THE JEWISH NEWS

Friday, July 7, 1944

Children's Bureau Merger
With JSSB O.K.'d by Boards

Consolidation to Render Better Service' to Clients and
Increased Efficiency-, JCB to Be Dissolved as
a Corporation; New Members Named

. Merger of the Jewish' Children's Bureau with the Jewish
Social Service Bureau was voted unanimously by the boards
of the two agencies at a meeting at.the Jewish Community
Center on June 29. .
Fred M. -Butzel, president of the JCB until the•merger,
presided at_ the meeting and the agreement f6r the merger,

Houstonites Form
Reform Synagogue

Page Ele v en

Waldman Suggests Changes
In 'Minorities Treaties'

Non - Adherents to Group
Backing "Basic Principles"
Article Urges 'International Bill of Rights' Based
Individual Safeguards as Substitute for Treaty
Organize Congregation
Sponsored by Woodrow Wilson in 1919-20

HOUSTON, Texas. (J P S) —
Challenging the influence of Re-
form Congregation . Beth Israel
over Reform Jewry in this city,
opponents of Beth Israel's "basic
principles," which make Zionists
and Kashruth-adherents ineligi-
ble for voting membership, or-:
ganized the New Reform Con-
gregation of Houston at a meet-
ing attended by 300 persons.
Stating . that its support is from
the ranks of Congregation Beth
Israel itself, the founders of Th..
New Reform Congregation point-
ed out that its charter list con-
tains 250. names, and is expected
to contain 500 by the time it is
submitted to . the Secretary of
State, as compared with only 168
who voted against the "basic
principles" when they were up
for ratification by the Beth Israel
membership early this year. • The
Congregation will. file for mem-
bership in the- Union of American
Hebrew Congregations, and rab-
binical guidance will be asked
of the Central COnference of
American Rabbis, both bodies
having been criticized by Con-
gregation Beth Israel in a series
of resolutions. charging them with
deviation from the "basic prin-
ciples" of Reform Judaism.
Rabbi Nathaniel Share, of
Gates of Prayer Congregation of
New Orleans, speaking at the
meeting, declared that 'lleform
infers change: There is nothing
static, nor final about Reform
Judaism."
D. H. White, editor-publisher
of the Jewish Herald-Voice, stat-.
ed that the new congregation is
pledged to carry on "the trend
of Modern American Liberal Re-
form Judaism. as it has been in 7
terpreted during the past dec-
ades."

introduced in- behalf of commit-*
tees representing the two agen- in 1947: Fred -M. Butzel, Mrs.
cies, was presented by Dr. Leo Robert J. NewMan, Saul R.
M. Franklin.
Levin.
•The proposed agreement con-
Congratulates goards
tains the following provisions:
Robert H. McRae, managing
"The purpose of the merger is
to render a better service to the director of the Council of Social
clients- by: (1) removing the Agencies and the War Chest of
present artificial dividing line Metropolitan Detroit, congratu-
between investigation and place- lated the boards of the • two
ment; (2) avoiding the need for merged agencies on their action.
the parent and child to make I In his address, Mr. MaCRae
the adjustment to a new case' commended the recognition of
worker; and (3) eliminating the • needs for changes and the ac-
necessity of inter-agency . confer- ceptance of new trends in the
ences on every placement case: field of the child care prograni.
Financial savings should not be He pointed out that . the merger
expected, but there will be econ- is the consummation of logical
omies of time and energy • and steps to a process . of new devel-
increased efficiency of operation. opments in community organiza-
tion.
Terms of Merger
He declared that it is not a
"The terms of the merger
agreed • upon by both committees revolutionary but rather an evo-
lutionary step which should point
are as follows:
"1. The new agency is to have the Way to similar action by
other elements in the city.
a single executive director. To.
Mr. MacRae proposed that the
.guard against the submergenCe JSSB should continue to concern
of special skills and practice's de- itself devotedly with the serious
veloped by the JCB, the place- problem of child care, and that
men t service is to continue for it should ,aim to meet other is-
at least one year as a special sues that are demanding the at-
department within the merged tention of social workers.
agency. A case committee, re-
cruited largely from the present
Blackout Lifted in Haifa
personnel of the JCB board, is
HAIFA, (JTA.)—For the first
to act as" a policy formulating
body for the department and as time since 1940, blackout restric-
an advisory group in making de- tions have been lifted in Haifa,
cisions on individual cases. If _ under orders of the Middle East
deemed advisable, some of the command. - All internal lighting,
present functions of the JSSB in except that facing directly out to
Director Arthur Lubin left the-
the field of child care may be sea, may be used freely. The re-
transferred to the children's de- strictions have also been lifted in Broadway stage to become a film
the Galilee and Samarian dis- player in a John Gilbert special
partment.
tricts.
in 1936.
"2. The board of the Merged I
agency is to be constituted by 1 -
adding to the present JSSB
board seven members of the JCB
board, to be selected by the JCB,
for staggered terms: two to ex-
pire in 1945, two in 1946 and
three in 1947.
Continue JSSB Name
"3. Until otherwise decided by
the 'new board, the name Jewish
Social Service Bureau will con-
tinue as the name of the new
agency, with the placement pro-
gram to be „listed as a separate.
department.
"4. All rights, interests and
properties of, the two agencies
are to become the property of
the merged agency.
"5. All staff members of both
agencies are to continue on the
staff of the merged agency. Ex-
isting contractual obligations to
the JCB staff are to be honored.
Worthy successor to the late Judge Harry B. Keiden
for the balance of 1944. Differ-
ences in personnel policies of the
two agencies are to be eliminated
1 Unanimously Endorsed by All Branches of
through the current negotiation
Industry and Organized Labor (C. I. 0.,
machinery before Jan. 1, 1945.
A. F. of. L. and American Railway Brother-
"6. From a legal angle the
hood Unions)
merger is to be effected by the
dissolution of the JCB as a cor-
poration and by its transfer of
all its property, rights, interests,
and obligations to the JSSB.
Won the Detroit Bar Association Advisory
Review By-Laws
Vote by 7 to 1 Over Nearest Opponent.
"The JSSB is to review its by-
(It's natural that lawyers should who is best
laws, f or m u l a t e appropriate
qualified)
changes to accord with the new
set-up and submit them for ap-
proval at the annual meeting in
March, 1945."
The committees which acted
3 Preferred (Highest Rating) by Civic
on the merger consisted of the
Searchlight Issued by Citizens' League
following:
JSSB Committee: Mrs. Charles
Lakoff, chairnian; Clarice Freud,
Benjamin E. Jaffe, Dr. David J.
Sandweiss, Mrs. Melville S. Welt.
JCB Committee: Dr. Leo M.
Franklin, chairman; Fred M.
Butzel, Robert Marwil, Dr. Harry
Metzger, Mrs. Robert Newman,
Dr. Irving Posner.
The following seven new mem-
bers of the JSSB board were
elected immediately after the
merger was agreed. upon:
(Non Partisan Ballot)
For a term ending in 1945: Dr.
Irving Posner, Nathaniel H.
Goldstick; for a term ending in
This Advertisement raid for by Friends of Judge Friedman
1946: Daniel Mendelsohn, Moses
Weiswasser; for a term ending

