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Friday, September 27, 1946_

T-IE JEWISH N'WS

Agencies of Federation Plan to Supply Additional
Facilities, Personnel to Meet Problems in New Year

Special Efforts Made
To Assist Veterans

Reconversion in the general community repercussions
in Detroit's Jewish community welfare agencies during
5706. Hundreds of veterans applied for assistance with
vocational problems, family problems, financial Crises,
and for all-around aid in social re-adjustment.
Once again exhibiting the value of central planning,
member agencies of the Jewish Welfare Federation co-
operated in meeting the situation and are working out
plans to supply additional facilities and personnel to
meet the continuing and future needs of the Detroit
Jewish community.
Probably the first concern of the returned veteran was
for a job. During the past year, the Jewish Vocational
ServiCe more than doubled its intake of applicants for
placeinent and vocational guidance. Because this increase
was substantially due to veterans. Samuel S. Greenberg,
president of the Jewish Vocational Service. believes that
the agency is past the hump as far as number of new
veterans seen is concerned. However many returned
servicemen who have not fotihd a satisfactory niche in
civilian life will continue to come for guidance.
Career planting has not been restricted to veterans.
of course. and JVS's future program calls for intensive
work in preventive guidance for youth. As young people
reorganize their groups, group guidance can be re-estab-
lished as a needed supplement to individual service. Their
problems now require special handling. since non-vet-
erans are finding suitable job and university openings
increasingly scarce in the view of the preferences given
veterans.
Like other Federation agencies. the JVS will partici-
pate in the Detroit Service Group reorganization plan.
JVS contemplates the designation of consultants from
various commercial and professional fields to act in an
advisory capacity with both clients and staff.
Other highlights of JVS's blueprint include aid to new
Americans. in co-operation with the Jewish Social Serv-
ice Bureau: coordination of scholarship funds offered by
local organizations and broadening of assistance to aged
and handicapped people.

Free Membership for Vets

In order to help veterans return to an active, well-
rounded social life. the Jewish Community Center has
offered six months' free membership to all discharged
service people.
Cooperating with the USO, the Center has maintained
an extensive "Canteen - program. In the midst of general
ieconversion to civilian life men and women in uniform
are not being neglected. Servicemen in Detroit will con-
tinue to find recreational facilities open to them at the
Center. and special features arranged for them.
Looking ahead. the extension planning committee of

the Center has arranged for enlargement of the 12th
Street Center through purchase by the United Jewish
Charities of the building at. the southwest corner of
Twelfth Street and Blaine.
It is also platfang the re-establishment of a branch
cni, Dexter Boulevard and the development of a program
in the newer northwest section north of McNichols Road
and west of Livernois. In the Dexter area a new build-
ing probably will be required.
A spirit of reunion has pervaded the North End Clinic.
where many of the returning veterans are staff mem-
bers. They will reverse the usual situation. as they re-
lieve the strain on those left at home during the war.
North End Clinic suffered a difficult past year. Half of
all Detroit Jewish doctors were in the service. leaving
many of their patients dependent on Clinic care.
Now North End officials expect to enlarge services to
those in need of free or reduced rate medical care. Plans
are under consideration for expanding the Nutrition and
Diabetic Service and for greater participation in the
State and Federal Venereal Disease Programs.

Expansion Programs
Planned by Agencies

The Red Feather Knows
No Race or Creed - - It Is
For Community 'Unity'

The Red Feather is more than a symbol of this
year's Community Chest drive. Because it knows no
race or creed, it stands, too, for the "unity" in com-
munity. To Jews, the Red Feather represents what
Detroit as a whole does for Jewish Welfare Federation
agencies; it represents the public spiritedness with which
Detroit Jews, members of Federation, answer to their
civic responsibilities.

Where does your Community Chest Dollar go?

It goes for the care of
Jewish children, through the
child placement program of
the Jewish Social Service
Bureau. It provides an op-
portunity for Jewish boys and
girls to spend healthy. normal
summers at Fresh Air Camp.
To maintain a social and
cultural center for Jewish
men, women and children,
your dollar goes into expand-
ing the activities of the Jewish
Community Center.
Your dollar goes toward
the preservation of Jewish
family life .through the guidance and case work of the
JSSB.
It provides direct solution to pressing financial prob-
lems through the Hebrew Free Loan Association.
Your dollar insures medical care for indigent and
marginal income people through the North End Clinic.
Because' of your Community Chest dollar, all De-
troit boys and girls can participate in the Camp Fire
Girl and Scout programs.
The American Legion, Disabled War Veterans and
Veterans of Foreign Wars can do more for veterans
through your Community Chest dollar.
Every family. every phase of community life,
you. yourself, are beneficiaries as well as supporters
of the Community Chest drive. That is why . every-
body gives. at the sign of the Red Feather—because
everybody benefits.

Association stands ready to meet current needs and any
developing needs.
Personal and family problems have made civilian life
difficult for many returned veterans. A special service
of the Jewish Social Service Board is devoted to assisting
people to solve such problems. In the past year, these
situations were especially numerous, because of housing

shortages and general adjustment strains.
In the Jewish Social Service Bureau program, the
proper handling of children plays a vital role. As part

of the Federation's modern child care program, Jewish
children who must live away from their families are no
longer established in an institution, but are placed in

carefully selected foster homes.
As a result of the foster home plan, the Jewish Chil-

dren's Home has been converted into an annex for the
Jewish Home for the aged. Originally built for 100 resi-
dents, the main building of the home had been greatly
overcrowded at the present time, about 25 men and
women have been established in the former Children's
Home, and there are a total of about 160 residents in
the two buildings. Plans for the coming year include
arrangements for utilizing the new facilities to their full-
est capacity, and for adding construction on the grounds
between the Home for the Aged and the present annex.

