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Friday, October 24, 1947

THE JEWISH NEWS

Page Two

Federation Planning Commission Making
Foster Homes for Jewish
Children Needed Urgently Year-Round Effort to Promote Education

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Thanks to the Child Care Department of the Jewish Social
Service Bureau, this child will have the affection and protection of
these foster parents. Many other children need such care. If you are
interested in 'becoming a foster parent, call Miss Goldie Goldstein,
Jewish Social Service Bureau, 5737 Second Blvd., TR. 2-4080.

Have you room in your home
for a child?
The Jewish Social Service Bu-
reau has • a number of boys and
girls under its care and is look-
ing for foster parents.
Nearly 100 children of all ages
are already living in foster homes
under the supervision of the Jew-
ish Social Service Bureau Chil-
dren's Department. Some of them
are refugees. Many of them have
come to Detroit within the past
year under the auspices • of the
European Jewish Children's Aid.
Others are native Detroiters
whose homes have been broken
up or who needed special train-
ing and supervision which they
could not obtain in their homes.
The cost of caring for these

children is shared by their par7
ents, when able, with Wayne
County, and in part with Com-
munity Chest funds. The refu-
gee children are supported by
funds made available through the
Allied Jewish Campaign.
The homes are selected on the
basis of requirements set up by
the State Social Welfare Corn-
misSion and are licensed by the
Commission. A scale of payments
depending on - the child's age and
the amount of care he requires
has been worked out, based on
present costs of living.
If you have room in your home
for a Jewish child, call Miss
Goldie Goldstein, Jewish Social
Service Bureau, TR. 2-4080.

Purely Commentary

By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ

Dr. Chaim Weizmann and the UPA
Dr. Chaim Weizmann arrived in this country. on Oct. 9. On
Oct. 11 he addressed the United Jewish Appeal in Boston. The
annual United Palestine Appeal conference was held in Washington,
D. C., on Oct. 12. Although he was originally scheduled to be one
of the UPA speakers, the venerable Zionist leader did not address
the spokesmen for Jewish communities who - gathered in the nation's
capital to discuss plans for Palestine's resettlement. WHY?

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British Minister's Astonishing (Heartless?) Statement
Lord Pakenham, the -Minister responsible for the British zone of
Germany, who saw at first hand the conditions in the two camps
in which his government is holding the passengers who were on
the ill-fated refugee ship Exodus 1947, made this statement upon
his 'arrival in London:
"I like the looks of the Jewish people but I am not going to be
sentimental about this. There are millions of people in Europe today
who are- having a much worse time and I should think that as
regards rations, a good number of British housewives would be only
too pleased to change places with them."
The London Zionist, commenting upon this "gross exaggera-
tion," calls the Lord's statement "astonishing," and asserts that • "if
such loose talk corning, from A responsible Minister is' not likely to
spread anti-SemitiSm we really don't know what it is."
Actually, the Minister's statement should be branded as heartless
—and such a condemnation is fully justified by his own refusal to
be "sentimental". about the sufferings of people who no _ w owe their
homelessness to his government. •
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Sidney Webb's Anti-Zionism
. The death in Liphook, England, of Sidney James Webb (Lord
Passfield),• at the age of 88, serves to remind us of the dark chapter
he introduced in English policy on Zionism.
Known as the "grand old man" of the Fabian. Society and re-
ferred to by George Bernard Shaw as "the ablest man in England,"
this prominent Socialist led the way to British anti-Zionism, to the
adoption of laws restricting Jewish immigration and land purchases
and therefore to being responsible for the destruction of many thou-
sands of lives of Jews who—were it not for the infamous Passfield
White Paper on Palestine—would have found homes in the Land of
Israel.
The obituary in the New York Herald Tribune explains that the
Passfield White Paper "was symptomatic of the internationalism
which is inherent in the Socialism preached by the Webbs and the
British Labor party that the nationalist aspirations of the Jews were
to be discouraged exactly because they were nationalist." Mean-
while British nationalism is rampant and the Empire seeks to per-
petuate itself at the expense of the-peoples it suppresses. Jews
refuse to be treated like subservient natives and the British can not
forgive us for it—with the result that old traditions of justice, have
been smashed, and anti-Semitism is growing in the British • Isles.
A great deal of the new • and intolerable conditions a"-re traceable to
the Passfield poli-cies.
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China and India Attitudes on Partition
China's delegates to the UN at first opposed the UNSCOP ma-
jority report. After they heard the USA declaration, they modified
their stand and adopted a temporary attitude of neutrality, but now
are listed among our opponents.
It is explained that China's attitude is due to its own sad experi-
ences that have resulted from the country's partition into Nationalist
and - Red Chinese' sectors. •
For the same reason, India's present troubles revolving around
partition are affecting the Indian delegation's thinking.
Meanwhile, Peru, Haiti, Uruguay, Paraguay, Panama, the USA,
. the USSR, Sweden, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Canada, Guatemala,
South Africa, Norway, New Zealand and France, are in the vanguard
of supporters of the UNSCOP proposal for the establishment of a
Jewish state. If all our friends show ; up for a final vgte, we have
better than an even chance to win a two-thirds vote in our favor at
the General T_TN Assembly. If our friends stay away from final ballot-
ing, we are lost.

