Friday, July 30, 1943
THE JEWISH NEWS
Praises Cumulative Voting,
But Denies He Proposed It
Irwin Cohn Asks
Speedy Payment
Of Fund Pledges
Page Eleven
Urges Immediate Action
Conference to Save Jews
.
Goldman Suggested that Delegates to Jewish Conference
Creation of United Nations Agency to Carry Out Program
Be Elected Under Hare System; Believes
Victory Won't Be Complete
of Rescue Asked; Five Panels of Experts Draw Up
Representative Group Qualified
'Till We Meet Our Obliga-
Plans in N. Y. Parley
tion to• Victims, He Says
Robert P. Goldman of Cincinnati, one of the outstanding
national leaders of the Union of American Hebrew Congrega-
tions, who has been mentioned as the man responsible for
proposing the "cumulative voting" plan for the American
Jewish. Conference, outlined his position in the planning for
the conference elections, in a statement to The Jewish News.
Irwin I. Cohn, an active mem-
ber of the_ collection committee
of the Detroit Service Group of
the Jewish Welfare Federation,
this week joined with other
Mr. Goldman refers to the 4>
statement on the elections in the subsequent elections, but without
Purely Commentary Column in some system for minority repre-
our issue of July 2. His statement sentation, the majority in each
follows:
community could have captured
"I have seen a reprint of your all the delegates. This has not
editorial of July 2, in which you
say that a Cincinnatian proposed occurred. The majority, as well
the plan of cumulative voting for as the minority, are complaining,
the American Jewish Conference. and when both extremes com-
From letters that I have received plain, the one between is usually
from- Detroit and other gossip right.
that I have heard around the
Proper Proportion
country, I think I am safe in as-
"One trouble is that it is going
suring that the Cincinnatian to
whom you referred was I. I am to take us some time to become
not, however, entitled to the educated to fairly representative
credit for proposing this system. government in communal affairs.
Being a modest man, and not Our Jewish communities, in the
wishing to sail under false colors, past, have been governed by
oligarchies. That is not so un-
I want to set you straight.
American as it sounds, because
Saw Advantage
the United States has a repre-
"A system of choosing dele- sentative government, tempered
IRWIN I. COHN
gates by proportional representa- by an oligarchy (the Supreme
tion was written into the basic Court).
leaders .. in urging immediate
rules at the meeting in Pitts-
"The oligarchy has • done a payment of all outstanding
burgh last January. This was pretty g6od job and will be rep- pledges on the 1942 Allied Jew-
done at the suggestion of Mr.
ish . Campaign.
Louis Lipsky, one of the co-chair-
Mr. Cohen's statement reads:
men of the Proposal Committee.
"This is an enthusiastic hour.
I readily concurred because I saw
Talk of approaching victory is
the advantage of having full
no longer considered idle. To-
minority representation, which a
day we rejoice in the repudia-
system of P.R. insures.
tion of Mussolini; tomorrow it
"When it came to writing the
will be Hitler and Hirohito.
election rules, I suggested the
Must Save Victims
Hare System of P.R., or the single
. "But, victory is not coMplete
transferable vote, which is used
so successfully in Cincinnati, New
unless We save those who are
York, Toledo and other cities.
the victims Of Hitler and Mus-
solini and Hirohito.
This system, in my opinion, based
on a study of _ 20 years, is the
"We have made pledges to
only known system of P. R. that
these . unfortunate people of Eu-
has worked satisfactorily over a
rOpe to provide them with relief
long period.
from the suffering- imposed upon
"The other members of the
them. We must live up to these
pledges.
Elections Committee felt that this
system was too difficult to under-
"Detroit Jews have made
stand and would be too hard to
promises to the oppressed in Et.t-
count, without expert guidance,
rope during the 1942 Allied Jew-
14A.C.11 - liPiCtrA
and I was forced to admit that
ish Campaign. Some of these
ROBERT
P.
6OLDMAN
there might be something to their
promises remain unfulfilled in
viewpoint. Sometime when you resented in the Conference by the part.
have a couple of days with noth- handpicked representatives of the
"If we wish to celebrate prop-
ing to do, " I shall be • glad to ex- national Organizations, 125 in erly the defeat of Fascism, let us
plain it and demonstrate an elec- number. The 375 elected from the make good all our pledges to
tion count.
communities we, however, expect those who are suffering from
to be entirely representative of Fascism.
Various Systems
viewpoints of those communi-
"Pay your 1942 Allied Jewish
"Various systems of limited and the
ties.
Campaign
pledge now, and you
weighted voting were then pro-
"Now, if a group that has a will be serving the cause of free-
posed, all of which I combatted,
dom and humanity."
as I knew from experience in proper proportion of votes can
Altman's Appeal
other places that they do not get together and elect one man
In
co-operation
with the : col-
work out satisfactorily to accom- to represent them, then he is
lection committee of • the - Detroit
plish the results intended. There- truly representative of their ele-
upon a New York lawyer, who ment of the community, whether Service Group, Hyman.. Altman,
shall be nameless because of the you like him or not. Perhaps we in a radio appeal last Sunday,
strictures that you and others are not as good as we thought urged all organizations who still
have heaped on the proposer of we were, and we find that out owe on their Allied Jewish Cam-
the system, suggested that we when we elect representatives paign and War Chest pledges to
make remittances' . _ immediately.
use cumulative voting, which has that bring out true representa-
He referred to a confidential
been used successfully for elec- tion."
message just received from the
tion of directors in' private cor-
Mr. Butzel Agrees
Joint Distribution • Committee
porationS by those who study and
Fred- M. Butzel, one of the which contained an urgent ap-
understand its use. I heartily con-
curred in this suggestion since my Detroit delegates to the Ameri- peal for increased remittances.
