Friday, 'Julie 23, 1944

THE :JEWISH NEWS

JSS t, Children's Bureau
To Discuss Merger June 29

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Leads in Bond Sales

Refugees Repay a Debt

lintzel Views Investment
By Resettlement Service

Mem1:1;er Agencies to Act on Recommendations of Boards

Silver, Executive Director, Says 85 Persons Have Refumeg
$4,766 in 17 Months, Despite Fact They are
Under no Obligation to Do So

Of Two Agencies; Close Cooperation Dates

Back to 1933

A merger • between the Jewish Social Service Bureau
and the Jewish Children's Bureau has been voted by the
boards of the two agencies, it was announced by Benjamin
E. Jaffe and Fred M. Butzel, thee respective presidents of
the organizations.
A special membership meeting to ratify the merger

agreement will be held next%
Thursday, June 29, at 8 p. m., ac Committee on Child Care, which
the Jewish Comfliunity Center. was composed of representatives
The membership is composed of of the Federation, JSSB, Jewish
all adult Jews who contribute to Child Placement Bureau, and
the War Chest of Metropolitan Jewish Children's Home. All in-
Detroit.
vestigations were made by the
Robert H. MacRae, managing JSSB and the Joint Committee
• director of the War Chest of decided in each case whether the
Metropolitan Detroit, will be the child should, be placed and
main speaker.
whether it should go into a foster
The union was negotiated by home or into the Jewish Chil-
special committees headed by Dr. dren's Home. This approach
Leo M. Franklin for the Jewish tended to stress the needs of the
Children's Bureau a n d Mrs. child and what the community
Charles Lakoff for the Jewish could do for it rather than the
Social Service Bureau.
services that a particular agency
"The merger," stated Mrs. Lak- had to offer.
off, "is in the best interests of
In the meantime the number
the Jewish community and its of applications for placement has
purpose is to bring about im- been declining. In 1934, 72 chil-
proved service to the people dren were allocated for place-
using the agencies. The merger ment and the number declined
should result in economies of gradually until in 1940 it was 37,
time and energy and increased almost exactly half.
efficiency of operation."
A study was undertaken and
Dr. Franklin pointed out that
the special skills and approaches was used as the basis for a
of the Jewish Children's Bureau merger between the Jewish Child
will be amply protected in the Placement Bureau and the Jew-
new set-up and that a special ish Children's Home into the
case committee, recruited largely Jewish Children's Bureau.
Three-Way Merger
from the personnel of the JCB
At the time of those discussions
board, will be responsible for the
development of placement poli- it had been proposed to have a
three-way merger including the
cies.
JSSB, but the merger as agreed
Agencies Cooperated
The final act of merger is the upon at that time included only
climax of many years of close the children's services. In the
cooperation between the two two and a half years of its op-
agencies, dating back to 1933 and erations the Jewish Children's
to a special study conducted un- Bureau fully justified expecta-
der the auspices of the • Jewish tions by reducing costs, improv-
ing standards for the entire child
Welfare Federation in 1940.
With the ratification of the care field and increasing effici-
merger agreement the Jewish ency of the program.
It was felt, however, that more
Social Service Bureau will have
become the successor of five could be done in the direction
agencies. When the United Jew- of greater economies in time and
ish Charities was broken up into efficiency. Since the JSSB con-
a group of separate agencies in tinued to make investigations,
1925, the Jewish Social Service each placement case called for
Bureau was formed and took one or more inter-agency con-
over the work of the family wel- ferences, and for two series of
fare department of the Charities, adjustments between the clients
which then also included the job and case workers: at the time
of child placement. In 1929, work of the application and at the
with children placed in foster time of placement. These factors
homes became the responsibility prompted the revival of the dis-
of a newly created agency, the cussion for merger with the
Jewish Child Placement Bureau Jewish Social Service Bureau
(originally known as Jewish which is expected to be con-
Child Care Council). The JCPB summated at the meeting on
merged with the Jewish Chil- Thursday.
dren's Home—itself a product of
800 Cases a Month
the merger in 1931 between the
The combined agency will
the Hebrew Orphan . Home and handle clOse to 700 cases each
the Hebrew Infants' Orphan month, of which approximately
Home—in January 1941, to form 100 will be children under super-
the Jewish Children's Bureau.
vision in foster homes.
The Joint Committee
The officers of the Jewish
An important element in the Social Service Bureau are:
history of the Jewish child care
Benjamin E. Jaffe, president;
in Detroit has been the Joint Mrs. Charles Lakoff, vice-presi-

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Camp Melia

NATHAN FISHMAN

Nathan Fishman, for two years
one of the leading War Bond
salesmen in Michigan, is again
one of the top men in the present
campaign.