Work of Resettlement Service

Rounding out the Detroit Jewish Community's social
services are the Jewish Hospital Association and the
Resettlement Service for the new Americans. The Re-
settlement Service is not only assisting people here in

arranging for the immigration of relatives overseas, but

also brings its financial and case work facilities to bear
on settling new immigrants in homes and in schools.
Even under existing immigration regulations, 1,500 per-
sons a month are entering the U. S. The work of the
Resettlement Service will remain of primary importance
in the coming years.
On the long worked for. long planned for Jewish hos-
pital, preliminary plans have been completed. The Albert
Kahn organization, as architects, and Dr. J. J. Golub, as
hospital consultant, are now working on the final plans
of the hospital, to be built on the 35 acre tract bounded
by McNichols Road, Outer Drive, Whitcomb and Lauder.
The Jewish community is looking forward to a complete
medical center which will ultimately offer service to the
acute, chronically and neuro-psychiatrically ill, and the
convalescent, as well as an extensive program of medi-
cal research and education.
In planning for the coming year, careful consider-
ation has been given to the preparation of boys and
girls for the leadership in tomorrow's Jewish com-
munity. The United Hebrew Schools, Yeshivath Beth
Yehudah, Jewish Peoples' Schools, - Farband Schools,
Arbeiter Ring Schools, and the United Jewish High
School have been placed on a basis of more adequate
financing by the general community. The Federation is
assisting in improving the schols technical methods, for
greater efficiency in office and student records..
Completing the educational and recreational program
for Jewish children, Fresh Air Camp offers summer
facilities where all types of boys and girls, whether or
not they can afford to pay. can enjoy the benefits of
camp life. Having had to turn away 400 children this
past season. camp officials are studying possibilities of
enlarging camp capacity next year.

Detroit Among Leaders in United Jewish Drive

Help Young Jewish Doctors

A - part of the program to help young Jewish doctors
become re-established in Detroit. the Clinic offers the

opportunity of affiliation to any qualified physician.
Younger men. consequently. not only have the advan-
tage of association with some of the leaders in the medi-
cal profession. but they are able to use at reduced cost
the services of the Clinic's laboratory, the X-ray and
the Physical Therapy Departments, for their marginal
income patients. An additional service to young doctors
will be t he contemplated revival and expansion of the
program of post graduate experience for physicians.
Cooperating. in the General Federation program, the

Clinic facilitates the work of the other social agencies.
Fresh Air Camp. for example. accepts many children on
the basis of recommendations from North End Clinic.
After some lull in the demand for free loans, the
Hebrew Free Loan Association is anticipating increased
calls from veterans suffering temporary financial diffi-
culties. As always. in its more than 50-year history. the

C. J.

ROSENBLOOM

A comprehensive report on the
extraordinary achievements of
3,500 Jewish communities which
resulted in the raising of more
than $72,000.000 this Spring to-
ward the $100,000,000 quota of
the United Jewish Appeal, is con-
tained in the U. J. A. Campaigner.
Detroit's total was $3,560,000.

The Campaigner predicts if the
1,500 Jewish communities which
formally launched their Fall
drives during the High Holiday
period maintain the standards of
giving established in the Spring,
the full $100,000,000 quota will
be attained for the combined na-
tionwide campaign to save the
Jews of Europe through relief
and rehabilitation overseas,
through mass settlement in Pal-
estine and through assistance to
refugees in the U. S.

In a message to the readers 'of
the Campaigner, Charles J. Ros-
enbloom, William Rosenwald and
Dr. Jonah B. Wise, chairmen of

DR. JONAH B. WISE

WILLIAM ROSENWOLD

the UJA. mailed the accomplish-
ments of the Spring campaigns
as "an achievement that has
meant the difference between life
and death for many thousands of
our fellow Jews."

The leaders expressed the hope
that "the communities which are

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Statue of Rabbi Back
In Familiar Place
At Prague's City Hall

PRAGUE (JTA)—The statue of
High Rabbi Judah Ben Bezalel
Loew, who is credited with having
created the "Golem" in the 16th
century, which was removed by
the Germans during the war, has-
been replaced in its familiar spot
in front of the city hall here.
It was revealed a Prague archi-
tect, ordered by the Germans to
remove the statue, hid it in his
own storehouse. After the libera-
tion, he turned it back to Prague
authorities for restoration to its

original site.

now entering on their drives will
be inspired by the example of
the Spring campaigns so that the
13400,000,000 quota of the UJA
may be attained in full and the
misery and suffering that con-
tinue to face the Jews of Europe
may be alleviated."

Approximately $50,000,000 —
half the nationwide goal — has
been raised by 10 major cities,
exclusive of Chicago and Boston
whose record drives for -the re-
lief. rehabilit4tion and resettle-
ment of Europe's Jewish surlily-
ors are now getting under way,
the Campaigner reported.

The 10 major cities, whose
$50,000,000 total represents an in-

crease of aproximately $35,000,-
000 over what these same cities
raised last year, include: New
York, Philadelphia, Baltimore,
Newark, Pittsburgh„ Cleveland,

Detroit, St. Louis, Los
and San Francisca.

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