Harry R. Solomon and Mau-
pet Hare system was discarded, can Jewish Conference, who
was shown Mr. Goldman's let- rice A. Enggass, co-chairmen of
and advocated its use.
ter, stated that he agreed with the collection committee, report
"I have no apologies to make. its contents wholeheartedly.
the. following new workers en-
I have reviewed the election re-
Mr. Butzel said that while he
sults as they have appeared in felt there was not enough
"Coolest Spot in Michigan"
the bulletins of the A.J.C., and thinking about and preparation
from what I know of the in- for the election, that a fairly
dividuals and the points of view representative delegation has
they represent, I think that a been chosen and that he results
RESORT
fairly representative group has are in the main satisfactory.
been elected by this system. No
North Shore Drive
South Haven, Michigan
doubt better results could have
been obtained, and it will work
better if the system is used in
NEW YORK (JPS)—Plans for immediate aid to the re-
mainina Jews in Axis-dominated Europe were drawn up
b series of panel sessions of the Emergency Confer-
here ata
ence to Save the Jewish People of Europe, meeting at the
Hotel Commodore.
Five panels of experts in the fields of international re-
lations, relief and transporta -6\
tion, _military affairs, public
opinion and religion, met separ-
ately in sessions closed to the
public, to discuss and formulate
workable plans for consideration
by the concluding sessions.
The Panel on Military Affairs,
headed by Rear Admiral Yates
Sterling Jr., (ret.), adopted a
resolution calling upon President
Roosevelt, Prime Minister Chur-
chill and the heads of all other
United Nations to proceed imme-
diately with the implementation
of the President's promise of pun-
ishment of all persons in the Axis
nations, and their satellites, who
have committed atrocities during
the war.
Panel's Recommendation
The Panel recommended that
the United Nations be requested
"to appoint the proper govern-
mental agency to put into effect
promises of reprisals, to intimi-
date all Axis enemies, including
all satellite nations which are now
rolled for assistance in the work
of the committee: - •
DIVISION A—(Mercantile)
HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCES : OF-
FICE EQUIPMENT; TRUCKING: Jos-
eph Bing.
SHOES—Joseph Bienenstock. Morris
Direnfeld, Samuel - Kanners. David M.
Liebowitz; Herman Meyers, Samuel
Plotler. Samuel S. Weiss.
LUGGAGE AND LOANS: Jack Ber-
ger.
MEN'S APPAREL: Bert • Eiges.
DIVISION B—(Special Assignments)
Maurice Aronsson.
• DIVISION C—(Mechanical• Trades) •
SPECIAL ASSIGNMENTS : . Theodore
M. Curtis; Irvin• B. Dworman, Abe
Kasle. Ben Kramer, David Lipton.
Harvey H. Goldman, Ben Kramer,
Morris W. Zack, Samuel G. KeVWell,
DIVISION D—(Building Trades)
SPECIAL ASSIGNMENTS : Israel
May.
DIVISION G—(Arts and Crafts)
SPECIAL ASSIGNMENTS: Leonard
N. Simons.
JUNIOR SERVICE GROUP
Mary Simmer and Reva Malamud.
The Junior Service Group re-
ports the work of its collection
committee is resulting in grafi - .
fying returns, as indicated at a
recent report meeting. This com-
mittee expects to conclude its
work by Aug. 5, when another
report meeting is scheduled at
the Jewish Community Center.
The Women's group has been
reporting regularly and it is ex-
pected that the job which it is
handling will be completed next
month.
allied with the Axis, into discon-
tinuance of their program of an-
nihilation of the Jewish people."
Among the members of tha
Panel on Military Affairs were
Sir Norman Angell, M. Berchin,
Eri Jabotinsky, Thomas H. John-
son, N. E. A., Military Correspon-
dent, Dr. Emil Lengyel, Fletcher
Pratt, Major Paul C. Raborg,
I.N.S. Military Correspondent and
Joseph E. Rafaelli.
A proposal that the United
States and Great Britain approach
the governments of the Axis sat-
ellite countries, especially Bul-
garia, Hungary and Rumania, and
suggest International Red Cross
supervision of the treatment of
Jews in those countries was ap-
proved by a session of the Panel
on International Relations.
The Participants
-
Participants in the discussion,
presided over by Max Lerner, PM.
editorial writer, • and . including
Count Carlo Sforza, head of the
Italian anti - fascist movement
abroad, Edgar Ansel Mown-r,
Rep. Emanuel Celler and Clai k
M. Eichelberger, president of the
League of Nations. Association,
suggested further that America
and Great ,Britain give guarantees
to neutral countries, including
Turkey, Spain, Switzerland and
Sweden, assuring them the fi-
nancial support for Jews who ar-
ive within their borders.
Count Sforza, former Italian
Foreign Minister, deClared that •
the Italian people were opposed
to anti-Semitism and observed .
that Mussolini had failed in his -
attempts to introduce anti-Jew-
ish measures patterned along the
Nazi lines.
At another . session of the In-
ternational Relations group, meet-
ing under the chairmanship of
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