Irving W. Blumberg, co-chair-
man with Henry Wineman of
Team 7 in the Fifth War Loan
drive in Michigan, reported this
wee:. that Mr. Fishman had al-
ready sold $375,000 worth of
Bonds.

Our Deadline

On account of the Fourth of
July, the deadline for the
issue of The Jewish News to
be dated Friday, July "1, will
be at 11 a. m. on Monday,
July 3.

Readers of The Jewish News
and contributors to our col-
umns are asked to adhere
strictly to this deadline.
The regular deadline of The
Jewish News is at 3 p.. m. on
Tuesdays.

dent; Sylvan S. Grosner, treasur-
er; Harold Silver, secretary.

Officers of the Jewish Chil-
dren's Bureau are: Fred. M. But-
zel, president; Herman Cohen,
vice-president; Mrs< Melville S.
Welt, treasurer; Dr. Harry C.
Metzger, secretary.

Voluntary repayments by ref-
ugees of relief grants given them
in prior years by Resettlement
Service was announced by Har-
old Silver, executive director.
The total received during a 17-
month period is $4,766 repaid by
85 persons and represents 20 per
cent of the amount granted them
during the initial period of their
adjustment in a new country.
"This is but one indication of
the remarkably speedy adjust-
ment made by our newcomers,"
declared Fred M. Butzel, presi-
dent of Resettlement Service,
"and represents tangible proof
that our 'investment' in the re-
settlement program is already
bringing `dividends'."
Resettlement Service is fi-
nanced by the Allied Jewish
Campaign through the War
Chest of Metropolitan Detroit.
2,000 Living Here
Refugees began coming to De-
troit in 1938 and some 2,000 of
them are estimated to be living
in Detroit now. More than a
hundred are serving with the
armed forces. Many are working
in war plants and the great bulk
of them have become thoroughly
integrated into the general and
Jewish life of the community.
Even at the peak period only a
minority required financial aid.
This, along with other forms of
social service, was supplied by
Resettlement Service, one of the
agencies of the Jewish Welfare
Federation. In January, 1943, a
letter was sent to those who had
received aid, but had been inde-
pendent for a year or more ask-
ing them to repay their grants if
in a position to do so.
Under No Obligation
The letter emphasized that they
were under no obligation to do
so, but it was thought they might
wish to pay if they could afford
it, so as to help those refugees
rho still needed aid. In other
words, repayment was entirely
optional and voluntary.
The results were very gratify-

The FAIRBAND Camp

ing. There were a few who fail-
ed to reply. Some, expressing ap-
preciation for the help received,
regretted their inability to make
refunds. A third group felt them-
selves sufficiently well rooted
economically to undertake a pro-
gram of monthly payments. It
should be noted that these re-
payments are on account of re-.
lief grants and are exclusive of
those cases where assistance was
definitely given on a loan basis.

Officers Installed by
Massada Pioneer Women

The installation dinner of Mas:-
sada Chapter of. Pioneer Worn,
en's Organization was held at the
Book Cadillac Hotel, June 19.
Mrs. David Colman, the re-
elected president, was installed
by Mrs. Samuel Gaull. Other of-
ficers are:
Mesdames J. J. Karbal and
Samuel Schulman, vice-presi-
dents; Mrs. Lew Fidler, record...•
ing secretary; Mrs. Irwin Rash,
treasurer; Mrs. Jules Pliskow,
corresponding secretary; Mrs.
Abe Heller, financial secretary,
Mrs. Samuel Gaull was ap-
pointed program chairman; Mrs.
Sidney Weinberg, war efforts
chairman; Mrs. Simon Karbal,
Jewish National Fund chairman,
Mrs. Herman Gach was hon-
ored with a farewell presenta-
tion by Mrs. Lew Fidler, before
her departure for Los Angeles.

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