The "minorities treaties" of
1919 and 1920 which, with their
collateral safeguardS, were set up
by. the Treaty of Versailles peace-
makers as protection for racial
religious minorities, were char-
acterized as a failu,re by Morris
D. Waldman in the current - issue
of the Contemporary Jewish
Record.
Mr. Waldman, vice-chairman
of the executive committee of
the American Jewish CoMmittee
and formerly its general secre-
tary, said that, in order to in-
sure equality of rights for people
belonging to minority elements,
drastic' changes are necessary in
the approach to the problem, in-
cluding changes in the doctrine
of "national self-determinatiOn"
sponsored by Woodrow Wilson.
Leads to Nazi Concept
The doctrine of • national self-
determination, based on the the-
ory that any ethnic group is
entitled to have a state of its
own, has unwittingly led to the
Nazi concept of race-state, "the
latest and most hideous out-
growth of the. more recent 'his - .
tory of nationality states," said
Mr. Waldman. •
Reviewing • the record of "mi-
norities' rights" in Europe since
the First -World War, Mr. Wald-
man stated that history h a s
proved the " 'minorities treaties'

o n

to be impracticable. The new,ly
established states, based on ra-
cial homogeniety, regarded their
ethnic minorities as obstacles to
their development into full-
fledged nationality states-.
• Held Quasi-Alien
"The governments of these
states felt responsible primarily,
if not solely, to the majority-
people of their countries and re-
garded the minorities as quasi-7
alien and subordinate elements to
be assimilated or liquidated or
evacuated—the treaties notwith-
standing.
"The . safeguards established in
the form of League of Nations
guarantees proved quite ineffec-
tive. Every ethnic group in Eu-
rope had been awakened to na-
tional consciousness; and some
which had never enjoyed terri-
torial independence began to
press for a nationality-state of
their own."
The article in the Contempo-
rary Jewish Record, publication
of the American Jewish Commit-
tee, also condemned the pro-
posals recently made to "solVe
the minorities problem by inter-
change of populations .so as to
bring all persons of a particular
nationality into one country, per-
petuating the erroneous idea that
the race-state is a natural in-
stitution divenly ordained."

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Democrats and Republicans

Remember This When You
Go to the Polls on Tuesday

CIRCUIT JUDGE

William FRIEDMAN

r

Vote to Retain .

CIRCUIT JUDGE

William FRIEDMAN

Let Us Win the War

ON ALL FRONTS

That means also the Fifth Senatorial

District in Michigan • . . This District

must be represented by the highest

caliber of man in the State Senate • .

Keep the District clean and you will

help make the entire State a model for ,

good government . . . This is not an

idle plea . . . it is a matter of great

concern to us and to the youth of our

community that we should wipe out all

dishonesty . . . Therefore YOU and

your neighbors MUST vote on Tues-

day, July 11 for—

JOSEPH H.

CANTOR

FOR THE STATE SENATE
IN THE FIFTH DISTRICT

ON THE DEMUCRATIC TICKET .

This Adv. Paid for by Farris Bros.

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