Dr. Glazer Urges Jewish
Ethics as Community Guide

UHS Auxiliary Opens
Membership Tea Series

Outlines Work of Infernal Relations Committee at Council
Dinner Meeting; Prof. Haber Asks Greater Interest
In 'Affairs at Our Own Doorstep'

Attempts by organized com-
munity groups to strengthen the
ethical values in Jewish life are
"grounded in a healthy attitude
and are rooted in the background
of Jewish history and in the ac-
ceptance of Jewish responsibili-
ties," Dr. B. Benedict Glazer, re-
tiring chairman of the Jewish
Community Council internal re-
lations committee, told the mem-
bers of the committee at a dinner
meeting on Dec. 18 at the Wil-
shire Hotel.
Also in attendance at the meet-
ing were members of the execu-
tive committee of the Council.
Dr. Schmarya Kleinman, the
new chairman of the committee,
presided and pointed out that
the Jewish community has a right
to step in and to act to prevent
individuals from rendering harm
to the community. He pointed
out that the internal relations
committee has rendered signifi-
cant service in acting to estab-
lish inter-racial amity during
the housing controversy in _ the
12th St. area, thus avoiding panic
among those who sought to "es-
cape" from the area. He intro-
duced members of the Council
staff and announced that Joseph
Fauman, a staff member, has
completed his work for the Ph.D.
degree at the University of Mich-
igan.
Dr. Glazer, who was acclaimed
for his pioneering efforts as chair-
man of the internal relations
committee, outlined the difficul-
ties he encountered in numerous
efforts to prevent groups or in-
dividuals from bringing discredit
upon the Jewish community.
"We have a right to protect
ourselves against those who
may bring discredit upon us,"
he stated. "There are many
generations of experience in
Jewish history to justify such
a position. Our only weapon is
the threat of social disapproval.
Those who accept this view-
point are easy to work with
but those who do not provide
obstacles."
Dr. Glazer gave an analysis of
the work of his committee in es-
tablishing the East Side Mer-
chants Assn., for the purpose of
extending amity between Jews
and Negroes; the efforts exerted
to avoid panic on 12th St.; activi-
ties among kosher butchers and
iumerous other incidents which
called for his committee's action.
Oscar Cohen, director of the

Council, outlined a program for
future action by the Council's
committee. He told of the day-to-
day individual calls for services,
the formation of the groups for
better community relations; the
work of the arbitration commit-
tee under the chairmanship of
A. C. Lappin; the work of the
community relations and educa-
tional committees and a new
program of research under the
direction of Dr. Fauman.
In the principal address of the
evening, Dr. William Haber, pro-
fessor of economics at the Uni-
versity of Michigan, spoke on
the implications of internal re-
lations and pointed "to the real
danger that preoccupation with
world affairs will cause subordi-
nation of interest in affairs at
our own doorstep."
Dr. Haber declared that "pre-
occupation with world affairs
must not weaken democracy
or prevent the setting of our
house in order. We must be
prepared to deal With tensions
in the community. Palestine
is a point of tension. We must
fight it through and we must
stabilize the work quickly for
resolute action begun b the
UN. The conflict between the
United States and Russia may
let loose upon us a veritable
fury because we are linked
with Communism by bigots.
Our economic insecurity is a
cause of tension. Our com-
munities must be prepared to
deal with anti-Semitism which
will be intensified during an
economic depression."
He urged that the internal re-
lations committee should be pre-
pared to deal with these prob-
lems.
Summarizing the discussions in
a concluding address, Rabbi
Morris Adler declared that the
importance of the work of the
Council is "to raise the level of
our own character. We are en-
gaged in a task of historic im-
portance leading to our own en-
richment • as Jews."

JWB Reduces Needs
For 1948 by 10 Pct.

NEW YORK—National Jewish
Welfare Board has advised the
Federations and Welfare Funds
that in 1948 it will ask the coun-
try for approximately 10 per
cent less than the $1,477,800 set
forth in its 1948 budget.

Heard in the Lobbies

By ARNOLD LEVIN

(Copyright, 1947, Independent Jewish Press Service, Inc.)