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Jewish Education Month comes once a year, but
for the '50 members of the Educational Planning
Commission of the Jewish Welfare Federation,
who are working to improve Detroit's Jewish edu-
cational program, it is "education month" the year
around. '
Community interest and support of Jewish edu-
cation is not new, since . for the past 20 years,
Allied Jewish Campaign funds have contributed
first to the United Hebrew Schools and then to the
Yiddish schools and to the Yeshivath Beth Yehu-
dah, as they requested assistance.
Community planning for improving and promot-
ing such facilities is also a familiar part of the
picture. The consolidated and strengthened United
Jewish High School came about as a result of
cooperation among the Sholem Aleichem, Farband
and Workmen's Circle Schools and the Jewish
Welfare Federation. The agreement between the
Northwest - Hebrew Congregation and the United
Hebrew School, to use the congregation's class-
rooms on weekdays for Hebrew classes and avoid
duplication of building in the Northwest area, was
another example of community planning and co-
operation.
It was as a natural outgrowth of these past
activities that the Detroit Self Study of Cultural-
Recreational-Educational Resources and needs of
the Jewish Community was conducted, beginning
in 1944-45. Sponsored by Federation and a broad
citizens committee, it enlisted the services of two
nationally known Jewish educators, Israel B. Rap 7
poport and Elias Picheny. As a result of the study,
the Educational Planning Commission was formed,
under the chairmanship of Judge Theodore Levin.
cutting across ideological boundaries and compris-
ing two representatives each of 21 agencies and
organizations in the community interested in
varying phases of Jewish education.
The Detroit Jewish community can rightfully
look with pride upon the Commission as another
example of communal far-sightedness in con-
sidering problems of planning, financing and pro-
moting as a unified whole. -- .
Even before - the Commission started work,
Federation allocations to Jewish education in-
creased from $63,754 in 1944-45, to $118,000 for
the fiscal year 1947-1948. Now the . Commission has
underway four 'principal committees—adult educa-
tion, youth, children and teacher training—to help
improve the various phases of Jewish education in
Detroit and to promote attendance.
While the work of all committees is a long-
range project, the committee on children's activi-
ties, under the chairmanship of Dr. Alexander W.
Sanders, already has launched its program, with
the sponsorship of Jewish Education Month, to
stimulate interest in the community - in enrollment
of children in Jewish schools. Through a special
proclamation, all rabbis, presidents of organiza-
tions and the Anglo-Jewish press were asked to
cooperate in the drive to acquaint parents with the
importance of Jewish education in building their
children's security, as well as in perpetuating tra-
ditional Jewish cultural values, and vigorous

