Page Fourteen
Friday, February 6, 1948
THE JEWISH NEWS
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OTHER PEOPLE'S CHILDREN
How Suitable Foster Parents
Can Aid Community's Welfare
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Two children are finding love and security in the foster home of
these kindly people. While the Children's Department of the Jewish
Scoial Service Bureau has no children available for adoption, tempor-
ary foster homes are needed for boys and girls from 10 days to 20
years of age. Have you a home asking for a child? Call TR. 2-4080 and
ask for "Foster Homes." The staff workers will discuss with you how to
help a child whose. parents cannot give him a home.
Each week somebody's child
comes to the Jewish Social Serv-
ice Bureau for help — a child in
need of food, in need of love, in
need of shelter, in need of a home.
It is always somebody's child—
a mother's, a father's — it may be
a child who has both parents
but no home:
Why do these children come?
Each child wants his own, his
very own parents. But there may
have been a death of a parent,
or illness, physical or mental; or
desertion, or separation, or di-
vorce.
What kind of children? All
ages — from birth upwards.
Blonde, brunette, tall, short, fat,
but more frequently thin. Lively
ones that can meet the world
half way, and sad, bewildered
ones. Some are smart, some not
smart at all, some in good health,
but usually more with many
health problems. Few happy,
most unhappy, all of them want-
ing and deserving the happiness
of a decent childhood, They ask
that which you as parents try
to give your own children.
That which you, through the
Jewish Social Service Bureau,
are giving other people's children,
is not charity. It is common-
sense insurance for the future.
For the health and reputation of
the Jewish community of tomor-
row depend on how well this job
is done today.
Everyone Wants a Miriam
Miriam had everything, includ-
ing the "3" B's." She was blonde,
beautiful, brilliant. She had a
spirit and an outgoing person-
ality that contrasted with the
squalor of her background. What
she needed most was a Home,
and that, for a child so richly
endowed with natural gifts, was
a cinch. It took a relatively short
time to find an ideal home for
her — cultured foster parents,
comfortably situated, lots of af-
fection — all that one could ask
for. It doesn't often happen, this
story-book solution. It really did
happen to Miriam. But — no one
wanted Bobbie.
Bob was 14. He was neither
blond, beautiful nor brilliant,
Just plain neglected, unloved,
unwanted and unhappy. At home
— if you could call it that: pov-
erty, a cruet stepmother, an in-
different father.
When Bob came to the JSSB he
was a most unprepossessing
youngster — stooped shoulders,
thin, missing teeth, finger nails
bitten. Not a pretty picture, but
it was Bobbie. The Bureau could
well have used a magic wand
just then. Lacking that, it used
what it had — case worker, phy-
sician, dentist, psychologist, psy-
chiatrist — all the resources at
its command. The case worker,
pooling their expert advice and
using other agency resources,
found a home for Bobbie.
Endless Amount of Love
It was the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Diamond. They became
Bob's foster parents: their home
became his home. The Diamonds
gave him what Bobbie had
mighty little of in the past: kind-
ness, sympathy, affection, and
above all, the support he needed
to accept himself. Although of
moderate means, the Diamonds
were wealthy in patience, toler-
ance and sensitivity to what chil-
dren need.
Many, many times case work-
er and foster mother worked and
planned together. Bob could get
very little from school. He was
wasting his time, he said. He left
school. With Mrs. Diamond's help
and encouragement he found a
job. He lost it. Again and again.
It seemed as if nobody wanted
Bob even as a worker. But Mrs.
Diamond learned not to be dis-
couraged.
"It's all right, Bobbie, don't
worry. Maybe that wasn't such
a good job. Come, eat your sup-
per, then we'll talk. Wait and
see, you'll get another job."
And he did. The time came
when Bob got another job—and
held it.
The story might have had a dif-
ferent ending if Bobbie hadn't
come to the Jewish Social Service
Bureau. Thousands of dollars
were spent on Bob, in money,
effort, time, service. Expensive?
Indeed, yes But much less than
society might have had to pay in
broken lives, unhappiness and
the cost of courts, police and
jails.
But not all the money in the
world can really buy those things
that the Diamonds had to give.
Without their kind of foster par-
ents the Bobbies of Detroit would
not have nearly the same oppor-
tunities for a wholesome, decent
childhood.
The Jewish Social Service Bu-
reau is in urgent need of more
foster homes. Reasonable rates
are paid for board, and clothing,
medical care and spending money
are supplied in addition.
Suitable foster parents can
make a real contribution to the
Jewish community. And they can
also obtain real satisfaction out
of providing a home for some-
body's child.
For more information call TR.
2-4080 and ask for "Foster
Homes."
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Ernest Michel's Book
Used as Evidence in
Camp Guards' Trial
Evidence of Nazi cruelty, re-
vealed in Ernest Michel's book,
"I Did Not Want to Die," is being
used by the Polish Military Tri-
bunal in the trial against 40 offic-
•ers and guards of the Auschwitz
Concentration Camp, Michel's
European representative has
learned.
A native of Czechoslovakia,
Michel survived concentration
camp experiences and found his
way to this country. He is now
a resident of Detroit. His book, a
description of day-to-day life at
Auschwitz, was written while
Michel attended the Nuernberg
war crimes trials.
The chapters being used at the
Polish trial concern medical ex-
periments on a 19-year-old Hun-
garian Jewish girl, and the un-
successful escape, torture and ex-
ecution of three Jewish prisoners.
