
In addition, the Jewish Welfare
Federation, the Jewish Vocational
Service and the Jewish Children's
Bureau, were represented on the
committee through their execu-
tive directors. The study was f fi-
nanced by a special appropriation
from the Community Fund of
which the JSSB is a participating
agency.
Dr. Mordecai Soltes, chairman
of the JeWish Book Connell of
America, , ;announced this week
that Jewish Book Month will be
observed Nov. 20 to Dec. 19,
Dr, Soltes said that the tri-
lingual Jewish Book Annual for
1943-44 will be ready in a dvance
of this celebration.
Dr. Solomon Grayzel,
of the Jewish Publication Society
of America, is editor of the Jew-
ish Bosils.Annual.
for Mental Hygiene. . •
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Release
A Man for
Active
Service . •
Committee Named
An advisory committee of per-
sons connected with the Council
of Social Agencies and the psy-
chologist profession, consisted of
the following: ,
Dr. Harry - J. Baker, director,
Psychological Clinic, Detroit Pub-
lic Schools; Fred R. Johnson, gen-
eral secretary, Michigan Chil-
dren's Aid Society; Dr. William
C. F. Kruger, Associate Professor
of Psychology, Wayne University;
Robert H. MacRae, managing di-
rector, Council of Social Agen-
cies; Kenneth L. Moore, chairman,
budget review committee, Coun-
cil of Social. Agencies; Miss
Claire M. Sanders, executive sec-
retary, The Detroit Council for
Youth Service; Dr. Frank F. Tall-
man, director of mental hygiene,
State Hospital Commission, Lan-
sing; Harold G. Webster, execu-
tive secretary, Michigan Society
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Dr. Neuman said that at a re-
JERUSALEM, (JTA)—A demand that the democratic
world recognize the Jewish people as full-fleged participants
in the global war was voiced this week by David Remez,
secretary of the Histadruth, Palestine's Federation of Labor,
to which 60- per cent of Palestine's workers belong ; at the
organization's 50th semi-annual conference being held in the
colony of Ayeleth Hashachar, with 330 delegates in at-
tendance.
Speaking in an improvised amphitheater, Remez voiced
greetings to organized labor in Britain and America. He
thanked the British Labor Party for the resolution adopted
at its recent annual congress supporting the Jewish demand
for a national home in Palestine, and thanked William Green,
president of the AFL, and Philip Murray, president of the
CIO, for "the great sympathy with which they have sup-
ported Jewish efforts in Palestine," Remez concluded with
an appeal to the forthcoming American Jewish Conference
to "rise up to meet the fateful days of decision and victory."
David Ben-Gurion, addressing the convention, praised
the colonization projects of the labor group as "a model of
just, socialistic colonization, -which are helping in the develop-
thent of a Yishuv possessing - great economic, cultural and
political independence despite a foreign and hostile regime."
He appealed to all -groups within the Histadruth to settle
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