3 Hate Groups
Merge, Establish
Center in Detroit

Between You and Me

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NEW YORK (JPS) — Leaders
of the Ku Klux Klan, The Co-
lumbians and Gerald L. K.
Smith's "Christian Nationalist
Crusade" who , recently merged
their propaganda efforts in a new
hate campaign against Catholics,
Jews and Negroes, have set up
headquarters in five cities, among
-them Detroit.
Key. figures are Gerald L. K.
Smith, notorious Detroit agitator
and publisher of The Cross and
the Flag; Homer L. Loomis, Jr.,
Atlanta, Ga., and "Parson Jack"
Johnston, Columbus, Ga. LoOrnis,
erstwhile fuehrer of the Nazi-
like Columbians, Inc., is out on
appeal from sentences totaling
41/2 years for riot and usurpation
of police powers. Johnston is the
publisher of The Georgia Tribune,
voice of the Klan, at Columbus,
Ga.
In Detroit, an investigator of
the Anti-Na-zi League attended
several* conferences of the group.
He brought away samples of 40
publications now being distrib-
uted by Smith. Among the more
inflammatory were a 48-page
pamphlet opposing admission of
Tews into Palestine, entitled
"Does Jerusalem Belong to the
Jews?", and -Henry Ford's "The
International Jew". -

State Dept. Bars Korff
From Travel in Europe

PARIS (JTA)—The American
Embassy here has invalidated the
passport of Rabbi Baruch Korff
for further travel in Europe.
Under the new directive he must
return directly to the United
States after quitting France.
Korff, who was involved in an
alleged plot to drop leaflet bombs
over London, was released last
week on the understanding that
he would return to the United
States when the charges against
him had been disposed of.

efforts were made to inform the community of the
various types of Jewish education available. I
Assisting Dr. Sanders are Morris Lachover, sec-
retary; A. Beitner, David I. Berris, Joseph Cohen,
Samuel Freedman, Ira G. Kaufman, Dr. Schmarya
Kleinman, Mrs. Charles Lakoff, Maurice A. Lan-
dau, Mrs. Selden. Leach, Jay RosenshMe, Dr.
Leonard Sidlow, Maurice H. Zackheim, and ex-
officio, Judge Levin. The committee is now moving
forward with plans for aiding' the schools -to im-
prove their educational effectiveness, as well as
with steps looking , toward a year round program
of promotion of parent and child interest in Jewish
education.
Dr. Lawrence Seltzer is chairman of the adult
activities committee. working with Rabbi Morris
Adler, ltIrs. Samuel R. Glogower, Dr. Hugo Man-
delbaum, I..,Zemel and Harry Katz, secretary. This
committee is planning -to determine• gaps in De-
troit's resources for adult Jewish education and
to make recommendations for filling them.
The teacher training committee includes Theo-
dore Baruch, chairman; David J. Cohen, Lawrence
Crohn, George Stutz, and Bernard Isaacs, secretary.'
Heading the youth activities committee is Mrs.
Leonard H. Weiner. assisted by Mrs. Samuel S.
rry E. August, Herman Jacobs, Rabbi
Aaron, Dr. fla
Alvin M. Poplack and Sam Neuschatz, secretary.
Additional members of the commission are:
Helen Alpert, H. Bendore, Joseph Bernstein, --Aaron
Bornstein, Mrs. David J. Cohen, Oscar Cohen,
Walter Farber, Walter L. Field, Rabbi Leon Fram,
Morris Garvett, Rabbi Irwin Gordon, Rabbi Solo-
mon H. Gruskin, Arthur Hass, Sam Hechtman,
Sidney Karbel, Abe Kasle, Abe Katzman, Mrs.
Harry Keidan, Jerome Kelman, Sol King, Julian
H.. Krolik, Max Kushner, Carol Landau, Manny
Lax, Mrs. Hoke Levin, Charles Levy, Mrs. Samuel
Mendelsohn, Frank Mersky, J. Resnick, Malcolm
Rivkin, Saul Saulson, Morris Scheyer, Dr. Oscar
D. Schwartz, Irwin Shaw, Wolf Snyder, Abraham
Srere, Seymour Tilchin, Harold Weiss, Mrs. Mel-
ville S. Welt, Benjamin Wilk and Rabbi Max J.
Wohlgelernter.
Members of a professional advisory committee
are assisting the commission in its work. Total
roster of this group will include Helen Alpert,
Rabbi Sidney Axelrod, H. Bendore, Oscar Cohen,
Walter Farber, Rabbi Leon Fram, Rabbi Irwin .
Gordon, Moishe Haar, Bernard Isaacs, Herman
Jacobs, Morris Lachover, Charles Levy, Rabbi
Alvin M. Poplack, Hertzel Saperstein. Rabbi Jacob
Segal, Samuel Segal, Irwin Shaw, Wolf Snyder,
Rabbi Joshua S. Sperka and Rabbi Max J. Wohl-
gelernter.
' s and agencies represented on the
Organization
commission include: Bnai Brith Hillel Foundation,
Bnai Brith Youth Organization, Cong. Bnai David.
Cong. Bnai Moishe, Cong. Shaarey Zedek, Council
of Jewish Women, Council of Yiddish Schools,
Fresh Air Society, Jewish Community Center,
Jewish Community Council, Junior Service Group,
Labor Zionist Organization, Northwest Hebrew
Congregation, Temple 'Beth El, Temple Israel, -
United Hebrev5 Schools, United Yiddish Folks Or-
ganization, Young Israel of Detroit, Zionist Youth.
Commission and - Yeshivath Beth Yehudah.