Michel also has learned that
his book is being considered for
filming. An English translation is
now in ‘preparation.
Conflict Fails to Halt
Hebrew University's
Academic Program
NEW YORK. — The Hebrew
University in Jerusalem is con-
tinuing its operations despite the
present conflict in Palestine, it
was stated at headquarters of
American Friends of the Hebrew
University, 9 89th St., N. Y., by
Rabbi Albert Yanow of the Aca-
demic Secretariat of the Hebrew
University and president of the
American Students' Association
at the University.
Approximately 200 Americans,
half of them ex-GIs, have gone
to Palestine in the past two years,
to study at the Hebrew Universi-
ty.
The enrollment of American
students has led to the introduc-
tion of special studies for stu-
dents from abroad in addition to
the University's regular curricu-
lum. These special studies include:
A one-year course on the con-
temporary civilization of the
Jewish people, Palestine and the
Middle East; _preparatory classes
in Hebrew and general lectures
on contemporary Palestine.
Enrollment of American stu-
dents at the University is effected
through the American Friends of
the Hebrew University, 9 E. 89th
St., New York 28, N. Y.
Hebrew Theater Group
Will Bring Repertoire
On U. S. Tour in Spring
NEW YORK—The world-fa-
mous Hebrew theatrical company,
Habimah, will visit the United
States this spring, according to
a dispatch received from the
Palestine correspondent of "Ha-
doar," the only Hebrew weekly
in this country.
This will be Habimah's second
American tour. When they first
played' before American audi
ences in the middle twenties,
Habimah Players achieved en-
thusiastic critical acclaim.
Included in Habimah's Amer-
ican repertoire of five or six
plays will be a new version of
"The Dybbuk," "David's Crown,"
"The Golem" and Tyrone Guth-
rie's version of "Oedipus Rex,"
originally produced in Palestine.
Judge Bernon Receives Eisenman
Award for 1947
Judge Maurice Bernon of
Cleveland received the 1947
Charles Eisenman Award, pre-
sented annually by the Cleveland
Jewish Welfare Federation to the
person making the outstanding
contribution to Cleveland com-
munal welfare. Judge Bernon is
chairman of the National Council
of the Joint Distribution Com-
mittee, major American agency
aiding distressed Jews abroad.
WARSAW, (JTA) — Ten of-
ficials of the Maidanek "death
camp" have been sentenced to
prison terms ranging from three
to ten years. The group includes
Australians, Yugoslairs and Ro-
manians.
Named to Key Posts in WA
Three outstanding leaders were named this week to help
mobilize American Jewry for the record $250,000,000 minimum
United Jewish Appeal campaign and to stimulate nationwide
support for the historic drive to provide for overseas relief and
rehabilitation, mass immigration to Palestine and the upbuilding
and security of the Jewish State and aid to newcomers reaching
the United States. The new officers are, left to right, Rudolf
G. Sonneborn of New York, national chairman of UJA's Trade
and Industry Division; Julian B. Venezky of Peoria, El., national
chairman for UJA Regions; and Samuel Rothberg of. Peoria,
Ill., national chairman for Initial Gifts.
Montana Governor
Hits DP Movement
SOS Sends More Than
Nine Million Pounds of
Relief Supplies Overseas
NEW YORK (JPS) — Efforts in
this country to find homes for
displaced persons from Europe,
particularly in the underpopu-
lated farm areas of the Middle-
and Northwest, hit a snag, as the
Preparatory Commission of the
International Refugee Organiza-
tion was about to begin its ses-
sion in Geneva counting on U.S.
cooperation..
The snag was a reply which
Governor Luther W. Youngdahl
of Minnesota, who invited 13 gov-
ernors to St. Paul to confer on the
possibilities of admitting 850,000
DPs to the United States, received
from Governor Sam C. Ford, of
Montana, who Wrote: "I will not
consciously add to our economic
difficulties by inviting displaced
persons to come to this state and
I sincerely hope none of the 850,-
000 persons mentioned are per-
mitted to come to the United
States and certainly not to Mon-
tana."
NEW YORK — More than 9,-
114,000 pounds of canned foods,
clothing and other relief supplies
were donated to the SOS (Sup-
plies for Overseas Survivors)
Collection of the Joint Distribu-
tion Committee during 1947, it
was announced by Mrs. Isaac Gil-
man, national co-chairman.
Build up the family nest egg
with U. S. Savings Bond. They
are equivalent to cash on hand,
yet they pay a good rate of in-
terest.
THEY NEED YOUR
HELP!
Your relatives and friends in war-
torn countries are in urgent need
for help. There is starvation every-
where, and clothing is scarce.
Hundreds of Detroit families are
sending prepared food parcels and
clothing through the facilities of
the United Yiddish Folk Organ-
izations,.. Parcel division.
WE SHIP PARCELS THE WORLD
OVER. Duty prepaid parcels to
U.S.S.R. and Rumania.
You can make up the package of
your own foodstuffs or buy the
food from us, at a lesser cost than
you can buy it in any private store.
JDC-ORT Agreement
NEW YORK. (JTA)—The Joint
Distribution Committee will fi-
nance the 1948 expanded voca-
tional training program of the
ORT in Europe to the extent of
$2,400,000, under an agreement
reached between the two organi-
zations.
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