Middle East Back Drop

Brigadier Clay ton anq Sir Walter Smart are names to watch in
connection with events in Palestine and the Middle East. Brigadier
Clayton is reputedly co-author of the notorious Bludan decisions
whose implementation the Mufti is now requesting. The Arab states
thought they could give lip service to the Mufti's cause by means
of the Bludan decisions which never were published, but the Mufti
says now is the time to act on their, and according to rumors he is
supported in this by Brigadier Clayton. The Britisher, furthermore,
is reputedly responsible for the arrest of thousands of non-Com-
munist trade unionists and anti-imperialists rounded up in 1946,
after the Bludan session, and still in jail. Sir Walter is his right hand
man. They are cooking up plenty of trouble forthe UN, the Jews,
the U. S. They are the master minds behind a conspiracy to cir-
cumvent and sabotage the partition vote of the UN. Watch for
their names, although they do their work surreptitiously. The blood,
the tears, the frustrations you will be reading about in the next few
months—and you have already been reading about—should carry the
credit-line Clayton and Smart. That is what Middle East experts
believe.
Desertions of Arabs from the Palestine police force are encour-
aged by the British themselves, according to confidential reports
from Jerusalem. The British find it embarrassing to arm the Arabs
directly, and encouragement of desertion with arms is a form of
indirect military aid to the Mufti's gang. Many Britishers have gone
underground, with the approval of their superiors, to train and
direct Arab gangs. They are frustrated, however, by the unwilling-
ness of the average Arab to enlist in the "liberation army." A good
indication of the failure of the British-Mufti campaign to catch fire
among the Arab masses is the return of Arab domestics last week
to resume service in Jewish homes. The Arab domestic is a good ba-
rometer of the mood among Arabs. He is the first to sense tension
and he abandons his work with Jews when he finds Arab antagon-
ism towards intercourse with Jews mounting. He resumes his work
when he is convinced that the tension lessons. Lessening of tension
among the masses indicates failure of the Mufti to discipline them
by means of intimidation as rigidly as he did in 1936-39.
Ambassador Herschel Johnson's illness is cause for worry
among friends of the UN Palestine decision. Whatever his attitude
had been when he was assigned to lead the American delegation in
its fight for partition, he became a confirmed supporter of parti-
tion when he got into the ring and has now constituted a counter-
balance to thoSe elements in the State Department that still hope

for partition's failure.

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THE' JEWISH NEWS

Friday, D'e'Citi ► t;er 26; '1947

JDC Completes
One-Third Century
Of Overseas Relief

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Completion of one-third of a
century of assistance by the Joint
Distribution Committee to Jew-
ish men, women and children
abroad, and JDC's new responsi-
bilities in view of the UN de-
cision on Palestine, will be
marked at its 33rd annual meet-
ing Sunday, Jan. 4, in Hotel
Commodore, New York.
The meeting will be open to
the public and will hear reports
on overseas conditions by Judge
Louis E. Levinthal, U. S. adviser
on Jewish affairs to the Ameri- •
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A series of membership teas,
to be M.d at the homes of mem-
bers of the Women's Auxiliary
of the United Hebrew Schools, is
announced by Mrs. Louis Gel
rand, newly-elected president of
the Auxiliary.
Mrs. Joe Horwitz, 18687 War-
rington Dr., will be hostess at the
first tea, to be held from 1 to 3
p. m. Tuesday, Jan. 6. The aims
of the group will be discussed.
The Auxiliary invites contribu-
tions to its "Remembrance
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Keren Kayemeth
National Leaders
Meet in New York

NEW YORK.—Key figures of
Jewish National Fund Councils
throughout the nation will gather
for a Keren Kayemeth Leaders
Conference, Jan 2 to 4, in Hotel
Pennsylvania, New York, it was
stated by Judge Morris Rothen-
berg, president of the JNF of
America.
The New York meeting has
been convened for consultation
with a Palestinian delegation,
headed by Israel Rokach, mayor
of Tel Aviv, and Abraham Harz-
feld, colonization expert and a
member of the Keren Kayemeth
board of governors of Jerusalem,
who will arrive here from Pales-
tine by air. The private consulta-
tions will be climaxed by a pub-
lic plenary session on Sunday, to
be addressed by Mayor Rokach,
Ambassador Jorge Garcia Gran-
ados, who played a leading role
in bringing out the UN Palestine
decision, Harzfeld and other dis-
tinguished leaders. The JNF
meeting has been called in lieu
of a national Keren Kayemeth
conference scheduled to be held
in Chicago but postponed to a
later date.

Moholy-Nagy Works
On View at Cyril's

An important notice to gallery
goers—the current exhibition of
the work of Moholy-Nagy will
remain on view at Cyril's Gallery,
2340 Davison, through Jan. 14.
This exhibition features the
work of one of the great pioneers
and teachers of modern art. Mo-
holy-Nagy was a theorist of
enormous inventive scope, mak-
ing a decisive contribution in the
field of commercial design as well
as esthetic art. The group in-
cludes examples of his work in
film, plastics, painting on glass
and wire, oils, watercolors and
drawings.
This show has been creating
great interest in Detroit and is of
rare value to the laymen, stu-
dents, architects and designers.
—M.R.L.

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European Socialists
Admit German Party

ANTWERP, Belgium (JPS) —
The German Social Democratic
Party, represented by Dr. Kurt
Schumacher, was elected last
week to full membership in the
International Socialist Confer-
ence, by a vote of 12 to four with
two delegations abstaining. The
Polish, Czech, Palestinian and
Hungarian delegates opposed ad-
mitting the Germans. Italy and
the International lJewish .Bund
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