By BORIS SMOLAR

(Copyright, 1947, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, me.)

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Inside Information
No Zionist delegation has seen President Truman since the
Palestine question arose at the present session of the UN General
Assembly • . . But a leader of a major Jewish non-Zionist organiza-
tion which is supporting the Jewish Agency on the partition issue
conferred with Truman during the critical days when the U. S. dele-
gation was hesitating on the UNSCOP partition plan . . . He was re-
ceived by Truman unofficially for a private talk during which he
made a strong plea for America's support of the Palestine partition
scheme . . . Jewish Agency leaders conferring with leaders of
American non-Zionist groups were considering sending a joint dele-
gation to Truman, but changed their mind . . . There seemed to 'be
opposition on the part of some of the American members of the
Jewish Agency to including Dr. Stephen S. Wise on such a delega-
tion•. A similar situation developed' when it was proposed that
Dr. Chaim Weizmann should be offered the opportunity of addressing
the United Nations on behalf of the Agency . . . The opponents of
this proposal finally gave in after it became clear that the American
and Soviet delegations favored partition, while Britain was still
erecting obstacles in its path.

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Sidelights
While the issue of establishing a United Nations constabulary in
Palestine during the transition period is being discussed by members
of the UN, Jewish groups are preparing the ground for a campaign
to recruit American Jewish youths into such a force . . . It is recalled
that many Americans volunteered for the International Brigade in
Spain, and there is no doubt that many American Jews will seek to
join the ranks in the UN force in Palestine, if it is established.
The American delegation received some 67,000 letters and tele-
grams urging the United States to -support the UNSCOP partition
plan . . . Only about 150 letters opposing the partition were received
by the delegation . . . The United Nations Ad Hoc Committee on
Palestine received 197- communications urging implementation of
the partition plan • . . They included cables and letters from Jewish
communities and Zionist organizations in Latin America, Shanghai,
Ireland, Romania and other countries . . . The White House has re-
ceived thousands of letters and telegrams from all parts of the United
States asking President Truman to use his influence with the Ameri-
can delegation in favor of implementing the Palestine partition plan
. . . Circles close to the. President reveal that more communications
were received from organizations than• from individuals.
While the United Nations is in session -on the Palestine issue, a
JeWish "general staff" is also in session in New York, mapping
Zionist strategy regarding the Palestine issue in the international
arena ... This body is composed of members of the American section
of the . Jewish Agency and a- number of Zionist leaders who arrived
here from Palestine . . . In addition to the Jewish Agency members,
the Americans include Dr. Israel Goldstein, Rabbi Irving Miller,
Prof. Hayim Fineman and Mrs. Judith Epstein . . . Canada is repre-
sented by Samuel Zacks . . . The Palestinians on the committee are:
Zvi Herman, a General Zionist; Zalman Rubashov, Bernard Joseph
and Joseph Zprinzak, Laborites; Dr. Wolfsberg, Gedaliah Bublick
and Jacob Greenberg, Mizrachists; Mordecai Bentov of the Hashomer
Hatzair; A. Zisling of the Achduth Havodah; Dr. Felix Rosenbluth of
the Aliyah Hadasha . . . The Revisionists are represented by Meir
Grossman and Dr. Joseph Schechtmann.

