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 (Continued on Page 15) FIDELIFIAINPS "where vacation dreams come true" South Haven's Finest Resort 80 • • • • Acres of Playtime Paradise A gay, friendly crowd Swimming, tennis, golf, horses Handball, ping pond, archery Dancing, concerts, movies Planned Activities Rooms with Bath Superb Food J. YASHENOVSKY'S STRICTLY KOSHER 2 KITCHENS Synagogue on the Grounds - NORTH SHORE VALLEY RESORT Ph. 427 South Haven, Mich. 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